Socialist Press no. 250

WILL FOOT FOUNDER

WITH HEALEY?

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 250 * 11 June 1981 * 20p Affiliated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee In a foolhardy and fraudulent move, Michael Foot last week. attemp- protect Dennis Ted LO Healey from the strong mounted by challenge Tony Benn and from the Labour's hostility of rank and file. panic-stricken SLIKe mountaineer hare- brained rescue bid, he lashed the falling body num sell lo ot Dennis Healey. that петел тот neaev as ocout Leader brings Foot, too, unstable crashing from his position as Party leader whole neeed une "challenge" thrown Foot is a transparent by Could win On the one hand Foot knows full well that Benn against Healey. coue wis by doing so illt the political whole within the Labour Party and the trade union movement.

On the hand he also knows that for Benn to run against root would be propaganda exer- conducted without the

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ana inus quaranteea to leave present right wing domination the Party Intact. course on a certain left wing level canuluateswiln Silkin's nonentity lohn valid. challenging the of canalaacy serving On V recora Ine Shadow increase Healey's chances Cabinet, which has mounted It is on the outcome of serious fight imple- une manoeuvres or nant wing ment Party conlerence union bureaucrats in the policies, Benn is in reality big unions, and not at all on Halley but also Party leader challenging simply une swayine or tank and he that the political Foot. support, future of both Healey and time left thing the ha- Foot now hangs. -talking Foot has become nue omner man a tattered dummy on the knee Conferences vital of Healey and the right wing is plain for all to see. Any • Healey already Can attempt milion trace between them is pointless.

union half of ill-judged efforts Foot's - them from the AUEW. Benn to smela nedev om Denns on the orner nand can so tal attack simply confirm this reckon on only around one vew million votes, having secured

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Sharpest form

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FTAT and the Bakers Union But it is Benn's campaign and support from the NUPE

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ine Deputy Leadership leadership in a ballot of their which has brought out this members link sharpest, most This is why the two big unmistakeable union comerences •Ine con- proclalming nis next lew weeks are vita tinued support for Foot, would be a major reverse for Benn has succeeded -per- the right wing were Benn to Habs CVel secure succeed! -in GMWU (in conference this wanted exposing him as an agent of week): but there must be a the right wing. real chance of Benn's rank and file supporters over- Countil indeed whether Foot's last-ditch union's Execu- turning the manoeuvre will shake anv of uve to secure subport delic potential support for TGWU conference on. June The 22-26. Benn Within the trade unions, Were they to do so. Benn largely could then hope to win the opinion 1s a ready polarised between right and backing of the

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squash Silkin's Getinitive v red herring candidacy. As the pro-Healey lobby (embracing the whole Labour's right wing and the Tory press) are reinforced in former and fake Foot, Neil Kinnock TGWU deputy leader Ales Kitson, the issues at stake deputy leadership this contest become clearer than ever. In extending our critical and support to Benn. Call paigning for CLPs, MPs and The June 13 demon- trade unions to be mandated stration in support of the to support mis calDalen we are not defending his inade- H Block hunger strikers quate and confused policies: is an important focus for we are lending OUl SUDDOrL the growing move to lne struggle by Labour s towards solidarity with rank and file to cleanse the the Irish struggle. Party s leadership of lackeys or une Imr, NAlu and ine i nas taken me trauma

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of the deaths of four brave In striking a blow against republican prisoners on the Healey/loot caucrsnip hunger strike in Long Kesh: the election of Benn would ll nas taken years or patient the political imper by handin demand for party democracy anti-imperialists In the accountabiv ana a senuine teeth of a barrage of imper alternative to the right wing politics of the last Labour signs government sections of the Importanu And in the fight. to oust British labour movement are Healey a new leadership the beginning to respond to struggle

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wing of the labour move- brothers and sisters. equipped to offer worked alternative Bobby Sands' election as Ine polics or class confad- MP in Fermanagh/S. Tyrone and -with more votes cast for reform. Inside:

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him than Margaret Thatcher got Finchley- Тогу coupled with the sacrifice of nis deain and the colossa turn-out on his funeral in Belfast appear finally to have toucned an apparenty ossi fied nerve in the British working class. not they wy netner aoree with the porties and tactics of the IRA, more and more workers are recognising unal bands. ms renow hunger strikers, and other republican prisoners are not -as the press depicts them- simo v isolated •Criminals but prisoners of war, with huge popular support captured in ine course of their struggle against an occupyme any. The explosion of anger of black youth against contin- ual state harrassment in Brix ton also brought home to Stalinism in Cowley p.6-7 BM routed-p.5 Lee Jeans-p.8 Poland

HUNGER STRIKES!

Demonstrate Saturday 13 June

SUPPORT THE IRISH PRISONERS'

FIVE DEMANDS!

STOP THE DEATHS!

Assemble 1.30 p.m. at Finsbury Park March to Hyde Park Called by the H Block/Armagh Committee

SOUTH AFRICAN WORKERS

FORCE BACK FIRESTONE

Fight for solidarity with BL strike!

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BOSSES

Militant united action by black workers in the South African IEU-tOl industry has won a major victory against the capit- alists and their strike- of breking weapons mass victimisations. Last week management at Firestone Tvre factory ir Port Elizabeth were forced immediately 160 workers Solle they had sacked in Februarv after a strike, and to promise to take back the rest. was won by VICtORY and substantial blackıng strike action by mass Fords. Generat WUIACIo dr Motors and Firestone itself.

Breakthrough break- major whole to1 LATOVeN workers' movement Tne face class enemy that uses the vicious weapons of macs unem Dovment allu police terror against workers üighting for their needs and BL. Landrovers in action against Sowery blacks mieIeSLS about 2,000 workers at these This forced retreat

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the May 20. Then on the same time as their apartheid wire joined in May they the united strike action by

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arl y crush a mobilisation 1500-strong workforce uy lu of black youth in Johannes- Firestone. In the face of united and bur orker at Fords and GM determ ined class had taken blacking action in was crippling profits which April against Firestone tyres, escalate acaleli. through in response to a call by ine wider secOns 160 victimised workers for the black workiny class, Fire- support in their struggle for bosses were forced to reinstatement. back down. This solidarity action was The task facing worKet, extended strike by must now be to make sure into a Poland: new danger From back page Forum's Even

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said the oreviolsiy reserved leaciu.- analysis oaseu has waighed in with a Marxist-Leninist positions" S1l10 Neues Deutschland says the denence oi tne rurull declared Solidarity Forum was the only political that the statements were a group whica necsrecuy permit Soviet for assessed the present situation the tion and likened the way in Poland The Czech press has said và vv cí Cze hostovakia in 1968. Hungary and that the Forum represented "healthy core of the reason for these and according to u ne lcd Polish Cr, attacks on the rousn work- me mormoner went on tu class is the continuing ing attack certain public figures of their anti- advocating Poland for ucveo billeiil bureaucratic struggle, which trotskyne principies Polish strikers rising trend of victimisation that management is torcea capitalists and their apar- to stick to lis agreement lo group of reinstate every victimised inelo state. workers in struggle needs to winet. be able on the sup- struggle Firestone of strength their has shown the way forward port. united class class brothers and SSLeTS in South Africa, Britain and aclence ally workers. under altack. te Is d cl colilva struggle example class crestont workers in shown the strongest solidarity action for buepene nuppas A frica inter- olla nationally. Every of and solidarity. mobilisation T ns sol South that are already Alarica is corkronted with the black workers the weapons in the hands of workers. from jail pending their trial cannot be stopped by the bureaucracy or their church on June 15 Even the release of these dulles reactionaries is a blow to the Roman „ week une because Catholic church called on pureaucracy Solidarity not to in challenges their . right engage people simply for any more strikes for 30 days their political views and not as a mark of respect for the the dead Polish Primate. I01 actions arallls! But the Solidarity leader- workers' state. ship Workers' court Z2-13 to go volcu uy ahead with a two hour warn- strike in four northern If they have carried out ing they should such acts, then provinces over the lact that inde- be brought before an the police who beal up trade union leaders in Bydgoszcz pendent workers' court. The fact that there are seen brought have sti no outside of to Justice wo cmols This strike will take place Solidarity and the collapse just as the two r mos th ds. Ti so-called official has been underlinec ends.

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Unors fact that it is Lech Walesa and a Solidarity dele- was deciaea to nave a wall- ing strike instead of a general strike but the pressure is on gation that is representing the annual ILO for more extended action Poland conference in (›eneva Exhausted For years leaders of the official unions have been Central Committee representing no- attending, meetinbeen or une rarıy lia. now convened one but themselves his the warning strike Walesa has Shown ulsluss and political weak ness his zno t.ne the confer- premier statements deputy KaKOVsK y said that the ability of ence. nas Althouch he has said it is to compro- tne ovedal not struggles been exhaus- wise nas now that have created the : econ- Meanwhile four members omid crisis in Poland. he ha suggered anti-communist Con- That Sohn oi the limit " aur demands ma!! fecerition Inac ornucu because of than crisis Poland have been re tastu At the present there crucial struggles being fought in South •that can be greatly strength ened by supporting from the British labour novemchll 500 striking. workers a Rowntree MacK intosh's sub- Wilson-Row ntree in stulal wat onen ae mcle lur reinstatement and recogni- tion of their union. wholly- And owned subsidiary Cape The at tempts or Bl. resistie.

1 own ment to crusa tel sulke Iul decent wages against an0 victimso0 ibr BL workers struck on Mav 14 to rerect a miser• able wage offer. nev were all sacked for refusing to return-to-work com- outyd mand from management on May 20. Reinstatement The workers are demand- and wage catullalc reinstatement or all strikers.

solidarity campaign of the struggle launched na. DeCI unions workers Connounll' organisations and youth organisations in Cape Town.

the Leyland In Britain, Action Committee ano cne 5/293

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Branch Cowley Assembly plant sent messages •i suooort lo lalel fellow BL workers. ant fight the pledged to maximum possible solidarity action. in cluelns Dack ne and strike action This fight has been taken turther in the calls for action in a leariel given oul . al LIll Cowley plants and at

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meeting Oxford on June 2 Oxford sInca laen. Trades Council has taken up a 5/293 resolution to organ- with a publi hctlill speakers from BL and organ- campaigning in Britain for solidarity At à BI. Combine Com- mittee mecting on June 5, amendment from

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Shop inwley Stewards Committee for carried, callinz SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 11 June 1981 Management only recog auses uebecsllaliye registered ween wonke Union which has apartheid built into its constitution Sal aze is afraid of SAAWU ment because truls represents ne oies ateies After „ trintless „necota tions the rest of the workers downed tools and were dis missed. Management now sacked 500 striking workers. Pool of labour Thousands of JUDI a unemployed in tie raste Cape and Wilson-Rowntrees thi da draw been replacements from . of labour. All but of the one workers , committee members are in jal wacht unev layi been on hunger strike Management working with Ciskei Security the Police break SAAWU's strength SAAWU has called a boy- cott of al Wilson-Rowntree products This boycott Cape To eine being possible blacking action in supported in runport ol mne dolla Aureal workers.

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• dil 11alk Convenors are directed to community organisations, between well as in other urban areas.

investigate all links the the Back tnelr Diant African plants assess majority

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Rowntree-MacKintosh are what blacking action can b GMWU and USDAW the

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members taken against supples anu to report back to the next are in Combine Committee meet- These unions collaboration with Rowntree ing. MACK nIoN torolat a Jomi Clear lead Negotiating Council (JNC) It is believed that on May The being National Officers of cam paign 18 thr taken un m'o ves a coa these intee umons dad seciet and solid lead to solidarity talks with Rowntrees chair- support of the situation man on In antivl particular the South Africa

SLIULICS

The shop stewards' dele- same tight must oe taken up Rowntree-MacK intosh gates on this JNC had workers and in their unions, knowledge of this until now Contirmation oi these

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Wilson-Rowntree workers in Take a

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South Africa. a Rowntree workers strike in the UK will win this one.

In October 1980 workers at the Wilson-Rowntree fac- tory East: London were in Speeches reprimanded for IIxing macnine. salu unt The union of the South had done fitters' work African workers has already February 1981 three I in February to the apaled asked were wUinci: But SuODUl bertonm une saune workers in britan wao saw work They refused knoW this reported on TV have from the previous inci-

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heard nothing from that unless thes dent leaders as to what they are written permission from th doing to mobilse action foreman they • colu These leaders are happy sacked to make rousing speeches They also „ ae• o o against apartheid in general.

the fitters Dale

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but act to block class action work. (the rate lor tne Joo) support of specific The foreman refused to workers struggles by black authoris- give ther written downed tools 29ansl colaes « ato unel amon so cnes the heid state. They are and were instantly dismissed leaders who • are same were not even sacked holdin through the proper Dach sluggies oran ato nesoos. wates. oroceaure, • social services and demo- cratic rights. Committee Within workers weeks. from other departments protested by downing tools *The TGWU 5/60 Branch these such time untt representing enlirt three membership worker. werd • in BLS bouy stated They also were on Sunday Plant meeting sacked passed a resolution of solid- The workers' committee, arity and calling for blacking democratically action electel 90%. those that South African joined the Union Workers • A ulel herotiated

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W.lll management but to no avail

Mitterand wobbles in SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 11 June 1981 Divergence of style and policy are already beginning e ranks up ranks within Mitterand's government of all tendencies' within the Parti Socialiste. While it is still too early for public disagreements to among nave been ministers, ane LICy will try to keep quiet about possible discords is no doubt elections, there that Mitterand's attempt to build a government out of all the different types of soclai ist' is not going to last too long. reason is that The first elections Ine legistalve give a clearer picture oi the the people, allow Mitterand crime ana Marov to led are sulle one another. But the second reason is and range that the OI views styles which they have accommodate the simply too covemmedi and lead to cannot the development of a coher- and if there is ent approach- one thing the French elector- loathes above all else it Divisions week's develop- In this ments, we begir Lo see lic opening the energetic Octavil reforming zeal of the of the party, as shown by social the package announced measure. Mitterand Thursday, and The wing militarism shown right in the value or lne statutory minister wage new delence take effect from 1 June. Charles hernu In ms oppos ition to the After account oI campaign for soldiers' rights.

the 3.3% increase in the last three months, measures over social will this enacted by % better off. Ministres includes a 10% rise Dalu some o.

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SOUTHERN

NEW!

Socialist Press pamphlet on Southern Africa Price 60p (including postage) from WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX high wire act Such a major lift in the term' intention to trigger a about some degree of catch-

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1s Coitall wave 1ng up demanus lu the middle maintain differentials, bosses already national wage scales.

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about pensated for this 'knock on' effect. The government of the SMIC increase 1s main approach reduction taining cautious social ot the to unis aspecl required of them in question and nas not ver promised any further review or tne lower pala. wotkers of the SMIC, but has remin- in the social package are an ded the country of its long Irish workers go to the polls By the time this issue Republic and also a promin ent member of the Nationa of Socialist Press is H Block C'ommittee is stand- sale voting will be almost as over in the Irish elections Block against H on Thursday June Il. in Dublin North East Twelve candidates of veteran republican stance olaltulls designed to make the ques- British imperial- tion of the group in Cork South West ist presence in the North the main issue in the election.

trish i ne Kesh strikers, four multi-seat hunger Irish olICri and Mairead Iron Armagh women's gaol are all Block with as balaudi Vales the backing the National they Bobby Block/Armagh C'ommit- In addition Block a substantiar voic. campaigner Vincent Doherty issued criteria by standing 9020S nas Minister behalf of the to judge Demo- Peoples cracy group. Paddy Healy of the Trot- skyist League for a Workers Our French Correspondent Ernie Stubbins looks at the run up to the National Assembly elections are promised for scheme public index measure). This meetings of tollowed things France, in the legislative electivis ministers public programmes concluons But as try ing minister furiously direction was there commultices these but armies. It act the increase avoid bring minimum pension, to 1700 month and 25% between the bottom increases in a range of family They allowances, allowances and rent handicapped, Firms will be partly com- LIlt cost allowances. by two The last case will come as seve many contribution a disappointment to the case low pala workers wild were gramme Specting increases of up to opposition Other measures included 'anarchic' Further announcements tees, the repression in the North. 'Regimenta But there are other issues which will also be weighed in ranks, the minds or working clas.

voters in Ireland - not least Cast question of manders. immediate LIll The Jobs and living standards promised a With the Irish

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Party standing for the first for election Trade Unionist azes candidate without any prior commit- ment to a coalition with the And Scan Kelleher, son ront wing opposition party soldiers leader Fine Gael, it is likely ina unionists will trade Lne Tom Kelleher. is standing on hook. behalf of the H Block action lend their electoral support fierce party sponsored to the by about the preferential and Such support needs to be vote system, together with constituencies, followed through by the tained fight against • the workers politics of coalition and class HOruk and oter candi- and other candi- collaboration. In any event, no matter While it is not clear it 'radical' the verbal how stance of Haughey's Fianna can repeal ine succes. Sands, They are Hail or Blaney's Independent the nevertheless likely to attract Fianna Fail on the national clear The H Block Committee that such parties of the bour the which no independent geoisie offer Assembly wav forward to the working one canaluate which revolve solely class or those fighting for the around the prisoners and the Tron the Northand a united removal British troops links between the bourgeois free State and the British Irish workers' republic. suspended since 25 May June 10 include The decisions involved l 40,000 the suspension ana tell credit remain sector

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all cost of credit to Small the shrouded in secrecy for some time yet There has certainly beer medium sized firms, and ar from severa linked savings Neu notably pacific states Zealand, to the carrying ou previous of tests Weekly meetings has been suggestion and til widely circulated tlid programme most recent series or test announcements makes clever involved neutron use of the system of weekly Dom• DrOLOly DE ministers public Obviously any confer- press admission of the existence way which testing 01 d are usuall programme woulu Have • run up to the important electoral conse and the whole mattee is being dealt At the same time the new with matter education have housi making housing cautiously It was only after a privat about Mitterand statemell. discussiol own plans himself that Hernu lelt able for improved Do the test series. announce the resumption quickly as they peddle the image of Tendencies Socialiste forward looking and reform- For Mitterand, balancing organisation, Gentle Hernu drives the conflicting opposite within the PS continues to the in be a major headache, as the televised interview controversy ovel Regis on Tuesday he stated that it appointment secretariat that his 'inconceivable' should exist soldiers' shows. the French However, this is nothing would compared • problems aave to be dissolved where encounter he is likely to ever they were found the course campaign. next week's Socialist Army committees have full press details of the electoral pact Inconceivable concluded between the PS committees exist, and French Communist not just in the French army Party designed Swilli several autobedI votes in the second round to successful left the committees

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candidate from have gone out of their round embarrassing the of writing At the time left parties in their campaign it seems that Millerand la.

against Giscard succeeded in concluding cancelled actually such a pact without extend- their planned European Con- ing any gress, which was due to have positions to Commun take po a in of she tres members but it is Party rounds of the Presi that this dea call lead to a The Parti Socialiste's pro- of government declares itself certainly there Almost what it calls deal secret commit- nasseen arranged with warchai. by which the effect : that the PCF will organisations created by the form recog soldiers themselves to repres nave nition of its contribution to ent their interests. , but that the extent the vote But it was in support of a of this will depend on how series of democratic reforms far the election result shows present system a swing to the left in the Committees' country as a whole. of which include a minority representatives

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Break from past and who are in any selected by the com- All this wheeling and is of course part of dealing PS the fabric of French political system of unit committees to be elected by life. It should not bliad us t the need for a serious break secret bailot; Hernu seems to politica be in no hurry to implement with the kind of tradition which has French working unlikely that the back the is - or ems particulat class since the wat this particular The demand now must be for a join there continue To A ready government of the PS anc arguments raging right of officers French Communist Party but without the bour- commanders to CEnSOr electoral literature MRi. Workras must demand oi th sent the barracks and living quar that such a government ters of the soldiers. mass Dal le in the interests of directly Troubled conscience the working class and peas certain that this ants. issue will continue to troubli Without this fundamenta conscience of the PS realignment only to the last day of the election campaign matter of time until Mitter- and's balancing skill fails him life of the next and leaves the country to tall back into the hands of the announced Hernu right wing. the resumption of the series the pacific atoll of Mururoa,

Heseltine seeks dictatorial powers to impose cuts Fighting for Labour solidarity with Irish prisoners Page 4

'HERE'S A NICE CUT

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Heseltine vilified by cuts demonstrators Leicester Don Concannon must The local 1ory be seriously looking over Mercury -owned by the Daily Mail- his shoulders these days.

terical with rage. But worse His reactionary Last week

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was come. Bobby Sands' death bed to gainst thi wishes of all its declare his support for Tory officers the 10ca repression Ireland Council re-affirmed its sup- from expressing the mood of port not only for the Labour Party now looks status, but also for troon. more like the bitter rantings out, Irish self determination of a petty bureaucrat who scrapping ano the sees he has lost control.

Prevention Symptomatic of this are Act. moves Leicester Tine All this against a back- both local unions ground of open witch-hunt- ane tne Labour Partv become Trades counci Ireland has which Paul Hoare in the past month, President- the sharp edge of discussion.

typical

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impartiality - advised delegates Signature lial since no on Halonally suppor ted such policies no delegate First. following should really be able to vote South constituency favour MP Ine Marshall's signing . the ucilanas. when early day motion regretting from

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APEX and TASS Sands' death

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veneral Management proceeded committee to lambast supporting Marshal's actent issued statement covering up for army Craven repression in Ireland, and the campaign win and vote, the officers political status and also held responded in trul "repres a minute's silence for Sands.

entative" fashion. during the anen. tion meetings for a candidate "Concern" 1o me lace Sy replace Social Democrat in East Sauerr Group City Council Leicester Mercury leader Pete was allowed to print a state- Soulsby declared himself, at Prangle, 1I0m brian an SEA meeting, in favour of Council Secretary, STates political status troops expressing allu concern out and called for an end to democratic vote and urging bipartisanship. unions to carefully investi- Thousands more jobs and vital public services region and provided by local author- services. ities throughout the country face the axe as a result of the latest Tory raising the rates. spending cuts. late Environment Secretary Heseltine Michael announced that £450 million to the ratepayers. in government of Heseltine strategy of spending unless they submit new cuts in their spending by the end of this month.

This the Thatcher government. reall His new ol Lyu minon in budget of local government.

grant' in case walls let vil es lace • councils vulne necessity The actual cutbacks by imposing penalties supplementary late plans demands, Heseltine controled planning force through new legislation to him give dictatorial power social services. out 1ale rIses Scotland seven local government's councils face Hills ultimatum: cutile they nesentine demanding swipeing tory cuts or face a loss of £63 million prune spending in grants. .6% belon £53 million of this is to in 1978/79 come tom ust one conncil- Scotland's second Lothian, largest counch - increased in the witle Laboul las a majority of one. the numbers years, Lothian council leader U1 social *hyllis Merlot has increased. None to make cuts of this huge

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rag was hys- political the Terrorism Oxford vigil for dead Leeds hunger strikers. gate how their delegates had Such statements are voted an obvious cue for right wing inspired witch-hunts of Irish In Leeds, the left mutants and Allerton ward Ireland. four Labour Party at a well- attended meeting voted Union branches by nearly 2-1 to endorse this The left must respond by a resolution which: building the newly establish *Opposed Michael Foot's ed local Labour Committee criticisms of Bobby Sands on Ireland, stepping up the *Called for campaign win status branches Labour Partu republican wards to the four demands sentenced by the Diplock and by countering the witch- hunters by asking now *Supports for?" The who have broken and cam- speak elected delegates who estab- paigned for a break in the lished Trades Council policy bi-partisan policy on Ireland; or the embattled right wing *Calls rump in the labour move troops out of Ireland. ment who want to bureau- The motion was selected cratically defend imperialist as the ward's resolution to domination in Ireland. go forward to the GMO order would mean the loss of millionaire mese une Labour decimate" the wealthy capitalists, the

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vital and landowners who statt the Tory cabinet.

The council has clung in Depressed profits recent vears to ine nocv "1 had local services by Im proved This year's For them, the only guiding gat is inel mission is demanding -to drive up the depressed £53 million be handed back profit mu usury To do this, they reason, continued inabiliti impose his they need minimise the cuts on burden • on employers a local authorities has been an cutting or holding chivarrassment eve-ov down increases in rates fangled "block To do this. they must ir moutned system has fallen flat turn slash services to the sick and the elderly, to youth macca many o which face schools and colleges and to under the latest working class whoe Darlin community. county councils This in effect what which have tirelessly hacker Heseltine's generally Tom King, mean fast wook at budgets for education and rate baulked when complained that at the full savagery of the the Tories had been forced their latest cash the InLO powers of local councils And fact "I see a risk not from our have that actions, but trom a remorse, public this year to less march of circumstance Clals The Tories have never With folded expenditure three years ago made any secret of then starting polt-private pront redundant Yet with unemployment problem faced by and poverty having rapidly waster the working class has been This last three that Labour and trade unior struggle leaders, too, either openly or tory services have also tacitly accept the same start-* ing point. fight Wilson/Callaghan worries this

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included MP five strikers. ВОВВУ

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MP from Passing mi pbe valual South North East Leeds CLP for Chapel support submission the Labour demonstration of the Party conference. Concannon's An alternative motion on for example Ireland sponsored by suppor- of Militant Ters tendency received only votes In Leeds as a whole there is comparatively strong

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port for H' to be granted to all block A demonstration ing clearer prisoners through the city called by local H' Block campaigners attracted 450 people by those MPs This support must be taken into organised movement, and in particular consolidated for within the Labor Part cal poncy of seriously Dulle ine branch of the Labour Com- mittee on Ireland. of SOCIALIST PRESS, Thürsday IT June 1981.

By John Lister began sovernment lal will make is starin wholesale offensive the problems of the public services precisely the capitalist class or the because it accepted that the Tory allelanci ole. private industry tates, but the defence of the and living preserved standards alu -if necessary at the Halu-won rents or une work- expense of the working class ing class. Elected by workers look anti-capitalist several eLena as strong policies, the Labour "Labour govern. instead took cle in the course oras from the winter's struggles against the These groupings must oankers oline mr tuls the offensive against But the same attitude is Labour also prevalent among Labour and the unions Council councillors. While they have Heseltin and King arrogantly talking of the new opposition to the councils legislation meaning "the end cuts Labour have almost without excep local „government as i WI pulled back from know it. any e stue ring the end or senous coniton tation with the government the issue bring the end local imposed cuts, government know it-and the start of the copie win nell struggle and rent increases, for which fall on the shoulders labour movement tation! And working class sup mass local action leading to in this stand ther all out se coal strike a tory had bring support dowr sector vernment. cuts! No rate/rent have arms their increases! have *Defend jobs and public been action "naturally strike no-cover action and occupa- tions serious stop Is wny Cuti closures! deals lne lates attack on local govern- councils must ment is inseparable from take a stand! Prepare mas the for leadership new action bring down the within the labour movement Coventry The campaign around mination of the H Block the Irish war is beginning hunger strikers one's attitude to have an impact in the w natever to the Republican movement Coventry labour move- i get away from the fact that people branded as "mindless meeting murderers prepared are loventry South West CIr for adopted a resolution which their five demands call 30.000 people were indi DItaK Labour's bi-partisan prepared vote Bobby into Pariament, and policy, Sand: sacking of Concan- were prepared non and for support of the 100,000 epared by show where they demands of the hunger attending his funeral. making many people rethink whol Encouragement prised that as the case of the shoul

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This should give encouragement to those who hunger strikers begins to get have felt themselves isolated hearing and response labour fundamentally that movement support in the campaign so opposed to the Irish free- dom fighters will win tem- resolutions is of porary victories. course only the first step in case SALGO iNT campaign, and efforts Coventry which made to find ways has condemned the support flesh the given to the local Ad Hoc policy- Hunger Strike Action Com- wes for the July mittee Trades TEne constituency Branch officials have they announced 1021 While it would be correct monitoring the activities 01 many the Trades Council and the Coul people who vote to support

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the five demands in labour argue for movement organisations do tion at the December AGM.

so from a variety of stand.

It • he points, one thing is becom- moves are to expected in other unions unionists and locally socialists are heartily sicken- But if the issues are care- sycophantic fully spelt out and a serious support given to the Tories fight whatever by the Labour leadership small defeats are inflicted by The road is opening daily the right wing will do them to become no good discussed The labour movement in

ISSUE

within the Coventry labour the city is beginning to dis- cuss the Irish war. And that road has been forced open by the deter-

Long term gloom for BM Nazis routed in Oxford SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday I1 June 1981, unemployed Every time a Tory spokesman speaks of light at the end the there tunne! appéars to be another fall of rock. Last week in fact there industry the USA. Elsewhere Thatcher there two such major land- Oncl employers -and workers who slips. Firstly three economic now the agonising daemma remember previous talls in oi whetner or not to take the value sterling-are steps to raise once again the of which underlined the cer- looking anxiously towards value of sterling by continuine mass unemployment Britain ine prospect vi a new round rouna or reces over the next few years. price inflation sion at home: for workers goods is only the And secondly the pound there plunged become more and the one hand 1 1110/1 foreign eyeba the samars markets more expensive ve a ew ınzzon and once one dropping below boost to the cost of living.

of more closures, redundan- Why, then, did the pound and speed-up on the 18 cies fall? shop floor. montos. The fall in the value of This Hobson's choice tor the pound has a wide range world workers under capitalism is ine bankers of embarrassing implications appear to have responded to also illustrated by the latest a combination of a weaken- National the for tne government. -ana IoI lorecasi those in the CBI who have Institute of Economic and moaned and groaned contin.

now cutting Scientific Research. 1$ price by $2 a barrel), a con- It predicts a drop in out- uously that only the artific- high value of the bound tinued and apparentiy never put or co Inis year, mean was keeping British industry ending slump in the ing a growth in adult unem- out of world markets economy, and the fall ployment from the present months has in British interest rates com 2½ million to 3 million by the last six . the end of 1982. seen Ine pound Tall Dy 4070 oarea to inose in curope ana Rew days or last we halbase days of week alone it tell 6%. Yet this is greeted with no enthusiasm by many sections of employers. They now argue that sterling has tallen value 100 give enemi Ine to exploit the opportunity of relatively lower Values British Movement export plans to launch an anti- markets. IRA" march in It takes time to win new Oxford- those orders-and Turn shire were thwarted by orders into finished goods.

the largest anti-fascist Others complain that the turnout the county has been largery against the dollar and not so much even seen. against European currencies.

Fascists from Rugby, Peterborough 111S means and other TaW атетід

TOT

travelled low Ils Hal have increased in cost, while хото ov train 200 mini the increased sales scope for bus. But even after picking support from handfu Oil and chemical firms in local tascists their particular have bers never rose above. 4u.

that this imbalance, combined falling Black youth

WILL

Ine ¡price of North Sea oil will squeeze their profits. 700 In contrast about bosses die worried anti-lascists Lurned our that with the fall in oil prices meet them-including for the town large leading reduced produc- numbers of black youth the British balance bE A small group or lascists payments will lurch into were chased from the town deficit-further weakening centre and did friends their no favours at all oy leading seige - economy to The measures. chasing to the pub Indeed there already where they were getting up tilal ene scalt the coulage to march. and speed of the most recent drop in the value of sterling There, at the Old Gate vill House, Thatcher starlitu land lord-who he had sovernment to scrap rartner thought proposed cuts in Minimum some quiet, nice strangers in youth approaching. Lending Rate-or his pub-barricaded even the But such was the anger he saw large of the anti-fascists that the L Case drail. will

QOOTS

ruinous repurcussions numbers of West Indian pub door was torn off its Brixton-picket Scarman cover-up! for None of the look more efficient On June 15 Lord black oi and means Ol controllng organisations in Brixton Scarman justice policing multi-racial are likely to give evidence to poor descending on Brixton to areas such as Brixton. Scarman. The tart the Tories' inquiry sutfer from the worst police Anyone wno was on ine streets at the time repression can see ihrough into the events of April uprising and gives evidence such cover-ups. 1l and 12. about the brutality of the Unfortunatelv the sane Scarman's task will not police bound be cannot be said of the white to the thuggery harassed and dominated Labour Parties: ex pose persecuted ind racism of the Metro- Lambeth ailerwatus, in spie or scar- council olitan police. Nor will he be man's guarantee of "immun- Group has already agreed to ity from prosecution" submit evidence and is vasicalllle sup- Hoyment in the area, or the ported this by so tar about 400 peopie the two housing conditions been arrested nave Lavour ramues car cover ine a high charges arising from the area. Dollus people have JIXIOn -many of these as a result ot indure. house raids une countless Boycott In fact Scarman is not at that have taken place in the Interested in way rots area since April 12. The Trades Council, how- hook Brixton over that been ever, has agreed to boycott mouses have reekend. His inquiry was set smashed open, and personal the despite mically. the Tories for their possessions seized 1a s accision to parne- un purposes: to whitewash of looking for pate. he role of the police and to looters. In response to the Scar- NIESR forecasts next to next no increase in year, points emper inhe still much further in current reces- -but that has fallen rela- productivity In other words produc- tion is being established on a less labour-intensive basis employers ram through new for speed-up and plans and as a resul any Tuture increast noul put is likely to provide jobs for relatively far less addi.

fall iving stan average of 1½% dards during Improvemen 1982. In other words whatever the Tory •A League hinges and rocks were hurled through the windows. The fascists fled into the upstairs but Cellars and a picket has Man mowry. been organised to protest at arrival and point to the real purpose behind it order to make In protest ettective and big as possible a united featter has been written by is lett wing groups and gay organis- ations. The leaflet calls for all charges arising from the riot be dropped and for complete boycott scaran cover-up It is hoped that some of black the would. aiso sign the leaflet and support the picker.

PICKET SCARMAN

June 15. 10 a.m. Lambeth Town Hall By Terry Smith for any government mitted to capitalist policies) sets out to meet the curren the plight the Class and particu unemployed -can TV only worsen Only the most tenacious achon detenuoos anu living standards and prepare generalised strike action the orle. Wall create concinon.

JOB

genuine alternative. the labour movement there must be a

HONI TOT

socials nonces of nationalisation basic industries and banks without compensalon илие. workers' management as the essential basis for a workers DIal • meet une cuss are establish a crash programme of public works to create 3 H0n OUs. • several caught given severe beatings The anti-fascists

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were arrested betwen the pub and the centre of town One nOW faces two charges of carry- offensive weapons and ing wo of assaulting police. waite man laces charges ol actual threat- behaviour carry- ing an offensive weapon i ne Teal outensive weapons were found after the fascists had fled. Placards na been wacked n a road near the pub with British Movement slogans The fascists had tried to cash in on local anti-RA feeling in the weeks follow- don soldier, killed by an IRA landmine. 'Red stronghold' But one of the fascists from Peterborough told that they had reporter chosen Oxford because it "was a red stronghold". He said he had escaped a beat- the pub by hiding we don't upstairs becaus believe in violence" The anti-fascist mobilis- ation now provides the basi united front between black youth and the trade unions in the town But it also showed alarm- Page 5

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Peoples Marchers in London: What the TUC plans next, see page 11 ing weaknesses. The demon- into with the stration was hijacked by the lascists ANL who provided speaking they had been dealt equipment for the rally and with earlier they would not endlessl scoutal have taker Terue In a 0ub a landlord would not now br with the police A march only took place counting the cost of putting when a growing mutiny and fils Dack together most important of all there unneatened march with or without per- need have been no arrests It the British Movemen These tactics meant that met by better organised and mall demonstration never came better led forces National conference

WE VE HAD THE MARCH-NOW

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The real record of the Co Page 6: The this author review work in starter the Cowley Assembly Plant in May 1959. In ALAN THORNETT reviews. Politics of the Production Line-an Auto- September of the same biography of an Oxford Carworker, by Arthur Exell, published by year I joined the Com- munist Party. I began to the 'History Workshop Journal', price £1.45.

be active trade the union and Soon the

TGWU

discussing lev. olnce days him that

TOUCIL

more Tne branch and Communist Party me

HIS

He said he had political no preludice COm• mad iy which taken more extreccen Works Con- paint shop He said In successive case the never able get Churchill and Attlee 19- Today Politics of Line-Auto there were only four union members members or thec plant-all make of war by tine CP contracts. HISTOrV most cases they written by membership came first, since Lne joining the well union the munist Party livall SaLA A CLIVe "That lative Lavuur rally mem Ders dd when principled union at that the not join the Donol, time. The wat reviewed The plant that. une vou was duction union. Go talk to them much WOIKerS

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the little rele- those who The was 100% wish The Works Order that meani ally the Arthur Exell Dian With employers He Sack for the explains Lilall easter inhabitants Ruskin Organice College

WEA.

was Поре our commit- was tee, and serious sce. Towares ine the about the the manage- ment to talk to her Arthur From account the started and work properly else she have take Cowley -in war from [the Lile which 1939 after had South aramatic Churchill Irom on the wales nuncer marches. CP 1934. interesting where CP both Joint Production Kaurators (JWPC's) committees help the on it.' of CP ation 10T become shop alle notic were strike class women. bodies worse similar Florence women being nese wert "Workers' extrass but with far students more power, the most

WUIK

Arthur- appalling

LTONS-

Gordon Illal ane Secretary Exell and of the JWPC walker) and set about several CP• making were the factory more evicted as a etticient. resull or Une From account settled threaten apparatus his new "Absenteeism satisfy the of the things "Une of Exell's shows promised support union work" covers who lead from But this

LOOK

factory then the leading mace Oxford and were "If they prepared form Union recognition in the a shock union no control brigade, WC Radiators was there. fore painfully slow. By 1934 of National Government! job in the factory, in any place at any time big coloured stasing phe pact shand tory stating the and nasd hut unto chanely

VY.CL

Management used it to give the jobs that wouldn't our case." that proven was totally his barent meeting addressed Stafford He explained acuivites

JWPC

the contract. manage- ment down. But Exell was not

TO T

by a Men lost test for leaks installed much main nearer Ine to say that management acknowledged told Cripps, received a letter him thanking me for my the German the rose mission for branch library foreman's "They at us. worketu which Tea! was fantas- how to borrowed ine the Little were Lenin copies 2-300 Daily able but dissidents little • party axell the Rads. "The remarkable branch tellow Pat Mills was a charac ter And at every thing: said well unals one the sacked. think said Was being here -you very awkward get away if vou to over I it was and detrimental the produc. good thing."!! As soor war was all the hard-nosed motor bosses. No sooner had the victorv cele brations died down and the Essential Works Order been lifted than they SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday: 11 June 1981 The last of war production side by side with the first peace-time cars wholesale sacking of the Rads and and millanes a IRe mainten- including the then dilu Stan apparently without building up return as time ¡esistance we all went on "This the firms the dole came back they did of from Radiators men Wa, and there was Cowley had their men '20s, maintenance were recan January 1947, • manage Mer rom ment with I had ing until fuel crisis. The kept chasing the ine dill war, stocks, savine bac I in chaos. an‹ that kept • the AEU day closed down way unt Oxford

ШОЙ HOUT

• On My ded o the houst the being and Radiators Cantell asking the go tac tory with view with management convenor and insisted And they usu u Jou there, the union DOOl was true. and Long sat and

AIM

4y e said, Well al organiser, sion, about the the place, and how the and unev that's when Longworth, said and • That don't blame

CARO

either'. So that was it. the get rid of Went. me. Having been sacked after Anyway they said the years of collaboration

WILI

men sent for, the management, Exell ever

mmunist Party at Cowley SOCIALIST PRESS Thursdas It June 1981 pposed his He susies selli In selling ¿fence! always " remember there was a appreciative uple of party members workine class can get tron did get their employers." Principles divullu. you and try to organise a we can assume, don't come But I couldn't see a into it. doing any good when say that his account 2i8 ears in the Mois of the von was asse mel Arthur Exell's account of plant highly selective it credibilty would ling what it shows of doesn't deserve long 2m years to class He actually Laboration of the Oxford reduce those 28 y cals but it shows an incred of his pages page and unbelievably anus aslee Opi txen s part

DOOK

the official CP line or of doesn't even mention Fryer was going the who the on in nas been rld as a whole. TGWU convenor and domin- He never attempts to deal ant personality of the plant political terms since 1959 with the (with UrCaK And to Decem-

HOLIC OI

the maor

ITOM

June events-like ber 1979). Trials the 1939 der Stalin walt leature Distortion the pre- period. the end the CP's initial sup- Exell even 1911S mention the major

AUEW

pernment goes by without convenors CP/ outside his Broad Left "everyday talk During the war it is al ol country Iolk • long story of Keep your To achieve this distortion se to the grindstone cuncentrales ains Yet Exell exclusively on the period of nave own that elsewhere in the the 1950s- -where ne was at intry were least active S000 ring for and con- movement Newarac although ons ana lnal the er was he managed ing fight against separate this from any KInG resistance in militant role within the oruct plant. workers to back imperialist war effort. He was meetinos ot. Continuity early AUEW-dominated the Joint Shop Stewards Com- AUEW were bi Surprisingly in May 1947 majority union thur Exell got a start in that time) and was a right ris Motors. William wing body willi FrIs, now Lord Nuffield, organise the still largely Radiators non-union plant. OWICe Ine at and management used Under pressure irom ine Midlands CP branches Exell to grant him from when he was also the early active ted at Rads. committer seT explains, the Nuffield redundancy factories and later broadened more hey when he finally took to other a coreines entary redundancy ne still attended when I began to go to the meetings in the carly 1960s their 1966 election In 1956 (he wrongly paign dates it as 1953) he took The part an official strike tion struggle in resulted against selective redundancy Illulaill which steward. alf from the minority TGWU of the The

TGWU

under the over local leadership people plant 1965 and like Bob Frver 1970 ana lony Bradley were fighting to bring a new more militant, brand of trade unionism into the nant Arthur was H10I Management esponded one 01 by sacking

TGWU

the them tha whole

COH

venor rrank horsman. 1 he he

AUEW

opposed the strike the plant, urclevance but Exell claims to have sup.

rarely stewards ported it as an individual.

meetings The strike was a catalyst section. for the development But perhaps the clearest who were

TGWU

soon to indication what hillul become the majority union.

Exell the really saw ignincantly 'politics of the production Exell never mentions a strike line" contained the led, which not ne ever penultimate paragraph of his surprising, since lại as l

OOOK

I was gratified, when 1 have been aDit to establish never led anything left, he to see a fine says. Cowley. move llaut Immediately ment had been left alter une behind 1956 meeting was strike a me called to begin unionisa- He is speaking tion drive in the bant This was one year after the spearheaded by back of a very militant the paintshop where Bob been

IIOUI

movement Fryer

TGWU

steward Exell was an AUT broken in the events follow.

victimisation steward in the same shop Convenor the DebuLy series of strikes dram- TGWU and the strike result.

pay -and alically Imoroved 1974 April/May

ITOM

trade union member- shin was achieved along with Although 1 was success the first £ 20 wage packet.

fully defended. Jack Jones then General Secretary Allnur Exell was one of the few in the shop moved and Lilt who consistently refused removed Bob Fryer from office.

SUDOOTE

unose played no role in the struggle unionise the rest of the "Clean-up" plant (wnien was organisec late by motor industry stan- dards), which Reg Parsons became the orocccued bitter conditions, convenor and the ultra right under verv to its final achievement in 1966. Jack Jones was acting in This culminated in the with line the comradea the infamous with Noose Trial"- Cowley government to - used by the Tories as the basis of "clean the union and control the militant plants BL placed massive financial the disposal of resources at 10Cd manapermenl lo back the move 3½ they their openly came boney Trotskyism' and driving those who had organised th plant and built the union out of the union and out of the industry this they smashed been built They iant They organised the victimisation of of them despair and then to redun- dancy Throughout this. period the right wing were selecting NI Bob Fryer: his fight recenes no mention Page 7 Blackleg rides towards his fellows after breaking through Cowley pickets in 1956 CP members lot appointed banned lom an olice to: full time trade life the CP were the only positions in the plant know- stewards me that unev • cowo be tenec

SITORI

to uncompromisingly stewards committee to resist upon • the militants and sup- these fight victimisations the ful wort lic manazement. • 3006.0-

A TENDI

nook not so much an Voted out graphy Oxford ar car- worker as a cover up of the CP in Cowley Although Parsons was Ironically the publishing Exell's book old leadership re-elected, damage the of the role done ine encing of the CP in the Cowley

SLIUCLULI

SOOLIOO

Assembly Plant-at least for movement which has still by no means been repaired the forseeable future All five of thei active Arthur Exell reflects the members have now followed CP in that period. CP mem- bers were the most loyal Exel see a ken von tary redundancy. supporters of the right wing every single move Ine. made. Veteran When sentenced TGWU to by the from union The and inere Ron Jones, Exell's fellow faced the prospect of paint „veteran snot sacked from the plant being went 2 years ago . Two more as a non-unionist. and Bot Reet ere stures of Rustin factory Fryer sentenced to be College And the remaining -Mick : Soanes and Tony two- Gallagher--both very leading CP members in the area- went VR last week enough, Ironical Gallagher had until that time been prominent on the com- mittee organising the Peoples Those us whom Arthur Exell did not have time to mention (or maybe he could not bring himsell pronounce our names) still there And unlike Exell and his ilk If we can the current management offensive; the collapse of the winakers me rundown ol and periodic attacks from trade bureau- unior crats we will be there Io a long time yet

Lee Jeans: the days of Desperate SNP demagogues turn to adventurist tactics ..=wRage 8 Socialist Press interviews Cathy Robertson (20) and Lorraine Mooney of the Lee Jeans occupa- tion •stewards (CU- mittee. How long have you worked at the factory? . Four years. It was bOrrowe. my third job. 3½ years. It was my first job. long enough to it look me skill of and I learn the want to keep it. What the wages and conditions like? The basic wage was t49-anything else you had to get by bonus. Cathy: Before they made redundant they have given us a basic of £55. As it was the first since 1979 we happy We rejected it three Inat times. What action did you every single week till sunke they'd give They wanted in. to work and were giving luaus overtime. course we now know why. What nappened when you heard about the closure? Cathy: When it came to our Lorraine Mooney (left) and Cathy Robertson break were there was a meeting we LORd sto the al been a sually : 4 o'clock this place down and moving hours-they hadn't realised hours. the the work from Greenock: that alter thei ten minutes Everyone agreed and we Lorraine: That's why they'd finish at 4.30 and we were were up we decided to barri- got a solid vote. management much bloody cade them Told gaven get all the refusing overtime so we'd We got

LIC

completed before groups and blocked every inc came emergency exit when crosure and tney could clear the Did the union official o'clock our district officer the factory! астогу suggest any of this? Howard,

NUTGW,

JOIN

unev a let the keve ving Did he heck! around while they were talk are Too What happened then? ing, including the US. one ironi Cathy: Well the union key So "I've somebody got a bit of bad official went back mo ater jumpea out the window with news for you". we'd heard the good news- drove down and got Then in comes the Why did you get such a com- and put every kind of pro- duplicate replaced united response on valy neau man Itom reand the management original. SLackered Robert Charters. He says we begged wiem when we could get in would like Lorraine: There's New Year-sut or r we'd nothing wish you on and out with keys else in Greenock to turn to- happy week even • a one-day sorry lassies it's not going to and take the other four off unemployment Is 10% Earlier be a very good one for you.

We all felt we'd got a job one alter. Ine aole-but the company discussed so what do we want to n0OR we here, The company's had wouldn't listen. occupation 25% cut in then No, closure-we , It s got to de ciosed sorted ourselves there's problem The days of selling jobs was all they'd say. Will The first are over! intet Shite exports Management velaust said they shift would work from 8 at Cathy: There's no way pound, plus all the me night to tell minutes alone our jobs there, My government grants in the can lose are up in willout une union Greenock so You see we knew ailu su Ull. father's Instead they Cosine two

LOOK

we'd have to be in there 24 unemployed, he's

SICK

In a desperate effort and job centres throughout which he switched allegiance to recoup their declining butivism and complete the country to the SNP. failure to tackle the central fortunes, This as manifested turn is not There, together with problem of the power of the in unexpected George recent opinion polls Reid Stephen within ш matings considering the collapse of Maxwell Margo and poorly and context of the Scottish econ- attended electoral the appor his wife) demonstrations 101 Macaonald

SNP

Sillars against vily Sillars has sought to give the from exploiting unemployment, and is lik SNP a more the 1979 and lower orienta- any Scottish National Party still since then. tion. establish populist party. Dismayed at their failure The success he has had in lat their conference from exerting dis-

MOT

Profit from working class this springs largely from the orientating influence Aberdeen have launched hatred of Tories and

UDON

disenchantment the Scottish working class. the into divisions the politics within the Labour ranks of the Party Whatever the weaknesses ranks, they win une adventurism. alt now seeking guard in the policies of the SNP, it icauership to regain a popular base with By voting for a Gordon Wilson, exuding would policy the ation of tactics "non-violent The bf middle class disobedience respectability, they Suggest Ludl Will and Donald Stewart, spout- ot protest against high to build a base of credit for ing Presbyterian morality

MOSE

The unemployment Wes or support Ins new must go Scotland, the Nationalists Sillar's success in challen- the leftist and Group visill the obviously witch ging established straining realer. economic cumate has lound a tribune in arch ship into the public his elec- In ruce 090k coroven ov so by de thult do sh as they opportunist and petty dema- rision. tion to the post of executive it will Sillars. gogue James vice-chairman The British ruling established trade union and class Having with the play a key role in the formu- their sho saute prospect of „Droken Party leadership Labour Party, Sillars tried lation of policy and tactics Scotland and their refusal to unsuccesslully to buld him.

The fact that the policies accupations of the mount previous- power through of the y intended Scottish Assem- represents campaign against the policies the ill fated Socialist Labour are a vacuous hotch-potch of of the Thatcher government.

bullding in Edinburgh decentralisation, social dístri- denise Speakers Inside the Lee Jeans occupation: some beautiful jumpers have been knitted!

well, he needs his tablets works, but Mouser she only gets £18 a week and alone is £13.80. we lost get wed can al Most the women's husbands in the factory Ther cut buy cu •ack them all the way -they want the get in and fight There's no way we'd take money for our jobs You cannot sell your job in Greenock-nor anywhere thousands instead of the us they offered —10T they have offered in redun dancy money for four years Lorraine. In the ninth week of the they offered an extra £100. We said stuff it-next time you come to talk 10 I7s and don't

YOU

tal

JOD:

mention your money. By Duncan McVicar Conference could correctly lambast the STUC for their refusal VItals challenge on the question of unemployment. The cancellation of the pralineu march against youth unemployment and the of the betrayal workers dispute a same • Marine Construction at Hunterston are glaring examples of this refusal to fight. Retreats Alongside Ins we have wilnessed Labour controller councils, with. a few honour- able exceptions, implemen- ting the cuts without even a blust of shame. The further these proceed, the more they will give heart to the Nationalists now seeking a way • Lo tre urban class of the Central Lowlands. What are you getting paid now from the union? - that's ga week tike en -that's generous isn't 48p a week union dues? What's the other support like? Lorraine: Brilliant-right The first

STAT

night we were in the • factory for 32 hours Ilal fantastic support. men came straight away from the shipyards- the stewards-and organised lo get us beas In Cathy: Beds and food came from boys valy wait- jumped it and ordered fish • Suppers 240 suppers had to come over the factory rool and in the back door -there wasn't enough left the canteen to feed us all we've got it organ- Exploiting genuine sentiment Scottish people for a greater measure of devolution of power, they equate this with the struggle for national independence "Lim- babwe, india and Ireland".

The sentiment Scotland is not of the same order as in the independence struggles these coltantes cited. and those who make this equation are harbouring a disastrous illusion. Certain socialists must cognisance and take grapple with Une phenomenon "new Ine which have nationalsm emerged the danced capitalist states in the seven- ties, but that call done in conjunction with an unrelenting exposure of the dead end politics the populls nationalist move. ments, such as the SNP. SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 1J June 1981.

ised Lorraine: Yes the fruit and yay for free, i was the day free factory's daily delivery -the company told him he'd get again for helping us didn't care -these girls were showing everyone Greenock Ior the magnificent fight shipyard 1he workers have each put a f1 a week levy miners as well have a weekly levy The Scottish UC have Promised to back us to the The day it was supposed to close on 30 April we had meeting outside Managem once- was great-with the docker enock they from over vale to picket in case ther put us out.

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selling jobs are over! An anti-Soviet fairy tale SOCIALIST. PRESS, Ihursday: 11 June 1981?

Wraps over disused machinery What is it like in the occu- the shopping or washing. We've all a rota of duties, Lorraine: chores from Great-there's entertainment- to oiling machines. local bands come You get thing puppet

•L WU

then We've worked place has never been so wel out some great songs. You know kept. We've one Shut up your face'

KUL

rule about no drink on the wow we s do you think premises and we have really what we d do-Hey! security with What did they expect-Hey!

searches going in and out to Go down to the Broo? -Hey!

nothing Will we bloody heck! -Hey!

taken. We will occupy -y All we've LLO bargain with That is why we cry - y is a million pounds of Don't shut up-a da place" unfinished and garments and some brand new shows laundry six months old. finished social We've got You're allowed a night off if ask, sweden spring collection-sc but only a special god only knows what they're night-we're all expected but wearing. ио our Shiit Jeans. Women with families get The feeling in the place.

what time off they need for well explain It is not every first which great and novelist who can boast a violence is done to men; and former

CIA

director a lalat psychological' moments amongst admirers on the which good old book cover. Americans confront their destinies.

But then Robert Moss, the package

DUT

founder different, member the vala Old highly the same authoritative weekly divided into two gence column those (diminishing) in me ru Telegraph no ordinary lovingly CIA/FBI-and that (growing) His Telegraph expanse where COllimn presents the world through moves except through intelli- the eyes or western machinery of the KGB gence sources with whom his contacts are many and good.

KGB plot But spine Week u chilling stories of nefarious It follows from this that deeds by dastardly Cubans every setback for US imper- scheming Bulgars lacks since the war has been tess appeal. a KGB plot and every Moss has turned for liberal, anti-war student collaboration more radical Journalist a popular venture to Armand (more likely) a knave de Borchgrave, chief foreign It is journalists correspondent of Newsweek Who are the and a political soul mate.

main larters •Tor and Borchgrave in Spike novel, Spike, terr It is the story of a young formula written. There are radical paragraphs reporter perfunctory Hockney, America out of the Vieries writes sex every ten pages in which men things women; almost single handedly baffling action' passages and then-horrified at find- the beginning now they're not as workers first We Ellen convenor, annual passing by We told than more He got quite him ing him where he was. None they 1l have to listen What But everything every move political. I ne closed because of The wouldn't agree to blacking, want us to. fantastic-just like another So home-one big family. organise it ourselves. cleaning floors you've got a • Course wee bit of coming and going certain have another-the on each- pool, Grangemouth carnolner. we sen We nerves-but we're OuterS closer than we've ever been from the unmarried girl came iven us a 100% blackir absolute back maternity leave Ther docki and brings her kid up with that her fur and every body shot al looking afic: it been And they beautiful jumpers have been knitted!

wille Cathy: There's. been bad moments like finished products not second third dav Britain to sell, so no profits as well as a can be made ones here. stutted all the heating pipes with paper.

protits It caused parafin worried about clue down walls-if anyone What about had lit a cigarette we would booksmade to open yUl have all gone up in smoke What's been the help, Cathy: Well their excuse for from your own union officials?

closing us it's Lorraine: from ПОПС Liev re sudden ing he has been a KGB dup -sets out to blow the lid off involvement tense American liberalism. put it another way the book cover puts it-The He is Story So Explosive it Can CIA's real Only Be Told as Fiction! Philip Agee, Cuban the Dastardly parts— Richard arcas Helms, former stems the director of the CIA, puts it still another way. According History nothing to reims it poses the ques- kind Ene tions the Soviets des- troy the West without firing they a shot?' one must be With message dastardly this there IS scope for character. The figures who flit across plot. the pages of their book wet and uninteresting that cardboard is annace. or quate description: cardboard has more dimensions Nevertheless possible for Moss Borchgrave plagiarise liber- ally from life. Their fictional traitors made serve Bob not just as symbols but to suggest living people One of the most despised Agee appears characters is Man cler Phil Kreps a CIA agent who chitilig nim they've don't their word lake We all know anything; we knew they had good as no proof they're made out to be When we occupied It took six weeks to get it got hold of Some InDortanT official and they said we had company but we files to have a vote from the Irish couldn't get the actualis They desperate to ger Isn't had a battle ic fles but they Dack Monaghan, the They wouldn't hand the books speak at to over. conference 1 ne General Secretarv turned ur 1o weeks after we occupied So couldn't was they weren't bankrupt. We know they're just using him we wanted government grants. When the him just passing grant is H Longoneerry • a knocking dump the Irish company they i lus workers too. leave it was mone from our jobs that was keep- VF has had free rent for live years in Greenock! the Lorraine: We keep trying to

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leaders thought we'd stick it, tell the Irish workers they've got a real fight now it's the we're both at dosa against company that give Cathy: two fingers for us, our jobs or our familie people's polities, not their bit we then in women

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, but the Derry are so afraid do, that the management will lay them off. Thev to soe they can' factories are being afford sacked -it's difficult to give them the politics. we'll not officials in the union encouragement that they've chain organise got rights and should stick machines. they just didn't we told them wed We went to the dockers' unions, to the ports all over the country, London, Liver got a great response They've dockers. could s would worried about us sitting ir bough they could sell the stock and the plant could leave that a But they don't like their into gelling they're the attempts the down was that bankrupt-but

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and his help been Borch- allu Look-alikes Other well known look- crave. alikes are a radical American actress (Fonda?) who joins a bar

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Brigade type Ked (Patty Hurst?) ists. But allaps. Carter weak President who grave is clearly modelled on Carter himself (to say nothing of a theories. beer-swilling aide closely on hotered Carter's book publicatior brother). The The character, innocents reporter Hockney is about trick as credible as J.R. Ewing. A Spike brief appearance as a college And if radical sets him up tor a redeemed only himself scoop story, which in turn unreadability sets nim up as a Vietnam review! Wel reporter Cubans did it! * Page 9 to them, stand up and fight we neers on the shine for them. yard workers won't ot them All y All we to do We can't let them chuck worksharing with them but us out. Everybody's watch- they won't have any of it.

ing us to see li we re going ic that understandable? • We're not going to give can't afford to take a up this fight cut in wages it to the people, Lorraine Well can't everyone who's supporting us. We also at tse ur jobs. Ellen Monaghan has tried to show owe it Ellen Monaghan it's one and the same battle.

Without there'd hey have never been such a fight. She Is there much chance of a court order? lost 5 pounds in weight in the first month of the occu- Cathy: We don't know, the has said it will adore her for valul. the factory what she has done. August but we don't know What'll happen then. Is there a chance of getting strike action from the othei She'll never live it down NUTGW members nationally She's been a shop steward if you're touched? for ten years and has fought ! don't think the company all the way for They'll just not everything that's going get the Sals priest she encouragement from the leaders and they're not going company's problems, to do it on their own doesn't hear -it's Lorrain?: We're us and our rights she cares about. ser, she's gohinker not thinking of send in police- herself,

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Laurence Scott workers sit tight • It is now six weeks since the 650 workers at Laurence Scott and Elec- tromotors, Manchester, occupied their factory to prevent its closure. of Mining 24 seven unions on April profits from the NCB and voted 3-2 take the the Admiralty. over lactory anu since ten ovel 500 have taken part in the "Losses" sit-in. The company, which Arthur Snipe's spark-tree recent communications with motors for occupation Have mines and submarines. Was the 'losses" the factory in October last taken over had been and mas out year by Mining Supplies of with an assurance Doncaster clear

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Coventry race attacks SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 11 June 1981 ment). Edwardes out! offices of the outside the He said that the first Tory controlled council, was Thatcher out! were the a clear demonstration of the slogans of main CasC mitant mood oi the work- militant 3,000 strong production September this This will year. demonstration which shows that the con- •redundancies in developing marched through Solihull ditions curlpulsuly August; fight against an all-out last Friday. management over "Lulled" They were demonstrating round closures not only the Rover SD1 plant in Solihull Wellingborough He said "many SD1 but the supported and wit a 035 of 2,3 toi Co. transfer Cowley that admit an tre Dalis ucout in Carall rawardes la mc Das manual and Mick Clark, the

TGWU

problem was inat tawardes staff labour force from the convenor of the SD1 gave a nad "lulled most of us" the demonstra- then won the oined 1977 and had to the BL Com- ton. With then bine Committee which met stewards and militants from last Saturday (He was referring to , the the Land Rover and Range said joint meeting of plant direc- He the plant had and convenors held Kover plant and sections been ave years

TOTS

workers other ago at a cost of £ 140 million January TTOm which industries in Solihull. (which at today's prices is an Edwardes introduced him- demonstration, The self and his plans for BL and lavesuncil annosi aual ended the recent Mini Metro invest- watch Wild got a standing ovanon ea TUC sits on People's March The Peoples March ities in order to keep out look almost open might seek to socialists who and delight attracted the support of novice 101 genutne The workers literally hundreds of action. and mouth uti channelled into thousands of workers : most futile succession of concrete from a top- who saw it as a lead in posal to emerge I0ODIes. pentions marches. the fight against reve dscuson wr week o the next steps was fight against unem- the cas ployment. for a lobby of parliament by be pursued ployment must But it has failed to shift yuuil allu Un IWO IORES the mood of lethargy the one the ne terence InemnOV ment which has prevailed ir unions-the the TUC as the jobless total comme comerence in Leices climbed Official TUC protest 22% ter June Li-see page •) ts million mark. therefore remaining an important contribution to week TUC leaders stubbornly in the well-worn this fight. decided that they would not formally to let off steam, interspersed wind up the cam- launched by with systematic betrayals of day-to-day march. On the other hand, the But ther intend to place pressed closures, Icht neede themselves firmly the home for occupations and driving seat of future activ- Meanwhile the Tories supporting strike and black- Mobilise against Within the last fort- and order" and has stated: youth and workers in Britain night marches have and internationally are at the the fascists have

NINH

always been conducted witl forefront of the struggle.

the offensive gone on he highest standard of dres tite

ENNT

were both physically and march in Coventry without ideologically view of the police decision police protection they would to allow recent highly provo- Coventry. cative and offenswe demon.

smarts of the mihtant biad smashed On Thursday June strations to proceed we attacked three A sians they problems with no envisage the labour and stabbed one anu oi them movement were leav- The Labour leader of ing a pub in a predominant- The Coventry Committee Coventry City Council has black area. for the inTeres called organise counter-demon- recent asant con. bannea whlie the iones are racist skinheads stration wherever the fascists demanding a blanket ban. shows that organised fascists are at work in Coventry No answer same time as ensuring that the Specials concert is defen- nave chosen as ine largel area in the Midlands. The history ded of the anti- gigantic fascist struggle tels us that must be seen and highly successful demon- attempt to unite black and state dans are no answer to the fascist onslaught. The white youth behind the anti sualon neu in coventry Saturday May 23 the New fascists are always protected lasuist suruzEIt National Front applied has the police whenever they It is a real public oppor- hold a fos

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tunity actively exposing demonstration on the same s the labour movement and the lies of the ascIsts ano bands are pice to pand day The Specials and who show that they have other crippled and paralysed by nothing to offer white the anti-fascist struggle state legislation

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youth. in Coventry accident that • Ine last attack by the The NNF organiser Alan renewed calls for the amend- fascists now ungently points Stewart the ment the Public Order

.HRS

march in the name of "law Aci occur at a time wher movement to act. Robinson. Bob by Derek Cowley who river opposed tne whole proce dure "lunatic MoGarry-who na. taken voluntary redun. da clark called for a public Edwardes 11t0 plan and for a further ballot : Edwardeh which he assessed that would now

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Pat deputy TGWU senior steward at the SD1. made a strong state- ment to tre , commicec He said that support was building but eventually up, the oniv effective action will occupation -the plant. "Then we will have to fight" He said that the SD1 ing action to defend al jobs and prevent plant and public setter cesures In neither fight will a lead be given from the TUC: new Just Dr built within the labour movement to press home the struggle for jobs. The black community and all labour movement bodies are at risk. They not dealing with just undisci- plined gangs of skinheads. Defence InUS built to crush these attacks wherever they occur. Already sections of the labour movement have come forward with the call launch a labour movement inquiry into the arrests that took place on the massive demonstration on May 23 This seen the first step towards setting independent organisa- tions of the labour move- place, the Labour Party and trade union branches that the fight must waged against sharply racist terror. *No to police/state bans!

the Urganise fascists out of Coventry!

*Build black white labour movement defence squads! By Bill Peters from Wellingborough the even attended the meeting (having called at the previous meeting for higher payments) and 1cuullualie. for the the senior gewards 500 workers remaining the Canley said they anucky be they wert would be getting wor from the Cardiff plant after it closed down. All out attack contrast, Bob Fryer from Cowley Assembly again Edwardes would Rover touched in Cowlev Assemb were calling a Birmingham- whilst workers at Solihull continued wile muss utmonswanion on resist the Saturday August 1 and were closure. inviting other factories to A delegate from Jaguar Browns reported Lane He said plans were laid the all-out attack trade union movement at the try to press ine nanona officers of the unions into plant support for the struggle and He said there was a new lobby of 1050 the Nationai Automotive Committee redundancies-which the TGWU was being organ.

assumes will be compulsory.

ised for June 18 at Smith Management methods are Sauare in London tear ane mumkanon. re He went on to support are saying that if the redun- the call for : a public inquiry accepted not Larvil the whole into the tawardes plan. al wil close plant. mourv waich ne conseered should be based on the He said resistance is now labour movement. developing the tracks, Stressing the problem of where management is impos- getting the. support of the ing a track speed increase of National Officers, one • dele- 25% on the workforce gate from Leyland Vehicles The Combine Committee Then termee io car amor when Edwardes ballotted the industry conference for Man one suhad taken workforce "survival Saturday August 8 in Bir- Man Cas Penciald suppors lins th echosures.

page

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aoverts Tne national press to advise BL workers vote in favour initiative and comes time wnen crucia decisions Nothing had happened will have to be taken inside since then to suggest that the SD1 on direct action to their defend the jobs. unev nad changed position, he said The conference should Outside of the SD1 the receive the full support of were obvious. No delegates in the car and component

IRELAND: TUC

LINE REJECTED

Because Murray's The issue of Ireland intervention and the amount dominated the Annual of interest this generated in Conference the debate on Ireland, of Trades the motion Councils held last week- • was brought to th top ol ine agenda for the lasi end in Southport. day of the conference In his opening Though the address mover of the Murray maden stenne attack conference motion, lom Durkin trom Trades Council said Brent motion from the that he was not seeking con- on the Greater London Association frontation with the TUC Trades Councis was obvious that the motion called for an end to emer- challenge bipartisan gency , powers legislation, for policy on Ireland. a Bill of Rights. the restor The debate itself was ation of special category very good with a minority of status and commitment tion and none of the usual troops. witch-hunting. The motion was inade- Dave Hallsworth quate as it did not include from Council ca or trooos out now But it met opposition from attacked the Northern Murray and the TUC General land Committee of the ICTU Council because it did cal as belng unrepresentative or for special category status the Catholic minority and Murray's main spoke supkort for political stous enormous was that the resolution, and troops out in the six Northern Ireland Committee counties. of the Irish Mick Jarmaine of Leices Congress Trade Unions ter Trades Council siad that refused to take a position many trades councils, includ- on political tatus ing his own had a policv in favour of political status and Dass troops out now. with sectarianism Mike Walsh of the Inter- would impert the lives of national Department of the our colleagues"

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in his reply to the Page 11 industry further important decision was also taken Dy the Combine Committee Delegates voted proposal • Cowier

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Assembly to organise a con ference of BL workers and Stewarus thin the corri stewards movement has yet beer it will fixed but provide important opportunity an detail the Longbridge 8 at the begin- ning of the year-and lay the stensunend revitalising the shop stew ards' the movement controntalon *BL workers: lobby National : June 10. *Full support for the Birmingham demonstra- *Mobilise for the Motor Industr conference on August! *Black all movement of machines material work, from the affected plants!

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com- mittee heard speakers fron the South African TUC anc • Апи-А partne Movement speaking on the mass sacking of BL workers in south Airica A resolution was passed pledging solidarity with the victimised worktorci and urging BL convenors to check if material was going plant and organising blacking action where possible. debate defended the record Ireland The hortnern Committee which had been attacked by several speakers ing. He was huckled when he said: "There is tive of the NIC on the police authority. They're fighting for repeal powers, they are fighting to reduce remand periods, they are making progress. ine resolution when put to the vote was passed by a • substantial majority. this is a major blow to the TUC, who now will have te review its bipartisan policy on Ireland The passing of the resolu tion is the beginning of s British labour move ment Many of the trades coun cils and county associations of trades councils represen conference are now planning organise local and regional conferen- ces on Ireland possible for • the and • disaffiliate trades councils like Tameside who oppose TUC policy on

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SOiDARNOSC New glash ing oland body called the Katowice has torum issued a statement which has provoked a wave of Leaders of •the nine support from the Soviet civil service unions spent East European and nearly the whole of last.

bureaucracies and strong week attempting from willin persuade the government Poland. to provide some sort of The Forum has attacked bait by which they could the present leadership within Poland losing control sell out the 1981 It has claim.

LOUNIEV.

atracked the leadership of they Solidarity and it talks about unsuccesstul is "anti- more io Thatcher's intransi- concisc ence nan do any destre Dy saying that the party must the founcil for Civil Service not serve the working class stick "direct it and €10 The Forum is under the Anne CaNI. chairmanship of new Having been denied any of member the room Political Gerard (PSA executive (leading the bureau. Wabrys. U 1101 Ninety out of ninety- along with the SOPS leader- seven of the Katowice dele- ship is set to recommend an the male. Communist Party Congress have disassociated them- Forum's 11 ()112 statements. Condemned ical Bureau has condemned the vocacis. has decided to The oru But none of this has the stopped the ot press other Fast European states latching in order The Kremlin news agency

FROM FRONT PAGE

Cont'd p.2, col. 1 many trade unionists socialists that the repression by Kritish state against the Catholic Northern tion of titatively difterent. repression here. Capitalist rule Thẻ troops inte Coutics de tecting" ority the than 'proteco Brixton ihere to preserve stability of capitalist rule by the resistance of the most oppressed sections of society. Brechner These truths have begun

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colapse ship. though it has not con- civil ducted any campaign strength over was opposed to the escalation of years. the action a mere two weeks Faced Historic decision strike action must pay mount. Hosvever. in the tourteenth Ware

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dearly due paign action which has hit

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revenal. Doris. beneficiaries. defence establishments, civil At the faced are clear that the with a histeric decision

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Qown now represent the most make emergency blow. It to claimants. open the door to massive 100 curs unboston o new tern- nology, wholesale victimisa- and

VICTORY TO THE

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and to sink home and created in support of the prisoners.

Torces popula But there is much more still to do. treland is While it is important fo machine from

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break "bipartisan" Ine unemployment leaders support Tory line in Ireland. we must recruitment. fight the unions and the Labour Party solidarity "pro with the Irish struggle. means stepping up black the fight for the a pra org five demands, strikers has brought the Irist .the WV2 | immediate withdrawal British troops from Ireland.

responsibility We must show that lest who point to the dearns of soldiers tor demands

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which will in management, service workers turn provoke walk outs in increasing union orces voce are moemen last ting emergency procedures In DHSS : sections service with such CPSA branches must link up prospects the fight to imple

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ment the demand tor all oui organise emergency be para under their up COnITO workers in the Full support ition . of Employment must organ- ise union-based control over Obviousiv this has to be done on the basis of. full whol support the pay cam- moment it seems paign. It there most militant # minam eve o scabons arcas are porscu lo lake un refusal by those official action by relusing to work 10 the strike levy pay payments then unofficial action is the ony anernale cor memoers Suspensions striving to bring the dispute could This will certainly lead to to a head new waves of suspensions by are signs that the I hert punitive actions against Irish prisoners of war are in taci The increasing the death toll and Thatcher's today's mass tabour must mount an British Responsibility Direr! ruler Arkins The valour of the hunger "victory to me nunger strikers! POW status now out ot Trèland British politics. It is nou our nOit build determination for the Irish perple! movement strong enough lo Thatcher's *Don t

DOCES

Civil Service Minister Soames dispute. leadership The beginning next week will be wake up to the fact that to in testing out the effects of the last three monins civil workers have been further intensification and taking on the government demonstrating the letts like houvidade Wål unon bureducrats Dennis Skinner have spoken will turn to maintain control in the but this past. members who will not week-end saw official present

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