East London March

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A demonstration, well over a thousand strong, marched through East London last Satunday against unemployment, social service cuts, and against the attacks by racist thugs which have claimed the lives of numbers of young Asians in London.

Over half the marchers were aru ae the demonstingents from the Trade Unions -AUEW, TGWU (Fords and Royal Group of Docks) showed that wotkers in East London are prepared to unite and fight back against the growth of the fascist National Front and National Party.

Attempted harrassment of the march by fascists showed the degree of organisation and militancy of the black workers who have begun building defence squads arainst the fascists in East London.

The Communist Party delegates to the Newham Action Committee, which together with West Ham Trades Council sponsored the march, argued that the issue of the march should be only unemployment, completely avoiding the question of racialism.

This disgraceful line by the Stalinists is an attack not only on those black workers currently taking the brunt of the growth of

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nUS: BROAD LEFT RIG CONFERENCE Wednesday The trial is now und erway in Leeds of the Chapelto wn 12 - 11 blacks and 1 white arrested after a violent clash between police and youth last November 5th.

mt. The incident nad arsen out oi a clear provocation by the police, who despite a declaration that they would maintain a "low profile" sent patrols into the Chapeltown area, which finally succeeded in creating a confrontation.

Immediately a waiting force of a dozen police vehicles were rushed into the 'area. The youth resisted, throwing bricks, and two black youth, along with a white reporter community paper were arrested.

Subsequent arrests pushed the total facing charges to 12.

The defendants challenged 56 members of the jury to obtain one consisting of workers under the age of forty. But conspicuously there were no blacks in the pool of jurors.

While the United Caribbean Association of Chapeltown has attempted to put the November 5th events in their context - with 25% of Leeds unemployed living in that one area, and the consequent constant police harassment of youth - the Chapeltown News, though supporting the youth, separates this case from the general problems facing the working class.

Meanwhile the police are all set to use the case as a pretext for even further intervention and harassment of youth and unemployed. " 16th June 1976 Sturrock, Report.

The lengths to which the Stalinist-right wing 'Broad Left' leadership of the NUS will go to contain the Starting from such pessimistic perspectives, the main plank of the Executive's position was the national NUS demonstration they The Manchester conference widely by the conference. The main point raised was that if the NUT policy since 1969 of not teaching classes of over 30 was implemented Against the opposition / third of the delegates, annual conference of further passed a resolution wh provisions that the governm should control prices and divider sustain investment and maint nationally. and locally real level: spending On education and social services.

Since all these provisions h already been violated, then logic NATHE, even on the basis of! resolution, should be committer oppose the wage policy.

The objective of the moti however, is not that logic should followed, but that the leadersh obvious readiness to cave in on question of wage cuts sho appear to be tempered by sc attempt to protect the conditi of members.

RETREAT The other resolutions passed the conference contain the sa apparent opposition to the Lab government's spending cuts wi in reality covers the retreat of

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supported the 42% pay pl Attached, however,