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LEYLAND STEWARDS...... Cont'd from Front SUBSCRIBE to ITAIN sues • issues issues It is becoming clear that the so-called "peace movement" in Ireland has only one objective and one target - the isolation and defeat of the republican forces.

After the four marches that have been held up to the end of last week, the sunday limes assessed the fruits of the movement for peace.

The paper did not of course, ask what success Betty. Williams and Mairead Corrigan had had in removing the root cause of the violence - the British occupation of Ireland. (A pertinent question in the week that the European Commission found the torture charges levelled against the British Army and the RUC proven.)

Instead, the Sunday Times gloatingly observed:

"The number of people using the police confidential telephone has increased since the peace marches started."

In the South, the same government that is so enthusiastic about the "peace" movement added its own contribution to the antiRepublican fight when it passed in the Dail and the Senate a declaration of a state of emergency.

DETAINED

Under these measures any Garda officer above the rank of Chief Superintendant can order a person to be detained without charge and held for seven days.

A person so detained need not be held at a police station. A government spokesman explained police stations have been "subject to attacks"

SOUTH AFRICA Cont'd fi marched into the very centre of the city - the areas considered by the regime as white areas into which others are allowed only as compliant wage slaves.

SHOTGUNS

The demonstrators have been met with shotguns, baton charges and teargas from the police. Every day up to ten demonstrators have been killed and numerous others injured.

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BE EUROPE 6 issues • 12 issues 24 issues WORLD bscriptio res, I enc Justice Minister Cooney went on to reject an amendment that would allow people detained access to a doctor, because such an amendment contained an insinuation against the Garda which he could not accept.

When George Colley complained that the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) had failed to explain why the powers were needed or what he hoped to achieve by passing them, Cosgrave replied that he was creating a police state because:

"I am satisfied on the advice 1 have received from the Garda that this power is necessary. They had asked for the power and had justified the request to me. Senators would have to take it on trust that the reasons given to me were cogent and adequate."

Labour Party organisers in Dublin however, called upon the Parliamentary Party members to break with their coalition and vote against the repressive legislation. They claimed they were expressing the strong opposition of trade unionists and rank and file Labour Party members to the emergency measures.

"Left' Labourite David Thornley even described John Kelly, (Parliamentary Secretary to the Taoiseach) in speaking for the measures as a "fascist hyena" However Thornley, although threatening to vote against the measures, found he could do no more that abstain even in the face of this "fascist" legislation.

At the very time that these measures are introduced in Ireland the English National Council for Civil Liberties has just issued a report on the so-called "Preven'age 1. white police slipping on the pools of blood in the streets. Yet all this bloodthirsty intimidation has not stopped the demonstrations resuming each day and growing in size.

Racism and apartheid are no longer safe anywhere in Southern Africa. Vorster now knows that his only hope is to get help from his imperialist friends - from Kissinger and Callaghan.

It is, therefore, imperative that the fight is intensified in the British labour movement to force is to jo .£1.15 . £4.60 .£1.50 .£3.00 .£6.00 to Si ›cialist se i tion of Terrorism Act" passed by the Labour Goveinment after the Birmingham pub bombings.

The NCCL reveals that of 1,615 Irish people held under the Act from 2-12 days, only one had been convicted under the Act.

In Liverpool, 253 trade unionists have been held under the Act, interrogation centred ware ponce on the trade union and political activity of those concerned. Here is clearly exposed the real purpose of the legislation introduced by both governments.

In short it is painfully obvious that in supporting the "peace" marches the governments in the Republic and in Britain do șo only because they demand for themselves as representatives of the capitalist state the sole right to the use of violence.

A brutally frank illustration of this was on the Dublin "peace" march, where police intervened to prevent a section of would-be marchers carrying placards against hanging. "Peace" for the capitalist class in other words involves maintaining a favourable balance of terror and repression against the workers' movement.

There will be no peace in Ireland until the hold of British imperialism is broken and the British imperialist occupying army forced to withdraw. And there can be no meaningful unity between the loyalist and catholic populations in the North until a road can be opened up leading to the struggle for socialism Ireland as a whole.

the Labour Government to end its policy of collaboration and compromise with racist rule in Southern Africa.

• The resources of the labour movement must be used instead to give maximum active solidarity with the courageous African fighters against racism imperialism.

*Report on Namibia: Page 2.

LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETINGS AYLESBURY Plough and Harrow Stoke Road ursday 16th Septeml 7.30 LIVERPOOL Friday 1st October AUEW Hall Mount Pleasant 7.30pm.

SKELMERSDALE

Tuesday 14th September Quarry Bank Community 7.30pm. Maxi track. Buckle at once moved in to call a mass meeting of the day shift - on which none of the four victimised stewards worked - and managed to obtain a vote to return to work "for talks to continue with management"

Yet only hours later Region 5 of the T&GWU announced an official enquiry into "all circumstances surrounding" the withdrawal of credentials. These terms of reference were deliberately open to leave scope for further attacks on the shop stewards movement in Cowley.

Next day the Oxford Mail gloatingly reported Parsons saying "we have put these four to bed" while Buckle's comment -echoing the meeting with Jones -was that we have enough enemies outside, without enemies inside Leyland.

CALLAGHAN

It was the very same day as this that Callaghan 'entered the scene, weighing in with his statement that "we cannot afford you" and calling for stewards to *stick to procedures".

This was amplified by Terry Duffy, the extreme right-winger newly elected to the Executive Council of the AUEW and to take charge of British Leyland for the union. Aiming the witch-hunt towards Longbridge disputes Duffy said:

"If I find a politically motivhie, militant, I will deal with And indeed the full impact of the Jones-Scanlon meeting hit Longbridge on Monday of this week. Following a series of strikes right wing marches and a furious press witch-hunt, convenor Derek Robinson, a member of the Communist Party, swung a meeting of 700 stewards from the complex behind a reactionary resolution which pledged:

"That there would be no strike action, no unofficial sanctions or any action to impede continuous production until the full procedure is exbausted."

Robinson went on to ensure that the policy will be, put to sectional meetings throughout the complex, at which all votes will be recorded.

The only section of stewards which opposed this were those from the toolroom who walked out of the meeting. The retaliation from management was swift. They announced a complete lockout of the complex until the toolroom workers change their policy of 'one out, all out' Robinson said afterwards that LEAGUE PUBLIC MEETINGS DAGENHAM ednesday 15th Septembe Fred's Cafe opposite Fords works 4,30pm.

Sunday September Prince of Wales Division St. 7.30pm the toolroom issue was to be referred to the District Secretary. This too is in line with the discussions at the Jones-Scanlon meeting which discussed strengthening the hand of full • time officials over the rank and file.

Robinson's open right wing position on these questions is completely linked with his leading role in the worker participation set-up created under the Ryder Plan. This has already brought him to make joint statements with Leyland Cars boss Derek Whittaker in the company's reactionary "Quality 77". campaign, and support company moves to establish national, corporation level bargaining through full time officials in place of plant level bargaining.

Participation' requires that the bureaucracy move in and attack all those who oppose it and fight on principle for the independence the trade union movement from the employer.

That a leading Stalinist like Robinson is in the forefiont of the attack is a continuation of the role of the Communist Party in introducing and fighting to maintain participation.

•The developments are a part of the policing measures necessary within the factories if the trade union bureaucracy is to be able to impose wage control on the working class, together with the resulting fall in living standards.

STRONG

between the Communist Party and the right-wing; despite the stewards into management toes through the "participation' machinery, the working class remains strong and is fighting back.

The question remaining is the necessity for the building of leadership for this fight.

When a lead is given workers respond. These actions of the bureaucracy are desperate measures on behalf of the employers.

The conditions are now ripe for an initiative to begin the fight back. This is why the Conference on Wage Control and Union Democracy called by the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement in Birmingham on October 24th is of decisive importance for all trade unionists.

*Conference details, page 4. ..CAMPAIGN FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE LABOUR MOVEMENT PUBLIC MEETING HACKNEY:

Dalston Library Dalston Lane, E.8.

ednesday 28th Septeml 7.30 Speakers include Tony Kelly Secretary, Newham NE

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But inspite of the bureaucratic moves, despite the alliance