Jail Right Marcher

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On Monday 27th September the first batch of the came up in Court.

Cne of the marchers, Michael Lynch, was jailed for six months. This shows that a sentence of several years is likely for the march organiser, John Deason who is charged with much more than Lynch.

The whole labour movement must condemn this puritive; political sentence and a campaign must be started for the release of Lynch and against the sentencing of Deason.

The WSL will fight for such a campaign even though we have clear political differences with the International Socialists who were organisers of the march. The attempt of the IS to make the "Right to Work' march non-political by the exclusion of political banners and by the limitation of the demands to straight trade union demands of a 35-hour week is a diversion.

Unemployment is a result of the capitalist system which at the moment is being run by a Labour government. Every fight against unemployment immediately comes up against this government and the organised strength of the capitalist state.

This is why the 'Right to Two white youths burned to death a 76-year old Indian woman Mrs. Mohan Devi Gautan, in the garden shed of her home in Leamington on 23rd September.

Her clothes were set alight with old newspapers. By the time she was dragged back into the house to die, three-quarters of her body was burned.

In 'an interview, her son Saudhu told Socialist Press what she had said before losing consciousness:

"Last Thursday my mother's statement she-said: Two men got in the house wearing masks and gloves. One man pulled my mouth and the other one started searching for papers - and found the papers in the cupboard.

*They took me outside into the shed and started burning me with the paper. After this they brought me back to the sitting room where I was sitting before they took me out.

They shook their fists before they went."

This was not the first time that Mrs Gautan had been picked upon by the racists. A frail woman, she never left the house. She had obriously been chosen as the target by these thugs.

Saudhu described incident:

*They came into the house on Jane 27th after 11.30 at night. They tried to go only into my mother's room.

Then she screamed and they ran away. We went to the police and they came to our house, where they beard a statement from my mother and they could see fingerprints TO WORK marchers are being made, an example. This is why the TUC leaders immediately attack them as "Trotskyite boot-boys' , because the TUC leaders are in support of the Labour government and are its TH/ Some of these leaders were not even prepared to go through the motions of fighting. Steadman, Secretary : of the Oxfordshire division NUT, who chaired the had ever suggested cuts. Indeed he proposed as an answer to vote Labour at the next county council MILITANCY Of course the cuts are the direct product of the Labour government willingly, implemented in many areas by Labour councils.

But militancy among teachers is escalating, as reflected in the sanctions pressed for by NAS/UWI and NUT members, centring on a refusal to cover for absent teachers.

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43 'Right to Work' marchers charged after police had attacked their march as it came through North London

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