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Two delegates from ton Trades : Council have written to us about two articles about Islington in our last issue, the first concerning the occupation of Crosfield Electronics and the second the anti-fascist demonstration in Islington. Their letter points out that the Islington Trades Council has not played such a full part as may be desirable in these two issues.
"In the Trades Council meeting of 22nd March, the Trades Council chairman, a Communist Party member, refused to allow any discussion of the Crosfields occupation, allow any motion of support to be put forward. As the Crosfields shop stewards have pointed out, London is becoming an industrial wasteland. By refusing to mobilise the working class to defend the Jobs at Crosfields, the Communist Party is opening up the real possibility of mass redundancies in the Islington area, "At the same Trades Council meeting the acting secretary explained the considerable amount of work he had done towards organising the anti-fascist demonstration. Unfortunately most of this had been directed towards winning the support of local councillors, MPs and even police chiefs for the demonstration against the National Front and it was left to one of the Trades Council delegates (a WL member) to point out that the organised working class was the only force which could defeat fascism, but in spite of this, not even the affiliated Trade Union branches had been notified. Consequently the demonstration was smaller than need have been and the fascists were able to hold their march as "Thus the partial success the demonstration, reported in Socialist Press, was in spite of the Trades Council executive, beyond the calling of the demonstration. It is worth noting that whilst the full Trades Council also called for support for a second anti-NE demonstration, this call was opnosed by Communist Party members.
«ВУ pedalling the idea of a unity with the police and liberals and relusing to mobilise the full strength of the Islington working class on either of these issues. the Communist Party has once again remonstrated how they capitulate to the needs of the ruling class.
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