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But this is not enough. Policies must be fought for that challenge all of the threats made by the price explosion he about and possible unemployment.

COWLEY €100 CLAIM The TGWU shop stewards committee at Leyland's Body Plant at Cowley, representing 7,000 members, has given a lead on this by voting overwhelmingly to submit a claim for an increase of £33.64 across the board-making production workers' wages £100 per week.

Most important of all this catching up claim is linked to a demand for a cost of living clause to protect against inflation as assessed by a trade union committee. The demand is for this to be paid in October-four months ahead of the February review date.

The biggest TGWU branch in the neighbouring Leyland Assembly plant has adopted a similar policy and is now pressing Cont'd Back Page Col 5 Frustration at years of police brutality could be seen in the actions of black youth in the antiNational Front demonstration in Lewisham last weekend.

The police made no bones about it, they were there to defend the fascists and to brutalise the anti-fascists, from the first use of horses at 1.15pm (nearly two hours before the NF were One thing was certain. The 500 or so National Front marchers, in a march that had been publicised by all the national press, were confronted by many times their number of anti-fascists.

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This was under conditions where the Labour Party (right wing and left' talkers) and the Communist Party told their supporters not to go, not to attempt to stop the fascists.

These "respectable" people preferred to stay with assorted bishops and other clergy and call on the capitalist state to ban the fascists, who themselves are supporters of capitalism.

As it is the capitalist press have turned this into an attack on the left.

Some left' MPs have called just for the banning of National Front marches.

But this policy only plays into the hands of those who want to attack the workers movement.

Remember it was the same McNee in charge of policing the mass picket on July 11.

And the Public Order Act of 1936 was brought in supposedly against the fascists, but was used only against the lett wing.

To our knowledg no left wing MP has yet supported the action of those workers and youth who dealt a tremendous blow to the NF on Saturday-a blow which could have driven them off the streets altogether if the organised labour movement had been fully mobilised against them.

None of them have taken up the demand to release those arrested and for the dropping of the charges.

The fascists are not just racialists. They want to break up the whole labour movement. But Saturday showed that it is possible now to organise workers defence squads capable of defending black workers, labour movement premises, meetings and picket lines from fascist attack.

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