Bid to fight anti sit-in
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When Denis Healey announced his mini-budget two weeks ago he said he was aiming for a stable currency. Less than a week later he took the anchors off the pound and it immediately began to rise-to the sound of loud cheering from the popular press and to worried looks from businessmen and financiers.
Falling inflation
After the miners vote it ended the week little higher than the level at which it had been freed.
The immediate effect of a higher pound is to make imports cheaper, exports more expensive and to bring a promise of falling inflation.
Is it not therefore a move to be welcomed? A sign of good things to come?
The answer to those questions is 'no' , and to see why we must look first at the pressure on the pound to rise.
COH SINK maigo says SUPPORT SAVE Hospital DiNI aw With mid-December as the likely date for implementation of the Criminal Law Act, the Campaign Against the Criminal Trespass Law (CACIL) is holding a national conference on Saturday-Sunday 26-27 November, open to delegates and visitors to discuss the new problems that will then confront occupations and squatters.
The Act, first envisaged by the Heath government, but passed through Parliament by the Labour leaders, gives magistrates swingeing powers to jail workers or students taking part in occupations and sit-ins.
Tidied up
It is defended however by union bureaucrats such as TGWU Deputy General Secretary Harry Urwin, on the ludicrous grounds that it 'tidies up' the law and makes it less likely that conspiracy laws will be used.
The reason for that is clear -if workers can be jailed summarily for 6 months without right of jury trial, the state does not need to go to the embarassment of cooking up a "conspiracy" charge.
The CACTL organisers promise that the conference will not be a protest affair. but will focus on methods of obtaining labour movement supporting action for sit-in strikes and occupations.
The conference will be held at Digbeth Hall, Birmingham, and credentials are £2.50.