Sadat's Visit Delights

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stay firm on strike SPEAKS OUT The of Egypt's visit Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem last weekend was not simply part of the strategy of US imperialism to isolate and crush the national rights of the Palestinians.

It was also a desperate effort by the bourgeois Sadat regime to abandon the battle against the Zionists in order to solve their desperate economic crisis at home.

If there is one thing that unites the imperialist puppet government in Israel and the Arab bourgeois nationalists, it is their common fear and hospay An attempt by Rolls Royce management to end the 10-week old strike at the North London Park Ward plant has failed.

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had tried to ballot individual strikers on a compromise package proposed on November 1.

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This international visit must have received more publicity than any piece of international diplomacy since Chamberlain's visit to Munich in 1938.

It received the applause of every imperialist exploiter and media liar in the entire capitalist world and the execration of all supporters of national rights for the Palestinians.

The television pictures showed enormous crowds of security men and journalists and the dutiful applause of every Zionist parliamentarian land grabber and gangster. or return the ballot papers.

The strikers are now clearly well placed to win all their demands.

Management are being forced to make greater concessions in an effort to restart Compromise?

The pressure is further intensified by the fact that Rolls Royce last week announced that it had bought a 32,000 square feet factory adjacent to the struck plant in Hythe Road, Willdesden, and are obviously eager to begin work there.

The strikers' demands for a 17% across the board wage increase, for sick pay at average earnings, for holiday pay at average earnings and for an improved productivity deal are now within grasp.

The biggest danger seems to be in the possibility of a compromise settlement which could involve laying men off.

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What the TV did not show was the Palestinian refugees who have been left behind in their camps to the tender mercies of Israeli bombers and fascist paramilitary forces.

The public speech of Sadat mentioned a national home for Palestinians, but as even the Times correspondent pointed out, Israeli PM Begin did not find it necessary to include any such reference.

Nor did he speak of national rights for anyone except Zionist settlers.

This bilateral discussion is exactly the terms in which the Zionists have always wanted to negotiate "peace'between states already set up Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, James Anderton, was the man who recently conducted secret negotiations with the National Front on the route of their march, in order to stop it being attacked by the working class.

He also provided thousands of police to protect Martin Webster.

Now he has spoken out in his own right. In a public lecture in Preston Anderton showed how openly political the police are becoming. His speech also shows that the development of the mass thuggery on the Grunwick picket lines by the Special Patrol Group is not an isolated example but part of a general trend.

He began by saying he would like to see the fulure "a future in which we can be more thankful. knowing that at least we are working for.

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