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OF SOCIALIST Special meetings Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR.

The strike by 1,000 press men at Halewood is now in its third week.

Management have aftempted to introduce speed up by bringing in an hourly quota system instead of shift quota system.

This would mean that the workforce would have to meet productivity targets at the end of each hour instead of reaching them at the end of each shift.

Speed-up like this would clamp down on the interchangeability of jobs and frequency of breaks.

The men voted solidly to strike and the plant is still closed. Wednesday 8 February 8.00 pm East Oxford Communit! Centre, Princes Street COVENTRY Tuesday 7 February • 8.00 pm Old Dyers Arms Spon End, Coventry

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8.00 pm Mitre, Dale Street LONDON Friday 10 February 7.30 pm New Theatre, LSE Houghton Street London WC2 Plus FILM 170 TGWU stewards at the British Leyland Cowley Assembly Plant voted overwhelmingly last Monday (23 January) to withdraw from the so-called "worker participation' scheme set up under the Ryder Report.

As the major union on the plant, the TGWU withdrawal will render the remaining committees of little value to the management.

First chance Today was the first time the stewards have had the chance to vote on participation since it was bulldozed in 2½ years ago.

The decision reflects the change on the plant since the defeat of the right wing in elections last November.

Bob Fryer, the newly elected convenor has re-established democratic procedures and has begun to restore the rights of the shop stewards movement.

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They should, however, be kept as brief as possible. Write to Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill London NW5 1HR. believes Israel can have her cake and eat it, can have both territories and peace"

The question goes much beyond this however. The Zionist state can only exist by denying national rights.

This is why Begin compared the national rights claimed by the Palestinians with the nationalist claims of the Nazis.

Threadbare This tired old equation of anti-Zionism with antiSemitism becomes increasingly threadbare, but the Zionists will always trot it out to justify their every crime.

The Israeli state by its very essence denies national rights, not only to Palestinian Arabs but also to Palestinian Jews.

Only its destruction, together with its allies in the Arab world, will open the road to the liberation of the area from landlorism, feudal1SM, racialism and class exploitation.

Any "peace negotiations" based on other ideas will deny the national rights of the Palestinians and the democratic rights of all the people of the area.

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