Fight Ban on Basic Rights

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This attack-done under the guise of banning the National Front march in Ilford last Saturday-shows up all those liberals, reformists and Stalinists who have been campaigning for the capitalist state to ban Sure enough the Stalinists in their "Morning Star" have protested the ban as editor Tony Chater at the paper's ublished y Folrose Ltd for th rkers Socialis League, 31, Da outh Park Hill, London NW5 1 the NF.

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Ilford CP Gordon bishops The decision of Metropolita er David McNee, backed Callaghan, to ban all marches months is a maior offensive rights in this country.

But their answer to the ban is *When are you Act, Mr. Rees?"

In other words the Communist Party continues campaign for the capitalist state to act against the This is the very policy that led to the London ban.

These people continue to issue appeals to the Lib-Lab government-the very people whose policies, creating mass unemployment, housing shortages, plunging living standards and savaged social services, have developed the conditions on which the fascists feed.

Class solution No! There must be a fight for a class solution, based on a policy to give a lead to the working class in fighting unemployment, the 10% pay policy and other government Part of this policy must be the the organised to drive the fascists off the The refusal of workers' leaders to call such action gives confidence to what are only relatively small numbers of fascists. A mere 500 turned out to back the NF in The Communist Party's opposition to independent struggles by the working class emerges clearly on this issue.

While in industry CP members like Leyland convenor Derek Robinson refuse to fight the 10% pay limit and endorse Edwardes' plan for job-cutting and speed-up, and James Airlie fights to turn Govan shipyards into a scab yard, the Communist Party argues a similarly reactionary line on the fight against Bishops General Secretary MacLennan praises who speak out Fi police commissionin London for two against democratic paper the have some that of "Star" 48th Birthday going to use the Race use the Relations ILFORD!

PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report Police control anti-fascists in Ilford against racism, and calls on Home Secretary Merlyn Rees -famed for his repression of workers in Northern Ireland -to "act" against the fascists.

The problem is that Rees is acting-and already using the same language he used to justify army action in Northern Ireland.

Rubber bullets

"Decent people will insist on peace in the streets", , he announced on Monday. No-one should forget that Rees' idea of "peace" includes use of troops on the streets, rubber bullets, live bullets and CS gas, along with the complete suppression of democratic rights for those forces opposed to British imperialism.

The answer to Rees and the Lib-Lab government must be a struggle throughout the Labour and trade union movement to break this reac160,000 US coalminers face a massive combined assault on their three-month strike for a new contract, leading up to a UMW ballot THERIGHT S 'WE DEMA EQUAL, KNIOL PENSIONS:

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