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continue to collect rents (less any increases). but street committees will be set up to clect a ley real collector for each street. This will minimise intimidation, either by magistrates Consistent struggle for the interests of the or by any thugs which Skillington might will also create an clementary system of community warning and defence. Councillor David Skinner says that, there will be no tavasions of privacy, There would be civil stride, Feelings run high in Clay Cross.

Campaign The Clay Cross councillors are also continuing to campaign for olber Labour Authorities to take up the strugale against the Housing Finance Act, and they speak openly of the need for a general strike to get rid of the Tory Goverment. In the event of a miners stnike willingly turn over their facilities to the NUM as they did in 1972. They are campagning fur other Labour Councis to support the indastral offensive in this was as wells Nevertheless, the experience of Clay Cruis shows more vividly than any other that a working class, irrespoctive of parliamentary laws, leads to a situation in which the working class has a clear choice: either to retreat back into the framework dictated by bourgeois law, or to set about creating and organising a slate power of its own.

Eis this cholce which will be posed more and more sharply as the struggle develops in the months ahead, The upheaval of a general strike would provide a real opportunity to Create govermiental bodies accountable not to Westminster but to the working class, subject not to the compubien of the capitalis courts but rather creating adequate machinery of their own with which lo suppress the capitalists. This cortainly would underene purla merlary democracy. And we should not mourn its passing.

Clay. Cross tenants lobbying delegates outside the Labour Party conference earlier this vear.

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LALAN JONES and DAVE FOX One of the distinctive leatures of the present preparation of staggles over Phase 3 a the way in which the Labour Party is being increasingly dragged into the middle of the situation. This