Registered with the Por Office as a newspaper. Publishet by Reipocrest for Red Weekly, 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1. (01-837 6954) have gone up inside the factory but the only real provocations offered to the Asian ex-strikers have come from a section of the shop stewards.
All the strikers are back at work and in good morale, Already about a dozen situations have come up in which they have shown that they cannot be mucked about by the management. It is this militancy that will kill the backlash stone dead.
The Race Rotations Board has pubers haycotted. Its results were predictable: no racial discrimination exists at Imperial bot the company and the T&G should co. operate in setting up an Equal Opporiue Ity Office, This whitewash report of the Race Relations Board was more inspt than usupl, coming as it did a matter of days after the racialist one-day strike of some of the Imperial white workers.
George Bromley, the T&G district Red Waekly 15 Augur 1974 Page 2 company welcomed the report with both hands and have appointed two equal opportunities counsellors: Peter Stribling who for the past nine years has run the the few black foremen at Jmperial.
H. Khetani, one of the strike leadors. WALACEC WOE IN ME CAULA tunity Office. He described the Office as a 'dummy institution and argued that the real answer lay un shop floor democracy and ruprosentation hased on a healthy trade undon branch organsation.
THEIR FACTORY The NF have gladly jumped on the bandwagon that convenor Reg Weaver and Goorg: Bromley started for them The NF realise that they can gain influence by sapporting the backward workers and pushing their line that class is irrelevant in the face of colour and nationalty. One of thei leatlets advised the while Red Weekly, 97 Caledonian Road, N.I. after all, it was their country, their ciry and their factory' to capitalise on the backwardness of some of the Loicestor workers also belps them Leicester NF. The old branch kadership was regarded as going too far and jeopardising the electoral success of the NF in Leicester. After squatting had been proposed in their campaigs by a block of Leicester flats, Tyndall denaunced the old leadership as a bunch of hippies and and changed the branch executive.
An open split has now developed and tbe NF radicals with a section of the Enoch Powell Supporters Groap Jave set up the English Notionatist Party under the sponsorship of Dowager Lady Birdwood. This party will recruit poople who are dissatisfied with the National Front policies and the action they have cod the party as 'extremist and hint that it will step up racial tension into the violence they preach' CANDIDATES The NF is trying to solve these probems by its intervention on the Imperial asue. I1 has announced its candidates For the coming general election; one is an exYoung Conservative, one an ex-paratrooper, the third an Imperial worker. The have starled from Imperial and gone throus the immiprant area. On bearing of the proposed counter-demonstration, the police intervened to say that it was considering using We 1936 Public Order Act to ban cil demonstrations and political activity In Leleester that day.
The NE obediently agreed to hire a sort march on the other side of town to their original route, They have also promised one of theit usual dignitied and restrained public marches: The Imperist strike committee will be issuing loallecs i Hinel and Guiurati calling upon people to take part in the counter cemonstration. ANDREW JENKINS Secretary of Labour This campaign, as well as cabling them Nixon was born.
American president. usual rake off.
into the White House Printed by Sociener Worker Pruners and Publisher Lad (TUs. Corbridge Works, Corbrider Chescent, London E2 9DS made Brennan, a leading light in the AFL-CIO union apparatus, his McGovern's nomination as the Democratic Party's posidential candidate was a gift front heaven. The "realistic bourgeoisie deserted the Democrats and Democrats For The normal channels of the Republican Party were bypassed. It was the Nixon apparatus, centred around the executive, which organised these farces, In 1972 Nixon won the bigerst electoral victory of any Even the money to finance the campaign was orprised through his own creatures. The donations troi ITT, crooked financier Robert Vesco, Howard Hughes and the Milk Lobby lowed into the coffers of the Committee to Re-Elect the President. The Republican Party did not get its Polities shifted from the Congres and the Senate, and both parties were. being marginalised. Power and is financial pay-off had shifted absolutely BROKERS aside The Niton gung became the direct. brokers between the monopolies, the crooked financiers, and the partisan interests of sections of the capitalist class. Steeped in toe capitalistic ethic, the Nixon aides sold the privileges and clipped their percentages. In the past the party machines had performed this role. Under Nixon the executive took it over directly.
Watergate was not simply a thirdrate burglary. It was an urgent task. In the Watergate building were documents showing that Howard Hughes financial donation had been used to grease the palms of Nixon's two hrothers and his secretary Mary Woods. The break-n was nceded to suppress that information Of course the strengthening of the powers of the executive had heen growing at a remarkably lase rate before Nixon became presideat. Speed and decisiveness are urgently needed in the period of imperialist crisis. But it can only operate when the executive place the interests of national capital above the sectional interests of individual groups of La pasts s DOOMED Ironically Nixon Jad won the 1972 clection by appearing as the unifier of the overall capitalist interests. Watergate and the sub sequent revelations reveuled the executive as using its power against sections of its own class. The honevmoon was over. The 'grand coalition" bad fallen apart. From then en Nixon was doomed His battle to sarvive only served to blow the gaffe. It exposed even more corruption which stigmatised not just Nixon and his cronies but hy implication the catire political aystem. The great decisions contronting the American bourgeoisic were subordinated to the need to sue the skins of the Nixon gang Nicon went because he no longer served the needs of the bourgeoiste Like a broken doll, they toused him BOB PENNINGTON FUND DRIVE As we half expected, fortnightly production has cut away at our Fund Drive. The response so far this month has been really disappointing-a mere ment in our next issue Send to: RED WEEKLY Fund Drive 97 Caledonian Road, London N.1
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