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REPORT FROM LIVERPOOL

Red Weekly No. 88, 13 February 1975 · p. 12 of the scan · 524 words

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page 12 of the scan

and by cutting across the restrictive batriers erected by the bureaucracy and the CP it could set in motion a new movement around Shrewbury This is the reason why all the forces of the revolutionary left have to give all out support to the march. This means getting the maximum financial support and making sure that in every town which the march goes through there is a real campaien to get sympathetic strikes.

The force behind the march are not going to welcome such action. The Workers Revolutionary Purty which is the organising political force of the march are using the campaign in a cymical way: to simply attract re cruits to their own organisations by exposing the betreyals of the Shrewsbury pickets by the Communist Party and the Labour left.

CRUDE In Liverpool they told sellers of the Red Heckle they could not sell the paper on the March. At the same time they were operly pushing the Workers Pess-the paper of the WRP Their refusal to sive an interview to the Red Weekly on the march conte-asts with their policy of giving regular HAGGIE'S CRACKING AGAIN our support to the march of the Wigan Builders Action Committee, because wo beliove that it can he one of the ways to de velop nationat strike action to get the Shrewsbury 2 out of jail.

The behavior of the Workers Revoluhonary Party on this march however does not help to build a unifiod movement to get national stile action, but in fact is de signed to split that movement.

On Sunday 2 February the All Trade Union Alliance-the trade-union urm of the WRP, called a meeting to welcome the marchers. When we tried to sell our paper at the end of the meeting we were plysic ally presented from doing so, although Keep feir and the Workers Press were sold throughout the meeting.

When the march left Liverpool Pierhese SEND HER HOME I'LL FILL IN GIBBER the next day we were told we could march proviled we did not carry our banner and sell our papers. The WRP did have their Вно Ви Ее маги апо мт Реж were sold alongside the march, What's all This in the lookers Pread about Being your Banners"?

it was ending for the day, we went into the Kirkhy Lahour Club which we had been intored had been booked for the marchers to have a rest and get some food.

by the WRP-naturully we were prepared to pay for the food and escorted to the door.

win the broadest possile forces in the wor king chas or it is a soctarian and cyncist stunt to pallicise the WRP, Militants must make sure that it does not become the lat When the march reached Kirkby where We were told that we were not welcome Either thee march & a serious attempt to 1E5C FOREIGN:

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