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PICKET JOURNALISTS OCCUPY AT EAV NU Bonk Franchi executive has made official by 16 votes to oneucational Audio Visual Limited in North London by journalists resisting the attempted closure of the company by its American purent.
EAV's six editorial workers were informed on 6 February that cuts in coucation spending in Britain, and ancreasing costs, meant that the subsidiary here was no longer viable. EA V's offices in North London produce sight-and-sound teaching material.
Occupation began immodiately, on a 24 hour basis. Daily pickets are being bell tois Sam to 10na. Workers at E.J. Arnald in Teeds, the largest distributor of educatJ0a equipment in Britain, have said that firm gainst further threshold deals The bluff of the social con-trick must be called. Against the attempts incomes policy in the coming weeks, whether through Healey's budget or some other means, the labour moveThis would give automatic and The miners themselves Apathy strikes.
SIDELINES The National Union of Journalists' - the occupation of Edsectarian gltetto. open the prison paces.
SUPPORT International Marxist Group contagent on Mold demonstration, May 1S73 - on the march from the start of the campaign to defend the Shrewsbury pickets When the 24 Shrewsbury pickets were charged in early 1973 the International Marxist Group begun a campaign for indefinite strike action.
IMG militants - often in the teeth of bitter opposition from the union bureaucrats and the Communist Party-were responsible for setting up Shrewsbury Defence Committees.
The IMG was to the fore in mobil ising support for the mass pickets outside the courts, and getting symThe IMG has organised countless meetings, written innumerable artIcles in the Red Weekly and produced three pamphlets on Shrewsbury.
After remaining on the sidelines of the Shrewsbury campaign the Workers Revolutionary Party flickcred to brief life when it agreed to a joint mecting with the IMG on this issue. But no action came out of toe meeting. After breathing verhal fire the WRP turned back to the When the Wigun March organised by the Wigun Builders Action Committee was announced we wrote: "A new initiative to get the 2 out has beon started by the Wigan Huilders"
Action Comnittee, It is an initiative that can unite into a national cump out of jail aign ail those unlitants who recognise the need for a general strike to force We called for resolutions of and the sending of the biggear possible delegations to join the march"
exercise. In Coventry they refused to speak on building sites where ING building workers had arranged meetings. This despite the fact that one of these building workers was a mem ber of the Coventry Trades Council sul cornittee responsible for org anising support for the march.
With the exception of the chair man of the Coventry Trades Council all the platform speakers at last Frid ay's meeting were either WRP mombers or supporters. Instead of urging a united campaign these speakers spent most of theit time denouncing the revolutionary left The Trades Council chairman had to point out that the IMG and the other left organisations had been campaigning in Coventry for two years on the Shrewshury issue. This WRI performance played right into the hands of the CP and the right wing who want to make sure no independent campaign gets off the ground over Shrewsbury.
The tale of sectarianisms stretches from Liverpool througl to Manchestet, Birmingham and Coventry. Such actions de nothing to help get the 2 They damage the prestige and credibility of the revolutinary left and, above all, they demonstrate the bankruptcy of an organisation that puts its own narrow interests above
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Unfortunately the opportunisnt of the WRP has dominated the whole