Socialist Challenge No. 17, 13 October 1977
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Socialist Challenge CALLAGHAN'S PRIORITIES
GRUNWICK MASS PICKET 17 OCT 6.30 am
13 October 1977 No. 18
society.'
DEATH. That was just one of the consequences of the bodysmatching operations st Hounslon Hospital work-in.
Members of the occupation cummittee hase now seiraled that the Marked Befor last Thursday"s raid by the health otficials und police.
DEATH NEMBER ONE WaS that of 37-cear-old Fred Lady man. a funder memher of the Inest trades couscil who died or Octoher. a few diss after health officinks stopped him get-
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FOR HOUNSLOW HOSPITAL THE AXE
ting a bed at Hounsion Hospital.
A phone call making arrangements for him to be admitted to Hownsion for a short period of
member of the District Manapement Team. A mini-cab was sent round to Fred'-home and he mas admitled to the psychiatric block al West Middleses Hospiial appropriate beds WELLESE were available. This was despiar the Mi sach vacant heds at the nearby Haunslow.
DEATH NEMBER TWO came un elderh patient died days
vision to use the material resources and
make them available to achieve a better
affer he was transferred in the rummando raid" in puring ruin last Thursday.
These facts were relured to o shocked mersing of London health sewards bast Mandas. All out strike action to liby Wed nesday meetings of the Areu Healih Aurhorts was accepter hy the meeting. und stewards will press for engning actinn frin Wednesday entil the Hourson is ie-apened.
Ser pose for ou fal Hones tau story ARTHUR SCARGILL
Why we must win
at Grunwick 1 - P.4
SEAMUS COSTELLO
and Ireland
€ 250,000 FOR PROTECTING
FASCISTS - p. 889
12p.
ROBIN BLACKBURN
ON *THE WITCH-HUNTERS
OF THE NEW RIGHT - p. 13
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inside the community itself.
That is what Hilda Kean, the SOME DRIVERSIC TEEaIC TiC by-election in Spicalfields ward, fight for socialist policies into the CHEL DE TIC TASERIO
A number of Bengali anti-racists are working with Hilda. One of them described the activities of the Bangladesh Welfare Association, a body contralled and manipulated by the owners of restaurants.
Six arrested
Last month the Bethnal Green pola arrested six Bengali antiacists outside a meeting of th issociation in Club Row
rganisation had not held lection for the past eight yea
there has been iccounting of its funds. an election for officers
September, many of ocal Bengalis who challenged the
Socialist Unity
conference...
LAST WEEK's Labour Party Conference ended on a note of Wangs, Jouch to me tood br the right-wing leaders and the
class. Wage freeze and unemployment carry unchallenged by the left women's rights to abortion come under fuber atlack be cause of passionately defended by n 'free vate! and right.
The Socialist Unity Confercace being held in London an 19 November now becoats even more important ал а Госиз Гаг organising a light back ngainst (be alcacks of the ruling class and their Labour allies. Individuals discussing stabding class struggle candidares in by-elections and the
HOME NEWS
Fighting racism in
London's East End
The Bengali community in the East End are the Jews of the sixties and seventies. They are the scapegoats of today. They provide the cheap labour for most of the sweatshops in the area. While the community as a whole is threatened by racist attacks from fascists, some of the Impediments which stand in the way of its selforgaulsation against racist harassment lie, unfortunately,
and thrown out of the meeting by the arennisers, who then callec the police.
med, the owner restaurant in Gerrard Soho, and another opposite Pad dingron Station. the archetypal Uncle Tom figure of the community. He has served on numerous 'race-relations subcommittees'; he has close links with Fleet Street; he even maintains a 'left" face Tassaduque was sent out from East Bengal to Britain: years ago by the Party in that region. His task was
funds back He hort period, but soon gave up nstead he organised himself an restaurant, which initially had a left-wing patron the age but soon outgrew it.
Tassaduque became an oppor tunist extraordinary. When Pakistani military dictator Ayub
to hold national
sure that they are ar the London 19 November Conference.
Taus Concerning the ContencaDe programmes which amendments can he sub mitted up to 17 November -and be obtained from Socialist Unity will Box 15, Free,
provisional agenda will be: Manifesto Programme, mude to the Labour coverment. Organisation and future activities of Socialist Unity, Inicy Group wants a speake please write to Socialise audress abovel. The nect mee ng of the Socialist Unity Steering ommittee will be in Leeds on Subday b November. make sure that your represented.
UNCLE TŚ
MENU
Moderate Lindalbe
Cam be fuNer
Giltee acting)
of the Ganges
Street Militar
Sweet Delight
Tassadoque is
Fixed Coffee
Khan visited Britain. in the carly sixties, it was Uncle Tassadisque Communist
send him from Bengali communism! Dur He'd moved a long did this for a Ing the Bangladesh independence
struggle, be bocame an uncritical supporter of Sheik Mujibir Rehman. He recently participated in hosting a reception for the new military dictator of Bangladesh the ing the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference.
Oswald Mosely (lett) who attempled to terrorise the East End Jews in the 1300s, and Mari Tendal who seoks to do me same to the Bengalls roday.
THE SOCIALIST Unity paign in the Fast End is gushering momentum. A meeting last Sun. duy in Toynhee Hull was allend.
De- be SU candidaie for Spitalfield NUE ELUSIDE THIM aguinst racism was linked to the struggle for socialist policies on housins, inflation and so on The meetie Upper i group of fascists hurasine Bengulis in Brick Tens
hull itself. Because of the lack of SHOES THIRTEE From other areas in London an emergency call was mude to the CHICHE The SWD cumrades responded Unity magnificently. A dozen of their SENNIS VITED BUM MIN to defend the meeting. eren more creditable given the
area is Socialist Unity, but is calling for
La vote fur Labour in the election.
counter-petition Sunday Times!
1 Dictaters
Socialist Unity
garlanded and welcomed
way Jarward,
...and campaigns
in East End
Camfaseist strongbuld.
AN ELITCHNES
Bengali. HILDA KEAN,
the fight Lnity are therefone
was threatened by campaign. fresh from
they did not enter the
SUDOUTES
Socialist Workers Party
The demonstration
Thin Es
nearest tube,
In Britain Tassaduque backed he establishment (in tbe proces increasing his restaurants clien ele), In 1973 tbe Sunday Times colour supplement ran a derog atory article about Bast End Bengalis. Outraged Bengall activists demanded an apology. Comraunter-petition boring organised
the
Recently, he attempted to sabotage a grant being awarded by Tower Hamlets borough counci to launch a community maga
reportedly
id: "We don't want to invol
politics.
Tassadoque Ahmed does himself Live in the East End.
The Socialist Unity campaigo is of course centring its battle against Labour's Tory policies: cuts in social expenditure, innation, racism and the rest.
TA COLL WERE HEELI
argued for these policies before an audience of over sixty people.
Tassadaque Ahmed's menu oilers class-colsboration on al fronts. His record is as soiled as the water of the River Ganges. It is only by fighting people like the him and his labour mentors that tbe Bengali community will move
the in mind.
The East End is an important
The fascist worried that at might push them into third place.
They are therefore beginning to
stucks are expected. Socialist
calling on their sentorers in London to give some dime over the mext week to canvase and help in the
Sunday'S anti-racist march in An impressive tone our for this amount. HOLE I DISO CITEME NOT uBt. The march is hacked by the lucal London Labour parties and thie South Rest Replon TEE D wellus the Communist Party and International Marxist Group.
Saris
lew North Road, London N. Tam. Bus rates 76, 141, 271:
Oid Street. For
derails of the Socialin Unio campaign ring Alan at: 226 0571.
News
nowhere
Get smart!
THE ASSOCIATION of Metropolitani Authoribes (AMA) has announeed that it will respect th 12-month rule and keep to the 10 De recond of localeine one this news is hardly surprising. is that the rices is chared by What is interesting. none oiner than Jack smart, 8 Labourite worthy from Poole Tract (remember Poulson?) Smart is the leader of the Labou Council. He was an influential Wakefield District member of the Layfield commit tee of enquiry isto the finances of local government. The enquiry made no recommendations to improve wages and conditions employes of the Yorkshire area of the National Union of Minefor the North Yorkshire panel of the coalfield. The fact the NUM per cent pay norm would not impress Smart too much. He is
In winter 1971-76 workers in
Wakefield MDC Public Works Department southt from the AMA Informarion pertaining to various wage figures. Smart threatened them with the Official Secrets Act
As far as the Yorkshire miners protege of the old right-wing leaders Bullough and Scholfield They were haping that he wauld succeed them to maintain the right-wing grip. But in the post '69 peniod the miners moved to
left. furtunately tbe Yorkshire Miners have Scargill TALACE CHEUL SUE
Desperate b now. Smart formed the Yorkshire Assoc ation of Labour Miners, a rightwing outfit which remained stillborn. It reminds us of all the old values murtured by bureacurats: privilege, secrecy and class-pol laboration Smart is down, but not out. Public sector workers in the area should bear these Tacts
Promotions in "Fort Southall" RAY RADFORD is the com mundant of Forr Sourhall the name local residents give to the
Southall police station. For hi heroic acts in the area, Ray has nowhen promoled to second in command of the orestor, ling blacks, Ray was selected as the deputy in charge of the panice sevat to Anguilla in 1969. He & a veterun of the Norting Hill riots In the carly suntier et Shutters. They car be seel shatters. cun be dropped doww over doars and windowsat the press of a burton. Radfordsays that the drew has a Jes of potenrial race problenes That in absolutely true. Most of them ave a direct result of police haramment of back people
A short time ago there was i pro-Powell slogan on display inside the Forz. And last yeur VINER ANOR HAD HE CLE for theit was released after it wa discovered that the money had merely been mignaced. Hon ever the Asim had signed a confession inside the Fort ad mitting to having stolen the said
Radford has recently returne Police College in Hampshine.
He was specialisine in how ro denis of Southail are warned
Reg Prentice is a Tory, OK?
REMEMBER ALL the outery when the Newtum Prit
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war Party first wanted to replac Preatice? Remember Roy Jen HANG ZI MOISE SERENES SCED ng to Reg's defence? Remembe all that hysterin about Trots, eft-wing extremists and 1b ike? So the Newham Labou Party was enrepresentative, eh? A small group of Trot trouble
'ho does Prentice represent is Parliament now? His elector ale? We trust thut the Mail Express and The Guardian wil now be campaigs to force Prentice 1o resign so that the people of Newhum cun elect a new repres entative. Or is that too un democratic?
Their credibility gap LAST SATURDA F'S demonstrations in Manchester are covered in deren ersewhere in this paper How the mass media covered the event on the day inself is of more. small crampie: the actum! size of the fascist demonstrators sonalist Challenge reporters in Manchemer examated betwe 400 and 600 fascists ar the
At4pmthe Capita Radio news
roadcast said there were 30
ascists on the demo. The BA TV news at 5.25 (read b) Richard Baker! asserted there were 700 fasciss Homerer a direct spot, with Aim foorage from the HBC person covering the even sicied that there were 500 F! The foile wing morning the Sanday Times reportes thai there were 1,000 NF. Could it be that the mumhers have to de constantly raised to jurity th
£250,000 to provect a unail group of Nazi
A miller's tale THE DIUBENIS ENION O the North London Polytechnic Is donsiested by the far left. In accordance with tradition thes asked the Director to seed message for the Unioe hund. hook. The Director Terence Miller, refeed. The handbook caroled the rebosal which w reproduce below;
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Arthur Scargill on Grunwick: 'part of the whole class struggle'
GRUNWICK
anact from a speech by York.
le miners' leader ARTHUR SCARGILL are Grunwick meer* heid at the Labour Party
66
The name of Grunwick has become with
centuries have been acal points in the history of our
Grunwick is one of
There are those in our move-
confined to a North London flim Inboratory. Theyare ether deli beratels delnd.
the movement or they
g in cloud cuckoo land
What is taking place at tha significant North London Inb oratory is part of the whole class truggle, and the right wing of
movement is doing ita best to
the efforts that have bees put forward over the last 14
souths to bring that struggle to a
At every step there has been tempt after attempt to dampen
sruggle which has been put forward by he Gruswick strike committee nu sections ol the trade union movement. There are fundamenal issues at stake
There is the right of any man or woman to belong to a trade mion of his or her choice. The right of the working class - not Just one union — to participate n militant picketing. and to de so without the fear of intimidation by the police.
There is the basic right of adividuals to communicate information to those going work, or those who are bringing services of goods into that piace of work:
Break-neck
But at Gruowick there has been a deliberate campaign on the part of the authorities physically prevent people partici-
aring in the picket line in an elTective way. 1 ask the question:
communicate with someone going into a factory if the authorit-
placed in a car or bus and driven ue break-neck speed through the
All this is not new. It happened during the miners" scrikes in
in mass action by miners and other sections of the movement to ensure that picketing could take place; to impress upon those
WO 1 18185) hould join the dispute and nol
part of a sabotage operation. People argue, yes you have the right to picket provided you do it within the framework of the law What in effect they mean is that you have the right to picker provided it ian't effective. You never bear anyone criticise picketing until it becomes effective.
Do not be tooled. ComT80t by those in the movement who arearguing for changes in the law. Wice they talk abou changine the law on picketing whar they
both those in the Tor ranks and traRicas some DI those within our own movement
• are changes which will result in Ineffective picketing.
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Thave heard a lot of comments this week about the Prime Minister's speech. In the main it was a nockabout, clection type speech
were two caused me deep concero to
One was a call for a lurther year of wage restraint; but there
aspect of the speech. It was a section that was not widely in the press, but it ought
o cause concern to every ma
ad woman in the British labor movement.
Police powers
Callaghan sasd we have to take accessary stepe to give further powers to the police in dealing wills certain simations. While he didn't specifically mention Grunwick 1 think the inference was Your statement when he said in bearing in mind bis Scotland that we should back our ponce cven on poons wier chey are wrong. My arrest was sunsequencis proved to arane. hur it would he justified hy that sort of statement.
There are those who believe we can have an amicable and easy Solution to urunwick, enore are
in our movement believe the quicker we can get out
it means cutting our losses. Bur if we are deleated at Grunwick it is
North London workers — it 3s R terrible defeat for the whale of
1 cannot for the life of me understand the problem.
claims 11 million members in the TUC find it difficut to bring this dispute to a successful dusion?
Why can't we say organise a ionss picket people a day outside the Grunwick factory? Tbe bions words which were meeting of the TUC HUL
We ought to see Counci of the TUC marching
WARNING PROTECTED
CoMPANy POLICE
The difference between you and me,
Grantham, is that | WANT to win
of that 10,000 picket Anyone would think the move ment wouldn't resnond. But Es is amazing the response there bas sen in the light of the attempts to dampea down tbe enthusiasm aspects that and co-operation.
The decision to hold a mas TUC bur by the Yorkshire anc South Wales areas ian a Union of Mintworkers And It was a direct and deliberate reported decision by the TUC and APEX
to draw people away from picket by waging a demonstratineffective round North London.
Two hours l they tried to persuade me not to join the picket line. Well, I think that I have a greater obligation to this class and this movement thai be deplayed in 'an bonourable way'
CINE EMISE demonstrate pur solidarity in a positive way; and in a way tha
for the leaderatip of the Tue.
be action of the poscal workers. The tragedy was that there were those deliberately trying to sop that action.
who Fanatics
involved that we have to listen to what the law and order fanatics say, I would remind them that it we listened to that
becamse it was illegal to combine legal to join a political party ot con- Why is il that difficult to cut off supplies to this
WE will factory? Have our road workers
lost the skill to dig up a road. 1 saw dozens of leaks in across at the ing attention. should be explosions in the gas industry
the Cameral rea need checking
possible to check going in I would check that as
7y/GRUNWICK WORK CAMP
Issue
Labour Party do not
of the natthat can be dobe
Taff supplies the
marching this movement has We at th consider
an obligation
movement.
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we fnd it
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If it were the oxygen The Sommer
We are Involved in 1
That's the reason peo
The tragedy is chat the trade union movement and the
seem :10 recognition? realise the coormous significano
There are a number of things
First we have to aL upon the TUC to organise to
water, dectricity and
completely and demonstrate chat
have to nsk APEX to
parale Remembe Gruwick 1s can involve NAFF and all that goes with it, then surdly APEX
to involve wider sectioas of the trade uns
Oct 17-and
There is every indication that ahe diniss picker ont Grinwick on 17 Derober called by the strike commitee Will attraet milisents from thcoughoot the codoloy
The South-pas Rutional Coun
the weekund They Lot miners froin Torkshire South Wales
London and irade union and Tade Counet autoches in mans
commatlec-nas made helear Shat the mass packer wilt.
nere whit he no millee:
angention is ade to als
be sirke committed der not
bei sacher as the wod of a new
lai to that whico-broushi the
Thirdly: Why in it that the Government finds it difficult to nacionalise this firm take it over completely? And If the find that a lictle too socialist, why dan't they introduce retrospec
be that nose of these things will come abou of the reluctance on the part of the trade union movement and ebe Labour Party to invalve itsell in the measures I have mentior
In these circumstances
grass roots movement to demonstrate its
this: a defeat defea mavement. A defen ed as it has been these last 13 months by the pressure of wide sections of the movement, would seretar of the purikers man APEK. Dor Desounoed the pick et and the TUC will de nediag to tut off-sipelles on Service te
sal hictorins in the area L sember of die coppeleeside
actsisis in erciron They erran isec delegations ci-thie pickes tie from nich facrorier as GEC mu British Lesend Tacy leotcuei
besi podal markers aver-the Cricalewond alfab Endhat
set back the trade union cause
hat eure Te wore ein
worst mistak: unyon coule make.
this movement to
and Labour Party movement will not hecome involved, then it's necessary for a grass roots react-
That way we'Il say goodbye 1
Ward, goodbye to the Nat ional Association for Freedom, and we'll bring a deserved victory for tbose magnificant
who struggled for moeths, nod 1 think 14
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Erin Pizzey with supporters at the court on Thursday
Women batter court
ruling
THREE WOMEN and five childww were welcomed af che Chis-
wck Migh Road battered wo
r') nostel in Went London Ins Pate magrerane A cule nui Actar magistrates. Coar! ing the previous day found Erin HIry Saury 0f reflge io become evercrowded
Doter of bunner and placard - o beat het che 2 et chi d at the
id children forced to use the reruge were doudie the numbers
awet ty the Hourstow Coun
a cesion macken Dy e
war of Londs ruling last May. Too much Life A WOLVERHAMPTON headmaster's anempe lo set up LU-COULOR CAuTe TOr formers fan into trouble last week when women's righis acth. ut tried to band out lealets arguing for contraception and aboction as the schoo] students
Head Storer had invited the inti-abortioo grotp Life to lye St Peter'1 Churck of Englend Schoul io make chem aware af inc canges in wavou s But a teacher at the school sild Storet Ia trying to force his views on us and (be children
The measure of Stoecr's concora for a "bulaniced" discussion was shown whei be ripped
Gay News vs. God
Mary Whitehouse nothing ascinst homo- she has seruols" - just homoseniaiity, inty righns, sex educatipn:
and Gay-News, agafrot which the secured the recent comviction for blasphenons libel'. Despite Ms Whilehouse's protestation that her acron was prompter by God, the imposition of a 21,000 Jine on the one masscirculation gay paper, and a nine-monsh sisriencied. aentence for its editor Denis Leneve is-tore of an artack on peys tham o defence of teavenis пирості reports JAMIE GOUGH The Gay Nowr Defence Coimmittee, which onets-Siis-Salur ay, wilL need lo Gabilise- wid пром И 15-10 aw af biasphemogs. thel rbriwwn out The aheer ecuțion ask a hir bastet -the mua
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Burtered women will fure a legal
righr no he retorsed by the local
mathoriry
(Homelers Persons) Act comes
into force in December An Eng-
fund, and it April in Scotand
eforcemene
mighr in the face of the Govern-
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shour (f a masive conpnan b
dete the Woren's Aid Fed cion has bean in the forefroni s le fighr to ger facatues and
espleining how women barierim
in the producr of' a society weepnd
ie sexism.
pro-abortion leafleis handed out
1o the students from thele hands. fitth Local Wonten in Aution menber
Janet Kerr says the bead 'epcasee
ts of debasing peoples: moral
tutaat cn
abortion.
The troc scope of anti-
aborben activity in sclrouls
nly dowls becoming known by
It the women's trüve
ment. I pow have avidence of
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A COMPRENENSIVE pollcy 10
ante rwk and fhe workers ar
the building trade war adopted er
the 1 October conference culled
by Building Worker in London.
Building Worker ir
pubiished by militens who broke
with the Communist
dominated Joinz Sites Committée
Jn Condun IenirE
Twenty-five delegates elected a
ACOTHRECE SCLEOTIC
northensr, Manchester and Notl-
inghom — to pian future activity
and organise the sules of the
which currentiy
Delegates pledeed themseives
to a fighi for a genuine national
shop
direct labour workers, This res-
Mutior is desened to counter the
MECEFRE O! - MAE
Party foliowing the recent 400-
arong direct lat
conference in Manchester.
Practical support,
tunnel miners at Murples in IHE ГЕО!
Conference with a collecrion of EM. caled dor sagpor for te to ae Conference ( RUTAL Movemen/ Conference on frestatement tich one e ai ate land - in line empis to spirt workers whether
sex Dr
Afler a lengrhy discursion on a remistion calling support for the
capg ts fre desr cronesar-
on for uniying the anger of th anemploved workers ers' Conference rejected the reso-
More
Athough Building Worker fully supports the compoign, delegates considered thar including this as BUTEAOEMENROGR SORA SOTEmentas was proposed wowd leud 10 séciarian was agninst ETCTTO poiet to the polics
dressing untry berween the employed ond the waemplayed.
Despire the smali number of deleutics. con provide the basis for ur strong Agiting proup withir the union Socialist taken at the meeting. owd lberal. the CDLM conferenc he held on ЛЬШе - wEl cantre on lad coetris tha totdarin va controls Grunwick or other struggles for
sages is to be proposed by the organising comicnitiee. It include: breaking the 12-manth rule and
pet catching-up claims, protected by cost of living increases to com-
standards under wage controis: incrensmg and rejecsion und police barguining. the It goes onto call for: a national minimum wage of 160; squal pay for womee; the abolition of cash Liraits and automatic increases io cocinE spending
Leadersbip supporine these pot icies, together with the removal of the Cablagbes-Healey leader-
The organiaing cocimittee will propose a campaign for labour MOMCN USC1I mitrees to mobilise pöckets at Girunwick, and to fighl for the boycott of essential services.
Platform speakers at the conJOSCOIEC WUEICHAC WOTKCIS TEOL Fords, British Leyland in Cowley
weekend. number. a paper
Party-
and three - TrOm hold down wuges public sector
is growing rapidly.
BIRD —
stewards committee for Employees*
COMINEE
organisation should do:
Jor the 'A Birmingham-wide
also general meeting of my 1o the conference on pay Trom one-da
national Lines.
* Righi to Mane
with th criticisor. add i more general Starleent the argent meed Jor
Hill, London SE24
Labour movement democracy
If the conference of the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement adopts the proposals which its organising committee debated last weekend, a small but important step will be taken in furthering the fight back. JOHN ROSS reports on three important decisions
10 3 October in Bir
Terenee. solidarity
pital occapation
pas
productivits
44 Devanshire MoRd worth, Birmingham 20.
Organising ence 26 organising committee
at the conference.
suppor CuID bulletin on the foT mats CHEC begänning of Navember opposition
wider conference managements' affensives
Union news in brief
Call for one day public
sector strike
Public sector workers in Bir minghari have called a conference on pay chis coming
Sponsored by CITS Socia/ist 05 Tocal анісл branches, districr comemittees and shop stewards committees, the conference will be forge the particularly concerned wah bet wown the cash limits imposed by the Labour Govermenr to
in the
Support for the conference "premature"
CHR/S speaker a member of the National Union of Public over pay.
social services branch in Birmingham, reports his branch's discussion on what the conjerence
sector strike on 1 Navember at ae Tire hia tere ca the decal
union hranch decided last week to put
The one-day strike is differeut 00%
actions against the cuts which NUPE has called over Ical and rg theer witi tie ore
and together with the one on pay
PUBLIC SECTOR PAY CONFERENCE Saturday 15 October 10am-1pm Digbeth Civic Hail, Digbeth, Birmingham
* E55 minimum wage
* Automatic sliding scale of wages
• 35-hour week with no loss of pay
* Consolidation of Phase 1 and 2 paymonts
* Increase in annual leave entitlement
Open to all public secior union delegates and shop
stewards in Birmingham and surrounding areas. Obsery-
ers welcome from all other regions.
independent of the bureaucracy.
Copies af the policy statemeni ihd Building Worker uruc ao g duzilahle at 3p from: 19 Red Pos and Longbridee, Desoutiers, well as militanis involved in the Birmingham public sector con- Force,
TESEL
It was decided to propos retused special resolutions against the mposition of corporate bargain ilv id Brilish Lewaod anu i has heen support of the Hounslom has
The seodnd important decisine is to support the Rack and File
LULAE LUNERRELE
Sunday 23 Ocrober
Dizbeth Hall, Birmingham
44 Devorshire Roed, Halds
CUNECUHE Navemnber The of the should fight to ger the maximue COuT DUSC GiNE SubROne nursber of trade union bodies to ward the policies of the CDLM в Doegate ano to par tol Pinaily, the tirst issue of the decided ar a CBEN sari conter indastry
appear al Other -REOUDS in lhe -LAI industry will be approached for a
against the
nanoral acmonssabon on zl November in London, were seen as the solution Martia Tolran was the braner Challenge IEICIECE WAR DaACICTIM the strike would be an opportutity to assess our strength and to
GHEIS all public sector
The motion was opposed by the branch secrerary and Communist Party member Martin Cumelln.
He arpued the acron wowd be
Speaker after considered They called for the 15 Orlahe conference lo sive a fighting lead
Roger Howarth of the Socialist Workers Party backed Tolmaa's moton. He said: Puble sector
nions are preparir a sell-our.
This makes ir doubly urgen l BUHE UTATEL DORATE not wait until the sell-out has already taken place. rotes to 30, and passed by 6 The motian was strike and demonsiration on 1 November. and further striki action from | December, will
-the HiTTHaerAH punterence If confertine sooeal the miodion it can provide a hadly needed national focus for a fight
WOMEN AND THE UNIONS
& conference organieed by th
Londan Medical Branch ol
Saturday 22 Octobe 1-5pm Unity House Euston Roed, NW1
Tickets 140p or 1hren for e1) trom: J. Maguire, ECG Lepon SEN, Guya Hospital. London
Nottingham's George Ward
WHEN E.H. Archirestural Produets Lid in Noteingham decided al the heginning of August to cut the wages of the fiem's worl
shopfleor workert rosk aetion. cioplesen reion, the Feature, Tumter and negotiate with the Alied Trades Union, although it
ginen nominal recognitian ia the past.
A few days after the strike began the workers were dismiss ed for breach of controet: Enforr hy the union and conciliation body ACAS have all invoked the DAC IORDCE WITRLESH picket longer work hiere so there nothing to calk abour
Applications to industrial tri trunals froe the 17 of the 24 shop ter, floor workeis wbo are on strike aare prorcu tranicm. к chat the law will nor help chee Strike fight against their dIsmissals the workers have turned to the one tactic which offers victory:
The National Working Wonen's Charter Campaign is holding a November al Friends Meeting Piace, Church Street, Reuding It Is designed lo help women trving to orgonise and raise the question of somen's rights at the warkplace and within the anivns. Or for womes who thay jus be inserescd to know mone Rood whut rights exist and how other womee have fosght to impruve them.
LOT MOTE IERNI, LUHSALEAME UCIANE Flat 2, 3 Coloridge Road, London N8. Tel 01-342 1760 RioIDe), or 01-340 8060 ext. 54 (work)
SDCIALISTCHALLENGE 13Oclober1977 Pages
Buses
like Concorde
marker bar kop bien nee
workers kepr buses
L.iverpoo. streets COTLE
HYCKS. They came aur when o
works saudy ream ais introdaced
HTTHOWE MARK CORSICITC TURNEULL Fiard
As evry trade unionist knows
the only purpose of work study
teams is to make workers slave
away a bit barder for less money
PuE eNerscysue bassenge
Transport MPTE
want more than that When it
successtally applied for a 1 pe
cent fare increase last month, tb
MPTE met a bostile response
especialy fram the Trades Coun-
cil who argied that Liverpool has
SIA ICS CALCESIFE VADUL CS
port system in Britain Since the
1s per pent incroase jose 7 months
Liverpool Council
transport committes, said A
young couple in Kirby wanting to
cinema in Liverpool
would lave to pay EL.60 in fare
probably of their socia
scurity because 40 per cent o
PLOILE R CC nci Meca tig on Conod eo
the reach of mase people',
are is the rise ir just how
anothe
leazue for drunks'.
month Liverpool is top of the
uncmployment league.
everyday the 'nich Liverpudkd
B805 - Cbo6c with 1005
the privilege of riding on the most expensive transport system. Scanlon on carpet
MOVES ARE wuder way in thr
Amadgumuled Union of Engine crins Workers lo rule out ui
order the ALEW's vote for the
12-month rule ai the TUC,
Enlon president Hugh Scanion
cast the sote in furour of the rule
agnimst the wishes of bis entire
delegation, and now uitempts are being made to raise the issue a
the union's appeat cour!
Meduly beru ont of order.
ro mobitise the rest of the trade MILOS JEOPCTCEU
The strikers have been backer by the Nottinghamn Trades Coun cil which has offered chem th use of its strike fund. They have called a series of miass pickéts. As Brian Sumister, vicepresident of the Trades Couneit, said lo t meeting ar the picket line Wednesday 'If this eraploger wins, it will be a deteat for the whole trade union movement in this aren. Support iust be war
The next muss picket will be a Tam on Wedeesday 19 Octoher Be there Delsib rum: H Suic
32 Cress Road Wowd thorpe. Nottingham. Domution
of suppert iu HaUTESa Seens, Foici oror.
, Theris Hoose, Long Eaton, Notting-
schuu on 20
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The scene at Hounsiow Hospital last Friday was one of
coletion. Puris of beds lav scuttered around the ward Flowers thrown on the floor showed the brutal haste of the snatch squad of officials, consultants, police and scabs. Fulse teeth floating in a mag remained behind after the body watchers had hauled patients out of their beds into the waiting feet of scab ambulances.
They started to pour into the hospital. Workers going to the late shift at the airport. Housewives doing their shopping. Vis tors bewildered at the rapid departure of their elderly relalives. Health workers from as far as Central London and the East End. They stood, some shaking with anger at what had happened to 'their hospital.
And it is their hospital -ever since the staff at Hounslov declared a work-in and demand ed that the hospital be tramsformed for use by the commun-
the area; not on Govern ment's need to run down, to
It was management's Tear of the growing support for demand that provoked their un*Support From the lousands
mumber of patie mats being teletr
to and doctors as the chine
GPs and doctors
i near sapient die sea
enly discovered that it hac underspent its budget E300,000 — more than enough to THE BATTLE For Hounslow MOSPHAl Decan to July yr0. LE line with the policy of the Labour Government, the Faling. Ham mersmith, and Hounslow Area Health Authority cut ES00,000 from hospital spending in West
Local health workers immed lately launched a protest cam-
run-down
hích was to hit Hounslow an Diner hospilas. Promises support poured in from labour movement. Local engin-
Beware
scab
ambulances
ALONG WITH the police,
health officiats, and top table
Thursday's raid were the fociliries of the Private Ambulance Company Lid.
The company operates nation-wide service
mE 2D Grunvile Gardens in West London. Its ficer of converted Volves, Cor anas and Marines are in creasing demand, and not just for the scabbine.
Heathrow airport is one af
largest customers, Now airport stewards are threaten-
merchants are allowed to ply their trade ar Heathrow:
HOME NEWS
There should be a
revolution about
things like
keep the hospital open while
The way in which the Hourslow Hospital was dealt with 1s a warning to other bospitals under
Maternity. But it is also a trailer for the sort of managemen! will take again: occupations in industry and on the campuses once the reviso
be used.
The work-ins going on at the London haspitals are an inspirat ion and lead for the scores of
bospitals which face closure al over Britain That issue was one
mong many which the Labou
Party Conference pot permitted to diels Another was an emergency resolution
ondemning the Hounslow Hospital raid, which general secretary of NUPE, hac promised to move on behalf of the occuplers.
The workers at Hounslow realise that they can only rely on their own strength and strength of all those who are interested in keeping their hospital open, to win the fight.
This is the mood which makes
by not a nurse any more. Now 1 am just bere to fight to keep the
How it all
began
cering and airport stewards met strikes were organised in hospitals.
The first of the cuts was due to
casualty department Hounslow. Hut in March. workers at the hospital had already
lecided to defy the AHA and KHE HOW DICE was thar he Con thing One result of the the OUT NT MOVITY DOUTO the AHA, came out in support of the workers" demand that Houncommunity hospital
The official date for Hounslow's closure was 31 August. On that day hundreds bf workers, other trade undonists, housewives and patients marched
a proces
Despite this show of strengt Secretary Services David Ennals declared that there was little opposition to
Bur alongside work-ins at sbe Elizabeth Garrett Anderson anu Piaisow Maternity Hosnitni, this type of action has become
ationally recognised Focus for the fight
The Hounalow
cerned likely to open up
plits in the area healt
on 12 October These splits would have been the first sign that the started to campe the authonbe to change their tune.
So. six days before the AHA
due lo scatching bealth officials launched their commando raid.
this'
by STEVE POTTER
hosnital oren.
Or as bousewife Ellen Cleary whoafter seeing the damage in the hould be a revolution abou things like this!
883533808888888883533033
Work-in
Elizabeth
The
action that last week was
Alan Fisher,
How effective ane work-ins" as a tactic to prevent hospital closure? the assesses their strengths and Limitations.
UNITY FOR struggle using the hospital as a base from which to launch a campaign against clos ure was the main gain in the Hounslow work-in.
This was made possible by the active participarion by all work ers in running the occupation, and democratic discussion as to how the campnign should be taken forward. the my health gradually reduce the number of patients and srip the hospital's Tacities it a lowed the workers to demonstrase that the argument of the authority that there is no demand for the hospital' was hollow The Hounslow workers won GPs, who ignored the instruct-
health
deep authority
work-in bac
the body-
lessons of
Hounslow
RICH PALSER
never being re-opened.
Control
heath facilities -
class community. blunted the att officials t annel was
to
SOLIDE TUT
the support of a number of local hospital is won, workers control
lons of the health authority that DO OTHERE SACED DESE They averted the proposed temp to the Hounslow, By thi would have meant the hospital which community
Hounslow dearly.
Finaily, a work-in can open up the road to workers control over
posed by the struggle of health workers and the local sockle
Ar Hounslow all access to the Force осорня ру швивустсть рег controlled by the action committee set up to run WOLLE impose their decisions as to how the bospital
If the demand for Hounslow to be maintained as a community by
will be vital in ensuring that the
We're staying put!
The same day wit see a mass lobby of the area health suthority which was responsible for the raid on the hospital. Delegates also voted to call on the national officers of the hesith service unions to arganise national strike action. The calf for action has beer teken up by ten London hospitars who have piedged strike
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE indedbyemptybeds
What you can do
"Send money and messages of support to the defence
commiltea
*Organise meetings lor Hounslow Hospital speakers
*Support the picketing and occupation
*I you are in the health service, send resolutions
demanding national strike action to save the Hounslow
and other hospitals lacing closure
*Book the flim by the Newsreel Collective of the struggle
to keep open the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital,
avallable from The Other Cinema
Details from: Hounslow Hospital Defence
Staines Road, Hounslow, Middx. Tel. 01-570 4448 ext 55
noods of the local working clas
ratber than the noods of the health authority for rationalisarion and cutbacks
But a work-in cannot, in the BE BOSS TEARS CASE A What the wolk in die stows only by "weaith", a gradual run down; thus forcing the authority loto ins mos orus commando lac tics to remove the patients.
Management remains By ple type at forti, backseur used in the Houses, to lapo of police presence the closure. Its action is dictared
the Labour Coseramen's cutbacks, not by a misguided desire to improve health care by
13 October1977 Pag Committee
closing the hospital
The work-in tactic can only be a way forward against closure i
force a cla to cone tal
force a halt to closure. CHIS IS ENC CHECHE TEARIER IT work-in can win the commitment of the local labour movement -HESCESSIE-SEES DUSpINUs factories and office - to mass action, shauld the closure be attempted. As Hounslow shows. a commitment to until the closure is halled can b crucial
First and foremost this mean commitment to strike action in
area health authoricy which wants the closure.
Area stewards bodies are vital
workers against closures,
Strike action
Stonels it mess ment to strike action hy workers outside the bealth service in that area be built for through a local defence committee such as tha set up at Hounslow.
Thirdly, it means demanding that the union leaderships commit themselves to making such
pay to maintain the campaigning for that action a mong the membership, and calling solidaricy suike action by workers in other arens on n regiona, and national basis.
All the fine statements of local MPs nothing unleas they contribute to bulling this commitment to acon - so that any acempe a Hasure is met by a wave of strike action backed by street demon
health subority to concede the demands of the workers.
It is this action which is now essential for Hounslow Da be ker open. The task of the EGA an other hospitals working-in aKauns cosure must be to make sure they are ready for when the commandos pet round tD them
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For the first time 1
unity and publi epic
In Ireland, Republicans have tradicionally opposed Imperilism, both politically and militarily. This opposition his seldom been a united one. It ha been prose to fragmentation and in-fighting caused mainly by the
within varlous republican groupings.
emedy this splinterir
eation of the Irish Front, TI Irish Front anti-imperialist groups, including the Provisiona Republican Movement. the Irish Repubscan Socialist Party, the Nationalist Pete and Aeria rites and various Prisoners All agree on four basic demands
To end harassment, torture and intimidation
* The withdrawal of the Bril
British interference political, cultural and economic life of the nation;
• Full aupport for the political status campaign. leading to an
geoeral amnesty For all political prisoners at bome and unroad,
* The repatriation of all Irish political prisoners in British jails
In January this year the Irish Frone establisbed area commitACCI throughout Derrs, COTTA PODIE WAS TOMOR with oce person from euch and two representarives of cach
many years, Ireland is today witnesaing & growing movement towards revolutionary regroupment. Already two separate fusion
— the Movement for a Socialist L of the Fourth Internatiomal) and are pisaning to fuse in the neur alka are underway Movemeat and the Irish Socialist affiliated arganisation.
They decided the nature of the Front would be a broad rather
at preventing tration BESIDEL that which
cent in the are 05 ben
ment in the lace bourgeois politicians used mass popular movement to further their own careers
The same experience allowed the Front to boss a resolution arohibiting any leading figure ir t from participating in local or central governatical elections
he first edition of the Tris Front bulletin appeared on the TIED Sunday. On St Patrick's Day (1 March) they organised a Priso ners Day with a massive parade
of alone too Bope is at last
A new wIt developing after many years of despair caused by pelly ling between the rival anti-
Long Kesh Letter
letter, nur
between the
For Republican
and
Socialist unity
imperialist groupings working class areas. Attendance al mccanes and popic prous has increased cople can identify with the Irist TECH SOUL CHE DE DEECHOERS neighbour with a different strain of anti-imperialism. the Perhaps activities of the Front. and it spite of adverse propagaled by the Chirch in Derry socinism 15 becoming more acceptable to the working class. People who once
and agree beine policies it
Bloody
Ireland The progress of the Froot has squabb- MALAMECT CHICLE A HOSTI entire leadership, including is
This transformation occurred as it
the end
troops, or about the murder by those troops of 14 civilians one afternoon in
Neither were they drawing attention to the acts of rape committed by British troops or its employment of assassination squads. They were not even protesting about the refusal of Britain to grant self-determination to the Irish people as a whole.
Since 1968 there have been protests about such things; the more Britain has become directly involved, These fusions are both welcome and opportune, as b the desire of many In all foor organistions for a further regroupment between the two fused groups. In his latest
correspondent from Long Kesh Intersment comp writes of another more towards anti-
arrested and tortured since the eganised a 4,000 strong mar igninst Elizabeth's visit to In land.
hope thar a further expansion of the Irish Front will occur; on the same basis of anti-imperiailse
controversial rape case cartier Guard was convicted of the rap when in the of a young girl in London anc received benuse the judge didn't want to Interrupe the aoldier's career in the army.
result of the
propaganda their tour of duty. reactionaries in
sied that occur in the North, committed by British troops.
identity tembers
Jointly charged with the rape and assault of a 19-year-old womar movement Both have been granted balove, NEESLIE.
I ours Tiocfaudh Ar La
We are now into year ten of the present Irish "troubles'. It was on 5 October 1968 that a small civil rights march was batoned off the streets of Derry and when the facts of "John Bull's sium became
Since then the civil rights struggle has been transformed into a liberation struggle aimed at ending British presence in Ireland.
'reformed'
problem,
years dead forever."
When the civil rights the Isolation
beating.
Provos,
more casualties
the recognise
Drumm
peopie... economic
tiger on he is o a seco
Ireland. tally recall a well-pablicised Coldstrean
suspended sentence
in a protest march after the
aod his regimeot She propbe similar rapes would
Her propbecy bas come tru OF the Raymond
IRELAND
greater bas been the abrogation of the democratic rights of the Irish people.
There seems little chance that the present Labour Government will cease this involvement. Recently Northern Ireland secretary Roy Mason stated; 'The myth of British withdrawal is
There have been many prepared to resist such diktats. Over the last seven years the resistance has been led by the Provisional Republican movement, a movement Mason now claims to be
There has certainly been a decline in the military activity of the
altbough its main target British military personnel — has hac
this year than last
Nevertheless it is clear that the simple policy of bombing Britain ou of Ireland is not working, and there are signs us chang in me crossons!:
this. In June this усат leading Belfast Republican Jimmy
stated: *The isolation socialist Republicans around the armed struggle is dangerous... We need a positive tie with the mass of the Irish
"We need to make a stand or
issues and struggles of the people. The forging of strong finks berween the Republican movement and the workers of Ireland and radical trade unionists will create
Women orga
The fight against women's oppr ession in ireland has been supp ressed or ignored for mearly fifty years — a victim of the 'carnival of reaction north and south' which James Connolly predicted would follow the parrition of Ireland.
But in recent years the surge of renewed interest in both women's liberation and socialism which has swept Europe and the United States has begun to be reflected in
an irrepressible mass me
Espocially in Belfast, of the last nine yea socialist politics amon cans in a real way. Whe it is difficult to tell: ot leaders remain tied to of the armed elite worki the peopic
But even among l ticians the eventual re-united Ireland is agai of. Both the new Fiann ment in the South and Social Democratic and in the North have rece position. The words are transformed into acti importance is that th pressure these politiciar
One of the main seum re-unification remains community in the North evidence of astitudes 1 'moderate Alliance I week they no longer sharing between the Unionist Party. CalLs Loyalist bero Gusty Dister Defence Associ talks with the Provos w by Andy Tyrie, the lead with the comment: Gu been in jail too Jong. Independence
The only new idea t the Loyalist camp in years is the advoca independence. That or advocates is the extrem John McKengue says motives behind such
McKeague and his k North of Ireland of p Britain interfered' wi
Some steps toward the isolation in which in both parts of Irelu taken at the first 320
Fiberation conference on 1 and 2 October
A hundred and fift present, representing
from Belfast, Dublin raine, Limerick, Cork conference indicated t wide range of interes contraception, nurser facilities, equal pay; ment of women in the
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- INTO YEAR TEN
AND
experience Republi raised s will lead own house epubucan hilosophy i behalf of
cois poliion of a ng spoken Il Governreformist our Parly tated this kely to be but their ion would have frightening effect the cnces for t
land, and indeed in Brita blocks to Protestant ere is even ning. The said last or power and the
former i to the - LO have lenounced the UDA, pence has
lerge from
nine Ulster f its main ralist bigor about the uggestion. ook to the 69, before nionist re-
nise
king down struggie en's groups perate were ly women's in Belfast
minists were ialism. ca's groups way. LEIL Derry. The those existing elsewhere in tivity on a Europe.
abortion, child care land is coonomically he involve-Imperialist
men's issues.
welfare benefits are school leavers.
Britain:
has been
Autonomous ers. In the south,
roocht telephonists strike.
pression of the northern minority.
hey are quite happy to ditch thei cloved British link', in order to b masters in what they regard as their
As for Britain itself, at least until after the next General Election, the Labour Government appears to have so policy but continued repression. As the Irish Times commented recently: solution apes for the para-mitary
The dangers of such a 'solution' do lot need spelling out. Although It I not as likely as Mason pretends, the Provisionals defeat of the Provisionals is a possibility, and such a victory for repress-
conseworking class in
It can be avoided. The type of mass resistance offered to the British Army
BRIES
movement.
The development of these small and fragmented women's groups is itself a reflection of the problems of taking up the oppression of women in a country dominated north and south by imper-
There is no mass feminist the movement because conditions in Ireland are fundamentally different from
Western last
Due to imperialist domination, Ire-
and socially
Church and State in the south, and Unionist ascendancy in the north have ensured very little progress on wo-
Abortion is illegal north and south, and contraception is available only to a limited extent. In the south, divorce is illegal, women workers are generally super exploited and un-unionised, and
denied female While much of the legislation on women's rights won in
on abortion, divorce reequal pay and opportunity blocked in the north.
Women are in the forefront of the fight back. Some of the most militant struggles in the anti-unionist areas in the pust 18 months have been led by women. It is women who have led the fight to get the troops out of Turf Lodge and St James in Belfast, and it is women who have led the struggle for political status for republican prison-
women bave also played a key role in the developing trade union struggles, such as the
While the Belfast conference discussed these issues, it didn't reflect the involvement of all these women,
in such areas as Turf Lodge in the last year will in the long run worry Britain much more than bombed cinemas.
The contribution to Republican and socialist unity in action made in the last six months by the Irish Front ir Derry and the Relatives Action Com mittee in Belfast are major gains for the Catholic minority.
The moves towards unity now taking place among the revolutionary left in Ireland are as timely as they are welcome; and the spread of socialist ideas among many of the younger
could have tremendous implications for the future.
Year ten is unlikely to see the rictory of the Irish struggle for liberation, but if such fragile steps are consolidated and multiplied they have in them the seeds for victory.
7 doing here? only those committed to the feminist
Am autonomous women's move ment is an absolute necessity if women's issues are not to be relegated to second place in the anti-imperialist struggle, but such a movement will not grow spontaneously as in Britain It will be best built by linking up with women in the forefront of the anti-imperialist struggie, and indeed the trade union struggle.
The relevance of women's liberation
anti-imperialist shown by the treatment just handed out to two 15 year olds in Belfast's New Lodge Road. During questioning
Thursday at Musgrave police station these young women were made to strip - it was the socond time that week such a form of "questioning" was reported. After the first instance an Army office said such stripping was "normal procedure.
THE IRISH SCHOOL of the International Marxist Group on 15-16 October Speakers from Ireland, USA and Britain Include:
Bernadette McAliskey.
Fergus O'Hare, Brian
Grogan, John Ross, Geoff Bell, Brian Lyons ..and a surprise celebrity from the Socialist Workers Party, USA.
Registration tee: 21.30.
A tew places open tc
porters. Details:
Smith, PO Box 50, Upper Street, Islington, Lon-
don N1. 01-359 8371-
immediately and publicly renounce all claims to sovercignty over any partiot Ireland or its coastal waters.
Second, Britain must immediately disband and disarm all of the locally recruited pro-imperialist forces such as the Ulster Defence Regimer, Royal Ulster Constabulary, and RUC Reserve, and withdraw all troops from Ireland, Finally Britain must relcase all political prisonens, amnesty, and abolish all repressive legislation.
As socialiss, we believe that these demands are attainable and that the development of normal class politic throughout the whole country will follow such a development. Every republican and socialist organisation in this country supports diese demands, and in our opinion the vast majority of lrish people would also support them if given the opportunity
AL organisations we have found an almost unanimous desire for unity in the struggle against imperialism. Unfor tunately, this desire for unity is no reflected in the leadership of some of the organisations involved. At the very point in the struggle when unified action is absolutdy essential we found leaders more concerned with maintaining their own positions or influence, or in puriting faction fights and vendetta against former comrades.
Al the very point in our hissory when a thorough and all embracing re assesstucne of tactics is so vital to the success of the struggle, we found leaders unwilling to admit or concede the sightest possib lity that they ever made a mistake.
Some say char the civil right strategy as 1969 15 democratisation of the six county state is the central demand. They expoc Britain to intipose a Bill of Right on a Loyalist majoricy whose position of marginal supremacy rotal denial of ovil righis to the Nationalist minority. They say that the most revolutionary demard in tretard toduy is "peace at any price, and they prove their point by marching with the most reactionary socicty
Ir should also be said that the elitist and conspiratorial approach substitute for the development of a poople's struggie. The wonder, is that cracy]; Alistair Renwick Movement].
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Death of a revolutionary
Seamus Costello
Seamus Costello, a founder and leader of the Trish Republican Socialist Party, was assassinated in Dublin on 5 October. In tribute to comrade Costello we print an extract from an address he made to the Labour Movement Delegation to Ireland last year. The IRSP'3 first ind most important demand should grant a generai rank and file level in all
attitudes of the
Eerie
overall strareas and тинціс
expounded in 1968, ang still valid and that the histor
workine depends on che
elements in Trish The vacuunt.
VICIOEY
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE Publlc Forum
Ireland: the struggle continues asocialist perspective Guest speakers: Bernadette McAliskey (Indepeadent Socialist Parts]: Brendan Kelly [Movement for a Socialist Republic]; Fergos O'Hare [Peoples Demo-
[United Troops Oul
Friday 14 October, 7.30pm, at NUFTO Hall, Jockeys Fields, off Theobalds Rosd, near Holborn, WC1.
SOCIALISTCHALLENGE 13 Oclober 1977 Page 9 after so years of struggle some of those involved are not prepared to Te-assess their strategy and tactics
The presence of Brifish troops in Ireland is but one manifestation of the imperialist presence and must be seen in the context of the ovcrall relations ship between Ireland and Britain. Some aythat Britain would really like to withdraw from Ireland and that she i only waiting for a suitable opports mity to do so wiibout losing face. The Tack is that British economic interests call only be Fusraneed Throught her continued miliar: and political pres: crice, and through the maintenance of partition which has been the instrument throuch which the working class in both parts of Ireland have been divided for almost 50 years
Even if Brilain didn't have 10 protect her own economic interests in both parts of Ireland, she would still be under Iremendous pressure to stay and protect interests of American and European multi-nationals who control Targe sections of our cconomic life.
Almost every sector of our economic tie is row subject to exploitation by Beltish and other multi-national con cerns. The most obvious areas are oil, gas, mincral resources, insurance and banking companies, light engincering. textiles and artificial fibres, motor assernbly fertilizers, fisheries.,thie construction industry and the brew
As revolutionary socialists, we are conscious of the international implications of ourown struggle. We repard our struggle as part of the world-wide
for the emancipation cof worling class people. Our contributton to that sluggle must he lo creare an independent socialist stute here in Ireland, and at the same time extend solidarity to all genuine revolut ionary movements abroad An inder pendent socialist stare based on the
and traditions of our own working class would be un inspiration. not only to the British and Curopean
classes, but to appressed peoples everywhere,
We are confident that the momen tum of the last seven years can be maintained and that even if the Jeaders of the various revolutionary organisations are not capable of giving the necessary leadership, new leaders will energe from rank and file level to fill
Too many sacrifices nave been made for us to fail now So let us more forward to
LABOUR MOVEMENT CONFERENCE ON IRELAND Organised by the Leicester Troops Out Movement 12 November, Highfields Community Centre Details from: Paul Winslane, 7 College Street, Laicester.
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Journalism in
South Africa
writes ROY ALEXANDER.
Icd up cleven activists
Tere or en, Joseph Mali.
never made it to the trial — he
Twa of the accased were Idnapped by the South African police in swaziland. where they had gone into exile, and illegall brought Into the country to stanc trial. All were tomtired.
Convicted
Nine of the ten were convicted. ind live who bad all served previous terms on the notorious Robben Island) sentenced to lif
militants who had held respons ible positions with railway work-
and textile workers"
cences of from seven to 15 years.
Meanwhile the police have also Union of Black Journalists (UBJ), a trade union Closely OATCO BEC MACK COn
and itportant becuuse of its consider SEC ICICE DOC ENE oriented mass media.
UBJ members played an im-
Government's propaganda off ensive around the Soweto mass
ample, police agents' incitemen of migrant workers againse the
UBJ members, including the President, Joe Thioloe, were OCTICE.
Banned
but harassment The Bulletin of the UBJ, which the union produced to break the
of silence by South Alrican press, was seizec by the police, all future numbers
continued from back page
All this means little as far as
сепс is concerned, нас 1o ерс
crucial political arena East-West
relations have run into trouble.
Soviet disarray in North-Wes
Africa and the Middle East and
the crisis of the bureaucracy's
canoes will 100o yestern
Communist Parties, imperialist
setbacks in Southern Africa and
the beginnings of working class
upsurge in Southern
both serve lo descabilise
world system of allances that
cach side wants to keep intact.
US imperialisen has drawi a
very
resent particularly
Africa. The rea. Importance c
Carter's human rights campaign
is that in represents a
interventionist police emer the
poss-Vietnam retreat. The Indo
chinese people scared imperial-
INTERNATIONAI
A high risk
occupation
In South Africa it is not just the insurgent student and youth who have had to face repression. Trade union militants have also been singled out by the racist regime,
banned, and three UBJ officiah
iwe Minis. was arrested. Ir
abused. She was released with out charges, but served with a sustain the Smith regime', he said.
In 1963, through resolutions 181 and 182, the LN imposed an
Giving evidence before the subcommittee on Africa, Committee DESECRASE ACINGO CLEO US House of Representatives on 14 July, Sean Cervasi, an econIS WHO ONE WORKSOC UN Namibia Commissioner proved that today South Africa is militarily far stronger than it was before the "embargo" was proposed. restively small military estab South Africa bad ACH THEISS ARE SU mei they are disre and total military expenditure approximately 120 million rand The Air Force had a few modern aircraft and only a few hellсорсега. Ine Army nad a coucc tion of old British and American anks, armoured cars and artil *Lackine even a small mobile
SALTin the wound
in
The Day
the cops
declared
war on
our kids
Banning order confining ber to he townshin where she Eve (thus preventing ber working) and forbidding her to associate with the LHI.
UN and South Africa
An empty threat
Ar the United Nations General Assembly on 27 September, Foreign Secretary David Owen made vague threats against the South African apartheid regime if it did not bring pressure to bear on lan Smith to accept the neo-colonial Anglo-American package for Zimbabwe. *The world would not allow South Africa to continue to
GEORGE CUNVIN points out that the value of these threats can be judged by the past effectiveness of the UN.
WACK OLE. the regime had an essentially defen
Awesome
Today._ South Africa has an awesome military capability. The Air Force possesses more than ED combat early 150 Mirage I11 and Mirag F-1 aircraft.
Acrmacchi MB-326 strike-trainer embargo and strike jets, 40 Lockheed F104 G fighter bombers and 50 North American F-HID Cavaler counter-insurgency strike aircraft. It so has more than 200 hellThere are 1,000 aircraft in service with the South African Air Force. 500 tanks. these are Centurion Mk 10s with THOU DOUC and engine than the Mk 5 and Mk 7 models which South Africa
In Februsty apartheid vell as some 30
DWHIT TN COR
UVEI 105mm gun.
A large number of
under French licence...
armoured personnel babwe or Namibia.
Dichotomy
consolidare its Muence lor
ZHENGLANC
hureaucracy penden:
imperialist The
Sam Nzima captures the agony of death Union of Biack /oumalists Butlerin - now banned — exposes the news that the lame white press woold not print.
of this year another UBJ official was taken into custody. Joe Thioloe wrote to the Minister of "Justice' protest at harassment. Five days is usually listed as having. The
The Army has nearly 200 Pan hard armoured cars with 90mm
chassia. it ssesses several hundred other armoured cars and neariy 1,000
carriers.
vention in Angola and Mozam hique. Despite the more subtle diniomacy of Carter and Andrew Young, America will not hesitate to send in the Marines if Angols opposition is
the
On the Soviet side the bureaucracy is faced with the awkward dicholomy of how to extend and
For in West: primarily strategic reasons) without threacening its
WILL serialism, The contradiction
ows from the simple tact that,
which the Sovier hareaucracy is opposition. based is incompacible with cap-
INCICILS are as de upon the maintenance c he world order as are chose t
yOu
pounded by the growing crisis of he workers states and Com
THE IF POLKE THREW THE
FIRST STONE" later the Government delivered
was detained, and, as of July this year, was still heing held in Some of the latter are very recent Amberican and British models.
"laree number
propelled guns medium and
weavy artillery, of Hamm, 105mn and 135mm. mounted on tank
TRISE встацту has been provided chiefly by the
US, Britain, France and Taly.
munist Parties. In the East the past couple of years have seen a
the bureaucracy's rule. . Such an
incompatible with the interests of borh the burean cracy and imperialism. That is the why Jimmy Carter has to playi MUT NTO DO TIED THE
At the same time the crisis of
Kremlin's relationship wich distorted reflection of the threats to the status quo in East and
opens Lie revolutionary crisis in capitalist
Easy has to tie in bac
dinect means D intervention, while the Western parties' criticisms of the Eastern
Fine and dandy
So the commentarors who tel
bat all i fue and dand;
and probably themselves as well Apart from SALT the main
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 Oclober1977 Page 10
cluding the rearrest of Mtintse
has brought the number of UBI
militants in jail to five.
a central issue that must be taken
up in the Brilish trade union
movement in preparation for
next year's 'week of trade union
acticin" Smith & Nephew
masters at bending with the win
TORTES the benefits thai
arotund the world.
the textile company owned by
Smith and Nephew became th
South African Arm
recognise the Natal in o unofficial bluci
-Termie Markers
Suf ever since they have had
the South African Government
blowing in the opposite direct-
nas time to bend the orker wo
and withdrew recognizion
from the union. The company's
Nock workers are andowbtedly
Planning their response — bur it
anion movement here will nave
something to say ahout ir as well
eitber through direct supply, or
Sauth Africa.
Gervasi's carefully authentica
trained personnel and can mobi
lise large numbers at relarively
short notice by calling up the
posed
experience, who are trained ever
year
Because the Western countries
HAVE BEEN OLE LEE
embargo, South Africa
today has tremendous miline
LOVELANE ONCE US WALACE BORE
poorer neighbours. Most of the nate rear in Force ind weapons now in service
Army have been delivered in the
Last ten years well after the
impositian or the so-colled em
bargo. Equanimity
Sean Cervasi concludes his idence by pointing out that: : US and other Western pow ST MOWER VAGUELL ms to he sent to South Afri
poses,
embargo against South Africa.
*In so doing they have helped
abd have encouraged a state whose polices they pasten te
taken the side of the aparthei
regime and have, in fact, arme
the white minorily regime for the
military confromation which is
developing in southern
Africa."
wonder Vorster regard
with equnnimity the new 'threat
from tbe UN. He knows just hos
effective they really are
evidence bey use is the progres towards reconvening Lhe Genera SITATE Quite apart from the massive ohstacles to even getting parties to the conterence table
antagonism between the Zionist state and the Palestiniar
History. not in the ruinds of it political representatives only be recited in the real world
of the class struggle.
"Soft line'
But it detente is soaky it isn' finished, Since it is only another word for the preservation of the international status quo, you can bet that both sides ar Belgrade will be fighting to make sure tha boy Spe Bangs too much There is alrendy evidence of a
from the Kremlie SET TO COOLE EnCESHIL tone down their contribution as soon as iL to the serious docussion, And neither side will be tactless cnough to mention last woekend's events in Berlin.
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The great Panama Canal fraud
The January rising and after
ON 12 OCTOBER the Prime Minister had a visit from General Omar Torrijos, Panama's "max
Imums lender or ine revolidon'
- or military dictator. It was
just a courtesy s Torrijn a male protocol impled dir n the obscure languag an support tor ine latest aack
in the democratic rights of the
Panamanian people
'Concession'
The accord between the Panamann and Unted Stales governments, pablished in August,
ocession to the bedple c
anana by Carter, she expert on
Jemocratic freedoms. In fact the
nana one Us cocupation of the
The deal was that the Ameri cans would pull our by the end of 1999, though US warships would continue to have unrestricted access to the canal. Until then the new vistas for the mass struggle in the Arab East.
assessment of their significance.
Did the uprising have any effect
economic opening' to the West?
The confusion in governmental HE MUTE ULCOTLE WEEDE regime to retreat on a number of fronts. For instance, the cuts in food subsidies, the Imamental: Cuediety annulie. Then the cause regime started to say that the cuts had only been discussion and not for immediate implementation!
In general, however, we should not expect the policy of an econcinic opening lo imports and capital investment from the im perialist countries to change sig-
tually lead to capital coming into Egypt from either the imperials: countries or the Arab oil produ-
is is a different quests
e think that the entre of 1 Eggplian masses onto the political scene will scare off even those
might have been stupid enough to believe the regime's propoganda before these events. What about the supposed liberalisation und relaxation
by CHRIS O'BRIEN
the hith
Possesson me lan
December after
solice investigations of the Uni-
bank responsible for
known • fascists
INTERNATIONAL
Dictator visits London
by JUAN AGUIRRE
continue unhindered and American imperialism has the permanent richt to defend the nanWrest for an indefinite period"t! trality of the canal from see that the main Threat to the Canal Zone is likely to come themselves, as they decide to put an end to imperinlism's ubroto presence on mei tern *The LSR (Revolutionary Socanisation of the Poutine major target for overnment has been a repression, points out that "There
we have the eyes of the world on support, today imperialism has been weakened by Watergate and Spokespeople for US imperialise, from the Administration
Interview with Egyptian socialist
The mass rising in Egypt in January shook the regime to its foundations. After the sethacks in Lebanon and the demoralisation of much of the Arab left and Palestinian movement, these protests against food price rises opened
Nine months after these momentous events M. JAFAR asked S. YOUSIF, an Egoptian revolutionary, for his
censorship that the bourgeois press talks about so much?
Here the regime's response was politically active student societies and clubs in the universities and impnsonca nunareasor sen-ping activists across Egypt A hysterical anti communist te left was portrayed as sabe airs who had incited the mass completely spontaneus, anything the far left lagged behind the masses in their understanding of the situation Bur the Sadat regime went even recognised Party of
Juring tie uprisin This pressure led eventually b ecretary, Lufti Al-Khol his position as editor of the left journal Talia, which is funded by he Ahram foundation, alon Vith another well-known Arah Meckly calce Kos Both publications have tionally served as an officially of canctioned safety valve for the
An unusual hobby
Euope.
Scalmmandra, 47. hat he always carried Torgerie
player in the word, are me a home Backen el
tic passel or mantra placer nated he planned to bay $100,000 in dud cheques and a large picture frame and display
the forgeries in his luxury Nev
As we have reported in previous York flat when he had time
But when police-in Londo extensive searched the saying they found forgod bills to veral Bankine Corporation The the value DrM30 an arrested
paying him. MOLOTOCE money into the accounts of well- granted Scalamandra a two-year
and the Pentagon to Gerald Ford and tienty Kissinger HAve Deen unanimous in their praise for the accords. Miter dacussions wun Pentagon representatives and the US negotiator ported as saying that the nev treaty marks an improvement over the "Socife access lo the canal — an unequivocal answer to those who claim it as a victory for human people rights.
Hands off
Catast Worker Party Us Socialist Workers supporters of the Fourth Internationall, stated his party's posi-
more "modern " means..
"In contrast to the intrigues of these big business politicians, the Simile open arag offers Hands Off Passmat
in their own country withal el the Panamania the threat of intervention from Washington!"
But the regime is likely to use repression very selectively and on the whole lightly, as any mass response would certainly topple it. We can see the contortions this insolves in the case of the two probibited journals.
1 Talio in partioular they a now colering the rinth of the Egyptian legal sys tem.
in upending legal and administrative procedures as opposed to brutally and directly repressing
evolutionary left is to threate very hard suspended sentences en years. Tor belonging to organisation. then le out with a permanent threat of being taken hack in to serve their sentences if the authorities so decide.
Much of the hourgents press
verage of the Jumuary ever
Egyptian Workers Communist Party. Can you tell us something about This organission politics. wet in the End win oripin
class?
This orpanisation, like all th
Al-Yousit. universities. Its base is primarily tradi- student and pelty an as yet smited in Hoence in the working class
Ideologically the organisation
lasserismi
ised Stalinism, and its theoric CECIATE OT BECALL version of Stalinist formuias D all their backwardness This has strengtened the internal hureaucratisation of the or*pains ganisation and fostered a pater
ideologica! "overseer"
Egyptian masses. This 15 an ob stacle to is linking un with the spontaneous initiatives of the 18503303-
• For Lie first time occupled th factories insread of merely gaing
repeated on a number of SIES ULDE CUTTLE Hawser Communist Party, and the left in
#постато те imporance
Kissinger is re
situation' for
Party sending Is
refers
against 1t
The people are revolutiona
and
left groups Tace in the studen
bourgeois with
CLIL UL But it has not criti
these developments
HERCE
The EWCP is. through a deep of the
far left
organisational questioos
This has been under the same name.
Workers
DIE STELL
and they have nor put forward slogans for workers control and workers
NOW passing crisis as a reflec tion of its partial loss of popular ity through the rise of the ather The loss of many cares and the bureaucratic manner of handling large splits just before January.
Three currents were formed, all
leading
1 do not What ahoet the other groups
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
Many organisations grew up in the period since 1975. The most Important are the & June organi sarion, the Democratic People's Party and che Trorskyists, the Revolutionary Communist The Troskyists are the only current to have criticised Stalin alise perspective for the cion in Egypt, Linking it up with
However, the blow directed to the organisa tica with the arrest of many of its elicatected is activiry for a As for the obers, quite frankh
see significant differ between them and the
13 October 1977
In Brief
SOUTH AFRICA: The Ranc Duily Mail has published
CASILICIOS. strates thar Steve Biko. black consciousness leader. wa murdered in police custody Interviews with three doctors revealed tbat Biko was aver-
- which contradicts the that be died an hunger strike y official
brain damage. The South Afri can Press Council has upheld a complaint by Jestice Minister James Kruger that the article violated the "press code" which roquires self-censorship
TELEVI Coalminers in Silesia went on strike last week against the shortage of ment in be shops. The netion is repor ed to have stopped wher the recal supply was resrored RUMANIA: A widespread
have won concessions over pas and pensions after the personal
cescu. As in Poland, anothe grievance war the sbortage ad
SPAIN: A massive demor stration called by the leading
union federations Madrid last week protested against the rising cost of living Despite the opposition of the canonstrabion: large numbers of workers rais ed the demand Down with the Govertment" and For a workers government"
ZAMBIA: The Zambian GoyMEET ONS OMELIMIN ATILS against British Petroleum (with a majority scare sbarcholding iaries. Among the charges is the charge tbat the companies con-
Smith regime in power in Rhodesia ASSH: Thirty-five prisoners in about camps in me cras nave begun a hunger strike against the lack of 'elementary human NAILS IN CDC DOVICE COICE.
USA: A congressional repor reveals that the oiled Stati wastes enough food each rear la feed Dearly 50 million people.
THE MOST Important theor erloar work to have come out a
sky's The Revolution Belreyed That Is now Emest Mandel describes _ Alternative Eest German diss/dent Rudol oncritical, review in the latest JOVE TAD issue of Inprecor
Series), also contains an sis of the diftarancas in the
mant as expressed al the Paris
programme WIN THERE Commun.gt Parm
between groups supporting the Fourth In tomations Mexico and the USA; articles o Vance's visit to Peking and the
elections, and a declaration by the Fourth International callin for US withorawel from Pana
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What really happened in Manchester and the lessons we must learn By Mick Gosling
What's
Left
slumn inch Deadline 35
PICKET the Leicester National Front
14 Octobe
matters should sere for pr ATE NACINT
SATE
Jury Grove, London NS.
Pure and role of cadre, seei
cadren, sects an
a ple of thie te
sents Lane, London wea
SEAMUS COSTELLO Cosen Contre Sm
La borough Sirent: Endi L. Pancras Guest speaker Balate lion Can Mani
artign how today.
ration Mow • 22 Octobe
Sheila Rowbotham and loc
accommodation avail herella from Gonssie, 210 arby Road, Southampton.
adology, the Role of Me chester a0. Phone on wha
RACISM & FASCISM
afternoon stroll in Tameside.
At the same time police chief James Anderton colluded with the Front in organising a secret, pooriy atlended fascist march in
he Levenshulme area of Man-
ary and the local council nor the press and public were informed of the Front route. Even so unsus-
huime area greeted the Front IS WINE MES OCENTR and 600 strong) with a barrage of
of the police operation.
He carly mornine the centre of Hyde had been reduced to a ghost
were boarded up. the 50-tal market closed and cameras installed on the top of buildings. Anderton was at pains to bounce that riot shields were on hand and police had been trained in "public order techniques.
'Tam not out to frighten people away, but if this is what has happened it will be a wonderful bonus', be added. Anderton had Jearnt the lessons of Lewisham and Ladywood. Ir's only when tens of chousands of local people have come out against the fascists that they can be driven off the
make the local people prisoners in their
ommunity; put an equal sig
tween the fascist and anti-
make Hyde look like Belfast — and then go behind locked doors with Martin Webster and arrange a ascist march elsewhere.
The illusion that the police had leedier Fontaine looking on.
A MEETING called by the Trades Union Council last week SC1 UP & Reading Campaign приля касит доо гасікт This was the third meeting called by the Irades Council since the end of August, and was attendod by over 50 delegates from
and the Council for Community
An eight-person EC was eleced to brepare detais of activities, education and prop aganda.
The Policy Committee of the
THOUSANDS OF men and women in uniform, accompanied by jeeps, squad cars and ground-to-mir cameras marched in military-style formation through Hyde, Manchester on Saturday 8 October. This flagrant breach of the 1936 Public Order Act was put on by the police at a cost of £250,000 in order to ensure that one fascist — Martin Webster — could take a Saturday
invoked the Public Order Act to sop the Front marching, an idea seizu upon by Colin Barnetl la call off the promised 20.000 itrong mobilisation of the North West region of the TUC, has been 44058 decision of Tanteside Council, by 39 votes against 12, to goahead with their mobllisation at Hyde Town Square, backed by the International Marxist Group, has been vindicared We went to Hyde not to assault Webster but to defend the right to organise against fascist provocations in the strongest possible way, In fact at the present time the greatest threat to the democratic comes not from the fascists but from the state. a poil funhe amplified by Robin Blackburn on P.13 or this paper.
HOW TO CALL Throughout the day from the platforin established by the Tameside Anti Fascist Com mittee and the IMG stressed this point. And eventually a crowd which reached 1,500 at its peak. fans, own bum, you Nazi scum', and other anti-fascist slogans.
The disappointing turn-out: in Hyde reflecred the confusing and demobilising effoct of the use of the Public Order Act. But tbe anti-fascist cause was not helped by the unilateral decision of the Ns/ Tynda/ [carme) advising police ohlet, with bowler-hatted ghouf and NF
Reading- Webster
wants us prosecuted
Town Hall on 29 October for a nacional meeting. siderable pressure from local TU to be ratified by the full Counci on Il October, and it is known tbet some Councillors may well try to revert to decision to allow the Front to meet. event the NF looking for alternative premises
DOESCUS
Trades
speeches issue of democratic rights,
turbed normally
without consulting they called for Stockport.
reduced to street worse still,
Fascist Committee under con-
of the
original
Wensrer
Public Order Ac
The counter-demonstration and rally in Hyae
Sociast Workers Patty to Send their supporters to Stockport Do sectarianism the basis of a rumour. Ignoring the
ignoring the decision of Tameside Trades Council to continue with is mobilisation despite the sabotaging role of the North West TUC, the SWP at the last moment called a national mobilisation for Stockport. No wonder only 600
Up despite the SWP xcellent mobilisati for these events. It is hardly surprising that a large proportion seen ofthem were thoroughly demoral
Mersey
First the SWP had a nationa mobilication For Tameside; then
Rally other Town called a "victory march to celebrate the imposition of the Public Order Act; whe
else supported it they
ancelled it — at the same tin they warned anti-fasciscs against going to Hyde because it was a police trap; finally at two days? noticea national mobilisation was
Underlying all those flip-flaps
importance of defending the rights of fascists to organise and (ill a simplistic controntation at all costs notion in fighting theNF The issue of lighting raciam is
warfare and, street warfare
Ironically cough, the 300 mem- bers who eventually gotthroughto Levenshulme only did so on thi hasis of information co-ordinated by the Manchester Socialist Chal lenge Centre and Tameside Antiin the town, and may even tr again to book the Town Hall in late November or carly Decem-
Meanwhile, Martin Webelee has sent recent copies of Socialit Chalenge to the Cluet Constaok
Thames Valley Police, alleging they show that "leftwing
violence against people arrending abe Front's October 29 Meeting"
police institute a prosecution under th
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 October 1977
But first prize for unalloyed
the Communist Party. A call was put through the Stockport district of the Engineering Union for a rally in Stockpori'sMersey Square. 150 of the Party Taitbful turned up to hear CP speakers say they were having "nothing to do with the SWP jamboree', Atthe same time three times as many people were attending the SWP meeting on the other side of the square. Not single Mersing Star seller was to
over in Hyde IMG members intervened in hoth the
meetings and spoke to a further picker of 200 SWP members outside Stockport
Hall. emphasising the importance of defendiog demo cratle rights and building a united
AGAINST US
Manchester's Piccadilly Radi interspersed its usual Saturda afternoon foothall reports witi
ive coverage' of the Tamesid Stockport, Levenshulme eveni At fill-time what was the score?
For the police a tactical victory in isolaring the anti-fascist farce from the local population anc beginning to re estahlish their
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controlol the streets after Lewishath and Ladywood. However, the police did have a referee, complete with yellow and red cards, on its side, namelytbe Public Order Act. It' sunlikelydbat many antifascists will fall for chis dummy again.
Forthe National Front, a defeal. Their style is to swagger into some black community with fanfares and ceremony to give the impres sion of their overwhelming
strength. Now they are forced to
scurry through back streets with an 8,500-strong police escort and even then they dare not annouse the venue of their march.
For the anti-fascists a lot more teamwork is neoded to make thei an effective force — as demonstrated by the victories won in Wood Green Lewisham and Ladywood, In particular the strikers up front sometimes have a tendency to run offside, socing only the goal of smashing the
with the defensive work of up holding our own democratic rights against attacks by the state. Greater tealework can sen ensure that the large labour movement crowds standing on the terraces are won into an active fight against the fascists, ensuring a lasting VILLELY
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SURPLUS VALUE
THE PUBLICATION of a special report on The Attack on Higher Education: Marxist and Radical Penetration by the Institute for the Study of Conflict is the opening shot of a new campaign to isolate and purge Marxists and radical teachers. The ISC is becoming practiced in the art of issuing blacklists and McCarthyite innuendo. Among its previous publications are Sources of Confilet In British Industry, published in February 1974 and providing copious information Marxist influence in the trade unions, and a guide to Trotskyism: "Entryism' and Permanent Revolution by Peter Shipley. The Council of the 1SC combines a few right-wing professors with such gentry as Brigadier Thompson and au cous Le baly, descnoco as LACCEDI General of Intelligence, Ministry of Defence 1974-5'. In this instance the Report itself is compiled predominantly by the academ Professor Jallus Gould as author of the final draft. with
The Report purports to supply a critique of Marxist and radical joces but the render i continually reminded that something more sinister is afoot than the struggle of ideas: "What is urged is that... such analyses so accumulate as to yield a faise or loaded account of society with practicai implicarions..." (p.3). *Perversions of theory"
The Report comes to a menacing, but vague, conclusion. "Why need one feel so cautious about extremists on the left? They constitute a clear and present danger to the liberal mode. They thrive on perversions of theory and perversions of fact. They rely, like any other network, on mutual support in the making of appointments. They depend for their influence in oducation on their skill at exploiting the ambivalence of others — especially of administrators or of colleagues. There is nothing undemocratic - let alone McCarthyite -in insisting, as this report seeks to do, that such ambivalence is neither honorable nor becessary.' (p.47)
At some points the Report attempts to rebut what are held to be Marxist and radical arguments. The critique of Marxist and radical ideas is cursory and lapdash. Marxist scholarship in Britain today is
range of
insider anything Сов ої Ео кером ems primarily
University in 1976.
There is also a 'Coda on Publishing" which seks to finger "red" infiltration of major publishing
and other appendices demisine material" in the form of exam papers and reading lists which Blustrate Marxist bias. The latter appendix does not inform the reader of the general context of the bibliographies supplied and in any case seems mainly designed to list the favoured reading matter of the radicals. This "false and loaded" account of Marxist penetration" evidently itself has proctical implice tions, though these are left to the imagination of the reader.
Who is expected to read the Report? Nominally it costs t5 and is hard to obtain. It is untikely, therefore, to be of much use as a pusely ideological weapon for combatting Marxist Ideas. Indeed I/ this had boen the purpose of Gould and company then they could certainly have tound some more effective ouclet their critique. The red conspiracy has yer to take over Encounter magazine or supplements. There are even capitalist publishers left prepared to consider anti-Marxist books.
Specialised purpose Photo
Evidently this Report has a more specialised purpose than that of mere ideological disputation Complimentary copies seem to have found their way in large numbers in Principals and Vice Chancellors, as well as to the lay membership of Boards of Covernors. In short it is directed n potential academic George Wards, prepared to cleanreds outof tbecolleges just as George Ward nas CCHIT HEIE factory.
The reception accorded to the Report in the bourgeols press has been mixed. Most papers have ircaled its publication as a major news event and very few bave objoaed to the naming of names which was its malor fonction. The Bronomit did suggest that the intellectual calibre of the Report elt somethme to be desined and that et was unwise to smear Marxists as indiscriminately as the Report had done. The Drily Telegraph was predictably ecstatic over the Report. The Times, though more were indeed "enemies of liberty". bur innocently enquired what the ISC thought should be done about it and suggested tbat the extent of Marxist penetration had been examocrared.
union militants out of his factory'.
Margaret Thatcher acknowiedging the applause at a recent Tory meeting. Her election
to the Tory Party leadership swung it further to the right. She employed Robert Moss
as a speech-writer and graced some of NAFF's "social occasions'.
conference in Brighton this week might succeed in preserving a shoddy unity, but the
fact remains that NAFF Ideologues are acquiring an Increasing influence amongat the
party rank-end-file.
It wouk be wrang to suppose that the mildty critical response to Gould's Report will significantly reduce its effectiveness. After all George Ward's behaviour has been criticised in much sterner terms without the Grunwick strikers getting ibeir jobs back. In 1969 the sacking of Bateson sod myself from the London School of Economics was deplored in a Times editorial with similar lack ol bractical effect.
By treating Marxiso as a totalitarian poisor equivalent to fascism the major journals of bourgeois opinion are already opening the path to a purge of Marxists, even if they are distressed by some of the metbods that will then be used. There is certainly good reason for all those who work in
The
witchunters
of the new
right
Robin Blackburn, himself a victim of a witch-hunt in 1969, argues that the Gould Report Is 'directed at potential academic George Wards, prepared to clean reds out of the colleges just as George Ward has cleaned trade
The Tory Party
higher education lo strengthen the work of thi unions and of the Council For Academic Freedon and Democracy. Prior to the publication of the ISC Report there were already mapy signs of a new witch-hunting campaign; aller a previous article by Gould, the authorities of the Opes University sel up an enquiry into the extent of Marxist influence on its courses.
An article by Robert Moss in Free Narion of 30 September points to the major practical implication ofthe findings of the Gould Report. He writes oftbe urgent necessity of rooting out chose whio seck to use lecture hall as a platform for the class
readers the device whereby the West German Government restrains radical Influence la cbe
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 October 1977 Page 13
education system: "In their post-war constitution the West Germans made it a base principle chat
"there is no freedom to oppose freedom", and, on this basis, they proceeded to enact a law that farbids the Government to employ people who are hostile to the constitution. Teachers and university lecturers, like civil servants, are defined as civil
servants... The law has prevented more than balf West Germany's universities falling under pre dominantly Marxist influence. But the principle is one we should note: that our tolerance towards the enemies of the open society cannot be unlimited.
The absurd throw-away remark about Marxist influence in West German universities should not lead as to imagine that Moss belongs simply to the lunatie fringe of the right and does not need to be taken seriously. The National Association for Freedom is neitber absurd oor ineffective. It has excellent lines of commanication to tbe leadership of the Tory party and is linked to the most dynamic element within contemporary Conservat ism. The drive towards the strong state in Britair will be mapped out by the respectable ultra-right, of which the NAFF and ISC are important pillars
Despite NAFF's cant abour freedom and liberal ism, the authoritarian thrust of their politics is clear enough. Fortunately this offensive of the new right coincides with a tendency for the left to pay
democratie rights than has been the case for a long Libe. Recause of ils lanks to the Soviet or Chinese bureaucracy a section of the left was for a long time unable to take up an uneguivocal and candid defence of democratie rights. Even on the revolutionary left the role of democratie demands in the strugale for socialism, and the scope of democratie rights under the dictatorship of the proletariat, were enly rarely considered, and then discussed in the most generalised termas.
It is surprising, to say the least, that George Novack's important contribution to the discussion of chese questions, Demonicy and Revolution, published in 1970, Arousea no discussion controversy in this country. The debate 00 Portugal and on Eurocommunism has certainly begun to pose all these questions in a timely fashion. The Fourth International's theses
Democracy and the Dictatorship of the Proletariar fumish a major theorisation of the Marxist conception of socialist democracy and its relationship to bourgeois democratic forons, which begins to oquip us with the perspectives we beed.
Democratic objectives
I stress the wider political context of the drive towards the strong state and the role of democratic objectives in the class struggle since a clear understanding of these questions will be vital in tackling the campaigns of the NAFF and ISC Typically tbe "strong state' recipes of the new right seck to qualify and withdram those parliamentary democratic rights which allow bourgeois democracy itself to refleet anti-capitalist forces in society as a Although
casures they propose strengtben the powers
they do replace parliamentary regime or parliamentary legitimacy
As Robert Moss hints in the article quoted abow the nim is to improve on the West German mode not that of De Gaulle's original Fifth Republic The new right also specialises in an ideological appeal to the mass of the population in which they offer themselves as champions of individual lherty
this demagogic concern for rights and liberties CES TOCIO LO A CONCESOr LE CHIER liberties of trade unionists, black workers, Marxist
and hypocrisy is a vital task for revolutionary socialists in Bricain today, which cannot be lett to liberals or social democrats
The tactics boeded to combat this new right" must dramatise the real distribution of power, and tbe real limits on democracy, in contemporary bourgeois society. There has been a quite erroncous and counter-prodocuve reacnon ta toc new right which soeks to deny the mneans of exoression to irs represcotalves. Ooe could sumi up chis reaction in tbe slogan No Platform Reactionaries. This style of political protest may give momentary expression to the feelings of those lavoived but is Javanably impotent and self-defeating in the long run. An attempt to ban Sir Keith Joseph from speaking in universities, for example, would certainly fail, and certainly brand its authors as intolerant bigots despite their failure. policians of the sea light add a tinge, or mone The fact that academic: or than a linge, of chauvinism or racism to their ideas does not alter the need to confront those ideas ideologically. Eyseock's pseudo-scientifie notions have acquired greater currency as a consequence of the campaign supposedly designed to prevent bim expounding them. When the labour movement or any oppressed or exploited group of the population finds itself the target of physical attacks and provocations, then the organisation of a defensive force is obligatory The attacks and the provocations of the new right are ideological in charcrer, reiying on bourgeois legality for pratical implementation. effective way of combatting this offensive is to
and in society as a whole of the need to defend and
tactics which clearly bring out the repressive obiectives of those who have mounted Et
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Klymchuk and Shirley Williams
COMMENT
MLOCONENCLL 1 SROm ed me the singular privilege of Tito ol gocale Challenge no Iwice in ona on the centre pages. seicome the attention given to the National Union of Students, 1 bel that i should corect ane or
no of the many misconception a the articles entitled 'Shirle Williams' Ciar n
which relation to
tacilitate arrangements already
po whi hast quataa. anyone who tollowed ou will be awaro. this is somethin chad ed hage eot anta indeed
be so again thia year.
hat when one is going to mour quotan that alt the informatior accuni hen be cemento
This pianed. know aiga Redmond would no
group in the past.
Secondly, some more serious
Socialist
Challenge
EVENTS
EAST ANGLIA
estenge foo detalu co e o
Do11,7 Careroon Hosa, Narwich
SCOTLAND
ringie ot Fl porada e.0
TAM-ZINIL
SOUTH/WEST
ORTSMOUTH Sociellat Challeng
Mond
BRISTOL Sodalist Chal
ber. Puela, Hom scialei? Ancho
Left Unity
ONTYPRIDI Oder alikan Buller
West Gamie Pal ih Bociaili
PORT TALBOT SOCIALIST CHALL
Setcber. Siere Potter of the alta
bonga e lankien n forlane a
DW TODO COULO
The official view
objective is to Bilow
nas been arrested under Soviet lew, the maximum righta avallablo to him to produce his
nocence. Henc
manded that he should
equale defence and full Informe-
to the HORILH charges against him. It was wa
who initlalad the defence com-
nitte mentioned in the
The differences on the question
1 IMME0 TOCbE BIom
omna e ine mealna rr
are two beses on which
asumption that Andri| Klym
chuk is innocent: this ls not an
ssumption that i belleve anyone
ded until now. Second
EseiT. I may be open for some of mat soviet law is wrong in the political parties or organisationa interasted in the case to
that, but it is impossible for NuS, with no policy on this GUG-TOM JO ManE argument.
Even more fundamentally, 1 d
sot belleve It would assist Andri
to tum his case Into a full scale
assault on the Soviet law, which EMET HECTOOOTSI aO nIE
colleagues appéar to wish to do.
At this point, Andrij Klymchuk's
Intereats a han the boi
ensuring that he possible chance to prove his
Innocence and be released on that basis. tho for socie tet chatene that thia letter helpa to
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THAIHS ROH AI TH MSCORHE tians which appeared.
Andrij.
TREVOR PHILLIPS (National Secretary, NUS]
have REDMOND O'NEILL REPLIES; with TREVOR PHILLIPS accuses me of of misquoting him without
rupplying a singie exemple of
here 1 have done so. in reality he objecia to the contents of my
Trevor argues about ensuring the maximum rights avallable to him to prove h/a innogance. But the probiem heve is that it is not MCOnOETFODIC maT might sign a 'confession" Mn
mobi he ie pultor ding ao noe
law he is bullty campeign on the basis of a Tair trial will co/lapse. If Phillips has
21 COH. HUSONS GODLT DOVIC
aw" we would recommend fo BloK. Santiago
Phillips is perfectly aware that recent NUS nationa/ conferences ALCAn have consured the Execurlve for
maoy of Sowet law and tha KGB goes against a defence of demo-
For eilec would ba abia lo 1
boak ur pamphlet, ihut woble
m lbem wh
or rapie shot wih seconta
dered
shop or lorat
ire there mustt
siorioe and car malenonce
he walloniny ot tuch iterator
Camden
lownhall
Euston Road
London NW1
3 Nov.
1230-9pm
WHILE I welcome Bob Purdle's LB OU nSa TorUn-on posnons on scotleo ci severe
garg 800 (see Red Mole. B-2
pril 1971
Erther back along the ro
Bob Purdie has dealt with the
HauT. avenis and DYCHUEH there sand thal Scotlanalis an
pressed nation in the classic
HECT DONS0 VE 00I O059
prevanted from bullding its own
DATO Г the actions of foreign imperial-
That 'Britain" Is an imperialist
toron Thal neo i e Hig)
Nation talie ay moier tha tin tie. USSR shauld lead us to belleve
that the la truth in 1he buresucrats"
Ta meTN rS SRUTOE
demands
big step forward.
DOEDRS -OUT
premi vs poet nant getas
demos ang
more erectye Carillo's Jateat
thi a o he
auch a campaign.
atruggle ferward
BOOKFAIR
rouments abor Jarm them abor
the Taic thai tacllities for
Gang "hove
TonY oDs 91-832 8745
SOCIALIS!
For a Scottish
Metion" Britain, Tike
I would like to take form Ita periphery.
him
unscientitically, how
overtakon Dy ad into voluntarily -He has talled 1 10 32
received economy beceuse of THLUTITUESHUHI
ГАСЕЛА TOREOM
need explaining But it doos not Tuto rodyol
tish capitaliem
unary scale in te
over CHOCHIWH assorlion that thera is
BUT
CTH IG WUNS BACHOSH MACH IRMS instilut/one/ise state repression.
At the fest Defence Comm/ther meeting. Philips was sione defending his position. He omits
The basts of the committee was
that Drop Charges' and For Klymchuk's
PEACE
De the question of Oversea Students: Phillips ls corecr i
that Shirley Willamg latost racist amanoa mante are e continuation
The these quoras an paing impiemenned now.
NUS refusao to lawnch a matlona Pho tar iet tia hur tats
Our tactics
national ordinarion, As Buch we ware /ai
We have to rebuid e campa/gn
NUS Exacutiv co-orginale Pravious ex-
not. So once again it will be lef HIS
fango eug e tan 16 Sociaist Students'
HERS
Jachers to riow iba whole rang et soplailst Serature now aval-able Ai bookE wHI bo pit sale to
La will be
there wlit bu
Inciuding ane for taft booksbops
discuss common interests
aften Sug elene tr
rurenis would be aulcome Food and drink wil be avellable roughout thg day and avenion.
Barker
Menachem
UHOIR-
Palestinians, Soviet the Sovie Union, is based on the natlona appresaion of the nations which
The union of Scotland and England in 1707 was not a free unian of peoples bound together by capitalist development, enter
.ut a take
scolanans suddesl hat 3001
SOSTE EEE SICIN Brilish imperialism: rather that
material privilages In
La beal unay ware tonged into by Scotland':
ankeruplcy and England's econ
omin hegemony under threat o power are
at the relative strengthe of English and Scot-
Just betone the in see that England was 28
Poems from Ireland
Frightened out of his roaring hablt
Old Shaggy Mane, Imperial Lion,
purs softly inlo altendant microphones;
but when night comes and the cameras have gone.
HOWEVER
'The Army does not make chan
rifle-butts alter
tho shaoe oi a womsns laci
and the light in a boy's eyes.
Elegant handa spin In a web
for words of peace; soft doe
shapes send pettered shadows from the seat of power.
This peace ls defest: 50
the deleat of 'our anemies::
Peace brought down lo al
thelorical waight or counler.
A soft tongue at the centre se
but an edge to the words like stee
Peace. peace, ревсе, рвасе:
Repeat 'peace", and find"
another sound of war.
REMINISCENCES
We sponi the afteroon in bed;
IG NE OVENIE WTOO DIorO SoOm
while you cooked supper.
Normally, 1 write slowly but this one
Ilew onto the page. I was delighted!
and read it to you as you washed up.
It's a pily you don't like poetry:
I think that's what spolied our relationship
You ran your finger down my spine:
AET OBIR NERA S BACHL.
the smooth sound of It, you sald:
"That's the only music | can pisy. e
But remember, It you wish to retum
thal I'm no instrument, musical or olherwise.
by STEVE MACDONOGH
(Chairperson of the irish Writera Co-operative,
and a member of the Movement for a Socialist Republic)
Support anti-Begin
demo
AB YOU may know, the recently elected Prime Minister of terae
Begin, Is schedulec to visil Britain as an official DUESL Dr MAU GOerIMeT M aLE
Goet ine continuug denial of national rights to the
Israe standa tor, as well as ita military •agression in southem Lebanan, Be navE Borcooo mount i
campaign against this visi
and progressive move
NOCU OTYNC WISMA R GAMOn stration on Sunday 30 Ociober
La chosen this data as it is
TAROTOUS OEC SLICH DECaTOUF
Workers Republic
than Sopliand. has continued to present day when the majority of SOUSA NOIRHIA HH HAOSH by firma whose ultimate owner mand ls opprssed is outside Scotland. Sout
moreni te cromeso certain arnount of caution wher
esamilem Tociaiets deman
oppressed nations seit determination for a nation which is not appressed puts us on the same side as the ruling wass. Sui roue UrCe CreCs pointe out thai advanced natlons which are occupied by a fascist
with resae0
post-capitaliat
•BUL THS GOaS not eXCISA nis calling for an Assembly
Scotland's are not to be solved this side of CoHE B GON oeerouo u
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 12 October 1977 Page 14 British Foreign Secretary 1917, In which the tormation of an exclusively Jewish state in historio Palestine was first openly advocaled by a major imperialI81 power.
campaign by pro
noting both the demonstratio and othar events that will be pert of the campaign and joining our regular planning meetings.
trelly at 1 pm and a march to the 12.30pm. Speakers Corner Isteeli embassy at 2pm. H. AL-RAWI (Palestine Solidar ity Campaign. 58 Did Brompto Roed, Landon SW7, Tel: 01-584 154S.I Buggeal that they can be. To ugoea Westminste shauld hurry up with the devoITErOOSRIS I RS IHHE OR ary as sugesting that the SNF
hal trabie geithe atana
Independence Parlys proposai: mentoriet. The SNP completels accepte this parlamentary framework. We can suppor
The Idaa that Britein la nation is thoroughly Imperialia ane o3 donor ne nas oenn millstone round the nocks Scottish and English workers for almos: three centuries. The idea 01 an ABsembis is retormist 5PC1811848 c8F. Tor der cocerrn ation that ig the right to saceasion, the right to form ar Independent state
Time to get back to tha 'For a POIROTS HEpUDnO op scoting line, Bob
ED ROBERTSON (Edinburgh|
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Sharper than the lens
The spreads be produced then are now on show at the institute of Contemporary Arts in London until 28 October. Also exhibited are canvases which Kennard made in esponse to specific events South Africa. Northern Ireland, Hay and West Germany. and fragments of his work-in-progress, which he describes towards astudy of the word and image of human rights', and 'an
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Kennard has had to confront a double crisis; that of the artist whose professionalism whose capacity to represent the material and social worlds in a culturally significant form have been eroded by the development
togrand hat of she see at a
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La non-sectarian press:
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MAIGHT IS TOUCHOIL
awi.
BAR DETENE like television, nho
and mass print Concrete
characterised by the
party and, between
Tunes arficle
Gene;
making women hairder?
Uaf attempts to explain
frequeatly
Morris are almost names!
versity,
hology. defiased
capitalist society.
19th century
higher education,
tially they
a by the oid Bolshevik would render women
attention.
Use of th
differentiy.
unreliable
revolutionary
His most interesting attempt at a solucion was his photomontage
course, work. Photomon and evades le long heen
position relation to the camera and mech-
tage artist müst arrange the given elements, provided by the pho •tographer, in such a way Chal they penetrate reality more deer
or represent it more immedi
If the montage artist works for a newspaper, he or she also
Science in Society
What do the following have in common: a popular television series in which the 'criminal" hero is described as the 'XYY man; a Sunday
on Richard Dowkin's book The Selfish
and a report in i women's magazine by Combridge consultant who saggested that the stress of becoming emancipated was
The answer is that they al allastrate the growing popularity Phere meets of explastions, mo in biological term
Called sociobioing
re currently very fashional
Enri Andreast household
Not anly are they found in th
nass media but they receiv
serious atiention coen in aca-
demic cirdes. Cambridge Liniestablished a fellowship in Socio- TOT ITSEMENEE
This kind of explanation is not
For example. biological. theories of racial inferiority ori winated in the late nineteenth
century, were popular again in the 1930s, and reappeared most recency in the lare 1960 political implications of this kind
af scarch are clear: challenges TO THE SENTENS HITCAut dictatical u Mysting to their
In chis article we want to look
at biological explanations of se
differences, and use this to rais
SHEUCES
wider queens doou spo
tion of scientific explanations in
studying
In the nineteenth century, when
women were demanding access to
biological
theories about their Intellectua
infenority beran lo appear. [Di
were expressed
terms of differences in size of the
brain or parts of the brain. A And the
hrain science developed, so sup
posed findings" about sex diffe
ences changed, but nevertheles
women remained inferior!
At the same cime, chearies of
menstruation suggested that, to
, intelloccoal work would use pamphlet
education infertile
ideas haven't received
interest a cented in the lad
en years directly related to t
women's liberatio
novement. According to today"
theories, women are not actually intento and the menshink , they just think
cycle makes them moody and
These differences have been Clearly
differences, hormones and genics
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
makes use of mass printing to reach a concrete audience, and if compelled by the very nature of his or her practice to respond events, and to stand in a definite relationship to history. Nevertheless, specilically socialist photomontage work is dependent the existence of a credible social at preet tomore las
photomontage assimilated by the Kennard, who is about to start costeibuting montages to Social-
modestly intends his ICA exhibition Critical evamination af his polici- HOOSCIE cal and aeschetic development". Inevitably, he is haunled by the ghost of Heartfield, the German photomontagist who opposed the History made it easier for Heartfield than for Kennard struggling with the constraints of the Workers Press in 1973/74.
The iconography of European
Hair-brained or hairy-
"sociobiology's' option for women
- and 'explained as a 'remote but necessary consequence of Junter, woman, the childbearer) I: follows that could NEVEr ME SUCH good scientist: engineers or architects as men, or hold positions of responsibility Attempts, such as the women' in movement's to agains nature" will result in disaster (eg
All chese sociobiological theories therefore assume that human behaviour can be understood by
animals. What forget is that there other apimals. txampic
anguage, the ability to separal
he conception of a task from i ear and the seat to create
to create our own bistory, are all uniquely human characteristics.
empirical data is no better. It in confused and contro
versoal. It is therefore temptine to simply dismiss these ideas. L BE LAKER The
Inner London Education Auth ority refers to Hutt lone of the hest known researchers) in its
'Career Opportunitie Girts. Lockwood (Chuirmur of the Equal Oppor
tunities Commission), referring to employers: claims that womber cannot do certain kinds of johs agrees that the limits of equality
tundamental se
dinerenes - must be examiner
Thus we can see that, like ideas
such as racial differences in IQ
and genetic abnormanty in crim quoted and believed. And in
period of education cuts and high
unemployment, it's not difficul
to set how they can be used
Why are they so attractive?
they appear to explain
the world we experience, and i
they use the status quo as their
13 October 1977 Page 15
fascisen in tbe 1930s was casily
artist like Heartfield grasped its abjective character many dramatic, widely published, sing le images. The reality of Britain in 1973 to 1974 was harder for AT THRUSTICHC CIA least because Heath's Toryism was not wholly identifiable with
An image of Hitler receiving a literal back-hander from German Bus nessed DE THIEN two page spread of a pig with Healt's face protesting agains hieher hacon prices in che EECI anotber, But Kennard's limita-
to late to a ninte
FOR between the too
PETER KENNARD'S echibi tion, Finues, is at the institute of Contemporary Aris Nash race, London 5W7 amall 28 Cero roused 12 Corison House Ter ber. Admission free.
WELL, IF IGET
MY NATURAL FEMININE
INSTINCE BROLOGICALY
I'M NOT HAUNG YOU
TELLING ME
HoW To BE A
WOMAN!
ly DOT GRIFFITHS and
ESTHER SARAGA static thin policemanat зіріст political explana
lions, Scientific knowledge an
explanations have a special status
capitalist society.
which derives both from the vie ol science as an objective, value
neutral activity, and its sucpess in
changing material conditions
We learn this view of science at
school where it appears cateric
mysifying and often difheuli.
but as a subject which never
theless has great explanatory
power.
The media's presentation of
science reinforces the deference
to scientific expertise which chis
view of science produces
So biological explanations of
authority than political explana
tians, aid despite consent chal
lenge, the ideas do bot disappea
and are very powerful. It is no
sufficient just to laugh at theone
about women gerting hairier. 9
even 1o dismiss them ki had
must he criticised
solitically. Under capitalism bi
logical theories are (intecrath
implicated in the continued op
pression of wolben.
duction, ideology, and the meant
Or represson makes if import-
COTTEE
scientific questions, just as Marx
and Engels dic
Socialist Challenge invited the
Brish Sociery for Social Res
ponsibility in Science, the larges
organisation of socialist solenrises
in Britain, to contribule on th
many aspects of the polinic o
science. The article above if th
first of what will be a regular
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OVER THREE million women picked ap their daily paper las week 1o learn that they could be risking death by caking the Pill. It's hard to invent a more graphic example of the pap which berween the motives and interests of the drug manufactarers and
and the women tor sate contraception and abortion.
A report from the Royal College
consult thei witching to other methods of birth control MITESSE ЛЕЕ ПОТЕЛО ID ense and death faced by a fifth of
6.45pm. the 3,200,000 Pill users.
As one paper put it: "The truth. however ended the uncertainty*- And this continue is precisely the point structure of the health service has always ensured that women are kept in ignorance of the whys Where you men" they une "given". Keep calm
The Royal College, along with the test of the medical hierarchy, Idils women to "'keep calm' while straining every sinew to prevent wonsen having the slightest coo trol over theil own bodies. The Pill manufacturers say there is 'bathing new in the report, and will go on reaping while petting women's bealb at risk.
As the Pill report burst into tic
headlines Pirate Jenny Il theatre
group and the National Abortion
Canopaign caravan
the mountry. JUDY WATSON, a member of Pirate Jenny, reprs:
The theatre group has
diff- and a depressing series of stories about anti-abortion doc
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CARVER reports.
Possibly the Berlin protests, in
which police killed one person.
were deliberately timed to show
their contempt far the imperialist
leaders defence of 'human
The case of Wolf Biermann is
good illustration of the dis-
tinctly tactical nature of Western After hi expulsion an tot
Alter:
Marxist, faced criticisat from the
right wing every hit as ferocious
as the condemnations from the
Stalinist regime
The
syn, Bukousky, Sakharov
ather right-wing critics of the
East European bureaucracies are
contere to be seen when repres
sion is aimed al
Robert Havemann or RudoLf
needs of
General Practitioners
because of the
the
of the "'trear
been promised
vast profits
abortion in the town.
Belgrade security conference
Events in two East European capitals last week showed two slighty different ideas of how to fight for human rights. While delegates at the Helsinki recail conference in Belgrade churned out the asual platitudes, bundred demonstrators in East Berlin demanded that the "Russians get out' and sang songs by the expelled left-wing dissident Wolf Biermann. RICHARD
the way of Realpolitik.
Examination
avowed ination bureaucracies are
champions of Solzhenitand
Biermann,
First day of the NAC caravan et Winchester. Loce hoppieg precinct. it ended up in a car park on the outakirs of tha town tors we have heard. Cardiff has Choice
an out-patient abortion clinic since 1973, the premises and finis are available at the Heath Hospical, bur arc
Lars Lubu жгрове. A survey of Cardiff GPs showed that 85 per ceot di bot even know of its existence!
In Bristol facilicies are a bir poch ow two consauens de anti-abortion, and the local daycare clinic is being transferred to Jocal GP informed a wonan tha she'd have to think ngain if she
One of the slogans tor the 29 in Birmingham is "Women's
SALT in the wounds
several the issue.
The none too starting con dosion is that when a conso se big power polities human nights should not be allowed to get in
Whatever
important 10
Neither side at Belgrade would benefit from too close an caum-
its human and ibe
is determined that tuey alemala be only because the bourgeais
yur will. the central issue of Belkrad
The same is true of the Wes misly muted tone of the Briti codtribution in the carly session Lard Gorouwy-Roberts manago a few banal comiteats aocur it is to human beings that buman
This is what we must fight To We must press arca health auth oricies to provide full abortion Facilities En Thei ares. If reac
_ are preventing this me should call for thei теріасетеш b: doctors synaccologists who are pie: to carry cat terminations you in Birminghain co Wie 29chl
Coton and the play eun
LE HANT METON rights belong' and lett it al chat.
the imperialist delegations had inade an agreement to dowoplay
mention was that a number of
and net jus DIALE DUCHES -trom ine worsers scales - wol distinctly unhappy about Brit ain's human rights record Ireland. Internationally verified accounts of British tortire leave counter-attack i the UIS deles ation overplaya its hand
ociesares may sag about violations damaging leble che issues are Just 100
LLE murder, torture and suppression of democracy get in the way, Se the real point al issue in Belgrade
Strategic Arms Limit Talks bi the future af
peaceful co-existence, call it whal Agreement
Since a recent statement by President Carler, Western newspapers have caken it as read that
counciliers refused to let the caravan park in or rear th
Caravan al
LIVERPOOL Leeds Tracee Club, Rpm. new SALT arreement limiting nuclear proliferation in in minent Without 800ess 10 11 actual aubstance of the taiks it i impossible to know wbether to
But it is clear Liat no paper
stop the arms race Recent alters innovationis in the West have forced che workers" states to respond. The
met by a Soviet defence system and soun a Soviet cruise massaie
- Convenona weaponty by the West Europear states - not covered by SALT
answer from the workers" states.
And, mos! of all, Jimmy Carter's neutron bomb - bot thi most discriminating way of de Fending human rights will doubdes have accelerated Soviel rescatch in the sabo arch. The Americans are protesting that the cruise missile and outron homb are lactical a'capons fore not covered by SALT, but ultimatels it is irrelevant. Even if the USS accepts that argumenl it cannor but develop its response to imperialist noclear aggression.
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