Socialist Challenge No. 173, 27 November 1980
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Challenge 100,000 expected at Liverpool demo 29N0V FIGHT FOR JOBS
Recall the TUC now!
EVERYONE who opposes the Tories' anti-working policies should be on the 29 November jobs march in Liverpool called by the Labour Party and supported by the TUC.
A huge demonstration tremendous launching an all-out attack on the governments unemployment policies.
But one does not make an organised fightback. The TUC has called
Socialist
several class
turnout for this sive can be a springboard for
deliberate how fought. demonstration
demonstrations demanding that the government has to 'change course'.
But only a struggle against unemployment, the cuts, and the government's pay norms will throw back the Tory offen-
The occupation Gardner's factory chester is a shining example of
redundancies
If this tactic were adopted in other threatened mighty movement could be
the dole queue.
at the in Man-
can be
plants a
built to share the work, with no loss of pay. instead timidly accepting the sack and
The Gardner's workers should be allowed to lead the 29 November march.
The firefighters are now making plans for industrial action against the Tories' 6 per cent public sector pay norm. But the TUC has again failed to unite the fight of public service workers. The decision of the TUC's public services com-
No. 173 Russia's ecological disaster
INSIDE
Firefighters speak out Revolution in Grenada British fascism on the move Gardner's occupation for jobs
of was submitted.
is useless.
to bring
cupation workers.
20 November 1980 20p p.13
Up.2 p.889 p.11 p.4 mittee last week was merely to 'monitor each claim as it
It is no secret now that fighting issue by issue, section by section, against the Tories
The TUC should be recalled to organise class-wide action
down Thatcher's government. That action has to start with all-out support for the firefighters and for the oc
by Gardner's
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Why have the employers break your agreement?
After the last strike there was an agree. ment between the employers and the union based on an agreed formula to take firemen out of the pay bargaining arena. Over the last two years this formula has resulted in approximately 20 per cent pay rises.
This year it was worked out at 18.83 per cent. The employers have baulked at this and now the government have weapon to use to renege on the deal.
The government has come out with the 6 per cent rate support grant which is to cover from April next year till April 1982. The local authorities have already creases this year between 15 and 20 per cent. We know this from friendly local authorities, predominantly Labour, up and down county.
Changes
So, the Fire Brigades Union's position is that we have a pay formula to get us out of the pay arena every year, and the employers are reneging on it.
The employers said we'd have to accept less than 18.83 percent. conditions including 3,500-4,000 redundan-
They system which operates in the rural areas.
systchn called System', where people have other jobs, and when requited they down tools and go to put out fires on a part-time basis. lacks the professionalism required in a large city like London.
The union's position is that the executive council has been recommending industrial action ever since une 1 ones starica lo suboest a single figure pay increase for the public sector, some three months ago. The recommendation from the strikes on a one-shift basis, probably one per week, each shift in rotation taking a day off. unnotic v. they could pull a national all-out strike.
Photo: MARTIN GLAVIN
THE nine-week long
winter of 1977-78.
policy of the Callaghan government.
On 7 November 1977 an
emergency recall FBU
Terence 101
the executive's recommen-
dation to accept the 10 per
cent offer.
Three days later
LAbOUr cabinet met
aiscuss lls response lo the
militancy or ine the table
Minister
Energy FBU claim was for a
modest in pay
bring them into line with
plus the
ten per centrepay norm.
firefighters were
also demanding a reduction
their der the Labour 48hour
week. Under
firefighters
government
Socialist Challenge
decided to given them a
budgeted for in-
Union
Jim
Allied to that were
also want changes in the shift
the 'Retained
This system
deal
to
executive is for lightning strike.
the executive do not think
Fire Brigades strike stunned the labour movement in the
It was the first national union to challenge the then 10 per cent pay
responded by rejecting the claim outright. It mobilised
Operation To defend its pay LIC SURe. policy, Labour's recame me connes most acainst me wo ver colt, cyca efficien strike borean rs. strike began on November and could only find a handful of the rank and file, the strike Minister That emeningallaghan Hume control James appealed for moderatior the high table Lord Mayor's banquet!
from ordinary workers was
demonstraLIULIS all over the country LIC TOni solidarity collections rolled
donated £10,000 and pl ca is Ill support. refused to take strike action "Page 2 20 November
the
Tories
DURING the last Fire Brigades
strike, the station was among the most militant in the Socialist Challenge talked to
Fitzpatrick, the union secretary present dispute.
The whole future of the service is at stake — it's not just a case of the pay rise, because also in the background we have the Government Green Paper on the Fire Service which contains many of the strings attached to this
Lightning strike action could be escalated
national all-out strike employers force a lock-out by refusing to allow us to return to work after the one-shift
We will obviously be looking to the rest of the public sector and we statements of the TUC general council, from Len Murray and the public services commit-
WANTED
32 atte
NEUVES. TROOPS OUT,
TY THE FIREMEN NOW S
in he Firefighters against
the government-
win
By Pat Kane
cabinet along with the FBU and Wak
NUPE's members the militancy of TUC FBU and in paracua union's general
secretary, Terry Parry.
rall had argued against it at the from other unions was vital but Parry never troubled to raise the strike on the General Council when it met It wasn't raised until the a compromise to let parry December, and the strike Now the Tories want to tear
Home News
Firefighters take on
Battersea
country.
local about the
the 1977-78 strike government.
action if the encourage the
of discontent'. welcome the
this time they must-
then The General Council into its the FBU, by 20 votes to 17. Out fire-
leaders of ther labour the movement, the unions, cied together • to break ibe stn tie rank
renal problems even in
continue alone. defeated work on against January 1978 policy.
The final settlement was get the FBU back to work.
Jim Fitzpatrick, during
tee last Wednesday, that strike support will be forthcoming should the FBU be forced to take action themselves. This was neglected last time because we were fighting a Labour
This time I believe that the 6 per cent will
whole public SCCLO together, and that the officials will be pushed into leading this action. The FBU can bẹ th catalyst which can bring about another 'winter
We realise that we've got to fight, because we've got no alternative. Have you established links with other
'Wanted for arson and murder - pay Merlyn Rees, at Home Union Secretary, in the last Labour government
unless general
up the agreement made by the Labour government and Tory Tory front bench at the time happened to age wite million The were before their time 1 year later w cut winter policy - accessor to the 10 when the five per ihe public sector unions anc government coll tasks But the leade aBu to fight alone. They all action with the firefighters miller opposed Labour's pay
We have to make sure that the same doesn't hap militant pen this time.
for instance?
but. obviously
feeling among the rank and file?
port,
Photo: JOHN STURROCK (Report) on.
Solidarity
their necks.
bined: public
would happen. port of us
CLU
proaching
each other again.
Will NUPE lead
another winter of
discontent?
By Ray Varnes, Vice-chairperson, London divisional council, NUPE THE Tories' six per cent
policy shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Many militants
the last National of •Public Employees conference in May pointed out the likelihood of the government imposing pay norms.
Delegates argued that
NUPE organised national campaign to win an index-linked national minimum wage, our members would be facing a massive cut in their living standards
The conference decided to wait and see what happened. As a result of this positior argued for by Alan Fisher, the ourselves facing a 12 per cent secretary WC find cut in real wages Leaders
The six per cent cash limit represents just one part of the
government's attack, the other is direct cuts. There is now a real prospect of 3
unemployed, and NUPE's membership being
redundancies over the next iwo years.
Given the inability of the NUPE leaders to prepare for the present Tory attacks, the
facing militants , but not hopeless.
When the delegates from the union's London division
The NUPE executive's resolution at the recent Lambeth anti-cut's con-
and supported the resolutions from Lambeth Trades Council, all
public sector workers, the water workers
Until the conference our hands are tied,
we should be approaching trades councils, joint shop stewards committees etc, and posing the question: what is the
The last time the FBU went on strike we looked to the rest of the labour movement and we got massive moral and financial sup-
but very little solidarity action. Given that situation, the members returned to the isolation of the fire stations and did not maintain those links with trades councils and so
Three years later firefighters are again looking to the trade union movement to save
I think they will learn that things won't be that easy, but the movement is magnanimous. The Tory government have been getting away with murder for the last 18 months. There may well be a response against the 6 per cent. Whether a general strike stituation or a com-
• sector strike will happen crystal ball gazing, but one would hope it
What do you expect of the rest of the labour movement? What should we do now that we didn't do last time?
I think the calls have to be made again I think the difference is that where last time the TUC campaigned to get us back to work, this time the general secretaries of the public sector unions, the general council and Len Murray himself have all made statements in sup-
Given that situation I think it will be much easier to get solidarity action off the ground in local areas, and if there is no lead from above, then we, the local FBU reps, should be ap-
other sectors and saying: /You should be supporting us and pushing to ge your union to come out with us! We should be building the links just now, getting to know
the 33 NUPE delegations supported our position At the Lambeth conference, the NUPE executive simply wanted to make the change course Coverin This type of talk is a waste ol time and energy. We've got to get rid of the Tories as soon a possible.
Steps
The first sited action step organise for now against the six percent.
During the 1978-79 'winter of discontent' the NUPE leaders brought forward all the various united fight on wages. This should be done again, but alongside the firefighters, not arter they ve naa to come vui alone The London division is now urging all branch and stewaras communices to nicer sow to plan opposition these meetings, members the divisional council will be arguing for action on cuts and Response We want to restore the finks between the various tors that were established during the last stike. response to fight the tones We need effectively, so we are als demanding recall conference to decide on the type of action needed. We want a united public sector fight against the Tories.
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Treland rallies to hunger strikers
DONT LET
Ty- raiSH:
7 December
By Tom Marlow BETWEEN 4,000 and
All other photos: PETE GRANT (Socialist Challenge'
5,000 people demonstrated in London on Saturday in support of British withdrawal from Ireland.
1 ne KiOCK nunce r strike with the slogan 'Don't
theme of the march and
Caly 'ucIu lalci Speakers at London Rally wman Lowe da for
on a rainy, windswept day wial asavooue. bul luc real test for the supporters bin ger strikers demands
will come on
Decenocl. WICk aluulc. demonstraton. anne spe hunie strike ss ta
strikers, takes place in ondon
Saturday's march called by the Committee for
Withdrawal from Ireland
out une overwiclis lla jority of those who were shouting "Troops Out Nows ocans One unfortunate aspec of the rally after the march
which greled Chris Moin
Be morle ne rose lo socak was ooVIOls Saturday that a lot of work will need Decem aber cess it has to be • WIli nol0c helped by type of sectarian barracking which Myant received. the must now be to the The 7 December
•the acuvue. all who support Lne tention should bẹ the
LIUSC Ul gallavs area wuce nad d low curll out on Saturday, such as the
collnuly The lesson of Saturday's
demonstration is 'all out on was
7 December' make sure it is all out.
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By Geoff Bell IF THERE was only the British media to go by, it would be easy to have the impression that the H Block hunger strikers are universally condemned.
The press, radio and TV
to highlight last developments
tio hese were: a condem-
hunger strike t Belfast indepenucit vir cury tl, a pie
Carela Hume, Archbishop Westminster for the hunger
call off their a call by Fitzgerald, leader of the op- the boston in uue riso Darta
KMInCH government not to give in to
hunger
But a tew facts show
promoting these statements the British propaganda machine is clutching
(gerald The Fine Grel
party which he leads is the give most rgnt wing or tne inre‹ major political parties in th
• popularity reached a Fitt. r this montr ov-elecuon Donegal its vote fell by ten
per eoral cred i the
striking, HOTC there is evidence of a growlache agains the response local councillor sen COU Hizoer nuy walen la structed all his party coun
tions backing the H Bloch
cillor has followed ecis in- NOL Ote COllE struction. And in only thre cases have Fine Gael coun cuors. even aostallca. As ( consequence all ten councils
nasen prose nare
proposed passed such motions: sever
This is over a third of all
beacd, wisin esoc os
indicates Hoca willll Fitzgerald for
and the hunger strikers.
Then there is the case of Cardinal Hume. In a pastor
read out at masses in his sace one hange
hunget stoene is ise t p of
hunget strikers call off their HIS I. not all letter also included a hefty sideswipe at the British government.
remember, said Pi po John Leaders born ad alme and ia political Nortem rern lo na. just and peaceful solution to
our history has beet stamefu
Turla government sons di a spiri of contes also conces
British
The call for Britain te
has not onlv the Catholic
Socialist Challenge 20 November 1960 Page 3
Despite British
propaganda
churci THO months now the Catholic
Ireland, Ander the leadership of Cardinal O Plaich, meeting after meeting with British
officials at
hich Britain has been ur ed to accept the demands 01 Ise munger sinkers
Most recently a new call, from anothe
organisation in Ireland, endorsed such a view
In a statement last week
Menno•isi CiuTCI whif status for
, went on to 'urg Majesty' not to allow the issue to drifi and (we) urge it to conside again what ways and means may be to hand of defusing
dangerous situation LuCH Gerr for west Bil-ast-tonic MP
Fitt claimed he had received much support afte
called UUUL DIUSI covernmel
hunget strikers The truth of the matter is summed up in
from 1 a supporter the Irish IeDortco Times on l› November. 'He has lost thousands of votes, was the apposite remark.
And indeed the evidenc grows daily that the hunge strike las cvukcu wave dilci wave of popular support in Ireland for the demands of the prisoners in H Block an Armagh
Sunday, the County LOWI cov dnoer demonstration took place ir suppor the prisoners
The official police estimat was owo alu cveu ll lid figure is accepted it was still a very large demonstratior
town Coalisland
organisers of the protest put the attendance a an incredible 20,000
Speech
oie ohele ate hond 159 wnoe mere l are now
Block 'action with such
importance Block issue in Irish
ach he naray taked
Fianna Fail disassociated itself from De Valera's remarks, , but : onis
in a half-hearted me of
The significanc
Deeci was summed un "
vay in an editorial i ite
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:=: was Do: Jute Dez: 2000 SoT be kaco
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:ca: - DLU E arata: MOSTO = I
cillor • deesu clear is that a maiorit the people in Ireland are for the prisoners and against th
1 government feeling can only grow and become more in tense in the weeks ahead
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-boost from the decision of the Confedera-
of fl a week on engineering workers.
Sammy Gilmore,
Talks between the
Confed leaders, led by
John Tocher, and
management went on
for several days last
week. The breakdown
of these negotiations
the way for
managem unt to
launch its secret ballot aimed at ending the
occupation. Barrier
The lack of involve.
ment or the majority
garanor d Workers
шо аск от тев мотогтя-
tion, even among the ac-
tive strikers, is a big bar rier to effectively re
the
manouevre.
The approach of the Conted undermine the confidence the strikers in the possibility
victory.
LOTS management last week took place
the plant
Macafee. direct representatives the strikers,
information
about the purpose or pro.
were rife.
Burg mutted was a
three FUBOFPLITD ot the redundan.
Tha workers affected. That talks took place on such
concession
eadership on the part o the Confed.
Inside the plant there is still a good deal of tive occupation. round. the-clock
and a large strikers joined delegations to other plants and areas. Militant
But there is no regular strike bulletin, no general
even mne snoo stewards committee has only met twice in the seven weeks of occupation.
This with the Situduon perore tne Cultrass Sike woen there ware recurer shop and report backs by shop
Tom Macafee ex plained: workers are no
anvone A SA But what brought such support for militant action
This is what is now need- was casuancation ed more than ever.
The active strikers need draw in the ma-
are stavine di home verone knows
denine the redundancies lie attacks on conditions and wages and further sackings
With natonavat tom andric. ng, no one's jot is safe.
place. This message has
be repeated and
Socialist Challenge
a turning point...
The Gardner's occupation has received a
tion of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions in the Manchester area to recommend a levy
Among those at the Confed meeting was convenor of the Govan
argued for among al! the
strikers, especially those
at home.
Coupled with a deter.
backing could be maia.
lamed.
firms
Manchester face the
same situation as Gard.
ner's. Edbro's, Bolton
cheuteer. Computers,
TOnA
Chloride batteries, 2,500
By Pete Clifford
TO GET to see Dave
Marsden,
of the Gardner's oc-
cupation, is no easy
task. When! talked
to him in his office, several delegations
were waiting to bring support.
There was a delegation from Stone Platt, the textile
macher ractory In 0. ham occupied earlier this
along a to donaton tol them. Money
Further down the corridor there were six stewards
1 aloOl all lu Coventry. They hadn't got a
Decle• closure ov unrisima. and they had come to Gardner's to see how to organise an occupation
Also in the building was Joll avior. woo leo a suc cessful strike against victimisation Containers in Stockport last y cal 1IC was collecting a hundred Enough' badges for his members. Stories
In Dave Marsden's office were a sioners trom accles nandin; over They'd written a mess More of support saying: and pcs are seeing une Hccu wiLD you against the governmen
Some of them had beer involved in the 1973 sit-in at Gardner's and they were encouraging, loudy s surIKers with stones or now tney
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Gardners struggle at
throughout the labour movement.
win back the initiative.
reports.
WORKED
bus workers and many
others faced with
levels OT- reou-
dancy
This Isne oasis tor
translating the passive
support that exists for
occupation into ac
tive solidarity.
needea Is a
common focus for the
whole
labour movement.
...as support floods in
Having, got to see Dave,
he first insisted on explain-
'I'm not fighting for my job his lucities.
Ils SaIe, but
members who'll be sacked and our kids'll need jobs
too.
He believes that it is this of fighting on behalf
of other workers, , which has
won the occupation support
Over 700 labour movement and organ cations have
donations so far from tara or Scotland to the thie Nigg Bay in the of Wight. Letters
Dave says he's 'flabber-
gasted' at the support. showed me one of the 40 o so letters he'd received that day and read it out. "Telford
TASS and Dawley Labour
offer We'll be delivering a 2-tor truck load of food on 29 November'.
In the Manchester area there are five workplaces on Ichulal Weekly
Chionde, Utt, Massey Fergusons, Shell Carr-
By Tessa Van Gelderen THREE pounds a head that's what shop stewards at a London power station building site are recommending that each of the 2,000 workers there should give for the Gardner's occupation. This followed a visit to the site by workers last week.
with the exception Cottel Mirror, the mass media have kept quie about Gardner's So have leaders. Thes prefer speeches but don't give any real support to workers in struggle.
When we took delegation of - Gardner's workers. round factories.
Home News
stoppard on thindicate syde whatrought
indicates solidarity
But the occupation is at a watershed. If solidarity is not mobilised during the next week, Gardner's management will be able to
BRIAN GROGAN
Mitchel from the ASTMS coordinating committee in ICL Gorton. raised the need for a day clucine sunke action. ne conter leadership counterposed the raising of money to this proposal.
Resist
But a lead from the Confed will be a major factor in whether plants decide DaCk Workers at ICI Winsford have held 24-hour lightening осcupation show that management WIll resisi the redundancies proposed for the Winsford site alone The impression is that the Confed leadershio is looking for a way to end the Gardner's This is why we need a rec alert. ington, Agecroft aL. HI DIC the construc
* a week trom eaco worker and sending it on to Gard-
Dave considers that
Warm reception in London
union branches and WECK,
Camden council
Gardner's As at arden.
case with public sector workers: those the union in the private sector seemed more com placent. fiery Generally the found warm and in London. spoke al Labour party meeungs, trade union branch meetings,
CARTION
5 MAK
GET LI YOUR NOSE APICHEY there should be weekly collections in all the local factories, together r with official eves me auew across the country. The Manchester North and Sheffield workplaces last meetings. , many workers had not heard of their struggle, but once given the facts, hard work most were prepared to offer their suppor Visits to fire stations evoked a par- mOnCVi Dave Jones,
workers response.
redundancies are
llls was ballicularly ln
Gardner's strikers generous welcome rectancy As well as workplaces the
and public
districts are already organising for this.
Before treasure tewards Vialous
One snow starune to recerve , in a week . Donations have round the country. built as news gets out
Reaction
Delegations have been touring vorkplaces and the main industrial centres. meetings • all
reSDOrSt been cemencons . That day news had come from a delegation Glasgow would down sicwall. lex week from UCS with a four-
A group of four Gardner's had relurned trom Birminghan wilcre stewards and union activists have formed a sup port committe which had Hunarce Julius One of the Gardner's stewards who had been in tioned the Kevin Coen, men Whenever he'd spoken to reaction there
week was exhausting it's collecting and counting ! The biggest success was when one Gardner's went with Dale Lillebrook Socialist Challenge supporter
wei stallon sile There will be upwards of f5,000 coming to the occupation from there
There is a possibility that anothe will be coming to London
f you work in London • allu walt a War uncis speaker committee at the address on this page.
As Dave Jones . kept saying last week: "This occupation isn't just about
warules what nai pens will us will allect all nose racing
Let's make sure that what happens to Gardner's workers is a body blow to this, vicious Tory government.
GARDNER.
pete happed
what Havocick
Gardner's. but in hi
view omel workers shoule
follow their example
Kevin explained how
factories in London are go
ing set
Dallell Gardner's
cles In this situation they'd
received a good response as
many saw Gardner's as their
fight toc
A nolner steware bor
Firip to Sharined
Lney d
weren't on short time or suf
fering redundancies Again
the suppor t was massive
over f5,000 was pledged t
occupanion
thought they were giving
because they wan
Thatcher out'
Further
Steelworkers in York-
shire had gone one step furLiCk aroner's worker to West Germany armed with collec. tion sheets t up with
Lot of sworker during ind
support during the steel strike
response to • Gard. ner's really comes as no sur
prise then The so tharip.
sheet • sunuaril
unemoloved workers • show for the Gardner's workers ir
all parts of thi country wil
be the single most importan element that aroner s is successtu
'A victory for the Gard ner's workforce would be an inspiration who aclesl thi govern ment's politics.'
Thai support musi
As Dave Marsden puti Gardner's WUIKCIS
need massive amount of mone
- we need food for the can ten and pens sis sustain
15,000 is needed each week.
If you or your organisation have not already conIndutea ten do so now
Donations and messages
Marden,
Treasurer, CSEL Strike
Committee bolton care eccles, Man chester M30 OHN
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CND conference: towards a demo
By Redmond O'Neill and Jude Woodward
'MILLIONS of people in this country oppose Cruise and Trident. This CND conference faces a challenge make sure that this channelled into effective action.
'We had 80,000 in the streets on 26 October. day for a demonstration in 1981 that aims for three, four or five times this number.'
This IS how delegate from Wolverhampton CND and a supporter of Socialist Challenge, summed up motion 15 at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament conference weekend.
The MOON called prioritise the campaign to stop and Trident, and for that campaign to be based on mass action of the labour movement and youth. It also included support for the call from Manchester against the Missiles for a national labour movement conference against Cruise and Trident.
Motion 15 was overwhelmingly ried by the conference.
The passing of that motion was the high point of this year's conference, attended by 300 delegates. It summed up a debate which ran through all the sessions: How should CND respond to the mass movement against Cruise?
The clearest answer to that question came in the workshop which called for a May 1981 demo of a quarter of a million.
For delegates, focusing on mass action to stop Cruise
Arguments for Socialism
What's wrong with
By Brian Grogan
LAST Thursday
some 25 Labour
MPs did something
useful in the House
of Commons.
Through a 'mass picket'
they prevented the entry
Calcu 'Black
Koo. forcine environment minister Michael Heseltine porary, on his proposed 30 retreat, least
centrise CouncH
ouse res A smal ori
but one that will b
welcomed by working peo
The Tories have flown
IntO Norman St.
John Stevas, Tory leader of shid His ascion as nothing House Commons,
res. inlan allack
parliamentary democracy
itself'.
Heseltine agreed: 'The menacing abuse of
Dallallellar y Droccaure
nave ever seen. ne cecared
It is appropriate that That-
'parliamentary democracy
with the ancient rituals of
Black Rod.
June ories are worriedi
They know they cannot get
anti-
working class policies
cept on the grounds of their
varnamenlan With the economy in such a Manate
mess, parliamentary
become even more
Impor-
Even the 'democratic'
part parliamentary
democracy is being
gressively
Council house rents
- to opposition is
Now we must name the
Phil Waterhouse,
last
for CND
Cruise car-
Trident and
of the
on priorities,
campaign ment,
parliamentary democracy?
raised by ministerial decree
«Volca example
parliament's rubber-stamp
rol Most decisions are taken.
outside
MPs. Manv decisions affec any control
ung une lives or millons
people are taken the
board rooms of the pretence os without
parliamentary
control.
Many decisions are made benina ine backs oi the Cabinet, never mind MPs. A small committee of three ministers
Callaghan took the decisior aluc to replace Polaris with Trident, despite the collosal expense involved.
Most deciHuDurlalil sions are laken by totally unelected civil servants.
Socialists have always
he claims of parliamentary
. 'Freedom of the Dress tormany exists, but the ability to exercise it effectively depends on having enough money to own
daily paper or blass сотрапу.
"une person, one vote'
formal control over those we elect equalities and
between those Will own nolning out ten dolluv to work aro those woo own industry means that the majority of
say ove decision-making.
MPs are not recallable so there is no way of keeping them to their electoral I pro
The last Labour government was elected on ine vasis ul making an Itreversible shift in wealth
55 YEARS SINCE
HE HORROR OF HAROSHIMI LEARNI A and Trident, and based on the labour movement and youth, was the last thing they thought necessary for CND.
Some speakers, especially members
Communist Party, stressed the need to influence bishops, write to MPs, befriend journalists, and generally avoid controversial action on the streets.
Ken Spores, a delegate from the CP explained: 'We want a people's move
NOL concentrating and power' yet it jumped to the tune of the International Monetary rune a cor ignored Labour Party con ference decisions.
The decisions on the constitution at the last Labour ralLy conference strike a blow at this situanon Mandatory reselection MPs democratic control.
Lilt parliamentary democracy
Home News
of 250,000
I DONT THINK THAT
AND I THINK FAT AN ATOMIC BOMB HE WORLD HAS WILL BE DROPPED
VALUABLE LESSON EVER AGAN.II
from same on any parextending real These moves towards democratisation lie benna tne rury al tne alrec. action of the Labour MPs last week. The defenders of parliamentary rituals are the real achocialy
And behind parliamendemocract repressive power of the stateinree million people are now registered DUCC
Wing trained in Ireland for
..ON A POIENTIAL ECONOMIC ALLY
Yet a strategy for CND has to start
the need to convince millions of working people that through their collective action they can force MPs, newspapers, and governments into line. This question of strategy ran through all the major debates at the conference.
A third of those who attended were individual members of CND, who had the delegates from trade kings ind voting and speaking rights
future use in Britain. More paramilitary police units ar •cle seL up lke unc Doccid
drastically civil liberties.
Today the real defender movement her socials movement. attacl
rights.
Democracy Ila.
men and alas mystical barla rituals
Wolverhampton, 7.30pm,
sec, (AUEW
and IMG).
North 7.30pm.
Manor Gardens clude: Val Graham,
Liverpool, sellers for details.
Portsmouth. sellers for details.
Dec.
and should be transformed
inside CND. resolution 15. the movement orientation finally
CND national council.
conference
1981 ference by
small carrot
By Mick Drake AS 57,000 Ford workers clocked in at the start of this week they were faced with a new, draconian disciplinary code.
And at the end of the week
maracemen offer cool
- are or i it and a response
case small carrot
Le scholary code any worker who stops work r reason, including safety, now faces
• Suspensio the rest of the shift and the following one
Other workers who refuse to re-man the job' normall GOTT by the suspended worker
Or. words refuses to scab
will get the same treatmchl
And if the productior
within half an hour stoppage the whole depart ment, even the plant, could
disciplinary penalty
Management claims that this codons in real so t is in pages, which it says have taken olace this vear
It maintains that its aim is to get workers to abide bs
procedural under
Says cvervone must work or. mally until the problem is solved',
Undert he te roblemis
agreement problem' can lake up to two weeks le be so ved
In attemptin g to imple ment the new code, manage ment is itself going back on bast arcanens. seectica v that wich follower the strike, riots, and an occupa. tion at the Dagenham plant
Jobs Not Bombs tour Tue 25 Nov, Posada pub, Lichfield St
Speakers include: Caven Foster (E
FBU), Jack Collinwood convenor, Cannon in-
dustries), Pat Hickey (Rover Solihull,
London, Thur 27 Nov Islington North Library, N7 Speakers inpresident Har
ingey NUT, personal capacity). CND
and Gardner's speakers invited.
26 Nov: contact SC
23 Nov: contact SC
Coming soon: Wandsworth, 2
groups. This undemocratic structure can
The conference was an advance for CND. But there is still a major debate to be had about aims, strategy and tactics of the movement, which can only be had
Despite the passing action, is by no means call May demonstration will have to be ratified by
On 14 December Young CND holds its
The labour movement conference against the missiles is in March
and CND will hold a recall conApril next year. These dates should be in the diary of every socialist.
Ford waves the big
stick and dangles a
in the mid-1970s. wages Iront tne company will be replying to unions' 1980 wages and conditions claim The calculate tha increases of betweer £25 and t27 a week acros: le grades would be necace to retore wages to their October , or £15 to £17.50 week the November 1979 value.
Threshold payments as BOTOLCCLION better holidays, full sick pay
better equal staff o job security, and a special pa for line workers ar alSO : on the de.
are now proposing will not operate until 1985 T Workers Ford
reaction of Ron chairperson trade Joint Negotiating Committe which amounted to agreeing wit the company's y mich ind and disagreeing only methods.
Ford Workers Group is arguing for a difTime problems day response; that any to be solved on the spot, li the department concerned without involving personne departments sevards or union officials for shop stewards commit lets to daopt a policy o
workers and
Group distributed a leafle
nothing less than a f15 to £17.50 a week rise should be accepted.
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Why the Labour right isn't more
delegation at the Labour Party conference or the TUC had to be held if a majority requested one.
THESE days it seems that everyone in the Labour Party is democrat. First we have had right wingers like David Owen who at the Labour Party conference was threatening to 'fight, fight, and fight again' to defend the sole right of Labour MPs to elect the leader.
Then Owen and his coGangers were suddenly promoting schemes involving a postal ballot party members in which MPs as a group would gel no special votes at all!
Now the Parliamentary Labour Party is advocating a hotch-potch proposal involving. posta ballot of
members; a postal ballot of attilated trade unionists who are also individual party members; and a vote among MPs. Ditched
These votes for the leader are to be aggregated in an electoral college in the ratio of a half to MPs, a quarter to Darly members, and une ollie! quarter to Labour Party trade unionists.
The defence of MPs only naving a vote may have been
but would any these schemes realv amount Trade union block votes
How Clive
out with
ASTMS
delegates
By Geoffrey Sheridan
rowest by thargins.
rowest margins that the proposals for extending the Labour leadership franchise were defeated by delegates at the party conference last month. The result of these defeats IS the special conference to be held in January.
One erson in particula can eld responsible this delay in stripping the PLP of its monopoly of the leader-
• delay which the Labour right hopec
Witn reason aarit mo the to place Tony Benn at party's
Clive Sentral secretary exuberant
of the white. collar unlol ASIMS. Within muttites elector Michael root as party leader. Jenkins was on television to
what a wonderful thing that was.
root could well owe his election to jenkins, since ll
Socialist Challenge 20 November 1980
to more effective Labour Par-
ty democracy?
converson
PLP is suspiciously sudden.
The Campaign
Party Democracy
fighting
101
democracy since 1973, yet on-
ly now when victory is on the
horizon has the right
discovered that the party con-
ference oca
(GCs)
Never mind that the MPs in-
and have
plained about that.
the right wing.
sullioly.
recognises that there
future in simply defending the
A new illusion of 'full par-
ty democracy' is needed while
ensuring the
dependence of the PLP to do
as it pleases.
Strength
The power of the labour
movement derives from
collective strength; members
coming together of
meelings 1o alscuss,
and act. Lacking the power of
Jenkins fell
the latter had voted at the party conference as the majority of the ASTMS delegation asked him to, there would have occu ama only for one or luc Iranchise proposals ward from the platform
The simple. party NEC proposed an elec.
WILl half the votes going artillatec Mrs, ario a guate too the
and a quarter to the CLPs.
Incensed
cive Jenous nee mem
the ASTMS card which • ПС cast them against Tinf Maynard
defeated
e, d the majordy
the vote,
WOUld have been carried
Of ASTMS's 28-strong delegation, 16 of the delegates •
directly the union's divisions detentes were incensea Jenkins' action.
had decided abstention because the union's 1980 conterence call-
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democratic than thou
wealth, organisation is the onweapon of the have.
by-pass party and trade union structures
been members as individuals.
The only
Dally
inose voting in the of their home would be that
wing of the mass media campaign.
Wing on behalf of right-wing general candidates. are not resources could be command-
Led by the left to put over their ideas.
selected by
Control
COll
Quite In such a situation
Labour right feels fairly con-
is no fident that it would win. The
PLP above this mass of individual members with no party control continued in- MPs.
A vote by individual party members alone mean by-passing the organised link with the trade unions.
This link is one of Labour's greatest strengths, its breach could be the first step the Lowaires regular right-wing social democratic cecoe party like the
much Clive Jenkins
Labour Party
working people
and isolate influence on isolation
No similar
the
would remain floating
organised over Labour
would also
and its Labour right. creation of The ference, West German loved by the DELEGATES at ASTMS's annual conference. This year they
By Mick Sulivan, GANG of Three-er Shirley Williams, who lost her seat in the last General Election
Labour Party conwhich brings together constituency delegates trade union delegations, and
Sea Ior the widest possible franchise the leadership election. Th Maynard plan in the view of the maioritv of the delegates, did not quite fit that bill, but they were certainly not against it as a fallback position
Censure Their view is summed up in a statement signed by all thi delegates airectly-elected at the Wack Has •cel circulated to the union's 16 divi-
sion hey stated: We call on
the union executive to censure
castme our union care vote against the Maynard amendment when the delegation had 1%, bySivernt (former Labou assurance Doug Hoyle ASTMS would abstain, when a very clear majority of the delegation objectin to his casting his vote in the way he did.
Anger
way ASTMS voted proved t
North Islington CLP
ple every
the representatives of affiliated socialist societies, is potentially the most democratic way to take all decisions
There has to be a fight to
be a vital factor' (in the defeat of the proposal).
Their anger was in part due to a row which 1 follower Jenkins voting behaviour at the 1979 TUC.
A proposal from the furniture trades union for General Council to organise mass actions against the Tory
icrcale the Jenkins ongress. the Again, , vote against the proposal • had seen the deciding A majority of the ASTM delegates at the TUC were in ravour or the proposition, but Dresiach Hovle remusee! hold delegation meeting which could mandate general secretary The ASTMS conference
loophole by that
Party conference had to be held if a Hail one deeder questea came Jenkins' defiance at the 1980 Labour Party conference.
At least four of the diviSTOlS don divisions, have supported the delegate:
Jenkins to be censored. One
ensure that trade union block votes really
holocal democratic decisions taken in the unions, and to open party affiliation to all working class organisations, but the princi-
COT elected delegates debating and deciding polic
colecuve framework framework far more democratic that dum of isolated individuals. Elected
The same true for reselection of MPs by • local GCs. delegate monthly meeting of representatives of ward parties and trade union branches can have tar effective control of its MP; and a lal better informed judgment of his or her performance, than individual party members called together for a reselection jamboree once
five years.
Unlike MPs, delegates to
general committees are elected each year by meetings of individual • party and trade union And again unlike MPs, GC delegates can be withdrawn and replaced any time the ward or trade union branch no longer has confidence in them
The aim of the right wing is to dissolve this potentially democratic and accountable structure into an occasiona mass meeting with no effec
control over its represenLaliyes.
Photo: John Sturrock (Report)
ruled that a meeting of the union's
London division, No. 8, passed it unanimously ASTMS executive has Dalk secretar meeting earlier this month the executive supported Jenkins' position put for ward in a three-page • slalc • mal • ine delegator wasn't for abstention. one executive Urgent These details are not related simply to put spotlight on dubious practices in ASTMS. in a number orrespect the fact that a majority of the delegates are directly elected procedures been laid down by union con terences for the
good deal more democratic than most unions The circumstances of the Jenkins' vote e are recounted in order to emphasise what is an DaLLIC over wabour t'arty democrac — accountability of the trade union block vote.
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EQUAL rights demonstrators in Trafalgar Square. This picture originally appeared in the Nov-Dec
womens movement
YOUR front page report of the bomb explosion outside Paris synagogue October) was very disturbing. The Tora gosence or analysis 'was Comolded plainly opportunitie reference Pierre Goldman.
While Goldman may have •ABR
the inter was extremely sympathetic and
Jewi soratons lessons Jewish
• and was committed to the national rights and self-determination of
Jewish and lordell Festinian arao deodies
in common left usage that is 'Zionist'.
'There are
workers'
bombs'
Unease redy believe that Russian missiles
1962? If so, then shou ildn't they still be there now! And how on earth 410 Cubaus manage to defend themselves against the US vasion of the Bay of Pigs
1961? then.
Shouldn't kussian misslies
Nicaragua
10 -- e •lary evolcon is cue ulass mobilisation of the working
people,
the and the Usa USSR
imperialist. does not
that Kussian missues come cerend cuba.
more than would defend Britain. Or does like Pros
WIll LIUSC IIUterror vice or vo
argue would eater won
would be safer with them after all?
The founding statement 'of END does not. states, blame both kussia and the United equally' for threat nuclear war. but the rulers or Inese courtines
If Phil does not defend the Soviet bureaucrats, as he claims not cạn alsagree will lal position.
There • are workers The Russian bomb is the DORIOS bureaucrats', and it is aimed and other
We must demanc that West yorkers, naSI alla bosses and the bureaucrats. disarm hoth JOHN STRAUTHER,
The Bomb:
cut out the
insults
THE among
revolutionaries the
over some is Loo i
portant to be put in tne
and insult swapcategory. feel one useful con-
TOULON Socialist
Challende could make
to reprint the late Joseph
Hansen's last article on
as a debatch ane
peared
Us Milltant
Task ASO.
someone
Brian Grogan the queswould like to as arge tions from
Kerevan what he thinks
stopped
Johnson 'bombing • Viet.
nam back into the Stone
I fear that the Soviet
deterent was a very ical
aid for inat revolton.
Also, how would George
now advise the Fourth In-
ternational respotided to the Cuble
missie Crisiss
Howard De Selby,
London
Your article reported
anti-Semitism and explained how anti-
emitism is exploited by
Lunator dosocal auti
WILT anti Zionism'. For the motive force in history is not fortune
Ne are further treated to the proud declaration
the Fourth International
VOMENS
TRADE
MANS
PAY
1970 edition of Socialist Woman.
LEONORA Lloyd's article on the
history of the British women's
movement Nov) was
useful. As former
LuId National Joint
Costed TOT
Equal Rights general committee I
feel there is much to learn from
the campaign's brief but vital role
LITC
Prom 1963 the Labour Parti
undertook research on equal pay;
report was prepared ir
was never published
Lee ColLEC was tormed in
scotlana to tigni tor equal pay.
and local groups sprang
around the country
in the formation of NJACCWER.
Active
In 1968 the TUC broke with 100 inactivity and voted to
give active support to
industrial action in sup
port of equal pay.
followin Labour year barbara
Castle, the minister
which had the desired effect of
neading out •Ene
Inadequate analysis of
anti-Semitic attacks
What was necessary was categoricar col demnation anT. attacks without diversionary 'Zionist' bogey , An analysis of anti•emsm i ranco dra Western eUrODE generally that focuses on daily reality; that sees it as being central ratner women workers and letting their leaders' off the hook.
Despite the drawbacks of this decisiation mere wore lose Cam •retende That the man Women's NJACCWER had
and by 1970 folded. women's 18 months?
The one and only democratic, decision-making campaign
1965 but
Umons. sisted of very experienced male
lIminating Voly
unionists, one with no older orcanisatullo,
Because the any union many terent
shopfloor, branches against • for government by thoroughgoing discussion and
The campaign organised financial,
Letters
current West eurodeal racism, that recognises the fears and vulnerabilities Jewish that sees organised toms not causes After toms not causes the event' responses are plainly inadequate. 3. A understandHewisn oronsasuspicion of the anti-racist left as genuin‹ tears, engendered to i
Lessons for the
physical
aim been achieved ConCreTe mobilise around. campaign Finally
/ did it collapse after only responsible
nao to de wower
pressed have the
the House of Com their oppression. Te caperson counci con Reliance
union officials inexperienced but militant
wonder two politica but cly union T8880 the and a couple of women
women's period; terference
fight was on so levels on the Movement
, in the political parties,
For the it could only grow allowed
should hard moral, and
significant degree by the crudeness of current left Middle East analysis and compounded by the left's and anti SUSPICIOU pathy Towares ooan are conscious Jewish par y "Zionist. the left as potentially
4. A commitment to a vigorous campaign antiThis semitism entail. gid building real solidari practical support ties and with ish communideveloping the sympathetic exoressin aware ness and understanding Pierre Goodness to n Jewish that taken in futherance of its aims,
demonstrations and support for to provide an understandable and
people people for thi it is almost a Tusm to sto that omy
the struggle against
people within different which had Shown they wanted
wanted movement to the traditional methods of the labour
on reliance on the PLP
Pm a vear or existence, Wun
WER did not set out any rule
were participate despite organisations were doing for the campaign.
This life.
DAVE ROSENBURG, member of the Jewish Socialists' Group
Watch out, there's a red pencil about
All the letters on this page have been edited...so please try to keep letters to 300 words.
RiG
CAME
women's liberation EWER branches were disenfran- and action-based NJAC
Militancy • Or could not defeat the misleader.
Communist Party trade union LaDoul bureaucracy and LOse
action perspective lacked a real base in the labour movement and were boweross
Over 10 years later, the ideas ot teminism nave gone into une labour movement, an Tamine
members of trades unions and the
class-struggle tendency acuve on questons women's liberation
The focus of the fight has un.
changed from pay to affirmative action, but the
remain of SOCON that depends female oppression labour bureaucracy that will no mobilise women in
Our task is to build a move.
the ideas 01 the autonomous power of the labour movement -not a small job.
ANTONIA GORTON, London
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free
speech
have been regularly holding meeting
we On 21 the police
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Let those v hold the re ple of the Caribbean island onialism offered by the
Participants in trade union seminar sponsored by Grenada's Bank and General Workers Union and Co
Photo: JERRY HUNNICUTT (IP/I)
Grenada, 13 March 1980
What was Ilfe like in Grenada under the regime of Eric Gairy?
When Gairy came to power in 1951 he captured the imagination of the workers; they expected him to eliminate the old administrative system. It turned out that Gairy had no such intention. He saw himself as taking over the position of the old colonial master.
He surrounded himself
Grenada Defence Force (GDF) as a vigilante group to protect private property. He became very close to Chile with General Pinochet as his military advisor.
On the economic front there had been no development. In 78 only three people received scholarships for higher education, and they happened to be children of government ministers. Although the Tourist Board existed, there was no planned development and we had to import most of the food to feed the tourists.
Decisions were taken on a very ad-hoc basis. Those people who were supporters of the regime were able to get away with literally anything. Opponents of the heir opposition with thei blood.
The health service was so run down that the general nospital was considered a national disgrace. If you were a Panicut ana you wanca a simple thing like an aspirin, you had to go out and buy it yourself.
So it became clear that Gairy had to go. We formed the New Jewel Movement in 1973, and in "76 Gairy called an election. The NJM made an alliance with the Grenada National Party and the United Peoples Party, but the election was so badly rigged that it resulted in a 9-6 vin for Gairy.
It became clear that a change of government by the proccaure establisnca by the constitution was not possibe. Other means had to he found to remove him from power, and that's what happened on 13 March, 1979.
Socialist Challenge
First Anniversary of Revolution Celebration in
Could you describe the revolution itself?
Every time that Gairy decided to leave the island there would be all sorts of searches of the leadership of the NJM. In March '79, Gairy decided that he was going to attend the United
Nations
We received information that the NJM leaders were to be assassinated. Their homes were searched by officers of the GDF and police, but the NJM leaders had gone into hiding. It was clear thai either there would have to be a vlove to change the government or the entire leadership of the NJM would be murdered.
Having taken the decision to change the government, our leadership mobilised the NJM. place attacked was the headquarters of the GDF. One person died in the revolution, a police inspector who had been trained in Chile.
Then we seized the radio station and the leadership called the people to arms All the police stations on the island surrendered when they found that they had no sup-
Bomb
attacks
Georges. Park,
al d mass was to be address
ed by leaders of the New
Movement.
was
plode when
•evers wore speaking
Another incident
volving explosives
red a week later
night in St Patricks, killing
the person who was carry-
ing it.
From the Free West Indian,
20 June:
Gairy's politicians were then picked up and placed in detention. We arrested the Mongoose wen, and the have since been tried and given sentences of up to 12
20 November 1980 Page 8
Eric Gairy.
The shock
time The first
years.
The revolution was so greatly welcomed that the people came forward in their droves. They carried ineffective weadons - • SLUNG U bits of stick - because everyone wanted to make sure of victory.
When a nation of people moves in that way, even at the expense of losing their lives, it is the highest form of the democratic process.
NJM
How has the revolution unfolded since 13 March? in-
The Provisional Revolumid. tionarv Government has
made our position clear. It was said that the revolution was a revolution for jobs. It's a revolution for houses; it's a revolution to restore freedom, to organise legality in the country, to establish a free and just society.
Having lived over 300 years under colonialism, with an imperialist development, it was felt that the only way in which we can build
ON 13 March 1979 the peo-
of Grenada overthrew the brutal colonial regime of
revolution
waves throughout
the Caribbean; for the first black, speaking island had decided
medical certificates,
other public clinic.
amounts to $40-50 a month.
has also doubled.
27 September 30.
our society is in a socialist direction.
Since 13 March we have moved decisively in that direction, on the basis that in building a sovereign coun try we do not wish to interfere in any other coun
British
sent EnglishNow it's free health care
DOCTORS in Grenada have agreed jointly with the Provisional Revolutionary Government to stop all private practice in hospitals and other public health centres.
From the beginning of October thousands of poor Grenadians no longer had to pay for basic care or for
prescriptions, government hospital, visiting station, health centre, or
An average Grenadian family of seven makes approximately three visits a month to a doctor, so the saving
The number of doctors working in the country has almost doubled, from 19 to 35. The number of specialists
From the Free West Indian, published in Grenada,
try's internal affairs; and we expect that they will not inof Grenada.
Can you outline some of the measures taken by the PRG?
to reject the road of col-
and governments. Instead they are following the revolutionary road of Cuba and Nicaragua. The uprising was led by the New Jewel Movement, a revolutionary organisation Industrial Workers Union
PRG has declared that
our sugar cane industry.
. or injections at a Dallalla maustry.
people.
Cubans,
produce enough to even
Reconstruction anc
up posts in the new cooperatives.
reform — under Gairy 40
American
Since the revolution the per cent
unattend agriculture will be its first will go t priority and that Grenada must be able to feed itself. educatio
We have opened a sugar have one factory, and that will revive repairing
schools t We're tackling a disease that was creating havoc with the local star
We now 1 Is Is lin portant since the industry Popular emolovs a large number of Gairy, ill
per cent, teaching
With the assistance of the and write
fishing industry. e We fo modern fishing industry. protect tl now process fish, and can we are tr supply salt and smoked fish everyone But the factory is unable to read and
be able t tion for 1
We now have a pro. There
attempt 1 forces of youngsters are being trained have a pe in scientific methods of far- past the ming. After training they either return to the land as now they agricultural officers or take in the co
have disa The t
We have started a land the islan
Gairy's h
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that then they'll have to make a choice shoot me or turn their guns on the
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Class struggit moved — ike me see suike but it has not t been sufficiently deep in the working class to give leadership
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Fascists to
march for
import
controls
SWASTIKAS have been scrawled on
walls numerous Preston and Asians
have been threatened.
Some 20,000 jobs in the
are dependent truck industry, which •cer saaroy num luc reces sion. About 19,000 workers are on part-time. Front, led by John Tyndall, National
British
fascism:
stirs again
By Roy Kirk THE fascist groupings in Britain are starting to move again.
fluence among skinhead gangs in a number of areas of the country.
football crowds. The itself.
une hopelessness or the dole queue and the failure stop Thatcher have given a
ODDULLUlILY wiid was last vear a debris or sont ancl demoralised fascist
The 1979 election was the catalyst for the explosive aisinteglaton of the
The political tensions were evident before
in the disputes leader Webster berween i
Martin Webster saw the big weakness of previous apisatgroups creatures of capitalism. This lalilic. le cousiactea. was aue Iner ideology. The National Front had failed to work out its ideas and needed a free debate on the subject
ans mme tea wedster to a related point. The could not be based on the middle class, but rather the desperate and dispossessca among the white working
Some of the NF wanted
ine extreme nant Conservative Party, hit ac cording Webste only when the 0132C1 Treese wat ue macie class colla ne won not get middle class support
attacks on the working class.
Tyndall responded immealalely. • піс saw no need
Front possesses an ideology
long ago constructed,' Tyndall argued.
In otner woras lynaall was a straight down the line Hitlerite. The need was tor a debate between
none over no bre duce political machine
La press, one stions to streets anu actories as a coullic lu Ine reel revolutonary machine.
was The National project. lau lu ucculc a vaul valt
con cared masco leaders. Talent had to be
regards this fertile ground. Calling for import
holding CulL VIS march south of Preston, next Sun- Chorley. day 2 23 November.
counter-demo on that day is being supported by the council, Anti
Lauc Nazi League. and local anti. racist organisations. Jonn Preston Trade Preston says that the Confederation
and
favours import controls will be asked to support the Counterais Tel
0772 731089 от 0772 791618.
Pete Middleton adds: march by the fascist National Front in Bolton, Lan-
the monster
The British Movement has gained an inThe National Front is selling its paper to monster is stirring recruited from class, since. it is by the sustained work and dedication of politi cal élites that parties
i79 election results were TOI TaSCIStS. ne brobortion o votes won by NF candidates slumped from an average of
cent in February to 1.3 pe '79. 1 his Dronent male ' une oDer Constitutional which launched an attack Webster but also on Tyncall
Fountaine, Kavanagh, Beauclaire and the
this 'movement' are firm Nazis, out uncy saw no Dros ocel lor any advance by advertising this fact.
Tyndall and Webster had respectable image ange adopted
for the purpose of doing a Job the Freedom ASSOCION and the rest of the 'respectable' right who would be disenchanted by Thatcher
As well as pulling behind Them the county ser ano ex. military officers, the Constitutional Movement also KUL the Cultalls WILl bis money. Iney punea on one
the slickest political operations in recent times
achieving a majorit
NF Properties and walking on wito une assers
When the dust had settlid it was found that the F
split into four
Front leader Martin Webster.
cashire, is also due to take place on 23 November
The planned route of the march will take the fron through immigrant areas in
due to finish with a Nazi-style rally in the
NF protestins against plans by the loca council to allocate funds to immigrant centres
Anti-fascists and antifragments. In addition to those already mentioned
British Democratic
thony Reed Herbert NF'S MaCHOS
Politically inis taccion Is close to the Constitutiona Movement and rumours that fusion will take place arter December. when the 'movement'
the national NF neadquarters Webster ane tricias are loreca vul duces a magazine Excalibro, "moverten
News. The malaine reine
racist and Is strong on respectability.
It is important that we 'Buffoons in the adult world..' National
Home News
racists in Bolton are isting march should allowed lake orace The Anti Naz main has been are Ne has been street. meeting counter-mobilisation Lne rrON WIl assemble at solo satale of Technology car, park at noon on Sunday.
Demo to counter British Movement march through Notting Hill
Called by ANL Sunday, 23 November 11.30am Assemble at Ladbroke Grove, Notting HIll Skinhead supporters of the Nazi British Movement repres communive community informed responsible politically conscious people, ' the magazine has declared.
As part of the process of building links, writers such
Robert ThoMpso
orthodox extreme right have occulcalurcu. Dul lau ult Nazis also write
Membership of the Con SUE LON Vlovemen claimea to be near v i The British Democratic Party meimistically, to have 800 the comes oll, and given tal money appears to be no ob. ject to the 'will strong organisation
The fascist who's who National Front: Now led by Martin Webster, the NF stresses links with the white working class. It is strong on youth work.
Now National Front: Led by John Tyndall, as hard-line Hitlerite, it aims at middle class support. Constitutional Movement: Led by landowner Andrew Fountaine, with the Tory far right.
British Democratic Midlands, Reed-Herbert. fusion with the Constitutional Movement British Movement: Openly Nazi and notorious for its racial mythology and illiterate "propaganda', this is now the biggest fascist group. It has infiltrated the skinhead gangs and breeds a cult of violence.
Nazis beware!
By Davy Jones THE Anti Nazi League is back in business. Thạt was the message from its press conterence held last week, almost exactly three years after the ANL was launched.
There Wave fascist violence including Jewish people, gays and
tional Front demos have have been formed with the likelihood further regroupmen
Tyndall and his supporters have formed
New which took the whole of the NF in the West of England
In 1978-80, but the in ha
one day cool The I thrust of
this faction is for a hard
disciplined, and centralised party.
The of Martin
SSuC wenster shite sive nas been raised repeatedly and now Verrall will probably get the Sallic Dianes lie ur as bursulli c youth cult, arguing that it: leadership only feels happy with the very young:
choirscoutliasicis it seeks 'respectable' links
Party: Strong in the the BDP is led by lawyer Anthony There are rumours of a pending
been held in recent mon
13 towns. from Glasgow Tonbridge Walls
Nazi British Movemen' na. become the leading ac.
fascist which has chosen ball terraces as its main recrutine ared
At Stam ford Bridge ground there
chants
of youth at the Shed end
The Anti Nazi Leaque has big plans to counter this new threat.
*A mass rally against fascism in Europe on t masters belong to this type; buffoons in the adult world. they can become little kings in the juvenile one.
Tise itsels and ed to
stabilise and SHOW SONI nas lost a lot or members. however.
Front's crisis has openly vovemen. ably the largest of the fascis groups has produced material aimed
has skinhead
Suns success nas brougl its own problems and a sec tion of the BM membershir
launched an attack on scout bull • since it 1:
consistently direct the Old fascist friends fallen out - Tyndall (left) and Fountaine in happier days.
Socialist Challenge 20 November 1980
December. Speakers at
the rally. to be held at the
Friends Meeting House in
Benn; Renato Zangheri
the mayor of Bologna
and FASpresentative
the autonoulou.
•once union in rance
*A Youthrence on 28
Nazis conference on
Fobruar anton ot all.
ballers Against the
NaZi Billd
tion or the torraces.
can be
tacted at: PO Box 353
Lon
don NWS 4NH. Tel. 0-485
2872. violence of the youngsters.
Another important fac forks battess e BM has direct fascist which have our ocal
groups made a turn to terrorism.
chaos ritish fascis were is undemaole evidence of regrowth. Behind the splits operation. The Lea sue or si can • seen
George and the NNF held wine demons on a kni Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunda extended Flemish fascists
If they are allowed to, the fascists wiil regroup anc overcome the defeats they suffered at the hands of the Anti Nazi League.
Photo. ANDREW WIARD (Report)
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NATONAL ABORIION
FREC
ABORTION
ON DEMAND A womant right to choose
Abortion
rights under
attack
again
By Joan Twelves WOMEN'S abortion rights are under attack again. Since the defeat of John Corrie's bill the anti-abortionists have been seeking other ways implement his restrictive proposals.
Lord Denning's Appeal
Court preventing nurses ToM takina bart in prostaglandin abortions the first such attack. The goremmentbacked IOWOTITC avurlior Time JImits Trom lo to i weeks.
Prostaglandin is used in 'laté' abortions those atter 16 weeks ot pregnan-
inev consutute two per cent of all but small number
desperately N000 doorton vacuulies. The miooe-coco woman who mistakes pregnancy
young woman who is too or women needing abor- auco lo so loll allyollo
question and the
SWP
By Bob Pennington Nor is that conflict likely to die down.
ing standards,
war drive, all fuel the battles inside the LP
Ironically, as the lines are be-
ing drawn even more sharply bet-
and right,
Socialist Workers Party is
ing that the struggles inside the
are of little importance.
After the Labour conference Paul Foot
Socialist Worker *What matters,
then, is not how strong the Left is
LIIC Laboul Macine
now many members lt nas on the
executive, controls
electing of the Party leader and so
What matters is how strong i
the confidence of the masses, and
have socialist ideas
vacualcu uto uc oaces. a
LoncS ane als.
In a front page headline SW
asked: "Can we wait for Labour?'
Socialist Challenge 20 November 1980
tior formpid al re ons
tests babies are not Solna Dusca comioleted tul une lwen tieth week of pregnancy).
Punish
Prostaglandin abortions can be verv distress. ing for women, often result iot induce18 hours' labour ano OT a cea0 foetus. Professor Peter Huntingford, leading figure, comHolitou, ball UfIBy that doctors use metAe• in •reel •unisn women. and make the experience as unpleathey the undesirability ot prostaalandin abortions SHoUlO usec welcome the Denning rul ing. It is still an attack on a to choose whether and nave abortion, even a tate abortion.
Safe
the National Abor-
tio Cam tigs eca said
The Labour Party
THE conflict between left and right inside the Labour Party is more intense than at any time since the defection of MacDonald and company in 1931.
unemployment, declining social services, falling livand the menace of the imperialist
and went on to can't wait for
the over _Laoolu
plaining thạt: altu- the rant and file
There and now is the real test. one-stacc norer The fact that levelopments inside the LP hav big This does the majority of workers plas ACve Dat lie wales dik cod stituencies. What it does mean, is that in of people they look towards the LP for such COluLUlS WHEe ne yous. acOS o the '60s. the working class made its most significant
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12.30om on ITV.
WonIeI
unionists clinics and
The
'NAC wants women to be aole to nave salt cally. abortions, inere are women who, for impormedical and LalIL , need to have late reasons abortions. nese Woltlell are not criminals. Restric tions in the law do not help
Growing
argue that: 'We socialists to take
'Organising among workers in the
nOl1Ca not mean that millions
organisation workplace, and in general showed little real interest in the inter. nal arguments and discussions inside T.he Labour Bevanites never inside the trade unions.
ple are beginning fight mass
gains by
ment, solutions Ilke nationalisa-
CAMPAIGN
WOMEN RUNE OK
Women Rule OK!
and for women begins on Monday 24 November at A savan- cart serico by wonicil
The programmes, Women Rule OK!, will look at
the im Pso tessies women as and women at work. self-help groups and women coping with dependent relatives or children on their own
series seems well worth viewing for all those who can find a TV at lunch time.
them reduce the number of late abortions is to make aborTons freely avene ole the NHS - with no legal or medical restrictions Anti-abortionists think the bes1 wva restrict abortion rights is to reduce
Socialist™
Worker
What's all this
Labour 'leader'
business about?
THE obvious question about the present
Labour Party leadership election is the
the week nas wo be cul.
injection is public sector. really got a base aluvl. against
But things are changing. Peo-
to ulicin diuy
about women
trade women's
the time limits, hence their concentration "late'
But with inade quate there always be a need for 'late doorts I natS there is a neeo tor dositive legislation to guarantee. a woman's right to choose.
withdrawal
inside much
Impact
do understand a the SWP, dedater policy
unilateralism credibility
unilateralişm Thai
Labour Party
tion are needed, and the workin
If the socia response to the services are to be saved, a massive tIUI
needed Besides industrial the siting of nuclear weapons in Britain, the
and reject cismineos olie war ullve licaus getting Britain out of NATO.
La universal cutting of the working week, a
Abortion Act
By Ann Potter
Birmingham,' stated
But Birmingham was a centre for cheap,
I passing of the '67 Act.
Simms provides disturbing survey aborused UC tween and after the World Wars. These range from crochet skewers, lead-based drugs (which poisoned worreni. the terrifvins hairpin attached to an electric battery and a five-inch piece of elm bark Abortion drugs were
Saints
varieties abortion urcalliclls A Doruon deo lo gredi hardship for many women their families. Thant a stilogi or two to than a shilling two make were sold Ic up to ive guineas, more man a poor family's weekly food budsealthy women had ies trouoe ano usks lo race a woman had money and in formation she could have an abortion by recogniser •oclor as a acvale ln rallc ment in mace cea However the back street abortionists held high regard by their grateful DaLicHls The Dall Dulcl records that in 1938 at thi
programme of public works and
from NATO class vuire aluul vy a guveammucul alc alone neoe recor vo e ceæe
the Labour Party are Paul Foot thinks.
The ruling class and its media
LO1
Hanciy that all these Olltl avoul acmucialy have Imbacı On lne thinking and the action of masses
26 Ortober CoPl
was partly due to the fact that the rabour conterence nad voicu lul
gave campaign against nuclear weapons that had nol existed succ luc Lavvul culi ference voted in 1960 in favour of
reașon why socialists have a vested interest in ine debales now raging lisiac ul
Furthermore the intensification of the fight inside the LP is a
hie wonkpal alaa-
OCLWCCll working class Labull ane us autes. ana une rulue cias. La oNe cac mac in thi div ion smokespersons m une SWP tionism of the SWP make sure that this battle is taken rignt to its limits. struggle will
Photo: ANDREW WIARD (Report)
Britain before the
'THERE'LL be no more murdering little babies in
the notorious Professor McLaren after the passing of the '67 Abortion Act.
, illegal abortions before then as a brief but useful new pamphlet by Madeline Simms points out. Her pamphlet refutes the idea that abortion has only appeared in Britain on any major scale since the
funeral of Dr Daniel Powel oi tonting vy onch Trol DaTL. th counte journeyed to London to see him to rest' that when two
night up to tae passing or lal '67 Act. In a survey in 1965, 31 out of a random chemist and rubber goods shops sold preparations to noce doortot According to the pam463 women died abortions in1933 whereas in 1978 this had been reduced .In aere were about 250,000 abortions Fach Tive births. foA evidence shows that unouzioul uue cvun centul abortion on a massive scale been perience of Eng lish life, and that women will always get a Doruons no mater the law says
Abortion Britain before the Abortion Act of historical evidence Madeline Simms, published by the Birth Control • Trust. Avalabe trom l-s Mor timer Street London WIN 7RJ. Price 15p.
determine the outcome of the
struggle not propaganda
Reformism can only defeated in Britain and replaced by a Marxist revolutionary party
• сотоІІ WUL both inside ano ougee e r . L would llavt been wrong to wait until the LE
campaign against the Corrie Bill, had organised ac
wilee DasCu l mvcel against Cruise missiles. The IMG
s ben in she poreo a od orien
las been
mls sucal lucialive.
This is why we reject 'entrism which in practice means only tak-
LOOSC acu VIlci
pired by , or supported by Challenge porte side the balos Socialist Party for action and support for tnose types ol campalgils, Just a
fight for more • SOCaS extension democratic rights inside the LP
build a Ius s c uc way u ,ngnung and Orgallisca ielt willg inside the LP
attitude of the SWP towards struggle inside :the
Party reformist party in the hands of its nureaterane asedess It the
continues on presen Snur treate wich wil rok. line then
marginalised
ine Labour rarly lo is very toull dations.
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Where
Crossroads is
under women's
control
another new South African film.
A Soviet scientist recallea a visit to an experimental collecțive farm in the far north of Russia.
What I saw was much WOrS TM oejore.... Both the people and nature. It was horrible.
"Well, then, did. you do something?" one of his audience asked.
"I cried."
In 1977 Moscow's Progress Publishers issued a collection of essays by leading Soviet scientists entitled Society and the Environment: a Soviet View. argument was summed up
Dr llya Novik and Acaaemiclan Yevgeny Fyodorov:
Soviet Union, as in
mn une olner soclanst countries, prevenltion of environmental pollution an natural ehelone mollose naturally from the essence of the socauust systen. Disaster
Although sceptics have Dome outa væoæ cę Soviet Union is one of the nations threatening existence of the whale through overfishing, of other information has made it airncult to quesuon mne soviel claim
Che Boris Comarov's book change s all that
Komarov is a high Soviet
cose LOUCH Will scientific and political establish-
The reveals that the Soviet Union is in the grip of ar ecoloone tentser.
Tenlt the entire habitable area tne Union 1.45m
is now unusable kilometers bourgeois Europe nad treated its envirommten as we nave. wille Komarov, a éé aan e England Haland est wec Germany, Benelux countries would long Have rouna temase ves in a sterue desert.'
Unchecked
*The level of noxious gases in the atmosphere OVIe li cities is one hundred times the maximum permitted
concenra Livll *Pollution of lakes and seas
has rezched frightening levels.
Stop official said we have already
he Azov, the Aral and probably une-casoan wel.
*Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest lake the irreversibie . world, threatened with uanllasc. cases of
lung "in te last eccaut cancer the USSR have doubled. Each year 5-6 per cent
children genetic defects than orcvious ycak
- MOSCOW'S polluted than London's.
*Poaching of wild animals b people short of meat goes virtual
Army helicopters use arc oros tor mune oracuce. and infantrymen are trained to
using wild boar and deer as targets.
- The importance Komarovs BOOK not lie solely in its disclosures. The book also unearths the reasons for the disaster.
In an indictment that could easily be added as an appendix to ITOTSVS Revolution Betrayed, Komarov is not afraid to point the finger.
NEXT Tuesday Man Alive on BBC2 will be showing 'South Africa Belongs To Us'. NICK ROBIN reviews this and
in the
Its Luc America's Lake Sea of Azov
more
'we all breatne rougnly tne sut waira ndat, k thasity in oh, but with that, equality society ends.... of achievements of our
the Pameres pean a mess terhe gihed ul tic zuull Ccululy• LIC OCSL. LIlC 'Cleanest vironment.'
Unwilling to allow the majori-
TWENTY thousand black South live illegally in Crossroads Selece camp, a 'shanty-town' outside Cape Town. is illegal because black women, MICl and children live together at Crossroads.
The leadership of the squatter camp committee.
Women S
women are damisne tu the reserves •oUTA Africa so that the wages of male workers in the urban areas Mines aulu
The destruction
of nature
Soviet Union
DURING the American election campaign
claiming that plants and animals cause 80 per cent of the world's pollution.
ignorance seemed to capitalism's disregard for nature; to
business' natural environment that has left North
'American writer Barry Commoner, 'the ap-
Aral Sea
Caspian Sea making, the throuen ine uneemocranc dan Unable to admit to the dire conseRegardless of the and inefficiency Cucunes a nicuilu. TONH of olanl. secrecy is maintained: government
These include Baikal to produce cord for heavy advice that the lake would suffer SCYCIC DUluUUl tory was nmisnea, á melnoa was
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can be kept as low as possible The Crossroads community organises its owll health, education ane of faseie nd its tem of justice остелсе acdisl soutn Atrican ponce The camp testimony to the tremen-
determination, and creativity of the universal olack resistance lo doartheid rule.
Interviews witn une women Crossroads are included in two new China,
THE SOVIET UNION
'Actually, the Aral, and probably the Caspian as well' to England,
made unusable
rules our cauclaly from petroleum
of this tion, veil of nillion years ok * A factory was built on Lake
despite scientific Meadow and
have
Before the fac- plan
Zanu lhal was Wilal
films about excerlent South ATrICa SOULn Africa belongs To Us and baphuciwe (The Dispossessed) which expose the Nature of South Africa's racist capitalism both films the of black dicuness resistance forcefully conveyed by "the tecnnique of having black South Africans directly exocnence ine camero fects ot tni systematic oppression of the apartheid state come across pearance and consistency of pea soup'.
Socialists consoled themselves with the belief that the workers' states - Russia,
and in Eastern ecological questions much more serious/y.
A new book from Pluto Press, Boris Komarov's The Destruction of Nature in the Soviet Union, shatters that claim. ADRIAN YEELES reviews the book. we have already lost the Azov,
Lake Baikal An area of 1.45m square kilometers
France, West Switzerland and the Benelux countries - has been
discovered for making the cord
The factory went into produchowever. because that was what the plan prescribed. The ra. diant orb of Siberia', twenty-five
polluted.
VLCI DYCIUL USG DW&I were •rainca lucy werc turlcu lul o nowane vucr ducav crod
pasture woul been the right choice stipulated arable land
with a minimum of the Usud voice-over inter pretation' records experience of victims 'homeland the forced removal une oack •oouauon USIA milllon people TAr the cities and the countryside into the tiny fragmentec assigned by the su •oose•v noerar unes South Africa Belongs To on the strug of the black women of Winnie Mandela and Europe - take equivalent
Germany Italy
*The hay harvested from the looder
fuel, would yield as much energ. as the plant itself.
*At Krasnoiarsk a huge pile
of trage of rest vie g
shortage of freight car
continued trees (leaving semi-desert in their Teloc dl coldi Be usain tn the tags because received only rotten wood
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Fatima Meer broke bann.
ing orders prohibiting
tem Lo DE • •uote• or le
appear in the film . They
predict
violence white ringt
regime,
nalou
wulch me dide womai
will have to play her part
fully. armed strug
glé'
Both films are
avanlaore for hire from
The Other Cinema. 79 Wal
dour London
3TН. 01-734 8508
Abaphuciwe Soutn Africa Belongs To U €20
is ch. use memi
*In Siberia, more fish are caught than the fish factories can oanle Comes uk fishermen to do so.
Secret
These things take place because the Soviet people and the woro al arae arre keot li norance. "The composition of the air, of our drinking water and sea water is a state secret', writes
Those who protest about the crisis 'äre accused of anti-Soviet tendencies ohe aSakas are the "Sakharovism' which same thing
tentacles of the oureaucrausea stale reacn inı every area of Soviet life The Hydrological Plannin Agency (HPA esponsibl hydroelectric power plants SLaTLCI LIC the Main seis Buane ie mior HToloaca Constructio
managers were majoi White Sea Canal, Ohe Moscow Volga ectric Power Plant Rybinsk Hydroelectric have UCcL immortalised
ArDOVCHLSV chipelago.
Today the director HPA's cívil institute is still calle commander and its projects are prepared in secret. Power
What be done? For Komar problem cannot be tackled so long as the
Ul Cocil ponuca suualon remain
the country's leaders is one observing the development of th eco They have neither the desire nor the meios to taike aav serol
against the since those : steps s could lead to major changes economy morcover. m шис Шана ccl e
alote • ne systel power.
•For society the situation can about a major ecological project
made LWU LULC "leading' comrades, while th "strategic" reasons that guide their se lection of the project :re. main unknown to millions whos nves will be substantlally alicelc
try fully slackened the reins of centralised planning, it could be possible to solve ..many acute problems o ecology... siven full rein eipher creativel nor 'However,
egally.... Truth
It is not political motives, not the dictates of reason - - 11 18 g very air we breathe that forces u tọ understand: if we want to su vive we must know the truth. And ren uto ocners.
Forty years ago Trotsky in his
o he roione ot orae
nas shown now deeb •aila's suc cessors have dug that grave.
The Destruction of Nature in the thomarov is puntished by Soviet Union Boris
Pluto Press at £2.95. It is available fron The Other Bookshop, • Bius pper
Ni, LONCOH pIus paye apseaad i on Nee ciok. Extracts book
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INSIDE EL SALVADOR
A FEW hundred yards from the main road we encounter our first barricade, immense stones piled across the path. The barricade is, in effect, a border marker. Beyond it the authority of the governing junta does not hold.
Several other journalists and I save must entered a zone' in central El Salvador con trolled by the Farabundo Marti People's Liberation (FPL).
As we travel deeper into the zone. passing more barricades across roads and paths, we realise
area
den guerrilla camp. Salute
But from where we stand we can see me wawe solties sobe ot the volcano. We see big fields
corn and other crops, several villages with thousands inhabitants. isolated guerrilla camp. • Kather it is a ville colnulullity. where Deu Die work or go to school, living their family lives.
Pot loo thing thi
anywhere Salvador, but here the people are
charge and are beginning to build a new kind of society.
into the liberated zone,
felt San Have Silice Icaville
we are greeted by the armed detachment that will guard us. They are ocasalils dila Tulal WOrKerS. young and old, armea with rites and pistols. Some raise their fists
broad smiles breaking across their faces.
After hiking for several hours
mueles are paths, we come to une centra village. There crowd
they around
cameras
But aside from the children life goes on as usual. Women are of their houses. Men are working
thousand Salvadoran villages, except for the fact that we can see weapons
The village church has been turned into a nel nosotal. IL Is run by an older worker wno nas had no formal medical education, although he has had some experience with raditional
The wounded hammocks inside the church. and
dispensary stands where the altar used to be
One of the wounded suffered burns on his face and arms when
tried set fire venice Zacatecoluca Vester day. The others, the youngest on-
twelve, suffer from gunshot wounds.
Nervous
'Thank god, no one is really Mutt tells with a the hospital chiel concerned lone.
'We have very few facilities for treating seriously and there is almost no way we can evacuale wnere tney could ger beller care.
Down the road a little way is the school, , which is now being us. ed as a training camp. On the soc-
mere nICW men are listening to a veteran explain how
The veteran recruits street clothes running shoes. 1-sill Es.
share the field with three grazing horses and playing children
From the soccer field we can see the valley spread out like
It looks so peacetul that vou almost forget that there
war going Salvador. But the mood is broken
the sound of an atrplane. 100k , up, but am unable to see it.
'Don't worry' savs Juan. one of the guerrillas, reassuringly.
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El Salvador.
he 'They frequently fly over us at a very high altitude dare to come too close unless the are launching a sion of the zone.'
Seeing the nervous looks OUT Taces although the government troops "know we are l here, they don't at lack they Have monsane seers acker
plates as happicopters.
haady opening
last trooos emere me zone was or st August. Helicopters landed the soccer field and troops marched in from the valley.
explains that Hust aurenov mode Delore the first troops arrived, bua few had not vomen were raped and two were murdered.
The who had
LOUDS with them. set fire to about thirt houses, mined the area, poisoned some of the water supp-
20 November 1980 • Page 14
'Liberated Zone'
As reports of government
troops massacring guerilla
fighters increase daily, Lars
Palmgren reorts from inside
'The militia is a self-defence structure,
ly. But they were driven out after but they never According revolutionary
he he soldiers Old about ay
LaCKS forced them to withdraw ana tney nave not been back since then.
Juan, several member of my, And " up the side of the volcano. In adwould ditch is mede up of fury, which is made government fighters and is the best equipped ligating torce, me revolunonists are organised militarily on two Aot ler- guerrilla units. The ture and amost evervone here belongs to it. • Some of the The up dogs but in contrast to the militia, they Carry vul Olicuse acons. and as ambushing military vehicles or convoys.
International,
An eye-witness report from a
AS M90L Dege
Juan,• three discussion.
Our constant atreturning STOl
field They
who is about 22, is a
the revolutionary ar-
wallac i
days earlier
— the militia and the
militia,
*Is a self-detense struc
the ocasauls ner
Duan emiss conve of part-time righters, also
constantly
such organised in ORDEN. allu the
MEXICO BELIZE GUATEMALA PACIFIC OCEAN and almost everyone here belongs to it'
, fall. the Today new recruits are still on the soccer eliminated field. They have broken down in- nave
groups for political A group of women, juan says With loads of laundry, crosses the soc-
exchange and comments with the guerrilla
1am continually struck by the assembly. contrast between the daily bombings in San Salvador and the open
of LIC dear luckl secretary prevented me from entering a few
and the peacefulness of daily life here in this liberate
The first attempts to organise each
LOOK black 1972. and for eight vears the work
continued.
Be informers, organised paramilitary gangs lial We have fought for our right to the land.'
EL SALVADOR HONDURAS
NICARAGUA
COSTA RICA PANAMI ORDEN has from the area. army militia, our own guerrilla units and we have taken over the land,
There are several villages ir the liberated zone. Each of them is run by a five-person steering
elected village Within the succulle
labour among the members, one
serves general
general secretaries
are members or a speca conc which runs the whole area.
Regular assemblies are held ir
and whole area. In these assembles there are discussions or lne conditions 1. the area as well as political education by the revolutionaries
production is in He of the their own plots. although most ol the land, which used to be a single
1s now worked communally. ment's cosmetic 'land reform,
Institute Agrarian Transformation (ISTA)
hacienda owner. So formally it belongs to the state.
But in practice,' Juan says 'we own it. We have managed t force ISTA to deal with us about prices and terms
however, that because of the war they have not been able to plant to the extent the would uke
Later in the evening we attend a dance. Are haven donke small path through the forest and crossing two small rivers we reach thed. ise where the dance is to be held guarded by several companeros with rifles
: 200 to 300 people al c inside the house. In a corner there is a small band — a bass, two
and drum. Dåncing couples fill the area Proud
On the wall a weekly schedule for the guerrilla recruits is posted. The schedule contains a full list of
Al one polt the music stoD anan older man canes ons
proletariar interna tionalism he begins The crowd responas will 'Viva!
'Long lIve international solidarity!'
The speaker explains that the struggle is internanional in scope. The enemy is not only here in El Salvador, , but äll over the world.
are, . proud welcome fighters from says. ouner countrie our commun ty. We are proud that they have come here learn about our struggle so thes inform the
fighting OWI countries
The crowd turns to look at us and begin applaulls We alt asked to sav alew woros. ach o us gets up on the stool in turn and
La few words about our resolv to
ly with tneir struggle
The faces on the dance floor are filled with These poor Dcasalll. WUIKCI Shall area Salvador recognise the impor-
and know that if we can make th
tionalism come alive in a concrete
that can directly aid their
rather than death
Looking out at those faces I tnink cacn or us more concretely recognises how important it is to
I solidarity for the Salvadoran people
pose of the dance, or course, the
pose of the dance. 'Of course
and bad or
• good time But this dance has another very succial • our Dosc. 1t Is lo collect money for our revolutonary army, for food for our soldiers.'
Recruits
The veteran hat. People drop coins into it. The music and laughter
On the way home we are alt silent, filled with our own impres-
Five hours later we arise WILL Sult recrunts are already training on the soccer field. Another day of preparation a for the decisive confrontations has
LOUKIIY LIC SUCHIC realise that while have been in Vivere a reass, where. I were where seeing the training going on jolts me oack lo • lie realsatol nere the decisive be are c c! come. and that the outcome is not
International solidarity work can help tip the balance in favour
these Dalyauulal tionaries.
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State racism on the rise
IN the first six months of this year 509 people have been deported from almost double last year's figure, when 585 people were removed during the whole year.
held in detention Act. On 18 July this year there were 211 prisoned, compared to a daily average in 1979 of 166.
1n8 obel racism seen from the fate of passengers arriving at Heathrow airport.
It was z0 times more passenger would be refused entry at Heathrow during 979 than an Australian or Canadian; 90 times more like ly for a Ghanaian; 60 times for a Pakistani or Sri Lankan, and 50 times for a Cypriot or Bangladeshi.
Algerians, Ghanaians, just happened not to be white.
• Alt these usefui facts report of the Joint Council for
available from mus raulo, Road, London WC1X 8SP. How not
to fight for
jobs
By Paul Winston AN example of how not to fight unemployment given in Leicester on 12 November.
The occasion was a jobs march called
Hosiery 'Workers was. ana irms ante
knitwear posses
gave their the day
what was by the local newspaper, the Lercester mercury, patriouc marca
As many as 2,000 turned Bris p salls and to songs white, and blue
Cally Icu. umbrellas
Alec Kilsby, the union's district secretary, called for
an early reduction in interest
short-term alll
emoiovment suosiuy
solve unemployment 1 ne
appeals and help. from
ume sen-slyica subcl Dalliuls
of the Tory government are
hardly likely to save jobs.
more viable Riter to e vas
offered by Kight to
campaigners Challleu
'Kick out the and
for the
Gardner's strikers.
Fightback
distributed a leaflet to the
women on the demonstra
tiọn, who made up 75 per
cent of the marchers. Women
for clubs
SUPPORTERS of the
campaign equal
rights for women
'working men's clubs'
are gathering for their
first national COL
- in a work-
ing men's club.
evelt.
planned for Serdavue Deral Working Belle
Men's
Liberal
Club in Wakefield. IS
organised une Loud
Rights in Clubs •Campaign
Action (ERICCA)
The campaign was set up
more than a vear ago wher
Sheila Capstick was banned
from playing snooker in her
local club.
then members luce
nave organise• luce Dickels
of Yorkshire clubs prachis lobby of the 1980 Blackpool discrimination.
tended by over we wandred
of the orealisers conterence
that its most important task
will be to plan ahead for the
Details of the conference
trom. nela Costek.
South Street, wakene d
Send a stamp addressed.
ervelone.
Britain. That's
There is also an increase in the number of persons centres under the 1971 Immigration
people of the immigration laws can be
likely
Pakistanis, and Sri Lankans more are in the annual The JCWI at 44 Theobalds END BRIDAS WITH SOUTH AFRICAN By Harriet Wordsworth
BRISTOL Women's Centre has been burgled six times over the past year.
But a break-in last week was the most sinister SO far.
Whoever the thieves were, they were after much A couple of
Omagh prisoner
REMOVALS UP rsons removed as illegal entra
ADORATION
IFAU
more than the petty cash.
Files includins details abortion Bristol, sympathetic doctors - ano some uns yun Dalucul ones as une manne. and 3dda es or amores been removed.
So, too, were the day books strictly
the refuges for battered women, and details of inhundred people demonstrated outside Downing Street last Friday evening in support of the ArPauline McLaughlin.
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MOVEMENT
Women's centre burgled
dividual women who visit the centre
whoevet wanted information did so Uaul enough to break :in
climb LIC allu again the same awav with all the bulky and cumbersome files familiar enough
LuC Colic avoid an alarm system
Bristol Women's Centre members are concerned that
now be targets for fascist atlacks. mere is ocucvca lo severe stomach disorder.
Unions reject the 'Brown
rice and sandals brigade'
By Carol Russell OVER a hundred union delegates from the South-east region of the TUC attended a con-
on energy on ICCIICO Saturday at Congress House, London. Nuclear power was the main point of contention, if not the only one.
Arthur Scargill, speak-
for the National Union
Mineworkers, said
hypocritical preWas тело то oe espasoronare about the dangers nuclear power.
be British Movement training centre in the area. Women who Have ucal. nn contact wtn une centre
address and phone numbel
• GOSTO ul galllsalull. the movement The Women's Centre has launched an appeal fos funds to improve security wullaliull. be sent to. bnstor women s centre. 44 The Grove, Bristol 1.
Pauline is near death because of the non-
treatment by prison authorities of her
He out that
ponteu covarmen minutes showed that the
• was being considered or avoram effect
and minore transport workers.
Like the other speakers, Scargill rejected the primitive lifestyl
'the brown rice ano saneais oneddd
Instead Scargill, the NUM wanted an rated nationa energy plan, without com
between gas and petition electricity said that TAPITAIr has enough indigenous coal,
'Freo Namibia - Britain's Nuclear the slogans of a 300 strong march from central Preston to the British Nuclear Fuels Springfield's plant on Saturday & November The marchers from anti-racist, anti-nuclear, and anti-imperialist groups, were calling for a halt to im ports of Namibian uranium, the illegal source of half Bri tain's uranium supply of South Africa's brutal military Thera is a benefit meeting for Namibia solidarity at 5pm at the Co-op Hall, 129 Seven Sisters Rd, Finsbury SWAPO lender Sam Nujoma will be speaking in Britain on 10 December committeo on 388 5539.
National rally
for victimised
teacher
By Roger Tanner, Secretary, Nottingham NUT (personal capacity)
THE executive of the National Union Teachers is calling highlight the case
fighting the cuts.
Eileen was dismissed in Januar Nolunanal local education authority when, union ad. vice, she refusec to teach a class Wille! Ilal ratic CLO children.
Central government has recommended a rato oi one •Ul WOLL Council has proved unwill ing to accept such a recommendation, and instead ha
Since she was sacked the • for Eileen's •has included strikes and protest meeting taousand of loca. teacners teacher.
Nottingham have argued that fight needs to
issue Mtportan
Joe McGrogan,
JANE LEMOIR writes:
Swindon IMG regrets to announce the death of Joo McGrogan. We were shocked and saddened to learn OT his death on 7 November, at the age of 31.
Joe was and helped found the Swindon Troops wur movemo missed for his lrish solidarity work and many of will remember the did educating u:
and the current struggle.
Joe one first
oil, and renewable energy
meet mel without importing fuel.
Backing up his suppor foI nuclea power.
LOIS of the aguicola 8no
quoted from a which claimed that 'not pru dent for the non-commun Ist worta to count on or
The leaders like the EMA are intent on keeping a small number o
contro export energy supplies.
However Scargill and others oppos
Nukos do not •arguments import controls then o.e
NUM's energia planis o diferen olans for CARTOl
that put forwarc Jimmy Carter in the USA
• Colony' w
political
comos to the government courtesy occupation of Namibia
Further details form Namibia suppon
of
a national rally to of Eileen Crosbie, teacher sacked by her local authority for
stake the defence
union members who fight the cuts Now the NUT executive
nas respondeo lo suco call
and the national rally • will
take place in Nottingham on Saturd Nut memems, and 22 Novembe
others • arallEsi
education cuts should make
every effort to attend needed for de
mand that union ex-
ecutive should back what-
ever extended strike action Eilece ary necessary back
A march before the rally assemble Forest Recreation Ground
in the market square
aclall, trom: Notts , 1949-80 of
ANL, and
Socialist hallenge and Socialist
Worker, following
• was a member of Swindoi
Trades Council and recent
ly joined the Labour Party.
At the time of his death
the Right : to
paign
solidarity with
Joe would have boor
on … Tha withdrawat from
Ireland demonstration las:
Saturday was tribute
to his work that the Swin
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dissidents denounce
the women's prison in Armagh.
Soven are now on the fourth week
a hunger
mach - are BAROG• JOln nam norV
Rudolf Bahro's monts are particularly
Branding the w o until.
prisoners . Ine methods of the concen-
camp to the Tory minister oo ondIDId TOT
oTond.
Bahro taLeb. The
used British government Northern Nolduu dedin
•olCA opponents are qualitativelv
ie face aro concerned
those by duv oner sato un eurode
own opposition'. Baros side Fe. cast ger
Union. F.Ued Trelr statements in response
appoal by Monica Culbert, the wife of an H block prisoner.
Help
Michael Culbert is former the NANONA! Union of Public Employees and ogeted by mem bere 'inter the Royal Ulster Contabulary in November 1977 and May 1878
sayn th at
Michael roleased' and, in a letter to Monica, says: 'I hope Pubished by Cardinat Enterprises, PO Box 50 London N1
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EAST European dissidents Rudolf Bahro and Zhores Medvedev have slammed the British government 's treatment of the Irish political prisoners in the H Blocks of Long Kesh and
that I will be able to help you and your husband The statements from dissidents are timely. The
women prisoners to the hunger strike taken against the ot vice adership epublican Iwovotolu Turmer 8mon8.ise the life or death nature of the struggle now taking place the H Blocks and Armagh.
TWO have already reached the
vorgn of death.
Pauline, McLaughlin, is dying Wa nuLon Weighing only four-and-a-haif Pauline is suffe tre atadi gro mad trom and un stomach COmm walll which makes Heri UCDaDIE holding down food.
The British
Transfer civilian hospital. #ule other risone near death Seamu Mallon who has bi ni on a hunger his over days. Seamus is on strike blackmall charge. RUC, 'methoda of the concehed by Rodolf Babro. condemn. ple in Britain who nAre T80 he Bahro and Medvedey will have the
December when a 'Don't Irish Prisoners Die demonstration takes place in London.
East European
Rudolf Bahro Printed by East End Offset (TU), London E2
H Blocks
Officials complete
BL sell-out
Stop the British
Movement Nazis
GLEN Bennet (left) and John Barton are members of the fascist British Movement in Newham, East London.
On Sunday 23 November, the British Movement plans to march through Notting Hill in West London, where there is a large West Indian community.
The British Movement is racist and it is well-known for its violent attacks on Britain's black population.
Many people in cluding Notting Hill, will be supporting the counter-demo called by the Anti Nazi League. See page 11 for details and an analysis of the crisis of Britain's fascist organisations.
steward
Photo: GM COOKSON (Socialist Challenge)
openly
West London, in-
By a BL shop
THE decision by BL
workers to accept
the 6.8 per cent offer, and reverse the
strike vote of 10
days ago. gave Michael Edwardes another victory.
onl ulke une simuaon
over the past two years, BI
workers have given a clea
that threats
closure
avusallvll of living off Davers
money no longer carry the weight they did
decision to accept the pay offer was forced on the workforce by the weak pess. trencherv and cowar dice of the trade union officials, acting in conjunc-
with majority senior stewards who have no Intenuor ( o ever fighting BL bosses Te zeionajori y hese for Strike action put seasoned veterans of sell
positior
of having to lead a fig!
Such a fight would have seen hırsı ane toremost z Polycal one against . the Tonld have nanen and
meant ule workcis usluc allu oul •eoe c oo ve dren closure and massive job
The trade union leaders would have hac put ac tion in place
anti-lor raetor • Ine' were clearly not prepared to do
The officials and
managemer nave user
every dirty trick in the boo
They promised further investment if there was strike, but concealed detail o tle vo bo waleln cludes closures and hiving off.
They have subjected any •DOSTO to massve pres sure. At COW E TGWU convenor told bi the managing dire Ron Hry Wa.
tor of AS V0llo, DIlc Fox, that the company concesponsible for the strike sacree nim lo be DIlnarli
Management threatened tnc-10 model withdrawal . of the new
• scheduled 1o1 Lowiey if Frve not chang position This assessment of Fryer's stanc mes beyanme
Cars Icroualln, commnuee
The union officials used the stewards ference hide inen sell-
This body Is enten undemocratic, has no status in BL, and was used to defy the mandate of the membership
Even with the bridge decision to accept the 6.8 per cent the aggregate
narrowly in favour of the pay offer
Ihe whole affair shows that
enterstt necessary in BL and that BL leadersip. Milanos in Ba
to set about the tasl bulding such a leadershir
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