Socialist Challenge No. 41, 13 April 1978
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The politics of racism
EDITORIAL
Editorial 01-3598180/9.
Garscadden
Our supporters
on the Assembly
warking class."
states quite baldly that:
Santiago.
at Westminster on which it is modelled.:
We also stand for the unity list: Salisbury. Pretoria, Tokyo, Rio de daneiro.
rather than the SWP
communism.
electoral system irrelevant to workers. Such exclude raising radical democratia demands such call for an annual parliament.
Surnly the way forward is to vote referendum
ultra-chauvinist hope that this disastrous position will be
first meeting. defeated.
Margaret and Roddy
saga has reached absurd proportions.
matter should not go unchallenged.
years younger, we would have had an
know no bounds.
double-standards of British society on her.
Third: newspapers like the Mall,
raciam and sexism is setting a good example. Ugh! If you agree with these principles and want to be Involved in activities by Socialist Challenge su In your area, fil in the lorm below and send il to us: I am Interested In more information about activities in my area.
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ADDRESS.
Send to Socialist Challenge, 328/9 Upper St, London N1.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 April1978 page 2
Socialist Chailenge, 328/9 Upper Street, London N1.
Distribution and Advertising 01-359 8371.
THE GARSCADDEN by-election has become an important arena for political debate and discussions on
Abortion and the democratic rights of women is one Issue. Devolution and the right of the Scottish people to self-determination is another. Overshadowing both of those is Labour's sorry political and economic record
We have been backing the Socialist Workers Party candidate, Petor Porteous. He offers the only socialist
have been
But we muat comment on Porteous' wrong positions
and devolution. interview on bage s he says that socialists should vole 'No to an assembly, and fight against divisions in the
He ls also for voting ND In tne
A press statement Issued by the SWP on 31 March
If working people are to control their own lives, and abolish scarcity and want, then they are going to have to throw off their masters, whatever their accent, whatever Their country of origin, To do that. workers on Clydeside need not only their brothers and sisters in Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield and London, but more increasingly their brothers and sisters of Turin, Madrid, Lisbon and
'A parliament in Edinburgh will not help us one inch of the way to freedom. It will be as big a sham as the one
of the international working class. We could add a lew other cities to the
But the essence of a Leninist political intervention is to grasp the vital next step. This is lacking from Peter Porteous comments on devolution, They have such an abstract propagandist ring to them that one could be Torgiven for believing that they emanated from the headquarters of the Socialist Party of Great Britain
A similar argument could be used on abortion. We could say that we are for abolishing the family under abortion on mandy all this nonsense about Free
If we had to choose between a first past the post'
and proportional representation wa could argue that both were bourgeois and therefore
attitude would also
abolition of the monarchy and House of Lords, and the
yes' in the raise demands which DING TEN Come toe pool some caus weaken ng tne British state. Or is the Glasgow SWP going to line up
Tories 300 social-gemocrats to preserve British sovereignty? We
Instead call for a Scottish assembly with full powers elected on a basis of proportional representation and fight for demands that should be brought before it at its
That is not only correct, but is the only way in which the Scottish Nationalists can be politically
THE HYSTERIA surrounding the Margaret and Roddy
We are for the abolition of the monarchy, the House of Lords and ail else related to it. But the hypocrisy surrounding this
First: If it had been a 47 year old Prince Charles or some Duke who had a relationship with a woman many.
orgy of male chauvinist triumphalism. There's life in the old dog yet' ype of remarks would have swept the 'popular press The double-standards of the British establishmem
Second: Margaret does not have the right to be a Princess and live off the tax-payers money, but nor does ine Queen or Philip or the whole lot of them. But she does have the right to live with whomever she chooses. Neither the Church nor Buckingham Palace nor Fleet Street should be allowed to Inflict the hypocritical
Express and Sun devote acreage or space to this whole stral, une same papers back racism, corporal punishment, SPUC, elc. They claim that Margaret is setting a bed example to the nation. Ot course we know that their dally dose of
ipporters
IT BECOMES clearer |
every day that race is
going to be an important
issue at the next general
election. DAVID JONES
discusses three
which
week's news.
THE TORY PROPOSALS
Just as Tory students at the NUS conference were refusing to accept that Tharcher
Whitelaw were racists the Tory leaders were upping the racist stakes. William Whitelaw, the man who is supposed to b liberal on race, Tory proposals to cheering Tories in Leicester.
They were not the only ones
cheered. Leicester National Front atronghold. Loud cheering was reported in the gutters and cily as well. The Nazis were Watclaw's proposals struck happy. several hard black people in this country. If the Tories are elected they will: tal prevent parents and children from joining their families in chimpetenty register of wives this country; women will not have the rich children under to marry men who live outside Britain unless they leave this country: (d) visitors will not be allowed to stay; (e) no more amnesties fo illegal immigrants': (f) pass
to check immigrants and (g) to encourage voluntary repatriation".
TRICKLE
These indicate the desperate Inells to which the Tories are prepared to go to win votes. We stress this because, apart from the Government has reduoed black utmigration to a tiny trickle.
ALL OVER the Socialist Linity campaigns are moving into top gear for the 4 Nat Jocal election.
In BIRMINGHAM Sunday Mercury last week led into its election coverage on the
Unity Birmingham Saltley - Chris Adamson, full time NUPE official Longhridge cundidate ut the city connell elections six yeurs ago. Small Heath — Lawrie White, who
wurken, bas of the rapitaled clos.
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Tory proposals, Bidwell's
issues
dominated last
delivered the
is
sewers of the
blows against
popular support by vically out flanking over 18 Syd Bidwell notwithstanding
CYNICAL 16:
"temporary" policies.
If you 'voluntary"
The time is
Conservative Party!
BIDWELL'S LETTER
the Select the Labour already The Guardian This
country Party.
the Solo -campaign. Ladywood election caed!candidates are:
GOEROTO and Hicker •Party and IMG member. Sparkhill -Amirkable militant and IMG member.
Duddeston ward | Puleman — Birmingham Area
OUR POLICIES
Stair Firls sad the race binned lutions that are in the interess, scof E
Socialis: Challener belless that the top vile
These tact an arenas should be base don the
correspondence, fascists in unions
"/E's a bit like our policies-
It harms people but not property."
The Tories know this, bur wrote: they feel that they can gain
demaRo.
Labour,
during
The cynical aspect of this is Covernment that they are quite prepared to tolerate growing harassment of black people by racist thugs That is the net result of Tory matter
want to encourage repatriation then
The ime he surely me to.
surely ripe Enoch Powell to reture to the are they Sydney?
The
Last Saturday the Labour MP for Southall and chief defender Lahour
Committee before proposals on immigration, Mr realistic" party? S. Bidwell, penned a letter to
socialist
secretary of Selly Oak Lutur
All Saints — Billie Campbell former Communist Party ward 021-643 9309. candidate and NOPE branch secrelary at All Saints hospital. feste for
Rughih Ahsan, Rover
Pat Rever shop steward Street.
Khan TGWU In Christoplier presses. candidates - saragaline for their liheration. in all ibare highing for estabet demaracy
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NEUTRON
BOMB
Jews.
OUt
*le has always been worth a try to take coloured immigration out of the cockpit of
conflict the interests of race relations. If
the BICA General Election, it appears that a Tory
would be JUILIC realistic on this issue than a Labour Government, I think at this time it could be a major
leading to Labour
'REALISTIC
Just listen to this language. The Tories are more realistic
ward "realistic" has always been used to describe Powell's racist utterances. The
What tell do note
Party? long he joins the *morE
We repeat: Southall Lahour Party should boot out this man. He is an utter disgrace.
NIS general secretary, editor Brum Student. The campalen headquurters is ut 76h Digbeth,
In BRADFORD the muni-
candidale Rueben Goldberg is alreody printed. The campaign, which is hacked by one of the two local Indiun
cun be contacted at 145
copies LONDON 100 the manifestos are rolling off the
SU standing in Spitalfields.
3
huare. T feelions andendencie
FASCISTS AND UNIONS
The national press has talked a great deal about the iniquity of utions booting out fascists The same newspapers sup perco The ban imposed on Communists holding office a Lhe hecuht at the cold War, CYcl in unions like the Transport aDd General Workers Union These bypocrites justify bans on the left, but attack unions for being 'underocratic" when it is a quescion of fascists.
Socialists sould support the ban on fascists holding office in the unions, The reasons are simple They cannot represent all the members in their union They wunt to repatriate black unionists and they are hostile to
On the question of booting from unions, we believe that it is best this to practica activities We aDC in favour disciplinary action against any union member (regardless ol whether he/she is formally a NF member) who discriminate on the basis of creed on race The same applies to physical harassment and atracks.
CODE Instead of demanding chi expulsion of all NF member we should institute a code of conduct in every trade unión Union Railwaymen has alrendy done this. making racist activity disciplinary offence This would both be more effective (atter all fascists could Formally leave the NE to stay in a union) and more educative THE THE POSE OF TO WOOD A simple exelusion, if NF bembership were praved, would not work and even if it did it could he counter-produc tive, switching the debate to one on democracy rather than racism and fascisin.
Fi py-elecuor campaign last year. Deptford,
The six Islington candidates Bed a he beast by winnine the support of Islington Press, a local puper with 3000 circulation.
More news next week. Keep us posted on how your local campuign is going. Send YOUr election liferature and news of the campaign. *Turo to pages & andy for more Socialist Unity news.
The intenses uf murders ned rapital
scale. Capitalism has nut mely coated
wald markel, il Bas erected wedd
on we internatanal scale. The unce wit in the
In Britale it implies armanding-thr im tale withdrawat of Brish troops Imam Irelan and irting the Irish people determine their out
taru commod nor the pro-Mescus
nerolationary bocinibe parties are mone nettsmare farmurable chan mer the preceding three ecades, Iir sich partes run naly he huill rating seciprianise and seng interr
Tecessile. This miam le night lo organis
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*We're out to win people to the SWP and to socialism'
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well as its views
putting its PETER PORTEOUS
What Is important about the hy-election campnign?
The important thing we are trying to
LOL TO LIDE Socialist Workes Party, to pain membership, and to win people to campaigns of the SWP as well as to the general fight for socialism.
We want to show people there is a fight, and to cash in
disillusionment exists: people who are sick of this rotten syslem.
How de Communist Party's campaign?
The CP are tail-ending the left wing of the Labour Party. Its election material says that Sammy Barr, the CP candidate, is a local man and he "knows the situation". But it's politics that counts it's the light for socialism. The CP*s campaign just to Sammy Bart chance".
Militants need airmunition to fight all the time, not just in this by-clection, but in their
associa-
Campaign.
What about the ledler vour party Scollish Committee (reprinted March, Socialist Challengel?
We believe there are militants
in the CP cau work with. With the CP as a whoie, there are areas where our oganisations loecther. We can say we want a joint campaign against
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 April 1978 page 3
Garscadden by-election
PETER PORTEOUS is the candidate of the Socialist | CP! Workers Party contesting the Garsgadden seat in the current by-election in Glasgow. PAT KANE, Socialist Challenge supporter from Glasgow and an activist in the Socialist Unity campaign, questions Porleous about the SWP's orientation fo the Communist Party
on scotlish
Socialist Unity is actively supporting Porteous while
own campaigning employment.
On the redundancies in the for example, would heable to sponsor a jount
now. There are ways we can LEIS heip to smash the system.
Do you think that the CP is socialist alternative to the
No, I see the SWP as an that alternadive. I think there are the various, CP members who because of the particular nature of the CP will tail-end the left of the Labaur Party, They see themselves as some Son of Eurocommunists, likethe Ralian CP.
What we are saving is if that's the situation, then okay. we've got differences. But that shouldn't stop rogether.
NO SHINK BUCHE PELLOR arena the SWP can get the same "give sort of emily with the CP as you
I think that in elections you should generally scate your cran policies You should ay are the SWP and we mean this.
Wedon't believe in parliamens, but the elections are a good place to put forward your own policies, CP It would be silly to say there are no differences between the CP and the SWP, or that we should paper them over if they exist. What we say is there are FOLL certain areas of work where we could
work Do you think that if the SWP weren't in ш- gadden you should vote for the
Well.I think we would be
Assembly. for the Lahour canoate In a
partiamentary election Given that Donald Dewar, material. the Labour
Garspadden, right-wing shit, we wouldn't support him if the SWP was not contesting the cloction.
There may he a election this year. The CP will he standing candidates. Do you think you should vote for
1 think it will be up to cach particular arca. our particular strategy is to "vote to the left of Labour". But I would say that there are going to be particular circumstances where that's not going to be the
In your press release you say we
always WORKERE
factory?
Gars-
are
would call for a vote
candidate in working class.
such
concerned people zeneral
this is a the CP:
In general,
it's Class not Country tha Divides Us
that the Assembly won't solve any problems for the Scottish working class. workers. Can you explain that a
Try tostave off the Nationalists, WORKINSIS and malionalism, We-see that as nothing other than tactics to bring about a division in the
I believe that people should vole no to an Assembly, and fight against divisions in the working class. As far as l'm.
tise factories, people in Yarrows,
talking about devoTution. They are not saying that thar it's al
big major thing.
What they are talking about
li's very easy to smash the nationalise argument when you
effect are working in a place like
It Is ban of the insernational shipbuilding in dustry. It's easy to smash the argument in Chrysier as well.
Where we've got members: it's casy to hammer down the nationalist acguments because what
PORTEOUS/SWP
[ELECTION posters pubished by the Socialist Workers Party for its Garscadden election campaign.
they lead to splits in the
What we are standing for 1s the view that people who wail to link up with are the Maiclester, Liverpool, That' how to talk about desolation.
A lot of people are seeing the issue as clectoral capital, to
lying to the working class.
do see referendum vole!
Well 1 think that there should be a no vote, Bur I don't think
that important.
Do you see the fight against the Scottish Nationalist Party solely in terms of the fight inside of the factories? What
do think the Assembly will have?
Once there is an Assembly then all the arguments of the SNP will be proven false. The particular crisis that we are in will not be solved no matter
sort bureaucratic l
The Workers
Will Never United
Be Defeated!
machinery is put up. or whal sort of bureaucracy is set up. whether it's from Edinburgh or Manchester or London. Anything all USCHE
There is never going to be CHUBLE HAIRY TO CO ATOUR because this system Cannel afford to give the working class what they need. We bould be campaigning for socialism, not a new Assembly.
Since the Assembly is going fo be set up unwar. do wa think that the SWP should stand cadidules in the assemhly elections."
To be honest, not really. We don't stand in municipal elections because SCC them as a nonscise and we don
parkamentary system. But we can use thi
our ideas across to a huge amount cil neonie
Our line for the Assembly electiors would be the same as for the local elections, we wouldn't stand.
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Occupation becomes the fashion
Liverpool general strike on 9 May
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women unemployment.
weeks ago, says the same thing. lose.* STEVE POTTER MARY ROCHE and |
The modern pD Centre factory was opened only 18 months ago. Owned by Swiss-based company factories in Israel, Italy Switzerland, it was to manufac ture clothing for Marks and Spencer's retail outlets.
closing before workers become eligible for statutory redundancy payments under
Employment -TOLELLIN Act's two-year rule.
Mennwhie of course. the firm has taken advantage of
grants to the tune of E20 a week
and do bei cent of the cost of the £400,000 ever-mounting
writes MARK TURNBULL.
The conference was opened by a whole host of Labour
movement officials and time-
SCEYELA
Stan Pemberton, president of
the Transport Union,
Robinson 0f the Leyland
ombine committee, local NiPs
Eddie Loyden and Eric Heffer
were all there.
Heffer did someching
which few could disagree
when he prociaimed:
can't really rely on MPs to fight
unemployment
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 Aprif1978 page 4
Women lead struggle
TWO HUNDRED workers at the Fashion Design Centre clothing factory in Knowsley are occupying against closure. While labour leaders in Liverpool dither, these workers — the overwhelming majority
have struck a decisive blow against
Everyone in the occupation, which began three
'We have nothing to
The workers occupied three ago Stop machinery being off pay company s numerous ors. The workers are Cemandwith ing that, however it is done, all and Jobs are saved in the plant Ward include at a fr Possible demands taking over, which is what they would prefer, or the formation of a workers" co-operative The closure came after a number of lay-offs. A phone call the day the plant was closed was all the notice which the workers received. Afler a mass meeting which unanimously decided to occupy. attended a meeting called by the liquidator in the factory.
The occupation is run strict democratic lines.
FDC struggle: "young women have been the backbone of the occupation:
Unemployment conference
A ONE-DAY Merseyside general strike on 9 May and the establishment of a council of action were the two major decisions of the Liverpool Trades Council conference on unemplosment held on Sunday.
This was the reply of over 500 delegates to the
unemployment crisis in Merseyside
The remark was greeted with instant applause. went on to insist: "We've worn out tbe carper Minister's other offices." The aim of these endeavours turned out to bi picas for the creation of 3 MITTE TOF SCS STOC This retlectea LIONER BOC AC CONCENCE - between those who wanted
"You demands. those
deputations
women and two men reports back meetings, arranged to allow the pardon. Up to 12 ot the 200 workers attend the meetings Involvement or women with children has been during ine school hoboals as the factory is difficult to reach.
LOLS
moved the undertaken four-hour shifts in credit- bringing their children with
Young women have been tbe backbone of the occupation. Many of them volubteer for the 1 Firm night shift.
CRIED While the few young male workers have been to tbe fore in representing the strikers' case outside the factory, they are well aware of the problems.
There is a danger that the workers women might start to see me as
La boss', says John chairperson of the occupation committee.
The have to be active themselves.
The Communis backed resslution talked of a complete change of strategy to BAHTINUE DE BIG RISI affecting its political, socin and economic institutions.
This consisted of expanding the economy and pushing the Labour Governmen: lefrwards. bur Heffer CONTRAST
going to the In contrast, Bill Hunter of the
Workens and the Engineering maintained: "The working class bus been imprisoned in wage controls and are being led into
milin vicious trap
The only questions that arise with this Government are how
who to bind the working ciass to lobbies, and wage controls, bind them to the
slump policies of the multi-
occupation committee of 10| He invited the Liverpoo
WELLING LIESS
the women occupiers.
difficult CANALS
have stand.
sometimes a lot of attitudes,
1 heard about
would be fine."
security chieis, Who are single
NIEVANS
*That's why they
Party
banks
cautious:
Leyland economic.
very decided
company
Revolutionary Party passod called
Union isation
of mass threatened with closure. Yer the platform
occupation.
Women's Action Group to visit the occupation to discuss with dale
ation committee member, is in no doubt as to how the struggle Harold Wilson. began. "It was what happene at Leyland and Birds Eye whic ACTION gave us a kick forward,' he
*We knew we had to take a action.
"The occupation has changed
The adds. *Everybody has good points to raise over what we should do.
It's changed my attitude, When unemployment.
the ciosure don't mind telling you that their cried. 24 years old, and I cried.' determined
Support for the strike has been mixed. The workers have had sympathy from everyone
could car sympathy we the plant
Finance is the main problem.
Alter a battle with local social
the occupiers SHITE supplementary benefit. Hut not the married women, of course DonationMoney is needed for food and
Knowsley bring women workers into the Knowses.
international conference,
Derek Robinson was much
He hoped delegate to would become viable producer of motor vehicles', which were the
reasons that Leyland exe Speke and another 12,000 jons in the
EFFORT
The final resolution that wa
for nationalfirms cicaling
redundancies, a programine of those
public works and the setting up of action committees in plants
at the conference was quite willing to
give a kick in the teeth to the leadership
workers at the Fashion Design pouncil,
Centre whose occupation is in
the lead of the fight against
Jol McNally speat his own
travelling London to see the MP for the Huyton constituency in whichi
Now the occupiers want to.see North,
Plentiful support has come from stewards at the Massey Ferguson faciory and other plants nearby. the
However, others have prefer red to ignore the fight against
While the occupiers admit
inexperience, they Weare staying for as long as it takes, say chroe young women on the occupation day shill. They bad been in
9am, were leaving al Spin. back shortly before midnight.
It seems a long time ago that managersent used to organise Miss FD' competitions!
FD [Liverpool. Randels Road,
Estate, fright
Corr cbairperson of the Farry Williams, refusod to call on the FDC
speak, and proposa that all or purt of the E350 collection de given to 1hc occupation of these clothins workers was turned down by the platform without a vole
The two most postive features of the final resolution
calling for the trades council to set up a council of
action, and a one-day stoppage thramhout the counts May, But as these resolutions / Tendenposed by man in do
Lrades every effort will be needed to ensure they are carried out successfully:
INBRIEF
Teachers' Elections
THE RESULTS of the recent National Union of Teachers executive elections show just why a united, democrtic socialist opposition is needed
the present union leaders. WrITES KEN JONES,
The far represented solely by Socialist Workers Party member Dick
from Inner London.
Why is this?
The main reasons stem tom
setbacks teachers suffered, and the executive?: Be to mobile natonal
Fragmentation of the CIT a0os TO CEL problem.
In Inner London, three left
positions: in Outer London, si seals were jus: thrown away bo
Although it was clear this kind of result was on the cards as long as there were no united candidates. the Rank and File grouping in the union - led by the SWP: persistently refused to organise a joint election slate with the Socialist Teachers' Alliance.
Dick North, in last week's Socialist Worker, openly knowledged that the Socials: Teachers Alliance Important vanguard force. This new stance could heip create future united action.
Inner London: North (Rank and ELo1623 Richardson
wing), 1594; Fisher Teachers 1.376)
Regan (Socialist Alliancel, 732. Leum (Rank and File). 332,
Outer London: det: results only) Finch (STA). 259; Foulds (STA), 215; Gerald (RAF). 202
(R&F). Haveock (Workers" Power). 148; Hulborow 188Fl. 136
Manchester Cop Out
OPPOSITION is mounting in Manchester to the reactionary campaign being waged by the police under evangelist James Anderton The force's Chief Constable. MARTIN COLLINS reports
Anderton's moral crusade
says and women who rave the merse to demand aborcion facilities extends to all areas of comccenics life
From the pious closure of wil tight chias ut midnight before Good Friday, and the Anderion's activities extend to theR October €250,000 exercise
allowing National Front leacier Webster march through Tameside streets.
To emano thic cops are prepared to greetely. Arms and palie deal with jotetly closed down Colynuest ducing an anti-terrorist waT exercise last October, This was suppressed by the national media
Terrified passers-by were
amazed as the Army simpi
stopped life in the communi for 12 houra Peggie CHOL herded around by the Army and warned to say in their houses Local residents who were not let in on the reasoning beand this WEr tame
they had Been invaded! And they weren't far wrong
After the stepping up of Anderton's achiN wecks, the International Marxist Group is calling for a fall Jabour movement enquiry into the activities of Manchester Police and for the sacking of 1 James Anderton.
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Lucas Shop Stewards' Corporate Plan
Nursery class stays OK?
Socialist Challenge supporters
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matter how desperately you may need one.
space.
capacity on responses to the plan.
Capitalsni 1s a 555ccmIn which production is determined Dy Dront tauT man soch need. It is also a system where workers are employed and discarded in accordance with the whims of the market.
The strategy proposed by the Lucas Acrospace combine shop sichards continee Is ualguc Anticipating redundancies, the combine committee began in 1974 10 co-ordinate production of a corporate plan.
VOLUMES
The plan, which now rums 10 six volumes, details a series of
he made using the skills of the present workjoice. Not only keep all the work force fully keep all the workforce employed, bur instead producing items such (obsolete) mechanical systems for jet engines, the products corporate plan are all potentially socially useful.
They Include transport sys
electrical braking
medical equipments, telechiric (hands at a distance) machines, and oceanics. Re search and development of some of these projects is at present taking place in the recently extablistied Centre fo Alternative Industrial
debate
race
coverage
DELEGATES representing the снігу'"
Journalists, meeting in Whiley
surprisingly political bonfer-
implications, racism and pay will take up most of the debates and friage meetings. JOHN SETAENATEL TRAURS.
New technology represents an laimediate challenge for the National Union of Journalists.
SLE J0ost al the
which cally, treated the NUI with contempt. Faced with such a test of trade union principle, the NUt is making acceptance of the new techiology, and the
job-loss, continSenE on an industry-wide ASTECILE with the
While this approach gives journalises some unaccustomed leeway in extracting heip from the print unions on other issues. it is shortsighted. The left's respanse has been to call for work-sharing with no loss of 1 impact,
SOCIALISTCHALLENGE 13 Apnl1978 page 5
"No islands of responsibility'
IF YOU are under 15 or over 45 and live in Birmingham you will not be eligible for a kidney machine, no
A portable kidney machine is among the 150 products included in the corporate plan prepared by the combine shop stewards committee in Lucas Aero-
In this article, presented by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, TOM REILLY, a steward for TASS — the Engineering Union's white collar section — at Lucas, reports in a personal
Technical Systems at NE Wanna Pa VienC The stewards, BUT SELL BEES BES panacea for workers under
SULTE they certainly Bot the assuRio 01 this corporate plan that Lucas
into a trail blazer to transform this situation in the There can be no islands of responsihility and concern in the sea of irresponsibility and depravity.
Not surprisingly, the response of Lucas Acrospace management has been less: esthusiastic. While most firms these days are only too keen to diversify, Lucas rejected the plan occause anD IDE proposals were 'incompatible" of Win sis current i Douct Tange.
REVIEW T1LE Yet in the 1977 review for shareholders and employees the Company claimed: "In the from of out minds will need 1o be the conviction that everything we are doing is being done in the interests of people, and the only ultimate resources we have are human ingenwity and effort.
To this end, the Aerospace division recently announced the
with the 1,500 jobs. and sacking further
Journalists
pay and no job less, together with the demand that the vastly increased capacity of the new technones should be wed lo make the redia more accessible - and accountable - to the working class. racint, thị executive has pur forward an extremely positive proposing new guidelines for the reporting of racist organisations. "The NUT jots journalists cannot be netural in the face of orginisations which seek to spread racial hatred", il argues.
A call also comes from
palen against the
their propagania at the next Gencral Election.
On pay, the NUJ exccutive surely creates British trade union movement by proposing no policy at all for the second year running. In this vacum, several demands lor sliding-scile policies are pected to have a considerable
Bradford factories. And more jobs are threatened.
This response is not just that of a single employer. Behind Lacas stands the Government, which is Lucas Acrospace's biegest customer significant customer for many ciner pans or tne empire. programmes have been substantially assissed by the State. with the payment of interest
however, do
•WE ARE offensive." say: It is message from the South
Oxford Nursery where parents and supporters have been in isolation, occupation
weeks against the threat of closure, ANITA RICHARDS Support whelming. As the long struggle begins to make the than County Coucil back down on
Its plan to cul the class, over
signed peutions supporting it.
needing nursery places has been drawn up to show the need for the class. One trades branch has given ESO, and the district secretary of the Public Employees Union has caliod chairperson
The first demonstration since the occupation began war held in a carnival atmosphere and drew three Speakers from the campaign pointed out how the attack on
atlack standards and jobsthrough the Government's
500 Trades Council president Jobn
Power pledged his support and
Tor action at the next trades IT IS nearly a year since the first issue of Socialist Challenge went on sale at the 1977 annual conTerence of the National and Local Government Officers' association Scarborough.
NUJ
Delegates attracted to the pamotion per were acutely aware of the
number of people in strugale and apainst the cass collaboratio
policies of the trade union leaders and the Lahour draper ment. The paper's of bullding a class struggle lett wing in the labour movement painted to a solution.
National This need became rudely ap
parent as NALGO conference endorsed the Social Contract policies by a higher majority in 1977 than in bistory in the previous years.
The failure of the left to huild national mast action in support of NALGO's official opposition to the cuts allowed the
ex- right-wing leadership to wind
down the union's campaign against reduced services and
workers at the Coventry and, charges on borrowed capital.
INHABEL
1970-71. balance sheet Industries last July and
Lucas employed investment on the That's the
Class
for three
reports
has been over-
Tory
have to act against
council meeting
hundred people.
education especially
_cuts. Oxford BuT cry
Statement by
in NALGO
Communist Parts Teft Bureanerats Besion that
Paign against
settling
July
DISORGANISED
Covenunent's the Socialist dominated Group
crats:
It benefited substantially with ures
-BULLLIE Lucas Aerospace together in
consolidated for Lucas showed deferred taxation at E56m, 13 per cent of the total capital
Lucas is therefore heavily committed to the Government and it seems inconceivable that the company would attempt
211,
Easter party held in the occupied classroom.
by savage cuts.
It is not only children who The
by deprived of a proper sars in compromise educalion Workin- nirents
driven back inlo then Traditian al role as housewives by the lack right
places, Single parents and others with special
NOW LO chance to huild their own lives sabotage NAIGO'S overtime
ban apainst frozen posts.
•Tern beti
in alliance with the union's conference
fostered the the threatened support and third nhase of may restrain! could be fought later in the year
conferetice.
Phase Two means that yeater tetel meters wich allowed the lef postpone belatedly trying to get a special burcaucrats conference called to reject the leadership's obvious intention
quietly for Coverament-imposed 10 Cent mater hase Three per
London
The sectarian orientation of
Workers Party- have NALGO has disorganised the manouevres
chorts of genuine midlants 10 build a broad-basod revolution-
POSSERL opposition of the left bureau-
setting
When the reformist Broad Left in London NALGO tried claiming to set itself up as a rival to the
such "policically delicate clos
at least tacit CORE TENUE!
Goverment Ministers and the TUC expressing sympathy for the combine comatittees Acro-
capital with unique demands and at the same time are giving _FOr workers penerally new hope. They are demonstrating that while the demand for the richt to work is of itself correct, it is also inadequate in contronting
Oxford campaigners teedled the counch's offer of playgroup. which would only be part-time. They say: "Free
every child and provision should be made for stays. all chidren who wanta place.:
Tan to boild support nationally in the lanour NAG it was left to Sociulist Challenge supporters to lead the fight for a democratic
- London NALGO left to decide its own future That light won broad
forced che left bureaucrats to call such
But, it was the inadequate mobilisation of the NAG and the abstention of half the SWP Progressave Allance on their
ALTERNATIVE
The experience of this fight
NALGO Socialist Chullenge readers group. We
been fightine for CLUE TO SC BEECHLEAH
of the left bureaucrats and the self-defeating separation of the NAC.
This alternative cannot be the
up of third narrowly-based organisation
be the sole repository of socialist action.
capital.
Tactically they are treading new ground. Should they win, workers will gain encouragement to go forward for further demands of this type. We should all play whatever role we can in assisting victory
further information contact = the Centre Alternative Industrial and Technological Systeits, NELP, Longbridge Road, Dagenham, movemnen. the women's moverent and from all those ALLITES HILLS Meanwitile the task of keeping
Your help is needed to inake sure South Oxford Nursery
Donations and messages of support to: Michelle Flood, 35 Alexandra COTTON The real alienative lies in a SILEWAUHNCIHE ESS ARTHUN incloding the PA and the NAG
democratic class strugsle left involving all those prepared to actively oppose Labour's
Readers of this paper have heen comtinie diona these lines in London, welcoming anto our group some who agre with this orientation while not supporting Socialist Chullenge
Now we have decided 10 organise a national inecting of all Sociulise Challenge readers in NALGO to discuss how we can campaign for the policies of the paper in the union, and in particular how to further the fight for a class struggle left wing in NAIGO
Them in all a place in
N21.13 YE pooled fare will operate
All readers BE NARAO an urged to write to Socialist Challenpe NALGO Box 50, London N1 2PX. Those MELEOUISIM able contribate 10 discussion
be participants shortly with furLECT SETHE BICLASS
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"Historic compromise'
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NUS elections
setbacks
THE BROAD Left leaders were Broad Left had received a serious battering.
reports-
T&GWU
against
officials reports JOHNNY HAINE.
Nearly 200 trade unionisis took part coming from Wales, Scotland, Merseyside, North-sast, Birmingham and London. Members from Temons ol ne unic vere present, making it the strangest meeting of TGWU members in T-HIA-
Speakers at the meeting exolalned-the background
LELHSSUIS Cowies
proved beyond any doubr the MoCarthyite nature of the attack
The seal had been set for the witch-hunt at last Friday's local Trades Council
TICCLEL.
AUEW righiwinger Powers, who is laying charges against the militants, issued a statement which had been 'clearod by the TGWU Signiticantly: he RISO reported to have said that all the enquiries into Cowley three in the last four years жетс "designed to curb activities of certain people'.
Agiinst C1174 conference speakers took aspecis ol toe walch-hunt One militant is accused of 'abuffling nisTeEL atEne nisn" Thornett Evidence against
Includes speech he made at the last BIETIIE Conterenci of the union which proves" he was against Jack Jones!
Other speakers explained
compelled to launch such a OLAEAT CLJUUEIR tically elected members. Their chale Contract and ваттстралов и
Iritish Leylund's bankrupte
that, for them, the workforce has speed ups, redundancies, wage CUs sgoing agreements conditions.
lead has lo. be shut up -LCLLU S BO CHLUUE
"E we're
LUCanE ASOR ULEU3u. isn't discriet secretary
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 April 187B page o
suffers severe
despondent at the end of the annual conference of the National Union of Students in Blackpool last week.
As nearly a thousand delegates debated racism, cuts in education, Ireland and other issues, it became clear that the alliance between the Tory students and the
COLINTALBOT, a member of the NU'S executive,
Fight grows-
witch-hunt
"HOW CAN you defend something you haven't got?'
That was the question answered by last Saturday's Oxford conference called to defend democracy in the Transport Union and the Cowley 9. These militants are threatened with political victimisation by full-time
HACTANAEU delegale. called for the EnIrY SOLo BUckIC S acErBEes and recounited how Buckle had all salo to nun me won c aware agree to union rules.
Some said this issue had to be the bee ng of a campaign for real democracy in the TOWU CUH All officials should be elected; the they should be recaliable by the membership; and they should vel no more in salary inao cne average wage of their members.
Dock-workers how they hopod to launch such a campaign and a paper to fight for union democracy.
John Others stressed moce the MeCO tu wo DuLto membcis daa link these altacks Bamardes Pn Wai B18sEG was full backing of union officials.
NE COETELL SOOKCEAD resolutions, The first read:
This conterenoe notes with the concera the continuous disciULISSETBIS leading members in the Cowley up assemby bant and demand: that these charges are stopped."
SLEAYCS UEU MCE BauI the branches and commitlees represented here and obtain the affiliation of these bodies -- to extend this campaign within the TGWU and oblain afiliation lo the TASA IIEE
cameree o ene bass of
conterence on te 08s alfiliated branches in the event of any disciplinary action being taken against any Cowley 9.
This conference will decide any furiher action to he taken an dcience orRose wscu.
The secand carge we sceng conggERce discurs the posibility TOTRSTE UTE IOLEA Lhe TGWU with policies for a lightback against the Social Contract.
LULEAUS Challenge ROOUt porters in the TGWU are urged w'ny 10 Tiel Coc chese Dolcies In David their workplace.
The conference was characicosco Dya numoer important decisions. First, = majority in lavour of denying racists and fascists a platform. poaue me ramen, denis somewhat Prevor Brili Let enter
Piulies.
President; the liberal outrage of BUCSSDNCEHDCU ces and aner se Ng fon) T Ones.
Organisation of Lahour Snudents (NOLS) voted with the far left and swung the vote against the Tory-Communist coalition.
This represents an important step forward.
surped diate tory
average vote for the "top eight" execulive positions was only 96. and their presidential candidate received only 74 votes. Only Tory. rcachod the executive, with a block of 50 Broad Left votes Sue Slipmian and her friends preferred executive In Marxisks!
The revolutionary left inemeritios the maie soti nad ODESEJUL Leti-Toryalliance. The average COOUU VOIOLEE Students Alliance and National Orpanisation of Internationa Socialist Societies (SSA and NOISS) was 270, 299 far the Broad Left. And it is boubttul whetber one tory on the executive will stop debate in Tory student ranks about leaving the NUS. asked one an SECOND
Ibe SSA came accond in all except one of the eight "top exocutive posts. The exception was vicepresident (welfare) Mnere Puson Downe, 4 334 militant From Middlesex Paly,
The SSA gained another two DIScEr EcA ACcT TolERS ham Poly) and Colin Campbell (kent Universitvi ate or theNUS executive explained PAT SIack
from Highbury Tech.
Despile the clear gains by the far left, it would he a mistake to mer too euphone. luere was no real discussion on how to tackle
with the
Edinburgh
MANCH AURITSI
gains
the
of the
THO MASS Edinbareh last week reaffirm ed the determination of 1,500 striking zas workers in stas out smil Scottish Gas unconditionof OBStaTeS InC
clerks who were sucked while negrading claim report JOHN BRENNAN.
While strike dilicias 0f lhe soca govero ACIL MUESER
education, immigration controls.
UNITY
of "Unity TILN campaign forward,
divisions among the (Nabona
victory.
vote Theit
union financing.
Bayliss, DEFEATS
Tory the
SNO BON LU OO THIMIE
SOBALIS the No
Commanists. compared to the "ahissidients" worked-out the exeCutIve
Miliano
organisationa
many
way forward.
The
together with mass campaigning union. I NOISS militant
revitalising Lhe
the serious problem af racism Junion autonomy.
Gas strike
support
gaeeting In the bosses to discuss statement.
throughout Scarland wages
workers at
POTKCIS who leaders and national gas supplies
WOn NALGO buer culling were attempting to persuade | industrial supplies. The grow-
Grunwick
Tuesday Grunwick
future
quotas and previous week
The Broad Left believes that strike
against Racism ' said1he shows the This envisages an TUC
ties, the Church and the State
The problem is that it is the State which has imposed quolas and the college authorities that are implementing-them.
Tar ict prevented a serious fight on this question. Unless il does take place the "No Platform' vate could turn out to be a bollow
suppor: lor
The debate on student union autonomy was sterile - all the more so because the executive clearly knew about, and did nat report to conference, important Department of Education proposals on autonomy and Solidarity
JOHN
Despite the defeats suffered by the Tories, there was much contiiion on the left abon Unity. what these defears represented
The Broad Left was showing distisct sigos of strain, The Labour students were in open confllet with the executive ove
Platform' policy together with some hard-line
It was clear, however, that
have alternative the rampant retocmisnt of the
For the Socialist Student
the Conference
marked one year of growin;
and political strength. While there are still
problems, the SSA showed that a non-sectarian approach to the problems of TRUEDU SCULEDUEBS student movement allied 1o
ONE workers in struggle is the only
SSA has brought dren, together a significant opposition and shown itseif capable of when uniling ochers in the fighr for a
The next year will see chis appreach will also hear in the Louicge in prove sapie of Depariment"
mass move
the proposed attacks on student
¡lack of)
VALGO Disciplinary reiDSOPpOrt TurLnE solidarity action was spreading
.TIC ETICEI CEEUL
Backing has also come from
the British Gas operations branch, and from
operate the There is now tohe a ballet of che branch
certain
IN BRIEF
AT A PRESS conference or
30 March the strike commitloc clarilied is attirude to the
DE ALTE strike and pickets bubide the Crunwick Tactory troi 17 April onwards
The strike commirrer said that Jack Dromcy slatemen: of the
predicting the CIA METEC SIHKS HSIT IO CIRH weeks had been misquosed. The real questions both he and the
comorittce were asking SHEMCH. WYLPL directed al APEX and th E i mot right said the strikers. that the Gorerament concihation service is a blind alley for our strike.
'Come clean and admiciit il we're getting nowhere. We say again, it is only trade union action on essential services chai can win both recognition and reiniMatemert.
The vatement also called for
the Groowick conference on 14 May and the conference on Garners EK HAINESLEEK
greetings LOCKWOOD!
Three months in Pentomville on a trumped up charge over 13 August.
S.E. London Socialist
London squatting victory sguatters, netudine o chr hundred and
was LAL Huntley Street, Central London won a victory in the High Court on 7 April housed
the Departabent of Health and Social Securits were prevented irom evictins: them, wsites PIERS CORBYN.
The ruling arone from the
HOTIE petence, and it may well continue with its efforts,
The case of the Huntley Street squatters provides practical test of the State's
duties under the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977. 11 Is the fiest inass
ing suppor: rellects the factthar| come aboutthrough fim rank MISE IS ai stace 1s the zicht to strike and union organisation. SACKINGS
Management has followed ap its sackings by informin
that il will take action agaiost strike leaders. On Friday, meter readers were suspended for refuaing to handle scab work, and gas fitlers joined the strike Gas on the same day
The Edinburgh meerines las wilk hem neroo failtme of fighting officials, David Suzaker, Lhe
TESELT announced thal the arbitrary
bosses (ad ramifications for all workers in
0005 300 180 35 NALGO'S resources will be made available the
It remains to be seen whether this promise will be met by the union's emergency committée. which meets tog weck. The Gas delays in exrending solidarity action suppest that this will only
Trade Union Diary
AUCHUCEN Monday,
Highi to Wa Tu Conterasce, PO Box 5
LONDON The Politice of Ecueaion
Treseing pagere fer 521 Buchal Londos
aremployed
uca oo Graup, 25 Highgsce Wes
Hil, Loncen W
LONDON GrUlImiCI StrHH DO- apolereico io te haie os Buniso: T.
LONDON Socialist Challenge neada
in NALGO meet to discuss how : campsign of the polities of the caps NatcO Sauntay 79 May Peele trom GC NALGO Meeting Longon NI 2PX
VOTO
REPAROL
evictions since the amnesty
declared by Greater London Council which led to 5,000 squatters being re
The GLC prouused crackdowp" to follow the annesty: The resistance shown by Huntley Stroet squatiers has set the scene for further moves in the crackdown.
The London Squatters Union has joined with Huntley Street squatters to force the Health Authorities ta negot late, and to buld a comenmn ity-based enquicy plans for Huntley ILILU Stree! the
BIRE EHL PRESSUEL
Militants are arguing that the
every worker in the pu bic sector
CETLUIM Вталсле: already committed to support ing the strike should spearzead the support campaien OPERATIONS
The example of the British
branch Hinckles, Leicestershire, which HTHEU •SOCHACT Edinburgh stake consittee. should be widely copied anc colections taken.
KALGO branches shoulc demand that the ,executive organisc an immodiate ballor and campaien for full suppor for a national gas solidaris strike. Weekly mass pickets of
Granton works Edinburgh are held pr ,Mandays al Spat , Contact: Edinburgh NALGO
Strikr Contittee Trades Council, Picardy Place T Edinburgh. Tel. 01-556 3006
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Abortion and the law
demand to abortion law.
and why unrestricted right of women to choose throughout the full nine
HE EXISTING LAWS regula-
Wales complex TUSLIME The - 1861 Olence Against the Persons Act establishes
CENTIL The 191 Abortion Act lays down conditions whereby abortion is not Illegal, provided two doctors certify Inal 1nC these conditions.
Afterthe see in pregnancy where the foetus would capable surviving outside the woman's body were il to be born (so called "viability"), abortion is regulated by the 1929 Infant Life Preservation Act. Viable foetuses may only be aborted
save the life the mother. Abortion law in Scotland differs in some respects but it still restrictve.
There is general agreement within the pro-abortion movement that a change in the law giving women a legal right of choice about abortion a a necessary part of achieving free abortion on demand in practice. But there are diffetences within
S.1I0381 Abortion Campaign itself kind of law which would legally express a woman's right to choose
Most imporantiv should a time limit on abortion - as now exists in the Infant LIfe Preservation Act remain? Or should the woman's right so make the abortion decision extend beyond the stage in pregnancy at which the foetus is usually considered viable?
Some people have a genuinely held 'moral belief that there is a point before birth when the foctus attains a fundamental human right — the right so life. They say that, from that point on, the foctus has the right to be protected by law from any therat to its ene woman en carries the feels the woman carries the foetus within her body. For the fervent anti abortionists, the right to life poin
near conception.
For many who accept abortion and, they sav. a woman's rieht to choose this point comes at around 28 woeks in pregnancy, when viability begins. But one of the problems of concoding that howlises start to have mighte ar the time. of viability is that modical
Sakurolay April 29:
Anton: Art Fron, Feu
SEXUAL POLITICS
The right to choose
At the National Abortion Campaign conference on 29-30 April, a day will be devoted to discussing 'A woman's right to choose' and the relationship of this
Socialist Challenge supporters active in the abortion campaign explain here the background to the debate,
they consider NAC must stand for the
months of pregnancy. advances already body al increasingly carlier stages in
A woman's right to choose only up viability will certain increasingly limited choice. Such time ready-made target for attack by the 01L80015035353 with the White and Benyon Bills, and Governmen Ministers restrictions by lowering the existing 28 week limit to 20 weeks.
The legal position of the focus must match biological facts. That is, while the foetus is undeniably a potential human heing, it is not yet a human being while itis still dependent upon, and a part of, a woman's body.
In therefore has only potential rights which can be The potential humanity of the foetus and is already partially reflected in law.
Pregnant women's passports the acknowledge one person travelling. on the the worb and therefore stillborn, the claims representative of me dead Toetus, but caused the in her ownright If a focus of a certain age is given legal righis which then have 1o be weighed against those of the woman, who decides whose precedence? The doctor?
Lawyers? The Church? If we allow that the foetus has rights we limit our democratic right as women to have total control over our bodies and our reproduction. Our right to choose is usurped by the legislature and the courts.
protect viable foetuses represent Stre want the state to provide abortion facilities. We do not want it to tell us when we can use them.
Supporlers at a woman's meht to choose only up 1o viability claim that they believe women are capable and responsible enough to decide fo Hennelves about abortion before 28 weeks. Who do they believe is better
NATIONAL ABORTION CAMPAIGN
CONFERENCE 29-30 APRIL
Free abortion on Demand
A WOMAN'S RIGHI TO CHOOSE
Sunday April 30.
10 am — All any
ДИНИТ ПИСИН3012 maine areal Lanes
OPEN TO ALL WHO STPPOKT NAC: AIMS
qualified man the woman herseil 10 decide amer 22 weeks. Many 01 u
ourselves. but what rent have we 1o
-OLECE choosing to havg one?
UNCONDITIONAL
abortion
foetu unless there were pressing
enabling fully understanding
Treads involod in the procedure she makes this decision, we should support her right to do so. She must alsd be allowed to choose the method become
180 C
delivered dead. we have scen
who
Jul and independent rahls of 1 own
without interference
the woman's right so choose dehate is not whether the foelus would be
claimed at birth. must have unconditional rights over
that foetus. between the
abortion legislation
oniy NAC, an lighting for the interests of women, to
proposals Reform Assocation
SEE HER LOBAL
rights The State? Service facilities
Tate abortion: no MP would
should repard an issuc as fundamental
OUCHSOIL
people to accept.
PRINCIPLE
an MP to sake up
restrictive to women.
support a restrictive Bill? No.
12 or
Again for women.
We
restricted. If the Bill was
implicated right to choose.
in pregnancy.
would not choose late abortion for
gencralise from such personal foelings
CE CHICOU
We do not consider that any
the medical
- the method whereby the forus is delivered alive (induced birth), or the one where it is
If she chooses induced birth, then once outside her body the baby has to be given every chance of surviving
from mother. For us, the crucial divide in
viable if it were outside the womb, bet whether it is still inside, and part of the woman's body. If so, the woman
This is the principle on which the
which NAC adopts ar its conference on 29-30 April aust be based. It is not the job
abortion campaign
take up such issues as the defence of NAME.. focuses. NAC should not adopt the
which incor- ADDRESS porate a time limit on a woman's right
choose by preserving the Infant
Allisort of excuses are put forward
Service partitics fith od Health
Stories, for women would want y carly late abortion, no doctor would do a agree to promote such a Bill, NAC
as the woman's right to choose as a
principle. difficult couph though that may be for many
Conference,
Even if today no woman requests SOCIALIST a late abortion, or would be ableto ge one if she did. NAC should still establish now the principle that for us, means a right to choose in law and in
Parliament, this should be on the basis of a non-restrictve Bill with no drawn at the time limits. As a campaign that stands for woman's democratic rights, NAC
responsibility for Bill North-west,
Does this mean that the National Abortion Competite shit aer
Bill giving a woman's right to chooso
28 weeks in pregnancy, we would judge that to be an advance on the existing law and a
Sleue Potter would argue for NAC campaign vigorously to per that Bil passed, while explaining the ways in which women's choice would still be
passed thi Fact that restrictions would sill exis again would not be the responsibility of NAC, since the campaign had nor taken the initiative in proposing such à Billin the first place. NAC therefore
in making compromises on women's rights for the sake of moral or tactical reasons.
the National Abortion Campaign is to truly represent the interests of women lirst and foremost, then it diflicult for must stand at all times for no medical
legal restrictions on a woman's
Abortion must be problems?" available as of right for women al any
This is the principie on which NAC's proposals for a change in the law must be based.
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That was one of the conclusions
Socialist Challenge supporters conference in Manchescer how on | April. Although the mocting wat smail, the twenty supporters who attended came from all over the
one observer travelled from Durham.
Paul Thompson, whn attended from Big Flame, explained that the
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Martist Group cold not be pur down to tactics, "There is a difference over how we analyse the vanguard, and who we think the paper should be aimed ar*, he explained.
from the editorial board, argued that Big Flame would paper if diey accepled the invitation -to join the editorial board. Thompson reported that Big Flame would he
discussing LAL proJect -BL Socialist Challenge at its forthconting
Supporters debated many aspects of the baner —— from tbe moster cover on the French elections to problems of
DOLE SEE OUTEL Everyone welcomed the open approach of Socialist Challenge but one comrade queried, Why does it seem to be
SUBOOTELLA RCE contributions published, while SWP
appear 10 few
The best way to raise money for the aper was, in one comrade's view, t
BONNE ZOME LOTUSE money to buy its own printing press.
9:45~500
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As well as these suggestions about
paper, supporters agreed bat in addition to education, local groups should get involved activity. Hus your local Socialist Challenge group debate the project of the paper ane pracuat proposeis to ex pan se infidence: If not, arganise one now and levite members of the Editorial board, We encourage reports on your
Socialist Challenge National Conference.
Next week's issue SOCIALIST CHALLENGE will be
rinting an in-depth report on th
National Women's Liberation Con disedenis in the Soviet nice n Terence: letter from fcature on Cuban cinema; as well as a one-page analysis and review of the Communist Party debate on the Morning Star
The following issue will be centred on issues related to two major events: the anti-nuclear denionstration on Saturday 29 April, and the anti-racist Carnival the next day. There will be several major 'speak-outs* including one by Rock Against Racism, and anocher by the Socialist Environment and Resources Assocation.
In addition, the Surplus Value will raise many of the questions to be detacation conference in London. debated The Politics
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disappear from the electoral map.
really Brixion, writes RICHARD CARVER.
Briston people are fiercely proud of where they live. Few would choose to move far away. But still "up and down the country Brixton has a stigma', a Jocal black told me.
For fascists, Tories, Labour, the stigma attaches to those who live there. Briston, more than anywhere, is synonymous with the West Indian community.
For local people the stigma belongs cisewhere: with the administrators all leveis. property speculators and capitalists squalid ghetto almost without parallel.
The area stall betrays its origins as a
late-Victorian middle elegance in the tall houses and wide streets manw still tree lined, Central Brixton is a knot of narrow streets and alleys, CULTESINN the shopping centre and market.
HUMILIATION
Spend five minutes in Brixton and you can't help but motice the two most obvious symptoms of inner city decay taken to the nth degree: unemployment
The jobless figures speak volumes. Since 1974 national unemployment has risen 50 per cent. In the same period borough has gone up 400
of blaci Icavers are jobless, and unemployed school leavers in Lambeth make un 30
blacks. The only growth industry in Britton is the labour exchange where they built a new extension a couple of vers back to accom odate the crowds
Young blacks spend their days on strect corners of outside the fengac and soul shops in the covered market, listerung to the records they can Deve afford.
CUTS
The causes are obvious: in the last ten years 169 firms have left Lambeth and only 61 moved in, a net reduction of 25 per cent in faciory space. largest caployer, the public sector, it's the saune.
Older West Indians remember with tired amusement the Loodon Transport recruiting campaigo in the Caribbean and the visit of a Tory bealth minister lo recruit hospital workers. The minister's name was Enoch Powell.
Recession and the cuts have changed all that. Local bospitals have been chopped: the Weir and South London Women's Hospital have Kings faces closure of its department. London Transport operates with a staff shortage of more than 10 per cent, and has faced savage cuts in Hs revenue support grant from the
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 April 1978 page 8
Britain's inner cities
BRIXTON:
The bureaucrats who draw up electoral boundaries are masters of understatement. Britain's most depressed inner city areas simply
The Gorbals becomes Glasgow Queens Park; Splott becomes Cardiff South. And the anonymously genteel Lambeth Central is
Department_
services? Why and even had a satisfactory answer.
LAUGHTER
government
class
in the gulters.
Down the
ok schooi cent.
With the
estate.
outside
gone and casualty
Speciul Patrol Group.
of the Environment.
Local people can only scratch their heads: if fares rise and jobs are lost why sot take on more workers to restore
continue ECt pay compensation to the former owners of the transport services? They haven't yet
Anti-immigration propaganda doesn't cut much loc among the white
population of Brixton. Transparently it
jobs. Blacks are taking no jobs at all.
group of blacks that the National Front in central Brixton. When the laughter
they sold me how the blood would run
But it's not just that. It in't liberal
multi-racial. Whites don't share the enorance on which racism is based
Broad in middle class Streatham the NF recruits heavily, but in Brixton it is regarded as a big joke.
What is not a joke is the fortress on
of Ches
FASCIST canvassing was discupied on 6 April when the Anti-Nazi Leugue got www of Ne members touring a Hal sight
SWP and Socialist Unity supporters followed the NF, who gort horribly lost - thev'd wl been shipped in from
wandered through the covered market to leers und saouuns and dook refuge in a Wimpy Bar.
When anti-fascisis told the munager who his customers were he refused to wave the NF. win were only rescwed hy the arrival of three vunloads of
AMSEINE DEENITION OF
Chit
AS SOON AS PEOPL
STCP BEING DECEIVEN
THEY STOP DONG A
THEY ARE TOLD VILLA ROAD
the corner of Canterbury Road and its blue uniformed inhabitants. They sec their job like an army of occupation but after the dramatie fallure of the black police recruitment campaign they don't even have quislings to help them.
Like all such forces they motivated by fear. A quick glance in the Canterbury station will reveal the largest, most backward and bigoted representatives
a force not known blacks on street corners still scare them witless.
Police knowledge of black poople doesn't extend far beyond Lord Pitt Learie Constantine and the Black and White Minstrels. But these blacks aren't smiling and stupid. They don't play cricket because there's nowhere to play. And their ausic is the music of the ghetto, sings Hob Marley. music is like them: it is young, black and very angry-
'SUB-CULTURE'
As a white it's not casy to build up g Jear picture bur in Briston there i whar sociologists disparagingly call a young, have reacted to depression by Store bacas parabians to recreating the Caribbean society their parents consciously abandoned when
arnived on Enoch Powell's invitation.
Whites, especially .cups, terrified by all night music, clubs chick with ganja smoke, and, above all, the
of blacks salvaging enjoyment from their surroundings. Brixton when the cope tell you to turn dowa your record player it isn't a polite
clubs monotobous regularity. You know it's coming when they drop Junior Murvin on the turntable:
*Police und thieres
In the street...
he polic have special weapons
eserved for the young: "sus" ar
DEAR BAILIFF
READ THIS NOTICE. FOLLOWING"
conspiracy laws. The most celebrated use of the conspiracy laws was schien 18 voule blacks picked up on confessions* extracted them in theft at the 1936 Notting Hill Carnival.
LUDICROUS
The charges
its conspiring with persous unknown to
scal property trom persons unknown. But then the law says you don't even nie to meer your An Old Bailey jury rejected most of these charges, police to tone down use of conspiracy, but any young black will tell you le or she isn't sufe while the laws are still on And there are plenty of other police Their
suspected person loitering with intent lo commit a criminal offence".
There is an arsenal of further laws giving the earch: the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1971 the Metropolitan Police Act 1879, and a range of local statules. And they are all used.
The law establishes the right of police to stop, search and arrest simply on the pretext that the suspect might have been going to commit an offence. Since magistrates minds are well artuned to seen police thinking, the cops get away with
it cvery time.
1g5. I
UNVERIFIED The atmospitere terrifying attack on human righis can take place is fed by media hysterin on "mugging. No paper has ever seriously challenged unverified police assertions
technically non-existent ofTence.
One example: about 18 months ago South London police survey on mugging on Peckham Kye
tion, wages.
St Street, SW4,
PLEASE DONT
CAN: MAKE YOU BLIND THANKYOU.
"sus", beaten up, and
implicating
were ludicrous:
co-conspirator
which has forced the
1824 for being
police power to stop and
robbing
in which this produced
RALLY FOR A SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE
with Brixton Socialist Unity
JOHN CHASE, BSU by-ele
ction candidate, and loca
unemployment, health, educa.
plus anti-racist sounds and much, much more...
SUNDAY 16 APRIL, 8.00 pm
Anne's Hall, Venn near Clapham
Common Tube ORDERS The NF arrives In Brixton - escorted t
Common at night. As all good NFers know, this was mainly young blacks
ladies. Local residents were puzzled.
The section of the common referred to was surrounded by a high spiked fence with gates that closed al duss
Only the most athletic old people night! The police report made the front Sunday paper picked up on the truch and in an arca like Brixton those responsible will be mainly black. It may
eliche but bad nousing aD
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friends.
racism are the major causes.
because deprivation, but real material poverty. DISADVANTAGE
Local revolutionanes Croydon and Brixton Collective point
CAnBE-E element; system puls black children disadvantage from the start. The most glaring example is the Educational LEVUCTEHCCSARE BHTE per cent black intake.
ESN is based on the educational theories of Sir Cyril Burt, who brisanled most drEvenck's ident an the racial inferiority of Negroes, When
This is
spiritual
of his experiments!
like the ESN schools curry
education
ability becomes self-fulfilling.
acadentic
solution B
HOUSING
nausing
Lambeth
DIging grammes.
clecled Tom E81113 So
nencicssness.
Department CYCLUSS
CRICE white Photo: MARK RUSHEH (FL)
Burt died last year it was discovered thai he had rigged the results of many
Burt is academically discredited, the liberal establishment tut-totted...and
On 94 netorE
Less dramatic but just as serious is the straming system in comprehensive schools. Most blacks are in the lower streams. Since there is almost no change in streaming from year to year this low estimate of their educational
The criteria used in streaming are less Action?
than i linguistic, White teachers ollen cannot understand West T Indian dialect fand the children cannot answer. Brixton's squatlers are highly
understand the leacher). The most convenient administrative description for this lack of communication is stupidity. From there to the dole queu it'sa straight line.
Here apain local poople are struck by the ensanity of high teacher unemp lyment, growing class sizes culbacks in ducationa spending. The
obreious, but no-one MODUL LO TEUNENII IL.
The clearest expression of urhan decay, the ane you can't miss, is in
grand Victorian Tacades are crumbling and houses stand empsy, their isides gulled by the
Council bally bays.
Brixton faces all the usual problems
betale pedi eubion pee
But it has a pranicus poloc
The story starts in 1968 when a newly
abouta redeveloprient programme. The aim UNU2 TARBO ROH OT CRM building upwards instead of outwards
One massive error dogged the plan fron the outsel. Many people in central Brixton were iepal subtenants ar tenants who did not figure on any roord. Mainly black, they tended to live in premises owned by friends or relatives or simply latter-day Rach-
council redevelopment programmes created a massive unforsecn
The Tories responded Megens, ry naying coro cxtra for escouraging landiords emply properties.
EVICTIONS
Eventually the policy was stopped as a Lahour council was returned, the
Environinent stepped in, and publie spending cuts egan to bite. This CHUECUISH Far from it. There just wasn't the TUNCE TOCHTEN on redevelopment.
Sottine biyie up pop erty ine
rehabilitation still encouraged illegal
albeit unwitlingly. The demarcation of much of Brixtoo into Housing Action Areas with priority on grants for rehabilitation hasn't belped
HAA tenns mean that the grant mus be spent within five years. The usug sauter s to be icted, the bouse usually squatters — to be boarded up...and then nothing. There is no money to do the necessary work Dusi g Anten Ara tast week? A Houxing Action Area week black squatter found himself out on the street dessing. leaving an empty house which will probably stay that
Indefinitely The Homeless Families Unit makes insulting offers like accomodation in a hostel for alcoholics and the victim can only look for anther place to squat.
ANL/ALARM
thimbeth Aatl-Racist Movement last THE FIRST Joint publie meeting
Anti-Nazi League and the
wich renteuit le.
enthusiastic crowd heard nationul and locul speakers explain thc importance of resisting the fascists
Simen White of ALARM esplained that the central issue in this campuign was Latour attacks on the rights of blacks, through immigrution laws und further restrictions.
iome 200 responded to s call to stoj
in Brixton las
Local people showed what they fell hy learing up NF leafleds und joining the unti-fascist picket.
In even bigger turn out is planned for 15 April, the last Saferdas of th campaign. Be at Brixton Oval at 10.30 to sfop the fascists.
In this particular instance Brixton's midnight slogan painters arrived in the Housing Action Area. "Where's the
they painted on the house. Where's the housing?
At the moment, squatting is the main
organised. Streets like Villa Road and St Agnes Place are only the best known examples of a movement which span Nack and white offers a real, if temporary answer.
AGLC estate in Tulse Hill just about sums the Lambeth situation. 200 flats were emptied in preparation programme which never came. 130 are now squatted with apparent sympathy from the tenants on the rest of the estate.
Again the solution is transparent, when building workers queue up at the Tahour exchange properties and empey unworked sites. Again it is only the people who see the insanity. The bureaucrats and property speculators arC happy
Racism in housing allocation is hard to pin down, but it is there neverthe less. Until recently Lambeth Council male of 1-5 correspondine to the scale of grading of the estates.
Black people invitahly figured low chl We grading because they were already in the worst housing. Even bow the council interviewer has massive powers tosifl applicants.
CHAOS
Lambeth's homeless are disproportionately black because they were the majority in illegal tenancies. And the homeless pet no choice where they BTC HOUSeE
Concil house applicants have SALE ACIR VACIAC ORIN council admits to be part of its policy of dispersing black communities. It hasn't got very far because the number o
NOCES IS COnduR almost no-one is housed from the formal waiting list.
lt is a picture compounded by the fact that everyone knows that the money is there. Where's it going?
The money paid in interest rates to loan sharks is more than the total Lambeth Council income in reats, and that does't include the m annuaily in fabse claims and inflated
The permanent waiting list figures in another of Brixton's many scandals: TUITTECS In 1974 revealed only 2751 oul Brixton under-ss in full time mursery places.
NURSERIES
It never increased provision was cut and the ferms of the waiting list narrowed to include only
violent homes.
Ian oD tais st sote Was Cal aale
Lambeth women might have drawn a little relief from the relative case with which abortions are available in the borougl. But there's a sting in the tail.
This is a black to the National Abortion Campign Tribunal last year: '1 did pet an NHS abortion, but i've since foand out that my doctor thinks his black putients breed too much. He doesn'i give white
women abortions or the pill becuuse h
wants to keep them in the homne.' Sh also spoke of forced sterilisation of black women after deliveries, a barbarily that many in Brixton experience.
Nurseries, sterilisation, the closure of a maternity hospital coulda t have done better if it bad been waging a conscious campaign against wamen and children.
Or was ic? Local abortion activists are still campaigning for abortion facilities and there are lears that existing facilities may face further culs. You can't win either way.
WALLPAINTERS
risu, inlike most of Brian, na
fourishing arty wallpainters who give the place the feel of a black Anerican ghello or a soutbern European city.
Under a railway Brixion is painted: "Class war, not race war'. Much abused by the fascists this pious sentiment bas stayed put for TOILD
The abortion campaign. unemployment and involvement around the lections are beginning to give that abstract desire some reality.
Nowhere is it mote neoded.
communities and
Chousine
for a modernisation
amid rotting people
choupht. the
corresponding to the
Socialist Unity. lo CW TELIE the labour of utter chaos,
Alliance SA Socialist
paid
a GLC survey
24,000
supporter, All nursery
TEILILITSHILS
Still there were too
A big
woman's evidence the right line
Hydraulies: member,
abortions And I think
Lambeth
daycare
PCT SOUL Solidarity
politica community
in with a camera. bridge in central
and the
the on
increased local
the
IN BRIEF
Brixton Campaign Trail BRIXTON Socialist Unity still needs your money. And it still needs you.
The campaign has brough leaflets on immigration and nationality, women, the problems of youns
- and more are plassed. Th difficulty ist they don't give themselves out. and they don't come for free.
We need help for blitz canvassine and leafletting of the constituency in
hefore 20 April.
Phone 01-274 AS48 ts find out how you can help. And rush that money to Socialist Unity, e/o 182 Upper Streces London NI. Cheques payahle fo
Swindon Socialists Unite SOCIALIST Alliaace. hiroad grouping of socialists, is standing 3 candidate in the Thamesdowa Council decietal Morle Ba Chre c sheetmeial worker who did appresticeship at Plesseys in Swindon. writes MOIRA KEI.LEY
The Labour Party candidate is Councillor David Hobbs. He has a record of supporting the right wing in
movenicnt inchiding apa Comel seina ocala
a Coucil meeting Socialist Alliance is challenging him to a public debate during the campaign
A teacher and an active member or the Indian Workers Association in the come and speak in support of Socialist
emhraces supporters of both Challenge and Socialist Worker (including members of the IMG and the SWP). This is a result of much fruitful and often sharp debate
All decisions and positions of any responsibility within the campaign are subject lo voting- For example, Boh, a SWP member was nominaled by his
open meeting, his candidacy was discussed and put to tie vote
A Socialist Challenge PrOPOSE SWP was elected as agent.
The open nature of lhe campaign has also enabled us to reach out to
STELLAL contunicy, a number of whow have already indicated anterest
Turbout is expected wace Duncan Hallas (SWP) and Tariq Ali (Socialist Challenge editor) will spenk al an eve of election rally on 3 May.
An encouraging sign that S4 is on
is a comment of De TGWU seward al Plesseys 1 am a Labour_Parly and have volod Labour all ney life. 1 was very suspicious of SA to begin with bur I am backing this campaigo because not only does it stand tora real socialist alternative but it is also a democratically run broad front where you can argue your point.
Sic could do well.* Loughborough ANL TV ACTRESS Miriam Karlin was the main speaker at the first mocting of ch Anti-Nazi League in Loughborough
Well over 200 people abso heard Labour concillors, a member of the AUEW-TASS Executive, the chair-
of the local Inter-Racia! of me oal Nuś Torine president of the the secretary of the local Socialist Workers Party and & leader of the Asian
Stewards kepe out onc of a small group of NF members who tried to get teatieting caplan o ia keal toho
school: harassment of the black community. Mention was made of the harassment of an Asian Family and n. death threat received by one of the platform speakers
The ANI will also have to counte
probable NF general election candidate through mass leafletting ol estates and a campaign to stop the NF using loca schools for meetings
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 April 1978 page 9
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Labour's housing scandal
OPEN FORUM
But the facts show this claim is a lie.
In Britain today over three million families live in homes that are rotting or overerowded And new slims are being created faster than oid ones are repaired or replaced. maures snow tnat in engana anc Wales alone over 900,000 houses and for people to live in — that means the
A further milion bomes are tacking a bath, an inside WC or hot water and are officially fil bur still need over figures don't include shoddy council shoddy work by contractors, suffer
building conditions so bad that tenants refuse
Meanwhile over a million familics in Ensland and Wales alone are wantibe for council bousing. Ar many are sharing accomodation, ollen against their wishes, because of the housing shortage. In 1976 the official figure for those totally homeless was double the 1971 figure — and four times the 1976 total.
EMPTY
At the same time there are a million homes kept completely empty. These properties deliberately kept empty by speculators and snulous waie tor a high enough rent or sale price -thoush it is true that a number would be empty al any time just through people moving Faced with this crisis, the Labour Government is actively working
International Monetary Fund. In the five years ending April 1979, the Government will have made an incredible 40 per amount spent on building new houses and buying and repairing old ones And bousing's share in spending will have fallen from 10, per cent in 1974-5 go 8.6 per cent of a biezer total in 1978-9.
How can this be so when politicians of all parties tell as thai the total amount spent on housing is rising too fast and must be cut off? Because less and less of what gets spent under the heading of housing actually goes into providing or repairing bomes more and more of il goes into paving: interest charges to City linanciers.
In 1968-9, 74 per cent of all money spent on housing weil on building and improving homes. This year the total has Tallen to only 38 per cent. The rest goes out repaying debts and paying interest. Labour nothing lo stop the financiers taking
What's
Left
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carlur
rlicks, помв, вкрововв, апо зн
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SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 April 1978 page 10
The Labour Government is keeping workers homeless or in slums, in order to boost the moneylenders" profits. Last year a Government "Green Paper" proudly boasted that the housing shortage was over.
Government instead. they pet in rents.
10
and Ciry.
SLASHED cut in the
all pubb April 1975, falling slums. In Istingion, -and
Liverpool there backlog of 50,000 council
will do repairs themselves.
PENTRAL LONDON Anti Nazi Leagu
Landoniwct
Wilson, a freelance joumallet who han ten a book on Asian women to b ablished inter this year, will 0a0ah
247/9 Penton 5E. SIT. Prone I1-540 89021730)
LE MIDLANDS Used Troopa O
ummerinarly Autumn, For such a antaronca to De a succeso il neod the active supporters and sympanet grou
their ever-growing slice. So curs in the spending on 'real" housing are made
Every new house buslt in England and Wales in 1975-6 cost £1642 in interest chime In lat ycat sone The total amount paid in interest to financiers on money borrowed for housing rose from E570m a year in the mid 60% to nearly E1500M a year in the mid-'70%, Each year two-thirds of all money spent by local councils on housing goes in interest on borrowed
arcas:
Over one hundred councils in the country pay out more in interest than
NewCasne, loI instance, paid £16.3m last year, as against E9, 4m in rent incorne. Despite all the talk ahout 'subsidised tenants' the truth is that council tenants arc subsidising the loan sharks in the
And these subsidies are nor being cut. Far from it; in the two years from
walle real wares were before, average council rents rose by 40 per cent. And the Coverament says they must rise by another 50 per cent in the next five Meanwbile spending on repair is falling because of the cuts, and more and more council estates rot away into
for example. estates are now repainted only every 14 years instead of every cight.
an estimated homics needing repairs. Meanwhile jobs are Jost in council maintenance departments and tenants must pay for more
Money for councils to acquire old
Sparlaciet League Bubie Mitisnea. Thenione come along
te, Films, (Attica
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by STEPHEN BLUM been slasied by 45 per cent this year So has spending on grants to private orners to repair their homes number of such grants fell by 64 pe cent between 1973 and 1976. and th number of council mortgages fell last year to a quarter of what it had been the year before. This leaves workers wishing to buy older houses at Live mercy of the building societies, who discriminate against applicants
The net result was described last year by Sheller: The number of houses decline uno untoess or major disrepair cach year is now equal
of houses improved and slums demolished, Meanwhile the building union LICATT estimates that 300,000 building workers are unemplayed. In areas of high anemployment like Tyne and Wear, 21 per cent of all unempioyed males building
H300 men. And this in aD area with some of the worst bousing in the country.
GHETTO
Labour Government policy, comed by the Tories, is to make these problems worse by continuing to cut building putting emphasis on building for sale. This means that the available housing will be allocated by sour ability to pav, insread of by how much you need it. And the way owner-occupiers an URSA CATTURN DON TEUEE BOLA that the more you can afford to spend on a house, the more subsidy you gel
Meanwhulethose who can't afford to buy their owa homes will be stuck Hosteiscr
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homes in order to repair them has | in the council sector, which will end
up as a ghetto for the poor, this helping the working class Of
to own their own homes if offered a choice. successive Government policies mean TIENTROMATE MACISISCOSME partly because control over their homes But instead of bringing in tenant control, and building estates with proper facilities instead of cheap-jack
being
workers welDariective
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WINDSCALE
DEMONSTRATION
SATURDAY 29 APRIL TRAFALGAR SQUARE 3.00 Assemble Spacker Corner 12.00 far March to Rally, Trufalgar Square 3.00
concrete barracks. Labour prefers to
namse wluch council huresocracy has grea to public rented bousing, as an excuse expand the private sector. *o the grealer profit of the loao sharks, huilding societies. Jand speculators and protessionals.
-Tse veers 1971-5, owner-occupiers spent [1.257 milion int Ices to estate agens, solicitors.
and other parasiles whenever they bought orsold a house. That money could have buili 156,260
So if present policies concinue the plięht of the homeless and il-housed wil ony worsen Waiting lists will gros; what new council housing there is will be of poorer quality; rents will rise; and slums will roc unicleared. The
lo benefit will be the land speculators and
Clearly Is chreat so the livine Mandards of all working poople must be laken up by the labour movement Betthe only action to date ar the level of cational policy has come from ine public employees union NUPE. It has published a pamphiel, joincy with Ine
SCAT, called Ep against a Brick Wall, most of the facts in this anticle an caken. It is a valunhie source ammunition on the borsing question Tor every socialist and trade antonist.
But the pamphler fails to draw rbe obuious socialist conclusion -the so-called bousine probiem" is in
interest UTILI profil problem, to which the only solution is totake the land financi institution. and building industry out of the hands OTTE DIRI-MANES
calls for an expanded council building programme and the restoration of the cuts. le also calls for the TUC to cal a one-day national conference of affiliated uniona to
Government's policy statement: harmless cnough, but not exactly a call to set the blood tingling
The issues raised by renant and community groups must be laken up by trade unionists al branch and workplace level, and the scruggle to improve and democratise housin should be supported by the strength o organised labour. Trades councils could play a co-ordinating role here Where they are too letargic to act utions whose members are involved directly in the housing field can take a lead, as can the anti-cuts campaigns.
Some of these poinrs are hinled at
NUPE pamphlet, at least in a milder, more
and ine apparenti So is the idea that trades councils together willt lenant
consuly groups should monitor thele lozal council's housing avestiment programme. couraccient will come from NUPE much pressure and headquarters to help branches tuzn chese ideas inco action is, of counse another question. But rank and file
can and must raise the question themselves. to point out a was that the labour movement can take up che bousing question
socialist
•unit
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Terror Act sensation at student conference THE CRUDE and brutal lengths to which the British | Constabulary before the European Court of Human
NUS conference backs
LRELAND
were nakedly displayed last week.
Manchester, two men
Students.
campaigns for political prisoners in the North of Ireland.
Victim number two
STOP THE YORTURE!
FOR AN INT
TRIBUNAL, oF
TROOPS OUT
delegation. AILEAN
Poto Ashby of the NUS
reaffirmed варрон for International Tribunal, Humparlers BE me Mitiant JE the Labour Party announced that they too would fully back the uguiry.
Previously in the woek at the -conferenos itself, the executive was censored for its inactivity on Ireland.
A motion from the Mikile SON Polytechnic delegates extending the mandate work on the tribunal overweiraingly passed, is was the cal to invile one of the Strasbourg 14 to address the conference.
When it came to the stage in the conference A TEMPTAT gency mocions were placed on The agenda a motion which
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 April 1976 page 11
Government will go to silence critics of its Irish rule
In police and Army operations in Derry and
were arresied under the Prevention of Terrorism Act on their way to address the Blackpool conference of the National Union of
Victim number one was Jim Gibney, secretary of the Belfast Relatives Action Committee.
status for Republican
Gibney was due to address a fringe meeting in Blackpool organised by the International Tribunal on Britain's Presence in Ireland. He was arrested under the PTA on 5 April as he stepped off a plane in Manchester. As Socialist Challenge went to press, he was still being held in Manchester Detention Centre.
was Michael Montgomery.
Montgomery was one of the 14 witnesses who testified to being tortured by the British Army and Royal Uister attended. At the National Union of Students' conference in Blackpool last week, under a banner which read "Break the silence: Stop the torture', Jane Crawford, secretary of the International Tribunal on British Presence in Ireland, addressed a fringe meeting which swelled lo more than two hundred delegates.
All the major tendencies on the left were present, as well as the vast majority of the Northern Ireland
O'CALLOGHAN
demanded that the excutive that translate its sponsorship the Coe Tribuna rinin somethine and more concrete by organising a was placed fins on the list Supported by more than 67 delegations for constituency organisations (the largest ever support for motion), the motion unconstitutionally carved up in the steering contittee It world be facile to suppest TOT that what is happening in the was NUS today could be repeated al trade union stupid ta suggest
imgact in the labour move ment.
Already trades
Rights.
which
Socialist Group and Big
International Tribunal
Comptunist Party are sending delegates to
Thus cablished, the Tribunal WIC Pres investigate allegations of Brit
solidarity movement the quest
respond reports. The mass movement needed
Britain will assembled around the demand 'Troops Our experience has shown that such a movement cannot be built MILLIOUL regard taking place There was no movement in Britain on Ireland until civil rights explosion in 1968, enterpency The period of mass mobilisa
tions in Ireland and no go areas war when the solidarily moverten in
League, teached its
portant steps have beep taken SECULE la res ive the mass resistance in
that the the Six Countica
I street Ireland develop. so will the potenna for reconszecting a
councils Troops Our traditionally dominated by the - Britain. This is not to argue
He was due to address the student conference on the treatment he received. He was leaving his home on Thursday when he was arrested under the PTA by British soldiers. One is reported to have said to him: "You don't think you're going to Blackpool do you."
Gibney has recently been released from Long Kesh prison in the North of Ireland, after serving 14 months on remand.. The charge was eventually dropped. Montgomery has had no dealings with the security forces for two years, and has just spent six weeks in
This latest attack on civil liberties and Ireland has not gone unanswered. The NUS conference sent a telegram of protest to the Home Office, and in Manchester on Saturday a picket was held outside the Detention Centre in protest at Gibney's arrest. Members of the United Troops Out Movement,
Workers Party. International Flame were among planning
apposile.
COMES UPC CHUTE
should don't withdrawal only be and use it to
Now'. But Freland.
For that what credibility, in Ircland
the
yel hold a position Britain, in the won for Troops licieht.
whispered: mobuisation; NUS Movement and the enthusasm
Marxist those who une of remains of the ratic.
Troops Our supporters shauld
CALENTY TOE Tribunal increases — quite the
In the contest of developing united action with forces who
support the immediate Reputicine
nopessary to ser up propaganda democratic
explain that the only way to defeas repression s to end forever Britain's role in
line -Traans Out sun channels. porters need to actively build the Tribunal and go through the experience of the Tribunal with those toroca, who do nor
Troops Out*
Building the Tribunal is not
Out in the • but it is the best way. Already it has taken the issue of Ireland into areas were where hefore it has barely been
The events last week at the
CAPUTCECAEE showed both the need for the Tribunal
Long Kesh
Letter
On trendy types
and subversives
EVERYONE in Ireland longs for peace. interpretations of peace have many vague and varied forms but as far as those of us in Long Kesh are concerned there can he no peace without justice. When an imperialist power occupies a country, everything afterwards becomes unjust, In Ireland there have been various attempts to heal or whitewash these unjustices, bur che basic
forcign occupation From partition in 1921 until 1903. inc nationals peppic oi the North had to put up with the evils caused by this basic injustice while their elected worked within the framework By participating in chia parliamortary tacame the Nationans: politicians were releasing some
Trustanon bl minority through dehile and
Nevertheless they were getting nothing done pept sing the Stomont Parliament a degree of credibi-
It war arzuet by come that
apart from a fow flaws which occur in noost westero democracies, the North of Ireland stent was rair and democ
What this ignored was for that the Nationalists were des tined to remain a permanent epposition without muscle of power because of the very at the foundations of the State.
The Brits and various bour-
politicians often accuse being antifor retusing elechions. BUI surel ever they must realise that Nationalists have achseved mathing in 50 years of politics through cormal parliamentary
This would sill have been the case if it were not for what these overs of parliamentary demoe race call 'unlawful practices' and "subversive activities"
I WaS 1900 sebversives took so the streets
rejected parliamentary democracy they had experienced tos 50 years.
Even though a fow reforms
squeezed Unionists, the basic injustice of -оссиранов Естаса, тассо: with the British Army in the Since 1968 a new awareness fionwho have born the brust of Tolaudh ArLa
the strugale for freedom and
tion aptly named The children
on them from many sources:
mentators and all shades of
liberals and socialists who are themselves
confrontation with the State.
point 1o mistakes and wenk
on the StruRale anc threaten to withdraw solidarity with it, They never allempt to rectify these wrongs by participeting in the struggle and changing what is wrong from within.
Many who participate in the fight for liberation
was the struggle is being waged, but they also recognise that the struggle must continue until the goal is achieved.
Tam convinced that we are a
in 196h and that we are correct 1o continue the arined struge
national bbcration and socialism:
Through our resiscance
once down trodden Nationalist popslation a sense of pride and we have made the Brits and Loyalists realise that we are no longer prepared to accept discrimina tion and injustice
The Brits and their agents should realise that the Children of 65 no longer accept glessy coars of paint al laoe value. They never will, and the sruggle won't cease until the people of Ireland are allowed to decide their owa future.
Can the Brits not see thar despite all their repression there
resistance?
It is time Ray Mason and his associares the Nortlern orthodox Ireland Office recognised thie and removed themselves now instead of prolonging their stay and the suffering of the Irish people. The Children and If necessary the Grandchildren of
'65 will oppose British rule in • Ireland until they are allowed the right of self-determination.
Yours
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"We're still soldiers'
Big Brother watches Iranians
replacing its forces in South Lebanon.
Among -these is her account.
WITH shaved beads under their blue berets and pistols on their hips, the French paratroopers set off for town in groups of two, three of four: It was an open barracks. Some of them even carried machine guns; they knew that they were not very welcome here, even it. as they said, the populatien started to return when we
In Leeds...
Leeds University Iranian Sta-
dents write:
AN Iranian student at Leeds
University has been secretly
How the Shah looks
after his students
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 April 1978 page 12
INTERNATIONAL
UN troops in Lebanon
As a massive debate is unfolding in Israel about its recent invasion of South Lebanon, and a growing tide of opinion is forming against the traditional seige mentality' of the Zionist state, UN troops are taking some of the heat off the Israeli Government by
so-called "peace-keepers" contingents of blue-bereted French paratroopers. whose operations from Vietnam to Zaire, via Algeria. are hardly known for their neutrality or benevolence.
SIMONE HAMELIN, a correspondent of the French revolutionary daily, Rouge, recently had an opportunity to visit these forces in their positions. This
arrived"
At the gate, which an orderly outfitted in a bullet-proof vest locked and unlocked with a flick of the wrist, there was a procession of jeeps and trucks. n front of the pate hawkers had set up in missing a trick, selling lins of beer by the dozen exorbitant prices. trying to set up a hrunch of the Rustkhiz Party, the single part of the Iranian dictatorship.
The evidence is testimonies
The NO's I met at the entrance were
SAnE Gabon exchanged hints intentions of the soldiers whi fare doing a tour of the town': 'There are only mien in here For one, 'The problem will be a are month another: It's now. The legion is well organised their own brothels."
Admiring glances were at a close-shaven soldier: That one, he has already screwed three of them,
soldier from thinking that all Lebanese women short on legs and not at all BETTE
CLAIM
Even though he claims to be keeping the between the two camps, this NCO nevertheless had his own sympathies: "The Israeli army, that'sa realarmy, not like these conts", be said, pointing our the fedayeen, "who know what they Taraelis have themscives
"And these kids of 14 who play with Klashenkovs. Today they fired on the town hal Luckily they didn't hit any of
Suddenly, remembering who hie was talking to, one said: "Listen, you're going to say in your paper that we're rapists ZIEL iturderers. know what you want. we're in France strate. same. In 1.yon there was a huge demonstralion.
And what are your jobs? In the harrses we clean. repalr the armoured cars.
CHES DE LEIR TARE ME CHE
the Lebanese Arab Armyl left here. Pre stack up sheus. rest of the time we are in our positions,
aken from other tramn
students in the presence of l
solicitor:
dod small private
organised by the student where
setting up a Party branch in
Leeds was discussed.
According to the Shah: A
person who does not enter the
nea political party. is either an
individual who belongs to the
outlawed Communist Party, or
in other words is a traitor, Such
an individual belongs
Iranian prison.. he is not an
iraman, be has no nation.
The Iranian Prime Minister
laid in 1975: "Failure to vote
could be accounted for, and
SOLIN be
discipline,
PROTESTS
the Rastakhiz Party has been to
mobilise the tranian people
forcibly in the
imperialissn and
Duppel, the
dictatorship of
peogle to this effort was clearly
demonstrated in mass protests
in Tabriz recently.
chief target was the Rastakhiz
Party headquarters.
HE SUTRAC.
Shah societies
formed they have acted as
covers for SAVAK, the Iranian
secret police, who
Iranian emigres and sendents
and disrept ihe work of anti-
imperialists.
veterans" of
They about the
For they have
Cast
right in the Which dide't stop one
ugly scales balanced
don't even The been defending
30
CLIN COLLEA still soldiers!"
Colonel finally
You When you demonWhen we're here at's the Tyre.
hollow, with
Bridges.
There are
region, It The dearly: the favourable THO thes endangered.
These people atten
student socieries
organisation in the
students.
i0 an
breach of ...and
Cardiff
The most important aim of
interests of Jocal academic purposes.
brutal military
Lie Shah's Socialist
The reaction of the Iranian
when the inchede
wherever pro
have heen president about this.
Phil Gras.
SPY DIt
The lives
Just like a holiday, isn't it But wait until it gets going!"
Well, sure, wette would survive?
Chatillon, who fies the arrived, is responsible for public relations. He took Israeli out the map of the region and showed me the six points held by the French, 200 to 300 yards from the Irrach lines, on 6or ? population of the roads which converge on
FACTS
The region of Tyre is in a
the Isractis cncircling it on the surrounding being to
batants',
"In fact, he told me, the Israelis couldn't occupy this
wuuld ground un- separate traditional army. The Palestinians could freedom of Iranians abroad are
To hack this op we have a document passed on by thc Iranian Embassy in Geneva on
of Pro-Sha. This
Anyattempt to set up such an poses a serious threat to Iranian
The Iranian students abrand, As part of the Iranian people? movement against the Shai's regime, will stand out against any such activities and woe't let a single pro Shah sociess he set up in any part of the world CARDIFF college aetborities have released names and details of Iranian students for non-
Challenge BLas received computer priet-outs contuining these details, given to the Sufety Services Oflicer of University College Curdiff in
The officer, whine duties
security, CELINIS he wanted to speak to students ahout slogan painting. He says feature hy he contacted the student union
then anion
president, confirms this, but
adds: +Bet I found It strange
that to my knowledge
ambush them from the orange -armed, groves, and with their Soviet KBO's not an armoured car
This technical analysis nulli
declarations Weizman (commander of the
forcest, according which the Zionist croops didn't Israel occupy, the region our of a humanicarian concern for the
Ibe aim of the French Toroes truth
'separate the com might surprising that they are trying to control the Kaasniye bridge
where there is no one to
For Colonel Chatton its simple: The region is overcontucied about the dogans. SURVEILLANCE
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French CP dissidents
South Africa's missing
election defeat is beginning to sink home inside the French Communist Party [PCF]. MARTIN METEXARD reports.
Two days after the second round of the clections, oll 21 March, a statement by the PCF ronncal sureau was Dudisnco in the party daily, L' Humanite. This stated clearly that the PCF "bears no responsibility for the
Just Over i week later,
of the PCF Central Committee,
lines to a meeting of the party's
that the Socialist Party (PS) pous ine tun sponsonas
SWALLOW
Few PCF militants have found it casy to swallow this line whole. At a meeting party: members in the district of Paris, for instance. the speaker thenies of Fiterman's report KELLESTU HIS CE criticisms. growing amusement
Marxists
Quite unexpectedly
Africa woke up on the morning of l6 June to a black pupils and students revolt. The issue was the enforced teaching using Afrikaans (South Alrican Dulchi.
Within Lays There enormous marches of black students in Johanbesburg's South Western Townships (So-we-to) and Pretoria. movement snowballed. By June young militants in Cape Town took to the streets.
against NATEL individuals and government
Beer halls, slicheens, municipal
ing, hones of police and those
with opprevan were targets
KILLED
A remarkable feature of the
roune militanes' revol is the
high humber of people who were killed by the police and
Even conservative estimates agree on the figure of 1000 dead.
The number of people kille:
during 1976 was th
1960. This is because Varsier N In eger-happy chan thai of bis nredecessor Verwoerd.
When Lie Pan African CoDeress in J9) made it cal for blacks to march to their
ponce SOLUTE deflance of the pass laws. a great many of those who took part were workers. In those
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 April 1978 page 13
FRENCH ELECTIONS
Petty bourgeois routinism'
grow bolder
The meaning of the left fild The peak lighter penthe parties to thi
RESPONSE
surprising Jean memher of the colonial brand of the party's France Nouvelle. oint in a short article in 1a
defeat', he wroie, 'shouldn't a party examine if something
androt application? The PCF Political Bureau excludes this possibility straightaway.
Rony'sarticle was the first in a scries of public criticisms by
have been published in the liberal Dourecols Monde or the far left weekly Politiqoe Hebdo. They have surfaced here because the party regime offers no channels extending the discussion be
of yond individual party units.
5th PCF leader Cieorges Mar-
chais has predictably
the this a campaign of the big
bourgeoisie Own television. -800
press But as the dissidents UntE In this instalment of his series on South Africa, SAM MHIONGO compares the 1976 uprising with the protests of 1960 and the Sharpeville massacre. South When news of the shootings
at Sharpeville and Cape Town other ghetto area
demonstrations swis from wore. The flehr o capital after Sharpeville war surprising considering the mood workers.
The IGNORED
In the pupils" and students" revolt of 1976 the workers were not involved from the start The voung militants ignored the workers and only belatediy hrought them in Black workers in Johannesburg and over s0 per cent of Cape Towa's Coloured labour force saved away from work.
The young militante mis Irust of the workere grew bul ol i number of factors. Poltical repression and oppressia Had depraved this generasion of the CUTES CES EAST TREES CESE Many of them are in prison or nave sea the counts This vacuum has been filled Bye back pony cougeon in ciligensin fram the colleges
black
nationalism are the dominani
DEPRIVED
The South African Students' Organisation and the Black People's Convention are the representatives par of these trends. Deprived of any interbaniona
open up the party press to this
Insiead, however, all that L Humanite carries is veiled not replies by.
Kony, untamed chis - a ridiculous
spectacle which satisities nomain weekly,
The demand for real party MADELIC democracy
beart of this discussion. In the last three years a series of major policy have carned out withour any prior stralegy 9v-10-19%
TELEVISION
Thus the proposal to drop the reference to the dictatorship of the proletariar* was first announced television! The same method was adopted leadership decided to support
for May 1977.
The last straw came with the elections, caminan, the PCP ranks were
seen in no mure than stunned spee
tators of the leadership's twists by a00 Turns. hopes of the entire working class were at stake. And when easily assimlated Black Power prilosoplis reseen Winexism was the ideas of Frantz Faron Another - theraselves a perty bourgeois trend, Fanonism fitted well in The their general scheme off Ching since il dismissed outright the warking class as a force loc social change.
The African working class 1s a privileged class in distinction to the enscable that makes up ibe petty bocrgebisic. Fanon's conclusions naturally have an imerne appeal to the African September
pelly bourgeoisie
SCIENTIFIC Marxists need to demonatrate to these young multines the elcar distinction between mcco black scientific sociatise.
There were, however, gains
power excellence
Mantist connections they took on the | Soweto 1976
PCF leaders
is indeed at the
been the contained.
Throughout che
evidence of their break Stalinism. intellectuals But this time the THENAT
have
shattered. the
Sharpeville and
Soweto
the and in so doing movernent
aluence was rescinded.
OPPRESSION counted for naught.
thirty year leaxe.
LISTE
Bantu. Bu:
radicalism and
CP has no responsibility' for defeat. doubts could no longer be base itself on the leadership's
The PCF leadership claims to parody be quite happy that there i a discussion going on inside the party. Indeed, they cite it as Molina and Yves Vargas, go
But as six PCF published - including well philosophers Louis Party.
Althusser and Erienne Balibar
bul, austed Insistence that this debate must liberal routinism
militants i DE 1976. regulation requiring them to be lorcibly taught in Alrixaans
In the urban areas the blacks
their car affairs, but because
hands of the urhen municipal
The Government restated its proposal to allow urban blacks to buy their own houses on a
recently Government dropped the much hated and derogatory terin
again this Party's contesion does not touch thr rical basis of nice and class
-31%
The scapessaup
also analysis can only lead to the
of discussion'
Two other dissidents, Gerard
further in a reccotly Dialogue Inside ibe French Communist
They argue that Stalinist routinism has been
by pelly-bourgeois This rubbish was put out by the Communist-becked Worker Commissions in Salamarca.
Catalan
Communists
challenge
Carillo
THE SPANISH Communist
proposal not to describe itself as Leninist has been the main these of a series
regional congresses preparation for the 9th Party Congress on 23 April.
Opposition to the leadership position bas gone furthest in the PSEC, the Catalun parts, wicre час вел enucuc. has won a majority. The PSUE
14P iacmbership and nearly hulf its parliamentary deputies, so the decision will he a hig worry to
In Madrid and Asturias, two
TOTADE strongholds, the leadership TRISTESTS TAS CURBED ARLI sizeahle opposition.
quarter of the delegates walked
and altempts to stop their representatives speaking All
Party militants still have no control over their leaders. The only difference is that now Marchais and Co. bow lo bourgeois public орінов' instead of to Moscow
FUTURE
Molina and Vargas point out that revolstionary democracy is the freedom of militants to discuss future, bourgeois democracy is only Ene trodom to discuss BIE
What more and more
the right not simply to discuss hut to decide the party's pollcy
Forrbis time it is not a case of a few isolated intellectuals Many of those who have publicly expressed their oppo sition are members of PC Tederal"
LILI committees, Leaders of preLONELY class Tederations such as the North and Meurthe-et-Moselle have
criticised the crude workerism' of the party's clection campaign.
ECHO
In any case, the debate is only now beginning A sustained campaign for revolutionary polifics can find an increasing echo inside the PCF as the leadership tries to CONCIL tracks. Already an opposition ситгелі
the Max -Pierrat collective", has proposed debate with the Trotskyist LCX in the latter's paper, Ronge
Such discussions, together with the struggle against the governmen! s austerits measures wil be decisive in shaping the Tuture of working class politics in France.
1978 Co. DO Doll Saran
the major town branches le
Asturias opposed the leader-
ship.
In Malapa, In Andalasis, the
local press pshlished
statement by party militants
attacking the lack of democ ency in the debate.
had ppro the
hut hud raised other headache
leadership
criticisms of the party's lime on
THALLE
"paternalist", and its call for lit
expulsion of forelen military
In a press intervlew which was
generally seen as angling for a
collion covernment. general
secretary Santiago Carrillo said
last week that Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez was the only guarantee that Spain will sot
again be divided into twn
irreconcilable camps
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COMMENT
Injured
warriors?
THERE'S NOTHING breathtaking as warriors parading as the injured party. In this case "party is the SWP and the warriors" are Danny Phillips and Linda Quinn of its Lambeth branch (Socialist Challenge, 23rd March)
For people who profess "concern" about avoiding 'splitting the forces of the left in clectoral
way of showing it
selected their Flame candidate, Tony Bogues, forthooming by-clection in Lambeth Central behind closed doors. He is acoountable to no-one except the loca -Who seem so keen for the Left te Party leadership. Now, dopt a united electoral front, that's i really belpful way to achieve it
Ah, comrades Philips and Quinn
we approached the refore we announced our sublicly: but they, the ruggers, had the nerve to tell us they been discussing candidate. And after we d supported them in their campaign in the GLC elections last year!
If 1 scem a little cynical, perhaps not to insult our intelligence, world does not TEMOVE manocuvrings by the SWP or the iNCiane The ralleE arc ds their manoeuvrings as the SWP are clumsy in theirs).
The question thar bas to be asked, -ar answered, is: Why sores of committed and independen
HELC initiative of Lambeth Socialist Unity eo out on the knocker' and work foi a campaign where che main aim is to recruit for the SWP7
Maybe the SWP really do want a united campaign. TE so, they should have been prepared to submit their
candidate to open selection. Their astonishment at the democracy" of SU E understandable. After all, the SWP destroyed its own brand of unique democracy back in 1975 when "permanent factions'. So obviously these contrades find such practices as free discussion unfamiliar territory.
1 wouldn't sueeest that SU has got the process dead right cither, but by rejecting any attempt to improve the structure of SU through helpful and fraternal involvement be of immense benefit to the whole of the left — the SWP reveal themselves and their arguments unscrious.
So we now face an important by-election with two far-left candidares, whose action programme on the
arely distinguishable. dates will lose polential support as a result.
While the SWP can claim a larger industrial base than SU and, as a ready-made member with a sizeable periphery, already laid some of the ground-work for the election, I doubt whether the SWP will be as successful as it has
evidently convinced itsel fit will be
For SU has the bonus of openess anc wiftingnessto work with militants who are unlikely recruits to one or other faction in the alliance. It also means being able to talk to Brixton working class about superiority of genuine
Socialist
Challenge
EVENTS
NORTH WEST
WARRINGTON SOCialE Chal
GREATER MANCHESTER
Stev Contro cie pia Manchester So
RESTON Socialist Chellengingin
oriers can be conteci
nasdaya on tha Dolphin, Canning fornightly on
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 Apri 1978 page 14
mocracy with a straight fa
of the many
the League)
sport
interventions
for
the pun!)
to consider.
MOTHE CASS DAme.
DECISIOn angrateful
working class backgrounds alternative
players of world calibre.
working class
consciousness.
skilful in
around virtuosity should ibr
atracied to the
boring society.
big business. presents an instan
ment. 3U0
regional and
Stop if we work hard enough.
as completely their
political channels.
Where such aggression Both candi-
windows and
police repression. organisation
conclude their article in have
culture.
the domination. the
socialist
imislom Ad. Hep sell Socialis enge between 11.30am and 1pm at Moss Side shopping centre infermation tom 0e1.25
YORKSHIE
des Club. Nohumber land Street lopp sistion)
NORTH EAST DURMAM Socialist Challange
Nonnem Hock on High How, SAMSUEUSO
IODLEBBOROUGH
why
nd that means a lot to worke who've been screwed for too long hy profit-hungry bosses, unclected union officials and, if they've been really unlucky, by the self-sustaining cliques
revolutionary leit However,
ALAN SOSKIN (London Workers productive role, away from the real
and
Proletarian
society-
objectives.
MICK GOSLING's review of the providing Liverpool v. Notts Forest League Cup Final (23rd March) was a cop-out to the same. say the least (hoping you will pardon What
Gosling poses the question What would it be like under socialium?" OUTSUL. certainly an interesting problem and one which it is important for marxists
Soccer is probably the only truc
players, trainers, managers as well as the socctators are overwnelmingly trom
there is a direct progression from kids kicking a tin can in a hackstreet to
For the spectators who pack the terraces, football is a manifestation of
culture, based on solidarity, collectivism and a 'team'
This is in stark contrast to more bourgeois sports
individual the
Football provides an escape from the dehumanisation and alienation of the workplace, dole queue and home. This forms a displaced militancy: a real, though unproductive, response to an oppressive and thoroughly drudgery
On the other hand, today's soccer is
The fan/consumer target for activity. advertising magazines, sports equip week,
CVCD recording industry has a product to
The media are able to divide the
local chauvinismi historica in origin, The backstreet kid to international star real life fairy 19th
tales add weight to the laissez faire ideology that we can all make it to the
Similariy, the pools give hope to there
individuais the knowledge that they stand a slim chance of becoming rich enough to
oppression. The frustration burned out on the terraces is a bonas to the working class as a containment of militancy outside of
does get out-of-hand through attacks on shop
private property, State is piven the excuse to stress the law and order theme and step up
Mike Hitchcock and John Evans
tbe Black Dwarf, May 1970: "Football belongs to the working class as precious little eise does. It is more than just a game. It is a part of genuine working class
"However inarticulately, it expreses a kind of class solidarity and a kind of opposition to bourgeons
But like every other equality aspect of our society and our lives, it faces the penetration of capitalist values and capitalist control. That is
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Marxists should not be apposed t the development of a specific cultur by and for the working class. On the contrary, we should encourage
we must recognise that football represents a diversion of
strugale for control of the productive
reproductive forces in our The task for marxists should surely be to harness these forces to political
The National Front have recognised this with a recruitment drive aimed at young football fans,
the Anti-Naze useful though limited antidote, We cannot afford not to do
would it be like under socialism? — soccer, like other leisure
would probably be more meaningful if the working class was simultancously involved in control of the running of their own lives. MICK MARSHALL (Oxford)
fantasies
YOUR Battle of Ideas supplenient of
vomen's liberation made a highh dubious incursion into prehistory in order to discover the existence of sexually unrepressive societies before
emergence of classes. Women need no spurious historical precedents (nor biological justifications) to give credence to their struggle.
Sixty to cighty per cent of food supplies in hunter-gatherer societies were provided by repetetive female
Whereas hunting responsible for only proportion of food intake it was both a more pretigious and a less consistent
A man might bunt for a and then rest and entertain himself for the next three
Your statement that only with the emergence of property, "New Family forms grew up: patriarchal family formes with men at the head, so that the paternity of children could b guatantced. is hased on absurd
century mythology around
These societies were patriarchal with complex kinship systems. However
are still societies which are matribiocal and matrilocal, and in
some of these a child's paternity is
almost completely irrelevant.
But in these cases it is simply the
mother's brother rather than hushand who is the patriarch. Paradoxically wornen ute ofen more represseu l these systems with the whole weight of their immediate family permanently with them.
It is another popular misconception that there was less leisure before Lhe agricultural revolution quite the reverse is true. The search for food took under four hours a day, far less than a peasant's labour. So it is not a question of men being suddenly released from the ardours of survival to enjoy a position of exploiting others with tbese new techniques of food production.
It is clear that your analysis is weak and class-reductionist. It suggests that
look hazy prehistorical fantasies are feminists for whow "the strugele for socia lism has no place.
The left has placed sexual politics as Melens Int, Vinon SCOTLAND 25 April, and horinighliy For internal on Milie
Galunday aboroon!
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and a central issue for a short fime and it is
are overdetermined. Whereas it har always been possible to conceive of a
it exploited (as with hunter-gatherers) it
is not possible to conceive af one in which no women are explaited which is not also classless.
Certainly capitalisan exploits women for their free domestic labour and as a mobile, Inhour farce which can be moved in and out of productive industry as the crises come and go, but there is a lack of control which cuts across class and hits at all women, whetber they are exploited for protit, child-bearing or decoration.
Both our sons and daughters are penalised by the educational system il we are poor, but our daughters are also insidiously oppressed in ways which are not just class determined — and so on......
PENNY WOOLCOCK (London)
The IMG is
just awful
WHILE RECOGNISING the autonomous' arisen from the consciousness of, for instance, women, gays, and blacks, it would appear that the IMG is not going to "ballle" because il sees them separate from itselt, and indeed trom Marxism!
Debates (on the liberation and MOCAS Te o Tow Deman to infiltrate the left wing of the workers. movement. arrogant to pretend that Marxists small have all the answers'. Quite so. Bur it
woeld be idiocy to pretend that many teminists and cass are not 815c Marxists, as others, implies. The IMO preaches while continues lo patronise women, and so on, by assuming chat "workers" are only white, male, heterosexual. While correctly repudiating econo mism and "rank and filism', the IMG has ignored This has reached, Importantly involved, thousands of people in campaigns ahout redevelop ment, homelessness, government accountability.
Squatters fights Criminal Trespass potentially occupations, work-ins, etc received scant coverame In sociais Challenge — when massive pitched battles surround solars in salv. the IMG's much-flaunted "internationalism" breaks down!
Moreover, "community politics" an
dominated hy
political work in factories" that they
politics at work and at home that they necuse British social democracy off Sadly, there is no recognition of the changing terrain of leh politics by the IMG it's the same before. It proposes the formation o rank and fie organisations that tre 'politically independent' of the Trade TOr Union burcaucracy. But they do not
suggest bow that bureaucracy crealed and is maintained: why won't these rank and "degenerate" in the same way!
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participate in electoral thought however, 'Socialist Unity" is launched with little indication of how to avoid
For the IMG to produce The Fight for a Soclalist Alternative in its Battle of Ideas series is misleading: PATRICK HUGHES (Landes)
Boycott
WH Smith!
Smithis Challenges cold through NA HUNDRED AND Smiths might help spread socialist
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Socialist
planning
THE Conference Socialist Planners is amorganisation which was
La nacional basis. particularis via the production of in "'planning" (in its widest sense) — whether in Local Authority Planning
Planning Schools, contusity/voluntary organisations, or any other capacity who would Eike to sce socialist principles heing applied to the planning activities with which they are concerned.
The national society is organised on the basis of regional workshops which provide the main focus of activity providing a forum for discussion producing reports on matters of local other local organisations involved in
National Liaison Committee composed of delegares from member workshops meets at intervals to keep the groups in touch and to organise
society on a national banis via the production a
newsletters. In addition, two national conferences are held each year.
The next such conference is to be
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Local State: Inser Cities/Partner-
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Feminism on the big screen Cons of Sund
publishers, but now even by Hollywood.
Julia aristocratic performance
COULTAS.
Fred Zinnemann, the diretor, claims his film is a human document. And inacco 1f 15. Two adolescent girls
(although not widely different)
-TECHNE
Julia is rich. confident and widely read. Lily is tentative and is fascinated by Julia's knowledge and decisiveness. The relationship develops as the giris reach womanhood.
Julia's political consciousness is awakened at an early age. Lily's develops much later but with great emotional intensity when she experiences
On 15-16 April many community and alternative newspapers will be meeting in York for a conference. Its aim is to exchange ideas of a practical nature, as well as to discuss the role of what is rapidly becoming almost an institution writes PATRICK O'NEH.
Well over 60 papers exist around the country ranging
West Highlund Free Press to papers that every six weeks and are put together with entirely voluntary labour.
While papers linked to political groups and specific campains abound in every country where they are allowed, it seems that only in Britain is there such a large number of papers that pose themselves are straightforward alternatives to Fleet Street and its subsidiaries.
tion and news to communities that SUSHILLE distortion, insensitivity co local prooms, and me Doice Boar the world is centred around
VARIETY
No single political label could characterise the variety
sent, that they share, spe
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 13 April 1976 page 15
UNDER REVIEW
FEMINISM IS A saleable commodity. This has been realised not only by bra manufacturers and book
and the Oscar for Vanessa Redgrave's - show that industry is willing to make use of or create the demand for "films about women for women", writes VALERIE
horrors of travelling through Nazi Germany carrying money Joranu lascist acurry. from Opposition to DOC DUE IS CLICCESH the relationship between two women, This eives the tHi a rather nostalgic quality. Fred Zinnemann is quate right to-sa) more that Julia nOt propaganda but document.
The roles that are played by the two women are interesting.
Jane Fonda plays
Vanessa Redgrave as Julin is calmiy heroic. They the express their affection for each
Papering the community
Typig in columm. their readership in political and social action: news that the local press cares to forget: and to provide platform for those who would be heard nowhere else because ПЛеТ opinions have deemed irrelevant or undesiraDic
SECTARIANISM
These newspapers act focuses for local campaigns. be they for the restoration of cuts, against racists against fare rises,
the community.
For sectarian groups be publish party propaganda, usually anxious to give repre-
locality whe are taking action aver issues that chicer everyarcin it, I needs to be emphasised, of though, that soctarianism has been the downfall communicy LICSOULS ever, is the desire to levolve | the Manchester Mole Express.
other, aided as they are by their friendshie in the real world.
Some might argue that the roles passive, one dominant. 1 don't the lilm think that this is the whole
truth. The friendship portrays an equality and unpossessive commitment that many relationships lack.
This is most clearly expressed when Sammy, the brother of an
fascism naughty, naughty
and Lily's frendship is based nothing more adolecent sexual attracton
SPECIAL
political
Lily responds
ship by slapping Sammy's smug
Lily top of him.
Commercialising
has its pluses and minuses
clearly Julia has helped popularise the
notion that women can have
The majority of those involved see it as vital for their papers to be amca at the unconverted and not taken up with debates Inal COnCeEn of their readership.
The idea of the York conference is not to formalise definitions what should be. The main emphasis will be to exchange information that can help chis phenomenon gain popularity and help the papers themselves to be better supply the organised in terms of produc-
tion, writing and finance.
WORKSHOPS
The workshops will be dealing with: the law:
fascism: how to obtain official
tu report it and deal with ic in LAL COILLIES DUE 080.1 and how toliven up the papers.
There will also be a teach-in workshop to help newly-started and fascists, papers and inose who want co or for the star them.
Anyone can take part in these While many newspapers, and any group of
people can get together рарет. It is to be hoped that the conference people to da both thesethings.
Detuils of the conference con he abtained from: Vork Free Preis, 73 Walmgate, York. Tel: 0904-29736. Or from Peoples News Service, Street, London NI. Tel: 01-359 alternative 3785. PNS can supply details of
sour local papers and who to get in touch with.
The pros and
one another the SETOONOCE
of years
numan
- that Julta will make many than an
would be my answer.
this
HELLESH
30 Apill, CHeon 1,
only a small
potential
members.
such papers
shortly:
how to report
CRUSH
thirtles
Namo.,
- given the will Address.
'community
encourage
Upper
Fred
GRAHAM.
In TRIK Stigwood
UNCOUTES very close emotional ties with
-something that BEHS been encouraging for a number
More top actresses will be able (like to demand parts in films that portray women as independent
beings rather than GLITTER bodies to decorate male stars.
But the very popularity of the him and the 'special" nature of the relationship between Lily urying a mia, yanessa and Jane humdrum
women ask: Ridge, "But what on carth has it got to glamour do with me?' See it first and
about that afterwards both tbeir lives.
Julia is presently showing al: Oreon,
Wt: Studio 5. 2 Noting don, Brighson; Dabon
suburban cinemas and ABC, Catara
Bournemcuth 18 May. ABC Cardilt
Harrism Snd esasics
than 25.00. All members must take at inast twa of the selections.
Solection number one includes two books which are due put
1988 and Aller by Tariq Ali (cover price £5.25) 1O68 was the wear that the barricades went uo in Paris ant
Prague - it was the year that revolution came back on to the
agenda in Europe. Tariq All looks at the lessons of that period
and its aftermath, and reviews the debetes that have taken
place on the left since 88
Harry MoShane: No Mean Fighter (cover price E2.95 This book Is the
Ile is the story of Red Clyde itself. He
apprenticeship in the antl-war struggles of 1914-18, becoming
aleader with a national reputation in the unemployed worker:
movement and the hunger marches of the twenties and the apathy to participate in is eighties a lette resurgence Harry MoShane survived the post-war
This selection (No 1j will oost $5.30 plus 25p postage (Pos
Tree if booke picked up trom 329 Upper Sreet, London N1)
I wish to buy selection No. 1 and I agree to abide by the rules of The Other Bookclub.
Political Writings 1920-26 by Gramsci
Corker's Freedom by John Berger Permanent Red by John Berger
Saturday
Night Fever
• Q: Spot the odd one out | behind disco fever realised Astaire, Gene Kelly, John Lee Travolta and myself, writes TONY
A: Travolta - ail the rest are dancers.
However, disco aticianados who go to see Salunday Night Fever may well Feel, like I do, that the bigger the lie the tore people will believe it. case. the Robert Organisation has that not to see the film would be
Rivalling Star Wars and Close publicity the new "disco spectacular" threatens to bring in equally huge dividends Saturday Night Fever is not so much a story as a collection of rise cliches from better films.
Set in the sleazy zones of New York (like Taxi Driver), Tony (John Travolta), a 19-yeur-old Halian Catholic and hi take Mean ties tha ale
meaning in their lives except through fighting Puerto Ricans West Side Story) and Saturday night discos.
He falls in love with Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney) who is to CACTUS! existence of Bay Hrocklvn for the and glitter of film Manhattan. Their relabionship is an apparent watershed in
Tony, in particular, promises sto be less infantile in future. A clumsy script suggests that this nauseous in its natural habitat, The main trouble with the film is that nowhere is its aim of revealing the "reality" that lies
Socialist Challenge and The Other Bookshop present a new joint venture -
The Other Bookclub
The Other Bookclub will endeavour to make available to its members new works of
of the labour movement. By following a policy of buik purchasing, we will be able to keep the costa to a minimum and pass on the saving 10 The boakalub will provide five selections a year, at least two of which will cost less
autobiography of Harry McShane, whose
served his political
of political Books under consideration for future selections include: Towards An East European Revolution by Rakovaki In the Rapids of Revolution by John MacLean
This reality is fuelled by the frustration of working class poet end American
fag end American capitalism
Much of the film is haunted OSSESHITE
mages thar flit across Tony's
Pacioo, Rocky and Farrab Fawcett-Majors; he eats White Castle hanburgers; he grooves to the Bee Gees and so on,
TENUOUS
Yer, apart trom a lenuous exploration of the modern American dream, Saturday Night Fever falls apart as it loses sight of its subject. We are not witnessing the despair of a young worker so much as tbe
of vet another petty-bourgeois superstar.
Such a ghostly transition leaves it carthly traces behind In its effort to be realistic, the film portrays Tony and his fellow machos ashne bul a blacks, gays and women in a torrent of backward benavour
Apart from feebl moralising that trickles throug! the film, this behaviour come dangerously being legitimised through the lack of an alternative vision. Tony's cry of anguish— "Everybody's dumpin' on everybody' not the most useful critique of what has gone before in the
Like most people, I went to be dazzled by nimble foot-work and catchy track musse. Velici brings me back to where 1 SERTEEL trankly it's not a patch on Top Hat.
Saturday Night Fever l presently siowing at cinenias
the south Midlands and West Yorkshir England. next week, and then on to the • rest of the country.
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