Socialist Challenge No. 52, 29 June 1978

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Socialist Challenge RACISTS ARE

FIRE

Algemon Road -

UNITE AND

FIGHT BACK

trade union. Make it a campaigning and fighting organisation.

Support all communines against racist attacks and police

people to organise their own self-defence.

Demand harassment at sirports and detention centres. Demand the repeal of the racist Immigration Acis.

PLAYING

WITH

Or offices in crntral Loodoo are

Age in camed. No arist (For details see P. 3)

Ishaqee Ali, an Fast End Bengali, dies after a physical ssault hy two "unknown" racists. No arvests so far. He isthe second Asian to be killed within a few

al David Foster upersos of Lewbham 21 Defence Committee, i shot at from # passing cat by a racist or racists "unknown'. A bullet enters his intestines and he is hospitalised. Numerous other incidents conse to light. Nourrests. (Demo organised for Sut 1 July at 2pm. Asaemble Loampit Hil, SEI3, corner of

- site of one of the shootings).

Build the ANL in every locality and

struggles black

Win support for the right of black

end stale

No.52, 29 June 1978, Price 1

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The Conservative Saga

OUR POLICIES 2

EDITORIAL

Socialist Challenon,

Massacring the truth

were carried out by the Smith Government's troops.

refugees (snother reason for not bothering to report it).

In the warlike noises issaing from the White House. the prospect of a new Vietnam in Africa. Cuban revolution.

from the Florida coast.

movements to call in outside workers" states to offer unconditional aid to such movements.

weaknesses or deformations.

Africa! Imperialist Hands Off Cuba! Guantanamo! by its brutish indifference to

*This was not for want of trying.

opening ceremony

French, But Lery is a Jewish same TV leam was demonstration by relatives of those who have disappeared.

some good comments from French players, tators are prone at the best of times

final was disgraceful.

in seeing their team win.

political rights.

home team were proved dramatically wrong. a victory for burbarism.

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SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 29 June 1978 page 2

Street, London

MASSACRE time is here again. The killing of 12 British missionaries in Zimbubwe was the signal for another Kolner-style bout of hysteria. The purpose of this propazinda was made clear by the press's refusal to countenance the likelihoed that the killing»

The previous day there was an even larger death toll, just over the border in Mozambique. This time the culprits were definitely Rhodesian troops (which is why you probably missed it in the British press), Seventeen of the victims were black Zimbuhweun

This nauseating propaganda offensive reflects more than the innate racism of the Western media. It also signals their fear that Imperialism is losing its grip on Africa. This has been most marked

This has two alms. The first is to indicate that imperialises has had all it can take from the African liberation movements. The bloody cautionary tale of Vietnam has dissuaded America from any similar escursions in Africa — even at the cost of a major

But the Zaire crisis restored the upper hand to the Pentagon nuwas. Caner personally mus spent the tust to montos an horough ideological preparation for resistance against the "Soviet imperialле татеи сгене, ше илиов movements yand ме ma now ract

No evidence has appeared to sapport US В ДЕЦІ ПОЦІ М 0О 0800 10 5060063316 secondary question. The essential point is that imperialism will use any pretext to intervene against the revolutionary threut 90 miles

We have many differences with Cubun strategy in Africa. In particular we have frequently criticised their blind support for the Ethiopian regime. But we still defend the right of liberation

help and the responsibility of

The Cuban revolation has fundamentally transformed the lot of the Caban manes and stood as a beacon for revolutionary and anti-imperialist forces throughout the world. This is despite all its

That is why all socialists must demand: Imperialist Hands Off

Americans Out of

After the game is over

BRIAN CLOUGH put his finger on it, minutes after the end of the World Cap final. Mario Kempes must be a bit pissed off, he said, with old General Whatsisname hogging the limelight. What better political plutform could he hope for, for the Argentiniun

It was a brief moment of sanity in a mediu spectacular murked

what was really going on i Argentina. Those who Imagined that this publicity could be we in highlight the vicious record of the Videla dictatonship wete

Two West German commentalors made critical remurks about the regime during the

and found themselves confined to their

French journalist Bernurd-Henri Levy was arrested as soon as he arrived in Argentina. Police said to him: You say you are

"He was only allowed to stay four days and had to stay at a hotel chosen by the junta. A French

prevented from transmitting • report of •

Even more successful initistives, such as the Swedish team's support for a demonstration by relatives of the disappeared and

passed almost unnoticed amid the mindless hysteria to which foothall commen-

Many people feel that the Argentiniun team were unworthy winners. There are question marks over muny of the refereeing decisions throughout the tournament und their behaviour in the

The politicsi tragedy and the footballing injustice are obviously linked. The built-in advantage for the bome team is magnified in a right-wing dictatorship where the regime has a political Interest

The nationalism which permeates all football is taken to the nth degree under a regime like Argentina's. Nationalism is their justification for torture, assassination and the deprivation of all

The scenes after Argentina's victory — presented as just quaint South American good fun —were u victory for that nationalism. Those Argentiniun oppositionists who called for a victory for the

The World Cup was a defeat for the Argentinian working class;

HOME NEWS

SCENE 1:

Thaicher, George Wurdenerantz, and Robert Mosseistern. All three ure discused us witches

GEORGE:

THATCHER:

ROBERT:

GEORGE: And the place?

THATCHER:

ROBERT:

ALL: Enoch calls: — anon! -

Scene 2: Party headquarters in lan Smith Square. A large

adviser, Sherman Tank.

THATCHER:

victory

Of our once great party.

TANK:

And know TANK:

Callahodge will soon fall Michael of Brill Welcome good gentletok. Welcome all.

WHITE LAW: Good lady,

Callahodge grows

rage, froths at the mouth and farts uncontrollably)

THATCHER: Fie on it! Oh fiel

Will no one rid me of

WHITE LAW:

T TANK:

We still have our clubs

to use thom

Has a piercing nail, Known to you all as the Daily Mail.

THATCHER: We use the white ciab

An open field near Ascot. Enter Lady

Shall we three ever meel again, Has my struggle been in vain?

When the hurly-burly's done When Labour's lost and we have won!

Methinks that will be this autumn.

Why Downing Street, Sir. No 10, if'all goes well, But now let's move posthaste to hell There to meet our Lord Powell.

Fair is foul and foul is fair, Hover through fog and filthy air.

commitler room. Enter stage right: Lady Thatcher and her chief

O that chis roo, too aatul situation Would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a

How weary, stale, flat and boring is the rhetoric Heath, Heath, that blasted Heath, that damned Heath is to hiame for al this.

If the soldiers had been despatched to Saltley

We would not now be in this sorry state.

Tis not the tallen Heath that worries us But the Sqaire Callahodge.

He is crafty, wily, almost a fox Gracious lady, do not despair, We'll paint him a lurid red, "Te a colour hated in this land Your Sherman Tank has all in hand THATCHER: Here come our good lords from the battlefield. (Enter Earl White Law, Lord Joseph, Sir Geoffrey Who?, Duke

Welcome good gentlefolk.

What news from yonder house?

Get more confident.

He no longer says 'if we win", but when And sitting at his fect are Lords Foot and Benn (At the sound of the word Benn, Sherman Tank turas purple with

this turbulent government?

What weapons have we lell?

Weapons! Why very few ma'am Ourslings and arrows have gone, Our uniforms have been stolen

Our nakedness. (He weeps)

My Lord White Law comes close to treason, Our foot-soldiers from the backwoods are ready

And one club in particular

But Callahodge answered it with an even more Capitali-m is in crish. The leaders of the Labour Parly and the trades anions iter salutions that are in the loterests, not at the worker, bet of the capiralist

Socialist Challenpe helleses that the In vital tasks confessing

- To huild Brod-based class sirwu tendencies in oppostion in class collaborationism in the laboor movement, These shnult he nna-exclusive in character grouping sogether militants helding a wide range of political sions. • To begia lo fight for ine creation of a united and democracie persiailunary sociabst organiction which can, throwsh an application of united front tactics, hegin de be wei an an alienative by thousands of workers engaged in streagles

Such an organisation shuuld be haved un the understanding that:

The struasie for socialism seeks to unite the fight of the workers agalest Mack people, Kats. struggling for lheir liberation. This socialism can out be achleved by creating new organs of power and defiating with all

Select chit

Southall AIREY THE KNAVE:

TANK: They shall madame.

The tamily chib The banging club,

women THATCHER:

TANK:

(Laughter and applause)

AIREY:

Are lightine tor

THATCHER:

Let him say it aloud

TANK: Weshall,

Black faces swamping our pleasant land Our beleaguered Orange friends in the North,

And the threat of War The rivers of blood shall scream out:

No more wantonness in our cities No degenerate pansies corrupting our children No more drugs on prescription. Weshall end poverty By abolishing the dole That must be our manifesto, For Be sourcern soul

(Brinstone and thunder outside. Exit all.)

Enter three an Johnson, and Lord Worst Thome. They sing the finale:

ALL: Labour are Reds.

Labour are Reds, Labour are Nazis.

Look Under Your Bedi Or you i catch the decise.

Don't be deceived by Callahodge, Don't be deceived by Healey.

Javid Owen is a sop

And as for Rees, well really

The man to watch is Wedgie Benn, He hasn't lost a single spot, And if you vote Labour He'll just have you shot!

We'll fight for Capital Well fight lot Probit We'l fight for Freedom With Vorster and Pinoshit.

Our sociatiom will he safinisely more dea

Wielded by the old peasant Hidwell from

Tinse then to use the orange club It's never talled us in the past.

But others must be kept in reserve.

The club against licentiousness and loose And nen who wear make-up!

Gentlemen you have revived my spirits Tknow our people well, War once one of them myscit, Fought in the Spanish Wars But on the wrong side Now T'U take them all for a ride.

Madame 1 too did light Against the Nasi Tribes.

And methinks that what Callahodge

Has much in common with our enemy of yore The Knave has a point, Let it be spread all over the land Wehave bur tew weapons iell Let us use all of them Weshall conjure up such visions of despai That even Callahodge will pause to reflect.

The Red Barbarians clambering on the white cliffs of Dover

Enough, no more killings of babies in their mothers' wombs.

meratie thas what esist in

ties and will offer fall sapport to all those fighting for socialin democras

scale. This unity will in the long run be dochive in defeating be Imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships thes sustaie in 1a In triuin it Implies demanding the immediate withdrusal of Bria Foin Irdand und biting the trih people determine their own future

The Communist Parties in Europe are In crisis. S

4 tates for the teries are tape it state Men ter

raties for the overthrone of the capitalist state. Now less socialist parties are more necesary than ever beforr. Candi are one Tarunrable than over the preceding three decades. Bai such po only he built be mejecting sectarianism and seeing internal drmocrac luxury but us a sibl newcolty. This means the right to egganise tar

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What they say about the Anti Nazi League conference

APPEAL!

HOME NEWS

Detailed

work"

NIGEL HARRIS, member of

the ANL's steering committer

and of the Socialist Workers

The central aim of the con-

of all those who are committed

to an acus campalza acainst

the NF in the short period

Dolore the General Electim

The Front is committed to

oliciine 316 candidates. and

the clection could be the make

or break political test for the

Front.

The 80,000 people whio at-

tended the 30 April Carnival

showed the potential for the

ampaiga, but if it remains o

he level of an occasional even

of this kind se will not alti-

mately defeat the Froat.

For that, we need continuing

dsciplined and detailed work

locality, in housing estate, street,

в отарісс, ді суспу 1ootoal

match and on every football

Such a campaign tequires a

body of committed actursis af

many thousands, cach in their

own circumstances dedicared

to mobilising many more at

election performance of the

Front.

The campaign conțerence

will bring together that body of

activists that already

around the ANI, as well as

representatives of the anti-

fascist committees engaged in

parallel campaiens,

focal and national trade union

bodies.

The task is to define clearly

our individual responsibilities

uh it's not a central

task of the conference, it will

also. take important

anti-racist and anti-fascist

campaigas in differen: locali-

ellect of dur a and activities.

Alter the General Election

propose to hold a full

nationa conference to detine

our longterm tasks and our

anta sructure Inc Success

of the campaign in the

five ELOI3 Provide 19 with the most powertul indica-

Hon or what those lasks and

structures should be.

"Support mass action'

COUN TALBUT, member of the International Marxist Grosp's Central Committee:

Why has the ANL been so saccessful? Because it has been able to take the fight against racism and fascism heyond simply the far left, to involve tens and teas of thousunds of people in anti-lascist activities.

Is that cneagl? No. clearly not. But it is an escellent start. For that reason the IMG B falls conmitted to building the A NI on a losg-term husis.

We consider that the conference should map out a series of maw campaigns and activities. li should call a mass demonPhoto strainen in the automa election perio and organise a conference limed ut its sapporters in the trade unions and youth.

It should also step up les work on racism, involving itself in campaigi activities on immigration, racist widacks, sus luws, and so on. In short. the conference hat do por on

supporting mass action lo defeat racism and Tascism.

To carry out this ambitions programme of evenis, Leuque should elect a fully representative national council with the suchority to decide

activities heiween

•Programme

of activity?

DAVE COOK, national orgacach miser of the Communist Part: |

1. Thope that the conference

£25.000 appeal to

damape ANI.

2. That the conference will

achieve a much higher level of

Involvement by the trade union

movement in the ANt

3. I hope the confereace will

lay the basis for a programme

of activity throughout the sum-

mer which can have a big effect

on lhe results in the mance Crist hundred pine constituencies

that the NF says it will contest

at the General Election, as well

as ruisiny the level of anti-

fascist consciousness among

working people.

4. Thar it will belp clurify the

sometimes confused relation-

ship at a local level between

antracit committees and the

ANE, recognising that beth

have important roles to play.

5. That it will help yet rid of

the

alleces some areas of anti-

fascist and anti-racist work. and

6. Out of the activity thal 1

hope the conference will make

posible, the basis can be laid

for a really large representative

conference of all sections of the

lalur, anti-fascist, and anti-

racist

autumn. That can belp make next the ANt more representative

and democrutic with

roots in all sections of British

society.

COLIN TALBOT conferences. This should he a broad und open body involving the fullest range of support for Ile League.

We are confident thut with SUCh a cumpsicniog urienta. font and democratic structure the ANI. cun register a big step Forward from this conference

the DELEGATES credentials for the confereace from: Anti Nazi League. PO Bos 151, London WC2H TJO.

THE ANTI Nazi League has been the fastest growing campaign that the left in Britain has seen since the days of Vietnam solidarity in the late '60s.

It was the massive success of the ANL Carnival in April which persuaded the League's steering commitfee that a conference was necessary.

The national conference is to be held at the

ERNIE ROBERTS, member Df the ANL's steering commitree and prospective Labour Parlamentary candidate:

League's founding statement uy for the and the signing by many MPs DE HORCULE SUE HELLE 1977 Labour Party conference has within the labour movement, from all political tendencies and from many thousands of young people. that still the

deeper bE leaflets.

thousands of pounds. the result of one thing

April.

"Extend the unity"

Since the formulation of the takeover

gathered wide suppor

organising the ANL committee,

the campaiga conference ANL ofens afiet Dre police fuund NF roles OK slogan on wall

•These are the offices of the Anti Nazi League alter they had heen deliberately set on fire. Tens of thousands

brochures and pamphlets have destroyed. Extensive dumage has been caused to the huilding itself. The cost of this act of arson will cua Into #This is not the only incident of violence. The Ant Nazi League organiser in High Wycombe, a busnian, received a parcel homb. Threatening phone-calls to the League's organisers are commanplace. Meetings have heen broken upt in one, a smoke bomb was thrown, al another three people were put in hospital after being attacked with wooden clubs. The level of racial assaults and barrassment continues to rise. In East London, three black people, one a len yeur old boy — have died as a result of murderous racialist attacks. • This rising incidence of Nazi and rucialist violener is

large numbers of people to stop the growth of Britain's new Nuzis — the National Front. #There was the 80,000 strong And Nazi Carnival in

BE Truse Unionists, sche sdedents, women's groups are organising against Nazi

STOPTHE

Porchester Hall, London on Saturday, 8 July. All ANL groups, anti-racist committees, and trade union orgamisations that have sponsored the League are urged to send delegates.

Socialist Challenge asked five leading activists what they would like the conference to achieve.

he made to strenetheo and extend this unity in the labou and trade union movenienis.

Ally altempl to make

hid by political party will destroy the splendid unity which has been

There la a need to extend the

of the League throughour the country.

10 activities led by the national steering

it is essential to United bave a working committee with representatives from all arcas defeated

EMERGENCY

Nazi NF. heen ANE down. • growing determination hy

Name

NAZI Address

ERNIE ROBERTS

build unsted anti Nazi, anti-racist organbation in all parts of the country

we shall crow strength. Divided we shall be

the •No longer can Nazi candidates put forward their racialist polson unopposed.

MAnti racists everywhere are organising to stop the

Bin the locul elections in May the Nazis suffered humiliating set-backs. •The Anti Navi League, together with commitlees up and down the country, hus played its par in building up this movement.

•Now the Nazis are becoming worrled. So they une turning to urson, violence and intimidation to silence the Anti Nazi League. They dure not put forward their Nas bellefs in public. Instead they resort to cowardly attacks by night or in the dark alley.

Min the coming General Election the Nazis are pulting up at least 350 candidates. Their racialist propaganda will be everywhere. They must be opposed. •By buring our offices the Nazis want to close the They atast not saceced. Our campaign aguinst the Nacis needs to go on, getting ligger and stronger. To de this we need money urgenily. •Please give non!

TO: Emergency Appeal, Anti-Nuzi Leugue P.O. Bux 151 London WC2

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED NOW Tenclose a donation for the Emergency Appeal Layahle lo "'Anti-Nazi League"")

NATIONAL FRONT!

'Fight racism'

the Instilule Race Relacions:

I tbink the Anti Nazi League has dobe a tremendous joh in mobilising progressive forces in chis society against the

Bur if the purpose of this conlerente 15 Eo tase Sock 1r Larder to go forward, there are make.

Insofar as the ANL does nor address itself directly and specifically to the question of racism, which is the reccuiting ground of fascism, the Lengue only succeeds in driving the fascists off the streets in to the

mer cien aliene tred

crevices and ratholes of the

where they then resort to

vicious and violent attacks on

the black community, terror ising women and children.

Hence the ANL must give priority to liaising with and InUI

are Fighting local insues of racism and therefore fascism.

To fight fascisan and racism only secondarily (and this is my second point) - is to allos lascism to re emerge in

mirise Thatcherite anti racist Phone Anti Nazi League SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 29 June 1978 page 3

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The leadership wants to drop direct action

HOME NEWS

is annual conference this weekend.

sadents have taken action

political issues fighting school closures, to tackling sexism.

TONY side NUSS organiser: Much of he political action taken by students in the past six months has by-passed the NUSS.

For example. School Kids Against the Nazis has been tremendously successfat in getting students involved in antiNF activity. But the leadership of NUSS has made no real effort to build on this:

In fact at the conference they are proposing we drop

direct action against the NF. This means dropping our no platform position.

My area is opposing this. We want to see a clear anti-racist

want to see full and active support for SKAN.

BARBARA, active in the antiCALLE CICHELE Wandsworth schools in South LonGua- CITE NUSS hasn't taken a lead in any of WHY NOT have a Vacances Rouges or a Red Holiday? It will he fun, sun and politics in the Bosmue Coontre in worth ern Spain this summer.

Throughout July and Aug ust, the Fresch Revolutionary

Spanish Revolutionary Communist Youth are organising a

of 10-day holldays.

Young members, sympathisers ur those interested in the politics of the Fourth International are welcome.

150 moung revolutionaries at a time, from ail over Europe, will he exchanging expenences

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 29 June 1978 page 4

School students conference

against the NF'

THE NATIONAL Union of School Students holds

It comes at a time when thousands of school

on a wide range - from the Anti Nazi League, to

Where does the NUSS stand, and what will it be doing in the next year to build a mass movement in the schools? Socialist Challenge asked three candidates for the union's executive for their comments.

COLLINS, Humber- | the big problems we're facing - raciani, sexism, unemploy And students lois SkAN while thousands school the NESS has set up its own anti-fascist campaige. This has no impact among young peoSchool students want action on these issues.

Et up with organisations ke SRAN Me arional bertion with organisations like Campaign, and the We can't avoid politics We can he political without tying. our union to any particular party Al Leis coce 1 want lo see a mure towards socHist poles and a national executive which will union. If it co-ordinated mass NUSS could have

THE NAZIS

STEEL PULSE

BUZZCOCKSI

CHINA STREET

SATURDAY JULY 15 RALLY AT 12N00N STRANGEWEYS, BURY NEW RD MANCHESTER MARCH TOMHMAMLNMA ALEXANDRA PARK SPONSORED BY NORTH WEST REGION TUC

Vacances Rouge

debating, sun-bathing, enjoy ing music, sport and

Sixty places at the Vacances Rouges have been reserved for supporters lenge who are under the age of

cost? E45 excluding transport. But much lower If the places filled. There are reductions for school students.

For further details write to "Vacances Rouges', c/o Socialist Challenge. PO Box London NI.

response.

Bur this will mean the end of cos camous via le bead

of SENORIS

Students won't join a union because heads. They join if they think JEs camble or modelsire defence of their rights (denied 10 99 per cent of schoolsi against the racism and sexism which many heads are happy

NESS In Manchester: We're trying to organise a woek action on with the ANL Northern Carnival on 15 July:

If we can get kids involved in

The NUSS will

Cardiff Carnival unions, THE AFTERMATH of the League probably been similar all over the country. Great, now let's go and organise our own carnival!

DEREK ports on the plans of the big Cardiff Against Racialism for a South Wales Carnival.

The Carnival in Sourb Wales will he Fascism. Its main aim will be to get the local black community involved. Ir any ment came out Carnival in East London it was from the lack of black support. We hope this won't be the case in Cardill.

There hax response from the Asian and Local black Cardiff already. being steadily ghettoised in the slums of Kiverside.

The National Front in South Wales is weak, dentoralised b its failure in a recent Cardifi by-lection. But the County Council has tried block the progress Carnival. It recently refused to allow the ANt or the Carditi Committee Against to book meetings.

The Tory-led Committee of the City Council also made disruption when it attenipted to cancel the hall booking, When faced with opposition from the lors, the Racial Equality, as well us the organising Council backed down.

The Carnival celebration tures. A procession will march through: Cardiff on 15 Jule, led cultural by asteel band and a jazz band will comtumly, poblical and trade ution contingents. In the afternoon there will be Sikh dancing. karate and gymnastic displays, a male voice choir. theatre groups, music, stalls food, and exhibitions tracing this can be the rise of racism

In the evening there will be a concert with reggae, punk, rock and Junk rock bands CARNIVAL AGAINS

adit, Saluriay 15 July. Amenb 50, 11 Kam. At Lascour Square. Bute St Bine. Miren sia Guesn St to sochia

to the Carnival and

TALUES

many Members of Union

election for international 30b Catalisbaison

charperson of similar groups.

anne to connelle

Showi the

ANTI-RACIST IN BRIEF

Gabialist Challenge.

London Anti Nazi Carnival has

bands. youth shaatre.

DAVIES re- Charles B

Tel. Cardirl 41938

Committee Newham ANL

began and time Plashet of the ANI The march,

CARF.

been some Several hundred

community in Broadside

Theatre in Asians are Some 300

one incident, .Tory

of the

Racialismi schools for public a plate glass window.

However it dockers Amenities assailants — who

ted. last required Line

the police

Commission for

the ANI is now commitiee, the

London Trades will be

THE

cils, which b

15 July, announces:

after Welsh folk

selling cthnic

CARF

racism.'

Racism

lord

the mectings, we can pet then

leafler there An important part of what we'll be doing is taking up the problems students have experienced wearing anti Nazi

In the Mosa Side by-election, the VF candidate is a teacher

the Nationa cachers

strend mened the op

joining forces with SKAN to COLICE MORE ERECTO eir one position , in the NUSS

Uaf secretary This with the Chile Solidarity Campaign and

I have attended neetings of the Mauchester Anti-Recruitment Campaign and we deci ded to leaflet against the Army

Manchester Flower Musa No.no or comme!

SLEDGE.

Colchester

Strike Aller THE FIVE hundred who

the anti-fascist march from Ilford on Saturday were ded to sel Joined by another five handred

they reaclied anti racist •New ham activity reports TONY BROWNE

organised by Newham ANI and Redbridge inits work

was made up almost entirels of local poople and led by a local band. the Tickets. Mobile Warkers the the perk, and Two licened to the regene discu

racist rouths, DIEEVTAHULNOCEI AILE

- beckled tbe march. seven of the youths set upon two dockers as slogans. they were making their way to the star of the march. One of

ANL pramplly found himself calling through treatment.

Swat the THO THATS not their were arres dockers stitebes after beiag bit with a truncheon by

None of this detraces from the success of the march, and

likely to increase its work in the area

Taunched Council Conference

GREATER London caclalists", association Orades CoUr- LIAMY.

10 hold Bast minute

"This will be the Saturday

the AND conference and will chas be able to take into account both its decisions and the lessons learned from

conterence charing the way forward for DELISS trade unsonists in combatting

Delegates from trade union organisations, 50p cach, Cre denimbs from: P Masters. 433 sponsor of St Albans Rd. Seven Kings.

Ant

Noz gue 'WE'LL BE BACK' was the chant that went up at a picket of new National Front headquarters Hundrede of anti-lascists from Nollingham Trades Council and

Loughborough AN and anti-racist committee.

Loughborough — the latest incident was by several racists who enfered the premises of an Asian ANL member, ripped down posters and terrorised an employee

But the fascists have not had it all their own way. They find i

dillicult to hold meetings in pubs because of pressure oi broweries locally

countered by local milllants

Colchester ANL ANE OVER TWO hundred people carne to a public meeting in UMEENITSSHURIOR SAILMET to hear Peter Hain, the ANL's

ENTE TOTIN MIKE

The meeting, against racism ter Trades was called b Council One local activiss described it as the biggest left mecting In The town since the General

•hearint the exner enoss of Ipswich and Harwich anti-racists, the meeting deci- ties, Franch orthe ANi, pledged to Colchester

and anti lascist

11 will aim to involve a wide cross-section of the community

Huddersfield ANL RACISTS have been besy Dersbury, near Federated.

Asian shops were Tiles daubed with NF slogans on Friday night, and the windows of Staincliffe school, where a third of the students are Asian, were virtually obliterated with

Bailey advice centre, whic i also the HQ of Dewshury

received The League park. counter these activities

supporters allended a meeting in Had dersfield on Saturday to elect delegates for the A NI. national conference or July.

Plymouth ANL

The Plymouth branch of the Anti Nazi League las been

after weeks threats, bans. NF thogeery and hampering by moderate anti-

writes ED VUL.

Local ANE organisers facod

CCNRECIAEEST inaugural meetings planned in Aptil and May after the Devon County education authorities and the Quaker Swanhmore Foundation backed down 1o thecals of fascist violence, and refused the league use of their

The AN was banned from all educational buildings.

LILI though Devon's chief educatson officer, Mr Joss Owen, is a

moderate Devon and Corraall Association for Racial Equality

Nottingham

joined by militants from

on the increase in

and public sales of their paper have been

Days after the ban, a local

organiser was attacked by NE members in a husy shopping centre watched shoppers and police who did nos intervene

But Pamouth sation En bour Parly called the fuscists buff and offered their hall to the ANL, despite subsequen threats to their tamubes from Beibers the Front

The mccting went ahead peacefely in the packed anu guarded hall, The new branch collecied affiliations Tron trade intom the Liberal Labour and Communal Par

IMG, SWP and anar LEISSE

The NE clan 80 meccibers in Plymourt, some or waont are

the Police Royal Marines, they slate. Earlier this seas, local NF organise Garden Cummins was expelled from the Front Information to a newspaper abou. the undercover activities of fascists leaking secreis from inside the navy and compiling

OIL Socia Socurity claimants,

Portsmouth ANL OVER 250 people took part in the Portsmouth ANL march on Saturday despite attempts by the local Tory council to ban it from mecting in a city

Permission was refused for Victoria Park to be used for a rally with speakers and a rock group at the beginning of the march. The Icader of the council said the ANL made up of extremiss and the tient arainst fascism war 'super fluaus

Marchers did meet in th park and a meeting was held

elore the demenstration se ell, led by a Rock Agains Racism proup. About 5.000 Jeaflets were distributed. Tere demo ported by Portsmouth Trade: was, ULICSIOLE

Council and conturgents came from Southampton and Br shion.

'THE SOCIALIST CHALLENGE

IMMIGRATION CONTROLS

The how why. what, and

THETBION controis - all in a pamphlet Just out for only 10p. Place a

The Other Bookshop, 328 Upper Street, London N1. CUT-D BoTT

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Terrorism from the

HOME NEWS

Challenge'.

Mills, Ronan Bennett (arrested 24 May). Dalydd (arrested 2 June), and Stewart Carr (arrested 15 June) are being held in Brixton Prison They are charged with conspiracy to cause explosions with persons known und unknown"

The Anti-Terrorist Squad also hopes to pin charges of armed robbery on two of the accused. The general line of police investigations was pur in court by Detective SuperinAnti-Terrorist Squad: "We are looking for Northern Carnival will be held in Moss Side just Iwo days after polling day in the by-election that has been called for 13 July. That's Socialist Unity along with the Manchester Socialist Workers Party will be concentrating their energies on running a campaign to build the Carnival.

BOB PENNINGTON reports.

Plans are already underwas to organise meetings outside schools at lunch-time, and local bew wave and releac rock

IF SCHOOL students could vote, Socialist Unity would have first councillor in GlasRow's Crosshill/Prospecthill ward.

This was the reaction of Socialist Unity workers after a week of hectie campaigning in the before chas gow's council by-clection on 25 June.

After Socialist Unity porlers had wiven out School Kids Against the Nazis leaflers in Iie schools in Clasgow's southside, the Socialist Unity cloction office becume a centre Jor school students.

NAZIS

The leafletting followed Nazi Glaspoe SCAnnIS. National Froor supporters been King's Park school and racist

Bellahausten

Raids against left continue

A NEWS story called 'Armed Police Raid Swansea Militants' appeared in the 15 June issue of 'Socialist

The grouping "Persons Unknown' argue that more les behind the raid than we reported. They explain.

Four peogle inchiding Iris | idealistic persons who would

take positive steps to overT.add threre society RAIDS Since the arrests there have been more than ten raids in LOBUOn - ns wel as those in Swansea, Sheffield, Huddersfield and possibly elsewtiere.

Anarchists have been the main targer, but other sections of the left have also been affected There has been no evidence bombings in Britain for more 3 wo sais race arrests and

Socialist Unity

campaigning in

Manchester...

THE Anti Nazi League's | bands will be asked to play at

in the area will ger a reception from local anti-fascists not only in the streets in Moss Side tut why aiso the campaien against los racist ideas will hit hire when he gues back to school after polling day.

LEAFLETS Every single day from the Anti Nazi League, Socialist Unty and the SWP will be icafletting puts, shop ping preciocts and lactories. calling for mass support for the Carrivat and urging the rout of the racist scum.

This will be in contrast with the Labour campaien which will no

...and Glasgow

its sup-

CHRIS BAMBERY demy. Bur last Wednesday saw a successful mecting to launch SKAN in Glasgow's southside.

School scudents were also in evidence a: another Socialist Unicy clection activie Aca- showing of the United Troops

'anti-terrorists'

thing and one

Mills, Bennett, Ladd and Carr

have been fisted up by the State

in order to mount a general offensive against the anarchist

and socialist left.

This comes al a time when

The Anli Terrorist Squad is

desperately urving to justity its

existence, following is recent

Yard on. and a week of awkward

questions in the House about

the commition and rele of the political police.

ISOLATED

The four arrested have been political

midated.

have the case of Iris Mills: noises. but will maintain a

discheet silence about the rucst

policies of the Labour Government and its support for mimigration controls.

Nor will the torch of political prisonens in Ireland be allowed

unity a the polls, A demonstrabion has been planned In sup port of Irish political prisoners who are 'on the blanket', This will probably be held outside militants one of Labour's election meet-

ABORTION

The Society for the Protec lion or the Unborn Chiid has raised its ugly head. Leaflets and posters lave appeared in Moss Side against plous One prontinent Labour Party Dut Movemens slet im *Honse Soldier Home Bridper 's Tolyelen.

As well as school Bide the bulk of the 65 strong audience were housewives, therebs proving the myth that solidarity work must be based DE hard drinking males

Socialist Unity's by-election candidate. Chris addressed the audience hetore the film started. Arguing for British Jand, Hambery Socialise Unity was the only participane in that took up the question of Ireland.

SPUC

A small group ot supporters of the anti-abortion outfit ilse Society for the Protection of die Unborn Child' disrupt abe meeting Bur they - AL found no views and for their accusation

Tong and ne polie oly held in thement prison si be

thing only:

in solitary delied association

prisoners.

Wing, degrading. is placed allowed.

Wing to every ward.

and after cach visit.

Our Iris are clear: that their lawyers and

socialist

Lunit

member has mobilise the

ORGANISE

working class abortion.

School, "chold murderer:

Irish

Bambery, POLICE withdrawal from Ire-

pointed cur One nos-European AUSSILCI the election own county".

Ibe police

new. Women tried contral their hadies

SUDDOLI JOT EDCIT

*She is the first woman to be • proDet

the Price sisters in 1975. She is

confinement and that

prisonces. In addition she has

to exercise in full view of male

*Not oely is this mind-bend-

insulting and

*When she is visited, a table

berween ber and het

visitor, No physical contact is This

Two screws hover ment on

"She is strip-searched before

demands concerning the be

given bail: failing this, that she

Holloway and granted association with other group

THE

threatened to Catholic vote against the Labour Party if the candidate dares to openly supporta woman's right to choose. that they

one

Militants don't intend that

renege on the decisions of its tion

women to the Big Flame. birchery of hack strom abor tion because it is thought to be

There won't be candidares

its presence will be very much

will use the election to help organise Challenge'. the lightback and prepare the way for standing candidates in discussed the any autumen general election. that because Bambery supporled a woman's right to choose

abortion that he was a

SPUCites were also active

Saturday afternoon when the National Aborion Cam-

mige, supporied by Socialis Unity. petitioned the local ou

exhibition showing method

NAC told by SPDCite to get back to your

same to the assistance of SPUC when they ordered un 'offending" section of the display to be hidden NAC was forced to comply.

This kind of censorship is not

fighting Tacing such harassment should jour with other NAC groups and labour movemen bodies to fight back

has

In the meantime we demand

Roman, Dafvdd and Stewart be allowed to visit Iris for social interaction as well as

purposes of defence, and that

Ronan Benner be allowed to wall her on the common law husband/wife basis.

PRIORITY

must be OLLE first priority because of the effects of prolonged solitary contine

prisoner. incaberence, disorientation, lack of identity. The effect of such treatment on a person in the Red dock, would be disastrous for the 'trial" and an attack on her polities: anarchist → crelin.

Mere generaily the support

demands: All those | Hall, Red Lion Square

ISA vote for

left unity

CONFERENCE organised by the Internatonal Socialist Alliance (former members of the Socialist Workers Party) attracted some 7U delegates on 17-18 June. Its importance lies in the fact

voted almost unanimously (with only

vote against) 10 campaign for a unified revolutionary organisa-

with the International Marxist Group and

Delegates also endorsed the decisions of the Steering Committee to participate on the Editorial Board of Socialist

On Sarurday the conference

political and cconomic situation in Brimain. It divided into workshops cr racism, feminist politics, and

where the discussion was both freer and extremely productive. A resolu ISA tion presented by Stephen

overwbelmingly adopted.

outlines policies — in addition to Our

25 the basis for a campaign for

boen

IMG

STEPHEN MARKS tion. Il commits the steering committee lo organise a furtber

the general election to draw up a balance sheel of the campaige and either found a united organisa-

1 arrested must be freed! Get rid

gale activities Suppression terroram

-Suppression Terrorism Lans:

IRISH

We recognise that the raids

-LE experience are perr of everyday

The British left on the whole

donc Little show solidarity and launch a general offensive against such repressive legislation as the Prevention of Terrorism Act

Now we are being harassed

way Irish people We appeal to all groups concerned with prisoners rights and with opposing such laws to help in this campaign so as to launch a general offensive against State

SOLIDARITY

*Public 1 міль: July

Free Tris Ronan Bennett, Dafydd Ladd and

Stewart Carr', Conway Hall

Lion Square Арт.

*Demonstrute: 15 July -Edeware Tube, 2pm.

*Benefit: 15 July, Conway for moving towards it"

Socialist Volce will continue to appear as popular broadly-based journal oF socialise news and analysis. although its exact form will be part of a further discussion.

Observers with speaking

Socialist Workers Party (Colin Smarksy International Markis Groun and bedie Weppler) Group (Tang Brian and Big Flamne (Peler Anderson, Jobn Hillier).

Colin Sparks appealed to the RICHARD KUPER

conference have dialogue with the SWP, and not to ignore the largest far-lett group in the country. He pointed to che successes of th ANt as a sign of the fact that

the SWPS political instincts had not deseried in

In response, Steve Marks pointed out that the ISA was very interested in a dialngue He examined how numeron approaches from Socialist Unity had been ignored, as had

appeals in Socialist Challenge.

A dialogue. Marks stressed could exclusive onc-sided. It should include the

and Big Flame, and equally important, independeat revolutionaries who agrec with the need for unity.

The test of new organisation will come in the months thar follow these decisions, All delegates stressed the necessity of joint work on every front to test out the ground before an organisation was launched,

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 29 June 1978 page 5

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Letting the bureaucrats

OPEN FORUM

conference in 1974. Sponsored the unions.

of the Labour Government in 1974, the first conference of the Rank and File Organising Committee in Birmingham attracted delegates from trade union bodies, including a significant representation from the industrial working class.

DISARRAY

We were entering a situation in which thousands of votes would be cast far revolutionary policies and candidates in the trade unions, accompanied by a hig increase in the size of the whole revolutionary left. contrast, the Communist Party was to industrial

in disarray and its membership declining rapid rate.

The stage was thus set for Rank and File to start to dislodee the Communist Party from ils positions of power and influence in the trade movement. This would baVE signalled the end of the CP* traditional position as the only

alternative to.

Labour Party,

But instead we have seen a growing decline of the Rank and File movement.

The SWP leadership and its

FICMONS have

devoted plenty ot energy to

building it. But the election of

commitlee.

off the hook

THE RANK AND FILE organisation held its first

by the Socialist Workers Party, it promised to be one of the most serious oppositions to the policies of the Labour Government. Today its influence is at an all time low.

RAY BURNS argues that the comrades of the SWP should rediscuss their whole notion of rank and filism, and join the fight for broad based fighting left wings in ONE MONTH after the return the Labour Government and

doweturn in Industrial misconceptions of the SWP.

SLAI proved to ne a disastrous combination for the new born The decline of the Rank and File movement should not be cause for pleasure on the far left. An important opportunity has been lost to draw hundreds of working class closer to revolutionary politics.

Nevertheless the facts must be squarely faced In the white collar unions, where Rank and File had won leading positions it lant ion among the ene basis bership. the decline is nost at a marked.

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THE STREETS'

SEXUAL POLITICS

hand in hand with that for "gay pride"

to commemorate

time the gay fought back

Many of the men had been harassed for being conspicuous uate", and that was what forced them to begin the Debtback. A crond gatbered determined to free those arrested.

Only the arrival of reinforcements rescued the cops who were trapped in their van. The nest night hundreds of

people gathered on streets outside the bar and taunted the cops. Later in the week there was a Lating for an eni to basement. demonstrution for gay rights,

Stonewall was the rebirth of the gay movement Internationally. Nine years later, a large part of our work is concerned with fighting the attacks of the State, the boises, and the right. The Gay Pride march in London on 8 July will focus particutarly on the enormons intensification in police harassment of gays,

Bet as the nume Gay Pride Implies. the fight for gay more than defence against attacks: it also mewas organising to give collective sapport to individall gay people, to

Ip people come out as gay

vercome the self-haired that imposed on us

These "social" aspects of gry libera. lion are sometimes seen as secondary to the 'political' fight agaimt ruling class attacks, In fact, the two things are Inseparable.

The establinhment and delesce of democrable rights — which in the end can ouly be guaranteed hy a workers' state Is obviously a minimuin need lori social liberation. But there would not lie a struggle for clementary rights

some gays have the personal support secesary to come out as ga and light their victimisution. will scept bet lad of night? propie And without

The wims und content of the sochil

etivities of the gry movement depen

• our politiest situation, le is ther fore vital for socialists and the labour movement to support and where

necessary, defend gay counselling setvices, centres, and swit chboards than at any times noce fore nece This support is now

The crisis has given rise to a sharp

sease: a the

buglone ibe cupitalist wodd, and a

assequent streagthenine of

espect of our oppression as guys. The

basic abn attarks.

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 28 June 1978 page 8

'OUT OF THE

CLOSETS....

AND INTO

GAY PRIDE week 1978 takes place from 30 June to 9 July. Gay people in this country and internationally will demonstrate for gay rights and proclaim that gay sexuality is not something perverse to be hidden away, but that on the contrary, "Gay is Good'.

On these pages, we look at some aspects of the gay struggle now, and why the fight for gay rights goes

GAY PRIDE week is celebrated at this time of year

what has become known as the Stonewall Rebellion, writes JAMIE GOUGH.

In Greenwich Village, New York on 28 June 1969, cops raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar. But this

men and women who were arrested

mine sex rules, and thes of the family.

In Britain, the polices of the Labour Governient have laid the brasis for un overall deit to the righi, which is cideal in the attacks an gass an less than those an hlucks.

The Government has directs reinforced this trend by. Tor Instance, the refusing to allow time for the Bill liberalising the age of consent for gay men in Scotland: by championing of Whitehouse's Child Porn Bill; and.

Callaghan's disgusting campuigs for a strengthening of the Tamily.

Non-gay people are asked to support direct the demonstration on 8 July by marching behind gay banners. non-tay people can not only the fight fur the elementary political rights of guys, but also experience and solidarise with the daily social appres sion of lesbians and gay men.

July: Gay Teachers' group at Ovat House

Spoco. 7.30p

lalunday &July Assemble noon outside Sione Batue Sat f duls:

Sun 3 Jule: 1iam-üpm; An somning of poetry the star, Landon Ad, West Croydan. - i data # 07-857 7324

GA YSin Landon

Court area

demanstration demands police harassment,

reports,

and The forced to

Pub. in the almost nightly

acres them

over the country there seeite 10 malor offensive against pays;

BEETLICH prison for

between the ages of 18 and 21. most seriody.

WITCH-HUNTS

In this way Constable

SUD DUT

COULUT Again in arnests for public

doors or spend bours watshi Car Information from Gay

Moral purge

are hearing the brunt campaign of harassment from police, and the well established gay community in the Earl's

of Endan has been

But guys will not he forced back into the closets. Thisyear's Gay Pride Week

Run und will march through Earl's Court. NIGEL YOUNG

In Earl's Court, The Masquerade

Catacombs, two gay clubs. cinse following raids, Colcherne same arca. bas had an Police presence for the lastrwo years. Many gay men have heer arrested in the area; plain clothes police roam thesirees, pick up men and then

bopkshop has been forced to close and another shop in the

raided & gay in London

or kissing in public and been sene mu

relationslups with men

In Bradford and Cornwall there have been massive police witch-hunts. In Manchester the palice were considering Anderton's pubs in Earl's

marching with prosocuting a club under an Act against licentious dancing! This basn't been used in this country since the 19th

Anderkan's Lancashire, he speaks in public.

lavatories have gone nearly 200 percent. The police climb on roofs, spy through helen look under

More and more gays are relusing to plead guilty to charges of obstruction, TOM ROBINSON BAND at the Gay News demonstr

London

friend gay IM

• LLing importuning or gross indecency. And as police evidence is questioned, the extent of police harassment becomes obvious. The Gay Activists" Alliance is monitoriag police activity around the

and will be the Gay Pride demo through Earl's Court on & July

In Manchester too the GAA has begun to organise against Anderton's moral purge. He is picketed wherever

Itis vital that all cases of harassment and discrimination are not just fought by gays on their own hehalf, The police must be forced to account for their actions to all groups in society. The vagueness of the law in defending our rights, which allows the pelice so much tobin for nanoeuvre, mos be changed.

LIHA

ARE

Coming out

SINCE THE rise of the Ton Robinson Band, Glad to b Gay' has aimost become household refrain. It's still thi case, though, that socialists have not given muel thought to the question of ga politics,

As Gay Pride wee approaches again, i seems good time to give the matte some consideration, argue THERESA CONWAY.

At a first glance — looking at gloss macazines for instance — it seems tha ideas about heteroscxual sex changing. But once you begin to retle • bit bo't al straigh TOCHITE

The idea that sex can be pleasurabl "even for women is gaining som currency; but still many women neve have orgasms, Furthermore, sexuali active women have always existed, bu they are usuaily labelled "whores, un contrasted with passive women whi have dignity and innocence attribute to virgins. Both these sterootypes cri to please men and not much h changol!

Infidelity Is stüt more ampeptable lo mien. And sexuatity is still generall redaced to peuctrarion; very salistyi: for men, but for from enough t whens see enorment

CHALLENGE

The threal-poseil by gay pou deeply challenges bourgenis icol used more, bur herermesual relati ships are, in the long, term based

This validates ima

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TIOBE PROUD

OUDTO BE GRY

ROVDIV/HAPPY

OV HEPPY INWA YAY

cale relations in the cycs or society.

Such 'validation' doesh't exist for sex between tao men ar two women -it can only he for pleasure. A woman living on her own bringing up a child is seco us unfortunate and the objoc of pity. But two women living together as esbjans and choosing to bring children ure seen an a real scandal!

WHITEHOUSE

Changing leas about sexuality are far from universally accepted rowth society. for OrganISaTIOS the Protection of the

Unborn Child and the Festival of Light, and the success of Whitehouse's campaign News and for the Child Pornography Bill, shows how the right is gaining ground on these issues.

All the social moverents that have developed in the States and Western Europe since 1968 have heen quick to see the importance of ideology. They have recognised that self oppression is one form of social control: if you think you deserve to suffer, then you're not ikely to fight your oppressor.

In this way "Gay is Good' from the same souroc as Sisterhood is Powerful' or "Black is Beautiful", All teubet newbund posayc-ocanas uI oppressed people who are no longer prepared to see themscives as "quee's weak" or 'alien'

But for gry people there is an adde factor. ¡exual orientation is nol 4 Lact Inkeskin colour or biological sex. Gaye have to discover theit gayness pot an cisy tisk gisen the persuasive weight of hereroseal 'norms are people who have first "admitted" the tha te day? therar demate -TE B) 1 sixties

IT gay people are

ia a political sates

CHE

Fighting

Isolation

Two snippets

The

abuse is NEESOM, Mary Icebreakers, writes. against Gay

cloak Sometimes we reply in kind.

pary on tarnet experience.

BISLAALS

comes

Camen bennE Dur ethers who are facing ILSES

WOOLSEC EEn

criminal we dont tell them to accepr Cel Dr IO Pu just hecause they are gas.

There at the oppression of gays.

anil fight our Aboration i more iil ficul!.

RICCIE 'QUEER, bent and a sod'. 'l am the Eva Peron of Ilford',

from recent OUE E phonecalls to Icebreakers.

The first is the more typical.

common, PAUL whe works for

Sametimes we listen and try to go beyond it, to explore the motivations thal made them phone. It can often be

genuine anssely.

Knowing how ta reply is hased

I'm Sure make

We do not pretend to be experts. We are not councillors advisins people on theit problems. We are a collective of

ETALEEHLE LU isolation and

Mans of our-cellers — neary all of

scem surprised not to be told that they ure ill, perverted or

They are offen amazed thac second wilh being ignored

Weiry to encourage a sense af anger

Fichting the solation facine gays is the most crucs step Winniee support. tor the wider politica stuggle for gay

Soccers Is bard to measure. But the neca tor a pow- approacn to ocla

DAKIUE

So who phones? And low can we help? All ager and from all parts of the country, including transexunis sedophiles, whose sexualiy is put lown in the vilest ways We concern ouraelves wish practicalities not legal

otherwise we coult accomplish nothing

We can heip in giving encouragement and support in coming out.

SEL any call

psychiatrists, social workers or other

"help': thaugh similar services do

This is not bocause of the different kind of callers that they roccive. Ht is that they have a different understanding of gay oppression; not secing that the problems are structured into society and nood to be challenged

Ring Icebreakers any 7.30pms to 19.30pm on 01-274 9590. Or Gay Switchboord 24 hours a das on 01-837 7324

Hila Sae Bron

Rubyfruit

Jungle

Rubyfruit Jungle

A scarlet L'

on my

forehead

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Worse still, the front cover features two long haired women embracing in the centre of a blooming white flower. what have they done to you? SARAH ROELOFS this widely discussed novel.

Publisbed for the first time in this

last March Rubyfruit Jungle was launched into the newly discovered highly lucrative feminist" market. Corgi say that to their surprise the

They worried about first, Happily it's now seling berter than an average popular Wila rood tant pune sa paperback,

Originally published in the United States in 1973, it became a 'leshian cult notel', Imported into rhis country hy the alternative Compeadium. acion Moverent loved and treasured it No feminist bookshell is ically complete without it Now It's hit the big time: the nass market

Carrie's husband bas syphilis and

unable to have him, She adopt» Molly. I thought you Minte ate melt Couperid Infuriated by Molly': unfentinine and Clever behavper Carrie tell her she B Weilti ato, Worcied but utrepentaot

ny reuect 1 really cont care. 1 pot myself born, that's what counts. I'm here.

Molly, independent, rong, cynical

a survivor. Molly, who on second reading is jast a bit too crude, too strang, too good to he true. Molly who neser compromises, never sells out and and somehow always keeps on lighting. Molly, an archetypal hero in a story book adventure.

When making love to women Molly thinks of their genitale as a rubytrus Jungle, -eldaco treasrcs. witn sucaa postve We description of women are trained in seif-hate, it is no wander CACI DELOBE SAVOE-SEINTE LUHE SLY For the book has given strong and brave and free no less, when all we have is the women-hating -TIELER HIMALL. 1 UE novels of tragic lesbians.

It has given us a woman who fought and while slogging away ar liberating ourselves Now we bave Molly who hits back every rosten shot fired at her: "Do you think you 're queer?" a best friend asks. Milly repliea t gs tate touce

wEar eblazoned acoss my chest. coula always carve a scarlet 'L' 00 mg forehend... I dan't know what lam -

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Rubyfruit Jongle gives us laughter, exhilaration and a feeling that we can win too. Daughier of Farth is more faithful to the real horror of warmen's Heves, but too many af those books and we chn start wondering is it worth it?

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"Tanks are the main electors'

Internationalism lacking

third of the vote

seats) and a populist left wing.

parliamentary reforms.

Assembly to meet.

en route to exile in Sweden.

What do you think of the significance of the first partial

of the Constituent

Above all, I want to talk about the restrictions placed on these ECHOES

First, illiterates did not bave the right to vote which excluded some of the most conscious sectors of Peruvian society, likethe Indian peasants who do not speak the colonial language of Spanish

Thus, those who have carried out agrarian reform, increased production and bettered their standard of laving are treated a sub-human.

Then soldiers did not have the right to vote, in a country where the military junta rules the country 'in the name of the armed forces.

Finally, to have the right 1o

slates in the clections vor had to colest 400 signatures - a very high tigures.

You should know that the authorities did everything to impede their collection by the organisations which identified with the workers movement.

They continually stopped comrades who were collecting signatures in the street and stole the lists they had already got.

To top it all, ten days before the closure of nominations they refused FOCEP halt signatures, that 1s 20,000, The comrades, with preat persistTHE Soweto uprising of 1976 was not only heroic moment in struggle of the South African people against apartheid, writes JON HYSLOP. It also posed a threat 10 the British ruling class and economic interest South Africa.

So it was a poor rellection on

British len that the roccut SELUTU stration called by the African

La couple of bundred

But what was worse was that the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAMI failed to mobilise even token support, despite the fact that its National Conunities had overwhelmingly voled to sponsor the demonstration

No member of the AAM icadership attended. Only one AAM group turned up its own initiative.

INTERNATIONAL

Interview with Hugo Blanco

the first elections since 1963 the parties of the workers" movement have won a

- a dramatie improvement on any previous showing.

The revolutionaries of FOCEP have taken between 10 and 13 per cent making them the third largest party. To add to the capitalists' troubles the majority party. APRA, is split between the right (which will have a majority of

The left's advances are part of the upsurge around the general strike at the end of May. FOCEP has made it clear that it will rely on that mass struggle and not

It has plans for a mass workers' and peasants" convention. One of the first tasks of that convention may be to force the military to allow the Constituent

It looks as though exiled deputies will not be allowed to return, and the regime may decide to ignore the election results altogether.

In this interview FOCEP leader HUGO BLANCO gives his preliminary assessment of the results. He was talking to the French Trotskyist daily "Rouge •

"WAST HEIR THE CRAEER TEAHITES of the FOCEP campaign?

Within FOCEP my organisation, the PST, stressed the fact HALL CHAS ELECTOIN its

African solidarity

march consisted of one line in the internal members' mailing. the The AAM had relused to back the ASU's call for a demo, as it was planning its own rally: The CHECHELL for changed the date and time of its rally. so. that people in attend both:

The AAM National Conmittee decided on this basis to support the demo, But the executive did nothine to carry i out the National Committo's Decision.

It seeins that there are two types of NC decision; those passed on the iniriative of the executice (which can be builti and those passed initiative of those of whom the executive disapproves (winch can be ignored). campaigl united and cifective unless a is id prepared accept ideas from all sections of Is membership on The executive shows hoscility many groups

THE PERUVIAN clection results have shaken the military regime to its roots. In debt, and a ency, got another 20,000 in a crisis of the rotten capicalist

system, political, social and coonomic structure is needed in s country:

This is why we elaborated a general draft of a constitution which included nationalisation without compensation of all industrial through at the moment is a cancellation of the HUGO BLANCO arrives in Paris from Argentina.

mobilising

could the

the movercat → in this case the three main backing the demonstration: the 01 Socialist Workers

ment at the same time.

popular

Wants and neighbourhoods.

recallable at any time.

dratt constitution

FOCEP:

ISt Revolutionary enterprises. the Party

foreign

and the

ternationul.

TUEYES

1960%

their purpose

Tunction? solidarily and ASU organisations

Party,

propramme of works, decided by the popula

workers. peasants and neighbourhood residents — to resolve the questions of unemployment and develop-

Of course, we explained that all these meissres could only be carried out hy a workers and

could only be based upon commiEces of workers, peas

added that the members of this gosernment Cold only CarD the same 35a worker and that they should be

The armed forces should be consistuted on the basis of the defence committees of workers, peasants, and so on. This

was battle horse in this campaign.

Moreover, we never stopped Forker: Peasants: Students (10-12 cent) People's Froat. Made up of struggle. four Trotskyist groups: Mars-

Workers (POMR), Socialist Workers Party (PST), Revolutionary Left Front (FIR-POC)

Socialist Struggle water. group. The first is tied in the port.

Communist Organisution in Frunce. The

others support the Fourth in

• FOCEP also inclass strupele

groups within the trade unions. (there

LDP: (2-3 per cent) Popular Democratie Union. Made up mainly of Maoist groups, hut also involving some supporters

of the Fourth International.

PSR: (6 per cent) Revolutionury Socialist Party. Despite its

fraud mume the PSR claims to represent the politics of the leftist' millars recame or for dar

explaining that these elections were an clecioral farce and that there should be no illusions in

the

In this couniry tanks are the main electors, even if they are illiterate and can't even speak

How did the FOCEP campaign

The recent history, and even the | bloc of four cinsses.

THE TO GO HOME International Marxist Group

The AAM has support from relations. labour movement dignitaries and other celebrities and there

'The land balonos to those who work it. - 098880 demonstration in Peru.

not so recent, of the country shows that the gains of the workers can only be maintained through their organisation in

So each FOCEP committee had to be organised within this perspective. For example, in one neighbourhood it organised the struggle for drinking

electricity, and trans-

A FOCEP support committee in a factory would mobilise the warkers for the general strike, for specific demands a the plant level, and for thi rehiring of the sacked workers

were 5000 after the general strike of 19 July 1977)

That's why we consider our vote as a voic for social For PSR the organisation and mobilis ation of the masses for struggle, as a vote against the electoral

two electoral fronts and not

For aur part we were ready to gointo the UDP coalition from

start, OLEL Maoist comrades who had hegemony

UDP made precondition of acceptance of their goverantental formula: 'a revolutionary popular government" which, as we saw it, was nothing but the concretisation of the Macist concept of the

RUDESIANS MAŞE BLACKS MI ZAMBIA! is a lear that involvement with f

uselul → but only as a step to orgamising action

able to collect the necessary 40,000 signatures we called for a critical vote for the UDP.

FOCEP had three i centri planks in its platform: independence of the class, struggle agninst che governe enlar strugglestion and

On top that, cach organisation participating in FOCEP could develop its own programme, which seems to us a correct conception of running an electoral campaign.

In our opinion the comrades of the UDP leadership looked a little too closely towards what burgeoie and her see called the progressive alternative, When I said that, I EDYEInmEnLa was treated like a splitter..

When General /Leonida:

came back tom exile for the electoral campaign he was on television one time just before me

He insisted that the PSR would defend small and medium property and absol ately did not want to divide the armed forces

1 could only explain, when my turn care to speak, tha these soldiers of the first peniod of the military junta afler 1965, as progressive, didn't hesitate to open fire on people as soon as things got tough...

The AAM must pot see its MELL WILL LOCUSCATE important than with those who are prepared to fight here and

SODIALISE CHALLENGE e3 June B8rd

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Gulag in the French CP

The long road to East European solidarity

inside the party.

festival organised by the PCF's youth "Avant-garde'.

member the

FOR the leadership, it was not the political perspective which gave birth to the crisis of the PCF, nor the TCHS 10 open. 8735155011 forums in the Communist press — it was the ill feeling of a few "intellectunis'..,

INSULTS

It was already apparent in The Marchais Central Committer: imprecations and insults blossomed there for no BONUSUA reason (petty-bourgeois anarchists* lectuals seated behind their desks'), alongside disconcerting replies to questions refuted all the more casily in that they were made up out of nothing and attributed always to anonymous comrades.

lous ac neo up tor u scorn of the militants "those years later.

Eastern Europe Solidarity Campaign.

RICHARD CARVER

, did the Eastern ENTODD Solidarity Cumpaign start and what are its airasi

Discussions about forming a united cocaist Campa m

olidarity with people suffering

oppression in Eastern Europ

stumber the ar

A number of participatine dhel erent

deas of what the plasform of tbe campaign The main difference whether all repression should be defended or woeter there Show De all element of discrimination.

Some people argued that groups that seek to propagate

lead to the restoration capitalism SOUL IKOL

SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 29 June 1978 page 12

INTERNATIONAL

THE leadership of the French Communist Party (PCF) has pledged that it will not use the traditional weapon of expulsions to resolve the present crisis

But its domination of the apparatus gives it plenty of opportunities nevertheless to suppress discussion and intimidate critics. Opponents of the leadership from the Union of Communist Students (UEC) in Bordeaux were even physically attacked at the recent

These methods were highlighted in an article which appeared in last week's issue of the French magazine "Le Nouvel Observateur'. Below we reprint the bulk of this article, written by SERGE LEWISCH (a

UEC in Paris) and ROUCAUTE ( a PCF member from Arcueil).

everything, no matter what" chose who want factions and that the masses "can organise spontaneously those who 'attack the full-time officials and, still more dishonestly, those who have chosen' to express themselves outside the party. As if they had had any choice!

STYLISTIC The way this mapped out, but pursue it. Our national intel- as certain militants say bitterly among themselves has 3inco socot 1s time in hipping up the atmosphere LILLIANE increases stylistic amalgains: Althosser Elleinstein = Garandy the Socialist Party Threats follow I presence of Elleinstein

Interview with Vladimir Derer

WHEN VLADIMIR DERER arrived in Britain in 1939 as a political refugee from the Nazis he cannot have imagined that he would still be here nearly 40

He had been a member of an opposition group inside the Czechoslovak Communist Party, and prudently decided not to return home when the CP seized power. The trials of the 1950s saw the bulk of his old comrades Imprisoned or executed by the regime.

In Britain he joined the Labour Party and is secretary of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy. He is also convenor of the recently formed

talked to VLADIMIR DERER about the campaign and the problems of the defence of democratic rights in Eastern Europe.

suppurted.

The Labour Party members, IMG. SWP and Party look the position victins of repression should he defended and this position that was eventuall adopsed:

groups One of the main arguments against the position adopted by

Defending ull victims гергеніна sou play into hunk of the ticht wine who seek overthrow post-capitalist social relations in Eustern Europe. How would You answer thalr

1 should say first that the of Compagn does position on the class character

Althusser at cerlain debates becomes "unacceptable". worst slanders are aired: The comrades who the party are bought by che bourgeoisie" (as one councillor

With L'Humanite and certain men from the apparatus, is happening as if the leading paper. faction hoped to

impossible to pose political GUES ONS

CONDEMNATION YVES To do this, it has just taken a

further step in bolstering its practices: it is mounting trials, political trials. In dozens of section committees hundreds of cells, "they"

DELEINE I0 D condemnation of the letter of Tartare BEELER. as a factional which challenges the party and it's political line.

The general, the text is drawn up by

Committee. or by leader. It is then vote at the levels below. When the result is positive, there is nothing more to do but let it wing its way to L Humanite. And all this happens without those having had any knowledge of

itS the form and content of what

they without

compose OUCH TO TIES. SHE WORSE. without the accused heing able some members that all

the

of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European states Personally I take the view irrespective thut characterisation of those states

it is impossible for socialists 1o

the exert any

influence in Bastern

the without taking

manifestations of opposition to the regimes.

If we fail to do this, the tield is open to people who may seek

have relations. In this sense people

F who argue that discrimination

The

write outside

assistance

, everytring reach the are

TENSIOLE

undertaking leaderships':

is sameer

tbe

federal put to the TOE abroad. cunrades

country.

The accused condent ever

condemn, knowing the reasons happening

Czechoslovak and publish texts 'Charter 77,

are trying of wish to avoid

effective political lavers of the

Europe movement European close.

and the

capitalist social value: the

lo delend theniselves in the paper read by Communists

At the time of Scalin also, Communist parties ensured the condemnation of certaio their members who described

their confidence the real conditions

I He and of struggle in the

Were. Condemned on the strength of countries. abbreviated doclarations by the unaninsous leaderships of the Commurist parties. This is sill scandaloos

today with the signatories af whose delence has, however, been taken up

IE.- should

in the CSSK movement

nationally.

Ir's

must be the basis for solidarity are helping those elements who

TO can only objective that they claim they

En Britain the association of

supported by with the Eastern Teginies

Ir's the Thatcherite argument experiment

claims of Soviet propagunda taken at their face

ITIE more repressive CATES ATTRE DOVICISTALLI UPAS are seen as the embodiment of

YVES ROUCAUTE (left] and SERGE LEWISCHE: We must cease having a blind confidence in our

Communists should 1 recall and ponder on what that means. We must cease naving i blind confidence. Being can to our leadersaps. it military itust be replaced by a critical

it is time to asseis for ourselves what is meant by the criticisms addressed to the Teaderships of the "socialist — to anguish and despair-

That is why all Communists who agree today to sign these

condemnations are, uL ou vica, accompaces of the Gulag. For the Gulap is the Avant-garde tesaral,

simply the exerination of all those who utter criticisms gutside the party and aside it,

chiss socialism. Very few people in

It is therefore important for the shour morencat here that

absolutely disms sociate itself from the negative features of the political system

That's oblonsis one aspeci

presentation alternative model of socialisa But the dominunt tendencies British Labour from

have heen the cally Communist Party and u lahour hureaucracy which has been

pro-Soviet interWhen the issue is Chile. say, or South Africa it's easy in a routine way to push a resolation through your labour movement brunch. It's a bir different when you're talking ahout Eastera Europe.

La questibe of explanation of oppression of individuals or social groups

The official attitude within the trade unions and the higher echelons of the Labour Party

influenced by pressure from below. to take the issue up, and this is many people at the branch level who are very STELLELIE what they regard as a socialist

At the time of the inception

BUSILE same British goverument that offensive agairat the working

it is aiso a state of mind and the methods which lend to il.

The Gulag, as extermination camp, is only the end resuit oi a certain practice, of a Stalinis

iselation which driven orlain comrades wo had devoted their life to an idea — a classless society and freedom

Ir is a practice of amalgam, lies, ever violence, as is shown by the blows struck against the Bordeaus comrade:

Gironde lederation ofticials, at

When one tolerates, covers up for that. the yes, the Gring 1 is not so far off

was offensive against the

he for ten te durin

propaganda exploited the absenE -of uncouployment, while evervone could see tbe

West.

The rise of fascism was linked in people's consciousness with che ruling classes in the West and the Soviet Union wasseen as the bulwark against

it That's a matrer for debatt

but that show people tended li see it.

That was confirmed daring the war when the Soviet army had to carry for three years the major burden in the military conflict.

Thesc attitudes survived long after the war. To change the attitude of the rank and file w's have to familiarise them with TIE TANES

If this information, which a be quac accurate, come

the presE 0r Ton politicians then it is automati

dismissed Tory propaganda.

There should be a credible

from socialists, This is the basis

Solidarity Campaign.

* You can contiet the EESC

STEVE.

NWIT The campaign has brought out its first brieting on

Soviet Trade Union посвині ша вст воо movement (modies to pass resHaucas in support of these unofticial unionists and to situate to the catalen

The EESC is planning a mujor conference and demon. stratiot on the tenth anniver-

Warsew Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in

There will also be a concert organised in conjune-

Rock Against Racisti

The campaign needs u lot of money to put on that sirt of event, so send donations to the above address.

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The rats are beginning to kill each other

Chilean crisis

1978 relatives of political prisoners

Tanding ere were

demanding know

whereabours or fate of their

relatives. As Pinochet's recent general amnesty extends to the

secret police (DINA/CNI), the

relatives have no recourse to

Even if they can demonstrale that the DENA took their

away amnesty has already pardoned The Dolsee - 50 there is no crime to answer for!

The postponed for 30 days after Pinochet would give information ahout everyone who has disappeared,

SOLIDARITY

The 30 days expires on 8 July and already the junta his denied that made promises to the relatives. further solidarity actions will probably be necessary:

The origins of the hunger strikes are to be found in two sets of events apparently quite unconnected the disappear-

murder Orlando Lether

On September Letchcr, a former Minister in Allende's government, killed by a bomb in Washington DC.

A vear before the Lettier

the Committee for Peace of the Chilean had TENTLE Chilean Supreme Cour Inquiry into

disappearance Teftists the

made no response but coincidentally a minor Brazilian paper O Dia and an Argentinian magazine Les published reports that the 119. had been internal left-wing fäction fight and in clashes i Argentina with the police.

The Chilean press gleefully scized on these reports with the headline, The rats are tre. ginning to kill cach other".

WHERE

ARE

THEY?

WEWANTE

TO KNOWE

THE

TRUTH

A solemn MARCH FOR THE 2500

Each marcher carrying a white carnation-

SUNDAY JULY 9TH

IFE ANUFREEDOL

INTERNATIONAL

ON 21 September 1876 two explorers raised the Chilean flag over the Magellan Straits. On 22 May

"disappeared began an indefinite hunger strike in Santiago against the Chilean dictatorship. CHRIS KOSEBLADE asks: What links these two events?

cast light on the truth of these reports: i was discovered that magatine Leu was subsiby Argentina and that O Dia was not a minor Brazilian paper one and only publication been that devored to this very "scoop!

Le Monde then discovered general that several of those supposedly killed in Argentina had heen last seen at the time of was DINA who indeed admited inat they wore in castody, full In November 1976 FASIC tan independent body of the Chilean Church) released stati onl detainees: totalled 1400. considerable reduction on the Amnesty International reports any This reduction in numbers could not be explained either by the number of prisoners serving short sentences, nor by those who had commuted their sentence to exile. Morcover, a wave of kidnappings beginning.

DIPLOMATIC 1976 By 1978 the formal lifting of the 'State Siege was *General Amnesty', the com mutation of many sentences into exile, the release of 224 political prisoners es of a new draft Constitution church had resulted in an diplomatic offensive by the junta to repain international mass The political prisoners with criminal offences process as the Church usually aus to defend such prisoners.

There were only two prob. lems outstandine. the prearcd and affair.

It was a this moment tha the US Deputy Secretary of State presented a letter to the Chilean Supreme Court from is US cquivalent requesting that two men be interviewed in Bur cerain facts began 1o | coanection with the Letelier DISAPPEARED PRISONERS IN CHILE'

the hunger strikers" symbol for their missing relatives

Orgo-ketbrile Oil Soldanly Campoo IPSemeSses Road London hi Tel: 2724238

OR CHILE'S DISAPPEARED PRISONER

who have

altair in the presence of a US investigator.

The men were named fascists Williams

Alciantro names which puzzled several experts on Chilean mincteenth century history as they were who, one hundred years to the Letelier, had Chilcan flag on the Magellan Straits!

DINA'S ended when the photographs

of the two men were simultan cously published Wushington Mercurio in Santiago (which is which known to have close links with This was intelligence

The men identified as Michael Vernor Townley and Armando FerTHEY LATIN say, the shit had hit the fan

CAPTAIN Larios was a serving Captain was in the Chilean Army? Coinci-

dentally he had just been given leave for a long holiday when the sory broke!

Townley was a nobody - an electronics engineer the for an American h

"coincidences" seemed to dog his life toot and promi- He was quickly identified as overall Libertad - a leading member of Parria 3

Dirls. Not just that wanted for blowing sation in March 1973 and murdering a night watchman during the raid. had aided this Most embarrassingly of all it

мая soon May 1976 he had been wpriing on a case involving the tracing Letelier disa- of a right-wing Cuban lertor ist: a case not being handled by

the authorities - but the US Federal Bureau E8лоD The juma new story. The men had indeed used Chulean passports the records showed that aisports in question had beer ssued to a mother and child, going one but it was not the Therefore unlals responsibility sody a responsihle By a remarkable come. denice, the

those passports had committed suicide within Letelier's murder.

A few doubting Thomases had questioned whether this was at fact suicide but no one had paid them aily heed.

SCANDAL

Tel it was perhaps strange that che inquest had ascribed death to 'heart failure withour unking that Taure' to the teport of a The official had last been acco leaving a reception at the

Peruvian Embassy in the car of

'Colteras

head of DINA — the Chilean

secrer police.

The councidences began to

crowd cach other thick

fast Within an hour

discovery of the official's body

General Forestier (an intimate

al Contreras and Pinochet)

visited the family and persua-

ded them not io

much fuss about the suicide.

Even by the standards of

Rose

Romeral Jara

planted the

hooe of a cover-un

Post and

services).

BUILAL

and, as they working in serics

the Clulean fascist

discovered that in

junta.

serics Christian of Investi-

i came up with a and Townley

Trom Chile -but the

bead of Contreras.

cover-up mes Townley

Some- expulion gave the Consulate was

Armly Captain).

CRISIS

a month of

lying down.

quickly revealed that he

equipmert

On turther

bullet

tien of. President Contreras WiLs

Pledge

tunately and of the expulsion from the

braud?

make too Generals"

Chile today this was a scandal. Divisions opened ap within the

duced

General Leigh dropped bis old fascist fends and made a

critical speeches the crucial Democra! leader Forces, the 'Scate of Siege" was lifled ольстро

was expelled to thie USA quick

Ever this was not cuouet: the price of the Gelleral" support for Pinocher was the

HIS by 00W obviously the scapegoat. His

the USA victim and took the pressure off Contreras and Larios (tbe

movement.

His wife did not take the Santiago. bons.

Having at first

denied that lie was anything sighred With but an electronics engineer, she

had arrested made several tries to the USA to bury electronic surveillance

for the forces and thar he bad worked on other matters with the FBI

questioning She revcaled thar Townley was one

the leaders of the DINA

El Mercurio then revealed that the equipmen Townles had perchased in the USA bad neen tor the persomal protec-

Pinocher.

The junta denied all knowoh Towne regular trips Unfor25] reason they had given for his Also

country had been atrepular trips a on May

What ensued was the most serious crisis the recome had ever faced. At a molling of the

Council a motion asking Pinochet to resign was

uhly lost by 13 vates to 17,

A Cabinet reshuffle pro-

majority civilian cahinel although Pinochet's

posts Delencel. the

Divisions were beginning to

within the Generals.

The Navy seemed to Tavour a

reluTE barracks, sections of the Army seemed to favour a "trazilian' solution, others remained hard liners and gave Contreras a standing ovation on the day of his duughrer's wedding although official sources went to some pains to deny this.

The splits within the Gener als gave confidence to the mass

On May Day, despice the ban on demonstra-

5,000 marched 10

incredibly shortbrutaL ty the police people the Dutch trade unions.

The mass movement wa Intercontinental Press

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It would he foolish to make hasty the Generals' speedy demisc Bul despile cverything resistance is sirring and the Generals are in internal crisis — the fruits of their internal brutality and jaternational isolation.

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and orientation CPGB.

But every Socialist supporter who is active in the trade knows this. What we need an swer to tac question: now relate to the crisis in the CPGB and assist the develonment current moving towards revolutionДУ ПОЗНАЕ!

The British far left has traditionally had a one-sided view of the CPGB: that i H 'counter revolutionary through and throught, will always betray, etc. But even Trotsky, softy on Stalinism, rejected such a simplistic approach:

"They are a very contradictory phenomenon. They began October as the base, become deformed. but

We can't -antipathies of our moral feelings sway us. I think that we can hope to win these workers crystallication of October TY DE2S 1939-40, 0. 26M

in the meantime, from Yugoslavia to vietnam. socialist revolutions led by bureaucraof the world revolutionary process on Ine LPOB has beco lo te-emphasise the point that many CP militants identify with socialist revolution but between this ideal and the party's caught the reformist domestic programme

What can Socialist Challenge do in this situation?

«one of the main weaknesses in

holitical armoury of the left has been the lack of a concrete action sperm the socialist policies round

out the socialist policies around which the workers movement should unity. Such plan counterposed to the reformist British Road and used to create a much hroader political audience for our ideas.

Secondly, we have seen Socialist Unity draw individual CP members into action. We should seek to extend this by involving CP groups in joint itervention around delence of the closed shop the Tribunal on Britaia's Presence in Ireland, and so on. In particular, the Kudoll Bahro Detence Campaign provides an excelient opportunity for building a massive campaign against the Stalinist bureaucracy's usurpation. of democratic rights.

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Challenge Time for

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Can we

forthcoming with time before

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'industry'

contradiction

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with its super-heroes.

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militant".

institutions of

Internationa

women's movement, the can begin 1o

whether Marxism 1s accept these movements

the critique

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governments concerned for comment (and hopefully action) a considerable need

publication. In this

exactly the same consideration as the

many RICHARD ABRAHAM (Amnesty

The May '68

1 AM disappoipted to see that you (25 May). Can't you see that it goes

that 10% look part in May 66 were fighting for to turn it into another super-event

In fact, the spectacle of May '68 l more or less irrelevant. It is the ideas that were and are subversive, and

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alternative psychiatry, the free radio stations in

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Finally the relationship between the revoluticars oceaniation and the autonomous movements — the

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Is most important contribution was to make us question all the accepred doginas of revolutionary Marxisti. It should bot be Turned museum-picce only to be whecied out in a spectacular manner every ten

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The Gaullist guards

"Palestine'

promises

until 1948.

by eyewitness

WARD reports.

producers have a problem. A major factor in the creation of the state of isracl in 1945 was the expulsion of the Palestin-

But with one exception, no film is available to portray this enforced exodus.

It is left to ex-British Army officers to relate how Arabs Jaffa and Haifa "It was a

the come as to and they tele!

With Israel established, many of these Arabs would never be allowed home; those that did would not even be able to till the land they once owned.

SURFEIT

There is a

fresh-faced Zionist idealists setting out to reclaim' the land; there are no films of the Palestinian farmers who had tilled the soil for centuries. many important facts Palestinian case do cinerge in the commentary.

The main failings of the documentary lie elsewhere. The programme consists of ments of the views of various protagonists; It 15 NOt, as Thames TV claims, a debate on the Palestiman question.

For the Arabs, thir appears as a simple one. They have owned and worked a land for centuries - HOW TREY not conquered but expelled from their homes and land. To justify their practice, Zionists are forced to use i different kind of argument.

They claim Palestine for the Jews today by virtue of the history of their hiblical co-religionists. Starting this time, the Zioniss claim the

were forced Palestine by the Romans, longed everalter lo return and have been al the mercy of anti-semitism ever since.

The claims of the Jews and Arabs proceed it two different levels, so this revision of Jewish history and accommodation to anti semitism go unchallenged, In adition, much use is made 1

UNDER REVIEW

Sherif

Britain's incompatible

AFTER TWO years" research, Thames Television is presently screening its documentary "Palestine'. In three instalments, it is being networked nationally and covers the period of the British mandate from 1918

Extensive use is made of archive film, supplemented

accounts and the views of two historians, one Arab and one Israeli-Jewish. NIGBL

Even at this stage, the | of film of Nazi Germany and

Many Arabs and supporters Palestinian case will think this not anty excessive. sightforward Zionist propaganda.

HOMELESS But the holocaust did have a profound effect psychology on Western opinion.

CALCERE We who advocate Palestinian case should attempt to understand wus prenome non rather than convenienuy dismiss N, as Me are enco to do in the past.

By refusing a confrontation of Arab and Zionist cases and WISTE historical period, the effect of the 'holocaust" film is simply to induce pity. The vieweris left to pity the unfortunate Jew and the homeless Arab.

Or, as the British politician Lord Peci reporis: " fundamentally a conflict right with right, Promoling the such a view allows the Zionists to escape the burden of their

the

case

ILTL front

from PALESTINIANS forced to flee in 1948.

times and Icads to the belie hat the Arab-Israeli conflict i insoluble.

One point that is striking in Palestine is the British role. Incompatible sell-government are made to Arabs and Jews alike in an colonial interests. The uses Arab hostages, including the Mayor of Nablus, in front

huildings to discourage Arah BLLACKS. Arab houses are indiscrimi nately blown up because there was nothing else we could do Portraits of the British colonial administrators almost turn into

course. newsreels of the time could only spew forth about the rotten lot of poor old Tommy.

There are other in Palestine. Leadine Palestin

on Jewish Hostie, who were Involve in deals with the Zionists and other with birdle criticism of their complicity and ineptoess. ARGUMENTS

While these programmes are a scrious attempt to deal with

subject. limited prior analysis of their adversary if they are to use the faces and arguments that are preseated.

The first part of Palestin was shown on Tuesday. second part is mext Tuesday, 4 July, And the third part at the same time on 11 July

there variations In

CARVER.

Boisset (interviewed on page), suggests that this because the magistrate prontises of

British army YVES BOISSET

weaknesses

like the EI

notables LSLUDI

with SAC alterwards.

anti-Zionist

certain happening in French

inspired by the

10.30pm to midnight.

thai.

but check to

regional

transmission

Not

which it i applied.

world, and underworld

SAC this amused me) cops.

who had to be

bleeped out

films in recent history.

It is based upon the true story of the murder of an investigating magistrate in Lyons, writes RICHARD

Tbe film's director, Yves

Service

Interview with

Boisset

Tell me about why you made Le sher and me me

I made Le Sherif to examine

things which. society. happened in ONENTONER murder of Why?

District Amorney Renauu m Lyon, but I didn't want to make a film specifically about

There are, anyway, a lot of differences between the film and that case, the most miner world, of which is that Renaud was in his 50s and Patrick Dewacre, who plays Fayard, is not yet 30

What 1 had in mind was

petting into question certain

ideas about justioe, just as the young district attorneys are now doing drougbout France.

questioning justice itself, exactly, but the ways in

the process of putting the film cogether, I learned a good deal about the connections between worlds which are supposed In , be separate in our society: the business world, the political

the criminal

I learned a lot about the connections of all of that with certain conservative elements in

- a riefit-wine. parawhich

was supposed to be defunct,

When the film was finished.

we were taken to court by SAC

obviously not defunct

who claimed we had defamed

them; that we had suggested shooting.

they were all either not-too flat on

bright criminal types or (and

LE SHERIF is one of the most controversial political (SAC), the Gaullis paranti

stumbled upon a conspiracy of right-wing politicians and the underworld, cemented by the

d'Action Civique

the The

The court decided that we had to take out all references to SAC in the film. Instead of reshooting or redubbing. WC just bleeped out each mention of SAC with a sound.

The film is based on a case that

yet you

There were more problems involved than advantages. Let us just say that certain political elements, as well as the criminal

made clear their dispicasure over the subject of the film, and it looked as if we might have problems.

They threatened you?

Well, there were warnings We shot the film in Saint-Etienne. where there is a young and dynamic local government that helped us a good deal. Anyway. what happened in Lyon is truc everywhere in France, 50 shooting the film in another town without nanting it makes

You know, when we shot the sequence in which Fayard is killed, we shot it at night. We were making noise, of course, in a residential neighhourhood.

Maybe it wasn't anything to do with the subject of the tum or with SAC or anytlog else Maybe people were just sick of us and wanted to sleep.

Nevertheless, bullets flew almost like in the scene we were

We threw ourselves the ground, bullets being bullets, no matter why someone was shooting.

sary organisation.

The result was bizarre. SAC took Boisset to court and got an injunction delete relerences to the organisation.

Boisser bleeped out the word SAC every time it came up, but audiences responded by shout ing "SAC" over each bleep!

SAC WYLL forried when General de Gaulle came to power to avert a military coup in 1958. IL was designed to combat the fascist terrorists of

OAS by their own methods"

BODYGUARD

But SAC continued after the end of the Alperian war and che demise of the OAS. Today it is

bodyguard for Gaullist leaders HAC - Jacques and, as le Sherif shows, a political mafia.

The film shows how SAC works in tandem with its old enemies of the OAS TEREOTESE and even murder, palitical and business oppor

Boisset Amrican film was a strong influence on him as for so many of his generation of French directors

That is evident in Le Sherif, which uses the fast moving form of the Hollywood theiler That form also presents an of the links between Gaullist politics and business himser a critical dies allis But Boisset does hero and the judicial system.

high-minded magistrate crumbles under pressure to use the violent methods of a Dirty Harry.

It's a neat reversal of the stereotype of the independent

who normally represents the defence of capitalist justice against its erosion by "biberal" values. This isn't the greates political film ever made, butit's worth a visit.

Le Sherif is showing at the Gala Royal, Marble Arch,

NFT '68 FROM 2 lo 12 July, the National Film Theatre in London is screening a season of French films on May-Jan '6R. A leaflet with details of the programme Is available trom the box office: 01-928 3232/3.

HALF

MOON

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27 Alie St. London EJ, Tel: 01-480 6465.

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12 Shifts of Gear.

by Juan Vera.

A sensitive and human

play about changes in a

peasant village in Chile

during the Allende

regime

Until 22 July, at 8pm.

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