Socialist Challenge No. 59, 17 August 1978
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Socialist Challenge CZECHOSLOVAKIA- THE EXPERIMENT THEY ALL CONSPIRED TO CRUSH
THIS WEEKEND is the temth anniversary вчаіо of Crechosloxakia NeCalsIs Mil De remEdee dl their respomihilits to those
Ten teat later wo are alro beginning to learn of the shared roponsibilits uf the British Labuur Coverument for the insasion.
STARTLING
A sturtling pascage frum the
Criman' Cabinel Diaries meais:
Lan his own initiative the Kassian Ambassador had cone te ask Michsel Stewart (thr Foreign Secrelary) tn join an InCT-OU onen au singularl) animportant kind
leaving the room, had said. 1 MUN ID OU3HH Crechosiovakia*
found out later that the Rusiam liad -given
make identical upprouch in order la test Western reactions. I hope PHCnarI urC DUrs
Whul il was is revealed RACIST TERROR again in Brick Lane. London on Saturday night.
Seven Asians were retursing home from the Lune when thes were astacked by a gang of 25 white souths. The racists were armed with hetties and chihs and all seven of the Asians ended up in hospital.
The police neted in line with The expectations of the locut community they one of the seven Asians and allowed the 25 raciste so go on their was.
The atacks and the police
SASTE!
Heales Here
British response.
of the President Johason.
Richand
TBJ apparently concurred.
NO ANSWER
MiTIE approach, the
their HEI ОСЕГОС: an And havink HLKEUTINE
HMEHE TO-SITETEBEN 112159The NEC
SEVEN MORE REASONS
TO BE AT BRICK LANE
THIS SUNDAY
strack | for a large turn-out for the East national Brick Lane this Sunday. The demonstration has been backed by all the major immigrunt organisations as well as the local anti-racist organisations and the Anti Nazi League.
Hut support for 20 has not come from the ILC. A Statement pn Brick Lane Issed en Mondas and signed by TEC arested general secretary Len Murrus und Bill Kess of the TUC Equal Rights Commitee mode noj reference fo the denumestration.
respoise emphassse the need| had heen asked to support this.
elsewhere by Crossman when | voting at thar year's party he says thal Stewart and Denis
adamant in DUA DENS AIULEEEHHR Lahour's
( rossman sirtuion of events inconfirmed by a former cader
Crechostovak Communis Party, Zdenck Minar.
Tho nuw in exile in the West. In a warriors.
HETUNCESIR
Brezhnes told TI HAHIYHK IRED CHIR had an assurance of non-inter-
apparrally alo said: "Our soldiers reached the Tihe in the cour ol the war since then, that is our honder.
labour solidarity
So the Labour Gavernment BOOUtu ErOuEn Enc sovasioa Hut if it hud simply told the
1968. •HULIR of SIrUree so TunUaenEO TH invasion's success would have
in practice ITIVILSHIIT The Hyde Labour bureaucracy ment on to
Defend statenient labour
demonstration in on 6 Angust.
inicins, Андіне
on 20 August.
Ver both Murray and Keys * A-semble
No 59 17 August 1978 15p conference both condemned the Invasion and pledged
support for strengthened NATO.
SURPRISE
weekend the cold of the National
be out on the streets repeating
condemn the Soviet Uaion and
But what these behind the SES Ucs CnoCHE EB imperialism has no unswer to The demnicralic deinands of the East European workers
bo make tis weekend
of
slovak masses. And we should also demand the full facts about Labour collusion in
* Saturday 19 August, publie meeting 7.00, Conway Hall, London WC2 * Sunday 20 August, demonstrate 2.00, Speakers Corner,
Park. London
Coechoslovak action hy representatives of the
when the TLC lenders visited Beick Lane
Instead the TUC statement was full of plous phrise mongering. The only action it advorhled was for the lcal Asin community to Join trade
That isall very well and pood in the long term. Bur the racise videner in Hrick Tane and the National Front presence there needs a response mow, He there
8.10um Nuz C uSrock teane
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PO engineers defy bosses' threats
The great jobs slaughter
OUR POLICIES 2
HOME NEWS
35-hour week.
circles about the dispute.
*If you reject the McCarthy proposals: the Tan, some will sco it as a direct challenge to the democratica ly clected government
So apparently the fight for the 35-hour week has now been transformed into death strugale with the Labour Government.
This government if theoretically committed to a 35-hour week for manual workers. Yet in the case of the Post Office
has backed the proposals from Lord Nic Carthy for a 37V working
with an increase Д50000Y3L3LETTER
Having put the stakes to high, the regional directors goes on to promise an increasing manage-
resistance engineers action
I ask you to return to normal work Immediately" is the plea. the labour movement.
massive new technological innovation
not.
One of the most shocking predictions of recent months
from a group Cambridge forecast five million unem-
ployed by 1990.
oThere few could there ected with hoots
people possibly know what
levels derman seould prevain
prevail in the
1980s?
But that wasn't what they
were trying to predict.
were merely looking at the
growing capital intensity of
Aritish industry - the rate at
which machines are replacing
WOTALES. There is no doubt that the
world crisis of profitability bas
dramatically boosted
number of unemployed in the
advanced capitalist countries.
The total number of unem-
ployed in the seven
countries is now 16.3 million,
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Socialist Challenge 17 August 19TH Page 7
Action for 35 hours
LAST WEEK branch secretaries of the Post Office Engineering Union received a letter from their Post Office regional directors about their battle for a
The letter was an undisguised attempt to bully the engineers back to work. But as DAVE WARD (Horsham POEU] reports, if also offered a rare Insight into the increasing concern being felt in ruling
But behind this 'request" there ina not-so-veiled threat that the Post Office intends to send many more engineers home if they don't capitulate.
SURVEY Within the last however, the engineers them selves have shown that muc have the determination to more Ian match ar Puse by management.
OnT August, Tyburn branch of the POEU announced the results of a survey of union branches concerning willingness to maintain the work-to-rule.
The idea for the survey came after the union executive had called off the ratoBa achOO the because the branches allegedly didn tsunbort it Tyburt bran the trion and the every branch in the union came up with some remarkable results. By working out how many members were in each LEADERS of the Post Office Engineering Union have chosen to discuss away their members' claim for the 35-hour week rather than take the fight into the rest of
They argue that the POEU is a special case - that no other section of workers faces the same problems of members. It isn't true. STEVEPOTTER explains why
and this seems certain to rise le 17 million by the end of 197K. of Because the capitalist class who Internationally are producing more than they can sell at the 1970s bave seen the greatest waste of human and material resources since the 1930%. and Britain, as the oldest and weakest imperialist power, has been hardest inter-imperialist They for profitable markets fons uns But this competition produced a much more long team process. Technical prog ress has created "technological" unemployatens have replaced workers in the struggle for higher and higher levels of labour productivity.
This structural unemploy: ment' now accounts for half of the total registered unemployleading Britain 800,000 jobs
ALLE their
Tavour of the national action with only 9,289 against.
Faced with this information. and an aggressive lobby of the union executive last Wednes day, the leadership retreated. They agreed to re-impose the national action, which is now the schemes of left Labourites so utopian,
increased investment schemes have little their impact on unemployment.
Research carried
NALGO, the local government officers" union, major investment projects in the manufacturing Wales in 1977 involved a total expenditure of created only 5,900 new jobs. rate of profit they need, the + That's nearly E300,000 per job.
that the investment, far from creating jobs, will dramatically increase the dole queues. Take the case of micro-processors. competition
CHIPS
the third electronics. They. machines computers,
the torm Often no longer than a little
fingernail, they can consist of 20,000 components and yet still cost less than IS.
ahout chance of room-sized compu- There 197147
ters taking over production. resolutsonary socialive are: - To hulld
1
Z YEARS OF CUR FATIHUCE PO engineers march in London last Friday branch, they discovered that | taking the form of a work to 72,649 union members were in rule plus overtime ban:
which the It is this trend which makes | They were 100 complex and
collaborationist subject to costly error.
for thes form centres on investment, Ver task, , it can line. nul by
of West SECTOr In
E1,506m and
There is increasing evidence telephone sysiem.
IF LULUES
Micro-processors are part of
generation grasped are miniof a silicon chip.
never much
Capitalism is in erish, The lenders of the Labour Parts and the irades una aster solullous that are la the interests, not of the wurkers, hut of the capitall!
Socialise Challenge helleres that the too vital
brow-based che sir-sale tendencies in
class-collaburntioniem in the inbour movement. Theie showd ben
in character grouping ingriher militants holding a wide range of political views
* Ter begin to fight for the creates of a unified and demacratie reveletiunar
sucialist organcation which can, through an applicalion of unined front bictics
Pain to be seen is an alsernative hy shousands of workers engaged in stressie
Such un organisition should be hosed on the understanding that!
The struggle for vocalism seeks to unite the tight of the worken agains the bosses with that af other opp Mack people, gie Aroggling fur their Bberation. This sackali-m can only be schleved lo crearing new orgats of power and defeal with all
necrosar wests the puser of the copitutint sale.
36 HOUR
NO
Under pressure they also agreed to call a meeting of the involved. union regional councils
local delegates would be asked lo sugpest ways of increasing the pressure on the Post Office.
But the micro processor in Programmed to do one simple
introduced straight onto the production
And in offices, banking, and local goverament the effects could be really drastic. Siertens
Germany estimate that, by 1990, 40 per cent of these office centred jobs will be carried out by compulerised cquipment based on automatic typing machines linked 1o the
you combine bus with another estimate that, with full ISOLATE computerisation, total British industrial output could carried out by two per cent of the present manual workforce, the tremendous consequences of this new historical stage in targets. technology can start to be
Among the Tiest groups of workers to realise that this scale of job loss is involved have been the Post Office engineers. They have had to. New technological innovations there could cut the total output. work force by 50 percent
The most far-sighted POEL! milisants have endersiond that •an overall a 35-hour week with no laws of
cosiciting
apposition to nosed lover of societs women
AATIA
SELL OUT
An example of the pressure was seen last week when the Stock Exchange was bayconed by the engineers. As the branch
the Landon City branch, said, this action hit at the bastion of capitalism'
Combined with the deter mination of the large majority of union members to win the pay or productivity strings is only the first step Some have changed the 35 inscriptions on their campaign buttons to '26
They know the radical steps which have 1o be taken if nes technology is going to benefir the working class rather than increasing the misery and waste that presently exists
Without ever letting up or the strugale for a united figh around the widely supporter demand for 15 hours. the general principle of work sharing without lost of pay has to be popularsed and defended in the traule unions.
Diherwise 35 hours could be a divisive demand, used to isolare those who go for lccessarily more ansbicious
But in anorher sense too the labour movemen: 125.10 80 further, I1 has to ensure that the job-creating effects of a cut a hours are not eaten up by
overtime, rising output per hour and falling
The demand for the 35 hour week thereforehas to he part of
-SITSELL against Lenemployment for the trade
octalien in the L'SSR and tasters Europe have diveredited susali-m
in the coes of the millions of workers throughout the world. We are oppoint in
them and will offer fall sapport to all show fighting for sosaint democracy.
Ther interests of workers and capitalis are irreconcilable un a murie scale. Capital has not only created a warld markes, i bas erestri morld polities. Thus we fahs for working cles unity on sa intersation
aperulls migimes le the Wist and the brutal dictatorships they sustaie in tati scule. This anily will in the long ro
America, Africa and Asia In Beltain i impllcs demandig the immediate withdrawal of Bein& troops
Tros İreland and lesling she Irish people desermine their awn suture
The Communis Parlies In Europe me In crisis.
are more farmurable han aner the proceding three decades. But such parties cor
only he boilt by rejecting sectariantee and seeing Internal democrat me a
lesary hat as a vital necesity. The means the rishi we urganise Taction aur
5 HRS.
35-hour week is the increasing effect of their actions.
The Post Office has now five tiger are ch
engineers dispute affecting business. That Six further reasons why the workers should continue their union movement. Higher basic wages to reduce the need n work nverlime are part and parcel of any such plan
move broaramne useful pubbie works can start to create job, and meet social need, Aiming lo take out of private hands the commanding heights of the economy, which dictate developments in the rest of the conomy, and place them under workers contret has to be the mainspring or such a SHATTE The trade umon leaders will
never set to work on such a
plan. Following the example af the Lucas workers, in would take workers meeting in every
sector of industry and the
econunty -asi whale and coordinating their efforts anc
knowledge
central level
This scale of planning in the
workers movement may som
gigantically
experienced militants. But the
developments that we will have
to confront in the next 12 years
are peanlically threatening.
It will also he a giant step on
the road replaciag the
capitalist anarchy of a system
based on profits willt a sociahs
system based on social need.
La be deceive in defeating hath th
-Karo-communier" nor the pro-Moscow wings have ans meaninglul Mrate for the overthrow of the mopitalis wane. New revalutionar socialist parles are more necesary than ever biefore. Comfitins Today
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HOME NEWS
knows
RAR.
A lot of people's reaction to u lobby of the TUC would be: the TUC's just sold us out over and over again. Why bother with them"
Ju: Because the tupposed to represent working people and i should represen
ag restilthere, still angry, and still without a job.
1 know there' been a past relation with KTH, but thr does mark a change. This tins
booking the hands. Does that
haskof RART
Rob: The poit ahou RTW H
TOWNSON
racism. We started off together about two years ago. May Day two years was #
went our spurale ways.
KAR I bancally a picni ganda organisation and we saw the importance of ensoyany 1la RTW marches.
RAR changed politics → left cultural politics
- over the past two years, quite a lot And this is jest agother aspect of that development
No. I think It's great. But I can imagine people saying: KAR 6 * very broad based organisalion and don't you sacrifice some of that by being identified
Music that
who the
real enemy is
DELEGATES at the TUC in Brighton next month aren't going to know what hit them. They will have the Right to Work march, the CPSA-sponsored lobby, and the Other TUC converging on them from all sides.
This year the RTW march is being organised with Rock Against Racism: four days of Anger on the Road, followed by putting The Heat on the TUC.
RICHARD CARVER talked to JO and BOB of RAR to find out what it was about — and they ended up throwing around all sorts of ideas for the future of
with something as specilic as RTW:
Bob: We jusi thought thar if RTW was getting 500 kids 1o march down to Brighton, then that was doing something.
So why not belp them out if se can and make it enjoyable Joint
left
Enjoying
for the kick? 1 mean, I don't know I the Right 1o Work
Are you going to be linking up with CAYE. Ithe
ARE ment]?
Bob: Well, I don't know what the line is, but we in RAR are taking a non-sectarian view of the whole thing, If we can put on a better pig for the young unemployed workers together then we re
What'sstriking about the latest Temporary Hoarding is the
coming up. This is related. Dreaus worn you re canna with racism, the same way as
plosment. you have to take up
Bob: Our first real taste of the problem was Brighion (when Nottingham Camival
the Fabulous Poodles played a really sexist seri
The problem is that most rock music is sexist Adam and the Ants talking Cumpaign about little girls in unifozeno. 1 Unemploy- don't know, the Kinks. THE Giro Kids were on the murch last Tuesday, disturbing the cloisters of capitalism in Glusgene's stuck eschange and Chumber of Commerce, writes CHRIS BAMBERY.
Under the eyes of the boys in hlue: wuge rise under their belts. which compures with &10 for a jobless school leaver
the Right Committee demenstrated for their right to work.
As the stockhrokers hurried pust, the chunis went up: Dele money isn't funny, fight for the right to work' and The Giro Kids ure innocent OK':
With over 27,000 teenngers
МИВІС
WE ARE FUCKIN DINANTISI
Many bandslell.
prepared to Nabional Front
Poodles
Keeps
first.
Cos we're
as well
is political.
forward
10CM groups
WOETE KID LAI AU Like a kind
all over the country.
Stop
publicity
People
idea that
ANL, RAR RAR WelTe
-from
that people's feat of each other,
Giro kids
Fun
future the who hase a 4il per cent
Work
20 kids fa Work
done
could be run betfer!
SUPPORTERS
Life enabership.
CARD
leadership
La letter
We'll RAR,BOX", 27 CLERCENNELL CLOSE.EC:
NIN.
If we were to stop all sexist bands, then we wouldn't have
Jo: Weiry and strike a balance. don't we We exclude those that are really too much, like Black State, who say that the abortion of which campaign is worse than the
We had really long discus-
The Fabulous Four weeks later used Adam and the Ants. This time we decided that what we had to do was taik to the bands maintained
not Just nut to educate the kids. but the hands
Bob: What you're saying is than
maintain becoming more
Mote political on more issues much
Bob: Well, the most active and
moving thing hope you are.
years is the question of women.
There Ra numbet of ways we couligo. Wecould build ep the
ATTEME network of venues and clubs
of title youth movenseur in diferent places
The other way is that it could become very commercial We
record shops, our pun record they are to
oppose:
Jo: What we don't want isto he just a booking agency for other
of those Boh: We wanste ye. rid of this
just the entertainmenes branch of the
fighting the fight, but we're doing it in pur
What's our slogan? We want "No,'
breaks down hoping to.
that's
on the dole, and with anore hunging on in sebool, the future For Glasgow's kids is easy do see. No work, no money, to
To give lie kids a better
Right to Work Campaign is holding a Right to
march in September from Clydebank. where 2,800 lace the chop at Singers, 10 Glasgow, before going on Le London-Brighton march.
This lead in the light for jobs couldn't come at a better time.
Al singer's all the union las Bridge.
hire management corellants, at u cost of ever 125,000, to see if the factory
News
nowhere
Full Frontal
ALL 15 NOT well in the
National Front, Nf has this on the authority of John Tyndall from
The sent to Martin Webster on 31 July, with copies to the rest of the mob on the National Direclorale
leave it to their copy of this letter the original was addressed from the home of Tyndall's father-inTaw in Hove - found its way to
Some extracts. You were as pains at the meeting (on 29 July) to point out to thi Directorate quite rightly that the NF is now under a pressure from all sides the lik
we have never fel before and that it is imperative that we adjust ourselves to cope with this pressure..
1 just cannot see bow the morale which we all acknowledge it is so important to maintain in the party can be
when morale among the Directorate itself is less that what it should be
It is up to you and me as two of the leading members of the Directorate to do ail we can to
morale the can lake in this direction is to make a real effort to build some
wanted harcony between the two arus Tam Willing to make this effort: L
Nt would recommend the unity of the graveyard.
Starry eyed
VISITORS to the Morning
don Road, London EC4, will need to keep their eyes shat If
avoid the male chauvinism the party claims to
Currently on display among the holiday postcards decorating the caretaker's office ic one
grotesque curtoon Funnies! froin the seaside.
The statutory large-breasted sitting in a bikini with her legs apart and her feet in the water. One male character asks th other: "Have you been in yet?
The replies, but I'm
If the editorial chiefs cure to piece of sexist rubbish, they might wise cross the road une deface the anti-abortion shogun
henr opposite their offices for some months now,
Trade tariff
THE PRESENT opposition to the closure of the Royal Group
developer would assure you, is councy 10 the interests or the nation, rooted in 19th century is verged alone vare
charged at the House horel which is atlached to the World Trade Centre, occupying the former site of St Katherine's Docks by Tower
A one-bedroomedapartment costs £250 a wock. Add another €100 if you want an additional room. It is well known that the and seven of indecent practices.
from
dockland development is beiny carried out exclusively in the
the local community Claude R. Fatherly
La 1959 phorograph
No break
THE United States, bastion of the ires world, has of course no political prisoners. and WOOTEL CITEESE OF MICHICCER ing political opposationists in psychiatric haspitals. brings us to the death last month Robert -Fatherl
Eatherly was the pilat who picked oul Hiroshima through a bole in the clouds on August 1945, and raced tbe Enole Gay B-29 to drop an Stomic bob on the city. Two
was discharged from the Us air force after psychietric rests indicated ta severe neurosis and guilt complex
The US government had reason enough to keep Eatherly quiet. The former major fel responsible for the deaths of hundreds THUSSAES Japanese at Hiroshma, and wis weim nosy out The years he was inprisoned mans hospitals; in 1969 he was ruled insane by a jury.
Several psychiatrists testified
'chronic schizophrenia" All I want is a break, Eacherly said. There is no peace. Gay in Glasgow
'QUEERBASHING" is all too common a sport in Glasgow, with -TWO months. In their heat for the kalbers men Strathelyde police have been appealing for help from the city's guy community. All
strictly confidential, ways have TECH THE.
In Scotlund male homosesmal acts are illegul. Si it is hurdly surprising that
police appeal SEPUCISM
A teenage boy who had been living with a middle-aged man
FILICH CONETE court that he had heen hit STUS ONE WACK DE BEC OCROO police officers trying to get him
Implicate a man in one of the
Meanwhile his twyfriend
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What's at stake
HOME NEWS
of Brick Lane in London's East End.
MICK GOSLING,
area, take a look at what is at stake.
Brick Lane is a vital area for the National Front, In the
General Election, Martin Webster is contesting the Bethnal Green and Bow seat, which includes predominantly Bengali area of Spitalfields,
John Tyndall is standing in
adjacent Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency. The Hackney South includes Hoxton, an area the Front like to "theirs"
The selling of papers in Brick Lane is of great psychological importance to the Nazis, Uney
their territory. a 50010 25 reminder that they have always had a presence in the are, an insult Bengair community and a challenge to
who have been selling their literature, WHICH MICALLE effect, turther market.
FIGHTBACK
But what has made Brick Lane a national issue and a national focus has been the determined fightback waged hy the Bengali community anti-fascists.
The role of the police and the
been to stifle the towards self-organisation and the building of self-defence groups which taken place in the wake of the racist murders,
But they have not succeeded, There has been a growing radicalisation Inside the Ben-
gali community. especially
amongst the youtn.
It was the Bengal: commu-
mity. with the assistance of
other Asian and West Inchan
organisations in the area, who
Sil-down in Brick Lane last Sunduy.
acialist Challenge 17 Augest 1978 Puge 4
Focus of the fightback
in Brick Lane
SUNDAY 20 AUGUST will see a national day of action in defence of the embattled Bengali community
London organiser International Marxist Group, and HILDA KEAN, twice Socialist Unity candidate for the Brick Lane
racism onto a higher level with moved the struggle the historic strike
Hackney and Tower Hamlets Defence Committee on Monday 17 July.
SELF-DEFENCE The occupation of Bethmal scal Green Road by thousands of demonstrators to demand the Telcase of their comrades after arrested during the march on 17 July example siE-defence in practice White anti-racist activity has been cestralised by the Anti Nazi League, which has been mobilising contingents tor the regular Sunday pickets.
Such actions must solidarise CATES the community in the organisation of its own sell-detence against the fascists.
Publicising the setting up of self-defence groups is imperARt ON WITCAC COROLE of the whole of the community for these proups and to explains to the local white community and how they can be involved Self-defence is not a question of self-appointed defending the area against the fascists. it must be a penine ahmaty, all or whom are mobilisation have affected by police harassment In two consecutive elections in Spitalfields, Socialist Unity obtained 20 per cent of the vote with other left-wing candidates also doing well. Many of these votes came from the community, Bengalis, lives slum bousing estates.
Local members
Interational Marxist
Against the Nazis of the
should De tornica to montos attacks on the estates, to stop
black families, and to sound the
The
responsibility to build mass TOTAURODE! London against
the action against the fascists in Brick Lane. For CUTTATETI Labour Parts adopt a Sunday for Brick Lane Women 1 groups, gay orgam
should also organise contingents in the sanic nar The fight against and the fascists must also be taken intothe General Election anti-fascists itself
the Front through the ANL. but by fighting for a positive. socialist alternative.
RESPONSE
morning The response of local MP lan
and aim to Bengali Council to the
strugale and campaigns in the area has been
They are willing to throw up their hands ab closure Hospita.
Robert Momefiore school, af the rundown of dockland.
But when organising and actually leading
heavies action and using their weight in
Labour Party support on an all-London and
whole
national scale, they do nothing The leader of the Council Paul Beasley, has condemned the National Front and even oined the sic-down in Brick
self-defence, of the removal of the Special Patrol Group from
white area, of lIke the re-housing for Asian families in run-down harassed off estates by wiste
thugs, he is strangely silent.
Vol Similarly, Group SELES groups
And
colleague, Arthur Latham movenien. has
La start, the Hengali community. and
branches can committed
Fighting
Students: We ampaign would b METICI Websler could be
- not just by countering committed
fightback against
Brick Lang focus Tor
Election campaign. hardly expect the Labour television to ignore il
Brick Lanc
militantALTERNATIVE
horror at the Bethnal Green al the closure of Labour's policies socials comes
movement and good.
mobilise
HIRMINGHAM Anti
Saturday
But on the question of
include
Ali.
SONNED
Mikardo can voice opposition to the Front and even prosecute the local NF for infringement of clectoral laws, but he hasn' called for an enquiry into police activity in the area — a deman Taken up by his Tribune grous
And, of course, noncof then campaign against the racia immigration laws which lead to continual police harasment of
Socialist Unity is already
to supporting a them Navis! socialist candidate in Bethnal Green and
think tenfold if agrecment reached all the Socialist Workers Party and all other individuals and proups
.10 socialist Labour's
is a national the anti-racist be their focus for the General
We Can picis and
Our task for the nest tig moathsis not only to help build mass self defence against the fasciss, bul when the General Election comes to wage lic broadest possible campaign for
alternative the only basis on which we can clear the fascists our of the East End for
Nazi
League is organising a rally and
march against the Nazis on
September.
assembles al Handsworth Park at 12.30pm and will march to Grunwick Victoria Square in the city centre. Speakers at the rally will
Tom Litterick MP.
Paul Halborrow, and Tariq greater
virgin pure.
PEPSI
received. features in Past.
Morning Stai
very
This doctored map of part of Middlesbrough was found in the toilets at the local AUEW Hall after members of the National Front attempted to disrupt an Anti Nazi League meetieg there. Is message is self-explanatory. And people wonder why we call
Dave Stevens
defence
Make this a
national campaign!
THE DAVE STEVENS defence campaigo continues, reports CHRIS ROSEBLADE. Some failures — bus more successes. Among the failures, It grieves us to report that the Hon Nicholas Budgen, Tory MP for Wolverhampton SW, will not be sponsoring our campaign.
Budgen told us that although he was prepared to discuss the matier, he won't prejudge the findings of a court
From some MPs there has been a nuch better response Many thanks to Audrey Wise for her ES, and to Tom Litterick who said be wouki write to the Home Secrelary for us
Litterick roll us: •Since che
aflair, Labour MP. found themselves extraordinary charges, there's 5718 the
awareness that brave boys in blue are less than
This feeling is not confined to Labour MPs, as is slown by the publicicy the campaign has
There Have been the Birmingham Wolverhampton's Express and Star, and the
The issue of racist violence is
much alive in Wolver hampton A white tacist has
just been on trial for attacking a
black youth, and the magistrate was prepared to declare that this was an unprovoked racist
Socialist Challenge/Socialist Voice Joint School "RACISM AND BLACK LIBERATION'
La Potechnic of Central Tendo
This school is jointly organised by Socialist Challenge and
Socialist Voice newspapers. Its aim is to start a urich needed
discussion amongst revolutionaries on the strategy to fight
racisn and for black liberation.
The açcuda will include sessions on "Racism and the State" self organisation — what does it mein Programme?, 'How to fight racisms
on various aspects of racism and sessions on the politics of the
black communities
The school is open to all supporters of Socialist Challenge
and Socialist Voice. For details contact your local Socialist
Challenge Group or Socialist Voice sellers.
MIDDLESBROUGH
The conunital procoding for another defendant, David
opened this week. and several black youth clubs have been leafleted to ensure that a large picket will be there to
The ANL 5 sponsoring a national speaking lour for Stevens, and meetings have already beer arranged Birmingham, , Preston, Boltan. Liverpool, Bristol, Southamp lon, and Hampstead
Much work still needs to be done. The campaien must now be made a national issue. Make sure it is an item on the agenda
YOUT local ANI. and anti-racist commutter.
The trials will not begin util September or Octoher, so He need to maintain the momentunt of the campaign thar we build up. For that we need your support - and cash
Defence Campaigr c/o
Student Union. Wion Poly Wolverhampion.
assalant secrets Temple, Wren. Bot Bel UT
thor of Destiny; Councilior N Davis
2/3 September, a
Black *, as well as workshops
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Why we're fighting
Black liberation & socialism (3)
HOME NEWS
MANJIT SINGH.
Challenge'.
the AYM?
T.G. We see it as particularly
racism in the labour movement,
the sense of participating in the
up struggles independently of
forcing it to take a position on TEC TUTES
We are by no means only premired lo work with Asians
also with progressive
M.S. Bolback separatists, but if questions arc
black about independent unions then we will have to support that strugele.
TAr. On That question 1 am not im lavour of having separate
How the
IN THE numbers gume" over immigration, one set of figures
mumber of people detained under the immigration laws. Below we publish some of the statistics which convey the horror of those laws and how they are enforoed.
HOW MANY?
Almost live and a half thousand people have heen held under the 1971 Act since it came anco effect in 1973, The only "crime" of these people is that They wanted to live here.
1975
1976
1977 (first 6 months)
1977 (July-Nov.)
Not only have the mumheri being demained increased da maticaily, hut so has the length of deration of the betention.
THE CONDITIONS
The detainees hase no idea how long they are to be held. Soie have been held for over a year. Othiers have delained for moaths and them ler Tree, apparently exoncrated.
are crowded thai prison governors
special centres shbuld be set up, and
the immigration bould be charged the cosr of holdate dela noes as a valuable incentive to keep the number in and perloo of custody to a
Pr soner are often kept in
Bradford Asians explain
NERMAL SINGH, TARLOCHAN GATA-AURA are all members of the Bradford Asian Youth Movement, which has initiated a campaign against the immigration laws. Last week they explained why in an interview with "Socialist
What are the general aims of | black trade unions. But I am in
favour of hlack people having black caucuses inside the trade
What ure AYM's successes so far"
T.G. One of the swocesses we ve had is in gaining the release of Saced Rahman, who was being kept in Arniey deportation. We don't see that campaign as an Isolated one.
We are raising the whole question of how controls affect black people.
We have drawn togerher a
Asian connunity und our next rask is to escalule the campagn black on a national level.
tien in Bradford on 21 October.
N.S. I see it as very interestine A that it is an independent black
immigration
laws work
OTTETE ULL
Many definite knowledge of when heing they will be
In 1976 olle committed suicide, and three more tried to, while waiting.
The prisoners ate held in ordinary prison establishments in Bedford. Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff. Canlerbury, London (Holloway and Pentonville), Lincoln. - Lenes
Number detained Averuge daily number held in LISTELEY
715 1027 *121 680 220 520 218
Brighion), Risley (ear Man. chester), and Winchester
WHAT CAN VOU DO
The succes ful campaign wuch farced the release of 18 delastees (Bradford/Leeds) is now being extended nationally. boen being organised detention centres on Saturday September. -Muke over- there' some of your local prisin. Free the Prisoner of Race!
*Ibe nest meeting of the London-lused Compuign Immigrution ICAIL] will he held in Monday 21 August at 7.30pm in the Koebruck puh.
Court Rd.
immigration laws
and initiating campaign against immigration controls Many on the lett had thought this issuc loo difficult unattractive However scepties into action.
M.S. If we are really talking abour fascism then we can't
racism. We mustn't be scared
dropping out of the against fascism because they are unwilling to tackle BUCH OR OTEECSUE
immigration
We are
The WRP has ansounced cells for 20/22 that it will field 60 candidates in hours a das. None of them has - the Lieneral Election
released ar to the left of the Labour Party
which will get television time.
Bat this great opportunity will nor be used to build important movements like the Anli Nazi League Гле WRP, although in claims lo he "Trotskyist". in practice absains trom the anti-cacist and anti-fascist movements li is not alone in this.
pronoonced
Leedi. Popular Front
sandlarly STETISCE ansthing to do with it WRP. as usual, adds a Felle spice to this political position by slandering the ANL.
PROOF "The sectarian lives by ready made formulas', wrote
ago. The WKP Is roday Eving proot of that fact. tor them only two types of alliance exist the United Front
forme- is only made ep of
gadl BAD
Pickers TASTE Hure
prison
10T3 Officer
Tottenhum
organisation which is actually How are you going to continu
campaige?
in contact up. across the have people demonstration.
they are needed the COLIN TALBOT continues our series on the views of left-wing groups towards the anti-racist movement by looking at those such as the Workers Revolutionary Party who reject involvement in
workers
thas
TACTICS
WRP
history
and have
The Fronts
workere programune
Leon
Bolshevant...is
mises with other bougeois
the andi-immigration control
with all the AYM
our brothers and siers lo take un the cam nar: in their groups and unions, ete., and lo support le demon stration on 21 October. We wanl public meetings to take place in all arcas before the
and we are jails and prepared to send speakens if
Sepiember.
Wie also want to mobilie in our area in support of the back
that:
its structures.
organisations. the latter inclades other forces. The first is acceptable, the second
raise. general level
light and win
categories like Holy Writ from
and Troisky and some of the the
the movemert. Thus they accused
DIVIDE Solidarily Campaign in the late 1960 of being a Popular Front
Hat the classical Popular
were above al programmatic agreements be- have ween workers and bourgeois partici, on the basis of the
abandoning their
No Markist would role pet anty joint action with hourgeois forces without looking at the ahcad of ihese people concrete circumstances. Lenin said chat "the whole history of
01InMances of manoeuvring, makig agreements and compro- the iberals
parties included.
W-hat Lenin and Troisky | League broke with the WRP
London and Cardiff Socialist Challenge supporters call for a national day of picketing the
detention deportations
There is no way we will sit
and Set The Labour 1 always ruled out was progranumatic unity. any idea
parties could jointly rule The essence of united front taclics
explained Leau when he wrote that the whole poin: lies in knowing how ta apply these tactics in order to
and nat lower, uf proletarian
class consciouscess -revolut-
spiril. and ability te
The 100,000 mobilised by the these VSC in October 1968, or the 80,000 mebilised by the ANL in April 1978, hardly demoralised
working classt
In the debrale on "black self
defence, some groups such as the Workers Socialist lengue
counterpescd "workers self defence", going on to argue that black self-organisation
are teactionary and divide the
The WRP. however. is way
They began antacking black 1tt01aHs0l 12 3C01S 330 03.L0 American ghenroes erupted, echoune the outrased cries of
about
The Workers Socialis:
Government implement these -racist laws,
•Bradford AYM
Singh, c/e Community Relations Council,
Muriborosgh Road, Brad ford 9. partly because they rejected ins
movements. The WSL. unlike
of the WRF, have mobilised for anti-racist actjons such as Brick Lane
Bur their political position towards the ANL, minus the slanders is identical 10 the WRP's Their politicul position ofcounterposing workers self detence to "alack sell defense Jeads in the sarne direction as the WRP's attacks on black nalionalism
SCHOOL
Thus while they have broken Trom the excesics of the Healy schoel of falsification and abstention, many of the political concepts wich Jed the WRP down the pail to degeneratior
The lace. James P Cannon, the veteran LIS Trotskyist, once remark ed that he would like his
pstaph to be. Don't sand or the bank and teil me lion n win' He Trotsky's deserintion of sectarian as one who is ou the shore and reads lectures morality to the food of the class truegle"
The WRP. and far too many biber groups, fit chis descriptian perfectiy. To all or chem we can only sas: Come on in the water's fine!
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PETR UHL, a revolutionary socialist
Charter 77 human rights movement.
and his
Petr. Uhl writes
and the
future
BUREAUCRATIC power does then derive from the links peculiar to capital. Trom private or collective ownetship of the means of production.
Both historically and factually, it is rather of a distiner political character.
Although the bureaucracy as a whole disposes of the means of production, its individual members are brought into the social hicrarchy according to political criteria: they stand relationship of alienation to the means of production, although it is not of the same kind as the alienation suffered hy the workers, who completely excluded from the decision-making
therefore think LONE hureaucracy is not a class hut a parasitic layer; that the system of hureaucratic centrans is not one o slate captilos or any other capitalism, and still less, a form of socialism; and Ena bureaucratic dictatorship, while totabtarian in characier, is not a species of Fascism.
With regard to Stalinism and the buresucratic degeneration or Geforma-
theoretically valuable and even correct
propagate -LIE Iransitional phase between capitalism
On this page we look at August 1968 ten years on
imprisoned after 1968, discusses the future of the
And MARK JACKSON reviews the events of 1968, focussing especially on the role of Alexander Dubcek
supporters in the Communist Party.
The Charter
not and socialism.
MAXIMIN do occasions as the present.
But it mas quile feelimately. Do argued that these concepts can have a disorienting or demoralising effect on the workers of both East and West.
And yet, hypotheses which refer to state capitalism or fascism, although fairly 'understandable to workers, are in a based on impoverished constructions and are untenable from the point of view of the Marxist understanding of social relations.
Indeed, the authors and defenders of such schemas often know this best of all the We must here say Gramsci that only the revolutionary. And departure from it savours of the bitter fruits of Stalimism, at least for us who have lived through the experience.
Perhaps, in our ongoing agitational and propaganda work, dispense with concepts cratic centralism', anything else, was very widely used in 1968 as a semi-official term to denote the economic and overall social system of sixties Crechoslovaki.
Perhaps we might also do without
'burcaucratic dictatorship' ism". "Soviet-type totalitarian dictatorwho was question of deciding how this system should be called, but of understanding it and co-ordinating one's own forces in order to overcome it.
reasons for thinking that the system cannor be reformed, although it can be given a different form.
overcome in a revolutionary process stemining from revolutionary negation of the political system -trom the shatterine of bureaucrati power, its "coming down from on high" and progressive dissipation simulancous centralisation of power in institutions of the workers themseive
safeguards the development of the productive forces, the development of all social relations, the development o culture. and last but not realisation of human rights and the overcoming of alienation
on a political system of the broadest democracy. based pluralism of all cutrents, organisations and parties well!
SELF-MANAGEMENT
not merely coonomic) self-management it guarantees increasingly direct workers participation democracy and the involvement of the
hole population in resolving th
roblems of the given social orde
councis, citizens councie lies at the heart of political pluralisen and prevents one or more parties o party leaderships from ruling in the name of the voters or the people
to parliamentarism in
diadvantages systemn — rigid delegation of power and possibilities of abuse, manipulation of the masses by powerful interest groups, difficulties in the way of a transition to the lotm of direct demociacy
reject parliamentarism self-management and the forns of direct democracy
there is neither a parliamentary system nor self-managemens; and it would be as well to return from the future to our own times.
Charter 77 is neither a political, a social nor any other kind of organisation. It Is rather a loose combination of people who have deciled to speak the truch aloud and to advance critical thinking
lewpoint (that of power), but trom th
ewpoint of the laws of the existir human rights. In Charler 77, then opinion on the problems dIscUSsIOn.
DISCUSSION
as we tevolutionar on sucT communists who have been expelled from the Party
centralist, reforming
ratic). liberal or othe there are socialists and democrats of various personsions, and there are the far left, Christians and the cultural underground.
no precise political, religious or cultural alignment. Agreement on the question of human rights does not preclude differences of opinion on a number of political problems critical analysis of the system to ideas clearly with about the future. truth made a discussion possible, and that the discussion is siot limited to the Charler itself. But conclude political currents will emerge from the we might like bureauwhich, apart from
to present day relations in Czecho slovakia. Political crystallise, and poople will once again publicly come together in a political
StalinToday it is not a
As far as I'm concerned, 1 have many
envisage it as being
- that is to say.
especially
It is this revolutionary process which
least the and books;
Tsee this socialist future as dependent
political
bon-socialist ones. as while Still
The form of democracy istsocial, i,e. the initiative,
(producers'
Such a coincil system (workers
etc.) also USSR and. the 19th century.
Although there are strong tendencies the Czecho- forms
OVE-TEWINE cipecially young parhamentary political
It will be understood that, in these Despite discussions. l am among those who
and sapport complete wash-out.
In Crechoslovakin today, however.
the committed's
Ahove all, it should be stressed that
They seek to analyse certain areas of Czechoslovak life not from a political
power itself and the respect it shows lor
there can be no gencrally accepted
under
Represented in the Charter are
oniy 'Eurocommunists" but also those of a
(social-demo. orientation:
But most typical are the citizens with
ranging fros:
It is of value that Charler 77 has
Fi would be wrong to
into a confrontation with the state
Such a short-cut does not correspond
conceptions will
Torm. But that a sal not erouch for there to be mass pellitical Lite
The stress even to open activity In the realm of social criticiem points 1o another road: namely, the emergence and functioning of diverse committees organs and institutions independent o the scare power and, in the strict sense of the term. not political in character That is, they do not presuppose that those who take part will have the same or similar ideological postions.
PARALLEL BODIES
The task of these bodies is to defend the specific interests of the population.
the workers and youth, against the existing state power.
I have in atind defence committees for political prisoners and those struck by political Heratsverbol; a paraliel university; an independent trade-union галенов, а патост от репсова.
the organisation of concerts, exhibitions, interest groups. discussion clubs. and so on.
Some of these initiatives have already been taken, both receiving suppor from Charter 77 and pivine it in return Others are beginning to emerge or wiH cincret on toe around arcacy laid
others appear outside Charter 77 irself, even thoogh Charter signatories are the most prominent in
The creation of such open parallel institutions. structures and instiatives. and their permanent confrontation with the state power is in my opinion the most important forn of the class aruggle in Crechoslovakia: it is the road with a perspective before it.
And it seems to me that it will also be followed through successtalls in the
abore all, Poland Revolutionary accret societies belong to
oles on the road of he paratel
social number of people. SOUT people, will underga politicisation, and that a differentiated
apposition will thereby
ecome progressively stronger nOt
This is a road that helps us to overcome the relative isolation into which the state power secke to drive us.
everything. their goal of turning Charter 77 into a ghello is a
Al present 1 am warking in the Committee to Delend the Liniusci Persecuted, which seek, so fulfil a partial task of Charler 77 by defending роса PosoDers an скасто Wad, 15
being
Chata
subjected ta persecution.
The main was DEBATEEDE endeavours organisation of
- 30 idarit which must help ever one repressed for ELS BE ACT COUNSHE irrespective of political alignment. on the part of workers and socialist organisarions), hat also un the part of HE SOCEEMERIS CASELLO Slan whenever it is forced on them by then national public opinion, and whenever they are not thereby pursuing the interests of international capital
Now, I have a specific request 10 make. Last week, the police took some Charter signatories to headquarters and bea: them up: this happened on 19 May to Marras and Karik, who were then bundled on a train heading for their towa of residence. Chotechor
Others were picked up off the street and taken to a niace whete a group ol men set upon them, lied thent up, and trowe lhem bind olded al Mont 10 a forest some 40-50 kms from Prague and left to their fate. Ivan Medek on 16 May, and Bohumil Dolezat on 22 May.
PROTEST!
So lar no one has been killed, bus chis may happen in the near future Through such terrorist actions they with to sow fear and panic in our midst
We ask for your help: Make the world know of these cases, which will be reported in detail in our statemerts.
Protest with every means at your disposal Only this can you help us only thus will the state power hold back trom open terror
Thave now come to what you can do for us who are fichting for tuman rights in the countries of Eastern Europe. Most important is that the greatest possible mumber of workers in
should abcsin trie information.
Information about concree cases about the real situation. In that way.
only can people make commitment working in their neighhourhood, trade union or othe organisation, hut they can also devcior ideas about how they should not proceed in the fature
The idea, for example, that socialism is not a bureaucratic dictatorship, or that Smalinssm is not a necessary detou through which socicty must pass on th road from capitalism to socialise
Our great hope. in any case, is for a socialist revolution in the West.
17 August 1978 Page 7
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Shah gives opponents a lesson in democracy
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE EVENTS
the last eight demonstrations. CHRIS O'BRIEN reports.
Despite the imposition of martial law in a number of maiortowns, ail toc moscaons are of a continued escalation of the protests.
The official figures of seven dead - ar of the weekend -are generally believed to be an underestimate,
The government denounced the demonstrators as 'saboteurs whose aim was to hindet IC waS efforts to liberalise political life'.
"efforts" include presiding over the country with the largest number of political prisoners in the world.
The Shah has announced his intention of holding elections nest summer, as part of his
Popes
against
the
nazis?
THE only sad ching about the
death of the Pope is that he will
another ane, writes RICHARD CARVER.
In particular, women ull over the world will be rejoicing at the demise of the senile ald celibate
who decreed that they should CONTRUE contraception and aburtion.
Given all the misery he
cuused, the world is well rid of
Montini in 1951
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INTERNATIONAL
Iran's 'Islamic Marxists" are at it agsin. And the Shah's dietatorship is looking shakier than at any time months
strategy for handing power over to his youtg son
The problem ar the moment is that all the institutions of the biciatorsmp ars 30.
TRUOTEL LH OOC HAN CON 1 BS antikely that they would outlast him
haas The idea of clections is that they would CstaD Isn rather more permanent constitutional structure -democratic one, as the events of the last wock have shown.
The Shah faces the perennial problem ol Ing autocrat: there will always be some naive souls who take you at your word,
Över the past few months
Giovanni Battista Montini. But contempt for the women is common to all popes.
This one had a particatariy cynical career. which was in sharp contrust to the popular
of saintly
gentieman with big ears.
From 1924 to 1954
man bull his career - Monhs
worked for the Secretariat of
State Vatican,
department which deals with
foreiga diplomacy.
Pias Xil. the pope st that
time, maintained relations with
the Nazi regime in Germans.
Hitler refarned the compliment
by easing off his persecution of
German Catholics.
Montini taithfully applied
Pias" diplomatic line.
At the end of the war he was
in charge of the department
which included the
refee bire roride Nus denled ICELALLS network to with prOTIOE papers.
allowed them
sanctuary in South Americu.
It is estimated trat more than
5000 Gestupo and 55 officers
escapeo ne wae mare ane
them were Adolf Fichmann.
Kisus and
Ruuff, now an adviser to the
RSEUT SELAEUSHILS
conssdered somelhing ol
expert at this sort of thing; since
it was also he who was charged
with relations
remnants of the lialian fascist
regime in the lust days hefore
THECH TUSAAT
They re saying that Paul VI
has no abvious successor. With
a record like that it's handly
surprising!
Challunge
LEIGH Socialist Challenge gieup wil
be holeing ngolr meetings shonly
Fc dealts rig #iry un Atherion 3
NORTH EAST
NEWCASTLE Serinliss
Iocal sapporlers are activei li you want
tham, phore Pain an (0532)
DURHAM Sorialiet Chel
HIESU Sooatal Cha
Woo wonl a)atan 10 Tem.
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HARROW Socinist Challengu sup-
TOWER HAMLETS Sociailsl Chal-
there bas been a spira of anti-Shah protests, cach one brutally repressed by police and anti-regime plainclothed thugs.
days Tater, at the end of the Moslem period of mourning, will come anolner DroEcst.
These are gradually under mining the Shah's propaganda closely offensive abroad.
FEAR With a combination ofa few shining skyscrapers tocord ol super-explonason, the Iranian regime has tried to build a reputation as a modernising and civilised ail state.
Hence TINIEL Marxist* for the opponents of the regime HaLLAHSI On the one hand is the
implication that these are the forces benigated religion. ather, persuade a UCEHY population that they are being manipulated froni Moscow rights In Tacs all this reveals is the
Shah's fear of the twin forces capabic DODUEDE Altbough the pro-Moscow ald Communist Party counts for little. the regime is aware of the
шоге coca convu sons creacu or
rapid and uneven industrialisa-
Bukharin
TH И S
MAURICE THOREZ, long: This time: ELUCI find legal Communist Party, played un
Important part in preventing the rehabilitation of Bolsherik Nikolai execuled by Moscow Trials of the 1930s
Walter Thie revelation is contained ia
Zhores Medvede obvionsly Coates, author of a new book
an on Bukharin."
Medvedev claims that in 1968 former Soviet leader Kbrushwith play aout the events of 1918. chev visited the theatre to see a
Afterwards author, M. Shatrov.
Khrishchev
play, but asked why seither Kamenev nor Bukharin were represented as being ar the
Challenge
WALTHAM FOREST cape sa es esery Esch Hon Si, Nalltameine, Landan LUMUON LEOR CRISSu
Londo Be Ban CiePO BON
TOWER HAMLETS Socialial Cha
institution in Iran.
Then, the peasantry-
spending.
and Already the tranian forces have twice
arms deal berween the *Islamic they get plenty more.
backward and the *100 per cens free". the Shah is trying to
TILE1UB? dead.
mobilising thie thi
hireel
Why Khrushchev
wouldn't clear
of the French sere not rehabilitated
Hukharin, been considered.
NEMEN aTICT TOC
from Sovict dissident
lost almost haif said Thorer.
he met the play's
enjoyed the afler anothet
(Spokesman E1.25)
Lans Ment af the He Oafoid Cireun tranch ELP SOCIALIST
TORKSHIRE cels Icrinighty. Nes
these
At the same time the Mosque is a massively powertul political *trong hold on the allegiance of
All in all, the Shah cannot be very confident about his future
which goes a long way to explaining why the period of indestrialisation has also beeti one of phenomenal military
Britain has been the Shat' main milicary quartermaster
armed Trieain anti the m army and the recent E750m
TWO countries will make sure that
This is happily accepted b the Shah's apologists on Fleet Street, who parrot his claimi that next year's election will be
plenty of his opponents are 100 per cent * 25 yean ago the CIA organised a coup to remove the radical nationalist Mossadegh from power and re-install the
March in commemoSaturday, 19 August, Assemble Lincoles Inn Fieids, London at Ipm [nearest tube Holbors]- March lo the Iranian Embasy via Oxford
revolutionary: babwe.
Central Commttee meeting.
Shatrov pointed out that they
Khrushchev then explained shat their rehabilitation had
Maurice Thorez, however, blacks. urgentiy flew to Moscow and urged Khrushchev to pastpone the rehabilitation of Bukharin,
Rykov, Zinoviev and others.
After the XXth Congress
and the Hangarian events we
our Panty", *I you were formally to rehabilitate these desirable
who have been tried in the cigen
trials, we could lose the rest..
You can rehahslstate them later.
not all at the same time, but one
*The Case of Nikolal Bokharin
looking supid.
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black lender. on the EXCO w hich runs the place are stooges and evergone knows it.
The joke internal Settlement abolishes racium texcept webere Ttc tetention 1 ncccssaTY0I interesie Big deale nattenal in
The whiter havc all ihe eflective and syn bolie power and these rich blacks who thouph: they cuuld mose into the 'nice" parts of Sabisbury are
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Ou in lie bush the war is hotting up and the Patriong
winning. H's murauding war almose ake tne end ef the American Civil War with Imegular teams stalking eacir other out.
The Rhodecan Securicy: ure vicious hastards. When they go "in hot nursuil" they just charge over the nearest border and Shoor every riack sn tigh: till their supplics run oul
They alse checuted a group of black civilians in the tribal thist lanu in lEne. O course the Daily Express virtually ignored it, hecause the victims weren'r white.
Smithie's forces are known thave black "boys" logal to the wintes who are sent oul ro bo "dirty sricke" That oh-owel) biganised missionary massacre might. well be down Smithie's boys.
Wonder how the word's pres got oul to ibe retiode mission farni se lasane mere all piven an expenses paid Bitt bs the Rhadesial. Air Force
Now the Patriote anT as
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tut they ve culy zor tn ki two whites a weck and they will have taken control of riest ol the countryside w thin a coupie
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Don't change the subject
COMMENT
CP and
racism
COLIN TALBOT's attack on the Communist Party's anti-racist work (3 August) makes a LICK comments on Gideon Ben-Tovim's recent Marxism Today article which in no way even connect with, let alone relute, argument.
That argument, put very briefly. is that racism distinct levels within British sociery -ideologically- in ігасіні
amongst the population, institutionally. education system, the police force. the immigration laws, orpanisationally in racist parties such as the National Front.
None of these fatms of racism emanates purely and simply from the needs of capitalism land may he irrelevant or even those needs): therefore the anti-racist struggle cannot be collapsed into the general class strugale, but requires a developed strategy to attack racism at all three levels.
Talbor throws up his hands in horror ar the idea of the democratic alliance" against racism. simply because this involve a few "progressive Tories Should we then ants-racist tones wo our move or on our pickets or demonstrations? Shall we stick up notices declaring
Socialists only!"?
To say that this concept of a broad alliance leads the CP to drop any policy aimed at mass mobilisation 1o defeat fascium" is cvident nonsense. After lamentable equivocation (shared by the IMG).
taken from a continuum
The SACRAC
tion of a continuam in a variety
ol ways.
juxtaposition of their photo-
graphs SUCCILS.
printed texts, raises questions
political strategy and the form
о зітргор.
If you look at the two photos
placedside by side here (as they
were in the exhibition when it
was on display at Centerprise in
East London 1, you can imagine
Two very different sorts of
"continuums".
HISTORY
Look first at the photo on the
left — the moment of the image
seems to be an arbitrary stop in
struggle
overcome insufficient space,
of adequate
HILLA
facilities, and loneliness.
The photograph's intention
is to place the viewer within a
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white Ideas The Choice is in the either
etc.. and
seriously
Communis Party
SORRIE
experiences and
broad sloganising.
alliance will
refuse to allow
GEOFF BELL'
Lane (27 July desired,
of
UNDER REVIEW
Who's holding the baby?"
'A PHOTOGRAPH, while recording what has been seen, always and by its nature refers to what is not seen. It isolates, preserves and presents a moment
- John Berger.
ANNIE JANOWITZ reviews Who's Holding the Baby? an exhibition on women and childcare.
history of oppressive condi
In the photo on the right, - the advert 'continuum' into which the and image might be inserted really has no movement at all.
Rather it refers to, on the one hand, host advertisements, static in time, and on the other, seemingly endless set of repetitions before the biscuits will emerge from the oven. in other words, photograph on the let invites the viewer into history, the advert suggests that there is no history beyond the limits of the paper on which the image has been printed.
The effect of the justaposition of the two photos is to produce a clash of continuums nursery in the viewer, and the result is a sharper appreciation of the gap hetween life as it is lived and as
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the CP has committed itself to the Anti Nazi League. Party and YCL members have been present in the defence of Brick Lane. and our comrades are working on anti-racist committees and local ANL branches
Talbot also attacks the CP for
strengthen the Race Relations Act, and for calling on the
This is not a reliance on the
recognition of the fac that short of
the socialist revolution, the only way in which the gains of the anti-racist movement are going to remain gains is
brutally obrious realisatic demands on the bourgeois make TRESSIE and state, or you ignore that state. And if you do the latter, no-one outside the various Trotskyist sects will take you The greatest single menir of the
that it has entirely handoned the with-one-mighty leaphe was free model of the transition to
and is repared to seck more realistic avenues of advance. ones which bear more relation to the
aspirations of working people than Talbot's and
PAUL. FAUVET (West London)
Brick Lane
of Brick lot to be
The dispersal: if comrade Bell had
other all equally single vision of each photo might elicil. of that moment The effect of the technique of juxtaposilion is not only invite the viewer to experience a while the sense of continuum, but also 1o force the political judgements possible continuums.
If the adverts act as one set of comparative boundaries to the DIMON, SUC DRS OL MOUCH FOX which accompany the pictures create a very ditlerent kind oi limit.
A picture may say a thousand wurds, but a combination of the two can set toundaries for it is represented through the the kind of words the photo
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would have found that a stewards meeting of white and Bengali antifascists decided to fool tie massive police presence by publicly announ cing a stay put message (spoken by Holborrowt) whilst privately word of mouth) organising squads of six plus to filter through the back streets
This was to ensure that, if the rumoured march by the NF 100k place, at least is would be heckled by regrouping anti-fascists and thus demonstrate against such a moraicboosting, police-prorected strut. Our back street guides were largely Bengali: the marker was saturated by police leven though an incognito presence was maintained there)
As it turned out, the NF nasional mobilisation was so feeble as to make a march derisory. It therefore did not achieve its primary objective morale-boosting maw recapture of Brick Lane.
Sure, it was a police victory, but not
Fi was a ruce sight to sec 2-300 coppers plus three hig brass standing like lemons wondering lout loud where the crowd they "guarding" was vanishing to! What it was not was an NE victory - they were humiliated by an even more pitiful turn-out than usual.
TIM NICHOLES [Central London Students SWPI
Rock
against
Internment
FIRST CAME the Right to Work Campaign, Then we had Rock Against bourgeois media than any may suggest.
intentions
begin to emerge viewer to make
along on the photos
of a revolutionary strategy.
8 VINDE DE LOC conditions
Racisen, and now we have the Anti Nazi League, All were and shill are much needed campaigns, but 1 can' help wondering if they were and are very convement substitutes for what (by our main concern of action should be Now, on the seventh anniversary bE the rebirth of interoment in Ireland, 1 still have hot self-determination round the country, I still have not seen any rock against internmen: concerts, 1 still have not seen any Imperialist marches and concerts Why has it always got to be left to the same few people to do or say anything about what is happening int Ireland? When will we see the people of the Right Rock Against Racism, and the Anti Nazi League stand up for the people of Ireland and demand political sratus for Irish POWs, troops out of Ireland now, and self-desermination for thie Irish people?
Or are we all going to wait another seven years and hope the problem goes away:
were DAVE BISIO (Stirling)
WSL - put
politics
first
FOR A paper whose avowed aint iS ID combat the sectarian traditions of the British left, you do occasionally produce some spectacular examples of sectatian irresponsibility. In the item Front Piece in "News from Nowhere (27 July) you ser up a
The written texts make the Live,
of the photos specific, and it is as this point has what seemed to me to br problems with the exhibitior
For the texts which comment
suggest an answer to the extubil's question of "Who's Holding the Baby!' Goveransent. which forecloses the possibility
answer or
The exhibition is arranged in what you might call a storyline. or plot, raking the viewer from
controlled under which CHILLI WILLE mothers without proper mur-
La to Spin and 5.00 10 1 London Fosters circus 02 Hame S
London
Hill Place 4pm trom 21 Aug Organised by
classical
League.
Revolutionary National Front
affiliation of the
seen any right to
marches going
the WSE comrades anti-
'CC
to. Work Campaign,
піол It should
one example.
WSL
JON sery facilities for their children
conditions which are oppressive not only matenally hut emotionally, into a more general analysis and exposition oflack of government funding.
Agaut, an important contrast is grapitically explored between nursery funding during the war and the cuts of today's Labour
The exhibition then moves its analysis into a report of the struggle to establish the Markel nursery in Hackney, where parents created a community
nursery through Rd.
This struggle, though clearly
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obvious reasons) with that of the WRP. who for any verbal fireworks ches may have prodored have not lifted a finger in lichting fascism: and with that of
These comrades political criticisms of the ANL lead them (wrongly, as we
ist to oppose fighting within the ANI. for correct policies. Neverthe Tess, Socialist Press supporters did not appose ANE affiliation in Oxford Labour Pany GMC. and the WSt have participated in and built for
major anti-fascist mobilisa
be obvious tha revolutionists will on occasion vote the same way as fascists in trade union meetings. For or against the EEC is
And suppose a motion was put to a trade union conference CADE Fascists, Comntunists and Trotsky ists from the union and fascists were present — whuch way would Socialis Challenge urge delegates to vote With the fascists! They might even applaud our comrades speeches
Socialist Challenge has said that it doesn't think that the ANt is a Popelar Front. But it hasn't bothered to take up the arguments of the t comrades opposed to affiliation. Put polities first, comrades, and withdraw this slander on the comrades of the
APPLETON and 17 other Socialit Challenge supporters und ANt members (Oxfordh
accompanying manner which sugpests chat the way to deal with cuts is to find an alternative to THE Sure financine Because the SUg gested is simply more Market nurseries", the exhibit is foroed to quickly degenerate into a premature closing shifting the terrain of analysis away from a light against the cuts into a look at the ways in which advertising, toy. and
attitades in society While the exhibit certainly opens up areas of technique for making agitational propaganda more effective, it seeins unable. political end, and seems to ONCE IS CHE HUCK E changing the subject at a crucia juncture. *Who's Holding the Haby?" is asailuble for hire from BECAME Flashers Collective, c/t 152 Upper Street, Londor NE. Tel 01-226 0367 It will be on display at Holbom library, Theobald from 4-28 September. each for orders of 10 or more Socialist Challenge 17 August 197H Page 9
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Dear Brits, wish you weren't here
IRELAND
Soldier Home'.
from anniversary of internment.
over Belfast on the night of 8/9 ALLUS WC internment. The kids had been COLICCURA WOOG 100
They organised into what one woman described as wet patrols" to guard the wood
Glasgow demo
ON SATURDAY 19 Augest a march in sapport of trish political prisoners will take place in Glasgow. The march
been called by Glasgow-Irish Committee and Is being built by the Irish Defence Speakers from prisoners organisations have been invited for a rully afterwards.
There Is always a danger in mounting. an Irish march in 4 the Glasgow. Orange sectarianism is strong in the city. - just how
HOME NEWS
women.
trade union conference as
to choose, writes KATE HOLMAN
The one-day comerenter 20
be held November at
Caxton Hall, in London, aims to get the TUC and Women's
policies abortion implemented. This will include
organising the defence of the
Abortion Act, building local campaigns tor
better abortion facilibes.
Since the Abortion Act was passed, the slender rights
GODERS A WOMAN!
Socialist Challenge 17 August 1978 Page 10
Message from Belfast
FOUR MEMBERS of the United Troops Out Movement and a member of the Poster Collective are now touring the North of Ireland with the film "Home
LIZ CURTIS, one of the UTOM members, reports
Belfast on a week that saw the
Great bonfires burned all | North of Ireland, "the Brits"
On the night anniversary, tyres are added to. make the fires burn longer.
Buses are gutted on key road JunctIons:
The Brits are out in force:
squads in rior gear. The nexr they're known throughout the night, 11-year-old Martin Tally
strong was demonstrated last autumn when an Irish bar was bombed.
On top of this the National the Front have been putting up unti-Republican stickers in ih centre of lown.
We believe that militants should not he intimidated by the sectarian thugs. The best answer to them is to have the largest postible numhers out on
stufus for the prisoners und THEN TUE.
TU conference
on abortion
ONLY THE trade union movement can organise the sort of mass support needed to win abortion rights for
That's why the National Abortion Campaign and the Labour Abortion Rights Campaign have called a
La major step towards Involving the unions in the battle for a woman's right
conceded to women have been threatened hoth by changes in the law and heall service cuts.
The TUC, as well as many unions at rational and branch level, have passed resolutions
and demand and TESTERs Bul support has stopped there At this year's Women's TUC conference, a resolution carried overwhelmingly called for the TUC to organise a national demonaration against any Bill seeking to restrict abortion It GOTCO LOS LO CHECHEE for better NHS and advice.
This the resolution yet to che calling as it does for an active show of support by the unions for abortion rights Abortion directly affects the working lives of women who now make up 30 per cent of trade unionists and 40 per cent of the labour force.
Women are the lowest paid
loses an eye after being fil by a plastic bullet.
In the streets of Short Strand where we are staying. KUC land rovers around and aroand As mc seventh near the bonfires they are met
WITA BATESTICS On the street corner, women
their fists at the Royal Ulster the
ONCELLEY DENSERS. HELL mille of the night the RUC snatches a 12 year old into custody.
BINLIDS patrols and
There are some 23 arrests throughout the city. Ar 4am the hinlid banging begins.
This ycar the internment day protests are dedicated to the pusoncis demansing porca status in the H block of Long
prison Before the bonlires are lit a massive march of some 8,000 people winds Woun Belfast. Old. babies in pushchairs are there.
BANNER The pace of the march is set by hands from different areas. Thirty feet above the road flies a huge banner, will not break them' section of workers and have little or no voice in the trade
they play a full role in the trade unions working lives, when they have GO TO OCC TICKH children they have or how they are looked alter?
Society should
abortion, contraception, and chitacare, so tha woncE sig make a choice about when to
work. For women, these are basic rights.
In a Lime of coonomic criss opposing legal COUL BUDDH like the present women suffer the most.
negligible because the existing meagre services are cut back still further.
Since the 1967 raised three MP, have introduced unsuccessful Privare Members mlls aimed at restricting it. It is clear abortion that next
Parliament Tories are elected 15 Ekely to Stronge see an TUC attack on the harlin so
However, the funatical antiSONOMETE wait till then the courts to attack women's rights In Leamington Spa, a 13 year old was prosecuted for taking laxative pills to hring on a late period.
them are unrecognisable. po persistently
DEFORMED tive polities countries.
We visited a News worker who is Crunlin
CUBICLES
West
young even
can po throug!
months
without trial
Stonemason
women were pregnant.
Protectin
having art abortion.
How can
organise their
provide
SWEETEE
Their choice becomes
Act was
Anderson.
SCENCH
especially if the
TACKOUL even more ferocious
Willineson.
- TO MOSHCHE
- have turned to
A Manchestercon-
The prisoners in Long Kesh are, say their relatives, in such poor condition that many of
Men previously 13 stone are reduced to cill stonce IncI ankles deformed through the denim ol Exercise InCI SKin white and crupting with rashes,
Yet their morale is high, and they are somehow managing lo conduct political debates on such subjects as the compara
socialist
Republican In Road jail,
Visitors have to be let through a succession of huge iron gates to reach the cuhicles where the visits are taken, Even the silver paper from cigarette packets is temoved belore you
internees under another name. smuggled They could be in jail for 13
-nine remand prisoner 01 парст has been in for 22 months
But spicits are high in the the Crum, Altbough Repebbean
sukant was chreacened with prosecution if he continued to periora carly menstrual iracson ithe simples and safcit Speakers will farin el abortion yet dessed! wilow waiting to find out i Read,
And we had the infamous case of Willan Paton who. egged on by the Sociers for thie
the Unborn Child, ined to get a High Coun Injunction lo stop his wife Joan
The trade untion conference on abortion noods the suppor
15,16817 September. The dates to remember for the second
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PROVISIUNAL SINN FEIN A THOUSAND people marched in London on Sunday to mark The 7ih anniversary of the introduction of internment. literature is Forbidden, political discussion continues.
As in Long Kesh, letters are handwriting on precious scraps
PAININ clasped hands with one hand inscribed Irish Resistance and
other English Support
believe a woman should be free so choose when to have a child
inchede Judith Hune of AUEW (TASS), Mel
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Goine night after night to packed social clubs in Republican areas lo show the as thai the strugale is far from over. In These clubs we were enthusia stically welcomed.
Everyone stressed that the light goes Brilish soldier leaves Trish soil,
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Bribery back-fires
AT 6am in July 19721 stood nervously by the exit of a | Overhe kine rome of sait bey and lang de ter
HOME NEWS
reports.
The siens were mere way a withdrawal back in June. Remember the massive advertsing campaien which showed Scottish footballers cheerfully jumping in and out of Chrysler cars?
Success would breed success, argued the advertising whizz
Failure?
BANK
Not quite. Just as Scotland's soccer stars carned tens ol
sponsorship fees despite theit
on the football field, so Chrysler UK will be crying about the los of theit British interess all the was to the bank.
First, Chrysler have received E225 million from the French company, which isn't bad for a company which is supposed to De malking a 108s
Second, they have been given 15 per cent of the shares in Peugeot-Citroen, which is now the largest motor company in Europe
COUP
Most snectacuar o all. Chrysler have pulled off a coup which has reduced the Labour Loveram JAUEHENE stock of international capital
The story hegan in 1975 when
of Britain altogether. Fearing the Insol tre involved In such handing out Lutte Ouvrière's Citroen's Paris works.
We were right to be nervous. A hundred vards away approach to the factory was walched by a dozen rathei large men. No worker would
Peugeot
RECENT comparisan the tup nutionalised and private compunies in Frunce reveuled the following information about Peugeot-Citroen.
*Or all those in the serves. Peugeot demands the longest
orking week 421i bours.
also puss the lowest minimum monthiy
*les resistance lo animis such that only 10 per cent of ib
Chrysler take-over
THE CHRYSLER take-over by Peugeot-Catroen seems-like something out of one of those marathon American TV series currently adorning our screens.
Unfortunstely it is all foo real. GEOFF BELL
Government intervened.
In the end they save Chrysler all they asked lot, and company has CIrCU L0l million in laspayers money since The one alternative considered wis the nationalisation of Chrysler.
In return for their E81 million Chrysler agreed not to take any sen or nermit any stee 10 be taken which would have the thousands of pounds in effect that Chrysler Corpora-
tion would be the absolute owner of leis than 80 per cent. of Chrysler"
MESS Needless 10 say, Chrysler kept the Labour Government in toral datanem abou negotiations with the French company until these had been virtually completed.
The. Covernmcat's entire "industrial strategy for the car industry is now in a sorry mess.
It was based on the good old Labour tradition of a mixed
industry — Leyland be nationalisco, ainouga Tun capitalist
The chels ol the Peupectr Chrysler deal doesn't
Americans has proved money
If you thought
Paris tube station, writes RICHARD KIRKWOOD. With 30 others I was guarding the three comrades
factory bulletin for
take a leaflet there More of these gale drove slowly past us every few
We had other reasons too.
Facts about
eight *Peugeot the TENCENS companies surveyed when il contes do Nickness payment. *Il las the second accident recurd. *On oppurtunity for women at least in the management Beld — Peugeot is agnin at the bottom of the ladder. Only 1.9 per cent af management are
especially
the
the
their
The creation of the new car piant will pur the long term stability of Leyland itself even more at risk because the latter - wauld wil ne severels secicheo to
keep up with such competition
FIGHT
nnly Government could tell Chrysler
thas it won't sanction the deal. si cola say saar in rouira tor Chrysler breaking the 1975
Chrysler was bad...
them Citroen workers — had held a dance workshops where they 3q9a0g At Hom they were invaded by a gang of 50 men armed with characters pick-axe handles and iron bars
When they were driven off they took with
Two of the grabbed. They turned out to be worker forernan Both were members
Confederation of Labour) in Citroen.
Citroen has aways been a stronghold of the CFT. In the
Aulnay-soas Bois TevEr been a normal ceenon Tor the works council least Time airer time the hieges! the French union, the CGT,
had the election annulled foi CFT malpractices. A1 the 1977 election the CFT replied by a
WOrst.
terror campaign an the re-run and only: 30 put of 5,000 even
In most Citroen shops the foremen are CFT members make up moch of the labour force, joining the CFT is the
penns being
operations
the Labour and bring standards
Tabour home.
Young the real unions weak.
gang
орегано, and his
of the pro-boss CFT (French - the Paris arca
The
there has
guard.
Members
brakes tampered with.
cottine
agrocment the company will be taken over without a further
paid to the abeeler-dealers ar. Chrysler.
It coulé decide to merge its
W'ILE SOUSE Leyland and ask the workers to
attack would saleguard Jobs Govermnent
And that's all the more reason why we should fight for it now Taxing
E42,000 of LEONEUS
ment duced
The merger of Citroen with Peugeot, joined two firms of hasically similar traditions.
Peugot's factories in East- city arcas. ern France are also heavily dependent on migrant workers makes bo There too the CFT is strong and
Now thiey are joining hands with Chrysler. whose French politically
formerly called orientated." Simca, vies with Citroen for the tille of most thug-run factory in
Simca independent unico. forerunner of the Cru. movement was Tounded by a leading member of the Gaullist party's 'heary squad with the aid of Hahan "foremen drawn from ex-members of Mussolini's
of legitimate unions have been vietmised. attacked und had their саг
Since Chrysler inok over the thuzeery has been Tess overt but it srill continues, and Chrysler France remains a CFf stronghold.
These are the people who are
rogether form
Europe's biggest car ferm, li will also he Europe's bizgest scab and thug operation.
Avenger cars stockpiled al Ryton duriag the 1975 crisis
Community project under Strike!
THE TORIES in charpe of outside Nottinghamshire Copety Labour Government's polics
spending. reports DAVE ROWLEY.
LILOUCS ETC MIRATINI
urban aid funds Vortineham Project (NAP), an organisation which has develoned a MUQUE form of community involve CICOU.
The projec's policy, staff people and expenditure are controlled Ployed, says a salement from by representatives from many of the tenants and commanity
which assists anisance which includes the provisien of a resource centre whicte leaftets, posters, and a conuuuticy paper are pro
What the Tories do not like is thal NAP and its 60 or 30 affiliated groups hase underlaken a series of campaigns exposins the neglect of inner
Tory leader Peter Wright
bone aboul the attack on NAP. We think that
volontary bodies are suspect', he says. "Rather more
chan LIERIES
The project is fighting back the community and anneauto the
Message and donations to: Save NAP, 118 Mansfield Road, Nottingham
Striking for more jobs
SEVENTY POLICE did their into council warkers in Basingstoke un 9 August, reports PETE DRANSFIELD.
The cons started to clear a picker line of the counci workers ar Wade Koad depot to. allow dusicarts to pass through i. Bet as soon as the dustcart
drivers au what wes tappen ing. they stopped their vehicles. got our of thei, and joined the
The strike began on T August after the local Tory Council
bring contract building labour to do repais normally undertaken by the direct labour
ers were given no reassurance froi the Council that the Contract labour would be withdrawn. So they came our on strike, and now 300 manual workers from all depariments
-We want 1o give jobs to
who are
'the strikers More workers are neoded and have been needed for years."
SC Youth
Group formed
A Socialist Challenge Youth
Manchester WH 29 July
GRAHAM HINDIE reports
Discussions were held on the problems young people face an
society and the need for a
socialise answer lo the crisis
The main aim of the group is to
La uniled revolutionary
gouth opposition lo the present
The fiest step we ate takise to
do this is ta organise a public
debale on the strategs for
Tighang south unemploymen
Al present there crist three
bodies: the Right to Work
the Campagn
Agalist Unem ploy
ment, and the Youth Cargaign
apainst Unem playment.
We believe the only was an
effoctive fight can he launcised
is by weiting these three groups
vout
The debate will be at UMIST
union al 7.30pm on Wednesday
16 August.
The group can be contacted
Challenge Cerare.
Piccadely: Manchester. Tel:
D61-236 2352.
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