Socialist Challenge No. 63, 14 September 1978
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Socialist Challenge LET THE SHAH'S-
HEAD ROLL
IT COULD WELL turn out to be the political crash of 1978!
Iran is in the grip of a massive popular upsurge.
Pahlavi's head and they might get it this time.
poverned by naked coercion. their revenge.
with bullets.
tar the whole movement with that particular brush. for struggie.
Is clear. The masses do not like the monarchy.
Iran of the filth which has accumulated for a quarter of a century.
The Iranian workers, students and peasants have once again demonstrated the enormous reserves which an aroused mass has at its disposal.
Without any coherent political leadership they have dominated the stage. They have been fearless in the pursuit of their aims.
Their courage is born out of an experience that teaches them that they have nothing to lose and a great deal to gain. wooed the Shah continuously. He was due to depart a few days ago to East Germany They have the support of no state power: both China and the Soviet Union have and Rumania for state visits.
Proletarian internationalism is a dirty phrase for the cynical practitioners of real-politik".
From Carter, Giscard, Callaghan, Brandt and their friends there have been statements expressing concern — but forthe Shah's predicament. And these are the hypocrites who twaddle on andlessly about democratic rights. We do not know how long the Shah will last. It would be an irony of the first order if the CiA, worried lest the supply of oil is affected, decided that the time had come to remove him and whisked him off to St. Moritz in the Swiss Alpa. But the struggle shows no signs of abating. It will continue till Pahlavi is overthrown. For socialists the key tasks today are for the establishment of a republic, restoration of trade unions and political parties, free elections on the basis of universal adult franchise to elect a Constituent Assembly in order to draft a constitution, total nationalisation of sil the oil and the multinational companies. Such a dynamic will pave the way for more lasting and fundamental social changes. Iran has for 25 years been the lynchpin of imperialism in the Near East. The fall of the Shah will destabilise all Western plans for the region and will link in to developments in neighboring Afghanistan and Pakistan.
A lot more is at stake for the United States than the overthrow of a bloody despot. In Britain we must ensure that real pressure builds up in the coming weeks. Labour must STOP supplying weapons to Iran and the Issue should be debated at the forthcoming LP conference on 5 October.
No. 63 14 September 1978 15p MASS RALLY
AGAINST THE REPRESSION
Friday 22 September, 7.30pm,
Conway Hall, WC1 Organised by the Campaign Against Repression in Iran
Torchlight march to Downing SI
No
weapons
for the
Iranian
butcher
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Oil is thicker than
OUR POLICIES 2
EDITORIAL
Entloat 038l0 a Distribution Sorting one 31:
Labour's Grand
Old Duke of York
CALLAGHAN'S DECISION to funk an Ociober election is a reflection of British political realitles. The election was postponed for one basie reason: the fear that Labour would lose an autumn poll. This was the advice offered to the Prime Minister by the private pollsters hired by Transport House. The question which arises is how Labour got to the position where it couldn't defeat an openly reactionary Thatcher and whether its position will be any better in the spring or (If they can hold on that long) the autumn of 1979.
shape of the new electoral register nest February, but against that there are numerous other factors - factors which bourgeois politicians tend always to ignore. which has instituted savage cats in living standards. All this han been dome in the name of 'sacrifices" needed to keep the Tories out and ensure that Labour remains in power. Now -union leaders have loyally helped to police the cluss struggle Callaghan decides thar he couldn't win und there is to be no election after all.
there will be increasing resistunce from the rank and tile, who believe that one major fumetion of their trade union is precisely to defend and raise their living standards. next election takes place. He clearly intends to continue the consensas policies which endear him to 'moderute" Tories, the City of London and the International Monetary Fund. These will presumably be aimed to drive the Tories even further to the right and appear as the 'extremists" who wish to exacerbate the politicul situation.
ABSTENTIONS
traditional supporters
working class.
othered to vote. unprecedented working class upsurge against the Torles in 1974,
postpone the election is thus a confession of political failure.
been revealed in such a stark and cruel fashion.
mecessary for many of it Squire Callaghan are no longer needed for the time being.
Sharp budgetary
the Midlands. along the line.
run-up and during the election Itself.
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London It is true that there are marginal advantages to be gained in the
The fact is that Callaghas has presided over a Government
after the trade
So were the "sacrifices" in vuin or are more needed? Either way,
Callaghan's gamble could explode in his face by the time the
What this line of argument ignores is that many of Laboar's
cannot he persuaded to vote, let alone canvass enthusiastically for a party whose sole argument is that the Tories would be worse but which itself does nothing for the
Ir is abstentions und a shift to the nationalists in Scofland and Wales that poses a threat to Labour. The pattern wasshown clearly In 1970 when Labour lost because the tarnout was the lowest for 35
of former Labour supporters couldn't be And it is worth recalling that despite
the popular vote gained by Labour that February was the lowest slace 1935 and its share of the total poll was the lowest since 1931.
In October 1974 its popular vote actually declined further. This was after the experiences of the Heath Government and the confrontation with the unions. Is it totally foolish then to speculate that another spell of a Labour governmens practising austerity policies will lose rather than gain support? Callaghan's decision to
Four years of 'sacrifices" have not paved the way for a Latur victory. The lessons should be fully absorbed by the supporten of Tribune and their leaders who have also been toeing a similar line. The utter crisis of perspectives for left social democrucy has rarely
The British ruling class, or the more influential sections of it, are now ready for a Tory goverament. Labour has done the dirty work
social and economic poiscies to te Institutionalised by a set of bold Tory measures. The services of
SHARP ATTACKS attacks on the working class and tax relaxations for the middle and upper classes are what capital meeds to boost the flagging morale of its own troops. This can best be provided by generals not too worried hy the mutinous spirit of the foot soldiers in Scotland, the North-east, Merseyside, Wales and
So Callaghan will be lucky if he gets away with it for too hong. He might not want an election, but by postponing one at the last minute he has weakened his own standing in ruling class circles. From now on they will deterinine the best time to get rid of him. We cannot totally exclude the possibility of an election this winter.
In the meantime Callaghan will be doing his best to demoralise und hold back the working class still further. What this means for as is an even firmer fight to project our socialist alternative all
Apart from solidarity with all those who will now prefer to strike ratber than to wait for the Squire to call an election, and with all those who implement the TUC line of opposing the 5 per cent wage norm, we will in addition he campaigning to have the maximum number of Socialist Unity cundidates to project our polities in the
blood
THE HUMAN RIGHTS industry has come a long way since Carter was elecied President of the United States. His administration dictatorships throughout the world.
fervent and loyal than the doctor in the British Foreign Office, David Owen.
that Labour's Foreign Secretaries need tongues which are both forked and long.
whomsoever happens to be occupying the House, writes TARIQ ALI.
There is sometbing distinctly nauseous about Labour Foreign Secretaries. They have always been utter and complete toadies, servile to the needs of British and American imperiaLism.
Emest Bevin, as Labour's first post-war Foreign SecreTate labour movement with o took the Cold War into vengeance. our imperialist bully. Bevir the Foreign Office
He was succeeded by Herbert Morrison, anotherright-winger and cold warrior. Then there was Patrick Gordon- Walker, reactionary to the core who was followed by Michac Stewart Stewart defended American policy in Vietnam with religiou zeal envied by the American State Department. He was succeeded
Callaghan (no coboent necessary), then Crosland, and now there is David Owen.
SECURITY Cabinet paste which cannot be There are number entrusted to people whose
млет that impeccable could never have been made Defence Minister or Foreig Secretary. He didn't have the necessary security clearance!
La David Owen is now tryt
s win his spurs. It's his b luck that Carter's demagogy has led to the appointment of Andy Young, who is a much
and more intelligen bourgeois politician than the doctor. Is should be a matter for reflection by LP members that the American Ambassador
the United Nations consistently outflanks the Labour Foreign Secretary from the left.
So Oven wrote a book, It was touchingly entitled Human Rights. The only problem was that the chapter on Britain had
evalusiotary wrislear are
nerretary mieans the power uf the capitatia state.
THE FIRST WORD
Labour's polluted foreign policy
sustains military
Of all Carter's camp-followers none has been more
Owen's performance has proved the post-war adage
Long so that they can easily reach the posterior of
White
no mention of Ireland or of the Fact that Britain had been taken before the Human Rights Commission in Strasbours.
But then it was a bit difficult to do that since the doctor supports British policies in
IRAN But what of countries further away? What abour Iran, where Britain's friend is currently in trouble? Owen is more critical than Lord Chalfont. That is all that can be said, and the book did go to press before present trouble: Iran.
Besides, Britain is blessed with His Imperial Majesty's shop ping expedirions to buy th latest equipment to safeguard his country's integrity BILITIES WHOLE Why. against the people of Iran, of course. No one else, to our veled the Shit. Reither the knowledge, trying Soviet Union nor the Chinese, leave alone anyone else.
Defending his book on TV.
Owen said: *it is fashionable to criticise the Shah. Some points are justified. But you must also recognise that there is merit in the regime that bas operated there: as well as recognise the differences in culture in Iran, and recognise that the whole concept of the Shabanshah is rooted in history.
GIBBERISH his is pure gibberish, It ctually faise and it coul justify any dictatorship, including Nazi Germany. After all "regimentation" and 'militarism" were supposed be rooled in German traditions.
What it shows is that ou is thicker than the blood spilt in the struggle for basic human rights.
The real struggle, that is, not the phoney one inaugurated by The leaders it the Tabour Purty and ite trades ask ser solutions that are in the interests, ant of the murters, hat of the copiedier
Sochis Challas bellever thai ihe too sual toks confronting
strangle sendencies class collaborationism in the lahuur savement. These should be now-esclusive in character grosping together militanis bolding a wide range of political vices * To bege io fight for the creation of a unified sed demncratle reynintiunur nialist organisation which con, chrough an application of asited from tacties
in to be sees as an alienative hy thomants of workers ass in singin
fuch an organisation should be breed in the andentanding that
The suade for secialism seco do unite the fight of the warkers newins!
valy he achieved be creating new organsef pnuer and efants with all
OPTEN
the cold warriors of the Wel The struggle which last week claimed the lives of hundreds of Iranians. Butchered un cold blood on the orders of thi Hutcher of Iran, And Owen tells us that this butchery is
Inspect your own head, doctor POLLUTED
And while on the question of oil, the Sunday Times revealed Inst week that Shell and BP are still suppiying oil to white settleri ill Zimbabwe. Rarely has a revelation revealed thie extent -10 foreign policy had been polluted
The notion thar Wilson and the Labour Government were unaware of what was going on is a joke. And the loudest laughs will be heard Dar-cs-Salaam and Lusaka. vier are despite die deman WICE SCLIC of British Ministers and Prime
Ministers.
It was a Russian revolutionary, whose name escapes me for the moment (it could hav been Broosein or Trotsky or something like thai), who wrote that a country's foreien polic was always an extension of it domestic policies.
In other words, a country's external interests were closely them and will affer full suppurt to all those fichting bor sialist Comered
Ameries, Strica and Ada Trum brean and beltee the irish people ermine their me Fature.
The Communis Portis in Lurpr
lesdencies.
Tried to safeguarding the status que internally.
So when Labour surgeons are carrying out emergenc capitation to save British homie u somewhat difficul: to cur off the blood transfusions from Africa. For capitalism is shake all an internationul system.
disturbing tendency on the part of Labour Party activises tu underplay Labour's foreign policy.
There is no real campaign to get. Britain out of NATO; 10 remove nuclear basca and wesnons from Is Country; te cut off all military aid to Iran; ta boycott South Africa: to provide military B3O Mugabe's guerrillas; and t light internationally to being down the Pinochet regime ALTERNATIVE Labour activists should aor give Owen a free tun at the party conference in October But, is equally important, socialists outside the Labour Party (especially Socialist Unicy) must incorpo Tale demands related to world politics their election manifestoes, For a socialist alternative cannot be restricted to Britain's national frontiers
Thir scallom will he infisitely mure detocratic that alson
The salinis modelse
Focalise anthe LiNs and tasters Furope havr frenediled sctalise a she ese it the millions of murkers bevught the world We are apposin
The mierists of markers and capilatos are inconcilah on a worl
world pollic. Thus wetigh tor warking cla-s unte un an internatona
Male The unice wit be the long restoreisive in defrating hostel peralist regimes in the thest wed ilic brual he tatorshipe this sustain in Larr te Brinink implies demanding the immediar withorosat at British top
and In co sitter thi
Lure-commune nor the pin Moscow widu, has ant meaningh
indialist parties are more nessary then ear before, E infinen toda are inure fovograble this ner the price Sig thre decades let sush parties can one he hult be rrecting sectariani-s and erine intral demented other Insury lost as via wresis. This means the right be whores fate an
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Anti-racist reporter tells why he quit
on East End paper
anti-racist stand,
When journalists
commitenent and bias in writing
against racism they always run
ine risk of getting oin of step
not only with their readers but
some of
colleagues.
And
lappened to Barh
Front branch.
Asian aroups
We questioned police motives
when they arrested nine Asian
pickets.
And, of course, we never
gave the Front any right of
reply.
SQUATTERS
We even had the temerity to
plash campaign over our front
age on behalf of a family of
Asian squatters who had been
deceived and brutally evicted
November's
called GL.C amnesty.
Our rival paper plaved dow
the story - sians, let alon
squatters, don't sell
approsch. Militants held Key There was support for
positions in the chapel and on
lhe news desks;
lub-editor, Aidan White, is on
the NUJ executive and
founder the rank-and-file group, JournaIsts Charter.
Until recently we had a Lord Thomson-trained group editor who could smell a good story and thought natonal reputation was good tor a new paper like the Eas Ender.
But there was also continual oppositon.
UNHAPPY
to 'educate' our readers, circulation department plained that newsagents advertisers were unhappy with ThE paner
Journalists on the paper complained we were ruining their police contacts, and every publication day verbally pinned in the corner and forced to justify our choice and treatment of stories that
HOME NEWS
Journalists
intimidated
JOURNALISTS on the Express Newspapers group in | East London voted unanimously last week for firm opposition to the National Front and other racists.
They called for no platform to racists and fascists, and pledged to expose the evils of the Front; to deny the Nazis any right of reply; and to encourage readers not to vote NF in local and national elections.
A rare statement in the field of journalism, but hardly surprising, you might think, from a closed shop National Union of Journalists chapel, whose members produce among other titles the East Ender - a local paper which has gained a national reputation for its
In fact, the journalists were merely confirming
show
their week Newsroom news- sometimes: "Not another Paki story': Pity they didn't kill all the black bastards". And after a sory about TALESLS in Brick Lane: chief rather live next to an NFer than
NUJ'S DEFACED An ANL carnival poster was first defaced then ripped down. another argument blew up over wherher 01- a chapel decision to support an anti-racist rally should involve taking our union banner along.
Our position was weakened by the disastrous financial state Up. Newspapers group. were candidates in • search scapegoats.
This naragonism ended very соль- predictably six weeks ago in the and worst office acene of all when two of us who were not present were actually threatened with violence by a colleague.
It was made known to us that the Front had our descriptions, were and this delighted some of the Journalists present.
The person concerned was
the group's four papers The three who resigned (f to r): OLIVER DUKE, BARBARA JONES, and NICK BRETT
management comments were demanded and secured written
apologies and Future good HUSHVATE The three of us considered this a very inoderato request.
But even then support for the chapel's proposals was by no means unaninious, the three of us decided to resign which reflection, a clear tactical error. an We fole uscomfortable in our jobs; but more importantly ground tinually having to justify what considered Journalism.
COMPLAINTS
obvious
for Our only concern after we
anti-icie sance should con thar tinue, lo an effort to keep the matter on the boil, we look out compiaints with against two individuals concorned with the irents.
And this as it turned out proved the way of getting the chapel to unanimously endorse the anti racist practices of the I given a written warning by the the threats incident. East Ender just five weeks after
ENDER
practices which had been going on for over a year in
Express, Romford Express, and Thurrock Express.
But the path to last week's unanimity is littered with bitter office rows about balance and objectivity, political bias and the fear of alienating white readers, together with explicit racist outbursts.
It culminated in threats of violence against three of the East Ender's most active anti-racist reporters Barbara Jones, Nick Brett, and Oliver Duke another reporter on the paper.
The incident prompted the three to resign, six weeks ago. NICK BRETT, who was then father of the group NUJ chapel, tells the story
TOM ROBINSO
STEEL PULSE &
RALLY SUNDA) 1am TRAFALE The chapel
assurances of with behaviour from
anti-racist position withdrawn.
POLICIES was, opponents* ce What intimidated and
down. con- tomplaints responsible lengrhy
the be The motion union must have been
question now la what will be made inside that by NUU militants, and anti-racist movement London
into practice,
EASTO
Marks tbe East Ender, Stratford
by what
Strange
The
On 25
THIS.
The Striker had published, alliance blacks Aother letter,
An emergency meeting of Journalists Charterhadcomeup Semitic branch presett a motion to unbreakable olive your cape etch calls for a
endorsement the cists. and return the complaints should b
'Leese had 43L1
against the established policies of the Fast Ender they were merely givine substance to th
investigating Complains are a messy,
business. and were theoe people prepared to give up their yobs and throw an punica gon letters indicates awful lor of abic at the fan Some of that sticks, and it's a Nazis. healtby Taer roday that no one - except the Front - likes to
publicly tried as a racist.
was carried
olive to swallow. But the crucia For a very some, bitter could interview menber LAUREE
efforEs Council. chapel, by tbe 'Not slandering me.? till ERst to ensure that chapel's anti-racist polcy is put
News
nowhere
To catch a 10
Is the wi THEMS Spencers,
pleaded guilty, was Fined adi
intervieves with the British meh
landing o
landing Karachi
airport, she changed her story.
She was not been framed by Marks She har
and
Spencer as part of a 'Zionist
imperialist conspiracy Could
it be that the Begum was
worried lest people say that the
fine was insufficient and he
hand should be amputated? o
was it a lie designed to save her
political skin?
As for imperialist conspira-
cies, they tend to be a title
more subtle. But given the fact
tha Wali called on the former
province, Sir Olat Caroe,
told a private recting uf MPs
Thar British rule was better than
sitat existed now, one wonders
need there is of
times
in Kilburn
Kilburn Time
Wellesden Chronicle are local
pupers published from the same
just the West
week Better for Jews and the whites, equally lurid
male antiVienna
will know be was one of the fint [and pre-Hitler] British Tas-
The local A NI. secretary, Lie nel Rich, informed the editor of the two pupees that the addresses supplied by Mess
Striker were fictitious and thut it was obtious anti-Semitie ploy. The editor, Denis Sole, ugreed to print a letter polting this out. hut forbade his reporters from further. Mr Siole in a Baptise lay Story presetier whose organs - 8s the
of these racist of have 2н gone overboard to upset the
Ken ye be so scared
pure suce went our
ASKIN whether Ken Gill. of the Commutist Party and of the ICC Geberal
'No', replied GIE. your paper stops Our reporter was adamant: You cantery what you ein
interview well-known for not distorting
from
Gull
criticisma. of him some weeks
ago In Iciation
refusal to defend Mike Cooles
Were these ultra-left CRIFE
clims? Gill probably thinks
they were. In any case they have
been repeated in an article by
Chris Herd in the current issue
of the New Statesman.
journal now be out of
bounds too for Brober Gill?
Shadow
spokesperson
for contradictions
NEV's PRIZE of the week goes
In George Gardiner, Tory MP
for Reigate. At a speech made
to the Reignte Conservative
Foram on 4 September
stated:
TUC delegates are voting at
Brighton today for a reture to
free collective bargaining. This
tive Party offers them.
We shall restore to trude
salons the freedom to negotiute
pay rises for their members.
In return. union leaders
mest be prepared to make the
transition in a responsible way.
The election of a Conservative
Government cannot herald a
mad wages seramble
"We shall have to proceed
one step at a time. I believe we CUCKOW
SHERIE HENCE that, In the
immediate future, a Conser-
to keep pay settlements in the
public sector within the 5 per
cent figure.
The longest arm
AT A SECRET location in
London a new computer is at
It can accept louse interrogations with a match The Home Office has stared that it can now accept an inquiry such as *Which red-haired Instenan o record drives white Ford Cortina with M, R and 6 in the registration?' The Laplications of obvious, as are the possibilities of suhsequent harassment by the Specials.
The Home Office considering a computerisation of all the data normally held in manual form on files Apart From the dangers posed to civil aherties by this scheme, there is the additional possibility tha false information can be fed abd used to harass people.
There is the famous example
Honeywell 6040 computer based in Oxford and functioning since 1975. The systero gained headlines wher visitors were shown the centre and the machine computed a few tacts A man who was named was supposed to be gay The information, it was later discovered, was false and had been submitted by the relative of a policeman who had heard it is asbop. Even a visiting FRI officer was scandalised
The NCCL would be wel advised to investigate the nev computer aod mobilise Labou ViPs to try and eet more detall from the Home Office
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'You'd better accept our 37 and a half hour
HOME NEWS
Birmingham this Saturday.
week: from December, SILBERMAN.
The original claim by the POEU was for an immediate 35 bour week with no loss b *I was the concitation report
Lord MeCarthy recommended the employers" present offer, and the report also tied the reduction of the working week to an increase in productivity, thus ensuring that no jobs would be saved.
Tens of thousands of jots Bave already been lost to the Industry over the past 15 years
Developments in micro-clec
especially the much ШКОД З00UI S3000H010
HOLDIE established that workers and not profit should benefit fron imposed testicles
Spied by the trades b again endorsed its policy for a 35-hour week.
VOCAL
POEU general Bryan Stanley was particularly vocal at Congress, speaking in favour of the 35-hour week as a way to ensure that technological advance benefits workers.
Meliwine others on the POEU executive nave been touning ine countr organising mass meetings in an effort to sel the productivity deal membership.
This activity has been sharp contrast speeches at the TUC, but to the complete Lack of campaigning when the POEU conference voted in favour of Industrial action in June.
Despite the executive's inactivity, the industrial action was strong and solid, and some
weeks after the executive called
Tyburne branch organised stuch Indicated an overwhel unofficial CARDER ming maiority for rejecting the
THIS IS
A PARIY
POLITICAL
BROADCAST ON BEHALF
OF THE
NATONAL
FRONT...
Broadcasting pablicil! in Ine Times and Guardian on Tuesday.
coveruge of the NF.
Union leaders tell P.O. Engineers
productivity deal'
DELEGATES from branches of the Post Office Engineering Union meet at a special conference in
The only item on the agenda will be their executive's accepfance of a management offer of a 37½-hour
reports JONATHAN
which and
MICRO-PROCESSOR
offer and continuing the fight for the original claim.
By building on this sentiment such through a prepared escalation of industrial action, combined with an atrempt to turn the TUCs words into action, the claim could be serious step made to winning the 35-hour week for the trade This is not what Stanley and Cohave in mind. The agenda at the special conference Saturday has been arranged to rule out order propositions other than the PULL the plugs on the National Front! The picket of BBC
House, to be held today. received frout-page reported the campalge jointly organised by the ANt and the Campaign Against Racism In the Media to prevent mecritical
Peier Hain of the ANt suys he is encouraged by the response from television techniciam. Copies of the ANI/CARM leuflet
executive's. The only item to be discussed will be whether to acoept the offer do in the event of rejection The right-wing organised in the right-wing won and a The Block, has tried to back-up
this undemocrane move will a witch-bunt agaiost tbe militant COLONCI which campaigning for rejection of LOCOLS
on Following a lobby of tbe
CHALLYS any smashed as union
prevented the lobbyers from CONFERENCE
Against the Nazis SAT 23rd SEPT FRIENDS HOUSE EUSTON ROAD LONDON NWI Opp. Euston Sm.
Then waite toss crisent -
Both papers
Picket of BBC HQ. Thursday. Oxford Cireus tubel.
lens to lay waste to musses of jobs entering their headquarters, not what to
leadership, undeclared building, CLUESOME
DUCE
dispute when a door reflects the officials desire to light.
NATIONAL EDUCATION
of Teachers "No plugs for Nazi thogs" have been widely circulated, and the fact that Alus Supper, general secretary of the TV Technicias' union. chaired the rally held on Tuesday Indicates the level of support. Broarcasting House, Portland Place, London W1 [2 mins. from
Tructor August increase of are to be OWn union the union lea
fingering a dozen militants by name and alleging that they and others almost ransacked the
those
Clearly this leadership means to stamp on any attempt to work extend the industrial action. Signs
Saturday's conference will need to reject the deal and already discuss how to form a national
committee which membership's committee
the
where. alans such
the easy
overseas.
LIESER
to the
closure 14 Septemher, 4.30 — 6.30 pm
Glasgow strike
Police violence
on picket line
picket line at the Caterpillar
WATTS Glasgow when hundreds of police tried to force a path for management
last week, reports MARTIN O'LEARY.
The size and militancy of the pickets supporting the produc tion workers" claim for a E24 across-the-board increase escalated when the police were called in on 6 September
John Gillan, a Boilermakers member at the plant, explained to Socialist Challenge how the dispute started:
*We decided for strike action in sungorl of our cam on 1°
The company asked Tor a deferment imniving ina there'd be a productivity deal.
We were supposed to have a mass meeting on the Tuesday to
day before we heard what it
A time-keeping bonus that would have given 4 top-rate
and the conditions were so lough it would have been impossible lo
Saving jobs at Plessey TWO-THIRDS of the 1,800 strong workforce at Garrand in Swindon — a subsidiary of the multsnational firm Pesses
mude redundant. reports ED WALLER.
They have been given 90 days notice after months of rumours and short-time working One plant at Blunsdon is to close altogether. The majority of
affected are women, many of whom do part-time
point towards secupution, and action is
afoot to slop any movement of machinery. As a spokesperson for the joint stalf
put it: We яге dedermined that the farrico men of the Plessey organisution are not going to write as off:
Bat a successful struggle will require policies which cun unite
workforce and inspire solidarity from workers else-
This means adopting work-sharing, nationalisation under workers control, and a refusal to seek
way out through Import controls.
Plessey is a big firm with muny plants in Britain as well as
Socialist Challenge supporters who have one in
are asked to ring Swindon 42967 so that the fight to save these jobs can he laken
very heart of this
Bilston steel
THE PROJECTED closure of Biston Steel works has roused
"We were so appalled wi didn't wait for meeting. We all walked out straight away.
APEX and TASS. two of the white-collar utions al the plant, told tbeir members not to cross the picket line that was immediately sct up. ASTMS, the supervisory staff union, refused to support the strikers.
John Gillan added: "ASTMS said they would go back in if they bad free access. In other words, if there's cough police to ger them in.
That's happened on Wednesday of ast week wher police confronted 200 pickets
become larger and larger
the local labour movement
Violence occurred wlien police attempted to Ibove a massive picket out of the way
The strikers are calline for more help on the picket lines, convinced that mass picketing is the bes way to win thei
local trade unionists to fury, reports DAVE ASHCROFT, delegate to Wolverhampto and Bilston Trades Council which organised a 4,000-strong
through the town on Monday.
Over the past two years there have been more than 7,000 redundancies in the WolverATTENTEn
A further 5,000 job losses are procee me neur are apart from the thousands that will be put out of work if the closure of the steet plant goes
Members of the transport, WBCCERS and Civil Service unions joined Monday's march, together with a large number of the Bilstoo steel WHEREIS
Atthe rally which followed a member of the Iron and Stee Trades Confederation execu tive called for support for the programe of action which had been distributed on the march by Socialist Challenge supporters.
It calls for an alternative plan for the steel industry, work sharing, a shorter wock and full nationalisation.
The programme aiso points to the importance of huilding
the industry to stop lay offs
Lucas plan on TV "We've always done it this way. haven't we?! is the title of two ITY programmes on the plun drawn up by Eucas Aerospact workers.
The fucts, on Tuesday, 19 September, 11.30pm, Then the debate, the following evening at the same time.
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Revolution...
What's so secret?
HOME NEWS
it's just the same.
youth, and It's out next week.
REDMOND O'NEILL.
it.
Why a
treat to our life and limhi
Campbell's defcoce is hin-
dered by the fact that the clares
New youth paper launched
is coming
*THE ANL isabout black people being oppressed and it's the same In Northern Ireland, the Irish being oppressed by the British. It's just people being oppressed — a different place, a different colour -
So says Rick, 16, ut school in Glasgow, writing in 'Revolution" No. 1. 'Revolution' is a new paper for
IMG youth organiser. talked to us aboot the first issue and what lies behind
school, on the dole queues, and even at work where the unions ofien sortof base themselves on the Tamily man" -3o women backs and youth are batically
Where does Revolution fit inio all thin? Temporary Hoerding. effectively keyed into the whole Lite pube army.
WILL SKAR ANE that icket of more ficiaL Secrets trial ot
ortially die c *i the way in which ecutiy vening of the jury has
invite who & known to
involvement in thes fronts:
There are already a number political youth groups in this country. Why a new one?
Basicalls
For, more precisdy, me he young people now fighting NUSS has You've and YeL. What about dee tar
organisation of the fat left nas At the moment Han very small ander ne won the confidence.
Tan og
could Sinted our
nsed they
culiar aspect of
Jor freedom DE unprea
saying the
On the esbtrary. raanisation would denaries nationani
Wast sallowing the
spoker of the LPYS
Live: So the pan was displayed at Brighton tAs
misting organisation. Not for
more general reason than
@would ocherwise be aried by corders-from-people-
le you thank this is realistic No in he this caustry of t The SWP Tave written to us
idea
would Over. multin reccartao squabbling students
tbink they are wrong turned
La united both Featy expand the audicnce of
and, indeed, Fiously contribute to over-
much of the unneces ling that takes place adult"_ left, o many of the challenge. importers of Rebel (ine new
the wing of the SWP agrer
Ethe les
be many
-Youth breally a Langue MOWITS
Or there will be a eling to paper, regularise its turned monibly, and iscuss it political hains Alier thai the feit will be to
Ginsbrating an idation, drawing in far latt etceips and, when -bole thingy really to establish an rand adopt was expected.
Crisis of
leadership
in NUS
CLOSE ON a million students are preparing for the new academic year.
They know that their school days weren't the happiest in their life, but few can believe that life in further and higher education will he any better, writes PAMELA HOLMES.
accommodation, library books, course closures. fees that are extortionate except for the wealthy - just a few of the problems facing most of those seeking a place in further or bigher cducation the
the past decade, have consistentiv their the means to organise around
But increasingly the NUS leadership, dominated by the and Communist Party students, has failed to meet this
filed to -lead campaigns against the closure of reacher training colleges. Live
of the purchasing power of the scudent grant, and
campaigos which. stu dents bave takeo up. lt is hardly surprising that
NUS members have Broad Left for a lead. Student swell the ranks of the Anti Novi
and the women' mosement. They participaled in the Trish prisoners mant in
But that does not mean that the majority of students have
away from TRAIN organisation; simply that they
postpone Involvement in the campaigas the crisis of leadership in the NES is resolved.
This question of leadership cannor be ignored, and the student movement may well have to face up to it sooner than L alike
MaShane's speech was to
have taken up the demand for a
Freedom of Information Act,
There is now a consensus to reject totally the Department of Education's proposis student union autonomy and financing.
But there is no consensus ou
basis which the Government's plan should be rejected,
The Broad Left argues, in elfect: 'Don't Oppose the run-down of teacher training places. We will use the colleg for something else'. We wil introduce new elemeels into the curriculum, don't Worry about leaving class sizer at an unacceptable level.'
This kind project. is excellent for gaining respecia OUR ATTIC OVERTREEL SHEI
self activity of students in their
APPARATUS
The alternative to tbis Shi the Socialist Students Allians puts Toryatd is for a initel politically and argun atonally student nonement which Sodependent the State apparatus and iS capable of campaigning defence of its interests
Students cannot win their battles alone For students, their alliance with workers is a practical necessity.
For the working class, this alliance poses the porsibility of having an ally in confronting the problems of unemploy. ment, of housing, of standard of living, of edscation, which lace both students and workers
fevered General Coite
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The bomber I knew
RELAND
UVF man jailed
murder of 15 civilians.
first met Robert Campb
the spring of 1971. Thad be put in touch with him by a friend in Sandy Row Protestant heartland of Bel-
The friend knew that 1 was trying to scratch a living as a troelance oumalsst and that l had soid him 1 would be
from the Ulster Volunteer
At the time, the official version was that the UVF didn't conventiona eidet of the
wisdom forces, dismissed the UIVF as no
Carholic paranoia:
MEMBER
Yet the UVF was quite easy to locate for any Journalist who bothered to make the effort, It was Robert Campbell who made the contact for me, and although he refused at first to be drawn on his association wuo me or ansanon, Dc was to confirm later that he too was a DICTECE ting in a pub jurr off Sandy Campbell arranged Row. The man who turned up was podgy, bespectacied, and about 50 year oid, From all appearances aicobolic.
He made extravagant claims SEOUTC ENC LEME TARSIaI to move into action to defen Uster'. The weapo n the UIVE horganiation steeghe He organisation's: strength. obsession was how *Protestant people' were being conspiced agaimst by all and
The onty problem with this mocting, from a news angle,
the incoherence. When Camphel again I explained this to him,
BOASTED
A day or two later Campbel phoned and told me to conte to the same pub later that dayThis time I took along an Observer reporter with whom ! was working at the time
bi mc umc we arr co E tee pub the bloke 1 had talked to in the first meeting was
ATELLY there, Sising beride bias was Campbell who thea admitted, or rather boasted, that he 100 was in the UVF. The pair of
WHAT'S LEFT
Tep bepot Dipi seturdey beton
Ipm Saturday belon SOCIR IE
London N1 2KP statin
chels to successtully right ihe Tor
ventry sekt your Tickes fos
cet Eltense Mid ands
lus move sa for 1. yesr sub. 12 -
нок прани вінн.
GEOFF BELL recalls his encounters with a Loyalist bomber who was jailed last week for 20 years for the
the
Loyalists marching through Ulster.
drunkenness.
Essentially the conversation was a repeat of the oor 1 had previousiy had. Sald Campbell The Protestant Tin Prot eite p ed Ce
execution the had drawn op, and how they
had of pub bravado.
But them Campbell turned to me said: "You're a aren't you?'
T explained in a bluster that 1 right have sympathies in that direction but that the meeting 11L7 was Journalislic endeavour.
DRUNKEN Then Campbell drunken leer and produced a revolver. "I could kill you in one fifth of a second, words The Observer man and I soo0 "made our excuses and left' Last week Robert Campbell was given 16 lerms of TO-DAY IN N.IRELAND._.
Winstaam Street, orders en regine. fe: Balla: 23038
Oxford E: Donatioa sroant y maa. ai
TOWER HAMLETS Socialist unisis
Led to his part in the bombing of Ihe Catholic Meciurk s bur in December 1971 — about nine months after my meeting with
God thes
ENCOUNTER
Although the stary of COUBEC!
inlo mate fally found its way into
the the irish Times, and although a
talk simiar stary also appenred in
Olserver, POUL COSSUEL 0 oE cascOunteon
and most of the media and the civil righter, TJEEE IDEELS
Indeed, when the bombing of McGurk's bar took place it was Te Times beadled TR%e
Tin s al
purcly explosion,
may have been IRA error* The myth was that the bomb had gone off in the bar while
gave destination. Not one scrap of
LULULE authenticate this story.
WOTe N Di the coatiary.
witness described hon ad seco bombers leave th - Barnb outside the pub and then drive on in a car with a Union
life Juck sticker.
rangementto collect CONNECTIONS: Brhain and Souther Arica — a ons day conference le
othern Africa, Bewate unser aparthei, the mied
Marchalir. Bal
netheid. se Teteri Am . Tal. 081-4347549.
BRES
Oste tarne
the British Army,
Army officers
culprits".
bombing,
former
lary wing of the RUC.
thought of by the RUC
British
buy equipment.
ILLEGAL
himself forward as a
camod
on the IRA, with him and his
the UVF
THE "HEMEL Gazette' has description beadlined the
that killed
organiser
20 Augast:
The paper
offered
after he had a young the
some 25 shung suitable s: or prene 2e7 2747 P85 :Spit
future Sponsored or ttp saph for
The law, being the RUC and
ignored this testimony. Instead, as the Irish Times has put it, 'right fromthe night of che explosion British
maintained the Provisional IRA had boen the
just bow much the Army and RUC really did know abour the
Certainiy both knew Rober Camphell, who himself was a
meuber
nfarous B Specials, the now disbanded all-Protestant auxi
More extraordinary was that at the time of the bombing Camphell owned and ran a gun shor. Joudon'! zet a licence lo September, run such ao establishment in Belfast uness you are very well
Also interesting is that the of the dus.
Anny often visited Camphell's shop, ostensibly 1o
IT CHETU
called a
Yet al the time Robert Campbel was willing to put
spokes Person ter ibe tegal Chor, and Heitin e peren oed rep arter in shww.
that, stretching credibilicy to suggest that the security forces did not
— the same security forces who attitude
Robert Campbell's murder of 15 innoceut drinkers
Terrorism Act
Trades Council
wants inquiry
Hempstead TITELLEE of forser national organiser of Provisional Sinn Fein as a terrorist Many
FRED CARPENTER. This Follows a
OTE HOMUNC picket ol the paper's offices on
used this description of Michae! Holden
been held for questioning at Heathcow under
prevention of Terrorism Act. The picket was only called at 10 pm the previous night, but
BLUHE •TALE- OLI
They included six member
ISLINGTON Campaion-against Racis/
Mri Bi Landon Egil min Cid S
ube) An olficini launching and a piar Sept. Auditiom asir
3GTO00C rUUD
defend
direct works responsibilit:
CO FO BONT 06
natm E Con 10 ech plu 10
Wonders ef 10 c Ant-Nedl League presen
rata Janny Theate Group I Pele
"Emigrantal Si. Hugh:
Willdmoor ABmpt-
THE ANNUAL Birminghum show, beld this rear on 1 = 3
was marked by a strong Britsh Army presence.
usual, recruitment public relnions were the orde
protest aguinst the British Army's involvement in
DHE LEIL EI United Troops Out Movement
picker the show. Members of UTOM alse lesfleted inside to put over to spectulors the real role of the Brilish Array as opposed to the glamoroas one portrayed at the
The picket at the gates was well received by the public as
t00k H-ALICES of the soldiers, Howerer, was characterised by sach remarks as "You've no chance', and, We'll get more
was of the local Labour Pary General Manapensent Committee and members of the SWP. IMG, and Anli Nazi League oniy
more would have supported the picket but for the
tion
Michael Holder
SOCIAUST PERFONMERS for pisve:
Defore 1
NO ELECTIONG bul trish sir-cgi
woman's
scur movemon. Woc. 27 S archai Theatre, Bruntaiaii, Ei
MUNAREB mou seriS sH
genial od Landon. Phane Ande:
SPEAKING OUT. A (Noman'a Hight 10 hoose speskers echnal.
pooled
usine PA Dysem and micaphones
chene Ins; handling
of you yet'
Inside the grounds the Arms displayed its Intest equipment. After OECUOM stalls, an allempt to debute with the solders about leland was stopped when two plainclethes policemen led away a UTOM member, physicall, waring him to leave immediately.
Oiher reactions from the soldiers- - especially officers HETE EIBERS AUCHE We'll get you next time in Ireland". anr, "We had a good day that dux when we shot 13
Despite these attitades the Ary LISDIN was opportunity to bring the true facts about what the Army are dolag in reland to the attention
pupis 4733 opportunity effectively taken by Birminghum UTOM
The most important ching
the labour response. The Hemel Hempstead branch of
-LUIL CANC technicians" union, ACTT, of which Michael is chairperson, passed a resolution calling on the Trades Concil to organise a labour movement inquiry into the workings of the PTA. A simular notion was also passed by the Apaley Mills chapel of ES DEE DON DOU
This CELSI results not
troID Michael's own record as a trade wod militant (he led a lone union recognition campaign a: Kodak), but also from the consistent long-rerm work done on Treland around
Concil:
of national initiatives such as The Labour Movement Delega-
to Treland and the International Tribunal, but has not relied on them exclusively. Il bas thus not been subject 1o so many tips and downs
shauld be a woman's right
Speakers kno, with
anion are actin det a ener unionsare camping doer
hartaale Pa Caledon an Rd, London NT.
Friends Wartm Euston Rd. Speakara: Emsé Robert Pasea Tand: Pacible Pataten Lorient Seile to LAF, PO Bae S0
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Bradford hits back
FIGHT THE IMM
Immigration Laws was launched.
We were horrified to learn of the conditions in which those awaiting. deportation were living: *Six to a cell of 13ft x Bf (think abour the size!). *They were not allowed to work. *They had no. recreational facilities. *They were kept in the cell 23 hours a *They were subjce in constant abuse. What did we do?
First we called a pubbe meeting, then we put pressure on the Home Secretary and MPs. We involved the Council and some local Labour Parties We contacted the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants to provide a qualified person to deal with these cases. Finally we organised a picket of Armley jail.
Resuli? Saed Rahman was released. Rut the bale or S or IN arners Ls uncertain. They have disappeared Why were they in jail:
Because ol the 1971 Immigration
Act divides people inso patrials and son patrials. l'atrials are chose people who are either born in the UK, or whose parents or grandparents were born here.
Socialist Challenge 14 September 1978 Page 8
THE ATTENTION of the Bradford Asian Youth Movement was drawn a few weeks ago to the plight of a local Asian trade unionist, Saed Rahman, who was in Armley jail awaiting deportation. Further Investigations established that there were 23 others in Armles, and the Campaign Against Deportations & Racist
This concept, milons or while citizens from immigration controls.
Simultaneously, thousands of black people who are British passport holders stateless through the concept of patriality.
ALL WHITE
Trades The justification for this Act was in reduce tle number of people who could come into this country. In fact that now they are all white, of course.
What does the 1971 Immigration Act mean in practice?
Virtually the only black allowed into this coonery perinanently are dependants.
Light. administrative arbitrary control. powers to investigate the most intimate details of poople's lives.
These
degrade Asian women, who often have to travel hundreds of miles from their home villages interviews.
hensible to the dependants. al a stroke, freed This Act means that wives
Commonwealth
this if it was your family? police
without trial. — 5/he can be held indefinitely -There is no appeal -There is no bail
riphts,
people
This group has come
and Dificials have out, they imply:
humiliate and whites.
which
Haywood. 1o Delhi for the Women and children are barassed. Officials can decide whether a child or wife is genuine on the basis of questions which are often incompre-
are separated from husbands, and children from their fathers, for long periods of time by force. Prould you put up with organisation.
beca widespread and arbitrary powers over the black coonunity. The police car search any black person's house fo so-called illegal immigrants'. A black person can be arressed and imprisoned
This is a complete reversal of the due
Flares.
DELES ON SE A CETHE DELLAH
passing he speaking. immigration laws, wore than any other single incident, has intensified racial
black people. Because white people can he allowed in while blacks must be kept
Goldberg.
*Somchow blacks are inferior to
Bradford 8.
ANTI-RACIST NEWS
BRITISH IMMIGRATION
themselves a few weeks ago.
liner and arrested 16 Indian
strike against low wages. They y
prison. The ensuing protests u
release. The seamen were fin
owner and their air fares paid to
The incident highlights once
made of the racist immigratio
How the
THE DEIENTION of the 16 Indian | clicit information. séamen resulted in an official protest from the Indian government. It also saw a long report on BBC TV news, Office, which expluined the arbitrary charucter of the Immigration Acts.
The intigration laws are increasing ly being used to harass black people.
hardly surprising since Scotland Hard lins a secialle-created legal Immigration Squad under the
INFORMATION
The squad works with police officers from every cation in the Metropolitan area, whose main task is to supply One does not need too strong an imagination to grasp how these officers the econo tie to reis county.
economic ills of
None of this is true, but if the State
says this, theo no wonder racism is
bercasm; no wonder the National
Frost is growing more bold; and no
wonder that black people are dying is
the East End of Landon because o
racismi. These laws must be changed
Support the actions below and pas
support.
Affiliate to the cam
FUTURE ACTIVITIES
Saturday. 23 September. A national
jails where deportees are being held will
be picketed. We shall picket Armley
Saturday 21 October, The Asian Youll
Movement has called a demonstration
3n begorord des racie Ba
Sunday, & October. A public meeting
will be held in Bradford on the question
of Immipration Controls. Tariy Ali will
Further details ure available from:
Campain Against Deportations &
Racist leumigration
14 Southgate, Bradford
Tel. 305927, Or from the Asian Youth
Movement, c/o 1 Marlborough Road,
In a recent meeting with Brynmor John, Labour's office boy at the Home
the Joint Counci for the Welfare of Immigrants stated thar of 172 recent cases, the majority were victiens of raids, random questioning and arrests on the streets
There have been round-ups of Asans, who have been asked to produce their passports.
JCWE following Instances of the way in which the Act i used. It is in fact the only way in which such an Act can be used: *In a dawn raid in Plumstcad, SE London, Asian Tamilies were woken up by seven police officers demanding to sce their passports. After their MP complained und an investigation wit
Why TAILS AJU department, the Asians roceived an
I KEEP TELL
WE ARE TH
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They are a major weapon used to harass, detain, and deport black people. They institutionalise racism in
COLIN TALBOT spells out what is going on in Britain because of the Immigration Acts; anti-racist activists in Bradford discuss their new campaign against deportations; and DAVE WAX reports on the-
GRATION LAWS
OFFICIALS excelled
hey boarded a Greek
amen, who were on
ere sent to Pentonville
timately secured their
illy paid by the ship
India.
again the use which is
I laws.
For these small
Callaghan, many thanks!
* Kwame Akin Seve reported burglary to the police who came to investigate. following
they tumed up apain. This time they
sinister. They had come hack to arrest
pregnant. When Kwame went to the
police station to report her mussing, he
was arrested for "overstaying"-
*George Ezcabor was stopped for-a
minor traffic offence. He was not
charged, bur he was asked to produce his passport. Although Ezcabor was
accepted as a refugee from Nigeria, his wille was charged with overstaying
Tower Bridue magrates recommend
Eresbor was later found not guilty at VG YOU... MASTER-RACE
law works
the Inner London Crown Count of | 0 "barbouting" his wife. was worried al the decision of a magistrates deportation for a non-criminal offence day when they had no legal right to do so.
Hundreds of similar examples can be got froen different parts of the country. What they reveal is not just a problem of administering the immigration laws. but the fact that the Acts are themselves
the question of racism.
would continue lo do so.
Great staff, sn't I?
Moral declamations are soothing but have nil impact.
unfortunately a fact that the TUC burcaucrats are much more bostile to racism than shop-floor
There have been namicrous instances of shop. foor racism in recent months, and there are many cxamples of racism within the labour movement generally. How many full-time black officials are there in the Transport Unice or the Engineering Union? How being groomed for officialdom?
To pose the question is to answer it. for the compared to the mambers of black workers there are in unions. On these questions nothing was said at the TUC EREY WETE LOCCIOSC LO HEPTAG
Bill Keys made the most militant speech. He called for a fighback and urged peopie to back the Anti Nazi League. On this, too, the TUC ducked ine queston. une patrorm rerusou Lo allow discussion of a motion calling on
to back the ANL.
Keys, chairperson of the TUC's race
Jodge Garfiti are racist to the core.
recommend campaign unknown prisoners Siste-nonsord racial orerudice
long-term fight against racism.
...and
the TUC
THE TUC GENERAL COUNCIL distributed a statement on racism to delegates in Brighton last week. It was much the same as their statements in previous years, offering a profound insight on
It was evil and had to be fought. The TUC were fighting it and
relations committer Yet it immigration and many are building a multi-racial society To me it lestimising the opportunism when
specch.
mobilise their foot
subject In that sense,
except by moral exhortation.
this country. They must be fought against.
racism debate at last week's TUC.
last
a vicious attack on black people. They
Among the Yorkshire necessary to demand their repeal and to Scargill,
behall SCENTS Duffy from the • the victims of campaien launched in Bradford is an important development which must be supported by all those interested in a
firebombed
house in
was children.
been destroyed.
Stevenson populution. wend
denounce the Tories for exploiting thie
issue. He was also the only one lo
mention the Select Committee report
which was drafted jointly by Tory and
Labour MPs (including our old friend
'T was appalled at this report which relations, bat caly with immigratin. concern isell
Keys declared. It was a report directed
not towards
document of the
politics of race," he continued. "It was
in so many ways a racist document.'
But Keys' speech was, after all, only a
The matility of the TUC generals to
soldiers against
racism on the streets tells us much more
about the real problems we confront than even the best speoches on the
once again, the
brothers (and a few sisters) had no plan
Bill Keys
Defending the Wolverhampton 4
Dave hampton anti-racists took a new turn
Campaigners took their case to the TUC and lobbied Jelegates. They were shown the dossic
the defence committee virtually delegates approached signed the appeal
signatories are Birch and Terry
signalories will enable the campaign to take a tremendous leap forward in the
The case of the Wolverhampion 4 has now been published in almost every
agenda SON WEET MOOIS WATAM have published reports appealing for Ayrshire blacks
ON MONDAY 4 September a council
Stesenson. Aveshire was firebombed, In the boese at the time
three The Fegans are originally frun St. Helens. They ore hlack.
Fortunately sone of the Fegans were hurt, But their living room has been guted. Furniture and certains huve Mrs Fegan told the press trat ber Family had heen subjected to a long compaige of verbal shuse by whites. She is convinced the bombing in part of thut same campaige.
has large Orange Aveslint beconte noterious for the activities of its local regularly arrested there. The National Front has just introduced members into the Glasgow area from London. Some of them have been attempting photograph people visiting left wing bookshops in the city.
Knowing all this we can feel sore the
curse up with Tine words Trut no action
hombing of the Fegans is not an isolated
MARTIN O'LEARY
ANL without elections
Al THE nacional conference of the Anti Nazi League in July, the focling was that an October cloction was definite. As a resuit there was Do forward planning for any nctions after Seplember, writes DAVID JONES.
Speaking from the foor, Tariq Ali c ma ce acera connue make some provisional arrangement in
suggested that in tbe event of
League should besiege the Labour PaTty conterence soc br ts breste insert the struggle agajose racism on the
Ar the satie time, Al argued, it should organise an nati-Nazi camp ar
with the help constituency parties which arc attiliated to the League
The Labour Parry conference begin
ater Carnival 2 on 24 Se hereti
in Blackpool sbortly
which will make a major mobilsation somewhat difficult. Bar the ANE seering cominee should definitcly CONSIOCI Is supporters in the North for a presence tu ne conciere NF Football THE NATIONAL Front has entered * football team in a local Sunday league In Tameside whose match was bicheten on 3 September by a few anti-fascists
They were nn received well ns ch Front supporters, One wus attacked and suffered minor injuries.
Last Sunday, over 5i anti-fascist delayed the start of the game, which eventually continued police protection. Al one stage during the
struck une of the pickets in the face. ве ресе uro not icene
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Vietnam digs in
Popular Unity and the solidarity movement
Vietnamese stone Chinese Troops on borde
RADIO HANOL has
and the Cambodian and Chinese borders.
reports. parties.
The Chilean defcat had a profound effect on European
Millions of people understood that the coun was a tremendous defeat for socialism.
Even if they still believed in the possibility of a peaceful road to socialism, they realised that what had happened in Chile could happen in any country,
They realised that the longer the junta survived, the more encouragenient it would give their own bosses. And so they
movement which has become part of theit tradition, deeply rooled in their organisations.
Their ranks were swelled by the tide of refugees from Latin America now, at nearly two million, the largest emigration since the Jewish migration of the 1930s. And they began to ponder and absorh the lessons of the delent.
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IITERNATIONAL
broadcast an insurrection against the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. At the same time Peking has accused Vietnamese
the Indecins confiet is hushing forse The
The Indochina conflict is thus getting worse. Vietnamese army is now involved on three fronts: Laos
This is taking an inevitable toll on the ambitious objectives laid down by the Vietnamese leadership to consolidate the victory of 1975. PIERRE ROUSSET IN THE second of three articles, JOHN BALL discusses the evolution of the solidarity movement in relation to developments in the Chilean political
- But the lessons were too bard to take for the Communist
It was their great hope, the Wang proDE ai their strategy They could not afford to admit that their strategy had failed.
They threw themselves into solidarity, wanted ampossime roma wanied prove
international solidarity could defcar reaction without the nood for revolutionary action.
Their whole Ideology organisation have then learning any lessons from the detcal.
Instead, they have lined up with the manoeuvres of the Popular Unity (UP) deals with the Christian Democrats conspired to lay the basis for
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The consequences of what is already a state of semi-war are
the budget is one problem. The eradia susbeston and then abrupt termination of Chinese aid puts a question mark against development projects. of these are economy: the modernisation of the Mao Khe coal mines, the extension of the Thai Nguyen steel plant, the construction of a bridge over the Red River.
Hanoi, The departure of 160,000 Hoas for China also has serious implications, as Chinese labour is traditionally more skilled. For example, the Hoas of appeai 10 North Vietnam made up 60 per
cent of the workforce in the conl mines,
and play at eritini dule i
the port of Haiphong.
Vietnam is heavily dependent CHI CORE TOF BC PrOQOCHOD DE BE domestic energy. Not only that EDAE industry, is a vital export sector the coup, and the attempt tr isolate or smush up dissenting ОВІЯНИИ How has this affected the Chile Solidarity which has played a quiet ber crucial Tole British workers to the dangers of the line of their own leaders,
WESUTELRCKUL The CSC is now strongly CHEDISACU. the
that the and federal in its structures,
WIth I strona rooted the committees
EXILES The CP has not sewn up the tradition, campaign. It has not commit-hureaueraric ted it openly to support the stopped UP's manoeuvres, Instead, it
hides behind the mask of the exile community As long democratic policies of the UP Icaders, parties conceal. very amongst Chilean workers. the WnO can maintain the fiction that al
Chileans support the LIP.
This was made very clear al tbe Chile Toca]
where there was interiode repons" on Chile were giver Cone matise of the National The Dis was Christie, who had been allowed no Chile. bad sas development was heartening and amportant But large chunks of his repor!" were a highly slanted account of the growib of perican frille wich ment of mention of the Movement the Revolutionary Left (MIR). the Co-ordinadora meribers of Parly), the MAPL (a Christian party which went over to tbe
Effects of 'semi-war strike home
The
Cambodi
about again.
Some The
vital for the supposed 1o
tied up on the borders. vital.
dominate opportunists In spite of the
LEIL China Important leaders Chilean poopic Campaige, In reply to
awakening into contact with
which has The phrase Britain'
Mans indenend has excluded all
voices from its ranks The CAFC
patronising 75 Chilean revolurionaries
of Alan Christie's Visit!
to the
anti- wise monkeys.
the dissent happens in
For
about DINESE. struggle a farcical
which three campaign.
Strong from up direct links with Students, Alan
Much of what
about the SUUUNTICE of the struggle Shetfield working class.
bas docu
Lie either
(former
the Socialist
scel: by conunitices that is needed.
of economic zones" has had to be functions. abandoned in the nrens close to
Many of the and
200,000 soldiers demobilised i 1975 in order to work in the fields have now been called up
which was turn its energie towards production and the creation of an infrastructure, is
security 'OPPORTUNISTS' hierarchy,
The objectives of the second Five Year Plan will therefore most probably not be achieved. Yet they were considered to he the
асссістате.
Political tensions are also apparent. The press recently called for a struegle against
previous successcs of its policy towards minorities, Hanoi clearly fear: Peking's overtures towards the Montagnard population, which originally came from Southern
of the Vietnamese Communist Party restart such as Tay and Nung have usta (Trotskyists) - after which he passed off the views of the UP as the 'views of the
questions. h
explained that he had oot cons
the other
Britain had made no arrange
Chileans in Chilean Anti-Fascist Committee, which
opposition
speaker came third. He topped a boring and
speech with an insulting attack on the very
who had been so neatly carved but
!! Pedro Coracjo of the CUT (Chilean trade union federation) had not lent some dignity
procodings with account of the new trade union co-ordination, we would have been better off with the thrce
Of course, if this is whar
ал activist conference, you can imagine what public meetings are like.
the same reason, rbe leadership is extremely war
bringing Chileans ir kind af relation with the base of the
independent committees like Sheffield bave sei
огдал15aD00s in Chile. and havi concentrated on trade union boycott and labour movemen
actions in the
But the campaign leadership
liste to help this.
Instead it has concentrated on
loansumier baycolt' tactica or prestige sours of big name speakers, which are fed in through the network of Chilean Burcaucrars in Europe and are
local
NEXT WEEK: The sappor
been deprived of most of their
So have generals Chu Van-tang. Le Hieh Mai
Le Quang-ba. leaders of the VCP thoughtto be close to the Chinese, notably
of the Central Committee, have met with the
It is a time of reinforcement of the control of the party over all spheres of activity. And, one fears, of the organs of political
and military
In a very difficult economic and social situation, marked by a general shortage of basic products, the burcaucratisation
only And that is one thing Vietnam does not need! hardly astonishing that Wet these conditions namese diplomacy hat evolved
and mod WOWNTES TCHISE
The Vietnamese leadership's room for manocuvre, already limited in 1975, has been furtber reduood.
Vietnam has found integration into Comecon unavoid. able, since only the latter can
mumber of The the development projects aban- | leadership
CHILE
Five years later
CHILE
| doned hy Peking
All the conditions for the 'normalisation of relations with the USA - notably the payment of three million dollars in war reparations — have been set aside by Handi, which now finds itself in the position of supplicant.
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam. fearing diplomatic isolation, is multiplying
states Association oF South-Enst Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Indochina is a powderkeg. The Sino-Soviet and Sino-Yielnamese contlicts have become major factors in the world and TELL SION TO BE EL benelit of imperialism and the neo-colonial dictatorships
DIFFICULT
Ar for the Vietnamese revolution, il is today guing through one of the difficult periods of its history
large LUIS responsibility for this rests with
policy of the Chinese
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Death to the Shah
Save Argentinian revolutionaries
months, A. HAMZEH reports.
armed troops COBBO-LCD tanks have occupied all CLUNY S MEOT citie
curlew has been LOSCE AnO CLOCHES. more than two people banned
Hundreds of people have been killed by the troops, and a humber of prominent oppositionists have been rounded up by the army.
A life and deash struggle has
the outoome of which is by no BEDES CETARYCE
Much will depend on how well the Shah's army sands the new strains it faces at lenst one officer has already been sAlso crucel teil be the
Also crucial will reaction of the radical wing of the Moslem clergy, towards wuch masses increasingly looked for leaders hie recent appotntment of a
ecociliation" by the Shah and renewed promiscs of refoems did nothing to solve: TC BOTTRA RONs
Oer the contrary, the masses
ie zhin apparenr climb-down: N INTERNATIONAL cani-
in being waged for
cople arrested in Bruzil on 23
T at a meeting of the societ Convergence group vise trave so far been
indong those still heid are
Argentimian revoletionaneX: Hono bressuno (Den-ansr Nahiel Moreno), a leader of the PST (Socialist Workers Party): und Rita Strasherg, = militant in the same party.
If Bressano and Strasherg are extradited to Argentina their dearb is pery likety. Over 50 PST members hase
INTERNATIONAL
IN A BRUTAL attempt to crush the growiig f mas opposition the Shah has placed Tebran an eleven other iranian cilles under martiai law for s0c
numbers of heavily by the regime an
by -themsches. and their action accordangly. 7 Appeali by bourgeois opposition troups and the moderate wing of the Moslem clergy for the masses te pc pancar ano gire une nch government a chance had no CLICEL CILELE.
VIOLENT The Moslem clergy called for demonstrations throughout the country Monday September, a religious holiday marking the end of the month of Ramadan. The response was
Even the government-con trolled press in tran adalitted that mote than three million
tions throughout the country. bave For the first tinté the centre of the mans struggle moved ronn the provancial Ciss to1h capital, chran, whete mon than haif a million people are
carly
Alter clashe 22 and the casie dui in Jall by the Videla ng Shar the heale Jone dey te Torer te grant Bresim Strasberg the right tor lave to the countr, nf their chpice
In Portugal, 60. depes from all purties have so signed an uppeat demondin the release ol Bressano Strasberg as well as thai ef a Portuguese socialist, Antonio Su Leal arrested at the same
Masses rise against dictatorship
One reels chantine death To
various
demonstrators chanting "brother soldiers, why do you kill
"Democracy had to he saved' vd hy 12
somunit Party. And the
Bave also taken up the case.
WHIRE DETAC IELE YELE DA
in the wid
Bot there
political
-CORTH KTH
but stas ar unnoosary bloodshed".
nings or
the Shah.
:TRIUMPH
to stop them.
on the MAS ha appeal tor lais Socialist deputic
ecretary of the seD0 da senes,
Austria
TEULI September.
Icader Ayatollah Khomenh weidespread calli: Far she alese were
prisanert and democratie rights. Significantly Large numbers of women took part in the demonstrations.
A call was made theo for a Demonstration previous day. general strike on 7 September. The government responded by putung a pan on demonstra tions. The 'moderate' religious leaders backed down and called on the masses to go on strike
home i avold the capital,
No oue took any notice of cither the government's war- soldiers"
the advice of the religious lenders, Hundreds of possibly thousands of poople came onto thousand the streets of Tehran once tore on 7 September in ansother nEstve sauw ot oppositon to trucklosdi
hospital;
The regime did not carry, cur its threats, making no attempts
Asthe demonstrations ended late in the evening theewar a mood of trungh. Mari poopd felt that they had niready the struggle agins the Shat
They almos felt thu
apededfor mobilisation besll woekers an student organeniuns -n re
la Britain, Soo.: everytbl mast be done tn schiese th
and in pariculir to
aare Bressana and Strasherg
country of their choice. Plesse
to:
Braillian Esbasy, 32 Grees
the Embassy will also be held at
Mandat.
and But mieri. bf the working class d Tehran last Friday
Whea the deidgostrarors TCL ATOC OSE HUNSEHCU shots into the crand and a violent clush developed which rapidly spread io other paris of
Throughout the day there were bloody clashe between unarmed demonstrator; and
on the. streets of Tebran. Sereral hundred and
more. than OnC demonstrators are believed ta have been killed.
Ereaitnesses reported seeing
of bodies being taken away or coo drow and HEGO BRESSAND
IN BRIEF
FRANCE: The Communis Parly (PCF) has brought out a book, The OSSR and Lis, which inclides • for the rehabilitation of both Bukharin
Trotsky, described incouhtedly representatives of important CUTTE K U the
Much ot the blame for the
previous pro-Sovicr sance is shoved onta torine general ,secrelary Maurice
(conveniently dead). IRECY
PCF dissident Jean Elleinslein has the leaderslp on the spot by demanding the rehabilitation also of leaders expelled hy the PCF in the past
Winter incide Ron Garuudy: whose exclusion in April 1970 look place well atter the death of Thorez and at a tabe wben che present genera
Georges Marchais was alrendy in. control of the
FRANCE: The PCF must also be embarrassed by what has happened the smint! bourgeois parles it paraded as Millies of the working class' at thetime of the March elections
The lender of the Leit
HovenienL, Robert
tromD ETSAUI Gifcand d'Estaing to apt as hig
UNCTPI Although the -Radicals tay thar Fabre has exchided finself by this action be will has his parliameotary scof- won with PCF votes -and others muy follow him
Mean whit, progressive
Dominique PCF witlidrew its candidate before
says that he is soeking an with the
were of 'national
ST GERMANY: Six Jour alars of a paper in Cottbus have reportedly been arrested En printing a spoech by head of taie Erich Honecker extolling Jac goverpment's efforts advance the cause of working nupe m derend Socinir
added ac the cad. "lo doue so it has falled and will also faill in
PERU: Several people were billed-when five thousand mitters abd theit Jamulies were Tarcibly ericted from University lase week hy police
and armoured vehicies
The miners and their families hut marched to Lina alghheh the rutinitwide strike6 45,000 stiers to wib the relbentemcot oF, 320 militants fred aftee previous strikes
Tapase ar the
ELK Bas issacd Statement by the movement slowaki Tid iaine of three dissidents.
harter ya representatives Prazue: UNHC EU nake contact wich Western
STELOEL CAI Matement, KOR and Charter 77 #greed io leip cach other last
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15,16&17 September. The dates MARXIST SYMPOSIUM
OPEN FORUM
Day One
Friday 15 September Registration Plenary Session: Bourgeois Democracy and Socialist Revolution Presentations: Nices Pouluntras
Workshops Presentations: Nicos Poolantzn Marsism and the National Question — Michael Leny LEONE'S TOUCS
Day Two
Saturday 16 September Pienary Session:
The English Bourgeois Revolution Presentation: Perry Anderson Workshops minules.
36 - Paddington, Victoria; 21
HOW TO GET TO
THE SYMPOSIUM
GOLDSMITH'S COLLEGE IS ON LEWISHAM WAY LONDON SE14
The easiest way to get to Goldsmith's College for those coming from out of London is to travel to New Cross Station (either Metropolitan line, or British Rail from Charing Cross, Waterloo East, or London Bridge). On coming out of the Station cross over New Cross Rood und go down Amersham Roud. Take the first right down Parkfield and Goldsmith's College is directly in front of you.
Total walking time from New Cross Station is less than 5 minutes, There are trains every 10 minutes from Charing Cross to New Cross. Time of train journey is 15
Goldsmith's College is also on the following hus routes from main line rail stations:
to remember for the second
9.15AM - 9.454 M
10AM - 1.15PM Plenary Session;
2PM-5PM
Plenary Session:
Ernest Mandel
Crecher Trained childmin
10AM-1PM Cost: t5 for all three days
2PM -5PM London Bridge: 171 — Waterloo.
Cles Analysis and Political Stralegy — Rubin Blackhern Com arn untile to speak! Nell Williamson The Women'+ Movement and Socialism — Fal Conless Revolutionaries and the Labour Party — Julian Alkinson
Day Three
Sunday 17 September
The Party and the Women's Movement Presentations: Sheila Rumbotham
Joan Smith (SP)
Eurocommunism 2PM.SPM
Venue: Goldsmith's College
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"Holocaust
others
they.'
writes DAVID BEER.
The other side of the story is the lies of present-day Nazis and their allies, who revelling in the glorious past of the Third Reich find it expodient to question the truth
the acoounts of Nazi atrocities.
The true story of fascisms in power seems to have been lost on those in Britain and even Germany who are beginning to TE DISCO ISSUE HIVERS and tactics which brought Hitler's National Socialists to power.
A popular version of the major TV networks throughou Iroadcan the world Etimey
Holocaust strong weak on historical fact, positively misleoding in some of its central contentions. Yet, American dards - recally American ones harrowing account and devanas mack on Hu record
Many critics have observed Fat because if focuses on the that the programme was fate of the Jews, What about the socialists, trade unionists, sypsies, homosexuals others, they ask? Dida't the also suffer under the Nazis?
Of course they did, Holocaust acknowledges this, albeit fleetingly. But its main concern was to explain why one third of the world's Jewish
Cauchtered and how the Jews reacted to
This has its merits, but there is a strong implication in the programme that the Nazis' rise
UNDER REVIEW
Slipping from
memory: the
six million and
A WOMAN interviewed on a local radio station about her reactions to the American television series Holocaust" said: '1 thought that it was a bit one-sided. I mean, they didn't give the other point of view, did
This extraordinary comment on a fictionalised account of the decimation of European Jewry gives an indication of why the programme was made. In less than half a century, the memory of one of the most terrible crimes in history is becoming distinctly vague,
power and popularity can be explained by while anti-Semitism. It accepts the Zionist myth that tism is somehow non-Jewish societies
nobilise bostility Jews has discovered the key lo power.
This misconception is combined with a reluctance accept that Jewish resistance to Nazism rectived Tram Gentiles. While it is true for example, that the bulk o the Polish and
comrades, Holocaust ignores the fact that the closest cooperation which developed was and between the Communist rexance and fellow Communists Indeed, the instances Jewish resistance depicted In
He got a Mate any die progranune
the Lodz Ghetto uprising so it appears, learn the folly of their non-Zionist past.
Yet mention that the leadership of and the Jewish fighters came not only from the Zionist groups mainly the left wing ones and also from the Bund Jewish socialistss, the communists and others.
the armed variety the resistance of those who, under the most circumscances, found ways of observing Jewish ritual. Others, like Emmanual Ringelhaum, MEDULL Berts Weiss Rosemary Harris) and ber hushand Josef (Fritz Weavert after their arrival in Auschwitz
man and the fictional son of the Weiss Family showed resistance by keeping a record for posterity of Nazi crimes Ringelbaum kept a metica lous mary and Crossman. a great risk, took photographs of all aspects of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Weiss, like his real-life counterparts. made dais of life in the concentration
Others burying bodies committed the Dumbers tattooed on the victims" armsto memory and wrote them down, record in the ground. None of subsequent this, however, makes for good
television. within days of the screening anti-Semi- of Holocaust in the United inherent ir earlier this
and that Israel lobhy was despatching
letters to influential people in against the Washinglon
demonstrates Israel's nood and desire for socurity; an attempt to make propaganda out of the to greate a the stupidity of programme
assistance ant Zionists who dismiss the
sufferings of European Jewry as a factor in the current Middle Ukrainian East conflict.
The shadow of the holocaust i very real for many sraelis and other Jews
and friends, They recall that This insuedy octurted desins 3 Jewish background of almost univer-
of strongly in the programme — and conclude that sac Jews can show only rely on themselves for
their own survival.
The Palestinians, who have suffered the destruction of the Tal al Zaatar refugee camp
fails to secution
seeming indifference of the rest of the world to their fate, might be forgiven for dismissing the - but Jewish preoccupation with the holocaust as parancia or cheap propaganda, The fact is that Nazi crimes There was against the Jews are a factor in
the conflict between Israel and
difficult the Palestinians, and it is too
glib and uncoonsarily offen-
religious sive to equale Israeli behaviour
that of
Gross- CEROSIS
for responsible
ignored.
burying their The
ensured the Jewish people.
the Jewish: learn the crucial arguing that it Nazism.
secured another
thousand year Reich
who cannot horrors of the
in Beirut, per-
and LAC first episode
Nazis. comes down
with this world".
Her
destruction. believe the
frightened
There,? he
ONLY
anti-Semitic altucks
buildings.
attacks property.
firmly on the side of Zionist viewsabout the future of world Jewry. The hero is soen heading
tragedy of the Jewiah people is
Jews are still being killed
creation of an exclusive Jewish state has not
security et the Even borders stretching from Damascus to the Suez Canal will not do thal
Fi a terrible irony that Teaders have eatin to JUST
The security and well-being
The freckles' the
As long seein
SCCHI heing achieved at the expense of the Palestinians, it will remain as much of a dream as Hitler's
After the
broadcast
believes ...a suicide activist
Adams
SOON AFTER watching the
Holocaust.
Funny Gedull, un 8l-year-old Jewish woman, killed herself. Panay, who lived in St Annes, and have a Lanes, left a note saying she 'wanted nothing more to de
Hector told the Daily Mail: "She hated homas leatleting
She could terrible things (politicians) people did to other people.
mother also pration, that the same situation would happen again
added She was terrified of the rise of the duces any National Front - Justlast week views, we had leaflets from them.
...attacks
HOURS after the showing of the final episode of Holocaust last week, Manchester was the seene of s number of
Jewish communul buildings, newspapers und u smugogue were the targets. Windows were broken and anti-Semitie slo-
were daubed
This is the latest in a series of
on local Jewish
Rodi Weiss (Joseph Bottoms) and Helena Slomova (Tovah Feldshuh) witness destruction of Kles
Cosmopolitan
Rhapsodising
a racist
ABOUT everyone Is sexy Cosmopolitan magazine.
Woodbridge — *stunning grey eyes and a dusting of
whose physical attributes, background, and racist views are rhapsodised in this month's issue, writes GEOFFREY SHERIDAN article headlined "What's a nice
the political spectrum which extends as far left as Communist Party member Sue Slipman.
The writer, Sally Adams,
in the personal approach, and to judge by her
of National Front Rocky Woodhridge would have found Hitler's companion Eva Braun quite irresistible
Sample: "Her idea of a good day is to get together those she loses, all ber favourite people affection a party. PRoces
says Rocky.
And suchlike drive
After describing how tiring it is to attend meetings and go out
Woodbridee spews oul the NF line: 'I think the
are betraying Brtain by encouraging immi-
COCOUraging the breakdown of our race, our culture, our morals ele
cricicist of these
editor Deirdre MeSharry is concerned to defend the article
We ate a magazine with an enormous circulation and we would have had millions of lesters complaining if we hadn'l included the From,' MeSharry
PICKET 'COSMOPOLITAN' RACISM
No uncritical coreruge of the NE!
Picker 12.30 - 2pm. Friday 15 Seprember Chestergate House, Vauxhall Bridge Rd., London SWI (mins from Victoria tune)
Called by Fieet St Against the Nazis and the Campaign Against Racism in the Media
according This includes Rocky
homely -I think they are betraying Britain by encouraging immigration, encouraging the breakdown of our race, our culture, our morals."
Some people have been outraged course Im delighted that they are, I don't like the NF, but we not in the business of prototing anyone's policies.
Did she think that the way the article was written helped to reinforce fascist views making them respectable? Woodbridge according to ou very normal, reporter, Was she familiar with the NUl's code of conduct, which instructs journalists
courages discrimination? 'Yet, but you're not going to tell me my magazine. If you have a view we it be happy to publish it. I'm not going to indulge in schoolbow conversation. Mic Sharry concluded, samming NUn code is likely. Readers complaint under the who might care to let cbc magazine know tbeir view should contac: Cosmopolitan at: Chestergate House. VauxRoad, SW1. Tel: 01-834 2331 If you write to the editor send a copy to the NUI father of the chapel, David Coombs. at the same address.
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Edwardes threatens mass sackings
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Alf Fleming -
fighter for left
unity
Thursday at the age of 59, was
union militant in Manchester writes VICKY ANDERSON.
was an Engincering member years, and was chairperson of the branch which started Hugh Scanton on the road to union president,
From 1946-52, Alf was in the Communist Party, but he could see the growth of Stalinise in the parry and internationaily:
Recently he worked in the Health Service, where he was a
FOR THE second time this quarter, the monies sent in to our fund drive amount to less than 6100 in a week.
has reached E1537.17, so we have
weeks.
In the final four weeks of last quarter well over that amount arrived in our offices. and we are confident readers will make the sume effort this time.
Bath supporters have roade a number of suggestions about how we can reach the target. At 4 Name
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Leyland workers face lockout
WHOLESALE SACKINGS at Leyland is the latest idea dreamt up by management to frighten off support for the 32 toolroom workers at SU Carburettors,
On Tuesday night, a crucial meeting was taking place in Birmingham over the SU toolmakers affair. ALF FLEMING, who died last | shop steward and came into
contact with Trotskyism for the first time. He became an active fighter for unity of and Socialist Unity, Sadly, he was isolated from his contemporaries and felt acutely his dolestic, financial and political problems. When these becamie too much to bear, he took his own life.
For nearly 40 years, in spite of Stalinism and the Cold War, All Blenting remained untar tingly convinced of the need to fight for socialism.
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the Walcot Festival rocently organised by Bath The sed a Socialist Chullenge stall now complete with displays articles, front pages paper 0n00020500l Many badges, phiers and T-shirts were sold, and new supporters of the paper's policies discovered.
Bath supporters have also produced a book of Subversive Verse'. The H2 poems and songs included have been drawn from a variety of socialist sources — Domestic: 6 months, £5; 12 months, £10 Abroad: Airmail, £16.50. Surface, £10 per annum. I enclose a donation for the Fighting Fund of
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After leaving the disciplin AUEW burcaucracy. management in the shape of Michaci Edwardes has: entered the fray anil threatene WROCE muckings other toolroom throughout the aid of WorkcIs In a workers Edwarder has threa
the lent. beer rusting
toolroom throughout the toi cost the company EstEr That can be contrasted with the 13,000 it would cost them to meet the claim of the SU workers for parity — a claim to which management agreed in principle four years ago, Edwardes" sackings is a further example of Tactic ALEW leadership to break the
about a quailer ol thcar trom t
Arts Socialist Challenge
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The book is 30p comrades tell us that the 50 they of the have sold already
production coss. The remain books, pam- ing 200 they have printed wil
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If you want to give a small donation to the paper, here's a good way to do it book of Subversive Verse at th same time.
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witekirs do not
of the AUEW
around
media on Britstr
threats of mass with his
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PECTERTY Ken Cure, though hardly original ploy last weel
sinister elements Involved in this dispute,' said
Union and management are determined to pay any price to smash the type of shop-floor rebellion which the toolmakers
win, The ability of the union leadership to "police" its metabers will be
This BUCHIN would be a particular blow for the new right-wing leadership
The craven enthuniasm of
Cades cup to act as public as officers for Leyland ent was illustrated al
Butly pro declaine stracks" try time
What he meant hy this isth "continual attacks' on Leyland management. As Cure showed
talk of *sinister elements", the AUEW burcaucracy is quite happy to fuei attacks on Leyland workers
Court, Oldfield Park, Bath,
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