Socialist Press no. 198

DEFY TORY COURTS!

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League ited to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee Even while TUC leaders fiddled with their speeches for their half-hearted Day of Action, the High Court ruling against the print unions calling strike action on that day underlined once again the need for an all-out mobilisation to bring down this Tory government. Yet instead of defying the Courts and redoubling the fight for action defend union PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report rights, the union leaders allowed themselves

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an orchestrated and 14 stoppigethand thus minimise the scale of the May on the anti-Tory struggle. Forging ahead There must be no mistake: Thatcher forging ahead on all fronts with vernment is cooranialea onensive agamst •he unlonear everysever While James Prior's Employ- ment Bill, containing a battery passed through Parliament, Tory udges and employers have been combining to create a body of prectaculs tion, designed hamstring asic union activity. shopfloor level awardes British Leyland management have spearheaded an offensive designed to outflank, ana trade union bodies and the shop stewards movement in order to full- conditions vivale jobs working conditions. 'Tories implementing this attack employers and the conamue to rev on ane cowar- dice and, collaboration of the trade union leaders, and their

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scale action by their member- ship. But with workers in every industrv ing the their jobs, threat to living. standards and basic rights that is posed by the polcies of

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gover men. Union bureaucrats themselves under pressure stand firm aralist suci allacks. So while NGA and SOGAT leaders climbed down at once circulars before last week s court munc stressing that the May. 14 stop- right wing leadership affair was rejected as unaccar was tedly defiant stand, refusing to able by both the employers and the High Court: pronounced illegal by the court, stake and thereby theoretically risking une even tall for contempt. political strike. This latest Precedent follows Court 1977 cec ared it It seems unlikely that either the UPW to black mail to South the government or the manage- Africa solidarity ment of Express Newspapers, struggle against apartheid who brought the original court

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will Grunwick une case such a level of confrontation.

arity with the And it seems certain that no Fleet Street will 'he NU papers produced on Mav 14-court or appeal no court. the Inal Ils seven week pay strike Griffiths unions have against provincial employers can mier aneroers was out on a political strikę against government cannot be disciplined for strike amly established as a precedent breaking. • aw. None of the four unions the i even going to appeal against Reg Fall was barred by a court Their offer to issue new

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DEFEND THE

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STRIKE!

Prior's old firm United Biscuits members to seek solidarity from fellow lorry drivers purely voluntary And the NGA was last year fined a savage £80,000 damages the for blacking firms issue that contin the anti- was to declare it agains!

ued to aovertise to call for - union Nottingham Evening Post.

The sa W legal precedent renewed allelly!

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rulings Denning to strengthen the body unar illegal for of precedent making solidarity action illegal, when he ordered with ISTC to withdraw its strik call to workers in private steel

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post to the strike-bound firms. management in solid- Combined attacks is next month to House of Lords full-scale conronaor 1979 court ruling was only avoided by an almost immediate decision by the House Lords called illegally venune s tung-out the 1orj therefore Employment Bill now contains Scabs illegalise most forms of solidarity action, 1e or 1979 TEN Miam as well as mass picketing.

thus com- ine ones bining economic attacks on the working class-cuts, closures, * are seeking action to runaway inflation-with attacks U12 designed to prevent the likeli- split and divide the resistance.

hood of united class action to the tracks. As Prior Thatcher's anti-union Scottish strategy differs therefore that Heath government in that it does not union us revolve around the imposition do of one comprehensive Industrial Relations Act ment 100% against the Rather they are setting out ative governmen toi create the legal basis for flux. They are unions to be picked off one by their future. one weaken the closed stop as to allout efforts at we want." strikebreaking: Prio! *establish the satanise :: secret balkis se ina: bima easily manipulated he Tories: employers and the mass media favour of tha: *whip up a climate of witch ment within the TUC is whether hunt m wach mintants can a some show of opposition shoul vers rimby . union e made leaders the defensive May 14 4 leader at a time when their members

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WOMEN

and the fight for leadership Pages 5, 6, 7, 8

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NAP - THE

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CRIMINAL

RAPE OF

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NEWSPAPERS

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NATSOPA workers on the march in defence of jobs at the Times last year Prior defend

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leader ackson in they utilise the : obvious should simov the towel and wait for the next weaklesses or ine leadersaiD ol the working class to demoralise, election answer is that both positions 'Foolhardy' extremely dangerous: basic cynically told union rights. lobs social services and living standards are under 1 ones last weekend. l would be foolhardy simply to an attack unprecedented since pass a barrage of draconian anti- the They wal Call detended through the defeat of so would unite the this government whole of the trade union move.

This calls for united class Conser- action -a general strike to bring and to create cown natcher. conditions to drive out the anti- 1lc smols ae ma stare d divided about working class leaders of the While the division Labour Party. is going on there is the possibil.

week's High Court judgement declares such Ily or change, and unal is wna general strike illegal n it is opposed by union eventi bureaucrats and Labourites =b #cul This is at some leadership must bi cal: mobilise and lead such a struggle workers interest in one-off protests like through the fight for a workers' government and planned whether. 1K e Chapple and socialist economy.

CARTER UNLEASHES US

Stalinist spending cuts

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NO

DRAFT

NO

WAR DRAFT

Described last week by one President" couch don "banana skin because of his tendency to fall over whichever way he goes, Jimmy Carter faces a grim situation at home and abroad. Internationally his neither sabre rattling, his noI cata- strophic actual intervention, nor armed wheedling diplomatic overtures have succeeded in their purpose subduing contaming 280l mounting struggles Middle in the East, Central the

HINCHCE

CaroDean But at home Carter has been driven by the runaway econom- CrISIS uncasn a malor recession in lection year.

The recession has been long expected-and longed DaLKCIS

SOCCU RIOTS

Wine had impatiently demanded that • Carter take such firm working class action to restore stability the dollar reauce soaring interest rates and curb the first signs of the apparent the pecame preter market o joy: stock boomed gloomy faces even amongst the American began cutting their slump in the car industry us bankers lending and the dollar gained in strength. Larys et But of lost $400 million course not evervone celebrating-there were was quarter of tnis year- can survive cutback in public Gierek. Stalinist boss of Poland expenditure on all fronts, The efforts of the 5% less jobs by the end of bureaucracy to balance its shaky 1981, 10% reductions in the Cconomic DooKs. of supply equipment and The failure "socialist stationery to administra- chronic. tions and 20% parking cracy nas unsuccess uv tred to spaces workplaces, reductions Torce freeze on advertising expen- living standards in order to force the diture, office working modernisa- Class tion and a cutback in street- oureaucrane orvilege. spending, the vast cost of main- lighting. taining a huge repressive appar- That is the list not of axe- alls woman Thatcher but of axeman inability A combination of the demand (50% of Fiat cars are world-wide crisis of the exported) and claims to need to motor industry and the Cul Is SOCKs Dy suuuu cars defensive manoeuvres of the the ferocity of hard-pressed Italian capital- economic ists produced a sensational Late attack on workers in Fiat that the lay-offs are meant -BL style-to soften last week. The motor giant, ing negotiations on a new wage jointly owned by Italian capital contract. Gaddafy's The allu government workforce Libya, announced that 78.000 regards the management's action workers (out of 114,000) would provocave be put on short time throughout great pressure on the unions to the months of June and Julv call action against Fiat.

The management blames this The move on a drop in world-wide Francesco

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NO OR NO

WAR

Growing opposition to Carter's war moves

RECESSION

Choke dr thes together with those the other two maior Us car giants, Ford and General Motors, now nearly 300,000-onc carworker The impact of this is begin- ning to in other indus- tries and the major Lal- producine centres Detroit-'motor city'-is fast becoming ghost town. new steel orders have taller

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mut over _a montn- heralding a new orund of lay- brun us steel industry. the crisis. 1 MU ine nousing industry appcars to be the worst 1930s, and consumer spending appears o nave talen profound implica-

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tions for wide sections of US Carter industry. • one banker Dointed ou don't know who they'll The be, , but there are other Chryslers out there. Hakes brings. mccasingy douora i une une sumD problems for some employers, corporation-which first hard times for the American working class methods to develop the full are of productive pullilal •ine Polish Stalinist Jorces. Several times the leaders have tried to inflict such attacks of the Polish by sharp increases in prices.

planned economy" time have

BUT

eaco they done so, the hostite reaction of lor years the bureau- the especially masses, workers' workers' 1976, made this impossible. They have been forced to retreat ignomin- Da y defence iously. Upturned hands And they have retreated into conscouences of bureaucratic the the imperialist arms. of Mass lay-offs at Fiat regards the situation as an emer and emergency nOTO There can be no doubt of meeting with national union the leaders. objective Christian Democrat crisis facing Fiat-bui 11t Party is clearly alarmed by the possible effects such a dramatic WUlA all works Class attack Illay nave On its chances in the country-wide local elections which take place on June 8-and certainly on the outcome of which almost certainly depends the future of putting Cossiga's shaky centre-left anal government. The credibility of the Chris.

of tian coali- has been further under- Loss ga clearly tion Unemployment shot up by a throughout the USA. A staggerne ozou in the sinale recent month March-rising from 6.2% Since this is only squeeze cial the first stage in Carter's decision une recession lu can be expected that unemploy- ment in the US will rise to at least 9-10 million • Iransport subsidies New Orders are falling, stocks of unsold goods ing and unused materials are rising alas and the average working week is on une Daytol New grid: into low gear. to lose But Carter is doing his best press forward the added to to recession with $677 million for the year.

Packart government spending cuts that will have a dramatic impact on halls: US cities ane. Federal food Austerity most poverty-stricken In hard-pressed Detroit the US working class administration planning but unere these 11o culback in the city work• even force-including the sacking of 700 policemen the money inflation VUl Dallerl acar une Luo malk cuts is echoed austeriv and bankers who have, through private or price rises. banks anc …the poured billions of dollars int nds 10 billion upturned the zlatys Polish bureaucrats million) and involves the loss of Poland now owes $7 billior

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and its debt servicing this year regime's estimates. of its export Though the will take over 50% earnings. the job cuts will happen through With the capitalists becoming tighter-fisted, the they will bureaucracy is forced to unemployment try massive public spending cuts already numerous signs of oper they hope, will mass opposition produce the needed cuts bureaucracy workers living standards in a less grow. limited to petit-bourgeois social continuing minancial scandals leading misfits. concerning Christian Democrats and by factory tne lalue or ene recent wave ol

WOIKETS

arrests of Red Brigade members housewives. to halt their assassinations.

being seized in assembly line at Fiat The arrests followed the revelations of Patrizio Peci who driven to support the tactics of collapsed under police interro the and gation wrote 60-pag condemnation class collaboration of the italian the structure, members and safe trade unions and houses of Red Brigades in also of the Italian left Although authority of tendencies to offer any effective the document is onen to doubt road for mass it has exploded the myth that Italian capitalism's for the Red Brigades is support against the working class.

A field full of unsold Cadillacs some consolation. in launchin these attacks on workers in elec tion year he knows full well that Ronald Reagan-is unable to put forward more alternative And with the evident failure survey showed 75 of Edward Kennedi con out of IOu cities tacing a finan more than a small percentage of result Democratic voters that he offers to $1.7 any to cal caucase to care billion from the Federal revenue on basic issues, the President has , $625 million off been able weather every , and further disaster so far and emerge as top sums off job creation and train dog in the primary elections.

schemes which keep thous oi municipal emplovee. Sigh of relief York city alone stand: million in Federal But while bourgeois leaders a result of these cuts- breathe sigh relief existme aene ol still willing are Carter's axe is not restricted out and support one 3l.T bylion isom fuel subsidies • parties that effectively slashing Capitals monopolise US political life there are increasing signs of the million from the alienation of workers and youth stamps scheme- both of which benefit exclusive- enlar massive astenken the -many of whom make up oppressed and elections layers of the particular Carter's Cold War offensive and preparations is little sign thai military adventure: draconian attacks will have any impact on the US world scale have drawn forth growing anti-war movement • rate-currently running beginning on the : campuses, but rapidly reaching into the unions Carter however, can draw challenge before nov US workers build and politically the move ment-to show links between carters war drive an the requirements of US capital ism at home and abroad Labour Party On this basis the campaign must be stepped up to force the noticeable way than wage cuts unions to break from the capitalist parties-Republican The plan involves a cut of and Democrat-anc commit (about resources at to defend unel Labour Party even on the the independent interests of the working class. bureaucracy says Within such a party revolu- tionaries would fight for a pro natural wastage it is clear that democratic gramme create significant demands designed Lansiona. mobilise workers in the And that implies that the struggle for workers govern- ment and the establishment of a the Polish economy planned the USA The majority arrested were with one worker raid on the Brigades is a decisive Lot only Stalinists but failure of the main

COUNS

action against Reagan • allack.

S. AFRICAN YOUTH STRUGGLE

-BAROMETER OF THE MASSES

SOCIALIST PRESS. Wednesdas 14 Mar 1980

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'"We don't want no educ- ation; we don't thought control". These are the well known of by the rloyd whose sale last week was bannea by soutn Alrica s racist regime. This bit of thought control was one tne more panicky responses of the regime to a new South Africa's oppressed masses over the last well over 100,000 predom- inantly 'coloured' working class youth, have been rallying round hke vown will racisi and ecucanon Don t lorce us out of school to supply cheap labour for capitalism' Unarmed They have boycotted classes colleges schools, and sues Enrougnout south nirca. and the western Cape particular than four years after

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• The thousands of students were gunned down by black youth poice. again pushed to the fore OnCe the struggle against the apartheid capitalist state.

the current Moreover have already demon- struggles strated that the Soweto events contained the the class struggles Southern Africa, The of the youth reflects and gains strength from une oucconn: undeteated black proletaria or the post street thee e post-Soweto lull (See SP 184). partial recent struggles have "'erupted with increasing inten- sity around demands relating to The everyday materlal neeas ol particular strikes, developed around chronic shortage and exhorbit- massive alll increase in toe once or transoort essential foodstuffs; and material in workplaces and Corns The working class youth in South Africa are, in the objec- "the barometer of the degree of political awakening masses" (Trotsky). Pressures minersed Tine through their parents and social milieu, the youth alc HUSt sensitive to all the oressures and frustrations wracking the class as a whole. The base of society not ing •at tne invariably find their initial expression amongst the youth.

Denne Impetuous. Jacking both the experience and conser- vatism their and desiring above all a i better future Lucisives une you-lo Annual per capita expenditure (Rands) African 55 185 Coloured 236 Asian White 551 Soweto 1976 and whom the future belongs geographically, youth the heralds of the class battles workers in struggle spontaneous- Iv began to assert a pronounced that must obow present struggles the political and organisa- seve tional independence. impetus received yuuul turned immediatel and The on v TOrCe Initial demands even the most partial struggle-their worker parents. From the initial demands for The great DUltical free text books, the abolition of Soweto tor the vorte was une realisation from their so unorms and or wavest: struggle gation into the appalling mater- own experience In schools, anel WorKel teachers they had initially castigated for being "backward'-actually caucaln, te aemanas quickly extended to include the sacking embodied revolutionary of teachers politically hostile to strength to shake the system to its foundations.

une mas ol The volEn. reinstatement sympathetic increases for teachers and the teachers, Fighting unity abolition of racist education.

When workers stayed at home Parallel with these, develop-

LWU

nauonwide powershed which the youth vis unity which grew out of the struggle expanded to include teachers student-parent then isolated and hence vulner.

represen- able to vicious repression-were from Tatives schools. clearly objectively 'coloured' university, and colleges in the whole of Cape generate alone. ine carrying inrougn of tnis i own area. crucial lesson of Soweto was At the same time, an youth is by the towns cities way numerous which politically throughout South Africa began advanced layers youth immediately to demonstrate station of the posed the need to turn to the manifestation working class. Talis! cuucalion with a meeting of system. Begin nir! worker parents and youth from Inate, feare of above aul cise one school in Cape Town, where state, fearing above the the latent a sluucht parcal committee was suchen or une work up their which the youth estaousnee take ing class trom grievances struggle rapidly struggle had burst conceded the gathered momentum the demands students its scope politic- and dismissed a principal. issued ally free text books and promised broadening Teacher-pupil Compulsory Professionally ratio education age qualified teachers 2.2% 1:47.6 10 1:29.6 12 3.7% 1:26.2 15 18.2% 1:19.6 %. 16 95.0% (1 Rand = £0.55) The an immediate investigation into boycott now involves the material conditions 100,000 over youtn spread schools. throughout the country. addition the It has been strengthened by the wide-ranging levels of solid suenain or une movement. mEo recognising the student repres built ut alit Whal Ilave occl amongst councils which had arouna it-particularly community based worker organ up in the course of the sprung isations Strugge The degree of political and Sensing both the initiative they had won and the level of organisational independence forged in the heat o struggle control they had asserted temporarily removed the concessions. milante looked for further ways of

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manoeuvre developing the struggles.

petty-bourgeoisie who have either dragged in the wake From sit-ins and meetings. occasional school and street already demonstrations the youth, with exposed as traitors extent of control widespread support of thei Ine worker parents and teachers, assertea by yourn in struggle the now threatened draws its strength 1 tom complete revolutionary the appetite school boycott in support of their demands. working class which has simul Within days thousands of taneously starved the petty school and students bourgeoisie of a compromising college the role throughou country were boycotting classes. The state is forced to reckon with this objective balance of In the Cape class forces. Ine. paro the Cote me oned On the defensive, it is com- 'ommittee bining and se rectivi arrests comprising 240 delegates attacks on open demonstrations 61 schools representing 60,000 with diplomatic overtures to the striking youth ursalsalion which Declaring that their educa- emerged from the struggle itself.

tion is been the conca controlon has mobilised the part of the state designed to of workers sureneun ana voult train people cheap which has forced the conces market" labour the sions already won from the Those need to bi slale calls democratic non-racial system consonicates ano extenced education compulsory The boycott tactic has thus* for all teacherouted abolition far served pay a central weapon Cooured around which mobilisation and Affairs Department ana unt oreansanion nave been lorgec denial security The crucial advance made access police to schools. has been in the assertion of a Total enrolment Total population in schools matric 18,629,000 156,045 (11%) 3,493 (0.2%) 2,434, 000 106787 (15%) 6,329 (2.6%) 746,000 58,152 (27%) 4,980 (2.6%) 4,320,000 344,302 (37%) 53,157 (5.6%) Page 3 level of control by youth and worker parents over schools and education is in th develop of that control that the men This demands the organisa tional forms, tactic and political leadership throug which working class youth move forward from the boyco: towards the parents contro With worker control over and education- over buildings syllabus, training and Isources Ine use or tner own skıll!

towards thi goal confronted merelv by the strength of th tunists reformism of the Stalinists and petty bourgeois nationalists.

Popular frontism-which working class away reliance moependenl strengin and struggle for its -and guerrillaism- which adds to that the remova day to day strants for the struggles working class-are both poten tally aisastrous obstacles to the development of working class revolution who Il. Is trotskyists alone starting from the real conditions and day to › day struggles of the clas. •Can transitional perspective and pro- capable carrying througn Dal Lid struggles umniciruptedy to thi only solution which secures the workers-the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Total enrolment in Matric passes No figures 3,233 (0.25%) 3,630 (2.3%) 47,121 (5.1%)

Import controls: the growing unholy alliance If you won't fight the must wind employers, you willy-nilly alliance up with them. in particuary lae cast when crisis-ridden capitalist class is on the offensive through- closing down fac- oul muustly Tories. speeaing up oroducuor and throwing tens of thousands of workers on the dole. Raucous of As Thatcher's policies slump and confrontation Шакс themselves increasingly Britain, and united clamour both from

MOST

employers and from trade union and Labour controls to protec of import and "British" maustlies "British" jobs at the expense of has firmly nailed put before the Its coours to me mast ol miDort resolution to be controls, giving over space in its Party's Special 'onfernece on journal to chauvinist union Mav s warca cecares unal.

BL "We are determined not to au. verts Drouuccu management and adopting a 10- allow manufactured imports to programme for industrial point to destroy our maus centred on a call for tries and jobs." 'left' The blend of se ecave mort controls. Cand A wide range of other unions four selected right -from the right wing-led ISTC for SOCaKCIS through to Special ane lexit terence _ 229a the Benn, Heffer and Lestor-epit- 210 Furniture Trades union FTAT omises the essential unity of the have also taken up this call, with refogmist current economic crisis. com bales nationalist slogans. control question the retormISts Total ban themselves in the same camp as the Stalinists of the : Communist Labour NEC has , one hand. and a The gone rarty on ta growing list desperate further than most, calling for a employers on the'other. total ban on imports of finished firms in textiles, Britain by 1982, and cars footwear, cutlery, steps impose a verware and fibres man-made minimum

CONECE

Cal Told have headed a growing pack oi while the NEC vote on weak or bankrupt employers split 10-6, calling Tories to pull La pol leadership left was back a little from their policy of anu driving the weakest to the wall right wing alıke-1s around the call for import and to offer them a little special contained within the protection. COnLOIS

PRESS

GANG

As early as April 16 the When Len Murray and Express had warned the TUC called their Day of "We hope will not be Action nearly six months necessary for this newspaper to take the initiative in upholding back it must have seemed a the rule of law" nice safe diversion from the Victor Matthews owner- struggles of the working ship the Express has become much sharper mouthpicce class. The TUC has obviously been bourgeoisie. sensitIve taken aback by ferocity its Empire past). ine lorica walch

•STTIKE

was nO! Inevitable called, and a half hearted series if take it or leave it circulars Once the injunction was sought its outcome was inevit- were sent our able. ror Fleet street it was no question of witch-hunts The Express declared 'Now just a you are free to work' and said: as usual. The one section of the work.

"The trade leader. must make an effort to adjust advance-to on May the new political themselves to Fleet Street print this Was countly. workers. business has to learn to sve wille The Daily Express was there- the Labour the fore able to go well beyond the unions must to live with trade the savart allacks ne Collservative. front page UnIONS lis pages winere ne sui leas labelled May 14 Day of Shame) with the headlines wutside the by taking the print unions to rules judge' and widened Coult BL management, too; even while ahead with their forging the Honda dea so car, ma do imports to imports from Spain and Eastern Europe Majority Within the CBI as a whole a clear majority has emerged l favour of some form of import controls. The debate has shifted of how to a discussion ranging such controls should be.

One school of thought, headed by the : Cambridge Dep artment of Applied Economics calls tor broad-basee control -or high tariffs on imports-as of spurring on expan- sion in British ms. But a prime difficulty for is the fact that such a strategy vear's 131 billor manufactured imports, some £23 consisted of such machinery, goods anil engines, enemeena ents, industrial instruments and implications of the case bevond the question of the union circul- According Sun: une Workers who do go on strike Bread of contract or sued sacked for With the full force of law in their attache on ers topped up . But attacks embarassingly for the • press the courts denvereo anorner rung on the very same day as Mr Justice Griffiths pronounced on the day of action. Denning

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ruled unal Granada TV had to reveal its of material of the leak from the British Steel Corpor allon The Observer amongst other ruling was not reversed then the law would have to be defied.

When courts attack the rights of the working noiltical class they when attack they rights which sections allect • O1 the bourgeoisie also, then that is by no means so certain.

-IMPORTS

NO which will eliminate jobs by the materials-without which British manufacturing industry thousand. woule face a major crisis! Not one section or tne trade prepared Labo challenership is The alternative line-peddled challenge more or less expncity by many ore parcu 'lefts' is to call for central argumen useu oy lic controls to capitalists to specific, temporary througr these attacks: industry provide a period of convalesc "viable" ence for ailing industries suffer (1.e

HUSI

maut profitable) at the expense of the ing Thatcher's surgery. idea would be to give workforce The TUC leaders start out these firms a period of guaran instead from the perspective of teed home market sues to maves their new cut • back the winning labour force Come assam he are te passionately devoted new working conditions suffic- preserving the system's health.

increase Tall flourishing exploitation on the shop floor.

ITOR

spokesman profitable industry, John Silkin, straddled they argue, can workers hope for concessions in terms of wage both strategies when he arguec at a TGWU one-day conference improved Mic cases dhil for a system of general controls ditions. manufactured Yet the world-wide econom- goods. Such a system he argued ic crisis of the capitalist system, 'would industry which alla particula modernise space orcatill. brilish capitalsm underines the fact that such a vision is a dangerous pipe-dream leads in practice to the abandon- In other words, import ment or any struege for the independent not interests the controls really seen working class employers In opposing the demand for reformist leaders as a means of saving jobs: they are seen as a import controls the workers Socialist League argues not for British Illeall placell. old capitalist ideal of free the employers wnue Ine) new equipment and techniques trade. ratner we are opposer

NAC MUST REJECT

'SEPARATIST' MOVE

After the success of the the fact that abortion is also a John campaign against Corrie's anti-abortion Bill, money the National Abortion Cam- clinic it abortion wa paign is trying to set its own made can't lllegal and who house in order and work out afford private medicine if an just what its attitude to the NHS hospital won't take them).

womens liberation move- abortion rights are an example ment and the labour move- of both sexual of oppression ment should be. women ana or une generansed ence on any 17018 incides a attacks on the working class.

17-18 includes a The question is how to figh for free on deman abortion discussion of the question of women's autonomy and separa- da a womans cal to cados tismine aholl abortion -and 'all tne liberation other issues that affect her.

womens The liberation movement argues that abortion womens and cale in dre some movemenl sets mOVE that only women can under- Towards the race ns a the labour movement as a com stand. principle promise. of the They go on from this to demand . thạt womet should organise campaigns on But the fact remains that with abortion jobs, as the abortion issue-regardless oi adequate maternity their politics. This only excludes grants and leave, nealln care and the free NHS-all the things women need to have any choice • they live-the abortion restrictions, but also way implies that the sole reason why Tient can on be wager caccess abortion is restricted is becaus fully through the mobilisation of the organised labour move- hold most positions of men power. This leads them to neglect Consciousness raising groups

MEAN

MORE

FARE

forth notion that interest, "common interest British ant worker British employers. To defend jobs, we spell out a clear programme for indepen dent working class action.

* Vo redundancies: For work loss of sharing without pa of electe the unue. contol Trade union committeer *No closures: occupy threat- ened factories; fight for support ing strikes and blacking action!

Open the books *vo to the "vablty argu ment. Open the books of the their suppers, dustroitors ane bankers to erec ted trade union committees! Expose the anarchy of capitalist •rocucuon bascu Drival profit! *For the nationalisation of basic industry: Build mass action and councis of action to bring down the Tory govern ment! Kick out the Callaghan Healey leadership of the Labow farty: ror a workers govern ment. works: Create new workers' management. have been important to songe about issues to talk nke sexism or rape. But when it comes to fight- for democratic rights and ing welfare services in the face of a vicious Tory government, only campaigns with the organised labour strength of the HOve will get ment to back inem, anywhere If NAC is going to rule out working with the trade union.

and reject any involvement of who support tones put up an antl-abortior Bill or when NHS abortions become more restricted even because of the cuts. 1ne nignt ment or without Derous • 10] abortion rights should therefore reject the dangerous argument: of the womens liberation move ment anu comont la but not insoluble problems o mobilising the labour movement in conflict with its bureaucratic government already hell-

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bent on destroying existing hard won rights of women.

THE FIGHT FOR

REVOLUTIONARY

In 1977 the Workers Socialist League adopted a basic document Perspectives for Work Amongst Women'. It defined the basic In particular it focussed on the fact that women's rights can only be won and defended in a political conflict with the reformist trade union leadership and the Labour leaders-then engaged in the wage-cutting Callaghan government. It pointed to "The exclusion of women from political life not only deprives the working class of a potential ally from its own ranks, but also strengthens the position of the bureaucracy, who are allowed to turn their backs on the mass of the oppressed."

"The question of work among women is not an optional extra ... It is of decisive importance in the struggle to resolve the It examined the question of rising unemployment among women, the attitude of the labour bureaucracy to the struggles of women, and the false responses to such questions from the Women's Liberation Movement and the Communist Party.

And it laid down key elements of programme as the basis for a turn to work amongst women, and for the formation of the This foundation has laid the basis for a consistent development of the WS's work amongst women which last year saw the successful launching of the bi-monthly paper Woman Worker as a means of broadening and strengthening our contacts amongst 4th Annual Conference last month carried a further document, examining some of the practical lessons of the struggles in which our comrades have been active in the struggle against women's oppression, and developing further in the light SOCIALIST PRESS, Medresis it Mr: 1950

GRUNWICK STRIK

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A profound social and political crisis is wracking the countries in the imper- ialist orbit. As international capitalism, facing a crisis of profitability, intensifies Its attempts to drive up rate of exploitation, women first the to receive the blows of inten- sified oppression. The oppressed and MOSt weakly organised sections of the working class suffer the austerity 11011 geois governments. Nor any accidental development. Now is the time when Lne Capitalst class. order carry through its rationalisation and speed-up The WSL needs weaken to and

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class, and direct reactionary appeal to each to act an individual worker here. aanst me micrests or me cas: as a whole. and anti-communist witch hunts and victimisations acmonsuate Pressure is being brought to tion of bear to bolster up the bourgeois social unit of capitalism, and the from the capitalist mass media central institution and the family at home, and to minimise the which women. youth and gays are oppressed. UnIon Every possible division workers-or the the working class-racial, sexual tax and political-is consciously expense services: the offer to sell counci bourgeoisie, as immigration laws houses at knock-down prices in

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tasks of Trotskyists in the struggle against women's oppression.

the central role of the bourgeois family unit in the oppression of women and stressed that: This understanding meant that, for the WSL: • crisis of leadership with the working class.

WSL Women's Commission. working class women both in the labour movement and in the home.

of practical experience, the programme and perspectives on which we base that order to take them out of the public sector -or the attempt to clearly slackman suriKes Dack lo

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Whether it be the introduc- by slashing social security bene- postal ballots into the fits for their families; the Tories designed to put worker: time and again demonstrate how pressure central LINe divisive role of the individual family unit to their anti-working influence of trade blass sulalty Nor are the Tories alone in promise of bastion of class rule and sexuas buttress cuts Indeed their slashed programme of cuts stands on the shoulders of those initiated by the Labour leaders. out such domestic toil Yet These cuts in every instance vallarilal to rorce womer our fencers actual docusser out of the workforce and back a major plank of their ill-fated into but also the home

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Ly DoCula duties on the individual family party the unit through the withdrawal of services and health social oi the 1ol e cal • ana cutbacks l nurseries, child care, education have gone ever and youth facilities suggested tasks fall back on the mother s These home, home with their allu cruciany shoulders of the wife/mothe

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say no osait_ fight. We reprint a shortened version of it carried The need for this ideologica traditionally offensive on the question of the family has its material roots in and the of capitalism. Campaign on The capitalist system, even to have beer nenetier at une gents or the bost u Some boom itself unable to offer an alternative to along Liotal lalty rital and state to to offer any organised means of at lifting burden child care children as ar offer full employment even to

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LO ThE The union for all Hewith But CUTs!! PHOTOS: Androw Wiard Report. Mark Rusher, Ian Mackintosh, IFL the restricted number of women ing cuts; the struggle to create able to seek work outside the maleral conditions lor l home. burden comesti Now the labour from the shoulders of gathering world recession throwing individual capitalist all require the production mo staton • Lurn to tne ouru- industries are decune a. revolutionary socialist being driven to the leadership in the working class- Lill pach which women must play their workers by Livasall alc driven oul ol ment collapsing firms and slashed public services. the slight- Far from offering est hope of eventually liberating women from the of the confines The method of work among home. Cavitallst Clas women ana tne ineoretical basIs forced to seek means for driving to it, in the WSL, i is based non thousands of women out of the oppression organised labour movement, and class analysis We recognise oi simultaneous v women's liberation and persona family unit as the target for the aberation by most reactionary propaganda.

achieved caoltansmo throw the Stalinist bureau- cracies and th will planned that women's oppression. the same time, we recog- NIst tral will create the material conditions that make the eman- cipation of women a possibility process means TA10 by The that both justifies and intensites women's oopression much older than capitalism and will less communists lead a will live after its over- conscious campaign to stamp 1l out. Thatcher In a planned economy it will which con- possible provide It is become fronts all facilities IK- communal work done by supercede Tne numbers which large of women's domestic labour, with women now in trade unions, high-quality cheap dining and important layers of Halls au audres as well as a comprehensive free childcare unorganised women the home, emerging in struggles to provision. defend jobs and wages, against impact of the housing crisis, or simply seeking a means of resist- ing the whole battery of Tory Workers' and consumers' anacks—can ano must be crawn into the struggle for revolution- control or caucaton will be an leadership in the working important factor in combatting the conditioning of children class into gender stereotypes Every serious demand now However, there is no guaran- raised by women in the struggle their oppression must against lee inat une economy will be planned to relieve the burden of them into bring women in this way, the official labour bureaucracy.

The demands and aspirations 4110 consciousnes. among communist leaders of the work- always been •I women nave ing class that these facilities are neglected by leaders, a priority. who have based themselves on Our task mobilise Ine mOSI conservat ve ano privileged layers of the workers' working class radicalised petty-bourgeois women behind Now these demands are cast of the Fourth the programme enure y Dure Cras determined if necessary to sacri- we nave to bulld a mass fice the interests of the whole conna fist rome of travement with a working Class tilall inaependent mass ana aemocialk acmanas action for the overthrow of the convey women to The crisis iden get in deeme necessity of overthrowing lism in order to pave the wa jobs, struggle to stop the Tory spend- Our programme for women

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have apolsted . what could for argument showing that , clearly than me- quality. alongside supporters The bourgeois extend democratic struggle to rights. our methods are revolu• We do not rely on protests, lobbies and letter-writing but on mass action working within the bureaucracy's hod of fighting ghts the the working class. choose what ane fo any) because lt challenges whole ideology that The

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sistently demand. e of the posed by unreal n an even We greater Have 11211l 101 our movement-in particular our where we have sponsored TO1901 free ab this 10L( tne • movement entirely that While om munist Party Internationa supported Marxist Group. cos with union bureaucrats, we direct our work against these traitors.

This we demonstrated for cibly at the NAC conlerence my o. where the NAC platform uncritically pres enter Alan Fisher as i defende of women's rights. At th time of this conference. Fisher and the rest of

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bureaucracy were working over- time to stall action on the pay claim of their low-paid, mostly female, membership We fight to build the pro movement, and work abortIon within NAC as part of this aim However, we do not tailor

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but fight for our programme, convinced that the fight for abortion rights must be against inked wit capitalism. We try to broaden the cam- ' paign for abortion rights, recog nising that a woman's right to choose' whether have children is not simply a matter SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 14 May 198

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labour movement, we also take raise slogan of NAC the specific oppressior Irish women suffer at the hand Tree a born aemand - Dr.USI that the two are religious bigotry and abs for ten donace equivalent. tion and part of the fight for separatior of church and state and a social- ist united treland cuts. emphasis should be family ГОІ planning and day care place on the pugnt or lemale workers' republican prisoners who suffer for the additional torture of sexual tne Nao. of the AHas avuse. profiteering the needs of women. unt age abor- The Development of Womar Worker develorment of the W$L's work Corresponan among recognised by the women's com- educational misson man tere was a neco to actually into practice I methods' for this work 'special important work previous Bolshevik practice. unemployment stressed that having among school special women's paper Was neither a sign of condescension for young take the 'easy' . Out nor of capitulation to feminism We felt that if in the WS w comrades and talk of the double oppression of orientation attempt to have women we shone towards women, and find means of tackling the wa in vehich ter does from of to 1 which a woman, both in her employ- This is of ment and in her traditional rol in the family and home. the Tne wence and for demo means of drawing women to cratic control • schools and Marxism. As Zetkin states, Edu- Callul Doctorat wome for the class struggle precisely will be the chief task of Die turning Gleicheit. ine strategic role or woman crimination Worker is to draw women tow ards the • revolutionary party, to industry lay the basis organisin i ne unIon wome Communis with appalling conditions for women's movement under the direction of the WSL -including strike and agreements context of links the everyday these struggles of women against their to young the need to overthrow capital- women. ism It draws women into the fight for commulusin, donesiu cass an0 benin the banner and programme of the Fourth International We As the SYL develops and have to direct our pape nor that ass monite craws in more voung workers the fight for equal union rights nising that majority for youth and equal opportunit- working class women even those with paid jobs, are outside Io. wollen become increasingly important.

the or must more meat. An important area of our must aim reach

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HE the home women isolated in who remain under the influence bourgeois lacology. anad target of counter-revolutionary propaganda. Our purpose is a paper that not onlv takes up issues which specifically oppress women, but will make crucial link, make that such W011101 issues as the closures of BL and stee and the have a direct and crucial relevance to them. shown, the AS nave struggle to remove capitalism is question of numbers, a not a Party Socialist wowe mantan, we gave count less examples that the workers united can be defeated. is crucially a question of enceryo ano procrame. anu how to achieve of strategy on socialism But policy is not enough, no matter now sharp its program matic clarity, unless it is accep- practice by ted by and put into the class. Woman Worker has to teflect, therefore, tne struggle. we are carrying out in our work amons women. It is an organ of the move- ment to ten seriauses or de seriousness movement s aooroach LILs work day we activit daily questions facing women in today's crisis. Woman Worker Groups We also want to see groups Noman developing from Groups worKer. Have all caly met in some areas. These groups also within the Bolshevik are tradition, as Kollontai writes in women workers struggle Their Rohtow tion women workers within the party on the party attracting broad mass of less aware women • • ana on the otner hand it 1s opportunity to concentrate the party's attention the of the special requirements women proletariat. We stress that women worker groups, like the women's Commission are Not Ur CAcEusya ly women membership. We woman worker appeal on a groups as having an mde pass a wore or cours continually work to bring mem- bers towards the 'sample, discussing press for and explanaine our policies and practice We would aim to widen their involvement in the class struggle bevond The IssUC through which they have been drawn to us. For instance, , after we had helped to picket during wages strike at Draftex, women workers attended an initial woman worker meeting which discussed overal enrects or caoranst crisis, especially the cuts and the BL closures. which would directly affect them Woman worker well carry out work on specific questions related to women's and would oppression trapped encourage women home participate and The have, for example, estate which woman worker groups coue be smumenta do settled up tenants' committees • or nursery campaigns. West have the North Winsford, our comrades established wOllal worker Inter. vened at a meeting of Labour councillors, who loudly. were Drolesume avour rent microast but proposing no action. comrades, through the Woman Worker Group, posea a rent strike, group also organised two bus- lobby of loads for a tenants' the Ene counciors proposung rent increases. is another example of This the opportunities now available for Whe scale st one Tories?

The scale attacks brings forward many previously unmobilisied sections of the working class. demanding direction from the labour leadership fighting the allans. lime and again the bureau cracy refuse to lead or organise policies, in stark cod at te n campaign have programme. Organising women outside the our moven the first per- spectives

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amone women, three years ago, that we need to organised non-employed women w cue collulty we included plans to involve housewives on "parents commit- committees, Cuts totalls committees, rally factory committees, groups and nursery price com- mittees'. How have been this into practice? has only achieved struggle against the notably the nursery fight Oxford; also, example, in Lne

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CrOSSULES organised by our comrades Hull. But with soaring inflation, ¿ne removan or me once cord mission, massive increases. "only in food and milk but gas, telephone, post, electricity, moitgages, rates. prescriptions- price communees are placed on the agenda and should the trade through with the UmOn movereit tullest particıpaton or nous wivffhe £300 million housing cuts, increases, the ending of many council house repairs and selling of houses, coupled with the 13% mortgage rate nave causea Thousands crisis housing. of women raise families in appalling living conditions. The fight against rent increases should be carried committees; tenants women should play a vital role in these and also in workers into housing needs, investigating council house provision no canues. works, private contractors, property speculation. These inquiries should draw up a programme of puduc works based on the needs of the home- less or badly housed, including

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facilities which will relieve the individual drudgery house- WOlK Communal laullulles. eating places. We should also state that we defend the right of the homeless Street), squat (e.g. Huntley

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SCe solution, where what we must for is fullest state housing provision, nationalisation of the building companies, etc. The proposed destruction of the school meals system repres ents a massive allack on womel Parents' committees can be set to defend working with teachers and canteen stall • our oressur une icauer- Good back has scand only stood school meal charges soar and jobs are slashed over years of rundown. These committees can also organise, for example, blacking of private in to provide a cafeteria system, support for staff for action and the strike tion of canteens due to close Organising the Unemployed/ Claimants Unions. We must also fight for the right of unemployed women to to tner training and experience With attacks claimants, in particular, the proposed 'social

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bill' Ty measures sediti an security representing We who • oo nor want to replace sharo nicasuice with sack male bureaucrats female form the majority of single employer first. Instead we oppose all redundan and pensioners and ones parents We directly cies, and demand that the work fight for a full demo- who are obviously hit cracy: the election with right of available be shared the out among of in the positions grants, it is necessary to take the whole workforce at no los recali lo immediate steps organising unon ane or omcas wares u be the average of the members.

unemployed women whether We shenly opposed ta We should fight to establish establishment special the and public or private hutic claimants unions. LIne including women centrally recognising that it is a question comerences for women (c.g. t We how- of the viability of capitalism in women's TUC). within them. stress crisis. We fight instead on the same ever, tney must not be usca lo take pressure off the union the principle we have done in bureaucracy NUS-that the women's them We should use autonomous conferences organised groups, demanding of turned into campaigning confer- Women workers must play a leadership that the ences open to women and mer role in the campaign to open the fight for their rights be taken up and for policy decisions made at books, in occupations and in th be automatically will une trade UMOn a sliding idiot scale ment and struggle discussed by the national TUC cemand to 101 for allowed the fullest participation wages. conterences instance, have mounted as members. we We also fight for women's determined fight to get the rights sub-committee all The Tories are going further sliding scale adopted at national levels of the trade union move than their Labour predecessors conference, which should have ful ment. of women workers recognition and genuine create mass unemployment the trade union leaders. lobb influence over policy. Member- particularly among women. . In a This we were able to do after ship should be open to both published building shop stewards commit- 1 coolly women and men. number nas Stated TOat Known covering unemployment among women factories in the textile industry has risen by 62% in the last four This has earned our comrade years! hostility and attack constant the executive. In recent

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back their homes, Caucuses forced elections, however, our comrade see the question of providing those services which obtained 1,250 votes, as against caucuses within the trade unior had previously been paid for by 3,000 for the elected candidate movement as one of tactics. We the state. In Leicester where the despite the prior oureaucracy :1500 well work in some cases council announced only to attend meetings of the hen uneace in our fight against the bureau.

axed jobs were those done by mcall sile men! cracy, but this would be only on Since those unions with a the basis of our policies, and not significantiy those predominantly women member- because they are women. families women with ship are often the most bureau- ano of usually therefore with "made oppose the notion the struggle crane and corrust. who are being women's caucuses promoted by husband for democracy in the unions is feminists and followed by the an important part of our fight Icuuncall. on the basis that women organise women workers in tore eloine tor ccia security

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benefits, will not sign on and wil regardless ol the pontics, the abour movement will remain politically concealed up with a correct pro- come We have considerable exper- for women's rights. ence as a movement in fighting tallie We must expose this way in Caucuses on Dasus Tot basic democratic proccaure which official statistics are dis- only to split men and women in the unions. For example, in tortions and cover-ups drummed Hull comrade fought an our

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order to establish such a fight, It is, of course, not only in • ballot-rigging. to open stewards conscious confident the public wide- committees to all stewards, to leadership is required spread branch elections are closures and reaundan cies are taking place. Many carried out for all delegates to firms employing mainly women conferences, and trades council.

Although the trade nave cosed down. notably textiles and light engineering movement Singers, Courtaulds (7,000 Rather than forming isolated sexist male bureaucrats. we oc this leadershp • should jobless; and not think with this leadership is that primary une vauvuses finishing trades 15,000 jobs problem be used • Wolle. been lost in the have past 12 forward directly to put demands sex their the bureaucracy that wil months-the equivalent of three prodiem is ten material privil have enable the Shottons or three Corbys.

eged position and their reformist or Stalinist politics The textile trade union fullest involvement in the union have not lifted a For example, bureaucracies we Should fight for branches to finance fight redundancy babysitting and for meetings • women wil aco be mace redundant through the massive be ted al umes convenet 101 steel and BL, mostly those with family responsibilit closures in the coite to coura challenging We are opposed therefore to directly through supply tirms any for positive dis- family respon Unemployment among giris those of th leaving rose 1978 crimination in favour of women sibilities are onlv from 35% to just under 50% in appointments to trade union woman in the family.

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relused Mas organise a day of action until a unor out taut after Tories chopped unemployed Dul y val their first billions off the public Calling been no previous trade action previous trade sector. nas But while the union leader- organisation. around with their ship play the foreiront been etc, fight jobs and badges cuts key unionisation struggles, particularly in the hotels strikes there nas been a mass Iesponse servIces well-known which if from women over won Sane Garners mobilised against the country would have had a major impact These mobilisations have on the appalling conditions of

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the hotel and catering industry taken place outside tale got community cam- comrade, and unions she employing large num OCIs policy adopted. women workers. Dales. been Occupation these struggles it has In all by adopted strikers under Decome clear lo We NuPH and must woL direction tnat ine essential take up every against the existing struggle is carried reformist and Stalinist leaders of Campaign for nursery provision.

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getting women to fight. when the Oxfordshire, announced Tory council plans to close all nursery schools and classes, 150 parents immedi attended called ately City Nursery Oxiord Campaign. This work has been a central We argue unions trade among once part ot our organising

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workplace the women, pursuing equally, Doncle. trade union nurseries in stopping the cuts and on the Box factory, the light lor state provision for the under-fives. the way' is vital for This provision ues We USI class mothers whether working forward at home denied nurseries workplace independence financial the Oxford means I he socia status campaign stands as a sharp focus Was group by of the fight against the cuts.

100 They comrade in of all A major orientation demanded to given trial circumstances been Ilas crucial we fight jobs and the direct community company into the trade union movement: The in the class unce toe

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con- the struggle Tories. grading Labourites, and against capital- sidered men's. It does not lie with ad hoc

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by individual solutions, such workers this struggle, and charity private playgroups funding (e.g. Stoke Mandeville).

Health Service oppressed men not the The cuts wil not be stopped by protest The them, community action, petitions and letters to local intervention papers and MPs all worl We must point this out to put Tories have women crawn around Hits O community campaign. even A allO bid save South Oxford running at 21%. committee is ripe had The tor nursery. of community support, Inousallus cemanold of signatures, but it didn't stop state expenditure show inflation applications the closure. hiring the 1976 80,000 marched elected simins cospital bed no lea refused activate this Cuts wipite stopped oniyob.

campaign. put independen Class action to bring down the Tory the NHS. The 'open books' government. demand can Closures will only be effec Cuts is predominantly in the roboed D occavaluis. which continually raise Ene questio nognise sat ol. the NHS. public spending against оссира- New recognise cuts

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alone addition for women has been carried out this in them- nons are not enouri year. The cuts are the sharpest selves and can be easily ended, previou must nationalis firms under ment for of the elderly. very out who have working them take against the cuts the needs section rights: these oppression the been fighting Many accepted Todmorden, Labour Party one generally there women's Women's Histally, main for wages. Labour Party in the The Tory attacks on the led the working cas nave sudden increase in the ranks of and building the Labour Party. Many of these militants are women anu-lor nine or a way a a the Tories' attacks 01 jobs. social services an their democratic rights. They turn 1 form of the our care and bartle larly to its left wing as an alter- and as a means of retali native, WOrk : of ating. Our • task, and the task SP and WW supporters in thi Labour Party to show them -whether left or that reformism Mont-goes no one cun alternative, and that overthrow- home capitalism tinkering -not with it-is the only solutior the problems facing the working class and most up fight will be 13 W W supporters fight to get local colncl defy the Tories, refuse implement cuts or rate and rent enormous Increases ne oversochu women's Den Independently-organised anti-cuts which a leading women are role Labour controlled. will increase ine pressure on councils. for emergency It is in the course of struggles such as these that the politics of will come into conut witn the aemanas ol women and the working class- demonstrating need revolutionary party. successfully WW groups should encourage policies their join the Instance to fight for thi Labour any and policies of SP and WW. In some cases this will be the most fruit.

u arena or ponca struggie since many women who aren't in paid employment find it ex- treme v hard to loin or partici pate fully in a trade union.

women than since Gays The

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must urgently develop its theoretical work on carry out making sexual oppression. But this must not ne need a a reex delaying the intervention of the in the fight for gay rights, based on OUr programme The 1979 for The responsibility this for falls

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series of parti. members who can most easily intervene in the gay movement in such organisations as the Gay of ACtiViSts Amance im wich lne IMG has a major intervention).

in the Gay Rights at Work con ferences which are planned, and for them gay (which exist for example willlley

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to both The purpose of such inter- SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 14 Mr. 1980 ventions will be partly to fight of the struggle for the direction into the organised labour move and against the bureau- ment " hell be this. position

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meaningful . only fights as a whole for gay rights in the trade unions and Tine Party (we should for continually raise the instance question of anti-discriminatiot clauses in bion procrammes Labour Party manifestos, as well specific cases of taking discrimination). We would like to conclude these persoecuve. will followin quotation 18: from Kollontai Moscow would hope that this document as some guidanc meet serve for those of my comrades who intend to devote themselves to work among the • female prolet anat la they get certainty that in taking upon difficult and themselves sometimes thankless work they are serving not the idea of the 'specialisation' of women, not a narrowly feminine business, but task of building whole world-wide united, strong: workers party which before our very eyes is achieving the bright new word or miernatonal com munism." Woman Worker of Bimontly womens pape the Workers socialist Leagu Available price BM from 5277, London WC1V 6XX. bustage)

Commission admits gays repressed SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 14 May 1980 After four years of delays in N.Ireland Not for the first time, an official institution

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European bourgeoisie been unable to avoid the conclusion that the British

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violated government has "human rights" in Northern Ireland. widely has now been leaked the European Human kights commission, has found favour of Jeff Dudgeon. secre ary or that Northern Ireland Rights Association

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one of the three grounds of the complaint which he first made in 1976. His "right tife n nain tere foe private found have been to Hlas seen existung law. Since the prohibits law Northern Ireland, as t cd England and Wales until 1967, and still does in Scotland too, sextal Te anons belwecn adult men, it is laughable that it this body which has taken supposed to be a watchdog of human rights in Europe four whole years to decide that the violated by IiZnls gays alt this viciousiy repressive law.

But despite the absurdity of to conclude taking so long. more than obvious. the shortly- Marching for gay rights-London 1978 to-be-published mua cement nevertheless one which is a grave But son ad ord a, perind toi em barassment to potential apublic consultation" in the full Mason and could T'hatcher government also have knowledge that this would allow wider politicai reper Europe. the of a massive campaign the Republic of religious instance. both icacuullaly the rights Irelana ana lyprus sil moaln- acinst tain a legal ban on all gay sexual sexuals. Iolaluls). Paisley coliected 70,000 signatures on his "Save Ulster In 1978, under pressure Sodomy from petition from protests at a grotesg ue Labour govern- prevent tre oroer. oeng sened At the same time the British ment published its intentions to extena wt sutcd 1vo1 cl from one doctor, four lawyers, Northern (The 1967 ire ano Act de-criminalised sexual 304 cotner dware mondal relations in private between two from the Christian Democratic Socialist Party, County Ene

THE LAW TODAY IN NORTHERN IRELAND

Offences Against the Person Act 1861 61. Whosoever shall be convicted of the abomin- able crime of buggery, committed either with man- kind or with any animal, shall be liable to be kept in penal servitude for life.

62. Whosoever shall attempt to commit the said abominable crime, or shall be guilty of any assault with intent to commit the same, or of any indecent assault upon any male person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding ten years. Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 11. Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or is a party to the commission of, or or attempts to procure the commission procures by any male person of any act of gross indecency with another male person shall be guilty of a mis- demeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be court to liable the discretion of the be at imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years.

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Down Grand Arch Royal Purple Chapter, the Grand Orange and Lodges of Belfast. Antrim Ireland, along with nine Unionist-dominated district motley collec- councils allud ton non-contormis sectarian churches, including the Mormons In favour of the order, aside from various gay rights organis- ations, were the Social craucna _Labou raTty. Lne Unionist Alliance Party, the Party of Northern Ireland and Liberal along with Party. Lilei Lne DIILISL government-appom Standing ted Advisory Com- mittee on Human Rights. Mason Ireland Secretary Northern Mason the the allu

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governmen attempted to create the idea they wished, as good and accent SubDOrLeS hulllan rights, to implement the order, prevented from doing so by their respect as good and democrats, by cecent the obvious of public opinion against implementation LIus USielUl • to my oclld ane iranowent. L nat oI course is apparent in general from the of the Labour nature vent s a perlaust poncies in Northern Ireland which made perfectly plain that it had no wilalever Iol erer so called human rights or demo- crache specific fraud becomes reading even more cear tromi the - Labour sub- mission to the European Human Rights Commission Wolca con. sidered the complaint brought by Jeff Dudgeon. In three submissions dated August 1977 and February anu United Kingdom Government" while the arguing govern- not vet made up nucul lal mind whether to introduce the

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arguments producea which not only defer to opinion' in Northern Ireland but wica aso m errecl oosose 1ega rights for gay people anywhere Agent said that it is: 'plain, on the one hand, that while there has been an advanc in cnowledg has by where it neans reached a stas with Call de emmcd degree of certainty how partic- ular individuals will react and nomosexual expenence, that, that on the other hand, behaviour homosexual raises Issues ol a mora cnaraclel which many sections of society hold religios and vier gr bnts views, both on the fact that Northern Ire.

land is a region where values are strongly based on religious outdons oovce SuD- stantial argument for the reten.

tion legislative which calculated to reinforce and maintain those values. (Supplementary Observations of UK, une novernment oI une page 5). In the March 1979 submis sion the 'Deputy Agent of the UK" •a ruarey (urłover develops more full-blooded devence of the reactionary lad.

a mora Sue says case for the law and the differ- ence treatment (between homosexuals hetero- allu sexuals): " justificaticti thd reaso is able justification. The despiee proTeC young males from influences and pressures of an undesirable kind. . which can be harmful Similar influences and pre sures do not exist in relation to heterosexual relationships. law is also designed to uphold the moral standards supported significant elements of the Northern Ireland community.

Saltudtu protect the family as a funda- Page 9 PHOTO: Derek Spiers, I5 U Mason The opinion of the Human Rights Commission wnen Itl made public, probably in a few produce further weeks time. will Mason': oressure successors

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order. Northern Ireland Minister said that he has Atkins has MICROn dL DreSCuL ol WiLIOuul ing it may olet ' review 1oa changed (widely a reference to be Dele cu lo the Commission s Juagement) socialists must give com- plete support to the struggle of gavebe m Norme acial the most elementary legal rights This depends in no way on 'Human the opinions Rights' Commission which takes four years decide that potential im prisonment • ycal. for „norma sexua Conull represents discrimination.

But • judgement will be the occasion of mobilisations b Western Europe against the reau- organisallom. tionary position of the British should Socialists

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support those mobilisations But is important that a should this issue CAL DaL way arsel 1967 Act which applies England and Wales. itself extremely Grocriminator against homosexuals. It legalises between oIL) peo ple ou vate —WIllI Joesn't include public lavatories and similar r places :which are the site of massive police repression of gays. The number of convictions for indecency offences has risen oi the LIle mtroduCliol 1967 law And the 1967 law establishes a legal age of consent for sexual conduct between maies

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compared, with 16 for women heterosexual 1 nere Is no are ul Conscll 10l maesneteroseua reao we reject this As socialists mental social unit and the threat but discrimination the nosion omi nn a Context oT GODosTon O the basic constituent of society consent any other from homosexual attempt by the bourgeois state more man dom deterosexua reduol lo controt sexuai coruucl that ships-he also important used in the any around the means cam paign present law (the threat and use question gay rights of criminal sanctions) are noi Nortnern relanc

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disproportionate to the aims of clearly stated that the question of gay oppression is not separate the legislation." (Observations govern- IrOM whole ment of the UK, 20 March 1979 One of the main reasons why •Section IV). havel even less legal Glover measure a justification of ohd adds mel rights in Northern Ireland than in England and Wales is, as the anterence between n tne treat. politica deal betweer ment of male and female homo- claiming that Mason and the Unionists shows sexuality 'homo the need of British imperialism : exhibited a tendency to sexudis • Labour as well as Tory mose vilce otner males, espec maintain ially adolescents The moral coverunclils alliance reactionary, factors present do not exist to with tne barbaric forces of Unionism.

anvuome ke mne came exeru relations to female homo- sexuality' So, of its claim to in spite

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Strike ballot local councillors • bureau- crats have already begun duck- Similarly Ig or cover. County niticianave een torced announced decision to close ballot members Day Nursery was rosse koad action on redundancies. almost immediatelv modified to With reemies "review" of its prospects in over the the autumn.

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ally Adequate cover schools would win teachers. In addition, following lobby bv 70 supporters of the nursery campaign, settle for iust a token one day oi a specia meeting nursery staff officers, unite and services social has been agreed to advertise tor anne fora me for or startery for a member of staff to for the immediate ensure cover. Meanwhile, in the school classes, militancy has nursery hè actual needs of the redundancy with the class 110| going out on May ous capitalism. union officials have been caught The nursery Nottingham ine nop by the millicaldie response of members.

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The 6.8-7.3% wage combatting an inflation rate of increases won by Swedish further 100,000 workers. workers in the settlement of their massive wage struggles of Thorbjorn Falldin attempted may not seem huge. But to pressurise they represent a severe blow at the strategy of the promising the end of the year. employers, and may yet But too result in the fall of the right inadequate wing government. supplies, grinding to a halt, ine swedisn Iuc nad pur employers were over a barrel.

forward an 11% pay claim in the centralised negotiations. wage caree tor-wice recommendea respondee wage arguing they could not afford private sector and 7.3% for local to pahen the unions egan selec- any increase at all. authority with food tive strike action by come concessions for the low paid.

25,000 the Swedish the SAF, employers' federation,

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the initial mediators proposal- ocke out over 00,0v private accepted sector workers. unions and by the government.

1 ne emplovers. Ravine "Mediators" in the rejected as dispute industry and came forward with a 2.3% Dav offer. The employers agreed to caved in, this figure, the caled on the

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It takes a real "hero" to gun down an unarmed reand is known to have shot down no less than ten unarmed opponent who has already victinis in surprise ambushes surrendered. Last week the

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KnOWI SAS showed once again in instances was the murder of 16- year their storming of the Iranian -shot three times in the back.

that they embassy are second to none as savage, on SAS. gun butts will be cold-blooded hit men. year old Dennis Heaney, gunned As Mohammed Faruqi, one. down in Beltast in June 19/8: ol ine reca nostaces. damitca the gunmen had given up any attempt within and seconds of the SAS raid "we surrender" in Persian.

Bullets The SAS, not ones to stand on ceremon. oumper mem fuk of bullets. According to Faruqi: "One of the terrorists was sitting on the floor. and when pointer on by Tine Iranians the commandos asked him to and then he stand up, Was NOL. (Observer. Mav 11) Such revelations of course make the front pages dailies. Neither

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tough stance had suffered responded by calling out a btoody defeat. recriminations une have begun in the bosses' camp: the right wing government sections of employers are ques- union leaders into the WiLy offer by stance a cear bread nom ta methods of class collaboration price ireeze and compromise rejected Sweden since orevalcu with and 1930s—was adopted in the first instance. economy mcal tack Tine Others are now looking with A new mediators' report was trepidation the future now increases of 6.8% in the divisions have lllal Class snarpenea to nistoric levels, and Swedish have workers. togemel nised the potential strength they subsidies and. tax nave a uner names. Such the Sendinin • that ofter-more than treble seems likely to erupt capitalist there both the Call lla doubts where government could Halfair a Parliamentary vote of confidence. the accepted the deal and ure esson is clear not oni for Swedish workers but for

MURDER!

of the SAS, which in occupied after a bullet hit him in the leg, five more bullets were fired into his chest and stomach arrival of these killers onto the streets of London has nes. now been crete vanice old schoolboy John Boyle from Whitelaw and the Tory particularly since their vicious were unknown

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and The task in the next period is to construct in every country establishing Mass struggles are also erupting in Denmark with demonstrations against the closure of a culms police violence that the The National Graphical demanolog Association chalked up union had significant victory against from ItS Tory this the employers ment would fill them as they thought fit.

week with the defeat of the lock-out in provincial collapse to the papers. snop in tne provincial press The clause As we went to press, printers amended to read m commercai orut nouses werc still locked out but pressure on UnIOT British Printing Industries Federation settle Wade The Newspaper Society had

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been consistently the more leader ship hawkish of the two employers organisanons quickly after member compan- ies began moving towards settle- ments of their own. which spoke of The NGA has won its wage demand for a minimum wage of duced. $80 an ander ad than 10 All this 37½ rate than prelude to fat a slower still stands had by now become not one lial must directly about wages other those in but about whether th them,

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Newspaper Societv Come break the union, and in particular couple They break its closed shor were against all these clauses.

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a revolutionary leadership that which alone coverical. such resolve the to montice materla. • problem: through faced by the working class as a result of the capitalist crisis.

such struggles with the objective worKers NGA defeats press bosses- management was It is also true that the wage deal does not protect the mem so man were l bership against talled to illl lobs tne enecis ol own list the alone bring a rea! : manage- nave int Initiase l wages clea This could quickly have led again how the union incapable closed 01 the vus cauviar. the interests of it has now been members, despite the readiness that where the of the membership to fight also shows that the fil the But • OD. uIs cussions will take place between Torv offensive can be resister the management and the union and defeated where strong it should be filled. unions stand firm

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the support trom other anu already, une workonce In terms of the balance of massive amount by signing deals there is little doubt that forces the Newspaper Society. incarced demanos orm policy of con- flexibility and productivity and has embraced a frontation with the unions, has the importance received a bloody nose and that open the •Vision 1ts collaborationist ranks will grow jobs The

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the selling membership, There is little doubl shaken out of 20 years of peace NGA members, coexistence, can unions who were given the confidence it needs to braced and I put take : offensive themselves for a lockout casting jobs posed by new technology.

ot months ano la to fight