Socialist Press no. 233

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 233 * February 4, 1981 * 20p BL stewards sold out The rigged "inquiry" into the victimisation of 8 Metro line workers at BL's Longbridge plant has produced the predicted "guilty" verdict against all four shop stewards involved.

•As a token show of "justice" the management/union team,

ACAS

nedaea chairman. TOUNd that in one case there was Last week's defeat for doubt" as to whether the right wing in the Labour ment evidence was vana. ana in Party one other there was a basis tor was not so much the "further investigation". final whistle as the signal for these two is the start of injury time.

shop the stewara-ana one Is only AUL member invo ved Even as Labour's rank and The inquiry itself was file celebrated the extension of AUEW representative travesty the Party leath het onions Ron Povey Party was expected Wing were ecno terry DuTTV s posItIon o readers and branding the victims guilty and plotting to overturn the decision their of the historic Wembley confer- opposing action aerence. ence 150 MPs-including members but in the event Povey wa: more sympathetic than TGWU of the "left Tribune wing' official Doug Fairburn, Group-signed wist statement electoral college cuestions to nis own victimised oooosing the members described established at Wembley. were 260-strong Parliamen- In the end the "joint team" tary Labour Party was allocated was unanimous in deciarine thai a generous su say in the elec. review leader of a party their ot the evidence tionot.the did not enable them to find any 600,000 card doubt" members anu Sevell пшов vallarty manacement almatca urade untonists case. Not enough! Fairburn, indeed, failed even to fulfil his mandate to press the ACAS chairman But MPs claim this is not declare nis enough! Spearheading their •osition on the evidence.

His conduct is censured in a Deputy Leader resolution sent by Long- penns meaey, benma num nave bridge Works Committee to the come Farty leader Michael Foot TGWU Executive. and the entire Shadow Cabinet- The Works Committee has includes Tribunite Neil also called a Joint Shop Stew- ЛІПОСК The MPs have been suppor- meeting TomorroW a recom ted by declarations from morning a000l Leigh l thaD they will use their mended policy that will be Duffy, Basnett to all 1500 Metro workers later in the week block votes at the October con- meanwnie a national aboul Terence to prevent block votes let col notren shirty movement conterence to discuss the lessons of the Longbridge victimisation and course not even Shirley campaign Williams has ever bothered to

SHOO

Stewaros nas been called. complain that she has been reelected to the NEC each year Asone victimised steward block votes ark Roy Orchard, a member of the union block votes.

TGWU

National cast time and Automotive again to defeat socialist policies committee told socialist rress.

obstruct "We must tell our movement ucmocialle that trade unions should never allow themselves It is only now, when the again to fall Party rank and file is seeking into the trap of that kind of ways inquiry. and bring The only where real political leaders under

CORITO!

be found and prote justice can make them accountable to the at the betrayals of the of movement that gets them elec- tion trade principles Callaghan-Wilson ted, and spell out governments policies tor can take giace Is on une snoo to produce a growing left wing them adopt. that Toor une renu within the whole British labour Join the fight for these wing about the block Deas movement, and in particular the Support the Long- vote. principles. Lauvul rally orace conterence. why only the most Contempt

BOIS IS

fanatical TUC right wingers and

LONGBRIDE 8

MPs eradicate the electoral college can even hope

CONFERENCE

There is no doubt that many Saturday 14 February lUC leaders and most abou altogetner MPs are determined to fight for They are forced to seek

LUV 0 LOUD

reversal Wembley decisions the than to revert to Dr. Johnson House, the 5o- 25-25 was Colmore Circus, 1ollula Queensway Gole so inev decare aereated at wemoiev Birmingham their complete contempt for the It is these same unfavourable Open to all trade unionists membership of the Party conditions which at a are and Labour Party members time when anger ing the split by the "Gang of 3' at government nas combined with and tel farlamentary nangers *

WEMBLEY

NOT FINAL!

on. Owen, Rodgers and Williams have insisted they would accept no formula for an electoral college that it is for them principle that MPs allu Party leader should be account- able to nobody but themselves.

There is now no way that their Donucal co-linkers can delive this within the Labour Party Angered and embarassed by the humiliating defeat for their man one vote policy at one Wembley, schand on by Tory press and middle class thousand perhaps writers and even conned by some of the mutually contradictory opinion poll esti- mates of their support the Gang have lurched further down the ludu to d soul Owen has joined Williams in refusing reusin plots and stand again on a Rodgers has Dunca OI shadow Cabinet; and Williams, having weathered the attack from Tony Benn at last week's NEC meet- in seems teng on the edge of resignation. Motley crew And it is a very motley crew indeed that they find gathering Tenants organise

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David Banett around them in support. Former Labour Foreign Secretarv Lord George Brown has been appoin- ted President of the Council for Social Democracy WHe DICK Laverne. wno won ane unen losi his seat in Lincoln as an 'indep- endent' Labour candidate has also declared his support Predictably Liberal MPs ar calling for an alliance with the Social Democrats and urging them to leave the Labour Party uncalately And even Tory MP Robert Hicks has suggested that he and up to 2u other lory MPs migh support of the

CONDE

OLIn Social Democrats. Socialist policies Whateve they

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wherever and whenever they go, Party is certain that the Labour will sanne arall Already workers and down the county are • Dele support a fight policies the Gang social democratic' icacuollary battorm The confusion is heightened at present by the use of the misleading LeIm centre -in atech has me way ase -oder- been used -as euphemism for "right wing".

The debate wil continue. and the fight for genuine alter- native policies Labour Party must be stepped The removal of some of the mo police from ne sour Pa povilo course tave many policies LaDOu] right wingers behind. This is why socialists within the Party must fight not only to gains made actena the Wembley but also set in process the fight to remove right wing MPs under the reselection spell out the oroccaure kind of socialist policies neces returned Labour government The tight up to the Wembles conterence round a uselul focus in the Rank and File Mobilising Committee formed united iront tor the struggle against the right wing There is much m ore mobilis ing of the rank and file to be done in next Deroe and and File Work Tor the Rank Mobilising Committee to do.

Socialist Press supporters will play bou a practical and a political role in developing that fight, as part of the struggle for leadersing pl the working class.

principled

POLISH DEAL A BLOW AT

ELECTION NO RESPITE

Page 2 Kremlin leader Brezhnev with Poland's Kania free press in S. Africa The liberal' press bosses in South Africa have recent- ly closed down two of their "black' newspapers in. the face of government threats to ban them. And in the past month five black jour- nalists-all leading members of the newly-formed Media Workers Association of South Africa

(MWASA)-

have been banned. These developments arise In context of the content or the powerful forward movement the back Class and the militant and of black news- united struggles paper workers and journalists in particular. National struggle closed newspaDels down-the Post and the Sunday Post-have been the focus of the struggle of newspaper manoldi workers and Journalists 10L improvements their condi- recognition of tions ot work the unione

Y WADA

months. workers and Last August the two news- Journallsts papers went on strike for eight lays and won improvements in and Day Then at the end of October workers and journalists on the Post and several otner news organised

MWASA

papers came out on strike in solidarity workmates at the coloured Care 'coloured' heralanews- paper in Cape Town. lasted eight strike and completely stopped production four others, including the Post and Sunday Post. The demands for the immed- iate improvement salaries, wages and conditions and for recognlon eventually won by une strikers sup- widespread port, not only from the black community but from sections of the white journalists as well.

"Freedom of press" While the liberal newspaper bosses of the Argus and DAAN groups spend their lives pontifi- the cating about press it s South

ATTICA.

finger to try and defend their papers against the government's Lucalcicu banning. For it was their own their jour- workers uniting with struggles dented their profit Tates but also began to threaten their very control of the newspapers themselves.

BUREAUCRATS

Fight for MWASA, which had been in the forefront struggle against the newspaper bosses, workers both and biack protessional writers The union was insugaled y black journalists under Ine banner of black con- political sciousless Middle class The strength of the workers' struggle in South Africa is begin- make itself felt in the ranks of the black middle some sections ake the lournales are urne working class as the only force oris vuln is going to be nonticary terrected in NAsa then it must be built as an inde- fighting organisation pendent interests Willi puts

TITST

ane consciousness before black con- sciousness. The closure of the Post and Sunday Post is first and tore- most a threat to the jobs and journalists. printworkers the take

MWASA

struggle througnout une

SAAN

for work- groups loss of pay with no jobs. Ine bicalcica Solidarity And workers and journalists the continued must 1onl

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nroducton or a bana v Post as well as the lifting of the their leaders banning orders on mobilisation LIlt solidarity strikes ana blacking actions throughout the news- paper industry. It is only on the basis of independent at the freedoms chas mobilisation that the or even une ovuizeuls vicso cal.

be defended. And it is only through the that independent extension basis of a mobiisation. on the transitional Drostamme and revolutionary demands, revolution and the dictatorship broitlalld call of the press guaranteed for the masses of South Africa. Labour Movement Conference Media Censorship and Ireland convened by National Union of Journalists Saturday February 28 Birmingham Details from Ron Knowles, NUJ, 314 Grays Inn Road, London WCI regime with the threaten the will cause economic The basis on which the working of a direct challenge problems for the bureaucrats.

prospect union Polish trade But threat by the working class for statt called off its represented by the free publica.

Solidarity power. this reason threatened one-hour general It is tor tion of an opposition newspape buy a and critics the weekend concessions strike at ine regime to the mass media is far temporary period of peace represents a further retreat Polish bureaucracy oreater Stalinist the by the ruling. necessarily Soviet military Control chances intervention deal falls short I Ne And with the issue of recog- Solidarity's initial demands.

The bureaucracy clings Rural Solidarity-the nition basis of ownership of thome he concede that power farmworkers' buT and seasall. Saturday working be reduced union-still unresolved g. Saturday per month ot orocuction but sinipiy or period of "peace" may be very instead of the two wanted by temporary indeed. nationalised economy and ine covernment. the police apparatus. of Ano it does concede to tne Overthrow right to publish a state. The continued weakening of weekly newspaper and present a its police powers and repeated Solidarity has secured weekiv television orootamme control partial victory. But only the The concession on Saturday charlence. The final months of the Begin government in Israel

FOR ZIONISTS

will be brought to an end, probably on July 7. Elections will be held agains background of world record inflation, ministerial corruption, allusionment will ine coverl.

'home and coupled with continued oppres- resis- strong SIUli Palestinians

TON.

Linked to this, the Settlement under occupation. or this marest is edene Minister has claimed Sharon manifesto evident. issued recent attempt to settle by with its policy that ally from the World Jewish Congress In line week giving up west rejected once sacred Labour rally

VOLCU

lasl will be resisted and will bring that premise in tavour or tne estabusament 200.000 Israelis of two new Israeli settlements abroad should refuse to publicly Mitzpali -CeKoa Beth and streets criticise Israel. Whilst it is anicult to assess It has repudiated the neces Govrin thi sent enso ashame the to Israel "security'. Gush Emunim mantlesto of the mich boasted There hint Illililalll and condemned the West Bant and settle movenicals settlement policy, have previously mounted between Israel legitimate schism rales" •pro- massive strong extremely tinians allowed for in the Begin- ana woru Jewly Sadat agreements under Carter's selement dens dons damaging government of The Likud that anti-Jewish racism can only dummiste Begin of ar of iter saci mist combatted to reconse tie rem ses 'greater Israel' has vision directly Palestinians as a natiun....

one can supported • Islati all Lila funded, whole represents a further shift equate being Jewish with being Constalllly to the right. and armed these movements Zionist. The army also may well side Begin's ruling block look set election will a mos against any attempt to remove Labour for a certainly return smear eecuon Can an last week settlers. Soldiers ridiculously suggesting that the government which may be pre surrounded 100 Zionist settlers Labour Party manifesto repres pared to the PLO. who had seized a hilltop north parts of the West Bank in order to divide the Arabs. Such a deal would attempt a economic, pro-imperialist cheap, Palestinian 'solution' problem and the Israeli defence budget. Such deals, without regard Palestinians' the self-determination, TOr палова are a hallmark Lollisi "flexibility' of the Israeli Labour Apart past Party oppression responsibility Israel and the West Bank, British socialists should recognise rightward thrust in the further 1980 Israeli Labour Deceivel vartv mantesto Their programme for a Pales- autonomous zone in the tinian is built around the west bank Israeli 'Allon withdrawal from the heavily Arab the populated the whilst retaining west balk security settements alulls . Valley, east Jerusalem. Neighis and Se Lat run salicol Golan would bully be demilitarized and completely surrounded by Zionist torces linked only road to Jordan by in the areas All settlements to be annexed by Israel will be protected as the nanifesti "The! that: cically slates essential for srael's Like all other selle constitute educa- ments they social and pioneering achievements and valuault in political struggle assets of peace- achievement Labour Israel's poreers government will consolidate anc develop them. when the main time bankrupt begin LITe hock is to toree unrous more settlements, prior July, Zionist soldier with PLO prisoners West Bank auton- SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 February 1980 Walesa political overthrow the by Stalinist bureaucracy workers in roano ana troust out Eastern Europe can prevent such partial that danger victories serve as the prelude te a crushing invasion. ot jerusalem. Issued a statemen to the settlers that they would protect them, not eject them.

the The latest storm in the Knesset, is over a report that the govern ment has been negotiating a deal with three private building com nanies invo ve toe exchange o.

state land in Jerusalem in return for the construction of perman- settle- ent new nouse. ments free of charge. Sharon has made offers in South firms build provided HillLo before the July elections Zionists Right wing recognise the dangers that even such a powerless autonomy plan it does oresellts. the nationhood of the Palestin lans After Hebron and all, are recognised as Pales Nablus tinian, then wis nol Jalla u Haifa or Nazareth? The often quoted Jordanian vonon red! Plan Which would be designed which would be designed King Hussein attract peace proces orea to lie and suppress the Palestinia struggle upper class Palestinian hollar y 'notables' Recognition Divisions are evident within

PLO

their base the fron AI Fatel Although Lebanon still officiallv call for a secula democratic state in the whole of they prepared to Palestine US an with the make a cea Israel for an independent state let The Zionist stair their recogni To thi: end they hope for talks and US recognition collusion with me cust

PFLP,

grou Hater behind many hijackings and one which rejects with the US and Israel is incapable recognising necessity for class struggle the Arab perspective based on ana israen working blas. The Israeli CP Rakah, open Zionist state recognise the of Israel and see an independent Palestinian statelet as the solu highlight These the desperate crisis of leadership Within which can only be met by th growth of Trotskyist influence the Palestinian and Israeli masses.

ITALIAN STALINIST LEADERS

BACK STATE REPRESSION

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 February 1980 "If you are looking for a mole the Ministry Justice we'll give you one with a name and surname: Giovanni D'Urso." The Red Brigades, who atte pd these de words on ins provocative words, Janludiy

ICIL

uen oisntvelcu 'moe Thel niisoner days, tied to the back seat of a only stone's trom the Ministry trow away of cce dnd ne excqvzrțers of the Christian Democratic and the Communist Parties. lovalmll y urso. un Iesoonse told the to a threat to nis lite. Red knew about the organisation of Italy's repressive forces.

And since Th1S ot. Giovanni D'Urso was one of the heads the section responsible Ministry ot Justice

TIOI

une aom nston Red Brigades, Prima Linea and other OI Ilaly s guerilla groups are held. An assassinated Galvaligi and a captive d'Urso Two of D'Urso's colleagues in this wOIK. nave been assassinated in the last two years. Brigades gave releasing It is widely believed to have "cooperation

D UISO

was nIs with proletarian justice' peen Intormaon brovcee by D'Urso which led to the assass- The othigades demaeds hare Cal Digi December 31 Brigades' demands had General Carabinieri occll nel «oara-mutary DolCe oIlCeT In te llist place tne mos recently given responsibility for detested of the special prisons, the special Asina, was closed down during One of the reasons the Red the kidnapping. Catalan CP breaks from 'Eurocommunism' By 424 votes to 359 the But for the time being they delegates to the Congress of able have been tu cabllalst ul the semi-autonomous rank an we cruncon This disillusion is expressed Catalan Communist Party declining party in the member- .(the PSUC-United Socialist treborled neariy narved Party of Catalonia) have from its peak of 200,000 three ago); produced a new crisis oi the Western European Stalin- collabse last yoa. Lr S dauy newspaper Munao vorero; ism. and in another struggle within the leadership against Carrillo.

that margin they aban- DY doned on January 6 the "Euro- 1 ne DalLyS economis line de dopes in Ramon Tamames is leading a the allies less party by Cartillo concentrated in the hands of the (Secretary valuazu veneral ol the spanisn (r).

Decretary weneral. (trilo niaver ercı o.f in exercising control over the class and holding back Resigned working lis revolutulary an vuise un ce They have substituted a hard years after Franco's

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death pro-soviet position wnich was immediately condemned by His colleagues now obviously the feel that he has become a less socuidi effective counter-revolutionarv.

But by then the old Euro- Although he has been badly communist leaders-Lopez hurt by these evenls. it would be premature to pronounce the Kalmundo,

A LEONI

unene and Sole Tura-had resigned death from leadership experienced and wily illalluca" replaced by pro-Soviet leaders wno nave begun a purge or lne bitter blow the to Carrillo has been to a gluls чел exter o mer owa dona They have engaged in the abject collaboration with most and the monarchý anti- the working CHs. Dolces The Suarez government. of the and file PSUC delegates were voting not co much tar a oro-sover oren.

tation as against Carrillo's cring- collaboration class against SOrTe exe aso monarchy. One resolution called for an autonomous Catalonia Spanish republic.

EWTOCOMMNTESAS

successors do not offer, any thán Moscow does, an pro-working class alcaliyy

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"terrorist" the political Second, after a major riot prisoners, and after the sentence led by Red Brigade prisoners in of death was passed, it was to be *¡an-dne on te ner c-or December had been Ine DIsoners WIld acciaea by prisoners whether it should be carried force, out. in Trani and Palmi committees The prisoners in Palmi and Jalls were anowea lo pronounce Trani on the fate of D'Urso. conotounced

LOI

tha te was the prissner als od D'Urso's captors had leniency recognition D'Urso's provision of useful Spanish PM resigns

VICI

of The resignation The decline of the influence Adolfo Prime of the suarez was lo firmed last week bv the results Minister of . Spain has the second nationwide trade uncovered a seething crisis union elections since the death within the Spanish ruling oI tanCo. The elections are held under class. official direction the the ine departule ol sualel- State. Slovenen f Franco's formerly Secretary And tne omicial Ministry nanonal ana lalel Labour results (contested by the architect of Spain's "opening to CP-dominated Workers democracy"-is still shrouded ir Workers S10W lliyoiwsy čommond ctn r toe Suarez has been increasingly lected delegates compared witl Crucised "Tom Witn nis Darty! the Democratic Centre Union The Socialist Party's union

(CDU)

for ULTi i rereral wolker. ship Union) got 29% as against 21% As unemployment mounts. last time. the slump deepens, the political The Catholic USO raised its crisis in Basque largely hare trom sn nationalism Cultillles. Dual Ck thanks from the support nas seemea paralysea ana incap- Suarez government able offering bit umoranatev lor men forward. this vote is still below the 10% Hus recent muauve h vsı- needed. for

USO

participate Euskadi (the Basque ing turned bẹ In state-wiue couccuve varzamn- country) ing which provoked • wide- flasce spread strikes ana aemonstra- tions and solved nothing There is every sign that the sudden the Calitellallul secona uui congress ten davs ago was the result less of the official excuse (transport strikes) than of the leadership's Tear unat ll woula degenerate into a Suarez-bashing session.

Coup himself in hi sut suarez resignation broadcast several hints of what may be the real reason ms aebarlule He sald ne ala not want, by staying office democracy in Spain and return lo lile vast aralli This has been widelv inter preted broad hint . that the senlor launch Carrillo 101ces acalcacu information. At the time the same through contacts with prisoners, libertarian Radical Mrs ol cac raTT demanced Teleast from jail of Gianfranco , Faina leader of the Action group who was suffering rom une cancer And at the same time they released two the press justifying the sentence o de m on e e ae exzn ing their decision to commute The demand for these com muniques published by the bourgeois press then became established by condition D'Urso's final . CdulUrs :. 101 release. For a few days in the middle of January the whole of Italy the com- argued about whether mumues showu oe vuvushica.

Divided Italian capitalist society ovoee a ever eve z! political the Christian Democrats held out publicly for arminess

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wele deeply divided. the Socialist Parti WItO . Dublsned Ine Ked Brigades' statements their paper Avanti and the Republic. Party hawkishness WIfuSd lowaru . brIeades was equalled only by the Commun- some kind coup against Suarez if he didn't resign This consistent with threat. nunelou lllduc sections of top military officers years to seize situation in

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whico (kasoue nationast

ETA

have killed over 100 security forces members of the in the last 12 months. premier whoever he is will be to take office only on that even -usiliiliuil reDressIve

DOSIEIOT

lakel

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towards cer- ano ame also the workers' movement and other sections of u nass moveiielll top candidate ior ine role of replacement premier Calvo Leopoldo Sotelo-a descenaaru oI une notarens semi-fascist leader the Spanish far right in the 1930s who was assassinated four days before the outbreak of the Civil War. Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo was ot into • CHeT execu lve explosives and is closely allied the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. there are few signs that Calvo cotelc will possess the authority which Suarez has lost likelihood that he and little ' vaL TevensE OrIL

DOUT

geoisie It is even possible he will fail to win a parlamentarv vote of confidence wolct case the political crisis would rapidly intensify and Spain omneeo mo a genea eeco wịth authoritative govern- ment the possibility Given Socialist Lalt VICLUl «anger ora manarv coro ov ee Francoist would grow rapidly Page 3 ist Pare .Cp The even railed against Christian Democrats for the being "soft' the Gn encer closure of Asina jail Red Brigades also divided the press owners and the Journausts The statements were published at by left once the Manifesto and dalhes Lotto subse- connmio twnich quently ceased publication for lack of funds) as well as Avanti.

Ana In Ine ena severai major bourgeois paper: also succumbed to the pressure to

AUIM

LCSDOISOIC LUI

D urso s death Grotesque These included Il Messagero (Rome) and Il Secolo (Genoa) not (Turin) which VW LiC Colonel Gaddanii Tatolon ni holdings in Fiat, nor the pro- CP L 'Unita papers and Paese Sera The journalists" trade unions came out against the refusal to

DU DUSI

ovrcec about what line to take on the case of Mario Scialoja nalist on the weekly L 'Espresso anestet TO] terrorism after publishing a long interview with the Red Brigades Perhaps Duoue civisions Drovoked by ln Red Brigades tactics were those between the victims Red Brigade assassinations wild sectied cised statements divide roughly between hawks dilu uuye. n dne cenae bn aamení after D'Urso's release were so frayed that at one point a commes aeruly ben ol Deing a agalt ot the being an agent of the •Red Brigades! Prime Minister Forlani tried to minimise the disorder of the bourgeoisie by saying that division and

• UCLWCC

IlawNi natural" and coves war everyone was basically right he he cant go on pleasing everyone for long despite his panegyric aneyness ° i the government's lac ockec or reessy ! six weeks as authority tast Italy seemed almost to pass to a group of political prisoners and clusve tentonses It is little wonder that once sections of again lose hourgeoisi continue Italy's idili democracv Serious danger During the kidnapping, lead- uca ol tuc y s a gave addresses to a Kra ninieri military in which the! foreshadowed independent

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mne armeo rorces to combat the dangers of "liberal ism". If a miitarı coup Is nOr imminent in Italy it is none. theless a danger facing the working class. Red of Brigades expose the pitiful disunity of bourgeoisie but they do nothing lo presare me workmne cass and oppressed masses for an alterna- tive solution to that of Christian Democracy or militarv dictator shithe Red Brigades should be defended against state ••luCa OooosEu disastrous policy But thểy are not responsible for

LIEC

1ac l workers' partles themselves no1 in the casde nth donatiant ut case of the dominant CP actually vie with the bourgeoisie to see who can be most repres- sive.

new Turkish junta Page 4 Unlike which Spain, went through a protracted Mussolini civil and wal. Hitler' built civilian mass fascist movement achieve the atomisation of the workers' movement. Drawn from mainly petty bourgeois layers, their use to the the as a lorce

DUSSES

was Tactorles streets che state tina the olenst the state apparatus against the working class. Like the Grey Wolves of the fascist National ACtiOn PartV today Turkey they strove to in capitalists at home convince the an a l col solution to their problems and the capacity to take control of Lic stalk "Action" Their frenzied, ultra-nation- alist can bassco alternative an action as theorising in "our phrase doc- trine is the deed' decramon preferring 50,000 rifles rascism s cerosuc characler- • a species of civil service for the manufac- ture of obedience. not mean sharp That does divisions did not fascism and other bourgeois fascists forces among •the squads Hitler's sA militia actually banned were and the army generals 1932, ano bitimate integration into the machine state to repeatec clashes between 1933 and 1936.

Similarly, anti- Tne

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capitalist sapitalist theorin was torea to demogogy Roosevelt takes office in 1933: Stalinists described his New Deal as fascist' Confusion on nature of give way to the realities of state "the most advanced example fascism's lower, purges against of the classical type lett wing resulted in the liquid levelopment to be found among the imperialist countries.

alon ol tnese lorces. Iscinin Sesi find themselves "One wing" in bad company! Against this can be counter- The method of Iscinin Sesi Trotsky's struggle to posed has no time for these objective present a revoloray days.

historical the Turkish "At the moment that the explain junta's police military "normal cascal bonapartist asin their arrest tre and stred by classes' bolstered the bourgeoisie's recources dictatorship together with their parliamentary screens, no longe tascists aiong with lett militants that to hold society in a: IsC nin best sav Daley SulLICt Evren is merely "one wing of the Lull fascism and Turkes'

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fascist regime arrives. Through another! the fascist capitalism sets in motion the masses of th disagreements with Dull petty i rotskvim are not new. Cared DOUlKCUISI allu have their roots in the Comin- bands the tern's ultra-left lurch in the late demoralised lumpenproletariat, 1920s. the • countless human beings It meant that the rise Hitler was actually facilitated by brought desperation and frenzy. to define Ine carone From fascism the bourgeois- accurately either the bourgeoisie or the workers movement. ie demands a thorough job; once has resorted to methods of Social were Democrats having civil it insists oranget as Wal the Bruning Papen von peace tor a penoa or years Scheider And the fascist agency, by "eascist utilising bourgeoisie regarded as petty It is this same poisoned wel a battering over of Stalinism from which Iscinin obstacles its whe mano Sesi drinks. Let them Stalin- as victims themselves of capital gathers in its hands, as in Contamooral Crisis. LIlt directly and ideological debris on which it is steel, built immediately, all the organs and institutions of sovereignty.

After the Comintern's Fifth Congress, all attempts to scien execulive. dull sta tifically define quite diverse thes toe the wire sae apar political phenomena were aban- together doned Under um orela 'fascist' sheltered the Chinese the univer mumcipallies Kuomintang, the schools, the press, the the coopera- Pilsudski in Poland and a host of trade unions and others.

LIVES

turns fascist At the 13th Plenum in 1933 When a state British Stalinist Palme it does not mean that the forms and methods of government are declared that Koosevelt's

DULL

changed in accordance Newl Deal' government in the pattern Trotsky: fought Third Period sectarianism JACK JOHNSON takes up an important dis- cussion on the character of the military junta which rode to power Turkey in last Sept- ember. Part Two changes in this sphere ultimate- the workers does not suffice.

ly and de be all role play a minor to smash means incenenden organisations; demolish That in e worked organisation are annihilated; that the prolet- bulwarks the ariat proletariat and to uproot what• and that amorphous ever has neen achieved curn: system three-quarters of a century created which penetrates deeply the Social Democracy. and which serves into the masses and trade unions." Ibid, p.114. insane independen Trotsky goes on to show the how this analysis was within the cominant

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(Struggle Against Comintern before the 'third Germany, p. 155, Pathfinder period' edition). Italian "The And again in the same article the WIlO Ital Trotsky insists: problem of fascism . in order to find a way time have protested time and bourgeoisie the widespread out again against rid itself of the abuse of these concepts. Six th nrecoire exerted ov he workers these must be Congress Comintern and Ercoli (Palmiro Togliatti leader eliminated destroyed was still for- of the Italian (P) uttery custed At this juncture the historic mulating views on me questor of fascism begins. It raises of fascism which now role those classes that credited as Trotskyist'. to their feel are Ercot at that time defined immediate v a Dove proletariat and that are even in fascism as being most the thorough and action and sing and reaction he *This administratior expense finance capital under the supports itself of the official government cruelty of its terroristic acts, not cover and directs them to the extirpa.

of murdering large numbers Ton or bolew a oransations worker peasaults from the most revolutionary to applying on a large scale varier the most conservative. brutal torture, not not merely by the severity of its law court Fascism brutal

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terencent force and of police terror. systematic annihilation of each and every form of the indepen- Fascism is a particular govern- mental system on masses, organisation Daised uprooting all elements of In Ercoli is absolutely within this correct. The gist of fascism and bourgeois society. The task of fascism lies'not ite tasks concit in • comber only in destroying the commun suppression workers' but in holding th dion of their revival. tea devel organisations and in the Vailsuall in a state of forced erite dak this goal disunity. To this end •opea capitalist sociely physical annihilation of the cannot be achieved by police section of most revolutionary alone. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 February 1980 There is only one metho : pressure ariat-the moment it weakens- ov ne pressure onne desserar masses of the petty bourgeoisie particular system of capitalist reaction has of fascism." (Ibid, p.150) This is exactly whật makes fascism In order to be able to carry out this of the have lhe class Lascisil mass base • organised ana drmed Turkey this goal not by the doors of DISK, the indepen dent trade umon comederauor but by the kind of attacks seen last year. organised workers the the TARIS factories were faced fascist under with Tine direction Demirel's Party attempting unsuccessaull install the • fascist trade union Evren's repression is imposed directly through The military not by civilian armed thugs. ; does not make it in some way vollel any more Than do a 18 of fascist is to give it anti-fascist credentials. point is to accurately drau

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TuIt resorted to by the ruling class the better prepare the prolet ariat to defeat it achieved by a Cal fascist dictatorship cannot be accomplished by the military Trotsky makes this poin alont in miner trancer «The discontent s how the and peasants workers cannot be brought to an end by The sorce mone. Moreover.

often impossible to make the march s gain tithe people 'It begin disintegratin large section soldier: over to the people's side.

That is why financ capital is create armed bands to fight trained workers just as a certai breed of dog is trained to hun The for common Turkey is also 'dogs fascists in ou Or le vedr have seen thousands of worker and revolutionaries slaughtere the fascists in collaboration with the state Factories schools college Save and villages whole towns • beer taken by "no fascists and Litt left and • against thi even liberals and the RPP.

All this has been central to the growing extention of martia takeover. Marxists do not begin from some abstract degrees of reac tion nor: is it possible to substitut sociological definitions or mora outraze lor class altaly sis.

out task is to arm ene work ing class with a precise under standing enemies Iscinin Sesi's failure to do this can only lead to disorientation

The politics of Unconvincing Soviet propaganda photograph: in USSR and in Britain burden of childeare falls mainly on women childcare Statistics show that only 5% of all economically active people in this country are married men with two children and wife a working. On the other hand the 1971 515,000 single parent house- holds;. in which there are four umes as Illany women parents than there are men In a rational' society where one third of the female labour 10lcc di C 10k chloren the need Tor Drovison of child care would be taken for granted. Necessity In 1971, 3,000,000 over working women in Britain were I01 LIle care ,01 these, chidren under 588,600 women had children under five. mothers-of whom nearly a third work full time- have children under five. Ine Tale micrease employment

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has been greater than This because under 60. economic necessity. The dilemma women found themselves in was expressed in Equal Pay Act in which they the settled for position midway ways-organising 1n the between the demands of ment employers and the demands of and the women s noera- tion movement, and, for others, the TUC The of the TUC depression, children demands have to be seen in the context такеп зото care. The movement emerged in that been nominal late small campaigning.for cama work since gual pay for the starting A month later in June 19/0 The Women's Liberation Labour lost the general election work- shop was established in 1969 as and women were accused of being the contributing factor in a coordinating centre for these electing Heath and the Tories groups. In 1972 the Tories seemed ne nca arouns began meet- ing to read, talk and share their aware of women's demands for nursery provision and experiences as women. their White the first presented Paper, rebruary 19/0 and only women's beration. Caucanon, a rramework 101 conference attended by women At the held andi Expansion' proposed to , provide part time (again!) provision conterence was are lilal the WLM should press for four 75% of four vear olds and 35% minimum demands of three year olds by the early 1980s. for equal work. _ belal Day A £30 million building pro- 2) Equal job and educational Opport Unities. was allocated to ocal Free contraception and authorities the year 1974- abortion on demand. This would have meant • 24 hour child. care facilities.

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Time places A year later and the Labour compared with 300,000 government rushed through the this plan-the first Women workers at Ford Dagenham vote to accept equal pay settlement expansion immediately dits or 19erceded by ane ner keport 01y a- produced when the attack was again-revealed that nearly two nras oid mion Darenls million were looking atter one children single handed by reasons of death, divorce, separ- marriage. 'Normal' family One-parent Tames were seen as a mutilated form of the The Finer 'normal' family. Keport ms recommenuations aimed to remove the economic disabilities families within the structure of present tamuy relauonships.

The determination The to support and bourgeois state unit is also relain developing connected with attitudes to child care. The Labour Government was re-elected in 1974 and the elec manchesto promiscu massive expansion nursery OI provision-including day Part three of series of articles by Ann McKinley history and political background to the fight for childcare facilities.

facilities: The aware of government, need to hold women's vote the for the second general electior that year (elected as a minority government) plans "nade for legislation that would partic appeal to women which had been demanded from the trade union women within and Labour movemen The legislation included the •Sex Discrimination

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which would make it illegal to be discriminated against on the Dasis Or ser Yet important aren were excluded from this legislation- like tax, pensions and the whole area or social security The Employment Protection Act 1977 women minimum gave and the maternity leave pald right to remnsatement aller wr birth. The Equal Pay Act although on the statuțe five years was only in for 1975 enforced as 'law'. Missed out All this legislation, marvel- lous as it seemed to many a the time, missed out one vita increased restores for this state allocation greatly service." The working party therefore steered well Cind •all Draculal •proposals di for by the working class.

Despite this criticism the inow convenently into inhe flight ba working working the present lack of nursery facilities when it was willien without cold care browson the mother is forced to remain wife/mother, the role denied • Italia social status, and contact the organisations of the working Class find them Many womer selves forced to take on work in the largest schic cateding.

home-childminding Such work is non-unionised uninsured beavina toe inala deprived of sickness and holiday pay, and faced with the costs of usule largely ausiness premises female • home-working labour known exceed Surveys in the Report show that many more child

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result the present child patterns care women were increasingly forced to slo into three types double day shift, night shift anc Sunday work. Childminders The TUC Report also shows that from mere play groups in 1965 the figure had looking the at mushroomed to 10,000 in 1976 not including inose organised Dy charities such Save the Child 1s tad there nec there were nearly with a further 500,000 children ingredient: expansion an estimated to be in the care of nurserv laclities. In reality what unregistered minders. was or thing was conana. The cheapness of this systen 'the attacks started by ance for employers and Ine state paid by the had added the that • WIISOr individual parents-means problems by recommending that ine government has encourage councils should accept children , it. into primary senors I die leil The Report states: after they became five. of child- was carried out eagerly by both minding are glaring and deplor controlled Labour and therefore it is highly allu irresponsible base child care the pressure programmes on an expansion o already inadequate nursery pro- this facilitv.' NurE's views on childmind The Labour dovernment also they are meant to ers, continued cut is that hack organise but never hav building from £39 nursery should be vaid a f30 wag Lne to a mere £5 million in 19756 and a 40 hour week 87%! and that s will for a future(?) bank of labour nursery system. Not opened Lambeth child mindin like others of its kin scheme So huge were the cuts that • 15 a minted many local'authorities ș were not councils was child minders £6.75 even laking up oulang grant.

to finance new nurseries since council they then faced the : expenses of recoupea rom eacu barent old staffing and maintaining them minded child as a means-tested fee. Minders and clients suffer areas. Incuams Birmingham and Gloucestershite same exploitation Lill built low pay.. opened because were not would "Consultative" Coules

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wages or the stall. Gloucestershire eventually The TUC Report in the light opened their centres with one of all the evidence makes a long trained staff series of "major" and other voluntary new recommendations. fundraising is mandatory!) from stressed that the document is mothers. only "consultative" •docu- Meanwhile, what were the orner cerenders or me working the class-the trade unions and the Report states that

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(the will give was being carried out! consideration to action or working party was set un Report's recommendations after The Under Fives which it has been considered and dis produced report, cussed throughout published in 19/8 received the discussion warran Recommendations in the trade unions). many of the difficultie Its terms of reference were the Report is out of print. The to conduct such an investigation consideration for action on the , means ano recommene therefore extending provision the under fives Meanwhile attack • But in drawing up its recom continues but not without some the working party mendations from those it affect I COULDe concentrat th should parents women ane what was likely rather who need the provision the employed child care lo De • achieve under ine exist ing Labour leadership about to lose their jobs.

"We well ae st that a are shall such Continued next week recommending and indeed any worth while improvement in existent provision will require

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Page 6 The dissident movements in the USSR communicate with each other and propa- gate their ideas through the samizdat-documents and magazines circulated manuscript form. All sections of the dissidents publish left- Sullizdat-from. Stalinist o punctils buretacracy wing religious nationalists.

Yet it wasn't until December 1979 that an explicitly feminist under the title "Woman and Russia". Banned There of course, women's movement Soviet Union the party is banned. while the party women's sections, the zhenotdel. 1930 on the grounds that since women's equality was now they Were longer necessary. Official Women's TasK Anes "Woman and *re be our Russia" dressed itsell to tin addressed itselt that

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women caper- everyday lives Their thạt lies behind the regime's complacent claims. Like Russia sains nat.

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"Woman and is not exclusively even 'theoretical' polemical publication of personal It is a mixtule stories accounts, poetry, with broader salames about leily and women's pace in soviet society.

The iesult is a powerful and emotional account of the every day ot Soviet women in a society where the means of Productional maine inal sed political hands of a reactionary, parasitic bureaucracy. The labour shortage • In the Soviet Union. and the purcau- cracy s rellance on the lamuly as a stable social unit has led to a For one thing, the editors . of motherhood in from there out that far Soviet ideology Denna general respect The hollowness of this ideol.

women and mothers, the worst *ogy relentlessly exposed Russian throughout this journal. language all revolve around the the election of President Reagan really part of an elaborate Kremlin plot to conquer the USA? Has the KGB been secretly feeding Reagan's wild Cold War Call dall ana seeking to boost cribed as "wildly entertaining"" nis crealbuity! by an unnamed Guardian corres- Reagan finishing school in Europe to Nancy pondent. The most wild aspect of the such a Are te LIA really book total and almost hopeless bunch unrelieved implausibility.

bumblers and hallen characterisations zine careerists! And do the Stalinists pathetic. pathetably bautiful Russian spy: There run the oniy serious intelligence agency in the world? there are the predictable steely.

These are just some of the bureaucrats even. poker raced cutors nal mine some and spy chiefs; there is a hard- reading i you minisned bitten US a young American Surrender by Michael Commie-baiting US Senator, an Brady, a book deceptively des- Our policies Socialist Press pamphlet outlining programme of

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all as tedious as they are unoriginal.

Imperialists lose! The dialogue is stilted, the sex routine and acuon an out mocrceouble half way through the until book why review it? Well American Surrender has one saving grace over its rivals in the sphere of spy fiction: at the end, the imperialists lose! ane kuo is denicten as con- tinuously one.step ahead in grand master plan tọ capture control of Western Europe anc The lA Their plot involves engincer- ing the Italie ' anu-soviet senator as resident.

Meanwhile the imperialist system is shown to hopelessly outmatched. The Russians nave Anna Zasoravna loyally climb of . beds eventually working her way the office of the President: an ten to a room and their agonies for them to be moved, dripping blood over the delivery room. Golubeva's account in they have Colonel Sakhov, the (but quietly sexy!) spy cold master But the Americans find no Jame. BOnd supernero spring their The plan with goes stop- watch precision. And one outer aciors aso worthy of note: the novel takes the that given a choice- -the lila villy Amencan tor any ounci peoble would plump without hesitation for being "Ted" than exploiting this that the Russian plan succeeds.

Attractive spy We cannot rcally hope course for the counter revolu Kremlin leaders resort our lears ol a keaman.

holocaust by aunched nuclear unleashing bold aggressive any like the Imagined in this book imagine • NO! mUSI we the wild men in the US military establishment would • IN une terms envisaged. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 February 1980 Ann Evans reviews the samizdat publication "Woman and Russia" published by the Women in Eastern Europe Group, price £1.30 "The Other Side of the Medal" mcht, praos because it seem provide an alternative to the relerence soviet giving DracTice medals varici onlustasin or bureau productive mothers) of abortion стасу An extreme example of this clinics is even more gruesome is Tatyana Goricheva's article in See everything "Rejoice. Lill. corecton redemption from the tears. of Eve". Abortion is the only reliable means or orm condo avarable Her conclusion is that Chris- Soviet Union, and tally ana folowin › une chasti abortions are now performed example of the Virgin Mary is assembly-line fashion, the highest expression Golubeva explains womanhood "Each ward contains ten t only • milences call Site anertained on bes The nold back ine aissident move with flanellette blankets. and the working class effective crouetsheels and e woman has challenge to the bureaucracy to make do witn Abortions are carried out on • the uctantu editorial statement of "Woman and Russia" could easily be Wu cycli the same theatre. taneous! written The tables are placed so that a woman can see everything that No analysis coes on ooposle ter. distorted in the bloody The editors, for instance, extracted from the womb.. of women in positions of impor- Anaesthetics are skimped or tance in the West (eg Margaret dispensed altogether and With Thatcher) the discharged the following day whatever her con- being resolved" dition They analysis u vore horrendous Stalinism why women' follow of Soviet kindergartens where the staff worked and under-paic other than a vague anti- Mussia men feeling. they steal the children's 10UU However, the magazine does not resolve their children in their care out to As the authors bitterly com- draw ineorencar issues.

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together experiences. Lics Come ons this it paints a picture of Soviet because the regime is not orien- ille that is immenselv valuabl tated towards the needs women and children and is more because it is so rare. The introduction by .the interested ou ving nev Women and Eastern Europe than building hospit- w capull y

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That harassment has made the editors the reactionary and not to produce decide a second broade movement this publication may contains and religious well remain unique Religion plays clues. John Lister reviews "American Surrender" by Michael Brady, published by Sphere, £1.25 Reagan: is he a Russian plot?

ken Brie be acada to stockpile without a missile fired weaken British, American It is her success in implemen- world imperialism trom that It s pemnans versant to dream prowess hed of the simple master-plan that Anna Zasoravna by far the most could neutralise the US nuclear attractive spy in pulp fiction!

New Cross massacre PIE trial bolsters bigotry SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 February 1980 There has been a swift were reaction by the black com- munity the murder of twelve young people in the arose the car. the fire-bombing of a house in New Cross, South East Gown London in the early hours to leave. of Sunday January 18. The very same day a meeting was held to discuss the massacre and a committee was set up • had been at li raise money for the burial of the who had Head and for de vera vere told home was gutted in the blaze.

someone Inrow The Sunday meetin lack 1500 people from community une told polite London, Derby, that he dic other cities took place person was black or white.

However, vow wuss. lollowcu oy amaret to the house where the massacre police took place. might nave The of this meeting frustrated black indicates clearly had celig or ouwage tnat nas swept through the black community even suggested in response to the massacre.

School students thinners. The police mass media have each in their way fights at tried to suggest that the deaths

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house black community. what is They known about the incident?

First of all, the for suggeston was started by blacks. Yvonne Ruddock a school and the 11th person to die days after the fire) was the first ever held her mother. About to 19, attended, most of them bereaved the school students. received Although some ana raCIst people tried letter read: catecrash unt turned away "What aney were without any problems. There

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of four leading members of examp es ities generally the Paedophile Information The Exchange on charges of charge alsu "conspiracy to corrupt Estedl public morals" generally. has proved inconclusive. ally accused under the notorious One of the four accused consolacy laws

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Executive Committee do something which is not itself acquitted. a crime.

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flas beet But the other three face a retrial Even the identical charges WUrICU after the jury failed to agree on nature ot the and proposals have been floated These _trials are important to change them. first and foremost because they there democratic the Public that rights and an attempt to use the believes the power of the state to buttress be cannot reactionary prejudice and ideol- unlaigos wil be much icaaced ogy. nowever. They must be totally con reduce the other alarming aspect demned by the labour, socialist of trial: and liberation designed sexual both on oppressive grounes and defending democratic rights of towards sexuality. Anger grows at or two complaints the fire and all those niggers about noise and the police paid who mugged me a couple ol as ae os but again no particular problems was there. Police now admit that it is early hours of the possible that the author ' of this caused letter may nave the ire as the partygoers began words that it community all racist Gatecrashers massacre offered a reward of £5,000 for of those information leading to the arrest pally, Ilass muratier are dole SaWi an ect no Relations Council the house and then drive away telephone lines that people with Austin Princess. He anu une presi don't wish to go directly to the not know if that police. fund has also been set up immediately the to raise money Ior MIs KuddocK and for. the families who have caused neen lost sons and daughters, many failed whom U1 une cost ot the our1?! the party anla Meanwhile the New Cross subsequently Massacre Action Committee that the fire had been started organising inside the building using paint ucmunsualiol along Yard in order to keep the issue press nave also played in the public eye their role, suggesting that there representative the the party and of committee said even 200 that the murderer was not caught causing excessive noise. and the police the were able to extensively reported secure a verdict such as death the fire That misadventure at a coroners necessary to alert Fund set up une •ack community To the need to organise against racist Since the massacre some of Young people, he argued, families have would nave to du beared co their parties against ben letters detend phone calls. One similar attacks. white feeling was not surprising great day it was amongst young blacks who had last Sunday when I heard about for example, wanted to exclude The Thatcher govern- ment's refusal to implement the agreement which ended the 53-day hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners has been met by stubborn resistance from prisoners at Long Kesh. They rave been angered ny the fact that a mutually agreed programme de-escalate nave Blocks continued Inf since 1976 has been breached by prison screws. нла Y0 •onsoners wno nac moved to clean furnished cells : the first stage agreed an settlement have smashed turtle rejoined their unel cels. and police, of oppressed minor- legal authorities and we coust bress to reintorce specific nature of the the already massive against paedophilia "child molesting" democratic rights and they link this against witn noma. The defendants were origin- sexuality, reactionary. glorification of the family and It would be a grave error for socialists to react to this ideol- ruling class «Doul scaredom aistancing conspiracy laws themselves from the defence of the PIE defendants because of widespread prejudice against vacuoonna sunce Ine attack or paedophiles Prosecutor inextricably charge linked sexually original oppressive upheld and socialists oppressive would not Should «oDDose In e conser which both discriminate related is a show trial against male homosexuality curce react. allu attitudes unpose drollar state Dronini. tions on personal relations.

By Ian Swindale wnite people from the New (in the form of cheanes Cross meeting, it was necessary to fight for united struggle Fire Fund 91340565, Barclays Bank, against racism and involve black youth that Marylebone and walte struggle. London W1. Donations Families involved should be sehe Fascists of the British Movement have recently been con- victed on charges of murder, arson, and illegal possession of arms. BM member Michael Clifford was given a life sentence in Leeds for the murder of a 17-year old youth.

Midlands Roderick Roberts was given 7 years for an arson attack on a Jobcentre and, together with two other BM members was also sentenced for possessing the above cache of arms. 'H' Block fight goes on 300 comtaer ne anker There now talk of for the sary renewed hunger as furious prisoners seek a means intimidation une werentlem the agreement narc-won which they believed had secured republican them and their five demands now implit recognition as political way forward. prisoners. But the Tory about-turn has Troops out left the republican movement in The fight must

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renewed mass campaign mobilise the Provisionals have turned their backs on the not only th broad support mobuised Nort and South of the border in the hunger struggle and reverted va call alcul and open lume queria aacks inat wil do nothing drive British determination Ireland people as a whole At the same time we oppose concerned. sexual relations of any kind involving coercion. Consent is frequently problematical too must the be basis of ant tree in relation sexua relalons more generally who accept these points also sometimes argue that particular probiems may exist ir paedophilia be relation to adult/child condemned because is the systematic denial of right.

relationships between adults and children can be on alist çonsent. This conception sassumes unar canaren are incapable of consent and hood adult-child sexuality "innocence'

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necessarily corrupting. large part an artificial construc Such a crude argument has tion of society and not a law of to be rejected, though this is not to deny that the definition Not so different Cursell Illa problematical in relation to very your is poe cion' in relation to paedophilia this reason that definitely raise many on the left in the feminist movement movement and wholes all controver ever that adult/child 'on te lelt Inese problems are ships are oppressive rather than not nearly so different from problems involved liberating Page 7 100 at Turkey rally postal orders) to the New Cross Account No. Bank With a concerted media High • Street, whitewashing to contend with, mobilising opposition to the military dictatorship in Turkey is not easy. Nevertheless, a useful step the regime's reactionary nature was taken at week's Rally central London organised lurkey soldarity Campaign Speakers from the National Union of Journalists Executive, Kurdish unle

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Students Abroad and the Com- the Defence Democratic Rights ir were ave e address a meeting of over one hundred about the systematic attacks basic rights which have • typified thi since they took wenerals power last September Particularly stressed were the unprecedented the trial Leaders and organises of Disk fulllas LO the outlawed independent trade union confederation. An muranon or me corao oration that exists between the state security forces in Turkey and this out by a look! speaker He referred to a report in the Turkish newspaper 'Son 'Havadis. British march toi are is this ine next month which kept And in the under surveillance for alleged Trades unionists and Labour Party members should protest at this attack civil liberties Moves are • being made to ras the question in Parliament and demand information the links between police in the two countnes Messages of port were received from the Bradford Labour Movement While it is correct and neces Movement Campaign for Pales- Catholic Solidarity and Turke! to defend itselt. arms in hand Solidarity campaign against Loyalist violence and the Newcastle, Manchester Leeds British Liverpool and Edinburgh. army, isolated armed actions by tighters-nc Waller well-intentoned-oller no The CDDRT are organising a "Rally against the trial of DISK on Tuesday 10 Februar 7.00 , Red Lion Square go on working London WC1. Readers are urgec to support. ›oth Britain and ireland behind the struggle of the prisoners The Turkey • Solidarity Cam- political status but also behin drive

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6XX sexless and irrespon- along win more information or is itself the trial The CAPM pamphlet contri butes a well-argued cast doout nOW prejudici 2020C paedo linked to philia is inextricably the sexual and social oppressior children and ga women, So while 'consent' and 'coer- It neips, inererore some special light the need those against social and sexual oppres- to oppose the • PIE shov Utal in personal

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UNEMPLOYMENT:

the vanishing thousands As unemployment hit its highest figure for 45 years, British employers made it clear that there is much worse still to come. 2.42 million people are offic- ially registered as unemployed: This cactues tens married women nonsanos who are ineligible for unem- ployment not sign the and Icostcl. excludes some 828.000 people artificially kept *paining etk by government schemes and short-time working compen- amon scremes. Underestimate The overall figure of 9.3% of the workforce unemployed and the percentages are therefore deceptive UlucI- estimate. Toyet tevals oncal the muchi same these levels oi unemployment laccu youll-mn bartcural black youth and young women.

The •Organisation omic Cooperation and Develop- that vouth licil llas picucleu unemployment Britain: will reach 20% by mid 1982. But there sackings way. manuiat te predicting that no Lesn lost in the sis illnays been October 1980-Mav 1981 James Cleminson, chairman only in manufacturing industrv of Reckitt and and but also in service head of the CBI's and increasinglv culorill also the committee" told Slualor Lire public sector Financial Times last week that: bUT une Iau in une number "Business prospects playal ie 1000 gh. very bleak Business is still rie cd. oI umem: and there deculte indication of a bottom to the disappeared in montas trough." to September but only CBI's ex-Ford whizz- 1 he 566,000 more workers signed kid Sir erence beckett went vll as uneliosoycu even further, articipating a rise that same period a • Yet in unemployment lasting until al cast md-yok. Bosses with an eye to the slump investing less are C aco running down their allu of raw materials and Iullsilce goous. "rivate mamacarng is expected to have investment Over 100 trade unionists fallen by 15% in took time off work to join , ana may arop by ds lutal ds a lobby. of a Fife County 30% in the 1o monus belween January 1980 and June 1981.

Council meeting last Tuesday in protest against New technology cuts in local guvemmell spending. The dwindling investment Among the lobbyers were 50 that manual workers from the roads towards new technology department who maximise production with the ilal slazcu nan-car STrIKe oraet participate, and contingent une enecT on overall from the nearby GEC plant.

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Called by Central Region Against Unemployment Stirling 7 February Assemble 10.30 a.m. Raploch Community Centre Rally at 12 o'clock Albert Halls Name AutEs Send to: WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX trophobic confines of domestic labour in the home depression 1900. deepens,' and trade union and Labos while deting mit a theer Labour wring to fight mass 1ouunuallcies. lit cononk

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continues take its toll on the whole work- ing class and in particular its most oppressed and uUWIl uroucen secuons Wage cutting begins Employers in Scotland have begun to seek ways of exploiting the mass unem- ployment to increase exploi- tation. number of textie mils have begun to cut bonus pay- ments. And one Courtaulds süb- Sulary -Lvic allu

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Rosyth has gone so far as to cut watis has been met by strike action from the usualv far from Únion militant of Natnnal Hosiery and Knitwear Workers The has been at a stand. plant Sulul lol d. WeCK doubt that if «nere Courtaulds are allowed to carry this attack employers will hasten to follow sul"an poverty-une wages will follow in the wake of chronic unemployment.

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 February 1980 Journalists' Charter: a healthy development- About 50 people forms of job loss 2) Strikes, attended of occupations . OI sit-ins to prevent closure or job Journalist Charter, the NUJ vs d dvvvvvltc left caucus, on Saturday 31 3) Work-sharing on full pay January The conference as an answer to the title was called under the books of employers "Charter '81': A Programme to be permanently open to elec committees of union for Action' and its purpose members was to The vote on proposals programme ends with the set out by the steering com- uituaeyw only way to save mittee on jobs, the closed beneve The jobs is through the extension of shop, press freedom, print public ownership uilic Ireland unity, and the workers controla The morning :ended with a Labour Party. brief discussion the closed This was Journalist Charter's first wu Willl une comerence cont comicicnct campaigning ITSe T conference last reaunc" extend the closed shop autumn: Charter had been in traditional means and some dişarray Ior, several years defying the Employ- Iceosal y Iollowing the break up of the ment Act 1980.. Socialist Workers Party within dominated Chore had formerly Press freedom and whose had alienated many or pulilivo After lunch the conference une ell nrom natters ranks reconvened for a report on the Che question in some delegates minds just differen strike to stop the closure of the was how Camden Journal. would Charter walll vl lor This was followed by a brief us uime Tolna report The morring kicked off with • press treedom tron • U1 reports on the occupation at the Geott was referred to the organising com- British Printin: _ coroolauon mittee for The action. from Jenny Vaughan, a member most of the Chapel committee. important issue raised in thes solid sta d against redundas ies Chapel press continues OToDOSas tha1 and alternatives ownership to the capitalist press anu is stepping up us ngnt 10.

The conference then heard a supporting print blacking.

report on the forthcoming NU.J/ Sorte ofere coasacon Much tougher sorship of the Ireland variou. proposals also At the Times the situation belg telerea to ine organisini rather with com mittee for action JaKt The final section proved to ecclestone, lormer rol oi the Times Chapel stressing that be the • IlUS Cotlentious with the General Secretaries.

Introducing It, simon Collngs a National Executive member une oril umons redav to seli out on jobs and technology the ane possibilities for a fight back ar said that he would be surprisec that much tougher. It Murdoch if the conference voted for his .over Times aoer

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support a Drobosa miar cone Newspapers and gets what campaign for NUJ affiliation tn (which includes amongs the Lahour Party but that never other things over 50% de-statt- : saw his contribution the comp room for a

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start) job loss is going to sweer debate on the issues. through Fleet Street and • Illay

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Affiliated The conference resolved to call a mes ingewsparins for printworkers Times from He said that Journalis which to Charter could not avoid the Liv o lailale acuo against job loss. question as it was being raised in The conference then moved the union anyway discussion also stressed that if programme for, fighting job loss Charter was serious about print The debate was surprisingly low unity it would sooner key, probably because the argu.

to contront the fact thai navt the other print unions are al icls lau alcay oce over out over several months on the Labour Party affiliated organising committee. Over and above this Collings sound political suressed Work-sharing reasons for Labour Party affilia- ,arguing that the record of There some amend- Labour in power would not b were from the floor all challenged bv ignoring it but bi ments being part historically which were accepted The pro- of the unprecedented period alll asccu uvon mciudes. Labour's history which has been opposition to all

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over last 18 unolcle the months Owing to lack of time The along discussion was brief ahtt

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predictable lines. Aidan White the opposition main speaker point several SWP Ut) 1 members clearly realised that the Loved and the re das a distinc Charter known panic them . as one oi called for r a postal ballot of the membership (!) on the question

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Healthier In the event the motion was , but if deleatea by two to. one the furious discussions in corridor after the conference that were any inin go by vote represented the beginni f a debate rather than the en of one At the end of the day it was a hatit io para ae er id terms DOLL wIKn ene ceu cocala Press will be watching furthes Serelopments with interest.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 February 1980 Tenants organise to fight Tory rent hike Heseltine tells As Further across the county, councils to increase rents as Tory-run South Oxfordshire District Council is to increase its part of the Tory cuts in spending, Tenis ov overts local authority A meeting called by three the fight back is beginning Labour Councillors on Monday to appear in Oxfordshire.

26 Januarv attracted over 200 In an estate in Oxford one angrv tenants (LaDouI Councillors held tight control of ienall owil lilialiye conectec over nil sonarures to a petition calling for rent strikes mending that tenants apply toi Heseltine's opposition rent rebales. "Difficult" housue Culs committee was rormea and a meeting held two days the leader Bisuckienam before the Labour Group met.

Labour of the eight member bancuon Llie LaDoul GrouD ene counc sialeu Group increase how difficult it was when they rents by was were in the minority. They had and rates over 3p General laler plantel arcuea cusmlone •Llit effect of the increase to a rise of ommittee o ar votes despite strong speeches for €1.51. rent and rate increases. Rumblings from the meeting supporting the

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Mucaleu as lau alocal IC00Elei so that eee ce Kose bill tenants ana ouners prepared out a rent some the their cushions lost by 33 votes to strike was Councillors and 39. van set slulicu Oxfordshire District Tenants groups

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Council though has actually made a profit its housing Tory-con- trolled Cherwell District Council nearby £307,000 revenuc altuullt ana wi pe tyyaou o surolus over if the increased rents are collec- Tne t TenanEsre es sine to pey un increase of ted. (due to 'accounting errors'). Reality came to the meeting nese lieclcast wner Ine t abersor has yet discussed and Rosehill Tenants Association. implemented White, related Out of this struggle thriving lenants Labour LIuCUl Wiidl d lenanis groups dave Deen sel ud controlea councu was aolne In Oxford and how the tenants in tae kidlineton. bicester and Bloxham and even were going to resist. Deddington that there insisted Labour only 12 council tenants surroun- CounCHors. wuctaet lll Coluul or not, should be saying NO to aca Dy mary nome owners.

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NUM ballot Yorkshire miners voted Miners must ensure that in the event last week on whether to give verbal turned their Area Executive the supvl. acon lo acicna authority to call strike every job. action against pit closures.

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President Scargill limited Arthur said uanee]

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Lile campaign Yorkshire ine Jales Issue being fought on. Miner that the Tory government The call of all literature and 1972 and seeking revenge for meetnes is tor wport contois 1974 and want to smash miners' but this is a call for an answer jobs •so that the within capitalism- system never again be able to protect whose crisis is forcing forward its members. Scargill went on to write: une cosure o waoe macastes needed what TIVe The autority action to bring programme save your job so that you and own the Tory Srap sens ne not added to the office WOrKers capilca uleilytuyfileill. government answerable to ine Tote YES a tough your live rank and file. lihood depended on it: it does."

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Support "British" capitalism can propped-up and somehow cater The Yorkshire ballot follows for workers' needs. a little publicised vote by South IT Culs across ine necessar Wales miners which was 95% in internationat solidarity of the favour of industrial action to working class in the face of the protect jobs. worlu wict allalk. in the three-week employers. campalen We 'Yes' action thousanas ol yorksnire miners attended meetings throughout pit the coalfields. Support has been nationalism •alla pledger from Scotland, South COnTOIS. verovsure. Nent Lancashire. Heseltine: "The Tories are taking every thing away from us and well end up paralysed if we let them get away with it." Link up "Council of Action' was formed which included thos present at ine meeting wno were call for a rent strike: iney Wall They can't kick us all out it w stick together, war te cees and mobile home tenant said if hed evicted him thes up masa concrete first Another speaker from Oxford suggested wavs in which the campaign wouid be success ful; she stressed that must not be isolated but link up with oiner lenall. assoclatlull. within their district, county and And more importantly tenants must take the issue into une rade unor morenell especially NALGO-for support.

Myth What was most discredited at was the myth that the meeting told of the working dally WE 10 fight, class being unwull sitting indoors, watching Dallas.

kept Angry teet venting y vals ITUSTaUOR Lne i nome alll demanding action rather than appealing to the Tories' better Haluly i Tenants demonstrate against Tory Rent Act 1972 In August 1980 workers at the Southend Borough Cleansing Department were told that their Department needed to make savings of £180,000 if the service was be allotted to not lo private contractor. Management demanded Taloner Work ng metnoa and an end to "restrictive prac tices" Union officials and stewards went SO tar as to propose package of measures estimated £217,000. But their olans were alsmsse LIit Highway Committee chairman Norman Clark By late November articles the began av vval ioca ana nanonal press staling unal

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The agenda for the forth- coming Scottish Conference of the Labour Party reflects the growing concern within Party not only with the mounting a fightback Tory against govern- tne ment but also with ensuring a greater degree of account- ability of the leadership to the rank and file. Four resolutions (Nos. 144- (47) from local Labour Partie.

precisely detail Ine ways ir which Post workers fight speed-up Jackson and the Tom UCW (formerly UPW) ехес- utive are about to face a with major controntation the membership of the Amalgamated Manchester forced Branch WnO wee into strike action last week.

seems to The bureaucracy have settiea a simular alspute In London last but the could Manchester dispute escalate ino ouner arcas The dispute is round the divisive "Improved Working Methods" (IWM) which polite phrase tor local produc- tivity deals. The UCW bureaucracy had trying to sell the deal to been the membership for some years and tinalv succeeded last May by a narrow margin. Jackson emphasised then that the scheme was voluntary, ana woua oe controucu, mol tored and agreed by those par- ticiphe Post Office management ne acrestel alca llave been trying since last June to nesortias wochd daal would have meant an meal breaks, end to statutory the mobility of staff to change duties, and removal of conces- sions as well as loss of posts 1 aR icallca uvauvn aiu une manaeemenl Insucad taking it to national level gave cach member an Edwardes-style etter on how much would b gained, quoting bogus facts and supposedly from the Preston Office involved in the scheme. The management, seeing that be divided, issued a statement say- mne inal ue sneme woura implemented Con Monday there W a. agreement or not! Tories sell off Southend Cleansing Southend Cleansing was about to "go private" officially neet mionnea Un December 4 a special Iull was told that subsiulary Drenaretn Holdings of Walton Cross.

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David Evans, is a Tory pany, councillor and Highways Com- mittee chairman in st. Albans emerged was invitrac as early as erarci 198b invited une tenaer document urawn borough Southend'a engineer has available eroin ter: , interested local authority at copy It is believed that over 100 have been sold.

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Party and are a key issue in the fight against the socia district and regional levels must services al a local leve between work more cosev with and ne ContIlCT tn e more responsise to the demands of local Labour Parties and right wing the local councillors has Parties ocen seen recenl m lascon For instance, the resolutions specify that Labour Groups Council been shall "be council bound censured by the District Labou: Party selling houses and ponces micruaca mi bne creclion TO1 raising rents and rates manttesto' and the local party țo take the final decision on all Censure does not amount tc disagreement Istva conuo. Dut une Dassace oi suci resolutions at the Conference on mieroreamor or rarty boncy Although seemingly more 12-15 will step clested mundane than towards ensuring that general policy these yuoLiis representallves Lne lavol. floves oour exoress tic ucianc movement democratic accountability , once in office, , renege that is sweeping through their pledges and the plurIse Wulhllg Clas. with contempt. The implementation of such moves more successful campaigt against the cuts demanded bv Pollock CLH (No. 16) which calls for "per- suading controlling Labour Groups to retuse cuts, Ine With Inanchd support Councillor be *backing ists who take action against the cuts" and "persuading all con trolling Labour Groups to Trailer Paet on Monday and implement a policy of no cuts Monday and staff worked their normal shifts no ucreascu Cilarees, Ho Raluld wastage, inatase," n° rates or rent and took their normal breaks eTnooR

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two drivers were instructed to they cross the picket retused and were suspendec ternoon sut oi lnt parcels Pheir labour. Teheondat drew then withdrew debates sull! was suspenaed ana on Tuesday came out on strike Wednesday i saw the arrival of ex-Stalinis bureaucrat pay Maurice Styles Necomanons were ed. al day Wednesday and taken to a Branch Committee Meeting that Special pay conferences evening where it was agreed to of two major civil the orne our mne mecuanseu Leule

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night shift and subse- service Uitice umons, quent shifts. and the SCPS, agreed last Negotiations were broken week to go for a 1981 claim off on nursaay win manase ranging from 15%-19%. ment tearing up national agree- and prepared to bring in ments • The other civil service unions deal the heads of such the Inland Revenue staff and the IPCS are likelv to ncas ane lne mem bershlo In the wake of the dispute, follow suit that have accepted The some offices key question to be Working Methods the Apri nOveU reSOlVCU OClOIe (like Leeds) are now thinking of review date, however, is what hto calln to endere ane action leaders Workers from the Sheffield prepared office Calle acrOss Claln suilk picket. e ores nave rea coe! The Post Office is trying to out that they are not bothering to reveal the finding divert letters to other offices- which must be resisted by a step raycscale unll year (PRU is the comparability cw orancnes Maurice Styles left on Thurs- body which decides on civil day saying that he would recom- service pay claims each year).

indi- mc ltal saooull Inalcnti Hlas cicaliy cated K111 Manchestet musi be that b% Will Cnetne pir is md eo fight on whether absolute maximum throughout official or not-the is made the public sector Against this backoround the sonlaatily rouna • arounO country is growing and must be union leaderships have been des perately ! clinging to PRU in the The tactics of bringing in MPRU ish dead and acais • over une nedas or worker: Ine recognls is that from BL, the steel industry and that Pkli now the Post Office has to be se cialyened ontuaeny to secuie fought. : convened annually decide vil a blall • vul lorwalu uy lize rank anu lut nee bn hursday eeer conference and Thomas the Moderate

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by 87,000 votes to 83,000. President Kate kignt wing Losinska then stage-managed debate on this year's claim 15% £10 The document specifies that ensurt Lilal WILl selected firm will underpinning got through-des the nave : tc pite demands for speaking right vuiclase une wole ou-velict from delegates Service ceansing £300,000 But Exclusive Will mons clandng tok Cleaning have witn tzu underpinning ao vual. Little serious debate on the this and 1s selecting esuareu coand ict to teis ard campaige oniy 1/ vehicles allowed The firm has stated that only 205 of the present 250 cleansing will clearlv be one of strategy odd one-day strikes and longer employees will be employed- action computer centres ana. Evans nas rerused to speak to union representatives until (wil membersmp ievics to pay after the operation has commen- the sections called out) With the elections c dl pou tena. coming up in May r it is vital that Inis move is plainiy a p1l01 on focal boleae nt seack.

the left (in the CPSA in partic ular) fight to expose the kind of services yalllnll leadership that has The

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craver Branch Is dogged the civil service unions campaign against mountng a the plan and is seeking moral out ng aveal wnica cute and practical SA.B. Smith, victimisations and the threat of new technology have combinec 39 contact to hit the low-paid clerical stafi Larishall Avenue. Southend-on- sea, ESSeX. Most ul al

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As councils lace the problems of budgetting for Heseltine's cuts in the Rate Support Grant and demand for rent increases, the sharp- est confrontations focus on London boroughs. Most dramatic and immedi- ate is the in Camden, Where strict autor flas arnaavil preminary to a High Court case seeking The problem nowever 33 that the housing surcharge Labour councillors place a question mark over 600 101 told.

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ene councis The Auditor claims that the Labour Organisation. funds were illegally used To save jobs would mean addin 1979 20% the rates —plus a f3 increase strike by local autnority manual workers in the borough councu rents on top or nesel- Through the negotiation of a tine's f3 increase Contradiction "Camder supprecil manua workers secured a tou 35 hour week. Camden tenants also face a £2.40 increase Surcharge The charges. potential increase comes If the court now finds in the staggering per week-a dramatic cut in living standards.

Auditor's îhe Labour Labour councillots Will each Tace £60,000 surcharge-bringing with it removal from office and doubt also exploit the unexpec- case-to argue that the persona bankruptcy. DLO should be axed. The implication of this legal attack I ne contradiction even to" close down the

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would cost tenants £1.75 extra Denalues ov orlering no mcreuse at au to mania workers in toe WeCK present this is i finance redundancy payments! But the only dilemma facing the councillors seems the right wing and I hey are already committed that to raising weakest elements of the left will will now hurry to cobble together a they walisale of spending receive no rare suspure grant ul package cuts anu all from Heseltine this year.

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A concerted bid to smash 8 am. on the woncav morn. the work-in ten-week at ing was the chosen time tor the AHA's planned snatch: they had Longworth Hospital in alerted local Oxfordshire was foiled on LereVIsIOn Crews Cover The Monday February 2 by the events on the gates. They hoped of staff and in this determination way to intimidate pickets supporting pickets. Into anowine me barent to of removed sooner than be accused The attacks after a of blocking a seaside holiday for COHSE mem week three old people. Bers "warnetoro Hospital had taken one-day Plan of action strike back action AHA to But pickets too had been the alerted, and a plan of action suboort Ine work-in. gates had been pad- agreed. The The Area Health Authority chaired Party leading Oxford tocked, ane an alarm system sel Labour up to alert the staff as soon as member Lady the AHA gang arrived. vitudly. attemotes. uncer ut They turned with 'thin disguise "holiday three minious irontca. v inscribed "Friends Cowley Road patients from the hospital.

Hospital". Road was a " ne removat or patients is essential the AHA are to large gentatric mospital recently implement their planned closure closed down by McCarthy and top Tool or Lonewort Ine

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axemen in an area already 200 geriatric beds short.

a prelude to its complete closure -and the Pickets their ground further 35 geriatric beds in the and refused to allow the AHA Hitd. tito the occupied nospital, tney Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist League: Mobilise against Tory cuts hopes of appeasing the Auditor and the courts. It plain that Camden is being councils into acting as lackeys of the Thatcher govern- nicoll Resistance The legal attack must be met by full-scale • resistance by the Camden labour Meanwnile in Lainbetn the left Labour Council has for several years attempted compensale government spending cuts raising the That policy brought dyllage household rate supplementar paid by April-and likely to mean a 60% rate rise in 1981-82 • Illalular yva. on top of Thatcher' tide of inflation these increases have pushed many working class families to the limit also enraged Dul les Have socal businessmen and reaction- aries, who resent paying thing maintain social services in Lambeth.

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brushed cynical aside accusa that management assurance Ine patient would worth i they tere all me on returned Long refused -and vanademen. Tinally went away declaring tha "unlikely" that they would try the same stunt again.

nsteno toeir tactics seem to focus increasingly on behind-the scenes deals with the leadership

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Walk Lobby of Camden Council meeting during low pay strike In the absence of a clear campaign the left against trom Ine rate increase poncy. these reactionaries who taken the lead mobilising several large demonstranons —up to 1,000-strong. Among these forces are the National Front, whose new headquarters reathan Six Labour councillors are under police currently Lill ul violence from the extreme right wing.

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live in support of the „Lond. worth occupation, the AHA has heads of and regional officers branch of me union to seck collaboratiol with the bureaucracy at national level. the aftermath "holiday" raid ACAS officials made their first appearance -a storm warning of an underhand dea in the orting Messages of support and donations can seni Whitebread bar bara Russe f. Cottage, Farringdon Road, Longworth, Abingdon, Oxon.

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Policies to Stop the Cuts Called jointly by the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement and Socialist Organiser Saturday March 21 10.30 a.m. -5.00 p.m. Istington Centroldbary, Holloway Rd.

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rates rather than preparing the the Tory government • I pokes min Lam quis ions Lambeth who fo! workers this week will be With the end of January week or acuon against lae cuts supported by week-long strike now behind us we ended up from over £300 short of the and NUPE members January fund target-mainly be maintained

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due to readers and suppor on the lown hall in the hopes ters who had pledged rejected a strike narrowly money failing to get it to us call -from crossing by the end of the month. The Lambeth week of action is an important lead in the fight February is, of course, to mobilise the workers move a short month and so ment. very determined effort shows a willingness of called for if we are to public sector workers to fight collect in the outstanding in defence of jobs and services amount for January and and raise the full £850 of the or to be increasingly de tea class housholders are February Fund not to Not a moment should along the reactionary channels be lost in setting about the labour movement must be this vital task. We need offered a firm fighting lead for all this fund and then an extra £60 a month on top Centrer on demands tor if we are to be able to begin *No rent or rate increases to compensate for Heseltine's cuts restoring the cuts in the paper that we were forced cusses or long *Open the full accounts of to make at the beginning of the local authorities to the year. trade union committees! Refuse That extra £60 a month to pay bank interest charges!

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