their bags for the new term, the authorifies got the new season of confrontations off with a bang.
Ageing student readers of Red Weekly will remember that several years ago an insignificant Tory politician tried to apply legal shackles to the political activities of student unions. Faced with the mass opposition of students throughout the country, Margaret Thatcher, the "milk snatcher', was forced to retreat with not so much as a broken bottle to show for her pains.
Not content But the college authorities and the state were far from content. Places like Essex, Kent, Warwick and North London Poly were, after all, hotbeds of revolution at least when the dirty scroungers weren't in bed. So began the long and continuing struggle to crush the political autonomy or student unions ancial activity of a student union which has been at the forefront of national student struggles and the centre of several bitter fights to oust the Poly's reactionary director, Terence Miller.
Despite the press campaign suggesting the underhand mis-use of funds, the NLP students union has has never hidden its support for workers struggles nationally and internationally. All monies have been voted by democratically constituted student union general meetings. But what better way to carry through spending cuts and impose freezes on student union funds than under the guise of attacking extremist minorities'!
What is even more ludicrous about the NLP affair is that most of the donations referred to money to the miners' and gasworkers" strikes and support for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation - took place years ago and were public knowledge at the time.
No one should be under any illusions about the interference of Eight comrades of the Socialist Workers Party (PST) of Argentina were murdered by right-wing gangs during the first week of September. Speaking at a conmemoration ceremony in La Plata, Ernesto Gonsalez, an Executive Committee member of the PST, told the gathering *These fallen comrades can only be appreciated in the light of the task for which they gave their lives: Trotskyism and the construction of the world party of socialist revolution.' of fifteen comrades (two more are miss ing in Tucuman) for the PST and the Fourth International in Argentina. The tirst live comrades. found naked and riddled with bullets in a car outside La ata were involved in work with the strikers at the Propulsora Iron and Steel Works.
Maria Guzner Lorenzo, Lydia Agostini, Patricia Claverie, and Carlos Enrique Povedano. In addition, three others were murdered shortly afterwards: Roberto Loscertales, a member of the regional ¡caucrsino or the for and an activist l Petroquimica Sudamerica; Hugo Frigerio, a state employee; and Oscar Lucatti, a member of Juventud Socialista, the youth group working with the PST.
med Avanzada Socialista, weekly paper of the PST, that the workers in the factory, besides attending the funeral.
sent delegations.
These assassinations make a total loss They were Adriana Daldua, Ana La national scale' DELEGATION being a lew'.
A delegation from Petroquimica inforDefeat Wilson's policies (cont. from pagel)
to secure the right to work, work sharing with no loss of pay, the nationalisation of all firms creating redundancy, the nationalisation of the banks, and the bringing under workers control of all wages cannot be fully guaranteed against inflation without automatic cost of living increases which fully compensate for every price were also sending a card to Curi, the boss of Petroquimica, which read Curi buys bullies to kill'. Other factories also workers nave good reason to benev that the bosses and Government are work ing in collaboration with the right-wing gangs such as the Argentine Anti-communist Alliance (AAA). The examples are too numerous to cite, but the following is indicative of the militant response to attacks on trade unionists: Marcelo D remando, a delegate in the transa pran and a memer orme rarudo transi gente, was round murdered win inree bullets in his thorax, although police had denied any knowledge of his whereabouts. Immediately workers struck not only mn ns own pant out aso m mat Concord, Ika, Perkins, and Thompson Ramco. This strike was described by important anti-fascist demonstratons. an example which should be repeated on The word fascist is not used lightly herewomen o soners in une miamous Villa Devota prison have likened their conditions to those of concentration camps where 60 women and 10 babies are crowded into a space of 22 metres by 9 metres. Many of Argentina's large Jewish population live in increasing fear, particularly after a teacher Mita Judewicz, was crunced and tortured to dears stol In a situation where inflation is running at a rate of more than 250 per cent, the retirement of Isabelita Peron and the ousting of her adviser tion in employment and educa tion, free abortion and contraception on demand, free 24 hour community controlled nurseries, immediate equal pay: - for the immediate withdrawal of British troops from Ireland; - opposition to all imperialist intervention in Portugal; Lopez Rega indicate that the right has not decisively triumphed in Argentina Ine minancy of me working class. shown through strikes, demonstrations and assertions of its right to organise has done much to arrest any Pinochettype coup. The interim President, making many changes in the Cabinet to suit his and the military's longterm interests: it is unlikely that Isabelita will resume the presidency on 17 October when she is scheduled to return from her air force resort.
STATE OF SIEGE Since the State of Siege was first imposed on 6 November 1974 supposedly as a means of 'eliminating 500 deaths, the majority of them violence were have ocen close to trade unionists and political militants On 8 October the Cabinet sessions terminate for the year 1975. be the last date for the lifting of the State of Siege, and the PST, victim of countless attacks on its headquarters and harassment of its militants, has called for a great demonstration against Parliament supported by all the politic al parties, the CGT, the workers' com missions, and families of all political prisoners to abolish the State of Siege renanon around pontical prisoner. has already won the release of four PST comrades held under the provisions of the State of Siege for their involvement in the metalworkers strike in Villa Constitucion. Light others are still in prison at the time of writing right wing course being pursued by the Labour Government. It therefore calls upon the District Committee to approach other organisations in the labour movement with a view to organising a conference to discuss the most effective way to mobilise opposition to these policies and to campaign for socialist policies.