they'll go away message. MESSAGE This seemed to be a very wel come change from people who have been arguing against the left for years that to counter the National Front is simply to draw attention to a handful of hare-brained Nazis. Ignore them and However, that was on page seven. Page ten consisted mainly of a violent and slanderous attack on the activitie. of the far left in fighting the fascists.
A hot debate has also opened up inside the Labour Party on whether or not racism should be grounds for exDulsion. Again local anti-racist and anti-fascist committees should be demand ing that Labour purge its own ranks o racists and remove MPs like ex-chief 'whip Bob Mellish, who has overtly proclaimed his racist 'enough is enough' policies in the rabidly right-wing Daily a cores.
There is no doubt that the Labour leaders' new concern about the growt of racism has more to do with their own electoral chances than any matter of principle. It is their own policies of mass unemployment and social service cutbacks which have been feeding the racist tire But even their paper war on the Front should give committed anti-racists and anti-fascists the chance to win over many local members and party bodies to direct action against the racists and -ASCISTS
pay dispute.
The claim by 400 women production workers is that they should receive the additional £5 to £6.50 a week paid to five men who - management and union agree - do precisely the same -job. The conflict arises from the circumstances in which the five came to receive a higher rate. They joined the women on the day-time assembly line last September when night shifts were ended, and the company says that the higher night-shift rate was retained to compensate the five men partially for the loss of other premiums they earned on nights.
This is only 'temporary', said management at first, as the rate will die with the five. Then management decided the thing to do was to The strike for equal pay at the Trico Folberth windscreen wipers factory in Brentford, West London, is now in its tenth week. It is the biggest strike the firm has known, and Britain's longest-running equal Charter Campaign how the strike started: After negotiating and reporting to the women in the park, we [shop stewards] went back to work.
But the women would not moye -they stayed in the park, and good for them! We didn't tell them to go out -they told us!"
Since the women have been outside the gates they have had to confront the harsh consequences of such action, both from the firm and the State.
Trico may discriminate against the women inside the factory, but it doesn't on strike-breaking tactics, i.e. the use of scab labour.
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