preserved. If you are a member of the North of Ireland 'Peace People' then your freedom to sing hymns in Trafalgar Square will be defended at all costs, for you sing in favour of the British Army and the right of that Army to interfere in the affairs of the Irish people.
On the other hand, if you expose the CIA as Philip Agee has, or you report on the activities of South African and Rhodesian spies as Mark Hosenball has, if you dare to raise protests against the role of British imperialism in Ireland, then your freedom to speak is denied.
Already a ban exists on all but the 'Peace People' to speak on Ireland in Square. And now Merlyn Rees's much loved freedom of speech has driven him to ban a *Peace Through Freedom' rally scheduled to take place before the 'Peace People' leave Speakers Corner this Saturday.
It is not simply a case of the usual Labour Government hypocrisy. This Government is stating its position clearly and shamelessly. Fascists, racists, Army in Ireland can peddle their divisive ideas whenever they wish. But those who stand up for southern Africa, the Caribbean or Ireland are harassed, banned and deported.
This Saturday at Speakers Corner let your voice be heard. The picket on the People' has become more than a protest against the right of the Labour Government to interfere in the affairs of the Irish. It has also become a picket for the rights of all sections of the workers movement to organise and to speak.
ALL OUT 27 NOVEMBER Trafalgar advocates of the British oppressed peoples in GREATER LONDON DIVISION Part of the IMG contingent on 21 November anti-racist demonstration defends Philip Agee's right to free speech. FIGHT JOBS THE HOUSE OF LORDS have con temptuously buried the Bill to nationalise the shipbuilding and aircraft industries alongside the Dockwork Regulation Bill.
The same day, Peter Shore announced the reduction of the rate support grant This will mean simultaneously a 15 pe cent rate rise (25 per cent in Scotland) and a cut in local authority expenditure of over £500 million. Every local authority will now have to resist or face the prospect of trying to force through compulsory redundancies Now is a good time to remember the - promises made to workers in the name o the Social Contract by Jack Jones, its chief architect.
* Safeguard unemployment by reducing inflation. Real wages have fallen by 6 per cent, but unemployment is still rising. Inflation over the last three months has shot up to an annual rate of 19.7 per cent.
* Maintenance of social services. 50 hospitals face closure in London alone. 20,000 teachers are on the dole queue Thousands of local and national government workers face the sack.
* Positive legislation. Legislation that has been seriously opposed has been blocked through an alliance between the Tories and the House of Lords and a surrender by Callaghan. Legislation like the Equal Pay and Employment Protec tion Acts has been shot full of loopholes by the tribunal system Jack Jones has only one message for the working class: 'Keep Labour in — to keep the Tories out'. But it is Jones's support for the policies of this Labour Government that is bringing back the Tories faster than even Thatcher find comfortable The massive demonstration on 17 November shows that resistance to the cuts is there. The left' leaders like Fisher who led that action must be forced to turn that resistance into a fight against the disas trous policies of this Government as a whole - against the Social Contract which gives the working class nothing ex cept the cost of the bosses crisis.
2 RED WEEKLY 25 November 1976
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