In Newham North East, IMG candidate John Ross has copsistently rained the need for a miners, engineers" and railworkers alliance to snach Phase 3. He has stressed the need to defend pickets and explained the importance of natiola. strike action to secure the release of the jailed Shrewshury workers.
Speaking in the constituency he said: "The Industrial Relations Act and the 1875 Con spiracy. Act ate laws used by the ruling class to try and break the power of the working class movement. They will be used Io jail workers and where necessary to frame up workers; These laws must be broken, otherwise they are weapons to smash living standards?
What does Reg Prentice, the Labour MP for this constituency, have to say about them? He tells workers to obey them! He attacked the Pentonville Five and has denounced "violence" on the picket lines. Not, you must note, the violence of the police, but the actions of building workers against scab labour.
The Labour Party is making every attempt to play down the smouldering issue of racism. Labour's despicable record on this issue has encouraged racism within the working class. As Ross explained: 'Last weekend an antiracist demonstration was being organised in Bradford by Miltant, a paper published by leftwing Labour Party supporters. At the request of the Lahour Party leaders this was called off. What an absolute disgrace! Just at the very tinie when it is vital to take up the fight against raciam,the Labour Party decides it does not want to scare off polential voters who are affected by racial prejudice.
Heath's decision to go for a snap election in Britain opens up the possibility of a major upset of the whole Sunningdale applecart in The new power-shuring Executive, the end result of Whitelaw's Carrot and Big Stick policy, never expected to face an clection within two montls of its formation, A majerity of the Protestant working-class community and a substantial minority, If not an actual majority, of the Catholic working class community are hostile to the Executive. Fitt and Faulkner, with the backing of Britain's Gauleiter Pym. had hoped for a furtaer periodperhaps stretching into years-to stablise their hold. They were counting on a British Army victory over the IRA and a further disiategration of the Protestant opposition before facing the voters.
MELTING POT Now all this is in the melting pot once again. Altbough this clection to sclect the 12 menabers from Northern Ireland who will sit in the British House of Commons will cot in legal teres affect the new Assembly, in practice t will have an important impact, If it reveals that the Sunningdale agreement is massively
FIRM ACTION
FOR A FAIR BRITAIN miners leaders have openly denounced those, on the bankruptcies and unemployment which But the big company bosses understand