Socialist Challenge No. 21, No v, 1977
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Socialist Challenge
MINERS
GRUNWICK
FIRE FIGHTERS
POWER WORKERS
These are the workers who threaten to and three years of defeats. sell-outs and compromises. Three years that have seen the fastest fall in living standards of the working class since the beginning of this century. And some of the fiercest attacks on democratic rights.
Inflicted by a Labour Government which came into power as the result of the bloody nose such policies had received under the Tories.
These workers have pledged themselves to struggle -knowing in advance that they face desertion from those that claim to lead them. Their only friends will be found from those who have everything to gain from their victory.
Unite in action against the Government's austerity measures and for the right to organise.
UNIFY THE
STRUGGLES!
No. 21 10 November, 1977 15p ONE PETER KENNAND
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Wright is favourite in AUEW poll
How Labour lefts
JOE ASHTON:
worth E135
calm. But there's still a lot that
can be segotiated For
crampie, miners
Ove fall shifts could
for a sisth as a bonas. This will
Increase productivity without etting pit agains ha
This scheme been in
aperalion before. Admittedly
there was some resentiment over
the fact that those off sick
woulda't quallly for the bonus.
The miners need something like
an estra E12 a week If we're
doubt shop assistants will
16. IE will be wafair, but not
Cronomo Iv assious.
JOAN MAYNARD: I the
maners do well se wal Desp all
workers do well. 1 was delight-
ed about the ballot. The danger
with bonus and productivity
chemes is that they em
bad workmanship and they
work people est of jobs.
I's my job to win support
for all workers in struggle. by JOHN GRAHAM BROAD LEFT candidate, Bob Wright, now must be favourite to win the presidency of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.
The post becomes vacant with the imminent retirement of Hugh
first ballot in the election, an tounced last week, showed Wright sainine marnally les ary Duty (83,893 to Dores: than his right wing 83,959). Bur the Brond leit should be able to make this up by the time of the second ballot in
POSTAL BALLOT em ipheld by the right as the Despite the
the right as the
ment, only 27,3 per cent of the AUEW membership voted. This can only reflect the feelings ol large number of the rank and file who found liede to choose be-
failure to lend a fight for action in the ALEW SeRIAS I
Of the alternatives that were on the ballot paper, Roy Frazer's
HOME NEWS
line up on the miners
Whatever the miners go for, 1 will try to help and sepport lhem in every wis I can. Hor he 10 per cent limit than 6 are breaking through appearing in the medin.
*1 agree with Jack Jones, the more the Government keeps
more likely we are to have rensonable attitudes from both managencn Poutc апоць
RON THOMAS: "1 agreed with
productivity scheme would set
of miners against
nother. 1 sappert their legitimate demand for a substantial
ay increite
"All we can do ls suppor them. I've never felt one can schleve very mich on these kind or issues in the most exclusive club in Europe. It's up to the miners what they do DOWn Government containing Mich-
won't confront the miners. They'all come to compromise and then Justify lt. I'm sure of that. Even the lefts like MeLanes
production. Ir has all the hall marks of compromise.
JEFF ROOKER: I'm seu-
Unless you've seen all the small print you can't say. It shounds
corporate bargaining ballor -• cock-up from start to finish
workers on the otber,
the way the campuigns were
Left majority on first round
vote of 19,071 came as a surprise for many. Frazer led the toolmakers strike in March
was this recerd which won votes
the skilled workers.
POOR
But the vole of lan Morris. the Engineers Charter candidate sup ported by both Socialist Warker
oor by any standards. His vot
1 9,99 was less than the 12,137 receed tor tae sectinan camp
Forkers Revolutionary Part Wilkins
This result was assurprising in the light of th
Ongineers Charzer to em de union behind Toris s campaten or lodedi no the union
example, no mectines were held by
Birmingham, Loods
despite ollers of help
porters in the AUEW in these
were the top five in the ballot
the by GEOFFREY SHERIDAN
There can he no doube that the Jim Callaghan are peaying that Ashion is right. Given that the 55 per produtivity deal took them
productivity deal took them all by surprise, it is likely that God will presently be entertaining a multitude of supplicants
The meeting minera' national executive will set the pace of events over the coming weeks. The demand for a National Union of Mineworkers conterence адо рінсро остого сис Coal Board three woeks ago, is top of the agenda.
Callaghan *over my dead body.
TUC refuses to back attempts to override the 10 per cent pay coris, and defers to the Government and the international han rule.
AMPUTATE
The miners" claim, if it comes anywhere near achieving a loler
ile wage, would amputate ba arms
Ts pay polcy. A minety than ten; and the ference decision is that it has to be payable from the beginning of chis month, not 12 month routise dictates = from next March.
ahort, a clear sucoess for t
lers' demands would 598
profit. With this and the very results means that the Broad Lett can be fairly confident of victory that in the the d boul not be tor confident
Oiber AUEW election results
Lefter Ron Wright, publicly led the campaign against Scanlon's manipul ation of the engineers" vote at the 12 month rule. Nevertheless he fost on the second ballot for John Byrne by 92,383 voces to 142,647of the ions the first of two ballats saw Communist_Party
seriously Edmund Scrivens. Another de feat for the left was Harold behind convenor Jim Murray for EC
WARNING Man-
they cannor rely on the weakness of Dufty as right wing candidate io mull Bob Wiicht throuch tbe second Presidential ballor.
1 hope we have given
LABOUR MP Joe Ashton, whose Bassetlaw constituency straddles coalfield country in Yorks and Notts, confident there won't be a miners' strike. "There are months of negotiations ahead', he considers, and sil kinds of things can be negotiated.
their friends
today of the
by the last
already said while the blocking i the Labour Gove
NUM agement's
tbe policy-
carry out their conference's claim.
ballot." picture. Broad unlike back Morris ALEW.
member Te
DYER
and lile militaris who
supporters in the
the March ballot and as step build
in Birmingham.
other workers confidence
Pay policy faces
miners' pick-axe
is
existence of a right-wing Labaur Government at stake, Joe Ashton is correct to suppose that an of the all-our propuganda offensive and of the day for the bosses and
Party. SCOTTISH MINER
possibilities
VOTE NO — to a return to the piece-rate jungle
leaders
rejected.
EIGHT FORJ — better and decent basic wages
The barle ar roday's NUM executive meeting will be over
right-wing's caim, on which a ballat will te cmpts to hold back on the necessary before industrial action a determined can connence, following manment of the Government's pay
As Emiyn Williams, presiden
Gonner & o on incentive bonuses, they mast
mandate The important thing is to win the next
Wright's campaign contaloed a credibility gap as wide as the distance between his left talking isainst the Socal Caniract and his lailure to support the strug gles which were doing that job in Thai was why it was correct lo
as an alternative socia st candidate Morns Boo vote does not reflect the unwilLingness of the membership to of the Socialist Workers Party (of which Morris is a member) to
broad based fighting tendency in the
Wright shoold now be able to comunand enough votes in the second ballor to make sure thar al least one tirin supporter of wage restraint rises no higher in AUEW office. His verbal opposition to the policies of the Labour
will henefit rank want to
Sociais Challenge calis on al iss This reason
campaign for Wright in
November National Broad Left Confercoce at Digbeth Civic Hall
If is reaches a ballat, the result the Government-TUC pay pact and so productivity scheming is acely trying to ply for. Their rejoinder to their thrashing last wock was to lare ao appea De the miners to work barder.
of a 1973
Adding his signature to thos
NUM's president an general secretar -MEI BEL
Iwa) Mick MeGabes Scottish area preddest and lend
The statement said in "We mast explore the available colliery to achiere an increase in coal production im order to
Used In Plan for Coal.
The effect of MoCabey assocvres of the union's right-wing
will be to streogthen thi bid to block the full wage claim through productivity ploys.
The reality of all the taik abou the scheme that bas just bec
The Coal Board bac told the Department of Energ: that it would lead to a product Ivity increase of 10 to 15 per cen for a selected wage incrense ol
more chan
"blood on the coal" against pir" used by the militant arcas in their campaign for a No vote are no exageration. It tobl
and prolonged struggle by the miners in the last century and this to defest the dangerous and divisive results of
and bonus schemes in the pits. But this is evidently not enough to deter
Uncle Joe is pol altogetber in the Government's good books at the present time. One Cabinet Minister said after hearing the result of the hallot: Joe Gormles BOB WRIGHT
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 10 November Pago 4 could be the first man to bring
incompeterice. Goriley had removed bimasell to Australia for
Tony Beon at the Energ Department has also been up te his usual snakey performance.
codorse the incentive plan, bu then told miners to vote for ir
"The Conservative Party sem to imagine that it can diver Labour from giving support te the NUM." Benn Heath's confrontation with tb miners in the winter DE 1973-14 *But it knows bothing abour the NUM or the Labour Party if H thinks ever separated?
As The Ecomomist conments *This week the NUM divorce procedings. -The din orce clearly has to be with the Tory policies of Callaghan's cres and all those who support them.
Already the train drivers
nion ASLER ha that its members will not cross a miners picket line That de mund, touther with Tul suppor for the ininers" claim, must be taken up throughout the work-
to have the backing they will need to take on the Governent,
hight and bow places
hope the outcome of the ballor hai given ocher worker confidence Enuyo told Socialist Challenge. What ever be modia s8%. the miner sould receive strong support or tbe pay tront There is solid apposition at the base of the trade unions over the pay limit the leaderships bave acoeprod
Ir is thar apposition that the miners" struggle can nos help to
a decisive step forward for the entire working class
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Build rank & file action!
Support the fire fighters
claim.
threatened strike.
The national strike will be the
last major dispute was a 10 day
October 1300, BE WIICA AEENY, 1H73 800 Airforce personnel manned fire 68LI0
bourne congratilated each other Д. 0L oxcided by 2- to stoc
CITIN next Monday morning. No cover will
and the north of freland
The Executive cried to recommend char the union continue to перовс o a Ju per cent orre From After the More Prime MiDer calahan said this was the limit they were prepared to offer to the fire
and anyone else.
HOME NEWS
fire station.
in favour of their justilied claim.
decision really does put lives at risk.
breaking.
up.
Let's look at them.
WELL.THERE'S ONE ARE Im CERTAINLY NOT PUTTING OUT! 32,000 fire service workers are due to strike from next Monday in an all-out fight for their 30 per cent wage
The strike decision was carried overwhelmingly at an emergency conference of the Fire Brigades Union in Eastbourne last Monday. At the same time the army was being trained in fire-fighting to break the
What can be expected from Terry Parry and the TUC can be guessed from their antics in 1973 against the coo Calusgow tire men who went on unofticial strike.
EXPELLED
Parry expelled the strike lead.
offer him advice on how soldiers, used most efficiently to replace siriking fireben.
Len Murray gave fall sunnort to thia disgusting scabbing and ordered all trade union bodies io
SAVING lives, "protecting the sick and old', these are the excuses for Tony Benn to endorse scabbing on the power workers. And that's why Merlyn Rees now has thousands of troops ready to go into Britain's
What hypocrisy! If Benn really cared about health and lives he would live up to his left wing credentials and settle the power workers dispute immediately -
Merlyn Rees knows that the army is incapable of providing an efficient fire service and through his
No the real aim is the same in both cases — strike
The most enthusiastic supporters of this policy are those who claim to represent the workers involved -the trade union leaders. Rank and file against the bureaucracy. That's how all the present struggles line
*Grunwick strikers still battling on despite threats to cut strike pay, no APEX support for pickets and now
Block the scabs in uniform
which would represent approval Despite all this the Glasgow strikers woe through and guined Similar preparations are bein nade for this strike. In Scotland 50 soldiers of the Royal Highland АК ДІЛИ ЯК DCHE SIYCL Fusiliers. This training is part of all three sections of the services In the North West soldiers had stations to crain, and were turned
TAKE HOME ervice workers parts af abou
L.21 after 3 yeurs; £43.75 Fourth 46.7L THE taures i
to bring them in average wage of plus
House.
the union.
whelmingly.
Ives.
Based in the
Wing role. organised
The fire fighters' case
and
as Che qualified rate. their union has never This is for a 48 hour week
of fighring fund.
fan industriat per Get them oreamised now.
being forced as the last resort to put their own lives
on the line in a hunger strike outside Congress
*Miners win through against the attempts of
Gormley and the Coal Board to split the strength of
*Fire fighters only get the chance to follow up their
pay claim by voting down their executive over-
*Power station workers. Deserted by their own
unions, scabbed on by the power engineers union in
collaboration with power bosses.
If any one of these struggles succeeds it will be the
signal for millions of workers to fight against the
policies of the Lib-Lab pact and those who push
them in the labour movement.
A modest but vitally necessary start can be made in
the long process of fighting for an alternative
leadership to lead such a struggle in the labour
movement at the Rank and
Manchester in two weeks time.
themes city rates -
away by angry FBU representat- DELINE LEE
The use of troops is a threat to
means tbel only reason they buve not bees
power waricers dispute is that they back even th
which could disguise their picket-best stations
Protests should be one in the even of a
Street who
behand the are of the
the specia Deeded They are also asking for a reduction in their working iations well the fire service does srike their union has never hail a orily strike fund or any other form
Collection sheets will be vital - a Week for the sucoess of their struggle.
File Conference in
Power workers
up against
12 month rule
It's been a real gift to the press: two of their favourite
rolled into one. Unlike the workers taking industrial action, the people who make the news actually enjoy filling their pages with details of when your lights will go out: people huddled round shop windows trying to puzzle out the Electricity Board's cryptic tables; and the supposed threat to life and limb caused by the power workers action. CHRIS O'BRIEN reports.
You will have to read you
power workers actually the moment they are only operating a work-to-rule.
For the recerd, work in the power stations is one of the mos diu could at antine thin Ania fuel dust, ish, and o with going down the pits. of all sorts the power workers work a dizzying shift system, with seven different stints chang
lhey are demanding a rise i their shilt and travel allowances as a compensation for anti-social hows, and concessionary electri
just as the miners got concessionary coal. But the ignificance of the dispute is not that the power workers are a
ike millions of workers th are hit by the effects of Govern ner the month rule Thi
will have to wait until next. March to setle their next pay claim. And the worker
about a quarter of all the явшя workers in the powe
aren't prepared to wail that long.
NEGOTIATIONS Not so their union leaders. lt isn't just our friends in Flee
line up against the work-to-mile but the same ur ion bosses who have so enthusheir embers being standards Instically supported attacks all alone. The che hatren
Electricity Council are proceeding satisfact-
Unot Ficial beaders, howeve
ciected the aureemen travel allowances - from 80p to
'derisory"
PicKes meru preparpo to mcc! the Ceneral Electricity Generating Board's plan to ship scabs
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 10 November Page 5 - the Dunkirk spirit and bash-the-workers -into the power scations. the hogey raised in 1994 - an immediate one. At the moment within the ranks of the trade
Foremost BUTLIMI among them is Prank Chancie of the EETPU, the electricians! union. He maintains that, "The men should now realise that wi have done all that reasonable people could expect."
SELL-OUTS
This is explained by his ad ditional comment that the workers sere now out of our con trol. Chapple knows what he is
a better track record on sell-outs than any other union leader—
His latest effort was over the Port Talbot seel workers dis
here was a whiff of trouble wi WIC to send personalised lecrers to all TO WETKED LEE DICE CALLE so he coith they rea
consistently refused to MAKE TOE SHIKE OTTLIS.
But his refisal to back the
workers" action has wider signaticance. He exphoilly accepts the Electricity Council" argument that an immediate award could not be made with out an Act of Parliament!
Chapple descrites the action a ROSLE COSE BULL WORR is doing his utmost to make tha prophecy self-fulfilling. The res son? Quite simply, the 12-mooth rile.
That is the part of the pa policy that no main union Jeader has challenged, because it now provides the Jyachpin for the strate a1 holdine down LivIng standards and dividing workers by separating claims.
And quile apart from the tue duse and muck and anti-social hours, that is why the power
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"Waving a green flag doesn't attract people any more'
IRELAND
Sinn Fein President:
Ruairi O'Bradaigh, we believe it important that they are heard.
Party coalition.
THERE were two tessons 100 the big swing in opinion, one on rational grounde the cinci 00 socio-cconomic grounds
On national grounds there was a feeling amongst the people that not only had the coalition gov ernment failed to pursue national
had bot even paid lip service to them. The coalition were making out that thE could go over the ineidens. were ashamed to be Irish. The handlin of the Frank Stagg Toneral, the bogus state of embergency, the brutality in the police
tations and the conditions in the prisons. All this culminated in the International, There was a fee intervention DEANIN
that the government
had shamed us as a people before
world.
there was the loss of our fishing
Tand unemployed we do tol
living rising by 24 per cent in one year, and the full membership o the EEC.
SC Wher What difference will Fianna
R OB: Since they came office they have wriggled. They are waiting until the struggle makes a British declar-
they will come out and demand it. At the same time they will -as quietly as possible
Congratulations on the
Peter
DUDESI LOE SOLIDE Everyone
Dabson pot the boot but the pressed have been it
strated how the press is largely right wing controlled. They real-
Mind sou, we're use to hypocrisy from public here, Ir is the hallmark of the present Secretary of State for
Northern Ireland, Roy Mason. The bubbe imard he portrays K the ordinary gullible person is that he is a very sincere type of CHUTILILT
in lact be is the most devious
Provisional Sinn Fein's annual conference was held recently in Dublin. We interviewed Sinn Fein's president,
This organisation's policies, women's rights and the situation in Ireland today. Socialist Challenge does nor share all of comrade O'Bradaigh's opinions — particularly those on women's oppression. But since the views of the Provisional Republican movement are usually suppressed or distorted
O'Bradaigh began by discussing the recent elections in the South and the defeat of the Irish Fine Gael/ Labour
leading and infuential republicans behind bars, so that they wEt have the Dold 1o themselves It's as cynical an operation as that. *Fianna and perhaps dangerous Fasl are clever They act imperialist but they speak republican."
I deand fade
Towards indeperment our courtes, which nationalists forward as a stepping stone to гентігасатон?
R O'B: *We reject it Southern state was menot to be a Hepping stone, now it bas bewas come a stumbling block. One
perpetuate themselves. Once the truggle is halted i is difficult to get it going again.
SC: What do you see as the long
K OH: "On government struc tures we have suppested tou provinces. With the exception of foreign affairs, defence and matfinance, should rest with the governments and below. old province of Ulster the loy ists will still he in a majority of 58 per cent. 'South and West Ulster would
would have a Loyalist majority. put There would be nationalist countoday, judging by a speech
1934 and what he has done sile.
1 Just 43000 00 00. 120g
10 a young breasts. young nico of Lister will be filled
own kinsmen as well as our cen
Mason went on in call for a end to British mibtary policeman's role in the woeld silet that specca soc same may gone in a directly opposite course, He has done nothing lo
germination. Instead he has been respocsible for the building more prisons to incarcerale the
cils within a Loyalist region and vice versa. We don't Just want to redistripure wanin. bur poncal Pao section c section of the community WINE CHILL COUCHEr#? happened wich the minority in the North. "We still see the state as the major instrument of economic development and that the kep LISA WHACHERRISCL Other things could be owned at provincial level, the whole prooss could hiter down to soci ave dont nited Ireland anymore. We cal UN СТЯ НИЯЛа NC AnE dismantle both states, make a
ROB: There are an increase
in Long Kesh. It is hecome more and more and tore pen in de TOL TCH CHE LOC intend to press it very hard.
purring
SC Do you see Sinn Fein
irself.
The other orgamisations?
R O'B: Well, like it or not we are the one radical movement in 3C GO C Ireland which has a mass follow-
Wing We are the principle organ-
very
door is always open to others.
SC: What is the present state of Sten Fein:
R O'B: Our members are raising more and more the ideological questions. we are in the world anti-imperial power ist camp. Waving a green flag provincial Joesn't attract yo mate. Quite rightly thrighis and know quality of bie. The war will the end but liberation will go on. -We see ourselves as a working class party, We look forward to the workers running the industry in which they work and each
Long Kesh Letter
same young people he pretended to be so concerned about in 1974.
His solation has been to open
oulined the
all the
of
nationalist ay our win if
'on the blanke
RUAIR/ O'BRADA/GH: states
place of work. croperation with
ment.
don't see any sort of problems
think otherwise.
SC: What
and divorce?
This is very important
people any we are against it"
hership think? res like the notorious
We want to dismantle both
vorker owning a share in his
SC: What are pour polices for fehting inflation and unemploy-
solution to thes it terribly easy
existing set-up. It is reformist to
about rights: abortion, contriception
carly
R O'B: "On contraception we land. bebeve it 15 a matter for andivi dual conscience. On abortion -
SC: is this official policy, or
parnamen! your estimate of what the mem
RO. B: 'It is whar I think the membership would think. It has
TENSE
That
observers
servers the
be forgotten
and sanction more torture col-
Castle- people reach, the equivalent of which is
1 am completely and entirely hership believes. To put it crudely they would think abortion is
*On divorce, yes we feel chere should be a legal right to divarce, BLOW LAYOUTSI
1 don't think the question of women simply revolve: these issues you mentioned. believe in women taking their stand on rems at ful Boussl with men. This was present very Ferdinary movemen in tree in the century in te see The net MuCh Involved in the struggle. woman to be a cabinet minister outside of Soviet Russia was a member of our revolutionary
MONTRE lave been fully, cotally involved in the struggle. They are admir equality. They have been involved in taking charge of oper
ooly found in Zimbahwe and South Afrim. Steve Biko died after interrogation in a detention did on his release from Castle reagh. It is another example of hypocrisy for Britain to protest against what goes on in ahite Africa when ther do Ekewise in
The other big hypocrites are the
5,000 a year Jaders of the Peac
they have come an agreement with the British oc
during searches of working class homes in Belfast. search operations for these ab
Aris hope that all current und adverse publicity will
This would be a major propa ganda coup for ibe Brits, at tbe expense of the working class
of lie ebeitoes, and i would be thanks to the handful
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 10 November Page 11 ations We have had women killed in action
"We do not see women being relegared to secretaries or pre parers of tea
SC- Finally what can propie in
do to aid the rish struggle? sost brush women n against British Ireland, for Britain to ger out of Ireland and let the lish poople run their own country That is what we would like to see.
'We would also like to sce the Soots and Welsh people runnin their own country. Wirbib Eng SO WE WOUR UAC LO SUC131E overthrow of imperialisen and the workers of England running their own country.
calendar
for the SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
November 7-18 Student Movement
Campaign on Ireland speaking • 300T
Women's Laft De-
tails from Never rs international Couns
1a2 Upper Streci
November 18 Labour Movement
Brain sut of reland Condemne
How ar London your cal ToM Brandt
of middle class Irish people in the
Those few in the gbettoes who support the Peace People are
aspiring status-scekers who consider themselves morally and materially superior to their neighbours.
moral Mandards in their TETEC DIC Maybe the Prace People will
ask to be paid for the hask of eversecing the seurching of Irish
urgun of the
Search Ohservers, earnings from *hinen Notel prose the Peace supplement leaders received
ensures Betty
Villams and Matread Corrigr Ble time employment as directon
of the Peace Business Empire
all bosses Dont BacK
themscives
Tiocfaidh ur le
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SWAPO death camp charge
ALEXANDER.
Security resolutions
rom the African states (already a compromise to forestall Western hostility) proposed a total
arms embargo,
ad action to restrict trade and
The United States, Britain and France, backed by
and Canada, exercised a triple veto over the
After protracted negotiations a further compromise was ham-
the grudging cceptance of the Western mem bis. All mention of economic BOB-IC BALCELATE the huge profits from South African investments — had dis appeared; so had any provisions
All that was left was a man-
CEO OR AHIS
ditary and police equipment
nd the issue of licences for the manufacture of Western-licensed
ipment in South Africa. Even
his was watered down by limit-
Member states were only 'invited no revise their agreements conALEXANDER takes a look at these allegations.
News of a factional struggle Inside SWAPO has been known Artare in refer to the dange of the Shipanga Don in 4unl 1976 o/ Andreas
founder-member SWAPO and former Secretary of
acting on the re quest of the SWAPO leadership.
Another 58 SWAPO militants were detained with Shipanga: they included Solomon Milima also a foundine member and the
relary for Labour), three
emberi o the SWAPO ecutive committee, the President and the General Secretary of the SWAPO youth league nembers of the Youth League Executive Committee:
In May Shipanga applied for a
his release on the grounds that he
ENTERSeE
Imraal/ exploits.
Senega/ for
Ostensibly a/m
Zouerate, Mauritania,
French intervention in Africa.
INTERNATIONAL
UN action on South Africa
A sick joke
The heady rhetoric about action against South Africa gave way to cynical realism on the part of the imperialist powers at the United Nations last week, writes ROY
cerning the manufacture of arms under existing licences.
Too win as opera a mo.un tary embargo for the past years, supposedly supported by manufacturing countries.
South Africa has had no dif псине скропать wau op-dang its military power.
SELF-SUFFICIENT Today its domestic munitions industry has grown to the bolt of self-sufficiency in small and medium-scale armaments. the basis of its own techniques, Farlene lene, sine Southi facturing licences, Alncan arms firm, AmnscoE not For ye highly armed out Trican police bat ald mant highly -armed factures tanks, armoured cars field guns, napalm bombs, air 1o-surtace and surtace-to-air mis siles and through a subsidiary South African airfor aircraft for thi 1 was not taise Dravado tha prompted the South Disturbing reports have reached Socialist Challenge about the brutal and undemocratic maltreatment of the Namibian liberation organisation, SWAPO. ROY
was bang megasly detained. Thi application was initially rejected, on the grounds that freedom fighters* in Zambia did not have the rights of ordinary citizens. appeal to the Supreme Court of cambia would succeed (as it did.
OLE TO DE Ba CHI ipanga and ten of his leadi colleagues were secretly shipp olE to Tantania. remain imprisoned to the present date SWAPO leadership alleges that Shipanga had secretly consired to capitulate to the Souti frican Government and join th at ho bad deliberately stirre Further his aims, dissent inside SWAPO to of Shipanga's allies in the milithe South African dame ple He has seor several hundred paratrooper: intervention sahara conflict threatened CUTCHED
Aperation forces. in fact Giscard is striving to increase direct
14
But On
South
Defence Minister recently to
embargo with the comment that South Africa was about to start exporting arms.
As the exporience of the past 14 years shows, it is not even certain
operate effectively. continued la flow into South
African ly observing the
Disturbing report from Namibia dissidents
original accusation of a SWAPO Commission of Inquiry was that this had been done in collusion with the West German and South African Governments Esme Shipangn replied to this last charge in an open better to SWAPO: This is an astonishing accusation considering that many
militant members of the SWAPO youth wing inside Namibin and forms of brutal treatment at the hands
women who were forced to flee the country in 1974 MISTSUIC
WITHDRAWN
Significantly, SWAPO General Secretary Sam Nujoma chose not to repeat this particular accusarion in a letter to the Swiss Anti-Apartheid Movement An Spanse case is has in
that the SWAPO leadership's case collapses, hecuase the obe HOLDS
from a correspuedent THE TRIAL of Victor Nandi, accused of the killing of Elitas. Chief Minister of the Ovambo Ocrober in South African cupied copied dani sette. Nandi Namibin. was arrested, hannes and other members g be South West Africa People Organisation, and trial of Aaron Muchimba Hendrik: Shikongo, also SWAPC leaders, for the Muchimba released after capsure of torture of the te exposure of torture
Nandi. He hole the wed tat
after days of hearings a police colonel and Lieutenant G. matter. I did not onswer them, as
was covered in blood and they
DININE Both
relused to testify and were
through such Arms have Jordan).
embargo, ment.
published a lengthy
the South African
LEILES.
withdrawn it means
UN refugee
directly attribured to beld.
Stop Namibia frame-up trial
bepan on 24 detained indefinitely 0CHe
and
same murder.
and Shikongo
La massive inter has again
to show his contempr tortured was
asked me whal was the
Eg a white shirt which and Shikongo Nandi and Johannes ree, 21/25
devices as the
vant equipment (such as telecom mian and de transter of second-hand cup tens from
equipment boycott thrid-parties (such as 1974 deals UNCONTATE A BESEE dU siles and tanks from Israel and
BOYCOTT
The only hope that the South African people have of effective
panga (as opposed to son
(his Jollowers) certainly do n justify his indefinite imprison
But the crisis inside SWAPO is of far greater proportions than the news about Shipanga has so
E SWAPO militants in Keny ested, In April this yea dy became
SENEETONT which alleged that over a thouand dissident SWAPO militanta
lau been held by the Zambian
sion.
report
WAPO Youth League member who escaped from the camp to holya, seemed delinehad been shor and killed by Zambian troops in August las year, and a further eight inclad ng some young children) ha lied of starvation in February because of the deliberate cutting off of food supplies to the camp
• June this year 200 of 11 argued.
etainees were transferred to
camp: 1 l5 b00 known how many are still being were immediately rearrested anc
Nandi bas been charged wil
ze killing of Elifas, best know
brutal flogging simply le
Area! evidenoe, but it is likely that ches
again try to use Johannes as a state witness. H:
probably been tortured
Despite pelice brutality and orture Victor Nandi continues
for the South African court. Whee be came up at the heginning of the trial he gave a black powei
International solidarity can fre Nandu as it freed Afarchimb
For derails con2act: Namb Sapport Commit
Tahernacin Street, London EC2. 01-588 4342.
international action is through solidarity movement against the collaborationism of the imperial 155 DOWETS. nO JOE 8
economic, military and political — until the racist regime is overthrown.
*This betrayal come at the very
these dissident currents or young rege be
of young refugees 1974, following the brutal repres sion by the South Afrious of the 973 wave of struggle in Nan bia. They enthusiastically joine THE THATS BEWARE HIT
critical of various
Youth Lengue members among the victims of the recent repres-
CORRUPTION
They concentrated their critical are on two issues: me wemand for convening the SWAPO Congress (the last Congress niet in December 1969, and is supposed to be convened every four years), ace alreatiation wrap ses
organisation
ern over reports of collabor ation between SWAPO an
Support the NUS Day of Action SOUTHERN AFRICA THE FIGHT FOR LIBERATION
Eriday 11 Novemher Tp Nd Theatre, London School of Eonom
Speakers include:
BARNEY MORGATLE (Soweto student leader) TONY HODGES Gournalist just back from Zimbabwe)
DEMONSTRATE: Sunday 13 November Speakers Corner.
Southern Africa Solidarity Cam paign).
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 19 November Page 12
noment when the youth of South
Africa were once more displaying
Despite a propaganda blitz of Goverminent leaflets dropped
77,000 students boycotted final exums, thereby foregoing ясядетіс
massive nember was dae to the wholesade rallying of primary school studenis to the cause. UNITA forces in Angola. Moves were mace to set up rank-a-ts
committees 1o weed out such abuses, Jo gopcars that it was at this paint that the
leadership decided to crack ODWI
Whatever the substance af such charges, such legitimate political disagreements cannot be deal
organisation requiring the sort of unity required for a determined
njured b methads. Moreover these action undemocratic
African Government and ober reactionaries a powerful propa THIS MORE AIR RACHT aCal the liberation movements.
Genaine friends of the Nam Ibian liberation struggle mist take this isaue up with the SWAPO leadership, and insist that they either substanciate or withdraw the accusations they have made, and cense resorting
enemy in dealing with politica disagreements.
Assemble 12.30pm (initiated by
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COMMENT
AS AN enthusiastic supporter of Socialist Challenge, lound your
suatement October) confusing and disap-
ine suons on workine class
Wism areokay, but the discussian
democracy
ng Thetes of the united Secr
the united secret
(inprecor, 7 July 1977), And lam atraid thattremain pigheadedly of
ent Scotland or Wales Is neither here nor shore for a revolutionary
The other sections of the draft are pretty woeful. I'm glad that et
in stage you skirted round thi
were document intended is some sort of proramme. But whereverdid youge che Idea "the graatest infamational aid capitalism comes from the bur saucracy of the Soviet Union'?
And it's a gross 1o say that the interests e bureaucracy (a concept which,
Socialist
Challenge
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No unity short cuts
personally I'm nottoo happy with
are those of class collaboration with the bourgeoisie
The analysis of the Labour Party s worse — and dangerous
tions of central importance to the British working class toda
we sit here being clobbened by a
nasty Labour Gowemment what oun persistant demande served Labour leadership 1o the interests and organisations of capitalism? Ano dont pleaso answer in trour to axpose tem
short dead-ands-ville
And must be living
efending against ruling cia:
Hackst Scanion and Jones a
selling their to bother about dictatorship', but their treachery Du La by careuto be expiained theugh careful analysis structural position of the trade
All these tallings seem to me to
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LEICESTER Socialist NORTH WEST LIVERPOOL
ment Street BURY Socialial ati Fing Man detalls. 061-23e 2asare offices
the belief that at this stage in the history of the left it is possible somenow to supress real diller
unity with a magie programmel As are no
of out situation and the elaboration of a set of policies which wil break with push
around which all Scolas ci ands a like the nant to work road to lump-sum wage incresses pro-
tected against infiation, a nationon al minimum TY 020 Ganis, Tu as du Boudes FACE as drawing up plans for a British members it closerto where we are really al
forms of STEVE SMITH [Colchesteri
* Readers — especially Socialist Challenge groups -discuss
on tin the lewers page. - cub
How
to
improve
* Relate ha social
ONE IMPORTANT issue arising oul of the Dobson aantreceived much comment in socialisi Challenge is the press
al' of his father, Although on one laval, thia r "Society must be aware of young peopie prepared to put Ideology before family We must make it clear that the family insell le part of bourgeola ideology. Loyalty 1o the family ofien cuts across class sciousness.
Me beaule ney tes they
Together only tor the sake of the Afiersomuct thase who have invested heavily in the family obviously feci they are antilles to some rowaro in ino form of loyaity The family some ways provide a refuge.
Luis Banchero Ross
short cute lo
Lima for four days to 1850901285
redun-
revera
paper's
following ta broader matter how small.
Happy family myth
social anc economic life
when
children.
loyalties and trus
conOnce
stay
does of course in
WOULD like to make some
Chris
On New Years Eve 1971/2,
the lead-
ing Peruvian fishmeal magnate
Thia
ate Paru for years to come. Tha
munder led ta journalists digging
out details of comption among
the small national bourgeoisie:
Many threade In Bencher
Rosai's murder wound toward
President in La
Paz, Bolivia, who had boen in
CCIOLLIO of 1972 The
hela of the war-fime et 1or 1n Identilled
This was rejected by the Bolivian
and it became a very powerful businessman indeed
place America. integral
quantity of investment and solld result an
cola was taken oul i berman)
in the following montha. (in-
YOUR PAPER la great but yor
NOUIS DACONTER HER ORER
give paper following steps could Improve the paper:
to make tun of the establishment da maka political points et the
2. Concentrate mone on dealira wilh the arcumonts cut ovor
pushing this argumant week in week out for AUEW/TASS
week to prove the contrary no Intimecy, and support from the alienation they experience under capitalism. Butthis small amount
controt
Revolutionanes must lake up this contradiclion, by showing
calliy. The pompous Ideology c
loyalty" and 'bebraval' hegins f
eality of women's oppression in
sexual fuseation and rederious
It's really important to shatter this myth athappy, loyaitamilles view Most paople's experience will tell
Lenge. lingers on, and prevents peuple from seeking an alternative to the
hetamily isadmitted, itarole as a partial retuge from boring jobe
prices, and so on will be under solutiens to all these problems
ACTIONS Inernsenes, become more urgent and impera-
SUE ASPINALL [N. London]
Fascists in
cidentaily this was the source of the persistent rumours that Juan
re-style co ine mons in gold received in exchange for giving Bormann retuge.)
Specifically, land was bought Brati and Sauter chile tor rem 019
German retugees.' To this de
fasciste live in these enormou fortified colonias
investments in Laun Amarica paid on Leciimale
Nazi refugoes throughout south
to phonamanal growth of German imperialism in
In some countries these Nazis have lived quite openly, such as
3. In times of 'beit tightoning which have been a permanen
the establishment should
Concentrale more
basic arguments to deal with lions of people night and talk about il the next
TV programmes even It ite only a MANCHESTER SUPPORTER
circumatences. we eak contributors to the setters page to sign
Kurdish rights
THE KURDISTAN Salidarity Co. the theme of End the Inter.
We have sel oursalves 1wo
with this
on the history and practice of the
have obtained permission tr
Curdiatan. This will be foilowed by a talk by Dr. Majeed Jaafar, a
AEHISHINIC studied the situation of Kurde in
Turkey tor many years
jecondly, we want to have a discussion on the way farward far solidarity work in Britain. This
experience gained from the wark we have done in the NUS, and trade unions and wili discuss
solidarity campaign. tion.
Stan Newens MP willbr
conference
giving his perspnal account o
Is STA an
alternative?
BERNARD REGANE article on
teachers' union alactions la in marked contrast with the inter
with DENICO SUO DE DAS LIR
(3003IS1 Teachers'
Alliance was commitied to
the delence of education. We also
was VOIR AEWRI adopled af the STA's founding
general moeting Ilkewise passed
Find that Bernard Regan motivated support for Whiteley purety on
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 10 November Page 14
Latin
America
Josep Mangele of Auschwit
elite is predominantly of Germar origin including the notorious President Stroessner
TrIs wratched dictatorship
araguay finance sura
It was little surpris
Шь Sens revenio that Paraguayan generais ans
najor smugglers of heroin Into the USA
coup against the left nationalist government oi Torres ralled. Th contingency was not needed, but the direct linke — al busi-
tries was Instrumental in prepar-
. It's per fecty logical that Boliria should fertile lands yet another genieration of beleaguered white
reach onary regime, based on an
wen Nazis intaprated into the
with ruling layers
butcher of Lyons and succeesful Andean businessmar capital has no scruples about
LEDNARD LANE, Bristol the problems facing the Kurdist people and their light against oppression. There will alsa be a session on the Kunda situation the Middle East.
Through the contributions of
non-Kurdish groups we hape te show that the struggle of the Kurdish peaple is complementary to that of the Arab
tors to the conterence will include lain MacDonald from Want) and Georgina Ashworlr (from the Minonty Righte Group).
Pie conterenon will take olace rom osmo o doom on saturda 12 November 1977 at the Cancer Hall, Imperial College SWT. I1 la open Conson Road, LOBOOH
national and democratic rights, or who Informec on the Kurdish quee-
NIGEL WARD [Kurdistan Solldarity Committes] Whiteley omitted to call fora vote for Dick North in the Tasche election address, Regan himsel 4018 0 10 10966 thai theme is aiso no mention o racism or the defence of adugArera son campagn Regen's raises
seroualy the
- поп-ссопопстьяшня, Fo wna extent apart from its more
laitemative' to Rank and Fila
if the STA hopes to unite largi numbers of leachers it has to tackle these questione, now!
ALICE GRAHAME, GAIL MEYER
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The Grunwick film: Is it good enough?
UNDER
to the FT
a new Penguin Special, Grunwick.
ATHAN SILBERMAN
Trade unionists and socialists are well aware of the role of the National Association for Freedom in the Gruewick dispute. NAFF has pulled out all the stops to ensure the defcat of the itrikers. Through & campaign of propaganda in the media, active impact of the poral worker Impact of postal workers" brough their legal t oycott and advice to George Ward, NAFF has exposed itself as the anti-
Joe Rogaly critical of the IAFF. Like all the most astute ruling class poltical thinkers,
saw the same film.
Touring Socialist Challenge meetings in the North-west MRS WICK IS a RELIE USED experizen: in support raising
The Newsreel Collective film Stand Together. It is a rousing, effective, and com plementary aid to the strikev appeal for mass pickets.
The footage and soundtrack were almost totally shot on the !! July mass day of action. alone constitutes both the film's strengths as an agitational tool and its weaknesses as a more useful film event within the bronder political situation.
The film begins with strikers on the lice reasons for being on
their reasons for strike and devel pments sinoe the the film consists of a chronological narrative of the day's events
This narrative i underscored by Interviews with dosens of narticipants from all sections of the movement. In particular we witness the colourful tide Eiste ion canners 3nG colol- gents into Willesden
Britain. Unity, solidarity, SOLE pose against Ward and NAFF are the key-notes of the text and images.
This technique - the overlay of myriad views with no "privileged voice explicit view on the part of tbe film-makers - Is the cinematic act protein the
central problem in the development of a genuinely rev. olutionary film practice. That is not to advocate the vulgar imBUSINET "line ULE
REVIEW
Their plan and our tasks
The gospel on
Grunwick according
As assistant editor of the Financial Times and its "Society Today' columnist, JOE ROGALY is a leading commentator for the ruling class. He is also the author of
Following this week's "Day of Reckoning'. JON-
- co-author of Challenge's pamphlet The Battle of Grunwick: View from the Left — examines Rogaly's assessment of the dispute and its implications for the struggle ahead.
Rogaly does not favour the crude anti-unionism of the
Posed that The her bold ar
Point Ward Cabinet's special adviser on in In reply to Drinwick's boss and peply site it his antist crusade, Rogaly says that thei argument may sound like good coonomics, but it is sociologically unsound and it is bad politics.
Rogaly argues that the politica sensitivity" of the NAFF, which alienates it from those who are •Nostalgia is not enough' suggests CARL GARDNER as the headline for his critical review of Stand Together, a 52-minute colour film on the Grunwick struggle by the Newsreel Collective. GEOFFREY SHERIDAN wonders if be
soundtrack but Newsreel bypass this problem of film strategy by an "apolitical" device which 1s itself deeply political.
Worthy of note is the exposure of the presence of thousands of within the dispute. Activists from the women's movement are given their voice rare within the context of a trade union even!
The patronising treatment of the
This mile trade union bureaucrate F
Farm around Ettle" Jayaben Desai throuphour her whole speech!
There is ouly one overt inter vention hy the film makers with in the film, outside this obviously that partial, work. Ar one point they illustrat that day's events, concentrated on the "anruliness" and 'violence of the pickets. But it is precisely here tion to tbe bourgeois medin's comesus view or mass acon as a "threat to democracy' of Newsreci start to run into probbeEns.
Anxious as they are to stress the essentially purposeful and movement's response to Grun wick, they are unable to conwithin the film, political problem. Working class violence against a violent bourgeois State is both peressible and necessary, Only an occasion al dissenting Voice soundiack is anie to question the prevailing tone — that somelow massed trade union solidarity As a result of the political and the chronological limitations of
GRUN
WICK
Socialist
Tory
associate oneself
sell from die a an him-
Isation, Rogaly goes on to argue
NAFF championed by pe the case for the
context of the Grunwick strike the need for a clearly stated code and the responsibibities of trade NESWSSELUIE WIENER CEO TECHE
Scarman said in 1974: "It 15 perhaps too often forgouten that morning (which may yet be scen is the turning-point in the des
tural fac Similarly, because the film is CHELOR WILE DID six or seven hours, any explan ation of the wider coonomic and
the contradiction expansion of the leisure market
and the pressure of large capital upon small capital within that industry) is rendered imnorshle umpossible too is any excursion out of the realms of the immedi
polare is and problem
Grunwick to be wider politica struggle.
Norman
Irame
selectively
in opposi
that
wond
a central
Locatlon filming of Stand Together
STAND TOGETHER & a significent contribution within the the Grunwick struggle and a
notable achievement in alternative newsreet production, both of which in my view comrade Gardner estimates in his review.
irrespective of the
general way
sitive union conclusion is identical
100 distant future,
accept it"
cause the force will bot Recept the
sholuders
British Grunwick dispute.
ESTLICE any
The
would want to
impleinentation Or suEn
Grovemment
CODICEYC
struggle was moved specific ation of other workers,
still
matter how stirring. berween the
be largely realised
BeaNe
relation of sibilities to be so curtailed
CARL GARDNER mis. probably be or lirtie
one of the merite of the rule of law is that it is a curb upon power instruce who victor PerioD or Rogaly very much prefers this
of posing the prot lem, to NAFF's crude and insen
bashing But the *Some government perhaps in the nor
will have to nettle again. extend the law to delineate the ground rules of trade union behaviour. People will say "The i impossible". Ask why, and the answer will be "The unions wil
the fural defect modern British society: that be
strongest extra-legal
obedience to general rules as all other secrions of society. the adverse conscoucoc's must simp In be accepted with a shrug of the
These are the grave and serious picketing lessons drawn not only by Rogaly but by significant sections of the
class from the the hands for them is not primarily con- George
with Issue:
BILLS related to small, hadly organised workplaces with a high proportion of black workers. It is now a question or te unwas encam gether
labour movement must look at the Grunwick dispute from the same standpoint and map our a way forward hased on the stakes that are involved. We must understand how the policies The trade pursued by the Labour Cavern bave compleiely ment prepare the way for the
union policies by a future Tory
the (wertinient- promised TUC machine was met when the
off the streets where it was difficult to contral, into courtrooms." Simultaneously the Government announced that it was ponsidering Yet it is precisely such peperal-
sation'; such attempes within the
situation and the situ which could render it accessable and relevant to those nor immediately Invored in the dispite to whom
4 chronological narrative o Doe handle this. Politics cannot
jambore:? simply by the literal portrayal of the euphoria of one day, no
Despite these weaknesses Stond Together can play a real male in mobilising support. If that is now the target realised. But then
when Grunwick is over it could well
to have much purpose except as mere nostalgia. Which b sad - film is too rare and precious a resource for its pos
CHILACE
committee, militant
While he acknowledges the usefuloess of the film in building sabdarity. his dea or what n revalutionary füm ought to be entirely belles Newsreel Collect ive's evident intentions, and argues for a film which would
interest outside the ranks of the far left.
A famillar sight at Grunwick gates painted by Sheldon Willama
changes to at least the laws oo
Rather than nationalise Grun-
compensation in order to take the factory out of
of the reactionary Ward and guarantee reinstatement and rocognition. Callaghan and Co have joined with the moves aimed at helping Ward defeat the strikers. to-
with introducting anti-union legislation.
CAPITULATIONS
lesderships : failed to organ ISE SEATS DE NAFF Or 809181 the Government's caniculations. They have sabotaged the mass nicker. mnd taled to antanise to: boycoll of scrvices that the
The finger must be pointed firmly at the bureaucrats who are responsible for Ward's present confidence.
We must be prepared to organ ise independenty from them. What is vitally necessary now is
Stand Together has been hired
- among others the Young
munist Party, Big Flame, Socialist workers Pany Socialist
hallenge groups, and bunde
trade uni branches
ades councis. APEX and 11
UC have yet any interest.) Are diences being entertained to socie
cil. Within Dive minutes of a discuss his opened tha trade umonist suggested occupying Grunwick and hi-jack. ing the scab bus were the kind of steps that had now to be conedered. The debste immediate turned to the straregy necessary to win the strike; a debate which Me LINTENANCY SEETARELS
While Stand Together has no
the film-makers have chosen to use the voicesal the by Grunwick strikers and their supporters to egalain the politics. Certainly, these centre on the issue of mass picketing. But the messLEE COme SCrOss IBE MOre SnaTOl than Carl indicates.
Totake just a few of tle voices Bill Freeman, a NATSOPA of ficial, says immediately after the TUC demo: "Next time we conse i certainly won't be walking around bloody Landon. CTY CC going to close thar fackary be cause that's where it scarted an that's where it's going to end.
We wanted to have a day long
explains Gandhi, chairperson of the strike
'but because of the pressure and blackmail from th TUC we were forced to support shop them from totaging te Mon them tom sanolagine mass picket in the morning.
If the police were using vilence
the bus tbrough.
Comments
pickets have to use violence to
Newsreel Collective readily an knowledges that the film does not
extend into the wider politica
issues. One reason for this is tha
preparing a Grunwick film along
these lines, and Newsreel con MUSCLES DEVOIESH OVERD In any event, Carl's proposed analysis of the leisure industry
not simply denunciations of the
delegate labour movement con ference in support of the • Grun WILK SELLALI Such a conferenc would: organise the rank and file: provide the basis for
netWOrk DE committees; and place maximum pressure on the union lenderships who always quake in their boots when the rank and are prepared to act independently
It would also provide a demo cratic forum for discussion on
ow to take the struggle forwa
gains Ward, again NAR and acainst all the attacks on trade union rights
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Is the wider political strugale"
have overiooked DUNCH SOCEELAY PACK LOOSHEY S
statement in Sand Together: At
anvane
"bloody blacks and Pakis' un dercutting the movement, some
ahour
Grunwick?"
The freedom lovers of NAFF are
now threatening to challenge The Other Cinema's status as a charity
because it screcoed Srand Together as part of a Grunwick
henefit. NAFF appears to differ
with Carl's assessment. The fum
does have a line. constructed
torougn une songa, magcs, ang interviews presented; and it is a line which simulates precise
IK KING DEUCOME HIMSEL that are now vital.
GEOFFREY SHERIDAN
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GRUNWICK: NATIONAL STRIKE ACTION 4 DEC.
Last Monday was the bloodiest clash in the year and a quarter long Grunwick dispute.
Georee Ward's company cop used six vans of the hated Specia Patrol Group to escart the scabs'
relatively unimportant to them.
Their real aim was to physic
picket, as a warning to miners fire fighters, power workers an
apposition to Labour's policie of 'industrial peace will not br
"THUGGERY'
Jack Dromey of the Grunwick strike committee talked later of
cenes of police thuggery Mar I CANNES ME COHNIACHLENETI would never have believed that the police would take such action against peacetul pickets, It was sickening
Eye-witnesses told of inciden after incident of police thuggery First reports indicated that ten
kets hospital
roken limbs.
In one articular horrifyi
splay of sadism picket was dragged inside an SPG van anc
had his head smashe through the window of th
-assistant general sectecary he Amalgamated Union Enginecring Workers, and pro spective parliamentary candidate for Hackney North, was one of
dent.
BRUTALITY
The police violence started on Dudden Hit Lane, Entrance to the near Cooper Raud factory. A student demonstration was peacefully standing on
them, punching kicking people to the ground.
to allou the scab bus to pass. it took an hout longer to get
It was then that the worse cenes of brutality occurred the Chapter Road entrance to the factacy, where the pickets were blocking part of the street. By
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The scracks by the state forces UNDWICKICK should remind us all of just hom
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or a picket bu: for symparhet
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would build strike action in
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