Socialist Challenge No. 39, 1978
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Socialist Challenge NO PASS LAWS HERE! Reject miSee re
Of stemming the allen flood.
'Our cities are being invaded, hesaid,
"Soon the streets will be rivers of bloud,
2. He wid, -Prejudice la'che
And it isa't a question of she
But it'ssurely a matter of plain
Testick by your on a kith and kin
Disting the blood of our race:
He neck tarued purple with pil
The veins bulged blee le his h
4 li was all a question of num
Too many of them would s
To threaten Great Britain's traditions
Though just how, well, be didn imake clear.
5. The wise ones tat-tutted in chorus,
For they quite disapproved ofhis views.
But to be on the safe side they bulled the doon
And carelully tighrened the screws:
6. Now the blacks fure a maze at restriction
Fashrined in the Immigrent Acros
The rules cut off purenis from children
And thisis called Fucing the facts:
7. But still it's a question of numberi.
Now the lady takesup the refrain,
Her voice falls like dust in the desert,
From her clearly superior brain.
A. she sass, 'Soon they 'I be swamping our cultare,
The cultore that made Britain great." What?
Nomore Henley? No Lords? No weekends shooting
grouse
With the Bake on his country estate?
9. A len in their place would be welcome.
But we can't have them coming in hondes.
And the wise ones assented in chorus.
Frum the Houses of Commonsand Lords.
1l. They differed on clauses and quotas,
We what figure the in flew might reach.
But the blacks. they agreed, were the problem,
And this was called: Freedoms of sprech.
1 declare that it woulda tbe right
For me to put people in prison.
Just for sayine that black isn't while.
I2. If you're worried about immigration.
You must have the freedern to speuk.
But don't overuse words like "aiggers" and 'coons"
Say, not more than three tires in one week.
13. Because it's all a question of numbers,
The wordsecho out far and wide.
And some spread them soft, like a smokescreen.
They're the ones with something fo hide.
A question of numbers
1. The gentleman tulked, you remember. 14. And some spread them loud, like gang wurfare.
To the bear of the devil's own drum.
In the bead of a south down in Hosten.
They festertike weeds in aslum.
15. Hit's all a question af numbers,
The feweribe better, it seems.
Hh mind » as a swamp of frustration, There were rivers of blood in his dreums
3/*We're hreeding a nation of half-castes: In. He yearned for thedays of war clors. When Englishnee fought the good light, Defending the while chifts of Dover.
So that ChrisM i would always be white.
I7. Son Britain was second di-iion
When they eughi to be ruling the waves.
"They're taking our jobs and our homeland, he says.
These bastards we once sold as slaves."
. Inchurch, no Sunday, asasunt.
All nonet in their best shes were there. Tie judue, the gear wind the hidy soured high the The wings of a homo and a prayer. 19: Beotterhood wasthe Bishop'ssermon.
"AlFare equal hesmid, in Card'snight.
Andto Hima block skin doesn't mutter at ull,
Aslonga-flic soul is white:
20. While the judge the gent and the lady Were prising for guidance and light.
The Hoston routh guthereda lynch-muh And they armed themselves well for the fight.
21. That evening they weat on the rampage, They were flying the Union Jack.
By thescreams of 'Send them all buck!'
22. The pupers were full of the story,
There was no doubt at all where they stood.
"A spell in the armo for thugs,' wid the Mail.
•Would do them u poser of good.*
23. When the lady reud of the killings,
Her face wus filled with destress. -The trouhle with our lower classes,' she said, 'Is they've got no bloody finese."
11. Free speech." said the judge, isntysermon. 24. "1 deplorethe barbarie behavior'
The gentleman said, 'I ugree.
Well. I warned them thut this would be coming. But nobods listens to me.
25. The judge was severe in his sentence. Said. Your motives might be of the best,. But you not ondy set apon innocent Folk, You did it on God's day of rest.?
Now the gendleman dreams of a peerage, The lady of ruling the land, And who knows what the good judge is thinking, In his Club, with his port in hishand?
And the cries of the beaten and dying were drow
27. Hut the Hexton youth's bitterly brooding, Just a number in his prison cell.
"Ho why are they giving us hell?
28. Yes. It's all a question of numbers.
The people who matter agree.
Committee report
on immigration!
See pages 2-5
Socialist
Challent
NO BAN
NINA *They suid we should cut down their mumbers.' he thinks
But how many's too many, I wonder.
And that too many might inchude me.
29. Hut if il's reully a question of numbers
Perhaps the solation might be
To sweep up the judges, the ladies, the gents.
And drop them all into the sea.
No 39 30 March 1978 15p
by Leon
3ll. Because if it's all a question of numbers
I's cleur they should all play their part
Let them swim off to some desert island,
And get off our hacks for a start,
And get off our backs for a start.
Rosselson
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Editorial 01-359 8180/9. job easier.
allies in would be to unseat the odious
represent.
ACTIVITIES PLANNED halionelly.
commemorating the spirit of 1968, There is no room
socialista must
against the regime monarchism feudaism
that tact.
matter should be settled at the conference table.
In our view there
Eritrean High Command.
bureaucracy.
Eritrea.
my area.
cover costs.
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ADDRESS SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 3D March 1978 page 2
Editorial
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The spreading
cancer
AFTER THATCHER'S SPEECH WE HAD Enoch Powell's lurid threats. Now we have the report of the Select Committee. And in the background there is the thud of hands and rejoice that Labour politicians are making their footbal. They are being Wicked Brend he toad Government and the Tories and occasionally being knifed by
They have to prepare themselves to participate in a tight back againet raciam and
All those black "leaders" who advise black people to atay alool from the fight against racism are doing thair
through active
Elsewhere in this week's issue we make clear the racist character of the Select Committee's report. But much more start all those socialists active in the constituencies of the Labour MPs who sat on the Committee of Shame must take measures 1o. select new canoeles a userul baomning
Syd Bidwell in Soutnall. He is an affront to the community he purports to
But in the Labour Party as a whole anti-racists must start Committee and the Immigration Acts and ensure that racism is the main point on the agenda of the next Labour
Outside activities are already being planned. The Anti Nazi League's Carnival Againat the Nazis" is scheduled for 30 April. It will be the first major action following the Select Committee proposals, and it will take place on the eve of the local lections. It must be supported by anti-racists
Wo will wage a campaign in our paper to build and SUDDOn tre ComiNg 80 inal Lis seen as a real mass answal to the racist cancar which is spreading rapidly. There must be a real effort to make it the biggest protest against racism and fascism to date, i would also be a steele way or
Hands off Eritrea
AFTER THEIR military victory in the Ogaden, the Derg leaders are preparing for a showdown on the Eritrean front.
for contusion on this question Efitrean people in their overwhelmino majority have showr that they do not wish to be part of a Greater Ethiopia. All
support their right to seif-determination.
Eritrean guerillas of Haile Selassie helped defeat in Ethiopia The Derg has The Cuban Government will Ignore it at its peril. In a number of statements the Cuban readers have explained that they oppose a military solution
is only one thing to setlle: the Eritrean independence. For that is what the people want The Cubans should be aware of this as they have helped to of Fidel Castro still adom the walls of the offices of the
We must make it clear that any Cuban Intervention in Entree will be seen for what it is: a mercenary intrusion
serve the diplomatic needs al the Spriet It will discredit Cuba in Africa and the prestige gained through its internationalist role in Angola Eritrean claime that Cuban 'advisers" are already in the garrison town of Asmara are faise. If they are not we shall I you agree with these principles and want lo be In your area, fill in the form below and send it to us:
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The unanimous
British seciety.
Here we
Relations.
Through this Select Com mittee report, the bi-partisan policy on race and immigration
which has been broken by Margaret Thatcher earlier this year — has been restored.
But the consensus that the all-party commillee has reached is a consensus of the right — shows a shit rightwards in consensus lerms of santigration control. but also in terms of organised state racism.
EXTENSION
The report signals not a departure Trom policy but a logical extension of it. Immigration laws since the "60 have in about keeping out black labour that Britain no quired, but they have also heen
Hey you! Your Pass
Card is out of orde The
Rigg
WHETHEROE WHEE
Select Committee Report
Next step
recommendations of the Select Commitiee on Race Relations and issued last week, seek to institutionalise racism in
publish statement SIVANANDAN, director of the Institute of
tion' 10 'contract rudely units of labour as necessary
HARASSMENT
only Hence the
"productive head of hold.
virlually
blacks already here
part been the door longer Te-
OUR POLICIES
if snited froes incies, tegis lo be seen as g hematier by thousands of workers engaged i Sach an orgensanen should be bosed on the
repatriation?
Immigration,
by A Race of cotry may about transferring black immigration from settler migra- whole
the importation of so many
and when a systent which Dependants incurs less cost lo the State. WISE
their delays and harassment of dependent wives
houseCLEAR
Now that the 171 Act has
gration, ways are being sought to deal with getting rid of those
and have it.
The Select Committee Report, in a multitude of ways, the report
to massive State attacks on black people
attacks which will affect, not merely their civil rights,
The repor
mores the British mone
checks. 'Induced Enoch yesterdas: 15
staying here — 1 suite the fight of the workers against The sruezie for the bears with that of other opens sed lapen of sorirts- annes, black
INE SUICISE CER US DE COST OY STELE new organs of power and defeating with all secrvert mento the power of the capitalist 2 Der socialism will be Inhallely more demitalic iban whet crisis in Brical sodas. wilh full rights for ill polinical parties und corrente that in sut take mainst she socialist sate The Stalinie
to all thace fighing fur vectabel deresacy
their economic livelihood, and TETESECURISOURND right to family life in the UK.
-Te report recommends that children over 12 years old borr
will not be allowed to join their
be limited TB05C POOW SCHOOL HEE The
system of arranged
and the admission of husbands and hance is to be reviewen
(other than and children under 16) should not he allowed to join
families here accommodation and means of support is approved by the authorities, and supplementary henefits would he denied them.
The message is clear black families are unwanted here. If you want family life, go home
There is another message in
settlement Britain means becoming British, comnitting cultural suicide: torsaking what Britain defines as alico cultures and alien social relations.
believe that the members o those minorities should ther sore pas creater Perate to te adoptions, indeed, to o their (beir traditional pattern of the bride joining the busband's family." In ocher words, if you
and
Perhaps the meat damager back home. aspect of the report is the new empassis on for harassment and surveillance of the black community From the village in the Indian sub-continent to
social security office, blacks will be checked, stopped and scrutinised.
IDENTITY CHECKS
They will be cross-question od many times by immigration officials as to whether they have a right to enter; police are to be given mare resources and megal migrant bed for
immigranti and overstayers; DHSS ollicials instructed to carry out identity
repatriation"
Powell's phrase of recommendation to the Government loday — not in terms of positive Joducerents 1080 home, ber ns deterrents to
Facing an intolerable Pass Law sociely to back poops a Balan.
warialism seeks 10
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What they
said about
the report
TOM LITTERICK, Lulner P: seems to me thal llo MPs have beat over backwards
racist hysteria. Their report supplies fuel for racists it baffles me thar the report is unanimous that there bot a
Er's all about black immigration. It doesn't point out that for the first time, last
•ITOM whites in South Africa. doesn't mention that 30,000 white Rhodesians are eligible for entry, it says nothing about Tice relations
This damned report is abou BUL abou Immigration as a wbole."
ALEX LYON, Labour MP sacked by Callaghan: 'A gift te racists. It will mean Identity cards, arbitrary police checks, and other controls wholly allen to Britain.
LORD AVEBERY. Liberal spokesperson on race relations:
This is a thoroughiy unhelpfu document, pandenine to the worst elements in society who bave been trying to whip u hysteria about the trickle o Immigrants now arriving in Britain.
THE ECONOMIST: INO mention is made of the contribution immigrants make to the welfare of Britain. No effort la made to correct the myths that they are scroungers and enemies of British culture
Race relations improve until Britain can bring self lo welcome those whom i has, in effect, revited to come.
FINANCIAL TIMES: I is surprising to find that the work of the Commission for Racial Equalicy, and indeed the insticution itself are scarcely mentioned, and that race relations are scarcely discussed That is the first shack of the герогі.
*The second shock is report's utter illiberality... The report carries the doctrine of closing the remaining loopholes to new and dangerous lengths
*There is a third shock in the language of double-think which the report is written...l would have been straightforward simply to have endorsed bE MI Enoch Powell.
DAILY MAIL., which supported the fascist Camald Mosley in the 1930s: "Ten MP, huve kept their hears and done their duty...
'What will infuriate all thosc Establishment figures from the sanctimonious Merlyn Rees to the pompous Pruful Patel b that this all-Party Committee provides dramatic vindication for... 1. Mrs Margaret Thatcher 2. Mr Enoch Powell communal or wings love any meanings
naulianary secaiis partin ate mine neces cary has it before Curlinene andar
demarrary soda lesury hul as a rile
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No. 1
Name: Syd Bidwell.
Age: 61 Colour: White Sex: Male
More than any other MP on negligible.' the Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration, the committee's report,
committee attended more of its sessions than Bidwell.
Hidwell was one of those who hud an all-expenses trip to Pakistan. Bangladesh and Indiu to research теропі.
Many immigrants saw Bidwell as their main hope on the commiltee. He represents a constituency with a large immigrant population, and s a former chairperson of Tribune Group he left-wing credentiuls.
For instance, on 2H June last countries fear he wrote to the Morning Star comment in Bidell described this Societite wit the The British Road to Social- former document in:
*Realistic and uppropriate... Workers Party T tind with expressions the Morning Star. Since paper hasically rests on the majority political positions of the British Commonist Party,
follows TRAL I lind differences with the Commun-
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 30 March 1978 page 3
IDENTITY CARD
Issued by working people
Occupation: Member of Parliament, Southall.
Bidwell went on to write: policy over the past ten years or Bidwell Syd Hidwell i responsible for so, I have found it increasiagly agreemeet with such a policy,
ABE Only the chairperson of the endeuvour with many members
progressive paid racialism. the the left of the Party, In March 1972, spoke at a rally organised by [now Partyl In June 1975 be interview to Red has which he urged Marxists forget the romance of • Russia in 1917 and on the Party.
Bier hime the contrene
memher
fore-nunner
of 1963 when be sought the stituency Labour Purly stand as their candidate in th coming General Election my the election meeting Bidwel was sked his views nowadays sost Immigration controls,
in the interests of working people.
Southall
said he Joint
of the Communist Party in tendenhip af the SRG. Rdner
really the sue against erently expelled from the master of disguise. refused to do
group becuuse of his
kidwell's history goes fur to of immigration control
Communis Avate cample he wivoency controls the Socialist Labour Leugue Greater London Luhour Parly checking on immigrants, both
Workers Revolutionars regional conference. gase tocating Weekly in Immigration control Balwell Party. other that demand. and join the Labour controls is in opposition to the and the different treatment of official policy decided
Socialist an end to all coniTois and the
He was still in the SRG In bluck self defence somination of Southall Con- Committee's report - indeed, the 111 signing
large merely controls to their oR conclusion. the
maintenance of which were the huving controls if there aren
CLP, rigorous meuns of enforcin WAS in them, und 'internal checks' o immigrants would probably be He was then summoned to the most efficient meuns o
the doing this.
was Please Note: Syd Bidwell Is a
support recommendations of the Selec Committee of Bidwell's possible separation of parent immigration from children and a muc 1977 more extensive a when they enter tbe country ad. and when they are bere conference, to moved an amendment to delete disguised Bidwell proclaimed
"The current Bidwell's advocacy of such coloured people at our port
of the Labour coloured people for family at Its reasons has to go." 1976. This To All Readers of This Identity twin demands of Card: Bidwell Immigration He should he sacked from support of Parlainent, sacked from the Labour Party Labour the Select Constituency It he won't go peacefully, if • Bidwell claims to have written Soutball CLP
sections of it — he is him, it is of utmost importance
Immigrution that broad logical campaign be established in his constituency to oppose him a After all there is mo point the next Genera
DOW
front.
Duily
"seminars
The Middle inducing
the People. voluntary.
'But
сошліту, When
GULL DULL.
The namesake
The main brough. seem to cease. envisaged
Yet at last scar's Labou
harassment of
mist gol
sacked by his
doesn'1 suck
anti-racis
Election.
News
nowhere
SAS stunner IT SEEMS that every Western capital now has it own Special
TEnSELEVEN Alter their dazzling successes at Mogadishu and in last year's Dutch train seige, the inevitable Special Air Service soldiers are
in Italy defending democracy on yet another
But behind these latter-day crusaders lies a more sinister development. According to a
Mail report nOW confirmed by official sources, 30 governments took up a British Government invitation to participate in a series of
onl International "anti-terrorist operations.
meetings, at the Bramshill police college,
WETS designed to set up a network of
exchange information on "subversives".
Laps are dentry scarca is to who attended the meetings, but
representatives of a number of
EOVEEIIOLELS possibly up to ministerial level and certainly involving high-ranking civil servants.
And what did these foreign governments think of Britain's highly developed armoury of anti-subversion weapons, including the famous paralysis
grenades used Mogadishu? Stunning
Comedy of Errors ROBERTMOSS is in favour of
repatriation OF course it will be He toid a radio interviewer some weeks ago:
we introduced voluntary repatria-
would beta the detriment of the
1 the interviewer SUg-
suited the
'Well, the National Front, to be
OEL LOOK OLLE our policies, or took what were conservative boscies alter the failure of the Conservative Party in the late *50s and Mr Heath had rather, not exactly Jeft-wing views, but very liberal viers on iromipration.
The Robert Moss in questior is not the man from NAFF and
Economist, but his who adorns the Conservative Party in Middles-
Coincidences never
Iron discipline case. THE ELECTORS who voted for the far-left cundidates in France turned out to be the best disciplined. The overwhelming majority trunsferred their votes
1:33454N nadies foo
FREE
PLaol
from
to the Communist or Socialis Partles. But not the Left Radicals.
Coletonar daily permitte
Revolutionary munis league (UCK — Fresch section of the Fourth International explained that the Left Radicak were the Trojan pappy of the right-wing parties and votes should not be transferred to
This had a dramatic impact in two constituencies, where th Left Radicals were defeated because the far-left did transfer its votes to them. Te on
Louriers, the LCR-PSU slate got 800 The Left Radical was defeste by 320 votes. Hehas since joined the Socialist Party!
Official Secrets are for sharing THE ARC latrey, Bary and defence of Aubrey.
Campbell, TATE being prosecuted under the Officia monthly newsletter with initial postal circulation of 900
campaign supporters. No doubt Special Branch
LOSU mated strength 1,100) and M15, Britain's intersal secre police (estimaled strength 5,000) will be anxious to joir the mailing list if their friends in the Post Office haven't already done the necessary.
The ABC campaign has not been short of imagination or energyplanned is for one of the
SEA TOT the forthooming Wycombe by-clection.
Interesting installations and the Tory candidate is ex-MI5.
An ABC support group has been set up in Newcastle, and is keen to undertake research into what the snoopers are up to in the area. One sapporter, a local COINCHE WaRS TO DO 00 about what she believes is a COIN COEDUCHES ECHEC The group has contacts with Neweastle civil servanls in We CPSA and the local Inland Revenue Staff Association.
The Government is evidently determined to hold on to is pernicious secrets. Last week Attorisey Sam Silkin ordered the jailing for contempt of court of journalists on The Leveller, which published the identity of Colonel B' who Just happened to give Full details of lus Army position in cross examination during the preliminary hearing of the ABC
Copies of the campaig newsletter are availabl
Road London 1A
Road London donation would be appre ciafed.
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Only whites need apply to The Club of Ten
HOME NEWS
Identity Card No 2 Name: Fred Willey Age: 67 Colour: White Sex: Male Occupation: Labour Member of Parliament for Sunderland History: Fred Willey
in Wilson Government. Since
and more right-wing causes
of the Labour right-wing Manifesto aroup and was a sponsor or te
Bill which Identity Card No 5 Nume: Tom Torney Age: 62 Coloer: White Sex: Male Occupation: Labour Member of Parliament tor Bradford South History: Tom Torney Is
and former Identity Card No 8
Namet Alfred Hall Davis Age: 53 Colour: White Sex: Male Occupation: Tory Member of
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 30 March 1978 page 4
attempted to restrict abortion
the Immigration Select ComDISTICE
Willey is sponsored by the ASSOCIATE SPE Technical and Staffs. He is a barrister and a company director. He has also
book entitled The TILLICI Honoruble Member, and went being to Cambridge Universiry.
Most surprisingly. Willey is a
the Save Children Fund council. haps he believes that blacks are all very well, as long as they stay
bureaucrat for the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, whose members are among the lowest paid in the LULLELY.
Torney's only real claim to fame was his opposition to the nationalisation Channel Ship Repairs, which waRd a long successe campaign to be exempled from the Labour nationalisation plans shipbuilding
As well as supporting this campaign Torney was public consultant News Service, Briscol Channel Ship Kepairs campaign.
Torney is also a Justice of the Peace and is sponsored
out of the Select Committee's RA C005
Parliament for Morcombe and Lonsale History: Alfred Hall Davis has always had close links with the Tory leadership. with Heath, be claims to have a greal interest in sailing. Heir an associate of Thatcher, having been her Private Parliamentary Secrelary From 1970-73. He has also been a Tory Whip.
Hall Davis has considerable business interests. He is u director in the giant brewery Bass Charington. year made a profit of 199.7m.
Leaving aside Hall Davis's
fees, his shares
ONCELE
Bass Charrington netted Jum
just under E1000 last year. It is
well known that Asians do not drink as much as whites.
Identity Card No 3 Nume: Eric Moonman Colour: White GET TIME Occupation: Labour Member of Parliament for Basildon History: Moonman came to politics via management. He -опе time relations advisor" for the bosses organisation, the British Insti-
MEENUTIL Mangerial
The PerIdentity Card No 6 Name: Dudley Smith Age: 51 Colour: White Sex: Male Parantin for Warwick and Parliament for
History: Unlike others on the Government's Committee,
for Smith has had a
December 1977, he said: I have PATTELE alwass taken a certain view on
relations immigration. I belleve that it
sould he far more restricted which ran the than it is:
Rees* amnesty Immigrants, The Select ComTo keep in
Ideatity Card No 9 which Last Name: William Elliot
Aer: 53 Colmir: White Sex: Male Oceapation: Tory Member of Parliament Upon Tyne History: A one-time rising star who never quite made
Manifesto Group.
when be announced:
Select Relations CLUE
racial
atrempes to societies from colleges Moonman
of other
'human sessions
Committee held no more
Member of
Dudley diminishing
consistent
In -TELL ALLAH
demand the spokesperson questions
attacked in Parliament for "illegal
Sunday Express.
whip from 1963-70
president
Clearinte
Leslie
limited hearings
ROWLAST
Strip to Pakistan,
Select Commitice
tute of Management. He is now
For Me right waL
His attitude to race relations is shown by a speech be made in Parliament in November 1977,
Thave been a member of the
Committee on Race number of years, yet this is the first time! have had to raise a matter of
prejudice the
The cause of Moonman's on protest was notine ransly of fees for overseas students in higher education, but ultra-lett
ban Zionist Age: 64 Colour: White himsell is an Sex: Male extreme Zionist, but he seems less concerned about the rights of
L9062 Of the Select 28 South-cast.
Moonman managed to attend only eight.
Age: 49 Colour: White Sex: Male mitter's Report demands that
such amnesties are declared. Smith aisa criticised Labour's political broadcast attacking the National Front.
In July 1977, he asked the Government what evidence it had that immigration from the Indian sub-continent Is now
When an equi vocal answer was given, Enoch Powell came to Smith's side to
Government answer the
Smith is a povernor of Mill Hill public school, a director of
American multi-national, and a former journalist on the
William Elbot was a junior
Minister in the Home Office and a vice-chairperson of the Tory Party, He was also Tory
He built up a family haulage
Bad farmer of the National Council of Road Transport
Houses, em
Eilot is a former director in
Grade films, and has
been a director of Newcastle Age: 39 and Gateshead Water Company since 1971. He farins 300 Sex: Male
acres in Northumberland
All this may account for his
attendance al the History: Select
himself of the all-expenses paid
Bangladesh
and India on behich of the University.
Identity Card No 4
Name: William Wilson
team.
Occupation: Labour Member
Parliament for Coventry
HELE History: William Wilson is a identity Card No 7
Name: Hal Miller Identity Card No 10
Nume: Anthony Steer
Colour: White
Occupation: Tory Member of Parliament for Wavertree
Anthony Sceco Ls
associated with the trendy, social conscience wing of tbe Tory Party. He was educated ar the Fashionable Westminster public school and at London
Steen has spent a number of 1 ing in landlords" rights
Tribunite who has in the past been associated with progressive causes, such as divorce reform and Troops Out of Ireland.
He has also been known as pro-Arab, although whether he will continue to he secrellary of the Anglo-Jordan alliance after his joint authorship of the
Report remains an open questios
Wilson comes from a legal background and he remains a practising solicitor. He is also a shareholder in Coventry City
other chubs in the Midlands has no hiack player in is list
Wison as has 3 my background, being . Гослег
Common:
Occupation: Tory Member of Parliament for Broomsgrove and Reditch
A nght-wing Tory, Hall Miller speot many year administrating -ENE Hritesh Empire in Hong Kong. He wa
service from 1955-68
Miller is abo a director of
Melterie companie
"fellow" the Economic Development Institution of the World Bank in Washington.
Hehad a perfect gentlemen's
Raine lo Econ anc Oxford, In hisspare time he is a
OTCUCTEC All these activities may explain why he has made few speeches in the House of Commons.
serving the Empire ahroad. He is a former lecturer
for the Ghana High Commis
sibm and has been a consultant
on employment and youth le
Canadian -federal and provincial goveroments.
He talks a lot in Parliament about "cood works', and will tell anyone who listens that he has raised over Elm for charity since 1964. He is even a member
of Volustary Service Oversens
Steen is a barrister specialis.
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Home Office home breakers
at it again
REPATRIATION
way of "solving" it. and Cecil Gutzmore Information Centre In West London.
One evening last month, as Sarah Kusah down supper with her children, police arrived at the front door of her flat in Paddington.
The Home Office's deportation order had been issued a few days before. She did not open the door.
For 20 minutes, the police
nocked, banged, and kicked When they inally lent, th family pulled on their coats and made Off into the nicht. A friend came by the next day to clear up the half-caten supper
Any resemblance to life in Nazi Germany should not be discounted.
ESTRANGED
It is no longer surprising to hear of black people oeing deported from Britain as illegal immigrants. In the case Sarah Kasah, it in clear that she has been tricked into present situation.
When she entered country in 1973 te rejoin her estranged husband, the Home Office issued her with visitor's entry visa clearance for a limited period only. Presumably the immigraSARAH KUSAH (centre) and her children Ben!
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE Du Maron Tard Doge D
Black residents to be deported
of recent immigrants to country is not so far away. As the Select Committee returned its report on the "immigrant problem', the Home Office was showing that it has already found a
Since 1955, Sarah Kusah from Sierra Leone has lived in Britain for a total of 14 years. But this has not stopped Merlyn Rees signing a deportation order and setting the Metropolitan Police to hunt her down.
JUDE WOODWARD interviewed Sarah Kosah
of the Black
tion officials their customary suspicion of the any marriage that might allow a black person to live in this country.
This is the crux of the matter.
Britain in 1974 after separating from his wile. been resident here for 23 years when he left to go to Ghana.
Sarah, as a dependent relative,
residence in Britain, even under TOC ACCE CONCE WI Her two children were born TRUITE Home Office admits that they ate not leza materants. Tac children want to stay. Letitia, who is 16 and preparing for her O-Levels, says: I live This is my home and l've got my friends bere.
Her brother Benjamin is now 14. When he last lived in Sierra of Leone he was only 8. He has grown up here and has no desire ber 10. Jeave. If their
the will have to join her or else go
Sarah Kusah's husband lefl the country in 1974 to with Ghana, and now Office claims there evidence that she ever
this husband, let alone one that had
Sarah points out
separation order in the British courts. She even showed the Home Office the papers.
After the departure from they eventually returned when a letter, collected from the house by a friend, People's country until the end of this she could stay
100OEA were showing She is not going to leave ber
of a coward," she explains, now 1 am going to fight. I'm tired of running away as though
She has begun her fight by approaching the Black People's Information Centre for help, and they are organising press releases and attempting gather support for a picket of the Home Office. The BBC'S Nationwide team has made a film report, but so far this has not been screened. and even the NOT UNUSUAL
When the producer of the
bere. denied al knowledre film having Perhaps rather "accidental loss" in view of the "sensitivity" of the immigration issue at the moment.
Cecil Gutzmore. mother communis morcer, points out
that Sarah Kasah's case is not
tion centre was satisfied that
Britain and the Home
Home Office of this.
had a But frequently there are cases and Latitia: "Now I'm going fo light"
that her
ended by
Cecil
family's basty
Paddingion
informed Sarah education in Britain.
"Hatore war a hit here on a short
time that
pencilled
of permanent abode*.
to finish her education
years in
asked her,
theat back herer
heen made.
convenient
residence,
black
Yet they
Office's eyes. are bopeful of
convince the
beller off elsewhere?
ATTELLE Municipal
affairs. where the law is quite clear, and very harsh, and people had no choice but to leave the country, their famibies, and their homes. drawa Cample of a worn in Ipswich Gutzmore procedure who had left her daughter at ions. school in the Caribbean when she came to this country, as she feared that racism here would prevent her obtaining a good
The daughter stayed in the Caribbean until she was over 16, and thus lost her right of residence in Britain. Now she is
doing further education. But the last
received extension of her visa it carried a enubles
note which read: 'This does not give you the right
it seems unlikely that she will receive a further visa to allow her to stay with her mother or Work'
When Sarah Kusah brought her children to Britain for the second time, after spending six
Sierra Leone, an immigration official pleasanti
*After taking the BOM
what right have you got to bring
Sarah Kusah was a bit toc courts
*Ever) LALL. right in the world'. But the was 'things are going, is the right of
, even for those born month here, safe for long? The Home Office has "humanely" offered
o pay for her children to g
ack to Sieira Leone with be
are not illegal immigrants, even in the Home Powell s25, conducementsto are "persuade" immigrants they are
*liable
of Jurists.
Landon.
MOTE DET.
reggae wup
The MENCEA IN SER elections. nising
GMWU BANS FASCISTS
THE THIRD largest union "
Workers has Natiomal Froat activists in the with removal from office and a ban
particiuption im union
Following a long debate on the NF at an executive council meeling. a statement has been
which specifies • dealing WEE members of fascist organisut-
the
The executive states that it 'does not propose introdacing a crude political ban on amy party by 2T8800n ol ou
But it singles out the fascist outfits because the opinions of sach organisations are diamet-
opposed fendamental principle of trade
Memhers ure advised to use the GMWU's rule 43.11 which
regional and higher bodies to impose sanctions on those 'acting contrary to the policy of the union or against the best interests of the union".
The union has abo issued a leaflet on "Hace Relations ai
RACIST COURTS
THE CASE OF Soraya All.
fucing 18 months provides new evidence of racist discrimina. Ion by Manchester police and
reports KRANTI
Two incidents are involved Soraya Ali first received a 12-
sentence for "causing actual bodily hann by "biting a policeman's armi al an antimonarchy rally. Her second court appearance led to three concurrent 6-month sentences of
possessing "offensive weapons" 00 a0 anti-as si demonstra
tion last October
The wenDons 1n questio
were an eighteen ioch stick and
Her -SCUILCEIL contrasts with a fine for a loca
NF member recently convicted of possessing a rifle, two pistols and stolen ammunition.
Soraya Ali spent 6 weeks in a remand centre before she was allowed bail Duriog this time she was threatened that she was
-for deportation.
Labour councillor Andrew Fender bas referred her case to tbe International Commission
MAY DAY EVE
ON MAY Day Eve the Anti Nazi League will be holding a
Nazis BOW
It will bezin with u Rally in Trufulgur Square, and will then
UIT Robinson Band, Steel Pulse, la
Punk N-Ray Spex to Victoria London Tor an opent air concert.
This will be four days before the local elections, when the National Front are petting up 1,500 candidates.
Carnival Is jointly organised by the Anti Nazi Leagne, Rock Against Racim and the Hackney Community Relations Council, Il promises to he a really exciting event and a good climus lo the energies that will be put into counterieg the Nutional Front's propa-
Hopelully many people from all over the country, who are CHETIEU D TEENE SERTES racisan of the Front will come
- young peopie trade unionists and others.
mote about the event should phone Paul Holberrow (Orgu-
Anti Nazi League on 01-734 5456 or Peter Hain (Press Officer] on 01-623
BANS RALLY Yal importance recomme full importance sioner MeNee's Public Order Act ban on marches in London, judging by the small number who turned out for the meeting to oppose the ban, in Camdes Town Hail on 22 March.
There were only 150 peopl in a hall which would have held over 1,000 and most of these were from the SWP, the IMG and other left groups, although tbere were some independents represented, most noticeably
Women Against Racism and Fascism.
The meeting was addressed
speakers wide spectrum of forces that oppose the ban on marches.
The point was made that
would have been attracted to the meeting if the Organising Committee had put forward a clearer plan for mass action against the ban.
Unfortunately the people who attended knew the threat presented by the ban. The mocting did not people any positive ideas as to how they could really build a fight against the bans and ensure that one could not be so casily imposed again.
but one which Thust be drastically improved upon.
GLASGOW ANL
AN AUDIENCE of 300
Anti-Nazi League in Glasgow, LESPE CERIS BANDERI
Despste front page trearment National Front activity Mail for Linseca and Edinburgh schools, and a growing numbe
Nazi Asian temples and sbops in Edinburgh, Glasgow has only a limited bistory of antifascist activity.
informed by its secretary, John
that racism is not a problem ir
ADy Polues, be added. was caused by "gangsters Not surprisingly. the trades council's anti-racist
inactivity
Stewart MacLennan, from the Civil and Public Servants Association, SENOUDEEE animous support from his
eluding supporters of the SNP
setting up of the ANL Such unity, he argued, could be best maintained through the setting A oi en sce and democra delegate-based ANL in Glas
BOLTON DEFENCE
Bolton SESERCE Campuign needs wilnesses und grapas of uny incident on the 10 Fehruary Anti-Nazi picket ol Rolion Town Hall
Any donations towards the
Bolion Trades Council (De
Siddle. BDC, c/o 70 Stewart Street, Bolton.
TOM ROBINSON BAND
STED PULSE & X-RAY SPEX
CARNÍVALI!
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The Communist Party
OPEN FORUM
Several weeks ago (social-
Communist Party.
Campbell, Jane Roberts and Caroline
Коня, criticised the positions of the
International Marxist Group
women's liberation
feminism. They made three basic
These were: (1) Our model of the family was crude We never znn vsed the "conditions of existence" of the
the family. We had no 'polities now'
Our reply to this allegation is simple. The women's movement has contributed more to an analysis of the SpeciTC Oppression or women undei
capitalism in one decade
Marxism has done in a century. This is particularly the case with politics. Of course much of that analysis has drawn on the work done by Marxists
oppression of women and the sexual
division of labour; political oppression, discrimination, etc.
To repeat the formulae of the women's movement on the pervasive character of women's oppression and to announce that it mus be integrated into a revolutionary practice is one thing. Changing the practice of the Communist Party is another. We are
not arguing that the far left groups are
perfect or pure. Far from il. In fact the whole of the leit has to re-assess its attitude to women. The CPGB is
party because its reformist strates g incapable of making that change as a
cannot creale the preconditions for women'sliberation.
'GINGER GROUP'
(2) The second accusation against us what that we reluse to accent that the WLM has an autonomous political future. We collapse it into 'a ginger group of the labour movement under
he guidance of a revolutionary chite.
Wie refuse to accept this sieight-of-
means that a movement determines its own tactics and forms of struggle against oppression. It decides its own future, Weaccept that fully.
that and sit back? Is it not the case that in the process of lighting for their demands many women come to an understanding that their oppression is ultimately structured specitic mode of production, known as capitalism? That therefore their
against this system. Should not
these who believe that liberation is possible under capitalism?
We presume that Bea, Jane and Caroline thai they should. In which case why the snide relerences to einger groups and revolutionary clites"?
SOCIALIST STRATEGY
What we are doing is su
socialist strategy for women. This
"guiger groups. But women will need allies in their struggle and the fact that the leading agency for achieving social change remains the working class means that an alliance with it will be somewhat crucial. Surely this is not too scandalous an idea for comrades in the Connonist Parly.
questionco view revolutionary process is considered cataclysmic. Bea, Jane and Caroline spearheat of the coolstion and the SCC DuTSCIVES 85 TRe ignorant masses as mere fodder. This is a patriarchal strategy and must be rejected by feminists.
This is an ahsurd caricature of our positions which borders on deliberate political dishonesty.
It is true that one group on the far left (the Workers Revolutionary Party) has an economistic attitude to women and a manipulative view of revolution, Batto tar everyone with That brush sabsurd Dur wiew sin tbe tradition of classical Marxism. We| will rapidly recede.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 30 March 1978 page 7
socialist than
sexual
believe that revolutions are made by
the movemens of social classes. Their
access is assured by the existence of a
revolutionary party based and rooted
in the class
decisive - the working class. But
without the movement of a class as a
whole, there can be no revolutions. by a the CP's strategy is premised oft the Jane and Caroline argue that
mass
formation. We are accused of being
mechanistis,
incapable ol perceiving the revolution
wa proces.
between differing levels of conscious-
there can be "an equal and democratic
particular the WEM
party.
denounced as "hierarchical".
We reject these
arpuniens for building
precisely to combat the raling class on
VERTIETE.
Ideology (racism, national chauvin-
The Leninist party secks to develop
and the oppressed lavers in saciety
CULECHEELE
strusale against the bourgeoisie and
IES SCATC
NEW IDEAS
Bilan today? Becarse the mass Why is organisations (the Labour Party and
consciousness within the working
horiaces of these organisations arc nanow, lumsted in scope to reformis within capitalism,
Mass COESCOUSES mases y learn and asiate ne ideas through their own experience bul unless and unli there are active revolutionaries already fighting for these ideas and olfering a straleric altermative, this mass consciousness
-a reply
International Marxist Group
revolutionary polities.
ERATE?
BATORENS
MAMEL which is strategically
hourgeois state and tionally independent politica. consistent defenders of dogmatists, against the bourgeois arale, but on every level SAME ROLE
and the
ECHOISIS
charies Lenin's
mass Hance
posed are, again, ofa different order.
the same.
NO FACTIONS
DOSTED LEISE IE DAS DECA BSCE
True much bas altered in recen scars. Tbe
211385. socialism. But inside
bourgocis is a bit checky for women belonging
structurally undemocratic to accusc us of being hierarchical.
members 10 will things. So does the Labour Party. The
good, but their effect can, at best, be
to the root, comrades. fight the undemocratic and hierarchical structures of the CP reduce your
and Feminism
VAL COULTAS explains the position of the
• on the relationship
between the Women's Liberation Movement and
credibility autonomy.
Ib name learns assimilates new ideas
accordingly the
That is why Lenatist argue for the existence of a revolutionary party, powerless structured to conduct a permanent struggle against the bourgeoisie on every level and altissately challenge ils hegemony by showing the possibility of creating autonomous structures of working-class power, independent of AMBITIOUS
organisa
the nost Impact of the
The forns taken by a revolutionary
cary vary trom county to counts The comrades will surely agree that it
Chile, Argentina, Brazil or Thailand
Prince or Hat For ci
examples. socialists opposed to the regimes in the USSR and Eastern Europe the problems
The function of Leninist parties in all these countries, however, remains
organisation,
The model of the Chmminis Parties has been historically counter-
on the pattern developed by Stalin. political prisobers
desires to 'Eurocommunists are
tbelt divorce referendum, parties: Do tendencies: Do tactions. EE
True, the CP today permits its
different
point is that all power lies in the bands of the leadership. Public debates are mich
cosmetic for they cancor challenge the overall stratery of the party. The axe
Your failure to theration WENICH
mode as the champions of
We do not claim that the structures of'a Leninist party are perfoct. All we
hetween Leninism and the functioning of either the CP or groups like the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP)
and modilies this or that aspect of its functioning
The development and growth of the WLM has meant that the left has had
many ideas and transform its practice. True this has been done in an uneven fashion, We still have a long wuy to go. At this very
within the IMG on many bl these
has published for debate a lengthy
Comrades in the IMO who argue for
establishment of isolated. 'cultural vanguard", The issues on which they win support for their ideas will determine the attirede of the organisation as a whole, Dor just a few of its components.
Bea, Jane and Caroline suggest that the CP has assimilated the • political
WLM. women ambitious claim. One has only to look
Does the CP student fraction strugale alongside those women who demand the right lo self-organisation within the studenis unions? No! Does the industrial base of the CP combat the numerous manifestations of' sexism in the unions and Trades Councils? We would be interested in reading about auch
The practice of the Communist Parties in those countries where they are mass parties is very revealing. Spain, the PCE calling itself "The paity of Women's Liberation' has attempred to control the autonomsous movement through its own women's
the MDM, and any criticisms on the question from its women membership. Ir has also refused to take up demands of ansoesty for women
because of ourbid the in respectability and its strategs which involves alliances with monarchists ganda, The Italian CP even vacillated on the
abortion, and forms an alliance with the Catholic Church. What price then the equal and democratic relation het ween political forces?
MUCH WEAKER
In Britain because the CPGB is
than is FaIToneSt counterparts and social democracy is pacer stroms bus compisit takes a specific form. In the women's
CP that wonnen s oppression is the product of a distinct
reproduction" that reproduces patriarchal ideology separate front the mode of production from which class exploitation flows.
TUC CHARTER
Thus the leminist struggle is not only autonomous from the class strugele 1t 15 separate Tom 1. 1oa large extent. How separate it is and where it is linked is rarely specified Such a lieoretical analysis has much in commion with a radical feminist approach to women's oppression. Its conclusion is to cobcentrate leminis: activity in building the challenging parriarchal ideology
labour movement the CP uses the backward consciousness of the working class to justify not only accommodarions to
controis but also accommodations to
original TUC Charter, which extolled
nurses, and the CP's counterposition
Abortion Law Reform Association.
trales in Brianspat opporm stralegy in Britain medales to radical feminism in the WLM and radical coononcism in the abour movement The ideological struggle that Bea, Jane and Caroline have waged in the CP may have changed a few ideas io some CP merhers" heads, but it bas definitely not changed its overall practice.
NOT SEPARATE
For us, the strugple for women's liberation cannot be separated from the struggle for socialism. In no way, however, can CELC struggle for women's liheration he reduced to the
This affects our attitude to struggles
durine th revolutionary process itself. The right ta control bur own bodich s something are willing precimlate compromises on. Nor do we advocate that women should rur doneside usina revolutionars barsch Every revolutionary crisis in history
society that poses che question of which class rules - whether ir be Spain in 1936 or Portugal in 1974.
An autonomous women's Liberation movement in a stuation where two classes are organising other would be faced with a very cleat politicn! choice The of
would be involved bourgeois representative demonic because bourgeois demncracy gives equal rights to people who have unequai social positions. And women are very much at the battom of the pile. We are clear which side we wil! fake when that process hegins. Where will Caroline, Bea and Jane stand?
OPPRESSION
Finally, we would add that the charge of clitism and nicrarchy that is made in the article by Bea, Caroline and Jane rebounds on them, The strategy of Leninism attempts to gise the masses a political voice. They are denied that voice in bourgeois society chrough bourgeois insticutions which not only exploit them cconomically bur oppress them politically. Hence for example, bourgeois elections are advocated as the main chance for the masses to exercise their political power, Through lack of choice, lach of information control of propa-
know that the masses have very little
representatives.
Soviet power breaks through this manipulation by giving the mass of
in their Lives. By making concessions to bourgeois iostitutions the CP tie the masses of the oppressed to the
structures that exist in our society in Spain, the monarchy: in italy. the Church; in Britain, Parliament. In doing so they deny the masses of workers, women, blacks.
Wha could be more elitist than that!
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It's blackmail! say
Viability British steelworkers.
leaders about their views on proposals.
Wyn Bevan is convenor of Port Taibot BSC electricians; Tom Lyons is secretary of the
Talbot branch of the EETPU, the Electrician's Union; and Les Sexton was secretary of the strike committee and is now with TASS, the clerical section of the Engincering Union.
Tom Lyons: Of course
disappointed. only shout the handreds jobs we are going to lose Port Talbot, but about thousands of jobs that going to be lost nationally. Il is not development and expansion, it is 40,000 jobs down the drain. That's what development
Les Sexton: li is avers short-sighted plan. Varley say
must wait antil market conditions improve. But when the economy does improve it will be too late.
The BSC giving technology and money develop steel-making іл Third World, And when stee demand increases, it is Brazil, Mexico, and South Korea that quality Merdeng the high will be
Wyn Bevan: Well we pleased that we are to get the new continuous cast plant •
Port Talbot, That's the sort o Investment we appreciale as it will mean about 100 new jobs.
oversil the report bs d terrible disappointment. •SHELVED
Juring last year's strike th E835m development plan fo Port Talbot was shelved. Since then the clectricians have been blamed constantly for lois of
Les Sexton: We were villuins of the piece. But they haven't even dared to mention us in the report.
Wyn Bevan: The electricians have been completely vindicaLEU, HEBERUE WE MISE DAL LASM in production bet they losing t500m this year. They can't explain that amount away by hiaming it on our strike.
The shelving of the big plan would heve gone on even il there had been no strike. In the 70s a lot of momey has been put inte Port
long-term plan in the late 60%. That's been disebed.
Last pear, the Government offered (250m for u new strip mill. The BSC refused to pick it up. The mill sile is ready and u lot of the plant had been prepured by contractors. BSC
Even the new Sinter plant which was at the heart of last year's nine week strike is srill inoperative. This week negonations broke down against berween the craft unions and the BSC.
Recognising last defeat, the unions have agroed to operate the plant by present working conditions and planbing Jeveis. But BSC refused even this.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 30 March 1978 page l
British Steel - the road to viability
steelworkers
Almost a year to the day since the British Steel Corporation's Port Talbot electricians came out on strike over manning levels and pay at the new Sinter plant, Eric Varley, in the Government's White Paper - The British Steel Corporation: The Road to
has whipped the carpet from under
Socialist Challenge spoke with three of the strike
the Government
Management are secking a group-work agreement whereby craft workers have to carry out the work of other trades.
Apprentices are to be trained for all trades, thus bmiting specialist Sills ven on wages, she BSC ha insisted ироп conditions. To ger the pathetic 10 per ceat the Not been asked to reduce mannie, of accept work-sharing and agroe at a new disputes procedure the are status quo situation is to apply. (that is, no strikes).
And a national disputes committec of 30 per cent BSC and 50 per cent national union days. officers is to be brought in, The wages increase was due The next meeting is scheduled for 3 April. Also at Port Talbot, the crane drivers have been in dispute for two months. itS Kather than settle, BSC has imported 40,000 tons of steel the and will import more.
No small part problem is the from and Steel Trades Confederation general secretary is Ball Sirs.
are he laviot tens of thousands of Having already production workers" during his reign, recently completed a five to seven pound increase on ECHEC OSES Before they pet the money, the produce extra tonnage and loose another 450 jobs.
Sinter plant, workers are to ger the chop Wyn Bevan; Even the new
the /'m year's canteon dinner has Om ME
continuons cast conditional on agreement on international manning lereb be no delays in commissioning
anolher no strike clause.
This is straight blackmau. weakened. Production workers packet. And ine craft unions OCCI some of them like Port Talbot electricians, very strong
support nationaliy.
The new concept in the White Paper consolidates another HALLCHEI Tin plate workers ar Velindre
certain fature, evenir la to be Trostre have unions save
with imported steel. are less inclined to rock the boat Les Sexton: BSC's long term predictions must be gium or they would invest now. They just not tellin British Leyland 30,000 workers are being axed. Now in steel, 40,000 more Tave albers mane have sacrifices for? They being deceitful. boping for an upturn sal be no means to met t but when it comes ther Compare building in the 50g of the Government ufda't invest and
the industry got leR
whose Callaghan is saying North Sea
Oil is to be used for industrial development. Well after this report just what does he mean? agreed Tom Lyons: This
thing
jobs workers in other
Those socialists who argue for
wages nationalisation
frayed by socialist government. health service used to be envied by workers all over the world.
Where are we now? . For the Wyn Revan: The blame is 250 craft squareiy on the shoulders of
this Labour Government. The Purliumentury Select Commit-
Looks like I'm going to lose
my bonus.
oh? 'Cos only allowed 4 sheets to wipe mu bum and that
has taton effect already !
plant is
have beco
BSC's
So each
"quality steel
trend more So they That
not telling COTESLECC was being thing us. In The BSC
building une go.
be E500m making After are just
We are
thes
dumping.
with
WICH
centralisation behind.
Ebbw Vale,
sort of also has an effect on
countries.
are heing be-
sapposediy
Our on Merseyside,
Why?
Speke, Lucas, Kirkby,
and more
smeinployinent
likely
combine commettoes.
MP for
exhausted the
tee stressed the importance of a ne pal en Taired. report,
Ignored.
The Select said information kept The
and Marketing Service which fills
predicted E250m loss. There Is going to
Villers' announcement of disaster a few months ago there were no directives to price make savings. BSC blames the recession, the EEC, Comecon,
счсв electricians. It ls poor plan kets. ning, poor management, over
and
DO WIat SEC ES ICLE TOT SUCCE workers: at East Moors, 3,100 Joos are to go nett monte g
La slow death promised; at Shotton, well che stricken Shotton works do not
Merseyside -
resistance
At a special emergenc meeting called by Liver- Minsters lo pool Trades Council on Wednesday 23 March, Perseysoe over 100 delegate shop stewards discussed the disastrous situation fac- Communist ing the labour movement
reports JACK BEAUMONT.
The threar of closures and redundancy now affects abou 10 factories including leyland Merseyside
Bird's Eye Courtaulds, GEC Massey Ferguson, had given a
Cammell Lairds, Tate and Lyk
The meeting was neld to prepare for the conference on
called by the Speke.
Trades Council for Sunday 9 April which could become the biggest and most important yer organised locally, with the
participation heen Leyland and Lucas Acrospace
Eddie Loyden, left Labour
Garston where the plant.
Leyland Speke plant is located arrived late from the House of Commons. He reported he had
parbiamentary process by getring a meeting
ELLI
A thousand workers are to
Briton Ferry. Like Port Talbot big plans for Sbelton, Stoke on Trent, Hunterston, and Ravenseraig have all been shelved
Between them, the BSC and tbe Government bave decided the British steel industry will new never keep up with the world
BSYCALIEICEI short planning they "Sack ine loi of them
says Wyn Bevan, not 40,000 more steel workers. We have Bo control over world mar-
A day of action is reported to be planned in Scorland, But
would be a sick joke. Well what apput a nagonal saop stewards conference?
Wyn Bevan: It seemed the right shing to do when Monty
growing mood of
with Callaghan and other
Task lor fundi, for a Minister from
agreements for British Leylan and Lucas in Liverpool.
Roger O'Hara, Merseyside
LISLTLEE secretary called for left action
militant Merseyside' creared by the media. He appealed to the liberal Liverpool Echo for an alliance with small business to bring investment back
Two hundred women workers at the SD Centre, Knowsley,
clear lead by occupying their plant againsi closure, it was reported hy their steward to the meeting
Dave Thomas, of Leyland
recounted a growing mood of resistance to closure there with a inass meeting. called for Saturday 8 April.
Salements of support had
received from Canley: Castle Bromwich and Swindon, where TR7 production was to he transferred from the Speke
The discontinuation of the TR7 will affect mine Leyland plants in all, and Thomas called For a resistance to all closures The Speke stewards in the No. 2
Finneston announces
Nutiomal Steelworkers' Action - LANCECE SO TENE CHOSURCS
We got no union bucking and ended op leaving Shottoie to fight on its own. It's a bit depressite
Things are bleak indeed Meanwhile BSC has set up a
BSC (Indusiry) Lid. In the same week
condemned the British steelworkers, BSC took a full page in the press.
'Tous it's an ex-steel works To you it's a gold mine. BSC offered industrialists "highly flexible linsocial Induce-
"akilled SDE EUES serviced industrial sites'
deserted works and thousands of jobs COTAT OIGNO CODE TIR steelworkers will be blamed for
company being & lossmaker too, piant, have now set up an action committee in the plant to fight the clasures,
Calls for action at the conference will range •froth more lobbying and demonstrations - including a May Day
- and a right to work march to London. Other solutions included bringing down the Labour Government or re-clecting it with socialist policies
The Liverpool Trader Coun
cil conference .on Sunday 9
Parising agi ether
-fighting against further redundancies: for worksharing without lost of alternative planned
tion, based not on profitability but social need, for Covertment finance under workers contrel: lor occupations. of factories against all closures and for democratie work-place based action committees in factories and areas to hight for this programme Liverpool STANC Connel Conference Agrinst Uneni ployment, Sunday, 9 April, Everyman Theatre, Hopi Street, Liverpool. Credentiais from Liverpool Trades Coun
Victoria Street.
Liverpool 1.
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*Let our movement
THE Japanese Government's plans to open the new Tokyo international airport at Narita week were smashed along with the main control tower.
10,000 local farmers and their supporters clashed with riot police. One group of demonstrators drove truck through police lines into the control lower com-
denli a olon to the anti-airport novenent by having the police
by the farmers to obstruct the SUTC TUIWE
The farmers declared They aS OWE WURCHO! lears', and with the help o TUCHT and labour unions buildings. The more sophisti started LWU
cated was a four-storey con crete building supporting a steel
tome bam, 6 February, the riot
police attacked the buildings' delenders with water cannon urban black population. MINING compound hostels are within the neigh bourhood MUNC TIACS WAIG EIC SEErS miles away from the urban DIECK LALEEEIS
So black miners rarely come into contact witl ürban blacks, IL is an offence for urban blacks to enter any minime arca
especially the compounds where the miners live. Regardless of their country of origin migrant workers have stayed aloel from the episodic struggles against capitalisno and white oppression.
"IGNORANCE
This has its rools in their ignorance and superstitution imposed by a rustic life and the lear of deportation under the migratory labour and pass laws.
What's
Left
51-088-3850 tor detalis:
SWi. Adm. 50p.
Brompton Road, Lenden.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 30 March 1978 page 10
INTERNATIONAL
be a red wind'
Tok yo airport struggle
the tower to destroy radar and radio equipment. this light control systems and other aircraft guidance equipment.
A correspondent from Japan reports on recent developments in the 12 year fight to save peasant land and the environment from the Government's clutches.
Las Mag the Government | and other equipmeor.
SITUEH BUEL-UC continued until 8 February,
REBUILT
When the police did finally SULLEE I TUTORIE LEC LORCI they were unable to destroy
new porting it and, by the end of
been reconstructed as a three SLUICY ATLEE tower can he necessary: The second building had also heen rebuilt.
DUSE CITIC
Foreign migrants in South Africa
A tide of black slaves
SAM MHLONGO continues his discussion of the prospects for revolution in South Africa with a look at the foreign migrants in the mining industry, and the
It is in the interests of the neighbouring black CODETe OaT SaA TaCiTod continue since its defeat would
migrant labour systemn.
DEVELOPMENT Suel the 1960s Tanzania and Zambia have rescinded the British colonial agrocments with South African UHUUI CODILLES LOELLE migrant labour The migrant labour question in these countries is linked with development which are directly or indirectly under the control of South African capitalists.
Invest ent In tse CoLmtries will only be tolerated as long as it does not disturb this cheap labour traffic into South Africa.
HAP HAIL e metg en aie uni ls in the Ma mel cont
ound, letting others into went into action again on 1
larch, the first day Japan National Railways tried to | transport jet fuel. Police were lined all along the 70 kilometre toute from Kashima port to the дегрогі. ocal railway.
OCHTEL E THI OHL SUIKE CILI march and boycott ofall irains carrying jet fuel.
DUST thousand students and farmers gabered in tbe railway yards that The tallie in Thousands
rallied Narita afternoon despite a ferociouswind and dust storm.
Issaku Tomura, chairperson of the Farmers' Opposition League, said: "This what the farmers call a "red wind" (because of the dust). Let our movement be a red wind too had knock the Government right OFf riot
whích feet.' ilded wher No fuel was moved that day,
and on 2 March only one train carried fuel. They had planned police to move seven trains a day.
tor employment of woekers from these neighbouring terriCAFES revolutionary Eome sBoc Tic ujoT DE ruled their peoples are rural.
TACTC ATE TOI YEL TOYa OORdE organisations to carry through suc e progranu Like the urban ascx populaton nas rural origins. But whercas the Afrikaners shared a common language and blacks belonged to different and often hostile formations — hence the separute strucgles against first the Boer incursions and later British imperalisma.
PRIMITIVE There have been no black united froats in the past one and a halt centuries.
According to the Oxford the
Wing to lepo 2 hean 1 ahum stal, the managerat the above addresa. toJ Wilsen
whaut Torcala teachera is
semin maniee r une
TUE LIS workers at international
Dam ago maoIs
nals. engineers
month-long
in the struggle.
Some
workers,
because they JUULS in the
CIC ENIG students" mavements, wind is SECOND
red to light the a wind that'!
and The 20 farmers who still their CEnE construction area.
be internalonal Irid only has one runway.
Dependence on South Africa | clans under
ETMALE by agrarian pro- and urban blacks.
Bot TRIBE
Afrikaners the
Temporarily the return to the tribe.
their interests, they
belong to trihes.
the tribai Bantustan
InC annas Kantsn laments" have to be secn.
ILIEC primitive
open
lc your workmate
June: U.10
Further opposition to tbe
colbe trom the prescot airport Hagele-Anders olne workers organised a union in December to oppose the move to Narita. Many of them stand to lose their jobs if Haneda closes its international termi-
The Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Japanese section of the Fourth Interna tional) is playing a lcading role
ultra-lelt groups concertale aunos cactuspc oo isolated 'guerilla' actions.
Ibey are unable to organise a mass protest movement, partly
insist n using "uchigeba" Guternal violence) as the way of setting political differences with other tenden-
WOEKCES ITTE
The JRCI explains the need
"second stage Ce 20 Farmers sho sill hotd
second stage
Without Ihe second stare il
able to take anly
recognised chiefs.. Such groups do exist in the urban areas but they are Intelligentsia, tiny compared with ibe modern ercia]
servants.
apartheid.
All ribespeople in urban The areas are migrants, though not all migrants are tribespeople.
The tribespeople in any urban area regard themselves as there
their aim it to of 1957.
When the government whites say they know what the blacks want and are acting in
the tiny proportion of blacks who
inunediate
So it is not surprising that African trader.
leaders have agreed to parricipare in PROTECT the separate development experiment". Ir is in this light that
"par- Jargeiy
factor is still i strong cough in the mines to | to protect their businesses. Marana Rd tort Caedonian. Ro
cloimants 30p.
ART AND trea hagene wil ton Yach "clats we ct.50, ei toro almavis."
Socialiste
be exploited and fostered by the government and mining St in Suth Atra doel exist in South Africa
for whites. This has stunted the prowth of a strong
bourgeoisie.
The black petty bourgeoisic 15 made00 professional
traders, employees and civil Black traders African and Asian - do not present a united front against
African trader grateful to apartheid since it
eliminated the Asian traders from the African areas through the Group Areas Act
The large supermarkelt are in the central city arens and, of course, white-woed They are not casils reached by black ghetto wellers and so pose no
threat the
So the African traders have
kept out • EK ruin. struggles agaiost apartheid. When bey have taken part it 1s
HURAIICSAND HAGIALIOM UU athock ttam-Spin Sar. B Apri-nt th
3e loken pe Aso tio
PORO Noon, Cut
WOMEN'S ONLY PARTY in aid of Irisr Womes Uniled, alth Clapperciae un Fansy a Diaco #pm-12-00 ситна, 14
ДАВА НІ ТЕННИ АСИСИ СИЛІК CAVIA nu. LUHEL CET Man. ou
RESISTANCE talka
Beit an democratic forn and conten in popular ort lodas.
perten or omina theare groups in Chile
The Croup Areas Acr brouglit ruin to Asian traders The Aslan population of South Arra total posttarin o 5
a total popularion of 25 million,
Most Asians are in Naral and the Durban neighbour hoed, In the Transvaal and Cape Province the Few Asians generaliy belong to trading Fasi ies, hut were forced to close their businesses beause there was no populaion ett to trade among.
COURT
Those Tailed re-establish themscives when USUAEBLUUELULE! African areas had ta seek jobs
ol the black working class Thoie traders who had cnough cash took their casca to tbc BUULUU! count. desbtie
them time significant number hegen to support the African Nationa Congress (ANC), Their overriding aim throughout was the scrapping of the Group Areus Act which had brought them to
*Next week: black workers i and the trade amions.
right
Racisme
friends angi all anti-racist activists 10
think of them.
Ondan Ni Cheaaa payatie io,
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Brief harmony is over
Anti-Semitism rears its head
Paris.
The Socialist Party
Communist Party (PCF) leader Cieorges Marchais of having done the right favour"; the PC underlines the 'overwhelming responsibility of the Socialists: and bourgeois Left Radicals are on the verge of a split.
All they seem agreed on, in TALES THE ACCO TO MATCAR talks with President Giscard d'Estaing. This is a scandalous betrayal of the millions of WELLS SACE T Giscard's policies only days
once more reduced to the role. От сосо простота 00 sidelines.
DISARRAY
At stake in all goings-on but mentioned - is the kind of response which the workers' movement makes not-so-new government of the right. For the clection result was not a crushing defeat for the working class, although it has produced considerable demoralisation and disarray.
There is still a willingness to take action government's mcasures. But it has to be organised - and on a united basis.
Workers' unity, however. the last consideration which has
the actions of TCIOREISTRAEUES in recent months,
To go back a little, why did the split berween the parties of the Union of the Left take place last September? The
proved possible TWO LEADING supporters human rights manifesto are now surveillance in Prague.
Praesidium member Frantisek Kriegel.
authorities are so afraid of him. THE Czechoslovak bureau-
racy cills Dr Frantisek Kriegel.
Jonist and internationa adventurer, tonist in inis context means Jewish.
Anti-semilisms has boen a feature Stalinist slander since the 1930. It plaved a major part in the Slansky show trial in Czechoslovakia in the 195D.
Al negotiations between the Czechoslovak and Soviet party leaderships just before August 1968 invasion Brezhnev called Kriegel 'that Galician Jew who ought to shut up.
The invasion accompanied by a food ofanti semitic propaganda. personal attacks on Kriegel goe
the Crechoslovak Parliament felt compelled to protest.
The lahel international
internationalist activity. served with the Republican armies in Spain in the Civil War as i gnary doctor and croni 1940-45 in a similar capacity with the Chinese Red Araly.
After 12 Communist Party and state
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 30 March 1978 page 11
INTERNATIONAL
Workers' unity against Giscard
First there were six months of bitter polemics. Then there was one week of patched-up harmony. Now the parties of the Union of the Left in France have fallen out once more in the wake of their second round defeat in the elections. MARTIN METEYARD reports from
(PS) agremem on врилиль Common signed in 1972.
There were differences betweenthe Communist Party and its partners. A particular bone the of contention was the number of concerns to be nationalisod, and the fate of subsidiaries.
However, these still remained within a common framework of gradual reforms involving no direct challenge to capitalism itself. And even had they been of a broader nature, that would justified what was to follow. the ne principle alice revolu tionary Marxiss fight for s this: the fullest discussion of programmatic differences must
these Nether the P5 not the POr look this into account in their
the The PS simply refused to have auv ouble decission with the PCF about propramme because
difficult to pursue a class-
stand mutual withdrawals in tavcr the after first depended on debasing
The PCF. for its part, made slich withdrawals after the first round — in other words, unitys the against the candidates of the Tight dependent programmatic agreement. it aid tais tor punch sectatian maintain COTTONI POSION working class against both growing influence of the
Stalinist slurs on Czechoslovak dissident
of the Charter under 24 hour
They are Trotskyist Petr Uhl and former
In the second of two articles MARK JACKSON looks at Kriegel's career and explains why the
apparatuses in various tions concerned with health, he went to Cuba as a health adviser.
Anyone with such a wide international experienos is automatically SISDOCT TO chauvinist Prague bureauerats.
From 1966, when he became a member of the party Central Committee, Kriegel began to Play an important politics. He pushed for change the from the very tirst.
At the October 1967 plenum
was one of the few who voted to was LEIL political strategy at the The DUELLIS problems before
KIDNAPPED
Aller lie Warsaw He invasion on the night of 20 August 196k, the occupation kidnapped Prague Spring supporters in the Party Presidium to Moscow.
Kriegel was one of them Moscow had counted forming a puppet government
demagogy against the PS's "shift to the right.
Most importantly, throughout the colema. both the PS and the PCF spat in the face of
the first strengthen their alliances with
DISSOCI STIONS bourgcoisic represented in the
Progressive condemnation or this hanky panky with forces which have their no brennised links with
movement has differences ready neen corne out with lic
decision of a section of the Left Radicals to pull out of the Union of the Left and cuddle President d'Estaing. have
FIRST ROUND
Once the first round was over the parties of the Union of the
was necessary if only to protect their parliamentary But this rapid turnabout could only induce cynicism among tens of thousands of militants deceived by the termis of the previous polemic.
Furthermore, there was no central meeting in Paris, co-ordinated the different union federations,
for and the response at a local leve
was patchy. some signs of hope for thus future. prog For instance,
week wenso agocal mocung in Paris called to support two
(one Communist, one Socialist) IT TEOUS CONSERICHCES Held gymnassum it had not been ver well publicised — yet over 500 people packed in.
And the speakers were nol simply the local PS and PCF plus the Left Radical and Progressive
77 posi-
the
part in political sacred
Pact
leading
Gaullists, Our
the
Giscard mobilisation by
Still there were their position
the
during that members
tionary
CIELLEL
small school TaD
the CGT spoke
produced -
predictable Prague: no longer scarred by Soviet tanks
STAGESBARIL
NI ETUDIANTS
NOW ATO OM
Gaullist. Also invited to explain
troar platforms were three lar left candidates in the first round,
of the United Socialist Party (PSU), Revolu-
Communist Leaguc (ECR), and Communist Com-
(OCA). Represcoratives of the
main union federations, and CFDT. also
The spirit of open debate this
WET THE STO CCA speakers heard out when also at
the Left Radicals and Prog CUTECILS
to their liking. this
They
political
by positions. the Czechoslovak
, but the repression
QUI SOMMES NOUS
Young people in Paris demonstrate against the Govemment's phony job creation scheme.
ressive Gaullists marks an important break with the past anti-democratic practices the reformist parties. For this
isolated occurrence. but was sirrored in 30 or 40towits and cities.
This change has taken place because the crisis of perspective tor the workers movement now shaking up both the PS and PCF. Different options are being advocated not simply at the base of these parties
the level of leadership (there three
inside the PCF SUBULLS back in control of the party.
million troops, would allow them to rearrange the situation
But mais resistance was. so powerful that no-bne was prepared to act as a quisting
The 14th party Congress met secretly and ratified Alexander Dubeek's policies and elected Kriegel to the Presidium, At
point the kidnapped leaders chemselves to sell Brezhnev's aid.
signed the Moscow May Protocols which bound them to annul the validity of the 14th Congress, take measures 10 curb the mass media, stop attempts to form independent
organisations and remove the people most haled
Moscow from leading
Only Kriegel relused to sign. The Soviet leaders tried to keep him behind in Moscow, but the ather Dubeekites refused to leave without him.
Theit was a report that the Soviet leaders were copsidering
WILT Kriegel as a defendant.
Kriegel was one of only four National Assembly deputies 10 vote against the treaty rallying
Warsaw pact presence.
So he was one of the firs
Teaders that Moscow wanted to ger rid of He was removed from the
political bureau, for instance). This offers an unprecedented opportunity for revolutionary Marxists to win a bearin
workers who still SUPPUEL these parties; to demand a debate programme with their leaderships while at the same time insisting on unity in action against every atrack by the capitalists.
Through this process which will be slow at first -the opportunity to bring down Giscard witich was lost in the elections can still be achieved in struggle.
August 1968.
Al the end of March 1969
Crechoslovak cities after a Czechoslovak ice bockey tean heat the Soviet Union. The incidents were used to force the removal of Dubeek and his leading supporters from the leadership
before the reshuffl Moscow pressured the Dubock sites to mtroduce wide restr tions on civil rights and publish
LESSIES But Kriegel made a defiant spooch at the
Central Committee plenum, defending bis own
This accusers of leading the country into disaster
The text circulated widely ir Prague and became a political manifesto, calling supporters of the Prague Spring to put an end to the retreat. Kriegel was expelled from the party the following month
Since then Kriegel has been active in the socialist opposi tion and was one of the original signatories of Charler 77.
The anti-scruitic attacks have reappeared and so have be references to the 1950g show trials. On 2 March 1977 Radio
had been repommended
arty membersbit by
SHEI Of the 505 defendants, who had heen exposed and convicted as an enemy of socialism, a Zionis and a capita ist agent
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Easter 1917, 1978
IRELAND
Easter Rising in Dublin.
but those who did were the main
them was James Connolly, probably Marxist these islands have produced.
Connolly's greatest hope was latest that the rising would light a fire that would spread across Europe', and he was to stress "we are out for economic as well as political freedom".
The Easter Rising 3od the Provisional Irish Government
brutal suppression by
failure. Yet once the leaders of
Connolly were executed, the support for the ideas they were fighting for won acceptance among the majority of the Irish people.
Seventy percent of the Irish population voted for Sinn Fein in the 1918 general election, and by so doing for an allEnsn Kepublic. That wish was denied in 1921 with partition of Ireland.
NOTORIOUS
Do lie Mory goos o, and the execution by Britain of those
TOE Kepublic continuc.
In commemoration of 1916
reprint below a recent address made by T. George of the Irish Republican Socialist Party in Long Kesh political prison in the North of Ireland. The speech commemoration of one of the
Six Counties top
THE NORTH of Ireland has the highest infant mortality rate in Western Europe.
This is the shock finding of Survey carried out by the Belfast based Workers Research Unit and just published in its latest bulletin.
Figures quoted in bulletin* Sweden has an infant mortality rate of 9.6 per thousand births. England and Wales 14.2, the South of Ireland 15.0, the rate in the North of Ireland soars to 19.1.
Infant mortality refers to the eat or under the Works ycar or under. The Research Unit survey points to marked differences WITH EAC North of Ireland itself. In the western area of the Counties, where Catholics are
majority, the infant mortanty rate is 24.8, while in the TOTALL OR TALED
OVER 200 people turned out last Sunday commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
The rally which ariginally planned by Pen. the organisers no ene Commemoration, march, was marred by the fact
moment refused
forced to address the crowd through a hand-beid hailer.
Speakers included sestatives. of Sinn Prisoners Aid Committee, the
and a number. of lell-wing exists.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 30 March 1978 page 12
Comparatively few took part in the Rising in 1916,
figures in the Republican and Socialist movements. Not least among
victims imperialism:
Today we pay our last respects to our dered comrade Thomas NOT COC ATOLYCAMOC British war machine in Ireland. the circumstances which leave only was gunned
COCOL OR Or ANCHO 05 the action of Loyalist gunmen DENTAL TOCENTURE.
Since then we have witnessed LIVERS COverale orl murder by press
mother 'sectarian killing'. Le us brush aside these diversions and red herrings which British propaganda has so skillfully built up when they use terms "sectarian killing' the "Catholics dead" or 'Protes-
tants dead"
They seek to give the impression that there are numerous tribal feuds continually fought in the Six Counties and that they are the peace makers. The world is told by the British press
La highly complex one, involving many factors and not a little insanity. In this way they lie
The truth is that the issues are crystal clear. to maintain their strangichold COTTER. THe Repubian
infant mortality rate
northern area the rate is 18.1 Examining the behind these figures, the unit comments: Weare nor being ar crude as to say that politicians 115 evil
No, but the fact is that the higher rate in Northern Ireland
the poverty the development of the West of the the bin area are wl syuuptoms or
the domination by Britain.
British imperialism in the Six Counties has meant SITH
velopment relative to Britainand part of that underdevelopment higher riortality rate DAC Balletin No 3. The Bulletin also Kesearch Nort of Telena, saves: North of Irelund,
Six connections between
National Front and North of
from 52 Broadway, Belfast for 70p post paid.
200 march in London
TARDINAUT WE Suppor the struggle of the Republi to
IAUYCHICEL against
Jacqueline PAC. stated that Was Tine mesort to these wou Sinn
movement prisoners of war in treland and
TUF independence ireland:
While cepted this, various speakers showed that loud- there remain Important differ
Fences about how this is to be accomplishod However broad range of organisations represcated indicates that the potential forsuch a movement
the greatest
of British
and it as ye
forces are fighting to drive them out and free the Irish peopic. Successive governments have brainwashed the Protestant population into believing nationalist people are suppres sed the Loyalists will lose their privileged way of life.
The Loyalise politicians are
reasons
British
men
under
underde
infant
Unit,
the
1969, productivity by 37%.
Beitish Industrial Relations
the the most
key components.
Grants in Ald
remarks
the about ine won outraland
WE SERVE NEITHER KING NOR KAISER.
IRELAND:
Irish Citizen Army on parade bafore the 1916 rising; described by Lenin as 'the first Rod Army in Europe'.
real British policy, British Loyalist unpaid and
their
Northern Ireland Is
but of the last decade induct ial achlevemen, bares in the cuestruction
To state the facts is
investment, your invest
Industrial Excellence
Productivity and output have
both increased dramatically since
manufacturing output by 14%.
Northern Ireland has one of
the best records in festeru
Europe. International companies
are happy to rely on Northern
Ireland to maintain supplies of
For new building the grant
can be as much as 50% of cost.
Tour one Be melane he hair means lor Catholics there is taken from the latest adition of Troops Out the paper of the United Troops Out Movement. March issue are articles on the Easter Rising, on the history of
used as the mouthpiece of the and the gunmen are the unencumbered members of their occupation out murder Tools Thomas Traynor's death was first plamned, not in some back room of a Protestant estate, but I in the more simister rooms of
New plant incentive.
Recover up to 93%
sensored Fair Employment Agency
stated that twe and a halt times moze
Catholics than Protestants ane out of
vork in Northern Izeland, The average
economicrotestant man is a skitted manual worl
while the Catholic is unskilled. Catholics
were particalarty under-represented in
Engineering, the utilities and insurance,
banking, tinance and business services
There was a preponderance of Catholig
This survey contrasts with a reces.
a sprindboard town verseat in the British press (see as shown!. With a split working cises, heavy
unemployment and handsome Sovemment subsidies, the ind tetrialists
Tod Northern reind a bargin area for
investment and profitability. It wit
surprise many people to leate that
forthern Ireland has such a high
And year, rent-free period for finus preferring to lease ready-built factories. For DEX OF MANUFACTURIN RODUCTIVITY (1963=100 7901 180 T70
150 Aisc in the
Scans, left.
Downing Street and Whitehall.
We must recognise the root cause of this conflict and once we have recognised it then all
endeavours must directed towards removing it.
This is no time to be carried away by the emotion of the hour and think that an eye lor lan eye policy will resolve the fiate from
Ireland.
growth.
Anny involvement in Ireland, the light for political statue in the
ong Kesh and Armagh and on the recent Socialist Feminist
Conference. Troops Out is only 10p and is available from The Dther Bookshop, 328 Upper Street, London Ni. To receive by post send an extra 10p
immediate problem. To think this is to become another 100l of the British war machine We, as socialists and Republi have identified Beitish Imbecinlism as the root or li problem.
Once it is torn out. the branches of fanatical Loyalism will wither and die. Remove the British presence and the 50 called loyalists will for the first time he forced to see the realicy of their situation and will Tonger be able to live in thei British created dream orld The deatles of Thomas Travnor and Colm McNutt are clear indications of the latesi and most brutal stage of the oppressors' campaign. Planned assassinations. collaboration with reactionary murder gangs and attempts to terrorise th people into submission are well practised methods of counterinsurgency forces, They signify a very agonising period for the people •and paraculany for those who actively oppose the British regime but they also signify the last methods of coercion the oppressors have
It is vital that both our enemy and our objectives are kepi clearly before our cyes for the enemy dearly needs u sectarian LOSE TO GICTETHE pressure from it. le is the duty of all Republican socialists to strive for the only truly fitting memorial to all the dead of this campaign and all that have gone before. We must ensure national liheration and build socialism in our country We cannot dest
this path. country poised for further he a body of impressive
which must now be
future prosperity.
* the case for more
ment in Northern Ireland new plant, the Government contribution can be a discounted 93%, including grant and tax concessons. For R & Dit can he as high as S250,(HKl on any project.
NORTHERN
IRELAND
it will pay
you to take a
longer look
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UN out of Lebanon!
effective disguise,
This is not said in sympathy with the thankless" task facing the troops occupying Lebanon, but because a hal and a laurel bent. emblen does not change a French para-trooper.
These are the LIN shock troops, the first from a security
couniTy Marshal Carver led "our lads" into Cyprus.
The paras, led by a veteran of the anti-Algerian war, tound themscives in a scrap as soon as they arrived. Much of the British treated incident with amusement but there was not much to laugh about.
The French — who imagine their previous colonial occupation of Lebanon, gives them privileged status kick a Palestinian garrison out of a fort in Tyre and replace it with the near defunct Lebanese Arab Army.
Palestinian refusal erected with cold steel, which The French, with impeccable
the marives understand.
THREAT
The incident & important because it reveals the threat posed by the presence imperialist troops.
The Palestine Libcration organisation avoided serious COSTA LIES ELTER Invasion. It would be ironic if
dispersed by the KELILIS
The other side of the UN
is its pathetic weakness. As long as the force stays at the present level and the PLO leaders don't give in to pressure, it will be incapable of stopping Palestinian mibtary resistance in the occupied zone and into Israci itself-
Equally the UN can bring no military pressure to bear on the Israelis. In short it has no FOR MANY months, events in the Middle East have confir. med the need for internationu! solidurity with the struggle of
Palestinian people nutional liberation.
Nowhere this
than in Britain.
Brituin has played a vital part in ensuring the division and
repression of the Arab nation.
Today. within the Labour
Party and the student move-
ment, there is a very strong.
organised pro-Israel and LionIst current
The invasion of Lebanen
gives us u golden opportunity
to begin to light these currents
The ferocity of the Isrueli
uggresalon and their refusal to
give any growad to Sedat have
made mans people douht the
old myths — - that Israel was a
sateguand against
semitism and was defending
Iself against altempts by the
Arabs to push the Jews into the !
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 30 March 1978 page 13
INTERNATIONAL
A blue hat does not make a peacekeeper
The ice-blue headgear of the United Nations troops may be elegant and becoming, but it is not a very writes RICHARD CARVER.
function other than selective repression of the population as part of a wider diplomatic blue game
ACRIMONIOUS
That contest has thrown wide open tensions within Israel society. Prime Minister Begin': Washingron visit where Lebanon was hardly discussed
Begin now faces a challenge
the (doubtless tacit
government. The opposition to
contines ol the (parament)to a large section of the population sick of
Begin's popularity was at its peak al the lume ot his tais with Egyptian President Sadat, when an embattled and warwcary. population glimpsed an alternative.
The trouble is that it is Regin, not his opponents, who is the consistent Zionist. The Zionist theory of the state of Israel is based on the most obscure of biblical justifications for the ocupation Palestine — there is no other
modern Zionist realpolitik genocide against stinians - beneath traditional
biblical Israel extending to the
His consistent Zionism too explains his obdurate defence of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai settlements against any US
Some commentators have tried to present Begin's failure in Lebanon in military terms: the failure to use lightning tank strikes or the absence of commando and raide to cut off the Palestinian •retreal.
Palestine
solidarity
underway
Cseu.
We have to apportunity lo explein the real nature of the Zionist state and
for why it will ulways net to represes
the struggles more perples
liberation.
The first step in building a Palestine solidarity campaign
British and Isracli socialists and Arah shidents aereed on series of actions to protest the Isracli invasion. These include: *Fighting to get un emergency resolation National Union of Students conference and cumpuigning for the relesse of Al-Rhuse, ex-president of the Lebanese Stadents *24 April: Mass Rally Conway Hall from 7pm te
anti-
*14 Muy: National Demon-
To plan these und other
been by the
was
US
Kr.esser
finally
But militarily the operation SOULOCE
mood of the Israeli populatJ0n. Heavy Lebanese Inhabitants to pulp, to avoid LAC SUMIL
Israel opposition has nothing to say on the murderous attacks on civilians. What it is warried about is the eftectiveparalroop ness of the operation and the
continued combativity of the Palestinians. icisvities take the
menis, there will co-ordinating of the Arab Friday, 7 April from 7pm te TREEEUS 100pm HIGH
Conway Hall.
SISTERTE tube].
It was ugieed activities mould be organised on the husas of the slogans *Immediate and anconditional withdruwal of Israeli the troops from Southern Leba-
*No United Nations ratin-
Rumas cation of the Israeli occupation
*End Isrueli altacks of the
Coion. Palestiniuns und
*For the right of the Palestiniuns to struggle for their national liberation For further contael Nigel Ward, Tel. 01 530 4700.
artillery noundeu villages and their
the Arab ruling class.
List" Syria top. stood Israclis northwards
Syrian anny sanids of Lebanese leftists, prepare material for the
SEGUEMI TISISTE
be
Small Hall, Red Lion (Halhorn
thai
CAIRO Lebanese
information,
Regin's real failure was not on the battlefields of Fatahland" but round the negotiating table in Jerusalem and Cairo A separate peace with Egypl is imperialism's preferred solution, leaving the Zionist state ago. intact and assigning a role to
The Arab states themselves still favour such a solution - IE they not just Egypt, but 'rejection- occupation
Syrian troops by and watched the murderous manch
The PLO leaders have been slow to learn the lessons of the If thay Lehanese civil war, when Lie
massacred touPalestinians and
Yassar Arafat and friends | must win.
Jenish State under Lhe 1947 United Natione Partition Plan Territories taken by Israel In 1948 and 1949 Territories taken by Israel in June 1967
Mediterranean Sea Egypt
Cult Co
Egypt
SUCE
night ponder the fact that it was the Syrians who drove the Palestinian camps down into southern Lebanon where the were exposed to the attack which finally came a fortnight
been
And it was the Syrians who imposed the partial disarmament of the camps,
to resist the of Lebanon by Estaca a imperial troops the Palestinians will have to set
repairing the badiy fraved links with the Lebanese
are to win, it will have to he throush an allance with the oppressed masses of
And theirs is a struggle that
Lebanon, CANSEus Syna Jordan 29 Saudi Arabia
Fled Sea
In Brief
SOUTH AFRICA: March is the trade union month of action against apartheid, and in some areas there has been impressive rank and file support.
In COWLEY the TGWU 5/60 branch at British Leyland body plant, supported by tb ALEW blacked all CKD exports to South Africa. The branch called a meeting on
Jenflet through the whole plant.
AT the GEC Traction plant
PRESTON, which has extensive South Alican interests, the Shop Stewards Committee demanded a with
information on the conditions and trade union rights of GEC's black South African workers.
The local APEX hranch supported this action and called on its national executive to convene a meeting of branci deleeates from firmas will Souch African connections
Ar ROVER SOLIHULL, as in Cowley, there has been a Wack on South African exports
and in MANCHESTER there L
a public meeting planned for 30 March, with local trade union speakers and a speaker from the South African Congress of Trade Unions.
EGYPT: Panic in the City of London last Wednesdas as the
came through tha: President Sadat of Egypt had
assassinated. The dollar fell 1.25 cents apainst the Swiss franc and the price of copper jwoped by 14 pounds a metric
Order was restored when it was discovered that someone had misbeard the name of Jesus Haddad, the Madrid .prisen governor killed by GRAPO guerillas.
The Israeli hlitzkrieg in
Lebanon is Teatured In the Intest issue of Intercontinental
Press/Imprecor, along with a report on new repreasive moves
Inside Isruel ilsett.
Other urticles in this issue
[Vol. 16, No. 12) Inclede a firs
analysis of the Freech election
TENTEISS *For
Socialist Democracy In Po-
land' by a group of clandestine
oppositionists; an analyxis dee
Livie Maitan of the "Three
Worlds' theory which gaides
Chinese foreign policy; furthe
reportage on the US miners
SETALEN aind articles the
Swedish CP conference, the
blacklisting of worker dissi-
stage
Colombian elections-
There is also a short report
on recent elections in one al
Swiss CARLILI where
Trotskyists won 10.66 per cen
of the vole, polling as high a
per cent in one towa!
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COMMENT
A planned
paper
WE ARE seriously concerned about what we see as a failure in Socialist Challenge. This is the seming lack of a political conception over reporting
Last spring the IMG was going to build a nerwork of correspondents/ amateur journalists at local and regional level,
But Socialist Challenge has been with is for nine months now, and we find that the Editorial Board has launched an anneal lor journalist, 'essential if we are to carry out the kind of presentation which we — and many readers - want to see" (Socialist Challenge, 2 February).
What will be the function of the new Journalist? To spend her or his time doing the work should be doing? As revolutionaries we want to further the struggle for SOCIEISET internationally, within our own areas. This means that
all local Socialist groups to discover and report on events and issues in their areas, so that the paper can help us locally and so that we are in a better position to help HELLOILS EN WETO. (This will hopefully help eliminate Dodie Weppler's highly such as Dodie inaccurate relerence to the South Wales haulage strike in a recent issue of the paper.)
But all this needs to be done systematically, which just isn'T happening at the moment. Either the comrades in London are sweating away until 3am writing articles themselves because arcas haven't sent any in, or we find that articles sent in from local groups are not printed, and no reason is given -WE DON
Let's have a clear conception given
local journalists, and let's see the new huilding local and regional structures of reporting. The present Feet s type organisation must be replaced by maximum involvement From all the STRICU different areas, tunities will continue to slip away TEA UA
ROY DAVIES (Swansea), DEREK DAVIES. ROSS OLIVER, PAUL HIGHFIELD (Cardiff)
Confused
I AM CONFUSED L te by CS in the are pase Lease any protections and
projections inferences do not appear proven by the analysis of the facts presented. For example, before 1970, normal practice you say was to "depreciate corporate assets over a mumber of
Socialist
Challenge
EVENTS
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ESTON Socialist Chellenge:
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their values depreciate.
saving of 52
which is not mentioned.
from thin air.
another
coverage and
it? that local groups
transactions
including
were gelling pre- 1970?
Challenge
TUNE
point out • that remained incentive. factually
P. HATFIELD (London]
Danger-
nuclear
with
:oppor-
Germany
and the
on the other. deplorable
are adapting to
arriving at i coherent line.
and don't know what further
by then anyhow.
HUDDERSFIELD Secidial Challeng
ceis Thursday 30 March, 7:20p
BURY SocietieS serie maca
NORTH EAST DURHAM Socialist Challengs BANGTON
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years, while since 1970 new investments are set against profit in the first
instead of over a period of years while Hine of this represent on tae
cent investment when it is only the period over which tax allowances are made which would seem to have changed?
On the other hand, tax allowances are protected against inflation b capitil being released and reinvested
Being neither an coonomist nor an accountant, for me and many others, facts left out of the analysis of leasing make the conclusions seem to come
roninsance, me casor may gora tar allowance on purchasing equipment,
Jessor not taxed? Doesn't a bank onb need to hold 8 percent cash for any loan it makes? Would it normally be practice for a bank to be taxed 52 per cent on that money if it doesn't loan
Does is make a difference if
are made through a subsiduary? If so, how? Don't firms with low profitability use leasing (Le. become lessees) in order to receive the equivalent of the tax allowances they
that increasod Investments under this system wil increase unemployment, but you also
'Investment has they low in spite of the
Would you please help us all to
future supplying sufficient facts in
for reading by militants not necessarily
of
reactions
TWAS AMAZED to come across the very argument un the 2 February Socialist Challenge that are used in
against the anti-nuclear movement by the alomic industry
and the CP, detendine or in the
Soviet Union and Eastern Germany.
that in the traditional impressionist fashion we
current bational moods. insread of really finding out about the questions concerned and
It is none of our business to decide whether or not there will be nuclear reactors in the classless society, We
scientific developments will occur that might makethem safe, and we won't be alive
Still it is not at all reasonable to
meete next 4 April, Swan, Sokee Craft, Briatcl SOUTH EAST
cutside
LENTHUS T
COCUSSION hursday. 6 April, Hack
High" Row SCOTLAND
Socialist on Saturdays Charlen@ Socialist
do celium
EDINBURGH SOCINESS
S1-346 04:
BERDEEN: nermalan abou
claim, the way Carl Gardner did, that they will have to be used just because
have been invented: though SURE AIRSE U GIM IN scientific achievements of former TEN CISSES ADO LOCK STOOLS ACTE 35.0o compulsion to use them all.
The reaim of tredom wil alon
sensible decisions LOD desirability of these achievements, and there should be many that will be COOL THIS CAC INCISCCI ments in torture, just to give a crucie example. As for radmactivity, it isn't even fully under control, since it can he started but not stopped
There is no desperate need to take risks with it either, as there is no such thing as a shortage of energy in the near future. This, like the "oil crisis"
some Years agu. bourgoois propaganda to cover up the fact that at the moment muclear energy as well as the production of reactors for the world market offers special economic advantages to the bourgeoisie.
In its amanchic fashion capitalism wastes most of primary energy, and it it was used more economically there would be ample for some decades at least. In the long run the problem will
of the overall decline of resources.
SECOUS Alternative sources of energy are already beint develoned such as solar power stations in space
As to the dangers of radioactivity. both comrades display a remarkable dearer of innocence. tion that the poor muddle-headed ccologists are getting reactors bombs mixed up doesn't make them look much better, Fast breeders can behave rather like bombs, full scale accident in a breeder or a reprocessing factory would indeed tr something on the level of Hiroshima
MIDLANDS
7 4ipm
pn The Wine
HAMINGNAM Socialist
LONDON
un Sucialist
colli br
Box 50. London N1
Socialist
Chailange
and Nagasaki. Ir's impossible for ate in this letter to point out all the dangers involved, bur the idea that nuclear eneras is particularly safe is simply absurd Of course, if you consider dirt u terms of what you can see and smell nuclear coergy is clean, because we have no senses radionctivty,
come and hereal contes, uhan
decades and generations later so that the connection can't he proved Certainly it is easy to point • at reactionary cies within the antinuclear mover in order to discredit it. But in vin ly any movement there are hound currents that try to correct the r by turning history's wheel backwards Instead of forward. Staying away for that reason would be rather sectarian. It is the task of revolutionaries to win a majority for the correct political line within the movement think Sociulist Chullenge cou ontribute to the discussion ifit didn just publish political statements on the matter but if it supplied some sound information on how reactors work and precisely what hazards ar avolved, perhaps in the form of scrial.
ALAN LUDEN, [Tubingen, Germany]
Democracy
and the
the ANL
OF COURSE Mick Gosling is correct lodelend thecal for a democratically structured Anti Nazi League and to LEACHE instances of sectarian behaviour by the ANL in no way justify any rociprocal sectarianism by the anti-fascist
mainly clearer that the anti-fascist movement Perhaps it should have been made
have had to put up with some appalling behaviour on occasions But in making some correct points Mick also makes some errors. Mich does not grasp that there exists a relationship between the basts of lie AN and its lack of democratie structure.
The political basis of the ANL is seen. "could be improsed, adequate and in line with Trotsky's theory of the united front against Tascism: in essence, this
"with the devil himself'
On the aller point it as nerhan unecessary to peant suffers imprecisson. and sult lets concentrate on
Tadequate programmie of the ANL. I1 is possible to agree with Mick that an and allance body
amalysis of immigration.
NoI
HARINGEY WHAM Socialist Con
sais
Fame da Wakes League LONDOM EPSA Sociallet Challeng somethere le Sociall Challen
BETTES that respond to Besides, the effect of
pellbourgeois ten en
The avoided sent
than Mick.
ANL Becoming a expression and 4 June. does bberation? political
will the minor caveat that it
being Стор.
can be
out that this trom a certain
the
does not nood an racism, fascism and should it possess what is
Socialist giovo meets Manist
ammunity Contre, Stanley Fo
Socialist Challenge grou oposals for practi beand correspondente wilbe
effectively a lull set of resolutionary
The kitchen sink approach that some of the revolution ary left use is designed to expose the revisionist rather than build the anti POSE OSCALL LI BELLE to establist a clear position on the key
Cde Gosling correctly praives th ANL for mobilising in Mard This was not done hecause the ANI. had adopted any position on the bans, bul because the full timers of the ANI do have a programmatic position on the crucial ssues. This situation does not lead to real if limited unity with the reformists, but to manipulation.
Democratic decision making has to
SEND I raise contentious issues, Thus the lack o democratic structure within the AND is a function, at least partially, of the inadequate programme of the ANL
I is also possible to be less hoperal as to the overall impact of the AND
Certainly much useful wark has been done hut, in the loa term, this may be vitiated by th
organisation nature of the Thes proltibits it from genuine organisational of the anti-fascist
What is worrying is that the depre of manipulation involved may cod i an explosion that lands us not back at square one but at square minus one. It is for these reasons that the ansarer to the question as to whether the ANL has helped the anti-fascist movement has to he an equivocal 'yes", and that it is so crucially important to huild the joini National Coordinating Commit ree and ARAPCC conference on
ANDREW JENKINS (Nottingham)
Youth and
left unity
INORDER to form a 'united left' you agree that it will include members of every section of oppressed society: uniens, gay peonie women and the labour movement as a whole. Bas
This include youth
Correct me if I'm wrong but there appears to be tircle evidence of your supporting south uberation, a though Socialist Challenge articles all appeal to my views. My sympathies be with you and the International Marxist
The policies of the National Union
against sexism. fascism, and racism,
A united working class struggle 1 nedded that includes all oppressed sections of the community. This is essential for a working class victory. With unity we shall win
And could you please include youth liberation in the 'Our Policy' section of Socialist Challenge? Forward to socialisi democracy!
BEN CRIBB [Abergavenny NUSS arguniser, personsl capacity]
to the conterence,th
Which t integrated,
Members of the be tu
resolutions from the be spral boardil: appearnet.weski. I you wo. cline o Inate one l0 ycur area then ring us a
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Italian Communist Party. supplied by Hollywood.
merit, writes MYRA TREVELYAN
a cunious way, not irrelevant to ProDiçus contemporary polities. Replying to questians
London preview, Bertolucci SUTTEL unfinished film.
He wanted to make a sequel, But the situation confused that | don't know what I could sayi* One can sympathisc with that mem.
TAPESTRY
The which Bertolucci weaves his account of Italian history from 1900-45 is the rural richness of Emilia
the halian countryside.
on perfection
by GEOFFREY SHERIDAN
COMPETITIONS cun he a give-away, ideologically speak ing. Miss World and the rest parade women in one of the prisoms of their eppression: their bodies singled our for a mass gaze-
Nune of the Year selects another role: women in the uniform of the lady with the lamp. bringing health solace to the sick and injured.
AnU S0 the London Evening News's search for the Perfeer Secretary:
The catries for competition, submitted bosses, cloquently express a key role of secretaries; as handmaidens to men whose status, erticiency, and Irequently their ability to function at all would DERErS YErISE. 4 Peak
The entries TACNLITES selection follows.
•Withous Christine, my life would be much less complete.
Medley
Why STEVE MACDONOGH
KULTUR KAMPF Int lus cicgant apartment the Protessor calks endlessly about cultures I mcntion the nasscs; he sulks, and Ilcave
Over dinner we discuss a sehpol of poets the Professor favours.
Lask what social class they represent. He chokes on an olive.
QUANTITY INTO QUALITY
For hours we argued over Trotsky and the fox.
Asl was leaving he cistern overflowed.
We paried laughine.
AT THE MATCH The eminent dor know nothing of soccer
*H's the British
SOGIALIST CHALLENGE 30 March 1978 page 15
'1900' 45 years in 4 hours
Bertolucci's
compromise
1900 is a film about politics and about history. Bertolucel's latest film is the result of two pressures. The main politico-historical influence is that of the
The money has been
The combination is not, however, without some
The subject of 1900 and its | Through the eyes of three
successive gencrations of landlords and peasants, we soe the changing face of rucal Italy.
The first generation: relation berween landlord and peasant are guided by paternalism. Second generarion: the landlord gers more nasty: and the organise temselves into un=! and leam the withdrawing their Third seneralioa: the imtaci of fasciun on the countryside:
Bertolucci's thind generation (icdi d cepis do sete de Niro) accepts TAMSI. retains repronsed half-sexual, ambiguous
political relationship with the third generation peasant Olma (Gerard Depardieu) who be-
Shorthand notes
She # aware, natural instinct, of all the many and devious ways in wich 1 must be protected: from my debtors, relation», and — yer -even my friends,
wile."
The lovel- Rosemary is not oniy an excellent secretary bul a punctual and skilful chauffeur. she can be relied on to take me to the airport at five in the and morting and neven at aih let me ac
*Hazel arrives at NEO T Dur nami une n this nine so always seems to have by tune to sop andlak people's personal and husiness problems as well as russing the department smootbly efficiently. "Naturally Jane's shorthand and typing are immaculate but far the real difference between her and dull perfection is giegle. Our Jane is wonderful because she makes us fecl that we are wonderful!
SUCH QUESTIONS SPOIL HIS DIGESTION All the samie, ne velled wudly Jos the underdoes sense of fair play", he explainod "Yes", L said, 'We have some experience of that.?"
- member resistance and the Communist Party (PCD. He is the political leader of the local anti-fascist strugale.
WEAKNESS
Hertolucci explains that the file is about contradictions' WI ICSEL UREYELIA is true up to a point, though
central Italian society - thar berwoen
a semi-feuda] capitalists — is simply ahsent.
r Ba TeCI EHC tactory shook the peasanis centres of the country. This is a real weakness in the film, without 1 comprehension of labour. what was cite it is Bot explain the rise of Mussolini's tascist bands.
The local landlords and their
half and House of the People in 190 Bents who sel were reflections of ahal
the ladine hacisies
(Desald Sutberland) approaches Tangs and all, SEXUALITY
The attitude to sexuality in the film is either Iraditional or eKErinely ambiguuus. homosexmality which has to be repressed, semingly by hidded away. TT MUHUR H SULEINIYOHT a prostitute was Bertalucci's Duapoue Cerrar to contront the issue head-on?
Alfredo and Olmo both to bed with a prostitute.
ERCIONARE OCSAE HICE EI
Uresem 1 hat ie Pet the
chey are nu ete eres of 'fulfilment' the bopomes the victum of a viclent fil of epilepsy cight The film is clearly weak on sexual politics and in a contry where the Carbolic Church is so powerful this is a serious defect.
and COMPROMISE
The compromise with Hollywood involved hiring Lancaster, Rohert de Niro, and Domald Sutherland te roles. This disaser, bur it does lend Sihn an 'epic couch which was unsecessary.
The compromise with the PCI leads ambiguous ruling class is shown commirTE suic. Barne o pa by a persistent opponent. This Is SacC brepsn
Howerer, she tilm should be soen, Ir provokes taought and discussion on a emponant guestons. to.urguc that ins weaknesses make it asines s o iceore the real world, The films which disuss politics and history trom Dusin are lew between.
Bertola 19s scrious atlempt to do so. does not have to apree with all its acstbictic and positions to enioy it 1900 is showing ot the Classic
in London, Fisintwo purts, with a , separate admission charge for each.
CESETSECEO EI
which main industrial
happening in the
possible: 10
•TITE
Thus
TESHISE
aLILiOST a parody,
Thus
is semetbing
Was 1 alone in
the
YELLEN prostitute rejected. haven't seen Jubilee, listened Burt Sterling Hayden music. Fram
March). play leading musical
not a major
the phiistinism CITECa
to an extremely of class strugg ie conclusion: The
but it's
capitali sm produce the number of and minds varying
number of 'mans passive.
broad Jett
made One
politicnl Theatre
Osford Street,
are prepared.
AN IMAGE of struggle. The headline on the poster reads:
Muzzle for film-makers"- 11- censorship. refers to a campaign which began in 1971 when a group of film-makers from Berlin were invited by the Wuppertal city council to make four shor films oncultural and socia themes as part of a cultural week that was to be held in the objectivity. "'Bur thee of the films were
The TeasOn: tbey *lacked objectivityh in other
UNKE SO JE VE COMMENT
lo B lo1 his articie (18 BUS-RET LAFVBE A experience is limited and to old Holling Stones recort: a1 paras cur ai dine ames comes the stale smeil of laft
towarde than hal!
SAUNAOMOrI desn 1 mateh up lo lla notion
There is politica in punk
palitics of leisure not ol elecloral Drocremmeg or workplace strugg es. And lelsura is importani, sinca it's
SARECEE operates to m relatibne provane in prop na turn
and ofter contreticiery wavs, ourk har represented & refusal of the
consumens: role CHUE dominant apparatus of popu-
On the telly
The Red Ladder theatre proup is ferured ou BBC-2's Arenn
Dex:
Senday, 2 April. The 15-minute
eroup functions as a collective, Ts Torenl mora, ana now pus
Maulkorb
fur
Filmemacher
words, acoeptable politics. Not SESTE TENSCXCRM!
Wuppertal
councillors then demanded the return of the money they had Paco Coc mon-mak crs
The Dusseldorf siate couTt a BerEn sE coute pacacu up this demand, ruling that the ISLIS CO TAACCE SOW ACE DI
The back of the poster bsts the names ol over a hundred media and cultural worker in West termans whe have onderned this assault on
Punk: politics of leisure
lar music. The best punk rock
SAVENSE INE aCICIT" conformity into which rock had sunk by the min-705 The Sex Pistols God S8Ve ThA :
Queen was far more deadly
8 milsion Stutt the A IDR STICKOTE
People like Carver should Tos sad, apa trome cha and ask temseves era, the left has managed to maxe no impact on ine whole
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The poster is designed by Ernst Volland, whose photomOntAges wcll-known
the left in West Germany. Volland taught photo-montage at a universicy - until he was sacked a fes months ago for producing a Poster on Schleyer, the kidnapped boss whose Nazi pas. the West was so anxious not to reveal.
Volland's work bs shortly to be exhibited in Britain. series of anti-authoritarian youth cultures ovar the last 20 SCSID
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Delegates representing
the National Union of Students on 2 April.
TAI.BOT report.
For the union's national EXCLULIVE. president Slipman's year in office has TENTALE forward for the NUS. CULOLICO efforts •Tory student leaders and Communist Party/Labour Party "Broad Left' resulted in aspects of NUS policy being dropped — such as he 'no platform for fascists' sand - around which the press whipped up so much hysteria.
OVERSEAS
NUS is now consulted by the Department of Education and Science before colleges closed and overseas students sper student union: "respon
student anionism is on the advance.
FRUITFUL
But lor Ibe matorily 0] students the last year has not
so fruitful. OUR FUND DRIVE Registered with the Post Office
Students to meet in Blackpool
Broad Left
alliance'
800,000 students meet in Blackpool for the opening of the annual conference of
As well as debating such major issues as student union autonomy, grants and racism, delegates will be drawing the lessons of a year which will go down in student history as the lowest point in collective action for a decade, REDMOND O'NEILL and COLIN
training colleges cose, grants have been slashed continue Sue in value and availability, and step Thousands al overseze students The who have survived discriminathe from the education system through racist quotas. has CORRIDORS
Such is the price for the executive's strategy of institutional harmony and responexecutive's advance into the has not succeeded in defending HITE the de facto sacrifice of the OCTS CECTS BAS ALEWEL
and has politically disarmed the of the arid offensive. in sociely.
ERSTWHILE In electing the national
Socialist Challenge
executive, delegates at Blacksheet of all this. In particular L SEATTE porters will have to decide if they will continue to sanction their leaders" open alliance with the student wing of the Tor
In opposition to this the main theme of the major far left group, the Socialist Students Alliance, will be for left unity defending the breaking the Tory/ Broad Left Alliance.
DISARRAY
The SSA believes that the sara and conson on tre student left can be overcome on the basis of reassembling ali those strugele strenative is ganing credibly
specially with those student
ho have paid the highest pric for the year of inaction.
WHO?
The SSA slate for the exocutive president, MICK ARCHER; deputy president, CAMPBELL:
LEWIS DAVIS: vice-president education services, GARDINER: welfare, ALISON DOWNEY fascist SIMPSON: executive officers: vice-president arcas, ADRIAN SOMETEE PAULINE ROE, MCCLEARY:
ARCHER and CAMPBELL.
WITH A FEW dass left before the end of the month, we were still short regular Spring Tias week's total of E112.63 was with Easter bolidays the post has beco irregular
We are looking forward 1o a bumper postbag in the next couple of days.
Our emergency appeal to enable us to install a small pres saw a new lease of life, Thro donations brought in £121. Our supporters in Oxford apain delivered the goods. Since the ase readers have been ace most energehit and unfailing in their ability to raise mency for Ine pance
To dare, their contribution: alone have totalled £176.06 Here is a tatect our other local groups can ser their sights on
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A regular Canadian sup porter rushed over E100 to ou Emergency appeal and are tor fund drives. the regular fund. Along with the very were shee am these comments: impressed by the reporting quality and the extent of th discussions taking place in th
brone sup NUS SEI and willing to back class
NewS
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TREVOR vice president
members, VON MICK COLIN 6324.29 Tor our find drive.
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Evening
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