Socialist Challenge No. 9, 4 August 1977
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Socialist Challenge BUILD A SOCIALIST OPPOSITION FOR A UNIFIED REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATION
DON'T LET THEM GRIND YOU DOWN A victory was in sight. It wassabotaged by the union bureaucrats and Labour ministers. They putintolerable pressure on thestrikers. We believe that the decision by a majority of the Strike Committee to bow to this pressure was a profound mistake. It has set thestruggle back. Thespirit of July 11 has been lost in a maze of
Over the weekend, Brent Trades Councilstated: 'Oneveryday, including 8 August we urge a show of strength to remind Ward and the powers-that-be that Black Friday was only a temporary set back.* Socialist Challenge asks allits readers to demonstrate theirsolidarityon 8 August. Coaches and trains mustn be cancelled. Oursupport is more vital than ever before. Assemble at 6.30 am outside Dollis Hill Tube. BE THERE ON AUG 8 Is Marriner simply a Labour agent?
GRUNWIGKY
legal decisions and bureaucratic manouevres.
THE SOCIALIST UNETY dection ge for the Ladywood by-election started with n bang last Monday whee it was discovered that Peter Marriner, acting chairperson and election agent of the Ladywood Constituency Laboar Party was well 1976 a meenber of a virulent Nazi organsation in this country HEREAD NONETHE As the Socialist Linity candidule for Ladywood, Raglib Alsan, a shop-steward at Rover Solibull, declared: "It & a murky and sordid tale. We need a thorough labour movement engulry into this whole affair. I will certalaly be raising it la my election campaign.
(We request you to observe the wishes of the Strike Committee throughout the day.]
It was Socialist Challen reporters who first Investigated the story and made it aradable to Socialist Linley, who released it macis or reaies direct for a tea Buried merely infiltrating the Fuscists for reasons of Ladmer, editor of the anti-fracist Journal Searchlight sald he had enough evideace to suggest that Marrier wa afiltrator', Marriner could not explain astisfactorily to us why b had Joleed a left-wing group, "Workers Elcht, in 1975, but Sen Matgamna, a leader of the group at that time sald: "We strougl suspect be was doing entry work for the fascists.?
In 1976 he was publicly ackoomledged as a Leader of the
4 August 1977 No.9
ABS
National Youth Movement", by the BM's organ British Patriot. He was also associated with Column 88.
Marriner holds high positions in the Labour Party Ladymond. There Is a large black commonity in the ares. He recendy said; "We beliese our policies would help anyone - be they bluck, brown, or white.' The question is which policles, Mr Marriner? Socialist Uniry candidate, Raghib Alsan, will b repeating this question every day waless we get un answer.
Far more information on Ladywood see Page 9
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HOME NEWS
Lib-Lab pact
the 12 month rule.
recognition. Jumping into the breach came Norman Stagg
withdraw strike committee backing for the day of into struggle against succeed.
wings. It ls now public knowledge that Michael
Labour amounts to is less obvious.
the reactionary bloc in
this year.
one objective - making capitalist crisis.
ai the Genera Election the Loyalists and the National Front are also plumper Labour's
democratio rights. elected as a result of a successful Hachib Ahsan.
CADOUS DO OES
Don't let them grind us down.
Pe Pat and the trades unions off m IM CHICH:IE JFEIFr-ME1 hat ane in the interests, mod of the
amator othe biete ha the teo vinl e
I cnefrosting revadutionary gpciststs uret • To build broed -based cass sruggle tendes-
maremens. These shoold h
e mutel ler the cration ef a ut-
ws which can, through an application front taries, begie ta he seen as ua by thumands of werkers engezed in
argetiatinn shuuld he Sased on ihe
Editorial
Socialist Challenge, 328/9 Upper Street, London N1.
Editorial 01-359 8189 Nows 01-359 8180
The fruits of the
LAST WEEK SAW the formal end of the Social Contract. Phase Two of incomes policy passed away, unlamented, on 1 August. But Healay and Callaphan are continuing artificial respiration through the TUC leaders' support for Last week also saw a series of set-backs for the Grunwick strikera in the most important struggle in Britain today. First came the Appeal Court reversal of the High Court decision to support the ACAS recommendation for union
of the Cricklewood postal workers, Roy Grantham of APEX, and Labour Minister Denis Howeli. By the end of the day they had successfully managed to end the postal baycott. action on 8 August, and open up a new period of bitter struagle to bring the dispute to a successful conclusion.
Although the main prop for the Government's right-wing policies is their partnership with the trade union leaders, they are not discriminating as to their choice of alles. The Liberals are happy to accept the role that Callaghan has offered them, policing the White Paper on incomes policy.
Now Callaghan can say to any group of workers who go
wages norm that. if they ine LiDerais wil oring down the Government.
But Callaghan has an even more obnoxious ally in the ex-darling of the 'left', has concluded a deal with Enoch Powell and the Ulster Unionists. The Unionists' side of the deal is clear. They have already abstained on some crucial Issues to back up the Government. What the pay-off from
Certainly high on the list is Increased representation of
the House COTNONS strengthening the Loyalists' hands in extracting more repression against the Nationalist minority in the north. But that may be a long time coming, so we can expect to see yet another boost to the repressive forces in ireland following their big jump after the Loyalista' strike earlier
These sort of alllances by Callaghan and Healey have
the working class pay for the
They are preparing the way for a massive Tory majority
But the more sinister forces like rOvind diet of austerity, and denial Labour has torgotten that 1 was miners strike which brought down Heath. Callaghan & Co's attack on strikers and their pact with the Liberals will bring Labour down as
We belleve that Labour's policies have to be opposed all along the line, including in the electoral arena. That is why we are giving full support to the Socialiat Unity candidate,
the Ladywood by-election. Socialist Unity is calling for the broadest unity of action against
They will be utilising the campaign to stress the lessons of Grunwick and the need to fight fascism and racism. They will be combatting the politics of despair promoting socialist policies to answer the crisis. Follow their example, and that of militants outside Grunwick.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE will be taking a two-week
break in August. Our last issue before the break will
appear on 11 August, The next issue will appear on 1
September. Supporters should increase their order
lor the next Issue. Ring John East at 01-359 6371-
OUR POLICIES
1
StalEr
TWO MAJOR blows were struck this week ogainst the Grunwick strike for anion recognition. One calling off of the day of action to stop the scab buses on 8 August -allowing the massive support for the strike to be frittered away.
The orher was the ending of the postal boycort at Crickle wood sorting office nally initiated because of the mass picketing. step towards the baycor and solidarity action mass
needed to bring rapid victory.
It was nor Ward who delivered these blows to the strike through his whining appeals to the courts.
Nor the National Association for PTEOI WED IS SCHO UEIYCE and private postal network.
Nor were they the result of the HCяLIKSSME EREDOUE ment. The Gruswick have shown their determinarion LIR HEA PILC SIAC Foot. Cricklewood postal
showed their willingness to take SODOM TI SECTE DETAC SMIECES as have the thousands of others who have srood on the picket
These sethacks were the leadership of Roy Grantham and Tonn Jackson and their suppor ers in the APEX and post offic PAELCES URSOU ICZOCESILTS Instead of socing that relying on the courts could defeat, that Ward's appeal and the Scarman inquiry ure aimed as dragging out the dispute and de ror the stri en, these leaders for the stri? ers, these prefer to "take the heat out of the And where has reliance on the courts led the Grunwick workers SAICAC T-T OT COC SEOUE BIUYE
Tom Jackson argued chat the DOvOE ar Cricklewood Bad stop because it might "Jeopardise the postal workers"
right to strike'. Since when ha the best way to win the right to ARE IRSAE ALUUR stop taking T BEEE nI when threatened?
PENTONVILLE 5
Had the Pentonville 5 done
and thar. the unions would still he
shackled by the Tories' Indestrial KEMDOnS AL. LIC DOE way W make sure that postal workers were given the right to Mrike woulld he to spread the boscart, demand the support of the TUC, ind appeal for action by the ranl muie n nec Walons SHOU the UPW be threatened.
Roy Grantham first suggested the court of inquiry to take the eas out of the the law slogan of APEX - which means while the light uf the worken wesins The srupale fo nEIMIO MATENE the hosss wish chat of urber appres sed locen nf suriety wumen. blac people. Ra9t - strugaling fur their lberaiion. This socialivm can unly be achiered by emating
and defrating with ail necessary means ihe powir uf the capialist
ieridim ruS HEiT BoE demnitentie tan shal exisis th B00
millions of workers thruwghont the workd. We Gre ansod so thomt and will ofer full oppon in alf thoce Pohtins for socialist demurries-
was the
thereby
- origi-
as the first
national
TELUYE Mrikers
The workers
ARIIE
SLELEE unnecs result of the mo- that continuing the
BIOENE prejucice The
CONFRONTATION only lead to
BuCTal
alone in their Urging them on is the TUC
thai would restore their
in support af been to
called for action which carly victory in the strike.
The Employment
Lhe Social
noching.
way of seuling strike
situation'. "Mili-
is the Grantham, hould join it.
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criniisi regimes in the West and the brel
tasea ate puer in taie sect.
Via tetaiam muist ruginea lente ale withdrewai nt Brilish tron
Tuture.
The Comun rider the tura are in orisis.
revolationar wirislst parties are mo tary than erer Defore, Conditiune Today ut
ber not dens the wight io ungene
Grunwick strike on
dangerous detour.
Who's to blame?
Beating your chesr with threats of action and mass pickets at a later
while holding back the mass pickets and demobilising the mass support wotl for the
Like Jackson, Girantham thinks
mass action cour 0 inquiry". This is certainly true.
With the mass pickets growing the boycott spreading, and th WOLC SEMI CUSCrCu aaRaa full square behind Granwick are ikety to put presa ure on the bosses are much Ward through Scarman's inquicy to call it a day — before they find
Stained ECHS VS ID SU OLE EE CUU frontation wich the labour move-
Grantham and Jackson are not
misleadership.
Despite its call for all affiliated unions to 'intensily their practical aid to those an strike", at oo TIME REILEHAMO IESTEUT ELLIOL
the post office union and called for an extetsion of the boscotl Al Ro Dimie has It
the solidarity strike HLIH wowld mean an
Protection Act, upon which the TUC has placod so much emphasis as a fig latest
ShoT D MS BH -a a, derour of inquiries which, even it the law lords do rule in favour of torce kers eheingeo the daye
the employer to
Al the moment the "peacefu]"
Employment Protection Ac *The
tas been relegated to the dustbin.
Jackion and the rest lusurs hut os w vil
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
Fascists' answer
to Grunwick strike:
The Big Stick
THE NATIONAL Frost hAs Deen keeping sery quiel ahout Grunwick. Apart from NF members in such tomes as Cambridge selling Free Nation, the paper of
Associstinn Freedom, Ihe Front as • low Profile on its inain. attitude to the strike.
After ail, it is difficult for them to argue againsi the strike as they like to prezend that they stand for the interests of working people He aiso
- thar is white workers. For instance, in 1975 Briain Fimi one of the filth sheets of the NF - bonsted: "Only Narional Front trade unionists are lornily dedicared to lighting for the principle af froe trade unionism'
altboush the NF like ta deny it, a basic priociple of their fasciai is the need to destroy the independent organisations of rhe of the place of work. working class. And now. in the
edition of Spearhead, when they comment for the Tirst time on Grunwick, action against those interfering that anitude is realtirmed. Tyndul, cheie want of the e pickee hod te tade amiot The article is written by John and is entitled Grunwick: Li- laws should be passed limitin cense far Revolucion". doesn't heat about the bush on bos the Grutwick pickets should Dc ocai win: sensible course would have heen to equip the police
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NAME ADORES
Sod to Hocalit Chalipiteo, 328-209 Tipper Streel, Locdow Nt:
with water cannon tear gas and rubber bullets. with full authority to use these impletnects as che situation roquired The police coua inen have broadcası warting over a loudsneaker informing the mob of their interSCOLIO CICAF TAC LTE with these
means ar their com mand
Tyodall Is not content with attacking the Grunwick pickers.
screams the absurdity of our picketing lams" lie calls for legal allacks on the righe to picket:
"The obrious sane policy is to pass a law stipulating a maxi mum number of pickering line or empowering the locat chief ol police to use his discretiont as to whar the number of pickets should be depending on the size
Tyndall's other main moan is the NF's about the tragic decision of the Attorney General noc to take with the Grunwick mail
Tyndall the right to picker, and the typ of sabidarity the Cricklewo sorters showed is "tragic'
Such are the principles of th Nº's free trade unionism'. Yo have heen warned
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Rely on Fisher, and we're sunk
PUBLIC SECTOR ON THE MARCH
THE LEFT FACE of public
employee's leader Alan Fish-
er vanished last week as he
cast his vote with the major:
on the TUC General
Cowneil in favour of main-
liking the 12-month rule for
Phase Two pay settlements.
Besides the well-publicied
abstention vote
Jones, four union
voted against the TUC state-
Clive Jenkins
(ASTMS] Alan Sapper, cind
technicians, Jon Morton,
musicians, and Doug Grieve,
tobacco workers.
Fisher's vote to endorse
Healey's wuge cutting pack-
age will have severe reper-
casions for public sector
Many trade unionists would probably think of the National Union of Public Employees a e union which has been at th wefront of the campaign painst the cuts. Certainly this is GOT DUDES? sector workers. In
- past two years NUPE bas
its membership by nOW OYCI 650,000 members.
But the last union conference
red dearly that behind the
elaboration that have been pur. lie the same policies of class whole through its support foe he Social NUPE'S conomic Review 1977, endorste the objecte seen en recent conference,
OH SOCHE
reen the TUC and the Labour Party in 1973 have not been
sited by
that the Govern-
seconomic strategy 'was at rance with the manifesto com-
Is made by the Labour
me NUrE Jespersmp • that the only thing wrong ith the Social Contract has been abour's failure to implement it!
the "campaign secure a radical change in course in the Government's coonomic olicies* in a clearer light an tempt to persuade the Govern-
through a pressure cam-
an to go back to the 'original" OOHL LUIE
CLASS COLLABORATION IN PRACTICE
The results of this approach have been demonstrated in the
Weir fight
continues
THE OCCUPATION
Peir maternity hospital in Sorrh
now been called off. This folions
the manoeuvre by rhe ones health authority to withdraw its propo-
sals to convert wards into officer and then use fake staristics to claim the Feir war wangfe and endangered lives, and therefore coin Fat cantinue as a mulerdin
local leadership then forced throweh the calling off of the occupation at a mas they attempted to stop stewards
from the hospital speaking. Weir suppori committee is still
waging a compoign to smue the
hospital despite the ending of the
Liverpool health axe FIVE LIVERPOOL and a quarter of the 680 beds in
Setion Geaeral Hospital are
HOME NEWS
The watchword for NUPE members:
workers, For a stani, NUPE
members will be denied the
E50 minimum wage which
their unmuni conference in-
structed Fisher to pursue.
Al mat conference many delegates were angered by Fisher's blarant misrepresenJack tation of the vote for a ESo leaders minimum wage as being a vote of suppor for discus sions with the Government Cover Phase Three. A mumber of delegates have since issed an appral for a meeting of left-wing activists to begin to organise for their wews beside the union.
Ron Pearson, TREMBLE TEET
cuts campaign. Local
which left large sec ACLIEN tions of the membership isolated and mobilised the full weight of the substituted for action against the cuts.
Arms joble poone soctor upon conference on the social wage in to
under threat of closure. The 11.1
per cent unemployment in Liver
pool will soar even higher If the
plans
hrough: 3,300
1,800 hospital jobs are on the
chopping block.
These massive cuts are being
screen of a new 820-bed teaching
hospital which is
(os of 1, 300 mersing staff and Oclober. But with the
1,000 ancillary warkers, the new
hosaial wil he torally
equate to meet the
Liverpadlians
Colin Barnett,
of the National Union of Public
Employees, has declared that the
BALLETIE SEIKE
rocked city hospitals for the past The fortnight will continue until the
MALIGELS DAVE MUNTEER UN
uncillary workers" take bome pay
will not cut by the scaling
GOAT DE TIC SCIVICE
Barnett's demands may save
wage packets in the short-term.
but they aren't going to save jobs
or the health service. Unless the
fight to defend wages is Linked to
That or Jobs and ne provision d.
health care, not only will health
warkers Jose out, but the bealth
hospitals, told Socialist Challeage:
Jeadership's support for the Wage culs that concerns ms.
Cuts, unemployment, млол democracy, women und back members - these are all insues arowad Which the left must organise.
Full detoils of the meeting. to be held on 3 September, can be abroined front Ron Pearson at 98 Stride Road, Porismouth, Hans. Here we publish a contribution to the debate about how to organise in the union from MARTIN TOLMAN, NUPE membership secretary • NUPE steward Portonouth Birmingham.
'guerilla January. Ruskin tried to persuade the Government that NUPE's policies were 'realistic for solving no real host supe That national strike no real fight launched.
would have meant a confrontation with the Govertment and the Social Contract, Alan Fishor addresses the 17 November demonstration against the cuts last year. Then he promised the marionalisation of the banks, but so far he hasn't even resisted Government pay policy Playground workers strike go of the current ONE HUNDRED
mounted a picket smite town hal Wes London on Monday in support of the u
the smoke- official, indelinite strike action
TRACE EY scheduled to ground workers
The workers are disgusted with
tant play leaders. government workers
needs of NALGO has been
for two years , regionai officer workers in a grading scheme.
The grade 3 wages of 12,000 a year. plus Laodon weighting which Bicy cont NEESCULIV They are change other tionis woek, the lack of any sick witt is months serice, and phe Tary bear holidays nee sary before bolldays can LACI Support from local residents children and labour town hall picket in King Street Hammersmith,
If is nor just the
Led it. So, too.
Phase TWO
the rights of ram from & tree lor aL
PHASE THREE Healey hat branch and cash limits from sector budgets.
LEFT MUST ecODomists ORGANISE
policies
to the Social Contract Hounslow demo
marchers
at Hammer vigorous. campaign
ared s2u play
work-in
The local union, TICE CELE
to place these scheduled.
demanding in the public sector belongs.
TOLCITE defence committee
also determined to
condi
lor a 3k-hour
transport or building" movement Assemble:
to (nearest tube,
at Aer the to limit an
they accepted Then ar the Last the union. NEUTE IS NUPE members had nothing to
He said the door should be left
open for the executive to negotiknew that the Lihernis were enly
supporting Labour to get
would be negotiating how much
ddition to the 12 month rule
now introduced a
10 per cent wage limit, enforced
for NUPE members by strict
imposed on public anising
The failure of Fisher and the union leadership to launch any
real fight against the Social Contract and the Government's pogaised let wing in NUPE. AR why need union activists who are opposed
and bers" interests.
La lead.
A MASS RALLY and decionstration are the next scens in the
against the closure of the casualty ward and the threatened removal of 6t eds at Hounslow Hospital ir entering the 23rd week of thei
- bave chosen 31 Ang opposition to the area health authocity's plans. This is the date
1225 DELI
In defending Hounslow faciliplaced responsibility for the crisis
where CAINE NICE DESER explained:
We refuse to accept the AH makes it necessary to put cast before patient care. We reject th Government's entire programme whether in be heath tacitin, expenditure,
Wednesday August at 2pm, Hounslow Hos pital, Staines Road, Haunsion
Hounslow
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE helieve workers must engage in mass action to defend their living standards need to come corciner lo organise for these policies in
The executive is organised to
because it controls the union machinery. The sight wine 1s 80k lo organise tor ts unc pocalse l
capitalist newspapers pushing its policies
The left can only rely on itself to organise its fight. This will
milicants from many
and many in nobe demo
can fight for their positions
Minority positions and views
national co-ordinating body tha
and on the editorial board of any news sheet. Org
La non-democrati as happened in the Rani and File group in the Nationa Union of Teachers, will make
different forces in the struggle.
COMMUNIST PARTY
Until now there has been no
Hospital Worker has existed as an organised force, and clenrly
NUPE, If only because harely a thind of the union's membership
ponsibility for the lack of an organised left rests in large part
ace the task of tbe lett as pushing Alan Fisher and athers on the executive gradually further to the here haher takes action such AS SEE ROACHOCE BAS demonstration against the cuts tben of course the job of the left develop it into a still broader fight back. At the same time, the ch mus pe preparca to independently to organise against Fisher whenever he neurores, to when he acts against the mem-
Never reling on left leaders a
done by being prepared to ar parise the left in the union 50
TASKS FOR LEFT
At the NUPE conference TOUCHI WAS THESET CANINE FO a minimum wage of ESO. Linesh old agreements, a 35-hour week. and other policies
This is not an ideal claim fo NUPE members - I think tha
4 August 1977 Page 4 as across the board incrense necessary to make up for tum years of wage cuts. It should specity bo time delay in receiv-
threshold nar ner aaces awomancally g up by 1 per cent with every i pe cent increase in prices.
IMPLEMENT POLICY
However, the tirst step is to demand the executive sabmits
Limp policy belpare a hant Joe it. Becaus
- Thatch is what a best minimum wage would mean would cras ine case ams,
AC wont win Fight by telling cach other how The muners, as the executive did i we are compared to conference.
We have to make ourselves as strong as possible. This incars local government workers joistly striking for their CIS BE MEIS HATE TRIATELI stewards' conferences to plan the fight. It means a campaigo in the membership for the cinem And it catails winning support from private sector workers, by
their services are best defended by niding us to break through the cash limits, For this reason wi should demand that social spend ing is automatically increased to keen in line with inflation An organised NUPE left could trons et tor the brandes und discuss out. produce workplaces, and campaign for these policies in the union struc
campaign to reverse the union's policy ur the next union con
STRENGTHEN RANK AND FILE
An organised left in NUPE i part or the strupale to suengthe the unson at rank and tele level. F
stewards committees
control over campaigns striker by those who are waging
mittees and regional and national conferences of workplace and
So, too, is a fight to democ ratise the union, with _branches MASTER ENC THE LO MUSE STINE official, , electod full-timers, and the right to recall all unice officials Ant orgacised left in NUPE car only aid achieving these policies
union leadership's class colla borationist policies on all fronts.
NOMONG RIGH
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NUJ leaders barter press freedom
- on the
a traditionally high unemployment area.
'You'll never walk alone, the famous anthem of Liverpool foothall fans, is now the tune of Liverpool's unemployed. It's no
ly August there are expected 1
2.000 jobles
making the situation as bad
possibly
post-war boom' completely by. passed them. Traditional industries such as the docks, shipbuilding and construction have been in decline for decades, with no new industry to replace them.
week jobs in a botel. Four Jobs are still
joing because most of the appa-
One under tae for work is premises Even press picks stories up the sty per an or Spa jobless youngster to apply for 1. vacancy in the Knowi makes a great story for Fieet
Street bur never a word in said about the 84,000 others in Mer seyside who are still left, wasting and hoping for work.
PACKAGE
No wonder that the Manpower
ervices Commission have sing
ed out Knowsley and Liverpoo as two of the
But what mean? What is the effect of the five-year package that Employment Secretary Albert Booth has wrapped up? Not a lot.
When the Government first announced is plan for youth unempioyment last inonen, a was
backing to the 2i6s TUC
THIS SH project.
The employers are not enthusiastic, in a survey carried out by the Manpower Services
*The isue is the freedom of the
words The Times concluded an
by journalists in Darlingion.
members of the National Unior
ol Journalists to operate a closed
Shep on te bar newspapers owned by Westmin
For The Timer such a deman
would place a great deal of power
in the hands of the NO which B
NOE CHECTOT
which a stable and moderate
body would enjoy.
The reason lor this ourburst
was a promise chat this week the
Darlington 20331 unions working papers
'Tull and eflocive supporr' to the
I06 scriking journalists. If this
promise is carried our it iDeas
he Northern Echo and Everine
HOME NEWS
You never
stand alone
dole queue
Unemployment reached a new peak this month. 6.8 per cent of the total working population of England, Scotland, Wales and the Six Countles was out of work. Hardest hit were school-leavers and women. In fact, married women account for 10 per cent of the unemployment register in contrast to 5 per cent three years ago. And yet the percentages cannot give a true idea of what unemployment really means. MARK TURNBULL reports from
Commssion last monen, 7s per intervieved said that they would cent of the 1,300 not support the Government's plans. The vast majority said they would not take on extra workers whatever incentives were offered, but they would rely getting more work out of their existing labour forces.
These Job creation schemes have given work to some people
chis bach to the dale gam
For new school leavers there's the fantastie sum of C18 a woeh
PROMISES.PROMISES
Amongst unemployed young poopic me promise and love cists of the | abour Government and the trade unions are met with the the National Assembly on Unemployment who indicated their reat poncern for the unemploy I in March 1976 have not beer ent have been the tan lent MPs in Liverpool - Enic Heffer and Eddie Loyden. hen the wage and conditio ims go in from 1 August 1
varking hours should be there Toe immediate grantng or 835-hour week would make a hig impact on the 1.6 million jobles figure. And it would he a good Basis to go on fighting ubtl there is a reduction weck withour loss of pay so that everyone has a job whether for 25 or 35 hours a week.
The demand for such a sliding scale of hours can unite the trade union movement and win back to its ranks the unemployed. Trade unions and other labour repite of it employed people ment should in their trade union and waive their union dues. their work, they spirit of rrade union strength and solidarity which has been lacking among the unemployed.
Desparch will not be printed But operacion from the print unions, the NUf made a massive poo
she time pates adrenalit
The NUJ leadership has agreed to abide by the six 'safeguards for press freedom" recommended by the rectol Rosal Commissior report on the press. clade the statement that: Froc-
and speak in accordance with conscience without being inhibi
other disciplinary action by hi union or his employer the On the surface this sounds all
fact it cuts across the NU's own code of conduct which is meant to be official union policy. For
on
INDUSTRY Secretary Eric Var ley made it quite clear last week how the Labour Government Intends to try and impose continued wage cuts on British LeyLand workers. He announced that the National Enterprise Board would be providing another E100 million for Leyland If it was satisfied that progress was being made on industrial telation reforms'.
Varley made it quite clear that in addition to corporate bargaining, this meant respecting Healey's pay norms. velled blackmail is nothing more
ban an alempt to split th
workforce
ner or jobs may be threatened.
With Varley's
words backing them up, Leylan managemeat are attempting to forestall a wages offensive by question of uncmployment and Leytand workers
Faced with interim claims by Jaguar and Triimph workers
Who refused to sertle under Phase Two, for between Elf and E20 a week, Leyland management have working made an oiler to
ad-hoe committee which will go
to the senior stewards' meeting in Birmingham on Thursday.
The offer dangies a rather mouldy carrot of ElO a week for some Leyland workers - parity
payments in four stages over four move years! But even this doesn't come keep for nothing in the Leyland world
of corporate bargaining and a
common starting dare for all rises organising is asked in return.
The deal is aimed at soothing the toolmakers in particular, who
are striking
order to hold a national meeting
example section ten of the code
sas. A burnalist shall not ori-
-pinate material which encourage:
discricination on grounds
sexual orientation'
The Royal Commission recom
diction to this.
nalists the right
means NUT
write racist, fascist, sexist mater
ial and there is nothing the NUI These in-
can do
rides the right of NUJ members
to file
abo dely the unsons code ar
conduct
within the union.
The essential reason the NUT
leadershin have in effect aban
doned the code of conduct is tha
they see the issue of the closed
cotirely
leras — rather than as a mean:
of using it as stopping editoria
"Hah! And they sey we't doing nothing about unempigent!*
Leyland workers must
reject mouldy carrot
This thinly-
reassutin ootside Phase 2. next Monday in distortions. -HEREA
may creed, pender or
WILL LIA - In giving jour to spenk license to spread racism. members call now *Our proof reader dowble Mind spot.
mand's complaints against those
growing practice cerlainly not /rue
REPRIEVED
DONT
CROSS
PICKET
LINES LUCAS МАМАСЕМЕКТ Workere at Lucas in Birmingham are faced with the continuing threat of a lock-aut in response to the foolroom dispute over a bonus system. bonus eystem was agreed prior to 1975, but the management says it Ja
to consider further action over parity and differentials, a the same time as isolaring the Jaguar and Triumph workers who EnTEaCE 10 open the way lor other Leyland workers to restore налів tbe cuts in their living standards.
The working party set up by she unions which discussed this deal with the management is the
and rigill-wing prop Accepting the Commission proposals may o
win the Darlington dispute, hut its overall effect is to reinforce the right of editors what neve inke in there DD310.31 papers. 1 is a lecose co be, and u
suffered a Lest week's contribution State of the Press" repeated a
The correction is zhar.
say thai al or ew most NUT SWP meDI Ders' share the view of hardcore SWP members in Journalis Parest of the Socialist Harders
With apologies aguin
COMBET CHALLENSE
DAILY 38 DISTORT
MAUDLING
same one which put forward the "security of earnings document so roundly rejected by Leyland
The offer must be rejected
WOU SEE SEETINGU plunts should submit claims to Triumph workers to restore liv-
LOBBY THE TUC CONGRESS
5 September. 11.00am Blackpoo Called by Liaison Committee for the Defence oi Trade Unions
Supported by: Manchester AUEW District Com-
mittee; Manchester TASS No
Committee; CSEU District No 29
Socialist Challenge calls on all its supporters in the trade union movement to rally and demand:
* Abide by conference decisions
* No TUC deal with Healey. No to the 12 month rule
* End unemployment. Reduce the working week
without loss of pay
* Wage claims lo restore living standards with
automatic compensation for inflation
* Full support for picketing and boycolt al
Grunwick
* TUC must support ALL workers in struggle
4 August 1977
Ward's
doubles
..in York
* Алег павіле нд 10 226 сос
TOTAL Siveriine Caraugns, York. on strike for u gauranteed
After promises from the mar agement, they returned to wor Bad Joined the Transport abo! 60 worke Generat Workers Union. Tw says loser socked. Management's ONL
selves when you brought a unio
There: However,
- aniy 43 of the 45 were in the
Alrewy support for the strike has come from fior and individum's, including hairort he the Find cocker bur the TOWU refuses to mab it afficial. Resolurions
be given
messages of support from orhe trade unionists should be sent 10 Alon Heard, 31 Lime Avenue Siockion Lane, York, Your sup port is welcome portet called for 8o at me the mas
...and
Bristol
* TAM GOING te stop yo
it before to i neonie 1 dide't like... comment from Arther Radfo of Radford Electronics in Bri where a sis week strike for un recogeition has just forced un
fron Engineering Union's white-col
Kadord, who unul now
consistently refused to see cit
ACAS or TASS, bas also fave ed sacking: 10T nalsitl portoctly and for being ove
weight'. He also goes spreading excrement where L pickets sland
His lackeys act in the contemprible was. Kadford's a
countant drove into atrike cor
mitre member Chris Clarke In
Clarke WaLK thrown ove bonnet of the car
The broad support gained t the struggle indicates the dete minarion to stamp out che nes
Wards of chis country pickets every Wednesday Priday involve uo to a hundr
ilicants, incloding 50 work
rom Welding Indust
to boycott Radford's product and one of them is scheduled t
die in Bristol.
Donations and messages o
support o Dave
Room 5, 2nd Floo 1, York Hous Bond Street, Bristol. Tel: Brist 45808.
10 Divisional
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& GAY BASHING
A fight on all fronts
• laInE uD the lsua o"
Petrie and
not only 'a product of lecaying but like al crimes
TOTS YUS SCIG BELE aand or parrarcny and society. And like all crimes nst women It is never defenhowever much the attacher
ape is hot only 'a product of
capitalist soo-
where on a vast scale since
oppressed and ex-
nat makes us want to light. WETHI Y ESDOROS COE THOR TA an 'issue" at thia time
Le-domnated society. put it
ASSOEASTS
iding to whether women are
anatol tinel
at the experience of Nomen's Aid we realise that i is OTa CUaSnOR DeBOOSInE BAR
action and rejooting
hers. Wa have to fight on all
level of
ourgeois legal system we have
A0 LOCR AO IIAH9 1398
wi ine eger sy iem o amela
sitale to call the police, not
OCHUNe COn Aan
pressive action taken aguinst
but because we police,
bing us, will annihilate us
O SHOR TUrE Our DraKEns InTO
nOCen VICT ME.We know Innt he legal system worke against
pretending 10 socialiste do -S- Toema COman LOnG other issues. Why tho hesltation
the
applies here too, We
ouC no CHiCsE The coedun
round the 1976 Act and calling
sentancas of but oriticisa them
cano rar mo aounoa Car Tae OunC Stis0u
Revolutionary socialists call
er-aelene or ene
sall-activity of class. In these cases THE aN HO AUTOWI Snosme nsbos action but when rape and women
change.
he fact that women do not live
probiem not a rason for not
s that en ice-skater Jobn Cime
E naL BnE Tus al. was attacked as he left a gay club by a well-armed gang, out to deliPOTOCN SOCINI W UIE DE SOLA
The blame for thir particular
belongs. It occurred in the wake of the bysteria whipped up by Mary Witchouse-and her
There a linle doube that ber queerDL TETE CHEESE aL UIC COUTE Das given these attacks respectahility
This point was made by speaker after speaker at lasd Sarurday's march through Earh Court in Londan in defence of Gor Nems Marchers beard paralels drawn with a gay map who wa: heich of Anita aan
tidst ol Anita Bryant's
Tus rind or wo ence stems from the extreme hatred and fear of gay people buile into a sociey DOCO BIL LEE AELLTESEZESE STUIN To be brought up in a family where the only exemple of adult MEE TEIEOOS ISS ACICTOSEAUS! one — and where this is scen as the model for every child's future
OPEN FORUM
• Socialist Challenge writer TMESInO Our own daenEn
Black soit-derange door 10 State aIso Ocon mo iniervertion' It Slate interven tion and foar of arrests prevents
i wel not botner. ane amested for retaliation" SEDIR GOUaS viatims of the таро апаск. гло рочпт слат I5 forgotten. here is that women are rape atlack under the bourgeois
ve. iece secuienne petrie sive, why should Jane consider feminist
quada lo be used with fascists? She paints OLCENEL alone alter WOMEE MALTH. Often women
have to. Feminist around particular pOum00eS 08. a aan Roanac ua ton s hr coniy cont sono то aar mor to defend or retaliate for us.
According to Ann Bond, col-
SO-OR ARCH vigilante squads) am rotaliatory and tha supports la the
uu, monaca mias nor acac erisi •Le Ismesuns that It can be seen to be seildefence. This in not only unrealistic but suicidal.
B CY Alal oso e aYersd WOMRATR GEHI HANH спопсо дніп та мап. 30 In 3018 the case retaliation is our only detence.
Revolutionary should support the tollowing pointa for the women's move-
contras to be set up and contrailad by the women's movement with the demand for stale lunding: (2) support tor the establishino of fominist viol ante HELHON •АПО reLAISS On detence: (3) Work on the parlia. mantary level around the 1976
A The linke between the wo-
mEnES AIE WOmen Acsins RSC0 10 OR vieus. It would be a good idea i! these iwo organisations for articies on tane lo continus the debate. Finally, I found the Ilustration as ambiguous confusing as the articies themselves.
tor BERT HUSBAND (Bradford)
On yoar paint concerning the CHrEUOn OW MEEnTM WaU CO Garoer ar ege net che gusrosmen in retrospect, we can see that if interpretato n. which aed greene ITCE TODE ROS MOE OLE IEMITew, anu we shan De caremer carelul in future.
against
means that gays aro leare nd thar potential gayes ol children Es stened frightening image to heterosekmal Openly gay men.
CE, a CDA CACY S0 WAREM most fear in themselves - to he no longer a "real man'. Lesbians HANCOCI AI CYCI BECHECT HATENEE refusing to relate to men sexually
challenge men's dominanon or womeo End briog into question forms of serial expression which are dominated
For these ressoms suffer coninual violence fram DICI I Duomo aVac-l One particularly horrifie examiple bas been the artacks against
COLEC
break,
aanT COOU
patrols this subject.
neigh-
good
Whatfate
for
rapists?
Even after
THE DEBATE woman's movement on the ques-
onl how women must ba delen
socialists capitaliel spoiety
siera eclat ate eo no ohy
rnicct the bourgeois deliniticn af Crimeoaso Me3ACRI penal system of the capitalist
WECHE EnVOuTociCod CHrOES IS SOCISiS CERRUTEO and as such not biological or in any way inharent. patentialiby cation with the transtormation of BOME TOOn SITES In terme of bourgeois defined property such relate directly to the alleng. and m cans or production-st 1s aiso i (lot thal the majority
not marias in ils dhr ne
not inter-alass in its ahoice targel and area of activity.
WICie PON SEUru operation are a form of social control of the working class. Our ask as revolutionary socialists is not to heip the police and the courta or to cosioo oçuor pos OnB.
What is the correct response ambiguous to the call for stricter (ongeri
prison
such as racist attacks on blacks,
Gays march
assaults
Mees i South London ta
month one wonsar lost an eve as preself a result of this violence
incing violence agains B copie involves much more tha simply puring
Soe Tuing ciass. ur enlai supporting the riebl of pays
sexual collectively
aals pn)sicat ending the massive compulsion to be heterosexual.
lesbians March aginsr ortacks on gaus:
SUETO OVIEPES Woerd Green rube station ro the Rainbow (where Peter Benson MAS FTicU!
RAPE...
Socialist Challenge has received a great deal of correspondence on sexual violence. Most of the contributions published here have had to
be shortened, and others held over.
In the first issue after the summer
on 1 September, we will publish a tull-page contribution by Ann Bond and Dodie Weppler on
CONRES CODIЧHION. one band, and the
domARa uly people?
Inside the
the victory of our revolution mantiing of only system of social
welop an besed on working class
behaviour (within which the
system of social control
exista of ita eradi
the ingal system as B partial
ICONO E
the
imprisoned?
-STATIS
of the repressiveness bourgeois stale? вксериопв вге
sentencea for people
line to be drawn?
don] end ro the
10 delend themsches assault, and
purselyes the
articles
because anti-women.
Women that the only
chlid battaring and woman baat-
In oes there net exist a contra-
diction beween our understand ing of social behaviour and the workinge of the institutions of
advancing support for a cail for the use Their
very institutiona for the trial and imprisonment of pra-
working class MEGUE THOH
As socialists, and non-ideal.
Iata we do not expect the sudder d sappesrance oi al anti-socia
ine capitalst system, but whir
the proletarien will coma the dis-
tons. And as bart bl an altei
ITHS FUHN HIEM Male SuC ure io lne Dresen!
control • appropriate system
sation — the slection of lucthe
sealtion af the capitalist penet commisnily and
But given that State power a over present rests firmly in the hands Possibie ol the bourdeoisie must we not reject the use of (or appeal lo)
sol nien
such matters as rape and race at-
DONDCTO
And by rejocting the use of the legal and penal systom ara we herefore soving that ropist or such defence raciat allackers should not be
HENAN
Or CT WAUnar CrEnC cumatencee call on the legal
nu Auen owcco wina Tra Iona!
Musiem Decome he victm or ihr
of the And I such ів олів to be
TUNDE MAKANA-[North Lan-
ELL
SRIC
Gay News Derence march in London fast Saturday.
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 4 August 1977
Women are not the
problem
NUMEROS Komen. Incideng
were appalled bj
Socialist Challenge. You ask Is women's saheleic oussioe Wic tien seem to conclude that no, it Isn'!
might end up like white racist vigilante groupe.
to the COMSUCIDUS HENEUCE IOWHrI-M women organising themseives
lett in general. Wia consider this attitude lo ne not so mugn pro bick ar
are only too aware time the State and medie care about raDe 18 yElE! ТАНЧ СЯП НЯК НАЯ ДРОБАНЕЛОЯ against minority groups, during wars, elc. (Most are no
Women cannot and will not he made resporsible for this
, the Association Against LANCHINE OUAHEA MIGnO3 OE SUE HETs rom ene tencano penormec in
Feminists today have the same attitude.
But nor will we keep quiet
whether the Jacker is bleck, white or martien Rape haa and will axiat in ail sociaties which treat wamen as
•429u :10
In w StOu mOeHE Cou0e sn tr on tci tape Tiene ling short of actual rape huge light to be waged ecains:
Women cannot wait for the
Self defenceis vital
my article Women's Saif-detenoe Nas eScon na one, / don'! think thar it provided me basie for the misrepreaen ta that occurs in the abave comes
My support of women's selfdelence stems from a very direct
of the Aller linding my serrin a neso/rer casuary ward
result af affending a women's disco ['you fitny Teshlan" waro the words esed at the timel my teminist anger and frustrarion SW U CT SOr AeLe RaOuT erew me to tare up karale
In my opinion, the formation of women's seif-defence groupe
of the mos aspecis fo come nut dr ine tob! arelSTAC OnO rOnS S. SAEC in ther articie thar it is positive that women are developing their
leering to light with skill and precision
PUERTA AMENO RISICI the possib/iity of women organi-
sing in groups for the purpose o
ail-detonco. 1 da beilen that w
Campaign
Homosexua E
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labour movemant to protect
OUA TUS DUHA LIE CHI SETHE TUNE T NISKIR0Sem ande on the labour movement wo
Be problem and its HEBrEU trom the streels rather than th. en WOD EO ha rora While there is no alternativ
using the police and the law in secking
W'H are unaware of the roln of the State In women's
We society needs rape (particularis
•deviant WIT CiH-se t lIve wituu Men
one rape should be challenged and a the sama lime women shoul organise to delend themselves:
Iso lalod, depandent
be by reaction ary forcee. Strong. confident and
CATTE hence the revolutionary dynamic of the women's movement. That
beginning, re-discove physical strength should not be petron And Socialist Challenge should ised, • CruCISCO OULeRCOiFDAn
support ther
ChalBoIoHE
mvolutionary-than-thou" tude, particulary in view of carioon trivialisatian of rape (tn
dromel. We expect his af ine NYCTIBE en Dy It TAAlS News of the World - but not trom a revolutionary newspaper.
EILEEN FAIRWEATHER, DIANE LANTOCIE DIDO HIAT LENON JOANNE O'BRIEN MARI JASTRZEBSDA [West London]
must nor align oorge/ves with reactionary calls Tor vigilente
Saga/nst muggers, and suohlike. But oggally T nave по Am W sorEE WuR womr SONi SHAReT1 womer
other momen shoule WanT Tto so demans ration. and action egeinst rape ir is important in cases such as the afradks which have been occuring in South London. Women are nOW CUMAO O LORSCIOUSN organ/se they are going lo and fram the disco in groups
end escorting cach olber around
On BoiRo Sor eCOnOI which women can organise collective
Finaliy, I would like to remarh That as laras, know there is rr group GE OON wu.hMr.am revolationary lett who are or ganising thomseles into sent defence groups. Hopetulry. women become more proficieer
pass thei knowledge oe and instruct their sistera on the revelationary lett ANN BOND (Landon] WHITEHOLSE
KELS!
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FIGHTING RACI Lewisham is the explosion
Police on the rampage
OCIALIST CHALLENGE
the area.
Three local Labour MPs have
Iled on the Home Secretary to
ething to mobilise the local Evening tion against it. The LonLagust begged for the NF march
he re-routed out of black areas
HOTEL SOBLE CADETER
But it is the labour movement
WHO TOO ARON WEA MIL
e to deal with this outrageous
ovocation. Far more than 'nig
Electoral successes Have een turned into hard-core mahon ane NE montes champing at the bit humilistion on the
in smash the black have led to sitter in-fighting in the AWES
onal directorare and the suc cmafil intiltration and take-over Ten London mEnem
he ultra-Nazi British Movement
regain lost kround on the right, to prove how hard it is. It Now to the 45 per cent of the vote it and the National Party got in a nearby ward by-election a IN A RECENT display of police solence against black people in Nottingham a 54 year-old West
Black people arrested, most o the Chato with asang police officers.
We cannot give any details may so changes bat wo can give details of the way Lie police handled the affair and the
The trouble started in Tenny-
indow was broken by a cricket at while abour a dozen black cenagers PETE PINO COCKEL. No-one bas been charged In
inection with the broken win-
living an mason Street will be lodging : THE HAUL COC DINICE. He tatemelt says:
person living in a
protest against the police brucally against young black bays. In ON SODI COC EWAS ACTREA oliceman doing his job investi-
ing an incident where a win-
I was shocked to see instead of
soliceman asking who hac
4 Auguet 1977 Page E
Haringey lit the fuse
On 13 August the fascist National Front aim to blow the Lewisham powder-keg sky-high. The July edition of its magazine Spearhead promises that on that day there will be the biggest manifestation of the National Front that South East London has ever seen'. Their call to 'clear the muggers off the streets" is not directed at the racist police but it is an open Incitement to violence against the black population of
few months ago as evidence of local support, But it is paid thugs CEASE ONE underworld that will he making the NE'S point" on 13 August.
dom attacks on blacks, nembers are reliably reported to be preparing for an anti-Asian rampage on the sic or Dogs te the eve of the 13 August. Many in the Noeth London guy com have been responsible fot the brutal beating to death of homosekual a Eusbury Park the weekend before last.
IMPACT The fascists' activities have had thel impact. There Blare bed through desires ot marched through the streets Lewisham in sunoort of the 21 p 23 July. This situation must be reversed on 13 Augus steps have already been taken in this direction.
Faced with a potentially disastrous spit over tasks betwee the local anti-racist united froar and the Socialise Workers Party,
SPEAKOU
Nottingham Voice
Lately approached a boy Know Sh scused hims. When th
man pulled and ripped the blac boy's jumper and told him to ge into the car. On this the black boy gor upect and pusbed away The policeman sent for rein fore case over and asked is forcements. Then
•so the father sent Come Then the her turned to explain to the police officer. But the police officer completely ipmored tbe father and went after 1E Bu The reinfotcements arrived and before much longer a scuffle had broken our - started by the
MICK GOSLING reports: oh atine Committe, at Coe Anti-Racist
Marxist Group, stepped in Inst week to urge support for a united want against me Tascists.25 a result the All Lewisham Campage Against Kacism Fascism has brought forward its demonstration to the and will march towards the NE's assembly point This is an extremely positise development and deserves the suppott anti-fascist militants. will allow the left to mobilise the support of the black community thronsh demonstrating the same unity of purpose and determination that brought bundreds of West Indian and Cyprior youths anto the PICA fascists on 23 April,
showing in practice that we the best builders of united acrior
will win wider and bigger support Positive for the rally at Clifton Rise, the
BE assembly point So far, it is only the Lewisham Communist Party which bas (by
strated its sectarianism by refusine to bave anything to do with who le police Children,
HIT MEAL WAIT-A-10 from the middle of the scuffle 0:95 dobe by
I would like o scate thar th whole affair was avoidable if the cone had acred in Isoner. The result in this matter was that a group was arrested. And asay I add thar replied Robe of these was responsible for him smashing the window;
Mrs. Marquis, macher of tb 15-year-old arrested, cold the shop and found Tennyson Street blocked with about twelve bolice cars and there was a black maria outside my house.
the rally at Clifton Rise. The revolutionary left must
that the reformists are not allowed to throw the same charge at
mobilisation should aim to mar pimalase the march — if possible by prevent-
confidence to the black connsu organise its own self be: against the police as well
methods used by the police in the
strip searching, racist abuse, survellance by photographers CIC ON COME been of credit to the Front. And it was Commander Randall, boss the local P division. called in the thugs of the Spocial Group
statistics about the level of street crime.
STATISTICS The statistics in South London of all that are slamming are these: su The march of black
Brixton unemployed: 30 percen in Deptford; and un average of 20 unemployed people chasing every vacancy in the borough When we march and tally i Lewisharn on 13 August it won' the just be to aid black self-defence And it won't just be to demonstrate
chat the Tascists belong in th drains and shouldn't esen be entilled to pollute our gutters. It will also be to that there is a socialist alternative to the brutality of a society which throws so many of its youth black and white, ou the scrap heap at 16 and thus provides the rubbish dumps on racisin and fascism breed. amnediate thaught wa someone may have been run ove so she rushed found to see. Sb heard Peter shouting and saw about eight policemen on hur Two had him grabbed hy the hair, one was holding a handeaf to his neck, and one was kicking and punching him
ade Pet and anther a
that Herer's brotner came our ol he house without a shirt or elderly people
thumped Michael while two more held him and put on the hand cuffs. ..'A policeman grabbed my son ay the hair
NOTE WE COO LOL BOOLER! down over him and said rhat's my son, don't kick him. kick me 8 proper first" CRE Dullie me 10 178 *doo Me any ten are dnughter policemoran came and held he sand while a policeman tried to - C.E. pur handcuffs on. Bat
Evening Post quated
objecting to the way Indians have a 'disturbing habit of banding topether lo support Her one anarher'.
ensure
anti-fascist
and give
and
THIE BIRDE
after
youth in demonstrate
which white
policeman
in Denise
serenced
A
she
Lewisham fever
Sheffield police have contacted a touch of Lewisham
Tever. They have been harassing and assaulting blacks
over the last few weeks. JAN DAVIDSON reparis:
THE INCIDENT of 4 July black youth resulted lo 8 people being arresteu. It scarled with two plan had been artested on sust cion a clothes cops being soen dragging a black youth along a road in the Birmingham area of Sheffield. A few hours later they returned and were sec assaulting another youths went to protest at the were forced t
MUHAMMED HAQUE was threatened with deportation by the Labour govemmentA short campaign pointing out the obscenity Involved in this saw the decision reversed. Here Muhammed writes a special message for us and urges support for Ragbib Ahean's campaign in Birmingham and the Lewisham demonstration on 13 August.
ANES TH the campulen sochilet. and sections of natibnal press, thee deportalius order sented Lon toe. be home Nick if calsed are important ane perd retaring Rees urgued, Chit my marting was one of coutendence This was fused on the
Jiving ropether openty. le oratin With we of our sease s applied 10 de local Hondag allavite for a soones at W here untie to olden one Th Hame Office was anare of this The artinity mebodi sees
НОМП
"DECENT BRITO rough treatit was repeiving:
and Their brutalic SWOLLELES try and prev war later stated that they Einal res stealing (1500 which had suppo sedly been left in a parked car One wascharg this area. A group of black police scation
pression of frets sind pu attene! lo den me doc cight to unrest.
Aali reprieved becuese 0s- rom
who are deported wilboweven motion of the face jo any puper The nigracie lan, are racis ans. Ther discri block people
block upd while Froke criebtte he woo-s man of her choice l
•Hise, a distincton shich dues not opert One other wur round
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M NATIONWIDE Asian steward fights
NEWS
UNITE !!"
1 Sheffield
brother wall for an hour and a half tiei:
arms outstretchod and subjected пе arcu шзань and-racist abuse srom
This was not an isolated inciacao oul. lucre nuve nean ANaCet
and harassment of black youths throughout Sheffield. •LICUA OUOBC ODAY aETIAE police brutality has trigsered off in the pur whites have organised regular discusI against a
s staying
mund the nepesl of these haws. 1 h yital that trade andorelets ht in get rid or these layg. eir failure to du so Wil uts Hely rebound agninsd shem far e lamy sini nu iliride prockes
worket on the lose of our. Hat-this also apesns chu St he tote satree euet ple POrACtE 1e-lrade union active peer fe the poaleleul tile
#paigu has Co De- Nagc0 Sp sate people deainst rechini:
Ih in ins confeit thar me dion of sectalise taiy: tu
"people's enquiry" is heing organsed. A petilipn agninst police Barassment is being circulared, though white racista fueiled by anti-black press reports are orgamising a rival petition pledging "moral support" to the police.
HowEver The atmosphere still remains
lense and events could take a serious turn, expecially If sbe whole com- LOCCCOneTarO enErs
against black people. What is important is to organise continumeetings and i ine sobontity.
luhammad
simnd Raghlb Aian, an oros
ncoy ne dee candidate 1 shep-tevatd Prero Ruver
Cheywood porutarucs In lo lie
belgong Gf. Ragtay rampaic
shoslo be gee uf oer anivers ln
tip Home Office anid Oie racht
Hublsbment. The othec answer
siguinstthe
port whit beching of alt weciatlak Kaghib Abeau merds ihe
pod made uniolies- Hie-fight is
onr flebt. That-b why 1 seat be
anapalgeleg for bim ip, Lady-
by STEVE POTTER lack of stituency."
Birmingham with 7 pet
ployed school leavers alone
so since Hunte
1379ISSE
LEIILE
- Вит пог evervobe
Association
o investigate the charge
West
Ladywood by-election
AHSAN recognises that racism hospitals WHI De et mne Centre oilne Ladywood poll. 'Over a quarter of the people in Ladywood are black. Council neglect has meant
Birmingham FUSADOIL SEEE dECUVIERA Four years ago, residents had to threaien to bultn down dangenons derelict buildings because of the
SETE
Police harassment under the 'sus" laws is a permanent feature of the life of youne blacks in the
Unemployment is chronic in
cent out N SOrEIuCI BC nau uaC- when
Labour's cuts have resulted in a Catch 22 situation for the area's
workforce Hunt stands
*to break
back of
socialist
movement'
JAMES HUNTE & a candidate lenge
in the Ladywood election. He
claims te represent the Wesr
Indian community in Britaim.
This caim Is only too readily
taken up by the city's right-
wing newspapers. Even more
MATS
standing "in break the back of
Association and Mutual Herchit ior arotection)
Asociation. The later organi-
sation was set up by Mr Huate
who were the victims of the
"pyramid selling CAUT TUA LOCE IAC BERILe! of Julian Hodge (the bankes RAGHIB AHSAN friend of Prime Minister Cal.
Hunte appears to be a pillar
of strength in the West Indian
sEnRI3uE up J0
those "people whio have lived and warked in this country for revolutionary
over lu years lo hind that they haven't been able to save a
has the last year sube high opinion of Mr Hunte
se he evidently holds of bim-
Marxist
of che West Indian Federation Fights broke out at a meeting 900 potes,
SUDuay 6 March this year as aliegations were made that Hunte had iis approprialed :20,000 of the orsamsanoe conus. Tie meeting convened the folloeing ed ended in confusion and was WILD the impact
nesday. Then the pobioe started TUNDEO AHO
towards greater unity MEENK ATOm Hunte cluims to represent and the rulers of Ladywond will he looking do the results of thc Ibet last enquiries with sume interest. Socialist Uniry as
for Socialist Unity
FIGHTING RACISM AT THE POLLS is not new to the Socialisr Uinity candidate in haw Ladywood, Raghib Ahsan. Ahsan, a 28-year-old Transport Union stewand at the Rovers car factory in Solihull, contested the May local election in nearby Saitley. He gained over I1 per cent of the vole, soundly beating the National Front candidate by 290 vores.
Martin Tolman, a oca NUP e steware and sur porter of the Socialist Unity campenel pan cataly unse hospitals on the benis hashta n ternw would take all the parients. Now HOSO LAL in Ladywoad finrion. they are closing that too.
The election alsa takes niace at a time of growing unrest agains vage culs in the Birmingham cu industry. As Ahsan's candidahure was announced, 7,000 workErmin tam Laund themee en Faced with the threat of a lock-out
holdays. Manszemcetmieht laks the action to divide striking toal room workers from the rest of the
Ahsan's clection address comes
What is Socialist Unity?
NEVER DOES disunity on the lefi become
was the conclusion of those who are now building Socialist Unicy after thie by-election in Stechfard PaIEL
Candidates of Lhe Internationa Graup NEINIESI Workers Party received nearly joint anri-racist demostration two months bi Birminshaen hae sen for y has. that panisations abi effective propaganda made br both candidates. Hur coordinaled activity could have 055151 strides made
So, appealing to the SWP 1o join cheer, organisations and inScorland, Thatsaide and Bul r and from report month to esrablish an onigoing Fine national codition. Tbe aim s to 643 9209.
SDCIALIST CHALLENGE
MIL SURSEU BO LEC CUIE DOG
ind 12 manth rule being peddie
by the Labour Covernibent abd
ISINS LALMEEt SHOuO T made for claims which fully make up for the loss of carnings
oder te social onac w. auromatic compensation for in
Tucse wre not paper word
Ahsan was one of R group of alewards al Lhe Rover factory WO SoCwE ouCa Co0s their upcoming wage claim on the sante prillciples.
He is scathing aboot his Labour
tare acout WHUnWIkHspute. Sever alsa had the dubious
distinction Hirmingham's youngest Justice of the Peace. intend to ask him unite all those willing to fight for
micet the bosses" crisis.
Ric Harcher, the Socialist Unity Ladywood election agent, ex-
*It is greatly disappoiming tha the SWF refused to even answe the appeal and went ahead to stand another far lelt candidat: in Ladywood. But Socialis, Unitg will be righting for united action betaeen the candidates and or
during the
ocinlisi Challenpe has launc ed a special appeal for funds
TOCIR IS Unity Sene cheques/POs to Socialisr Chal lenge (Electinn Fundl. PO. Box
Birmingham (5 mins from main
station), or plone 021-
4 August 1977 Page 9 many hlack vouch he ha sent down in bis magistrates count", says Alhsan.
TAC MECIAHST LU IE HEEGET says thal the Labour Govern ment's claim that Social Contract HUISCS HIL HOICSSHIVIOALE theim in office is a sham. The
socialist and Enioc Powell's Irish Tories to ger them
nrougn, 1 2005 0
ocialist Unity urges suppo for Ahsan saying that the LOD calbaigo can bc pan Di Lie light back againse Labour's ber. rayals.
The Socialist Workers Part candidate is a young black mil tant, Kim Gordon, Gondon has plased a leading role in the fight
igainst fascists in London as se retacy of the Lewistiam 24 D fence Campaign. National news. papers thiew the spotlight ou the Pamed Prince Charled with de- when Gordon ELU CVEHCE BE TODe SERCE
m black youth in South Londor He says: "T will be fighting li exposi Cu0 lcE COTARIITM Birmingham and to mobilise sug port for demonstration ZINEISL COE BAM ANTIORNErOn in Lewisham on 13 August"
Stopping
them dead
HAZIONAR Front mundidate i hetecton ie Antbvnig Reed
of the Young Conservatines, Ire 5 eus u membet of the Satinmal •Sliteptorade nt ihe NF.
Beed-Herbert'w
291 April this Herber plunk pi eis manifesto, compos
patriation of black peoul
"An far'as the dezie af com
Misioat tr converted ibis
briciast depend sa the cespanse pErpe immgrasts Ime are tulkinn atrout a bireach of the
ine me wall eititet bive y cosem
wot prepacing to.apet viojeme
be One good of the peuple ot wi
Mondes Reed-Herbert
Id, We waht A0 Imigratiu
Pd Dendr te the ehr ath
dercu y stapewieist thl sentiment
oi-3 B00
10e Natinmal From
thei Le Huceens.nhr thee NEMeau нно people. Thal' w'wnt nelyis tu sipor she defenee
Lagusl thsducbous Oe Cud wind cumpaion and bernpd
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The horn of a dilemma
by CHRIS O'BRIEN
THE CONFLICT between впори впа остана, нас ану
battle of daims and counter-claims. All that is clear
the bulk of the Ogaden province of Ethiopia is in the hands of the
TECT BUT CH wants the area ceded to
This is setback for the Ethiopian dictatorship, the Derg. which has already lost control of all but three towns in Eritrea, the
ed by Ethiopia in 1962.
The struggle in the Ogaden is a similar fight for national sell
die, are Somalis, with a right to somar women somer in cano, win wooden thes
Zimbabwe:
Smith's white minority Government.
explains.
Hertwined with the questic
Racial oppression it has he the innd question that bas galvanised thousands into protone
Did milit activity
lite' lands are bot on mOst the meet dodoped mira those
ith the most tructure of water supply, elec
country into "white' and native
with the rise Rhodesian Front, this division of land was further strengthened it the Land Tenure Ac 1969. The result was that, given the amal size of the white population, per capita cách had over a
lundred times more land that the black.
The Total Trud bada rona
OIL CO large sectors of the black popule,
tion to seck employinent periodically is huge eatene often. periodically.
of cheap labour avidly explaited by both local and inter
and sang to most exploited were ericulture
abourers who still today receiv CHETOWEVE
Furthermore they are classified hated Masters and Servants Ar under th and are thereby dealed the right to strike or to form unions
But tbe chormon crisis of the
nith regime farced it this yea
1 April Fools Day, to pass t
Land Tenure (Amendment) Ac which formally allowed African
INTERNATIONAI
Ethiopia Somalia war
affiliate to the nation of their The Echiopian and Somali begines are less than altruistic in their interest. For both, Ogaden strength and nationat pride. And
that the sna cosen TeRion potentially rich source of oil and Thus far the issue is fairly simple. The complications are a result of the interest of foreign powers in the strategicaliy imporcant "Hor of Africa", of which Horn protrudes into the Indian Doean and the Gulf of Aden. providing an important spring board for control of the southern entrance to the Red Sea
Land and bread
Bishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of the United African National Council, last week announced that the principle of 'one man, one vote, was not a necessary precondition for talking with Tun Behind many of the manoeuvres of the nationalist factions lies the question of land and its racial division — the better half for the whites, the arid land for the blacks — as JULIUS KARANJA
to buy land in the white tarming
Scans are in a position to find the the steal a buy beined hee tenderia is a poor saratee for ВПАТ receiving loans from banks!
In spite of the many disputes among them, very little differ ence can be seen in the pros rammes of the varions nationalt
guous, so we cannot comment.
with seminars
tered Accountants, Association of Ted by Bishor luzorewaj and J. Chinamano e ANCZ (Joshu ice-president) have boen inviter Joth these worthy narionalist to the safety of their pro TV 4990 933 BE SEND TEN ties; for the economy as a whole both talk of backing the SCUILIT For the UANC the ecc should contain the very est our of capitalism and very best out of socialism', while the ANCZ states that 'we are not Communists, we are not capitalIsts, we are simply African'.
Imitary
ETHIOPIA
The
explains standing Soviet interest in the area. For a number of years they have been the chief petical that only abandoned and unculLivated land will be nationalised: SHIT USES SHOU WHE BAR DC touched", says Chinamano, while want to interfere with big farms*
In effect the vast majority of the black masses will remain relegated to the existing Tribal Trust and African Purchase Lands where, it in envisaged, communal ownership will be transformed into private ownership of land distribution of land the natsonal
crion of black ownership large farms
ment Fund must been seeri.
will provide the necessary capita
IDE ISIDORE & SOOR DELI
black
area where it will develop to t
future bourgooisic, dependent on and ambi- mperialism
don or sell their land, its prime
function (as was the similar fund
in Kenya in che 1960g) is = Union political one
For the agricultural workers the
rospect
Chiwandaka has already warned
that wars call lead to en
ployment. Thus the Nkomo's
that has
cause of the extreme poverty o
he masses remains unchallen
ed.
is the UANC Draft Statemen
of Basic Policy puts it: "The righ
of all persons to access to land on sented for he tame beine as pre lines
will remain the
mechanism
The recent farmers union
Kremlin's African allies
increased Soviet Ethiopia,
broke links with
Megad tha would favour
presence -
an independent Eritrea.
CYNICAL
gloss for
Cubar 'Ethiopian Revolution' leader Mengistu Haile LLLE
directed along lines" we don't Instead of a repetty bourgeoisic into ar
*hises who either abat-
good.
BISHOP MUZOREWA
CATHOUT Somalist:
historically been
reached soon.
WYCL
and that the
shall be
main socia the hoped for plans put into practice easily.
backers and military suppliers of the Said Barre regime in Somalin ded as the most faithful of th
But teent months have seen
influcace Somalia's bitter enemy. Earlier this year che Dera
ils previous backer, the United States, and
the USSR. Thence the present ludicrous situation where two urmies are crawo up in opposine martic Lines each with the same weapon- Members
nationalists.
Another complication is the recent independence of Djibous. the tiny former French colony.
doubt that the majarity of its 25,000 inhabitants
integration into
the continued French militar: 0020147 83883
but Erhiopia would
the sca, a consideration which is foresaw sharpened by the impending loss viled Cuban nice detona
convenient ideologica nical Somet inter vetition in Ethiopia, Grano, the
sarty paper, mak Saudi
and its Mariam The Lie shoot-out on 3 February when Mengist wiped out an opposing Horn is
the ioment when the left and the true leaders of the revolution
revolutionary
No mention of the absence of establish any democracy (either bourgeois
Alone ma precondition for talking to lan Smith seminar was told by one nat-
The free enterprise system we are discussing now will
on whether peaceful political settlement
the continued strengh of the military activities
coming independence will further galvanise the masses towards providing their
awn solutions to their problems
of the nationalists seem unlikely to be
Either they will have to adapt
or proletarian), the borrific mas sacres of oppositionists, the supnational minorities, or, no small matter, that, despite the sweeping land reform. nower resis In the hands of a fraction of the
Whee the Kremlin made t foreign policy turn in the Horn it
problems UPEE Laden, bur tea to cous up e compromise which would make it possible to ride the mucually
Ethiapian regimos in tandem. The effer has been quite the opposite Dict Somalia was negotiating an
Saudi other side of the Red Sea. It is Ess the aris merchants of the money which
and Britain wha bave sepped into the hreach left by
If the Soviet interest in the
cynical and directly mass of people in the area, it is purely strategic and military The BEST BOOMER 85E backed by the brutal dictatorships in Iran and Pakistan, are out to
SOURCES revolutionary bioc around the [sic) one vote is no longer a
them subscantially or face exposing themselves by the use of repression against the very force who will have put them in power.
The number
employment last population growth rate (al pre sent 3.6 percent future goerument of Zababu year) faces massive problems in provi ding jobs and a real solution to
question Whatever take place, the aftermath is unlikely to remain peaceful
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 4 August 1977 Page 10 of the Ethlapian peasant army captured by Entrean
Red Sea.
And, though Somalia itself is Saudi HE POW BE BE SaVE id programm offers another opportunity for the ins renalisis to get their hands on sode oil moacy through arms laya, Brisin additional i erel in building a pro-Bestish bloc ol states in Fast Africa, while thi 135 has been stepping ap arms supplies to the Sudan
The Kremlin's mea/potirik, its desire to arm the petly bourgeois regimes in the Horn rather than support the struggles of the oppressed masses, can only help This imperialist acage
In the midst of these glohai considerations, the democratic Ogaden - bave been all but forgorten.
Soweto
plans
autonomy
FIFTY-TWO people were arrested and many injured at che weekend after the murder of a student by police last Friday and a han on a mass rally organised by the Soweto Commitree of Ten.
The Commitlee of Ten, which has the hacking of the Soweto Student Representative Council, is a hody to plan for an autano mous black-controiled municipa authority in the townships after the official Urban Hantu Counci! resigned whalesale two months адо.
Most members and supporters of the Committee stress that th aim is not a duplication of the mistration on behalf of the previous system the campaign againse Baalu, that is third class, starus in education
The Government-controlled administration board has ser up ire own movinous Cartititte
11' which, apparents,
"wonderful coopertion" orher hand, insisted on the rall planned for Sunday as a way o submicting people of Saweto and gaining a mandace for future negotiations.
WHERENCE CARE violence in which many scudent
and
incident is that shidents soned a police sergeant in a school yard who answered by opening Fire rel o eactice burtis into all But teachers and students classrooms, baron-charging thi occupants and serring dope an them, Some tried to escape jumping through second foo windows.
A Rand Daily Mail reporte visited stodents in hospital. On said: "I was in class on the secon Noor. The police dashed in, se dogs on us, and assaulted us. ran downstairs racid ran into the laboratory the staf My clothes WELC in bood, 1 ran out and escaped.
The acting Soweto police chief told reporters: 1 said at the weekend that police baiting bloady dancerous 1 meant it You can quole me if you like.'
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Interview with PLOleader
Mr Begin goes to Washington
IN BRIEF
POLAND: The Polish authorities have freed five imprisoned after the food
Father of the ree bet
CILE CUTIELE ast June. One of the WDK
members, Jacek Kuron
surprised be me see en
surprised by the extent popular support for those ar-
had taken solidarity action in their defence.
IRAN: 64 Iranian lawyers have signed an open letter calling for the freeing of the judiciary and legislators from the executive and demanding CLO! human cient: Thisas the lates in a series of open protests which have been circulated by cranian latchcomas and professionals over the past two montis,
PERU: Central Peru has been hit hy an illegal miners? strike Tor higher pay, despite Govern
moves union leaders involved in the repent THIS LIKE NOMIT CODEsT erity plan. The Covernmem i now expected to drop many of the most unpopular measures. including certain price crenses, and nas even pronused a return to civilian rule within three years.
Carios Romero EL SALVADOR: A report by the Latin American Bureau
evidence of SITE SALESTE CHEETE BITIN BO CHEE since the fraudulent election of General Carlos Romero as Pressdent in February. Repres
can Confederation of Priests as evidence of the m sacre of 1,000 people in February
BRAZIL: Police arrested a total of 38 people alleged to he
bons after a new wave of unrest in Brazil's universities.
BOLIVIA: An underground rightist group, apparently with me suppor or the gacnones. has threatened to track down and murder all drug traffickers. prostitutes.... and gays.
INDONESEA: An Indonesian political prisoner has sauceled out a letter giving details window-dressing by the authorities during a recent visit by be Inernational Committee o Ce Red Cross. Many prisoner were moved to detention camps for fear that they would tell the delegation the truth anout proson conditions
THAILAND: combined
10,000 Thai and Malaysian troops has been
SOULD of the country in search of a force of
Despite torbardment most all the guerillas secre to have cacaped
mouse with their pursuers.
sizike! evil servants Gibraltar, the colony seems ser tor a clash nerween the Gorcrument and the local branch of the rransport workers union. To tape constag to
'with British
corkers in The publie soccor
slow,
SOUTH AFRICA: British Per-
(Gover_nent-controlled board members include
postal union) has found a large coal deposit in the Eastern Transvaal. Mining is expected to starr in 1981.
INTERNATIONAL
RUTH CHALLIS reports from Lebanon. in Lebanon.
The following day Abu Ilyad. the leader of the LO delegation 1o Inese discussions, gave an interview to a group from the British Anti-Zionist sation.
Israeli rightist cooperation has been a marked feature of the civil
British group itself witnessed sich military cooperation in the south, as well as seeing caprured Israeli and US material.
Israc has not only supplied ammunition and aght arms but hard-line, terrorist image, they
Carter.
truth, as RICHARD CARVER explains.
In reality. the only setlement on the horizon are the Israeli ones on the occupied West Bank.
right after his return from Wash ington, provoking gasps of borror from the international press, which had been churning pacans of praise to his "moderabon
The substance of the supposed breakthrough in Washington is
ence, broken by the 1973 war, will now reconvene in October. Begin announced that would be no preconditions or attendance ar the conferenoe ans
estinian representatives, though not, he was at pains to stress,
Organisation
In fact Begin's position con-
ously leaked plan he presented to Carter was only a reiteration of the Zionise state's intention to hang on to all the occupied territories.
HOMELAND
The significant point, most commentators soled clane with ted meet te along with this, sake of she outing Was sure
everyone said, that he had dropPalestinian homeland. all this nonsense about a
But the natprious Massachuset homeland" spooch in March made SAUCECHI There has to he •a bomeland provided for the Palestinian nof
Not, you'll notice, the
That the distinction is
he Tormer Isracli Foreign Mini
must have somewhere permanent to live (he, like Carter, suggests Jordno): Mart what Israel bas been saying all along.
ZIONIST
In other words, Carter obvipusly has never said Palestinian nation should return
scupied by the Zionist stare but nor lid he take the PLO
On 21 July a ceasefire, applying of course only to the rightist Lebanese forces and not to the Israelis, was announced by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, after discussions between that organisation, the largely Syrian Arab Deterrent Force and the Lebanese Government. This agreement prepared the ground for the implementation of the 1969 Cairo Accords to regulate the Palestinian presence
beavy weapons like personnel carriers. and at least 22 T-54 tanks.
Abu Ilyad stated that a primary Organi- israeli occupation of the sue by
breaking up its alliance with the rightists, to prevent the partition
Arab fighting in order to allow the Palescinians to concentrate on the main enemy: the Zionist state, The ceaselice would help frus
"arabise"
Menachem Begin's public relations staff has been working overtime. Determined to shake off the Israell Prime Minister's
used his recent visit lo Washington as a mutual congratulation session with Jimmy
And they carefully cultivated the impression that a Middle East settlement is nigh. Nothing could be further from the
(mel air deviched betweer
demanded by the situation, the underlying, direc ton of both Us and Israch policy out is clear. The Zionists will accep no Palestinian stare and demand the retention. in one way or another, of the territories occu pied after the 1967 and 1973 wars.
there GUARANTEE
to the continued existence as its politi economic, and policeman in the region.
Nevertheless, the ambiguity of Carter's Massachussets was calculated.
BILE IS SO TETED ODICATE was directed above all at the mos conservative of the Arab sares, softening them up for the peace iniciative' ant consideration at the moment, selling them arms in exchange fo vil revenue, The apparely dramatic caro was that around when Bewin visited Wash
inson and old Carer har
tactfully senc his scate on Eassuris. ast capirals this week and has
nance a now arms dal with opportunity to CENTE
BARGAINING
to the plan not settlement if Syria, The Syrian regime. Which previously had no bargaining counter against ls rael, las
Baining control over the Pale backed by the US — mine Tesistance The PLOS cease fire last weekend strengthcoded Syria's band. reflection the PLO's refusal to incervene in the aflairs of the Arab bourgeois that the states, as once again they throw
at present the Lebanese masses against the rightists and cheir Syrian peoLLLUIS
Ceasefire in Lebanon
Middle Fast
Thar, PLO bad made concessions the Cairo Accords. were rwo points which armoured 12mm rockets
was improving.
Lebanon, and connu
SHELLS the conflict in the role of Syria in Lebanon.
that does.
La Palestinian resistance
diplomatic bids to compromise
PIPE-DREAM to guarantee
conse to an agreement military
specch
It initiated
quite an import-
Socretar? af the Middl Geneva
enthusiasticalls
agreement to
It is a of the bankrupicy of
of the 30,000-strong march The Super
• that is an attemp to find a force in the Arab wor to 'deal will" the Palestinians.
said lyad, was why the the area. CUI but there were not
must retain an armed presence in Lebanon, Secondly, they must b японес вессов сЕ пинату з bon agest tract in the south UPTURN
He expressed satisfaction at the disarray into which the ceasefire noo inrown ine mignnss. ne rocognised the ceasefire as a de
ridding Lebanon of the Paies-
many of
Hyad said that the PLO's rein-
He gave thre reasons, Toe Syrians were afraid of the danger of growing richtist strengih; they were afraid of ar Israeli incursion into southern
were Prime deepening, among the Arab re
about the presence anu
But one thing is certain — and this is where the Syrian and US
will come to grief. The PLO, by its very nature, will no accept any dea! which fails to establish some sort of Palestinian state. The Zionists, of course can countehance no settlement
So once again US Imperial isn's plans will break up against
which can only continue to fight, des pite its leadership's desperare
Washingion understands all Lus, We rewise tbat a Geneva conference which fails can be worse than no conference, sai
ministration. But they are banking on the faint hope that Begi MISCHAY OBEELLEASAIE Thereafter their policy is based Zionists and the Plestinians car pipe dream the
Another Administration offi
that while we see both sides as conseructive, they don't yer sec of the German porfice on how they dealt with anti-noclear marches [above].
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE He dismissed the idea that it was possible to soesk or prog ressive and reactionary regimes in ere are bad and worse: He He simply said, predicted that there will be to ease sentlement in the near
Close out in their atlerupt to gain
Ilyad even rockoned that tbe Arab liberation movement was
year will see the overthrow o the present Arah
situation al tie Palestinian resis. tance is had now, change for the Celler is ittinent and it has s greater role to play in the fuhire.
The discussion turned to President Carter and the new Israeli -Minister, Menacheor Begin. Abu Ilyad felt that some Arab leaders Musions in Camer would soon be exploded and he
Israel
Nablus®
Tel Aviv Ramallah
Jerusalem
jaza Hebron
*Israel's newly " recognised" settlements One person died and 700 were Injured when police attacked a demonstration against the French plutonium reactor at Greys-Maiwies. Most of the injuries were the resuit of the police firing near-pas night into the middle
reactor is a joint proicot with the West German and Italian Governmants. organisers of the protest, which was refused support by either of the two major working class parties, enlisted
about a second German invasion. But the French authorities chauvinism did mot stop them getting the advice
4 August 1977 Page 11
said he expected the worst from
Carter's meeting with the terror-
He did not expect any large
scale military acrivity by Israe
until October
Rather the Israelis would concen-
the West Hank of the Jordan and
consolidating their hold on the
ment was dramatically borne out
by the legalisation of the ther
THEYES
Bank several days after the inter
Ilyad acknowledged Israeli nuc lear capacity but considered than
even the most hawkish elements in the Lionist state realised that such methods would be suicidal.
Bur he then repeated the pre
many Palestin ian leaders, thar the Zionists may
the policy of assassina ting Palestinian cadres
* Socanst Challenge will be pub. Jeshing further repars from Run Chalis nex monit.
Miles 20 ¡EYLON MOREH
*
West Bank
Jordan
OFRA
Jericho
* MAALE ADUMMIM
A DEAD ESEAS
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SURPLUS VALUE
question of cannabis
al importance, yet it is a serious one as long as nearly 1,000 people are imprisoned in Britain cach year and thousands more haras sed and fined for 'crimes" related to a drug about which the only conclusive proof is that it is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.
Endless reports that marjuana is harmless, linked to the fact that the Government makes little fuss over the 3,000 people killed every year in industry, give the lie to the claim that cannabis is probibited to safeguard the nation's health. Why then is cannahis illegal, and why was it made so
Parliament never investigated the effects OCTADS USE WICT I WAS HESE HERUS illegal in 1925. They were following expert
Geneva Conference in 1924, The 'experts' in question were the Favorian Covernmen: (a British protectorate), the South African Indian Government (a British colony)!
At the Geneva Conference, cannabis was blamed for all the ills of the Thind Warld countries. The illicit use of hashish is the principal cause of most of the cases of insanity in Egypt, Cannabis reduces man to the level of the brute and deprives him of health, reason, self-control and bonour" Cannabis was regarded as dangerous as opium. No-one bothered to verify this: it was too convenient to have a drug on which to blame the problems of colonisation. The
ossihility, for example, of lack of foo
sier either letti real dir
but it was dismissed. At Geneva Britain and France
of cannabis use among "the natives". The
so did the French in the Congo. But when i came to white men the different — musn't let lack of self-control and honour spread to Europe,
'ORIENTAL SEAMEN'
Britain was most concerned about cannabis use 'among Oriental seamen visiting her porta. A passage from an American medical journal sums up the British attitude: The dominant race and most CHICE COLlATE BETTOCD. races and nations addicted to bemp and opium have deteriorated both mentally and physically:
In the 1960', When the drag laws were revised to introduce police powers to stop
undercurrents. The drug laws were expandrd as bant or the batte nainst the "peratissive society", against any alternative culture or lifestyle. The ideology self-control, family life and so on was under attack and drug use was seen as central to "alternarive cultures". Racism is evident among much 'expert" medical opinion. The Chairperson of the North East Committee on Drug Abuse, Dr. Maller, stated that formain cultures like West Indian smoked cannabis and always had. Reports from Birmingham said that the Weal Indians were none the worse for it, but that whities were." The saving grace for Sootland, he clammed, was alcohol. The traditionni mood acres 1s nicone and cois may insulate us a litle against druss. The drug
coulde't ordinarily do, like ringing up their professor and telling him ""Go to Hell" Thas it is not the mood alteration that constates me ask, our te wan daton tarian attitudes.
DEBAUCHERY AND SEXUALITY'
Reading tie 60's pross you'd be amazed what cannabis leads to. Anslinger, head of in detachery and serially: Take london in debauchery and sexualicy eveile pancis revelled In the prosecution of the Rolling Stones in 1967. The Evening News had an article entitled The Hippy Way of Life Catches On. "The hippies revolution aims at doing absolurels nothing. Their negative philosophy involves the rejection of everything, including work, war, paying rent, bome life and responsibility. Instead they indulge in drugs, made parties, drawing on wall...
The Evening Standard surpassed this with a series, Turn On, Tube In, Drop Our, whose flavaur is apparent from a quotation about the position of women in hippy California: - their extremism becomes comprehensible when one considers that this state sells the highest number of birth cubtrol pills per head of population than alty other society in the world... Nobody has yet serously appreciated the enormous peychological difference that total absence
ition.
of fear of breznance trom tbe ace cl puberty coward might make to the female sex. The only extraordinary resull so tar is that the Califonia girls have by their
growth of the hippy mosement.. can be described as a combination nihilism, socialiam and bedonism? In this unbelievably misogynist article women are seen as leading poor bays astray into the evil world of drugs In February 1967 The Times reported a speech of the Secretary of the National Asociabon on Drug Addiction, woo sand he had information about young lads being enticed into homosexualicy after alleoding drug parties where the reeler cigarette was used. There was also evidence chat the side effeas from smoking marijuana produce criminal tendencies. people to smoke marijuana encouraged the
people bad contracted senereal diseases witle une is lores a mood ala correspondent to The Times wrote: "I know
while at a marijuana party. As a result of this crisis she moved on to heroin. (Not
Making a
hash of it
Release, the aid and welfare agency, is
ten years old this summer. It has been
best known as a campaigner for the
legalisation of cannabis, but still no
reform of the drug laws has been
forthcoming. SARAH HART and
PAUL CRANE of the Release collective look at the truth behind prohibA RISING NEW CAUSE OF SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE: aocelerated the Hippyism conjectured. was connected with the use liberated'
totalitarian propaganda'!
Cannabis, hard work
can Permitting
Some young Cannahis again! However,
NARCOTICS OFFICERS... RCOBB
only does cannabis lead to heroin, pree- the nancy does too!) Finally, Anslinger again 'How many murders, suicides, robberie especially among the young, can only he So each and every threat to our way of life
of carnatis Donald Johnson in Indian Hemp: A Social Menace: "It woukd be easy for the Sovie Union to add cannabis to its export of grain and four and as aid the success of
then, threatens white men herd wor What other central ear o Western Civilisation does it threaten? war. And in 1968 for the Americans chat was important 80 percent of conscripted soldiers in Vietnam were reported to be lon
slaughtered over 100 South Vietnamese al my Las meir excesseve deal was pur down W the fact that they used marijuana. Cannabis
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 4 Augual 1977 Page 13
must be one of the most overused scapegoats of the century.
On the subject of cannabis and health,
When cannahis was first prohibited it was hecause, if unable to get opiates, addicts would tura to cannabi. Now it's the exact
CHIE against the legalisation of cannabis is that it leads to opiates! So long as cancabis is linked with physically addictive drugs. no-one is concerned about details
Every major Western survey on cannabis and heroin use has found no causal Link. Nevertheless, Misuse of Drugs during Bill in 1970, Hom ine depare on in
Secretary Reginald Mauding understand that more than 90 percent of cannabis." No doube 100 per cens Start 00 SCOOTER COCHEL
ALCOHOL
The dishonesty of the claim that public health i at OLES DI prohibicion is nowhere more obvious than it the sbsolute toluss of Wester cowrn ments to make comparisons between cannabis and the legal, socially accepted drugs 100,000 British tobacco smokers die every ycar, and there are 2,000 alcobol-related deaths. There is mot a single known case of someone dying as a result of cannabis use! All the claimed results of cannabis addiction' could quite legitimarely be attribured to alcoholism.
The law prohibiting the use of cannabis has no basis other than the suppression of behaviour which does not it it with dominant bonus. But does it matter if there are laws against scriain forms of pleasure sockingi. First, an important fumetion in upholding the dominant insolOLL Krause OT tne whole myth or the impartial legal system and the justice of British law, most people believe thar what is illegal is bad. There are many laws against
ality for example — which are maincained
ideology of Western capicalism.
Secondly, It matters thar these laws are used, In July 1967 the Govertment un expectedly introduced wide powers authori sing the palice to sap and search people for drugs. The Home Office Minister ranted an ahout the halF workd" of the young Californian hippies as revealed in che serie of Evening Standard arlicks and concluded * think you will be as concerned as 1am that such a phenomenon should not arise here. Although governments bave always THEON HECTIC CHISEE BA LISTE these • powers are nimed specifically apprehending the user. The Daily Mail in 1970 claimed the police have learned how to go for the pushers without bullvina innocent citizens or overloading the courts with minor offenders". However, in 1969 there were 6,800 convictions for unlawful possession, 250 for supplying: in 1970, 9,350 Jor possession. 400 for supplying: 1971, 12,300 against 500 and 1972, 15.400 against 500. The succes rate of recorded police stop scarches for drugs nationally has never coceeded 30 percent and in some areas is as low as 8 per cent.
RACIST BIAS
Cannabis use is now something which spans all sections of society, but searches and prosecutions are selective, whilst people Convicted are drag afters e people convicled drug offences were born outside the UK. The rich, maddie class and employed are relatively safe. The drug laws rogether with the notprious sus laws are an ideal cover for police barassment in
streets of certain sections of the community As with other laws, judges show a racist bias in their sentencing Although, of course, there are no official scaristies to peave this point, take rwo court decisions in March and April this year. 23-year-old West African Ibisolo Salim, who had no drugs convictions, was sent to prison for 12 months for possessing t6 worth of canna bis. A month later. 26 year-old Gerald Fruewith, also with no drugs convictions and otherwise a respectable wisite man. got a suspended sentenoe of 6 monchs uprisonment for possessing E200 worth of cannabis.
Overall, from 1965 to 1975 the annual number of people sent to prison has increased fourfold, State repression of cannabis users has come full circle. Juse as the introduction of cannahis prohibition was seen, above all, as a hulwark of white capialist ideology, now police implementa tien of the drug laws is a potent instrumen for the repression of black people and others - hippies, squatters and so on who are perceived an a threar to the "values of our Western sciety
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ZIONISM and RACISM ~a Palestinian voice
COMMENT
FRED HALLIDAY'S article on Zioniem and Recism (Socialist Challenge, 14 July) came as an
vary cloa stand giving [trom my paint of Sew a corree aaswer 1o EnE ete cheperson ot aser Unil
of Enser
ersity Communist Partyl of a T BOURS rOTIVUD
Socialist
Challenge
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ange at Fi puerications Wide YORKSHIRE HSEE t Cidn Hotel, Burer
teet (oft tha Wicker), Sheffiekd LEEDB Ruaders mbet fortnightly tet 1ss Wo hou en Laa lan som ORK supporters meet every fort
aht OI
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MANCHESTER. Seriea of educationdis for readers.
Thunsday 4 August. "The Crisis In she Thundey 18 Suptei ter, Taled for i Revolutionary Party'.
All at the Manchester Socialist Challende Centre 81 7,30pm.
WARRINGTON Socialist Challenge
cthvitiea
Halel, Aroa Su et,
LONDON Ee ader, 10-pm aclitilos ring or-
ADING Ferita: Sem, Am
nat, Re ein
Marxist-Leninist viewpoint, CPs
the world are fora strategie alliance of all liberation movements in the Thind World or
2. As far as the PLO and the Paleetinian strupgle is eP (facei, hate id ar periel. , Including the Israeli
British CP appears to be an
exception (except for some Indi- Is contusiecdougairs
flected
in 1 ye
with him
portie eretis to the Voratae
Smilh regimes in South Africa.
section on an 'ismaeli noton- uia consive tast In THaNM Ia si tho nesn orio entire conflict in the MiddieEast.
From the very beginning the
-what
THE International Marxist Group Дно ерогно и пин вгнGURST8 Cor ciariication of it
Doa ton on ny te ical Com
io Zionists. mittee of the IMG passod Tonowing osanan n cosand
It in not the position of thi
to deny
Zoniate or lo call for thi
anning of Jewish societies. 1 our opinion if la only by vigorous
NUPE
witch-
hunters
TREAD Bab Ponnington's report Ir-SOcia IS1 Cna lonDo-TS CEIV concerning the possible expul sion of five hospital workera in Southamplon.
According to the report the HIMS DIH CHAK-HAIE-TSB THWS
must greund Ge charged under
Lenin and frotsky's work on this Marxism.
ISSUE. nOUen rar mentaa ong.
d with one conclusion: religio
s only one element out of man of them accepted the ides of the which defines a nation. capitalist world tre led the ste But arguin
similar to arguing that there is a
abase oneself accomplished tacis. sUIl taell he refers lo the Sawbl
people aione and not just thene
in Palestine now, world, whom by definition and
oiltical controntaiion with th
Ideologically in this country.' Com- COLCHESTER IMQ comrades write:
We have participened
Iremery dowvery in ine ant-zion
ist campaign
Fi students.
Auton calling for solidarity with
"lt is a very
good poem"
[HOPE the majorify of Soelalist Challenoe su0000Ar WI 1C Bres r S mons boul Jae
récrepbilie sne makes the sam
polistine eror as the bigots wt
left matters. Le. that a work ot on to bo understood as a plece o Executive
Sante an ein moren ure
reports in the luture.
problem
for the Palestinian
whole of
WOUO EC defeat it thera fiest,
the world.
H.M. EL-GHANEM
throughcut
and Ireland)
the IMG thinks
domning Zionism deleat them
over tou studente.
on the campus PX-
initiated by the
as welland that they corlainablu rapória
Simons sbout Jame
Tha Love tha
the poem glorifies
caporal grbangs: lemon
the Law of Return are lareelis. 4.I beliere that the only solution
problem ls nat the de-Zionisation of israel,
CCSETT democratic popular etate in the
All the
TrUC BOCBISRESnO ICnE TOr
Hs comr position of the
the anti-Zionist campalgn must that the purpose of is discussec
Newt spele ter hetaubi that
We Jewish socleties because
But as 1 see it, Zionism started O norue anG uce oau Caln Coloies curoDe.nm! ain and the USA, so we must
In Britain and Europe are grow. the long run that will be a victory Ine n oreli ovoy cav sno in for appressed people throughout
C XHC IENH
Palestinian Students in the UK
as a form of racism was cartied overwhelm
Dalian.
TTOR CAI initiated the project or a ciegr sterement, signed by ail group.
active in TIVU OCUOaCU CI Bas ur ne Isrue soie erpoed for this position with/n the Socialist Students Alliaoce
o understand Mat Church im Wo
ement wha holds Cogéther ulu contred clocy ine Mation name-
y Erat plomie bellive in religion
longe for inaking te poam
881-OП Dil HoвrCA08Л DUT Pr
BOB PuRpIe (WaricKshtel Squeezing coptiet
a reformist
missod die ofiginal-in ey New RIOFu
botes aps TILOR!
Anarchist
greetings
THE ANARCHIST Workers Association extenda ils comradely
Our laat National Conferanoe peste tae toraw ng mong
That AWA welcomes Sociallsi Challenge and regularly rovigws
That AWA contributes articles
That the public sector al lence
in the pages o Socialist Challenge atrompt ta avereomn the counte genuine
•NErE TE SI sions on the left. muai be constitusly fought Tor uncerstand that
gives the impression that unity
Open letter to
labour movement
A5 A WOMAN who has regulary supporlod the mass picket of the Grenwick lactory since 13 Jane L am wriling to clear up any doubls that those coach loads ai male trade union millants may
ahOUT 1hn IDIE 98 ai or women sn trat sera
I ano many other women lee
Labour this very strongly which is one of exploitation
women, and have been propared 1o be crishad and brutalised daily by large men in uniform fo that cause, to say nothing of the problems arising for those of us TO HIG IRES DOHE CrAHG-DarE amangements every marning
welcomed your arrival in lorce at Grunwick's, and were
rd by education. cantilunh
ion-and odalisalión Trus)
sense to pubele miake, Da
orlenans-a late _happiur- ay
uggesling the Jeaus might have been Gay toc
belna responsibls
mank gay
and Majr Carisi poetr. tereiors inech reconolle tireic leelirigs e
codine, tae tor sush
Oke thin io make hoir o)
respecistia must always Ja
fe corel Tania l Gay sex ic en hrahielt aracka
of the tamily and
ths Willou homanocust
Stale afeariy shat the social rob
af-ine chirob-le By ait mean
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 4 August 1977 Page 14 Con De olT Sinais Ou cocisr ile desitability and that the bloc
navo rasultoc in real inepiogica OTAraRAS OAl muA ORau through practical wark in united
as the basie for genuine theorECHI BEAu
The opening up of the page of Socialist Challenge 1o thes
hopas ba BEC C TUIC aDUC0 SOCSIST CanuonOaRneSn
contained motion.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE. AnarCHESI WYO KEIS ANSOCEREOn. surprised and angry to find our senes abused patronised and 100T910I7CU000 00 0300 or the sorte committoe iar t has largnly been the women who
pickel line ovar the last 11 montisi and it SUDCO TS MaROCe AIt 15
and Tee -Tane union SEsa otherwise, tor wn are all work ars, wil take over the sireele and aring the tastory to a standetil CS aCCOUtO Tare aoniront police violence w thoul
divided
let us unite our strength, SARAH GREAVES [Independent Mothers Movement;
responsible bommel
heCяuseur
anly lo quatale n
MaiMprie sociolists
ng te diage
scon Have a poem puspoding:
here o the arise youtt in to
bunker imediately ste
We Nationel Front can reconr telL Confuotsl PAUL CHASe (Habder B
Wanted:
feminist
outrage
et suroe hing of mrysts toe
conselous i(an belade
Punicusy: Wow-do-pot yet oc er did the laycal er nhr ot stiengti15 :hatarin)
шагу пероврет, пар про lor ot hg mend-dompit
Boudsa argat
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Punktual product of the crisis
by PAUL MARRIS 70s to settle entirely into boring 30-year-old ad agency accounts managers.
Kod Stewart, Elon John, Rob ert Plant Mick Jaceer pecame indistinguishable from the rest of that amorphous jet set of fashion acHilc. mOds arEND: V0yel girls, politicians, footballers and movie stars - ind even went into tax exile with the test of them in
Only reagae retained any crede hiäty, and is in fact the fasoured personal EMCHIRIL for Johnny Ratten of the Sex Pistols and Joe Strummer The Clash. The Cinsh's rendition of the reggae song Police and Thiever as -minor masterpiece.
Bur Rasta can't pretend to be an answer if you're white. And from schools, colleges and small
COMMENT
ALTHOUGn TOUN peper 18 g80-
erlany the co rage or :
coverage of inter-
national and home news (we
DaHYHAC oun rol hich has been lacking int oth
De inçiuded in Under Review. ot ate bay cond by th tron
straight media - God Save th
the inich tes to mote class
rigid uniformity upon them, and anothar
tries to crush any variety, indi-
vicuminy ano nacpendoncod
The emergence of punk comes
at a time when the wörking class by RICHARD CARVER I don't know if Mury Whitehouse has anyone else in her
WISIENES HET DOk YewSO
eon Rosselson must be a fair candidate. He sings about Ab sene ny tady C-KENCI
is
Church... God's welling
herein, und openly sides
ludas against the conjuror Jesus.
Low, Lonciinesr and Laundry is the second record made together by Rosselsonand Roy Bailey. Like their first, Thar's Nor The Way Ir'y Gor To Be. it sets isseif in the tradition of English folk music, rescuing it from the antiquarians Imu CUPCIES LO ECcOaa COLCI
LEDn HESCEOLR
UNDER REVIEW
Musically, punk rock is remarkably similar to British pop music of the mid-60s. Its distinctiveness lies elsewhere: in its lyrical content and in its wider social context. The principal target for the punk fans" withering contempt is the former mainstream of rock, which threatened in the
hip-easy-listening for stat hun, row emene last TEM TIEBRE CCC DunE like in the mid-60s Though stil heavily concerned with boy-gir ICIAGOR IE. cover a far wider range of subject
UNEMPLOYMENT They're rooted in the white working Class tecnagers" a aol dine Papiae be T n a Britai Aneste, uten playes (Caree Opportuninles boring work (Duy by Day by Generation X). pop culture (th ork of the X-Ray Spes) and i part real (the songs of The
Nowhere to drop
por- and differs rem arle mil scenies such as the hippie movement of the 1960s which came about In relativo ecónomio pros
laes ple plenere erce lee
to rabe humer ans le rg p are nong t th u
We are not saying punks
Dunan' by the Sex Pistols. Punk recent upsurge acainsl a system
LOI WENAM DIWO UO WA AE AULE B sUEE
working class dissatistaction.
COLIN CHARNLEY. Secretary, Warrington Socielist Challange
Folk anti-heroes
polițical weapon.
Rosselson that the folk idiom is tbe only one for political songs, but this record may well convince you that it is the most effective.
With the help of Firoz Shapur W RN (on brass and piano) and Martin arthy (the hest folk guitarist business) Bailey and Rossel with son have made a resond which is far more collerent, LADE CIT 0ICY0350 BOMB
Ting or Wiliam Bales Ca -etring of William Blake's deo of Love") are by Rosselson and reflect his political preocu parions: the
Damned; White Rior by The Clash).
Protest songs — not the sentimental, humanist protest of che carly 60s. hul protest for the mid-70k. One of
he only concrele vehicles of a much-needed expression hatreu ot the monarchy during the Jabilee this
was the SOTEL SEULELdEU the Queen. It was widely banned, yet reached number one in the SalC COaCES
A white working ciass establishment youtf SOUSE mosty sexist wilh a ccaumora of violence
period
and falling living standards. tras a orceass grownu fascise? It obviously could he wasniaas world, Scot Own aTEuk AM.u Paris. is ofen cross which serves as the symhol for the French
But in London. at least. this danger scems to be receding Even Lie patriocic Tory-voting Jam dropped the unson Jack from heir promocional insignia in order lo dissociate themselves trom any piat osa coghechon
with the National Front political colour ol polite novelent will be deak
mined elsewhere — by the wider halance of fonces socich! ao cumare ar sang There is in fact a tendency
within these new British groups towarus a primiene sostais pre rest, most explicit in The Clash
Cm Tho ong thi ai
ms at cnoouragins white kids
ollow the example of their blai brothers and sisters at the Not ting Hill simer is caline Carrol ot the
streets, while their most recent single Remore Controf lashes out DANSECI BOSE DECYLILS controlling our lives.
expressing RALLYING POINT
But popular music — like othe
cultural forms — can best serve
a raliying point, for the strungle
for socialism. Its role can obvi-
pos wore oo douste, will cae marriage, the repressive idcology aorce with T TATC IE
world of the property developers
and the bomb, threatening aul
of the ral T too bil
of the tracks
INTERCIEdUI
exception, There are no slogans
here. Perhaps the repord's agrrac
TODT TRE less ecteric. has passed for socialist music —
it is populated by anti-heroes
Ablezer Coppe
convention but then
gare Jail she
KOM Er SOTEr
had no raste for martyrdow
will recanr", he said
CorT STin drab aridity of wiew her want her for themselves, ROY BAILEY
an agaressive
Summer, Jor Sex Pistols God Saup high unemployment
Deather jackets
Punk sprayed on walls accompanied by the
proto-fascist operating in holed, Gate Carnival
O SeatEID LOT
adds -
NHLET BUC SION Bud Sasie A-CHELIEI MICINS buy this lady."
INVISIBILITY
but that was the
HICH USL BIBCE.
- ulike a lot lhat and: 'He kisses
Teles religisu something To Ner TNE S CINE k hima dead/H And the the mien wyw
don't let that
time he turns on LONC T
sfer repard.
by Leun
Rocords
THE CLASH: they wouldn't be seen dead ar the Proms
be secondary, a fact which The Record Mirror interview, guicar- UCZEL ist Mick Jones complains:
The Clash have been pigeon
everybody') CENNUTIE political hand on the scene at the
We are not Top of che Political Pops. We are not tbe new denders that everyone seem:
AnO vocalst JoC stume
is sorter vira lett bie
issentially correct vein: sfruation at all. We haver? get COULTOL OVET HD any control over our Lives. Just ger tossed about like every one eise. Look — political power grows from the barrel of a gun — and I haven't got a gun."
ignores their she knows they connor
Val Railey sings the astonish ingly powertul "Jovisible Macried
ULTIEUS her invisibility from her hus.
me withou!
Iwine at ane./ Then ne furas a! the door as if io see/if there's
he's forgotten And Juda: determined to resist the Roman oocupation against Jesus's colbetrass bis master with a kiss so that the strugele can go forward
This is n romantic Tecord. bu
omanticism which turns awa IL JoG DHL. aL im a hat tene: Hi hi LOC LEasCHg WIS SHiCSaI WOR OUTS HIL WE SICIN When he sets no joy a second
This lost cus
TS PROme DE you Char ure
down the cownry when
wheel will stort to fairer ond
Other it's on with trake./Then confidence will b destroyed ond milions anempioged and anarchy
delf me sir, au fow pocier poelousy sahoreur or help to boos the marional economy?" LULC LaNE BS OPC ROlUS l
Love. Loneliness and Lasadry
Rosselion and Roy I.P issued hy Acom
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
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