IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

More support for Tameside

· Socialist Challenge No. 142, 10 April 1980 · p. 12 of the scan · 238 words

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page 12 of the scan

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also be discussed.' TAMESIDE Trades Council has received more backing in its fight against the Iwo weeks ago Tameside was struck off the list of trades councils recognised by Congress House because it wanted to hold a conference on Ireland at which speakers who did not support the TUC's policy on the issue A number of other trades councils have already protested to the TUC and its role as a censor on Ireland. Last week trades councils in Tower Hamlets and Lambeth, both in London, joined the angry critics of the TUC.

The Lambeth resolution was passed with no delegates voting against.

It said: 'Lambeth Trades Council being extremely concerned at the news of the TUC's disaffiliation of Tameside Trades Council, calls on the TUC to reverse this decision and to lift all threats and conditions from the work of 'Lambeth views with concern this attempt to stop British trade unionists discussing what is going on in the North of Ireland and calls on the TUC to actively encourage discussion of the British government's policies in that country in the same way as they have done in relation to countries such as Chile, "This could be achieved by the organisation of a series of regional conferences aimed at discussing the official TUC policy of support for the Better Life for All Campaign, at which other resolutions and opinions coula

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