MARCH,OCCUPY FIGHT FOR LONDON 31 MAY MARCH FOR JOBS tions, Labour has swept In the power in centres metropolitan The latest opiTories. predict polls landslide vIctory Labour if an were held now.
And the March for Jobs national become for all workers focus struggling unemployspiralling ment. But the bosses' ofcontinuing.
fensive As we go to press it has announced with hundreds of redun- BL Rover alc Solihull to close plant, Deputy dancies Pat Hickey told venor Socialist Challenge:
La mass the plant can save our jobs tion of the labour move- now'. Every has i nousands joined workers marchers against Sheffield and week, cluding those who took chester strike action at over a LAY S that the dozen factories in Shef•CON field. led by workers in strug- The marches sec- shaw. Plansee Tooling Rotherham.
of the in London on 31 May when Man- 100,000 are expected to greet the marchers.
the workers have LIVERPU A LONDON they take action to get rid of are the Tories. Now is the were Labour Party leaders to time for the union and Scott's spearhead this ment. They could start by endorsing the call made of the rivere Peoples March for 29 May to be a day of general strike action in London as the march capital.
week shown prisoners are as much we should get out.' cil prepared to move the reaches 'The IRA are fighting for their national freedom, and their prisoners-of-war as our soldiers in Germany in the war. If we want to see an end to violence, Ken Livingstone, newly-elected leader of the Greater London Coun * National Day of Regional Actions 23 May * National Demonstration
PO Box 50, London N1 2XP Phone 01-369-8189/8180 (oditorial and distribution) Me-tooism IT HAS been a long, long time since there was a more sickening spectacle than that performed by Concannon and Rees on the occasion of the death of Bobby Sands.
They chorused their determination of Thatcher in driving the Irish MP to his death. Merlyn Rees even appeared on television to boast that it was he who had abolished political status in the first place. It is a reminder of just how imperialist-minded and arrogantly British is the leadership of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
What. now needs • TO whether Foot, Concannon and Rees uttered their death cheers with the support of the Labour Party as a whole. There are indications that they did not.
In parliament Patrick Duffy, who once a Minister for the Navy, savaged Foot's 'me-tooism'. Nearly 30 Labour MPs have signad a Commons motion calling on Thatcher to make concessions to the political prisaners. Labour MPs at the European Parliament. ondorsed the of the socialist more flexible attitude by the British government.
Where does Labour's national executive stand? Just before the end of the first hunger strike a badly ecutive called for concessions on 'humanitar. ian grounds'. Whatever the phraseology, the men and women who make up the executive wish to use when they meet again on 27 May they nood to disassociate the from the pronouncements of Foot, Concannon and Rees.
A lobby of the meeting on 27 May would be one form of pressure on the NEC. Resolutions from Labour Party wards and general committees gadership of the PLP would be another. A resolution is suggested below, and the mov. ing of it should be the first socialists in the Labour Party in the next couMessrs Foot, • amorova for the be determined is was group for a attended meeting of the ex-.
condemning the priority of all First, the bad news: Bobby Sands' strike produced a 'dramatic escalation in sectarian tensions in Northern Ireland'.
the streets for the same reasons which drove young people in Brixton to violence.' These observations come ron recent aruces in the Militant newspaper.
They, and the philosopny which lies behind them, are worthy of attention It is one thing for the leadership of the Labour Party to have taken the scandalous position it has vil tie nunger strike, #_Is more shocking wher the self-proclaimed 'left' the party travels along a similar path.
Militant describes itself as 'the Marxist paper for Labour and Youth'. There are people who, mistakenly, think Marxism is only about 'contradictions, so perhaps it to prove themselves good 'Marxists' that Milihunger Now the good news: 'Derry youth are on What is being described here is not what is hapbut what Militant would like to happen. The newspaper shares with the 'British ruling class an exasperation with the Irish national question, a wish that it would go away, and he good old brea and butter issues of politics - - jobs, wages and houses.
Repression Even when repression is clearly directed against the nationalist population - as is the case with the H Blocks - Militant pretends otherwise Thus, a year ago Milithe constituency of Humphrey Atkins. francis Hugles HRMTLEMA LEERIN MATIS On Sunday, several hundred took part in a demonstration in Staines, just outside London,
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After ten weeks of selective strike action for a decent wage the three major civil ser- vants' unions are now committed to all-out strike action at the end of this month or early
This is the crunch, only occupation
ment must support the Rover workers.
gle at Laurence occupied plant in Open- and those from
The People's March reaches its crescendo in
Lor Jobs
FRANCIS HUGHES Murdered by Thatcher
JOBS INSIDE: How Sheffield and Manchester greeted the march, and the occupiers - at Laurence Scott - who went to join it.
Peonies march
Don't le Irish prison's dle!