NEARLY 600 people packed into Camden town Central London last Friday to celebrate the 200th issue of Socialist Challenge.
The celebrations orchilalulc issue 200 comes out next week but the theme of the IICCLHIZ. Socialist perspectives for Europe, was pertinent.
The range of speakers reflected the campaigns andissues Socialist Challenge has supported and helped to bulld since founded nearly four years ago.
There were speakers from the threatened Rover plant at Solihull, 28 May 198T ~ Page 14 hall in Manchester, and Movement.
recently exiled, WC tac •ocaKc. as national.
Ken Livingstone the day off with ll was arrives in London the occupied Laurence Scott plant in the Troops Out Pyotr Egides, a left oppositionist events, from the Soviet Union who has been was were Ken Livingstone, the new leader of the Greater London Council, and Ernest Mandel, a leading member of the Fourth Interparticular, reported that the GLC was giving all its employees pay this Friday, when the People's March for Jobs vanced County Hall, Westminster, will be thrown open to the marchers tor accommodation.
Livingstone also reiterated his lection. support for the national liberation struggle in Ireland. He said that the GLC would not co-operate with the scarman inquiry into the Brixton and he appealed for mobilisations in the bullie Cull frontation between the GLC and the Tory government.
Mandel estimated that in Europe the workers were fighting defensive battles but. in rrance and britaı in they were preparing 'political countér-blows'.
He was particularly enthusiastic about the events in Poland which, ne sala, represented ine most ad form of workers' control hich Europe had experienced sinc he Second World War Over £1,000 was raised in a col-