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Socialist Challenge No. 201, 11 June 1981 · p. 7 of the scan · 1,031 words

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Split Already group has split over the pay council proposal to workers for time off to greet the People's March. Perhaps not big dif- the group was Unilateralism v BRIAN Heron (7 May) says that Socialist Challenge supporters the CND labour movement conference in Manchester did not, as i had suggested, vote in favour of resolutions being taken in place of the scheduled afternoon discussions.

1 had understood that they did because they supstop ralsing revenue that would be an attempt to stop local government.

would expect trade umonists to launch a cam paign of industrial action and Labour MPs to make the continued working of parliament impossible.

But how credible Livingstone's threat to pressurise the government by industrial action?

are no industrial action action concedes.

OulSCIVeS 'We want to avoid the Labour GLC being seen to step into anything from the outside.

to do so only causes confusion.

I agree that there issue cut i think it is for Conson over precisely opposite reason. The self-styled mutate ra disarmers' (such as David Owen, William Rodgers and others) are fond of arguing inal we must choose between the two.

If there choice, multilateral disar.

sounds mament unilateralism. Surely it's better for everyone to I'VE BEEN surprised and disappointed by the lack Challenge of the Sutcliffe lia.

All the bourgeois media has been full of the gory detalls of how peter Sutcliffe went round with bag of sharpened screwdrivers, knives and hammers, killed thirteen women,, and attacked Pyotr Egides last month 'Given the role of the Labour Party over the last years, the Labour group County Hall needs to win respect by what we actually do to win the right to leadership, for example by supporting all trade unionists in dispute.

disarm than just And this is reflected in the opinice oils.

that the luca choice multilateral disarmament actually ists as a practical alternative is used as an excuse for endless cop-outs of the 'of course believe in Dut... variety.

That old fence-sitter the Guardian, reckoned that the Labour Party has contradicted itself by backing both unilateral and multilateral disarmament. No 0018 viners without knowing one of them personally As he said when arrested, no woman was safe while he was around. He killed them because they were women The trial centred on whether or not Sutcliffe was mad because everyone disown i his monster. He's either an in::.dividual madman on tast Ken Livingstone at the Socialist Challenge Rally with Soviet oppositionist are looking for the possibility of providing funding for the Time Out and giving occupalivi them accommodation they are evicted.

'This, repeated in after could re-weld the links bet'multilateralists' Brynmor 'contradiction' allows him lo stay as shadow acience minister although he does SUDDOI It's not on and we have to make that clear both to him and Michael Foot.

By saying 'a unilateralist Il, Frank Allauo mans Frank Allaun wasn't going SOTT on Whale ralism. He was putting the multilateralists spot: you are either for disarmament or against 11 plain bad'.

explanation confronts the fact that Peter Sutcliffe is a product of this society women are cast in the role dress op for men were rigid; if we do we're tart Women are beaten up by their husbands, whistled after in the street and UsCu Eve pornography.

through the ages to women in adverts for diesel pumps, women are portrayed through sex to do hen something they wouldn't do otherwise duping inem: ween the Labour •Party and trade unionists and we would be happy to give the same support when we get omer occupalions. taclul y For struggles like Grunwicks or Garners Steakhouse.

'We shall also be setand that is the only choice.

If you are for it, then it is clear that unilateral disarmament is now essential, both in its own right and to get the multilateral process going. The claim that there is a choice between multilateralism and unilateralism the cause of the public's contusion not only allows NATO apologists to parade as disarmers' but even allows them to gi le impression that CN somehow against anyone but Britain giving uv nuccal weaouls When Sutcliffe was supposedly duped out of £10 by a woman he'd paid to have sex with, it wasn't this one incident but how LOUS incident was dicative of the way women and decelve that set him off on his mis sion with all the zeal of the Witchfinder General Because neither the legal system nor the media can afford to analyse how society produced a Peter Sutcliffe, they're forced to argue that he hated and killed womer because of his individual relationship with one woman Socialia: Grailenge the next few MOREOS will face criticisms from a . How it will confro: its critics and more impe tant how it will stand up the onslaught from centra government remains to b seen But there's no dous that Livingstone ana comrades are sincere ar enthusiastic for the tasi they have set themseiv As Ken says: I'm glad i haven't of a dea weight 900 years cumulated Collseila... and routinism. Soni movis Certainly down at County Ha Westminster.

We want rid of nuclea weapons wide and, as a start want rid of all those in Br: tain. If unilateral disarma culoularc multilateral disarmament then so much the better It is the people who claim tha the separate, that multilatera asant alca miniatera disardisar. mament that we should direct our argument against. It's a tricky argu ment but I think Frank Allaun got it right. ALISDAIR BEAL Leeds 8 It was obscene how the implicati Soni Sutcliffe in crime. She was said dominate him on he prison visits, she was mer tally ill in 1976 and - ta:: about scraping the barre - she went out with a icecream man when sh was doing her A leve before she was married Sutcliffe's father ha even claimed that the ki ings would ha:

any olner want to blame anothe woman for these wome: deaths. It's not his faul: nuinely baffled by se Many people are case and it is up to a pare with a feminist under::. analysis to its readers ding give Marcella Fitzgerald NW London

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