start of the TUC's regional days of action.
Despite the short notice less than a week WE WORKOMES SenT delegations. Large contingents marched the banners of the health workers. These included dockers, car workers, building workers, printers, breaks Did into the movement. of information. demande even amongst fighting back.
vital step. through Liverpool on Monday 4 October at the seafarers and -tobacco workers. lively demonstration and strong ooposition to the Tory government was very marked More technicians, POLETS cleaners from the hospitals ter, a Foot-Jenkins government - must have at its head a figure capable of heading a government on its behalf.
In time we shall create the forces for a genuine workers government, that fights wholeheartedly for workers interests, that will finish the job Labour hasn't finished, that Britain's imperialist monarchy. the lords, the banks and their ramshackle state pages democratic state accountable to those who work for their living - the first step to a socialist Britain, Indeed the forces for such a government will be assembled in and through the struggle to implement the policies already won in the labour But the further policies needed to secure such a government have not yat won. Thay are not yet the policy of the labour movement. They can become its policies if it learns how to face Thatcher's fury when she is deposed from office. But the policies which propelled Tony Benn into leadership of the left have the support of the labour movement. We are committed to unilateral disarmament. We are com mitted to get out of the EEC. We are committed to oppose incomes policy. We are committed to full employment social justice for women, blacks and youth and to freedom If the movement is to have the confidence to come onto the streets, not just in hundreds of thousands but in millions, it must have the confidence that Tony Benn will be with them when they get there. And Tony Benn must start to build that confidence now. He can put his weight behind each and every fight against expulsions. He can come to the forefront of avary extraparliamentary struggle for the policies he supports.
He can tell Michael Foot that, Shadow Cabinet or no Shadow Cabinet, he will be there by our side fighting.
He has not done so. He has not committed himself to our struggle: he left his supporters at conference puzzled, angry and bitter. This vacillation must end But one thing is for sure: with or without Benn, we're Our fight back starts with the Days of Action against the Tories. It will continue with action to sack the right wing who stand in our way: and for this, 30 October is a first, but Kick out the Tories!
For a Labour Victory!
Fight to defend Socialist Policies!
Stop the witch-hunt!
turned out than September On that day large contingents had left Liverpool to go to the London demonstration The large presence of health workers had a big impact not only on the other marchers, but got great response from peo ple the sidewalks, showing once again the tremendous the health workers enjoy. past, despatches the of history books and creates a new We can unite in action around these
—US troops to stay in Lebanon BEIRUT a re-united city again. An international peacekeeping force to Palestinians and keep order. The foundations being laid for strong and Lebanon. Sounds pretty good eh? This is exactly the impression being given by the media. But the reality is a little different.
The 're-unification' of the city means that the defensive barriers, so long patrolled by Palestinian and leftist militias are being taken down. ine Leoanese army, over whelmingly a Maronite force, will patrol West Beirut. the international force.
By Bernard Chandler Bring First, protect the independent This COTLEV Israel is after.
The the have their courtesy of stringent But two other factors give the whole event a much more sinister Reagan's announcement that US marines will stay in Lebanon until 'all foreign troops' are withdrawn. Second, the plans of the new Lebanese government, revealed in the daily An Nahar, to expel the overwhelming bulk of the Palestinian refugees from the exactly Lebanese governemn plan is to reduce the number of country from back 500,000 to around Palestinians would StaTUS retucees withdrawn, and would be subject WOEK permit and ed residence regulations - designed to keep them well away from the major cities.
In order to effect such a sweeping expulsion of the Palestinians will require a massive use of force. This force will be provided by the Lebanese army - with the support and protection Peace Keeping Force.
The massacre in the Palestinian camps provided the excuse for the return of the United States forces. This time they have come armed to the teeth and determined to stay. Reagan intends to make them a credible military force, capable of engaging in combat with any of the armforces currently Lebanon. But their main role will be to back up and support the Lebanese army tor of a unified state. of a strong and unified Lebanon means the defeat of the Muslimbased left for many years The future of the Palestinians is grim. One of the key objectives of the Israeli invasion was to ensure that the whole of the Palestinian population was expelled first perhaps to ultimately towards Jordan. The Israelis regard Jordan as the real "homeland"
Thair programme region is for the Jordanians to ac- the sole guaran . The creation transported Jordan.
Syria. but of the Palestinians.
part of the TOT the cept some Palestinian 'autonomy' on the West bank of the Jordan in the state of Jordan itself. The bulk of the Palestinians in israel itself, and all of those in Gaza and on the East Bank will also be eastwards into Despite the current conflicts between the United States and Israel, the United States forces and those of the Lebanese army are about to collaborate in ensuring a key part of israel's war aims.
Paradoxically, the massacre of the Palestinians in the camps is same process as the sending of the American troops -the expulsion of the Palestinians and the handing of all power to the Phalangist-led Maronite state.