Backing promised to fight for official backing, but far more was expected from leadership the Closure "We're after the closure notice made in February and withdrawal of the inamedate recleane, notices to 117 workers plant will remain closed till we gel Inal the weeks the entire workforce needs to be ortanise• around chule lo solidarity action the other Stone-Platt plants and lactalle in the area. Ana inis necas lo De basis coordinated demands any job loss, for the 35 hour week without lostof pay, and of the labour movement. Donations and messages of support Eddie Holland. Stone-Platt Fund, c/o 70 Lord Street, Oldham. technology. The workshops on the technology, economic technology.
sympathisers Alan on 01-359 8288. egged on in their attacks on railworkers by ine Tory government and that interion sondarily was esschlai if the attack was to be beaten off. Unfortunately it seems that the National Union oi Railwaymen have accepted and prepared to talk productivit to get money on the table.
meeting Tony West, driver both the wages and cuts struggle were political struggles. Any sellemen under 20 per cent, said West, cut LIVILE standards West most enthusiastic reception of the SCUL evening wnen ne sald Asker should have no truck with OMO operated trains.
It is this long-term fight the National Abortion public opinion on the issu of abortion and has altered the attitude of trade unions and _Labour Party.
has even caused divisions in the ranks of the Tory Party itself over Corrie's Bill.
DUl the -Tory Party : would not be divided if the Bill simply sought to reduce the time limit to 24 weeks.
only ones. many people in the labour movement are vulnerable to the arguments of the ant abortionists on viability of the foetus.
rights will recede • if Corrie's Bill fails on Friday. That's why building the National Abortion Campaign is crucial
Steve Potter's article on Afghanistan (21 February) is both confused and If the Soviet troops are not there socialists choose between a Soviet-backed capitalist government and an capitalist government in Afghanistan But fortunately this is not the Union it could have been countered peasants in favour of the reforms to smash (!) the conservative alliance of proletarian revolution in the the overthrow of the Soviet Trotsky argued that if this whether the bureaucracy was a class or a growth on the workers' state would automatically be solved. It Mugabe's victory in South Africa is already being felt. The mass meeting of blacks in Soweto to celebrate ZANU's triumph is only the first indication.
Socialist Challenge explained what Trotskyists would do if they were leading ZANU? Or is that a contradiction of itself, SAM HARTNELL, London.
these slogans.
But it would be far more use if conference.
London. the Cow' and carry placards with Here we have the sexist and male-chauvinist politics of. the parents and grandparents of the LPYS (The Militant group) revealed in all their hideousness See you at the Revolution PAM GROVES, FAY HODGE, wrong is that she doesn't understand what power 1s - it can't bi "shared', 'seized', or 'acquired' or 'transferred' she says. But she does think that the quality of power can be changed or feminised. It would be a good idea to explain in more detail just what is wrong with this analysis.
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