IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Press freedom behind bars of steel

· Socialist Challenge No. 159, 7 August 1980 · p. 5 of the scan · 497 words

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page 5 of the scan

August, is to be lobbied, and for trade unionists mass picket of Brixton UBO August, 7-9.30am Brixton UBO is in Coldharbour Lane, close to BrixSend cash to: Brix. ton UBO Campaign for TU: Rights, 16 Knowlton House, Cowley estate. Cowley Rd, London SW.

THE anti-racist movement immigraton laws for which she was best known; starinspiring the Bengali pollation Oldham to sucessfully opSree had been uncon- pose the deportation of Abdul Azad, and going of from thai to helping proHer fight for life since then mote defence deampaigns many parts of the country.

Tragically she leaves a girl fro whom a memorial fund Donations welcome, cle established. c/o CRE, Vale Oldham, Landes.

Oldham resisting Marxist Group THE documents revealed by Granada TV's World in Action programme during the steel strike were embarrassing enough the British Steel Corporation.

A total of BBC documents were leaked the strike had been brought about by management; that the government had intervened in the conduct orle cordoratoris affairs; and that the productivity of BSC's workers. was not as low as boe Mallage ment were pretending.

In short, they showed that both the corporation bosses and their superiors in Keith Joseph's were lying through Department Industry ten teet BSC, • Is a nato be owned by all of us, and in theory it is accountable to virtue of which World in tion ought to be accorded the Kid or carmen a presently being received by the Queen Mother Instead, thanks to the decision of the House of Lords last week, sulliculc di branaca now faces jail because the company refuses name the source of the leak.

The Granada executives, concerned about the renewal or ineir iranchise, are aoing foucn will society their best to finger one of the World in Action researchers Laurie Flynn, a former "journalist on Socialist Worker - as supposedly the only person at Granada who knows the identity of the mole 11 Dol The is up in arms about the House of Lords law-makin decision Times went so far as to say that the judgement was allack OLS. freedom, but that it showed that the law lords are out of For investigative journalists (and there are few enon or men amos means quite simply that their sources could dry up, fearing MORE Members of the NUM and Latin American exiles march in solidarity with resistance to Bolivian coup in London last exposure through the courts.

Yet the moves at Granada show that the press barons and nell editors cannot be relied on to defend even the limited that presently prevails in Britain.

The National Union of Journalists and ACTT, television technicians' union, should consider very seriously calling an all-out strike on this issue.

They will not lack support.

Andrew Wiard (Report)

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