creases 20,000 council house tenants in Walsall have been refusing to pay the £3.25 per week rent increase due from 1 April. The increase, imposed Tory Secretary of State Michael for the Environment, Tolowee the drawal of a loan repaygrant which left the Borough Housing Revenue Account over A RADICAL leTt turn was taken the Scottish National Party (SNP) at their recent national conference Aberdeen. conference voted for paign of civil disobedience against unemployment, withdrawal of Scotland NATO and for unilateral disarmament.
The conference also gave a rapturous reception to strikers from the Lee Jeans occupation in Greenock. im sarue tolo the conterence trom the platform: 'Let us remind the interested throw these wes eh tul of rh thay parties proved so age the woiw cieelioll The the '79 Group which include: .CalTl SCOTTSA Sillars, and Margo McDonald.
The strategy for : wing policies ouulalie would include SNP campaigns lIKe Unions.
was leadership posts. tory they will have to ia the SNP!
SeTTSAITE of the party rank and file to 'Tartan Tories' im.
partyl leader, been of this group is to tionalism method of move involvement SUNU ana ac allsi unemployment, and possibly an attempt to build a base inside the trade potence The left/right battle in the SNP the -TOI Jim Sillars was elected on to the executive as viceother members. after 5 recounts SNP parliamentary eader Donald Stewart was defeate by William Wolfe in the election tor president. now the SNP has always seen as bit of a joke party ana neuuiy su.
Tic sent montauly anc divisive na has decisivel by the SCOTESA workinc But with the growing social and the ap palling record of the Scottish TUC ir fighting unemployment, and the im Labour-controlled sou pla ngor thai thi naw radical that this new raaica could resurgence to enrich their movement with ideas and information. Mike Cooley's job must be saved Send messages of sup port to: Ken Gill TASS, Onslow Hill, Little of Green, Richmond, Surrey; and MiKe Cooley's representative: Phil quith, 138 Ludgate Harle Skye, Burnley, Lancs.
By Tessa van Gelderen built by-pass.
him by taking two lovers.
Handing out a sentence the judge told Asher, Asher as CTne of manslaughter laughter?) on responsibility.
MOnTAS It was, therefore Mind you he enough ContrOl Bristol.
remembering June Grieg.
She Is still of battering, she lived a life of hell.
not one of them.' does have a licence to kill.
By Jamie Gough SUSAN Shell has been sacked TrON neI 100 in a home tol young women by the Labour controlled London Borough The purely and simply that she is coulal When Susan admitted she As- was gay the Director of Socia Services her, This deceion has cked askea ner Lo ICSISI This decision has been upheld by the council's Ap Men: a licence to kill?
GORDON Asher strangled his wife, carriec her body to his car and buried it under a half.
. But he walked from the courts a free man because his wife had 'cheated montd suspended You have suffered enough'. The Daily Star (9 June) descirbed tortured husband" while Daily Express called him 'long suffering'.
Another husband was not quite so lucky when he killed his wife. Robert Anderson was jailed for two years after he was found guilty (pronounced man's the grounds of diminished But, like Gordon Asher, Anderson's wife was to blame for her own demise. She had after all refused to have sex with him for three understandable that when Anderson lost 'control, he lost it in a catastrophic way', as his defence put it.
did seem TO n.ecad after the 'frenzied killing (Daily Star, 10 June) to visit friends in clubs in But while women's lives are clearly expendable, and women are obviously to blame for the violence men subject them to, it's worth serving a six-year prisor sentence, imposed nearly two years ago, fo killing her violent husband. Exposed to year Yet the appeal judges rejected the argu ment that she acted in self-defence. They saic that 'there were various expedients open to woman regularly subjected to rough treat ment by her husband, but a licence to kill wa Yet a man whose pride is hurt presumabl tice such flagrant discrin tion a recently publis discussion docu -LaDou Party NEC nere can wn our vIcHu valid reason for dismissins employee for the sole rea that he or she is homosex Send resolutions TO Leader of the Council, 1 Brorough Bark
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