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face of the gay scene in the town, the Gemini club.
connection FOR the first time in its ten year history the national Gay Pride march this year is to be outside London. This Saturday 4 July gay peo.
country will march through the streets of Huddersfield to protest at the vicious police witch-hunt that has been The police have aimed at nothing less than driving all gays in the town back into the closet. They have massive. ly reinforced the insecurity of gay people who dare to meet other gay people, and closed down the main public They have interviewed between one and two hundred blackmail and intimidation to obtain confessions and various 'offences', raided the licences All this is, unfortunately, dinary.
closure of the club.
LU DIUSCULC SALI ple who have pleaded guilty to avoid publicity.
their actions Ipm; workshops, theatre and disco to follow.
Socialist Challenge the names of other people in interview. They repeatedly Gemini and opposed the renewal of its scarcely out of the orWhat is unusual about Huddersfield, is that loca gay poopic rought vack. Incy launchea a milltant cam paign against the police, whose first act was to stop the It now seems likely that the police are backing down on their prosecutions. Earlier in the year they threatene people over the next six months.
Significantly, they have now reduced this to six, all peoA really big demonstration this Saturday can provide much-needed solidarity for gays in Huddersfield, and ensure that the police pay the maximum political price for Assemble Huddersfield Town football stadium al 2 July 1981 Page?
Jude Woodward, Municipal Workers Manchester Women discuss social issues Where I'm working we've discussed the Ann General and Union, positive action is Shirley, Post Office Engineering Union, Aberdeen The main difference between our programme and the Alternative Economic Strategy is that ours is based on class action. The reformists argue that positive action for women will split the working class in the fight against unemployment. We disagree. Such a fight is part of the ampaign, part of the bulld up to get ru we've been able to raise the question of because we ve had women inside the union. There's no way you can do it from the outside. Frank Gorton, Engineering Union, Hackney, When the Transport Union voted against any incomes policy it was a rebuttal of Denis Healey's position in Labour government. In a situation of polarisation we can say a lot more than just vote Labour. There is only one force that can commit a Labour government to socialist policies, that's the industrial unions. Amalgamated the Phil Davies, group.
Pete convenor of Schreibers in Manchester We didn't make our ties strong enough with other factories in the dancies.
Evans, General ar Municipal Workers Union, sh steward, Manchester We provide components for cars, because of the crisis in the car industi even small struggles over a wage cla come up against the question of redu