I AGREE with Toni Gorton in hel article in socialist Chalenae Aug): should control police, collaborate them.
would have thought that most socialists would given a small cheer when John Alderson, Chief Constable Devon and Cornwall, ranks to criticise the ment s response to the youth uprisings, but we should promptly reject the proposals for community policing that he vances as an alternative.
Community policing is iron fist in the velvet glove. For 51 weeks of the year you get the soying, une inuraton into une THE Liverpool NALGO typists' strike, now entering its tenth week, is the only current struggle over pay in the country, said John Deason, National Secretary of the Right to Work Campaign at a meeting in Liverpool on Thursday, September 3, 'heroic struggle'.
May Sutton, a member of the strike explained that the typists were fighting against low TUC. Some of them have cenned worked for the City Council for thirty years and still earn less than £50 a week.
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Typists lead 'heroic' struggle describing It as Many are single parents or upporters of familie The 400 strikers ar growing more militant as the strike goes on longer. w nile Ine aspute nas been referred to ACAS Sir Liberal TONCA leader of the City Council schools, the 'low profile' that scene in Hands- taken when it comes to the crunch the off and the truncheons ticers. reader of Socialist Challenge will forget the picture The head smashed open on a HandWhat's the alternative? Well get rid of the agree are not strong enough to do that. Instead we have to take every police force.
tends to expose police ability to attack G Roberts That's why we should be in has asked the typists to return to work in exchange lor negotlations.
The typists' response has been to extend their picketing and send delegations to London and the TUC to publicise their Casc. Meanwhile, sixty senior council ofNALGO in order to break the strike.
Council manual work. ers have backed the typists by aemanaing bonus pavments that have been held by the Greater London Council which seek to scrutinise the police, hire and fire senior ofdisband all elite aroups like the Special Patrol Group and the immigrant snatch squad.
debate about whether we should have trade unions in une ponce fol more to une doluu whether we should have police in the trade unions) can wait for other letters, but most would that democratic rights should be introduced into the So a loud 'no': to community policing and 'yes' to control.
London SW14 because of the dispute. Other NALGO members* pay rises have also been withheld. Flats and houses are not being let because of Council of revenue.
Messages of sunport. collections and donations should be Senne Strike ommittee, Duchy Chamoers, I nomas Liverpool 1 (051-227 sireel. 1521).
Liverpool MANY ship.
over 250 controllers and their families. at Oberlin, in Poland.
MARK TURNBULL Liverpool ding why Polish price rises. Fair enough, perhaps.
question:
in support of the H Polish counterparts JILL BELL NW London They have mass meetings every night of The controllers remain confident, despite the at tacks they have received from the govern. ment (they've all been sacked and a number have been jailed) and their lack of strike ex. perience (they've never had a national strike One of the features of this strike which particularly stands out is their identification with the workers of Poland. On the picket line Ohio, some strikers carried placard saying: 'I would rather be a controller At a picket near Chicago, the Polish flag is flying. And the union in Miami has produced a badge which says 'PATCO - Solidarnosc'. ANYONE who saw the television programme last Sunday about Polish TV will have been struck by the sheer hypocrisy of the British in.
Self-righteously he kept demanTV news did not cover demonstrations against food shortages and But it's a pity no British journalist asks the don't British TV and the newspapers cover demonstrations in Britain Block prisoners and hunger strikers?' British workers, particularly media workers, have a lot to learn from theil