wingers is continuing.
house-to-house searches for arms, and 'aliens without papers.
people were arunis round whom had been DAS-TOECU their own shirts, and led away in trucks. 2000 people have been arrested so far in this type of operation The victims of the whole security operation in West Beirut are the into the Triple Alliance all those unions directly involved in the three inBUSTECS that the engineers, the train drivers and so on. What a powerful instrument that would be: not just against Thatcher but against these right wing leaders of the labour movement who are not prepared to confront this Tory government.
The Tories want to decimate the unions in the steel, coal and rail Inustries. Ency were on tac way to doing that with the co-operation of Weighell, Gormley and Sirs. But given the right leadership, the membershi than willing to fight. After the betrayals of the steel workers train drivers, the Triple Alliance led -by Scargill and of Palestinians and suspected Lebanese leftLast Tuesday, Lebanese and French troops together sealed off the entire area of central West Beirut with tanks and armoured person nel carriers. As commercial activity in the area was paralysed, the Lebanese troops carried out criminals Palestinians and those suspected of helping the Lebanese left. The operation is located entirely in West Beirut. No action whatever has been taken against the Phalangist which are still controlling their own The Phalangists still monitor who enters and Buckton could be a vital nail in the Tories" coffin.
Weighell NUR?
The rank and file need the confidence that they This means the backing of all sections of the labour movement including the Labour Party - and the Labour Teft should fight to ensure they leaves Lebanon through the port of Jounich which control. Phalangist radio stations still operate and check-points are stil manned by Phalangist troops.
Among the people arrested so far include Arabs from other countries who WeTt fighting with the Palestinians, Kurds and TOTETUNETS! The Italian army also assisica ne bcoanese army these operations Despite the fact that the Italian army surrounds the refugee camps, there is no guarantce that the Lehanese army troops winner be alowed inte them.
get it. It's also important to give strikers the confidence that Labour wills tand by its promises if elected to government in the Tories stead.
Yet there's a problem: the Labour Party NEC elected Triple Alliance votes doesn't exactly inspire this confidence. The right wing have to be cleaned out of InC Labour Party and unions if this struggle is to succeed; and Scargill did help matters by trading votes with Sidney Weighell and voting for the NUR's Russell Tuck.
To prepare victory, the NUM and Labour left should join hands to build a fighting left wing that commits itself to struggle. and vores for singeic across the board.
Socialist Challenge 15 October.1982, PPg9.9
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UNDER THE protective umbrella of the three- nation peace keeping force, the huge round-up