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Key issue

By Stephen Johns

Workers Press no. 652, 3 January 1972 · scan page 5

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of socialism in we been real i in have been reaped in emergence of what the Presi dium calls Presidium 'serious social differentiation' nd said a high degree oi hronic economic instability had produced 'the negative consequences of inflation, lack of liquidity' and threats to living standards.

Tito has called for a big READERS MEETINGS Meet Editorial Board speakers. Discuss your ideas for the expanded paper Nestaate Rd

LIVERPOOL

Monday January 8 pm Swan Hotel, London Rd Al helle CÔVENTRY Sunday January 7.30 p.m.

Angel Hotel, Folehlli Rd Speaker :

Nex Mitchel Wednesday Januar Queen's Hotel, lutland St Speaker : lan Yeats ALL TRADES | MEI the Tory government resign!

Return a Labour government pledged to restore full employment and repeal all laws against the unions!

READING: Monday January 3, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hall, Minster St. Discuss ATUA Manifesto.

BIRKENHEAD: Tuesday January 4, 8 p.m. Music Hall Hotel. 'Right-to-Work' campaign.

SW LONDON: Tuesday January 4, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor St, SW4. Tory government conspiracy. W LONDON: Tuesday anuary 4, pm. "Prince Albert', Wharfedale Rd. Make the Tories resign.

But typical of the whole civil rights movement, he posed the crisis in N Ireland as a fight between the Catholic section of the community and the British army.

*This struggle is between 47 per cent of the community, every one of whom is against the British army,' he said.

Neither he nor Sinclair raised the key issue of the Tory government and the NEWCASTLE Thursday January 1.30 p.m. 'Bayhorse', Speaker lex Mitchel LEEDS Sunday January 16 Quarry HIll Flats Leeds 1 Speaker :

Stephen Johns SHEFFIELD Sunday January 16 7.30 p.m.

YS Premises

Western Works, Portobello Speaker:

Stephen Johns GLASGOW Monday January 1 7.30 pm Room 1 Partick Burgh Lesser Hall Merkland St Tube stn.) Speaker:

DNS ALLIANCE NGS CROYDON: Thursday January 6, 8pm. Ruskin House, Coombe Rd, E Croydon. Right-to-Work campaign.

OXFORD. Joint meeting with Young Socialists): Surday January 9, 7.30 p.m. 'Cape of Good Hope', The Plain. 'Right-to-Work' campaign.

WILLESDEN: Monday January I0, 8pm. Trades and Labour Hall, High Ra. Support the miners.

BRACKNELL : Tuesday January I1, 7.30 p.m. 'Rec Lion' High St. Discuss ATUA Manifésto.

BEXLEYHEATH: Tuesday January I1, 8 p.m. "The Upton', Crook Log. Trade unions and basic rights.

DAGENHAM: Wednesday January 12, 8 p.m. Room I1, East Ham Town Hall, The struggle for socialism in Bangla Desh.

concerned; when an offence is committec it can be, visited by punishment of exceptional severity; the journal says.

It is plainly unreasonable that an editor who may not even know that an item has been included to put his paper in peril should be held responsible for it... • 'We would prefer that the person who finds himself in charge of a particular section of a paper and responsible for what is to be published should be responsible in law for any, contempt resulting therefrom.

FIRMS should supply journalists with background information during the early stages of strikes, even when they are not saying anything, officially, says the Engineering Employers' Federation.

An EEF guide Improving Communications • that 'news today, declares media cannot report management's side of any case fairly and accurately unless management is prepared to provide it.

It warns managements that attitudes of 'fear and sometimes even contempt' towards press and television could damage their own interests.

TWO BRITISH soldiers were killed and four wounded luring a clash with guerrillas in oil-rich Dhofar on the Persian Gulf.

Yesterday's announcement from the Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, clearly confirms the close military involvement of the British army with the repression of Popular Front for the Liberation the Occupied Arabian Gulf.

Under the Labour government the UK troops in Oman were referred to as 'advisers'.

SCHOOL MILK for the oversevens will now cost 2tp in Merthyr Tydfil, S Wales. The local education committee has called off its term-long defiance of the Tory ban on free school milk borough treasurer Raymond Lacey's refusal to sign any more cheques for the illegal supplies.

TORY DENTAL charges have forced many people to switch to private treatment. And. says 'Probe', the General Dental Practitioners' Association journal, over 50 per cent * dentists report an increase in bad debts.

Right to Work Committees SHEFFIELD Wednosday, January 5 7.30 p.m.

YS premises, Portobello

(Nr Jessop Hospital)

HUDDERSFIELD Thuraday, January 6 7.30 p.m.

Zetland Hotel

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