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THROUGH HOSTILE COUNTRY

By Ian Yeats

Workers Press no. 701, 29 February 1972 · scan pages 10, 11

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TIRED but in high spirits the Kent Right-to- Work march arrived in Rams gate on Sunday night to a hot meal, a bed, a bath and even late night television provided by the Simon Community at a converted Abbey School.

Behind them lay a dozen miles of fiercely Tory territory. But as the march swung loudly and defiantly down Ramsgate's silent High St, groups of youth roaming the marchers Pavements tank up the Tories Our Slogan - Kick slogan -- KICK the Earlier the Young Socialists brewed a camp fire lunch on the edge of the 20-strong factory estate outside Sandwich—a 5,000 population dormitory, town businessmen and . their families working within a ten-mile radius.

The working class form islands in an ocean of oldeworlde villas and luxury limousines. In Deal, the Mill Hill miners' estate was purposely built a mile from the town so the rich wouldn't have to be irritated by the presence of The southern coastal belt has no tradition of industry. The three pits around Deal are sealed off in communities of 'immigrant'

FROM DAVID MAUDE ABERFAN welcomed us in ABERFAN welcomed us silence, but the faces of the silence, but the faces of the small groups who gathered on small grouns who gathered on

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