THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE
By David Maude
1972David MaudeSocialist Labour League and the WRPIreland Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL SECRETARY, SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE, 186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4 7UG. Name Address *Even the most dedicated Marxist must admit that it is Herculean task in the advanced industrial world to create a new revolutionary party when the allegedly vanguard class — the workers- -are already Might in reformist unions. 110| other groups perceive their oppression vividly women have already begun to?
Is there any necessity to continue? The ony eertee Gott's thought is. exceeded by the extent Extece and hatred nt end waking feat he share tummon with class and Marxist theory
We demand the right to work!
BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT DAVID MAUDE WITH ENGINEERING employers all over the country preparing to use the full weight of the Tory anti-union law against their workers, Labour Party and TUC leaders will meet today to discuss a subOak, - pannelled Congress any employer to make a strike House, London, will be the illegal during re-negotiation of venue for this rarified discus- a procedure.
party chairman Anthony Wedg- gineering industry are still prowood Benn and TUC chief Victor cedureless, following the scrapFeather completely without a ping last year of the 50-year-old HEARINGS of the Widgery tribunal into the Bloody Sunday killing of 13 civilians in Bogside, Londonderry, on January 30 are due to end today.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Widgery will later submit a report to Tory Home Secretary Reginald Maudling. Cabinet Ministers will then decide when the report should be presented to parliament.
The tribunal's terms of reference were to inquire into the incidents in the Bogside which led to the 13 deaths.
But two of the three QCs who have appeared before the tribunal have pointed out that it has turned into an inquiry as to whether the paratroopers were justified in opening fire. A SHOT was fired early yesterday at the home of Stormont MP Austin Currie, while he, his wife and three young children were inside. Mrs Currie said it was the fourth time that shots had been fired at the house. On Saturday another Stormont MP, Paddy Devlin, was shot at while driving through Belfast.
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AUEW CI INVENOR ON stitute Industrial Relations Act. example, the adjoining rolling mill has been in production one week and idle the next. • The miners' strike has also had an effect.
News of the sit-in spread quickly through Stockport and within hours delegations from Davies and Metcalfe and Nettles Accessories came to Bredbury and pledged their support. Later that evening 120 Stockport shop stewards met and brought forward the tions, it is now clearly open • for deadline overtime ban by one It will start today.
The employers, too, are likely to present a united front and attempt to suspend any workers who demand the day-rate. Indeed all the evidence suggests that the employers are resigned to fight out the claim the hard way.
If the dispute does spread, it will put the prospect of a national and united fight throughout the industry right back on the agenda Make the Tories resign!
DEAL TO LONDON 1972 RIGHT TO WOR LIVERPOOL TOLO The Bredbury men were sunning themselves outside the plant gates this weekend.
They were undemonstrative but quite firm:
'This one is to the bitter end', one slinger crane-driver told me.
Stockport workers made international news in the late 1960s when the entire town turned out in support of Roberts Arundel factory workers who were fighting against an employer who wanted to destroy the unions. • YOUNG SOCIALISTS RIGHT TO WORK NI SWANSEA TO LONDON 1972 ON'S YOUNG SOCIALISTS GLASGONTO LONET F