As an IMG member wnose dally work is in a Housing Aid Centre questions discu in emma Tant setter on squatting nee Weekly has carried on - although even with these tew anic es inink neo weekiy nas d better record than most. Neither point activity 'one" is very delive i squally says that squatters are being used as scapethat if the introduction of a Criminai respass bill and omner allacks are to be repelled then tne len ing", but then she seems to imply Mal Ine Way The MG snoule co inis is ov concentrating its energies in intervenBut the very reason why squatters are beine usea do scapeguar is because or neir isolation ron labour and tenants movements, and the best way to fight these attacks is not so much Dy intervening amongst suuated our as sister lair nonly says, by movement sister Tait probably reOn nis. members the last demonstration called by the Campaign Against a Criminal Trespass Law. She might rememoer unar that there were 2,000-3,000 they were isington rades court ci National union or dournalists Book Branch, and Central London three of tress organi anions, a memoers olaveo a orominent ror and support Sister Tait's other main point is that squatting is a very advanced form of struggle And Portuga is full of it as a great revolutionary aovance dispossessed nomeless.
larly glorified terms.' A short look at mne inree citerent situations would explain this.
Both Portugal and Mexico involved expropriation of capitalist ana larye lanuowies property vu mass organisations of the working class and peasants particular, was actuary in a pre revolutionary situation. In these circumstances these despite ne lacE aooroximatery that aovances However, while Red Weekly and were only the IMG unequivocaly the right of homeless expropriate empty housing. to be said that not even the largest ot une orcanisec souals mar Tave taken can be regarded as 'great revolucomparable above.
TOR Unfortunately I do not think that the Housing Crisis' is going to be solved simply by the extension of When l Ine exemoiary countries (such as ing. in my view the majority of the Weekly take up the question through such SIne Struggies mem- Ine massive Ten Fised between nowane19/9-0u through a fight for a crash progof house building to 200,000 DIUY MICK SULLIVAN [London] great revolutionary oerenc people it has place nere in recent years even remotely those lacuc or soudel begin to Agnes Place, Tane emunemployed police to track Dear tells of puberty -TROINE me this record marks a with the particularly babitalism acainsi wrong order.
The section SQUATTERS' ACTION stopped the bulldozers at St council, sent demolition cranes guarded by over 200 demolish zonouses in an anemot to pre-empt the discussion of the matter by the Labour group, where opposition is growing to the Council's pro-demolition and anti-squatting policy Crowds of squatters cheered when the cranes Unfortunately a gremlin interfered lay-out of last week site of the are i tale put sections of the article Struggle starts in -ine bureaucracy -he correct oreer o the article is as follows:
entitled Rurosueratic Power and Bourde.
protect them from further deterioration! * This first section should have as continuation seCtIOn sise gee the need to moder.
which —ne rso and a nan columnis of the present urst section or une to Now the need to of the temporary High Cour injunction obtained by Lambeth Law Centre Last Mondav the Labour group met and came out i avour or ceterrina any mummer cemonion or cecr sions for one month pending discussions on rehabiThat was not the only decision taken. They also decided to press for tarpaulins to be put roofs of the houses that had been demolished-to Our apologies Oliver MacDonald our readers panence Finally, a line was also omited Fourth International second paragraph should have nded with its eighth line, to be
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