This is accentuated by the tact grant a legitimacy that 70-90% of televised strikes are unofficial. so that much of the time workers' representatives' Walton. presenting anti-strike But strike and the Cowley is a member of the Glasgow Uni- engine-tuners' strike in early 1975 politically sensitive' disputes lished their findings last year in a even these norms were brutally disregarded. In the Glasgow case, overt anti- for example, during 104 bulletins and 20 interviews, the case for the strike was never Dur striking worker interviewed!
Not surprisingly the v com panies have not Glasgow group's study from ignoring it on publication (c) IT has now taken out a suit o "defamation' and their publisher.
A campaign to defend them, in a court casc which editing etc. which often £25,000, must be linked to the begives the impression that people ginnings of a campaign by the left they against this gross distortion of the electronic media. Perhaps through we may process at work which is used to workers that TV is not 'neutral' or downgrade workers, compared to more renable inan une express or the Sun.
MARXISM and the Mass exism and Rac forums. offi- Sexist are dores factory near Barcelona are within sight of victory in their three month strike against victimisation Glasgow dustcart Tribunal dealing with the case of the 42 sacked workers delegates adjourned strated outside the court while the sackea delegates lord une sirates that any cecision must De approved by assembly nor was one February heard the case of 35 of the welcomed the workers ano concluded inat me should be reinstated. apart strikes were than thirty factories regat valley to hearings. Not for the first time could cost theirstruggle the workers faced the attacks of the police and fascists on ine irs cav dozens of police cars and Land Barcelona to BARRICADES In other parts however, police action Media evective. workers our barricades in ine streets to ceteno inemse ves against police attacks.
Corner worKers At the Bru factory, Hagi was no solidarity Roca workers reconvened tribunal on 1 •ine comleaderships of organised in more missions. InE democratic UGT. coincide with the of the tribuna centre prevent any demon.
23 February or me city, Hilary Wainwright was less 2 marci Colin Bundy 9 March escaped our ine omner two were taken to waste ground where they were beaten up with iron bars. The were only saved by the arrival o , where there broke out between members of the tentiv kers Commissions, which have and the anarcho-svndicalist CNT The company, which for a long time refused to negotiate, finally agreed sentatives of the e area Workers CNT and the social shown INTERNATIONAL FORUM in Manchester A series of meetings to discuss aspects of Marxist theory and contemporary politics.
The Labour Party and the Working Class South Africa: Approaches The workers assembly refused to recognise any decision which such a negotiatine oooy mient reach. P decided that only democratically could speak for the strikers.
The Roca strike continues. Each ot the tive thousana workers agreed that the action can only be called off when their demands ar met in full. The leaderships of the union organisations have consis turned new bacKs or strike because it presents a new type of trade unionism, based on democracy in the factory, which i in sharp contrast to the bureaucStruCtures WHICH dIt trying to construct.
However, the Roca workers have methods of struggle. and their self23 March Pierre Housse Perry Anderson Fred Halliday 18 Ma Brian Grogan Wednesday at TO KEVO UTIOn Barnes Wallis Building Scotland and the defence against the fascists ar capable of winning the support the membership of these union: noeed. me leacine contical org nisation in the factor. me Toisk ist LCR, actively participates in th has alread galvanised the workers of one of th most important moustal regio in snain nats a cooo reason 1 the reformist trade union leaders turn theirbacks on it.
Vietnam since the Liberatio of Saigoi The Western Communis Partie China after Ma On Regroupment: For a Unifie 8.00pm in Council Chambe University of Mancheste Institute of Science & Technoloov Students Unio
February after conviction and Turf Lodge housing estates Five Black Watch soldiers were given prison sentences in Belfast on 4 on 19 separate charges of planting bullets on a veiuict or misdoventure our tew peopie acceoeo mnis as accur / Turf Lodge area of West Belfast in the latter half of 1975. The prison terms low the MP for West Belfast at Westminster, Gerry Fitt, and his Socia Democratic and Labour Party colleague Paddy Devlin have called for the ontisn berence secretary to noid an enquiry into ine tatal snooting of 17-year old Leo Norney in September 1975 which also involvea soldiers from tend' home on the might of turdao de septee er, inle anhi long the Shepherd's Path, a lane used as a shortcut between the Whiteroc)
Ine bnuisn army allecec inar Leo was a 'ounmanbut bassencers who had shared a black taxi with him pointed out that the taxi was stopped and patrol. Four 15-yearold boys also came forward at the time to dispute the Army's account. They told how they heard a single shot while crossing a neio do acent io me oneonero s ramanc now wnen mnev reacneo mne iane they met an Army patrol and were ordered to lie face down on the ground.
olace wniemne biack warcnrecimenıwas siationeo in ine anoersonstown watchtecimentao‹ extremely successil town anc lun Lod complaints allegi willestatonec in nesix counas From JOHN MAGEE in Belfast Catholic priest who has since become involved with the Peace Movement. Father Patrick McWilliams, saw Leo's body and said at the time: 1 have never seen a body in such a condition. The hands were black and pulped. It was impossible to cross them. There must be a thorough investigation into The thorough investigation is still being awaited. Needless to say the inquest refused to challenge the Army's account, despite overwhelming evicence mar une black waicn were covenno uo. vis nomev tor instanc. was able to tell the inquest that the Black Watch had raided her home at 4am nas voauy mr we nouse wen ang roon Know I. can canon unurmreeo cockonoundayanemoonlnarteowascedAi ine maloi me solciers wno piantec evicence. a Maiorirom the Blaci Oral Ancersonsiown. Ine oecoaoi Ancarsons.
,In addition investigations have been held on charges mat memoers of tis mustous regiment looted ngnt, lent and centre The behaviour of the Black Watch is, however, no different from that of the other British Army regiments who come over here to "keep the peace" just as the behaviour of the British Army in the Six Counties is basicall along the same pattern as its behaviour in Aden, Cyprus and Kénya. The this recent case no British soldier has ever spent a day in jail for illegal acuvines encacec in wniie on oulv. anc even in mis case ine solciers car expect to rejoin their mates in the Army before too long. For immediatel after the sentences were imposed they were spirited onto an RAF plane an The Northern Ireland Office has refused to disclose where the soldiers win serve incir auson terms, wnemer mey are suil in muitary custody o what. All that is known is that they will be allowed to remain in the Black Watchalong with the murderers of Leo Norney The sudden interest shownby the SDLP in the Norney case results fron the fact that this conviction comes at a time when British Army repression is proceeding with ferocity. Resistance to the British troops is growing. Campaions are developina to force them out of Republican areas and thi SDLP is anxious not to be left out on a limb. But the anti-Unionist ghettoes are after seven years too keenly aware of the sophistry and whitewashing techniques of British inquiries and will not be convened by the Defence Secretary. can co no more narm to youne kios like Leo nomev, Inev want ine ontis? Army outof Ireland.
REDWEEKLY 17 February 1977 11 They want the British Army where it
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this boy's death. He was murdered. on the Sunday