KEVIN Burrage is twenty-five and unemployed. He went on the original Right to Work march and is intending to go again this year.
Socialist Challenge talked to him about why he was going on the march and what he thought about the Right to Work campaign.
"A friend took me along to the first Right to Work committee meeting in Bradford five years ago. After a couple of meetings I decided to the march as and agreed demands of the campaign.
I spent months sponsors from factories and doing campaign work before going on thi Eventually I was the person who went from Bradford.
I'in going on this march because I am unemployed again at the moment. But it's also because I disagree with some things about the Right to Work campaign and I think that the only way to change things is to take part.
In campaign is wheeled out two months before the march, and there's nothing.
Pink perks AMONG those to squeal loudly about the possibility of business people's perks being taxed is the president of the Engineering Union, Terry Duffy. He seems to think the bottom will fall drivers of the two 'company' cars on the road had to fork out for them themselves.
Of course, he could be right. But the fact that all full-time officers in the AUEW, in common with many other unions, are provided with a free car (renewed every two years) has in way influenced Mr thinking.
Rentaprop THE AIM of Sir James Goldsmith is to be a press baron in ine moua or Beaverbrook and Northcliffe. Goldsmith made his money in groceries, raising the turnover Foods from under £10m in 1970 to £2,000m today. That means he has the cash and the audacty to want to bus his way into our homes and hearts.
While Goldsmith has mark on the French media, securing a controlling interest L'Express, he has so far failed in his attempts to add a British newspaper to his empire.
Instead, are shortly to presented with Now, a glossy weekly which promises to be an amalgam of Time, the Readers Digest, and Free Nation.
Goldsmith's love of press freedom is well known. He has done his best to shut down Private Eye, by highly obtained the backing of the High Court to say At the first Right there were groups each the council W88 surprises in between. the Later these turned getting sites or factories.
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way of your brand of beer, and extremely The Tories are going to realiy make unemployment a lot worse so I think it's ridiculous not to have a on all the year roul Work march set up based on geographical areas. One person from group was nominated for the march council. For the last two weeks member as the original person had to drop out.
Basically we got told what the march plans were going to be, with diverting off the road into building out to be effect.
That was a good ides, but we were kept in the dark. It brought up for people not knowing where they were going and The organisation on the march up. was very good. There were quite a few incidents with the police on the way, but no-one was arrested until we People always defended those nearest to them.
The collective strength was ver, good with all the chores being share unpleasant things about a TV reporter So what of Now? The dummy issue includes an article on anti-fascists, — as is common pre-publication issues When Socialist Challenge was rung up by a Now journalist a couple of months ago for information about the of his magazine's editorial policies.
be objective, think,' he said. "But since most of the There have been RIGHT TO WORI MARMI RIGHT TO WOP:
MARCH RIGH TO I think there will go on being Right to Work marches, but I'm not so sure whether hey do muc. good. novelty has worn off, it's become pilgrimage which has little But I think the campaign has laid the foundations for a mess movement of the unemployed. Now we have to get into the factories and the unions year round rather than once or twice a year when the march is coming I think the campaign may stagnate if it relies on the old tactics, like the marches, rather than coming up with fresh approaches. I'd Ilke to see all the unemployed on a march. campaignirementec rost fora massed 79 vement against unemployment.
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