LOOCHE people wnd signeo me contac Sheet were from outside ambeth, and that there wer SAVORNI LODOUr PaRY MOmDEn Lambeth CAN MAY CECIOO WO SOUl stand against their own party?
travesty of democracy. meeting in Our position is that wo are not propared to stand joint candidates with SU, or enter was SU and its unique 'democratic' CCOU CS But prepared to enter iscussions with SU and oth SOCIETE avoid standing area IwO ther. The logic of this is the we are prepared to withdraw or other NOT TO SAne n CICUMSARCs organisation, where we are convinced tha (anther candidale with a beller base in the area and whose politics we aRe me nappy have agreed to should agreed PRESTON Trades Concil is Dromised SU March many local trade unions are WONS already boycotring, is a meeting Place and activity centre for the National Front, that the The trader counci decisian reformist Foliows six monchs of debate on sell-defence and AS ANTICIPATED, the Middesbrough by-election ended in victory for the 1 abour candiDue wete masarer deertace majority aver the Tory runner up.
Communist Party reccived L.5 organisations gains! gach Dear Comrades, appears Thursday's socialist Morning GROUP Mb ALEW Aircraft Corporation.
Activists in Scor's pub, Friargate, Preston.
altd. 1.7 Socha ie Losad the per cent. From Petar Porteous lo the TOUC SCU. editor of the Morning Star. 60nMa1S Monday's trom CReSTInn SENF. left Star that the Communist Party will be standing a candidate in the coming by-election the principle of No platform The NF is running a very active campaign in the area agains the trades council and the belt i the Engineering Union, fronte mensber Michael Scou, a fitter ar the British union deportarion branch have responded to his recent unsuccessful altempt to pet elected ta the trades coule; by launchine a campaige for his Picket assembles at 6.30pm on LEDILE SLICH country30 March outside the Warerloo BPIC. 301 Following London Wil. active campaten by loca anti fascists and Socialist Linity, the NF cote was held down Io 4.5 display of di sunity on the left.
It seemed to us, then and now nat in view or the lodr bf unemployment, increasing attacks on shopf|oor organisation and on women's rights, growth of the National Front. coupled with TEE HITAC MQ DSMA TOBE wing leadership of the trade union movement to mount a serious lightback on any these issues, that a united left was and is essentiel If further defeats are to be avoided.
Unfortunataly no reply was Now coording Party SLOTSE secretary Jack Ashton fin las Glasgow Herald)
NA O COSIVSOR CILIE Garscadden only candidato of tha lelt with long-lerm strategy Like Sammy Barr, 1 THE BLACK People's Informalion Centre in West London is circulating an open lester demanding that Home Secretars Merlyn Rees revokes his Pander against Sarah Tindu Kusuh. Sbe has livew an antaen woce ner cmohood und has twe childres aged 14 and 12. botb bora in this CUMERE SITESNS TACOS ration laws, ber hushund's decision to leave Brituin in 1974 after some 23 years' residence SENES HEATSNY HEAT TCId here. Further information from Portobello Road.
ALSO UNDER threat froin Britain's race laws in Verghese Vackii, a Lahour candidare in London's forticomins local concil elections. Varkii, who appeal to all Communist Party TETA1O consider BUILE agein the possibility DE Ar ungent meeting of the executives of our twa organisations TSELSS •ROTIOE during the campaign discussed COUR InC We SOnans woman's right to choose — as Bovey has alrady made on an anti-abortion platform the rise in Glasgow bus tanes during the campaign, already the highest in Europe, and a light youth unemployment Left unity is more than lust & slogan t i casendar Ir inc working class ig not to suffer further defeats Tours roternany Peter Portebus, SWP pariamentary candidate, Garscad. is stadiog in the Belsize Ward SWAHCE NI voluntary community worker.
Verghese Varkii and his wite Meena were served with a denoraton order 19s AuguSt two days betore they would have boen resident for yeats and immune from depor tation. The Varkiiy" born -SOR Sonu was hospi talised for 6 months on a vuit CID InUl mysterious feser. This orly disappcared on his retum to Euland Appeating before a hame ICK VIT HERH LERICIE deporlation to India could Ease further diascous effects on his son's health. The appeal was adjourned for independent I medical evidence
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 23 March, 1978 page B powers have ISRAELI occupation of southera Lebanon is now well under way. In the early hours of 15 March infantry brigades and heavy armoured units comprising some crossed along the whole length of the Israeli-Lebanese broder, As we go to press Israeli troops are still pushing northwards already far beyond their self-proclaimed "buffer zone", shelling and murdering the Palestinians and civilian population as they go It is an act of such flagrant aggression that even the Western felt obliged lo make But they will do nothing to stop the murderous march Zionist state is their creature.
the 25,000 soldiers changing disapproving noises Only the solidarity of the which the Syrians had found politicall convenient to lense more or less sota En the aftermath of the civil war an initiative Israel seems to be aware that it objectives cannot be achieved in single short ten military operation.
towards permanentl; what was an unstable status quo in southe