black hordes.
Sydney Bidwell, everlasting shame. marched shoulder to shoulder Enoch Powell. Ruist prejudices are. ufter the British THIOLNITLAR Im Inhour movement.
Well, what has this all gor to do with the Anti-Nazi Carnivul on 30 April? It has everything lo do with it. For all the happenings of recent months lave aided and strengthened the Nazis. The renewed Tor offensive on race this weck will provide even more suppert for the racists und fascists. counter-offensive is essential.
•But the Anti-Nusi League naSH T WH InC ng B0c o0 fighting racism y someone might say. True. we reply. lt husn t. But it does not prevent AHIS UDE LISE marching FOur CHIETS controls and the Immigration These are the banners which Socialist Challenge sapporiers will be carring. These are the CHATST which the students active in NOESS und SSA will aiso he carryingNo one will he excluded from the Carnival. Except for those who chenise to exclude themselves.
It will be our first opportunity let Tory and BLUHHUT politicians know what we think of them. It will he a shon of strenpth by the anti-racist and anti-fascist movement must participale in ir. help to make it the largest and most powerful display of anger ul the groming tide of rueism which is sweeping this countryAll osl on 30 April. DOERIA SA30 BO CO WHYSOCIALIST CHALLENGE 6 April 1978 page his very TEUTE own Southall THE LARGEST black workers' organisation in Southall, Mest London, is the Indian Workers Association. Hts leader is Vishnu Sharma of the Communist Party.
Aller hearing Bidwell's role on the Seleci Committee, Sharina told the Southall Gazette: stageered and lost, and most surprised thar he could agree with some of the points in che героп."
Bidwell was invited to attend a publie meting of the IWA in the Dominion Cinema Sunday. He initially Let bul hacked out at the list moment. His reasons?
*I'm not going into a bear Dominion Cinema. This is cot a matter that can he resolved at a mass meeting."
nonetheless. people tuned adressed by Vishnu Sharma. Lord Avebury and Ales Lyon. The last tweo delended mach of the Report. main sections of ir. Lyon went our of This was to defend Syd Bidwell as an henest ard sincere mant, Rho wrang questione Syd Shania criticised Bidwell for Telusine *1 am meting, buut suspened no was There discession on hoa to fight the Committee.
It was, as if having got their feelings an Bidwell respective chests, It was Back lo BRIST agreed, hisines as bual. However Danger is building up withut thie local Labou Pary, The Faling CONWAY Uaf thi Ima igrarion Acts took place uales the caly up. They were the General Election.
Why OLIVER NEW but ataicked Hammersmith 30m2 the the Select meeting on 30 March.
The of their Labour lenige arours ExIN. ediorial credenial and Southall Labour Party is | Occapation, and Ginny Hill, = opposing the stedent ai The question is whar they wilf de. It k now alrou defirite LP duche Bidscl, there will he a Socialis the area. Unies candidare aga ese him in BL.E.
SOCIALIST UNITY will be stundiny Ilsree candidates in the White City Ward In Hammerdecided at an election campuign candidetes are:
Charlie Van Gelderen, who was concillor publish Hammersmith Tor four years; Kale Truscott, a member of Hig aternativn Flame and i full-time worker for the Hounslow Hospital cies oy prooucure caremitlee which controls the aLre Tacilitate votire, mre suggest 200 word motivations cach nomination he published in the potes o sons c manne H the wecks before the confer CONFERENCE The conference will he open o all supporters of the paper IL TANDE IHT EYET BIEM hosei the poper has a epte at conference. Allendance shoeld he organised wherever possible through Jocal socialise ChalA'nere порс directiy to the board Tor уви"
We wil he invit ing caservers THIE THIL.
Nonh London Polytechnie and an adlivist in the wonen's movement. Tae firstrask of the campaign is to Took for hendotarters in Seriom canvassing wi l start next week While Cirs was chosen a, the ward to cortes because one of serinus carcidates is standing OLLOU situation in the White City housing estate. This is one of the Greater London Conncts worst sink estates, which it is presency Ircing to palm aff ento the local council Next week's issue Socialist Challenge hopes to Lucas shop stewards on the piar drawn up to avoic redundan soclally REGISTRATIONFORM I would like to altend she first annual conference of Socialist Challenge supporters on 27 Mas in Landen Namen AUEs .na.c..
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useful producte. major feature nausing ail publisned, as wol as extensive LOLLE!T by-election, and a report of tre Women's Liberaticn Nationa GON BInCe The issue ef the paper 1na tollows will have a slightly dellaren Character appears al the time of ina conference of the Internationa Moraist GrouD order Lto enable our des grars, (pe-satte and the conference we have prepare a large section of the Doper dovare Ne wil be publishin (the second-place winner Ine STADEC CaNUT SITT competi ony Pretty Bubbles In the Air by Stpher Chauke, Mike Chanan: Captain Nerve wreck: the widely pualicisnd cancan Shiia rom Republicar Bae wel Ba a striking CESe Ct nowa DaGk docior confronted 53T1 hospital.
has given them lo their oppression. Since the first Women's Liberation Conference held in this country almost a decade ago, the movement has gone from strength to strength. More and more women use the collective strength that the movement LAKE up all aspects The existence of the WLM has begun to force the labour movement to seriously consider the question of women's oppression and start to involve the whole of the working class in these struggles. The of revolutionary left has been forced to discuss the real meaning of the old slogan No revolution without women's liberation, no women's liberation without revolution', and to begin doing something about it.
The fight for abortion, for equal pay and for equal opportunity have been widely fought for by both men and women within the labour movement. New aspects of women's oppression are continuously brought to the attention of society as a whole. More women are being drawn into struggle trom - at their authorities For example, the idea has our Tear. been discussed of campaigning lor a change in the rape law "without consent", as it workplaces and in the community — for aurseries, better conditions, and to fight against all forms of discrimination, At the Women's Liberation Conference this year violence and rape will be one area of debate. Women meet violence in some form nearly every day of their lives. JUDE WOODWARD considers some of the problems sexual violence poses for socialists and feminists, and she reviews the new pamphlet that has been produced by Women Against Rape.
should self-defence classes women who want them, to enable us to overcome some of A general theme has been the importance of Linking rape WELL CHUET QUOSLIONS DE SCALSEL Pool do women and hospital t women in hospitals and clinics. particularly during COLONIE •COL mental hospitals; and the need to figh concept 'conjugal rights" in marriage.
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