Socialist Challenge, like the News Line, has stated mistakenly that the picket of Grunwick on 14 March was called by APEX London and Home Counties Arca Council, and was intended to he massive.
The picket was in fact called by the Trade Union and Political Staffs Advisory Council, which covers some 2,500 APEX members mainly by trade unions in London and COUNT-CAS It was never numbers should be colossal. decision, made carly in February, was - based on the hope of trade union staffs conducting a support picket in order to boost the morale of the strikers.
Given our limited objectives, and that the picket was organised exclu sively by telephone on 13 March, it can be regarded as a reasonable success: Interestingly, operation was massive, and quite out of proportion to the numbers we were prompled this mobilisation can only be guessed at.
The picker was an initiative by rank and file APEX members. The kind of inaccurate reporting we witnessed in last week & Socialist Challenge does not help those of us in APEX who are working for policies which will win this strike.
Peter Davidson (London SE15)
employed our intention that , Our The Doll Redmond being article gives ISOLTILES atracks the out lunchtime supervision, and that an important demand is for the cumination of any such supervision. When the NUT refers to the sterling unpaid work that teachers perform \ YOUR 16 Mar issue you unlished a letter from three co rades who criticise my call for ar IRA cease-fire. They accuse me of "pessimism'; but if they think position through they will lind that it is much more pessimistic than mine.
It is as well, from their point of view that there has been an escalation of the IRA military campaign, and an increase in direct atracks on security forces. But where is campaign leading? It is only escalation when compared lo previous six months, compared to the military campaign which preceded the collapse of Stormont it is puny. The securily forces have prevented any repetition of the large scale carbombing in town centres which was the most formidable aspect of the carly stages of the military campaign, and they have been able to reduce their total military commitment, and the total numbers of deaths casualies of the security forces, How can the comrades deny that the Hamhing. comrades claim, accuse the IRAhe becasue 1 believe that a militar campaign has a logic nf its own, which F only partially amenable to politica cads.
Stakingly built up committed military foroe, sustaut it they must keep it in action. since operations against the securit forces are more difficult to mount require more experienced solunteers, and more sophisticated inteligence and planning, they will be obliped te their return to economic targers to keep thicht hand in', once the present Active Service Units are hit by arrests and casualțies. pattern before, and i see no reason for it changing now Thelieve there should be a cease-fire the because the military campaign, so far this from forcing the Brits out, is only making them more determined to the stay, and constanta obstacles to the re-building of mass resistance. 1 comrades to think again, to think things thraugh conclusions, and above all to realise that solidarity does not mean uncritical support for the Provies, bur a responsibilics ourselves, and with them. and Bob Pardie (Warwickshire)
hecause but mented The Provisional have pain La hrave and but This has always been the will weakened Up appear to the thee fascism, but their logical to be honest with fought but retreated from into an exclusively Jewish society.
Furthermore There are many docu LASHEPICS Zionist welcoming anti-semitism on a certain scale, as an encouragement to Jews to emigrate to Israel. Additionally, one aspect of Zionism has led to an anti-Arab attitude in Jews.
Thus it is not possible to wit Jews to the struggle against ail racisur (and to that for socialism) without confront ing Zionist ideology. Of course, this must be done in a way that does acknowledge and answer the fears that arise from the historical perse cution of European Jewry. Otherwise the introspective nature of Zionism reinforced than The IMG explicitly recognised this in the position it took on the Zionisin/ froe speech campus debate (opposing sans on "Zionist meetings and callie or a political defeat af Zionist idea: In other words it is not primarily the Deft which has alicnated (British)
strugele against the ascendancy of The European revolutionary move There n throughout this century ment bas had to confront the Jewish existing theoretical basis for a clear analysis. The current rise of the National Fron has reawakened amongst Jews the realisation that a further bolocaust is a possibility. This means that there
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