DETROIT was the birthplace of the Ford motor empire. It has the highest concentration of black and industrial workers in the United States - but half of them, almost literally, have not got jobs.
Nan Bailey, who will be Sn 25 Novem ary in a black is a black revolutionary from Detroit — a full-time organiser for Socialist Workers Party and former chairperson of Young Socialist Alliance.
In 1972 Bailey became co-ordinator the Women's National Abortion Coalition, which led the successful fight for women's legal right to abortion in the United States. More recently she helped organise the 100,000 strong demonstration in support Equal Amendment.
Bailey has been concerned to TOOreSCHT needs of black women in the women's HIOVCHICHIL participated in the founding conference of the National black Feminist Organisation and in the organisation to actere soan ite charged with murder after defending herselt against rape by a white prison guard.
halouree memoerorine National Student Coalition against Racism, Bailey directed her energies to the campaigns to de-segregate schools in Louisville and Boston despite the violent opposition of the racist NAN BAILEY anu-bussing, Inugs.
Throughout these campaigns Bailey Stressed importance of uniting all the oppressed. During student demonstrations against the expenditure remarked: *Students should encourage trade unions, munity groups and black and Puerto Rican organisations to support and become involved in these demonstrations. rulers of this country want to keep the victims of the cubacks and lay offs divided ' Rights TOUR most British revolutionaries can ane learn MUCH from her experiences. It is with this in mind that the Marxist Group has Nan Bailey's tour of Britain in December.
Her first stop will be the rally to celebrate the 40th anniversary the Hourth national. She will replace Willie Mae Reid wno is unable to accompanied by Ernest Mandel from the United Secretariat of the Fourth International and toprescutauves trom noeraton struggles in Ireland, Zimbabwe and Iran.
IAN features prominently in the latest issue of Interconti. nental Press/Inprecor (Vol 16, 42), interview with a recently exiled student activist. Copies are stil available of the last issue which contains a major article on the economic roots of the Iranian crisis by Saber Nickbin.
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aLaInS will be visiting Britain 50, WaOe OuE TO Fi ne Portuguese THOUSAND agricultural workers demonstrated in Beja, southern Portugal, on 24 were protesting the reversal of the agrarian reform and Republican Guard attacks on agricultural co-operaties in It is not often that we in Britain have a chance to express our direct solidarity with Portuguese these attacks. But November Portuguese President Ramalho Eanes doubless to thank the Labour Government for its consistent efforts on behalf of the counter-revolution in Portugal.
Workers Co-ordinating