OVER £1,500 in fines has so far been imposed on anti-racists arrested during the defence of Brick Lane. Hackney & Tower Defence Committee and the Anti Nazi League have now come together in a joint campaign *defend defenders'.
One of its first actions will be a picket of Knightsbridge Crown Court (1 Hans Crescent, SWI) next Monday, November, Juam, Stephen Wright is appealing after being arrested on 16 July and sentenced to two months in jail.
STUDENTS from as far away as Edinburgh and London joined thousand-strong demonstration at North Trafford College in Manchester last Friday to protest against racist from t390 to £1,502 for all overseas students in classes with less than six British students.
NAN BAILEY, a leading black militant of the US SOCIS ISI Workers Party, will be among speakers at the Day School Racism and Black Liberation on 3 December in London. Contact your local group for details or ring Colin on 01-359 8371.
*GET the Special Patrol Group out of Brixton' is the demand of demonsitanon Saturday 25 November called the ANL All-Lambeth Anti-Racist Movement after a number of SPG "exercises" aimed MaraSSine black people Brixton 420pm THE Campaign Against Immigration Laws (CAIL) is La day school *Immigration Laws They Are and How to Fight Them' on Saturday 9 Decem10.30am-5pm, Institute of Education, TOTU Way, London Admission £1 (50p Details from: CAIL, earaers). c/o Box 133, 182 Upper Street, London N1.
ESSEX students ended picket of university yesterday rent rises of 19.8 per (grants only went up by 8.9 per cent). Sixty per students are on rent strike and further action is discussed.
MORE nurseries are demanded by the National Union of Students, WHICH organising a picket Department of Education and Science (Elizabeth York Road, London SEI) on 25 November at 2pm.
But events in Leeds throw doubt on the Broad leadership's real commitment issue. There opposed calls for & hall-day strike to demand the university present BULOCIA S which faces closure. Then they * told a picket of the University Finance Committee that it was 'pointless trying to political points. -Kestle 'enquiry' after Xmas.
OVER 1,600 shopfloor workers in the AUEW and EEPTU at Weir Engineering in Glasgow nave been on strike since o November: They are demanding £12 management has offered an average 19 increase including productivity proposals which MCal over redundancies!
Pickets are making sure that no goods enter or leave factory. But the white collar unions-APEX, ASTMS-have refused to call •their members out in sympathy.
Sofalist Challenge 23 November 1978 pagé 6 on abortion this weekend.
SINC With so many Oval, Over the past few women have sce! continuous attacks on their the rignito aborton Private Members have sougnt reverse the gains women mact. Admittedly, there was no such Bill last vear.
Bed- members with the right to bring WC1.
such Bills non- HoWard coming year includes known anti-abortionists.
BONNETS Amongst them is James White, who tried to introduce the restrictive legislation in the against past.
cent But the danger does not only come from individual MPs with bees in their bonnets about a DOTTON being House.
Left they TERRY MARSLAND: "The 1967 Act is useless without the score facilities' Callaghan's recent nouncements on the value of family Thatcher and co - could easily lay the basis for attacks on women's rights to go out te work and rise; fertility.
A woman's right to decide when or whether to have a child is an elementary democratic right. Although many unions have paper positions in support of a 'woman's right to choose', the on the whole trade unionists still see abortion as an issue of and conscience rather than as "class question.
Thus at the Labour Party's unions, years | almost votes trade nelpea ensure mat tne supports a 'free vote' of MPs Bills in that whether or not to support Abortion Act. 'conscience"
This also goes against the but the list of meaning of the slogan 'for a Woman s MonE to choose. for the should be up to the individual woman to cecice werner to have an abortion, Parliament. And it shouldn't be up to doctors either.
However. -LOI really control their fertility it is embodied Marsland of Workers Union, who will be at the conterence. when she says:
It is pointless having stirring speeches and good policies aDorao we are nor diso fighting for the wherewithal to proviac taese services.
CUTBACKS
*So while improving the '67 Abortion Act we have to realise this is useless without the facilities. a So defending and extending the National Health fighting against the cutbacks, to ensure there are adequate abortion facilities, as well as the other aspects like contraception nanana and childeare: Presadvice and women are aware or the importance or these issues. But the unsympapro- thetic response of many male trade unionists to issues of and those Womers women reluctant to raise them in their union branches.
Women's caucuses in the control their have women's strength and darity, and forced male trade unionists to take issues seriously.
on abortion can be a real step forward especially if all the delegates are prepared to go back to their branches and workplaces to win support for activities to win a woman's right to choose.
told and the made a profit of £3.1m.
unions party the composing - in other words linotype operators. is a quesuon COMPUTER The scheme not MPs in StOre.
law. Terry linotype operators.
the Tobacco gos a nigi on ment hopes CLOTHOUS nating NGA jobs.
able to defending and the accounts.
have be Service, eliminate overstaffing in [despatch] room. provision, already TALKS rights often makes November is lifted.
helped build SON'women's own jobs.
The trade union conference process involved and how the fightback is shaping up.
THE TIMES News papers plan has a very simbie mouve. mort profit. In the first nine months The Times, the Sunday Times, New technology. if brought in on management's terms, will reduce statting, particularly In rooms where coDy is now set into metal D involves the introduction of direct input by journalists, which would mean Inat a reporter types nis or nel copy into a central computer This can then be recalled by photo-composition machines, thus eliminating the The main jobs that will be hit are those done by members of ation, the main craft union. On side to make an saving by elimilikelihood The tele-ad staff who deal with the small ads would be set them directly through the computer, which can also cost them and arrange The company is taking the opportunity presented by the bust up over new technology to what it considers other areas.
This mainly affects NATSOPA jobs in the machine room, and in une publishing eNd as position that talks. It will not negotiate with management unless the threat to close the two national papers and the supplements on 30 We are following the NUJ's national policy, which is not to negotiate on direct input until me IvaA nas negonated on, It Personally, I'm in favour of new technology, but not of people's jobs unless they have agreed to pull I'm also very much in favour of a joint committee between the various unions and chapels!
issues JAKE ECCLESTONE: Great potential in new technology 10 0 at Times Newspapers. It's one of our great weaknesses that we RaVE SUCH DOUY though the other unions don't seem to be very enthusiastic about setting one up.
This means there is not much joint action, although it may develop. This wariness of each other among the unions is the product of elitist and hierarchical attitudes TITS/ Star LEGS Sun more united and determined UNANIMOUS We had a two-hour chapel meeting last week attended by about 220 members, which is motions were -nasser virus unanimousy. including an instruction that no technology agreement put to ment.
There has been a suggestion. from the NUJ's deputy general secretary among others, that in the event of closure we should all work-in under an elected board of management.
Of course, 1 am quite willing to think about this and t discuss it with anyone, but at pressing things to get on with.
aner potential in the new technology. In theory it should make it possible for any group to have Equality printing done cheaply, but I'm seeptical that this will come about.
CAPITAL The capital required is so enormous that to really open up OTES. would require something like national printing corporation as proposed by the
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paper policy of a woman's right to choose is about to become a real issue in the labour movement, writes cons trace earth back
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