El. Phone: (01) 247 2717 MANCHESTER Candidate: Jeff West (BoilerUnion). Address:
Piccadilly, Manchester Phone: (061) 225 0857 NOTTINGHAM East. Candidate: Ian Juniper (ASTMS). Address: Maple Square, Woodborough Road, Nottingham. Phone: 866126.
Socialist Unity campaigning actively for the following independent candidates:
BARNSLEY. Candidate: Brendan Gallagher (father of H Block prisoner). Address: 35 Huddersfield Road, Barnsley. Phone: 45012.
CARDIFF South-East. Candidate: Pat Arrowsmith. Address: 1-0-8 Books, Salisbury Road, Cardiff. Phone: 30183.
EVENTS HULL: SU benefit bop, Fri 27 April, White Lion Hotel, Lombard St. (opp bus stn.). Som onwards. Bar extension to 11.30pm. Tickets 50p Bofs or SU supporters. Also May Day eve disco, Mon April, Waltham Club, Norfolk St. Late bar. All welcome. TOWER HAMLETS: benefit film Soldier Home and speakers Brendan Gallagher, Varnes, local UTOM speaker; plus film 'Take it like a man, ma'am'. Fri 13 April, 7pm, City of London Poly Students Union, Whitechapel High E1 (Aldgate East tube). £1.50 (E1 wageless, 50p school students).
Socialist Challenge 12 April 1979 Page 4 Socialist Unity HE EWICK ARDWICK is a populated working class area just south of Manchester city centre.
It faces many of the common inner-city problems: housing, high unemployment (especially racist harassment. and declining health facilities years government haven't scratched the surface of these problems. Unemployment has steadily increased Racism has been defended and encouraged by Law Order Anderton, Manchester's Chief Constable, who stage-managed the National Front show in Longsight, Ardwick, in The Duchess SU children's hospital still faces the axe, while other necessary SUCH Ray remain unstarted Socialist Unity is standing in Ardwick against Gerald Kaufman, Minister for who has been a central figure it St, developing the government's policies.
Rather than building a mass campaign against racism, and the consequent fire-bombings candidate, and police harassment in the area, Kaufman has limited his role to forwarding petitions to densely Mer vn Rees.
At the head of a Duchess of York demonstration last year, his only advice to the hundreds of activists present was to invite poor them to write letters to their MP youth), His latest piece of electoral opportunism came started his election campaign of Labour last week with a demand or even Health Minister David Ennals not to close the Duchess York. Fine words where's the action?
Fortunately Kaufman's inactivity has moltan campaigns springing up.
The Longsight and Levenshulme anti-fascist/anti-racist group has been countering the York growth mobilising opposition to the fascists for two years now And recently a local women's group has been formed, which women's centre Industry, shulme. They will be using the election to put forward their demands for women's rights.
Socialist Unity have already been active in these and other campaigns, and when he but prevented and for in Levensupporters support.
Our Leafleting Manchester schools will be hoping to strengthen them over the next few weeks.
A socialist festival is already they re planned for 28 April. Here ocal activists and campaigns vote? will be able to develop their campaign started last Friday when leafleted local schools, where old to be CHOUSE unemployed but too young to At Spurley Hey comprehensive, just outside the constituency. some 40 per cent of school-leavers go straight onto the dole queue.
On Saturday we were out in Longsight market campaigning for a socialist alternative. Ou fight to make Kaufman answer for Labour's years misrule is under way.