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one round ONE SMALL victory against the stony-faced racists at the Home Office. Jaswinder Kaur and her three year old son will be allowed to stay in Britain.

Jaswinder was faced with deportation when her husband was sent back to India after being convicted of violently assaulting their son. She won her case after a three-year campaign convinced the Home Office that she and her son would be endangered if they were deported.

But the Home Office has given no indication of changing its attitude to others faced with deportation - including many, many women in a similar situation to Jaswinder.

HESELTINE'S HIT-LIST Five Labour councils have been removed from Heseltine's hit-list of councils that were dragging their feet over council house sales.

Barking & Dagenham, Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, Newham and Sheffield have now satisfied Heseltine that they will make offers to all those wanting to buy. Greenwich is still on the list, although their policy is to carry out the law, albeit reluctantly.

They are, to quote Housing Committee chairperson Aleyne Friesner, 'amazed' that Heseltine has not accepted their assurances.

So, yet another heroic stand against the Government crumbles as Labour councils scamper for cover and offer meek promises to implement Tory laws.

MISREPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE The passage of the Misrepresentation of the People Bill through the Lords has not been without its humorous side.

Their Lordships were concerned that the Bill, attempting to prevent hunger strikers from using Parliament, might have unfortunate repercussions for their kind of people — convicted of fraud, etc, and in the process of appealing.

No mention was made of that unwholesome crew [their number just swelled by the unlamented desertion of James Wellbeloved - by whom, one wonders] who have detrauded the electorate by standing on one Party ticket and platform, and left to join the SDP without resigning their seats.

THE DUFFY TURNS?

'Engineering workers will need increases of around 20% to maintain living standards" , said Terry Duffy, after the meeting to draw up the annual Confed claim. Has the worm finally turned?

It's certainly a blow to the Government's efforts to get wage claims down to small single figures. But despite Duffy's statement, the claim for a 'substantial oeuvre for the weak-kneed leaders of the AUEW.

How soon before the 20% gets whittled down. under pressure, to single HOW THEIR WORK Since abolition of exchangt controls in October 1979 there has been a massivt boom in investment ir overseas currencies anc overseas stock markets -hitting an all-time high for the first three months o: this year with net purifolio investment outside the UK of £1.15 billion It has been pushed up apparently, by tears o what the present ferment ir. the Labour Party migh: lead the next Labour government to do. One witt! investment manager has termed these offshore investments, 'Wedgie Hedgies' Perhaps we should give them something to reall! worry about.

COMPETITION TIME 1 With summer holidays approaching, a chance for Socialist Organiser readers to tax their brains.

This one was submitted by Lionel Murray of Con gress House, Londou "Who are the CBI speaking for when they call fo!

tougher laws against trade Answers in words of tes than one syllable, on tbi back of a f5 note, please The prize: General Secre taryship of the TUC. [Th present incumbent reported to be thinking o resigning, as 'his brai hurts"].

COMPETITION 2 Devotees of the Hit:

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planets. following a siur:

disappear under the wei of proliferating shoe shop:

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the hat boom in the slump.

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collapse of capitalism unc the weight of all millinery?

COMPETITION 3 A massive our animal-lovers followed i publication in the l's of cartoon book, '101 Uses 1 Dead Cats'. We are pro to announce the launchi of a search for '101 Uses !

Ex-Prime Ministers'.

There's a lot of the undead creatures arou and they're clearly look for a role. We do not exp a public outcry -- 25 have yet to locate any lo of these extraordinary fu creatures.

Budding cartoonists.

scribbling.