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icientists who don't know their salt wecbas E you find this piece mation interesting as aple of police inves• into fascist attacks British justice.

April, Satwinder president of Acton Union) was i by three skinheads Ealing Hospital. He mned to the ground i initials NF and is were carved into mach. police were informed by Sonah, but by officials who saw coming through his ring his exams and him to hospital. 1, after nearly six the police have a youth in relation event. The police to take Sonah, the to court and charge in wasting police time king false reports to Magistrates agreed mah had faked the (nobody has ed why he would ›ne this) and fined stal of £350. • again, the State is if the fascists. Perlis will help some ealise that to defend * communities and DI movement itself ¿ fascists we can rely purselves. growing contidence fascists, and their attacks, fire bombI increasing spate of can only be stopped blacks and labour fions uniting to drive ¡off the streets. rouble for the US power industry.

quarter of the 74 power stations in could be put out of r up to 12 months cost of $6 billion. oblem is rusting in Less steel pipes carry radioactive m the reactor core issurised water (PWRs). In PWRs re two cooling The primary system (PCS)

cooling water nsiderable presstemperature (up or 315°C) around i core. The thousthin tubes in the re cooled by the • the secondary ystem (SCS). The i the PCS were I to last as long as ¡ of the power e. 40 years, but I become unusably • in only 8 years. are two problems inued use - first, may cause leaks of tive water in the • the SCS and the outside, and, his could cause a coolant accident de Island style) baisy of a meltWriteback to Socialist Organiser 28 Middle Lane London N8 An illuminating example of the response of the leadership of the labour movement to the fascists came at the Chile Solidarity Rally in Trafalgar Square on Sunday 20 September.

While Foot, Scargill and a host of other speakers correctly pointed out the danger of the menace of fascism in Britain, they ignored a group of about 40 fascists in the rally.

Although they were told at the beginning of the rally and it was quite obvious from their swastikas, union jacks and BM initials on their jackets who they were, the organisers did nothing about them.

Despite the healthy response of many at the rally to confront the fascists, there were no warnings about them; no appeals to drive them off; no attempt, except to tell a 'Republican News' seller to calm d8wn at shouts of 'terrorist scum' didn't allow for the tubes going rusty.... to resolve the situation.

If the policy of no platform for fascists is to be taken seriously and implemented, rather than as so many times before to be compromised due to disorganisation and police presence, we neea to create anti-fascist squads.

The process of political agitation and education for the need for such squads must be linked now to the physical training and recruitment of such squads.

This is not an appeal for a kamikaze Red Squad, but for effective and efficient force capable of stopping the fascists confidently marching around, walking through our rallies and picking off people at the end of demonstrations:

The left must not see this as an alternative or a substitute for genuine workers swares, based on the council and the workplace. However, if we are to recognise the real situation we need to stop the fascists confidence growing. Instead of the tolerant, pacifist attitude, and the rot on the left of 'talk to them' and 'they don't know what they are doing', we need such a squad.

The struggle to defeat the potential danger of fascism, needs to be put into ints place in the general struggle against the Tories, and of building an alternative revolutionary leadership within the labour movement capable of such a task.

Yours fraternally, Everton Williams "SOCIALISM can never be established through the ballot box. Those who control the wealth will never let those who don't vote it out of their hands"

• "Tomlinson himself quotes Ted Grant of the Militant as énvisaging 'a peaceful transformation of society through winning a Marxist majority in the trade unions and the Labour Party' "

"It would of course be a disastrous error, an outright deception, to assert WHAT THE Tories want to see most is youth under control, respecting their elders and the authorities.

They have had the chance to set an example with the youth that the police arrested indiscriminately during the recent riots.

I was one of those arrested and was sentenced to 24 hours in an attendance centre.

The centre is in a state school and manned completely by police.

On your first visit they show you who's boss with a short sharp talk from the inspector. You have to stand: listening to him drivelling on for an hour with your chest sticking right out and your shoulder blades touching (try it!)

- because 'that's how a man should stand'.

You have to pay attention to him because every two minutes you're supposed to answer his question saying 'yes sir' or 'no sir' If you don't, it's twenty press-ups.

The three-hour sessions are split up into three What has caused this unforeseen situation, which is likely to be a financial disaster for Westinghouse, who built 15 of the 17 plants involved? It stems from the use of brackish or salty river water in the PCS.

Any motorist in the northern US knows that salt (used to melt ice on the roads) and water together cause rapid rusting of steel, but this elementary fact seems to have been unknown to the highly-paid designers and engineers of America's nuclear industry.

In fact, the process is hastened by increased temperature and pressure. It makes you wonder what other elementary factors are unknown to these 'experts' TOXIC TIP BLOWS UP Arthur Bough of Sandyford and Goldenhill Action • Group and Stoke Socialist Organiser tells me that the toxic waste tip situated only yards away from his that the road to socialism passes not through the proletarian. revolution but through nationalisation by the bourgeois state of various branches of industry and their transfer into the hands of the workers' ofganisations"

The first quote is from dale in Socialist Organiser.

The second is from Lynn Walsh, indignantly defending the Militant against parts - one hour drill, one hour 'education' one hour PE.

The best part of the 'education' is the 'social studies' class. It is supposed to teach you how to behave in society.' The teacher just plays games. to show you what criminals you are. He invited three of us to play cards, giving all of them money.

He had the lowest hand and he took the money.

After the protest, he asked them how they felt.

Of course they felt he had cheated them. 'Now you know how it feels' he said.

Then he asked me how many control knobs I could see on a projector. I said none. He asked a lad at the other side, and he said eight. He asked me if I would take his word, and I did.

"Ah, but he's looking at that projector from a different side. Just like a policeman looks at the world from a different side. Perhaps you will take the policeman's word next time"

When we asked him home (see Socialist Organiser no.47) blew up last Saturday.

Luckily the explosion took place at the bottom of a 30-metre pit, but even so houses were shaken. No-one seems to have been hurt, even though when fire-fighters sprayed the resulting fire with water it blew back at them.

Action Group members had already complained to the council about a delivery of forty 200-litre (45 gallon) drums of liquid. The tipping licence states that all liquids must be in containers of less than 2½ litres (½ gallon).

The council reportedly said not to worry as the drums contained cashew nut oil. However, like any oil, this is inflammable and something in the tip must have ignited it.

The tip is now closed until an inquiry has reported, but Action Group members are determined that the closure be permanent. Full details next week.

claims by John Tomlinson in his recent book that they might have anything to do with violence (Militant, April 5).

The third quote is from Ted Grant's alleged mentor, Leon Trotsky, apparently casting doubt on his disciple's view that the nationalisation of the 200 biggest monopolies etc etc etc can lead to a peaceful transformation to g0Cialism.

Spot the Marxist?

JOHN KELLY what social studies didn't know.

The PE consists of running around a circle" for an hour, only taking the odd break for press-ups and sit-ups. They're a bit softer in PE than the other groups - you're actually allowed to be sick. "I don't want no stiffs on my hands" , the instructor said.

When you come out of the attendance centre, you find yourself saying sir to people. That's Tory justice for you.

All this happens, of course, while the labour inovement sits back and does nothing. While the labour movement gives no lead, more youth are going to become disoriented, and rather than the Left growing it will be the fascist forces that swell.

I'd like to have done an interview with someone in there, but if you're caught talking it's twenty press-ups and doubles each time, and although I respect all that Lenin said about physical fitness I'm not quite up to it.

SIMON HUNT Science This explosion comes only three weeks after the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology issued a critical report on dangerous waste disposal. After sitting for nine months and hearing evidence from hundreds of witnesses, the committee says the government has no clear idea of what is being dumped where.

It does not know where dangerous wastes are being produced, who produces them, what they are, and what happens to them.

The Department of the Environment thinks that 3.7. million tonnes of hazardous wastes are disposed of each year. The committee says the figure is 4.4 million tonnes.

Government regulations controlling disposal of wastes particularly harmful to humans do not even include things like mercury.

The committee proposes changes to make central. government responsible for overseeing hazardous FOLLOWING the article in Socialist Organiser two weeks ago entitled Know Your Rights', , I am writing on behalf of Ware and Hertford LPYS to set some facts straight for the benefit of your readers.

The comrade who wrote the article (Alexis Carras) has never been to Ware and Hertford YS, and although the YS do not mind being written about by people who do not know the facts, they do not like being lied about. The article mentions 'Class Fighter' supporters in Ware and Hertford YS being told that they could not sell their papers. The truth is that Class Fighter supporters sell Class Fighter in the YS and that they were merely told that Militant upportel would Fighter sell with them during supporterS street paper sales.

In no way is Ware and Hertford YS undemocratic.

Recently a Class Fighter supporter from Woolwich visited some YS meetings as a guest. He was allowed into the meetings and was not asked to leave even after he tampered with the YS Minute Book.

Perhaps Socialist Organiser would interested in the actions of Welwyn and Hatfield YS - a YS where Class Fighter supporters hold the majority viewpoint.

Sales of Militant have been banned along with Militant speakers. Will Socialist Organiser be reporting this in its next issue.

Because of Socialist Organiser's article I was asked to write this letter.

The vote was unanimous, including the three Class Fighter supporters.

Socialist Organiser can prove its democratic principles by printing this letter in its next issue without omissions or additions.

Yours fraternally, DAVID HERINCX waste disposal, to tighten up regulations and to make industry pay the full cost of disposing of its waste. But the strictest laws will remain unenforced by a big business government or the sort of reformist forelock-tugging Labour government we have seen in the past, which falls over itself to offer tax concessions and benefits to any capitalist who will consent to exploit a few workers.

At the moment there is no alternative to the labour movement and community groups establishing our own control and veto over the dirtier ride of modern industry.

Information from Guardian and New Scientist.

Hurry up with those entries for the new logo -the suspense is killing me. Also, I'd like more feedback from readers requests for articles, explanations, criticisms, praise, information (like that from Arthur Bough) or pieces for the column. It's your paper, so use it!

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WOMEN PAY WORKERS - NO TRICO DELAY!

Emial nov is one side of it — and women need real equal opportunities, too While a bid to amend implementation of a very the motion to exclude any progressive employment reference to "sexual orien- policy but does not want to John "IN recognition of the additional problems caused by discrimination towards women and minority groups in access to counci employment" • a new employment policy should be drawn up by both the Labour controiled City Council and County Council according to a recent decision by Manchester City Labour Party.

After much discussion, delegates from the eight Constituency Labour Parties in Manchester and affiliated unions passed proposals for:

1. Positive discrimination for women and ethnic minority groups in recruitment policies.

2, Employment protection for gay women and men to prevent any discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.

3. All City and County Council job advertisements to state that 'This Council is an equal opportunity employer, whose jobs are open to all regardless of sex, Tace, sexual orientation or disability."

The motion called on the City Party to discuss implementation of the policy with the City Council immediateLabour election manifesto for the City Council Trico 1C71 PEDI tation" in the statement of ", 11 -policy in job advertisements was roundly deleated, another amendment to remove any reference to which groups would specifically benefit from the new policy was passed by a sizeable majority.

The job • advertisement will now simply read that: "The council is an equal opportunity employer."

Manchester Labour Party therefore supported the nn--SULIDARITY OF puonciy acknowledge its job advertisements.

Sabotage

Meanwhile, an attempt was made by the Labour right wing to sabotage the policy being passed by the City Party. The same day it was due to be debated at the City Party meeting, the Evening News carried front page news story with TRILO MOMENS EQUAL PAY STRIKE!

WER. 30, 5003/ EQUAL banner headlines "Job Rights Plea for Town Hall 1 ne IUCUSSEU tocusse( almost exclusively on the demand for employment protection for lesbians and gay men, mentioning positive discrimination in recruitment ., Policies for women and ethnic minoritles only briefly at the end.

It also linked the motions to the Labour left in Moss Side constituency which had, it said "two homosexuals amongst the 50 or so Management Committee" and "self-confessed homosexual MP George Morton supporting it."

It carried a strong attack on the motion from Ken Franklyn, Deputy Leader of the Council, the National Union of Teachers and Joyce Hill, Tory Councillor (and "mother of two" , so the article illuminatingly informs us).

Beginning

24 right wing Labour Councillors have recently been dropped by the City Party as candidates for next year's elections after refusing to agree to carry out the Election Manifesto.

A spokesperson for the North West Campaign for Gay Rights said:

"We very much welcome the passing of this motion, though we regret that it was weakened by the Party copping out of declaring its policies in job advertisements. This is only the beginning, however.

The Labour Councillors currently in office in Manchester are unlikely to be prepared to implement this policy.

"They do not consider policies drawn up by the City Labour Party as binding on them to carry out. We are writing to all the Town Hall unions, informing them of this motion and to arrange meetings to gain their support for this policy.

'We are also working within Manchester Labour Party to make sure that the candidates who stand for Labour in next year's election are prpared to carry out the Manifesto commitments. Unless we succeed in this, our efforts will all be wasted. We need more feminists and gay activists to work within the Party to push it to take a stand on these issues."

The County Labour Party, made up of delegates from all of Greater Manchester Constituency Parties also recently discussed this motion and rejected it. This is a sign that while attitudes may be changing in Manchester itself, much needs to be done to increase awareness of the problems facing women, ethnic minorities and gays in employment, in Greater Manchester as whole. Thursday 1 October 1981 Page 7 October 1981 Page October 3 1 2 31 11 20 18 19 27 WHAT'S St Mary's Hospital, London W9.

DAY OF ACTION

against closure Saturday October 3:

assemble 1lam at the hospital for demonstration. 3pm: rally at the hospital, Ken Livingstone speaking and Health Minister Gerard Vaughan invited to defend his closure decision.

4.30: Theatre group and music.

7.30: Disco (tickets £1). Poster and picture exhibition throughout the day.

Anti-Apartheid

Movement Conference: Sunday November 1, 10 to 5.30 at Westminster Cathedral Conference Centre, Morpeth Terrace, SW1.

Open to all AAM members: details, AAM, 89 Charlotte St, WI.

Socialist Organiser North-West day school Sunday October 4, from 1lam at UMIST student union, Sackville Street, Manchester.

Agenda includes: the Tory offensive; Ireland; women's liberation; the AES; the cuts fight: and organising the left in the

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Kevin O'Donoghue of Provisional Sinn Fein, interviewed by Ian Swin-

omen in struggle- Manchester moves towards eaual opportunity

ly, and for the inclusion of the policy in next year's

EQUAL PAY - NO DELAY!

laws: not