Left-wing Youth get organised

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istrates have refused to commit two policemen charged with corruption, and two others charged with assault and unlawful detention. And in Wolverhampton, magistrates have refused to commit five policemen charged with assault, though there are several independent witnesses.

The Prosser case shows once again that 'the law' -cops and prison officers -ire virtually above the law, presenting a wall of silence and having all the means for a cover-up in their hands.

Barry Prosser was in need of psychiatric care. A few days before he was murdered, the prison medAn inquest jury decided last week that Winston this summer, was unlawfully killed.

ical officer recommended that he be moved to an NHS unit.

Barry Prosser was in Winson Green after being charged with damaging a door handle worth about £1.50. He had not been convicted: he was only in prison because a magistrate refused him bail and remanded him for reports.

But convicted or not, once in jail he slipped into a world: where the victims have no legal rights at all. THE FOUNDING conference of the National Left Wing Youth Movement of the LPYS will be held in London on November 21st22nd.

This conference will thrash out our policy document, expanding on ou basic 'Where We Stand' debated and voted on at the June conference where the nucleus of the NLWYM first met.

Since June we have held meetings up and down the country and produced two issues of our paper Class Fighter, as well as a special issue on the riots.

We had a contingent of 50 youth at the YS summer camp, where we made a big impact.

We ran a worksbop at the Workers' Socialist League, rally at the beginning of October, where a discussion was started on organising black self-defence and the links between youth culture and music. That's a discussion which will be continued at the November conference.

We'll be having sessions on unemployment, YOPs, fighting racism and fascista, youth culture, women's and gay liberation, and lots more. There will be films and exhibitions, and we'll be electing new Steering Committee.

There'll be a gig on Saturday night: Food accommodation will • be referie New issue of Class Fighter, paper of the National Youth Movement.

post:

BM B andon Wl available both days.

All this for only £2, you have a job, and 50p you haven't or are e YOPs. You can't afford mise it.

Write in now for confe ence documents, regiatr tion, and details of tran port from your area, 1 NLWYM, BM Box 527 London WCIN 3XX.

10p, plus age, from OX 5271, 31N 3XX

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Socialist Organiser no.39 "Ocłober 29; Ì98Ï Pağe World news OLISH STALINISTS SEND IN T ROOPS on Ireland. ON FRIDAY evening, 23rd, Polish radio and television beamed the news that from now on army detachments will be deployed throughout the country - to keep [the government] informed of all negative events, to oppose such developments, and to give the necessary aid to the population and the local centres of government'.

The role of these army detachments, about 900 in all, each consisting of about four soldiers with a commissioned officer at their head, will be to prepare the country for the gruelling winter ahead, to fight all forms of speculation, black marketeering and waste, and to ensure the proper distribution of goods and foodstuffs.

Jaruzelski - a political balancing act They shall be 'at the service of all citizens, receive their complaints and sufferings, deal with unjust phenomena, help the poorest' etc... A veritable Knights of St. John service?

But the hope of General Jaruzelski, the new Polish government leader, is that slowly, without too many ruptures and explosions, he can ease the army into major administrative positions in the localities and regions, to take over the running of economic and social affairs from a discredited and corrupt civilian bureaucracy.

The Polish army, as supposed guarantor (or symbol) of national sovereignty, untainted by direct clashes with the working class (JaruAlexi! iar!

Jaruzı ki' zelski has vowed never to use troops against the workers), is the only possible alternative left for the bureaucracy.

This move comes in the aftermath of violent clashes in two major provincial cities, Katowice and Wroclaw, between protesting workers and the local militia.

Symbolic

In Wroclaw four Solidarnosc militants have been arested for distributing material 'slandering ile socialist fatherland' The deployment of some 900 small army units throughout the country will hardly alter the balance of forces substantially by physical might. Jaruzelski's measures are more symbolic.

Following on from his election as both Party and Government head, he is trying to balance between different wings of the ruling PUWP and at the same time regain control over the working class.

Compliant

His partial deployment of the armed forees will please the hardliners (and Moscow), who have been urging extraordinary measures - but the measures are such as not to alarm the 'liberals' in the PUWP, nor provoke widespread fear of an immediate showdown between the workers' movement and the Stalinists.

Jaruzelski must bank on the beguiling prospect, held out to the most compliant wing of Solidarnosc. of a possible "co-partnership' in some National Front government or another along with the PUWP and other stooge Fronts of Stalinists, • to resolve the food and distribution crisis.

But, of Poland's 49 provinces, up to last week three quarters had been affected by actual or threatened wild cat strike action.

Although the Walesa wing of the Solidarnose leadership is strongly opposed to such protests, Walesa has been forced to try to head them off by calling a national strike on Wednesday 28th and simultaneously denouncing the non-official local protests.

Alternatives

More than ever, a workers' plan of production. a fight for: workers" control, and increased efforts by workers to convince the Pol ish troops not to fire on their civilian brothers and sisters, are a crying urgency.

Either all out for power, whatever the attendant risks For the working class will be called on by the Statinists to foot the bill and will find itself stripped of any remnant of veto and social control.

These are the alternatives staring the Polish workers in the face. BRUCE ROBINSON contributes the Labour Committee on Ireland column this week.

The results of the Labour Party conference debate on Ireland showed that the Labour Committee on Ireland still has a lot to do to get the Labour Party to adopt a clear policy against British domination Ireland.

Although the LCI's own resolution was heavily defeated, Composite 26 - with • less clear position but nonetheless calling for a commitment to withdrawal - was clearly carried on a show of hands and only card vote.

Irish unity".

Where possible, regi

conferences should alsc called to pave the way the national confere Ice.

For daring to say that the people who set off the bomb in Chelsea had political motives, Ken Livingstone has been hounded by the press and the Tories, who last week unsuccessfully tried to censure him in the nal be for

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