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women weren't having that the demand a new populist - and they turned up for twist: import controls have pickets of small private a very different significance PA ing to break imperialism's THE market than they do for STEEL imperialist countries.

OFFICIA And support for our view Take a bundle running of the strike locally and were present on many of the flying picketsmost notably at the huge picket at the private steelworks in Sheerness.

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It was in the most militant areas, like South Yorkshire, that the women organised right from the beginning.

As soon as the strike started, the women. in Stocksbridge . (Sheffield) signed up for picket duty, only to be told that they could make sandwiches and ten fro tha minbato Tho ta mur wit picners. 1110 WORKERS Many readers tell us they think Socialist Organiser has improved greatly since we went weekly. And our circulation has improved, IMPORT CONTROLS form a centrepiece of the 'Left's' alternative to monetarism, the Alternative Economic Strategy.

A recent article by Tony Benn, "Britain as a colony" [discussed in several recent issues of SOl aives for colonial countries trystranglehold of the world advanced, if decaying, Serious socialists argue against the import controls line as both economically and politically nonsensical.

has come from recent developments in world Far from being an oppressed colony trying to break into world markets, Britain, even among advanced capitalist countries, exports a greater percentage of its GDP, nearly a third, than almost any other. So, economically, it is more sensitive to rotaliatory controls than most of the countries whose imports it wants to control. And they are retaliating:

Malaysia has just ordered all public sector deals with Britain to be vetted and public ministries and agencies to obtain tenders from alternative non-British sources. This is in res-