[rxism and women YOUR LEAFLET re: the Birmingham…]
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rxism and women YOUR LEAFLET re: the Birmingham conference on March 6th was discussed at our Lodge meeting Tuesday 12th January.
Our Lodge fully supports your Conference, but unfortunately our Union Rules will not allow us to sponsor the Conference.
A member of South Islington Labour Party and a member of our Lodge will be at the conference, and we are hoping that he will be able to raise at the conference the issue of our so-called leadership's attack on democracy in our Union in closing a number of Lodges and Branches.
With our best wishes for successful Conference, Yours fraternally, T.PAINTER, Secretary, North London Lodge, EETPU.
Les is indignant that I interpreted him as being for state censorship of pornography. But Zilla Smith and Dave Spencer interpret him similarly -though approvingly.
When Marxists argue against state bans on fascists, we point out that these bans - even if apparently aimed against fascists and sometimes used against them - always end up giving the state extra police powers against the working class.
And such extra police powers, surely, always end up used against other oppressed sections - not only against the working class. There have already been official outcries against feminist literature on the grounds that it is 'indecent' and 'pornographic' into the mushroom cloud at