[Out of the dock •FORGET about politics, then…]
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Out of the dock •FORGET about politics, then. Are you conservative with a small 'c' or liberal with a little '1'?"
"Oh, I'm not conservative. People have said the Court of Appeal's very conservative. They forget that when Donaldson put the three dockers in prison in the Industrial Court, we let them out. Well, we'd been told there was the danger of a general strike. Most lawyers are conservative. That's what's wrong with them. They seem to have a vested interest in not changing the law."
Lord Denning, interviewed in the Suri.
Times, August 1.
pay £1,000 a day to keep US transport planes are regularly ferrying Honduran troops to the border with Nicaragua. US officials say that they are only doing routine training exercises, but the Nicaraguan government reports that "a real state of war" exists along the border...
Hundreds or thousands of troops, mainly ex-members of the National Guard of former Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, have invaded Nicaragua from Honduras.
Certainly the US is arming and aiding the Honduran dictatorship, which in its turn aids the Somozists. Probably the US is directly aiding the war against Nicaragua's leftwing government. workers even worse off?' That's debateable. Certainly, black women, working class women, are right at the bottom of the heap. Anyway, it's a foolish way of going about things to set one badly off section against another and dispute who's worse off. It's actually in the interests of black and working class men to unite to end the white, middle class, male domination of our movement. 8) 'It's divisive' No, the system whereby women have no rights is divisive, and as has been shown so often, destroys the possibility of real unity in the interests of the whole bureaucrat in the game. Do they ever ask themselves whether they might not have a responsibility to give a lead? Do they ever question whether it might not be their own prejudices speaking?
To ask the question is to answer it. Insofar as there has been any work done on voter behaviour in this area, the figures indicate that the electorate in general is actually less sexist than selection conferences. It would not require a wild leap of imagination to expect the same might also be true of the membership of trade unions if they were given a positive lead.