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Trevor Haigh: no hint of a BOB FINE SOCIALIST Organiser fights to act as a real TOGETHER with our inter view of Trevor Haigh, the GMWU convenor at Rowntrees, about solidarity with striking black workers in South Africa (S093), a short snippet called 'Our | Policy' was included.

But we have to think hard about what our policy is and should be. We cannot just assert it on the basis of first principles.

More specifically, it not true that Trevor Haigh gave 'no hint' about La way look on with chagrin and wonder what to do.

My suggestion would be to attempt to inform and politicise the two movements, mods and skinheads, which have a lasting sway over the outlook and attitude of the young. ian revolution! Long live the Lebanese revolution! Fight the murderous imperialistZionist-fascist aggression against the Palestinian people and Lebanon's masses! Long live the revolutionary unity of the working class and the oppressed masses in the Arab East!"

With this and other cuts the whole document loses its forward: his hint was that first the AAM's boycott campaign was not a way forward; second, that the forging of direct links with the unions in South Africa, including the exchange of visits, is an important basis for further solidarity action; and third, that the forms taken by solidarity action should not be worked out in isolation from the workers who are meant to implement them.

The that the These two basically working class manifestations have in common a stance of toughness and "hardness" and it is these elements which are mirrored in their admiration of the SAS and Paras.

However, because militant character and becomes " objective" analysis, which in the face of current bloody attacks is unbearable.

Please, publish this short letter in full, and with its headline. SO could be proud to hail the revolutionary fighters giving their lives daily here.

YOAR BAR, Haifa TGWU should impose full scale blacking of Rowntrees here is a wild idea, not thought through, not prepared for, and not as far as I know 'our' policy.

Finally the call for a new revolutionary leadership and the denunciation of one of the more progressive of the TGWU bureaucrats Bob Harrison (progressive, that is on this issue), sounds to me little more than a ritual incantation here.

Fraternally, BOB FINE are working class, and their aggressive attitude, in many cases, is a symptom of the economic oppression of their upbringing, I believe they properly belong in the socialist fold.

The fact that skinheads should now be synonymous with patriotism and racism is a source of dismay to as well as the music, of the Black American working class.

I think a politically aware mod movement could be a potent force in unifying and motivating a demoralised youth who, anaesthetised by the Tory press, have previously sought to express their passion and anger in music and football violence.

JOHN ELLISON Wallasey

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the mods of the sixties, who identified with the lifestyle,