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"We were left at the end of the dispute, as you Joe Beckles st. Mary's wes know, with a f6,000 fine for alleged damage during the occupation of the factory. It was reduced to £4,030 and has been paid from donations from the Congratulations to Socialist Organiser on your 100th labour movement. There is some money left in the issue. Reading your paper has given me political fund, which will be used to support a deserving inspiration. I hope you will continue on the same lovel from plant to national.

lines. Good luck!

in narticular Socialist Urganiser s annaietant STEVE LONGSHAWE "We send grateful thanks from the ex-workforce for help and support Organiser during the strike.

labour movement cause"'. democracy.

In 1980, too, we launcher Organiser groups, which estal Alliance as the publisher of th sponsor). In 1981 our stren addition of Socialist Press sul and Socialist Organiser was rela We completed one year & ago, and now we complete 100 Big tasks are mapped out 1 fight in the Labour Party to di and a fight in the trade union major current (health worker: struggles.

Our ability to tackle these readers and supporters - on t as much, on those who will joi Read, criticise, contribute Socialist Organiser what it nee

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NU LUKE prepared to vote on the 3.8 per cent NU LUKE prepared to vote on the 3.8 per cent La part of BL management, sayi unknown since the war. by Alexis Carras .!!: Ory Turkey Papor of the Sacialist Organise Alliance No. 78 APRIL 1, 1982 (Claiments and strikers, 10p) 250 steps up Tebbit Party junta Join the must BREA leaders BRE OI ganıser Isis aie opreaiene thi-net of leaders kufers of alt the pranup must LINKS WI1 EK ly Mey 17, 2.30pm from THE • prennt •usias onde: the TORIES NOW ENEMY SAI HOME Reg Race MP If it becomes Party policy, the Left must act swiftly and confidently to ensure that a non-discriminatory policy is passed at next year's conference. We are Britain desperately needs a proper le looking for Socialist Organiser's active support in The 'centre left' on the NEC is moving very fast to a wide discussion about socialism, socialist papers we have the better. ( concerned, it is very important that gay rights is not As far as improving coverage on gay issues is the right with the prospects of office as the election looms closer. And the right wing obviously think that simply ghettoised into a column appearing when we everyone on the Left is a Militant supporter. are able to produce it. All socialists, whatever their We need a concerted, united campaign against struggle. Material on lesbian and gay male issues, sexuality, should be seeing it as part of their the 'unregistered' socialist press in the Labour the witch-hunt - to include defending the rights of and campaigns against discrimination, should be covered by the paper in its mainstream news items. I look forward to continued cooperation with SocThis means that Socialist Organiser's contributors ialist Organiser in working for this united campaign. should develop active contacts with gay organisations in their areas, and ensure that these campaigns Socialist Organiser was the first, and remains the only, left paper to which LCGR has been asked to Finally, we wish Socialist Organiser the best in the future development of the paper and in our common We very much áppreciate this, and it is an indica- struggle for a society based on the principles of tion of the fact that the paper considers gay libera- equality and freedom of personal expression. tion to be an essential political issue. We consider it important that Socialist Organiser has provided us with space to develop discussion on the politics and Trade Union practice or gay, particularly gay men's, sexuality.

This understanding is vital in combatting discrimination and increasing awareness.

We intend in the next year to remedy our poor London Labour Party Executive coverage of issues particularly affecting lesbians. "I would like to add my comradely The battle, however, has yet to be won on the left in general, where gay rights, if it is mentioned at all, congratulations on the hundredth is seen purely as a civil rights question, of no relevgramme 82, with so little outrage from any section of atory policy on 'homosexuals' in Labour's Pro- Labour's NEC could propose a blatantly discrimin- ance to the 'real' political struggle. The fact that been calling and campaigning for. issue we'll be celebrating the return to power of a Labour government that Socialist Organiser has "Needless to say, at times like these, when the development in the fight against the present round up the Mobilising Committee was an important The still small but growing number of supporters consent for gay men to 18, not 16, and keep lesbian the Party, shows the problem we are up against. This proposed policy would reduce the age of its traditional Tory adversaries and their subterran- ean Liberal allies, with the massive support of the labour movement is under severe attack both from of our campaign have been helped both by the Tory offensive which has appeared in Socialist general coverage and by the in-depth analysis of the support - help us make link the struggle of lesbians to the struggle of all mant supporters, and, just recognise lesbian sexuality in any real sense, or depends entirely on our armed forces and merchant navy. It also fails to •! women against sexism and for the right to control and gay male relationships completely illegal in the anti working class media, an organ like Socialist convictions. Keep the presses rolling, keep the flag Organiser has its work cut out more than ever. "Now is the time for holding fast to our socialist the 'fall out shelters', occasionally surfacing to rattle the rest of the Left, who seem to have retreated to This unfortunately stands in marked contrast to i show something of what ditically - solidarity and rial struggle: getting the by a Labour government Is and under real control i to transform the Labour ter able to create such a i communities battling agTacism; opposition to the ur in ireland or the South fication with the Polish. for real socialism. • to and learn from momo link it with an overal!

ner concern of ours - to and a forum for diversa I camping on a mountain perfect' politics, we have lourselves in all the real • illustrates this effort to i Socialist Campaign for a 1978 to organise a distinct den forthcoming general te of activists, including Labour Briefing and Ted scil. bate through 1979 with make regular contributions. : an issue which we saw as ther socialists operate as. I working-class struggle or rs of bits of the establishforces - which we considing political principle, but te out. In 1980 the SCLV Rank and File Mobilising Left to fight for Labour etwork of local Socialist i the Socialist Organiser ur (the SCLV becoming a was transformed by the ers in the Labour Party, ed as a weekly. tekly just a month or so rin the coming months: a our very right to publish. ment to win victory for İ upcoming (miners, BL)

Ithese coming months.

" sorth the strike 4237 1H1 ten ate spreading thi-net of hetare tori Haveng renpk iPasty - mrass Kepuhtkan Perpk: :u the "atic thne DISA. tair mematers o the keft-wing untin Men Purun 1h.am. putbster.t theminsur" i sren Juita we to lafe unan .reames. - bach 1tadi norpt ofe P6- the Junta. thr uns aTAin. at Penyi the tums, that Code ushin their own sexuality.

Press to this battle. id the 1 luck.

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Insid THE Paper of the Socialist Organ DEMONSTRATE! Sundan Street. Sunday May 23, from i.e. aula an Trofimor En Hoc Commitiee on the Fa -alklands.

THE KRIll sulle: press mute its J1 seTs # tharfers et and tankers lay back.

beth leera tus toe more blant demandeng the himhuy: he lup sswull "n the alk Lanets thensches tral is Kritish importal ism threatens to hars out of the water an!

bust or plane gurund mute than I: males off thes enem castline. a tarlit hunt M spared up in Brilen In the midst of a t3ul9l chauvinist hy sacrea jainst Argentine. any i7k:

Brish attack scrused by the furies and their allics of treason But me don't nerd tur Burt to ile Artentioa junta I ins ner enems IAt Thaicher the hhested Brush rufme ress are hore at hoste Thaluher, heaping attack unter attack un Rriteh work.

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lustory of capturlatain aru repression thal hate belt a mai of maers. perserts en wutent (mienen's. spd.

mese tèn mus meline Mobilising are reported in the newspaper. member Rights greetings and issue of your of Tory anti-union legislation.

their sabres at Thatcher. No.66 DECEMBER 16, 1981 (Claimanis and strikers, 10o) ia • AKE No retreat bre. full ABOUT 2,000 people marched through Lon don last Sunday to commemorate the firs anniversary of the death of # Block bunge immedrate withdrawa! of British troops fron striker HODDY al u and railina for the north of Ireland and seif determinatro for the frish people as a whole.

Speakers included Owen Carron MP ar GLC leader Ken Livingstone. islington councillor and Socialist Organts supporter Alan Clinton, speaking to dem strators before the march began, pointed o shi ho had called for Troops Out in !

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