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considerable weakness. Any weakening on the part of the strike committee, or watering down of the strike demands, now, could be disastrous.

Our 'Problems and Policies' series on the trade union bureaucracy will be concluded in the next issue.

Apologies also to all the contributors whose articles and letters were squeezed out in this bursting-at-the-seams issue. LAST Sunday, 12th, the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS) national committee voted down a joint resolution from Socialist Students in NOLS and Militant supto cut the Labour Party Young Socialists budget.

The Youth Cormittee had switched some of the money from the LPYS to NOLS, and the resolution moved that the ill-gotten bounty should be given to the LPYS's YOPs Trade Union Rights Campaign, which NOLS supports.

The right wing are only too happy to find allies to help them destroy the LPYS, and NOLS raid on the YS coffers has been seen by the YS and many Labour Clubs as complicity in the witch-hunt.

To protect themselves, the members of Clause 4 (the dominant NOLS faction) on the NOLS standing orders committee are trying to rule out of order motions to conference which link

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the witch-hunt and the vote on the youth committee by NOLS chair Geoff Norris to cut the YS campaigns budget. They say these break the rule that motions must deal with only one subject!

Strange, really, when only a few weeks ago Geoff Norris said that it was clear from the mood on the NEC that if NOLS didn't try for the money it would be lost from youth expenditure altogether. If that's " not cashing in on the witchhunt, what is?

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Islington North GLC councillor Steve Bundred this week commented on the government's exclusion of Gerry Adams and Danny Morrison under the Prevention of Terrorism Act IT'S a denial of free speech, and it's hypocritical. The Tories want elected representatives of the people in Northern Ireland to take part in the Assembly, and at the same time say they are not fit to come to talk Sooner or later, Britain is going to have to withdraw, and that decision is going to be taken in Lon. don. By preventing the political debate which must precede that, Whitelaw has just ensured that the killing will go on a bit longer than it need do.

Steve Bundred. GLC councillor for Islington North to people in London. See Press Gang, page 15 ISLINGTON S.O. threat Ho defy lebbit

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porters against the witch- hunting decision of the Lab- our NEC youth committee