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of June 1969, decency" (so for us to show af- Cuts in the NHS will mean Thanks this week to: Sheffield SO supporters, for collecting €5 at their 'After the Election' meeting, for raising £8.55 on a "how many votes will the RCP win in Sheffield Central' sweep, and to Rob Dawber, £5, Merseyside SO, £21; Cheung Siu Ming £50; Brian Elkington, £20; Pete Radcliff and Penny Barnett, £14: and readers in Bath, who sent £14 with their subscription Published by the Socialist Organiser Alliance, -28 Middle Lane, London N8. Printed by Fast End Offset (TU). Registered as a newspaper at the Signed articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the SOA. THIS year's Lesbian and r's Lesbian and Gay Pride week - which week - which commemorates the Stone- rates the Stonewall Riots of June 1969, when gays in a gay bar in New York fought back against a police raid - takes place with massive threats looming to the limited freedoms lesbians and gay men have won.

The re-election of the Tory goverment means that the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill will be reintroduced soon with virtual certainty of being passed.

The Bill contains provisions which are a special threat to gay people: police will be able to arrest people to prevent them causing an "affront to public men are unfit to bring children. children. decency" (so for us to show affection in public becomes an arrestable offence); police will have legal powers to carry out intimate body searches on peop- AIDS. le they've arrested (which will be used to check for evidence of buggery and to harass and degrade gay people); and the powwers police will have to search need to organise. the records of gay advice agencies will mean that gay people turning to these agencies could find themselves on police records.

The ideological assault of the ments that are fighting back. Tories, based on rigid nuclear family norms, leaves little room for lesbians and gay men. In this climate victimisations of gay workers are likely to increase, IT'S GOOD to know that the spirit of free enterprise is not dead.

During World War 2 the Usbased multinational ITT did very good business with the Pentagon while its German operations were simultaneously enjoying excellent air force. profitable relations with the Nazi regime. ITT made military equipment for both sides.

In 1944-5, as the Nazis went but no less ingenious. down to defeat, ITT boss Sosthenes Behn appeared in Europe as a colonel in the US Army, and busily set about getting ITT. into shape for post-war business. Other to them at all. ITT officials appeared in highrank uniforms; they got ITT factories in the Russian Zone dismantled and moved to the US Zone, and were quickly coining to Britain to sell it again! profits again.

The finishing touch came in of company premises as billets. the Socialist Middle and the courts will continue to and the courts will continue to proclaim that lesbians and gay proclaim that lesbians and gay men are unfit to bring up Cuts in the NHS will mean we'll have to fight for the funds that are desperately needed for research into the causes of Defending and extending our freedom to choose our sexuality must be the immediate goal for gay people. To do this we But organising on our own, though important, is not enough. We're not likely to defeat the Tories by ourselves. We need to join with other move•If we are to succeed in stopping the Tories, then we have to raise our demands in the Labour Party and trade unions, and make sure they're committed to '000000........ the 1960s, when ITT finally won compensation money from the US government for war damage to its factories in Germany - including factories which had been making bomber planes for the German The operations of the Falkland Islands Company during the Falklands war were smaller-scale, When the Argentines occupied gay rights and don't ditch these the FIC sold them wool at a 40% commitments on the grounds mark-up on its usual price. They that they're 'unpopular' or 'will even sold wool that didn't belong lose us votes' Join the parades for Lesbian Then the Argentines were and Gay Pride week - and join driven off the islands. Resourceful the Labour Party and the Lababandoned wool - and shipped it as ever, the FIC picked up the our Campaign for Gay Rights, and fight to make sure we can go on being proud of our sexuality.

Now the FIC is making millions by high charges to the British occupying forces for the use • Lesbian Strength Parade. SatLondon:

Lesbian and Gay Pride Mixed Parade: Saturday July 2, 1.30 from Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, London. After the parade, at ULU, Malet St: meetings, workshops, stalls, women-only floor, plays, music, bars, swimming, disco. The £1,000 target set for the £137.55 this week doesn't make ier in the month.

The June fund stands at £572.05: £427.95 to raise. Send donations London N1 2SY. renewal. happened to Colin Roach. The coroner admits that no-one knows what happened to Colin Roach after he entered the police station.

Roach Family Support Committee: 50 Rectory Ru, London N16.

THE STRIKE by 400 workers at Greenings in Warrington is now in its 13th week. The employers have sacked them, but the strike - to stop the company making 89 redundant, imposing a cut in holidays, and withdrawing trade union facilities - is still solid.

200 turned out on June 6 to a mass picket on the gates when the company offered to reinstate' any worker who would scab.

The workers are now convinced, having listened to what management itself says, that the company know they, are beaten and that. their main objeçt now is to stop the trade unionists from appearing to have gained the victory. Arthur Conheny told us. "This disgusting attitude shows the shallowness of local management when people's jobs are at stake".

The company now threatens closure. But the strikers dismiss this as a "hollow threat" and promise mass pickets if they try it.

Donations to. N.Greening JSSC Fund, c/o Len Blood (Treasurer), 26 St John St, Newton-teWillows, Merseyside.

June fund is fading away.

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