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Hence, or to get a speaker to your trade union or Labour Party branch to explain the plans for the conference, write to Socialist Organiser, 28 Middle Lane, London N8, marking the envelope 'September 17 conference' THREE weeks after the back against the newly underway. general election, and the fight triumphant Tories is already Daily * Mail c EXPRESS the Tories in 'tripartite' bodies;

Labour's comeback.

At our EGM last Sunday, ded to take the initiative for the Tories' this autumn.

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liang could win.

They proved the result was no fluke by comprehensively outplaying the West Indies in the final - a team with some of the greatest cricketers who have ever lived.

The Sunday Times described the scene as the Indian and West Indian spectators flooded onto the pitch to greet their heroes at the end of the game and charged towards the MCC members' enclosure.

It said that some of the older members in the MCC were gazing in horror at the masses surging towards them and reliving their worst colonial nightmares from years ago.

Maybe one day the symbolism will become reality.

Socialists have no right to sneer at sport. Competitive sport at all levels from competence upwards is creative. When skill and talent is given an edge of real striving it always adds a creative edge. Capitalism does not add competition to sport. It dictates that competition must be based on ownership, money and individual heroics.

We have no difficulty in seeing this in arts or music, or even in cerebral games like chess.

Why then affect to be ashamed of the passions that sport can rouse, the benefits from playing it, and the vicarious pleasure from watching it.

The real issues in sport, no less than the real issues in politics are done no service by the fantasies of the back page which pass for sports coverage.

It's about time we got behind our team. Let's hear it for the Reds. 26th, Socialist Organiser decia conference on 'How to Fight HAVE YOU noticed that the anti abortionists are on the march?

Last Saturday about 25,000 women, men and a lot of kids, walked around London carrying very well-produced (expensive) placards saying, 'Adoption not It is likely that Catholic schools and churches booked and paid for the coaches, and Mother Theresa's advertised presence undoubtedly helped to mobilise the troops.

But the amount of support the demo attracted is a warning — SPUC and Life are doing well.

In the past couple of weeks, fund-raisers have been held, Membership of National is f6 (adult), f9 (couple), £3 (student) and £1 for Youth CND (under 21).

Send to CND, 11 Goodwi St, London N4. there was a full page advert in Sunday's Observer, and the Glasgow SPUC have the author of 'Abortion, the Silent Holocaust' ', an American priest, over on a speaking tour.

The National Abortion Campaign is picketing these meetings.

Purpose

NAC presumes that the campaign is timed to coincide with the Private Members' lottery which takes place this Thursday. And, given the government's majority, it seems quite likely that the winners will be Tories, and that one will present anti-abortion bill.

But there is another side to the abortion laws: their implementation. With the tightening up of abortion administration, and with cuts in hospital services making it harder to get an abortion after 20 weeks or on social grounds, perhaps the anti-abortionists don't need a bill at all.

In any event the need to prepare and mobilise the labour movement in defence of abortion rights has grown with the Tory election victory.

Contact: NAC, 374 Grays Inn Rd, London WCI.

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