Graham knives CPSA banot

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YOUTH CA TUC must put its paper policy into practice': Youth CND lobby of TUC; Thursday, Apartheid.' Tosh is expected to lose $80,000 as a result of this stand, but in in reply he said, When it comes to my message, money is secondary' Many supposedly progressive groups still tour Israel, and some groups play in South Africa. Tosh's stand will hopefully expose the Israel-South Africa links and will refuse to play there until the links are broken.

TWO brothers from Barbados have won their fight to stay in Britain. The rule at first used by the Home Office to deny their righf to stay was that they had no United Kingdom ancestry' Their grandmother was born in Sri Lanka and their mother was married in Barbados.

What changed the Home Office's mind? Could it have been that these Barbadian brothers are white?

Can we see the Home Office allowing black and Asian people also to stay? I unfortunately doubt it.

September 8.

For details, 703 9011 IN MAY this year, the annual conference of CPSA passed an amendment to the constitution allowing the establishment of a political fund, as well as a motion calling for a campaign for a vote in favour of affiliation to the However, since that Conference also saw the return of a right-wing dominated NEC, most activists were cynical about how vigorous such a campaign would be.

The requisite membership ballot for setting up a political fund will now be held in the second half of October, with Start the steps to suryive phone Southwark YCND,. c/o the result due to be announced on November 9.

It appears that the 'campaign' will take the form of a major leaflet' (to quote the union newspaper, Red Tape), which has yet to be published.

Meanwhile, CPSA's General Secretary Alistair Graham is using his regular column in Red Tape quietly to knife the chances of a vote in favour of affiliation.

In the latest issue, he tells the membership, The Labour Party is poised between the slow crawl back to popular support, with a new moderate leadership and better thoughtout policies, or it faces the quick slide to extinction...

Hardly the words of someone arguing for Conference policy!

As yet, the Broad Left too has produced no campaign material on this issue, and it looks as if the 'campaign' will be left in the hands of rank and file activists in the branches.

Whichever way the vote goes - and it is difficult to be optimistic in the present circumstances - the establishment of workplace bra inches in CPSA offices will ta ke on an added importance. THE strikers at Industrial Pyrometers in Birmingham are still solid after 12 weeks in dispute. They are concentrating on getting the firm's products [instruments used widely in the pottery and engineering industries] blacked wherever possible.

They have also succeeded in getting the firm's supplies blacked by British Oxygen, thus cutting off the gas needed for IP's welding.

Support, donations, etc., to D.P. Hyde, 19, Phillip Sydney Rd., Sparkhill, Birmingham. OF SOLIDARIN Trade Unlons In South Atria

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