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view is linked to their eager political endorsement of the Kremlin bureaucracy, its junior partners in Eastern Europe, and its cynical, reacVinod Chauhan, an Indian man, who has been living in Ashton-under-Lyne (Lancashire) for five years, with a job, friends and some family there, is faced with deportation following the come to Britain, he is still to be deported.

A recent letter from the Home Office Minister responsible, David Waddington MP, ended by saying " •.. the police will be asked to arrange for his removal to India as soon as possible."

The controlling group of the local Council in Tameside support Vinod's fight, together with EUROPEAN workers united against Cruise and Pershing? On paper, at least.

, Last week, on November 10, the European Trade Union Confederation came out unanimously against the new missiles.

It was only the top officials, of course. But the ETUC can call West-Europe-wide actions, and has done so - a European demonstration for the 35 hour week a few months ago, for example.

Why not a united West European trade union action against the missiles?

West Germany's TUC. the DGB. called a general strike agains the missiles on October -bough only for five minutes. and taking care nor to call it a general strike.

If peace campaigners can push the very conservative DGB leadership into such action, then we can push the ETUC too. Even a token strike across Western Europe would be a tremendous boost for the fight against the missiles.

of the Communist Party and that of Bruce Kent in CND.

But we unconditionally defend their right to organise and argue for their politics within the disarmament movement.

The Tory Party have absolutely no right to advise CND on who can or cannot take part in its work.

As for their efforts to whip up a Catholic revolt against Kent, the hypocrisy of this stance is transparent enough.

There is a certain irony in what has happened to Kent and the CP. Both Bruce Kent and Ian Davidson, a leading member of the CP, have been very prominent in the organisational clampdown and anti-socialist witch-hunts at present going on in CND.

Davidson has gone as far as quoting "secret documents from the International Marxist Group" purporting to show "an organised intervention by the secretive, manipulative left"!

Perhaps by now they have leared their lesson.

The CND Executive cannot afford to play with fire. It is not engage witch-hunts against SacrySt within helping to stoke-up McCarthyite atmosphere in the campaign and within the labour movement - while still remaining immune from witch-hunting by the Tories and their press.

previous increases.

Gas prices last went up by 10% in October 1982. Before that they had gone up 100% in three years. Electricity prices last went up 9% in April 1982.

Over the years 1973-82, energy costs to industry went up to 385% in real terms.

There is a bureaucratic logic to the latest rises: they will help the Treasury square its books. There is a political logic: they will boost the already fat profits of British Gas, and make it a better prospect for privatisation.

And there is an economic logic: high energy prices are good for the oil monopolies, and also good for the rich capitalist countries' continuing effort to cut down oil consumption, open new sources, and reduce their dependence on OPEC.

But if thousands more old people die of hypothermia this winter because they can't pay fuel bills ...? That doesn't count in the Tory logic.

Fuel bills are a larger part of the budget of working class people, and especially pensioners, than for the better-off.

We need a working class cost-of-living index, calculated by the labour movement, and a fight to win clauses protecting wages, benefits and pensions against inflation as measured by this index.