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The CPSA Broad Left has now put out a leaflet calling for the 28th to be made a one-day strike. All branches must take up the call and make the 28th a day of massive industrial action against the ban on trade unions - or an alterantive ban on trade union action.

Messages of support and donations to the Cheltenham strikers should be sent to: GCHQ Campaign, 4, Royal Crescent, Cheltenham, Glos.

Published by the Socialist Registered as a newspaper LAST Saturday, nearly a dozen Special Branch officers searched the house of Duncan Campbell, a journalist for the New Statesman.

Campbell is well known for his investigation into various aspects of the security state. Because of an article which exposed the surveillance and spying activities of GCHQ he was one of the defendants in the famous ABC Official Secrets trial in 1978.

The Police seized the opportunity to search Campbell's house after a bicycle accident led to him being admitted to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

They held his personal possessions for 48 hours, including keys, a contacts book and files, and then applied for a search warrant under the Official Secrets Act.

After ferreting through most of Campbell's possessions -including Christmas cards - the Special Branch disappeared with a set of documents including one which detailed instructions to Her Majesty's Forces on defaecating in the Arctic Circle. Campbell had used it for an article in the New Statesman to show just how absurd and paranoid the State's official classification categories are.

Special Branch intend to use the material they have seized as the basis for a report on Campbell's activities to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, which they hope will lead to his prosecution.

Incidents like this show that our rulers are not prepared to put up with even the most minimal investigations of their security state system.

E2. agement team to complete the Britoil contract.

In addition, Trafalgar House hopes to win a contract from Sun Oil for an oil rig if it gets hold of Scott Lithgow. But the advisers for the Sun Oil rig are Bechtel.

None of this is to say that workers should take sides in the wrangling over which group of capitalists should get their money-grubbing hands on Scott Lithgow. The workforce needs to oppose privatisation itself, not privatisation to a particular company.

What it does show however is the extent to which the government must have been active in attempting to hand Scott Lithgow over on a plate to Trafalgar House.