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Anti-Fascist Action

this single-issue agenda enabled activists from groups like Class War, Direct Action Movement and Red Action to collaborate at an operational level. Anarchists, Trotskyists and radicals of all description were enjoined to enter

Anti-Fascist Action: Radical Resistance or Rent-a-mob?

this single-issue agenda enabled activists from groups like Class War, Direct Action Movement and Red Action to collaborate at an operational level. Anarchists, Trotskyists and radicals of all description were enjoined to enter

Ein ding ist ein thing

plank 7: collective experiment it the lett wishes to create a new difference between itself and the two rights the globalising right and the ethnicising right - and also to distinguish itself from the greens with their dual collectives of nature and society, it has everything to gain in registering a difference between science and research.4 given its past and the importance of science and technology, the left should be strongly associated with the sciences and engineering, their development and innovations, but no longer with their politics of shortcutting politics. Because of its calamitous association with science capital s, because of the crimes committed under the name of a science of the laws of history, the left has a special responsibility if it wishes to exist again and anew and to redifferentiate itself from the right, to let science and technology be submitted or coterminous with due process, instead of being what bypasses the production of political order.

Ein Ding ist ein Thing- A Philosophical Platform for a Left (European) Party

plank 7: collective experiment it the lett wishes to create a new difference between itself and the two rights the globalising right and the ethnicising right - and also to distinguish itself from the greens with their dual collectives of nature and society, it has everything to gain in registering a difference between science and research.4 given its past and the importance of science and technology, the left should be strongly associated with the sciences and engineering, their development and innovations, but no longer with their politics of shortcutting politics. Because of its calamitous association with science capital s, because of the crimes committed under the name of a science of the laws of history, the left has a special responsibility if it wishes to exist again and anew and to redifferentiate itself from the right, to let science and technology be submitted or coterminous with due process, instead of being what bypasses the production of political order.

The Forward Face of Feminism

types of organisations although i don't want to rigidly classify organisations and groupings which are continually changing and developing, illustrations of what i mean would include socialist feminist groups, conferences, and journals like red rag, feminist review and more recently women in action; groups of public sector workers such as the politics of health group, health fightback and groups in specific unions like nalgo and nupe, and the new journal critical social policy; the national housing liaison committee which brings together activists from tenants' groups, women's groups, ucatt branches and trades councils; several combine committees 3 and left groupings like the poeu, broad left; research, information and campaigning centres like the coventry and nottingham workshops and the network of such centres which has now been created. The extraordinary response, interest and enthusiasm shown by trade unionists to the plan for socially useful production first developed by the lucas aerospace combine committee; the success of the poeu broad left's campaign around alternative policies on new technologies; the four trades councils' inquiry into state intervention; 2 the growing involvement of industrial trade unionists in campaigns on nuclear power and  discussion environmental issues, and on the other hand the increasing involvement of socialist economists and other socialist academics with industrial trade unionists are all indications of this development.

The 1926 General Strike in Lanarkshire

this body had been set up at the miners' union headquarters in hamilton on the weekend before the official strike call and had, according to the emergency press, been arranging demonstrations and speakers throughout the county from that time.22 the joint commit9  tee was in contact with twenty-three councils of action in lanarkshire (mostly in the north) to which it issued information and instructions including the stuc daily bulletins and later the scottish worker. That the workers in north lanarkshire responded to the stuc's strike call with particular alacrity and solidarity is testified to in a letter by james jarvie, secretary of lanarkshire joint trades industrial committee to stuc headquarters in glasgow on may 5, the second day of the strike.

A Very British Coup

A motion to recommend non-renewal of licences for local sex shops had already found backers in the head of the boys' high school, a minister, the christian centre, the national council of women, the women's centre, labour councillors and many individuals, mainly christians. One of the groups were small traders, who earlier had lobbied councillors to support my motion rejecting a threefold 'people's own experience of communists in action off and on the council just didn't tally with the " r e d bogey" image' increase in their costs.

Statement by the Editors

attempt to analyse and understand in theory t and discuss the details of british policy, important by the th lil? e executive's instruction to us to 4 among these readers understandable anger, at the same time, revealed their true attiti een in its pro! cessed desire to promote have welcomed 1 a pl t abs onal sonfoneeiees it 4% he e pretation of rule on ind lent our action, while at the same with safeguards for minori c dc zinly / which we put forward committee, the ine executive with exhortations to cease publication has aroused far-reaching dis of the p relim inaries lt..6 a 2 ton it -could i it could leading up to the its inter‘consured us for reviding alternative. Dade ssion facilities sc after re our 33 ce of the several compromise firs: meeting with the yorkshire leade two aims onl) stricted co > reasi or ali cans of discussion, in defence of discussion facilities l are on the point - unity, inner difficult he to being dem initiated 3 surprising that so little agitated by the the and the british road toee eee imagine any aspect of xs in discussions have been or rarty press on working-class the pa ty policy "imagination" thi lecis ractice not covered of the e /e should have been crucial as the question of h.c, why was our press on banned for two received?

Points from Letters

Put it bluntly an 5s exploits the anti-intellectualism and evalent in the “ritish labour movement, including the ¥ to eho new ideas (and very often old ideas which 1 examiinatio sm in revsere and attacking a pe experience is not confined to of on these vig whose i ideas as such. The expression and leter, the intel- ] ireful a apparatus ee and o over the course of s sm = seen - a many tember to correc present our action irres} iar ea publication in aca a sed —- is conformi nowhere iowe red ossible con £¢ inter et the r ea 3s at what 

Disarmament Hopes Rise - New Moves in the Struggle

In fact he is “the best soviet prime minister we’ve got,” to slightly misquote a remark mr. butler once made about mr. macmillan! during this visit i had a long interview with mr. adjubei, the editor of “izvestia” and son-in- law of mr. kruschey, i developed the idea of pro- gress being made in disarmament through limited action of a unilateral nature. “we have always maintained that socialist countries must not use nuclear weapons to sup- nuclear hibited, nuclear war can be prevented and world peace can be preserved.”

Russia in transition

a new phase the polish-hungarian drama has thus opened a new phase in the internal development of the u.s.s.r. if until now the pressure which the workers exercised, on the factory level, against the bureaucracy was "economist" in character, and if they were not animated by any clear political idea, the development now reached a point at which the intelligentsia, or rather its ideologues and theorists, began to politicise the consciousness of the working class and to inject into it their own ideas —just as sixty years earlier social democratic intellectuals had carried the notions of political socialism "from the outside" into the spontaneous movements of the workers. what karl marx wrote the 18th brumaire about how the various factions of the french bourgeoisie by calling repeatedly on the army to "save society" set the stage for military dictatorship is well worth quoting here, for despite all the differences of time and place (and d e s p i t e marx's somewhat oldfashioned imagery), his words still apply: when barrack and bivouac were periodically thrown upon the head of french society to oppress its brain and keep it quiescent; when sword and musket periodically functioned as judge, administrator, guardian and censor, gendarme and nightwatchman; when military moustache and tunic were periodically acclaimed as the tute- lary deities of society—was it not inevitable that it should eventually occur to barrack and bivouac, sword and musket, moustache and tunic, to save society once for all on their own initiative, by declaring their own rule supreme and by saving . . .

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Appeasement

, hitler now brought off his biggest coup: at munich came the crowning betrayal of czechoslovakia — a triumph for the all-out appeasers: "the french and british governments went so far in appeasement that when the soviet government offered to stand by czechoslovakia if the latter resisted hitler, even though she were let down by her ally france and by great britain, the czechs were told by mr. chamberlain and m. georges bonnet, the french foreign secretary, that if they fought with the soviet union as their ally, france and britain might not remain neutral and might supply hitler with arms and munitions (i.e. become the arsenal of fascism). when the foreign affairs committee of the french chamber in february 1933 passed a unanimous resolution calling for an international embargo on arms to japan, sir john responded on 27th february with a speech in the commons in which he again formally repudiated the covenant of the league (which bound all signatories to come to the help of victims of aggression), declared that the british government would not in any circumstances take action against japan, and proclaimed an immediate embargo on the export of arms both to china, the victim of aggression, and to japan the aggressor— an early example of the illegal as well as totally immoral device of "non-intervention" that was to cripple the spanish republican government a few years later.

AND ABROAD

the hour of the furnaces (apr 10) the jackal of nahueltoro (apr 11) mexico, the frozen revolution (apr 12) terra em transe (apr 13) the road towards the death (apr 15) german e n te r ta in m e n t films of the t h ir t ie s rarities from the east german archives april 4 — may 12 hollyw ood and the blacklist twenty films by writers blacklisted after the hauc investigations — april 2 — may 25 associate membership £2, students £1 box office open: 11.30 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. m o n sat 3 .3 0 p.m. to 8 .3 0 p.m. sun. london: north london national union of school students — meeting at city of london university to discuss the fo r­ mation of the school students' union.

The Making of the Clydeside Working Class. Shipbuilding and Working Class Organisation in Govan

table 6 : craft grades in govan shipyards, 187117 % of % of % of table 4 : proportion of household heads employed in shipbuilding all heads irish bom highland bom 1871 42% 47% 52% 1891 56% 60% 43% carpenters fitters smiths engineers hours per week 60 60 60 60 four crafts combined 8 1891 34% 67% 18 9 % of lowland highland wage workforce workers workers 30s 7d 8 28 15 28s 9d 4 8 4 28s 9d 5 11 6 26s 9d 2 5 20 19 52 27 irish workers 0 0 0 0 0 9  in 1891, looking at the four occupations which then stood at the top of the wages table and comprised 33% of the workforce, we again find no irish immigrants while 51% of the lowlanders and 31% of the highlanders occupied skilled positions. 10 table 8: housing concentration among highland & irish immigrants 1891 1871 actual highland with highland neighbour irish with irish neighbour irish with irish or highland neighbour expected actual expected actual expected actual expected 46% 2.2% 120 23% 1.4% xl6 56% 4.0% xl4 61% 5.5% xll 70% 6.3% xll 76% 6.3% xl2 by 1891 the difference between the actual and the expected is somewhat less for both groups - although the doubling of the proportion of irish families to 23% means that the actual number of irish families with irish neighbours was greater.

The End Of The Future

The rise and early maturation of the neo-classical left further happened to coincide with the climax of industrial society in the 25 'the era of industrial working-class socialism, which saw itself as a continuation of the french revolution has closed for ever' west4 and with the historical high plateau of working-class and labour movement economic and political influence around 1980. The anticommunist social democratic left, which historically is rather pre- than anti-communist and not always vehemently anti either, but which we will here look at from an anti-communist angle in order to focus on the now ending era of the october revolution.

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The Sharp Edge of Stephen's City

Soundings issue 12 summer 1999 the sharp edge of stephen's city nick jeffrey following the murder of stephen lawrence six years ago at a bus stop in south east london, his family's long campaign for justice has been a milestone in the battle against racism in britain. Seven other boys, four white, 26  the sharp edge of stephen's city survived knife attacks in that period in eltham, each incident with connections to the five main suspects in the lawrence case, or to their alleged young racist associates. '

The sharp edge of Stephen's city

Soundings issue 12 summer 1999 the sharp edge of stephen's city nick jeffrey following the murder of stephen lawrence six years ago at a bus stop in south east london, his family's long campaign for justice has been a milestone in the battle against racism in britain. Seven other boys, four white, 26  the sharp edge of stephen's city survived knife attacks in that period in eltham, each incident with connections to the five main suspects in the lawrence case, or to their alleged young racist associates. '

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NALGO The New Unionism of Contemporary Britain

Sixty-two years later, another general secretary, fig 1 nalgo contracting differentials nalgo membership by service, october 1978 electricity gas health local government new towns police authorities port authorities transport universities water honorary members retired members 40,132 44,313 85,709 453,574 6,755 8,136 451 10,116 10,280 24,646 10 45,283 in 1905 an average town clerk got fifty times the pay of his junior, six times that of the middle grade. after the second world war, nalgo followed its members into the new national health, gas and electricity services and in 1952 changed its name from the national association of local government officers to the national and local government officers association.

The Unions: caught on the ebb tide

but, above all, there must be workplace groups and branches of the communist party carrying on steady political work, linking with labour party workplace groups where these exist, selling the morning star, rank and file journals and pamphlets, issuing their own leaflets and broadsheets, discussing political questions day by day and building unity around political campaigns. political consciousness indeed the question which tony lane, his critics and supporters have all missed is the most important — the low level of political consciousness and the dominance of trade union reformism both among shop stewards and their members.

Striking Progress

The auew convenor albert beardmore, violently hostile to the women’s case, has (1) instructed his own union members to break the picket lines although the women are also members of the same union in the same factory; (2) attempted to take away the auew card from elsie noles, the deputy convenor, who is trusted by the girls on strike; (3) repeatedly told the strikers that they were acting ‘illegally,’ confusing them and attempting to frighten them out of their rights; (4) has crossed the picket lines even to work overtime while his own members on strike. august court line aviation: 40 men and women strike over sacking october salford electrical instruments, heywood, lancs: 40 women, members of auew, occupy the switchboard (they tried to occupy the whole factory) as part of an equal pay dispute male members of auew blackleg, and management employs security guards in an attempt to intimidate them.