Fund to reach and pass its July quota-total contrautions for the month ware £3101 We would like to congratulate all our readers and supporsers for this great achievement. With this kind of backing, Rod Weekly can feel secure and begin to look to the future and waye of improving end expanding its coverage of the crucial avents in the class But this is not a time for self-congratulation, Our summer break has meant that Fighting Fund contributions have been slow in coming in. Half way through the month we sill have only E40. A big drive wilf be necessary over the next two weeks to meet this month's target. Let's soe if we can top the July figure. The Invasion of Czechoslovakia Five years later Speakers: Robin Blackburr Ivan Harteth Stew Lynch (GaNWU. personal capacity)
FIRST SHOWING OF A FILM OF THE INVASION Friday, 24 August, at 7.30 p.mm. in the New Ambassadors Hotel Upper Woburn Place (5 minutes from Euston Station). Inslead, they turned the factory into a centre for roass apitation and propaganda aguinst capilalism and in defence of their jobs. Their manifesto stated: The Lip workers have shown that the bosses are not indispensable, and that the workers are capable of organising themsolves, on their own, even in the economic sphere (production and exchange of goods), It is not only the management of Lip that has been chalJenped, but the whole employing class. 'DISTURBING CONFLICT Te was this aspect of the struggle, and Party-led CGT union federation earlier refused to sign a Lip manifesto which called on workem to take the initiatives necessary to enlarge the breach made in the system that inprisons us.
However, a major strike movement is on the cards whether or not the official leaderships cake an active part in organising it. would provoke a major pottical crisis, whose re percussions wouid be felt not only in France but throughout Europe, including Britain. We must prepare now to take support action as the situation develops,