be in any way threatened, Ubviously Red Weekly is in no position to compete directly them are Sid Easton, T&GWU cab with capitalist newspapers whose readership is in the millions. But what we can ty to do drivers" leader: Jim Kemp, T&GWU struck, and 350 marched to the Home Office on Wednesday, in a gesture of solidarity with the 24 building workers whose trial opened in Shrewsbury that day, They face a number of charges, including conspir. acy in some cases, arising out of picketing during the building strike ast vear. The demonstration also stopped at Congress House to demand action from the TUC in defence of the 24, In Edinburgh, 3,000 resporded to a strike call from the building workers Joint Shop Stew ards Committee, and several hundred rallied outside StAndrews House where a deputation was sent in to lodge a protest with the Secretary of State for Scotland. In Shrewsbury itself, 3,000 workers from all over Britain demanded an end to the trial.
Actions such as these must be org anised throughout the trial: to culminate in the kind of action which freed the Pentonville 5, if the 24 are convicted. The aim of the ruling class in this trial is to test out the reaction of the working class movement to the use of the criminal law against strikers, now that the industrial Relations Act has been made unworkable. A firm response to Shrewsbury will make it clear that such a line of attack is not going to work. The campaign requires a national defence commities, based on all bodies active on the Shrewsbury issue. Owing to the domination of the Liverpool conference by the political line of the Communist Party, no such hody emerged; the campaign could thus be jeopardised, and lead only to protest action.
Local defence committees must be built in every area, and broader and Above:
First militants coming off the Lovell's site in Guildford Street, in solidarity with the Shrews. bury 24 Photo: Chris Davies Reporti broader layers of the working class drawn in to the defence of the 24. The building strike proved the value of the fying picket, and its in the interests of the working class as a whole to defend the use of this weepen. by the end of the month. There can be no excuse nos for fuiling to reach our target and even going over the top in October.
The recent Labour Party Conference-has shown the kind of scare-mongering which ther ruling chas and their newspapers will engage in when they feel that their intercats meg i arin an ever widening circle of militants with die information and arguments which they can woe do fight the influence of capitalist ideas aniong their workmates, neighbours We need your financial assistance. Send all contributions to: Red Nooki Fighting Fand 182. Rentonville Road, London. N.I. Why not become a regulr contributor?
NO PRAT This month's Fighting Fund came very close to reaching our E300 target - 290 receved London Several loading trade unionists in have already backed the call for a mass picket outside the National Front conference at Conway Hall on Saturday, 13 October, Among Convenor Steward; and John Hoskin of the NUR, member of the Exce utive Committle of Hammersmith Trades Council. For further details Tol the demonstration see
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