way. The tactic is almost wholly directed towards remand orisoners - in other hayen't even been found guilty of anything.
This policy has been implemented since 1982, with the clear intention of demoralising the women political prisoners. me opposite, span wrom strengtueung te resolve of the women themselves, it has generated a broad campaign of opposition among relatives, friends, trade unionists, the church and most importantly women. Although one would never guess this from Neil SLALCICUl searching is also opposed by the British A delegation of women from the National Labour women's committee (NLWC), including shadow Richardson, visited the prison as the central focus in a trip to the Six Counties. campaien to stoo the searches and argue that they have never been justified on security grounds, the NLWC have recently published an excellent pamphlet reporting on the delegation.
The Northern Ireland Office has responded by dismissing the mounting criticism and refusing to abandon what they describe searches'. Their latest ploy has been to argue that more strip searches are carried out in than Armagh. This argument only reinforces the need to oppose the policy which has aiso been used against Greenham women and miners' wives.
likely to set the pace on this issue, as last year's did, with Labour fringe meeting and seven resolutions submitted from women's sections on the subject of Ireland. Apart from one which advocates a solution to the war based on the loyalist dominated trade unions, they are all very positive: opposing strip-searching and other forms of repression, and arguing for a wide ranging discussion in the party based on Tony Benn's draft Bill on a British withdrawal from Women in London haye already fought off an attempt by the party's national agent, to prevent a resolution on similar lines passed at Labour conference being implemented. As well as YOELS WOMENT But the effect has been quite Supporting the 'reception Scotland conterence is Women for Ireland organising a London TERRIBLE SOCIAL tragedies often throw great light on previously obscure phenomenon and the nature of existing social relations. The death of 41 people in the Brussels disaster is one such case.
devastating to watch people trapped and dying underfoot and to see the utter lack of adequate safety precautions provided. also proved pathetic confirmation of the stupidity and fear that guides the police action ing those who had sought • of the pitch who were trapped against the wire. And what another graphic refutation, following the Bradford fire, of those who defend the recently installed electrical wire at Chelsea!
The central question that has been posed is who is responsible! There have been no shortage of potenThatcher LacaDeals. blames the break down of law order. Other voices variously blame the stadium management, the inadequacy one Dance control preparation he sale ot black marke tickets that let people of different nationalities mingle in the stadium and lastly the National Front.
not least Kinnock, has the insight or courage point the finger at the ruling class and its institutions, propaganda ideology In the face of a completely house broken Labour leadership that has no class or collective alternative answer this bourgeois crisis then the le take into the sports graphically mirror capitalism itself. this milieux that fascist groups like the NF can steel their 'cadre'. The search for national prestige on the field of sport cannot but be inTuenced by the ideologica content of the contending nations.
should disavow the constant propaganda in favour of inwhat it the basic contradiction that is progressively destabilising the social order, that is the tension between the defence of in.
hand and the highly socialIv organised svstem oi the manufacture and distribucion within which the vast mass of working people are engaged.
Labour should reject the "star' system that reinTorces une tade belween the haves and have nots elitism without which class society doomed. Stars theatrical SOUPLE - all rest on mass populist appeal that is by Is very nature unaccountable in all respects except to violence. It is this unaccoumnaomly coupied will the acceptance of violence people that provides the framework tor the grab for recognition that impels alienated 'outsiders' public of personal violence, This is in no way qualitatively different the state violence against working people which guarantees recognition legitimacy of bourgeois The other side of the massive bourgeois endorsement for the recogniWHY DOESNT THAT ANISM, THATCHER THEM ALL DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY?!?