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• National Abortion Campaign conference . ror details please contact NAC at 374 Grays Ian Road, London WCI. Tel. 01-278 0153. Once Conference 17/18 Glasgow Polish Solidarity September. For details contact Gordon Morgan, 59 Durward Ave, Glasgow 017. • Lo DepiCHOCI Defence HQ to London Fields, Hackney. For details vitate last dava Discussion on the Police Bill with speaker from Gay London Police Monitoring UrOUD. Future meetings on 'Gays and Central America' and showing of South London GYM video Revenge of the teenage Further info from Goodsell, 1? Ruxton Ka. NI9, 203 9404.
Lambeth Labour Campaign for Gay Rights open meete on as e Lambeth Council 23 Sept, 8pm, Lambeth a dude Lavour Party Conference Labour Committee on Ireland public 19 Sept, 8pm, venture Community Centre Warnington Road, London W10 (Ladbroke Grove tube). speakers. onv benn (Kensington), Sheila Healey (Brent), Clir Pat Smyth (Kensington), CIl 1Oll) Powell (Fulham) - all conference delegates. Information Group will Sri Lankan Research & orovide speakers on lie current situation there for Write to 9 Grays Inn Buildings, London ECI. o too vo inervention l Central America — new badge produced by sondarily groups, numar. rights orgs, aid agencies and political parties. The NICA Denuion acadilne nas now been extended to 24 October. Copies of petitions or more details from NICA 20/21 Compton Terrace, London NI • Stop 'The City' protest and carnival against financial institutions. backing Finsbury Sq, Tower Hill, St Paul's Cathedral steps all meeting 24 Sept, 6pm, 6 Endsleigh St, London WC1. Details 01-809 1346 • Back to the Sink? Discussion of the effects of Thur 22 Sent. 7.30pm. une Anchor (upstairs room), Uxbridge Road, ' West Ealing. Organised by Ealing Socialist Action supporters Israel out of Lebanon -Victory 10 LU Demonstration organised by Solidarity CanDalkl. Sat 17 sept 1.15pm, wmoankment. kany 3pm in Hyde Park. . PSC can be contactea BM PSA, London WCIN 3XX • Labour Movement FACING 1984 discussion on economic aspects of the CrIsIs.
Speakers include:
Harrison; Valerie Freeman; John Ross.
Rd, London WCI.
Registration costs £5 you book in advance), 2.50 for one day. A weekend of socialist debate and British Stuart Holland MP; Ernest Mandel; Unmesh Desai; Joy Hurcombe; Ken Livingstone; Andrew Gamble; John Coultas; Alan October 29/30 at Kingsway Princeton College, Sidmouth St, Off Grays Inn for the weekend (but only £4 if Send cheque payable to International to: PO Box 50, London N1 I HAD always thought Sid Weighell had had get out of the NUR general secretary's job because had been caught with his fingers in the ballot box.
Now writing in the Sunday Telegraph — out of work bureaucrats somewhere he tells us the real horrifying truth about the NUR and why really forced quit. He reveals that 'the real trouble las 26-strong full-time executive'.
elected body wouldn't give poor old Sid any peace Do know when they didn't agree with him 'they used to demand meetings at the drop of a hat' which is bloody inconvenient if „vOu trying to keen well in . with the rail bosses.
Then there were those awful people from pamphlet proposing 'the re-election of officials al the branches every three years' they wanted 'every branch to have a delegate at the annual Another subversive suggestion they made was to RAVING lefties always thought tionaries were bloodyminded people wanted to overthrow capitalism.
That's nonsense, so Roy Hattersley thinks.
committees, who would Sid know the members would be damn the officiais Sid tirelessbut burden for a man to carry defending his members, the members kept voting those dreadful lefties on to his executive. It just goes to show that there is no gratitude. legacy.
Maybe Roy won't tell us all about Clem's dabwho politics. Like the time when as Labour minister he used British troops to fight the Vietnamese revolution. Then got involved in the Malayan revolution. But the snag was that it was on the wrong side. went and sent all those nice people like headwill hunters to exterminate the Malaysians who had fought the Japanese they occupied ex- Malaya, then had the the impudence to fight the Brits when they did the same Finally he was such a reasonable revolutionary — just like Roy? — that under his government the arms bill went up anc the capitalists never lost a night's sleep What be more reason He a cr emThe
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The reasonable revolutionary