Oxford Party backs national appeal | Socialist Action 1983

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against political discrimination at work.

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and the list of initial signatories. The appeal's instigators aim to establish a campaign around it in the near future, when full details of its activities will be released to the public.

To established and gets off to a flying start, we ask our readers to collect signatures and money on the widest possible basis. Appeal forms, and other information, can besobtained from ALEX LYON, 23 LARKHILL RISE, LONDON SW14. Oxford East Labour Party has unanimously endorsed a national appeal for action Its General Management Committee voted to back the appeal on Monday 12 September. The statement was signed by 12 Oxford Labour councillors, including the Parliamentary Prospective Candidate for Oxford East Labour Party, Andrew Smith.

Key figures at last week's Trade Union endorsed the statement.

These included Alex Kitson, the Transport assistant Senerur Party National axeete com he- and a member of the Below we publish the text of the appeal that the campaign is Alex Kitson, Assistant General Secretary TGWU Terry Marsland, General Secretary T00CCO Workers Union Geoffrey Drain, General Secretary NALGO Alan Sapper, General Secretary ACTT Jim Slater, General Secretary National: Union of Seamen Jimmy Knapp, General Secretary National Union of Railwaymen Ken Cameron, General Secretary Fire Brigades Jack Collins, Kent area NUM Morris Jones. President Yorkshire NUM Initial signatories, all in personal capacity.

Ken Barlow, Midland Region UCATT Eric Heffer MP Jo Richardson MP Martin Flannery MP Tony Banks MP Jeremy Corbyn MP Harriet Harman MP Dennis Canavan MP Ron Brown MP Ken Livingstone, leader GLC Richard Balfe MEP Mabel Goldwin, Southwark councillor Peter Troy, Southwark councillor Penny Newell, Chair Peckham CLP Alex Lyon Les Huckfield Jeremy Hawthorn, Sec Peckham CLP Lloyd Trott, Treasurer Peckham CLP James Curran, editor New Socialist Glenys Thornton, secretary ComMillet Royal •Arsenal Cooperative Society Ansley Rice, Southwark Black Peoples Alliance Peter Industrial Organiser, Jeremy Corbyn MP Prof. Sheila Allen Prof. Hilary Rose, Bradford University Prof. Steven Rose, Open University Prof. Stuart Hall, Open University Sue O'Sullivan, Spare Rib Helen John, Greenham Peace Camp Robin Blackburn, editor New Left Review Anthony Arblaster John Saville Anthony Kendall, leader Hackney Council Gultekin Bekdemir, ecutive member of the banned Turkish DISK, and a leader of the underground Turkish mineworkers union.

Jo Richardson MP • Council Chamber Camden Town Hall Judd Street, London WC1 Thursday 29th September 7.30pm Jeremy Corbyn MP - just back from Nicaragua Maria Urbina, Nicaragua Embassy Jaime Lopez, FDR/EI Salvador Silvia Beales, No Intervention in Central America Chairperson: Sue Lukes, Chile Solidarity Campaign

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Socialist Action 16 September 1983

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