In June United States presidential candidate and black activist Mel Mason is touring Britain at the same time as President is paying his visit.
Mason is a veteran of ite (vas movement a i was a member of the Back Panther Partv in the tae 1960s. He is an active : on the ticket of the Scialist Workers Party of the United States.
1980 Mason was eered to the Seaside City Council in central Califorin 1982 Tall governor of California city councillor Mason has opposed Washingron's war policies -spoken BeL Vietnam's with what appeal calls Their manacing potential for escalating into nuclear annihilation.
Mason's taking him from one end of the United States another to factories, mines, mills, meetings, picket lines, among Black and Latino people, the the GIs in schools and colleges.
Mason is taking time vul trail President Reagan and bring his own Hicosays JOU Bombs' to Britain. He is also supporting the miners those fighting Washington's war drive. • Mel Mason will be speaking LONGOT Friends Meeting House, Euston Rd, London N.1. on 8 June at 7.30.
He will also be speaking in Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield Nottingham. Delegation Moshe Machover, like Jeremy Corbyn MP.
the dar before the conference, on plaining that the event had seen cancelled - a typical product of the Zionist 'dirty tricks' department.
i ne also heard presentations by a speaker from the General Union of Palestinian Journalists, the PLO office in London unionist The conference passed resolutions calling for campaign to recognise the
THIS WEEK the started by Tony 'Alliance for Socialism' is taken up by Kent miners' leader JACK COLLINS. He spoke TURNER of Socialist Action about how he saw the important part in building a broad alliance to fight for socialism.
MANY THINGS COULD happen as a result of the miners winning their strike. Not only will we save pits and jobs, transform the labour movement into a fighting machine, fighting to change society.
The basis of any alliance of the working class is that first of all you've got to determine whether or not you want to change society. I believe we can draw many people into such a movement - I'm thinking for exampie of the peace movement and le trade unions — and build an alliance of all the political forces on the left. The only condition is that those people must want a socialist society.
The only Waly forward for the working class in any society is through struggle. The Kent miners have never alempleu to run away rom & struggle. We've built broad alliances with many sections of the trade union and the Kent miners are getting during the strike is overwhelming. support because we've built alliances Benn's CAROI playing an but we can We get that An for struggle of struggle.
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struggle Liverpool, HLLICIS tain taking place.
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police rioting people of Socialist Action 1 June 1984 Britain either. Everything is a process The workers in struggle are changing this society. If we look at the world as a whole we'd be absolute. ly 100 per cent convinced that the workng class on this planet are winnThe outcome ot the workers' be determined Greenham or the But they ale revolutionary change. Perhaps we are not in a revolutionary situation in Britoday •Nicaragua, El Salvador, Africa and Asia - there's a revolutionary change System EI that Salvador people al t fighting is exactly the same system Different conditions make them fight in a different way. I suspect if the capitalist system in Britain is pushed far enough, the British working class will have to fight in the same way as the people of El Salvador In Britain today you see masses of everywhere, breaking entering houses in Nottinghamshire. At the beginning of the strike you wouldn't have thought that possible Yet now we see it. Leon Brittan set up the Gestapo in Britain when he gave police special powers recently. It was all on the pretext that miners had been I was in Mansfield the other week and I saw the riots. The rioters had blue uniforms on. They were the people riding their horses into the miners. the people swinging their truncheons.
This society will become more and more oppressive That's why even tually we might have to do what the EI Salvador are doing.
Nobody wants it to be that way, but the bosses will go to any lengths to