THIS WEEK the main Peoples March entered England. The stage is set for the march to become a locus for the anger of the unemployed in movement against the policies of the Thatcher government.
THE NORTH EAST of England has the highest rate of unemployment Yet only at in Britain. the last moment did a reluctant regional TUC executive agree to sanction a North Eastern leg of the People's March.
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UNEMPLOYMENT in the South of Ireland is now the worst Western massive 15 per cent. In addition to the nearly 200,000 jobless there, there are also 115,000 without work in the North.
That's unionists and unemployed came together to organise a Peoples March for Decent Jobs which marched Cork arrive in Dublin last weekend.
The protest is part of a movement which has inbegun to challenge cuts in benefit and sit-ins against redundancies such vietorious Clondalkin Paper Mills occupation.
'MAGGIE THATCHER'S tragic; socialism's magic. Da ra ra ra Da ra ra ra.' You try dancing a bloody jig to that fifteen miles out of Cumnock, two miles to go to Sanquhar with sheep for company and the rain coming on. 'The reaction's been fantastic', a marcher from the north west says. 'I'm coming back here for my holidays.' Charlie Howie comes trom Ailmarnock. Alle six years of school and two years of college, nine months after leaving and I've still got no job.' According to Charlie, 'the government's responsible for the majority of unemployment. It would be under a million without it.' High For Charlie 'the high spot so far is when we reached my home town - Kilmarnock. Up to then my feet were really sore. But with the welcome we got my feet Mexborough by women like Helen Crawford, they demand ed, and won a war-long Ten treeze.
Since then the Labour Party has built municipal housing for half Scotland's population. Most of it is worse than what it replaced. Back in Glasgow on the Castlemilk scheme 48 tenants were arrested last week, demonstrating for Ebbw Vale APRIL = JUNE new housing after a deliberate fire burnt out a tenement.
The scheme in Cumnock gives the march a good reception. Roy Cleary from Stranraer puts it this way.
•We have been taken in by the people.' 'Most evenings' adds Diane 'there's social life laid on and we mix and socialise with local people. We are
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