Refuse cruise on 12 12 December.
Be there! STUDENT CND believes 'there is a big feeling for an anti-cruise demo' to mark the fifth anniversary of NATO's announcement that the missiles would be deployed in Britain. They have called an action in Trafalgar Square on the evening of Wednesday They say: "The demonstration will take the form of civil disobedience in central London, a symbolic protest to make our voices heard.' with conspiracy to import indecent articles.
These indecent' Sartre and Oscar Wilde.
returned.
What has become clear that not only do the shop CUSTOMS closea, but that it is connationwide operation against lesbian and gay literature.
other main Menace in Edinburgh, has bookshop, Lavender had many books magazines taken cluding literature for the Edinburgh Festival. gay bookclub - Essential• Gay — has been closed Other left down. shops have had books seized, organisation • Has CUSTOMS AND Excise have now issued criminal charges against the directors and bookshop manager of Gay's the Word in London. They are charged articles include Jean Genet, Since the original raid in April over £12,000 worth of stock has been seized, in addition to many of the books, records and the mailing list for the shop's newsletter — all yet to be books stopped - the Gay Christian movement.
Lesbian and Gay Young Socialists Customs such that only Gay's the Word and GCM can afford to challenge the Customs rulIng. Il also means that a massive campaign against Custom's OUCLaliUl needs to be built up if actions like this be stopped in the future. present any customs officer ..a carlpaign with impunity.
Already the bookshop has received massive support, even Trom such unlikely sources as John Weller, the Tory MP, and from the book trade. The lesbian gay communities have so far raised ine nuge sum of t7.000. but much larger sums than are necessarv it the Customs campaign is to be stopped in its tracks.
NCCL is makin the defence of Gay's the Wor‹ one of its first priorities this year. It is time for the and trade movement to do likewise.
Just as Rugby is the first stage in a general attack on jobs, so Gay's the Word is the first stage in an attack on the left's right read. needs to be halted, right at the beginning Copies the Word informa donations Gay's the Word, Marchmoni St, London WCl (01 278-7654):
Socialist Action 7 December 1984