that prison life In now turned to selfThe simple reason is see ahead of While none of them had any illusions both members of the Edinburgh Labour AT ITS recent Annual Labour Committee on Ireland adopted growth pressure group, the LCI is in the best position to build support for the nationalist struggle gained by publicity for Ken Livingstone.
The recent Plastic Bullets Conference seems to nave given It ine collfidence to step up its profile in the party and in the unions.
Opposition Having made it clear position to the witch hunt being organised Dy the right wing in the Labour Party against the left, the AGM took LWU major OCUSSOIN itself in the unions and Its magazine Labour and Ireland.
It was pointed out that more people had been attractec the Plastic Bullets through mailings than by any other source At last! Civilisation! proved of the controversial decision to invite sinn Fein MP Owen Carron to dialogue tionalist movement. Resolution This year's model resolution being promoter by the LCI for Party Conference is aimed Spinning down the Labour leadership to conference policy for a united Ireland by making clear its opposition to the Unionist veto exercised at the moment through the sham Northern Assembly.
Delegates from as far away as Glasgow reported on the growing interest in Irisn pollies particularly amongst the A fringe meeting organised by the LCI at this year's Labour Party Young Socialists Conference was one attended bes attended almost members.
About 80 members attended the AGM which elected plastic bullets conference organisers Nial Power and Martin Collins as secretary and magazine editor respectively.
A PIECE OF THE ACTION soon i'll be back i he warmth and comfort of humanity... EALING's Tory Council was intent saving £120,000 by cutting cleaners' hours and getting caretakers to do 'handymen's' jobs.
For some cleaners it meant a drop from 20 to week - nol only a loss of wages but of sick-pay and pension rights.
NUPE together with the general municipa demanded negotiation, which the council refused. With teacher's the NUT, they organised picketing schools to stop scab conrecruited by the Tories from getting into schools.
The pickets were successful, and soon NUT members were involved in widespread unofficial action.
Pressure on the NUT executive produced official one day strike Wednesday. Eight hundred teachers, cleaners and caretakers marched to the Town Hall.
The council caved. in and agreed to let the cleaners return to work or perhaps not....
Socialist Action
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Fighting the cuts in Ealing ...