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No. 84, June 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Controll & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Edward Crawford

Left unite to smash threat from right

Urgent need to build our papers strength

There’s trouble at mills – Cheap labour organisation ..., by Phil Evans

I.S. (Nearest branch)

Rents White Paper: Councils go ahead with jack up plan, by Brian Ebbatson

Where We Stand

False friends on the road to liberation for black Americans ..., by John Lea

The police state in Britain’s back yard, by Malachy McKenna

Letters

[Column], by Paul Foot

Take Shelter, from Des Wilson

The fascist menace – and how to fight it, by Chris Harman

Middle East: Whirlpool of instability gives hope to Arab liberation forces, by Akiva Orr

Gold: why the merry-go-round stopped turning ..., by Andrew Sayers

Coal – A special inquiry

New name for sparks – but no change in policy, by Thurso Berwick

Science, by Steve Bolchover

Powell on nationalisation

The previous official forecast of price rises

Powell on Trade Unions

Powell on Social Services

France – Students set fire to smouldering Anger with De Gaulle, by Laurie Flynn, Ted Jones & Mike Heym


No. 85, July 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Edward Crawford

Big business booms as mergers threaten jobs, by Brian White

SW to appear weekly from September

France shows the way for workers in Britain

Print shop fund

Riot charge on militant

Thalidomide and the profits of death, by Eva Widowson

I.S. (Branch activities)

Campaign for united left

Where We Stand

Nazi ‘menace’ obscures new threat to German workers, by Volkhart Mosler

[Column], by Paul Foot

Revolution in France

Science, by Steve Bolchover

The Picket Line

Coal: a special inquiry

Linwood strike sparked by productivity deal, from our Scottish correspondent

TUC

Letters

Ford women return – but equal pay is back on the agenda, by Sabby Sagall

Teesside tenants prepare for rents struggle, by Brian Ebbatson

Donovan: the velvet glove stays on – bosses not ready for the knuckle-duster, by Colin Barker


No. 86, August 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz

Bus pay fight goes on as sackings loom, by the Editor

Russian bosses fear Czech lead will sweep east Europe, by Chris Harman

British arms behind Biafran horror, by Dave Peers

Militant immigrants stage lockout battle, by Stan Bishop

Police swoop on left

Christie on forgery charge

Coal – a special report

I.S. (Nearest branch)

Science, by Streve Bolchover

Unity: don’t forget the principles ..., from Jim Scott, Alan Bailey, Phillip Evans & David Rabkin

Where We Stand

A drop of immigration control ... (cartoon), by Evans

Swing to left shakes Italian reformists, by Norah Carlin

Anti-fascist law used to crack-down on French revolutionaries

Anyone wondering ...

Paris back to normal – on the surface, by Ian Birchall

Coal Board chops top mine – and big business will profit, by John Taylor

Nurses on the march for better pay, by a nurse

London tenants march on junketting Tories, by Helen Lowe

Weekly SW


Czech Crisis – Special Issue, August 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Russians – Get our of Czechoslovakia

Why Russia invaded – fear that revolution will sweep Eastern Europe, by Chris Harman

In September Socialist Worker will appear every week

Join International Socialism


No. 87, 7 September 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

East and West, tanks and cops defend ‘freedom’, by Chris Harman

No retreat! Engineers can smash pay freeze, by Roger Cox

Strike call at TUC to win equal pay, by James Robeson

Docks leaflet slams invasion, by Alan Wood

Police raid Black Dwarf

The starving masses – they need guns, not the Pill, by Chris Arthur

Where We Stand

In London’s grimy tenements hell for working-class Catholics, by Terry Bull

Everywhere, slogans and posters ... Russian tanks trundled came trundling through with Viv Dubcek and Svoboda which is the Czech word for Liberty, by Eric Porter

Join International Socialism

Morris men vote down bosses’ ‘mobility’ plan, by Socialist Worker Reporter

TUC 100 (cartoon), by Evans

Rents fight nears crunch, by Barry Slater

Let battle commence

Sack for thousands as rail unions do a deal, by Dave Percival

Speed up of get out – that’s the future for Midlands car workers, by Dave Edwards

Tenants’ children defeat council, by Fred Lindop

‘Gipsies are not human’ says Labour man

Work to rule goes on


No. 88, 14 September 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Thousands face sack as giants merge, by David Black

East, west crush Biafra, by Richard Kuper

Engineers demand ‘No retreat!’ by Tom Hillier

DATA acts

Africa’s new colony

Foreign Office blocks anti-Nazi show, by David Widgery

Socialist Worker says:

How can free speech be a threat to a ‘socialist’ regime? by Executive Committee, International Socialism

Where We Stand

3,000 people ‘at risk’ in sky-high death traps, by Paul Foot

‘Home rule’ threat to Franco, by Our Spanish correspondent

Join International Socialism

£25 million site locks out 1,000 workers, by Ross Hill

“Though I am an M.C.C. Official, ...” (cartoon), by Evans

Ford fight goes on for equal pay, by Sabby Sagall

Rail revolt against pay deal grows

‘Red plot’ at ICI – but stewards won’t budge, by Barry Slater

Trade unionists launch campaign against racialist ‘friendly’ club, by Stuart Bentley

Manchester says No

We need your help

Grey Mare Lane falls to Viet Cong, by Wendy Henry

Tenants demonstrate


No. 89, 21 September 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Tinkers: new scapegoats for slums and high rents, by Colin Falconer

10,000 Mersey workers in lock-out battle, by Ross Hill

Barbed wire versus students

‘Scroungers’ – Mrs Hart is off target, by Alan Purkiss

Letters

Czech workers spring is crushed by Russian ice-pack, by Michael Kidron

‘I don’t know what Wilson’s trying to do but I’d like to shake the liver out of him ...’, by Rose Boland & Sabby Sagall

Where We Stand

‘Made in Britain’ means death for Biafrans, by Raymond Challinor

Lords’ lobby support Smith

Mandel Expelled

Join International Socialism

Ghetto school for immigrants, by D.E. Spilsbury

Tyre men fight for union rights, by Socialist Worker reporter

Sid’s Scrapyard (cartoon), by Evans

‘Economy’ cuts behind rail deaths? by Socialist Worker reporter

Control not ‘rights’ the issue for tenants, by Ian Macdonald

Stewards back engineers strike

Factory like prison say foundry men

Young teachers step up fight for more pay, by Chanie Rosenberg

Gloom hits AEI plant, by Dave Fisher

Tenants meet


No. 90, 28 September 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Ban on unofficial strikes: Is this the new Labour plan?

‘Not a penny on the rents’ tenants tell Tory council, by Sean Dunne

College barricaded to keep out students, by Maggie Hackworth

Letters

Wilson, the man who murdered reformism, by Paul Foot

Where We Stand

Not just fun and games in Mexico ..., by Ian Birchall

In Paris the slogan is ‘on to October’ as revolutionaries prepare for next round, by Ian Taylor

Join International Socialism

‘Castle out!’ roar strikers, by Ross Hill

ETU shop steward jailed

“How do you do, Mr Smith?” (cartoon), by Evans

Ford workers ban overtime

Wildcat bosses – real wreckers in car industry, by Bernard Ross

Battersea men demand 6d an hour

Shop stewards link up

‘We’ll strike’ say teachers, by Jennifer Bell

Smith women strike for equal pay


No. 91, 5 October 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Opinion

The real voice of the labour movement (photo)

Labour one step nearer scrapheap, by Socialist Worker reporter

Engineers near crunch, by Andrew Hornung

Papadopoulos joins ballot-rigging club

Letters

Going up (almost as fast as prices) the terrible toll of accidents, by Steve Jefferys

Where We Stand

What students want, leaflet by Revolutionary Socialist Students Federation

Socialist in race for White House seeks Vietnam GI vote, by Jenny Southgate

Book Review

Join International Socialism

Thousands fight rent rises, by Sean Dunne

Steel threat to 5,000 jobs

Labour ever onward! (cartoon), by Evans

Lipstick girls strike for living wage, by Tony Corcoran

Tally clerks demand equal pay with dockers, by Terry Barrett

Firemen say no more ‘bull’

MPs refuse to debate Labour’s record

Socialists hammer out policy

Sparks stay in at Morganite


No. 92, 12 October 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne
BUSINESS MANAGER:

Jim Nichol

Editorial

Irish police bludgeon marchers in siege city, by Eamonn McCann

When you spent £2,000 so the queen could spend a penny, by a special correspondent

‘A general strike will spread like an oil slick ...’, by A. Achalandobaso

Letters

Where We Stand

Irish Tories attempt ballot fiddle to crush the left, by Gery Lawless

Breaking all records – the play that puts the miners’ case, by Tony Corcoran

Join the International Socialists

Engineers: demand control of the strike

Lorry drivers halt three cities, by Socialist Worker reporter

Stewards link up to fight GEC, by Socialist Worker reporter

“Our solution to the Northern Ireland housing problem ...” (cartoon), by Evans

Mersey sites back locked out builders, by Mike Talbot

Tory council rocked by tenants’ rent battle, by Sean Dunne

Victory at Osram

Foundry strike in seventh week, by Dave Fisher

Sparks stay in at Morganite


No. 93, 19 October 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Victory to the engineers

Smash White Power, by Richard Kuper

Labour’s four years of soft-sell to Rhodesian racialists, by Anne Darnborough

Where We Stand

Pierre Mulele murdered

The Tory dilemma: How to keep Big Business and the middle class happy (while hammering the workers), by Joan Smith

Mersey militant speaks out, by Mike McGrath

Join the International Socialists

October 27: Why we are marching, by Chris Harman

Massive support for engineers’ battle

Mersey men KO ‘prod’ deal

“Olympic” AEF wage and conditions claim” (cartoon), by Evans

Drivders step up fight against ‘spy in cab’

3 months for IS secretary

‘We strike on Friday’ say Ford stewards, by Sabby Sagall

Building workers on the march

Porters back tenants


No. 94, 26 October 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

October 27

Engineers: The fight goew on, by Stephen Marks

Whose violence?

Letters

Where We Stand

Oct 27: Rehearsal, not insurrection, by Richard Kuper

E is for Encyclopaedia, C is for Con game, by Dave Fisher

Do-it-yourself politics threaten N. Ireland’s police regime, by Paul Foot

Join the International Socialists

Tory boss smears tenants, by Socialist Worker reporter

Rhodesia: Fearless Fred and Tiger Tim plot a sell-out, by Our Diplomatic Correspondent

“Look out for ‘roving bands of armed me’, lads” (cartoon), by Evans

SW needs urgent help

‘Massive’ profits forecast for Engineering, by Brian White

Tyne railmen say ‘recall NUR conference’

90 workers axed by Napiers

Socialists win courtroom battle


No. 95, 2 November 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Editorial

100,000 take control of London’s streets, by Socialist Worker reporters

Czech youth fight on

Protest at Ulster visit

AEF choice

‘Prod’ deals and the conversion of Hugh Scanlon, by Stephen Marks

Where We Stand

Book Review

The Wallace campaign: cashing in on hysteria and despair, by Joel Stein

Letters

Join the Internation Socialists

‘Spy-in-cab’ strike: drivers paralyse key centres, by Socialist Worker reporter

Sectarians ruin union conference, by John Phillips

[The Daily Telegraph in an editorial]

[Independent Television News concentrated on Grosvenor Square]

Police bar angry tenants from town hall, by Brian Ebbatson

Spain: Asturian miners fight pit disasters, by Anton Achalandabaso

French CP in turmoil, by Ian Birchall


No. 96, 9 November 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Editorial

Militant wins resounding court victory

3½d freeze: Strike wave may hit sites, by the Editor

Jenkins grabs more cake, by Brian White

‘Disaster flats’ still going up

US: no change for masses

Behind students’ revolt – struggle against ‘education factories’, by Andrew Sayers

Letters

Where We Stand

Orwell: honesty, courage and faith in the ‘proles’, by Peter Sedgwick

Labour’s Race Act – move to head off black militancy, by Ian Macdonald

Join the International Socialists

Miners’ vital election

70 men locked out at giant site, by Socialist Worker reporter

Morganite vote to fight on, by Andrew Hornung

“Where’s my tie?” (cartoon), by Evans

Strike call on the Clyde

Removes fuzz

Students demand better deal

Meetings

Docks stopped


No. 97, 16 November 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Editorial

‘£17 a week or we strike’ sites must tell Castle, by Frank Campbell

ETU chops militant Morphew

Make our flats safe say tenants

Bakers turn to feel the lash

IS calls for May Day campaign

Equal pay strike

Letters

Great take-over plot, by Paul Foot

Where We Stand

What makes Merseyside so militant? by Martin Barker

After the horse race, US Left must swing to workers, by Joel Stein

Join the International Socialists

Pressure mounts for AEF strike, by a Socialist Worker reporter

Walk-out stops £5m Ivy Bridge site

“Can’t even retaliate ...” (cartoon), by Evans

Clyde vote to strike, by Peter Bain

Militant’s court battle a victory for the left, by Socialist Worker reporter

Meetings


No. 98, 23 November 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Editorial

Dockers and shirt girls march for free Derry, by Eamonn McCann

Falling flats ruin Labour’s building boasts, by Paul Foot

New attack on French workers

Leper Powell spews more rubbish

Measured Day Work: engineering bosses’ new way of screwing more profit

Worker’s Diary, by L.D.T.

Where We Stand

After Czechoslovakia, will Russia crush the other heretics? by Terry Bull

Television’s soft-sell for the Boys in Blue, by David Edgar

Join the International Socialists

Czech students oppose sell-out, by Richard Kuper

Sparks strike for 10 bob rate, by Peter Bain

Sites fight goes on for £17, by Frank Campbell

Ministry of Repatriation (cartoon), by Evans

10,000 tenants lobby GLC

Print union puts life ban on press militant, by Socialist Worker reporter

Victory at Morganite

Daly wins NUM ballot

Meetings


No. 99, 30 November 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Demand release of Eldridge Cleaver

Bad medicine – but only if the workers swallow it, by Michael Kidron

Dole for 600 as the new Cunarder sails

Letter

How Labour has widened the poverty gap, by Colin Falconer

Worker’s Diary, by L.D.T.

In London’s slumland, where class not colour draws the battle lines ..., by Constance Lever

Join the International Socialists

AEF leaders give up the fight, by Paul Foot

Teesside tenants say ‘Not a penny more’, by Barry Slater

Firemen’s big pay flare-up, by a London fireman

‘Paltry’ rise for NHS workers, by Jack Sutton

Ivy Bridge lock-out: men refused dole money, by Socialist Worker reporter

Road protest – students are fined, by John Larke

Prod deal for steel men

Drugs are top

Police threat to pickets, by Paul Smith

Meetings


No. 100, 7 December 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Ulster cops and Paisley thugs unite to stop civil rights march, by Sean Reed

The London Squatters Campaign (photo)

Strike vote at Renault

Powell’s homes plan means £2 a week on rents, by Alan Woodward

The Hong Kong hypocrites

There’s no such thing as a ‘typical cop’ ..., by Alan Plater

France and the crisis: Will de Gaulle spark new revolt by workers and students? by Ian Birchall

Where We Stand

Worker’s Diary

Labour policies hit hard on Humberside, by Dave Langston & Alan Rooney

Pensioner Margaret battles on against a slum landlord, by Jenny Southgate

Join the International Socialists

LSE students plan new protest, by Martin Shaw

ICI strike is snub for Castle, by Socialist Worker reporter

‘Slaves’ charter’ for sites men, by Tex Richards

“Extra stamps on new Biafran blood xtra” (cartoon), by Evans

March supports Ulster rights

TGWU caves in

Renee Short jumps on anti-black bandwaggon

Meetings

‘Nuremberg Rally’ greeting for Powell, by Dave Spilsbury

Ghetto school opens

Shipyard sparks reject productivity deal, by Ross Hill

Ivy Bridge cash


No. 101, 14 December 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Peter Osborne

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Mass strikes and marches hit Italy, by Norah Carlin

Panic in high places ...

Sorry ...

Craig sacking is red herring

Letters

Russia and the meaning of socialism, by Mike Heym

Why British labour movement should boycott US grapes and end the West Coast scandal, by Elaine Elinson

Where We Stand

The Big Bum Corporation trots out Uncle Enoch, the people’s friend ..., by David Edgar

Join the International Socialists

Derry: First round to McCann, by Sean Reed

“Wage stop – gnomes crossing” (cartoon), by Evans

Mothers Pride pickets arrested, by Pete Mottershead

Market men back grapes ban, by Nigel Coward

Press blackout on sit-in strike at Fords, by Sabby Sagall

Meetings

Equal pay strike

Students fight privilege, by Socialist Worker reporter

Late News


No. 102, 21 December 1968, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

EDITOR:
Roger Protz
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Paul Foot
Richard Kuper
Constance Lever
Laurie Flynn

BUSINESS MANAGER:
Jim Nichol

Round-the-clock shift work threat to women, by Socialist Worker Industrial reporter

War – whores (poem), by Alex Glasgow

The naked half-truth, by Roger Protz

Firemen’s Xmas party ban, by Kathy Sims

Fords do well

Editorial

Derry: The grim facts about Ulster’s divide and rule city ..., by Paul Foot

Remember – that young man in khaki could be on your side, by a Young Serviceman

Where We Stand

Letters

Join the International Socialists

Building unions surrender, by Ted Richards

Labour council sacks 25 teachers, by Gordon Blair

Jingle bells on the High Street

Doleful Xmas in North East, by Socialist Worker reporter

Meetings

Cinema pickets arrested

Election victors

Stop Press

 


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