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Threat to children’s welfare
Swedish iron ore miners’ strike (photo)
Factory committees spread in Italy, by Alba Sacerdoti
Europe: Why the big bosses are plugging entry, from Fred Milson
Where We Stand
Into the seventies, by Stephen Marks
Paying for pensions: Labour lets the middle class off the hook, by Jim Kincaid
Why life-long Labour supporter Poppa is hopping mad, by Geoff Shaw
Docks bosses determined to smash militant rank and file, by Nigel Coward
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Industry: the CP’s abdication, from Jim Higgins
Power men defy union threats – strike goew ahead, by Kathie Finn
Transport workers unite against fares and cuts, by a London busman
Bernadette faces jail (photo)
Badf work conditions behind ICI absenteeism, by John Charlton
Pay campaign call by local government militants, by Will Fancy
Scots stewards back action for nurses, by Steve Jefferys
Bonanza for bosses, by Laurie Flynn
Vietnam: The wrong man is in the dock, by Ray Challinor
This in Britain ... (photos)
Rat-bag of the week
Letters
Where We Stand
Fifty years of twisting and turning: the ‘ golden anniversary’ of French Communism, by Ian Birchall
British economy faces slow decline, by Sabby Sagall
GEC workers need strong links to combat Weinstock plans, by SW Manchester correspondent
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Films
Halewood unity leaves Halewood bosses smarting, by Alan Wild
Militant teachers force NUT to call more strikes, by Eric Porter
Coal increases will hit prices and old people
Move to ban transfer of work, by Andy Enever
R-R stewards call for combine to stop sackings
Steward sacked in three-shift row
Militant tenants in Greater London ...
Notices
Reckitt and Coleman ...
Wages: the big lie, by Lionel Sims
Stop Wilson’s trip, marchers demand (photo)
Oil shares shoot up as Biafra is crushed, by Wenda Clenaghan
Ford: vital struggle for ‘parity’, by Sabby Sagall
Where We Stand
Letter
Fawley: where the Esso sign means happy profiteering, by Roger Protz
How to polay ‘Productopoly’, from Plafayre
The threat from the far right, by Don Milligan
On the scrapheap at 58 ..., by R.T. Scott, from Newcastle Evening Chronicle
Report from America
Letter
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Engineering: where the bisses are judge and jury, by John Setters
Bathgate men divided – fail to wij parity
Socialist on bomb charge seeks witnesses
Petition for jailed editor
R-R stewards move to stop sackings
Rootes walk-out caused by cold
Jenkins blows the gaff
Tenant loses appeal
Growing strength of Left teachers’ paper, by Duncan Hallas
Notices
Czechs step up repression against the left, by Chris Harman
Labour: handouts for the bosses, poverty for kids, by Jim Kincaid & Roger Protz
Wilson lied over arms to Nigeria
Letters
Where We Stand
The ICI threat: prod deals, wwork transfer and sackings ..., by John Charlton
Biafra crushed to safeguard profits, by Wenda Clenaghan
The telly tycoons are feeling the pinch, by Paul Foot
Aussie unions act against Vietnam war, by Peter Finch
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Railwaymen face low wages and massive sackings, by Liverpool NUR member
£10 more or we strike say 400 Ford stewards, by Bryan Simmons
Workers and students unite to stop Powell
Mount campaign against prod deals says Cliff
Tenants in richest borough fight steep rent increases, by Mike Fuller
Big protest planned for Nazi visit
Sell-out danger as NUT meets Castle, by Duncan Hallas
Notices
Biafra: ping-pong politics
Dole queue threat: US recession worries Wilson, by John Palmer
Schools protest
Miners back rugby march
Cynical view of Russia-China conflict, by Stephen Marks
Star letter
Where We Stand
Time and motion study: ‘scientific’ way of squeezing more profit, by Tony Cliff
New plans for higher education will hit at working class, by Peter Goodwin & Martin Shaw
Productivity deals: grotesque distortion of IS line, by Roger Protz
Hand in glove: JIB bosses and union leaders
Letters
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Smug speakers dominate dole queue meeting, by Ross Hill
Ford’s palty offer – convenors demand strike, by Jim Lamborn
Riggers demand site safety – 80 sacked
Adoption Society (cartoon), by Evans
Centrax men out for three months, by Granville Williams
Notices
R-R workers march against sackings, by George Kelly
University class bias exposed by sit-in
Tolin petition
Productivity deals: IS challenge
Tories move to the right
Sacked Edmonton riggers reinstated (photo)
Labour homes plan collapses, by David East
Child poverty: report says it’s worse under Labout, by Valerie Clark
Letters
Where We Stand
William Morris: a vision of socialism, by Martin Shaw
Woodcock’s troubleshooters menace shop stewards’ strength at Birmid Qualcast, by John Setters
Courageous Panthers fight business grip on ghettoes, from Lutte Ouvrière (abridged)
Swedish miners shatter myth of industrial harmony, by Anders Melander
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Grading threat in builders’ new pay deal, by Ted Richards
Ford workers must close ranks
Devon marchers back Centrax strike, by Granville Williams
Notices
Angry tenants in siege of town hall, by Martin Earle
New ‘get tough’ law in Ulster
Meeting protests at attacks on Black Panthers (photo), by Jeff Pick
Law and order – Tory threat to the Left, by the Editor
Centrax appeal
Malaysia: police state Labour helped to create, by Paul Foot
[Letters]
Where We Stand
Shift work, by Tony Cliff
Mr Short’s school treat: meal prices up – with a means test, by Jim Kincaid
TV
Equal pay: ‘more than a promise of a dream ...’, by Sheila Rowbotham
Russell – the eagle, by Peter Sedgwick
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Guaranteed week call by Rootes stewards, by Steve Jefferys
Teachers’ strike: leaders duck clash with government, by Duncan Hallas
Hooligans wreck Stock Exchange – no police action, by Fred Neadle
French CP Congress parody of democracy, by Ian Birchall
Civil rights supporter jailed
No reply
Gestetner workers fight bosses’ bonus trickery
Squatters occupy empty house
Notices
Militants spied on by bosses and university
7,000 Leeds clothing workers on strike
Massive strike wave rocks Belgium: police attack car men and miners
Letters
Where We Stand
In or out, we must call for unity of European workers, by Ian Birchall
Science
Pollution
GEC axe Kent factory in dole queue area
Rag trade revolts against bad pay, by Vince Hall
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SLL backs down debate
Palestine guerillas battle for power with feudal Hussein, by Chris Harman
Swansea keeps Ford parity fight on boil, by Sabby Sagall & Les Pick
Dockers’ union turns down new prod deal offer, by Alf Waters & Alan Sutton
Notices
Tolin petition
Irishmen jailed
Wages revolt snowballs
Repression grows against American Left
Bosses attempt to ban prod deal pamphlet, by John Deason
Letters
Where We Stand
Death in high places, interview with a militant shop steward, conducted by Colin Barker
The slaughter on the factory floor: what militants should demand, by Roger Cox
Zionism – enemy of Arab and Jew, by Stephen Marks
Danger ro Ulster left from Paisley thugs, by Sean Treacy
Cottons Column
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Scottish sparks get grim glimpse of grading scheme
Ford workers must demand hard cash, not paper promises, by Les Pick
Trawlermen fight for £20 minimum, by Alan Rand
1,000 face sack as furniture bosses close factory
Militant under attack
High Court move to crush strike
Italian picket
Notices
Rail union leaders move to gag left opponents
‘Car anarchy’ – we nail Lord Stoke’s lies
Trawlermen’s strike grows
Printing militants alarmed by threats to unity, by Mike Heym
Letters
Where We Stand
America – 1970: year of the big strike as workers fight soaring prices, from IS, paper of the American International Socialists
Book Reviews
Cottons Column
Lebus – the armchair millionaires sit back as 1,000 are sacked, by Laurie Taylor
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Angry woodworkers occupy their occupy their union headquarters, by Paddy Faherty
Stewards call off Leeds strike – but no firm pay offer, by Vince Hall
‘Open all files’ students must demand, by Martin Shaw
Teachers win £120 – but pay fight must go on
‘Did the dead man have any enemies?’ (cartoon), by Dean, from Big Flame
Tow year ban on Ron Beak by Post Office union, by Richard Kirkwood
Panthers are jailed
Notices
Militant women hammer out campaign of action
Mirror rejects workers’ letter
“It’s always we ordinary people who are inconvenienced by selfish strikers” (cartoon), by Wird
Court move to end support for Hull trawlermen
BL stewards to hold enquiry
Take a highly confidential letter, Miss Smith ..., by Kathy Sims
Letters
Where We Stand
Rhodesia – a prison in the sun, by Roger Tembo
Films
How the telly tycoons and the press barons bend the news ..., by Jill Branston
... and on television
Cottons Column
Trawlermen’s strike: ‘Fish are more important than lives’, by George Oaks
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Jewish socialists form revolutionary alliance, from John Chowcat, Astrid Joseph, Jeffrey Lever, Charles Pollick & Len Smith
Angry clothing workers demand new pay action, by Vince Hall
Students – no retreat on university spies, by Stephen Marks
Young nurses get raw pay deal, by Jack Sutton
Builders storm union headquarters, by Paddy Faherty
Rail militants call for £5 ‘without strings’, by an NUR member
Notices
Workshop men accept productivity
Dockers strike for full ports nationalisation
One hundred people took part in a Black Panther demonstration in Brixton (photo)
Vital book for all militants
Yes, the workers should run Britain, by Stephen Marks
‘Back to Stalin’ group seek power in Russia, by Chris Harman
Learning from US socialists’ mistakes, by Charles Leinenweber
Letters
Where We Stand
BLMC workers need a fighting policy to defeat Lord Stokes, by John Setters
Films
The killers on the shop floor, by Gerry Dawson
How the system robs you ...
Building bosses and union chiefs gang up on militants, by Frank Campbell
Cottons Column
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Crooked pay deal thrust on clothing workers, by Vince Hall
Far right tightens its grip on N. Ireland, by Jimmy Greely & Pat Prenderville
“This cloth-cap socialism is just ridiculously out of date ...” (cartoon), by Wird
DATA men accuse ASTMS of scabbing, by Dave Peers
‘Tyred’ union buster gets busted
Cold workers threaten occupation
Militant Scots teachers demand parity with England, by Kathie Finn
Notices
Who controls? Workers’ action worries bosses, by Sabby Sagall
Ponies suffers so the rich can play polo, by Joe Rourke
Law and order – Marx speaks
Reign of terror in US mineworkers’ union, by Bill Gerch
Where We Stand
Who really runs Britain? The figures speak for themselves, by Lionel Sims
The plight of immigrants in Europe weakens workers’ struggles, by Stephen Castles
Support your local policeman, by acorrespondent
Asia plundered as big firms make millions, from Wildcat
Cottons Column
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Chrysler: Franco’s finger-men
Centrax: 21 week strike ends in victory for the workers
Labour will press on with union shackles, by John Palmer
Metal Box engineers strike for union rights, by Dick Jones
“The way things are going ...” (cartoon), by Wird
Scots sparks to fight job grading threat by JIB
The International Socialists are holding their annual conference ...
University honours ‘war-mongering profiteer’
Fitters walk out
Election year: now’s the time to push up wages, by Sabby Sagall
Voices from the barricades at IS confewrence (photo)
Irish left under attack from British troops, by John Palmer
Dockers must demand real control, by Terry Barrett, Alfie Waters, Frank Shilling, Alan Sutton, Peter Bloss, Bernie Whitwell, Bill Kemp, & Nigel Coward
Films, by Martin Tomkinson
Where We Stand
The airline freebooters are taking us for a ride, by Paul Foot
When Hitler’s footballers went to the Spurs, by Christine Protz
How ‘trusty and well-loved’ Woodcock soothed the bosses, by John Setters
Dhofar: Britain’s Vietnam in the Arab Gulf, by Stephen Marks
Cottons Column
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Letter
Dangers ahead for teachers in new pay struggle
Clyde unity vital to fight the sackings, by Peter Bain
£400,000 for ‘hands off profits’ campaign, by John Watson
Meeting demands jobs for Kent town
Notices
Ulster policeman named by PD in bid to re-open murder enquiry
British troops gas and club N. Ireland workers, by Eamonn O’Kane
Back to 1900 says Heath
Nixon promises peace but steps up involvement in Indochina, by Ian Birchall
French left faces severe repression from government, from a correspondent
Where We Stand
[Two pages missing]
Struggle on the shop floor: Communist Party offers no lead, by John Setters
Cottons Column
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Letters
Jenkins’ budget will not change workers’ tax burden, by Lionel Sims
Glass workers revolt over hours and wages
“Off with those dangerous bootlaces, me lad” (cartoon), by Wild
Metal Box men locked out for a month, by Pete Branston
Notices
Popular font?
Hull trawlermen out for 8 weeks – vote to fight on
Glass workers fight on (photo)
Apollo: the terrible cost of space race
Budget: poor stay poor while bankers smile, by John Palmer
Murder in south America masks the grip of American big business, by Ian Birchall
Striking electricians stand by for emergencies in Newcastle hospital, by Tony Wild & John Harland
Where We Stand
Britain’s ‘My Lai massacre’: Amritsar, by Diane Devi Nair
Hop on a WHAT? by Chris Davison
Films
Cottons Column
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Rootes’ Avender hots up the car war, by Fred Milson
Pakistanis angry at press sensationalism over ‘skinheads’, by Fred Lindop
Union moves to break glass workers’ strike
“Comrade, What are those straps for?” (cartoon), by Wild
Workers vote against the Tories
Busmen’s pay rise has hidden strings, by Chris Davison
Victory for engineers in Metal Box lock-out, by Pete Branston
Notices
Mersey unionists protests at attacks on students
CAV testers locked out
Students must take action to stop witch-hunt
Defence squads against racist attacks, a statement by the Editorial Board
Workers’ control call
A reign of terror in the Punjab – then Britain looks for a scapegoat, by Diane Devi Nair
Lenin, a political biography, by Jim Higgins
Ship owners save thousands as seamen work long hours, by Joe Rourke
Cottons Column
Television, by David East
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Clyde bosses want new cash handout and more sackings, by Peter Bain
Lest unity vital to fight Paisley threat, by Sean Treacy
Two views on prod deals (photo)
Masked sparks say no to JIB
Strike backs locked-out men
Notices
Builders walk off site when man falls to his death
For Workers’ Power – Kick Out the Bosses
How ‘T. Dan Wilson’ ratted on the working class, by Paul Foot
Where We Stand
Spring is on the way ..., by Vincent Mallon
‘Wobbly’ Joe Hill – gunned down by America’s rulers, by Wendy Henry
Threat of the international giants, by Sabby Sagall
Trinidad fights the grip of oil and sugar barons, by Martin Tomkinson
Cottons Column
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Fleet St. lock-out threat as printers reject prod deal, by Ross Pritchard
Bosses’ spies leep tabs on militants
Pay battle ahead at seamen’s conference
March backs W. Indies struggle (photo)
Colleges on the march
Glass workers stay out
Notices
Irish left fights ban on Belfast May Day march
Murderer: March, demonstrate and strike against war, by the Editor
We condemn Fleet St witch-hunt
Students face sack over May Day march
S.E. Asia: Notebook on US aggression
Where We Stand
Nine days that shook the world, by Richard Kuper
People against the system, by John Taylor
Militant women stress need need for action on the shopfloor, by Valerie Clark
Report from the North East, by Dave Peers
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Wall St wobbles as US inflation soars ..., by Lionel Sims
Unity call on Irish May Day, by Ray Burnett
Glass workers fight union move to split strike
Fleet St. nears the crunch
Tenants fight off bailiffs
New Devon strike over low pay and bad conditions
Notices
Press lies and union bribes at St Helens, by the Editor
5,000 march against Nixon’s war (photo)
Nixon’s desert, by Nigel Harris
Your Letters
On the march again – back to square one? by David Widgery
Where We Stand
Nine days that shook the bosses, by Richard Kirkwood
‘Peaceful’ Israeli leaders refuse to talk about ... peace, by Rami Heilbronn
Nurses defeat prices fiddle, by Tony Wild
No strike in Fleet Street – but threat to jobs remains, by Ross Pritchard
Cottons Column
Idle cranes as docks bosses dream of profits, by Laurie Flynn
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Sacked Irish ministers are not friends of the left, by Sean Treacy
Striking printers abandoned by union
G&M blacklegs on strike for union rights
Food strikers demand closed shop: out 6 weeks
Notices
Evicted tenants fight on for their council flat
What a choice, by the Editor
Police violence fails to break Pilks strike
All out on 6 June!
A sign of hope from Russia’s prison camps, by Ken Green
Anti-war movement turns to workers, by Paul Foot
Where We Stand
What really happened at St. Helens ..., by Roger Protz
Big business demands new crack-down in universities, by Martin Shaw
Cottons Column
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Print militant sacked in new St Helens battle
Cov-Rad workers show the way
No strings victory say Devon workers
Immigrants back Powell protest
Union officials victimised in prod deal dispute
Strike may hit election poll
Pakistani sacked
Notices
Crossman’s handout will be eaten up by rising prices, by Richard Kirkwood
Who are they trying to kid, by Lionel Sims
Roy Jenkins says (photomontage)
Ireland: the repression grows, by Sean Treacy
Where We Stand
Revisiting Labour’s ‘socialist’ past, by Richard Kuper
Struggle against apartheid must go on, by Sam Mhlongo
On the line at Ford: if you don’t go off sick, you go off in a box, by a Ford worker
The true confessions of ‘Red Ross’, by Ross Hill
Cottons Column
Letters
R-R subsidiary locks out car body men for a month, by Stan Bishop
Wall St. – storms ahead, by John Palmer
Police arrest Devon strike leader
Pilks workers still determined to leave GMWU
Wire men keep up prod fight
Appeal to Scanlon
Union rights strike
N, Ireland Labour vetoes McCann for Derry seat, by Chris Russell
Notices
Racist smear on Asian workers, by John Setters
Oh, what a bore the election is! by Martin Tomkinson
Glasgow – where the old die of hunger and the slums fall down ... while people wait, by Steve Jefferys
Where We Stand
Re-visiting Labour’s ‘socialist’ past, by Richard Kuper
South Africa: Unions in chains, by Laurie Flynn
[Letters]
Cottons Column
Wave of repression hit French left, by Ian Birchall
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AEF call to end prod deals
Strikers harassed by police and bosses
June 17 1/9 – June 19 2/11 (caartoon), by Evans
‘No strings’ rise rejected – Kent workers walk out
Pilks men snubbed by GMWU
Tugmen go back
Ford foreman hit steward
East Anglia march protests at Cambodia war
Notices
Keep the Tories out, a statement by the editorial board
A late squeak by Benn, by Paul Foot
New move to frame Frank Keane, by Sean Matgamna & Liam Daltun
Hysterical attack on Bernadette Devlin by pro-Israel Labour MP
Where We Stand
Keep the Tories out – but no illusions in the Labour Party, compiled by Lionel Sims, Jim Kincaid & Martin Tomkinson
Workers have the power to smash the system ..., by Duncan Hallas
Poodles can be changed – but they stay poodles, by Daniel De Leon
Cottons Column
They’re waiting with open tills ...
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AEF snub for ICI prod deal
Smears against Scanlon in vital AEF poll, by Roger Cox
All printers must echo Fleet St demand, by Ross Pritchard
[2,000 building workers demonstrate in Dundee] (photo)
Ottery strikers stick out for victory
Closure shock
Notices
Late next week
McCann and Devlin offer only alternative in Ulster, by Chris Russell
Fight the Tories all the way, by the Editor
Bosses’ Daily Wail
Where We Stand
Nigeria: oil profit soar while Ibos starve, by Wenda Clenaghan
Serge’s ‘shining example’, by Martin Tomkinson
Dockers forge mioitant policy as union leaders haggle with bosses, by Harold Youd
For Leeds busmen OMO doesn’t wash at all, by Sue Buckle
‘Troops came to protect profits, not lives’, by Eamonn McCann
Cottons Column
[Letter]
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Rootes fight for job control
Hussein hangs on in pact with El Fatah
Tory price-fixers behind Devon dispute
Scottish sparks and plumbers march against JIB
Clerks in wages battle with AEF headquarters
Notices
Tory snouts are back in the trough, by Nigel Harris
Bernadette’s lesson for the left
Letters
Where We Stand
Robert Owen – his dream of a better society was a vital step forward for the labour movement, by Laurie Flynn
Who wears the knuckle-duster? by Michael Kidron
Private profiteers are milking the coal mines, by Jack Strawbridge
Communists: down the British Road to lost deposits, by Fred Hall
‘Red Liberals’ must liberate themselves, by Terry Lacey
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IS launches £5,000 fund, statement by the National Committee of the International Socialists
Dockers ready for first clash with the Tories, by Harold Youd
AEF poll – keep Boyd out
Devon strikers seek aid on blacking
Masked electricians discuss militant policy
Fake militants
Victory for Rootes’ car men
Notices
Release Bernadette
The classroom counter-revolution
Films
Where We Stand
Mom, Dad and the kinds on the home production line, struggling to make ends meet, by Bill Bayliss
The doctors’ dilemma – soaring salaries while the Health Service rots, by Gerry Dawson
Palestine: the bomb ticking beneath all Middle East rulers, by Moshe Avneri
Corruption is rife in the trawling industry, by an Aberdeen trawlerman
Cottons Column
Letters
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Campaign to fight the Tories, by the Editor
Docks pay insult: July strike to go ahead, by Harold Youd
The ‘snatch’ squad (cartoon), Evans
Chrysler workers walk out for £1 an hour
GEC strikers go back
Power station sparks strike over sackings
Times bosses to get tough with printing unions
Notices
Ulster: Tory law & order, by Sean Treacy
Magnificent Mersey!
Where We Stand
Dockers face mssive attack on jobs and conditions, by Harold Youd
The classroom counter-revolution 2
If Harold had got the date right ..., by Paul Foot
CS gas – the lethal gas used by the troops in Ulster, by Anna Paczuska
Building workers hit back at bosses and union brass, by Peter Latham
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How the British troops brought ‘peace’ to Ballymacarret, by George Collinson
Cambridge: Tories take off velvet glove, by the Editor
They laughed when he sat down at the piano – but then he started to play (cartoon), by Evans
‘No strings’ say engineers, by Ted Jones
Women workers lead fight for more pay
Sovex out for 7 weeks
Italy: unions call off strike as government goes, by Norah Carlin
[Notices]
Builders protest
Arms and troops: the two faces of Labour
Spread the dock strike now
The dockers’ fight is your fight
Where We Stand
Tory arms help to prop up South Africa’s racialist tyranny, by Basker Vashee
Shift work: danger to workers’ minds and bodies, by Rupert Martin
‘Productivity ... discipline’ – East, West, the language is the same, by Chris Harman
In memory of the martyrs
Cottons Column
At 56, ex-miner Joe Kenyon starts fighting the SS (interview)
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Communist Party a caricature of a socialist force, by an ex-member
Devon militants jeer Vic Feather at Tolpuddle Rally, by Granville Williams
Paynter links up with bosses (photo)
Chemical strikers beat bosses with ‘no strings’ rise
Builders arreated
Notices
[Printing and editorial staff taking summer holiday]
[National secretary of IS ill]
Ford workers walk out over bosses’ 10s penalty
Prices – the big lies, facts and figures, by Lionel Sims
Remember Czechoslovakia (photo)
Bombs – press hushes up the truth
Anger and despair for the ‘forgotten men’ of the mines, by John Charlton
Where We Stand
[Letter]
Leon Trotsky, by Duncan Hallas
Black curfew in W. London, by Ginny West
Cottons Column
Letter
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New Ottery battle over jobs
“The gear-box of that twenty-five tonner sounds a bit dodgy to me, Henry ...” (cartoon), by Evans
Long fight likely at Welsh metal works
Guard dogs threat to pickets
R-R draughtsmen locked out ocer no-strings claim
Secretary back
Strike as TGWU militant is sacked by car parts firm, by Dave Spencer
Notices
Urgent appeal to all readers, by the Editor
Fight to help the jobless, by Chris Davison
Pilkington-Russian link up
Soldiers must have union rights, by an ex-sailor
Where the money comes from, by Terry Ward
Where We Stand
Russian jackboots have crushed Czechs – but the problems remain, by Chris Harman
Appeal to save Nigerian paper from bosses’ attack
Agriculture
The Docks
Tory threats to cut strike pay, by Valerie Clark
Cottons Column
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Letter
Frank Keane, by the Editorial Board
Chrysler car workers fight track speed-up, by Steve Jefferys
Car workers must demand full pay guarantee
Wildcat bosses behind metal strike, by Les Pick
“Any more laughter in the court and I will deport the lot of you” (cartoon), by Evans
Seamen to black Pilkington Glass
Support grows for sacked convenor
Sackings deadlock at Ottermill
Stewards under attack by EETU
Notices
Mersey workers march to back arrested pickets
We did it!
Blackmail threat to strikers
New rents fight for London tenants
Frank Roche
Films
‘We are your enemies and we have the means to enforce the distinction’, by Charles Leinenweber
Why Brian Jones is giving up the land
Where We Stand
Fleet Street’s cuckoo sings, by Roger Protz
‘The scenery is lovely – but you can’t eat it’, by Granville Williams
Death of Amadeo Bordiga, by Anne Shuster
Harsh winter ahead for jobless, by John Palmer
Road to socialist unity
Cottons Column
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Official figures explode myth of ‘wages explosion’, by Jim Kincaid
Five days work or five days pay’ – GKN convenor
Birmingham Claimants Union members on picket duty (photo)
Welsh metals men out for a month in pay battle, by Jill Branston
Speed-up strike goes on
Clyde shipyard workers say no to strikes, by Peter Bains
Notices
Daily Mirror: Belt up!
Release Palestine prisoners
Militant May doesn’t mind a dust-up with the bosses (interview), conducted by Margaret Renn
Where We Stand
Crisis in Motors: 1, by John Setters
Big business profiteers put Irish fishermen’s jobs in jeopardy, by Damian Duffy
The hand-me-down world of Britain’s forgotten poor
‘Poor Elsie’ is making a bomb from eviction, by Paul Foot
Cottons Column
Government out to crush revolt of lower-paid workers, by Chris Davison
GKN strikers stick out for £8 10 and no strings, by John Setters
Masked sparks slate attack on militants
Alcoa strikers solid against ‘faceless moguls’, by Jill Branston
Notices
Young teachers demand fight for all-round rise, by Tony Clark
Rudi: fight Tory ban
Homeless families ready for battle of Arbour Square (photo)
Fewer jobs – but danger and sickness on the increase, interview with Fred Higgins, conducted by John Charlton
Where We Stand
Lively debates at international conference
Crisis in Motors: 3, by John Setters
Grapepickers win union fight, from News & Letters
Black in white Britain
Those bloody minded Tories, by Jim Kincaid
Guerrillas spotlight plight of hijacked Arabs, by Stephen Marks
Letters
Cottons Column
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Brighton – the hot air is lovely, by Raymond Challinor
Shell strikers out for 8 weeks over ‘strings’
Council workers – wage freeze (cartoon), by Evans
Mersey dockers enter the ring, by Ross Hill
Dave Edwards wins
Engineers share strike pay with sparks
Notices
EPTU expels 3 militants
Police evict firemen
Defend Arab Revolution, by Chris Harman
Dutschke march off
Harsh choice for Chile’s new president, by Steve Jefferys
The ginger men’s last stand, by Paul Foot
Where We Stand
Crisis in Motors: 3, by John Setters
Bacon boxes ro you, too ..., by a Manchester correspondent
Maggots and abuse – this is the dustman’s life, interview with Mike Crokes, conducted by Ginny West
[Letters]
Cottons Column
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Rolls-Royce technicians locked out for 10 months in pay battle, by Peter Bain
Miners angry over six weeks strike ballot
“Attack!” (cartoon), by Evans
Metal workers mount picket
‘Left’ and right union leaders unite to break GKN strike, by John Setters
May Hobbs sacked
Furniture workers lobby union
Notices
Pilkington strikers call for big St Helens march
Guerrillas not beaten as Hussein signs ‘truce’
Action not hot air, by the Editor
Rudi Dutschke launches appeal
How Israel aids persecution of Arabs and Jews, by Stephen Marks
Nasser – mourned by his enemies, by Chris Harman
Brainwashing the kids, by Audrey Kincaid
Swedish unions in barrle over bonus, by Rasmus Rasmussen
Crisis in Motors: 4, by John Setters
Left electricians mount big election challenge as union eitch-hunt grows, by an electrician
Council workers raise a stink on wages, by Bob Light
Cottons Column
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Big support for Pilkington ‘right to strike’ march
Barber gets out the tax clipper, by Jack Martin
Blue-white collar unity shakes bosses
Union officials kick their heels as Alcoa men men fight on, by Jill Branston
Storemen demand full union rights
Fork lift strike hits Fords
Technicians for ‘parity’ with draughtsmen
Notices
No union laws, by Roger Protz
When did you last see your wife? interview with Lynne Stevens, conducted by Valerie Clark
Letters
Where We Stand
Pilkingtons: ‘We admit we made mistakes. We have to learn from them ...’, interview with John Potter, conducted by Ginny West
Roving report, by Paul Foot
US giant on the warpath
Crackdown in Ulster – British left must act, by Jimmy Grealy
John Dos Passos, by Martin Tomkinson
Cottons Column
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Busmen ban overtime in bid to win a living wage, by Chris Davison
Miners leaders put strike action in jeopardy, by John Charlton
Hospital staff to back council strike
Engineering plants closed in fight for union rights
Notices
1,500 on march to back Pilkington men
Tories’ union attack hots up, by our industrial correspondent
Next week: We launch 8-page Socialist Worker
Bleak winter in Scotland as dole queue grow, by George Kelly
Where We Stand
Mr Carr’s ball and chain, by Peter Osborne
Danish workers take court action over strike fines, by Rasmus Rasmussen
Shadow-boxing union leaders threaten vital US car fight, by Karl Fischer, from Workers’ Action
Nixon’s Vietnam peace plan is election fraud, by Stephen Marks
Letters
Cottons Column
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Major print union splits – threat to workers’ unity, by a printworker
ICI engineers throw out prod deal
“We will not compromise with the Vietcong on principle ... until they win” (cartoon)
Closure hint at Cov-Rad
Miners’ vital ballot for strike action
Busmen stop work
Swansea metalsmen out for 10 weeks
Talks break down
McGarvey ends 3-week UCS strike by boilermakers
Challenge to strike laws, by SW Industrial Correspondent
Big Tory cuts in social services
Welcome back, Bernadette
[Editorials]
French Canada’s anger erupts, by Sean Treacy
Tin miners act as Bolivia swings to left, by Ian Birchall
Cost-cutting bridges behind builders’ deaths
Miners’ vital struggle, by John Charlton
Policy to fight Tories
Unions must fight to stop laws, interview with Mike Cooley, conducted by Dave Peers
What We Stand For
RR – bid to break DATA
Big Bill, by Wendy Henry
Roving report, by Paul Foot
The meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas
Seven Times Seven
TV
Cottons Column
Notices
Glassworkers appeal for cash
Troops may strike-break: Unions must aid council workers, by John Deason
Farmworkers demonstrated at the Ministry of Agriculture (photo)
Yorks busmen step up strike action
Union bid to gag printworkers, by a printworker
Alcoa strikers claim a victory
Its bloody Barberous
Chris Davison at Workers’ Control conference (photo)
‘Police are out to smash us’ – Black Panthers claim
[Editorials]
Police and dons launch big student crackdown
Tory welfare scheme will not aid the poor, by David Hebblethwaite
The Roots of Racialism (series), by Martin Tompkinson
Balfour – friend or foe? by Sabby Sagall
It’s the rich wot gets the gravy, by Kathy & Lionel Sims
What We Stand For
Why arms for Vorster aids rape of Black Africa, by Basker Vashee
Don’t be fooled by Tory icing, by Chris Davison
The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas
Letters
Seven Times Seven
TV
Cottons Column
Notices
Dustmen show way to victory
Big backing for militant battle over Tory laws, by Fred Hall
Miners’ fight must go on – danger of prod strings, by John Charlton
Closure threat for Christmas
The new management ... (cartoon), by Evans
Electricians’ union expels militant in ballot contest
Brewers call time
Printers to meet
Victory for DATA
Miners’ vital strike, by John Charlton
Ta very much, Tony Barber!
Tory rents policy is landlords’ charter
[Editorials]
Tory cuts will deepen poverty, by Jim Kincaid
Threat to children’s health, by Maureen Woodward
Bernadette, interview conducted by Sean Treacy
Union militancy and scandals rock Irish ‘green’ Tories, by Paul Gillespie
Murder in the city as profits kill the buses ..., by Chris Davison
What We Stand For
New pay battle looms at Ford, by Tom Langam & Sabby Sagall
The Roots of Racialism (series), by Martin Tomkinson
The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas
Seven Times Seven
TV
“We shall defend our rights to the end” (cartoon), by Evans
Cottons Column
Notices
Control key to miners’ victory
500 protest at police attack on black people, by Ginny West
‘No strings’ demand grows in ICI, by Dick Williams
Support for council workers brings Bristo to a halt, by Martin Barker
Scots strike over jobless
Cleaners sacked
Builders strike
TUC to back wage freeze?
Strike laws fight hots up
100,000 miners out
IS to hold conference on union laws
Printing union expels militant
Strike victory for women cleaners
[Editorials]
‘Why not join another union?’, by May Hobbs
Letters
Hong Kong workers get a taste of Tory medicine, by Celia Cunningham
Big strike wave rocks Spain, by a Special Correspondent
Smash Tory Anti-Union Laws
The Roots of Racialism (series), by Martin Tomkinson
The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas
Seven Time Seven
TV
“But the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes” (cartoon), by Evans
Cottons Column
Notices
Miners reject ‘go back’ call from ‘left’ leaders, by John Charlton
City Report, by Arthur Millium
Patchy turnout for Scots jobless strike, by Steve Jefferys
Opposition grows to to print union split
Battle for union rights
‘All out 8 December’, say 1,750 militants (photo), from Morning Star
More threats to jobs and pay
Tories get their priorities right
[Editorials]
Magazine men in jobs battle at the Mirror, by Bill MacGregor
[Letter]
Miners say union must be changed, by Ginny West
The union that fights for people with no jobs and little hope, interview with Joe Kenyon
What We Stand For
1906: when trade union MPs fought for the right to strike, by Paul Foot
Port employers not happy with early results of Devlin deal, by Dave Fish
The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas
Seven Times Seven
TV
Nature in November – a flight of managing directors to Bermuda for the winter (cartoon), by Evans
Cottons Column
Notices
Power station workers join pay fight, by Colin Barker
Rank and file set pace for all-out fight against Tories
[Tory Scrooge] (cartoon), by Evans
Correction
Strategy for socialists
Legal fund for Lawrence
Walkout halts scabbing at Fords
Rank and file unite to kill the bill!
[Editorials]
Angry PO men on the march, by Jim Higgins
[Letters]
The Lessons of the 1920s (series), by Sabby Sagall
Rank and file action key to defeat of Tory laws, by Dave Lawson
What We Stand For
New politics must spearhead the struggle, by Stephen Marks
Lawrence Daly on Socialist Worker’s ‘sad spectacle’, from Lawrence Daly
Mr Maudling’s nasty friends, by Paul Foot
The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas
Seven Times Seven
TV
Cottons Column
Notices
Builders out for two months
The taste of things to come in the High Court
ICI breaks agreement to push prod deal through, by Rob Clay
Students clash with police over traffic, by Emmett Grogan
Ford stewards link parity to Tory laws, by SW Industrial Correspondent
Electrician’s ballot
Ship cancelled
Newspapermen condemn agreement
Have you voted to strike yet ...?
Shut your coal hole!
Big interest in IS conference
[Editorials]
No speedup cut in GM pay deal, by Karl Fischer
Glassy-eyed millionaires, by Arthur Millium
What was that about workers’ violence? by Raymond Challinor
Tory cuts are threat to your teeth, by Michael Silver
What We Stand For
Disease: the scars the system leaves
Big jump in accidents, by Dr Gerry Dawson
Chile’s new president walks the tightrope, by Nigel Harris
The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas
Seven Times Seven
TV
Cottons Column
Notices
Electricians to vote in vital election
Getting shop stewards to jump through a hoop
8 December round-up
Layoffs hit Ford body plant
Notices
Women prepare
500,000 strikers say ‘no Tory laws’
Blackout blackmail – by the bosses
[Editorials]
Whitehaven disaster: whitewash for bosses
Dublin to intern political prisoners, by Sean Treacy
This grim and profitable land ... (survey), by Jim Kincaid
What We Stand For
MDW is ‘slavery’ says boss who brought it in
Parity begins at home ..., by Steve Jefferys
The Lessons of the 1920s (series), by Sabby Sagall
The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas
Seven Times Seven
TV
[Art & capitalism] (cartoon), by Evans
Cottons Column
Notices
Action councils get under way
Militants hammer out policy to defeat the Tories
Sacking threat by BLMC bosses
Morris say yes but PSF stick out;
General strike
Polish food price riots shake government, by Chris Harman
Christmas break
[Editorials]
Torres tuns to the workers, by Joan McKenna
Stock market blacklist against the ‘lame ducks’, by Arthur Millium
Inflation: Why prices are soaring – and your pockets are empty ..., by John Palmer
Choke or freeze to death – the ‘choice’ is yours, by Lionel Sims
Unity can beat Tory laws, by Ginny West
The Lessons of the 1920s (series), by Sabby Sagall
The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas
Seven Times Seven
TV
Cottons Column
Last word, from Lawrence Daly
Notices
AEUW [sic!] call for national strike
Strike demands shake union brass
‘Sold down the rivder’ – power men slam unions
Vicious smear on militant printworkers
Morris Motors: a correction
Last updated on 4 February 2021