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(1971)

No. 201, Jan 2, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Tories plan to plunder Health Service

Polish workers’ vital battles (photo)

Burgos sentences show Franco’s real face

[Editorials]

Why the workers fought in ‘people’s Poland’, by Chris Harman

Lynch law, by Dale Fox

Sack your scriptwriter, Vic, by Raymond Challinor

The Press, by Roger Protz

What We Stand For

The importance of being Edward ..., by Ginny West

When the shoe starts to pinch, by Yvonne Robinson

1950s: stewards force the pace, by Sabby Sagall

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Seven Times Seven

Letters

“This is only teporary, you understand ...” (cartoon), by Lisa Lyons, from Workers Power

TV

Cottons Column

Back-pedalling on January 12

Firemen fight Tories over pay and hours, by a fireman

Red Rudi – links with ‘subversives’, by Saul Foot

Yorks Communist split

Notices

Pay battle looms at Scots Chrysler, by Steve Jefferys

No. 202, Jan 9, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

TUC deal over Tory union bill

Release Angela Davis!

[Editorials]

Big pay fight at Chryslers, by Steve Jefferys

Union laws: mass action can rub them off the statute book

Bosses’ Europe or a socialist Europe, by John Palmer

What We Stand For

Dockers back 200 sacked at Pilkingtons, by Gerry Bold

Politics: key to defeat of Tories, by Sabby Sagall

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

[Impartial TV panel] (cartoon), by Evans

TV

Cottons Column

Power workers may act again

Grim start of the New Year for jobless in Hull

Tuesday: All out to kill Tory union threats

“Sorry, kid, they’ve had to economize. Your job’s been phased out” (cartoon), by Joe Byens

Notices

Angry newsmen slam sell-out role of leaders

No. 203, Jan 16, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

The fight must go on

Carr bomb scare

[Editorials]

Mass uprising shakes Franco

[Letter]

‘Robbing the state firms would hit at workers’ pay and militancy’, interview with Jim Higgins, conducted by Ginny West

High cost of a walk out, by John Thorpe, from Journalist

‘You don’t need graduates to teach stupid brats’ – noble lord said, by Michael Duane

What We Stand For

Ruthless sabotage that divided Europe’s unions, by Ian Birchall

Beethoven – magnificent revolutionary, by Sabby Sagall

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

[Nationalised industries – Private sector] (cartoon) by Evans

TV

Cottons Column

Notices

Journalists’ leader is censured

TUC rally: loos greet Wilson and Feather

Post Office workers next in pay firing line, by Dave Percival

Hull dockers keep ban on ‘black’ glass

Printworkers demonstrating outside Albert Hall (photo)

Dutschke: Tory action ‘worthy of McCarthy’ – IS statement

No. 204, Jan 23, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

3,000 march for Dutschke (photos)

Postmen’s fight is your fight

We must have cash

Police raid left film group

[Editorials]

Russia ‘threat’ is cover for Heath’s racialism, by W. Ewenla

Postmen shake off the past, by Dave Percival

[A celebration of comics], by Roger Protz

Imperialism: robbing and starving world, by Stephen Marks

What We Stand For

How Europe’s unions became a Cold War battleground ..., by Ian Birchall

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Wallop Popularity Polls (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Press lies over Ulster ‘terror’, by Eamonn McCann

Building boss defies call to take back sacked men, by Gerry Bold

Showdown ovder MDW hits Leyland Morris plant

‘Cinderellas’ strike for no-strings pay rise, by Vince Hall

Union leaders flay Tory bias at power enquiry

[Notices]

No. 205, Jan 30, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Postmen must win! by SW Industrial Reporter

New threat by Ulster right wing, by Sean Treacy

[Editorials]

Polish strikes hit shipyards and transport, by Chris Harman

Violent repression by Israel in Gaza Strip, from Israeli Socialist Organisation (Mazpen)

French socialists take step towards left-wing unity

On Strike

Blind justice: Frame-up and repression hit US left, by Edward Crawford

What We Stand For

Mopping up on the night cleaning front, by Fergus Nichol

The Law: built-in bias for bosses, by Raymond Challinor

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

[Postman being attacked by prices dog] (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Notices

AUEW anti-Bill strike call

Strike-bound bosses threaten to close plant, by Vince Hall

Tories tell Fords to stand firm on pay parity

Police arrest pickets at plastics firm

Kill the Bill march (photo)

3,500 walk out at oil site

300 pack CoA rally

Car conference

£5 at Linwood

[Notices]

No. 206, Feb 7, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Great fight back, by SW Industrial Correspondent

Oil: the forgotten people

[Editorials]

Czechs to try socialists for ‘conspiracy’, by Chris Harman

US-Russian pressure for new Middle East carve-up, by Stephen Marks

Letter

The Mafia go to hospital, by Arthur Malone

It is happening here ...

Repression is on the increase. You may not be aware of it ... yet, by Ginny West

On trial – for bringing a whiff of Derry to parliament, by Brian Trench

What We Stand For

How the TUC came in from the cold ..., by Mike Caffoor

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

“Wait till that Vic Feather comes home ...” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Power workers on brink

Post strikers firm as Chataway puts on the 9d ‘frighteners’, by Dave Percival

Ford: No more cars until we get pay parity, by Colin Beadle

Notices

No. 207, Feb 14, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Make 21 February a great ‘kill the Bill’ day

N. Ireland: Army provokes violence

Strikers fight is for the ‘public’

[Editorials]

Unionist panic sparks Belfast murder wave, by Sean Treacy

Letter

Cut-throats in crisis, by Dave Buttrick

Uproar at STUC over call to amend the Tory Bill, by John Devenport

Eastern Europe: ‘communism’ vs. workers, by Chris Harman

What We Stand For

TUC knights back Labour’s wage freeze, by Mike Caffoor

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

Cinema

TV

Cottons Column

Captain Swing at the Penny Gaff

Wilberforce toes Tory party line

Postal strikers fight on, by Dave Percival

European solidarity action backs Ford strikers, by Colin Beadle

6,000 on anti-Bill march

Notices

Militant car workers plan grass-roots paper

No. 208, Feb 20, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Kill the Bill – Kick out the Tories

[Editorials]

Threat to jobs by Wilberforce, by Wally Preston

Letter

Tory ‘aliens’ Act is new move to split workers’ unity, by Ginny West

There are branches in these areas

On strike 9 months

Throw a spanner in Tory anti-union works, by Duncan Hallas

Petition won’t kill the bill, by John Setters

‘The Scabs’ Charter would take power from the shop floor’, interview with Stan Starkey

Rank and file strength must have official backing

Overtime and shift work are increasing as ‘prod’ deals bite, by Audrey Kincaid

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

[Rehearsal scene from Unity Theatre ...] (photo)

Cottons Column

Support grows for AUEW call

Police arrest pickets

Industrial alliance must back post strikers, by Dave Percival

Poly students say. Kick out Smith’s stooge

Notices

No cracks at Ford, by Colin Beadle

No. 209, Feb 27, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

We can win!

[Editorial]

It’s up for grabs: Chataway plans to sell telephones to Tory private profiteers, by Paul Foot

Rank and file unity can win key fight for parity, by Ginny West & Sabby Sagall

Letter

TV: How to beat the built-in bias, by Nicholas Garnham

What We Stand For

Marxist voice from a fascist jail, by Anne Shuster

Tories aim tzo smash shop-floor strength, interview with Don Cook

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

“I see. Well, I’ll try anything once ...”] (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Ford strikers rattle bosses

UPW needs solidarity action, by Dave Percival

Shock jump in living costs is ne threat to pay, by John Setters

Trafalgar Square on 21 February (photo)

Roche joins Irish political prisoners, by Brian Trench

Poly students start sit-in

Notices

No sell-out – teachers, by Duncan Hallas

March backs strikers

No. 210, Mar 6, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Striking engineers boost anti-Tory Fight (photo)

Fighting unity of unions is vital

New landlords’ charter will force up rents

RUC bully boys behind fresh Ulster violence, by Brian Trench

Letter

I’m a trade union MP elected to do a job for the labour movement, interview with Eric Heffer, MP, conducted by Roger Protz & Roger Rosewell

Rudi Dutschke: an interview that the Daily Mirror refused to print, conducted by Jim Render

What We Stand For

State firms: bosses’ milch cows or workers’ control, by Sabby Sagall

Mid-East talks cover up for Hussein’s role

New tax threat, by Lionel Sims

The ABC of Socialism, by Ian Birchall & Richard Kuper

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Cottons Column

Notices

Call to stop S. African coal

TUC programme will not defeat Tories’ bill, by SW Industrial Reporter

TGWU to ban all prod deals

Unions no to to Fords, by Colin Beadle

Railmen press for action on pay claim

Women march

No. 211, Mar 13, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

No retreat

Big turnout for women’s march (photo)

Czech socialists on trial, by Chris Harman

[Editorials]

Print unions swallow lies at Daily Mail, by Roger Protz

Women marchers stress need for union action over equal pay, by Irene Bruegel

[Letters]

Maudling’s race bill: please Powell and split the workers, by Paul Foot

Paris 1871: When the workers ruled, by Laurie Flynn

What We Stand For

How old boy’s [sic!] network milked Rolls Royce, by Martin Barker

Banning the tally man won’t free working women ..., by Kathy Sims

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Cinema

“Enoch is right about the blacks” – “– and the workers” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

New retreat by TUC leaders: offer to help curb wage rises

Rail talks hit pay deadlock

Union alliance is key lesson from post collapse, by Dave Percival

Demands

Closure threat by Ford to split strikers, by Colin Beadle

No. 212, Mar 20, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

A general strike can kill the Tory bill – we have the power to win!

After the Commune ..., by Laurie Flynn

Shadow of the 30s: unemployment is a declaration of class war ..., by Dave Peers

When the future government met in Hyde Park

Tory welfare cuts mean more hardshipfor the poor, by Jim Kincaid

What We Stand For

Misery of the slums ..., by Ginny West

Race bill: Move to split solidarity of the workers, by Mike Caffoor

What next if the Tories are beaten? by John Palmer

Why ‘prod’ deals must be resisted, by Roger Rosewell

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Book Trade, by Barry Hugill

“Hurry up smear – or the truth about Fords may catch up with us ...” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

50 engineers strike against anti-union American combine

Rail unions must act in unison, by John Field

‘We’re not bluffing’ strikers tell top Ford bosses, by Colin Beadle

Kill the Bill march demands (photo)

Ulster deaths used to mark real issues, by Sean Treacy

Tyne workers raise cash

Apartheid ship banned

Notices

Union blacking for striking technicians

March against Race Bill

No. 213, Mar 27, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

N. Ireland: worker unity holds the key, by Chris Harman

5,000 condemn Bill, by Mike Caffoor

Jail for Czech socialists

[Editorials]

Turmoil shakes Pakistan rulers, by Nigel Harris

Rank and file have lost a battle – but they can still win the war, by Duncan Hallas

Engineering employers secret plan to dodge equal pay for women

What We Stand For

Solid front down in Southampton, interview with Rupert Martin, conducted by John Molyneux

Design for revolution, by Robin Fior

Silence in court – for anti-union, Tory judges, by a socialist barrister

Foreign firms bleed Ireland, by Dale Fox

Letters

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Cottons Column

Rail union calls work to rule but disunity threatens wages campaign

Sell-out by power unions

Ford-Vauxhall unity can win key parity fight, by Colin Beadle

[Rank and file trade unionists lobbied TUC special conference] (photo)

Notices

Poly sit-in ends on militant note

Police attack protestors at Heath meeting

Thanks from S. Africa

Press ban on union advertisement

Correction

No. 214, Apr 3, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

E. Pakistan – Yahya’s massacre, by Nigel Harris

Strike pay: a new threat to workers’ families, by Lionel Sims

Big march counters fascist rally (photos)

[Editorials]

Big strike wave as Nigeria jails 2 union leaders, by Wenda Clenaghen

Letters

TUC says wages must rise slowly to help profits, by Alan Woodward

Redundancies swell dole queues in the South West

You can break the law – if you are an employer, by John Setters

What We Stand For

Plight of Britain’s working poor, by Valerie Clark

What really happened in Tudor England, by David East

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Cottons Column

Barber budget pleases bosses

‘We are staying out’ – no cracks in Ford strike, by Colin Beadle

Pay deadlock for DATA is warning for engineers

Pickets at Auto Tools, Birmingham (photo)

‘Left’ power unions help wages defeat, by Colin Barker

Notices

No. 215, Apr 10, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Millions face big jump in cost of living, by Chris Harman

The Easter Bunny will visit only the rich this year

Cooper breaks ranks

[Editorials]

Barber: Toast of the Jaguar belt, by Lionel Sims

Getting round SS bill

Bosses’ narks keep watch on shop steward action, by Roger Rosewell

Ireland: Centuries of oppression

What We Stand For

The Real Tudor England (part 2), by David East

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

The Aliens Bill – its old English granny (cartoons), by Evans

Cottons Column

ICI stewards want action

Ford: Jones & Scanlon pushed ‘no strike’ deal, by John Setters

Move to end split in rail unions, by John Field

Notices

Maintenance me locked out by tobacco combine, by Bob Carter

No. 216, Apr 17, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Sackings step up jobless total

Hard-up Liz finds it tough on £475,000 a year

Britain aids terror in Ceylon

[Editorials]

Ghana strikers killed by cops of UK combine, by Wenda Clenaghen

Hong Kong campaign to lift ban on Chinese language, from Free Hong Kong

Black revolutionary faces extradition from Sweden to face trial in USA

When unions broke the law – in order to exist ..., by Raymond Challinor

What makes prices rise, by Chris Harman

Are you a ‘Don’t know’?

The police and the death of Stephen McCarthy, by John Telfair

Pollution: a thret to our survival, by Dale Fox

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

“– and how long has Pussy been a member of the Society for Cutting Up Dogs?” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

GMWU breaks glass pledge, by Gerry Caughey

Get tough policy at Ford, by John Pinder

Unions and bosses in secret deal at Chrysler, by John Setters

Recruits help strengthen IS

CP help NUT leaders of [sic!] the pay hook

Notices

No. 217, Apr 24, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Spectre of the 1930s haunts dole queue, by Duncan Hallas

Russian planes aid terror in Ceylon

[Editorials]

‘Socialists’ hit out at workers, by Rohini Banaji

Big boom for stock market, by Arthur Millium

Fine Tubes: 44 weeks on strike, by Frank Clark

‘Left’ saves NUT leaders on Tory Bill

Greece: Four years of the colonels’ dictatorship

What We Stand For

Oriental Jews protest over Israeli status, by a special correspondents

How the West was really won, by Colin Bailey

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

The paper tiger ... (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Collumn

Wome strikers out for 8 weeks

Miltants shake NUJ leaders

‘Liaison’ conference must step up fight on Bill, by SW industrial correspondent

Tobacco men demand rights (photo)

Tyne shipyard men strike for parity

Railmen must stop retreat over wages, by John Field

Notices

No. 218, May 1, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

May Day ’71 – fight Tory offensive

V&G: a scandal in high places, by Paul Foot

[Editorials]

Fake Marxists aid repression of Ceylon left, by Edward Crawford

Letters

Big threat to steel jobs, by Peter Ingham

Railmen need militant policy to stop sackings, by John Field

Aid policy that robs Third World, by Martin Tomkinson

What We Stand For

Killing the Bill: film that speaks for the shop floor, by Martin Shaw

When the men of property killed the king, by Norah Carlin

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

“He’s just a harmless pet!” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Corner

PO bosses’ get-tough policy, by Martin Auton

‘Binding agreements’: Jenkins bows to Tory Bill

Crackdown hits Halewood, by John Pinder

No truck with union laws says meeting

Notices

No. 219, May 8, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Where’s your writ, Du Cann? by the Editor

Tories’ attack hits pay and children’s health

United May Day march (photo)

15,000 join revolutionaries in France

[Editorials]

Franco starts new attack on left in Spain

Danish strikers defy the law, by Rasmus Rasmussen

Letter

World War 2: the ‘Home Front’ battle against Labour and Tory anti-union laws, by Raymond Challinor

Barbican bosses want a strike, by Arthur Malone

What We Stand For

Big business kills the dream of Covent Garden, by Paul Foot

Cromwell and the Civil War, by Norah Carlin

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Following price increases 500,000 children have stopped having school meals (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

The great shipping scandal

Tyne parity fight goes on, by Dave Peers

Leyland locks out 2,000 in bonus row

Scab phone service if breakdown over engineers’ pay

Steel sackings boost Teesside crisis, by Fred Pearson

Strikers get poor support from GMWU

Notices

Ford engineers condemn Scanlon

Support for Fine Tubes

No. 220, May 15, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Tory Bill: danger of union surrender, by Duncan Hallas

Paper you can’t afford to miss

Sit-in strike by Renault car workers

[Editorials]

Currency crisis: new threats to jobs and wages, by John Palmer

[Letters]

One law fro richt crooks, another for the low paid, by Paul Foot

Death at sea: scandal of flags of convenience ..., by Roger Rosewell

What We Stand For

Cromwell and the Civil War, by Norah Carlin

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

High finance – the game takes over (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Mirror mags strike demand

Victory for Dundee women, by John Clossick

Labour-Tory unity on wages while profits boom, by John Setters

Sack for metal workers to boost firm’s profits

The General and Municipal Workers Union has decided to register ... (cartoon)

TGWU conference call for strike on Bill

Queen’s Award workers face threat of sack, by Hugh Kerr

NUR takes 9%

Maintenance workers ... at Carreras

Notices

No. 221, May 22, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Renault sit-in strike coes on (photo)

Unemployment grows as Tories step up the attack

[Editorial]

Letters

Renault strikers shake France, by Richard Kirkwood

The big crackdown at Ford

Clean round the bend ..., from Pak-o-Lies

Waste, by Laurie Flynn

What We Stand For

Profits or death: the new Tory ‘choice’, by Martin Barker

Electricians: The fight for union control by the members, interview with an EETU member, conducted by Sabby Sagall

Ideas in Society (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

“Of course life won’t be worse for British low-paid workers in the Common Market ... How could it be worse?” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Jackson covers up for collapse of of Post Office Union strike, by Roger Rosewell

Strikers declared ‘redundant’, by Tony Bywater & Dick Wigham

Victory near for tobacco men

Pay battle at car parts firm

Notices

Power workers fight threat to their jobs

No. 222, May 29, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Police hound young blacks

Official – Prices outstrip wages 2–1

Shoot to kill Ulster order

[Editorials]

Move to settle Renault strike

Radioactive waste use by US building industry, by Laurie Flynn

Fight to save steel town

‘A pint please ... and could I see your union card ...?’ by Vince Hall

New Tory threat to grab benefits of workers on strike, by Jim Kincaid

What We Stand For

Grim farce of ‘justice’ in N. Ireland, by Brian Trench

Bradford left unites to fight threat from racialists, by Neil Patterson

DATA ready for battle with bosses

Ideas in Society (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Cottons Column

R-R strike backs Fine Tubes

‘Nazi tactics’ by Hull bosses

Big rush to register by key right wing unions, by Roger Rosewell

Employers call for ne wage freeze

“Yes, it is big – it’s a dole Q ...” (cartoon), by Evans

Aircraft men out for a month over sackings

Notices

Black-Police Mersey talks dodge issue, by Steve Emms

The Foundryworkers’ section of the Engineering Union ...

No. 223, Jun 5, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Only way to fight the Tories: Steel men take the lead

What hope for her in London’s Notting Hill ... (photo)

[Editorials]

Troops step up get-tough policy, by Brian Trench

Their Week

Jarrow: failure of a great crusade, by Dave Peers

One strike the Mirror backed, by David East

G&M: union that’s a stepping stone stone to the House of Lords, by Roger Rosewell

What We Stand For

Industrial misconduct – the ‘crime’ that stops benefit to the jobless, by Jim Kincaid

Education bosses look to industry for new attack on students, by Pete Glatter

Ideas in Society (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Book

H.R.H. 1971 Charity Walk (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Pilkington sack militant

Big fight looms as Coventry talks fail

The brutal truth about Notting Hill, by John Setters

[Notices]

McGarvey backs bosses in ship crisis

[Notices]

No. 224, Jun 12, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

[World hunger]

New get tough call to bosses by Tories

[Editorial]

‘The vice of imperialism and the stranglehold of capitalism has created the holocaust of Bengal’, by Nigel Harris

Their Week

Dockers face threats from ‘inshore sharks’, interview with Colin Ross

The Cornfeld Saga: Do you sincerely want to be swindled? by Paul Foot

What We Stand For

Hanratty: the legal framework that led an innocent man to the gallows (book review), by Laurie Flynn

The brutal face of South Africa that Lord George won’t be shown, by W. Enda

French strikes go on

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

[Missing title] (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Move for public sector unity

Steel strike: no effort to mobilise rank and file

Call for action to aid jobless

[Missing article]

Mirror mags journalists vot to strike over pay

Bengalis on the march

[Delegates to the annual conference of the POEU ...]

Notices

No. 225, Jun 19, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Clyde carve-up, by Peter Bain

Bengal: the guilty men ...

[Editorials]

This Week in and around Pakistan

Railmen join in French strikes

[Letters]

Pay fight ahead for the miners, by John Charlton

In the City, by Arthur Millum

The eat and swill brigade have a laugh at the unemployed, by Arthur Malone

What We Stand For

T.U.C. Debates 1926, by Philip Evans

Facts not enough to fight the Tories, by Alan Woodward

Coventry engineers to defend their pay agreement

Ideas in Society (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Oil slick (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

IPC journalists vote to strike

Ford men walk out to back steward, by Steve Emms

Engineers to fight bill – face threat of heavy fines

GKN craftsmen out 10 weeks in pay battle

Fine Tubes out for a year (photo)

Kent call for action council to tackle Bill, by John Field

[Notices]

Backing from transmissions

Notices

No. 226, Jun 26, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Jobs: 100,000 Scots show how to fight

Bengal – new attack, by Nigel Harris

Jenkins bans out reporter, by Roger Rosewell

[Editorials]

Their Week, compiled by Michael Kidron

Fascists gain in Italian elections, by Norah Carlin

[Letters]

UCS men determined on sit-in, by Peter Bain

Halewood: ‘hate tactics’ against the shop floor, by a TGWU steward

How Metal Box put the lid on 500 jobs down in Suffolk, by R.K. Nelson

What We Stand For

Cleaning racket report cover up in PIB report, by Fergus Nicol

Lives put at risk as bosses cut back on bridge safety, by a special correspondent

Ideas in Society (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

[Telly viewing] (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Carr’s code hits at shop floor

Dockers’ strikes hit back at Devlin scheme, by Harold Youd

‘Don’t register’ – ASTMS vote is snub for Jenkins

Out of the Common Market – in the Common Market (cartoon), by Evans

Power workers plan campaign

Southwest call for action to help jobless, by Kitty Williams

[Notices]

No. 227, Jul 3, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

UCS men ready for sit in

Murder for profit in Asbestos plants, by Laurie Flynn

Prices jump – and to come worse

[Editorials]

Their Week

Sell out threat as Tories talk with Rhodesia, by W. Enda

Repression in Mexico – to please American big business, by Mike Gonzalez

Kirkby: the fight starts here ..., by Gerry Cordon

What We Stand For

‘A powerful and challenging marxist book’, from Times Literary Supplement

No fight from ‘Confed’ leaders, by Roger Rosewell

Ideas in Society (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Cinema

White supremacy Rhodesian style (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Steel call for plant takeover

Tough demands from white collar workers

Militants’ blacklist in crackdown by employers

Stay-up protest by victimised striker (photo)

Politics vital in jobs fight

Journalists take £220

Call for big drive in unions on equal pay

Notices

No. 228, Jul 10, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Bernadette: At last the press takes an interest ...

Tories’ price swindle

Yahya fails to crush Bengalis, by Nigel Harris

[Editorials]

Clyde butchery by top Tory profiteers, by Roger Rosewell

Their Week in Indonesia

German workers start to show their strength, by James Wickham

Letters

Fascism: Big business’s knuckleduster, by Chris Harman

What We Stand For

‘Likely candidates for an outrage’, by Martin Tomkinson

It’s time to start shouting, by Chris Davison

Farm worker evicted by Middle Ages’ law, by Brian Trench

Ideas in Society (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

More Letters

Cinema

Licensing hours may be lengthened (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

NUM leaders get off pay hook

Crisis hits British Communists, by Fred Hall

Public sector unions may unite on wage claims, by SW industrial correspondent

Bosses’ ‘choice’: the sack or short-time, by Vince Hall

Fife unions launch drive over jobless

Notices

No. 229, Jul 17, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Tories lie over Derry killings, by Eamonn McCann

Rents: Blueprint to soak council tenants

[Editorials]

Their Week in Europe

Britain aids US Army witchhunt, by Chris Hitchens

[Letters]

‘Workers need a new party to lead struggle for a socialist society’, interview with Mike Cooley, conducted by Roger Rosewell

Europe: The market is a bosses’ market. European workers must unite to fight the menace, by Tony Polan

What We Stand For

Fascism: Big business’s knuckleduster, by Chris Harman

Whizz-kid management turns the screw on workers

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

The Tories are to ‘hive off’ the gas industry (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Breakdown in key talks on Coventry agreement

Rail union to boycott the Bill, by John Field

GKN Combine launches attack on shop stewards

Strikers out 11 weeks act to stop scabbing by ASTMS

2,000 on Civil Rights march (photo)

Elliott men unite to stop victimisation

ICI stewards hear of sackings threat

Notices

No. 230, Jul 24, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Wage threat after budget fraud, by John Palmer

Jailed – for being poor

Page one comment, by Evans

Arab guerrilla’s face reign of terror from Hussein’s army, by Chris Harman

Belfast walkout shows sham of Stormont

[Editiorial]

Nixon’s China trip: attempt to use Peking to extend and preserve grip of US imperialism, by Nigel Harris

Their Week

Orange backlash forces Northern Ireland Tories further to the right, by Brian Trench

Letters

Fascism: Big business’s knuckleduster, by Jill Branston

What We Stand For

The politics of pornography, by Gerry Dawson

McCarthy family fight on against legal lies, by John Telfair

The Communist Party and the Common Market

Ideas in Society (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

No. 4 (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Rebel airman flown to US, by R.K. Nelson

Crunch near on Clyde – workers ready for occupation, by Peter Bain

Employers’ bid to crush DATA

Reyrolle labourers vote to strike

Notices

No. 231, Jul 31, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Clyde on brink, by Peter Bain

2,000 at rally for Bangla Desh (photo)

New army attacks in N. Ireland, by Brian Trench

Butchery in Sudan

[Editorials]

This Week in the East

Letters

Workers were first target for Yahya’s bloody massacre in Bangla Desh, interview with Abdul Mannan, conducted by Stephen Marks

Dairy farmers butter up Tories to kill free school milk, by Jim Kincaid

What We Stand For

Fascism: The Spanish Civil War, by Jill Branston

Maxwell report takes the lid off big business’s real methods, by Roger Rosewell

Ideas in Society (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

“But if we gave our employees longer holidays they’d only idle them away ...” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Genocide in Bangla Desh

Disaster faces Doncaster, by John Grime

Tory figures hide truth on jobs crisis, by John Palmer

Reyrolle vote to drop strike

March on race Bill (photo)

DATA men locked out

Right to work campaign by Pilkington men, by Gerry Bold

Notices

No. 232, Aug 7, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

UCS occupation shows the way, by Peter Bain

Police assault Fine Tubes pickets (photo)

Tyne strikes

[Editorials]

Lessons from German strike, by James Wickham

Tortured prisoners in S. African trial, from Amnesty International

Nigerian socialists ask for help

A million on the dole unless fight back starts now, by Dave Peers

Fascism: The Spanish Civil War, by Jill Branston

Letters

Demand for TUC action on the Bill

Tool room struggle continues, by Eddie McClusky

Plymouth strikers attacked by police, by Kitty Williams

Leaders flout union policy

20,000 demonstrate for Bangla Desh (photo)

Two victimised

Notices

Workers resist sackings at Doncaster ICI, by John Grime

No. 233, Aug 14, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Militancy way to beat UCS sackings, by our Industrial Correspondent

Tories and army unleash Belfast terror

[Editorials]

The sordid of Wedgwood Benn, by Paul Foot

OZ: turning point for the underground? by Daved Widgery

Inside the yards men determined to fight, by Roger Rosewell

FIS – new Tory means test

Fascism: Big business’s knuckleduster, by Chris Harman

Employment office occupied

Steelmen demand full rise, by Rob Clay

GMWU leaders plot to end Tyne struggle

Workers at Plessey protest at carve-up

Notices

Special issue on Ireland, Aug 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Release all prisoners – withdraw the troops

Republicans and socialists in urgent need of funds

The law Vorster admires

Troops – the real Ulster terrorists

No. 234, Aug 21, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

 

No. 235, Aug 28, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Don’t sell UCS to scrap man, by Steve Emms

22 Labour MPs support inquiry into internment, by Paul Foot

George Jackson

[Editorials]

Their Week on Nixon’s Crisis

Unions defy move to freeze wages and ban strikes, by Laurie Landy

Tory ‘gunboat diplomacy’ – by a Labour government ..., by Ian Birchall

Scientists condemn use of CS gas and rubber bullets in N. Ireland, by David East

Latin America: continent that faces collapse, by Juan McIver

What We Stand For

Trades council moves to stop swindle of unemployed youth, by Brian Ebbatson

‘The labour movement must act now – our situation is desperate’, by Orla Farrell

Ideas in Society (series), by Duncan Hallas

Ousted Torres finds refuge but no hiding for masses in Bolivia, by a special correspondent

TV

Cottons Column

Engineers face tough battle

‘Link up with UCS’ is Fife GEC call

Plessey shutdown – big fight by workers

Round-the-clock picket to stop Essex sackings

Rally against union act (photo)

Air cutbacks threaten jobs in south west

Jobless workers picket

Notices

No. 236, Sep 4, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Action needed to help jobless, by Chris Harman

The Professional Terrorists – British troops out of Ireland (poster)

Picket army offices against brutality, by Brian Trench

[Editorials]

Their Week in Islamabad

Letters

The milk has turned sour in Devlin’s ‘land of plenty’ for dockers, by Bob Light & Pete Turner

Blue pencil for ‘red’ films, by Christopher Hitchens

From Jarrow to Clydebank, by Roger Rosewell

What We Stand For

Police at work: ‘the law is not for black bastards’, by Bas Hardy & Roger Cray

Ireland’s History of Repression, by James Walker

Ideas in Society (series), by Duncan Hallas

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Another terrorist in Northern Ireland ... (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Pressmen fight censorship

Miners strike over ‘schoolboy’ wagers, by Martin Shaw

TUC plan for Clyde will not save jobs, by Roger Rosewell

Fife workers act to battle at GEC

Notices

No. 237, Sep 11, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Fight-back grows against sackings

Danger of Heath-Lynch deal on Ireland, by Eamonn McCann

[Editorial]

Letters

Their Week

Sit-in strikes that beat bosses’ plans, by Tony Wild

Scab force out to wreck site unions, by Peter Hitchens

What We Stand For

Wave of arrests rocks Italy, by Mike Balfour

Police state fears in Ceylon after end of revolt, by Ranjith Mendis

The great rent racket, by Ray Challinor

Ireland’s Histor of Repression, by James Walker

Why the white racialists greet Banda, by W. Enda

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

“Unemployment is now almost a million ... – ... and one” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

TUC: sham battle on the Act

‘Sparks’ fight the unholy alliance, by Dave Peers

BAC: Lightning strikes over 1,600 sackings

One-day toolrooms strike hits 140 firms, by John Wilkin

Support flows in for Ulster inquiry, by Jimmy Grealy

Notices

No. 238, Sep 18, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Free milk: force Labour councils to defy Tory ban

Police threat to Plessey occupation

Bernadette Devlin, MP, says

[Editorials]

Khrushchev: Why nobody mourns, by Chris Harman

Their Week

‘Left’ leaders leave a bolt hole open on union, by Paul Foot

ETU elections – heads I win, tails you lose ..., by an electrician

What We Stand For

Private nursing racket is milking Health Service funds

‘Please, miss, can I go to the Boer War slum in the playground?’ by Peter Hitchens

Ireland’s History of Repression, by James Walker

Labour Committee against Internment

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

“This independent enquiry has been set up to look at allegations of army brutality ...” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Victory for Lucas engineers, by Roger Rosewell

Site workers strike after two sacked

Black GEC call in bid to halt closure

Boilermakers eight weeks without any strike pay

Alcan dispute grows, by Dave Peers

Double blow as 12,000 workers join big walk-out

Notices

No. 239, Sep 25, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

This is Tory Britain

Ulster – new ‘get tough’ moves, by Eamonn McCann

[Editorials]

Attica – bloody spotlight on America’s jails, by Christopher Hitchens

Letters

[Correction]

Their Week

For Mary Whitehouse, a dole queue is not obscene – unless the workers take their clothes off ..., by Peter Hitchens

Tory pensioners fraud means rich pickings for businessmen, by Jim Kincaid

Sit in! by Roger Rosewell

What We Stand For

‘Union Jack’ Lynch – has he reached a deal with Heath? by Brian Trench

Ireland’s History of Repression, by James Walker

Government bid to crush Ghana’s unions, by Wenda Clenaghen

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Prohibition 1971. The “Thatcher Squad” destroys a consignment of bootleg milk and straws ... (cartoon), by Phil Evans

Cottons Column

Stewards refuse to be bribed

400 out at engines factory

Press lockout – print unions must unite

Family firm that aims to smash the unions, by Dave Peers

Pickets clash with blacklegs

Notices

Work on Concorde may be blacked

No. 240, Oct 2, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Empty talks on Ulster, by Brian Trench

Tory lies

Julian Amery knows about bad houses – he owns some of them ...

[Editorials]

Banda backs Portugal’s white supremacy, by Peter Hitchens

Letters

Their Week

‘Football violence reflects workers’ anger and frustration’, interview with Paddy Crerand, conducted by Bob Whitehead & Keith Cash

Car bosses use disabled workers as blackmail, by Steve Emms

Colonialism is alive and well and living in Hong Kong, by J. Walker

What We Stand For

The day the council decided to go to jail, by Raymond Challinor

Ireland’s History of Repression, by James Walker

‘Hitleriana’ – one piece of pornography the puritans aren’t marching against, by Roy Bainton

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Teacher’s pet (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Birmid victory on sackings

Supervisors need shop-floor backing, by Viv Hopkins

Tories prepare for Clydeside showdown, by Steve Jefferys

Children storm council in free milk project

Concorde men strike again to save their jobs

Solidarity picket

Brewery men march

Notices

No. 241, Oct 9, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

The real spies

Harold Heath goes to the sea ...

Builders rap ‘lump’ (photo)

Labour cover up on Long Kesh

[Editorials]

Converting Labour: Where Tribune left goes wrong, by Anthony Arblaster

Letters

Their Week

Last year 556 people were killed at work – why, by Laurie Flynn

American dockers fight profit-hungry port bosses, by Robert Battle, from Workers Power

Zinoviev’s letter – the greatest Tory ‘red spy’ scare of them all, by Peter Hitchens

What We Stand For

Pensions plan: workers foot the bill while shares shoot up, by Jim Kincaid

Wobbly look at Joe the Wobbly, by Laurie Landy

Ireland’s History of Repression, by James Walker

Death of I.P. Hughes – the revolutionary who never lost heart ..., by Ross Hill

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

Press

More Letters

“With your two million votes, Henry, we could elect a working-class which put up with our policies ...” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Tories demand surrender by Clydeside stewards, by George Kelly

Mangrove 9 – victims of police harassing

Plessey: Combine may back occupation, by Steve Jefferys

Shop floor leader sacked by union on trumped-up charge, by Dave Peers

Fitter dies of burns

Notices

No. 242, Oct 16, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Whatever happened to free speech

Miners face big wages battle, by Dick Wiliams

Tory smokescreen on ‘law and order’, by Paul Foot

Revolutionaries released from jail in Poland, by Peter Hitchcock

[Editorials]

Iran jamboreecovers up for Shah’s brutal regime, by Chris Harman

Letters

The big Tory steel grab, by John Fontaine & Sarah Benton

Backwoods battle against a union-basher, by Dave Peers

How they keep wages down on the farm, by Roger Rosewell

What We Stand For

Red Moscow – with Lenin at the helm ..., by Ian Birchall

N. Ireland: ‘Orange backlash’ threatens more sectarian strife

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

How the press lies on Ireland, by Mike Heym

Humour 1971:– A pensioner asks for a piece of steak (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Full backing for Alexandria

PSF strike wards off sackings

Sit-in strike only way to smash a union deal at UCS, by Peter Bain

Birmingham gets tough on the ‘lump’

BR plan to chop 5,000 jobs in key rail workshops, by John Field

BSA: 3,000 to go

500 in IS debate

Notices

No. 243, Oct 23, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

The Tory torturers, by Paul Foot

UCS: stewards retreat, by Steve Jefferys

Anger sweeps the mines over NCB pay insult, by Garvin Reed

[Editorials]

Guerrillas shake grip of Portugal in West Africa, by Polly Gaster

Letters

BSA sackings: Brum recalls Hungry ’30s

Knees up in the scrum ..., by David East

Spike, by Ron Knowles

Three Years, by Eamonn McCann

What We Stand For

Suez: Gunboat diplomacy ends with a whimper, by Ian Birchall

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

Have you made up your mind about the Common Market? (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Railmen to fight jobs threat, by John Field

New rules give union leaders a let-out

8,000 locked out in wages battle

Orangemen attack pro-Irish march

New structure for women’s lib mov ement, by Sandra Peers

Brum builders are solid in fight to smash the ‘lump’, by Joe Quigley

Drivers fight for rights

600 at IS rally

Sackings at Trianco

Notices

No. 244, Oct 30, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Fight for jobs top priority for the unions

20,535

March against brutality, by Brian Trench

[Editorials]

Key tussle for democracy in ETU, by Laurie Flynn

Miners ready for strike to fight pay insult by the Coal Board, by a Yorkshire miner

Journalists in crucial talks on new union, by Roger Protz

When the balloon went up over rubber knickers, by Roy Bainton

What We Stand For

This is siege city ..., by Roger Rosewell

Hungary ’56: Workers’ councils – threat to ‘socialist regime’, by Chris Harman

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

“Stop – or I’ll fire” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

New lockout in toolroom row

Engineers strike for union rights, by Anna Paczuska

Blackleg Jenkins keeps the Tories in power, by Paul Foot

400 on march back struggle in Bangla Desh, by Joe Wright

Sparks thrown out after sit-in protest over scab foremen, by Viv Hopkins

Action call on Ireland

TGWU accepts dock offer

Notices

R-R action over bonus dispute

No. 245, Nov 6, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Withdraw troops, end internment say 20,000

Strike on 24 Nov to back jobless

[Death of Peter Graham]

Bigger, better, brighter paper

Airport men stay out

[Editorial]

How Mirror’s Mrs Britain competition helps Tory propaganda for women voters ...

Their Week in India

Slow slide into povderty by town hall workers, by Joe Clark

Spike, by Ron Knowles

The scourge of unemployment, by Chris Davison

What We Stand For

No love on the dole queue for SS officials

Hungary ’56: Tanks shatter the workers’ triumph ..., by Chris Harman

Now then! Now then! Now then! ...

TV

“All right chaps – false alarm!” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

EPTUmay ignore vote on law

Why BSA ‘work-in’ collapsed, by Granville Williams

Airport row – Bosses want a showdown

Police get rough on Heath milk protest, by Ross Hill

Feather gets Mersey bird

Pressmen call off merger

Supervisors say No, by Viv Hopkins

R-R strike over bonus

Steelmen fight sackings

Notices

No. 246, Nov 13, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Action needed on 24 November

Long Kesh: Report from inside Britain’s concentration camp ...

World News

Their Week in Ceylon

“Fifty megatons – very close ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

BSA: Bosses’ catalogue of failure, by Fred Milson

The high-rise profit swindle, by Arthur Malone

The Fight for Jobs ...

Great steel carve-up, by Roger Rosewell

Letters

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Communists face sharp drop in numbers, by Fred Hall

What’s On

UCS jobs in danger as leaders backpedal, by Steve Jefferys

Michelin men deflate bosses, by Paul Foot

400 march on jobs (photo)

Steel men in link up over sackings, by John Deason

Sit-in bid to stop closure

Demand for £250 increase to beat ‘divide and rule’, by Chanie Rosenberg

Police and bosses line up in bid to break strike

Supervisors keep fighting

R-R bosses want showdown at Bristol

Winson Green – How Tory attack hits children, by Granville Williams

ICI on warpath against engineers

Sit-in strike in Wales (photo)

Coventry on brink of major strike over toolroom dispute, by Roger Rosewell

Late Notices

Builders out over sackings

No. 247, Nov 20, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Work or full pay!

World News

“You’re very lucky – we’ve decided not to try you!” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

A raw deal for the men who bring home the bacon for Lord Sainsbury, by R.K. Nelson

Harry McShane at 80, interview with Harry McShane, conducted by Joan Smith

The differences of Derry and Donegal, by Raymond Challinor

The union you can REALLY trust, by Martin Shaw

Drugs, by Paul Foot

Allende walks a tightrope, by Jose Martinez

Letter

Our Norman (comic strip], by Evans

Reviews

What We Stand For

Spike, by Ron Knowles

IS News

What’s On

Sinking into into the politics of half measures and despair, by Laurie Flynn

Textile men out over pay fraud

Publish and be damned say journalists’ leaders

How Tory union bashers turn to the student world, by Graham Packham

Reps want rights, by Dave Strutt

Builders fight union move to close office

Supervisors go back

Tory-Labour cover up on tortures, by Eamonn McCann

Coventry key battle for the unions, by Roger Rosewell

Cubbitt’s world ends (photo)

Blue union dockers break Devlin peace in strike votes, by Bob Light

R-R: it’s no joke

Miners face Press mauling after ballot

Medway jobs demo

No. 248, Nov 27, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Lie machine exposed

World News

“They won’t talk” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

What 11 months on the dole did to John Kettle ..., by Laurie Flynn

£60m of your money goes up in smoke, by Arthur Malone

Bosses’ heliport will make life hell in Wapping, by Stephen Stanford

Grim picture of family poverty, by Valerie Clark

Advertising: Millions are squandered to plug Brand X, by Martin Piper

Sinister power in the hands of our rulers, by Peter Hitchens

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Bosses’ wild rush to get into Europe, by Tony Polan

IS News

What’s On

Power workers set for new battle

11 weeks’ fight for living wage

Engineering bosses in drive to crack union, by Roger Rosewell

Coventry toolmen demonstrating

Threat to use Tory union law

Michelin men stay out

Workers’ wages slashed – bosses’ go up

Textile victory

R-R workers face united attack over strike, by Mike & Sheila Melot

Indo-Pak war threat

’Copter bosses sell up to make fortune from sackings

Dundee march for jobs (photo)

Setback in fight to stop heavy steel job loss

Ford men go back

TV programme to feature paper’s work

Strike call after sack

Tool room talks

No. 249, Dec 4, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

New blow to wages

World News

“The Maestro” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Home’s hoax

‘Fair rents’ only if you’re a moneylender, by Hugh Kerr

Smooth seas for the profiteers, by T.H. Rogmorton

GMWU: Everybody’s sweetheart except the rank and file’s, by Laurie Flynn

When Ulster workers united, by John Newsinger

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Spike, by Ron Knowled

IS News

What’s On

Strikers reject report

Will postmen defy Tory hatchet man, by Dave Percival & Steve Mann

Students fight for autonomy, by Graham Packham

John Kettle appeal

No power strike

Toolrooms sold out

Quaye family win appeal

Tory scheme no help for jobless, by Laurie Flynn

Unite Ireland plan by Wilson is a phoney, by Brian Trench

Labour MPs take over giant march for jobs (photo)

Ssh! You-know-who is bumping up Leeds’ dole queue, by Vince Hall & Sheila Parkin

White collar men fight rep’s sacking

Purdie-Prescott verdict

No. 250, Dec 11, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Their hands in your pockets

World News

“Every time there’s a cold snap you get the pensioners out ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Lord Goodman – Toast of profiteers and racists, by Paul Foot

I.R.A.: the press calls them terrorists and thugs – but what do they really stand for? by Brian Trench

Spying on women at home, by Sue Banks

How the Tories pulled the plug out on the power workers, by Colin Barker

The ballerina and the pension fund, by Arthur Malone

Sadism in a posh voice, by David Widgery

What is imperialism? by Stephen Marks

Our Norman (cartoon strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Crisis hits the computer worls, by Tony Polan

IS News

What’s On

We’ll occupy say Lancs workers, by John Deason

Miners ready for big pay battle, by Garvin Reed

Hope fades for UCS fight to stop the sackings, by Peter Bain

Barracks under siege from marchers (photos)

Students take over college after sacking

Labour passes buck on milk, by Keith Dobie

Public works vote to accept

Indo-Pak war: Masses pay a high price, by Edward Crawford

Young steel men set hot pace, by Wyatt Foster

Pub blast shows real motive for internment, by Eamonn McCann

Set-back for BA bosses as court clears militant, by John Hutchinson

Out 11 weeks

Students link up

Union back R-R

No. 251, Dec 18, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

£900m lame duck, by Paul Foot

We want more pay (poem), by Alex Glasgow

The men who fight for Bangladesh ... (photo)

World News

“Tut tut ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

To Mrs Thatcher, with love for Christmas, from Peckham schoolkids ... a brick, by Laurie Flynn

How TV twists the news

The Police

Russia, too, is choking to death, by Dale Fox

What is imperialism? by Stephen Marks

Our Norman (cartoon strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Spike, by Ron Knowles

IS News

What’s On

Teachers’ leaders shuffle into line, by Leni Solinger

Pressmen refuse to sign ‘pledge’

Threat of ‘strings’ in talks on key R-R strike, by Sheila Melot

Postmen kick out ‘prod deal’ move by leaders, by Steve Mann

Pay deal lags behind price jump, by Joe Clark

Steelmen ban overtime

Victory at ICI

Support for Prescott

United action to beat bosses’ sacking moves, by Dave Walsh

Docks bosses get tough

Unions back student sit-in

India is poised to seal fate of E. Berngal, by John Ashdown

Strikes may follow end of York talks, by Roger Rosewell

Army defeat boosts morale of besieged Derry, by Eamonn McCann

Irish militant arrested

No. 252, Dec 24, 1971, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Remember

World News

£36,000 prize (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Tories and tycoons plan TV hi-jack, by Paul Foot

Children, by Slavomir Mrozek, translated by Colin Barker

The parliamentary road to socialism game

Letter

What is imperialism? by Stephen Marks

Our Norman (cartoon strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The Queen talks to Socialist Worker, interviewed by David East

Pay talks collapse may spark action, by Roger Rosewell

Dock strike over threat to Soton jobs

Rolls-Royce men stay out as union official dither, by Sheila Melot

Setback for GEC strike – no backing from union

Four-day week call at Parsons, by Dave Peers

Mangrove – major victory for blacks, by Mike Caffoor

Miners first for big New Year’s pay battles, by Laurie Flynn

Mirror lies on Irish campaign, by Eamonn McCann

Plessey occupation enters fourth month, from Steve Jefferys

[Notices]

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