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Socialist Worker
(1971)

No. 253, Jan 8, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Exclusive: Strike pictures smuggled from Africa

Pay, rents, jobs, union laws – crucial battles ahead

Call for mines-power unity

World News

“We’ll fight but sometimes I wonder about him” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Arrests in the night as crisis shakes Tito, by Chris Harman

1971: year of Tory attack and union weakness, by Roger Rosewell

Anger in the pits as coal bosses deny a living wage, by Laurie Flynnn

Rent strike hits Orange police state, by Sue Kelly

What Is Imperialism? (series), by Stephen Marks

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

IS News

What’s On

Union panic sinks R-R workers

UCS demand pledge on jobs before launch

Electricians demand united action on pay claim, by Ron Brown

Tories plan new attack on students and teachers, by SW Education Reporter

Shedding light on anti-union corporation

Power men back miners

Dockers meet

120 workers occupy plant in a bid to save jobs, by Steve Emms

Empty talk from soft left in N. Ireland, by Eamonn McCann

Six weeks’ parity fight on Tyneside, by Jim Hutchinson

Pressmen’s leaders break union policy on local deals

Backing for Parson’s jobs fight

Building militants on frame-up charges


No. 254, Jan 15, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Miners must win

Solid support for the strike

World News

“Anybody there?” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

A tin medal – that’s all Britain gave to Malta, by Fred Camilleri & Paul Stafrace

85 Weeks, by Roger Rosewell

The great telly ‘bore in’ on Ulster, by Bernadette Devlin MP

Women: The long, unfinished struggle

Wild talk on school violence, by Eric Porter

What Is Imperialism? (series), by Stephen Marks

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Letters

IS Notes

What’s On

Factory sit-in fight goes on

Engineers’ wages claim sold out, by Roger Rosewell

Strikers close Scots car plants, by Steve Jefferys

How to fix the jobless figures

Socialists on trial for their lives

White collar union bans left-winger

Backing the miners

Dockers plan counter-attack, by Bob Light

Bendix – the inside story, by Malcolm Marks

Sit-ins are threat to the Tories, by Jack Spriggs

Big Tyneside battle over sack for 950, by Terry Rodgers


No. 255, Jan 22, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Urgent appeal for funds, by Jim Nichol

Back the miners: blacking key to victory

Sit-in ends

World News

“Couldn’t afford it anyway ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Bosses’ lies exposed by sit-in strikes at Kirkby, by Roger Protz

Rents, by Jim Kincaid

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

The great wages battle

What Is Imperialism? (series), by Stephen Marks

Pollution (photo)

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

IS News

What’s On

Tough time in student fight, by SW Student Reporter

Resistance stiffens in Northern Ireland, by Brian Trench

United fight at Parson’s (photo)

Rents – Labour council gives in to Tories, by Hugh Kerr

Rank and file protest at union ban

Builders fight for closed shop site, by Gerry Kelly

Sackings start strike

Notices

Power ‘ban’ is a gesture

Scots car plants: the fight for parity goes on, by Steve Jefferys

Miners on the pickets


No. 256, Jan 29, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Victory for miners will aid jobless

Roll in cash for IS Fighting Fund

World News on the Crisis in South Africa

Briefing

“That’s a few violent hooligans who won’t be on the picket lines ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

The Docks

The day the fleet went on strike, by Peter Hitchens

In the City (column), by Arthur Millium

Tories plan big blitz on tenants with ‘Fair Rents’ Act, by Hugh Kerr

The scandal that is Britain’s mental hospitals, by a special correspondent

What Is Imperialism? (series), by Stephen Marks

Shipyards that leave the Clyde bosses in the cold, by Tony Polan

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Letters

IS News

What’s On

Car men link with miners’ struggle, by Steve Jefferys

Union out to cool Austin strike

Thanks from Britain’s concentration camp

Liam Daltun

Machine tool makers fight closure plan

Talks over printers’ pay offer

Laggers’ long fight for pay parity, by Dave Southern

Strike in its 23rd week

Naval depot jobs threatened, by Brian Ebbatson

Speed-up stops the trains

Troops step up Ulster terror, by Eamonn McCann

‘Future sure’ for Fisher-Bendix sit-in

Digging in for long fight

Nalgo group fights registration

Power call for Triple Alliance


No. 257, Feb 5, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Murder!

World News

Committee of Enquiry ... (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Defeat the Tories – and their system

Miners Talking

Letters

Miners can shake these vicious Tories: NUM leader, by Laurie Flynn

Cold and dying – the terrible plight of Britain’s old, by Arthur Malone

What Is Imperialism? (series), by Stephen Marks

No dole for the investors

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Who is mad – you or the system? by Peter Sedgwick

What We Stand For

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

IS News

What’s On

IS Industrial Conference in session (photo)

Poison lead smelter – no action until workers strike, by Keith Elliott

Bendix: Round one to the strikers, by Roger Rosewell

Plessey deal: fewer jobs, but sit-in makes big gains

Boiler welded to track

About turn at UCS yard

Fight for union rights goes on

Trades council leads rent bill struggle

Chrysler men ‘No’ to pay offer

Miners + power = victory

Rank and file must demand action now, by Wally Preston

Fight for our fund


No. 258, Feb 12, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Solidarity action can help miners

Fighting for the fund

World News

“They’ll do anything to get the coal in ... (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

After the massacre

Pit strikers: Don’t let Social Security cheat you of your rights

Unsafe mines – NCB to blame, by Laurie Flynn

Southern Africa: continent in chains, by W. Enda

What Is Imperialism? (series), by Stephen Marks

Mighty union leaders threw in the towel, by Raymond Challinor

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Letters

IS News

What’s On

Benefit to aid 88-week strike

Builders on strike against rent rises, by Hugh Kerr & Michael Downing

IS conference supports equal pay struggle

Car workers £5-no strings, by Steve Jefferys

Anti-racist demo

NUJ betrayal

Coal Board safety talk only about machinery

Stormont ‘justice’ hits Britain


No. 259, Feb 19, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Unity can win

World News

The man who won a prize for European statesmanship (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

Rolls: Why the City is laughing, by T.H. Rogmorton

Letters

Fight for Union Rights (series), by Roger Rosewell

The Rape of Ireland

Woman’s estate, by Valerie Clark

What Is Imperialism? (series), by Stephen Marks

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Reviews

What We Stand For

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

IS News

What’s On

Labour councils in rents dither, by Hugh Kerr

Militant meeting lacks call to action

Building workers fight blacklist, by Gerry Kelly

City engineers issue strike challenge

How YOU can help a vital struggle

Alliance to fight Tory Rent Bill, by Patricia Owen

120 locked out of biscuit factory

Staff union reinstates left-winger

Victory to the miners! by Bernadette Devlin MP

Why Wilberforce won’t free the wage slaves, by Laurie Flynn

Police violence breaks up London march (photo)

Power strike over sell out

Our fund goes into action

College crackdown on occupation’s leaders

Pickets refused bail


No. 260, Feb 26, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

We’re all a special case

Aldershot explosion

Army grabs our cameraman – held for six hours

World News

7½% – 20% (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

Letters

Wha Mao wants to be friends with Nixon, by Chris Harman

Fight for Union Rights (series), by Roger Rosewell

Death and mining families: One doctor’s grim findings, by Aubrey Gordon

The law – ‘impartial’ system that props up the rule of rich and powerful, by Martin Piper

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Prices ... What we must do to keep them down, by Kevin Whitston

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

SW breaks all records – but we’re not satisfied, by the Editor

IS News

Letter

What’s On

Assembly is a red herring

Stewards hold key to car men’s fight, by Steve Jefferys

The political life and death of Captain Ray Gunter

Building sites strike big

Late notices

Sack threat to women, by Stella Cawood

Tenants ready for rents fight

The fighting the Tories fund

Miners rock Tories – but there are snags ahead

Bosses’ £1m war against strikers

[Trucks burned by the Official IRA while carrying scab coal] (photo)

London bus workers reject pay offer that sticks to ‘norms’, by Chris Davison

Laggers protest over union’s refusal


No. 261, Mar 4, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Tories’ attack hots up

Police seize pamphlet on Bloody Sunday

World News

Registered Staff Only (cartoon),

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Inflation: The idea that wage rises cause inflation the price spiral is just a myth

Letters

Fight for Union Rights (series), by Roger Rosewell

Bosses’ union out to smash closed shop

You did it too” – Why ...

Report from the South, by Brian Trench

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

IS News

What’s On

Miners’ fight is now for safety

Militants under union attack

Jim’s Journal, by Alan Watts

Workers’ action wins reprieve for factory

Farmworkers’ pay appallingly low

Strike failed – 20 sacked

Trade unionists against racialism

Car strikers vote to stay out, by Steve Jefferys

Tories retreat but UCS fight goes on

Miners defend closed shop

Laggers protest at union move (photo)

Bernadette packs them in

Women: equal pay now!

Lynch acts in South to back Heath

Don’t forget our fund


No. 262, Mar 11, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Poverty: the hidden truth

Fine Tubes fught on – without union help ...

World News

T.G.W.U. Wing (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

The generals who led the orange army, by Brian Trench

Letters

Rank and file action while union leaders dither, by Roger Rosewell

Fight for Union Rights (series), [by Roger Rosewell]

Car Chaos, by Chris Davison

Why we must win the picket fight, by a special correspondent

Why the press barons want to blow the Last Post over the Bugle, by Laurie Flynn

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Reviews

What We Stand For

Letters

What’s On

Torture is illegal, er, but ..., by Tim Shallice

Bosses and Tories bid to to split UCS, by Steve Jefferys

Backing for anti-internemnt

Sack threat to striking laggers

Teachers’ pay talks will not beat the ‘norm’, by Leni Solinger

Atomic site men strike

Women’s success

Councils told: refuse rents scheme

We’ll defy TUC says postal union leader, by Roger Rosewell

Poison drip deaths: warning ignored, by Paul Foot

Toothy Ted meets Karl and Fred ... (photo)

1,000 pamphlets sold in Derry

Two factories vote for sit-ins

Printers in firing line, by Ross Pritchard


No. 263, Mar 18, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

No retreat over pay!

Plymouth strikers get £550 booster

World News

Congratulations Mr Parker! You have just won £500,000!

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Artists salute Fine Tube strikers

  1. Alex Glasgow (photo), by Jeff Pick
  2. Sandra Kerry & John Faulkner (photo), by Jeff Pick
  3. East of Eden (photo), by Jeff Pick
  4. Trevor Hyett, Bobby Campbell & Gordon McCullough (photo), by Jeff Pick
  5. David Cliff Amalgam (photo), by Jeff Pick

‘Miners showed united movement could kick out the Tories ...’, interview with Jimmy Miller, by Aubrey Gordon

Fight for Union Rights (series), [by Roger Rosewell]

Crumbs: That’s all we get for producing the wealth, by Lionel Sims & Arthur Malone

Why the blacks are right to fight, by Mike Caffoor

The rise and fall of Michael X, from Freedom News

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Letters

What’s On

Ireland waits for the offensive, by Brian Trench

Tories’ union law starts to lash out

Strikers get poor support from TGWU

Rally ends Right to Work marches

Sit-in goes on

Builders locked out

Strike call defeated

[Meeting]

No union help in lock-out

Dockers locked in a cold war

Engineers ready to call bosses’ bluff, by Roger Rosewell

Strikers now out 32 weeks

News in Brief


No. 264, Mar 25, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Police tap rail leaders’ phones

Con trick, by Chris Harman

We’re staying in say shoe women (photo)

Raids: What I.S. Said

Fighting fund – one last push

Noel Jenkinson

World News

“Good idea, having real lions ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Mr Robert Edwards, MP: An apology

Letters

33 weeks: Now Fine Tubes comes to the North, by Laurie Flynn

Fight for Union Rights (series), by Roger Rosewell

Goodbye jobs! British Rail makes the going easy ..., by Arthur Malone

When London had its Bloody Sunday ..., by Vic & Sheila Bailey

Stout year for beer men, by Ron Knowles

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

Fighting to defend closed shop, by Dave Peers

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

What’s On

Man jailed after being attacked by the police

Counter-rally answers Vanguard demo, by Brian Trench

Union leader backs boss in BP lock-out

Rents fight goes on

Strike opposes sacking threat

Stewards fight Tory law

News in Brief

1,000 NW engineersdefy bosses’ threat

What happened on police raids

Bendix factory is solid


No. 265, Apr 1, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Editorial

World News

Letters

It’s time to take off the gloves off on the wages front, by Jim Kincaid

Connolly, by Jimmy Greely

Patrol at 1 a.m.: It’s a woman’s life, by Nigel Fountain

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Fight for Union Rights (series)

Cottons Yarns

Letters Extra

Docks jobs: court backs boss crackdown

Closure threat: We fight

Radiator bosses try bully boy tactics

Shoe women fight on

Lecturer sacked

Hunt for bren gun

Militant miners show the way

Sit-ins spread as pay fight hots up, by Colin Barker & Glyn Carver

Jailed men victims of political trial

Locked-out 57 lobby union (photo)

Split between print unions endangers wage claim, by Mike Heym

Fund hits target


No. 266, Apr 8, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Don’t pay, by Roger Rosewell

Heroic Vietnamese fight on, by Chris Harman

Factories back holiday for Belfast children

World News

“Wonder who these kings and such get the gold off ...??” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

Fight for Union Rights

Liveliest Letters on the Left

Global Imex Ltd & John Stonehouse, MP: an apology

When strike power smashed the landlords, by Jim Kincaid

On the Lump, by Laurie Flynn

Union leader who called a strike ‘blackmail’

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

IS

What’s On

The Rent Battle

Against the Glosters

Students prepare for vital conference

Bosses battle to dislodge sit-in workers

Shoe women hold the key to jobs fight, by Margaret Renn

News in Brief

Dockers’ sacking notices withdrawn

Angry teachers turn their backs on Mrs Thatcher

Building workers protest against ‘lump’


No. 269, Apr 15, 1972, London (actually No. 267)
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Jenkins bails out Tories, by Roger Protz

Dockers defy law, by Roger Rosewell

Sit-in workers set on victory (photo)

World News

“This is your BBC reporter in Northern Ireland ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Children of the battlefield

Liveliest Letters on the Left

The wobbling of Dr Allende, by Jose Martinez

King Billy’s Orange hoax, by Brian Trench

Nothing new about the sinister knock in the night, by Peter Hitchens

Shop Stewards in World War One

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

Antrim tyre battle on wages, by Mike Miller

What’s On

Sit-in wages battle nears the crunch, by Glyn Carver

Left students call for anti-Tory fight

Lockout smashed

2,000 carworkers vote for occupation


No. 268, Apr 22, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Resist Tory blackmail, by Chris Harman

Nixon steps up airborne terrorism

World News

“You’re right, Corporal – morale is low ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

Liveliest Letters on the Left

The great sit-in battle, by Roger Rosewell

Science – for us or against us?

Beer – the bitter truth, by Laurie Flynn

Tory homes plan is green light for slum landlords, by Geoff Woolfe

Shop Stewards in World War One

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Reviews

What We Stand For

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

What’s On

The Student Scene

Blacking goes on despite court threat, by Steve Emms

Free Derry still solidly behind IRA struggle, by Eamonn McCann

The Rents Battle

Printers fight lock-out

Ferranti attack union rights

Sack threat sets Parsons alight

Picket Lines

Shoe factory occupation now in firth week

400 protest at parade

Scanlon stalls as engineers’ wage struggle spreads, by Glyn Carver

Sit-ins cross the Pennines


No. 269, Apr 29, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

 


No. 270, May 6, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Stop this retreat

May Day rally packs them in (photo)

Vietnam: US facing total defeat

World News

Industrial Relations Act (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

Liveliest Letters on the Left

When the dockers smashed union law, by Jules Townsend

McGovern – man of ‘peace’ who backs the war, by Michael Stewart

Race setback for bosses, by a special correspondent

How the TUC sold the pass, by Laurie Flynn

The best law money can buy, by Raymond Challinor

The task of revolutionary party, by Sabby Sagall

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

IS News

What’s On

Report from the South, by Brian Trench

Union backs ‘lawbreakers’ at Parsons

Frank Chapple in power struggle

Technicians at the crossroads

The Rents Battle

No compromise on hours and pay say sit-in workers

Dockers face their toughest battle, by Bob Light

Car workers ... at London’s May Day march (photo)

Sweat shop workers call a halt

Picket Lines


No. 271, May 13, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Vietnam: one last bloody fling by Nixon’s outlaws

Why Tory law must be smashed

World News

“Don’t be nervous – I’m an army doctor” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Cleaners start to mop up London’s offices, by Valerie Clark

Liveliest Letters on the Left

How Wilson smashed the seamen, by Chris Harman

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Report from the South, by Brian Trench

U.C.S – a balance sheet on the sit-in, by Roger Rosewell

Tory joy for land sharks as all controls are ripped up, by Irene Bruegel

‘Inferior’ blacks: this pernicious myth ..., by Troy Langley

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Lame shareholders bailed out in Belfast, from a special correspondent

What’s On

Dubious army role in killings, by Mike Miller

The Rents Battle

Another union off the register

Move to tone down TASS policies

No court boycott, Jenkins tells ASTMS confewrence, by Roger Rosewell

Italian election charade

Picket Lines

Dockers tell Tories the crunch is near, by Bob Light

Sit-in after sacking threat

Press silence over engineers’ struggle, by John Deason

Militant call for conference


No. 272, May 20, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Tory Highwaymen

‘I’d rather go to jail than appear before the NIRC’

Railmen: big ‘yes’ vote needed

World News

“This chap’s come from the union to withdraw your credentials Sid ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

Cottons Yarns

Pit prop profiteers mine fortune with numbers game, by Arthur Malone

Liveliest Letters on the Left

George Wallace: Trickster with a mask of hate, by James Coleman

Enough to make old Owen turn in his grave, by Terry Ward

Dockland’s battle for survival, by Laurie Flynn

The Struggle for Britain’s Unions (series), by Bernard Ross

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Compromise at Parsons, by Malcolm Reid

What’s On

Postal union conference may end headlong retreat

Backlash rocks press union

The Rents Battlefield

Support this conference

Black youths on trial

Overtime ban hides retreat on 35 hours

Picket Lines

Four pickets arrested (photo)

Pupils and teachers fight the system

Barricades rise again after attack on pub


No. 273, May 27, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Heath will try new sell-out with Smith

Who are they kidding?

Black stays on say dockers (photo)

Street fights in USSR

World News

Redundant Railwaymen – 2nd Class – 1st Class (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Workers taking over whole towns ... Canada’s May Days 1972, by Paul O’Flinn

Liveliest Letters on the Left

This bribe for getting sacked, by Roger Jackson & Jim Kincaid

Learn to speak topsy-turvy Toryese in one easy lesson

Bent coppers – Corruption swept under the carpet, by Paul Foot

Angela – Frame-up by the state, from Workers Power

The Struggle for Britain’s Unions (series), by Bernard Ross

Our Norman (comic strips), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Unions: the noose tightens, by Dave Lyddon

Big steel cut-back threat to workers, by Peter Ingham

What’s On

Police force against schools demo, by Steve Forey

Belfast battles take new pattern

The Rents Battle

Cocktails à la Mac, by T.H. Rogmorton

Threat to sit-in men

Fine Tubes strikers plan mass demo

TGWU leaders fight to get off the hook

Engineering unions all set for pay talks somersault, by Roger Rosewell

Picket Lines

Sit-in follows lay-off threat at Wembley


No. 274, Jun 3, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Call this justice?

Vital battle for the docks

Wembley sit-in strikers fight-on (photos)

World News

“He’s here every week ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

Liveliest Letters on the Left

Why Willy walks the German tightrope, by our correspondent in Frankfurt

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Greed: the ABC of RTZ, by David East

Homes racket, by Jim Kincaid

The Struggle for Britain’s Unions (series), by Bernard Ross

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Electricians’ leaders play the power game
Fred Gore (photo)

Immigrant workers fight exploitation

What’s On

The Rents Battle

Lung disease: NCB ready to fight miners

Sit-in fights strike-breaking machinery

No sweet talk

Sit-ins – the sting in the tail

N. Ireland: peace at what price? by Chris Harman

Building protestor heads for the top (photo)

Picket Lines

Postmen snub union leaders


No. 275, Jun 10, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Support grows for Ossett sit-in, by John Charlton

Angela is free – but the fight goes on ..., by Mike Caffoor

The real killers

World News

For sale – To let (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

Rangers’ fans put the boot in, by Peter Bain

Liveliest Letters on the Left

On your marks for the price spring, by John Palmer

Notting Hill: the slumlords laugh all the way to the bank, by Laurie Flynn

Dirty Alex, spy the workers kept in the cold, by Raymond Challinor

The Struggle for Britain’s Unions (series), by Bernard Ross

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Militants set pace on building site

Campus occupation scene of students and workers unity

What’s On

Engineers strike – against their own union

The Rents Struggle

AUEW snub for Tories’ court, by Rob Clay

Workers take-over to win pay claim

Docks steward call strike

Picket Lines

Metal Box fights on for vital claim, by Glyn Carver

[A section of the IS contingent on Vietnam demonstration in London] (photo)

Work sharing call to fight sackings


No. 276, Jun 17, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Pay: use your muscle for more

‘Court won’t stop our fight’ – defiant dockers

Rebuff for witch-hunt

World News

The price of meat continues to rise ... (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

Liveliest Letters on the Left

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

Two Years on Strike! by Laurie Flynn

Every baby must be a wanted baby ..., by Wendy Henry

The continuing sage of deformed profiteers, by Paul Foot

The I.R.A. – confusion in the ranks after political somersault, by Brian Trench

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

No real lead in the fight to kill Tories’ law

What’s On

Victory over anti-union boss, by Harry Tait

Loyalists open up danger of civil war, by Mike Miller

Left defeated at conference

The Rent Struggle

Sackings loom againcover Upper Clyde shipyards

Dockers defy ‘stop blacking’ order, by Bob Light

Building workers picket the World’s End site in Chelsea, London (photo)

Glass factories on strike

Engineers’ struggle grows

Picket Lines

Thousands join ‘Euro-strike’


No. 277, Jun 24, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

The can be beaten

World News

“We’re tightening up on on the company medicals, Parker ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Liveliest Letters on the Left

The bureaucrats – union leaders who prefer the white flag to the red when under fire, by Mike Heym
Vic Feather (photo)

Arms race: rival giants menace the whole world, by Chris Harman

Algeria: devastation of the ‘civilisers’, by Ian Birchall

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The press quietly hides its gag, by Laurie Flynn

What’s On

Jobs in advert were being killed

Ireland: Danger of sell-out increases

The Rents Battle

Critical wage struggle is ignored at conference

We’ll defeat Act, pledge 800 stewards, by Steve Jefferys

No union aid for black strikers, by Anne Clark

National glassworks strike in the offing

Town hall workers’ union moves towards the left

Picket Lines

Anti-internment demonstration

Longannet 13 cleared


No. 278, Jul 1, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

£: Big boost to prices

Big pay fight hits site

Sack threat to Wembley engineers

World News

Rio Tinto Zinc Co. (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

Liveliest Letters on the Left

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

Peace? In a state built on violence, by Brian Trench

Noise: it’s about time someone shouted, by Laurie Flynn

What happens if the Tories fail ..., by Duncan Hallas

£ – Panic in hight places as sterling comes under the hammer, by Chris Harman

Algeria – Victory and defeat, by Ian Birchall

Review

What We Stand For

On your Marks for a police state, by Laurie Flynn

What’s On

New sit-in on the Clyde

Provos call off armed struggle, by Mike Miller

Strikers end sit-in after court order, by Anne Clarke

Third whisky plant out

The Rents Battle

Workers fight closure

Victory for the dockers! by Bob Light

North-east rocked by steel strike, by Rob Clay

Print unions back workers’ takeover at colour works

Shop stewards lead fight to defend union rights

Picket Lines


No. 279, Jul 8, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Wage freeze threat

World News

“No fun, these union leaders – they don’t fight!” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

Liveliest Letters on the Left

Engineers’ pay fight at the crossroad, by Roger Rosewell

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Fakenham: the shoe is on the other foot

Coughing up a fortune, by Laurie Flynn

Black in Britain (series), by John Lea

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Report from the South, by Brian Trench

Electricians’ union still on the register, by an electrician

What’s On

The Rents Battle

Social workers back squatters, by Mike Heym

Protesters hit big army recruiting show, by Colin Falconer

Anger after steel strike

Now Loyalists take to the barricades, by Mike Miller

Steward: We’ve been betrayed

Building workers set for a long fight, by Glyn Carver

A thousand on Briants’ march

Picket Line

We’ll deregister – Printers


No. 280, Jul 15, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

MPs knee deep in filth, by Martin Tomkinson

Tory dirty work in the docks, by Laurie Flynn

World News

“That office block we built is still ahead of us, Pat!” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

Liveliest Letters on the Left

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

Fifty years as a revolutionary, by Edinburgh International Socialists

The rat race’s non-starters, by Audrey Kincaid

India: the motor falters ..., by Nigel Harris

When tenants won the battle of Quinn Square, by Margaret Falshaw

The day the police invented a crowd, by Steve Jefferys

Black in Britain (series), by John Lea

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Reviews

What We Stand For

Miners’ leaders dodge wage hook

What’s On

Workers oppose grants fiddle, by Dave Peers

5,000 march on big anti-closure demo, by Granville Williams

The Rents Battle

Nuclear site workers strike

Tin works staff refuse £175 offer

Sit-in as bosses break offer

Wages strike in 24th week, by Steve Jefferys

‘Equal pay’ demand

Ireland on brink: Tories aid bloodbath, statement by the Executive Committee of the International Socialists
Catholics who tried to move into Andersonstown (photo)


No. 281, Jul 22, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

British Army backs terror in Belfast, by Mike Miller

Mr Maudling takes his pot of gold, by Paul Foot

World News

Bogside Parachute Packers Ltd (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Labour puts up the facade, by Stephen Marks

Letters on Ireland

Correction

Manchester: Victory or defeat? by Glyn Carver

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorteon

Organise women and the TUC doesn’t want to know ..., interview with Pat Sturdy, conducted by Anna Paczuska

Equal Pay, by Margaret Renn

Black in Britain (series), by John Lea

Ssh! Not a word about the biggest buggers ..., by Roger Protz

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Bosses want workers in cold storage, by Laurie Flynn

What’s On

Big strike on site for potash mine, by Rob Clay

Revolt over sweatshop conditions spreads

12,000 take on tobacco giant

The Rents Battle

Boost for Tarmac

Blacking support for Fine Tube strikers

Dockers: why we fight on, by Bob Light

12,000 builders in big wage battle, by Gerry Kelly

Printworkers occupation now in fourth week

Whisky strike ends

Statement on Ireland, by IS Executive Committee


Docks Special, Jul 22, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Strike now: Free 5

‘It could be you’

Dockland’s Battle for Survival, by Laurie Flynn

The men behind Midland Cold Storage

Collapse of divide-and-rule ploy


No. 282, Jul 29, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Victory – but the fight goes on

Docks report blueprint for heavy redundancies, by Arthur Malone

“The Industrial Relations Act must go ...”, by Keith Bell (actually Keith Jackson)

“Oh no – this looks like a case for ...” ... “Official Solicitor!” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

The council that took 20 years to put in hot water, by Sue Jackson

£½ million profit then 1,500 sacked, by Granville Williams

... as Lord Plowden prates about ‘the affront of unemployment’

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Liveliest Letters on the Left

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

What We Stand For

Truth abour the dock cowboys, by Laurie Flynn

What’s On

‘Make or break’ for Fine Tubes

Army on offensive after big bombing by Mike Miller

[Printworkers marched through London] (photo)

College attacks ATTI chairman

Story ‘distorted’

Rolls move

The Rents Battle

Solidarity: Fleet Street workers spark militant stoppages all over Britain

Sites strike hots up after paltry offer, by Gerry Kelly

Bernadette’s lone voice


No. 283, Aug 5, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Dockers lead fight for jobs

Forget the ‘Red scare’ – but there was certainly a plot

World News

Letters

“As Marx once said history repeats itself – the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce!” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

[8-page Socialist Worker during summer holidays]

The road to Pentonville, by Laurie Flynn

The high price of Prentice, by James Fenton

Robens’ big cover-up for factory death toll, by Arthur Malone

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Union orders members to scab

The Rents Battle

The confused

The clear

What’s On

Jobs stolen from the dockers, by Diana Parker & David Gibbens

Now builders call for all-out strike, by Gerry Kelly

Picket Lines

[Dockers’ victory organised by IS in East London] (photo)

The day the British troops ‘freed’ Free Derry, by Eamonn McCann

Children used to unload fish


No. 284, Aug 12, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Uganda threat brings out the racists, by Mike Caffoor

Press lies to back docks, by SW Industrial Correspondent

Builders stop union retreat – now all out for full claim

World News

All’s not well in Ladywell, by David East

Letters

“I submit!” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

The Rot on the Sites, by Laurie Flynn

The holiday racket, by Martin Piper

Unions against the law: it had to be broken, by Joseph Black

Our Norman and “Human Nature” (comic strip), by Evans

The Rents Battle

Belfast riot is ‘first of many’, by Eamonn McCann

Workers fight anti-union bosses

Police arrest 19 on shipyard picket

Boilermakers sign and UCS yard is sold

Strike over £55,000

What’s On

Cleaners strike spreads

Dirt in high places, by Paul Foot

Police arrest pickets at strike-breaking wharves

Picket Lines


No. 285, Aug 19, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Docks: Fight must go on

The props fall away from mining profiteers, by Arthur Malone

World News

Powell politics pay off, by Peter Rankin

“Very good, Parkinson!” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

It’s exploitation that speeds Grand Met to those big profits, by Laurie Flynn

So you don’t think the workers could run the country?

Builders: ‘It’s a backs to the wall fight’

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Stanmore engineers left high and dry by union

Top union man named in Poulson, by Martin Tomkinson

Youth take over empty office, by Sara Carver

Transport men protest over job loss threat

We’ll back rent strike say factory workers, by Tony Boyle

What’s On

Builders’ strike hots up

Kangaroo courts against dockers

Picket Lines

Round-the-clock sit in wins pay increase

Supervisors strike


No. 286, Aug 26, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

TUC secret deal with Tories

Gad! They’re even on strike at the Commons

Docks: now for Round 2, by Bob Light

World News

Letters

“Tell them how independent you are!!” (cartoon), from Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

The next threat to your pay – ‘incomes policy’ con game, by Sabby Sagall

Amin race attack is cover up for plight of Africans, by Roger Tembo

Bootle – where 17 men fight bosses and union, by Roger Rosewell

Labour loyalists combat mine militants, by Bill Message

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

By George! Look who’s made the Morning Star, by John Bell

Engineers get miserly deal, by Dave Lyddon

Manbre militants stick out (photo)

Plymouth strikers go it alone, by Paul Foot

Engineers locked out for 11 weeks, by Dave Peers

Tough fight for site men

Notices

Sites strike spreads and rocks bosses

Loyalist rift widens, by Mike Miller

Picket Lines

Top profiteers threaten to close four factories, by Glyn Carver

Stronger links necessary in key Jaguar fight

Builders back tenants


No. 287, Sep 2, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Racist bid to split workers, by The Editor

A bigger paper – plus Paul Foot

World News

“Now if only we could get the electricity to go faster!” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

Letters

On the threshold of new pay danger, by Chris Harman

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Balance sheet on docks strike, by Tony Cliff

From Blackpool to Brighton ...

Pay defeat for engineers, by Roger Rosewell

A quiet night for the army in Unfree Derry, by Eamonn McCann

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The Rents Battle

Foundry men in lock-out

Jaguar raise pay offer

British Leyland talks end

What’s On

Trade unionist is stabbed at demo, by Brian Parkin

Army get free hand to step up terror, by Mike Miller

Councils unanimous in refusing Tories’ Rent Act

Car men fight ‘no sackings’ fraud, by Dave Lyddon

Upper Clyde bosses set yet another deadline for unions

’I’d shoot them’ ... why Lord Cooper has murder in his heart

Deals could divide building strikers

Picket Lines


No. 288, Sep 9, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Rents battle on the boil, by Hugh Kerr

TUC: the carthorse turns a cartwheel, by Laurie Flynn

World News

“All your tonsils need is a good rest ..., Mr Powell” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

Letters

Immigrants, by Ian Birchall

BBC: Truth in the balance, by Robert Harrington

Driving us mad, by Sabby Sagall

Solidarity pays: The workers’ message reaches through the prison bars, by Laurie Flynn

Whose finger on the computer button, interview with Mike Cooley

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The lessons and lost jobs of UCS, by Peter Bain

Sack for 1,000 R-R aircraft workers

NUJ stays off register

Shipyard still on strike

What’s On

Wages: Britain is being left behind

Army repression is growing daily, by Mike Miller

Victory for gas depot strikers, by David Gibens

Sit-in after 318 sacked

Lucas staff strike for parity, by Ken Appleby

Counter-demo meets racist campaign

Correction

110 walk out

Jaguar strikers settle for £44, by Dave Lyddon

Pickets shut big cement works

Journalists spike pay offer (photo)


No. 289, Sep 16, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Middle East: the real butchers, by Chris Harman

Low pay: the figuresd fiddle ...

Wigan on the march (photo)

World News

“Stop these Blacks coming to Britain!” (cartoon), by Evans

{Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Letters

When the only passport was to death ..., by Roger Protz

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Crisis in the Air, by Coventry and Bristol International Socialists

Talk, talk, talk, as the TUC avoids the battle, by Laurie Flynn

The SDLP, a rickety crutch for British rule in Northern Ireland, by Eamonn McCann

Political trial strips mask from ‘impartial’ law, by David Widgery

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The Rents Battle

What’s On

Army raids end loyalists’ little tea party, by Mike Miller

Boilermakers go it alone on the Tyne, by Dave Peers

Building workers break up racist meeting

Two-month lock-out in battle for union righrs

Immigrants help to win strike victory

Builders leaders plan dirty deal

Lorry drivers fight the spy in the cab


No. 290, Sep 23, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Threat to jobs and meat prices, by Laurie Flynn

World News

“I suppose she gets the crumbs from the government ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Letters

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

The people they call terrorists ..., by Chris Harman

[Trade unionists in the ‘corridors of power’], by Raymond Challinor

Overcrowding: city that gives lie to racist nonsense, by Murray Armstrong

Harry McShane: It’s not a question of black and white, but one of unemployment (interview), conducted by Steve Jefferys

Overpopulation: The myth of ‘inevitable’ poverty, by Peter Rankin

Bosses who have a stranglehold on a town, by Dave Stark

Secret list of ‘danger’ power stations, by Paul Foot

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Union elections the family way, by Dave Peers

Briant workers face threat of eviction

What’s On

The Rents Battle

Willie Whitelaw starts the chat show to background of UDA murder campaign, by Mike Miller

We want work cry as plant occupied

York IS region ships into gear, by Dave Gibson

Fine Tubes call vital conference

Wave of protest at builders pay deal, by John Fontaine

Five hundred socialists march in support of Ugandan Asians (photo)

Picket Lines

BAC: 600 more for the chop, by Bob Whitfield

Football result


No. 291, Sep 30, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Rent Strike!

Mass action ready to fight the Tory swindle, by Hugh Kerr

Heath’s two quid con game

Striking Merseyside building workers (photo)

Bigger paper – month to go

World News

Securichop (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Asians get quick taste of ‘apartheid’, by R.K. Nelson

Letters

Rent strike ..., by Lee Kane & Richard Reiser

GEC: The ‘thirty sackings a day’ bosses

Labour’s charade: it’s time to check the record, by Martin Barker

A whiff of burning books ..., by David East

A graveyard road to socialism, by Sabby Sagall & Chris Harman

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

UCS split endangers the struggle

Tyneside strike goes on

What’s On

The Rents Battle

New Courts just a smokescreen, by Mike Miller

Bid to deport victim of US frame-up

Setback for car workers’ jobs fight

Keeping tags on the bosses

Bosses attack key building sites

Striking engineers take over offices, by John Deason

Flying picket succeed at Fine Tubes, by Colin Barker

Vestey may stir up docks again, by Bob Light

Textile occupation goes on

90 sacked for joining strike


No. 292, Oct 7, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Labour funds aid Tories, by Paul Foot

Tax bonanza for the rich, by Jim Kincaid

Police attack anti-racists

World News

Poulson Holidays Ltd (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

Letters

Fight Racism!

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

The Great Rents Battle

Danger: new road ahead, by Jean Parkin

Terrorism – no short cut to socialism, by Chris Harman

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

Bosses out to break rank and file, by Dave Gibson & Neil Davies

Naval dockyards fight on

Mr Eric Hammond (correstion)

What’s On

Parsons: blow for ‘elite’ unions, by Dave Peers

GEC strikers reject offer

Heath limbers up to hit at miners, by Bill Message

Sacking sparks strike, by Eve Brook

NALGO militants push for rents action

Strike firm is blacked

Strike wins £3

Walmsleys back

Docks cold war set to boil up again, by Bob Light

Counter-demo

Thousand-strong counter-demo stops racist march

Rent strikes sweep estates

Picket Lines

Back Fine Tubes campaign grows


No. 293, Oct 14, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

We reveal secret rundown plans – Big threat to steel jobs, by Bob Clay

Profit boom for big business, by Paul Foot

500 challenge racists (photo)

World News

“I suppose people without cars will travel by post ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorials]

Cottons Yarns

Letters

The B Men return, by Mike Miller

Heath’s pay fraud must be smashed, by Tony Cliff

News on a Slant

Ford: Nothing less than £10 will do, by Colin Beadle

City where immigrants are made the easy scapegoat, by David Evans

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The Rents Battle

What’s On

Leyland: crucial talks continue

Car workers on strike

Students defend lecturer

Marcher beaten up

Walk-out at tyre works

IS branch formed

Work-in leaders call it a day – with a compromise, by Steve Jefferys

‘Fight to finish’ – Tyne boiler men, by Dave Peers

Tenants in Hackney ... picketing local rent office (photo)

Picket Lines

Strikers stage union sit-in

Workers fight closure threat


No. 294, Oct 21, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

£2 No pay freeze! by Roger Rosewell

Fine Tubes must win

Commando raids on rents

World News

“It was Ted’s idea, actually ...” (cartoon), by Evans

[Editorial]

Cottons Yarns

Letters

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

Mr Mogg want Taverne in the town, by Paul Foot

How Godfather Vestey puts country democracy into cold storage, by R.K. Nelson

Today’s Lesson Is Obedience

The army’s killer snipers, by Mike Miller

The Prices Fiddle, by Jim Kincaid

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The Rents Battle

What’s On

Sit-in is strength in fight for jobs

’Back to work’ order, but electricians strike on

Student demo ‘was distorted’, by Neil Hutton

Union delay stabs miners in the back, by Bill Message

6,000 walk out in protest against top Tory

Dockers’ pickets defy union orders

Workers at the gates of CAV, at Fazakerly, Liverpool (photo)

£2 Low paid workers in revolt

Thousand steelmen claim £8 rise, by Rob Clay


No. 295, Oct 28, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

2,000 on demo to rebuff racists (photo)

Vital boost for Fine Tube strikers

Big price hoax, by Paul Foot

World News

Army seeks peace with Loyalists, by Mike Miller

Witch Hunt! We Nail

[Editorials]

Foot Prints (column), by Paul Foot

Beware of muggers (cartoon), by Evans

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Fight the Tories!

Scotland, by Murray Armstrong

S. Wales

Che Guevara: the myth begins to fade ..., by Ian Birchall

Safety scandal: these men are 200 ft up ..., by Peter Ingham

News in View

Out of Your Mind (column), by Duncan Hallas

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The Unions

Letters

Raymond Challinor (column)

Solidarity link by car plant strikers

Blow for sit-in men

Dunlop men strike to save jobs

Stnd-by ban by social workers

White-collar workers hit by Heath’s £2 deal, by Mike McGrath

What’s On

Round one to the boss

Buses stopped

IS News

[Workers occupying the Gainsborough Cornard factory in Great Yarmouth] (photo)

Tories refuse ‘step in’ plea, by Dave Peers

[The Rents Battle]

Big power crisis is looming, by Colin Barker

Tribune Group throws in the towel

‘Spineless’ Labour slammed on race

Picket Lines


No. 296, Nov 4, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Victim of the profits scramble (photo)

Big pay lie campaign!

World News

The killer bridge, by Arthur Malone

That election revival is racist, not Liberal, by Julian Harber

[Editorials]

Foot Prints, by Paul Foot

“He says it’s fair because his wage-increase will be the same as ours ...” (cartoon), by Evans

Raymond Challinor (cloumn)

Cuba 1962: when the world was on the brink, by Chris Harman

Fight the Tories

News in View

Nixon: Most corrupt president ... since LBJ, by Ian Birchall

Out of Your Mind (column), by Duncan Hallas

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The Unions

Letters

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

Sorry for delays

Tenants heckle Tory Minister

Councillor hits at ‘Labour quislings’, by Tony Goodchild

Policy of words, not deeds

Scotland: Unions to back big rally against Rent Act

Shouts of ‘traitors’ as councils put up rents, by Dick Williams

Students back tenants

Policies rapped

What’s On

Did you see this man arrested? (photo)

Big backing for Fine Tubes, by James Fenton

Tories turn back on Stormont, by Mike Miller

Indians stage big pay fight

Picket Lines

Hospital workers angry (photo)

Boilermakers accept deal

Strikers appeal for union help

Stirling students fight witch-hunt

Strike victory at ICI


No. 297, Nov 11, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Smash Tory wage freeze

Striking mother who gets 20p a week Social Security (photo)

World News

Freeze – rich will get richer

Old Bailey trial: eight say police framed them, by Robin McKenzie

[Editorials]

Foot Prints (column), by Paul Foot

“– nor will we change our position on equality for women ...” (cartoon), by Evans

Raymond Challinor (column)

Fight the Tories

The £25 breadline (photo), by Mike Cohen

Labour’s Record (series), by James Fenton

Rip van Winkle union at Little Snoring, by Jenny Hawke

Justice wilts in the Garden, by Paul Foot

News in View

Out of Your Mind (column), by Duncan Hallas

Review

What We Stand For

The Unions

Letters

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Boss uses strike to get more cash

Power claim sellout is big setback, by Colin Barker

What’s On

Strike threat saves jobs for 400 printers

IS News

The Rents Struggle

Letter shows how far union is betraying dockers

Blacking call in fight to same 1,200 jobs, by Roger Rosewell

The Strife Makers: another lie

Court threat to Engineers’ Union

Teachers robbed by pay freeze

Solidarity strike spreads

Rush to a bad deal

Victory over the Lump

Backing for sparks

Mass walk-out after sacking


No. 298, Nov 18, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

‘Pension up’ – strike call, by Peter Ingham

Help us step up ant-Tory fight ...

World News

Courtauld spinning lies in Lancashire, by Steve Emms & Laurie Flynn

The prices swindle

Equal pay, Newcastle sets the pace, by Sandra Peers

Killing of the week

[Editorials]

Foot Prints (column), by Paul Foot

Raymond Challinor (column)

Another big step forward

Sinking roots in Yorkshire, by John Charlton, Bill Message, Kevin Schirn & Sheila McGregor

Labour’s Record (series)

Clay Cross – rent ‘no go’ area, by Nick Howard

The police: muggers at work, by John Phillips, Paul Foot & David Widgery

Out of Your Mind (column), by Duncan Hallas

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The Unions

Letters

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

The man who was sacked by a kangaroo court ..., by Dave Peers

Fine Tubes blacked

Lead poisoning plant belches on, by Mary Phillips

What’s On

Militant strike ends

Chrysler 4,000 win sacking reversal, by Andrew Sayers

Big picket keeps car plant closed

Fight for union rights

Victimised militant now faces union ‘charges’

Wome machinists strike for sacked convenor

Hospital workers in revolt, by Gerry Dawson

Tenants sent eviction notices

Some of 2,000 marchers on Anti-Internment League protest in London (photo)

Picket Lines

Four-hour sit-in protests against the wage freeze, by Mike Balfour

Another worker killed

Textile strike in third week


No. 299, Nov 25, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Good start for IS fund

Unions face new attack

400 strikers shake bosses and unions (photo)

World News

Ancvhor death toll now at seven, by Laurie Flynn

The prices swindle

Danger of dodgy spuds, by Ian Gibson

Killing of the week

More victims of police muggers

[Editorial]

Foot Prints (column), by Paul Foot

“It’s all your fault!” (cartoon), by Evans

Raymond Challinor (column)

Another big step forward

How would you like to have £16,000, by Colin Barker

Labour’s Record 3, by Hugh Kerr

Shachtman – renegade with a proud past ..., by Robert James

News in View:
The Aldershot File
, by Eamonn McCann

The key speech the press ignored, by Bernadette Devlin

Out of Your Mind (column), by Duncan Hallas

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The Unions

Letters

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Big victory at World’s End

Dublin repression against IRA leaders, by Brian Trench

What’s On

IS News

Lead: dusty answer for tenants, by Mary Phillips

Steward threatened with court action

Wage freeze challenged steelmen, by Roger Rosewell

Sackings plan proves BSC lies, by Bryan Rees

Asbestos workers out on strike

‘100 rates of pay’ strike in fifth week

Big breakthrough by Indian workers, by Paul Foot

British Rail provoke strike move

Bakery workers angry

Clay Cross rent rebels under fire

Picket Lines


No. 300, Dec 2, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Heath-Lynch crackdown, by Chris Harman

Our fund appeal: cash is urgent

Pensions strike is historic (photos)

World News

£¼m – the high cost of Robert Carr’s door, by David Widgery

The prices swindle

Killing of the week

Racists take to the hustings

[Editorials]

Foot Prints (column), by Paul Foot

Science, by Tim Shallice

Another big step forward

Socialism on the map in Manchester, by Wendy Henry & Glyn Carver

‘A fighting socialist party is the only way forward’

Labour’s Record (series)

Stirling – in the hands of the money men, by Laurie Flynn

Starvation wages, by Jenny Hawkes & David Feldman

Out of Your Mind (column), by Duncan Hallas

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The Unions

Letters

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

‘Emergency only’ byn by Essex firemen, by Terry Segars

Workers step up sit-in battle, by Steve Emms

Teachers say ‘No’ to freeze

‘Friendly’ firm to sack 720

What’s On

‘Work-in’ man victimised

2,000 strike to back ‘higher pensions’ call, by Bill Message

Tenants call for total rent strike

Hospitals: rank-and-file anger grows

Sit-in workers win back day’s pay, by Harry Tait

Treachery! So Indians strike again

Tees steelmen locked out, by Roger Rosewell

Victory for sit-in in defence of closed shop

Bosses’ bid to break picket fails

Socialists killed in car crash


No. 301, Dec 9, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Major slump in new homes

The most important worker in Britain ...

Old Bailey trial

World News

Why we need £30,000, by Jim Nichol

Nigerian’s brush with British justice

Dublin bomb blasts: were they Jack Lynch’s ‘Reichstag fire’?

[Editorials]

Foot Prints (column), by Paul Foot

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Jobs go west in East Kilbride, by Steve Jefferys

Delay caused one man’s agony

£3 for a 60 hour a week, by Paul Foot

Labour’s Record (series)

A town under the axe ..., by Colwyn Williamson

Ireland: the tradition of bloody terror, by Mike Heym

Out of Your Mind (column), by Duncan Hallas

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

What We Stand For

The Unions

Letters

Raymond Challinor (column)

Shipyard workers ready for bosses’ offensive

‘Fight farm wages freeze’ call in Norfolk

Big London rally scores in campaign against the Tories (photos), by Jeff Pick

What’s On

Sacking in bid to break union, by Dermot Smyth & Derek Moffatt

Student ‘guilty’ despite evidence

250 march against racism

Massive demo backs council rent defiance, by Nick Howard

Anti-union air firm sacks four

Angry health workers decide: We strike

Motorbike firm tries to sack shop steward

More blacking of Fine Tubes

Rent rises refused

Strike in seventh week

Teesside steel lock-out longest in twenty years

Now union turns on Chrysler militant, by Martin Bramham

It’s official!

World’s End steward victimised

Women strike for union recognition

Three councillors back rent strike


No. 302, Dec 16, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Strikes can beat Tory fines!

Pensioners boost our fighting fund

World News

Labour bows to racists’ hate message, by Mike Caffoor

Education on the cheap – that’s new Tory plan
Mrs Thatcher (photo)

Hospitals revolt over pay and jobs, by Gerry Dawson
Health workers demonstrating outside their union headquarters (photo)

[Editorials]

Foot Prints (column), by Paul Foot

Wages – Prices (cartoon), by Evans

Old Bailey verdict a warning to police bomb-planters, by David Widgery

Slum in the middle of nowhere, by Bill Message

Taking the council for a ride, by R.K. Nelson

By gum! – welfare cuts begin to bite, by Lionel Sims

Yakir may be star of latest show trial, by Chris Harman

Report from the South, by Brian Trench

News in View

Out of Your Mind (column), by Duncan Hallas

Review

What We Stand For

The Unions

Letters

Spike (column), by Ron Knowles

We fight again in 1973, say steelmen, by Roger Rosewell

Anti-union firm gives in as neighbours join picket

Strikers hold out against scab labour

The Rents Battle

What’s On

Late Letter

Counter-demo dwarfs racists

Face yet another con trick, by John Charlton

24 hour stoppage backs stoppage

Rank & file back AUEW

Asians: no union help

Left wobbling aids the right, by Roger Rosewell

Picket Lines


No. 303, Dec 23, 1972, London
Socialist Worker
Weekly Paper of the International Socialists

Bust freeze move by low paid

Eviction threat to 5,000 tenants by Labour Council

Pickets at Marks & Sparks (photo)

Holiday behind bars

IS fund tops £6,000

Greetings

World News

Bomb Squad’s new victim, by John Telfair

[Editorial]

Foot Prints (column), by Paul Foot

Ding-dong merrily on high, the cash tills are ringing! by Laurie Flynn

In the City (column), by T.H. Rogmorton

Vic Whittington – a cautionary tale for Christmas

Out of Your Mind (column), by Duncan Hallas

Our Norman (comic strip), by Evans

Review

Letters

World’s End builders win again

Scottish rents rebels in retreat, by Steve Jefferys

Vestey closure aimed at Midland militants

Redder Tape in a white collar

Rank and file teachers oppose union leaders

55,000 Health Service workers join massive protest

Sacking after lead poison report, by Paul Foot

Print unions plan deal for Briant Colour

What’s On

Cleaners breakthrough

Hosiery strike mill took on 100 blacklegs

Big backing for the AUEW

Whites scab on Indians’ struggle

500 walk out over sackings


Last updated on 4 April 2021