beaten up.
Brixton and Clapham. Sentencing five black youths to five years in jail, he said: "These attacks have become a monotonous feature in the suburbs of Brixton and ally transformed that environment.
SCaDDHIE.
over the million mark.
is now being used against trade union struggles.
support of any section in dispute.
Latnam Mr, local Labour councmors, Georney Dram (ben. sec. NALUU)
practice. On Friday morning 16 May at 5.20 am between 30 and 50 members of the Special Patrol Group sealed off Spencer Road in rixton, London. Private, bailiffs helped by the SPG broke down the door of a house squatted by homeless families and their children. One mother of three young children was dragged out of the house by police men who did not even allow her to return to look for her children. When members or the All-Lambern squatters amvea on te scene, two or mem were arrested ano Later that same day Judge Morris delivered a few homilies about attacks in Clapham, areas which within memory were peaceful, safe and agreeable to live in. But the immigrant re-settlement which has occurred over the past 25 years has radicAs the Spencer Road squatters will telliyou, the Special Patrol Group were not immigrants. They were members of a police force which clobbers immigrants, squatter and pickets alike. But then that is not a violence with which capitalist judges disagree The seven week old struggle against redundancies at Crosfield Electronics, North London. is over. It was defeated bv a combination of court judgements and the failure of the North London District Committee of the Engineering Union to campaign around the issue, rather than doing just enough to say they weren't Similarly local Labour MPs, who early on expressed their solidarity, did nothing to mobilise support to force the Labour Government to intervene against the owners-De La Rue, a powerful multi-national combine-in order to save the jobs. Hardly surprising when Dennis Healey is happily watching unemployment rise So despite the efforts and determination of the Crosfield workers the struggle was defeated by an order for repossession granted by the Appeal Court on 12 May.
A rule of procedure which was first dreamed up a couple of years ago by the Supreme Court Masters-a bunch of aging legal luminaries-to deal with squatters The urgent task facing trade union and socialist militants in the area is to over come une isolation or reoundancy sruggies wmen are notonousty arncult to agai at the best of times. If such struggles are to be successful ongoing rank and file co-ordination throughout the area will have to be built so that immediate support in terms of money, demonstrations and mass pickets can be quickly mobilised in Some 40 trade unionists turned out in pouring rain for a picket of the private BUPA Nightingale Hospital in Lisson Grove in London last Saturday. The picket was organised by the Medical Committee Against Private Practice and supported by Arthur Westminster Trades Council, and Marylebone AUEW among others. The picket was the first step in a central London campaign to defend the NHS and end all private RNATE PRACTICE POCKET CANCER