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PALES Bradford Campaign Solidarity 'Zionism, expansion to attend a council meeting to hear a debate on Luncheon Clubs. This minibus was often lent for outings - but not any more!

The SDP leadership wrote to this group and told them that as they used this vehicle for "political purposes" they were banned from now on.

Tv) Provoking an all-out strike of council officers. A housing department worker, Rob Webb, was suspended because he tried to take up a job his contract specified. It took an all-out two week strike by NALGO to re-instate him and a subsequent Tribunal ruled he was legally in the right. During this dispute, the SDP also locked-out the manual workers in Direct Labour and union-council relations have plummeted to an all-time low during these three months.

If this is the result of the four months of SDP rule, it IRELAND DEMONSTRATE MAY 8: British out of Ireland, self determination for the Irish people. 1pm, Speakers' Corner, London. Called by Labour Committee on Ireland, Indian Workers' Association, Troops Out Movement, and Veterans Against the War. Send labour movement sponsorships to Robert Jones, Box 353, London NW5 4NH.

MANCHESTER Labour Committee on Ireland meeting: Thursday May 13, 7.30 at the Britons Protection pub, Gt Bridgewater St, Manchester 1. Speaker: Pat Byrne, who was secretary of the Irish Republican Congress in the 1930s. LP members only.

Labour Movement for Palestinian - day school on ideology of Saturday April Peter Fact requires little imagination to see the ravages of four years that would afflict Islington - or any other Borough -were the SDP to seize the reins. As we go to press, the hold of the Social Democrats looks veiy weak. Labour has counter-attacked strongly and many electors are already disgusted by the sight of the SDP in action.

On top of this, a serious split has occurred in the SDP's ranks - with Bayliss being ditched as a candidate and the newer SDPers in open warfare with the oid gang.

This augers well for a Labour victory in the May elections, and for Islington to become strong socialist council. Nevertheless, this short period stands as an eye-opener to anyone wondering what the SDP looks like in practice. It is not an experlence we would lke any other area to suffer!

24, 10.30am to 5pm, at Queen's Hall, Bradford.

Credentials £1 waged, 50p unwaged, from 7 Westfield Cres, Undercliffe Old Road, Bradford 2. Speakers include Moshe Machover, Andrew Hornung, Elfi Pallas, and John Nelson.

MARXISM London Workers' Socialist League classes on basic Marxism. Next one: The Lessons of October. Friday April 16, 7.30pm. For details of venue write to PO Box 135, London N1 ODD.

'THE POLITICS of the Socialist Workers Party' pamphlet produced by Glasgow Socialist Organiser. Sections on: history of the SWP, SWP and trade union work, SWP intervention in industrial disputes, SWP and women, SWP and internationalism. Prices 43p for one copy, £1.81 for five. Cheques payable to lan McLeish. From: McLeish, 2 Quarry Ave, Halfway, Cambuslang, Glasgow.