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sti RAUC THE 'Labour Against the Witch-hunt' campaign set up from the October 30 conference of Constituency Labour Parties and unions has just issued its first newsletter.
It includes reports on the November 24 Labour National Executive meeting, Hornsey, and Bermondsey, and notice of the first National Council meeting of LAW.
The National Council is open to delegates from all LAWaffiliated Constituency Labour Parties, and to observers. The meeting is on Sunday December 12, Ilam to 4pm at Send to: LAW, 11 Wilderton Road, London N16 (01THIS Monday, 29th, after six days • of backstabbing and threats, representatives of 87 governments concluded their trade talks in Geneva with a statement vowing general goodwill and faith in progress.
Only Australia refused to sign the final declaration of the general Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) conference; but many governments no doubt shared the verdict of the Financial Times on this, the first trade summit for nine years. 'Free trade is still broadly accepted as a virtue: this is about as positive a gloss as can be put on the outcome an obstacle to progress as petty principalities and dukedoms were in the 19th century. Almost every important industry today functions on a world scale and needs a world framework for its development. Whole continents are the minimum units for the necessary socialist reconstruction of society.
Yet labour movement leaders maintain an artificial division of the working class into competing national groups, each with its fate tied to its decaying In Britain steelworkers are mounting pickets to stop steel imports and Vauxhall workers are trying to prevent cars coming in from Spain; in the US carworkers smash up and burn Japanese cars; in France the mis-named Communist Party bellows against Spanish wine and 'a German Europe' As capitalist competition tears the world apart, socialists need to redouble our struggle for action against the capitalist class in each country, and for international working-class unity.
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