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NEWHAM 8 NATIONAI NFWHAM 8 GRADEDAL give a call to action.

setbacks on the enemy.

way forward for the workers' movement. NATIONAL NEWHAM 8 MARCH AGAINST RACIALISM AND RACIAL ATTACKS.

Saturday 24 September at 1.00 p.m. Assemble at Plashe Park, East Ham, E12. Nearest Tube. East Ham.

Called by Newham 8 Defence Campaign and National Campaign Against the Police Bill.

The trial of the Newham 8 is due to be held at Snaresbrook Crown Court, starting October 24.

Send invitations for speakers, or resolutions of support, to Newham 8 Defence Camі pagn, c/o PO. Вох 273, London E7 9JN. clear that a future Government under his leadership would safeguard the role of the Royal Family".

You know, this Kinnock might not turn out to be such a bad thing after all. Bloody Bolshie, of course, but maybe deep down he holds to the same things as we do.

Of course we've all got our differences. Some of us are all in favour of free enterprise. Others prefer socialism. But so long as two people have got their country in common, they can agree to differ about these other things.

Patriotism. It's an old-fashioned word, of course. Some people might be tempted to laugh at it. But deep down underneath it is what really counts.

Trouble-makers

That is what makes these two trouble-makers Livingstonc and Scargill so unacceptable. It is not their left-wing views - god knows, some of my best friends are a bit pink round the edges - it is their lack of patriotism. They would sell their grandmothers to the Russians.

You have got to agree with the Daily Express on Monday. Page One Opinion. The Enemy Within. Quite my feelings exactly.

Then there's these two little pictures of them. You can see their lips all twisted. And underneath it says, Hate: Scargill, and Hate: Red Ken. We don't need telling twice. We do hate them.

Then it says, "Arthur Scargill and Ken Livingstone have exhausted their credit at the bank of tolcrance: They have deliberately set out to wound their own country"

It says that their hysterical speeches, "show them to be totally unfit to hold responsible jobs here. Or to be regarded as loyal British citizens"

Pirst Red Ken goes to Ireland and tells them that the British have treated the Irish worse than Hitler treated the Jews.

What a stupid thing to say. I mean,_ Hitler killed millions of Jews. Everybody knows that.

What happened in Ireland? Well, that's just history, isn't it? Of course people get killed in history. They always have done. That's not the same thing at all.

Anyway, the British didn't go there to kill the trish. We took the them civilisation. You can't compare the Irish to the Jews. The Jews are a cultivated people. At least the ones living in Israel are. They've got swimming pools and democracy. The Irish always have been a load of bog-trotters. Probably killed each other long before we came along.

Then Scargill pops up in Moscow. Probably collecting his wages. He starts going on about how Reagan and Thatcher want to start a world war. Makes jokes about Plutonium Blonde and Ray Gun. Of course the Ruskies didn't get the joke. No sense of humour any way.

Emigrate

I know he's said it before. But that was different: that was over here. Going over to Moscow -well, I agree with that Tory MP who wants him tried for treason.

That's what makes the Express questions so pertinent: "If Scargill and Livingstone find Britain so repulsive, why do they stay? Why don't they emigrate to a Communist state?"

"We know why, of course. There would be no platform Mrs Thatcher. No indeed. I'm a Labour MP and a good one.

Gratifying

The most gratifying reaction has been from the trade union movement, who are preparing a nasty welcome for Scargill. As one un-named official put it to the Daily Telegraph, "I don't think he realises the damage he has done. Mrs Thatcher is not popular with any of us, but to level an attack of this nature against us before a foreign audience fur a foreign country is disgraceThat's it exactly. Whatever differences we have with Mrs Thatcher, or bankers, or generals, or whatever, we always have to remember that they are British and in the last resort we stand side by side with them against foreigners.

It's reassuring to know from the leadership candidates that whoever wins the election there will be no fundamental change in this position under Labour, that patriotism will always be put before socialism.

After all, we wouldn't want anything that would embarrass the Queen. Would we?

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Socialist Organiser no.144 September | 1983 Poge