artilicially into the red. ECONOMY steel. which for the whole economy, It B the Bilston. alternative national pran lar requires given the Tor specific natore of the product implies an alternative plan Transnarl overall logic of capitalism which forces BSC to was the kind of "local' irrational. ities which mark its policies in busworkers The field is open to socialists to produce their own alterna.
audience andig sed attir Transpore was neal audience among steel workers Workers LANCASHIRE hus driver Mary Winter has been sucked wearing *Lesbian terey and Pendie Joint Burley and superintendent David Greenwood told her to because 1 of 'causing offence passengers'. But Mary relused uniess otber badges worn by -reading 'Give me a French Kiss' — were 3x0 removed. On i June she Union branch and back their victimised member Acording to Mary her shop sreward argued that lesbian" 1 'an obscene word.
But Mary has been backed by the local women's movement and on B July a 40-strong picket Burnley bus station was Mary's supporters are appealing for ail the heip the can ger. They can be contacter Cro Mars Winter, 23 Masor Street, Colne, Lanes. As Mary says, '1 am being discriminated against because sexuality', SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 20 July 1978 page 11
For that reason alone it is important that Western socialists defend these so anxious to defend. LAST week's sentences on Soviet oppositionists accused of espionage were predictable — but no less scandalous for that. It is a strange sort of socialism which hasto use the courts to silence dissenting voices, particularly when allthose voices are demanding is that the 'socialist' state Implement its own international agreements. oppositionists regardless of their political views.
On this page we look at what exactly those views are; we report on a campaign to rehabilitate one of the victims of a former Moscow trial, 40 years ago; and we examine the case of the Fast European oppositionist whom the Western press is not