evalusiotary wrislear are nerretary mieans the power uf the capitatia state. ser solutions that are in the interests, ant of the murters, hat of the copiedier Sochis Challas bellever thai ihe too sual toks confronting class collaborationism in the lahuur savement. These should be now-esclusive strangle sendencies in character grosping together militanis bolding a wide range of political vices * To bege io fight for the creation of a unified sed demncratle reynintiunur nialist organisation which con, chrough an application of asited from tacties in to be sees as an alienative hy thomants of workers ass in singin fuch an organisation should be breed in the andentanding that The suade for secialism seco do unite the fight of the warkers newins!
valy he achieved be creating new organsef pnuer and efants with all Ameries, Strica and Ada Trum brean and beltee the irish people ermine their me Fature.
The Communis Portis in Lurpr lesdencies.
The mierists of markers and capilatos are inconcilah on a worl world pollic. Thus wetigh tor warking cla-s unte un an internatona Male The unice wit be the long restoreisive in defrating hostel peralist regimes in the thest wed ilic brual he tatorshipe this sustain in Larr te Brinink implies demanding the immediar withorosat at British top and In co sitter thi Lure-commune nor the pin Moscow widu, has ant meaningh indialist parties are more nessary then ear before, E infinen toda are inure fovograble this ner the price Sig thre decades let sush parties can one he hult be rrecting sectariani-s and erine intral demented other Insury lost as via wresis. This means the right be whores fate an
anti-racist stand, When journalists commitenent and bias in writing against racism they always run ine risk of getting oin of step not only with their readers but of colleagues.
And lappened to Barh Front branch.
Asian aroups We questioned police motives when they arrested nine Asian pickets.
And, of course, we never gave the Front any right of reply.
SQUATTERS We even had the temerity to plash campaign over our front age on behalf of a family of Asian squatters who had been deceived and brutally evicted November's called GL.C amnesty.
Our rival paper plaved dow the story - sians, let alon squatters, don't sell approsch. Militants held Key There was support for positions in the chapel and on lhe desks;
lub-editor, Aidan White, is on the NUJ executive and founder the rank-and-file group, JournaIsts Charter.
Until recently we had a Lord Thomson-trained group editor who could smell a good story and thought natonal reputation was good tor a new paper like the Eas Ender.
But there was also continual oppositon.
UNHAPPY to 'educate' our readers, circulation department plained that newsagents advertisers were unhappy with ThE paner Journalists on the complained we were ruining their police contacts, and every publication day verbally pinned in the corner and forced to justify our choice and treatment of stories that not to vote NF in local and national elections.
paper which has gained a national reputation for its In fact, the journalists were merely confirming show their week Newsroom sometimes: "Not another Paki story': Pity they didn't kill all the black bastards". And after a sory about TALESLS in Brick Lane:
chief rather live next to an NFer than NUJ'S DEFACED An ANL carnival poster was first defaced then ripped down.
argument blew up over wherher 01- a chapel decision to support an anti-racist rally should involve taking our union banner along. Our position was weakened group. were candidates in • search scapegoats.
This naragonism ended very соль- predictably six weeks ago in the and worst office acene of all when two of us who were not present were actually threatened with violence by a colleague.
It was made known to us that the Front had our descriptions, were and this delighted some of the Journalists present.
The person concerned was the group's four papers The three who resigned (f to r): OLIVER DUKE, BARBARA JONES, and NICK BRETT management comments were demanded and secured written apologies and Future good HUSHVATE The three of us considered this a very inoderato request. But even then support for the chapel's proposals was by no means unaninious, the three of us decided to resign which reflection, a clear tactical error. an We fole uscomfortable in our jobs; but more importantly ground tinually having to justify what considered Journalism.
COMPLAINTS
obvious for Our only concern after we anti-icie sance should con thar tinue, lo an effort to keep the matter on the boil, we look out compiaints with against two individuals concorned with the irents.
And this as it turned out proved the way of getting the chapel to unanimously endorse the anti racist practices of the practices which had been going on for over a year in Express, Romford Express, and Thurrock Express.
But the path to last week's unanimity is littered with together with explicit racist outbursts.
It culminated in threats of violence against three of the East Ender's most active anti-racist reporters Barbara Jones, Nick Brett, and Oliver Duke another reporter on the paper.
The incident prompted the three to resign, six weeks ago. NICK BRETT, who was then father of the group NUJ chapel, tells the story STEEL PULSE & RALLY SUNDA) 1am TRAFALE The chapel assurances of behaviour from anti-racist position withdrawn.
POLICIES was, opponents* ce intimidated and down. con- tomplaints responsible lengrhy the be The motion union must have been question now la what will be made inside that by NUU militants, and anti-racist movement London into practice, Marks tbe East Ender, Stratford by Strange The On 25 THIS.
The Striker had published, alliance Aother letter, An emergency meeting of Journalists Charterhadcomeup Semitic branch presett a motion to unbreakable olive your cape etch calls for a endorsement the cists. and return the complaints should b 'Leese had 43L1 against the established policies of the Fast Ender they were merely givine substance to th investigating Complains are a messy, business. and were theoe people prepared to give up their yobs and throw an punica gon letters indicates awful lor of abic at the fan Some of that sticks, and it's a Nazis. healtby Taer roday that no one - except the Front - likes to publicly tried as a racist.
was carried For LAUREE olive to swallow. But the crucia a very bitter could interview menber efforEs Council. chapel, by tbe slandering me.? till ERst to ensure that chapel's anti-racist polcy is put To catch a 10 Is the wi THEMS Spencers, pleaded guilty, was Fined adi intervieves with the British meh landing o landing Karachi airport, she changed her story.
She was not been framed by Marks She har and Spencer as part of a 'Zionist imperialist conspiracy Could it be that the Begum was worried lest people say that the fine was insufficient and he hand should be amputated? o was it a lie designed to save her political skin?
As for imperialist conspiracies, they tend to be a title more subtle. But given the fact tha Wali called on the former province, Sir Olat Caroe, told a private recting uf MPs Thar British rule was better than sitat existed now, one wonders need there is of times in Kilburn Kilburn Time Wellesden Chronicle are local pupers published from the same just the West week Better for Jews and the whites, equally lurid male antiVienna will know be was one of the fint [and pre-Hitler] British TasThe local A NI. secretary, Lie nel Rich, informed the editor of the two pupees that the addresses supplied by Mess Striker were fictitious and thut it was obtious anti-Semitie ploy. The editor, Denis Sole, ugreed to print a letter polting this out. hut forbade his reporters from further. Mr Siole in a Baptise lay Story presetier whose organs - 8s the of these racist of have 2н gone overboard to upset the Ken ye be so scared pure suce went our ASKIN whether Ken Gill.
Commutist Party and of the ICC Geberal 'No', replied GIE. your paper stops Our reporter was adamant:
Gull criticisma. of him some weeks ago In Iciation refusal to defend Mike Cooles Were these ultra-left CRIFE clims? Gill probably thinks they were. In any case they have been repeated in an article by Chris Herd in the current issue of the New Statesman.
journal now be out of bounds too for Brober Gill?
Shadow spokesperson for contradictions NEV's PRIZE of the week goes In George Gardiner, Tory MP for Reigate. At a speech made to the Reignte Conservative Foram on 4 September stated:
TUC delegates are voting at Brighton today for a reture to free collective bargaining. This tive Party offers them.
We shall restore to trude salons the freedom to negotiute pay rises for their members.
In return. union leaders mest be prepared to make the transition in a responsible way.
The election of a Conservative Government cannot herald a mad wages seramble "We shall have to proceed one step at a time. I believe we SHERIE HENCE that, In the immediate future, a Conserto keep pay settlements in the public sector within the 5 per cent figure.
The longest arm AT A SECRET location in London a new computer is at It can accept louse interrogations with a match The Office has stared that it can now accept an inquiry such as *Which red-haired Instenan o record drives white Ford Cortina with M, R and 6 in the registration?' The Laplications of obvious, as are the possibilities of suhsequent harassment by the Specials.
The Office considering a computerisation of all the data normally held in manual form on files Apart From the dangers posed to civil aherties by this scheme, there is the additional possibility tha false information can be fed abd used to harass people.
There is the famous example Honeywell 6040 computer based in Oxford and functioning since 1975. The systero gained headlines wher visitors were shown the centre and the machine computed a few tacts A man who was named was supposed to be gay The information, it was later discovered, was false and had been submitted by the relative of a policeman who had heard it is asbop. Even a visiting FRI officer was scandalised The NCCL would be wel advised to investigate the nev computer aod mobilise Labou ViPs to try and eet more detall from the Home Office Socialist Chullenge 14 Seplember 1978 Page 3
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JOURNALISTS on the Express Newspapers group in | East London voted unanimously last week for firm opposition to the National Front and other racists. They called for no platform to racists and fascists, and pledged to expose the evils of the Front; to deny the Nazis any right of reply; and to encourage readers
A rare statement in the field of journalism, but hardly surprising, you might think, from a closed shop National Union of Journalists chapel, whose members produce among other titles the East Ender - a local
by the disastrous financial state Up. Newspapers
East Ender just five weeks after I given a written warning by the the threats incident.
bitter office rows about balance and objectivity, political bias and the fear of alienating white readers,
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