members employed by BLUNDELL, secretary West Gorton, Manchester factory.
The meeting was a result of delay opposition at all ICL's major siles to the company's decision to supply the South African polce wilh new computers to administer the notorious pass we discovered through a report in the Sunday LInes in Amalsi that the company had taken this order, HOEN anG AUEW-LASS branches and groups passed rESCHUnOnS ranging requests for the company to cLonscer sacesono a call for joint action with other mOnsaLa ns EncecaREFUSAL In line with this the ASTMS duoa onica wroc to uc company level meeting. TASS members a national al the company's Putney headquarters have stated their refusal to work on any projects for ICL's South African subsidiary.
But the company was able to / International Computers of the Association Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs at ICL's the meeting months. Without, as far as we knew, any machines being built for the police, local stewards felt unao ciotore coace IMPRESSED Meanwhile the company, no doubt impressed by Longanes 'swap ments. was delivery of two 2960 computers built, according to the name boards dDove them Winsford тастогу, commercial OLanaHOn South Africa.
But if the company is feeling smug at this manoeuvre, it has misjudged several factors.
The first is the effect of the campaign against the order in building up network activists at rank and file level ando ane-unOn DasIs WnO certainly do not see this as the cneolinemauer Secondly, the Sancua o cabacanea anaiclc3s oi the South among ine workforce on many sites.
Some members felt we should of oppose this particular order but not ICL 's wider involvement in South Africa. has now been to ask why this COr two order was so important to the company that it resorted to this typeofaction.
This gives us the opportunity to explain the Company s BOUTA connections and the direct way waca us qum sales. Doln to the state and private sector, the oil depend on the exploitation and arrange- repression of the population.
DEVELOP the From this we can go on to explain the between British capitalism and in thiscountry.
In order to do this effectively we will need to develop our own knowledge and understanding ICL's South operations.
In other words, resources of our unions campaign has Syna nene secuiens labour and socialist movement Days picket, 4.30pm to 6p IG Ha. FrIK Nº Cais: ay (alm ante e1) eta C trom CACTL c/o 35 Wellington St, Londo WC2 Tel: 01-2893877.
tice nours and sundays) or d I-9864045 (evenings MAKXISM capilansil Party of Great Britain at The Ro Tottenham Court Rd, London W1. Sun 5 Nov 7.30pm. Questions and discussion. All welcome.
ANTI-RECRUITMENT Campaign. Fordetails tel. 2735947 company's Alrican involvement mass of the African black South Africans.
Their reaction REJECTED The right to control extent of the used.
African the black interests and wishes.
compuțer broader links technological -and indeed racism Waged in the 1960s...
BOLSTER African does indeed using the economic and o une NORRIS "Make er Saren.5 Criminal Trespas SC. 01-359 8180 Third in an serent Public Library.
film @oUTsOre we will need to launch our own inquiry — a workers' inquiry -into ICL's links with the South and other capitalists involved in the exploitation and oppression of campaign has raised much broader questions of our how the technology we have developed is Our members have rejected, in practice if not consciously, tuc loca tnat mne oroducro ou labour belongs purely to the employers, asserting a right to veto sales that are against our It has also highlighted the need for social control of new technology. Probably very few workers still see computers bringing about the paradise envisAfrican But this issue brings home the fact that the technology which CLOnOmC make rational planning practicable is just as capable of being used to bolster the most p&p, oppressive capitalist regimes.
(CPGB) Brith Ron Highbury Britain to be led by Malcolm Caldwell, lectu at SOAS. At IRR, 2471249 Pentonvili oldtus CONFERENCE on Value theory and Cleveland St. London N1 (4 and 5 No urnal of Economics and Conferenc SHEFFIELD Big Advance conference), 15 Greek St, London Wi
----- pull-quotes -----
Limited met the company on Monday to protest about its links with the South African state, reports ANDY
d Advice sions. Ali