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Distribution/ Advertising THE MASS upsurge in Iran has shown no signs of abating. The LAST FRIDAY's temporary injunction banning 'secondary picketing' at an East London factory came as no surprise.
On one side was Reginald Fall, a lorry driver and member of the Transport and General Workers Union. On the other was Biscuits.
1977 donated £20,000 United Industrialists. A good deal of secrecy surrounds this Insuranon. however, an arucie reported that money collected 'passed on to the Conservative Party to Spend enterprise propaganda...apart from direct donations to the party this is the biggest single source of industrial gifts.
The championing of the Tory cause Dy conraca by the board of directors - none other than James Prior, Tory spokesperson on employment and the man responsible for Tory policy unions.
The company's chairperson, Hector Laing, has access to the top country through his directorship of the Bank of England.
Against such a combination Reginald Fall much of a chance that is, he could neutral treatment High Court.
But again the omens were not on Brother Fall's side. Only 1.2 percent of the most senior gures in the mudiciary com working grounds from the period 1820-75, when the figure was more than twice as high.
The particular judge hearing last Friday's case, James Conrad Ackner, is a TUC till the doctor's son. He was educated at Cambridge and enjoys the rich man's sailing and tiques' SAIS recently study, The Politics Judiciary, by J.A.G. Griffith, put it:
'Law and established power both public and private, Class revolutionary socialists are: the giant firm United United Biscuits most of by BUI is freeUnited Biscuits one member of
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6 Carry on picketing .. members will act in such numbers that they will have to use footbal stadiums as detention centres says Arthur Scargill Rule of the mob do the shown by If it was so concerned about the sick and the elderly, the class wouldn't have CULL expenditure, and wouldn't be demanding more cuts today Prior Fall, Our socialism will be infinitels more democratic than what esists in do not take up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models 'socialism' in the USSR and Eastern Europe hase discredited socialism in the eyes of the millions of workers tnrougnout the wario, we are opposed te them and will offer full support to all those fighting for socialist democracy.
the interesis n workers and coolains are irreconchanie an a warlo scale. Capitalism has not only created a world market, it has created world polities. Thus we fight for working class units on an international scale. This unity will in the long run ne decisive in bereaung pom te imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships thes sustain in Latin In Britain it implies-demanding tne-immediate witnerawat en-oris-roop from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future.
The Communist Parties in Europe are in crisis "Euro-communist nor the pro-Moscow wings hase any meaningful strategy for the overthrow of the capitalist state. New resolutionars socialist parties are more necessary than ever before. Conditions todas are more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties can only be huilt by reiecting sectarianism and seeing internal democract not as a luxury but as a vital necessits. This means the right to organise factions and fear anything to do with the supposed threat to the 'right to work' from pickets. If that were the case, it would today be castigating its very own The mes for locking out workers.
No, the fear expressed by the upper class and reflected in the Ackner judgement is the fear of WOrKCIS pOWeL.
What has been happening on the picket lines is that working people are making the decisions on who and what should be allowed through.
Rank and file trade unionists are running their strike; and by deciding which factories, depots or docks to picket they exercising considerable control over not insignificant sections of industry.
Against these actions the police have, in general, shown an unwillingness to intervene.
The edicts the headquarters of the TGWU have largely gone unheeded by pIckets Callaghan's boast that he personally would cross a picket line has not prompted working people to strike-break So the law, in the shape of Judge Ackner, has now stepped in where others have feared or failed to tread Following the High Court decision, Reginald Fall said T'll be a good boy and stay at Which BECAUS any decision to defy the High Court rests with the leadership of the TGWU.
They are unlikely to take up the challenge, and with what seems the imminent end of the lorry drivers strike the whole issue of 'secondary picketing' seems likely to spend a while on the shelf.
But it is unlikely that Judge Ackner, Hector Laing, James For any other such representatives of the ruling class will have the last word on the right to picket Rather it will be Reginald who decide just where and in what force pickets are placed.
Judges may make rulings, even pass iaws but, as the Pentonville Five showed, it is the strength and the force of the picket line which ultimately decides.