Be letermine their own sexuality. We call or an ena to une discrimination agamnsi ays.
*Britain's policy of repression and orture in Ireland stands condemned e world over. Socialist Unity believes here can be no peace in Ireland until he troops are withdrawn and the Irish eople as a whole have the right to elf-determination.
*Britain must break all imperialist inks abroad. The Labour nent's support of the Shah of Iran, the nass murderer, was outrageous but ypical. In Africa we say that Callaghan ind Carter should keep their hands off, ind we support the Patriotic guerrillas a neir armed struggie against regime in 77 lan Smith imbabwe. "lessey has already announced 800 redundancies. governALAN WALKER The protest.
timely Hill.
Callballl demonstration, wearing DanCersane placards. Kick - Out 'Free the Prisoners', and Troops Out Now' were the slogans.
blankets symbolised prisoners in H Block, Britain's policy in Ireland was the subject Benn wanted to evade; Socialist Unity campaigners had organised the In the wake of the new evidence of torture by the British administration in the North of Ireland, the protest was But it was also appropriate because both the Labour government and its "left' representatives like Benn want -at all costs to avoid the issue of Ireland at Edge Hill, or for that matter in any other election.
And that is one reason why Socialist Unity greeted Benn as they did, and one reason why they are standing in Edge Ireland is not the only issue around, and it is by no means the only issue Socialist Unity candidate Alan Walker is campaigning on.
Within the first few days of the Socialist Unity's quarters at 217 Wavertree Road had printed and dispatched leaflets on why they were standing, on unemployment, on pensioners and on women's rights Alan Walker visited a mass meeting of social workers, a conference on youth unemployment, a picket line of The necessity for such activity and the the importance of standing in Edge Hill was underlined by two separate occurrences last Friday. the One concerned the publication of a Kesh; regional showed 14,300 jobs had been lost in redundancy Merseyside the previous year; the other was a statement issued by Labour's Bob Wareing.
Wareing proclaimed: Despite the tough going of the past five years, the Labour government has stood by its pledges to families, sick, the disabled difficulty."
Such brazen attempts to defend the indefensible record of Labour might suggest that Wareing is just another run of mill government's right wing policies. But that is not quite the case Wareing is trying to put a left face on his ciccuoneering attacked the Common Market, saying *I am not for a Europe of the bankers companies.
Ane ne as ave as we as sen head- other 'left' Labourites to speak at his election meetings. These include Eric Heffer and the most pathetic left' of them all, Michael Foot Socialist Unity's Alan Walker sweeps aside the left credentials by-election campaign in Edge Hill is trying to claim.
*On those few areas where they do claim to have left wing positions Walker, 'they are only paper policies By contrast we go out and work for striking ambulance workers, for public SCLLO WOEKCES *We will do all we can to support all those struggling against the sordid policies of this Labour Our Labour opponent publicly defends the government and he invites on to his platform the very people whom the low paid in this country against.?
There is much more to such remarks than just by-election speech Socialist Unity's campaign in Edge Hill is involved with the central argument of how to fight for socialist policies For candidate Bob Wareing was chosen a Socialist Unity trom London Wareing up. which poodle.' campaigns such the League, and others in Against advocate of the The gets.
He make any multi-national companies'.
controls line.
says week about the LUVCEHICHL Socialist Unity much fun is meeting.
are fighting by-election when Labour and truly joined suggest that perhaps the government has not delivered utopia to the working class, a smoothie Labour press agent intervenes shut As Alan Walker puts it: 'He hasn't even been elected yet, but already he's performing like a typical Callaghan For Socialist Unity, fighting for left-wing policies means supporting Merseyside Alliance Against Racism, the Anti-Nazi the Merseyside Campaign Youth Unemployment, the United Troops Out Movement and a local campaign on day-care abortion.
If the by-election campaign helps to promote these causes, Alan Walker will be satisfied, no matter how many votes That is not Wareing's approach Despite the evidence of a considerable racist presence in the constituency - ol maybe because of it Wareing has yet public statement on *We are for an end to all immigration says Walker. •We are for black self-defence, and a recent attack on a Hindu centre in the area explains 'But we don't know where Wareing stands on immigration controls and self-defence. It's silence, all along the Silence is not what's expected when as part of Labour's campaign, Albert Booth visits Edge Hill on Friday of this sene unt Unemployment' to Liverpool is just most courageous thing Labour will do in this by-election.
But for Merseyside's unemployed it is also the most insulting. 'We won't take that insult lying down', said one worker, and expected at Booth's Yet fun is not what the Edge Hill is about. Socialist Unity's election address puts it, they are for 'the fight against the present system and the government that is running it Alan Walker's campaign in Edge Hil will ensure that this fight will be well - up to and beyond polling day on 29 March.
Socialist Challenge 22 March 1979 page 9
Under the 'age of consent' laws the man has a defence if he can claim he thought the young woman was over 16. And most judges are lenient with men who have sexual relations with
Lowering the *age
consent' is no solution either.
We could all argue for hours. about what age precisely to lower it to, and even those who say lower it to puberty can't
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