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From The Workers’ Weekly, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, March 26 1926
More than a million workers were represented by the 883 delegates who attended the Minority Movement’s Council of Action in Battersea last Sunday.
It was, despite many difficulties, so much the largest conference ever held by the Minority Movement that it must be seriously reckoned with in the forthcoming crisis.
Resolutions were adopted formulating plans for the improvement alike of the organisation, the unity and the determination of the working class movement.
These included the setting up of factory and pit committees, the organisation of Workers’ Defence Corps, and a demand that soldiers and naval ratings should be given the right to refuse strike service ...
S Saklatvala MP greeted the delegates...
He declared that British trades’ unionism had no hopes while British imperialism lasted.
British imperialism, he said, means 16 million coloured human beings exploited and worked under slave conditions in mines, iron and steel works ... of the British Empire, and the Minority Movement will have to take action to stop this exploitation.
“In these eastern territories where coloured labour is hopelessly exploited and literally starved to death, when through slave regulations natives are working a 10-hour day for 6d or 8d [about 3p] a day, I say the Union Jack to these victims is nothing but a symbol of robbery and murder” (loud cheers).
Number 136
Thursday March 28 1996
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Council workers must stand firm
The attempt by a London council to deny its workers union rights sets
a precedent which the entire movement must resist
Mad government disease
If private profit is the main criterion for the introduction of new production
techniques, the only science employed will be that related to cost, writesJohn
Walsh
Party notes
Fight liquidationism
Letters
Sloppy; Impermissible bias; Debate smothered; Subjective; Two doctrines;
Refreshing politics
Bureaucratic anti-racism
Eddie Ford argues that communists and genuine anti-racists should never
lose track of the fact that the state is our main enemy
Politically incorrect
Kevin McQuillan of the IRSP replies to ‘Irish feud wastes revolutionary
lives’
The CPB tortoise stirs
The Communist Party of Britain has named April as a “month of heightened
political activity”. Ian Farrell reports on its London public meeting
Stomach-churningly frank
Paul Greenaway reviews Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee
The theory of leader centralism
Bosnia: Islamicism on the march
Those that rallied around the so called ‘progressive’ side of
the Bosnian government surely must think again and learn the dangers of
such big guy, small guy politics, argues Steve Kay
Communsit press: Strange bedfellows
Julian Jake takes his weekly look at the left papers
Anarcho-communist trajectory
Dave Craig of the RDG replies to the RWT’s supplement, ‘The
struggle for communism - yesterday, today and tomorrow’ (Weekly Worker
October 12 1995)
Against republicanism
Paul Cockshot replies to ‘Revolutionary republicanism’ (Weekly
Worker February 29) by Dave Craig of the RDG
Boycott the bills
Andy McLean reports on the Hands Off our Water campaign
SLP in Scotland
Billy Campbell reports on the Socialist Labour Party's March 23 Scotland-wide
meeting held in Glasgow
Pitying their victims
The Church Action on Poverty charity organised a conference on poverty
last week. Alan Fox was there
Relearn solidarity
Thousands turned out to support the Liverpool dockers’ continuing
fight for their jobs on Saturday. Chris Jones was there
Lessons of Iran
Eddie Ford reports on Brent Socialist Forum's meeting to commemorate the
Iranian revolution
Social disease
TB is once again on the increase. John Bayliss reports
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