WOMEN MARCH AGAINST MURDOCH | Socialist Action 1983

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PICTURED HERE are women the Kent mining munities marching on London during the 1984-85 miners strike. The legend on their placard is prophetic. Next in line, it turns out, are the employees of Rupert Murdoch's News International - and the rest of Fleet Street's print workers will be hot on their heels if Murdoch gets his way.

Like MacGregor before him, Murdoch has plans to decimate the jobs of tens of thousands of workers, and to deal a savage blow to the organisation and strength of the print unions in the process. From their own experiences during the last two years, mining community women know only too well what print workers and their families are facing. That is why contingents of Women Against Pit Closures will be travelling across the country next Saturday to join the women's march and rally on Fortress Wapping, to mark the anniversary of com- Women's Day.

This demonstration is sponsored by SOGAT and the NGA, by Women Against Pit Closures, and by the women's committees of the South East Region TUC and the Greater London Labour Party. They say: 'International Women's Day offers all of us the opportunity to salute our sisters everywhere, whether they against oppression, fighting for their jobs, for national liberation, for socialism, for democracy or for peace.

By bitter experience the mining communities discovered the alliances, the determination, and the leadership needed to stand up to MacGregor. Printworkers will need the same alliances, the same determination, qualities of leadership to defeat Murdoch. Who them than the women of the working class?

struggling the same better to teach • Audrey Wise on the minority report p2 • Peter Heathfield on the miners p12 • Paul Whetton on Notts p11 • International Women's Day p10 • Philippines po • Malcolm X anniversary p7 • quiry of • See page 10 for details of the women's march and rally, and page 1l for Wapping picket line news.

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Socialist Action 5 March 1986 Trial by ideology THE TERM inquisition, according to Collins Concise English Dictionary, owes its origins report of the commission of enquiry into the Liverpool District Labour Party confirmed what many already knew: a purge of the Liverpool Labour Party