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No. 152, Jan 1, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Threat to children’s welfare

Swedish iron ore miners’ strike (photo)

Factory committees spread in Italy, by Alba Sacerdoti

Europe: Why the big bosses are plugging entry, from Fred Milson

Where We Stand

Into the seventies, by Stephen Marks

Paying for pensions: Labour lets the middle class off the hook, by Jim Kincaid

Why life-long Labour supporter Poppa is hopping mad, by Geoff Shaw

Docks bosses determined to smash militant rank and file, by Nigel Coward

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Industry: the CP’s abdication, from Jim Higgins

Power men defy union threats – strike goew ahead, by Kathie Finn

Transport workers unite against fares and cuts, by a London busman

Bernadette faces jail (photo)

Badf work conditions behind ICI absenteeism, by John Charlton

Pay campaign call by local government militants, by Will Fancy

Scots stewards back action for nurses, by Steve Jefferys


No. 153, Jan 8, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Bonanza for bosses, by Laurie Flynn

Vietnam: The wrong man is in the dock, by Ray Challinor

This in Britain ... (photos)

Rat-bag of the week

Letters

Where We Stand

Fifty years of twisting and turning: the ‘ golden anniversary’ of French Communism, by Ian Birchall

British economy faces slow decline, by Sabby Sagall

GEC workers need strong links to combat Weinstock plans, by SW Manchester correspondent

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Films

Halewood unity leaves Halewood bosses smarting, by Alan Wild

Militant teachers force NUT to call more strikes, by Eric Porter

Coal increases will hit prices and old people

Move to ban transfer of work, by Andy Enever

R-R stewards call for combine to stop sackings

Steward sacked in three-shift row

Militant tenants in Greater London ...

Notices

Reckitt and Coleman ...


No. 154, Jan 15, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Wages: the big lie, by Lionel Sims

Stop Wilson’s trip, marchers demand (photo)

Oil shares shoot up as Biafra is crushed, by Wenda Clenaghan

Ford: vital struggle for ‘parity’, by Sabby Sagall

Where We Stand

Letter

Fawley: where the Esso sign means happy profiteering, by Roger Protz

How to polay ‘Productopoly’, from Plafayre

The threat from the far right, by Don Milligan

On the scrapheap at 58 ..., by R.T. Scott, from Newcastle Evening Chronicle

Report from America

Letter

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Engineering: where the bisses are judge and jury, by John Setters

Bathgate men divided – fail to wij parity

Socialist on bomb charge seeks witnesses

Petition for jailed editor

R-R stewards move to stop sackings

Rootes walk-out caused by cold

Jenkins blows the gaff

Tenant loses appeal

Growing strength of Left teachers’ paper, by Duncan Hallas

Notices


No. 155, Jan 22, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Czechs step up repression against the left, by Chris Harman

Labour: handouts for the bosses, poverty for kids, by Jim Kincaid & Roger Protz

Wilson lied over arms to Nigeria

Letters

Where We Stand

The ICI threat: prod deals, wwork transfer and sackings ..., by John Charlton

Biafra crushed to safeguard profits, by Wenda Clenaghan

The telly tycoons are feeling the pinch, by Paul Foot

Aussie unions act against Vietnam war, by Peter Finch

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Railwaymen face low wages and massive sackings, by Liverpool NUR member

£10 more or we strike say 400 Ford stewards, by Bryan Simmons

Workers and students unite to stop Powell

Mount campaign against prod deals says Cliff

Tenants in richest borough fight steep rent increases, by Mike Fuller

Big protest planned for Nazi visit

Sell-out danger as NUT meets Castle, by Duncan Hallas

Notices


No. 156, Jan 29, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Biafra: ping-pong politics

Dole queue threat: US recession worries Wilson, by John Palmer

Schools protest

Miners back rugby march

Cynical view of Russia-China conflict, by Stephen Marks

Star letter

Where We Stand

Time and motion study: ‘scientific’ way of squeezing more profit, by Tony Cliff

New plans for higher education will hit at working class, by Peter Goodwin & Martin Shaw

Productivity deals: grotesque distortion of IS line, by Roger Protz

Hand in glove: JIB bosses and union leaders

Letters

Join the International Socialists

Smug speakers dominate dole queue meeting, by Ross Hill

Ford’s palty offer – convenors demand strike, by Jim Lamborn

Riggers demand site safety – 80 sacked

Adoption Society (cartoon), by Evans

Centrax men out for three months, by Granville Williams

Notices

R-R workers march against sackings, by George Kelly

University class bias exposed by sit-in

Tolin petition

Productivity deals: IS challenge


No. 157, Feb 5, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Tories move to the right

Sacked Edmonton riggers reinstated (photo)

Labour homes plan collapses, by David East

Child poverty: report says it’s worse under Labout, by Valerie Clark

Letters

Where We Stand

William Morris: a vision of socialism, by Martin Shaw

Woodcock’s troubleshooters menace shop stewards’ strength at Birmid Qualcast, by John Setters

Courageous Panthers fight business grip on ghettoes, from Lutte Ouvrière (abridged)

Swedish miners shatter myth of industrial harmony, by Anders Melander

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Grading threat in builders’ new pay deal, by Ted Richards

Ford workers must close ranks

Devon marchers back Centrax strike, by Granville Williams

Notices

Angry tenants in siege of town hall, by Martin Earle


No. 158, Feb 12, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

New ‘get tough’ law in Ulster

Meeting protests at attacks on Black Panthers (photo), by Jeff Pick

Law and order – Tory threat to the Left, by the Editor

Centrax appeal

Malaysia: police state Labour helped to create, by Paul Foot

[Letters]

Where We Stand

Shift work, by Tony Cliff

Mr Short’s school treat: meal prices up – with a means test, by Jim Kincaid

TV

Equal pay: ‘more than a promise of a dream ...’, by Sheila Rowbotham

Russell – the eagle, by Peter Sedgwick

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Guaranteed week call by Rootes stewards, by Steve Jefferys

Teachers’ strike: leaders duck clash with government, by Duncan Hallas

Hooligans wreck Stock Exchange – no police action, by Fred Neadle

French CP Congress parody of democracy, by Ian Birchall

Civil rights supporter jailed

No reply

Gestetner workers fight bosses’ bonus trickery

Squatters occupy empty house

Notices


No. 159, Feb 19, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Militants spied on by bosses and university

7,000 Leeds clothing workers on strike

Massive strike wave rocks Belgium: police attack car men and miners

Letters

Where We Stand

In or out, we must call for unity of European workers, by Ian Birchall

Science

Pollution

GEC axe Kent factory in dole queue area

Rag trade revolts against bad pay, by Vince Hall

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SLL backs down debate

Palestine guerillas battle for power with feudal Hussein, by Chris Harman

Swansea keeps Ford parity fight on boil, by Sabby Sagall & Les Pick

Dockers’ union turns down new prod deal offer, by Alf Waters & Alan Sutton

Notices

Tolin petition

Irishmen jailed


No. 160, Feb 26, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Wages revolt snowballs

Repression grows against American Left

Bosses attempt to ban prod deal pamphlet, by John Deason

Letters

Where We Stand

Death in high places, interview with a militant shop steward, conducted by Colin Barker

The slaughter on the factory floor: what militants should demand, by Roger Cox

Zionism – enemy of Arab and Jew, by Stephen Marks

Danger ro Ulster left from Paisley thugs, by Sean Treacy

Cottons Column

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Scottish sparks get grim glimpse of grading scheme

Ford workers must demand hard cash, not paper promises, by Les Pick

Trawlermen fight for £20 minimum, by Alan Rand

1,000 face sack as furniture bosses close factory

Militant under attack

High Court move to crush strike

Italian picket

Notices

Rail union leaders move to gag left opponents


No. 161, Mar 5, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

‘Car anarchy’ – we nail Lord Stoke’s lies

Trawlermen’s strike grows

Printing militants alarmed by threats to unity, by Mike Heym

Letters

Where We Stand

America – 1970: year of the big strike as workers fight soaring prices, from IS, paper of the American International Socialists

Book Reviews

Cottons Column

Lebus – the armchair millionaires sit back as 1,000 are sacked, by Laurie Taylor

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Angry woodworkers occupy their occupy their union headquarters, by Paddy Faherty

Stewards call off Leeds strike – but no firm pay offer, by Vince Hall

‘Open all files’ students must demand, by Martin Shaw

Teachers win £120 – but pay fight must go on

‘Did the dead man have any enemies?’ (cartoon), by Dean, from Big Flame

Tow year ban on Ron Beak by Post Office union, by Richard Kirkwood

Panthers are jailed

Notices

Militant women hammer out campaign of action


No. 162, Mar 12, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Mirror rejects workers’ letter

“It’s always we ordinary people who are inconvenienced by selfish strikers” (cartoon), by Wird

Court move to end support for Hull trawlermen

BL stewards to hold enquiry

Take a highly confidential letter, Miss Smith ..., by Kathy Sims

Letters

Where We Stand

Rhodesia – a prison in the sun, by Roger Tembo

Films

How the telly tycoons and the press barons bend the news ..., by Jill Branston

... and on television

Cottons Column

Trawlermen’s strike: ‘Fish are more important than lives’, by George Oaks

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Jewish socialists form revolutionary alliance, from John Chowcat, Astrid Joseph, Jeffrey Lever, Charles Pollick & Len Smith

Angry clothing workers demand new pay action, by Vince Hall

Students – no retreat on university spies, by Stephen Marks

Young nurses get raw pay deal, by Jack Sutton

Builders storm union headquarters, by Paddy Faherty

Rail militants call for £5 ‘without strings’, by an NUR member

Notices

Workshop men accept productivity


No. 163, Mar 19, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Dockers strike for full ports nationalisation

One hundred people took part in a Black Panther demonstration in Brixton (photo)

Vital book for all militants

Yes, the workers should run Britain, by Stephen Marks

‘Back to Stalin’ group seek power in Russia, by Chris Harman

Learning from US socialists’ mistakes, by Charles Leinenweber

Letters

Where We Stand

BLMC workers need a fighting policy to defeat Lord Stokes, by John Setters

Films

The killers on the shop floor, by Gerry Dawson

How the system robs you ...

Building bosses and union chiefs gang up on militants, by Frank Campbell

Cottons Column

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Crooked pay deal thrust on clothing workers, by Vince Hall

Far right tightens its grip on N. Ireland, by Jimmy Greely & Pat Prenderville

“This cloth-cap socialism is just ridiculously out of date ...” (cartoon), by Wird

DATA men accuse ASTMS of scabbing, by Dave Peers

‘Tyred’ union buster gets busted

Cold workers threaten occupation

Militant Scots teachers demand parity with England, by Kathie Finn

Notices


No. 164, Mar 26, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Who controls? Workers’ action worries bosses, by Sabby Sagall

Ponies suffers so the rich can play polo, by Joe Rourke

Law and order – Marx speaks

Reign of terror in US mineworkers’ union, by Bill Gerch

Where We Stand

Who really runs Britain? The figures speak for themselves, by Lionel Sims

The plight of immigrants in Europe weakens workers’ struggles, by Stephen Castles

Support your local policeman, by acorrespondent

Asia plundered as big firms make millions, from Wildcat

Cottons Column

Join the International Socialists

Chrysler: Franco’s finger-men

Centrax: 21 week strike ends in victory for the workers

Labour will press on with union shackles, by John Palmer

Metal Box engineers strike for union rights, by Dick Jones

“The way things are going ...” (cartoon), by Wird

Scots sparks to fight job grading threat by JIB

The International Socialists are holding their annual conference ...

University honours ‘war-mongering profiteer’

Fitters walk out


No. 165, Apr 2, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Election year: now’s the time to push up wages, by Sabby Sagall

Voices from the barricades at IS confewrence (photo)

Irish left under attack from British troops, by John Palmer

Dockers must demand real control, by Terry Barrett, Alfie Waters, Frank Shilling, Alan Sutton, Peter Bloss, Bernie Whitwell, Bill Kemp, & Nigel Coward

Films, by Martin Tomkinson

Where We Stand

The airline freebooters are taking us for a ride, by Paul Foot

When Hitler’s footballers went to the Spurs, by Christine Protz

How ‘trusty and well-loved’ Woodcock soothed the bosses, by John Setters

Dhofar: Britain’s Vietnam in the Arab Gulf, by Stephen Marks

Cottons Column

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Letter

Dangers ahead for teachers in new pay struggle

Clyde unity vital to fight the sackings, by Peter Bain

£400,000 for ‘hands off profits’ campaign, by John Watson

Meeting demands jobs for Kent town

Notices

Ulster policeman named by PD in bid to re-open murder enquiry


No. 166, Apr 9, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

British troops gas and club N. Ireland workers, by Eamonn O’Kane

Back to 1900 says Heath

Nixon promises peace but steps up involvement in Indochina, by Ian Birchall

French left faces severe repression from government, from a correspondent

Where We Stand

[Two pages missing]

Struggle on the shop floor: Communist Party offers no lead, by John Setters

Cottons Column

Join the International Socialists

Letters

Jenkins’ budget will not change workers’ tax burden, by Lionel Sims

Glass workers revolt over hours and wages

“Off with those dangerous bootlaces, me lad” (cartoon), by Wild

Metal Box men locked out for a month, by Pete Branston

Notices

Popular font?

Hull trawlermen out for 8 weeks – vote to fight on


No. 167, Apr 16, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Glass workers fight on (photo)

Apollo: the terrible cost of space race

Budget: poor stay poor while bankers smile, by John Palmer

Murder in south America masks the grip of American big business, by Ian Birchall

Striking electricians stand by for emergencies in Newcastle hospital, by Tony Wild & John Harland

Where We Stand

Britain’s ‘My Lai massacre’: Amritsar, by Diane Devi Nair

Hop on a WHAT? by Chris Davison

Films

Cottons Column

Join the International Socialists

Rootes’ Avender hots up the car war, by Fred Milson

Pakistanis angry at press sensationalism over ‘skinheads’, by Fred Lindop

Union moves to break glass workers’ strike

“Comrade, What are those straps for?” (cartoon), by Wild

Workers vote against the Tories

Busmen’s pay rise has hidden strings, by Chris Davison

Victory for engineers in Metal Box lock-out, by Pete Branston

Notices

Mersey unionists protests at attacks on students

CAV testers locked out


No. 168, Apr 23, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Students must take action to stop witch-hunt

Defence squads against racist attacks, a statement by the Editorial Board

Workers’ control call

A reign of terror in the Punjab – then Britain looks for a scapegoat, by Diane Devi Nair

Lenin, a political biography, by Jim Higgins

Ship owners save thousands as seamen work long hours, by Joe Rourke

Cottons Column

Television, by David East

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Clyde bosses want new cash handout and more sackings, by Peter Bain

Lest unity vital to fight Paisley threat, by Sean Treacy

Two views on prod deals (photo)

Masked sparks say no to JIB

Strike backs locked-out men

Notices

Builders walk off site when man falls to his death


No. 169, May 2, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

For Workers’ Power – Kick Out the Bosses

How ‘T. Dan Wilson’ ratted on the working class, by Paul Foot

Where We Stand

Spring is on the way ..., by Vincent Mallon

‘Wobbly’ Joe Hill – gunned down by America’s rulers, by Wendy Henry

Threat of the international giants, by Sabby Sagall

Trinidad fights the grip of oil and sugar barons, by Martin Tomkinson

Cottons Column

Join the International Socialists

Fleet St. lock-out threat as printers reject prod deal, by Ross Pritchard

Bosses’ spies leep tabs on militants

Pay battle ahead at seamen’s conference

March backs W. Indies struggle (photo)

Colleges on the march

Glass workers stay out

Notices

Irish left fights ban on Belfast May Day march


No. 170, May 9, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Murderer: March, demonstrate and strike against war, by the Editor

We condemn Fleet St witch-hunt

Students face sack over May Day march

S.E. Asia: Notebook on US aggression

Where We Stand

Nine days that shook the world, by Richard Kuper

People against the system, by John Taylor

Militant women stress need need for action on the shopfloor, by Valerie Clark

Report from the North East, by Dave Peers

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Wall St wobbles as US inflation soars ..., by Lionel Sims

Unity call on Irish May Day, by Ray Burnett

Glass workers fight union move to split strike

Fleet St. nears the crunch

Tenants fight off bailiffs

New Devon strike over low pay and bad conditions

Notices


No. 171, May 16, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Press lies and union bribes at St Helens, by the Editor

5,000 march against Nixon’s war (photo)

Nixon’s desert, by Nigel Harris

Your Letters

On the march again – back to square one? by David Widgery

Where We Stand

Nine days that shook the bosses, by Richard Kirkwood

‘Peaceful’ Israeli leaders refuse to talk about ... peace, by Rami Heilbronn

Nurses defeat prices fiddle, by Tony Wild

No strike in Fleet Street – but threat to jobs remains, by Ross Pritchard

Cottons Column

Idle cranes as docks bosses dream of profits, by Laurie Flynn

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Sacked Irish ministers are not friends of the left, by Sean Treacy

Striking printers abandoned by union

G&M blacklegs on strike for union rights

Food strikers demand closed shop: out 6 weeks

Notices

Evicted tenants fight on for their council flat


No. 172, May 23, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

What a choice, by the Editor

Police violence fails to break Pilks strike

All out on 6 June!

A sign of hope from Russia’s prison camps, by Ken Green

Anti-war movement turns to workers, by Paul Foot

Where We Stand

What really happened at St. Helens ..., by Roger Protz

Big business demands new crack-down in universities, by Martin Shaw

Cottons Column

Join the International Socialists

Print militant sacked in new St Helens battle

Cov-Rad workers show the way

No strings victory say Devon workers

Immigrants back Powell protest

Union officials victimised in prod deal dispute

Strike may hit election poll

Pakistani sacked

Notices

Crossman’s handout will be eaten up by rising prices, by Richard Kirkwood


No. 172, May 30, 1970, London (should be No. 173)
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Who are they trying to kid, by Lionel Sims

Roy Jenkins says (photomontage)

Ireland: the repression grows, by Sean Treacy

Where We Stand

Revisiting Labour’s ‘socialist’ past, by Richard Kuper

Struggle against apartheid must go on, by Sam Mhlongo

On the line at Ford: if you don’t go off sick, you go off in a box, by a Ford worker

The true confessions of ‘Red Ross’, by Ross Hill

Cottons Column

Letters

R-R subsidiary locks out car body men for a month, by Stan Bishop

Wall St. – storms ahead, by John Palmer

Police arrest Devon strike leader

Pilks workers still determined to leave GMWU

Wire men keep up prod fight

Appeal to Scanlon

Union rights strike

N, Ireland Labour vetoes McCann for Derry seat, by Chris Russell

Notices


No. 174, Jun 6, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Racist smear on Asian workers, by John Setters

Oh, what a bore the election is! by Martin Tomkinson

Glasgow – where the old die of hunger and the slums fall down ... while people wait, by Steve Jefferys

Where We Stand

Re-visiting Labour’s ‘socialist’ past, by Richard Kuper

South Africa: Unions in chains, by Laurie Flynn

[Letters]

Cottons Column

Wave of repression hit French left, by Ian Birchall

Join the International Socialists

AEF call to end prod deals

Strikers harassed by police and bosses

June 17 1/9 – June 19 2/11 (caartoon), by Evans

‘No strings’ rise rejected – Kent workers walk out

Pilks men snubbed by GMWU

Tugmen go back

Ford foreman hit steward

East Anglia march protests at Cambodia war

Notices


No. 175, Jun 13, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Keep the Tories out, a statement by the editorial board

A late squeak by Benn, by Paul Foot

New move to frame Frank Keane, by Sean Matgamna & Liam Daltun

Hysterical attack on Bernadette Devlin by pro-Israel Labour MP

Where We Stand

Keep the Tories out – but no illusions in the Labour Party, compiled by Lionel Sims, Jim Kincaid & Martin Tomkinson

Workers have the power to smash the system ..., by Duncan Hallas

Poodles can be changed – but they stay poodles, by Daniel De Leon

Cottons Column

They’re waiting with open tills ...

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AEF snub for ICI prod deal

Smears against Scanlon in vital AEF poll, by Roger Cox

All printers must echo Fleet St demand, by Ross Pritchard

[2,000 building workers demonstrate in Dundee] (photo)

Ottery strikers stick out for victory

Closure shock

Notices

Late next week

McCann and Devlin offer only alternative in Ulster, by Chris Russell


No. 176, Jun 20, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Fight the Tories all the way, by the Editor

Bosses’ Daily Wail

Where We Stand

Nigeria: oil profit soar while Ibos starve, by Wenda Clenaghan

Serge’s ‘shining example’, by Martin Tomkinson

Dockers forge mioitant policy as union leaders haggle with bosses, by Harold Youd

For Leeds busmen OMO doesn’t wash at all, by Sue Buckle

‘Troops came to protect profits, not lives’, by Eamonn McCann

Cottons Column

[Letter]

Join the International Socialists

Rootes fight for job control

Hussein hangs on in pact with El Fatah

Tory price-fixers behind Devon dispute

Scottish sparks and plumbers march against JIB

Clerks in wages battle with AEF headquarters

Notices


No. 177, Jun 27, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Tory snouts are back in the trough, by Nigel Harris

Bernadette’s lesson for the left

Letters

Where We Stand

Robert Owen – his dream of a better society was a vital step forward for the labour movement, by Laurie Flynn

Who wears the knuckle-duster? by Michael Kidron

Private profiteers are milking the coal mines, by Jack Strawbridge

Communists: down the British Road to lost deposits, by Fred Hall

‘Red Liberals’ must liberate themselves, by Terry Lacey

Join the International Socialists

IS launches £5,000 fund, statement by the National Committee of the International Socialists

Dockers ready for first clash with the Tories, by Harold Youd

AEF poll – keep Boyd out

Devon strikers seek aid on blacking

Masked electricians discuss militant policy

Fake militants

Victory for Rootes’ car men

Notices


No. 178, Jul 4, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Release Bernadette

The classroom counter-revolution

Films

Where We Stand

Mom, Dad and the kinds on the home production line, struggling to make ends meet, by Bill Bayliss

The doctors’ dilemma – soaring salaries while the Health Service rots, by Gerry Dawson

Palestine: the bomb ticking beneath all Middle East rulers, by Moshe Avneri

Corruption is rife in the trawling industry, by an Aberdeen trawlerman

Cottons Column

Letters

Join the International Socialists

Campaign to fight the Tories, by the Editor

Docks pay insult: July strike to go ahead, by Harold Youd

The ‘snatch’ squad (cartoon), Evans

Chrysler workers walk out for £1 an hour

GEC strikers go back

Power station sparks strike over sackings

Times bosses to get tough with printing unions

Notices


No. 179, Jul 11, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

Ulster: Tory law & order, by Sean Treacy

Magnificent Mersey!

Where We Stand

Dockers face mssive attack on jobs and conditions, by Harold Youd

The classroom counter-revolution 2

If Harold had got the date right ..., by Paul Foot

CS gas – the lethal gas used by the troops in Ulster, by Anna Paczuska

Building workers hit back at bosses and union brass, by Peter Latham

Join the International Socialists

How the British troops brought ‘peace’ to Ballymacarret, by George Collinson

Cambridge: Tories take off velvet glove, by the Editor

They laughed when he sat down at the piano – but then he started to play (cartoon), by Evans

‘No strings’ say engineers, by Ted Jones

Women workers lead fight for more pay

Sovex out for 7 weeks

Italy: unions call off strike as government goes, by Norah Carlin

[Notices]

Builders protest


No. 180, Jul 18, 1970, London
Socialist Worker
For Workers’ Control & International Socialism

 


No. 181, Jul 25, 1970, London

Arms and troops: the two faces of Labour

Spread the dock strike now

The dockers’ fight is your fight

Where We Stand

Tory arms help to prop up South Africa’s racialist tyranny, by Basker Vashee

Shift work: danger to workers’ minds and bodies, by Rupert Martin

‘Productivity ... discipline’ – East, West, the language is the same, by Chris Harman

In memory of the martyrs

Cottons Column

At 56, ex-miner Joe Kenyon starts fighting the SS (interview)

Join the International Socialists

Communist Party a caricature of a socialist force, by an ex-member

Devon militants jeer Vic Feather at Tolpuddle Rally, by Granville Williams

Paynter links up with bosses (photo)

Chemical strikers beat bosses with ‘no strings’ rise

Builders arreated

Notices

[Printing and editorial staff taking summer holiday]

[National secretary of IS ill]

Ford workers walk out over bosses’ 10s penalty


No. 182, Aug 15, 1970, London

 


No. 183, Aug 22, 1970, London

Prices – the big lies, facts and figures, by Lionel Sims

Remember Czechoslovakia (photo)

Bombs – press hushes up the truth

Anger and despair for the ‘forgotten men’ of the mines, by John Charlton

Where We Stand

[Letter]

Leon Trotsky, by Duncan Hallas

Black curfew in W. London, by Ginny West

Cottons Column

Letter

Join the International Socialists

New Ottery battle over jobs

“The gear-box of that twenty-five tonner sounds a bit dodgy to me, Henry ...” (cartoon), by Evans

Long fight likely at Welsh metal works

Guard dogs threat to pickets

R-R draughtsmen locked out ocer no-strings claim

Secretary back

Strike as TGWU militant is sacked by car parts firm, by Dave Spencer

Notices


No. 184, Aug 29, 1970, London

Urgent appeal to all readers, by the Editor

Fight to help the jobless, by Chris Davison

Pilkington-Russian link up

Soldiers must have union rights, by an ex-sailor

Where the money comes from, by Terry Ward

Where We Stand

Russian jackboots have crushed Czechs – but the problems remain, by Chris Harman

Appeal to save Nigerian paper from bosses’ attack

Agriculture

The Docks

Tory threats to cut strike pay, by Valerie Clark

Cottons Column

Join the International Socialists

Letter

Frank Keane, by the Editorial Board

Chrysler car workers fight track speed-up, by Steve Jefferys

Car workers must demand full pay guarantee

Wildcat bosses behind metal strike, by Les Pick

“Any more laughter in the court and I will deport the lot of you” (cartoon), by Evans

Seamen to black Pilkington Glass

Support grows for sacked convenor

Sackings deadlock at Ottermill

Stewards under attack by EETU

Notices

Mersey workers march to back arrested pickets


No. 185, Sep 5, 1970, London

We did it!

Blackmail threat to strikers

New rents fight for London tenants

Frank Roche

Films

‘We are your enemies and we have the means to enforce the distinction’, by Charles Leinenweber

Why Brian Jones is giving up the land

Where We Stand

Fleet Street’s cuckoo sings, by Roger Protz

‘The scenery is lovely – but you can’t eat it’, by Granville Williams

Death of Amadeo Bordiga, by Anne Shuster

Harsh winter ahead for jobless, by John Palmer

Road to socialist unity

Cottons Column

Join the International Socialists

Official figures explode myth of ‘wages explosion’, by Jim Kincaid

Five days work or five days pay’ – GKN convenor

Birmingham Claimants Union members on picket duty (photo)

Welsh metals men out for a month in pay battle, by Jill Branston

Speed-up strike goes on

Clyde shipyard workers say no to strikes, by Peter Bains

Notices


No. 186, Sep 12, 1970, London

Daily Mirror: Belt up!

Release Palestine prisoners

Militant May doesn’t mind a dust-up with the bosses (interview), conducted by Margaret Renn

Where We Stand

Crisis in Motors: 1, by John Setters

Big business profiteers put Irish fishermen’s jobs in jeopardy, by Damian Duffy

The hand-me-down world of Britain’s forgotten poor

‘Poor Elsie’ is making a bomb from eviction, by Paul Foot

Cottons Column

Government out to crush revolt of lower-paid workers, by Chris Davison

GKN strikers stick out for £8 10 and no strings, by John Setters

Masked sparks slate attack on militants

Alcoa strikers solid against ‘faceless moguls’, by Jill Branston

Notices

Young teachers demand fight for all-round rise, by Tony Clark


No. 187, Sep 19, 1970, London

Rudi: fight Tory ban

Homeless families ready for battle of Arbour Square (photo)

Fewer jobs – but danger and sickness on the increase, interview with Fred Higgins, conducted by John Charlton

Where We Stand

Lively debates at international conference

Crisis in Motors: 3, by John Setters

Grapepickers win union fight, from News & Letters

Black in white Britain

Those bloody minded Tories, by Jim Kincaid

Guerrillas spotlight plight of hijacked Arabs, by Stephen Marks

Letters

Cottons Column

Join the International Socialists

Brighton – the hot air is lovely, by Raymond Challinor

Shell strikers out for 8 weeks over ‘strings’

Council workers – wage freeze (cartoon), by Evans

Mersey dockers enter the ring, by Ross Hill

Dave Edwards wins

Engineers share strike pay with sparks

Notices

EPTU expels 3 militants

Police evict firemen


No. 188, Sep 26, 1970, London

Defend Arab Revolution, by Chris Harman

Dutschke march off

Harsh choice for Chile’s new president, by Steve Jefferys

The ginger men’s last stand, by Paul Foot

Where We Stand

Crisis in Motors: 3, by John Setters

Bacon boxes ro you, too ..., by a Manchester correspondent

Maggots and abuse – this is the dustman’s life, interview with Mike Crokes, conducted by Ginny West

[Letters]

Cottons Column

Join the International Socialists

Rolls-Royce technicians locked out for 10 months in pay battle, by Peter Bain

Miners angry over six weeks strike ballot

“Attack!” (cartoon), by Evans

Metal workers mount picket

‘Left’ and right union leaders unite to break GKN strike, by John Setters

May Hobbs sacked

Furniture workers lobby union

Notices

Pilkington strikers call for big St Helens march


No. 189, Oct 3, 1970, London

Guerrillas not beaten as Hussein signs ‘truce’

Action not hot air, by the Editor

Rudi Dutschke launches appeal

How Israel aids persecution of Arabs and Jews, by Stephen Marks

Nasser – mourned by his enemies, by Chris Harman

Brainwashing the kids, by Audrey Kincaid

Swedish unions in barrle over bonus, by Rasmus Rasmussen

Crisis in Motors: 4, by John Setters

Left electricians mount big election challenge as union eitch-hunt grows, by an electrician

Council workers raise a stink on wages, by Bob Light

Cottons Column

Join the International Socialists

Big support for Pilkington ‘right to strike’ march

Barber gets out the tax clipper, by Jack Martin

Blue-white collar unity shakes bosses

Union officials kick their heels as Alcoa men men fight on, by Jill Branston

Storemen demand full union rights

Fork lift strike hits Fords

Technicians for ‘parity’ with draughtsmen

Notices


No. 190, Oct 10, 1970, London

No union laws, by Roger Protz

When did you last see your wife? interview with Lynne Stevens, conducted by Valerie Clark

Letters

Where We Stand

Pilkingtons: ‘We admit we made mistakes. We have to learn from them ...’, interview with John Potter, conducted by Ginny West

Roving report, by Paul Foot

US giant on the warpath

Crackdown in Ulster – British left must act, by Jimmy Grealy

John Dos Passos, by Martin Tomkinson

Cottons Column

Join the International Socialists

Busmen ban overtime in bid to win a living wage, by Chris Davison

Miners leaders put strike action in jeopardy, by John Charlton

Hospital staff to back council strike

Engineering plants closed in fight for union rights

Notices


No. 191, Oct 17, 1970, London

1,500 on march to back Pilkington men

Tories’ union attack hots up, by our industrial correspondent

Next week: We launch 8-page Socialist Worker

Bleak winter in Scotland as dole queue grow, by George Kelly

Where We Stand

Mr Carr’s ball and chain, by Peter Osborne

Danish workers take court action over strike fines, by Rasmus Rasmussen

Shadow-boxing union leaders threaten vital US car fight, by Karl Fischer, from Workers’ Action

Nixon’s Vietnam peace plan is election fraud, by Stephen Marks

Letters

Cottons Column

Join the International Socialists

Major print union splits – threat to workers’ unity, by a printworker

ICI engineers throw out prod deal

“We will not compromise with the Vietcong on principle ... until they win” (cartoon)

Closure hint at Cov-Rad

Miners’ vital ballot for strike action

Busmen stop work

Swansea metalsmen out for 10 weeks

Talks break down

McGarvey ends 3-week UCS strike by boilermakers


No. 192, Oct 24, 1970, London

Challenge to strike laws, by SW Industrial Correspondent

Big Tory cuts in social services

Welcome back, Bernadette

[Editorials]

French Canada’s anger erupts, by Sean Treacy

Tin miners act as Bolivia swings to left, by Ian Birchall

Cost-cutting bridges behind builders’ deaths

Miners’ vital struggle, by John Charlton

Policy to fight Tories

Unions must fight to stop laws, interview with Mike Cooley, conducted by Dave Peers

What We Stand For

RR – bid to break DATA

Big Bill, by Wendy Henry

Roving report, by Paul Foot

The meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Seven Times Seven

TV

Cottons Column

Notices

Glassworkers appeal for cash

Troops may strike-break: Unions must aid council workers, by John Deason

Farmworkers demonstrated at the Ministry of Agriculture (photo)

Yorks busmen step up strike action

Union bid to gag printworkers, by a printworker

Alcoa strikers claim a victory


No. 193, Oct 31, 1970, London

Its bloody Barberous

Chris Davison at Workers’ Control conference (photo)

‘Police are out to smash us’ – Black Panthers claim

[Editorials]

Police and dons launch big student crackdown

Tory welfare scheme will not aid the poor, by David Hebblethwaite

The Roots of Racialism (series), by Martin Tompkinson

Balfour – friend or foe? by Sabby Sagall

It’s the rich wot gets the gravy, by Kathy & Lionel Sims

What We Stand For

Why arms for Vorster aids rape of Black Africa, by Basker Vashee

Don’t be fooled by Tory icing, by Chris Davison

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Letters

Seven Times Seven

TV

Cottons Column

Notices

Dustmen show way to victory

Big backing for militant battle over Tory laws, by Fred Hall

Miners’ fight must go on – danger of prod strings, by John Charlton

Closure threat for Christmas

The new management ... (cartoon), by Evans

Electricians’ union expels militant in ballot contest

Brewers call time

Printers to meet

Victory for DATA


No. 194, Nov 7, 1970, London

Miners’ vital strike, by John Charlton

Ta very much, Tony Barber!

Tory rents policy is landlords’ charter

[Editorials]

Tory cuts will deepen poverty, by Jim Kincaid

Threat to children’s health, by Maureen Woodward

Bernadette, interview conducted by Sean Treacy

Union militancy and scandals rock Irish ‘green’ Tories, by Paul Gillespie

Murder in the city as profits kill the buses ..., by Chris Davison

What We Stand For

New pay battle looms at Ford, by Tom Langam & Sabby Sagall

The Roots of Racialism (series), by Martin Tomkinson

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Seven Times Seven

TV

“We shall defend our rights to the end” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Notices

Control key to miners’ victory

500 protest at police attack on black people, by Ginny West

‘No strings’ demand grows in ICI, by Dick Williams

Support for council workers brings Bristo to a halt, by Martin Barker

Scots strike over jobless

Cleaners sacked

Builders strike


No. 195, Nov 14, 1970, London

TUC to back wage freeze?

Strike laws fight hots up

100,000 miners out

IS to hold conference on union laws

Printing union expels militant

Strike victory for women cleaners

[Editorials]

‘Why not join another union?’, by May Hobbs

Letters

Hong Kong workers get a taste of Tory medicine, by Celia Cunningham

Big strike wave rocks Spain, by a Special Correspondent

Smash Tory Anti-Union Laws

The Roots of Racialism (series), by Martin Tomkinson

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Seven Time Seven

TV

“But the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes” (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Notices

Miners reject ‘go back’ call from ‘left’ leaders, by John Charlton

City Report, by Arthur Millium

Patchy turnout for Scots jobless strike, by Steve Jefferys

Opposition grows to to print union split

Battle for union rights


No. 196, Nov 21, 1970, London

‘All out 8 December’, say 1,750 militants (photo), from Morning Star

More threats to jobs and pay

Tories get their priorities right

[Editorials]

Magazine men in jobs battle at the Mirror, by Bill MacGregor

[Letter]

Miners say union must be changed, by Ginny West

The union that fights for people with no jobs and little hope, interview with Joe Kenyon

What We Stand For

1906: when trade union MPs fought for the right to strike, by Paul Foot

Port employers not happy with early results of Devlin deal, by Dave Fish

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Seven Times Seven

TV

Nature in November – a flight of managing directors to Bermuda for the winter (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Notices

Power station workers join pay fight, by Colin Barker

Rank and file set pace for all-out fight against Tories

[Tory Scrooge] (cartoon), by Evans

Correction

Strategy for socialists

Legal fund for Lawrence

Walkout halts scabbing at Fords


No. 197, Nov 28, 1970, London

Rank and file unite to kill the bill!

[Editorials]

Angry PO men on the march, by Jim Higgins

[Letters]

The Lessons of the 1920s (series), by Sabby Sagall

Rank and file action key to defeat of Tory laws, by Dave Lawson

What We Stand For

New politics must spearhead the struggle, by Stephen Marks

Lawrence Daly on Socialist Worker’s ‘sad spectacle’, from Lawrence Daly

Mr Maudling’s nasty friends, by Paul Foot

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Seven Times Seven

TV

Cottons Column

Notices

Builders out for two months

The taste of things to come in the High Court

ICI breaks agreement to push prod deal through, by Rob Clay

Students clash with police over traffic, by Emmett Grogan

Ford stewards link parity to Tory laws, by SW Industrial Correspondent

Electrician’s ballot

Ship cancelled

Newspapermen condemn agreement


No. 198, Dec 5, 1970, London

Have you voted to strike yet ...?

Shut your coal hole!

Big interest in IS conference

[Editorials]

No speedup cut in GM pay deal, by Karl Fischer

Glassy-eyed millionaires, by Arthur Millium

What was that about workers’ violence? by Raymond Challinor

Tory cuts are threat to your teeth, by Michael Silver

What We Stand For

Disease: the scars the system leaves

Big jump in accidents, by Dr Gerry Dawson

Chile’s new president walks the tightrope, by Nigel Harris

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Seven Times Seven

TV

Cottons Column

Notices

Electricians to vote in vital election

Getting shop stewards to jump through a hoop

8 December round-up

Layoffs hit Ford body plant

Notices

Women prepare


No. 199, Dec 12, 1970, London

500,000 strikers say ‘no Tory laws’

Blackout blackmail – by the bosses

[Editorials]

Whitehaven disaster: whitewash for bosses

Dublin to intern political prisoners, by Sean Treacy

This grim and profitable land ... (survey), by Jim Kincaid

What We Stand For

MDW is ‘slavery’ says boss who brought it in

Parity begins at home ..., by Steve Jefferys

The Lessons of the 1920s (series), by Sabby Sagall

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Seven Times Seven

TV

[Art & capitalism] (cartoon), by Evans

Cottons Column

Notices

Action councils get under way

Militants hammer out policy to defeat the Tories

Sacking threat by BLMC bosses

Morris say yes but PSF stick out;


No. 200, Dec 19, 1970, London

General strike

Polish food price riots shake government, by Chris Harman

Christmas break

[Editorials]

Torres tuns to the workers, by Joan McKenna

Stock market blacklist against the ‘lame ducks’, by Arthur Millium

Inflation: Why prices are soaring – and your pockets are empty ..., by John Palmer

Choke or freeze to death – the ‘choice’ is yours, by Lionel Sims

Unity can beat Tory laws, by Ginny West

The Lessons of the 1920s (series), by Sabby Sagall

The Meaning of Marxism (series), by Duncan Hallas

Seven Times Seven

TV

Cottons Column

Last word, from Lawrence Daly

Notices

AEUW [sic!] call for national strike

Strike demands shake union brass

‘Sold down the rivder’ – power men slam unions

Vicious smear on militant printworkers

Morris Motors: a correction


Last updated on 4 February 2021