being manhandled in Manchester protest against the Terrorism Bill on April 1 last year. It's nice to see the Home Secretary paying the deposit of his opponent in this way Nichol said of the donation: "I spend most of my working time fighting cial system. In many ways therefore it is fitting that should be used to help mount my challenge to lack Straw and his government's record on civil liberties In Backhurn the LSA has done the job of setting itself has a clear alternative to the Nichol explained further his reasons for standing:
as a lawyer i oppose straw for his attacks on civil liber. ties. As a socialist brought up in a mining family in the North East, I oppose the government for their for especially their obsession with privatisation. Tyneside Socialist Alliance has had plenty to keep it busy. Not only are there two candidates to support: Terry Sanderson in Tyne Bridge and Pete Burnett in Tyneside North, but there are a host of local issues to the national platform of the Easter weekend, for example, saw campaigners in the City centre petitioning not only over the threatened closure of the local fire station, an issue the ritance nas been working around for some time, bue around the threatened closure or Carmen Laros Shipyard at Hebburn.
Cammells, which employs taken into receivership the preEvening Chronicle broke the exclusive story that the owner of the netenbouning swan Hunter yard, Jaap Kroese wanted to buy the Hebburn Tard. he story, published of Good Friday was headlined "Saviour"!
Kroese, who has since put together a consortium which involves the GMB said We are really interested in the Jebbum yard for production and olishore work but not really repair work and would need a partner if we were going to take over Teeside and Merseyside as well. Alchemy. for the Rover group brought them to prominence lass year, nies have also expressed interested.
i he atatuce of bot the gov emment and trade unions, led by GMB resonal secretary Kevin Curran, has been atrocious.
Swan Hunter's plans would activity over Easter weekend Birkenhead and Teeside, with and subsequently, and it was the loss of hundreds of jobs. pleasantly surprising that so many people were ready to isbelieves that all the jobs should ten to the arguments despite be saved. We don't want to see he weight of press, politicians workers in one part of the and trade union leaders pustcountry played off against those ing the message of comproThis was the basis of the
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