Socialist Press no. 113

CAPITALIST ANARCHY THREATENS ALL WORKERS!

DOLLAR CRISIS

The dramatic fall in the value of the dollar promises to bring savage attacks through- the world on the out jobs and living standards of the working class. Growing chaos of capital- production, trade and exchange

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Tales demonstrates clearly that the of defending the

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conditions of the working requires destruc- class The tion of the capitalist system and the replacement of anarchy and exploitation with a socialist economy planned and managed by the working class. Beaming One month ago, the of capitalist leaders The world emerged beaming from their economic summit West meeting Germany. They claimed major steps solving the econ- towards omic crisis of the capitalist world. It did not take long for their stand pose revealed but nouning sham and pretence. The capitalist crisis has in no way been solved: it has sharpened. Weakened It is not just a crisis dollar. The affecting the sharp rise in the price of gold is evidence that confid- ence in all currencies has been weakened The trade imbalance between the major capitalist nations is greater than it has been-the surpluses ever which oil producing and Japan com- countries mand and protect, fuel the crisis in America and other deficit countries. The decline of the dollar over the last two years largely the. result of this gigantic United States trade deficit, expected this year $30 billion, and of the flight of capital from the US to other coun-

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PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 113 * 23 August 1978 * 15p

HEIGHTENS C

TRADE WAR

tries where it extracts more profit. Davia Kockereler, rresi- dent of Chase Manhattan Bank said this week that the dollar's slide threatened the international monetary system. "They (foreign capital- ists) feel that if we don't know now to deal with our own economy (ie. working class), what kind of advice can we be giving them". *No to import controls! "No to wage cuts and attacks on social services. the international indep- enaence or the working class *Expose and drive

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Ine reformist and Stalinist leaders wnooetravthe working class end to the anarchy of capital. *Expropriate the banks, inter- national finance organisations and major comoanies TOr planned socialist economy.

*For workers' governments!

Carter has done nothing to stop the dollar falling- indeed he is using the fall as instrument trade

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war But devaluation creates for the more roses capitalists. It raises prices of imported materials; it inforces inflation and threatens provoke the OPEC countries into raising the price of oil.

THE FALL IN THE DOLLAR

1971-1978 US current account balance so lane 1972 * OPEC countries are also closures and new technol- ogy; lower living standards threatening dump the through tax rises and wage dollar next month by fixing multi-currency oil price which will not be subject to Undefeated sudden variations between currencies Internationally the work- American capitalsts ing however Class therefore, search for other undefeated. Such attacks forms of protection through will. despite treacherous tariffs and import controls.

leadership by social demo- In capitalist every and Stalinists, crats demands for resisted protectionism are growing.

The crisis therefore also These trade war measures means an all out attack on threaten to undermine both democratic confidence in currencies and on trade union structures, the whole basis world increased repression and in trade. many countries outright Inflation, unemploy- conflict between the work- currency instability ing ment, class and the armed and protectionism are bodies which the of their Stale. eitorts to restore profitabil "Their' industry ity. Capitalists of different In this coming cont nations try to protect their the bankrupt policies of profits at the expense those who refuse to defend their internationa brothers the working class must be through protectionism and rejected. competitive devaluation Communist Parties Clearly this cannot be a every defend

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for capital on solution import controls to protect world-scale which fights to 'their' industry. restore its appropriation of democrats surplus value-the only throughout the internation- source of profit. al workers' movement con- Hor working class spire to protect capitalists internationally this against the strikes and resis- attacks: more LaSSIC tance of workers-even through mendovment forming direct coalitions with the of the parties ruling class. Dollar s Each and every gain that erTectiv exchange the working class has made through struggle is now at risk. Leaders support

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con- coal ous anne social tracts or who oppose them merely by protest will lead the working class straight to defeat. They must rejected. It is only Trotskyists who through the Transition- al Programme stand unreser- vedly for the defence of all jobs and conditions of the working class against capital and for the building of parties in every country to working class to ead the + 12) power who have pro- gramme and the leadership 18 C to offer the working class.

Looking back at US miners strike

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Pope meets Maker .. p.9 Cold war pawns.. p.8 Press Gang. p.4 Trotskyists' and Cuba. .. p.3 Zimbabwe Back page

LINK HANDS

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221/2 Garners and the Communist Party An open To Gordos Meter, Communist letter General Secretary, Party of Great Britain, King Street, London. of Dear comrade McLennan questions defence of As you are aware , the strike basic democratic

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Transport Workers and General stand for the maximum unity members between UnIon all forces within the Garners Steak Houses is now in labour movement. its seventh month. In practice The and principles Issues You have from time to time involved are well known: the material stating reinstatement of Issued LIne sacked importance of support for the union members and recognition of their union. Garners struggle. It is our view The outcome of the strike that in practice you have neither mobilised will have considerable implica- membership within the TGWU or outside or tions for the unionisation of catering workers in To support this we unal basis. general. anc make the following points.

low paid The At an early stage of the dis- sections of the working class pute, policies were adopted by Similarly, since the strikers the strike committee of primary are largely Asians and other and secondary blacking, regular immigrants, their victory would and deal a heavy blow against racists and demand for a union levy and racialism. organised by the Crucial period throughout Reaion 1 A successful carrying out of Since, in our view, the strike these policies and a commit.

is entering a particularlv crucial ment of even a fraction of the period, amidst speculation in Region's massive membership to heals and order sellout prot about press mobilise in their support would victory certain Yet, make gosals. we wish to raise the though the strikers have fought question of your organisation's consistently through the union attitude to and involvement in from branch, everv level unis struggle through trade groups to the We regard the political diff- Regional Committee and erences wich civide us as un- Cont'd back page, col. 1.

bridgeable. Nevertheless,

PERU: prepare organs

CHINA'S POLICIES THREATEN EXISTENCE

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-INTERNATIONAL-

Last week the Peruvian willingness of the reaime to take military dictatorship, which such measures does not have the political shows only too clearly. strength to impose its exist- pro- ing anti-working-class class and peasantry which every gramme, signed a deal with day takes the International Monetary and Fund which will oblige it to mobilisations. attempt even tougher anti- TRESi string of concessions trom the working class measures. crumbling dictatorship. The IMF's price for baling clearly IT7iS the aenerals out of bankruptcy recent events in is a huge cut in public spending ent Assembly" would about the which being 40,000 government employees wich tre recirc out of work. This move can only provoke political dictatorship. anotner wave time when the government is al- being hit by seemingiy Broad groups reduy irresistible wave of strikes.

Strike illegal At present seems to have divided A montn ago, ine covera- oread forced concede ment was majority heaoee demands (higher most of the nationalist party APRA, and union wades renstatemen! recognition) of 30,000 teachers appear sympathetic to the insis.

who had been on strike for two tent demands of the masses and monens. rutellily Other public sector employ adainst serious attack; the centre ees-including health, railway consisting group workers-are shipbuilding Unidad) and ano on strike witn simiar demanas ine But the most dangerous Socialist the strikes and the left current two electoral fronts, the FOCEP regime that „Tne mine- which began 3 weeks workers, dominated by ago in Cerro de Pasco, and con- claim to be Trotskyists, and the tinues to spread. UDr lea by widoists. Last week 10,000 miners marchea on Linna

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their demands for the reinstate- Co-ordinated 400 sacked anter last vcar s uele di sline spite 1 hese inc. uded ihe mine of political leader Victor vaneties the government wudurus viiu extent some refuses now to recognise.

declared the whole and given an ulti- bly. SuiKe lled matum tor resumotion work by last week end. resentine such threats are empty

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which unless the regime OT weneral Bermudez back Morales can them up with credible threats of resolution Assembly. repression. part in the feud between "Your pragmatic politics two "socialist" make you allies of Pinochet, played las ex-Nazi German Franco, necemony Generals, of the Japanese noted Imperial Army leaders will apparently criminals like Mobutu and of US bloody kings and of implementation bosses and presidents multinational companies".

sulal ascolie consulates Thus reads the letter sent to Workers Party of Peking by the after the Juty onding all .AtC Albania from the People's Republic.

base at Sebastopol. pro- the „i ne rotteress remem ered imperialist policies of the nev Union is still has even clique stung loyal ally dar tutel Chinas once

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tarily tnelr mail dily into attack. This Chinese mania The present visit to Romania is only one-highly publicised- the Chinese part of China's foreign policy.

area. It is clearly an act in Peking's manoeuvres against the USSR And leadership to menacing noises made Mas too Ceausescu •scoul act welcome of friendiy Tuture Chinese specialist: or taken relations Romania is the only Warsaw COCUMeNLS Pact country which maintained stopped on 7 July. with China Party relations STATe ane China after Albania's needs The v no over split in 1963 only three

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enonory months since Ceausescu's visit culty now in developing to Peking where a ten year co- ine rupture Is operation agreement was signed, when walked no COleT Hud (was aCCuCu advantage tne

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ine Tactor oldesrinls Czechoslo. Chairman duver soly which China himself to vaka invasion foreign affairs statesman damned and Romania did not play cement Dart I11, flight so tar relations Romania has refused to take of workers' power This is no question about the its recore Rut there is every doubt OT ability to repress a working steos to strenelneu !ls increase way it has wrung a seen in the the "Constitu- which tar trom screen Blanco democratic wanted This declares the Constituent , has become a focus for Assembly the sovere on ponticdl of the problems body of Peru, saying that it is with continua- the Inconsistenl tion ot military rule and that lt "should all the legisla- tive and executive powers of the A embiy nation tne amo ement an emer ito three gency plan based essentially on : right wing exercise of demo cratic treedoms, the reinstatement of sacked WAidh workers; urgent measures to solve the economic crises centred government the non payment of foreign aeol. CP a ge nera istrie in ores Ine the right wing free distribution of land "radical" generals TO Ir beasanls Revolutionary Signatories consisting of the parties WAiCt the signatories Amona the this resolution, wnICH

APRA-

dominated Assembly embarrassedly leadership thery, mineworkers trying are Cuadros Ricardo Narpuri, Magda iedutl. of the Benevides and Herman Cuentas of the POMR (Peruvian section of the French OC!'s internation- in these two tronts, they nave coordinated tendency). and, tor their interventions in the Assem- (largest Toret revial sections the sympathising Blanco and metal- Ten Assembly members rep.

USFl). Hugo Enrique the FOCEP the UDF workers" pacer and the left wing of the PSR Fernandez last two issues havé broken Socialist Press, we published an with the generals, have presen- with Enrique interview fernanoet

OF WORKERS' STATES

Japan the with on TZ August This treaty was hailed with countries ano delight by the Japanese indus- "anti. Hua's trialists, hungry for new markets of Dalls and a new source of cheap raw talks between the two materias. bureaucracy ine chinese was glad to open the intensification of trade and its resource. people to direct imperialist and economic relations and possibly exploitation. ot the con It also seemed to have won by the argument on Clause 2 which Shanghai possibly Constanca on the Black

USSR

attack Was "neither seek which stated But this latter might be too hegemony the ASI -PaCH Region and ( ih) is opposed to close for Soviet comfort with its countries It is to be efforts orne Soviet establish such hegemony".

the unal oman s

TESI

Discussions economically and mili- aareed to the danan tinay Ro- inclusion of this section because TUrN and Yugoslavia is linked ownership of row over the

OT LS

with the loss of Albania as The kuiks ane or usma aeds the exacerbated with the su Doler

USSR

As her torine etens sas Great difficulty sions China recentiy involved Libya, the continuing Relations now are very bitter Vietnam, Chile and with with Albania claiming that the

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Laos. Commander Jaloud, chief of away all the technical the Libyan government, aid acr eel when was To emaoisa aioodc rolatiors August visit to Pekinl. ambassador level on his met one-third commercially and‹ clearly this very backward Open door will have great diffi. about i me interestme tug decision is that Libya still this verv like that with Soviet tachnican. nas •olomallc relation- China with all Taiwan, and the usua clausi recognising Peking as the about the government NaSi ShOWr le.dl be a very energetic Chinese geoole was lott oul This could course oper the door to a similar agreement few days before his west, with the US siertea c is that peace and friendship agreement The other point SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 23 August, 1978 all his political positions, think from that some important points emerged In the tirst place it was poss ible to see that a sizeable section of the Peruvian masses (worker: and peasants) now

GOKPC TO

claimed be leaders who roTsKVISt This is probably more truf today in Peru than in any other period in the post-war country except Sr TOr bollvla and And Peru this occurs when all the objective elements ot a pre-revolutionary situatior developing-the are the crumbling of the regime, absence ot a stabie alternative for the bourgeoisie, a disastrous economic situation witn no way huge ups urge ot ro onkind upsurge the working masses on their own demands.

Correct Enrique Fernandez stressed in nis interview me important of breaking the allegiance of the important sections of the masses was stil whose wolliedl loydily as they shurgeis nate ecst ot bourgeois naționalists of

APRA.

That is correct; and the left presented to the resolution play a role assemnoy Can exposing the false pretences of the APRA leaders. time, such mne same resolutions are necessary make tactical the against the military Trotskvist in Assemoiy dictatorship extent to would be ultra-leftist at their position a time when organs of workers' ot the • L101 Dower T0 k anist not ont refuse to dictatorship, make tacticdl use Constituent Assembly tns vay boristilucl Constituent But the and at the same time Assemo v cannot even oegri lu resolve the political problems of Peruvian masses-though type organisations tile power which can in the "left wing' some OT InE the think it can (especi- Assembly Oasis ally the CP). turn ot capitalist rule in Peru The test of a working class claiming now on the agenda leadership Teng Hsiao-p'ing, deputy premier of China (left) and Japan Foreign Minister Sunao Sonada at a Peking dinner cementing the trade pact ideas Jaloud his speech get some gated Chinese trom the the • covernc! for support for the traito its reaches Thal that he can bring Sadat. They had supported his foreign minister visit to Jerusalem! Relations with Vietnam con- wher to deteriorate. Hanoi has October. T nue begun raising now is. disgust dr the invitation of Kissinger and 1972 at the to Peking in Nixon height ot tha oz pomonas minister also claims that Peking tour-the them from dissaade

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wied their 1975 offensive. workers stale matic Accusing China junta since the 1973 its neiahbour. Laos. has alsc waded in and is accusing China of fomenting strife among their Chines national minorities, e.g. the Mec people in the north east.

workers states Hua Finally, pernaps coll Shah shaken

DOWN WIT

FAŚCIŚ

REGIME

ЯНАН British-built Chieftain tanks, sold by the Labour govern- ment, are patrolling the streets of Tehran to protect the dictatorship of the Shah. Twenty five years after the CIA- backed coup which brought him to power, the Shah's abso!- ute tyranny has been shaken by the latest blow from the welling mass movement of opposition.

Protests have swept through every major town and city Peru will be the violent resistanc meeting thi which thev •Cal in the mobilisa DoliCE ana almawat lave to call for killed dozens of demonstrators masses in. their attempts to restore the i of the tme over liov everyday order of vicious repres- OUt tne replace of the present fraudulent sion. by Assembly Shah's eremet has '"officiallu, democratically elected assembly government stated that opponents of his

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T Af building of independent Soviet- for responsible re0 mne • cinema which of workers fire in an lran killed nearly 400 provide the over. complete lead to is kely • ta further stepping Up oT reores That is the struggle which is sion against the left in Iran.

of the Chiang Kai-shek regime.

repression Shah of Iran press or the he Trotskyists stang conditional defence • pari or ms 10 U degenerated workers' states and the Unilean date in particular their nationaiser Peking property relations.

VISITS

only way these can oul tre be defended th throudn Anti-working class building Trotskyist revol. Utionar advie Perhaps the Chilean foreign through a politica revo utIon will include China the USSR and the only othel degenerated workers ornel China besides states • TO … remove parasiti which has not broken off diplo.

bureaucratic ruling clique anc relations with the military political control to the

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coup. hands working class Tne class anti wordi nursuec ov bureaucracy endanger the cristin in particula , ano the gains of the 1948 overthrow

WHAT THE "TROTSKYISTS'

SAY ABOUT CASTRO

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 23 August, 1978

NTERNATIONAL:

from Within The Granma's featuring printed below Granma vilifications appeared in June this year.

It is the latest of a series of international weeKIy similar attacks 'the Fourth International, by the Cuban com munist Party the last few claims be to months. • rotsKyist published an article on Cuba.

Attacks on rotskvism in nothing This Cuba. are, course, which new. Cuba's role in Ano the words if •vel these latest attacks are made are leading American SWP member Joseph Hansen, as it ic They could be found almost

LION

exactly repeated in newspapers in Moscow or Prague or Warsaw be reviewing). The or Peking. This Stalinist filth is typical ments on of what, along with the system early Cuban and falsification organisations aliC were to join in the unprincipled in Cuba nistory, Jasses i for political education. "reunification" What Castro says about Trotskyists an adventurist, rotsK yIsin. anti-Soviet, anti- cry movenent... communist ideological and political current, originates from the activities of Leon Bronstein and organisations. dissimulating the his TO JOWErS period of struggles tact that they are I rotskylsts so the old Democratic Workers' Party and organisatious period after the proletariat impose ineir own lucas and started took build the first socialist state in by Trotsky himselt. and Trotsky followers rejected the possibility building socialism They have coon and did Soviet Union worker-peasant believe alliance. Trotsky Lenin's death, twisted the history of the Party and attributed to himselt wite trie role in organizing main The arles when he had not InsuTrectIon the even been _a member leadership at the time. penetrating

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recruits, the Trotskyists deck themselves out in Marxist garb and deform however witn times using alienating other same terminology. Like counter- feiters, they working class. experts fragments from Lenin Conference held gain pros- artem ou elytes.. The "left-wing" orien- modern-day tation of the Trotskyists who go 'vulgar around prescribing adventurism reaction •.. the isolation Ene Brezhney greets Castro arriving in the USSR of few days the Usti. Central to the politics of this ' latest agree- "reunification , was Trotskvism. following the over- Press, the ment ThaT of throw of paper the ship Cuba 1959, the "Unified" Secretariat of the Marxist" leader- which UnconsCIOus and Che (indeed, the ship ot roel basure organisation, had established workers' state which was neither degenerated "The dispute nureaucratically Africa" by nor deformed implication of this The that a workers is the introduc- "theory" was to a newly published book state-and moreover state-could be estab- workers' lished independently by a petty- bourgeois leadership book contains docu- WiTnoUl the existence of a revolutionary the 1960s by members of the oaty new 1963 The function of the book is not to re-examine this revisionist position nor to ques- which Tormed leadership healthy workers' state can have supported the Soviet invasion of Continue is enor vil continuous stredn slanders against Trotskyism and material support to genoclae in antica "Reunification" forces of the national liberation No, the function of the book Contemporarv Trotsky.

IS TO

reasse t established the tactic Trotskyism which were the basis parties and mass of the 1963 "reunification" and Hansen's assert-l reprinted intercontionid away at those Press-that today Cuba remains from within and a healthy workers' state which is independent of world Stalinism.

In fact this tactic is not new The historical record, now since it had been recommended the falseness of the shows The differ. ever position of those who, like the ence is that today this is the last USFI, say that events in Cuba- resort open to them, given how first years of the rejected by the either in ine be anal- revolution or now-can revolutionary labour movement.

ysed independently of the role This clandestine work on the of the Soviet Union nart of the Trotskyists is not the The Soviet Union, of course, same as that of the revolution- was in no way involved in the aries; it is ideological subversion overthrow of the Batista dictat- ranks of revolution. orsniD. 1960 But trom Another line taken by con onwards the involvement of the temporary Trotskyists is that of crucial Union •oviet voUt the every Kev moment ment and the forces fighting for actions taken against capitalism national liberation, in each case Castro the petty bourgeois of the objective ¡eacershio strata The Soviet Union from the population the island when this was oil to cut off bv Eisenhower atter the "ricontinenta US nationalisation of the Comrade Fidel described Havana companies. Trotskyism Economic aid tool of imperialism and And the Usoh agreed to buy he sugar quota which the USA the autumn of cut ot nau supplied The soviet Union Castro regime with econ- the and growing

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1961 political support inrough and 1962 In 1962 while in the face of Kenneov.s Tareat. withdrew missiles he had the was part of in cuba, this a deal in which the us govern ment was forced into an under.

: armed local invasion LUOa which taken place and had been of Pigs in at the Bay repulsed 1961. The events surrounding the missile crisis of 1962-as well as • other issues like guerrilla many struggles AtIn America- created open political tensions

USSR

and the betweet Ine Castro regime. For a long time the Cubal leaders did not trust the USSR not to do a dea at tner exocuse and so they looked for other means of support. tensions acute and public, continued for material eight years relations between the countries began. Cuban leaders openly voiced Soviet policies and criticisms of more particularly of the USSR s closest allies Latin America But regardless of their sub• lup 1959 jective attitudes that the battle against cratism has been won in Cuba .

been openly they ПаС But he goes on: leaders communist), ine Lubar headway could never after "The main tain a political existence which bureaucratism has of such conclude that between bureaucratic The tensions exercises Havana and Moscow were inter- and preted at the level hot surtace appearance by the USFI save through ution. No ine deeper material ucoch change has yet been adduced to of the Cuban workers' dence substantiate this hypothesis • Moscow was state Hansen calls for considered. the And the all-pervading bureaucratism within Cuba was tees internal democracy, that is ignored. the right Only through falsification or distortion or turning a blind eye be heard' the evidence could the

USFI

hold on revisionist that Cuba was position world's one and only healthy workers' state But since 1968 the USFI has been less vocal about this.

Well known fact It has become increasingly difficult to reconcile the charac- Cuba as a healthy terisation workers state with wen-kniv *Castro's for the su port Czechoslo. Soviet invasion vakia in 1968 *the uncritical even and of Cuban state- slavish tone the Union; ments Soviet *the withdrawal of material aid from Latin American revol out by Hansen that utionary movements such as the Douglas Bravo group such a "Leninist-type party".

venezueld, Hansen argues that: of *systematic re•ression political 1 opposiogical devill "ideological devia ing Cuban tions such as nomosexually, *the ending of all publica- directly emanating tions not on the Atrican continent He Trom the bureaucracy. of *the personality cult between the Fidel Castro; "counter-revolutionary *the bureaucratic nature of the Communist Party which did not hold even a formal congress bureaucratic the

USSR

its formation tor ten years atte act vite the face of such which: In 'have embarrassing facts the character- isation of Cuba as a nealthy impuddin policy" has. workers' State was Cuban thouon was Hansen judge from "closed new

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invited article by leading USFI member discus- Joseph Hansen, these been very speaks must have decisive v contention barren uo to now offer Hansen concedes that: "It would be untrue to say SUTCLIFFE, in

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this article. shows EllE

COSILIONS

Cuba held by leading mom te Joseph Hansen restaté the the basis positions revIsIonis "reunification of the Which The American

SWP

with the International Secretariat of the Fourth International LooK pace taken over in Cuba" 20 years after the Cuban revolution the Usti continues to give a more or less clean Di health to the originally petty and now nationalist bourgeois stalinis current reoresenica wy the Castro bureaucracy It is not an easy position to have even in tac noie shred of credibility it require Hansen to indulge in important No criticism he writes For instance "Castro's of astonisa nols Czechoslovakia Castro's speech August 1968 did contain some bitter implications about Soviet molicy in relation to Cuba and Vietnam But it contained not a word of criticism of the invasion. o Czechoslovakia In fact it went out of its way to give unamolguous support to this counter-revolutionary pression of the rights of Czech- osiovak workers It can at best be counted as to naivity calicolic Hansen does. that Cuba's inter Africa snow Hansen struggle against imperialism the 'certain bureau. aver points to the tact that CUDa Y not reached made African policy has been planned total integra- ane executed degree that one must tion with ThAT

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hardened (but always contradictory anty- despite fleetingly ha imperialist role cannot be dislodged material assistance to the MPLA revol imperialist sultical Angola against qualitative point of hacked troops exclusive effect of Cuba's inter- vention since 1975 has been the reactionary one.or formation of a power the counter-revolutionary Neto in Angola and regimes of then of Mengistu in Ethiopia of critical opinion to Neto Cubans • have his left opposition Cuban-Soviet And the protege •nas Mobutu, the pro-imperial.

ist dictator of Zaire of only Hit Hansen Cuba's "destabilising" role in Aurica. Counter-revolutionary • Cuban troops In Eritrea have become the direct accom plices of policies of genocide.

Yet . Hansen is unable in his an unambiguous word against this policy He only pathetically that "Havana's hesitancy demon.

strates how dangerous an incon- Kennedy anti-imperialist line can

SISL8M

be" There •It is not in any way ruled Is just one tiny or Cuban a totally different which. standpoint, Communist rar coula become we can agree WiTH since 1963 there Hansen-that no qualitative change beer exer- the nature T8c1ut TeNE cised a certain initiative in bring- leadership influence to bear in The Castro leadership imperialism counter-revolutionary distinction bureaucracy which is a hardened and conservatism advance

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socialism

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characteristic the must be overthrown by a "hardened the under revolutIo leadership of a Trotskyist party castes tike China and and In demonstrating in Granma •Africa it is not some misunderstanding or Jose•l increased would presumably be greatly Hansen instabilitv at the expense of the quite consistently with counter-revolutionary historical policy argues role off rather American a deal witt fact This alone that the events proof that hardened bureaucratic caste has

= Labour arms ruling class

PLO DID DEAL WITH U.N.

Page 4 "Since Roy Mason Secretary became State (for Northern Ire- the Government land) has pursued a sensibly firm security policy..

IRELAND

That accolade by the foremost advocate of naked Northern imperialism, Tort Airey Ireland spokesman after Neave, came days Secretary Fred Defence 4,000 Mulley

POOPSOUT

troops to the army, reoney- ed the Ghurkas and at one NC stroke restored more than half the cuts made in Army 1974-and forces from the orbit in probably restored its opera- which Labour politicians are permitted to look for spend- tional capacity entirely.

Armed forces Chiefs of ing cuts. Chief of the Staff, led by While the massacre of the Staff, Sir Neil Defence health service and other Cameron, threatened Mulley continues- social services with mass resignations if the whole weight of whie the cuts were not restored. Labour Party and

TUC

state apparatus has The leadership is to be used to removed successfully its keep down wages, the forces The article in fact implies that this has been a conse Dear Comrades, of the military I wish to add to remarks inability of Palestinian made in the article "Shoot- and peasants workers outs. hamper fight against Press drive UN troops out of the Lionism in Socialist No: 111 and to elaborate a Lebanon. point which, if left unelab- Nothing could be further from the truth. orated, seriously weakens Whilst there is no doubt Te race. The article quite rightly that the Zionists were able to inflict a military defeat points out the Pales- the Palestinians when tinian workers and peasants on they invaded the Lebanon will gain nothing from equally with the Ba'athists there can be no alliance at this or any other time but doubt that the Zionist stooges, UNIFIL have had fails to spell out why need to inflict "Rejectionists" further seem no deteats have adopted this approach.

precisely becaust

PRESS GANG

Black and white ministers show The crumbling Mr Bill Monday of Irvine, co-minister of trans- collapse morale of Francies and Mr port, the racist of regime Zindoga, co-minister of lan Smith in Rhodesia justice. The meeting was has its chroniclers-even cancelled. Although the black and unwilling ones. Socialist Press reported wnite Ministers or tne tran- sitional government usually last week the depths to would speak in harmony, there which the media disagreement stoop to the was most why their irresistible transparent lies over and propa- formulae had failed to draw ganda of the regime (Smith's Frame Up: SP 112, the masses "Mr Irvine blamed page 4). This week those who turn-out while Mr Zindoga pen in the service of Pushi d imperialism have been pre- said meeting have been held on a week- paring ine road lor a lactical end." turn by Smith-a turn which could involve ditching Tane of the discredited "internal Another meeting settlement" in favour of a Honde Valley, near the spot broader sell-out where workers were Nkomo embracing and butchered a possibly Mugabe. the regime lyingly attack For the first time, the blamed on guerrillas did • Daily Telegraph was pre- rather better initially, but admit that there eventually reduced the were problems in persuading militarv and ministers to im.

black Africans that the pam- potent rage. Toms Uncle security personner were Smith's that unarmed convinced represented Suc guerillas were mingling with from report the crowd, which, as the Christopher Munnion ministers attempted spot otern Salishury the speak dwindled from about Government 2,500 to 200. hasco Ministers travelling around "Most of the questions gain alleged brutality Forales- and the rural areas trying to the support. security attendances, Sparse questioners were cheered barracking, and the presence and applauded loudly.' of unarmed guerrillas among Movingly the report con- being anues. blamed for the failure of "Two of the ministers, ministerial tours so far.

Elliot Gabellah and Mr "Only James Chikerma, challenged seven people turned up the Wankie guerillas in the audience to stadium North- colliery 1n come forward. here was no Rhodesia Western on response. which defend the bourgeois- allowed to grow unfettered. Out of the extra 4,000, only 950 have been specific- ally allocated, and 650 of those will go to the Rhine "special employment" for Three areas The remainder is vaguely allotted to the Rhine allu 'Army support' three are ded troops will -be where the petty bourgeois leaders of the PLO quickly did deal with the UN "peace- keeping" force. It was partly as a result of this deal that the Zionist troops withdrew. It is not a military defeat sustained at the hands of the UN which Letter Palestinians prevents trom confronting directly the Zionist enemy but the petty bourgeois Palestinian leader Jack Mussett, the white Minister present make sure his lap dogs did not let him down, reverted to the honest Smith line: "Make mistake. If no you want to fight there is no doubt as to who will win we will." Still gibbering, the Ministers were led away, but no more luck at there was Mtoko where, in a protec- ted' they village, were harangued by 600 blacks. Dendem, another by village ringed troops, turned up. almost no-one Kenny, acting

AILORY

District Commissioner, 2,500 (!) blamed young "cons- hooligans who were stantly receiving communist The well-named Ernest Bulle (co-minister of finance) attempted to deny Government was a that the sell-out, but only succeeded making it clear crystal that they are even pretending to institute any reforms whatsoever. Black like you "Why should we sell our own people? We are black The agreement is you. ике us to an attempt by all ol return to normal lives. Telegraph Sadly the concludes: "The response to these first ministerial tours in the reinforced bush have doubts in Salisbury that any meaningful general election could be held while the countryside is in its present mood. and most used Firstly the forces of the directly Rhine will be increased in obedience tne demands of NATO defence chiefs. Secondly extra infantry battalion-and probably be more-will for released duty Ireland Northern where there are already 13,500 in the army of Thirdly the will be used to make an increas ing show of force ship which has arrested and even executed Palestinians who have tried to carry on the armed struggle To go even further it is doubtful that UNIFIL could armed struggle Lne the Palestinian people were given a leadership com- mitted to fighting the Zion- ist State rather than doing a deal with it, and it would be in the course of this struggle masses of other Arab workers and peasants could be won to the side of their Palestinian brothers and Examples ol inis nave already been seen in embryo form in both Jordan and

MOIC

recenty. advanced form, the It is this struggle oust the present petty bour- geois PLO leadership and replace with one that rejects compromise which is being fought out in now part, "on embassy steps around the world" On a plate The great danger is that will replaced by ship be another; Arafat will replaced by those who would be prepared to hand the Palestinian masses. on a plate, to the Ba'athists.

The only solution for the of ¡Palestinian people is, course, a socialist solution in turn demands Trotskyist leadership for the Palestinian masses. Such a leadership will have to be built through the continual exposure the petty-bourgeois leaders and would-be leaders of the Palestinian masses by HolsKvIsis woruwiucas we out solidarity carry our with the Palestinian work workers and peasants Integral part the In meantime cannot escape the fact that, for the Palestinian people the selection and dismissal of leaders takes a slightly from form thai prevailing in Britain at the present time must and acknowledge that this is an integral part of the struggle for a leadership which will defend their interests. To this extent, we can support the rejectionists.

article quite rightly points out, however, the struggle will not be won the of foreign steps embassies will l nol ultimately won with the aid of the Ba'athists; and to this -extent we must be critical of the rejectionists. Yours fraternally, T.E. Brown

SOCIALIST PRESS. HESTESETT

August 1 * against workers streets of mainland Britain with such operations unex amer the sudden and unannoun- ced arrival at Heathrow of tanks, armed soldiers and the rest of the paraphanalia of repression On the agenda The bourgeoisie are con- vinced thai involving threats the Defence chief Cameron "security' of their state are on the agenda in Britain The increase in defence Despite the violent the Express and forces represents no qualit- attacks in ative change in the Labour Mail the editorial received leadership's role discrete support in the Sun errand runners for the State. day which reported mes. that a massively strengthen- ed RUC • wanted the oppor tunity to flex its muscles The increase in defence forces appears to rule out this possibility tactical facing the bourgeoisie • Airey Neave, in the same speech (almost the same breath) in which he praised Mason the Labour and traitors, made the view the imperialists crystal clear Claiming first that the role of the troops • was le "conflict between DrevenT armed men"; he added It is however a further revealingly: quantitative development

NATO

which will for example police chief McNee "Nor do the advocates of retreat appear to notice the to press lurther his demands for unlimited police powers.

implications our In the Detence Ministry, detences

TO E

plans NATO depends in for example have part on having and bases been arawn up lot submis ports Cabinet, per- Northern Ireland. sion to the mitting the Ministry's own "Of two things Northern 5,000 strong police force to Ireland can be certain: the outside defence Conservative Party like the operate Labour Party; will have no establishments amnesty terrorists Unlimited powers so-called political Proposals, which include for prisoners-for powers to search and arrest which some silly people in anyone vicinity of high places are presently in tne places under its control and campaigning control 'temporary' defence "And we shall not buildings (Heathrow consider plans which per- haps?) would it could result in the weaken.

virtually unlimited powers.

ing of the Union of Grea The force would be re- Britain Northern Ire. anar organised on national lines.

land." The struggle in Ireland It already possesses the power to control all Crown for the throwing out of the (including property troops must be taken up by

LOI

Social Security the British working class example, offices) within 15 miles of a struggle against the defence establishment. bourgeoisle must involve Virtually the whole pop. remove Mason struggle to ulation would fall under Mulley, Callaghan and powers of 'stop and search traitors the the otner and 'hot pursuit' labour movement who faith.

fully carry out their policy.

Discrete support The role of the army in Ireland and The Daily Mirror last Germany Britain is one and the same became the first week British capitalist paper ever -LO upnoid ine power the bourgeoisie against the to call for the withdrawal of working class internation British troops in Northern ally A Huntley Street resident leaves his home accompanied by a Sheriff's officer after an early morning raid by 650 police complet with riot shields. Police threw onto the streets hundreds of peopl raid came after authorities said they were Including looking into the possibility of rehousing. The street was cordoned off and police broke in to break up a community which has lived in flats after authorities left perfectly. habitable homes lie empty for years

silent while thousands died!

Import controls dressed in new 'theory' Sedgemore Clamours for 'Britain first!" and "Buy British!" have always been the stock in trade of the rabid chauvinism of fascists and the right of the extreme Tory Party. But these patriotic jingos have now been adopted for Stalinists, several years by Tribune MPs and fake lefts united calling for import controls as a nomic crisis. They do so because they their bourgeoisie, and because they determinedly reject any independent struggle of.

the working class. "International" Import controls pose a unity of capitalists and workers against capitalists and work- ers of another. But Brian Sedgemore, fake left MP for Luton, has discovered that whole. hearted support for import controls is really thoroughly He finds his evidence in a pamphlet by Wynne Godley and Francis Cripps-two Cambridge economists. Garbled form Sedgemore has siezed on this produced by

LUICULY

bourgeois economists and reproduced garbled and almost unintelli- gible form. Sedgemore begins by identifying the opposition of the Militant group import controls with that of the Governor of the Bank of Margaret England and Thatcher-a siander on group that have more than enough real crimes on their hands. The crucial passage from Sedgemore presents the "Such staggering assertion: a policy can be operated so as to secure an increase in the total volume of world trade, thereby enabling the world (!) to expand output.

Indignation Sedgemore concludes with an outburst of indigna- tion behalf of the on Dourceois slale "For the our monel rulers are too cowardly tackle the real issues. If they do not'begin to do so and stop the world from crucify- itself with the ideology ing of free trade, then we may find another and more precious ideology destroyed -that of democracy itself.'

Those are the real inter- national policies Sedgemore fake left and his spita-up every- where and the preservation oi capital an a world scale.

LABOUR

PARTY

"Into the Eighties" signed by:

TUC

Loro Allen David Basnett Geoffrey Drain voss evans Len Murray Sir George Smith How those who Call stay silent hold onto their Parliamentary seats while thousands ot stud- ents are murdered in their represent Marxist Halle leadership? That the question Militant must ask themse ves atter a ouolic of the Sanka Sama Samaja

(LSSP)

Sri Lanka arty London fast week 'Marxist' leadership The meeting was chaired by 'Militant' Dick. suppler Bradley, the raresenta Labour Party NEC, tive on the Silverman; was Roger Interna- tional Editor of Militant The other two speakers were the General secretary LSSP, Dr. Vickramabahu Karun- former (Bashu) MP kara (Vasu) They, audience the Told. represented nev "Marxist leadershio otine loor that had taken 80-90% of the tile rank ana "class collaborationist eager that had been in the coal- ship ition with Mrs. Bandaranaike.

Logical conclusion The main of the interest way that these meeting was the leaders of the LSSP showed the logical conclusion of the oppor- politics of the 'Militant tunist The LSSP opposed the Inter- national Committee in the 1953 split within national, and remained with the International Secretariat Pablo and Mandel reunification 1963 Ene of the American SWP with the Secretariat International was discuss adreement the direction in which the LSSP was headed. were mass 1964 there movements in the working class bour govern- against rgeois ment of the SLFP, led by Mrs Bandaranaike. In order to save her govern- defend Sri Lankan ment and cao talism. which was in deed crisis, Mrs Bandaranaike that resorted to alicasul c caoitalism otten Turns times of crisis She brought the United Left Front of the LSSP and the Com- Party into her govern- munist ment to form a Popular Fron government. Popular Front proceeded to attack strikes and cenerally make ine working class san for the econ.

* -a omic crisis int overinrowr ana replaceo by d right wing UNP government.

Into the Eighties-and back to the thirties! If the Labour party

TOM

WINTERS examines are fortunate enough to ment", a document drawn up by the TUC-Labour Parts Liaison Committee and approved by both the TUC Genera remain in office for a Council and the National Executive of the Labour Party.

further this term, document will serve, no re- doubt, the bureau- as although, as they covery crats' official handbook.

put it: "It has been hard to Its first paragraph ignores maintain living standards the massive cuts in living and high levels of employ- stan and at strucera. ment", and conclude: "our the structural sense or common commi unemployment that have remains intact". ment hall-marked the Callaghan- The Labour and Liberal/ Healey government. Labour Governments Instead these gentlemen record of carrying out the "its contribution to dirty work that the lores plaise could not do themselves is positively praised. The paragraph second Tony Benn Frank Allaun boasts openly of less indus- Albert Booth Norman ATKInson Labour since Tom Bradley trial action James ailaonan Barbara Castle Edmund Dell to record came powei -d Michael Foot aided ov these same stooge.

Eric Heffer have attempted to wenis neatev who Joan Lestor Cledwyn Hughes isolate, derail and crush Eric Varley an Karao by the Bryan Stanley working class tô defend jts Shirley Williams interests 'Marxist leaders' stayed Platform at LSSP meeting left-wingers in what Throughout that period the collaboration tner at ine sane LSSP supported every action of was a mass round-up time, declare that they must be the with the mass parties including The everything the asked "How massacre of 10.000 vouth of the according

GOTI

one cuestioner JVP in their 1971 uprising was that they had to can we know that you won't be And this is where MP Vasu the suppressing side again?' be with the working class in it: mass organisations comes in he ceciare unar new Ano cant know because tot tendency within the LSSP had through experiences with it.

leadership tried to the but he massacre, epali what this the analyse the previous leadership In i out ir opposite of they were not sooken in ration to tae historv or ine doing. The was a Popular Fourth International and the Parliament Front MP) because that would When in 1964 the working daise move aged her gara moved against nave meant speakine wally baneara • way dise right and would have given reunification took place meant right wing an excuse that nobody in the Trotskyist Whenever the working class expel mi! movement was no boston to Note this, supporters and the masses experienced lead a fight against the leader.

the 'Militant' group. leaders ship of the LSSP repressior of the LSSP Some the claims of thi Applauded were tere dirtyill side-inflicting two LSSP speakers seemed a bit -on the other the 'experience' on the class, • Vasu suspect. was enthusiasticall applauded by the audience wist opecting internaly , Fortnightly paper "Militant They justify their approach up mainly of made by claiming that they have won supporters. support caine They to 10,000 shot over maioritv of the LSSP one-quarter youth • Ine of th rank and file. the and deals TS CounTry anu Lankar working class 'Militant' MPs. 80-90% of the rank and file o group has any them the LSSP, yet they only have a expect Decimated it endangers their fortnightly tiny

OUT

incase ano expulsion from the Labour office. This was, they claimed But what does this mean? Party. because the old leadership had First of all, like the Com- This might sound far-fetched India munist Party which party apparatus hut the coeakers ot notn orean the dictatorship suoported isations the Labour compared • movement in the membership Mrc

LSSP

is facing a great deal Party the mass Sri Lanka and support of the LSSP was repression decimated as a consequence o1 class that have to be won over time, with workers' leaders participation in ine banda being imprisoned, beaten up and to "Marxist' politics. ranaike government Nor will the working class even knee Not a mention The WSL stands opposed to • Jordet the actions or ine or this repression but that must meeting, at that time. • three _nou adorned by the LSSP banner, Further, there is no doubt sickle the LSSP, old new, offers that with the throwing out of committe and a big 4 on it, Leon Trotsky the Bandaranaike government no way torward for the workin and Trotskyism didn't even rate would class or peasantry. the party membership Like the 'Militant' group in o ment swine to inose critical ou Loor Of coúrse the LSSP speakers Britain, who participation the popular excust ever had their answers. after the event, but this oooortunist move ov savino ta Ex-MP Vasu tessere with themes really was arrested at leadership

JVP

bureaucrats) 1971 ine tIme Tne tor other retormist paths.

miasse. massacres and spent 18 months This leadership offer Loor can only ourn betrayals of the working clas prison -jailea by them no other solution, because on the scale of 1964 party-but them clearly so were while they verbally attack class- hot satisfied with threat- capitalist class "Into the Eighties: an agree- union leaders direc Despite sector direct role in

NHS

dismantling the fund decrepit capitalists, the document has the gall to state in paragraph 37: "Our commitment to improving the provision

TOT

and in support of services the family income is part of the record of which we are particularly proud." After the whitewashed history pro- comer for the eighties, gramme presenting errand-boys no problems: Britain first!

Buy British! shouts Speed-up graph 16; demands paragraph S."It is within our powe our share of world i crease markets." Oppose reforms The scabs propose shorter working week, longer holidays and early re- long as such tirement, measures are with major industrial com- petitors in the framework of a high productivity, high in- vestment and high wage (?!)

economy" In practice the signat- ories oppose even the most limited retorms, and stand as the greatest obstacles the needs and aspirations of the working class. Another letter Further evidence of this General supplied in the

TUC

Council circulars. The latest circular, dated July 26 records the failure of the FBU to gain the 42-hour week that was as an agreea last vanualy integral part of the settle- ment" following their wages This prompted the

TUC

to write to Merlyn Rees him asking "to em phasise to the local authorities the importance of making speedy progress" Following the smashing of an industrial occupation by workers Aintree Liverpool, by police use of the Criminal (Trespass) the TUC decided to

TACL

another letter to write Merlyn Rees. "Exchange of views" And despite, by this time, severe writer's cramt the bans on demonstrations and marches in West York- shire prompted the TUC to .. write a letter to Merlyn Rees The deaths of four con- sruction workers at the site of Littllebrook power station due to inadequate safety conditions prompted the TUC to a "useful of views" change . wiin ine Construction Industry Advisory Committee CONIAC (a joint

TUC.

employers organisation). Fifth column The TUC is simply a fifth column of the bourgeoisie: General its previous Secretary, Vic Feather, died "unexplained" leaving an £64,000 In today's days of belts" "tighten austerity measures, there is doubt that Len Murray will exceed that figure. Thie

LESSONS OF THE U.S.

MINERS' STRIKE 1978

Page 6

PART 1:

As the international crisis of capitalism the deepens, drive for in the profit

USA,

heartland of impe- rialism, pushes the employers towards large-scale attacks on the working-class. The struggle to prevent the employers from having their way was fought in a bitter strike, by the United Mine Workers of America, which finished 110 days after started December 6th 1977. of series violent and Arnold Miller keenly fought strikes provided the background to this battle and the militancy of the UMWA rank and file reflected in the was demands drawn up at the 1976 UMWA conference in Cincinnatti. These demands included the right to strike, full-time union health and satety committee members paid by the six-hour will bally. work day, expanded health benefits to include full eye and dental equal care, for retired bensons and a substantial miners, wage increase. Serious way The 3-year contract with the employers' "Bituminous Coal Operators Association"

(BCOA)

for came up December 6th renewar on 1977. The BCOA refused to negotiate in any serious way because they to wanted with the Drovoke miners, they period of decline thought could be such as the 1950s and early won. 1960s, thousands of miners, They banked high stockpiles of coal; an assess- widows and pensioners lost ment that 50% of coal prod- their cards. (from uction Although the industry mines) could not be closed recovered in the late 1960s, benefits were not paid at a down; and on a conviction that the rank and file miners which protected Level services against inflation. would not be able to nold out for very long. In July 1977, the com- panies slashed the benefits Wildcat strike unprecedented level. When negotiations for In the summer of 1977, a the contract opened, the wildcat (unofficial strike) employers set put over health provisions had destroy the system alto- been provoked by the gether. BCOA and 80,000 miners On top of all this, the had struck for 10 weeks. felt they could In battles fought out in count Arnold Miller-the on the 1940s the UMWA won President who had

MWA

most comprehensive proved himself determined health care system of any to oppose militant action in union. medical card was issued to miners and their families. card entitled them to free services at any clinic or hospital that was part of the system. Coal payments The costs were paid by the

UMWA

Benefits Fund which was financed through payments from the coal The payments were based on the amount of coal mined and the number hours worked. However the key problem was that the benefits to the wce companies' profits. the coalfields-especially in the health care strike, which Miller had ordered his members back work. In the event, when the contract on the began, the coal owners got a nasty shock. Not only did stand firm Ior

MUNC

110 days, but in the course of their struggle they rolled back the

BCOA

offensive. And the strikebreaking of UMWA role President Miller was met with massive from the. rank opposition and file. From the start of the strike. flying effective pickets began Luciate Within 6 weeks two-thirds of coal production was at a standstill. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 23 August, 1978

PART ONE OF A TWO PART ARTICLE

by KEITH WHITE Battle against Miller and his UMWA traitors West Virginian miners meet to reject bosses contract The employer response every demand of the was court injunctions picketing against the and full outline of this physical attacks the on contract shows the aim of the employers in this strike.

miners. On January 6th, Mark The provisions were Lewis, a 65 year old retired follows: miner was shot dead by company guard Ivel, near * Automatic $20 a day Kentuckv fines tor any miner who On February 3rd, 23- honoured picket lin e John Hull was ved Firing miner any killed by scabs at "picketed, who has near Petersburg, Indiana. tened, coerced, fomented or The first contract agreed otherwise been involved in between Miller and the the cause of an unauthor BCOA was announced on ised work stoppage". February 6th. Elimination of the Miller called it 'the best

UMWA

Health and Retire. agreement negotiated in any ment Funds, to be replaced major industry in the past by commercial health insur- two years" arce with paying up to $700 In reality it was a year for services that had contract which gave in to been free for decades * Drastic curbs on the of power union safety committees, which under the 1974 contract had been authorised pull miners out of an area of "imminent danger". "absenterism, penalties for Strict * Imposition of speed-up pay" incentive schemes and seven-day workweeks. * Elimination of the cost of living escalator for wages.

twenty-day proba- tion period for new miners during which they would be deprived of many union rights Cutting in half (from 90 to 45 days) the initial Angry strikers invade UMWA headquarters training-period of miners. * Elimination of roya ties paid to the benefit funds on non-unio coal sometimes buT curse by unionised companies giving the bosses a greel light thi step up practice. Increasing from 1,000 the number hours a miner must work ir a year to qualify for pensior credit. widows of UMWA members Benefits were to be cut. (Details from Militant

(SWP) 28/4/78).

The rank and file miners responded bitterly to Miller's attempt to foist this contract on them. Presidents and Vice Presidents ' of 23 Illinois Locals • sent a telegram Miller saying "This is to inform you that the rank and file miners District

UMWA

1n local officials feel that after reading the proposed agree.

ment that you should resign immediately. Hundreds of miners trav- elled Washington, invaded the UMWA head- and prevented Luden of meeting the bargaining council Rank and file The importance of this a reflection of rank move and file feeling throughout the UMWA was not lost on the council which voted on February 12th by 30 votes to 6 to reject the : contract. By this stage in the strike the loss of coal production was beginning to bite-part- Icularly In Unlo Chrysler, Ford and General Motors were threa- lening cuts in prouuchon and lay offs. Carter was in a difficult JUStION Miller leadership- loyal Democrats-was inc- reasingly discredited Carrying gun Miller himself reportedly carrying gun for self-defence and had ordered the head. union quarters to close. He told reporters: "The people who barged into the headquarters the same right to strike bunch that caused uS that trouble last year" In the period after the first contract was rejected a major development took place within the coalfields.

Miller been had elected in 1977 with only around 40% of the vote in a three-corner fight for the union presidency. New elections Now petitions began to circulate demanding Miller resign and that a new elec- tion be held. West Virginia, In for 15,300 example miners signed-and this is Miller's home state! threats of plant closures were plastered all over the capitalist news- the government decided to try to trick the miners back to work. On February 20th, agreement between UMWA officials and the Pittsburgh

OCIALIST PRESS. Wednesday 23 August, 1978 Carter woos miners complete with hat in 1977.

"not and Midway Coal Company stayed out would lose paying attention (P M) was announced. Federal food stamps that what I do anyhow" In the ballot on this P & M emplovs oniv 800 had helped to sustain them miners and is not part of the timid ted 51% the rank and file voted

BCOA.

to 43% to Un brevious occa- Government under sions, injunctions accept. menatole the 110-day engineered agreement Taft-Hartley and then pushed the strike the Miller leadership as force miners' union to end the strike. back to work. unceasingv for the model The BCOA of the made great Carter was, however, in a interests empoyes. solid show of resisting the govern- desperate position. The Despite support the rank and file for Miller leadership had failed from Call badin

HIES

was clearly to give the impres- control the rank and file.

offensive against the to sion that the agreement was despite The strike was a battle employers. from good for the miners. which had to be won by the support workers Miller industries, successful other employers refused to offer a firm lead attacks were to be launched Ohio to the miners. against other workers. his campaign for During LNe Not object

UMWA

the coal the second contract he $40,000 reportedly spent But when Carter invoked

UMWA

trying to persuade the Taft-Hartley "cooling- that would massive members accept Tine period" off employers offer. widespread knowing that US leading When money poured into union bureaucrats trade the strike fund, he refused would endorse his the state" action to distribute it. For example, the

AFL-

He went to demand CIO (American

TUC)

P & M Pres- George ident, year old *to Meany declared in advance portions". that he wöuld not obiect it Carter invoked Taft-Hartley injunctions. Meany announced that On 24th. his long familiarity with the mine workers had convinced him that the unions internal been agreed. troubles The strong. dropped government measures-and the first Inal ll ne were fresident ne would already have seized incentive changes the mines!! period No fines On March 13th, the first day the injunction was in a picket line. operation, between 60 and Under Tules 100 out of 180,000 miners turned up for work. The ignored the of the injunctions and no one was membership. jailed. tined. 01 t was Almost immediately, the Carter employers put forward new offer. The acceptance of the attempts to discip- . i ne third offer was the result of line unofficial . Strikers were Carter to a complete lack of leader- abandoned. The attempt to busting legis- ship national level. al limit the authority of union Miller was elected Presi- safety committees W du offer. dent of the UMWA in 1972.

dropped. This vote-after 90 days increasingly Free health of Boyle leadership struggle-was by corrupt massive margin of 2 to 1!

The medical card giving began to lose control of the file free health rank and Calc w ds union law had been pushed restored but the maximum movement was launched by 1947 by Joseph through in despite any bureaucra yearly payment from miner was lowered from Yablonski. Yablonski massive opposition quickly became a focus for working people. Under the law, Carter Pensions were raised, militants within the union.

could get a.court order though not equalised. In 1969, Boyle defeated

'UMW

officials The defeat of Taft- Yablonski telling the election in instruct their members back Hartley by the miners was for President. for a cooling-off to work vividly illustrated when the Shortly after this, Federal Judge period of 80 days. who issued Yablonski and several Those who failed to the injunction refused members of his family were comply would face fines in renew it. murdered. the courts and strikers who The miners, he said, were The election was widely NE wait go back to the Pits for suspected of being rigged and several years later Boyle indicted was tol murders. "Miners for Democracy" was launched out of the reform movement begun by Yablonski From the beginning the

MFD

was drastically the methods weakened by used to fight Boyle The orientation of those Yablonski who followed towards the capitalist was state not towards building the independent power the workers. Election invalid Mike Trebovich, head of.

MFD

complained to the of of Secretary Labour irregularities in the 1969 Judge M.B. Bryant ruled tice 1972, District election invalid and ordered another one to be held-this time under Labor Depart- ment supervision. It this state-run w de election which thrust Miller into the UMWA leadership.

Point dangers Throughout this period it was the duty of revolution- aries to the point out dangers involved in the failure of MFD to guard the independence of the union while recognising the poss ibilities opened up by the genuine movement the ranks which produced that movement. •The Spartacist League and the Socialist Workers Party both failed this test.

The sectarianism of the Spartacists led them to see side of the negative

MFD

In their recent pamphlet "The Great Coal Strike of 1978" they reprint excerpts from Vanguard Workers articles on the strike and its background. Blind to anything but the opportunist relationship

•MFD

liberal between the lawyers and Labor Department, they go as far

THE

MINERS CAUSE

OUR CAUSE

WE REMEMBER YOUR

Strikers demonstrate outside White House. Above, auto workers dem 111021

HURTLEY AC

STRIKE PREMONE

TOLEDO SUPPORTS

COAL MINERS:

as the following statements: "Miller's represented no more of a and tile movement' TanK than did Yablonski's" Fortune Quoting from 1971) ("a (Jan Illaraulilt which reflects the thinking of biggest of the bankers and industrialists in US") the Spartacists ball contend that MFD was the result of a huge conspiracy.

"The problem of dealing with a work force that is no longer under union discip difficult line would enough for the companies 'But they are now faced with the prospects of signing a new contract on October 1st with a union President whose mandate to hold office is ho say the least questionable Talked militant To see only this side of the MFD and not the side which talked militant and did indeed produce impor- tant gains for the rank and file led the Spartacists to sepport for Miller and refuse critical

CUI

themselves off from the opportunities which opened the real up as nature of Miller became clear to his former supporters. Mirror opposite A mirror opposite of the Spartaci Socialit Workers Socialist Workers Party. For the SWP combined

HELP

THE UAW

rate support Page 7

• THER FIGHT IS

OURS

electoral support for Miller with politics. In the June 23rd issue of SWP's weekly Militant; the Shelley Kramer takes up the Spartacists and the Heavitt Workers League in an article "Socialists and the Miners Strike: where the sectarians go wrong' Strong point She is, of course, able to make a strong point against the Spartacists. Writing of the of Miller's ettects victory she says: "Miners won the right to read, discuss and vote on their contracts-which why they were able to turn doll ahd cal inses intact chain" contract offers "They won the right to elect district officials.

This increased the pressure of the officials wher thost then went to the bargaining table "And miners came to see that they the were ones with the power and their elected leaders were supposed to represent them, which consolied small way to the spirit and determination of the strikers. She is also able to attack the Spartacists strongly by showing that their assess- of MFD as "simply mell another manoeuvre in the interests of the capitalist class" fitted in well with Boyle's slander against MFD "that being gang of outsiders with support from rich foundations out the and destroy weakel

UMWA"

Defend courts However Kramer then goes on to defend the use of the courts and support for this move the contention that skyists did it in the 1930s.

It is not possible here to refute that claim in detail- special circumstances existed when Dobbs did use the courts and a discussion of this question could easily fill a further centrespread. What important however is the way in which the

SWP

Scenes regard this natural 'tactic' and one not contain dangers for the independence the working class And the throughout recent strike the

SWP

refused, as we shall see, to make any direct attacks on Miller The tasks of revolution- aries in the strike was to provide a class struggle prog ramme and develop a way . Central forward for victory. this was the need tackle the question of leadership within the struggle Next week in Part Two, White Keith looks correct revolutionary orien- for US workers tation during the miners' strike The article will develo criticisms of so-called revol.

utionary groups in America and point the correct way to raise the demand for a Labor Party in the US.

One picture of Lenin fails to ruffle Pawns of cold war warriors It was indeed a signal service to British political life Granada TV to for provide us, on a series 01 wet nights, with film three hours of of discussions held before and during the 1977 Communist Party Congress, revealing in some detail how the Stalinists propose to tie the working class more firmly to the reformists and to the 'democratic' bourgeoisie.

For those with the stomach to sit through these films, no detail was spared in inner party intricue Lovingly studied Every bureaucrat the make was Socialism Every reactionary argument was The arawn out to its logical counter- revolutionary conclusion .

cocument and times of the ine men and women who fight most also, enlessly une very name ot communism in Britain the path was set out for all to see.

mistake about it. The

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snowed clear!v workers Stalinist leadership seasoned taking some further steps along to capitalism at every turn.

ot accomodation to rodu British capitalism. protested These steps were first set out in Stalin's own policies of class compromise and sectarian- differences ism class alliances

JUS

were subsequently ane enshrined the very first Chess spread to Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries from India where it was already several hundred years old. The feudal style of chess has survIveu Lute canals epoch-kings not nave become presidents, nor bishops managing directors, nor pawns workers. And even in the workers the first states, where for time history chess has 1n • international vecome a genutely populal with game, knights on horsoback course, profits. not given way have political commissars. significant Innovations loulmamen in London in 1851. But both the game itself After that and its players have funda- mentally changed 1886 the Early chess was a rather system tedious game compared with the modern one. It was until the early 16th lished, though that century series of innovations were made to WORd the game in Europe which liked. much more was Lo fast-moving and challenging The International Continuous tension It was this which created opencu an cra or zu years the of the special quality undisputed modern game which as any inance. player knows of continuous tension resulting from the continuous possib.

ility of imminent defeat if a mistake is made. Modern chess is a game of incredible complexity. If all the human beings who have ever lived had done nothing but play chess then they would not have playeu Delween tnem more than in finitessimal an of the number of possible games. This is why while com- easily pro-

DULCIS

Calt grammed to become perfect players of and

HU UPILLS

and unbeatable araughts players, no-one has yet programmed a computer te a more than a mediocre chess player rwhich is itself The popularity of chess did not really spread widely until capitalist the turned the game into one of the Party peace edition of The British Road to films, at an early approved Stalin slalit They off went into the version wilderness to set up their own the 'democratic 'New' Communist Partv. which discussion around it, and the equates Stalinist terror with the dictatorship proletariat and emoris or a rary. lone since or for Ine class betrayal, of alliance with same Do cies ranks liberal new the capitalist class. capitulators anu sections or tne can Same arguments movement which be made to tie the working class The opponents of the leader- Those within the Party who ship who remained within the this latest even changed phase of Stalinist policy were The first film showed the so- snown in the tims to nave tew their caned naratiners tignting to ge their views into the draft Utra-stalinists were dig programme with precisely the posed of, presumably by man- same liberal arguments as the oeuvres not seen by those who leadership The first of this gener- alon l cal doviel players was Botvinnik, who at the age of 25 shared first prize with the veteran Cuban player Capablanca in a tour- Nottingham alicall 1930 Soviet chess first received official encouragement- with many other along sports- after the October The Third Inter- revolution. national even established a 'Sportsintern' Korchnoi Easy to produce competition and, of But chess was especially privileged for many reasons first • ne its exceptional intellectual international qualities (some argued was staged as helped dialectieal thinking), part of the Great Exhibition and because the equipment was very casy lo produce. became very frequent and in Union in In the Soviet champion 1923 1,000 there were (organised registered chess players.

By much like the World Cham- 1934 this number had risen pions of boxing) was estah.

500,000 and now at first the several millions. champions played Stalin encouraged hot- whoever and whenever they house cultivation of the best players- including material It was not until 1948 that privileges- Chess gain national prestige; a policy rederation brought orderto which bore fruit at just the the world championship and right moment to divert att- Soviet Stalin Iron Tne purges of the late 30s. The opening of the match. The audience has since dwindled to 75 JOHN DOCHERTY writes the Granada TV series about the things, British Communist Party.

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bettel more cord Eurostalinists bureaucrats concerned

O1 SUCH

the surface decisions. In and net sucoess of The aspect technique In the last film; the liberals who wanted exclude refer- conoress ences lu explain the Soviet Party' were shown have drawn the wraise sion of the paltry protests made the The barly Header snio alains revealed the Stalinist repression by trying to cut off the few remaining link the towards capitalism. ot the WiLT anly the russian revoiution The attitude of the leader. ship on this question revealec truth clear Tundamental content was to be seer about Eurostalinism issue JuV The they pursue Challenge, •oncies flow logically from and warmly approved Aremin ureaucrav Bert Ramelsons' high ranking Soviet official visited the conference to

IVO

•OUDI

provide orticial blessing on the latest capitulations to British Botvinnik. "sent" a tele- gram to Stalin saying: beloved teacher "Dearly aminitely happy to be ame leader that a representa- to report tive of Soviet has Uness shared first place in the tournament with ex-world Capablanca. champion great Inspired by your "catch and Slogan up surpass" 1 am glad that I have been able to realise it".

In 1948 Botvinnik became the first World authorities took Champion under the new attitude. co-ordinated by the rules

FIDE

And from then until 1972 not only all holders turnup of the world championship title against but also all the challengers were soviet citizens. World "Medieval battles" default. But in 1972 it was an challenge to Fischer, Bobby American, resolved itself into a famous the who won right match, held challenge the champion Spassky, champion Boris Spassky and For the capitalist media Victor Korchnoi, in the USA Fischer's battle both been leading players in Iceland against Spassky in the Soviet Union' kind of took on the same significance the Korchnoi space- race-or a modern version of defected to the medieval battles of Spassky had, more quietly, king's champions. done the same, And the Soviet chess residence in officially sanctioned by the Soviet bureaucracy. ities decided to semi-defector defector

TOTA:

Iceland, their turned out to be the kiss of entric behaviour Spassky, paranoia from Kor- chnoi and erratic both sides, the right to challenge the championship. This Baguio City in the ines, sponsored and a number of capitalists.

Up to games had been played and each The is already alarming the spon- sors who, it is reported, finding the SUCIALISI PRESS. Hearestar - It is tor people to shout at one anotner The thing that was clearly not discussed by thi raDiote was une nistorical and social forces from which the capitalism by presenting of all power of these bureaucrat portrait Lenin. utterly derived a no means _CoUld counter-revolutionary graphically the quite apart from human person.

that ties the ality Ine sovie ot political discussior The capitalist press was also The films, however, were less consoled to see discussion, argu- with ment and Drudgeoning such a! cuestions thar seen in any political can with showing what happens on making wall only complained that other words the 'hard-liners' some not were about the torm or politics admit the film-makers to their meetings. film- the makers in portraving this secon the 'special' They need not have worried of following round however. . This Communist Party with limited equipment leaders, has no intention of doing any.

delegates branch thing so subversive as to propose discussions and so forth, helps a way to put dul chu lo cabitalis almost universa exploitation accorded to tne series in Instead they will concentrate the capitalist press. This is quite at every step holding back tne tilm the mobilisation of the working caceral intentions Class Communist Party From the point of view of those who participated in them, the films • serve uner purpose if they help to reassure A particularly crass example of the confusion of form and the bourgeoisie of the intentions Hel Majesty's • in tne Socialist communist Parv Those who have less peace- about the films 'members of the Tul intentions towards the capit.

order will not of course Tar lett were warneo to beware of 'our own Irene Brennans and reveal them to the full gaze of Granada TV they found this could have WIl continued with a homily about within the ranks of the CPGB or 'human nature' or how impolite its Stalinist offshoots. much less profitable than they expected Once again in • Baguio City is the cold war atmosphere and the psychological battle which is overshadowing the chess Korchnoi has continually Soviet of Karpov's wno 1s supporters. Encouraged by their the players have seconds, Karpor already reached an extreme the same level of personal bitterness.

They have, for instance, Fischer won in 1972 but abandoned hands silaking then three years later failed before games and now only to defend his communicate through the the new Soviet referee. challenger Anatoly Karpov, Hysterical who consequently took the Championship by The main responsibility for this atmosphere, which The battle for the right is designed to upset the Karpor usually phlegmatic Karpov, seems to be with the small year of group hysterical anti- Yugoslavia, between the ex- communist seconds with whom Korchnoi has who had surrounded himself-the leading one being the British for many grandmaster Raymond Keene. in 1976 They organised a provoc- the west and ative party to celebrate the of annıversary Korchnoi's though his from detection the

USSR

Paris was and have kept up a revolting stream vitriolic OI abuse Karpov and his The Soviet chess author- back the against the In a series of undistin- But ds i guished games Korchnoi has support nad more tages but has failed to carry them through to victories Erratic play But Karpov lost the 11th game through an elementary After three weeks of ecc- error which can only from explained by severe psychol- ogical from the play hysterical antics of the Korchnoi won Korchnoi and from camp for his own anxious backers in Soviet chess establish- is being staged ment. Phillip- financially the Marcos dictatorship After Karpov, still only 27, The Soviet Union have no August 17 11 younger players beating Korchnoi, Fischer il player had one win. he returns or even the best prevalence of draws European players After a golden age on the are world stage Soviet chess looks whole thing to be heading for stalemate.

Papal bull as fascists' friend Stalinists mourn the spiritual SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 23 August, 1978 meets his make ... The adulations of isation: and it was through Pope Paul which have Inese links that ne lormed an alliance with Aldo Moro, appeared throughout the recentv killed bv the capitalist press since the Red Brigades, who was his death, the tedious Christian occome of his saintly coverage Democrat Prime Minister of life, and the speculation Italy. The links with Moro and about his successor have the Christian Democrats are possibly outdone the significant they necause excesses which accom- relate to one of Montini's pany a royal death. important traits: his

JUDL

This man, who has been crusading anti-communism.

worshipped by reformist Anti-communist leaders and Stalinists party As Archbishop of Milan, and anne as peace loving he declared himself "Arch- 'progressive head was the bishon of the of one of the most viciously sought to undermine Com- reactionary international munist influence institution institutions: all factories by organising which controls the lives of clerical anti-Communist 700 million people. demonstrations and bulaine All religions are built up up the Christian Democrats around rhetoric about love the time al and spirituality. alle proclaiming his for the trade union move- By concentrating the melL Like the of the rest minds of the masses on the 'other bourgeoisie Catholic world and convinc- anne Church in Italy, he saw the ing them that happiness can- not rise of fascism as a bulwark sought earth, Communist the against religion is used by the ruling atheism which he saw class to divert the attention as poisoning the minds of the of the oppressed from their working class. material deprivation. Marx described religion Needed support 'opium Line tne people: it numbs the mind to create false sensation of Although bands of fascist the happiness, whatever black shirts displayed their reality. anti-clericalism by beating Catholic church is

FUCI

members and up particularly experienced breaking meetings dispensing its opiate: it's Catholic Mussolini Action, been at it for 2,000 years.

knew he needed the support of the Catholic church to Spiritual drugging consolidate his hold over the Italian state-and the I he elaborate mystical Vatican was quite willing to ceremonies, complete with give that support in return emotional music, Intensev freedoms for certain and watts of incence are the itself. most unsophisticated form .Mussolini curbed the ol spiritual drugging. actions of his anti-clerical However, behind the car- followers and made Cathol- dinals' purple robes, the icism the state religion, inte- the miracles, processions grating the Catholic church and the glorification of a gory execution 2,000 years into the fascist state. The most significant lie ago, much more Lne point in this process was the worldly of corridors the signing of the Lateran agree- Palace of Rome. ment in 1929. The cynical dealings and power-seeking the Vatican has not changed in Since the unification of Borgias Italy 1870 the popes Coselice SUCe in murdered their rivals for the had declared themselves papacy during the Middle of the Vatican 'prisoners Ages. and refused to recognise the new Italian kingdom. Manoeuvres Their reason for this was The quite simple: the process of mysticism that uniting surrounds the Vatican the various small states that now make conceal the reality cannot up of the church's manoeuvres Italy reduced the central wealth and power of to preserve its wealth and church ope and Catholic power. Ine Battista Montini, as he was known before Lateran treaty became Pope Paul VI, was a careerist Vatican politician, Prior to 1870, the pope who found himself a post in had been ruler of the Papal Catholic diplomatic States, a large area around Rome. but since unifto and service in 1922 before had even finished his theol- this area belonged to ogical studies. was under the jurisdiction His father, a newspaper of the King. The popes editor who used his paper as wanted their wordly power a raliving. returned-and Mussolini was pomi or anti- Communists was willing to return it. founder of the Partito By the terms of the Populare, the forerunner of Lateran Treaty, the Italian the Italian Christian Demo- fascist state recognised the crat party. sovereignty of the pope over One of Montini's first the Vatican state, and paid jobs for the papal him £30 million for the was the control of FUCI, lost

VICTLY

the Catholic youth through the reduction in the the Papal state. ot Size The that concoraat accompanied the treaty con- firmed Catholicism as the religion of fascism, and led to repressive enactments on matters such as divorce Non-Italian speanie priests were forbidden have outright attack on the German and Slav minorities who lived in the Northern and Eastern parts of Italy Mussolini gained enor- from mous prestige his resoluțion the 'Roman Question' and the Catholic thoroughly churen became integrated into apparatus of the fascist despite ine minor protests it occasionally felt obliged to make about fascist excesses leader of capitalism fot Montini, from the bondage of slavery his part. heresy employed his journalistic and for and talents in a vigorous defence Christian renewal ancient Empire of Rome!he of the Lateran Agreements The silence those who adulation of the Roman pointed out the contradic- combined with Catholic crusading zeal 'Christian betweer cull Love' and the brutality of a hallmark of Italian was fascist propaganda. the tascist regime. The alliance with the Pius fascists was not just a tem- he reigning pope, XI, described Mussolini as a on the aberianon man sent by God-no doubt part of the Catholic Church.

to save Italy from a militant At decisive moments, the church will always side with working class. Vatican officials also capitalist class against supported the invasion of the labour movement. Ethiopia: one of Montini's One of Pope Paul's most influential decisions was his predecessors as Archbishop Milan described the decree humane (on March kome (which human life). brought Mussolini to power) as having: Household slavery prepared souls for the redemption of Ethiopia With that decree-which must be obeyed on threat of excommunication since the pope is held to be infallible -millions of women in the Cathol church and Vi romar Catholic countries have Empire been condemned to lives of household slavery. According to the teaching of Pope Paul abortion and all forms of "artificial' contraception are interfering with the life- giving process. which only God is entitled to control.

Repressive Such a decree was very to the heads of

MINGOON

wecome Catholic

OF THE

government

TWO SICILIES

capilansi countres, eager to 1860 controllne lives. vi theu women workers and conceal unemployment by confining women their homes The Catholic church also. of directly coulse repressive of homosexuals, declare. violate Iney God's plan of nature By attacking women and The gays in this way, the church

UNIFICATION

of ITALY holsters the bourgeois up :1870 ot family the hasic unit capitalist Map showing original size of the Papal States society Not satisfied with threat- • Page 9 Cardinals with Mussolini, giving the fascist salute ening erring Catholics with excommunication and exis tence hell after death. Pope. Paul and his cohorts have always been keen to impose of hell's a. ilttle suffering on earth for those disobey their edicts (whether Catholic or not).

In Italy, this has meant close collaboration between the Christian Democrats and Pope Paul's Vatican. impose and preserve repres- sive laws, particularly abortion divorce and homosexuality An important element of this has been the 'historic between. the Christian Democrats and the Italian CP Moro. Pope Paul's Aldo closest friend the hom 1920s. was tamous principle architect of this understanding Ine Stalinists. Corollary The alliance between the Stalinists and these Catholic Tories has its corollary with the church The Stalinists" eagerness to peacefully coexist with the bourgeoisie each capitalist country and with imperialism internationally leads them to deals make with the church. which in its own particular way is an agency of imperialism. Berlinguer. the in-archi- tect of the historic compro- 'mise on the Stalinist side mourned the passing of a Pope of peace he is not alone in the Stalinist camp.

noweve Throughout the world Stalinist leaders have heen eager to find progressive Catholic of aspects The church. reaction 01 President Tito perhaps sums it up: "All mankind has suffered an irreparable loss in the death of a convinced champion and peace understanding" The working was not suffered an irreparable loss Pope and other minion of Catholasn does not serve diod pege understanding of mankind hut • serves the bically capitalist class

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forward The pay strike by 1000 shop floor workers at Hickson and overthrow of Welch chemical plant this week its third week. convenor Bob AlHW Gillogley told Socialist Press that there was no change in the situation and there had been no new oiters from management. The whole AUEW at the bourgeois plant backed the strike, he The said. factory Castleford's major employer fore central sonde there- central wages level in the town. Consequently Gillogley living pointed out, there was large- scale support for the strike in reflected the donations of food, tea and coffee to the pickets. •Gillogley Bob! said that and laboratory ASTMS had failed to provide supporting action, making

TGWU

strikers in tne particularly bitter

AUEW

since only last month they strike sailby ASTMS. had supported half-day In contrast, there had been 100%

AUEW

District Committee make the strike official.

LO While Halazellel prepared to discuss appear with the they seem unwilling to formally nego- tiate the claim which they estimate would increase the 17.50% and wages bill by torce to consider LIen closing the factory. Militants fight for convenor The ditching of the Yorkshire-based Hep- Iron Company worth covenor, Barry Almond. by the local

TGWU

regional officer, Pearson, has met with stubborn resistance from some of the mili- tant stewards and workers in the plant. Many of them travelled to London on Tuesday of lobby the week

TGWU

headquarters, de- manding the recall of the rigged meeting at the Iliass plant which voted to return £1.10 with Almond still WOlK £2.20 sacked. £S.50 An important division in . £10.00 the ranks of the buream cracy has opened the way to position. The original meeting was held- as reported last week-under where manage- culullion ment heavily influenced the attendance by circulating those had wad scabbed on the strike with a letter urging to go, them and where Pearson accepted edict that company Almond would be arrested any and charged with trespass should he attempt to attend and address the meeting. Call council of action to back pay strike Pickets outside Hickson and Welch Hickson and Welch are miners' pay investing £5½ million must be for expansion while only offer- Trades Counci ing the setting up of a council of an extra wage The struggle for victory demand must raised for the opening of the Party the selection process company's accounts books to an elected committee of for new trade candidate prepara- UNIONIStS tion for fight Contenders for against possible closure. dacy must be closely

ASTMS

tioned and all those who re- stop scabbing and join the strike.

fuse to other of the wide- 5% pay limit must be rejec: spread

DUDDUIL

IIOm workers in the town and the collig over lne Ex-Speke workers sacked Not only was the return Four Speke ex-Standard work to terms that Triumph workers have been COlt Almond sacked Temained from weker but that two stewards were factory in the town suspended from office. Stewards-defending Now Cox, national policy of not working with ornicer or the union. workers condemned the meeting and Irom factories called for a new meeting to fight was organise strike action. closure-called on manage.

The TGWU branch-the ment to suspend them on 9/17-has condemned the pay return to work and called discussed for blacking of the factory.

branch meeting. This was unanimously Open books backed by Barnsley Trades Council. Management The lobby this week with immediate sackings. must now be turned into a The springboard for a new mass misconceived. The rank and meeting to reinstitute strike file at Speke were not to action -and this blame for the lack of leader- meeting at which Almond ship. A policy of calling for must speak Leyland books Part of the demoralisa- opened, and for occupation tion of strikers on the first of the plant, would have strike was due to a refusal won a response. by the union to implement efficient blacking Direct efforts and organise a regional levy. The The rank and file were next meeting the left to their own devices, Regional Committee must which was bound to lead to be lobbied with this aim.

closure Cox's turn in defence of The Almona is an expression ot stewards bureaucratic differences Dunlops should be to fight within the But for the reinstatement Socialist Press will support these four ex-Triumph men the laken ir and instead direct its efforts defence. Convenord Cox Lo water must be lorced to translate cipled leadership his words into action. town. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 23 August, 1978 Build strike to

NEWS

reinstate Parsons Workers at the Milthorpe International are fighting tough battle to have their

AUEW

shop steward Gordon Parsons reinsta- ted. Parsons dismissed was from the Wakefield plant after reporting an industrial union. carried on working, but his machine was turned off and he was finally carried out by police. strike immediately began, but only seven of the 140 workers are outside the gates despite the tact that the has now made

AULW

the strike official. Equivocation Management have tried to confuse the workers as to official status of the strike, , but equivocation on the part of AUEW officials Is also to blame for the lack of support. A picket on the gate has, nowever, been successtul in claim, call turning away lorries. made through the

AUEW

must i ne stop tor the equivocating and issue clear strike call to its 138 a unified members in the plant. Workers must also Within the local Labour demand the withdrawal of ACAS from the dispute and parliamentary make clear their intention way strike to remain until the candi- their steward is reinstated.

ques- same time picketing must be stepped support this and a complete black and • against the imposed on the factory. Strike stops sacking A strike of 70 dust- men in the London the Dunlop Borough of Camden has won almost immediate reinstatement for redundant dustman sacked by where management on the made basis of a forged letter.

Within one day of the while first ever all out strike at the they depot the victimised dust- case at man, Joe Corbett, was rein- stated with a guarantee that no further action would be taken. responded Corbett was sacked after stewards' policy is a laundry worker claimed that he had asked toI collect refuse to Management claimed that she had written a letter which they refused to allow be the steward to see, outlining her complaint. the laundry worker established that her original complaint (a tele phone call had been wrong since Corbett had made no such demand, and that she never written to management to complain policy of the shop committee at The next 70 dustmen at the depot voted unanimously to come out. 01 The dustmen returned to work the next day having building a prin- given an object lesson in the in the defence victimised workers

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 23 August, 1978 Harrow Rd. Reject death by strangulation Health Service shop stew- local community are to be ards Paddington sacriTiced In and In the context of overall cuts North Kensington are pre- clearly all paring to defend St. Mary's such plans tor new tacilities at Road expense hospital Harrow The

COT

with which is threatened with an

UTMOST

suspicion by the working class irreversible sentence ne

AHA

_cocument care. death by slow strangulation.

fully selects evidence to prove the benefits of their plan.

a discussion document issued by the local Area Health ror examore. no-one will have to travel more AutorITy. Ene locar commmunily than an extra ½ mile to hospital and the staff in the hospital are agree that the being invited to atter completon or ine scneme.

What it doesn't say is that hospital will be slowly run down for many and finaly closed in 19oo or soon after. attend St Mary's Harrow Road, the tacilities will "Redevelopment" be on the other side of a rail- way, a canal and a major motor.

the necessary nouce way: and the extra and contusion the across an area with one of the complacency traffic paper promises in its place a big densities shiny new £13 million hospital Britain. "redevelop- i ot the Ite tril 183 beds lost ment ot the other st Marys Hospital, 1 mile away in Praed plan will Street, W2 overall loss of 183 beds in the if the health district and there will be catch Is scheme to develop St. Mary's in oniv emercency anc Praed to started, accident departments in place of the present three now that will set the bureaucrat- The document provides cleat Harrow of ta fate on St. Mary's, evidence that the plan involves a huge loss of local jobs for health that would lana required to complete the (new It appears, however, that no St. Mary's is currently owned by figures are to be given or nego- and Water Board British tiations conducted until after could only have been made minar decisions exchanging the land occupied to proceed with the changes.

by St. Mary's in Harrow Road.

With rumour widespread Unworkable have that the decisions made the staff at Harrow Rd If there is no agreement to are already becoming demoral- whole exchande Ine land ised beginning scheme becomes unworkable.

Meanwhile there is of course vacancies are Decomine larad! to fill. Guai dilet This plan will have to be government wil do anta will new opposed. the new hospital scheme. vigorously case, nosoita —ves bur workers fave ally been promised pie in the sky new hospital will costs ot ine many times before. only be available if the o her St.

All existing facilities must be Mary's-a 414 bedded hospital- Green defended and maintalned Paddingtor and least at present levels until new Children's Hospital are

DOLI

closed. services are fully available The AHA's consultations to turn St. Mary's in Inus be meaningless have proved Praed St. INTOl KInO hospital that befits prestigious rituais No decision.

TUSL

made except on the basis of a the sanctuary where the Royal labour movement enquiry, into Family have their bables, two other hospitals of value to the health needs in the area and into

EGA

Defend EBS 7. Yet the role of union leaders The seven COHSE members of NUPE, , Spanswick ot the Emergency bea service nike risne who defied Regional Health ano Jenkins orders ASTMS-for all their clever talk Authority sent to general-is patients to ine cuzaoern Garrett aooUT Cus Anderson Hospital remain stand back trom suCH local. disciplined and threatened with specific battles and where pos- sible, to divert all militancy into the Mack r inev do not toow orders in the future. protests and so-called dent" inquiries Spans- COS E, is defecting pressure o General It has been left to the EGA secretar Joint Shop Stewards Committee to make a stand by demanding against mobilise RHA's action ov continuine lo that he using dropped netore Inev influence to persuade enter into any discussion with personal Roland Moyle future of the the Minister of State Ennals hospital. to intervene on une sae o le seven. Boycott inquiry The recent battle around the defence of the EGA has showr Socialist Press continues to the potential ettectiveness believe that the EGA shop stew.

threat of industrial action the should press ahead With in the run up to the general election. •v Dovcottine nis Inouy COnT pletely since it was dreamed up Closure date head specifically developing controntation and to atenas been postponed four times.

to manoeuvre the nospital 9 June, Secretary of State David staff into accepting a move to Ennals announced an indetinite "reprieve" pending an inquiry.

with Ennals now CONTilCi This followed a build up would provide a new focus for movement defend demands continuous strike EBS workers and to defeat the closures together with the deter- _abour cover nment s social support showwn by the service cuts by the independent mined action of the working class.

FIGHT!

reverse all health service cuts and to protect the health service budget against inflation sliding scale of expenditure.

The manadement intends to end supply demands have made by Ine oroTITS industries like food and drugs.

the IntO Not a single health service unions, the trades councils and local tenants associations. There must The fight has to be taken up to is no time to lust Bethnal Green Strike to stop cuts

IFL

DUOTO. Iaurance Soarham Ms: J. Wall, Bethnal Green Hospital matron, locks the drugs cabinet to close the casualty department Reprisal threat against picket threats and Staff at Bethnal Green management s recruit non-union staff. threat- hospital are being the The ened with reprisals if they demand for determined strike action must be the central focus continue to give active sup- port to the fight to defend ot ine struggie wittin the labour movement. the hospital from health Every official trade union service cuts. must be relentlessly faced with Junior nurses who the demand for the organisation their own time to support the of all-out strike action on a occupation casu- picket of the witter scale alty department have been tolc This is not a matter of per By will hospital secretary suading these denied jobs must triendly debate-they they qualify if they repeat this tolo to out ine interess ou une action. class before the inter. the Callaghan-Healey- Personally liable TUC traitors or stand aside This was a follow up to the In the same way, left talking MPs Mikardo must be administrator was able to effec where placed position in the close the casualty they either give full support foi if they widespread strike action didn't leave the occupation they defeat the policies of Callaghan would be held personally liable Healey or stand exposed windbags who in reality only TOl Tine caTe

COT

brought in. protect those leaders from the This of staff intimidation anger of workers. combined with a damaging lack No hint ot leadershio from tne service gulf Unfortunately a recent bulle between published by the Campaign tin workers and Suportes Bethnal Green, , which outside. If this past Tne nas coeen neavily there must be a fight to turn the influenced by the politics of the Socialist Workers Party gives no cam bale Tomiy into tue tade union and labour movement and ninu ally from reliance on protest questions have been understood away The bulletin entitled "Come , talks only of the Inside, Love", hea th cervice must be forced to lead need to unions "protest possibility that management the boldest possible campaign to might "'change its mind".

the strengthen resistance

WORKERS SOCIALIST LEAGUE

Public meeting

DEFEND BETHNAL GREEN!

Tuesday 29 August, 1978 at 7.30 p.m.

Oxford House, Derbyshire St., Bethnal Green

COMMITTEES

VITAL IN

CHRYSLER

Senior stewards from all Chrysler UK plants met in Coventry last Friday. They passed resolution . concemnino the chrvser cor for not informing the the gov- consulting Peugeot- ernment Canout lIne Citroen takeover. The resolution went on to demand meaninetu tees" on future job security and full consultation at each stage of the takeover. Information. the week Earlier General Secretary of the Evans, union delegation to see inoustry secre tary Eric Varley said the unions embarking pro. oramme to ootain ine maximam information the possible takeover and effects the research officers all thi nine unions at Chrysler UK have begun drawing up an assessment ottsikev ettects At no however, has stage, any union leader demanded full access to enrysier s have they demanded the same of Peugeot-Citroen. statement to brie olovees ov enrvser on manade leaves the future Chrysler jobs wide open 'PSA Peugeot For example _Citroen exoressed tell intention to assume in a torn appropriate to the new circum.

stances. anne concatens the agreement between - He Majesty's Government and Vauxhall set for pay fight The strike over tonnage allowances by 100 drivers at Vauxhall, Ellesmere Port, after a sell-out by ended national officer Eric Bone and the plant leadership in the person of convenor John Farrel. After five weeks of 24-hour shutdown and after 3.000 members had voted the holidays, these two traitors negotiated shabby compro. of a back-room deal ir mise which the drivers will receive a "meals allowance" worth sop ' £6 a week, and subject "up to to all kinas ot bureaucratic red tape le.g. on headed receipts note bills! How many transport cafes have headed note bills?)

How a demand for a tonnage allowance came to be changed to a meals allowance overnight is still a mystery. Hard case reveals side c anothe Convenor John Farrel who has a reputation as a hard case.

abysmal Abar TrOM tite leadership the strike Taced a number of difficulties. *The relatively high stock levels of Chevettes. *The timing of the strike, the company a engineered by fortnight betore the noldays.

*The fact that only the gain directly drivers stood to trom the sirixe fanouch sull TGWU members came out support a fortnight before the bad notoriousy

TGWU

relations between the

AUEW

Ellesmere and and also between Ellesmere Port and the two southern plants al and Dunstable-a result of lack of political leadership in Traca areas, and wranglings. Page 11 Corporation". (Our emphasis). "'In order to ensure contin- uTv or operations ano a smoota transition PSA have indicated there will be no major changes auring the transition period anc have further that it ¡their intention to preserve as tal the organisation possible structures within Chrysler UK" (Our emphasis) speak nese extracts themselves They are designed to smooth the transition period senior Chryser stewards' statement also for the implementation of the acreemen

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Some Chrysler workers they would be the opportunities opened up by the Peugeot-Citroen deal.

But the all they tace s deepening competition the car giants leading ings The way forward is the fight for Hallollalsalun whole motor incustry witnoul and under as part of workers management sociais colanned economy- not tne ot car workers into profit fodder for different car firms immediate fight is for The intormation Mutant Chrysler should put forward the for the of demand election ven the books committees in all the Chrysler plants. The Company has now gone on the offensive acainst the rest of membership, the AUEW who failed to support the drivers.

WOr rastanter everyone was moved off their old job and put on another job. This caused endless arugu- ments and an unusual amount for rectification stoppages is trying to rail-road through a cut in manning levels, larly in the the hard-trin most labour intensive part of the factory. Final finish in the final finish (carade) a well-organised high manning level area, management stopped one workins practices. With pay negotiations : next moni tis cear unal tae com pany has engineered this dispute to soften up the TGWU apparent i his is ever water one considers the battle over "relativities"' going since last when the smashed their titters wolt strike for higher differentiais Track workers Company evident/y T he wants to appease ine Titters a the of the track been workers who have most consIstentIv re oresented oy In hence the need knock the TGWU into line It also explains the stopping …•T a overame by the comoanv It is to be hoped that this move by the company will last at least make the membersni aware ot the low level ot the basic rate and more determined fight to defend living stan.

dards.

Where does CP stand on Garners?

PRESS

Reject new Zimbabwe betrayal internal Zimbabwe's dying and settlement s about to be buried. Smith's support among the WhITeS Is crumoline since ine settlement with the three stooge black leaders has failed to stop the war of liberation Smith's THe came time. white opponents seem now too demoralised and disorganised to еттест ve col• cobinsi him though direct takeover cannot be ruled out.

ition with the racists the limited popular support the three Stoode ¡vuzorewa. Sithole Chirau) seems to they can coopt the leadership ot have vanished. the physically masses ov imberialism. though,

LAST

week. So Muzorewa staged a rally of his the internal party at which he unconvincing- acain raises trooped

OUT

said Zimbabwe to ine were overria who naoined neo-colonial the US security forces. wave months black leaders of

DUT

otner South African interim government faced backing), been trying to impose.

Breat apathy and hostility Dictator the internal settlement. It is the growing success of led military dictator MANn LAPU Ine Patriotic Front') which has destroyed the who with the help of Nigerian, internal settlement. wealth st as cecome cear to smith and his collaborators that they the cannot save anything unless alitics ner, despite there Continued from Page 1 tions from the WSL, and WRP, and though you your- beyond to individuals on the along with General Executive Council. such Nicholson the leadership or ne dockers' leader Brian head of the July demonstration sections of union nas remained opposea to With these demands. bureaucracy. Consequently day-to-day practical nas rested volvement In tne largely with trade organisation is much less signifi- individual and members and cant than supporters of political organi- sations. the combination this, the dispute could almost certainly not have inaction Dy been sustained. In this context, time officials is to look at the supporters which has been the involvement of the CPGB. since costace which is strike having been already won.

o our knowleage based on the close involvement of the WSL during the whole of This berloo. Ene oniv delecations around the strikers demands from your organisation to have they have sought at every point appeared the picket on lines to prevent their involvement.

been from nave Lameen Town CP branch and the YCL Despite in East London. have Torused Greater forces material to ches. has vvnile we note your memoer.

some ship nationally continues to fall, cave. me nave farce to orean.

at this point ise proper financial assistance.

novel ineless have substantially greater forces though London area than any nave other on the left. the company From within your own ranks suppliers, some TGWU members you could, quite easily, organise continue sufficient people maintain company. pickets. Yet the occasions when mass pickets No delegation have been called, representation CP has consisted only Trom The of isolated individuals. there tion, was Again, the strike commit- delegation or banner

TGWU

ELATC demonstrations of May Region and whole of Région 1's 500,000 membership. The 20th July branches represented were con-

YOU

produced not a single party ban- tingents from. Printed by Anvil Printers (TU), London. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office

SOCIALIST

chine was ate for merin bring perhaps with Muzorewa and coalition or at least in such a way that they have no political taependence. Conference Through a complex web of not-so-secret secret over the weeks. conterence reach some variation on this deal appears to have been set up.

interests Ine Zimbabwe masses can only advanced by Mugabe. a boycott of this conterence Inel _ordanisa and tions and the uncompromising defended from the continuation of the liberation war witch is undermining ine the growing collapse of present regime. once Secret meetings an enormous cancel masses: the But the Patriotic Front leaders not adopted and British governments not remising oposition a deal with imperialish. Swin The racists' tacit Both Nkomo and . Mugabe have made which statements leave tne door open to a com- promise. Nkomo is even reported to This plan involves the install- have had a secret meeting with "temporary" Smith's puppet Chief Chirau.

(Lord Carver) The Patriotic Front leaders Common - may themselves looking troops would supervise settlement disarmament of the guerrilla they fear the consequences onceever an outrigot minary victory or delega- being

, SWP, IMG

other leading the Mainee the

TGWU

But your lack of public in- strike as an your role within the of delay the Region i fuil. and their Instead of mobilising the full persistent calls they circuiate Union s oran. Though financial hardship record of sabotage speaks for strikers itself. Considering your influence within Region bodies, other many and particularly with individuals Deou to moose backino and holding key positions, you are, politically, heavily implicated in the service is treachery In fact, the officials most directly responsible are acknow- Les suodorters. On the July 20th demonstra- himself House Garners Con- I ransport the as a supporter of the Trom Terence Morning Star. Sid Staden, newly sole

TGWU

Regional appointed Secretary long-standing Oxford. This member of your partv. Published by Folrose Ltd. for the Workers Socialist League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill. London NW5 1HR nutu. Andew ward, Repor today Owen cane nost racicalised or l tael own supporters. And also, perhaps, because davs thev in une ast ten nave seen a new highly significant mobilisation of the Zimbabwe which •is outside Masst. . Inel control. This strike for a pay increase by 3,000 workers at the who Moneya Vine failed to be intimidated even by murder their comrades by oman s murderers.

-ERITREANS

HIT BACK

The forces of the Eritrean revolution have Eritrean struck a major blow against Front, but the the invading armies of the war has now shitted to Keren.

Derg. The Ethiopian military dic-

SHAKINO

wres The control the three major launched three routes which run from Asmara to take Keren to seize these vital communica- tion routes before moving OT IneSe against the Liberation To the eritrean Front in the rural areas.

capital Asmara But last the EPLF wook dea by Ine crLr last year anc in a major their ability to reporting that 750 Ethiopian strategic strongpoint soldiers hac been killed in cuca Test forces at the present stage of the date south or Asmara. detweer Dehamhare and Digsa

T+GWU

PRESSED STEEL

•KEY ASS

5/50 BRANCH

AGITATE ORGANISE

EDUCATE

S TGWU banners from Oxford on a Garners demonstration, but where was Region 1?

We regard your record in this attacks on basic rights, struddle ano the maters raised serious, and believe they require this letter extremely ting before between those who are orenarer those Added urgency асомповатів In particular, where do you mise, whilst posing as defenders stand on the Strike Committee of workers' interests. policies mas picketing blacking and Region 1 financial levy? Where have your members and supporters fought tor these policies within the TGWU?

The defeat of the Grunwick strikers and unionisation strug. gles in the catering maustry, al the hands of the trade union bureaucracy and the mounting

BRICK LANE

TIFER

UMM CRATION

ANTI-RALTALIST

COMMITTEE

FIGHT

RACISM

Prepare workers defence Several thousand anti- fascist demonstrators assem- bled at Brick Lane last Sun- day to make the point that fascists should be prevented The EPLF is now moving in by mass action from selling Liberation their publications, and main focus of the and intimidating attacking black workers. Repulsed The demonstration marcher through Hoxton, supposedly an Ethiopians have NF stronghold but the fascists attacks in the cowered out of sight.

ALTONS

prototed the rounded but the EPLF and protected few have successfully repulsed each dared to come out au valous points on the route. demonstration, though north-west of the Keren was liber containine Asid • CrouD. the Indian Workers SUCh defend this Association and Bengali Workers Association, was lacking in trade will be balance union suedon The Anti Nazi League incapable of fighting the working class because its politic: are • Those • ibera bour geoisie which ma member simp membership minority almost IT. entire The role of the police in —тотесль tne toscists was taker up by the WSL delegation with the slogan "The police protect, TasCISTS workers sell defence!

13 BRI

The politics of this demand contrasted with the idiocy and CallingThe ANL is supporter. a Nazi" and Magic" However magic and the protest, like sitting oCcasiona

PLANT

down by Brick Lane will no drive the fascists from sureels Demonstrations cannot be

UNIT

called every night when fascist thugs attack immigrant workers The need is for organised, trained workers defence squads

STREN

ment and immigrant organisa- tions, patrol the area and black from worKers Tescist attack

WORKERS SOCIALIST

LEAGUE

LOBBY THE TUC

Wednesday 6 September over Brighton working class *Action defeat to Phase 4! to strainese install sto *For catching up pay claims choose with cost of living clauses compro- based on figures from trade union price committees! *Strike action to stop the From social service cuts! Executive Committee *Occupy to defend all jobs!

Workers Socialist League Work sharing on full pay! Force Labour to nationalise without compensation! *Kick Callaghan- Healey Labour leadership! Fight for socialist policies!