Socialist Press no. 122

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Right winger defeated on key post For the first time the TGWU has held elections for the eleven seats on the Leyland Cars National Joint Negotiating Committee. This is the body that will do all the corporate negotiations in Lev ano Cars. The elections were held at a where each delegate meeting, delegate plant was allowed per thousand TGWU members.

• Out... kocne Previously, right-winger Bill Roche senior steward from thi Che Joist preter on the Secretaries Council, "participation" Lars was one of the selected TGWU representatives. But at last Thursday's elec tion, Roche was voted off Committee. Elected place was Assembly Plant Cowley convenor Bob Fryer-who is one of the nine militant Cowley stewards still under threat disciplinary action absurd and trumped meeting of the liford District walking out of a Committee. Chairman The of that Committee land and District of •Finance WEWDe General Committee which is still pressing charges against Fryer and the rest of the Cowley 9) is Bill Roche. In... Fryer

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 122 * 25 October 1978 * 15p wanting Workers to fight to defend their standards living now • obstacle, face a fresh. created by union leaders claim oppose who to the 5% pay limits. It is the argument that pay claims should be related workers' needs, but not to the needs of. the "profit- employer, ability" his "ability to pay" the chief expon- Among ents of this line is TGWU Evans. He has header MOss supported the Ford £20 the basis largely Fords' £246 million of profit.

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And, like other Evans is still talking about responsible bargain- about ing", and continuing to talk wage control with thes on But on less profitable or bankrupt" supposedly firms like Vauxhall and Ley- land, Evans has stayed silent. Lumbered His policy of asking only for the bosses can "afford" lumber would workers in many such firms endless series of with puny and inadequate rises.

weekend, however,

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Vauxhall workers at Elles- mere Port, supporting negotiators' call to their reject the company's derisory 4½% pay offer and strike for more than the Phase 4 limit, took a very different stand. meeting by 8,000 TGWU decisions and AUEW members show a determination first and fore- most to defend real wages and regain living standards slashed by three years of rigid pay limits. This determination shared by the Ford strikers and by wmole secuons the working class who will undoubtedly respond to a and a fighting clear lead perspective. But as the vote to reject the strike call at Vauxhall's smaller Dunstable plant showed, this militant mood working class within does not mean that strikes to defeat the 5% policy are in any way automatic. Perspective Workers who have wit-

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officials nessed policing three years of wage controls need convinced that their leaders have a real perspective tor winning their demands. The Vauxhall "substantial for claim increase", and the perpetual talker orth negotiatorie possible

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"phony" productivity deals capitalist defenders provide "profitability"-the leaders to extra cash most ready to sacrifice their without the hardship of a members living standards in prolonged strike, expose grave problems of leadership living 'order to preserve i standards of the employers.

which confront not only Vauxhall but the The profitability of workers crisis-ridden firm is not th working class as a whole.

concern of the trade union Illusion whose sole task movement, is to defend the interests of The Tory press and mass its exploited members media have gone out of In case, who says any to the way EneT Create firm-such British Leyland or Vauxhall particular that illusion productivity deals are a simple fraud is "bankrupt"? which enable the employer The only way this can be to hand out more money. tested out is to fight for the The reality is very differ- of the books of opening 'ent. Productivity deals mean and other • firms to unest more than selling jobs elected trade THON COm and hard won conditions in mittees. for a few extra exchange Such investigation pounds in the pay packet, would reveal, in the case of pounds which soon the innumerable whittled away by inflation Vauxhall, with the link-ups leaving only increased work- giant, profitable, General Motors loads, longer dole queues multinational combine. and increased profits in the hands of the employers. In the case of Leyland it would reveal the profits •of And the defenders siphoned from this productivity deals are also "nationalised" firm by the the

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Wives of Ford strikers confront the handful mobilised against the strike housewives' committees privately owned banks, perspective has suppliers and No such component offered to Vauxhall's been distributors. 26,000 This workers. Opening the books of the would like absence of leadership opens public services up the danger of a complete reveal the profits wise sell on pay and out the reaped by private contrac tors and suppliers while hos- possible isolation of the now in their pital and council workers Ford workers fifth week of strike action.

sub-poverty wages. rora workers must need ever this warning and take up the answer to proven bankruptcy of a firm fight for the election of committees is not therefore tailor by wage demands to the bosses' challenge any attempt ability to pay, but to fight officials to sell their strike for the nanonansanion oul Ellesmere Port and without compensation, British Leyland carworkers under workers' management sector and of those firms which stand public workers as an obstacle to workers many others whose claims of 5% are excess now earning a living wage. falling due must now To those who attempt to prepare for action alongside restrict wage demands with Fords. scare warnings of "runaway like inflation", the answer is to And in areas Liverpool where more than incorporațe into every pay claim the demand for cost one section Is m sauLge oa of living clauses to provide councils of action, wages, automatic increases linked comprised of labour move- ment d ›legates should be set to the rising cost of livin as assessed by trade union up to lt id the fight.

'Left' nationalists conspire against Saharoui people Page 2 In a striking display of statesmanlike moder- the president of ation, 'socialist' Algeria replied earlier this month to the long- latest in the running series of violent King trom messages Hassan II of Morocco. The two states have been economic and political rivals since Algerian independence in 1962, with bitter disputes over territorial boundaries.

Officially, the Algerian government has not been on speaking with its neighbour for Moroccan three years, although Hassan has conținued to bombard Algiers with ritual denuncia- of : 'Algerian tions aggression'. Gracious dignity In his reply President Boumedienne Ignoreu this with gracious dignity.

His letter made a moving "the indissoluble appeal to ties which link our two together' and peoples solemnly proclaimed that of there was no area contention' nerween Morocco and Algeria. diplomatic sudden brought thaw has been about by the intensifying the heat trom the war in Sahara between the and army

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Polisario Front. With its immensely rich largely unexploited and deposits, phosphate the Western Sahara sub- was jected to Spanish colonial rule until 1975. The economic attraction of this territory to its two most powerful neighbours was obvious enough. Geographically, it was scarcely less important.

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Hassan's long-standing ambition has been rebuild the 'territorial of integrity' Morocco' by absorbing western Mauritania, the Sahara and other areas. The Algerian regime frus- serious v trated this ambition by con- trolling the Western Sahara itself. Saharoui people The themselves seemed to be a negligible factor in any calculation-sparsely inhabi- they ting a large telliory. had apparently developed very litte pontical Organis certainly ation and were only primitively armed. But these rival interests were expressed in different

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Mindful of its 'left' repu- tation, the Algerian regime declared its support for the self-determination of the Saharoui people, and for the Front which had Saturday's demonsizarior organises by Anti Apartheid in London SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 October, 1978.

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and this mining muuslly. combined with drought and other factors to produce a total collapse of the precar- ious Mauritanian economy.

Dragged into an apparen- endless by the tly war dominance of Morocco and the lure of apparently easy Ould booty, Daddah's was cracking under the additional of increasingly pressure opposition organised from workers and peasants But the new military dic- tatorship could only retain power balancing between two forces-the pressure from the masses for and the peace, pressure from its Moroccan Polisario fighters expressed in the Moroccan they have begun to blur and emerged in the struggles army which controlled against Spanish colonialism.

break up as the conflict has Mauritania in all but name.

developed. The petty bourgeois The occupying armies nationalists in Algiers and for a reliable from Morocco Compromise looked and Mauritania were disappoin- dependent ally in the 1nex- ted in their expectation of a Responding to peaceable perienced leadership of swift and easy victory. noises from the new head of newly independent Sahara.

their Not only were state, Lieutenant-Colonel But this prospect was not Franco, positions within the Sahara Ould Mohamed that pleased one attack, Saleck, the Polisario Front under continuous wno enterca mnio but the war was also being tions with the governments declared a unilateral truce carried over their own of Morocco and Mauritania.

with the Mauritanian army borders by the forces of the These developments When Spanish forces 1975, the Polisario. opened up for the Algerian withdrew With the continuation of and Mauritanian leaders the possibility of a Moroccan the guerrilla war social negotiated compromise armies moved in to replace Morocco within them and carve up the solution and Mauritania began to At the same time, the spoils. rapidly overthrow of Ould Daddah Boumedienne's increase military expenditure. provided a clear warning to give ment Hassan political and, to a lesser both and Antagonisms Boumedienne of the dangers material support to extent, the Polisario Front, and posed to their less fragile The burden of the war still recognised the Saharan Arab but financial, was not sim ply Democratic Republic when ments by the continuation but above all political. up by the of the war. was set and other Conscrotion This situation has Polisario. aspects of the 'war effort' opened the door for two The battle-lines seemed aroused the class antagon- be clearly drawn, but other forces to enter on to to both which regimes the scene. worked most strenuously to deals and bar- Scenting. air, Spanish suppiess in the gains While the Moroccan Prime Minister Suarez and government Libyan dictator Gaddafi are denounced the Polisatio as for the part of now vying being in reality sections of 'honest broker' in any peace Algerian the the army, talks. Algerian government becoming increasingly "Liberal' policy was embarrassed by this conflict which threatened to blunge The Spanish bourgeoisie the whole of the area into has its own private quarrels turmoil. with its Moroccan competi- When French imperialism and Suarez has seized

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intervened directly with air the opportunity to cultivate Polisario, attacks on the new image Boumedienne's regime 'liberal' foreign policy of sought with desperate the 'democratised' Francoist to for way dictatorship. 'resolve' the conflict. Suarez's party, the Democratic Union of the Weakest link Centre recognised the Their first Front and opportunity Polisario even came earlier this year, with sent a delegate to its recent Fourth Congress. of Ould une and Daddah's This action other party one dictatorship by recent initiatives have not a military in Mauritania. The been greeted warmly by the coup weakest link had snapped.

The by the Hassan's foreign minister attacks reviving Polisano had succeeded in responded claim to totally disrupting the iron Morocco's Ceuta

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and Melilla-two enclaves on the African mainland main- tained since colonial days by the Spanish state as military bases. he For good measure, that threw the remark Canary the Spanish-ruled few 'WerE only a miles from the Moroccan Atlantic coast'! More success Gaddafi's overtures have far met with more success. Negotiations are a present underway in Tripoli between the Polisario Front and the Mauritanian govern- ment. This development has brought Moroccan diplo. hotfoot, seeking talks with Gaddafi. In the past Gaddafi has given verbal support to the Polisaric Front-without 'ever recognising the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic.

Now this 'revolutionary' leader has announced that the question of recognition will be "put to the Libyan people" for their decision!

The likely outcome this bargaining will be the proposal for an independent the el- statelet in Tiris Gharbia, the southern part of Sahara present occupied by Mauritania. 'Acceptable' Such a 'solution' would leave the phosphates and the bulk of the territory to Moroccan colonialism The support of French and US imperialism for such an 'acceptable' settlement might well prove sufficient to force Hassan's reluctant agreement. There can be no doubt of the eagerness with which it would be greeted by the Algerian leaders. Immediate steps are necessary if the struggles of to be sold out and betrayed by those forces which have claimed to support them. Continuing the guerrilla the Moroccan war acenos army and Moroccan into territory is not and never has been enough. The to end the power war lies with the Moroccan masses, and it is the prolet- ariat and peasantry . Morocco which must be mobilised to halt the aggres.

of the 'revolutionary SI0n despot, Hassan II. If Polisario Front the confines its appeals to the African Organisation of Unity and fails to make this turn at such a late even then it will beat stage, heavy responsibility for the of the struggles oculayal which it claims to lead.

Retreat by Lisbon's ghost SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 October, 1978

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Angola welcomes butcher Mobutu No one knows more Angolan national liberation Fidel Castro, if not Leonid the movement, by evolutionary role in Africa.

certainly than

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brezinev lavine backing the rival FNLA. of masses Angola the He has continued to back New deal vicious counter-revolu- the reactionary FNLA since tionary of nature independence and has Events during the last Mobutu's Colonel imposed huge week have given clear suffering Angolan military dictatorship in evidence truth 1s workers and peasants forced Cuba is using Zaire. •the opposite: to endure a civil war. toe-hold in Africa to the time the 1ES buning une Angolan. wal At same with deal Mobutu, independence Portuguese MaKC imperialism and its agents.

acting as the direct agent of regime, and then the MPLA Mobutu the LaSH week imperialism. opposed led by Agostinho of Neto, harboured ceasea-in ine utterances the exiled the Angolan regime-to be Katangans from South East an agent of imperialism Laire, who nave enemiere! He became instead an Katanga twice over the last honoured guest in Luanda, two years. the Angolan capital, to friendly which paid • se Client state visit. Mobutu both Neto and The Angolan-backed talked of a new era or co- Katangans were repulsed by operation between the two US French, Belgian and countries-positions which forces who came to the aid be would impossible of their client Mobutu. without the approval of the Neto then fiercelv (and backers

IWO

quite correctly) denounced Washington, Paris, Moscow

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Im Deals and Havana. And so did Neto's agent.

USSR

Exploiters backers, the and Cuba. Simultaneously Neto's Such words were used by "revolu- self-styled regime announced new

SOILIC

tionaries" that deal for European capitalists argue The headless monster of government the Portuguese ruling class received a nasty fright last week when its efforts to seize land from peasants. in the south and hand it back the farm met state authorities was enough to i announce suggen la with armed resistance. further attempts would b torce ine near onantom covert- Several physical confronta- ment of former fascist official made tor now and Nobre da Costa to retreat.

so-called "Land Reform" Act.

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London demostration against martial law in Iran

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Sixteen however, stopped the grow- more installations in Abadan ing strikes which stopped work. murders by the Shah's perialist and Stalinist- first broke demonstra-

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ARe 120 ago. tions remain almost ded police were Virtually all international event over the

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during the ported trade is'at a standstill due to country. a strike of customs officials.

cral strike called on And there are mounting rumours that the politically October 16, forty days Oil technicians desperate Shah is about to after the massacres of install full-blooded tack Friday. military regime in an effort And last week 3,000 The of workers and tech- to stem the upsurge through continuation bioody repression has nicians at the all-important even tougher repression П0t. wanting to invest in exploit- ing Angola's vast mineral wealth. Industry and Energy Minister Major Alberto Ibeiro, Bento speaking European capitalists guaranteed Brussels, potential investors against This Act was bassed by ate soci last Papa griers.

Socialist rarty govern Mario Soares, which left office four months ago em powers Int state seize back land which was liberated by its tillers 1974 and 1975 Last week s oramatic retrea pir be a scar reminded the capitalists and imperialist Endl remain without a government The Nobre da. Costa regime has been in ottice tor nearly three months without any man- Like the visit of Hua Kuo-feng to the Shah of Iran and the forthcoming of General welcome Pinochet in Peking, the visit by Chinese deputy premier Teng Hsiao-ping to Tokyo represents the opportunism of Chinese Stalinist diplo- macy in full cry. Teng's official purpose is to ratify the Sino-Japanese peac treaty, putting a formal end t war which began 'China signing *dropped de the treaty has to the : US-Japa rese treaty of 1951 and the security unconstitutona sat aerence forces through which the lin Japan disarmed by allies a the end of the Second World War) is organised Chinese diplomacy thus ride: roughshod over even the policies social large Japanese democratic and Communis parties. They have for decades being opposed Japan s outpost of US militarism in the which strengthens vete expropriation and assured them they would be able to repatriate their profits.

With Cubans in all the key advisory in posts Angola doubt there is no that this extension of Neto's previous efforts at compro- mise. with imperialism has the approval of his protector, Fidel Castro. Far from its using

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support socialist revolution.

the Cuban leadership assisting the stabilisation of capitalism. connell where the capitalist system has been subjected to mounting threats from the upsurge of the masses. Castro's government plays in Angola an essential part in the policies of Sovie Stalinism as a whole, aimed at arriving at a 'balance' and political partition of Africa with the imperialist states.

date from anyone except one man-military President Eanes.

In fact the government has been rejectea py parliamentary majority. While Eanes looks for a new Government vormula ine covera ment remains in office thanks only the support the ana Communist parties Soares and CP leader Alvaro Cunha nave remained sname fully silent as the gains of 1974 and 1975 have been further cut awdy finally been forced by opinion in its rank and file to call on the Socialists to torm a coatition or the para- mentary workers' parties But they do this only now they are sate in the knowledge That the socialist leaders wil reject the call. Teng courts Japan power bi actine as a counter. weight to the Soviet Union.

The Japanese peace treaty also clears the way for perhap the most important segment of the huge foreign trade and investment deals Peking has announced in recent weeks vapanese tirms • will under take exploration and oil ore are worth gult 3i0 billion 82 billion steel works near Peking and under coal mato mining and electrical power.

$80 for billions contacts curio ne o The scale of these exchanges explains the sudden switch Chinese policy accesting few overinent loans. carials banks wono be able to provide the sums needed Capitalism's to foothold vast markets and labour force repres ented Dy. mainiana China musi now be underwritten and organ- ised by Sales sub Japan, West Germany and the US-that have sufficient foreign resources to deploy. Page 3 Spanish cops call for army rule 'The army to power!' was one of the slogans of a demonstration supporters of mutinying members of the armed police in the Basque city of Bilbao ten days ago. the killing of Following two more of their members, supposedly by the Basque nationalist

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group, hundred severa articl police staged sit-in at police headquarters demanding more repression.

At the funeral the OI they physically policemen threatened the Civil Govern- and the Inspector General of Police, who were forced to escape in disguise through a back entrance of building the where funeral took place Threatened Onlookers were threatened. Police with revolvers menaced journalists inese are tne latest In a series of events which show the pressures from within the Francoist apparatus for a return to the Franco years. In July armed police rampage of WelL arson and looting Violence. in the of town

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Renteria Such incidents are espec- ially marked in Euskadi (the Basque provinces) because of the mounting struggles of

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and the Decaust imminence of the refer- endum on the 'constitution' which denies the national rights for which the people of tuskadı have fought 101 years. Embarrassing ETA's campaign against the police, therefore, has a good deal popular which deeply 1s supporl embarassing the right Basque wing bourgeois Nationalist Party and to the Socialist and Communist Parties which profess to sup- port Basque national rights but whose main interest is national compromise with the bourgeoisie. all These parties supported, last weekend, an 'anti-violence' demonstra. tion called against ETA, and implicitly in support of the Francoist police. 'Dissolution While these bourgeois and nationalists fake call for a few socialists Francoist 'reforms' to the st workeas in Eusakdi are the masse workers in increasingly in favour of the dissolution of complete repressive institutions like armed police and civil the guard. For the leaders of the Basque Nationalist Party. and th Socialist and Com- munist parties-like • the themselves- police police force is: a terrifying It means dissolution the apparatus for protection capitalist property relations which it is their 'life's work to preserve.

Reinstatement fight Page 4 official

A SPECIAL 'SOCIALIST PRESS' REPORT

Brazen collaboration between right wing TGWU District and Regional officials and management at the Export Packing Services plant was highlighted last week by the outcome of an Industrial Tribunal hearing.

EPS militant Peter Former from Barnes had been sacked no% earler in the vear. accused physically the wing plant's right convenor ned AoKIns. But at the point where both the union company bureaucracy were faced with the colapse oT ineir case at Tribunal Barnes accepted €1,000 buy-off from EPS this com sony made offer in order. to attempt end any further examination of the events surrounding Barnes sacking. Victimise In fact the sacking was one ot the products от a desoerdte victimise those Morris militants that had formerly held the leadership in the plant, and above all Colin Carty, who had plant convenor prior to been Adkins. the left-wing domintted shop stewards com- Carty mittee nao estabiisnea a con- struggle record of sistent the interests of workers in the plant. the autumn ot 19/l, following the TGWU conference rejection of wage controls, they five-week led an immediate strike against Phase 3. sold out This was eventually by Morris, who argued in tavoul of ascertin the his betrae.

betrayal after began таке which bear all the hallmarks of a management/union frame up to remove Carty. Sacked A few weeks after the strike a militant manacement sacKec member of the TGWU branch committee. Because of the recent seli- not out wages, strike support trom the whole site But Morris quickly urged minority stewards gates, and stop supplies oroer to nar production. After a week of such action management began to whip up hostility among those still work- ing by claiming that the strikers were endangering their jobs.

Morris then appeared on the site, called a mass meeting and a confidence vote Was passed against the stewaras. ne then immediately ordered fresh throughout stewards' elections the site. Right wing led The result was a right-wing dominated stewards' committee, then Adkins which convenor But Carty and the mutant stewards were still a force to be reckoned with, retaining a broad basic support on the site.

And support increased exposes TGWU shown to be incapable of the slightest resistance to redundan- cies or the rundown of tne site.

Morris and the management had to tackle this by attacking both Carty ano The branch, of which he had remained chairmar The point chosen tor Inis coordinated victimisation oranch. artended ine election ou a steward on the site. Despite the fact that branch otticers nao attended such. meetings, management declared Carty had no permission to autenu. Suspended They escorted him site and suspended him on full pay in this action they were fully backed by Morris. Arguing that Carty had no right to attend the meetina. newly elected steward Trom taking office-thus also creation of forestalling the the left-wing maiority WhiC speit doom for have would AdkIns Suspending Carty on full pay move designed was minimise the chances in his defence, especially action threat of WILl further redundancies the air But management did not feel to sack Carty. so content Arter tive weeks suspension ne was reinstated with "repri- mands" on his record card.

Frightened Despite this attack, strengthened venor Adkins became frightened to call a mass meeting on any- thing for fear inevitable oT an vote of no-confidence. Eventually the annual wage review last Spring made a mass meeting unavoldabie in Morris brought chair the meeting. When the no- confidence motion wa Tarsed from the floor he ruled it out of order and closed the meeting.

Dureaucratic mOVE provoked heated arguments platform several hundred workers before the meeting finally dispersed.

The convenor with Morris, straight to manage- then well ment and complained had been physically assaulted by during role Daris argument, Mananement sacked Barns. against him Their main was 1 Gwu orricial bill morris.

Vindicate A large number of witnesses forward to came vindicate barns. Mariage allowed only tWo testiff. in defence at the appeal-which was rejected The witch-hunters of TGWU then decided to press Region They advantage nome Inelr instituted 'another TReT "inquiries" into "all notorious aspects of industrial relations at the site". designed to Though clearly previous and the barty leadership, tais kanearoo court Colin Carty speaking to pickets during the two week strike of defending them- no means selves. No charges were actually laid. No individual was actualiy named The Regional Com- mittee F&GP simply antone te and invited anyone come along and complain about the oreiius sevards commit concentrated The

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their attack on Carty's refusal to recommend a return WOrK during the two week strike over the allegation that someone swore at a branch meeting; and the events at the mass meeting from which Barns was sacked. The "inquiry" success-to attempted-without crum uo more serious witnesse.

support Morris' allegations acainst barns. Travesty The Regional Committee has yet to pronounce verdict from this resulting Tney must know, nowever. that in the event of victimisa- tion or carty. or otner militants action would be taken on the Site But alongside tnese Trame Barns was con- sacking, Tinuino though denied any representa- official level from the tior

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application to Industrial Tribunal. of the As a former member the "justice' dispensed by such bodias.

One witness only But with trumped charges to support his eleven witnesses Barns clearly felt that the case. case could be won. no Tribuna •housh turnino to the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 October, 1978 March backs Irish POWs hundred years Ovel after Karl Marx organised a 25,000-strong march in protest against the hangings of the Manchester martyrs, the Prisoners Aid Commit- tee is calling a national Day with of Solidarity Irish prisoners of war, to be held in London on November 26.

The mobilising leaflet for the campaign

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vicious role of British imperial- defence of capitalist rule in Ireland and goes on the action demand We urge Socialist Press of the British

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"reacer. • таке workers' movement. important campaign and It calls trade union and on possible everything ensure the was. ard labour

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Tract following resolution. movement banners "We give full support to the on this more right of Irish political prisoners its coming PAC march than on to de treateo as rrisoners ou wal Miv demonstration and with the right of those oniy trade union bodies sentenced in England to serve

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were represented. their sentences with their com of resolutions passed CoDies rades in treland. Shal should be forwarded to.

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.ano supporting the Day of Solidarity information obtained more of with Prisoners 2a, St. Paul's Road, from PAC, called bv PAC for November 2t London N1. and we support the demands of Assemble 2.30 p.m that demonstration: #Solidarity with Irish POWs.

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*POW status and amnesty Arch, march to for all Irish political prisoners Clerkenwell Green. "•ris our ou relaner Silence on 'secrets' charade The second opening of the ABC "secrets" trial al Old Bailey has the succeeded in drastically cutting back press publicity of the proceedings, which Chief TGWU Region 5 witch- are now in their third week.

hunter Brian Mathers e is despite the of t th spot- spot- case Is nov It would have light, journalists Crispin Aubrev was a retreat, it did represent a opened ine door for the re-election of Carty and Duncan Campbell and ex. real embarassment to the TGWU Berry still face bureaucracy and manage- as convenor and a resumption o JOnH the fight against the manage. possibie rani sentence. in defence of wages and under the Official Secrets Act.

A week before the hearing mell Hugh Colonel EPS offered £600 as an out-of- jobs. AnO Barns But the events have still Johnstone the one-time Colone court settlement turned embarassment 'B', whose name was shrouded proven a severe It cown correcty Insistrig earlier spurious reinstatement to te na wint A campaign the vear. is in the front rank of Minutes before the hearing must now mounted throughout the those attempting to ensure that ••eneo inis oier was uosco to

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particular, they receive the most severe and €800. Region 5 defend Carty 1 and ss examinas aero the e sentences possible

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Durina his hour of prosecu other misitants adamns! cross examinatiol testimony in open court victimisation as a result of the tion personnel manader nac Johnstone, appearing now under cheir case falling apart, manage "inquiry' offer increased their Resolutions tor the hediona nis real name clamed mert Committee should be sent the tape-recorded dIscussIon £1,000. Barns accepted it the three defendants in chief between This betrayal has let Morris Int wilen hunte Regional Secretary, right off the hook brian earl information that would 'delight" ano AtKins Mathers, Transport House, Exposing their colaboration Victoria Street, West Bromwich, enemy and with would have management regarded 'manna from

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bureaucratic weakened heaven' moves against Carty. But under cross examination Johnstone admitted that once •oserver knew a unit was e SIGINT unit then "its location size and cooperation with othe acencies torrowca by referring ine inteli two magazines-those of Corps and Signals the • Coros-Stuart Shieids. Oc fo Berry picked out information, that went a long way to proving

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peter ed court) were But while the tarce or a tria there is still little sigi ABC Defence Campagin inal lit or its official backers in the NU.

leadership are making attempt appeal for serious support from the broader labou movement The trial is thus not only out largely of the public but •million un knowr TnE workings probe and reoressive monital apparatus of the capitalist state is under attack. ‹The fiaht must be taken ul for national level labour movement conference to discuss EPS workers picketing the gates of the site ot th prevent defendants going to jail

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesduy 25 October, 1978

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Many of Labour's Workers now among the 'left' dominated 1½ million unemployed will National Executive will no doubt also be overjoyed at the prospect that Labour probably have been sew- NEC pleadings bring may ing patches onto the about a democratisation of knees of their trousers the Arts Council-thus the weekend in over opening up a couple of jobs.

preparation for a visit to But the NEC, according Callaghan to Labour's house journal Monday Labour Weekly: October 23. "... want to avoid the They will crawl in, carry- ing between them the.most puny begging bowl imagin- hope aDie, in tne desperale Callaghan will offer that pretext them to for the azue of this reac- maintenance tionary, wage cutting gov- Among the pathetic proposals to be pressed on Callaghan for him pubisa major new ollis on a "industrial wealth tax, on democracy and on animal welfare. In view of Callaghan's well-known reluctance tax the rich, and the class collaboration enshrined "industrial democracy' the fraud, the likelihood is that animals would come out of such a much programme Skinner Detter nan worKels. New rise in fascist violence gang of National a mounting series of violent fascists, Front emerged attacks thugs which are now more and from their headquarters more aimed at wnite anti- at 8.10 last Friday night fascist forces as well as the and attacked savagely black and immigrant com five or six people out- munity. previous Saturday, side. 15 ANL petitioners leaving The weapons OI Hoxton were marKeT used by the fascists included brutally attacked by fascists a pick-axe an iron bar and who included trained boxers handle inscribed with weapon-wielding and oner instructions on which parts One of the

ANL

tnugs. body to strike for oi the members was seriously maximum enect. injured. One the victims OI The weekend 30 sallle needed 65 stitches in a head British thugs Movement wound; another had broke up a dance at Thames broken arm. Polytechnic. But the Tory press-so There followed then anxious report the familiar police Walted slightest incident by "foot- ball hooligans"-relegated a group of Asian allacked youths in a car. As one of the Asians got page articles. This attack is only one of out to defend himself with a By John Lister This silence has only been punctuated by isolated demagogy from 'lefts' such MP Sheffield Martin Flannery, who last week situation where the oppos- declared that ition has chance correctly combine together to defeat 'People are sick to death of policy"Bovernment's the government on a major pay plank of policy and possibly precipitate an election."

wnat must concert NEC and Tribunites alike is But of course nowhere the prospect of people amongst all this talk is there sick to death of becoming slightest reference to the left rhetoric from empty socialist policies of national- Parliamentary windbags isation.of the banks and major industry without under of management; worKers programmes of public works under the control of elected committees to create new

JODS

rates of pay; or of restor- ation of the cuts in the health and other social services. there be any Will serious attempt by the NEC to reverse the government's the 5% position pay U1l limit. Newly elected

NEC

lefts' Neil Kinnock and Dennis Skinner have iomed their Tribunite most of colleagues in tactful silence on the wages issue since the thus avoiding their mandate lead campaign against the Phase spanner in his hand, he was promptly arrested. This was followed up by the anti- fascist students, who are the being Clareed Under Race Relations Act. police behaviour will surprise only those such Ennals, David as the leadership of the Anti Labour's Minister in Nazi League who continue charge of destroying the to believe that the of aid this state force can be relied health service, reached fight upon assist the deep into his arsenal of against the fascists. poisoned weapons last In reality the NF and BM week and accused hos- attacks come under conditions of a developing pital maintenance super- class movement against the visors of killing patients.

5% pay policy. His statement had been coaxed of him bya series • of witch-hunting And this strengthening articles in the national press, movement offers a real basis which like Ennals claimed a for fighting fascism, because sudden conversion то Ine as it moves into struggles, care of patients. the working class begins to Ennals and his fellow break down artificial Labour Ministers can take divisions within ranks 1TS responsibility for personal and to act as a class against the deaths and suffering of the common capitalist those admitted to hospital enemy. too late, discharged • too conditions Under these early or screened not at all.

the fight must be stepped In the name of "realism" fascists waerever 10 6 they have axed millions of for the snow their neads pounds from health service construction of trade union- budgets. based workers defence By comparison any squads capable of sweeping suffering from the current these scum oft the streets grading dispute is tiny, and An important example of even this action-a work to the kind of support that can overtime rule and ban- mobilised through the comes after four years of unions was shown recently from empty promises Hull Trades Council of 60

DOUSINE

Howardr Likewise the press. trade unionists onto the fortnight ago the Daily Mail streets to protect a Socialist "Your headed its front page Workers Party bookshop Life Union Hands".

LABOUR

who have fighting for the removal of the Callaghan-Healey leader- ship The the "left' sooner MPs pressed by trade are union branches and Labour Parties to take up such a fight in the Labour Party, the quicker workers will see for themselves the real limit-

IRAN PROTEST

Iranian troops-using British riot gear?

PRESS GANG

Death masque story complaining that the supervisors had set _up monitoring system precisely ensure that emergency patients did get treated.

The Mail referred to this "The Committer Twelve who have to approve hospital operations' Since then a united front from Fleet Street has been prodding the most reaction- ary consultants to more and warnings mOTe about danger to patients Most of these consultants come to life only to witch- hunt hospital workers or to demand for themselves under threat of turning • highly paid time over entirely to private practice. A week later the Mail- with assumed air of an impartiality-attacked Ennals and the hospital workers under the banner heading 'Don't They Care About People'. The murder charge was made complete on Saturday with a headline 'Don't Let Any More Die. The Sun has not been far behind with a plan-from of these Consta (Save My Patients!) as early as October 6. Last Saturday the Page 5

PARTY

ations of these 'left' talking reformists. Such an exposure will prove to many that the road to socialism involves a break from all forms of reformism of a and the construction revolutionary party based the Trotskyist programme. meeting, Actober the GC of Oxford City Labour Party motion 'deploring the consistent support" given to the Shah's regime by une oresent rTime Minister, Foreign Secretary and Mir the Deton of and calling SAVAN agents Trom Britain demanded that local Labour MP The original motion junior minister at roreign

CUTTICI

Luan publicy dissociate himself from the government's policy and call arms supplies to the tranian dictator- amendmen

CUT

• all successfully moved to delete this and substitue 'more the aover ment to change its ways headline read simply Fo God's Sake, Get Back' quoting Ennal's death claim with whole hearted approval. Of course if these papers knew of a single case where the hospital action had led patient's death they to a would not be hiding behind generalities And of the hundreds who have died and thousands suffer because of health service cuts-not one word. The 'Boat People'-reac- tionary fugitives from Viet- nam-have arrived in Britain to a fanfare of nauseating trumpets. Picked up in the South China Sea these supporters of imperialism's corrupt old have

JUDOCI

converted all the most Tor advocates voculerous of harsh immigration controls into welcoming hosts. I e contrast between the dew! eyed sentimentality of the j ress on this issue and the i cious treatment that handed out the was Malawi their Asians on arrival in Britain shows the true basis of racist immi- gration controls-the class interests of the bosses

NATIONALISE THE NEWSPAPER

Page 6. PHOTO: John Sturrock, Report Police attack NUJ picket at Darlington during the long struggle to achieve a closed shop

INDUSTRY!

PETER MCINTYRE looks at the role of the capitalist press, and the necessity for the labour movement to have the means to put forth its own propaganda in the struggle for that the working class socialism, drawing the conclusion must expropriate this key weapon of bourgeois rule.

have mented with a relaxation of Revolutionaries One of the first key always seen the vital impor- controls on the press, to the be seized by points to tance of making their voice tiniest degree, in' an effort any army of occupation woo the support of US print-even heard in is the radio station. where conditions imperialism. newspapers have to be pro- At the next sign that the Unlike the water supply, duced illegally. opposition to his regime had the the power supply and stores control of the rather than Lenin and Trotsky both increased TOOd Shah reim- diminished the media does not immediately enormous emphasis placed posed censorship in its full on presenting the authentic provide material necessities.

But control of the radio authority. voice of the revolution TV Ireland the print, and of combating the and Northern station, the Ine republican offices of the lies and distortions, both of at once the

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raided by for powerful weapon newspapers the capitalists and of the a1 c political the and the state sought strengthening army fake lefts and the police. obscure the real and sharp

NOTECOU

CoOl being which the sym Dol questions Hypocrisy face command. class must working Just as this is true for the the capitalists Files of subscribers are sudden seizures of war, so it also social democrats both harrass removed, is true for the struggle lor that importance. disrupt its the the paper and Their attempts to control ascendency Det meet distribution ana to provide classes of society. and limit the political views the authorities with lists of the world class of nuouznoul THe al C those sympathetic to repub- Jor supremacy two-fold. On the one hand the struggle licanism. and the mass press keeps Detweell Since the state power in defence capitalism or between capit- hymn in constant Northern Ireland is the same alism and the working class of capitalist property Icla that declares is reflected in control of the the other hand it tions. On stale

DOWCI

adherence to a Iree economic press. COTCUrs press" in Britain the ralas stranglehold which make republican Censorship newspaycis papers U11 labour movement are or inemselves difficult to produce. testimony to the hypocrisy In Pakistan the military of liberalism in Britain.

government throws Journal- Long established the other hand, reac- imposes into lal ano

ISIS

tionaries entirely defend the censorship; strict Hildad other In Britain and gathering of the reins of the ruling. Janata coalition the industrial states advanced press in the hands of a tiny came to power on the wave of the the unionisation group of supercapitalists.

Indira of opposition printing industry is long On the other hand they Gandhi's emergency established and complete.

the sm all mute controls. T:= = =: owners a record capitalist number papers is testi mony to the ability of print members to defend wages and conditions under attack from both the em- ployers and their own union officials. Their defences are put up traditional rights around and and in payments dispute dispute allel has been management unable to impose defeats on Tne workers isolated But with few exceptions-a NAF ad in the Sunday Telegraph being one-print workers and jour- nalists have not challenged the capitalists' right to print whatsoever they wished The campaign against the attempts to win NUJ's provincial closed shop in journalism brought to by the height a campaign employers and their editors to identify strong unionisa- tion with SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 October, 1978 NI NUJ mass picket at Kettering again in pursuit of a closed shop agreement published by statement former Labour Minister and Newspaper Publishers Sir chairman Association Richard Marsh, the theme is the same. The 'free' press is central to maintaining 'democracy' and a 'free' press is inconsis- with strong trade tent unions. Not abstract 'Freedom of the press' is admirable slogan. 1905 it was on the lips of Russian workers who over- threw the censorship laws.

every country where In newspapers harrassed are and journalists thrown into jail one of the focal points of opposition to the govern.

ment is around the slogan of freedom the oi the press. But it is not and never be an abstract. A free . uncontrolled by any pIcs social class. can by definition, only exist in a classless society state itself Just the as 10 Northamptonshi

EVENING

TELEGR

cannot exist in a void an represent the orgai must ised defence of one class o the pre the othe free but cannot mus reflect the superiority of th ruling class of SOCi In times where soci upheaval, transformation takes plac control of at least part o the press can pass out c the hands of the ruling clas this is a situatio But which is not stable. Like of dui manitestations power it must resolve itself thi accident some of the bitterestd eo around ogical battles revolution Portuguese 1975 arose precisely

OVI

control of the question the content of Republica.

Ordered to print The most dramatic ar account of gripping power and its effect on ti press is provided by Trots!

in his account of the 19 revolution.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 October, 1978 Petersbu for a tort political Committee is actually made In dispense control passed up ol representatives oi the period into the hands of the state together with national borders. Soviet. That power reflected newspaper editors. In the past year a similar itself on the press. nationalist The typesetters, newly arrangement has been intro- the Union with minimal organised in GuCCu Print Workers ordered their for self-denying publicity employers to print the censorship co-operation newspapers in complete dis- with the police. regard of the censorship Police chiefs have Despite admitted that such a system laws. Reactionary could not be imposed newspapers, on the full still fearful of the real inten- the press

WITMOUT

the of the Csar and his co-operation of editors.

HONS

In the BBC all news on Ireland has to be submitted Victor tant to do so. committee top being management Derore published. A similar instruc- Soviet The during the lon was Issued Dare World Cup in Argentina on political news. "The manifesto of proclaims the speech graph, Central last week of Press still Affairs the blue exists, pencil is stil circumspect.

1OCC

still Freedom has by (of workers. was only that those lead may be newspapers editors published ignore the submit mittee, refuse censorship, their issue More and generally the of copies same lost were publishing its news- dose normal Trotsky paper London, the Metro- workers politan refuse to of the NUJ card and accept of their they had their readiness but the they the strike, to (WIl Lord practice by the be

NUJ

cards • that workers paper he had the opposition most there had measures pay reactionary the Fleet OI saly. due to them. He would not to accept ution will confiscated of Fleet papers colleagues. at working the new. Deputies The established in boycotted." personal are at this point found newspaper the censors. were one cycly to • 1C al oil giant; of the The reduced owned by will which with massive published a property shipping populist title) pIess profitable. published News World unvetted by the censor, union-hater Rupert strikes echo all But 'freedom' almost Only Britain loving Color the of the today. which of law under MassIve hit etil newspapers. be. The the bad must OI determined observed the legal this issue the censorship sulting the national regional when "indivisible' ment to freedom press-yet iLea like higher for the ruling class. Britain In Act, gagging writs, used wrongly It Notices instructions are to publish. In fact D Notice Threatening to assert control over the bosses' support national papers of the point massively

ELECTRICAL

TRADES

UNION

the streets was more the two second million newspaper despite of cringing days' pay before Fleet Street print shops been control chapels. production 100% ship are Canno behind •the sallie to political wishing Times News- conlell. from the The work at The been within the has to where action will • action. the content and cowardly For are two which print policies and are for of copies an end business Tne and, papers. levels such Telegraph undoubtedly police the Lancales raided the of all throwing highly plans and accounts distributed) secret deals. and print fight workers print tie-ups the nationals bolster each It was

CLO

means of struggles will such and class watch most by non-union

STOP

Nazi

THE

AZINT

fascism-media workers' meeting last month means of the press be of the despicable 1S. to pill Tn A consistently too went far • of the production of Page 7

LONDON

PRESS

BRANCH

is a classless freedom. The bring working about the the as a means of moving that the production including press and working class. the be fighting

TOI

to the attacks TO] the become the press to Those tell the if 50% of More for all capitalist the trom papers advertising the very capitalists serve. .Only brought for printing presses and put newsprint equal workers' on with terms capitalists. stranglehold outlets, OI. capitalist the big business news- class is the towards seizil; the

• OVC.

alreac / exist. The owners

Page 8 "Family life' fascism! Mary Anne Todd positions put forward in the Anti Nazi League's Women Against the Nazis' leaflet, and points to the essential link fascism, and be Can appeals preserve recall- and of the For those the Anti answer Nazi latest Against produced the as mobilise clear-cut women that fascism defence capitalist crisis-ridden system. family The pressures ana through of the Labour whether to National and preser ye prevent capitalism. Against the Nazis erne of way offers traditional through to It women "family life Youth's opposition in trade Germany the fact at was to Hitler be drastically parents"! fascism in power. even without fact WAN's many women, propa- conscious more than 'Kinder, ganda, Kuche is the loss and kitchen). values 000d oratismone deviate from pattern-such capitalism the crisis single violently repressed. class with falling This and the care oi capitalisin. elderly, family, labour such maintained for women reproduced cost to products The WAN leaflet offers and challenge to such no position. It makes no attempt to permanent the grotesque point out incentive exploitation and oppression of women and youth in the week. The bourgeois family unit, or to to no answer to reactionary examines the wollen show how this plight would forced are worsened by Hitler's Third and moods, Reich insisted that the role should no Far from Kirche, (children, church And those who dared to rigid this control as gays ana over our parents-were because the family unit is a cornerstone that today's point Through the conditions power plunging ployment and serviced minimum Call the capitalist class. And the family is also runs

WISD

the unit of consumption tor directly capitalist analysis industry-with HP payments of the role of mortgages arranged to ensure that as many families.

'The compelling as possible live their lives in debt, as an work each the need of bureaucracy hierarchy family is the for 1-At "adon't let themicatch the racist bug!

ANL BOX 151 LOND

omen each family. rights compel countless women to undertake family responsib- ilities. Bains Nazis such attacks it is necessary to modulse individuals the organised working class overall contained leaflet. It suggested courses of action imagines accepted mothers. Women

WAN

out leaflets. middle class

WOTK

(do unions work?). tably workers' Carnival 2. Nazi League struggle foundation relations and for disciplin- the youth by means of ing 40,000,000 points and support for authority the fight power." (Revolution Betrayed) spending only ploy menl, economy socialist planned increasing that can offer an alternative women to the claustrophobic and driven bourgeois family repressive isolation which unit. Only under socialism can cribed as: child-minding and domestic to an stagnant labour petty chore and which the individual, scientifically toiling be managed and collectively; only under galley socialism can the HeLd political and economic oppression of women off Cut brought to an end. organised This is why, as socialists.

we insist that the ending of "family life as we know it" and a would be no loss whatever to the working class, and is capitalist the fact essential for emancipation of women. will be reactionary But never ended by fascism, which become tighten the would simply shackles on the members of employers SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 October, 1978

WOMEN AGAINST THE

NAZIS Anti Maxilongue Our kids are healthy... The only answer increasingly from it that of combat aspect individualism, nationalism, the labour hostility movement politica And by ending abortion amongst hackwardnes. would forcibly of attempt- In order to fight against ing this task prejudices, as women not but as part of recalling the of favourab 'Do you But the opposite position in the WAN brothers, our restricts the narrow confines it of millions CoursE are and wives the British the war ir bourgeoisie urged siris in and to rivaly with German over put up used by the and British war course of made imperialism places their start that plain • from members revolution communist

WAN'S

class , was British Call subjected mounting squads at betrayed all, there is who Stalinist the main fascism- for against fascism Wate Is the WAN attempting unem- this rotten, Monstalt which treacherous blac? Where of "revolutionary" toes are being Socialist Workers Party, into the mentor of the opportunist Anti Nazi League, stand on these reactionary pronouncements? Our stand is clear and consistent. Only the inde of the pendent mobilisation of the performs class as class working from child- through its mass organisa bring an end to tions can the decaying, vicious, capit- and thus elim- from the of the inate the threat of fascism once and for all. Women who join in such fight will increasingly understand the begin to propaganda fall for socialism to necessity "family life as we end know it" and open up a new and era of unfettered ment for the men, women used by and youth of the future. their efforts

'Midnight Express'- SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 October, 1978 A Turkish Trotskyist examines the reasons why both the Turkish government and the left Turkish have attacked the contro- versial new film 'Mid- night Express'. This film is based on the real life experience of Billy Hayes, a young American arrested while trying •to smuggle two kilos of hashhish. After serving seven years finds in a Turkish prison he himself sent down for further 30 years. Driven by desperation he manages escape. Much of the film focuses the horror prison

OTI

Turkey. But conditions in there is more to it than that.

Director Alan Parker skil- exploits the appalling fully conditions, savage sentences and physical maltreatment meted out to Hayes in order provoke hostility Turks. He tries vicale image of the Turkish people Reactionary It is this racist, reaction- ary thrust which determines the impact of the film as a whole. attempting to Even his critics this answer point, Parker reveals reactionary position: "The characterisation of film and the as fascist shows has been understood wrongly. "Our aim criticise Is to the judicial system which is bad degenerated, and does not have the essentials. "Turkey militarist country which is ruled by a The slaughtered the Turks Armenians they are ano for their famous extreme barbaric character." Such statement combines violent hatred for Turkish people with a the willful political confusion.

Turkey is not yet ruled "a by fascist adminstra- a racist attack on Turkish people

IN REVIEW

DEr Turks in Britain march in support of striking metal workers in Turkey tion". hostility of man who barely escaped a further 30 Rather, it is ruled by liberal talking bourgeois film revels in democrane governmell by Ecevit, racialist statements as: : "For under neaded funny constantly growing threats a nation of pigs, it's of a military don't eat it" and a fascist your nation and people and I fuck your sons while this

ANU.

and daughters" precarious Slation Parker's hollow claim to becomes steadily more unstable, the class collabora- expose the repressive of tion of the reformist and character the Stalinist leaders of the regime. nothing but a Turkish workers' movement for COveT consisteni identification of the regime disarms the working class and increases the risk of a with the Turkish people as a supposedly whole and the right wing coup. "barbaric" Turkish "charac- ter." Acute dangers And even were his To that Turkey portrayal of prison con- now ruled by fascists is to to have ditions impact, the racialism of the film minimise The acute dangers faced by the Turkish Turkish such TA 21 The working class. government, its diplomats in But this is not the only Europe, and communities of way that Parker conveys a Turkish workers message that assists the number of countries have fascists. been struggling to stop ine Hiding behind the under- film being shown standable bitterness and that significant although the film was made Algeria and not Turkey, Parker had clearly been to some trouble ensure that at the end of the film the prison walls could be • plastered seen with past posters pro claiming slogan nation without nationality.

"One nation" It is a slogan which insists that Turkey is "one nation"-thus. denying any rights to the oppressed national minorities. its insistence upon national divisions it is Midnight Express director Alan Parker anti-communist asU Slogan.

FASIZ

KAHREDE

As such it is central to the current fascist offensive in Turkey, amid wilch. violent attacks on working class and student militants, calls on backward workers and the middle class "defend the nation" against its "enemies? "enemies" These of course are revolutionaries, trade unionists and progres- sive forces. the ideology behind the March 1971 coup in which hundreds of trade unionists and revolu- tionaries killed and

WOLO

hundreds more jailed and conditions tortured under far worse than Billy Hayes could have dreamed of in his worst nighmares. The real exposure of the repressive regime. in Turkey can only be carried out by establishing the conflict of interest between the ruling and the oppressed Class masses in Turkey. Only in this way can international be solidarity established between the Turkish working class, the oppressed minorities within Turkey and other of section workers inter. nationally, in the struggle against the common enemy -the capitalist class in each country: "The working men have country" proclaimed Marx and Engels years ago in the Communist Manifesto: In order to put an end to the repression and torture in Turkey and elsewhere it is necessary to follow the con- clusion of that founding statement: "Working men of all countries, unite!" Page 9

LONDON

malgo BOROUGH OF PHOTO: Andrew wiara, Report

SOUTHWARK

OFFICIAL

PICKET

Social workers are already fighting attacks on conditions Kids feel brunt of Tories new cutbacks Already the social deployment" and compul- Birmingham sory premature retirement services in affecting over 100 workers have been cut to the who man these homes. bone but • press 27 Women's rights announcement on September by the ruling This is not only an attack Tory group gave a taste on children's welfare but of the cruelest cuts to also a further attack on the date. nguls or working women But of course the report Without any prior con- cynically states that: sultation with the two main "at all times we wish to involved

(NALGO

put the interests of the and NUPE) the Tories made children first and are a clear statement of intent also concerned for staff that, to quote their report: involved." "Whatever City the after Only a week. this Treasurer requires, we are 250 social putting a cash limit on the press statemen staff services attended budget" total net the lobby of the social services social services department.

which committee In other words no matter was ratify these proposals. what money be avail- Mav were calca in to able, the budget is frozen at prevent these workers exer- this year's figure. cising their democratic Cutback attend this com- mittee and forcibly Because of inflation, this restrained them. will mean for 1978-9 Eventually the commit- massive cut in provision tee adjourned a smaller The brunt of this cut will police room under escort be borne by children's wel- and ratified their closure fare services. decisions after timid verbal The Tories' intention is from opposition the to close eleven working minority Labour group children's hostels, three resi- The scene is now set for nurseries and four a direct confrontation with children's homes as well as the involved and workers making further cuts in the the council pathetic day remaining To fight these closures, nursery provision. the workers have already set In total this entails a loss up a joint

NALGO-NUPE

of 200 beds in children's 'Children's Committee" establishments which will invite other Youth in hostels will be unions dumped on the street and involved. only provision will be Plan of action nursery maintained Alongside this there will This committee must be forced redundancy, "re- ensure that a correct plan of undertaken action to prepare workers involved to continue opera- Workers Socialist tion homes and League defend these essential Conference Document services WSL supporters will fight 'Behind Today's Crisis in this committee for: in Turkey' *Defence and-if neces- Available in Trotskyism sary- occupation of these home: to prevent closure, Today No 3, price 60p with strike supporting (plus 20p p&p) action from other from WSL, of workers. *Restoration of the cuts 31, Dartmouth Park Hill already made. London NW5 1HR. *Protection of public services by a sliding scale of public expenditure.

Reject all productivity deals!

WSL Why not join us? Page 10

INDUSTRIAL

Even while Vauxhall workers Ellesmere at Port voted to reject the 5% pay policy last week

TGWU

convenor John Farrel putting was forward the dangerous idea of a "phony" prod- uctivity deal. He has suggested that a higher minimum payment in

HOIN AREA

PRA NICT THE 4TH

The Workers Socialist League is not a move- for the faint ment hearted. We do not offer any peaceful back- of abstract dis- water and armchair cussion revolution. The fight we carry through each day the workers' movement has often been shown to have a inflicting major impact the setbacks labour bureaucracy. But only does so because our members are prepared to fight tenacious- ly-sometimes against heavy odds-and «une Lecu bitter hostility from union orcials.

LADONN

Jakes. Stalinists and all manner of "left-wing"" opportunists.

But in arguing and fight- ing practice for the Trotskyist building leadership capable of mobil- ising the working class for the struggle for state power and the establishment of a such a deal, along the lines of the current productivity deal's £2 "lead-in" payment (which is not dependent on productivity) be may possibility. More acceptable Clearly he is hoping that such a deal would be more acceptable to the company and the government because would camouflage

CLEAGUE

TA AT REALITON!

socialist society, we are carrving through a struggle that essential for the working class. Unless workers are shown the necessity break from their

DICOCILE

leaders, they unarmed the fight for their into independent interests. this, our understanding movement has from the start, stood at the forefront of break 10 Labour's wage controls, and for action to prevent the sale of jobs at Speke, in the industry steel and elsewhere, by TUC bureau- crats in cahoots with mama enemy Time and

WSL

again members have deflated fiery speechest.by 'left' windbags who talk of opposition to the social spending cuts but lift not a finger to mobilise strikes or occupations. And our members have played a key role in every major cuts struggle. We have championed even

WORKS STAFF TALKS

In a bid to sell out the 4½ week-old by works officers, as nospital both union officials and man-

NEWS

accut love TalKS WIW ACAS The works officers are conflict with Phase 4 of wage which prevents pay. control ment of money agreed 3 years ago to restore anterentials true extent of the smashing Ford and Vauxhalls of the 5% ceiling from the leadership principled other sections now involved would have nothing to do in pay negotatons-and in productivity deals WItn from the public whether they Dar acular are the or the soobile nee sector workers. variety Callaghan is relying on or the so-called the likes of Farral to collab- cover-up jobs. orate with such deals one the company can pay order to stave-off the result- money through a "phoney wave of strikes which deal they can pay it instead 1ng would inevitabiv open no strings breach of the 5% by breach of the 5% open limit. Stung by the success of the

TGWU

Day Action two Garners Steak weeks ago, Houses boss Mardous was Torced last week distribute internal bulletin campaign saos which vinay claimed Endi the march had only attracted 450 supporters, consisted of merely ten strikers InIs WEs an desper tont of the olin the second half bulletin, carefully wordec ' nation statement trom. Phillip Carlow, erstwhile chief accountant and one of the most vicIous scabs As the big rats desert the sinking ship Margolis has been ragged reV on: The body shop at Ellesmere Port pack of scabs to plead with

WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE

DON'T GO INTO

THE FIGHT BLINDFOLD!

¡THERE'S NO WAY OUT

SOCIALIS

Get the answers For a

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GE clear

PRESS

lead in the fighting wage control, cuts policies to defend jobs, wages and social services and redundancies fight, from Grunwick to ience we have gained in the Sandersons, Garners and fight ITOISKYISt highlighting and fighting Transitional Programme has of bureaucratic each convinced us of the

SLCD

betrayal and sabotage. necessity to reconstruct the Workers Fourth International as the AlIC Socialist League has been at World Party Socialist the forefront of the fight Revolution, on . the British Leyland and established at its throughout industry foundation in 1938. the oppose erosion of the Whether fighting falling independent shop stewards' living standards, unemploy- movement through class and the attacks on collaboration 'workers democratic rights at home participation' bodies. mobilising solidarity 1n In each of these struggles with international struggles and our international imperialism work the WSL has fought to Ireland, Iran and Southern the reveal and Africa, the Workers Socialist counter-revolutionary role League has a practical and a played by the Stalinists of theoretical contribution the Communist Parties- make. whether these be 'Euro- communist' parties or those adhering to Moscow. Our principled stand on We call on Socialist Press these issues has also vividly readers and supporters exposed the opportunism consider the coming and confusion of the various struggles, the problems they other left groups who claim face, and the necessity of a offer workers a revolu- principled lead in each day- 10 tionary' alternative. to-day fight. small And the practical exper- Only our size SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 October, 1978

OFFICIAL

STRIKE

Garners pickets Garners boss desperate Tory act of full reinstatement and union mediator between the two sides, recognition. fact that

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Strong Regional Organiser Les Shorter Catering Officer Abrahams anc Strike They pointed out the Day of • Committee naumar Rachman went to see Brook last Action had shown that this Thursday is a warning to strike strikers was very strong despite Regional guar adus soil out by continued refusal to mobilise This treacherous trio This meeting followed vain its membership to win it.

Shorter The attempts real of the strength wen attended strike is rettected in this power full call from the Strik strikers meeting on Wednesday that the Union had done its best Committee for a trade and that a compromise settle 1000 •ТЛЕ next aeolona ment was now inevitable. Committee meeting in Novem We understand that ber and

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NAISOPA OFFICIALS CLASH backs meeting, SOCIALIST PRESS. Wednesday 25 October, 1978

IN BID TO KNIFE

INK STRIKE

Despite by moves paid the foremen's rate of NATSOPA officials, the paThis Usher- strike at the led work Walker printing inks stopping depart- would ments, noone factory in East London work without supervision.

continues. responded Management firm supplies Since the by suspending the 25-30% of the printing ink workers those depart- for Fleet Street and is the ments without pay. decided that sole supplier for some could this strike management were not effectively halt going to pay a proper rate stand in foremen then ol somme manond baders The 93 members of the every worker would tem-

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chapel porarily resign from nave SuDCl taken indefinite strike visory duties. Usher-Walker until management manage- actioll threats of redundancies are ment, determined to nou withdrawn. give an inch, then suspended As the factory is already every worker on the factory this threat undermanned, floor without pay. was clearly aimed Work returned to normal destroying a militant chapel on Monday October so leadership. that between Abysmal conditions and employer could led to a the factory have take place. series of actions. Although the meeting Recently workers had resolved certain disagree- refused for employer the SLallu were Sick revealed plans for between on holiday unless they were 15 and 20 redundancies and Thorns workers defend militant Lincoln Road site is having a About 1,300 workers from the Thorns Southbury strike action. Road site in The Enfield and Edmonton coriela •came Executive out on strike last Friday in Trades Council has victimised defence of Creet strike and to put out a pross steward. statement. Management sacked Paul will also the militant

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Green. picket line, especially on steward, for being 16 minutes Tuesday when government between 18 October and ale Litt 18 November! factory. They maintain that his time- The stewards are asking for keoping record comes within the local trade give maximum. limit in one calendar their suooon month. Already pickets from the But is clear that this nearby Fords plant have sacking is attack the donate coar. woot tor asne ter and refreshments. union organisation in tne com• panyi comes a week bofore. a 24-hour picket is being maintained to the to be removal to Thorns' aven to te WOrK union's 15% wage claim. Gosport factory. member of management This management attack in said that also raco et rid ont a they Enfield follows closure. of the Bradford plant wantвo To dozen stewards" with the loss of over 2,000 jobs.

What has surprised Thorns lack of a fiaht by thi rotten leadership there, has mandcament nas Deen Tune whetted the bosses' appetite for morning shift voted by more attacks them 3 t0 1: for an immediate walk workers. out. They have received a rude The other unions have shock at the response to thei pledged their provocations.

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six compulsory retirements.

This was a clear threat to the militant leadership of the union chapel. However, full time Branch Secretary Dave Hutchinson agreed to discuss redundancy plans at a latel uale membal agd not be paid He also agreed that for the whole of the time they illegally welt suspended. When workers the factory learnt of this betraval thev voted unanim - ously indefinite strike action. The NATSOPA bureau- cracy, who are as scared of militant their as the employers, Incocis every nave striker with expulsion. Knowledge of the appalling conditions at Usher-Walker and the expul- must be spread throughout NATSOPA. The striking chapel every should Capel demand that all threats of expulsion are dropped and that made the strike official. bring a bit This would nearer the day when Hutchinson parasites like are kicked out of their cosy jobs. Finance and messages of support snowa ve sent lo Bro. Jimmy Burton, Usher- Strike Committee, walker c/o NELP Students Union, Livingstone House Living- stone Rd., London E15. Leyland management at the Cowley Assembly Plant last week met the unions to their give their reply claim for a f27 across the board increase, a 35-hour week, protected against inflation through a cost of living clause. But manadement chose onct again to press for level bargaining, and their offe Thel orooosais establish pay parity between Leyland plants. ins. thev suocesteo. woule bring an average increase of £€ to £7 per week. And they said they would with arque TinE government for permission consolidate into the new basic rates. But the present scheduled

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LEAST 5 MINUTES LATE... A BAD START!

YEAH! WHO'S FOR THE NIGHT SHIFT

fight on pay The Committee of union branches: This branch is opposed London Area Stewards in to the 5% the Health Service (CLASH) •av anC supports campaign for •The has circulated a letter tc minimum wage of £60 for a stewards calling for full sup- 35 hour week port for a public meeting on 2. This branch demands that 28 October. the National Executive Commit- called initially and London divisions The meeting the SWF health trade by supporters 01 paper Hospital Workei ano me oraanises al out incetin te striKe to discuss the fight for the action from the 13 December £60 minimum wage and the 35 settlement date if the hospital week contained in current nouf ancillary workers pay otter does public sector pay claims.

not include £60 for a 35 hour The

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circular week In the by correcti stresse: tre necole event ot action for an all-London shop steward: local government to be convened to before 13 December we demanc coordinated ensure T081 The ano …Loncon divisions call official action tre virtuell inevitaoit 5% pay offer from the within health the service employer. support of the demand for f6l for 35 hours immediately.

It urdes stewaras to lake ue the following policies in their 3. This branch supports the

CONSULTANT WRECKER

Well 200 of remaining at the over people centre of the struggle to save the attended a public meeting at nosoital Paddington School local community The also London called by the St. showed their determination to Mary's Hospital Defence Keeu nosoharoben representing tenants Committee last Thursday to speakers associations, teachers, launch the public campaign Labour Party to save the hospital which is raoe unionist and threatened members of the public stood up with run-down and pledged their active support and closure mid by the 1980's. besoite mnis dovous wilino The stewards from the ness to fight in the local com hospital who have done most to were obvious signs ot a lack of leadership from estaolisi une camoaien intouen their work in the local District representatives of the Joint Shop Stewards Committee labour who were Daveu Malor role meeting, showing clearly their of Westminster Trades Council BL's Cowley reply Drawing attention to Ford date for parity is not until Ron Todd's descrip negotiator November next year. It could be brought forward

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dealing as raffle ticket", the leaflet every plant accepts their highly points out that: contentious grading structure ticket BL and if there is a drastic increas rate are offering not only has a high price and long oidds, but if you mean inousands more jobs lost.

No offer was made on the win you nave to buy your own prize." basic rate-the company is even holding back on ottering the 0% permitted by Phase until Rejecting any increase linked further stages of bargaining have the productivity, leaflet been reached stresses tnat coos are not must Leaflets calm pursued and fought for at plant level To forward the pay "Get your stewards to press Levlanc mass meeting. Get the tor a Stewards "Leyland . Committee claim moving with the full back- for the Annual Review" is this Fords ot the membership. week distributing 10,800 did it; so can we." leaflets Midlands Into arguing for a fight for plants the claim TUlI how. STInos

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Page 11 calling of a conference for all health service shop stewards and branch officers to discuss . wha action is to be taken in support of the current public r pay claims, and demands that the

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ana London divisions oi health service trade unions give full and official backing to sud must conterenci t any being action taken • local government workers, case later than November. Socialist League vvorker. members and supporters will b among those fighting for these oolicie Int Octobel meeting which will take place at 2p.m. the Friends House, custon nodo. Loncon and a NUPE London Division full time official. was esoecialv True O Arthur Latham, local Tribunite MP who after contribution calculateo lo disheartening possible ang added at the :end that he did of Band of admirers deliberate attempt disrupt the consultant surgeon from Sigel Harris Mary's Praed Street, Mr. Accompanied by a small but continuously screeching band of anc warched closely by a reporter from the capitalist press (probably the Mail), Harris repeatedly harpec "industrial tne tooIC action endangering patients lives" The fact that he was shoutec everyone made that Harris' clear mock outradi was not directed at this partic ular meeting but was part of a carefully orenesuratea camoalai which has appeared in the media the past week attacking over trade unionists who cetenoine the Nois This has included a staged TV interview about action Kingston nosoital pletely false article in the Daily Mail designed the scene set for tuture dodins activists at St. Mary's Hospital.

However • Harris his screeching minions had etrect watsoever on ine entous iasm and determination of the local community to support the snos stewaro and Committee in fighting to save Mary's Hospital mecune enoce ov sertine u support committee to include delegates from Westminster Council and labour movement.

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I AM THE NEW BRANCH

SECRETARY - HERE'S OUR WAGE

|CLAIM-30% AND NO STRINGS!

PRESS

1500 refugees and been guerrillas have killed in the latest series

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of air-raids on camps in Zambia by jets from helicopters and the forces of the racist Rhodesian regime. The attacks over, the weekend followed raids week against earlier in the ZANU bases inside Mozam- bique. This concerted offensive clearly prepared *was for the backdrop form American visit of Smith and the black stooges government' transitional who are touting for support from US imperialism. Weakness without suffering a single casualty.

particular it was designed show of the strength to impress representatives of the US un e and British the Smith caval- who met Nkomo has boasted of cade in Washington. if it does; the raids whal revealed was not so much fighters have to of the trained the strength effectively. state, as the weakness of the

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forces that were being attacked In either case,

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leader Joshua Nkomo claims Slave 8,000 trained troops in his played been army, equipped with sophis- ticated weaponry. liberation Yet the Rhodesian air- southern Africa. craft were able to penetrate 12 miles the Time within shrieked Lusaka, has Zambian capital, raid after raid that the and launch

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Soviet leader Brezhnev apparently only two Patriotic Front bristle with explanations of this mystery Cuban advisers and groan

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army under the weight of Russian simply does not possess the ground-to-air missiles which But again and again the OI, armed forces

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Rhodesian then the have been able to inflict

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DeCI on defeats the use them severe Front even with Patriotic their relatively Criminal role eguipment. 'itself indicates This the raids the of have pointed once again to the true Cuban and Russian involve- that has ment. by Stalinist The ruling deformed workers' states in in bureaucracies are scarcely struggles afraid than the imper- dess ialists themselves of . Smith after time. by the hysterically armed Patriotic Front forces the

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issues: I enciose the sum il ..£1.10 5 issues 10 issues .22.20 . £5.50 25 issues 31, Park Hill, £10.00 50 issues bit! Oxford TGWU District Secretary David Buckle JP no stranger hunting or courts. on then the As cowler led to the threat of disciplinary against action leadership elected Leyland's cowle Plant-Buckle showed himself a consummate master of the art.

assisting to conduct a into the trumped up charges which the same people laid the charges, heard such was allowed and then mended savage expulsion including union and a life ban trom unior office. union's Regional Committee to carry out such insisted on Be these roar insisted who have the full confidence of victimised. stewards in the Assembly Plant considered Buckle's role on this Issue ane 5/55 and 5/293 brance: he be responsible for the Plant.

The resolution called for the dropping of all Smiles from Smith and stooge Chirau in the USA Zimbabwe. They too know that this would act as the spur to a upsurge with- demonstrations itself and youth in South Africa and herald the downfall of pro- falling living standards, imperialist regimes through- employment 'out the continent. in public spending. the global To maintain with balance of …orces the post 'com- imperialism, these munists' must act to hold back the forward movement of the class and exchange-the working

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oppressed masses

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ing windows nationally. the shortage of teachers.

One crucial part of that This comino bétrayal has been gigantic workers, postal withholidng vital material are liberation support from colonial struggles against French working rule and imperialist domin- Party Socialist Communist While we give no support perspective to the counter-revolutionary mounting struggles. policies of world Stalinism, nonow the we do • demand rhetoric that workers' states immediately provide the forces involved rarnament with the in such struggles and other material arms urgently assistance they ing that he was "off,to work" require Marchais With such assistance, the pressed forces of the Patriotic Front

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Specti could rapidly defeat nationalism, Smith crumbling regime, and destroy Nkomo's linger- of coming to ing hopes power through compromises you going any further on and sellouts in negotiations ment. 'transitional gov- with ernment' and its imperialist well-wishers.

OXFORD WSL

A series of seven classes Permanent Revolu- on tion-the World Revol- utionary Struggle. Next class Africa-the Southern the struggle against white settler regimes. Sunday 29 October B Block, East Oxford Centre at Community The biter Cowley 9 charges against the was carried with only 3 votes against. Buckle's response? In an interview with the Oxford Mail's industrial correspondent Peter Sturges la member of the anti-union InSTITUTE to witch- Journalists) Buckle claimed subject kangaroo to •Пас Decl witch-nunt The stewards' meeting, "kangaroo chiet instr claimed was the notorious TGWU justice and "contrary to natural court -which has In thus desperately attempt- the Socialist Pres echo British accounts

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cowiey Assembly 'inquiry" Buckle leaves out the 160 crucial fact: one stewards erected Less than a year ago ne was Oxford District floor: shop mem ders "hearing whereas huckle. as an absolice represents noone the and himself evidence as national recons oureaucracy sentences from the Despite the hesitation of the drastic discipiin- stewards- members-should week the 160 TGWU proposal from • Indi replaced as' the official which also Buckle Revolt against sackings France is in the grip of a flaunt your continue to concede wave, of militant strikes and determinaton by workers With talk of "con this incensed at began to Marchais cessions' , un- spell out that all the Communist intends to do is pressure cutbacks and ral ly the bourgeois regime into a few deals--not moolist Strikes have hit the railways, strength working shipyards, against its full-blown attacks on docks, schools, and local govern.

jobs standards • and living ment, while angry school youth concluded stormed the French "It is time you showed less towards disdain arrogance and the working class, hurling stink bombs and silasti Case doe in protest against instead to start the necessary negotiations steel shrewd in week Rarre nao beel workers contemptuously brushing aside due to stage further empty bombast. Marchais pose Stalinists that But the mass parties of the no to his job serious. inreat cutting plans. class-cot and the and SP alike have CP no restricted their calls for working rarty -iave action to token protests отте! these class and stoppages-one day strikes their here and a march there. when And while the CP-led union leader Marchais got up to speak under pressure, • has Giscard called indefinite strike action by government's budget proposals 3,600 ship repair workers Barre retsilancies, the same Stambist costenta Marseilles tiously left the assembly, declar- leaders have urged 1212 workers nothing sackings at La • Ciotat to caunted ahead with his dema- "round while work …remal with ringing table" talks take place As the working class demon militancy and its "Concessions" strates the independent strenoln "We have decided to stop Stalinist parties in Europe and the internationaily their way to austerity and unemploy more clearly role and have been revolutionary ther bourgeois the achieved by workers struggles We can make you go back, if oracl

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