Socialist Press no. 126

SOCIAL CONTRACT COLLAPSES

FACE SELL-OUT

SOCIALIST

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 126 * 22 November 1978 * 15p ABC-need for TU conference! The same is not true of the John Berry, Crispin Scarcely Duncan Aubrey and finger was lifted the outside Campbell understand- are Now to detend These victims of reactionary legislation which ably relieved at the outcome remains on the statute book.

"Colonel B" secrets of the AnC Laboul leaders hees trial. and Silkin remain in office to From the initial prospect of launch further, similar attacks in possibly 14 years jail apiece, for future A labour and trade union charges under section or ine Official Secrets Act, they ended conference should now be up with sentences that virtually convened to draw the lessons of the case and step up the fight amount to acoutta But while the three defen- for the repeal of the Official dants can take a deep breath, Secrets Act as a whole. After last week's failure by TUC and Labour leaders to agree a formula for wage ON the government's controls, 5% pay limit. rests on the refusal of public sector unon caders to take acon to break it. Nobody should imagine that those ta be pore red against proposed lines cocuments were declarine readiness to fight in defence of their members' living standards.

matner inev were snowing their fear of the growing shop floor militancy wages that Jackson-attacked TUC decision nas aven •ine • strenoTn to une Ford strike and the bakers strike. Employers in the private sector nave certainly recognised that and willing to fight the 5% limit.

Above the limit British and Oxvaen Michelin, strikes have so Tal by well above the limit; and in Fords, But the other 14 leaders- manacement have reached inclueino sett cemadoeueve figure nearly three times the Jenkins-decided they would government ceiling.* sooner continue to combat their TUC leaders felt -ourteen own members than run the risk of stand-up confrontation face their with the government on wages.

members if they put their names to a new oav imit Consensus particular embarassment to them Healey's credit was The rejection of the soueeze measures

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days before the vote, which brought ment marks the end or three sufficient general consensus

TUC

gobble the entire 5% increase in between Labour one go. bureaucrats-years

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nave

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PHOTO: Mark Rusher, IFL Striking bakers in Walthamstow. The weekend brought news of new forces joining the strike.

A bedragled Fisher trots out a left speech on May Day brought historically unpreceden- tea cuts in working class living This means that with the 5% etectiveva dead

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wherever determined leadership is given in the private sector, the weapons mealey will use againsu the working class are the same Tory government would use The government will rigidly resist wage demands in the public and use monetarist policies designed CUt intiatior increasine unemployment and cutting public spending. This strategy depends on the weakness and tacit collaboration public leaders whose members include some of the worst paid workers in the country. Strike action Every naication suggests a growing willingness among these to take all-out pursuit of the £60 action weeK • demano submitted jointly by unions representing 1.1 million dulnority worKers. ana oy 300,000 hospital workers.

Healey will already been strenathened in his stand by the knowledge that the local authority workers' claim should nave Deen settied unree weeks ago and there is still no sign of action from union leaders.

The flam boyant mOs these Is NUPE chiet Alan Fisher, who by holding back

LOW PAID

WORKERS

members last winter, played a the fire- kev role in isolating men's strike against Phase 3, and that

NUPE

ensuring memder were held to the 10% limit.

Now he is reportedly planning not a serious, all-out strike to break the 5% limit. bu "guerrilla" strikes, local stoppages and token protests.

Whittling down would Such action be criminal: By waiting dowr militancy to a condemn hindu, an her could lead millions other condemn workers in the public sector to a further year of drastic wage cutthe fight on pay in the public sector must be recognised as an all-out fiaht against the Labour government. but Nur-ane the other unions in the public sector have betst provided their strengh is strength win such connected with the strength 01 the other sections of workers now coming into strugere dedinist wace controis Futile gestures In countering Fisher's futile partial orotest destures and actions, local authority and hospital workers must take the eac in callino tor the settino ur in each area of councils of action, comprising delegates TrOm •tract unions. workers political parties, tenants associa

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Army fails in Spanish coup attempt The third anniversary of Franco's General death was marked by what have seems TO been a serious attempt at a military coup by ultra-Francoist sections of the army and police. The coup attempt was followed by a substantial of strength by

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swastika-touting fascists in a demonstration through Madrid. This very serious (development shows extreme danger which hangs of the gains Over a ne Spanish working class long as the old Francoist repressive apparatus remains in existence Constitution But the organisation of this police and army is to untouched by the Ical terms of the "democratic" which will be

CONSULULO!

presented to national referendum on December 6.

Last week's attempted coup is the third occasion tIons. students ano claimants since the death of Franco bodies, with the aim of spread- that a section of the army ing coordinating all-out and police have tried to strike action to break the b% seize power. limit in the public sector.

This occasion seems to Such bodies can also provide have been the most serious.

an important arena within Reports suggest that at when solev can de cecicee and least 16 senior officers were action planned involved and have been closures and sackings Political and military Tne Tant tor unionisation: the fight against public spending leaders rushed to give assur cuts. ances that the only people They must down demands that those Labour Ms concerned groupot hotheads small were ane • Trace union seaders tha claim oppose Healey's Chile 1973 policies launch an active cam oalon orive

•OUT.

•TAE

This remark is ominously Callaghan-Healey leadership and 'reminiscent the state- take up a fight for a socialist ment made by the Allende programme, and offering them government and the military support insofar as they do so.

leaders (including Pinochet) Struggles in Chile when a preliminary coup went off at half cock of these In the course 1973, will struggles, revolutionaries Just unree to prove fight to workers months before the bloody in practice that what is needed regime of Pinochet seized is not simoiv me resiacement or power. right wing Labour leaders with The response to this by Labour 'lefts' but the construc- workers must be to launch tion ot a principled, revolution a counter-offensive against prepared headershio the Suarez government. mobilise the full strength of the Build workers defence working class in detence of its interests. militias in Spain! Dissolution of the *As we go to press talks Francoist apparatus! state between Ford management and "No' the unions are continuing with the Suarez- LO Gonzales-Carrillo constitu- the union leaders clearly hoping for a settlement in the next day tion! or so. Further article-p.3.

JUST GOOD FRIENDS!

Chairman Hua for chop? ruge à

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leaders, this trio had con- Three faces of reac- verged on London in pursuit tion could be seen on of. their se te _counter- tour in Britain last week revolutionary ambitions. -ane former dictator sought help and eager to advice from their friends in her resume the British bourgeoisie and tyranny, one general labour VulCauSaCy operating as Ko coa bona- Eanes neither Gandhi partist president and 1o1 wang was turnea away one vice-premier of a empty-handed. Indira Gandhi arrived for ruling Stalinist bureau- intensive consultations with cracy. the politicians of the British Variously entertained by bourgeois SLaLE U1 Callaghan and the Labour problems for In belas New problems for Smith's stooges settlement The internal suffered in Zimbabwe further blow last week when the Executive Council agreed put off the proposed elections. aunch 'majority rule' from December to April. This move is a reflection of the inability of and his black stooges to estaoiisn stable serulement foundation. Claims ™ cón e execq o țrner claims of Sithole weaken and Muzorewa that they have ••taineo sion iticant oains blacks through the settlement.

Smith-calling the tune Sithole and Muzorewa botn bullding up private armies apparent support car os to ensure ar for themselves. wearing or I-shirts or vests with or pictures political names

DCST

muzorewa leaders on them. particular has claimed that his have been attacked supporters Base of support ano ste inter-oarty contici would seem have reached quite clearly •mItn crisis proportions. continues to call the tune and is Sithole, the transitional using Muzorewa Laol When will Hua Kuo- *the 'reversal complete arrested?' feng be is a of verdict' on the Cultural reasonable Revolution cam paigns very against intellectuals now question to be asking in of described form Peking, as the 'fascist ideological dictator- 'demaoisation' of the ship the broad hint that the Chinese leadership 'fake trials' and 'erroneous gathers pace. verdicts' were the respon- The position of Hua, sibility of 'a certain higher who rose to the top through leader' (i.e. Mao!) the Cultural Revolution The rehabilitation, and was formerly a close ally of the Teng by •ulces. the 'gang of four' and was Hsiao-ping's faction of the leadership are-like himself, being Kruschev's 'destalinisation' seriously undermined by the -all being prepared secretly most recent shifts: from on top. *the appearance of wall posters in Peking attacking Settle accounts Mao Te Tuna rehabilitation of Chen, former Mayor The of Chinese Peng mass of Peking and one of the workers, who would early victims of the Cultural welcome the opportunity to Revolution. settle accounts with the *the arrest and probable tyrants of CaNCeTSI former Red Cultural Revolution, and- execution These Guard leaders. doubt-with many of Nieh Yuan- include Miss their more recent successors tzu, the Peking philosophy are being strictly excluded.

whose "big But lecturer of TANe Dace character' poster (sponsored reverses' political reveals by Mao) and welcomed the extreme pressures acting unleashed the the leadership of the pogrom on Chinese Communist Party. against academics in 1966.

Gandhi Chirau a: extra oase Samporgn hier ha ontind his behind scenes deal with Nkomo Salisbury last veanwnile in week called Britain ana the Us to explain whv thei convene are taking so long to the all-party conference on preconditions basis that Washington last ao reed month. Eritrea

REACTIONARY

Ethiopian military dictatorship has launched I a fresh attempt to CrUSI ane uperation struggie Eritrea. 40,000 troops have been assianed the task of recapturing the city of Keren, according to an EPLF spokesman. This new oftensive include active participation "advisors" Cuban and Soviet concentrated largely behind the TrONT une in su soltan nadl artillery detachments, but fight- ing no less tenaciously to repress the Eritrean people. posed by the crisis of the opposition. Janata in India This confirmation of her Her second aim was to political comeback ensured win political support and that she was treated financial backing from the seriously by the Tory Indian community leaders-both Thatcher and Britain Heath met with her. But it was not enthusias- Gandhi's But closest tic crowds which greeted friends Britain have the architect of Emergency always been in the Labour Rule. Party leadership. After a noisy reception (On this occasion it was at the airport. worse thing Peter Shore and Michael were to come at Southall Foot who leapt the tc with the major meeting of defence of this famous "democrat".) the tour. 2,000 Met by some Callaghan himself hostile demonstrators inside displayed rare lacl in deal cinema and the Dominion ing with this faithful ally of the imperialism. U11

OLCKOU

OuISue Gandhi was forced to give In place of the violent up her speech after only 10 displays of political affec- high-flown minutes of tion the Shah, he rhetoric. avoided giving open political Although this minor set- Nehru's support back must have sharply daughter. wounded her vanity, Gandhi Instead they met can in general feel satisfied friends'-and privately 'as with her trip took tea together. After the by-election The other guests at this victory in Chikmagalur, she did select tea-party include the President Eanes or nOW „TerIIT Indian parliament to Vice-Premier Wang-perhaps take the leadership of the because the business Portuguese President Eanes Callaghan had to conclude them with Was more formal affair of trade deals and bargaining in dulls The significance of Eanes' visit to Britain shown the way in was prepared to leave Portugal when the gòvernment cricis was still unresolved. during the short period of his new stay, his bonapartist TOTeaTS TO rule erupted. The com Portuguese munist Party has needed all its niesobcer to noia back the latest upsurge from the workers and peasants they claim to lead. Despite their efforts, the Alentejo caodlt region have mobilised to the para-military TeCIST forces sent in by the govern- ment to smash their cooper- atives and restore the land

ARGENTINA

AN OPEN CONFERENCE

on ateentina. uneer roe conera title *Building Solidarity has been called Saturday Dec- emDbl wu8 Dust Aman• tina Committee The Conference, which will held in be the Union Student building, arown ow Hillcsuiver will discuss the adoption Argentinian political prison. , dne ways in walca the orir working class kininst the Viditd die- aid the struggle tatorsitip Details from: BAC, 52, Acre Lane, London SW2. Credentials Friendless Hua seen here embracing Tito £1. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 Norember, 1978 Gandhi admirer Shore its capitalist owners. the industrian dsctor, thousands LeTS taken action workers have on wages. Token strikes Although the CP has so far succeeded in restricting this strikes and protest stoppages. the massive pressure building up within the Portuguese proletariat clearly menaces their ability to police industrial peace for and bourgeoisie army. The British Labour leaders have always given their firm support to those forces Icacliu determined to keep Portugal within the orbit of imperial- ism particular, Eanes sought and won from Callaghan renewed Portugal's commitmen to Common into the entry Market, and fresh supplies of build arms up Portugal's military strength for its role in NATO. No doubt Mulley will be

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nedil .une Commons denying the fact obvious that this boosting of armed T.ne forces poses grave dangers to the workers and peasants of Portugal. Industrialisation The Chinese delegation came to pursue their nego tiations with imperialism for the rapid industrialisation of Chinese industry. But Wang contracts securea not ond and massive bank loans, but also guarantees of arms. Despite their reluctance to antagonise the Kremlin bureaucrats, Callaghan and Mulley have been prepared participate in the imper- ialist ploy to intensify the divide between the rival Stalinist bureaucracies and build the military up strength of the Peking ruling caste against the threat of Soviet invasion Callaghan may claim that consorting with SuCI counter-revolutionary forces he only meeting 'good 1S friends' cementing political alliances Workers who have already experienced the vicious attacks of his Britain, will governmene in have a more realistic assess- ment of what is at stake in these cosy chats and private deals Argentinian dictator Videla

SPAIN'S WORKERS' PARTIES

SINK TO NEW DEPTHS

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 November, 1978

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has been It increasingly difficult in weeks the last tew to difference in tell the Spain between fascists, "reformed" Francoists, reformists, CP Stalinists, Maoists, and Basque and Catalan nationalists. All have. been ot. them marching, sometimes in the same demonstrations, "against terrorism" All these political forces have been competing with public shows of support for the Spanish bourgeois state and its repressive apparatus.

right The first ot Tnece place wing orgies took Bilbao on October 28. the right Organised by Nationalist Basque wing Italian workers march through Rome New cracks and fissures have once more begun to appear across the facade of the fragile edifice of capitalist rule in Italy. One of these showed up last week across the face of the ruling Christian Demo- cratic Party. The former Industry Minister Donat Cattin, who recently transferred to be Deputy. General Secretary of the Christian Democratic Partv. has launched a bitter public attack on his proposed successor. To succeed Cattin, Premier Andreotti has appointed well-known Bologna University economist called Romano Prodi. He is not a member of political but is allv alLV. believed have beenn appointed by agreement with the Communist Party, by whom he is regarded as the Socialist Party

(PNV),

demonstrations in Bilbao.

by taken up

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the last supported both the In years, the -CP and the Party, twu Commissions that Socialist Party demonstrations against the Workers Maoist government's 10 sizeable economic well the on November "anti-terrorist" Workers' Revolutionary policy in favour of „cemioslrd- Organisation (ORT). Basque national rights have tions were organised all over Of the main unions, the regularly drawn ten times as Spain. Stalinist-dominated Workers many participants. These were joined by the Commissions supported the This reflects the fact that government party-the

UGT

the latest campaign of the UCD, and sections of the march. Unl- Basque separatist

ETA

extreme right wing as well (related to the Socialist Party) told its members to (huskadi and rteedom) has as the other main Maoist group-the Party of Labour of great deal popular stay away. sympathy in Euskadi, since

(PTE).

30,000 strong it has been directed almost exclusively against members Held back Even with the backing of of the armed police and the parties which obtained 90% civil and against Once again the UGT in guard Francoist local officials.

most areas held back from oI ine votes in last June s this But the PNV's reaction- elections, demonstra- supporting them. These reactionary mobit- tion was joined by no more ary initiative was later about 30,000, which repeated by other parties in isations are all bart of the while enough, the rest of Spain. lead-up to next month's large compares unfavourably with constitutional referendum. was Ene initial proposal of This, as

ETA

knows, both the organisers expec- the could be crucial in shifting tations and other recent Maoist ORT-immediately

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CGLI-CISL-D

ITALIAN STALINISTS

UNDER PRESSURE

"sympathetic Christian the mass movement slipping class Democrat' from their grasp. Their only alternative Cattin's anger reflects his The immediate sign of would be for them to lead rapid move to the right of this is a new wave of strikes the defence of the interests the party. public of Italian -especially the and COnOlAOns Right sector-in support of wage wingers are now workers. arguing for a sharp break in demands and protest Democrats' Destruction Christian all the dealisl alliance with the CP which economic policies of the CP- Stalinist leader allows supported Andreotti govern- But that they will never Berlinguer ment. Holildlr do because they know that of the ministers exalace bul the strategy a real struggle of that kind parliamentary support. Stalinists remains .the same of the cannot stop short as e veorkers mopement by revolutionary overthrow of Restive movement bi WUIKCLs capitalism-an event which holding of it the tront would inevitably also bring of prospect share with it the destruction The Stalinists are them- power". Stalinist selves begin ning te show the bureaucratic Of course, the Stalinist restiveness about the leadership itself. leaders know that this But it is the growing rift orcocul altanccatent delaying action. Top Stalinist spokesmen, only between the masses after of some months Italian :workers, seeking a silence on the Share of power issue, have way to fight for their own once again started publicly interests, and the Stalinist demand the they bureaucrats, fighting to hold If , ever get their scats cabinet. "share of power" they down the struggle for those As on the previous occas- use the interests, which now inleno ions it has been made, this represents manner the British for Italian reflects demand speed Labour capitalism the most sovarimese-lo Stalinist with which the the demands of dangerous fissure of all.

im pose leaders the control of capitalism the

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working the thin veneer of stability democracv Walct Adolfo Suarez has managed CP, Socialist (with and Maoist support) to paslo Franco's crumbling slaie Martial law Already virtual martial law exists in parts of which is Euskadi covered with road blocks. Meetings to campaign for 'No' vote or boycott of the referendum have been banned. ETA's campaign in which 25 policemen have been killed this year has, for all its failure to offer political focussed direction, attention on the absolutely unchanged nature of the Francoist repressive appara- tus Spain prepares ic vote into force its "demo- cratic" constitution. The workers main "Puro partes -colorist communist" or Maoist -are, therefore using their "anti- terrorist" cam paign to coves up their nefarious collabora- tion with the ruling class in building the of •pretence "democracy" under the pro- tection of Franco's police and army, Their demonstrations are designed to shift attention from the real opponents of Spain -the democrący Francoist

UCD

and its apparalus-vy Months of speculation that Yugoslavia would extradite four Germans wanted for "terrorism" in Serbo-Croat exchange for nationalists held in West Germany ended last week- end with the announcement that the four were to. be set free. . The decision is unexpected regimes because the stalinist have ço-operated with capitalist countries on thi terrorism and QuestioI particular the question of aircraft hijackers from the West.

four based on merits of the case according to tne rucosav autaorițies The decision comes at a time Astrid Proll, also wanted when in West Germanv as a suspectec terrorist remains in custody in Britain awaiting extradition proceedings, despite lac raised

TACT

Trenes nave now Page 3 putting the blame on ETA.

leaders WOrKeS shamefully march against Francoist the killers of policemen, side by side with who those have been responsible even within the last few weeks for brutal of and murder

TCDICSSOIN

workers demonstrating for their democratic rights It is the same workers leaders who are holding back the workers on other fronts such as the fight for adequate wages and against unem ployment. UGT bureau- Here the under Nicholas ciacy. Redondo, is playing its full alongside Marcelino DaTT and the leaders of the Workers Commis- Stalinist sions. Both of them are con- tinuing negotiate with the "democratic" Francoist government about the renewal of last year's hated social contract (the Moncloa Pact). Both the UGT and the Commissions have agreed to the principle of a ceiling on wages So far they have rejected the proposed guvernelll of 12.5 tigure per cent- compared 22% last with year and with current inflation rate of 16%. Lukewarm But it is clear that both organisations have given such hesitant and lukewarm oppositionato the proposes Suarez been confident enough to say publicly that he is prepared -Callaghan-style-to try to entorce his wage limits with- out official union coopera tion There is no doubt that under these conditions the build-up of mass discontent over falling living standards and rising unem ployment, like the widespread demand in Euskadi and Catalonia for real national rights, becoming increasingly difficult for the Francoists and their reformist, Stalinist and Maoist allies to contain.

FREE ASTRID!

62,000 bail mone In fear of her life if she i extradited to Germany where a number of urban guerrillas have been murdered in jail, Astrid rroll nas now been incarcerateo in prison for two months since •arrest on September 18 her The West German authoritie: continue to put back the datt by which they expect to be able to produce evidence against her Thrime dein te theh act th is which crimes Ine SuDose• Te nVove• ToO place 1971 and criminal proceedings were - actually started against her in Germany, before she fled to Britain The labour movement must demand thạt

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nomE • Merlyn :Rees decretar immediately release Astrid Prolt and drop the extradition oroceeaines doainst ner committed no nas crimes against workers movement in Britain germanv

RAID ON NF MEETING

NUPE steward proves to be Fascist organiser Page 4 secret meeting fascists in a council com munity centre in Oxford broken up dispersed by a united front of political groups includ- (ing the WSL last week. The meeting was the third this vear that members of the Front have called National under the name of the Albion Club the Donninaton Com. munity Centre There fewer than fascists present and they dozen We count a renarer when anti-fascists up to. 100 stormed the meeting. supporters of The some the fascists were councier out or the room and much of men wes. their racist and fascist removal of the fascists on propa- ganda tire

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The nai. were nOT Other material was obviously Journal had itself a field day.

destroyed. The not Socialist Press had their Was received pnotocopies reward internal branch documents and moistributed other material which exposes homes in Oxfordshire, local virtudily entire membership of the Front

BOOTS OUT NE

A covering This with the photostats said that the originals began: „do been returned to the tascists to avoid the possibility of police demonstrators raids on anti-fascists. eight National from Opportunism ward night. Montan Despite the success of the supporters raid it has also shown the deep punched; their leaflets seated opportunism and sectarianism of Socialist upside down." Workers Party who, because the This action implied a • clear class ponsibility position of no platform single mistake

TOT

is the TOSCIStS. were: Torced to march under their own banner instead wumers no of that of the pacifist ANL pacifist ANL without harea bly, informing any the OT the working class, but the groups involved, the

SWP

had sections cressive invited alang what they regard bourgeoisie. event the capitalist press in the shape of a political leanings of the reporter photographer reporter present from the Oxford Journal. witch-hunt was the result.

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MOB of ultra-loft w Punches fly as National Front men take a beating and . mem hers the

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the ine voumar free 115,000 carried a page one splash story. Mob Law "progressive" story mob of ultra left wind forcibly ejected Front members a council hall where they meeting The Front and Scattered and burned; and the hall turned criminal piece of irres- by the SWP is not a logical outcome of into the themse ves natural allies are not Stalinist NUPE official George Anderson the On the night

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0XFR0724761(10Mn The witch-hunting Oxford Journal front page Members of the WSL saw the SWP group approaching the hall immediately entered ЛОТ building with them National "the After satisfied fu was over. ane l reasonably expected concerned had that police cars were on their way to the hall, the IMG were at moment, and accord which wasa prett ing to plan, marching straight timid approach- an intolerabie towards the building interference criminal sectarianism of the SWP could have resulted in said large number complaints of ill treatment from arrests He results ot me rais nam been "highly productive. letter fascists been badly dis- •1 netoric on nis commitment organised and frightened by the 'equality, the that Anderson surenetr ane numbers o opposition. action Collect information clear that Young is the driving force behind the Nazis locally.

Assemb fascist nom the fronted Dan k statement COnTronted to the National Front, with several car workers immed- and Area iately declared that he was there address T.W. Young, collect intormation Crescent, Alen Oxford He of member the notorious 5/837 branch set up same address come in envelopes addressed B.W. Young Buckle to attempt to break the There strength of the 5/293 and 5/55 branches. Young has drawn around him at one other Copies the of •ocument

NUPE.

Socialist Press reveal sent that the NF small organisation of not more to nave Oxford at all it is within than 25-30 members throughout

NUPE

Oxfordshire-but that they have been receiving inquiries at a time when similar low parc workers have been fighting money trom new supporters union organisation all over the Most of their members do not come from Oxford itself where a history of class struggle has not allowed the fascists to grow, but from isolated smal villages around county There are also several members in Banbury. campaign Today launched into the labour move.

ment to prevent the growth of fascism the using the area, information gained. NUPE steward One of the most revealing facts already to emerge is that Number 3 includes: the orcanise locally steward Young. a NUpE shop at Brasenose College, Oxford May this ved Ine now defunci Anti-Fascist Committee wrote George Anderson, Assistant Division al unicer or Nure and a leadin Stalinist, asking that Young b removed from office. in a long and evasive reply Anderson quoted union policy • SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 November, 1978 NF leader Tyndall NF thugs in Battersea unless tascists country ha: declined dramatic- Executive ally in membershio over the pas member few years due to the sabotage of Anderson officials. Ene ANL in Oxford th On He called the AFC letter- Stalinists block with the.swp revealed that lame ano Anderson been defending organisa- the leading or member in the area Another nad name to crop up regularly is Mrs Isla. Atherley of Brasenose. The nazer Cottage, Charibury ended with a tiring piece She has for decade bombarded the letters columr Oxford Mail the wild ne would take no Rhodesia views race birching and other NI favourite subjects wow the documents make It None ner letters membership of the do mitter out National Front. mace . Oxford the bundle Group, also carry the stats is a til cheque trom he 80 Hugh made out to the National Front New Marston, A covering letter says this is tor 'election expenses , confirm Letters from members to the ing that the NF intend to try to stand a candidate locally.

Ath aley writes is also evidence that am delighted "of a London Ha. ht purchase member of sounds were magnificent building." Clearly if the NF can be said now intends to base campaign fo labour movement incustrial this actior the ront ane te : University, branch, which demand that the Trades Council and Labour Party take united fo class oreven standing of an NF candidate.

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Deeper into the By 1980 every man, woman and child in Britain paying will erectively. be *15 ger head in order to keep British capitalism In the reactionary Common Market set-up. leaves out massively inflated food prices- anvinine vo To tie times me level ot world prices-which are built into the EEC system itself, dito Have fall component The class living standards ince the unholy coalition of Ladourtes ones aneselars forced through • a reterencum vote for entry under the Wilson government. Wine lakes 70% of the EEC's budget goes preserving scandalous 'Common Policy" and Agricultural financina the continental butter mountains and wine lakes.

Precious little of it will find any form of its way back

PRESS

Berry and As Aubrey, Campbell walked free from court last week, the warning of the Judge, Mr Justice Mars-Jones must have rung in their ears. reply to counsel's claim that Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act would be unlikely used remarked that he doubted whether that was true. 'He also warned John Berrv.

the ex-soldier, that if anyone else came up on a similar charge, ne or sre would be certain to be sent to prison. In that sense, Aubrey, Berry and Campbell have

WOT

more their case. obvious, however, is that the State has lost. of the serious ine condose charges, admissions The NiC jury vetting, the discharging a jury. headed by a sorrier Judge's man anci Ine remarks that the Section charges were 'oppressive' have mace The £250,000 political show trial. The state has strained Tore TO give birt to a badly maimed mouse. The capitalist press has lost ¡tue me in pointino this out.

Long articles favourable to the defendants, or at least critical of dam bikini and nis anonymou advisors, have appeared in the Guardian the Sunday Times and the Observer. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 November, 1978 EEC mire... P Fight needed for socialist United States of Europe The planned; European nenetit to. the kritish workers who by 1980 will be taxed to Monetary System, which provide the lion's share of the widely acknowieode• to oromoi a new round of public spending cash, which is inen nandea out to employers and small farmers cuts, deflation and unemploy- the "needy" supposedly Britain, michil pressed by cavitaist states • curope such ace ressive v as Belgium, Holland, France and Callaghan's reactionary "'comrader Denmark. Social Democratic But proposals are going full steam aneo to craw tne britisn German canitalists and their further into this reformist errand chaotic mire. that tying the British pound Carter with Schmidt In what sense then do these as soon as the Director of Public papers oppose the power of the stated that crosecution state to control ne assure or Cock or caramentar vede had just been torn up deleted intormation about its activities!

Berry described from

SIGINT

and other secret organ- and in the case of the Times and ISaTIonS as a state within the /elegrapn attacked tne Mrs state'. for naming him. This description not = clear capitalist the slightest stretched papers bourgeois in a demo- encomedss tre notice system.

Cracy nave se T-interest which the editors of every single holding the censorship laws at capitalist paper support.

the have Cabilal su 'Reasonable" papers who now congratulate the defendants, shown slightest interest in defending They are equally committed them during the trial. ensuring that no-one be It took allowed further gratuitous journalis- to go than the tic gossip" on a TV programme reasondoe thienes or ine state who edit the national papers are to revea that the first lurv nao a foreman committed in advance prepared to return guilty verdicts on all Sunday Times cardes conclude• its lono artice on the paper trial (Sam Silkin's Whitehall Every single national was aware of this fact. Far from Farce) with complete it they exposing took a dim in the immunitv comolacency capitalist press from view The l Christopher Hitchens to reveal because repression, its the truth. willingness to practice modera- tion. • nave revereo unese таст in print during the trial would "What Old everyone in invite Bailey have been Court Number One had now realised, however, was that Chardes Cano if Berry had phrased his letter to invariably put first by these self- styled defenders civil wann balch more and if Campbell and hiberties sensibly, In the same way the nationa Aubrey had been on the staff of used papers a large news doe will access to of Parliamentary opportunity good legal advice and a training more prudent interviewing, privilege to name Colonel Hugh Johnstone (Colonel of the case thoughso would never have been commital proceedings) and then sterling into a fixed relationship with the strong German Deutsch mark would torce the Callaghar government to implement the attacks on the British working class they are longing To See One-time Labour cabinet minister-now 'Eurocrat -

LOL

his

HOV

Jenkins nasi voice to the chorus of European leaders insisting Thal britain should up for the

EMS

sign Pressing for the EMS -Giscard from the outset. The driving force behind the renewed moves towards recession and trade wal in the crucial us economy.

Employers in the European that individually nations tear Ener economies oo not nave tee strength withstand the of such an interna- tional controntation cherish the But. they absurd illusion that simply by providina a stabilised Europear currency they can open up a new period of economic expan.

SION

The reality is that even if the EMS proves viable in the short only lead in

LOTTE.

fonder term to a turiner condose of the dollar as the main inter- and a reserve major lowdras a orear down or rid trade And none of the cosmetic deals cover over the weak- mess currencies help tackle the root problem- the continuous fall in the rate only way The out of this dilemma unprecedented tallunalisation Cabild through closures, who esaid drastic speed, up and attacks living standards Which ever Wal Tne European heads of state move on the EMS and the European such allas tore shadowed The •lanned sackings in British Leyland and British Shipbuilders-are inevitable No worker should imagine that the Callaghan leadership or subooser lett cntics і сал отте: an answer to this. A revolution- ary leadership is crucial.

centra • Diana of such a revolutionary leader- ship must be to ensure the break curopean

DIOC

capitalists within the EEC, and the struggle in every country for the overthrow of Tene Tormatior Socials! United States of Europe. Page 5

LABOUR

PARTY

Shipbuilding jobs under Labour axe The real face of Labour's "nationalisation" only bankrupt sections of British capitalism was revealed last week. PHOTO. Chris Devies Repor The announcement of £108 million in British Ship. onatis was rotowed almost at once wIt' revelations The job-slashing programme now planned 010 make laustry profitable And at the same time union leaders are playing along with a most miserable rises offered by outside Britist any employer As a result shipyard workers face 112,300 sacking -linked tr speca uo vor me 14.0 e! work. Chalmers *Centralised pay bargaining with British Shipbuilders appointed continue to draw profits from officials the misery and exploitation of *A rise tnis year or wel Shlovare workArs under 5% The Labour leaders took a *Some grades to receive no conscious decision to force this pay rise for 2¼ years. Crunch

SITUATION

Tene The yards by imposing a limit on the •Toposals were strangely praised as "revolution deficit of the 'nationalised' firm ship hiding member - us as l8 government Is Ine of the committee motive force behind the attacks Shipbuilding on jobs and conditions in British and Engineering Unions, which Leyland and British Steel is recommending the deal.

they Tak Ina tnes STea But the otter are a show how their concept of Tales ol men, nationalisation measiy „Tol skilled operates solely £70 for semi-skilled and f62 for interest. crisis ridden capitalist class. unskilled Despite an ostentatious show The books of the national. of opposition to the sackings by ised i neustries must oe doener Boilermakers' leader John to elected committees of trade Chalmers, there is no prospect unionists to reveal the sections that his fellow •i Die business that exooit tne state sector. oureaucds wil call any torm of action to enforce his demand Such information is essential for • the redundant workforce ammunition demonstrating retained full pay until oT retorms withIn Thev TinG work They have essence accepted that argument necessity tor the expropriatiot should talo OT malor incus no the ke a step towards planned cemanes of British Shipbuilders-which is socialist economy. only aspect the inter course means ar out fight for the removal of the natione CrISIS аттестіпо The industry capitalist existing labour and trade union every country. the buiding leaders Meanwhile the private firms principled revolutionary leader.

that feed off lucrative contracts ship. Mass meeting of shipyard workers

DOLLAR CRISIS DRIVES

ATTACK ON US WO

When Newsweek corres- pondents went looking for quotes on President Carter's "anti-inflation" so-called package, they found the Teamsters union leadership gathered at a golf tourna- ment in southern California.

"The rifle is pointed at our contact Sale one wealtay bureaucraț, presumably between greens. That "contract pay contract covering master 400,000 Teamster truck drivers, due tor negotiation next March was 3 ne present contract won after a three-day national which truck drivers blockaded main highways ano Tougnt gun battles with police- and provided a 32% rise over years, plus an unlimited cost-of- giving automatic living calise increases to match price rises.

But of a period intiation „the USA, President Carter has called tor a 7% limit on pay increases supposed 6-6½% fin ked limit on prices. Collision course CA words Carter's other government is set on a collision course win ine workers move- ment on pay. even since tnese modsures were announced. soll attacks nave open unleashed on American workers.

As the dollar sank like a Stone Tne Internationa money markets earlier this gold month and the price Garte i was WiTh the prospect that this chaos individuals could severely disrupt the entire bankers to pressuring capitalist world economy borrow dollars on the inter- national he was Torced to molement market rather than severe measures to restore confi- them own Issue TrOM Inetr dence in the dollar. This meant

STOCKS.

$30 This, it is hoped, will create credits an artificial demand to drive up billion backed up by a snarp and dramatic credit squeeze at home and cutbacks increasingly devalued paper government dollars circulating spending wnich can only mean now the prospect of recession in the Europe and elsewhere as a result key US economy years of chronic US trade moves fore- deficits. which shadowed similar though smaller scale credit squeeze Recession oritain. carter raisee the base interest rate by 1% to a new Carter but in doing so record 9.5%. taking another step towards CO5: recession at home. this measure And in a move to hold down is designed to act-in the US and the soaring price of gold, which Britain alike-as means had risen to a record $242.60 holding back Inaustrial growin, per ounce result ot the and attracting foreign invest- ment. paper currencies, Carter decided to sales of gold increase from Unemployment Ine Го ох посто то million ounces a month. It offers improved profits to His hope that such bankers and speculators, while volume or coo releaser. onto forcing ailing sections thice ake till rese do the to the and price increasing the number of unem- ployed. But he knows all too well Carter also raised will that such trickery not amount cash the OT resolve ine proolem so long as gover mage dending contines again restricting the amount huge deficit, available money loans to levels

RULE 1: DON'T GET THROWN.

RULE 2: STAY IN THE RING

RULE 3: REMAN CALM.

KULE4: LEARN JAPANESE.

RULE 5:

Oliphant © 1978 Washington Sta

ROUSTON

E COMES

PRESIGENT

Inaustry noid back promitability An all-out attack employers the stanadia. worKind Americar concitions the working class is essential for US capitalism Carter's "anti-inflation" plan and 20,000 Federal jobs in the public sector. But this is simply Ine tip of ine iceberg. workers face an onslaught on all sides.

Carter's watercu "energy policy" , designed to cut the huge US oil deficit will drive up prices, force confrontation in and threaten une coal noustry jobs, while decontrolled prices domestic fuel bils. natural will increase Income tax cuts and cuts in taxes on businesses benefit onlv managers and capitalists, while the cuts are more than ca ad back increase in social security tax.

Even the Wall Street Journa pointed out that: Doing up, not down ser til an 'The taxpayers have had again emergency Prior the dollar support measures, Carter was reportedly preparing drastic government CUTOaCK. during the year: there is little doubt that he will now proceed with suck an "austerity" programme.

In this he will be backed up the increasingly right wing administratieas leve within the US. The recent mid term elections featured panels Democrat and Republican candidates so react Ind even arch rant winder Reagan declared with satisfac- "There tion that liberals in this campaign".

Cut budgets Cubican Grand Old Partne from Republican and the allegedly 'friend labour' Democratic Party vied will each otner proclama tions of hostility to the working class-in particular hostility public service workers-and in den _ ov conners promises to cut state budgets and thus minimise taxes. Nearly of the 77 newi elected candidates are pledged to such policies. Proposals public to limi spending were passed in four states, and six others were Droposal. Taxes approved Such policies, however, were not expected to, and did not win the support of American workers. 37% of the registered electorate turnca out TaKi between a Republican Tweedledee or a SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 November, 1978 Gold dealers Democrat Tweedledum his "anti-inflation" package by One this mutual agreement later inal appears to have been in the state full lan means that burden of controlling the wages or Missourt, where, as reported Socialist Press, militancy of previously workrig clas employers had waged a lalis onto ine shoulders ot millior increasingly hard pressed trade cam palet support of 'Right to Work' union bureaucracy. law And these officials, for • al passed this would have their wilineness to serve Us outlawed the union closed shop capital, are painfully aware that as is the case in some 20 states.

Carter's much-vaunted price Union bureaucrats were controls offer more aet-out forced to fight this move, and a Inan a collancer The White House is already suestantia ran k and tile cam. paign amongst union members- talking of permitting increase: including 9.5%-and the deregula- Incentive schemes ensure that trade unionists regis- tion of gas prices will tered to vote-ensured that energy the costs up by reactionary Dropositiol thrown out by 60% to 40%.

leaders plainly Union are reluctant to police Carter's wage Ban on gays controls. 84-vear old AFL-CIO chief George Meany has issued a series of sharp rebukes to Carter Unfortunately such labour movement mobilisation -though not

LITE

California, itself wa. unraertaken stand in the the ardest us state Soone than however, Despite this, front line of wage controls, right Meany and extreme wing proposal co-thinkers

AFL-CIO

secretary Inat woule nave bannee knowr includino homosexuals from teaching was treasurer Lane Kirkland have demanded rejected statutory wage he erected wemocral orice controls. Governor Jerry Brown had opposed the measure, but so Distanced Republicar surors nev nad Ronald Reagan, and the rejec- Other sections of the union tion of this bureaucracy have attempted to proposition distance themselves still further well Stialley dionesiut Carter's policies massive suDoort Trom proposal to expand the state's United Rubber Workers leader death and Peter penalty laws, Bommarito has declared surprise paying erection Inat will no attention in next April reven voluntary ne•upcan eutenant covernor An even tight-fisted Congress and an even more right for 75,000 workers wing network of State governors Machinists' union boss Winpisinger now faces a working class whose William has also fighting spirit indicated by told his negotiators to ignore militant struggles ove the last 12 Carter's guidelines and 39% months determined three-year deal for 4,000 Texas and abstention from the mockery of machinists has just been signed elections which 60,000 Oil, Chemical are workers etective Atomic 150,000 candidates, workers; ectrica This situation strikes fear garment workers; 700,000 into the heart of the US trade constructior workers and union bureaucracy. Least of all 750,000

HULL

workers nex these wealthy parasites year join ine 400,00v deamster: in the pay struggle As they see the mowering or a politica face growing movement independent of the inflation and mounting attack.

bourgeois parties from the employers in the drive for speed-up and rationalisation, The same ume mer find the old-style collusion with wit means take • [nel! the Democrats more difficult cue from the historic struggle of the United Mine Workers earlier unan ever this year. Sackings But the dilemma resolved is the complete lack of Carter is not only refusing Ene to litt a finger movement imolement oroanised workers election pledges such as national that will fight for the politica health insurance; but he independence of the actually imposing wage controls class social service A clear break is needed from Tederal sackings, cuts and tax increases. coilaboration with Democrats Carter's attempt to impose ane neudicans

Wednesday 22 November, 1978

SOCIALIST PRESS,

L.P. GAS

• wild during the dollar crisis ON

RKERS

Recent statements by feasible. We don't think it's a idea whole number of union bureau- viaole inerrying urt, public American history. It's just not a crats well Jerry leader American political scene. It win singer. relect d pressure for such a break within just simply cannot work.'

ranks of class But 63% of the registered US plainly their that anxicly neace• oTT United Auto Workers leader capitalist carties cannot work.

Fraser been at the Douglas has Radical right wing nead Une witn

NIS

broken-hearted complaint And a booklet issued by the July that the employers were AFL-CIO which conouctino one-siced class suels oul war" which had broken the anti-union strategy of the

NAIN

"fragile, compact" radical unwritten groups indicates clearly that the win union leaders. party Fraser went on trom this to Haunchine of selected easily within the organisational grasp of the trade union move.

bureaucrats trom the trade union movement. ment. ings and 'left Democratic ginger Arguing simply for a vote groups in petroit last monta against the Radical right, the Represented were 30 union booklet concludes by pointing bureaucracies, including 'We have the numbers. If we nute ot unions staunch conservative followers register members, George Meany the Within educate them to this threat . ..

AFL-CIO.

out vote But any workers had election day ...we'll win. It looked to such grouping. "They have the money otienne arternative

LIG

but we can raise enough money Democrats were to ensure adequate funding for they camaradles we endorse speaker after nave The They have wild soeaker

. GOT TO

Tne rostrum apparatus. demand "reform" of the propaganda. have labor Democratic Party. publications-international unions and loca councils New party? thousands of local unions. We educational use And only Bill Means of the

• LOOTS

Indian Movement American 'We have direct access to all members through the [!] anterruoted speech makine by union bureaucrats and such they hear directv from hopeless the their local union, their state and local councils, their internation- "Democratic socialists orcanis.

ing Committee" to propose the al union, cav usen. experience organisation of: previous campaigns has proved this." would truly represent the Foes They're Workers people." Going For Broke) As controution was com. pletely out of tune with a con- Drum up votes ference that clearly agreed with and Kirkland rraser s earner statement that Meany want "We're not in favour of a this strenoth labour party. We don't think it's votes for the Democrats. But Meany CE H

TIO

A their argument is equally valid to cemonstrate the vigolity ot a labour party in the USA such hoe for Trotskvist: campaign not simply Democratic politicians to change their Party name ano oroceed Witn Int same policies argue for the building of a party contined to the retormist perspective ot the British whose "socialism' restricted form words but Which remains in practice at the level of seeking tary reforms within capitalism historic break trom Tne Cavitals! Class In E American workers' Platform at the UAW-convened conference of union bureaucrat and radical campaign leaders cholls also anoot abrooramme which fully asserts its class orceramme or eemocratc ano transitional demands starting conditions from today's and tocav's consciousness ano eco.

ing grasp the necessity for social revolution.

No ultimatum However matum working class. Should sections Lite begin-how- abour movement ever and aru Hiller rodramme-to oreak trom the political apparatus of the bour- geoisie and form an independent we would working Cass regard this as a step forward While fighting continuously for the programme of this new party to be line would such moves, and try to develop them further Many the dogative conditions for the formation of such a party are now rapidly maturing today's intensified the USA. Public sector union leader Wurf What lacking adequate revolutionarv movement that clearly grasps fight at all the necessity of the slates lon dence of the working class.

The largest group in the USA calling itself Trotskyist-the doclaris worker. rarty—na: deserted this basic element of revolutionary politics. Single issues ris intervention into ine roic term election campaign was a long horror story of single issue protests anu oboortUnisI evasion Thousands of copies "Emergency Bill to Provide Jobs For All" were circulated in their campaign. IN Regione

NOMEN'S COUN

Page 7 Winpisinger gist of their bill as Yet the right wing numerou the SWP's weekly Democrats amongst Militant wave dinos supporters incistinouishane trom a utoolar Democratic "New Deal"- omitting any reference at all to nationalisation. DacK TEle une socialls Party suggests that "What's really Workers mere can win I by Socialist nent tions like the full

UAW

and all power the bi it to *A finance works shorter with •ant

CUT

millions of jobs. to for all. military to free ning social services and women, DIaCKS ruert! Ricans" big- (Militant, October 27) from Hogwash AnO once ine article of industry programme would SuCr without which public not only not solve unemploy.

proaramme. • mere v (what about the worker! state for chosen $126 employers arm. industry?), but amounts to no than more redistributing tail-ending of materd resource. al redol anti-nuclear existing within the capitalist Danowacon system this appalling liberal Yet Popular front hogwash retailed as Forward are guary dire and pee Here demands But perhaps worst of all, in a •ero• when both me cartas party have been doing every politics of one SWP leaflet been doing every- issue popular Thi hal) frontist Mobilisation to arver Survival in which the the working • class away com political action and industrial strongly action to win their demands, Communist Party its first year the Mobili. EnE way

TAIS

"bill" profers a purely parlia salon for our va nas made di important contribution to the mentary way forward for the for world by workine class As such it harmonises com- pletely with other aspects of the thousands for nuclear disarma- ment." SWP's propaganda. confusion of demands The devoid of any Uncritical The Ano programme for by working class: AT women's richte "Zero nuclear weapons! Bar focussed around uncritical power! Fund human support for the Equal Rights needs! Stop Race! the Amendment numbers Hands Which off Cuba! right wing Republicans as wel Alrica ano Iran. The Mobilisation for Survival Regic Regiona according The Militant Son SOPPORTs range peace, religious and political groups

ER ERA

I NEE

Include Americdr Friends Service Committee, War Resisters' League,

SWP,

and Laity Concerned Rocky Flats Action Group and various anti-nuclear power alliarices." No answer Such methods and alliances -shown in every aspect of the

REGION HA. UAN

SWP's political work-offer To ware TO workers' movement. What is needed is an all-out demands and Struce iol Trotskyist method the Transitional Programme in the the trade union movement for Democrats anc break from the the building of a Labour Partv There is no short cut around action; but such the clas. struggle in the UsA provide the best opportunity for such fight for many years By John Lister UAW banner on an ERA demonstration

Lessom of CACTL conference Page 8

HOSP/TALA

FIL)T THE

TRESPASS

PHOTO: Laurence Sparham. IFT

LAW !!!

DROP-HE

WORKERS

CHARGES" STUDENTS

SQUATTERS

UNITE

To

FIGHT

THF

CACTL picket outside trial of first CTL prosecution An effective Campaign against the Criminal Trespass Law is vitally needed by the working class in defence of the tactic of "occupation" The Ciminal Trespass Law of the tWO Criminal Act 1977) Law on belame entorceaole December 1977 and creates criminal offences ive new relating to trespass. It threatens with jail and heavy those tines taking part in any form of occupa- tion, squat, work-in or Sit- in and gives the police new powers to enter and search walmal support of an arrest on the grounds

OTI

voicion one of the five new crimes has been committed. provides for jail sentences six ot up months and tines of up to £100. The aim of this law is to deter the working try Ic class from fighting back 'educated' the not Criminal Trespass Law and azansı CuLs. URem DOvulerl and falling living standards.

limitations and snown 1TC "The Criminal Trespass how to use them, then they Law must also be set against into occupation ill-

CILCI

the increasing and deliberate De barec use of the powers of Parla- Such position makes police and the courts menl, inem пкелу to lal viclım to the Criminal Trespass Law.

to altack tne adlity or oul movement to organise and Precedents demonstrate. . The line of develop- One example of this was ment clear the Smiths equally clear that the move- ot OC-uTanul Crisp factory at Aintree.

must

ILCILL

picrcut The and more ine IUSl Trespass Law is implemen- resolved to oppose attempts ted unchallenged, the more develop the forces of the State will law against organised work- have precedents and credib- ing class action." lity to refer to. CACTL leaflet This will encourage them We endorse what to widen interpretations of

CACTL

anTten nere about the Criminal Trespass the Act and introduce more repressive legislation. Law. question key therefore to stop the CTL More than leaflets trom being used and make it impotent as part of a fight Unfortunately the fight for its repeal. This cannot against such pernicious laws be done by simply advising require a lot more than just to words and leaflets. OCu bics VIsy alLels. read Workplace occupations The recent

CACTL

the and excellent conference, like so many though it is as a legal guide.

others unfortunately On numerous occasions, illustrated the inability occupations have the CACTL become committee to through CACTL, extremely give real direction or dily well versed on the Crminal the ettective programme to Trespass Law, but that has labour movement as to how not stopped occupa- to defeat the Act. anese tions being smashed through We acknowledge the the state machinery of the work exuremely vanane courts,

CACTL

was the case in has «one both Huntley Street and the providing information on South Oxford Nursery. the implications of the new laws. General advice They • have given SOnee help real occupations, It is no good just offering when they occur, through legal advice, advice about local organisational general and by putting occupations receiving all asoslarle them in touch with previous possible assistance from the occupations which have labour movement. experience Ine CruCa polll tll only the threat of indefinite contribute. Experience shows that if strike action in support of sections of the movement occupations is an effective

NEEDED TO BEAT

TRESPASS LAW

deterrent Criminal im mediately by the workers the Trespass Law being used. movemenl Only twice during the Now, however, since over 250,000 workers have been entire conference in contri- than 300 butions from

WSL

involved in more attempts off occupations fight mem ocls, wert made to raise the limitations redundancies closures ana of occupations that are not in disputes, the trade union movement is seeing the need linked to supporting strike to become increasingly action. involved in the fight against And yet again only in the WSL contributions was the the law and payıng attention to CACTL. point made that the greatest Although there were block to strıke action comes 200 from the very people who delegates attendance should organise it-the trade union officials. conference, a majority were trade union delegates repres-

CACTL

was formed in 1974 enting sections. of workers and initially w ao looking for a lead. backed by students, MUlt squatters and community, organisations than Weakest housing by the labour movement. The Trespass Criminal Throughout the Law was presented conference the cry was con- misguidedly by the media as tinually that the heat no more than a law to make Criminal Trespass LdW 'squatting' illegal-which it used the arals! doesn't. weakest, most disorganised Falling "divide prey to sections, ana inis must be and rule' tactics, the full stopped by the full strength political implications of the the labour mi ovemelI 'supporting' these taken up sections

ACI

were • nOT

ENT HOUSING FOR AIL

REA

LHOUSN

CENTRE

AID

Huntley St. squatters picket Camden Housing Aid Centre SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 November, 1978

STRIKE SUPPORT

The Huntley St. eviction (in particular. squatters) One of the strongest calls for "support' came from Rupert Downing, speaking the Huntley Street on eviction He explained that the problem that plagued the Huntley Street su udi wa. the isolation and division of the movement suudiler. from the unions. rightly gulte explained that the squatters movement should have the backing of the working class as it is a part of the class struggle against homeless- ness and private property He argued that squatting is part of a fight tor the political right of the home- to win decent housing fot all. recent history of dates back squatting 1945 wher war anlerune servicemen returned to find that they were homeless. Bomb damage, •Defence Ministry appropriations an melack orawaume ou. ing programme had created huge shortages of housing Parlament was told that 45,000 people were though thought to be squatting The government at once accused acemsping the aquateist of squatters This accusation has dogged the squatting move- ment ever since. Lack of buldings This, together with the fact that squatting in exist- ing buldings does not even begin to tacke the general problem of a lack of ade- quate buldings, accounts for a lot of the prejudice against squatting within the . trade union movement 1960 however, saw the • start of the mas • „oveme of squatters. With council housing being allocated only to the married family unit, sin gle people single parent families were forced ILO aCRoni They therefore set out to "expropriate' private as the property piecemeal need arose We have the situation now of mass squats such as that Huntley Street, organised in the face of cuts public expenditure on housing, soaring mortgage rates and escalating rents 30,000 Over homeless currently peopie squatting some the 850,000 empty houses in England and Wales. Stood firm The Huntley Street occu- housed 160 people, catiuml 30 of them children. The squatters stood firm retusing to accept eviction without rehousing. They eventually received such an agreement and did not expect eviction Next morning however, the eviction took place in an unprecedented orgy police violence. 500 police four

JCB

buldozers, police cars and Special Patrol Group units riot gear almed WITn their smashed way into Huntley Street. Defence squads These weaker sections of the working Class must defended by the strength of the workers? movement through strike action and well-organised mass workers defence squads But such concrete defence policies to were not raised at the conference.

Sharing a similar exper- ience, Christine Potter from the Hounslow Hospital raided over OCuDalIOn yeat ago, also spoke on the platform. She emphasised continually that health service workers cannot maintain an occupation alone. Yet again she followed this by than more resupporta woolly call for from the trade union move- the public fot

INCNE

their health service. pation s is supoly be occupations can only that of strike action. In the afternoon session trade union bureaucrats hv Houns ow wete Dalsed

CACTL

and by committee for their support Criminal fighting Trespass Law. included support sending out leaflets condemning such repressive proposals as those made by

MISSING THE POINT

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 Norember, 1978 PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Repor The first eviction under the Criminal Trespass Law Metropolitan Police Chief McNee to the Royal Com- Criminal mission Procedure which are clearly intended use against workers and pickels struggle. the bureaucrats Among praised for assisting CACIL in this way was the TGWU Region 1. A from far poll

OUI

assisting fighting these proposals the TGWU Region officials actively were conniving with the police in secret deals restricting num ber or pickels outside the Garners restaurants. The

TGWU

Region this replied that delegate agreement on picketing was made assist the police did "understandably not want a mass picket in the centre of Piccadilly!

Expose The conference highlighted the necessity for defend occu- a strategy LU the pations and expose officials who trade 173O1 block the full mobilisation of the working class. "of *Early preparation independent WOIKeIS mittees to plan and defend occupations-where neces- workers through sary defence squads. for

SUDDOLL

occupations by supporting strike action and by trade maintaining unions adequate services dill supplies to the occupations, electricity, water, e.g. telephones etc. *No secret deals between the and union leaders authorities or the police.

of *Open the books depart- housing council to show the profits ments off by siphoned private suppliers and bantractors or crash banks. programme of house build- ing based on the expropria- tion of these firms without compensation under workers control. *Labour movement charged defence of those under the Criminal Trespass Law as part of the struggle: to have the law repealed.

PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report Home Secretary Rees At a time when class intensifies conflict Southern throughout Africa and the imperial- scramble to crush ists and divert the forward movement of the work- Johnson's ing class, book provides a useful insight into the secret that occurs diplomacy continuously. particular Johnson In examines the roles and inte- inter-relationships imperialist power, grealest the United States, and African imperialism's stronghold and primary gold, supplier of South The surrounding revels Angola, the Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa Namibia for the overthrow of white rule are examined light of both the short term interests OI

TAP

hallulla. capital of the USA, South Africa and France and the overall imperialist and consolidating expanding its area of opera- LIon Intervention i nis approach gives us all insight into the imperialist intervention in cne natona struggles of Southern Africa -especially the military invasion of Angola. It also sheds some light the Geneva Conterence other Anglo-American and attempts imposing the course of events in Zimbabwe. through his Running of narration are examples the manipulation the monetary international system. He shows how the gold and the exchange rate price are used as a weapon botn the rivalries between national canital and against the working class inter- nationally Johnson argues that the interest COncle Southern Africa and France in raising the gold price despite opposition from the United States has brought conflicts, bargains and trade offs between the leading imperialist powers that resulted in the fluctuations of the gold price, the dollar, and French tranc. He the link shows and the between this invasion of Angola. Superficial Johnson's Although book is certainly useful, its superficial 'Marxist' perspec- reflects more tive with capitalism's concent the challenge to the South African state, than any serious attempt to examine that challenge. It takes for granted what Johnson sees as the "weak- ness" and "'passivity" of the black working class of South Africa and 'incompe- allegiance to tent' leadership-namely the traamona natonalist move (African National ments the Congress Pan- Africanist Congress) and the Stalinist South African Communist Party. Johnson then ventures examination of the South African situation and discovers conflict as a series

ON S. AFRICA

the ANC/CP and PAC play a episodic events-rather of as a process of class crucial part in the defence than of the South African state.

struggle between conflicting basic Lacking any

NECTEDLO

he does analysis Of these events Johnson political not recognise however that comprehensive provides details. the role of the traditiona nationalist and On the basis of the infor- movement the CP does nut arise from he draws some mation, 'incompetence' on the their correct conclusions. hand and Vorster's No socialist utopia can brilliance on the other. be built in a South Africa international tied capitalism, he declares. Alliance The spontaneous opposi- the black working tion ol arises from the fact class is, shows, not in he reformists and that these itself sufficient to destroy Stalinists dee the police the capitalist state. independence And he correctly insists working class in favour of a that the ANC, CP, and PAC popular" front policy have proved incapable "progressive" alliance with providing the leadership sections of the bourgeoisie necessary to build the South failure of workers' African revolution. opposition any to pose to the ruling direct threat False assumption class is not the result of the "inefficiency" their But Johnson reaches leaders. It is entirely in line with these without leaders' breaking from his false these

DO ACH

ANC/CP

The perspective. assumptions of the passivity of the class and and PAC operate in terms of working programme that calls for their inevitable allegiance to incompetent leadership. the mass of workers to do the Johnson's empirical more inan information had led him to capitalist state in the interests of the black petty the implicit conclusion that bourgeoisie and bourgeoisie and inettectiveness theoretical of pursuit of vacuousness Page 9 FRANK BRIDGES reviews 'How Long Will South Africa Survive" by R.W. Johnson, published by Macmillans. fact holding the workers in check and thus ensuring the continuity of capitalist rule Thus it is that Johnson his forced by starting 'reach the point conclusion that the Sharpe- ville and Soweto uprisings (which • ne '1905's) have no serious prospect of political devel- opment. Conversely revolution- aries recognise that the 'incompetence' of the and PAC

ANC/CP

more than the reflection of their counter-revolutionary politics. Revolutionaries recognise that the working class is a revolutionary class by virtue of the fact that its interests independent class are irreconcilable with those of the ruling class and are thus able to see a very real basis for the forward devel- opment of the class struggle inside South Africa. development is Such a On not automatic. the Socialist Press has contrary, consistently pointed to the way in which the lack of a revolutionary alternative is allowing reformist oppor tunists to assume leadership struggle divert the anO their own interests Way forward The South African proletariat requires interven- of tion, the programme and method of struggle which . chalienges existing course of the „Tne class; provides working an organisational and political way, forward; and exposes the political bankruptcy those who would claim to be leaders. Such an intervention and method of struggle must be transitional programme of demands to defend the interests of the class and achieve working their independent politica mobilisation to overthrow capitalism and its state Strike by black workers machine these aims that the The South African state Stalinists and reformists will only be able to contain refrain from any real inter- and control the opposition vention in the day of workers for as long as it of the struggles working is protected not merely by class own strength, but by the Armed struggle as posed betrayals of and collusion by the black nationalists the Stalinists and reformist the Stalinists is not a misleaders of the working tactic with which to pursue class. the independent interests of One force and one force class and the working alone is capable of destroy.

apartheid-capital- aestroy ing racism and capitalism in ism. South Africa-the working Armed struggle for them class, mobilised by a leader is a substitute for the mobil- around a programme isation of the working class ship which expresses its inde their interests, own pendent class interests enabling these eaten pose as "militants" while ir French missile now made in South Africa

Garners strikers' new test- What's so great about the WSL?

• VON AREA

Quite frankly, we're socialist revolution. unique! this only movement • We're •The that fights patiently and relent- revolutionary' lessly has featured in for the building

I TOTSKVIST

comane mobilising the working class in In ane tont the struggle for state jobs by

TUC

power and the establishment of a socialist struggle against society Unionisation In doing so, the WSL alone the fight against does not dictatorship within the unions.

shrink from head-on •attes with the exisane escers of the working class - whether these be left' talking Labourites trade union union bureaucrats, or Stalinists

TO M

counter-revolutionary or tre communist tarty In these battles we set out to or Stalinist bureaucracy prove to workers both in theory course essentiat tor the workine and in practice the necessity for not only Class leadership and and sitional for internationally. programme taking demands which, starting from issues tne only Loody seen ala

LOOGV S

consciousness within the work- workers to ing class, workers liberation struggle and revolut-

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struggle to grasp the need for ionary struggles such as those in ¡ran and soutnern rica. out reason, though we also the necessity for the recon- are smaner than some set-stv-ed Trotskyist Fourth International as the org world anisine centre • TnE party of socialist revolution The WSL the biggest against the sale o1 leaders, cuts

TOT

Ist une easiest struggles, member of. But in its approach ano bureaucratic to both theory and practice it is the revol- reaty serious utionary movement. This metes of rach rejecting any descent to simple When look You at the militancy, and any way

HOW

the problems faced by the wor- concessior Ine reformist king class, necessity for - is of principled leadership is urfmis.

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SPECTIVES.

A challenge now faces the Strike Com- mittee in the marathon 10-month recognition battle at Garners Steak Houses. If the present balance of forces between the strikers, management and the TGWU union bureaucracy is to be tipped in favour of the strikers a new initiative is necessary Conference national

TGWU

delegate conference must be convened, within which the Strike Committee canase the fight for its long- demands of full- scale blacking, full financial support, and mass picketing of Garners. Already the sustained

THE KEY TO THE CUTS FIGHT!

book for

HOSPITAL CI

post and Park Hill,

INDUSTRIAL

Teachers call for sliding scale At well-attended meeting of the Havering the resolution are National Union *Immediate Teachers in oi teachers Outer East level deaned London, fifty over Houghton teachers overwhelming- 1974 (about carried ly fighting increase). *A resolution on teachers salaries. Only three hands were rise-based on a price index raised against the resolution drawn up by the union itsell which is to go to the NUT

OL LICE LILLES

conference in the New Year.

*Industrial including action, PHOTO: Chris Davies, Report Workers members profession Press urges present similar motions and fight for the of the Havering motion on the Conference agenda. Frustration The passing policy tion felt by teachers every- where, who, along with the NUT leader Jarvis working class, have suffered campaign for these policies • bureaucrats forced certain conces- excess of 136 per from the

TGWU

the Grunwick strikers.

SIONS

bureaucracy Regional officials Staden that has been stinted by the and Shorter have grudgingly

TGWU

agreed to advance an extra have also £6 strike pay everv is davs out of the £3,200 reserve fund now being held by the Regional F&GP This falls far short of the strikers' demand for £36 per week strike pay, financed if by Regional necessary levy Were the officials agree to such financial backing for the strike would declaration war on Garners boss Margolis. Many smaller than the TGWU do pay such amounts of strike pay. Even ¡ the right

'APEX

WIllg obstructed demand that group in the 500,000 strong London Region "adopt" Garners The booklet which regular picketing spells out the policies off this call is yet another for necessary all-out delegate struggle against the cuts, hotel and catering workers drawing on practical ex- by the perience at the

EGA

Tobacco trade group. and the Oxford Nursery Two such have already Occupation. with abortive results. Indeed the last one saw 30p plus 10p p&p full time catering from the WSL, George Abrahams mobilise a 31, Dartmouth Park Hill mere attend! London NW5 1HR. Despite this obstruction by • the

NEWS

The three main points of an historic decline in the buying of their salaries restoratiol salaries The Havering Association by the is by no means noted for its Award of April militancy the past, 25% though it recently passed a motion demanding a Special cost-of-living Salaries Conference. Cause to fully compensate for the Support without effects of inflation as prices doubt because the galned resolution is not merely a 'militant' salaries claim. which, even if won, would action rapidly by national inflation. if the claim is not Such a policy is currently Its policies are those con- being touted by the 'Rank by and 'Socialist Socialist League Teachers Alliance' groupings the teaching in the union (backed by the Socialist Socialist Workers Party and teachers International Marxist Group respectively). prioritisation The fight for the full cost-of-living clause (a sliding of scale salames. offers a permanent answer to inflation's effects on pay.

challenges This policy of such a the basis of capitalism and reflects the frustra- the right of the employer in this case the state itself, to fix wages to accord with its requirements provided ever, the fall week to support on the picket lines checked and IlaN Decl But it is not only money Garners' trade is once again plunging bureaucracy. They A fight now for a TGWU national delegate conference resolutely Garners pickets the strikers' could give the strike • the each trade added impetus it needs for victory. Such a conference should organise support for restaurant for the following policies The latest move to head- *Allow the strike com- mittee to administer the conference

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reserve fund. *£36 per week strike Food, Drink and pay, financed by a London Region levy. conferences *Saturday night mass been called pickets *Each trade group to adopt restaurant for officer picketing *Full-scale secondary slewares blacking of Garners' suppliers. bureaucracy, how-

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 November, 1978 Immediately following in trying to break the strike anc out the expulsion from NATSOPA of a number of strikers, management at the driven back to work under these and Usher Walker printing inks London dropping or all sackings, factory Fast and sacked eight members of the tion as well as chapel. money condition for a return to work.

Management actually claimed that they had a closed committee eventually arrangement

SHOD

Witn ine laboratory and CAis Tormula office staff non-union, and expelled men are re-admitted to the union.

scabbed nave consistenty the strike. The company The speed with which the nowever ano saio inat it retuset to rescind the sackings. sackings followed the expulsions no cate

NATSOPA

bureaucracy difficult position. collaborated with Usher Walker had agreed to

FBU SELL OUT

they Fire Brigades when The labour, Union has called a full machine with conference of the union and with men 28 November at follow. which they will be proposing accepting an tional duties such as check- employers' document ing fire installations. the implementation on Already there of the 42 hour week. This document means sell-out. attacks on all the conditions in the Fire Service. Liverpool Birmingham Included in the come out against it. document is a new disputes which involves procedure, the setting up of a disputes panel. would mean that no brigade would be able to cut without the involvement of high-ranking union official. levels All manning are "day under attack. manning" is being systelll whereby introduced which the moment has a staff of 40 The open could be reduced to 8. Leyland's involve would Southall is to be closed was firemen having houses next finally revealed for all to see to the station and being on last week. call from their houses. The EC is not disputing June will the the scheme but saying that the Leviane ano cark nova! 32 should be phased There extra pretence left that these jobs can through non-replace- ment as they leave. •e saveo inrovon turner soeee- the At moment normal situation is for two Convenor Mick machines to go a tire ains with five men on the first done nothing and four on second. The employers want four o norte tactory each. They also wanl. Ceballl

AT THE TOP...

UNION DUES

Printers drive back expulsions, sackings but were clearly being prevented militant chapel trom doing so by Usher walker Either the employer had to But the strikers refused to be or the strike be made alve official: demanded The idea of having an official strike hands frightened his ex•ui- threats of victimisa- the payment : of and by last Friday he had them Usher Walker to agree to every

NATSOPA

branch man's reinstatement. agreed to As to press a chapel we and said that the meetine nas deer Monday which

WOUC

mutchinsor will speak. adamant, If his formula for a return to work is the same one as te ont proposed by the chapel earlier, This put NATSOPA in a very the strike will almost a ne surikers certaliv ene. return to work But the chapel will not short of send three only another LO The employers also want

MERSEYSIDE

PEJECT

is oppos- ALHIS SELl ition developing within the executive's and •bingades FBU militants lobby their leaders during the strike Fight AEC shut down! secret that Martin's members might brush

AEC

plant aside his feeble and take action adainst me ciosure.

They have offered a so-called 'golden carrot" payment- inked to no acuon ocine laken ciosure next "niss now tae moment axe 2,000 jobs, with decision for Southall work- work going to plants in Watford, force. Any compensation must puny when seT not even the possibly years on the dole trade committee union elected to fight tor must be up or a further round of redun- access Tinancial as Martin, for OT - oroTeST Will WOrKeTS In to lead a fight Lancashire and elsewhere.

against Leyland's long-term run- As management attempt to ship out machinery, But Leyland clearly fear that Ine oiant must de occuolec.

HAS TO TELL HIS MEMBR

OF THIS DEAL!

HA HA HA!

BOUT TO. UM... CALL A MASS MEETING

ock. Repor John Sti the sort of deal which accept made Hutchinson recentiy workers at the Coates printing inks firm. They were owed hundreds of pounds each by their employer a bonus scheme agree- under ment when they took strike actior to recover the money, , Hutchin- fight sabotaged the Dy against hospital closure.

doree no inat coates coule dav their debts off at the rate of 50p a week for the Whateve usner walker chame meeting management will not have with- drawn their threats of redundan- cies on an arready undermannec site.. is also clear that the NATSOPA bureaucrats will no1 hesitate in helping Usher Walke in their plans to sack workers, i For once, Inev can del away with fu Therefore the chapel shoulc was spared seek a written pledge • from the Free Hospital, Hampstead.

Committee of NA DUrA mar no redundance will be permitted. of the National Health hospital. the Queen and Saner bavie euras of .the staff them.

MERSEYSIDE

parasites

OUT

than area-with very Free itself! Social workers strike goes on Social workers in cities all over the country are still where social sought locked in strike action in conflict with the 5% pay ment workers, limit, pursuing their demand teachers for regrading. LItt strike isolated ve Leeds, hestrike ange on challenged by November defiance and file

NALGO

Action Group. oureauciars argued that a 53% vote on a ballot big secret was not Last Saturday enough majority for action But the position is weak in Leeds as much through the lack struggle restricted of contact with the trade union members of movement • Inrouan • anv ack exclucine . of resolve of the membership sections-such The of preparation ,officers-that for give valuable assistance.

action Leeas contrasto with

MEANWHILE, OUTSIDE

BUT WHAT ABOUT OUR

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JOBS AND WAGES?!

(GULP)WELL IT WASIT EASY.

BUT IVE SECURED A

REYOLUTIONARY DEAL!

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EMPLOTEES

DEFEND

DUCHE

HOLEPITALS BRANCH

DONT

SPOIL

CHIL DREN'S

Manchester workers march Royal tour of NHS cuts London Hospital in Hammer- no. expense smith, the 4. nona at Royal management attempt to the a leadership of the victimise No - anch-no ou dar Instead that well-known patron which action at the time of the raid on the Hounslow Hospital.

1010 mark the official opening of the running dispute over the intro duction of a clocking-in system.

deliberataly Closed circuit television wa.

Vandonen laid on to provide pictures of which provoked controntation, Health Service resulted in contral heating System do Suul our not able Management then set about to set a wall patients-mainly

LUTT

Parasites casas-to the nearby maternity Western Hospital. accompanied No sooner was this troupe o1 noita the branch the cuts resumed in that leadership and 500 açute beds nacona press the Camden and was Although Islington Area Health Autnorit) temporarily settled by referring including cutbacks at the Royal it to ACAS, management will be the West sula Tc твла (nalr "aracks this branch-and other militant branches, in order to cia me way to more culs a redundancies. Protected nest London Hosei. branch must be protected by all unionists-and not by use trade

ALHO

DOUT BOL

courts, much favoured by NUPE the 3-month strike in Newcastle full time officials health London edorky cae obtained support building of a completely Trom an sections or locar dovern all-London joint shof stewards committee, which car laed or leaving Ene Tires no way disputes : and coordinate action the SWP's against the cuts and in defence rank grouping, the NALGO a nO throughout the London Health Service.

ACTION ON LOW PAY

in Liverpoo NAG held a conference on this All London Co-ordinating purely Conference NALGO-thus Saturday 9 December at 2 p.m.

Fountains Abbey Pub ao vance otne probation Praod St., , London W2 might be able to lopposite St. Mary's Hospital o cinton)

QUICK-THERE HE IS, GRAB HIM !!

...ONLY 12, 300 REDUNDANCIES AND A CAST-IRON

GUARANTEE FROM MANAGEMENT THAT YOUR PAY

WILL STAY UNCHANGED FOR AT LEAST 2 YEARS...

MUST DASH!!

PRESS

IRELAND:

SUPPORT

OUT MASON!

In September no evidence. 'blanket' protest by repub- Diplock lican prisoners in the Long helped Kesh concentration Caltu began. Since then, 300 • Meanwhile republican prisoners have defied and brutal has intimidation in their struggle for the restoration ••00nen of Prisoner imperialism but stripped from them

YETELS

including Labour's torture chief Roy International. Mason. that time. Mason. as the chosen agent of the Callaghan has dispatched

SAS

pretence undercover murder so udos repress those that fight TurErer for the removal of British imper- brought widesoread ialism from Ireland. tion and demands for his resig- nation from the under me inin cisoureg periods-often aralontod -particularly lasting well over twelve months decision to susoen• the ricnt or -he has effectively reintroduced measure of internment court prior to remand. for republicans socialists duta Mass picket backs ten week strike Pickets inform a scab of the facts of the strike Following the lead given lines. TGWU's two by Garners and Sandersons officials, competing strikers, 50 over trade other cakil unionists and students strike, appeared late on.

main contribution was to ensure turned out on Monday in to the House of response anars waocon oa• otmateriaci Holland strike committee's Blacking of appeal for a mass picket of Holland goods Inearly the company's warehouse. Inel remains Pickets im orter endure 1A2C demand. extreme provocation and actual

TGWU

physical violence in a number of sharp insist InIS with controntations immediately as well as raising which resulted comoany seans badly needed funds. in the arrest of three pickets Despite vonattons and this the dav andad next mass picket from House ot with the balance very strongly Holland Strike in favour of the strikers, who were greatly riowoen Giose DUSLed Ene Daventry, Northants. overall success of their first cal for mass support on the picket Published by Fotrose Ltd. for the Workers Socialist League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, Printed by Anvil Printers Ltd (TU) London. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office.

SOGIALIST

Po WS-THROW taken up the call for his removal is that most able to carry it out courts have also British labour movement, -tre get and in aroung The workers' problem of evidence and ensure ent in his home constitu- rapid and easy frame-up convic- ency. or barusiey. It is a scandal that Mason continuine practice of torturing "suspects" carries out torture ante been condemned not only as a sponsored MP of reoress on National Union Mine-

BMLIS

The l also by other workers-with the tacit support Amnesty of Yorks miners leader scargill.

demonstrating this Sunday in support the Irish Condemnation Prisoners of tor Ine WItA• troops from •rad C•T ason s retusal to make even Ireland and for the right of the Irish self-determina- legality or democratic rights has we consider it essentia concemna. link such solidaritv with a fiaht labour movement in The BiTS profession to drive out Mason and his reac- after tionary cabinet cronies. the accused person to appear in But one quarter that has not Care needed The return to work vote at Leyland's Drews Lane Transmissions plant, which shut had down the whole of Austin Morris car production, creates difficult situation for Leyland workers. It had lasted two weeks and was called in opposition to BL's 5% 'parity' plus package put forward answer to the annual wage re ve wi Drews Lane struck within hours of the 'offer full-time ,being made by management.

OUtCC Their demand was for 1 unte oti Treir genuine plant negotiations, as opposed to the terms of the company offer TGWU-driven which required acceptance by all House plants before any money the could be paid.

OUTT

materia. Although a strong move the key in itself, the strike was ill prepared. branches should implemented No preparation No previous mass meet- details of ings had taken place to prepare for it, and no real Committee Aston-Le-Walls, effort had been made to clear v explain the very complex terms of the offer , London NW5 1HR. Iran-fight now for blacking! As the Shah tries to

TGWU

force workers back to the resolution tactories and other brancher retineries literally at the docks stewards point of British-made upon without delay. bayonets, the blacking of arms supplies to the Protest tyranny becomes more urgenț question Shah have also than ever. the Union of Sheet Last week the 5/293 Workers in branch of the Transport and General Workers Union passed a resolution calling made upon the union's National These Executive organise concrete the TUC. through immed- must be blacking of arms lale supplies. lIdn Troops in Tehran in BL fight yast sums being paid to the banks called government money. Closure be which were designed dnswelcu to where contuse. and by the But the strike did bring of occupation forward two important dev- threat is real. elopments. Meanwhile, One •was that it forced strike is over. BL management to offer the has not voted to accept the 5% increase separately from offer parity the deal thougr package. still only the basis that on And with it is accepted by all plants claims still This is separation im- nothing is yet resolved on ortanl m mce anı ro orenk this year's pay round in BL the 5% ciling in Leyland.

cars Also important could be the vote at Drews Lane for a second resolution call- tiations on Plant's £27 claim are to be combine-wide strike on pay. held at a final stage confer- Friday But convenors such full time officials. as Arthur Harper begin

JIN UNI

to realise that there planned a1 C lt do particular problems in Ri not now be held until next and Vauxhall which require wCnK careful preparation and clear programme every confrontation BL management claim to be

WORKERS SOCIALIST

bankrupt and threaten to

LEAGUE

close plants down Public Meting permanently "The fight against wage bankruptcy claim has to control." be met with the demand to open the books Thursday 30 November by the at 8.00 p.m. polnting lo profits made Oddfellow Arms Iliasoivo components and plants

AYLESBURY

distribution chains and the The Shah with some of his few remaining friends members must In the last week, many of demand that this important the workers who have been is taken up by forced back to work under and by ihreat have continued to and acted operate various kinds of go- siow ana sabotage Oil production continued Protests well below normal moves (still as much as two-thirds ardill! British arms supplies to the down according to some come from reports). Metal The military premier has the Royal explicitly abandoned the Ordinance factory at Leeds previous government's where many of the arms are "promise" all to release political prisoners by 10 beginnings of December solidarity action he has arrested built upon to aid thousands more including the undiminished struggle in Sanjabi. the leader O1. Lt bourgeois "opposition" party the National Front.

Anti-Shah demonstra- tions remain a daily event.

new massive marches are expected cincide with the important Islamic festival 10 on December. Shah has cynically sent his wife on a "religious pilgrimage" to Iraq and has put back official by hour cincide with the clocks used in the IEuDuues But these absurd conces- sions religious leaders have produced only derision from the Shah's main enemy. Despite the evident spontaneous powe. O1 Ils struggle, however, Iranian working class will temain in danger as long as has not. carried out its most urgent task-the bund- ing of revolutionary leadership interest and so- Rally threats have to exposure the threat is tactical counter-threat boosts where the though the fund Tews ane the parity other plant The collection taken at the highly successful rally to wIocess one year of the celebrate weekly Socialist Press raised over £100-a mark of the *In Cowley further nego- determination of supporters the Assembly of our paper to ensure its continued growth and development. . involving With further £76 arriving at the office last This will mean that the week this brings our total so meeting far this month to £515.16.

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