Socialist Press no. 131

KEEP U.S. HANDS OFF

Black all arms to the Shah!

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League uation of its most vulner- from Iran is able servants not an admission of defeat but part of a preparation for direct armed intervention.

As Iranian workers set fire to and British more American property, and as planes took oTT frightened relatives the Shah, and imperialist US technicians The aircrati carrier Constellation, with other ships of the US Seventh Fleet, was steamine towaros Ine Juit.

Meanwhile, every hour of the last two weeks the Iranian masses nave acteo to orino ine end of the Shah's regime notice- ably closer. By their slogans and from their actions strikes ane demonstrations, the masses have shown themselves imolacable uneir determina tion destroy the Shah's tyranny. Unbreakable link Thev have also shown their understanding of the unbreak- able link between tyranny and the interests of imperialism So their wrath in the streets and propaganda been And in the last week produc- turned not only against the self- tion nas talen even below iran s own needs-though the regime STV e0 Ning or Aings and his and police agreems that thrers an there is but also increasingly against the signs of British and American imperial- unev enouen domestic requirements. ism in une country. But it is not to protect a few of US imports; a buildings that the Constellation major share of supplies to West- is steaming towards the Gulf.

ern =urobe ano Japan. near!v 50% of Israel's supplies and 90% A desoerate Prescent carter may be to take African usuaily ot south of US gamble attempting comes trom iran. the crucial oil fields at least Hard blows around Abadan on the Gulf.

nree weeks aco une ranian oil workers once again came out other While there possible sources of supply, and on strike. As a result no oil at all has South Africa has several vears been exoorted tor two weeks ov oll in store, it is nonetneless true world market's second that strikes inflicting hard. immediate blows * No. 131 * 3 January 1979 * 15p

IRAN!

the crisis-ridden against imperialist economies. This is one factor that could push Carter into a new military adventure in the Gulf. Iranian economy itself standstill vir tudily accitIon to the oiltieds the main airline and airport have been closed down by a strike So have most ot the hanks many of the country's factories and latelv the TV services But what now strikes further into the imperialists is the virtudity comolete collaose imperialist authority the VVas StrOngest stratedic • links in the chain o imperialist domination in the region. his collaose of authority is shown partly by the growth of demonstrations defiance most brutal ot the Last week when hundreds of courageous workers were sno down in the streets of Iranian cities (especially in where nundreds were massacred December on sorcrushed beneath the Shah's tanks (sold by British him • Labour shoutes Cane det the GATIant massac and guns macnine cannot nurt any more" But the last three weeks have also seen the beginning of the breakdown The l Chair command in the showpiece 500,000-strong Iranian ally itself. Deserted Several officers of the Imperial Guard the so-called 'Guard of the killed in WelC Lavisan barracks tenran And in a demonstration in Tabriz, soldiers began by shoot- ina on the crowe ane enceo ov fraternising. with it and joining the demonstration. In several places groups o1 soldiers have deserted of the masses, side sometimes with inel arms. Several Phantom otran s reported to have been jets are savolagea in recent week.

after the Cav Mashhad massacre last weekend troops in the city were reported to nave retuseo to leave inein barracks The loss of authority in the Streets regime's loss of political author- ity in general In December the Shah tried Sadighi la minister in get 1953 government) to form a new cabinet. dave uD when ne toune only 5 people in the whole of ran who would join him. TUC Report on Under-5s Page 8 Ireland. • p.4 Genetic engineering. ...p.9 American Marxism Centre pages the bodies to be built in the course On December military cabinet headed by of the struggle Otherwise the General Azhari admitted defeat leadership of and resigned Ine mass movement will inevit The Shah has appointed ably stay in the hands of those Bakhtar, the who are now willing to exercise deputy leader une bourgeois oppos ton party the Nationa ront as premier ThIs means anti-communis But Bakhtiar was immediate- religious leaders whose leading from the Front and spokesman Ayatollah Khomeini ly expelled looKs as it ne too will be undole last weeken• urceo or worker even to form a cabinet. to resume production to meet internal and bour- Ocean of blood ceois politicians or ine vationd Front, whose nationalism and hostility to socialism can only He is reportedly baulking at ene uo in attacks or 1 une masse. Ine onan s insistence That nis and on the gains that are being son-in-law Defence Deconies wothe absence of the organs of Minister. The Shah now looks increas- workers cemocracy ingly set on a shoot-out with the course in part a symptom that his inevitable the absence of a revolutionary downfall will only take place at leadersnie raniar ine cost or the sneading or ar working class which can consis- ocean of blood. fight for a revolutionary major threat to the programme workers ana peasants who nave come so close to ousting their Programme tyrant, the fact that his collapsing authority is not being The main workers' party systematically challenged and Stalinist Tudeh the Party replaced by organs of workers remains committee to a searci power and defence for some form of Popular Front There are growing reports of coalition government-a policy masses their the imposing entirev in line witn Ine nostit autnority of the Soviet leaders to this Health workers have for struggle taking place mass on instance taken over and the very borders of the USSR named some of the principal Every socialist mus nosoilals assist to the greatest possible Workers have occupied some building extent the of factories and set up strike and fight such leadersnie betrayals. And a tew davs ado peooles This means fighting for the courts were reported to have tried and killed number of Trotskyist transitional Programme among Iranian agents of SAVAK (the security workers and students. police of at least 5,000 agents And it means fighting in the and 50,000 informers set up by workers' movement in imperial- the shan with the help of the ist countries for the necessary American CIA). But there is as yet no wide- bolicies oT active ana concrett solidarity with the Iranian soread estaolishment ot soviet masses in their struggle against type councils peasants' and anti-Shah soldiers imperialsm. *Imperialist hands off Iran!

or armed militias to detend *Black arms supplies to the against military violence.

essential for these

U.S. UNIONS' FAKE CHILE

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-INTERNATIONAL•

BOYCOTT'

The publicity surround- ing the boycott of Chilean goods by the United States Trade Union federation the

AFL-CIO

is designed to up its real political cover objectives. First. should make we t clear that the Workers Socialist has consistently League called upon une rade union leaders in imperialist countries to organise blacking of trade and other corter economic links with the murder.

form fake unions, such these •us cictatorsnio in chile.ano imperlast doents cannot carry with other similarly repressive out their counter-revolutionary regimes. recently instituted Chile The That task also that recures •ovcott nowever nas itte more than a superficial resemblance should urgently do something to to such a policy of blacking.

offset the damage done to their me nast Ta se oretensions manoeuvre. bureaucracy increasing It started life last May when body of published information the AFL-CIO sent a "solidaritv team" to Chile in response to a "Group of Ten" request by the Christian Democratic "trade unionists" The bureaucrats who led the team campaioned atter their return for the US unions to impose boycott on Chilean CooOs wav outtine pressure on Pinochet's junta to the organise "free trade unions". CIA agents The bovcott was taken up OV the Ariu ano oronosed Regional

ORIT

Organisation vorkers waces omiciay ene Latin American section of the Europe-based anti-Communist ti dut leuei alion. The ICFTU comprises British

TUC

and most of European socia democratic unions. Though in theory the AFL-

CIO

affiliated to cominates through its own Latin American A short of

AIFLD

stretch (American agent Agency for Free Labour Devel- watching colour tele- opment). vision the AIFLD nor the in prison has Neither done ORIT which it dominates. little to check are workers' organisations-not even Indira Gandhi in her deformed ones. bureaucratically ride back to power. i nev imperialism. On the contrary, she can The AIFLD has, since now fight another election formation in 1962, to regain a in parlia scal ment with all the prestige of ialist subversion throughout Latin America. martyraoin AIFLD functionaries vany The winC are, as Philip Agee revealed in jailed her have absolutely his book on the CIA, CIA nothing to congratulate deerts. themselves on. For a brief moment, the Extensive interests The

AIFLD

jointly financed by the AFL-CIO along whole range major Coca corporations Includine Cola, Anaconda (nationalised by the Allende government), ITT United Fruit and Company in Poland many otners The President of the Trustees Grace, head of the W.k. Grace Peter Company which nas extensive in Latin America (especially in Peru and Chile).

The arrest in Gedansk, has Poland on 6 December of (nie DovcotT reportedly been approved by Philippe Ries from the Carter and his main advisers.

paper Informations vanyunen nave unese dosses clothing instituted Ouvrieres has aroused an workers' a boycott of Chilean enormous protest campaign One reason is that Pinochet in Prance and internation- nOT oniv repressino Ene ally. authentic unions of the working class (which the AFL-CIO Ries, con- whose paper with the French spired to destroy before 1973) associated

OCI

but ne also retuses to recognise "ratskyist kind of yellow accredited journalist who met unions' which the AFL-CIO members of an opposition group

ORIT

have consistently anel knowi Ine set sponsored. Defence Committee, like many freedom other Western correspondents.

without the exposing their criminal counter- role in Latin revolutionary The objectives of the present •ovcott are. Theretore. the reac tionary trying to persuade the Pinochet dictator- snIo oro-imoertalst "unions" to operate. Reactionary reactionary flatult the ORIT/AFL-CIO boycott also shown by the fact that it is supposed to apply equally, not only to the reactionary Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua (added al ure insistenct oT some Latin but also American untons) Cuba, included at the insistence of the pro-imperialist AFL-CIO readers The present boycott, there- fore, Hustle o CHILE Jailbird Gandhi rides on Janata appeared to be united in action against the common enemy. But this facade soon crumbled into the everyday disarray of the ruling coalition. It was not futile hopes of her growing crustllig which determined Minister Desai Prime move against the former dictato drove The which him to tak this toolish step waste hope that equally desperate it could distract the Janata from its violent French socialist arrested His wife also briefly was held and his lawyer, according to the latest reports, has not yet been allowed to see him. "Defamation' After his the author- arrest originally said he was ¡ties 'suspected of espionage'. Since then they have said that he will De charge with detamation of state'. The local prosecutor also let it be has that he may get 20,0000 KnOWn liberty' for vIsiona dollars bail These gradual retreats of the blacking of supplies the reactionary Latin American dic- tatorships based clear demands tor the restoration 01

TUI

cemocratic ronts and noi just rights for fake pro-imperial- "unions" workers snoute aiso reruse to m heimeatonary staders to implement any instructions impose a bovcott on i trade with the degenerated Cuban workers' state The policy of an embargo on Cuban trade is one which was used from 1960 by the imperial- ists in an attempt to destroy the revolution it wudd.

AFL-CIO

treachery! supplies the Pinochet and Somoza dictator ships! *Defend the Cuban revolu- Steel strike g bites German bosses The Chilean Junta in 1973 wrangling. moment, but for ally But reviving the issue of tactical questions of oppor- Gandhi's involvement tunism. the corrupt practice of her Singh clearly sees now of sone Sanjay did not succeed the prospect splitting larger sections of the Janata in burying the bitter contro- versy over the alleged to join him, or even control of Desai's corruption son and the of the within the floundering tormer Home Jalalas Coalen Minister Charan Singh. While the Janata strangles itself with its own himself is Singh now quarrels, Gandhi is now holding back from forming engaged in the last moves towards reuniting the two a new party Dasea on richer sections of Congress the sections of the because peasantry-not he Party. lacks the strength to do so authorities come in the face of a has been peasants committee large campaign which sent to a psychiatric hospital 18 80.000 signatures in France, a sedansk demonstration Polish December there was a demon.

in Paris on 14 Decem stration, embassy said to be as large 4.000 to celebrate the eiahth ber, and the support ot amongst many others, the General Secre anniversary of the great strike the French movement and to remember the teachers' tary CP dead of those days. union, onliosooner COUl Assembly and Ataliser CH member Boulay. Internationale It has far now cone ds the French TroN Speakers included a membe foreign ministery 1970, 2o schi, and two others.

strike December the Self. Detence Committee held a pres: The Polish national anthem conference about other arrests.

the Internationale and various Kas Switon of leader revolutionary sones were sund independent trade Some arrests were made, though union. race. Gajyillo, a sailor, not of the platform speakers.

eignt years, faces a long sentence : for distrib. uting 'forbidden documents and Koslowsky, who set up a SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 3 January, 1979 AFL-CIO chief George Meany Their cheeks glowing with expectation, the capitalists of West Germany are looking 1979 ahead to coloured with rosy tints of healthy profits But the New Year has opened for them under very large and black very obstinately refusing

COHO

to lift from the centre of the horizon. Not collapsed Despite their confident predictions, the strike in the steel industry has not collapsed over the holiday In the face of manage- and lock-outs, the determination and solidarity of the pickets has fact increaseu ano forced Eugen Loderer and the leaders of IG Metall to extend the limited action to new plants and new areas As the strike begins to bite into other sections of manufacturing industry, with short-time working expected in the car of muustry, blacking by other groups of workers has come the TO fore. Solidarity Action must be taken immediately not only by dockers in West Germany but above steel by and dockers in worker Britain and other countries to prevent increased imports from undermining the effect of the strike. campaign within the TGWU and the Confed must be launched fight for this concrete solidarity with the struggles of the IG Metall strike.

SWAPO BETRAYALS HELP

S. AFRICA'S NAMIBIA

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 3 January, 1979

• INTERNATIONAL

The Namibian elections held last month under the control of South Africa resulted in the expected victory for the Demo- cratic Turnhalle Alliance. According to the official figures the DTA secured a 81% of the vote. With 93% of the registered electorate taking part in the ballot this would mean that the

DTA

claiming support from 75% of those eligible to vote. The poll contested was by the

DTA,

Aktur, and small extreme right- unree wing splinter groups. The 50 assembly seats were divided 41/9 between the DTA and Aktur. SWAPO and the Namibia National Front refused to take part election In which preferring one was controlled by the United Nations. 'Militant' stance Despite this 'militant' stance the antics SWAPO itself which have played a not inconsiderable part in preparing the present situation. South Africa was initially forced to negotiate because ol lie strong lorwara move- of Namibian ment the masses and the threat of a protracted guerrilla war.

Now South Africa faces a tar more favourable situa tion brought about by the Namibia. of the SWAPO connivance "And while the imperial- leadership and imperialism.

the South ists negotiated After having appeared to African and police army be cooperating with a UN- contrived their campaign of imperialist plan for a neo- with unlimited terror which colonia sonin powers to detain indefinite-

SWAPO

the participated, whose actions ally UlIc South African were held 'to promote announced that it would be violence or intimidation.

holding South African con- "Internal opposition elections leaders have been faced with December. stepped-up repression. This, coupled with political con- Vague prospect fusion sown by the SWAPO At the same time, eager leadership, made internal

SWAPO

provide the imperialists mobilisations with for almost impossible." an excuse Socialist Press also negotiations, the contnued South Africans held out the pointed to the crucial role prospect of UN of 'Marxist' Neto in ensur- vague ing SWAPO connivance with controlled elections after the South African ones. the imperialist plan. Socialist from As no "Co-operation 123 pointed out when these Angola is, of course, essen- events were occurring: tial to the Western plan.

"With "Imperialism has wooed Aktur the and DTA pressing for early elec- President Neto from his tions controlled by anyone 'left' rhetoric by playing on other than itself South decided to fall back on its own plan...

South Africans have made maximum use of SWAPO's betrayals ana the equivocations question or elections. *A massive of voters nas been lorce organised. Aware that

SWAPO

would refuse participate in South African controlled elections Tane v have connived a situation in which its two per pontical fronts, Aktur and the DTA.

assured of an electoral victory. that South Africa requires is that the prospect of UN elections is delayed South African premier unli lnere is srong nigni- "internal' control over wing horna

STRATEGY

SWAPO guerrillas with captured South African prisoner of war the economic and political crises facing his regime.

'The economic Dal. was most likely investment coupled with an offer limit or even stop supples of imperialist arms to the of

UNITA

LOICES

which still wages a guerrilla campaign against Neto. "Opportunistically sacri- ficing the of the mitcrests Namibian Alculan anal the short-term I asses of co-operation with imperialism. Neto gave support to the UN plan." From the time of SWAPO's involve- ment in the imperialist plans secure a 'compromise, TO 'negotiated settlement South Africa has been pro- increasingly vuer wita favourable situation protect its own wich to political and economic interests in Namibia. of connivance 'radical' imperialists, front- line states and the SWAPO leadership allowed South Africa to strengthen its own agents, up surp security controls inside Namibia, increase attacks on

SWAPO

guerrillas and repression of SWAPO inter- nally, all with the de facto protection of the imperialists. Fullest use Even

SWAPO

as the leadership and Neto со- terms operated in imperialist plan to curb the activities of SWAPO fighters South Africa making the fullest use of the oppor- tunity lo strengtnen reac forces tionary Namibia, committed to the defence of South Aincan and imperialist interests: *South African troop strengths have been increased *Conditions of near martial have DeeI extended. *Terror raids have been stepped up against SWAPO and refugee camps. *Waves 01 • аттесто о Namibia militants inside have taken place *Black tribal guards loyal to the DTA leaders have

OCCI

It organsed rearmed *Black army units inside Namibia have been developed. *A Namibian unit has been established.

*Whites have been organ- ised into civil defence units.

In addition all this Page 3 there are clear indications of tion the formation of right-wing The fact that it was able terror squads. to do so at a time when At the same time South SWAPO-far from providing Africa set about using the alternative revolutionary to the imperialist plan-was conditions it had established strengthen right actually tying itself wing more and more the forces pontically Massive finance imperialists, shows nothing poured South in from Africa and more clearly than the imperialism boost danger posed to the to the 11 as.

DTA.

struggle by the

SWAPO

While repression against leadership. SWAPO and the NNF were stepped up throughout the Recognition country, the DTA was given The oppressed masses in every assistance to build an Namibia face effective national presence.

now an State and private capital- increasingly difficult situation. ist media combined to give it and The

DTA

electoral publicity massive victory propaganda support. means that in Üsing future what- factors negotiations and SWAPO's declared com- ever the rhetoric and nostur ing imperialism will have to mittment South Africa then publicly recog- conceut nition DTA govern- broke from the UN plan, ment. in order to pursue directly Already the DTA has what had been its goal all made it quite clear that i along-the entrenchment of will use the size of its elec a pro-imperialist, pro-South tion victory as a weapon in Africa independent' govern- the struggle to challenge 111 all even further the allcdu Acceptance international marginal recognition of SWAPO Even then although they the only representative 01 made public of the Namibian people. Inside Namibia it is to be opposinion, une Imperiansls conceded a de facto accep- expected that the DTA will tance of the South Africa- attempt of controlled elections. limited reforms while at the

SWAPO

leadership same time strengthening tne meanwhile, continued forces of reaction militarily place its full confidence in This and its existing powers, Im perlalls monopoly of the media and that South arguing Tne control of key government African elections should be institutions will be used te opposed because they boost the DTA image even represented departure further. from the imperialist plan We It was in this situation attempts to woo 'moderate' of an equivocating, vacillat-

SWAPO

via the ing leadership tied to imper- patronage now in the hands front line states of the DTA promoting the imperialist This will be a necessary plan because of their own given the inherent dependence on imperialism of instability the

DTA,

repression; massive artificially boosted as it is ruling support mous by souln Allica for the DTA; and total However, now that it has ruling class control over the 'won' the election further state the economv and tne efforts to keep it together media, the South will be forthcoming from its Africans force organised the registration and the SWAPO's will support elections. undoubtedly be undermined this and all politica Dy Succeeded confusion will grow amongst some lavers of the The tact thai South gresse masses Africa succeeded of this what confusion lies squarely with sel to do- entrench a friendly, 'inde-

SWAPO

pendent' government which SWAPO's ties with imperial- recognition ism which have facilitated aCTO from imperialism-immeas- the growth of the DTA. urably strengthens its nego tiating positions as regards a UN-supported elec

Page 4 i The Workers Socialist League has always main- tained its unconditional sup- port for the of Irish socialists and repub- licans against British imper- ialism. We defend the right of these anti- more st •tionters to use including armed the nation aren ane stand at all times fully in their support the witch-hunting of the against ca•tarst mecia ane me reores. sion of the capitalist state.

But this by no means implies and every that we support ally And precisely because we support the struggle for Irish we declare our complete opposition the ecent wave of terror bombing: carried Dillar InA. ano une Continuin bombings against civilian targets occupied six counties of the melane Such tact in prioti or to British MODHiSt Class either Ireland or Britain against the barbarism the British army or its bloodthirsty the

KUL.

Ine

UUR,

concentration camps and torture cells. Backlash By injuring the civilian popu- lation militarily useless actions, unev merely assist int capitalist media to whip up a backlash, helping Chem recan wanne suboort army repression of the TOr the move- meri Lne occubied counties. The Republican argument in favour of the bombings demon- StraTes more crearv than any- thing else the failure of their leadership grasp impor- to Lance une oritisn working class struggle the against British imperialism Whether the enemy likes it or nor International attention is being focussed on the British occupation of Ireland and hope.

TUFIV

(niS extensior The struggle will provoke debate on the working class of reland by ne colonia dower (Republican News, Dec. 23) Certainly bombings- none of which has even attemp.

ted to hit any of the culprits responsible Ireland-will 'provoke debate' Inside Ine britisn workers movement. But it will be a "debate" in which on previous occasions ine detenders or Ine irish Hoer.

ation struggle driven Will the defensive as nostility grows towards terror bombings of civilian targets.

Confusion The

IRA

fails statement completely grasp the fact that the British working the receiving end of the disu violent reoression meteo out Dy the same capitalist state machinery that is at work in the six counties. Addressing the "English people 10 "For our people yods your nave . suTtered uno er Army". This deliberately ignores the that army has T8C1 "our' become a standard strikebreak- against the British working class.

The IRA statement exhibits its contusion most cleariv when It asksi Who are we to hold respon- sible British murder irelands The answer the is simne. culprits are the British capitalist Class, Is stale machine, ana ls Labour cervile lackevs and trade union movement.

IRA BOMBINGS

A DISASTROUS

TACTIC

diverting These the by from real of the British and the enemy source terrorism and of the workers movement. ence-toe Crimina role united fight is essential if they Labour leaders in furthering the are to be defeated. of the Irish people- repression But the IRA has no concept оттер. Callagnan-viasor such unity. clique and their Tory press internationa Instead it openly proclaims its admirers a ready weapon against make British SuCh a Tent workers dav with their lives tol Motive force barbarism of their ThA l "any acts of brutality against There is no doubt that the defenceless motive force behind the historic oriconers of Irish liberation is the war considering inflicting Military occupation civilian casuaities." Northern six counties or irelanc by the organised terror force o Irony British imperialism name spuriou and preserving Such futile, destructive the British "stability' army strategy stands as a major threat WiTH 11s entausiastic retinue o To Ine arisn hoeration strucie RUC, UDR and prison screws, It must be resolutely opposed.

daily carries The irony this turn systerialiste beatings, shoot- takes narrassment Diace sections the British about movement have begun to show Irish prevent the creation of an Irish strucale and particularly 'H' Block issue workers republic. Demonstrations called • IRA's latest tactics dul tne did Co m978 e were the biggers the Prisoners 1978 by have demonstrated that it is not only the Labour leaders on Ireland for several years.

wish exclude the

VUT KHIL

against the alilly class trom the irish struggle.

movement itself is also raising workers' Spectator of its real role var ents. support of capital. Britain and

HOTH

The real character of "reland the IRA's own approacr the sectarian set-up relegates the working class to the of Counties TurIne role passive spectator- revealed for all to see by the or ever possibe victor tie arrest of five RUC men charged clandestine activities ot an elite and heads off once again dowr will murderine balrules And there are now growing the old blind alley within the pressures workers' Mason the powertul US jailings and whole- Darticularly in inos. torture sale of the Irish labour movement-tor sondarity Irish action suport people. The POWs Bv blocking the strugale fo Under national liberation in the six these conditions the British socialists is to counties, British imperialism fight the within the

SION

nopes lo oreven of the Irish working class in its Trace UnIons and Party for action common struggle against unem- all immediate withdrawal ployment, poverty and extreme kritish trooos trom freano ex•otation OOTn But the bombing campaign, North and South and thus So all the world's doctors and all the world's medical technology could not bring Houari Boumedienne to life again. a renoants sickbed sclaph forete Algerian livin were living i First, the Soviet physicians were brought in to cure the ill.

of the Algerian President; ness then the trips to hussla wnere it became clear that they could do ease the pains of no more than nis mont sickness With Boumedienne's return to Algiers, the was French

CARWORKERS

his dying hours and sought ways to prolong his valuable life.

Mercy' team

CONFERENCE

When even Inese melnods brought no improvement, no Carter serit odt a high powered friend than President team of medical experts on a

THE CRISIS IN THE MOTOR INDUSTRY

'mercy" flight to the Maghreb Called by the Campaign for Democracy An van ne kevoution Council' which heads the Algerian bureaucracy was forced in the Labour Movement to lock itset up to decide on a January 20, 1979 in Birmingham their widely- lamented leader. unis wnole enterorise was dr ironic parallel to the history of the Algerian revolution itsel After the victory of the FLN Full details from CDLM, c/o 37, Birchfield Close and ThE winnind inde ben dence from French imperialism Blackbird Leys, Oxford 1962, petty-bourgeois nationasts wro came to dowel

IRELAND

individual terrorism. The bombings have shown that the movemen has not been subdued by army tortures o arrests SAS murders But uniess a turn is made ir Ireland political agitation designed mobilise the working class around demand!

fight unemploy- melt want. housing which thow trom british rule there still evidence the that_toi devotion fighters-the

IRA

has all) -Carter medics fail to save Boumedienne Boumedienne proclaimed their devotion to socialism and turned for support tal bureaucky the Soviet Union. Necessary response But the spate of nationalisa tions and colectvisations whic took place in this early period largely a necessary response was •roblems causer long and bitter war and by the and capital colonial managers. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 3 January, 1979

*TROOPS OUT

NOW!

IRA fighter takes aim at British soldier serious strategy for the defeat of British imperialism. Obligation A Trotskyist party equipped programme for with suCh action must be built in Ireland This, however in no wdy of the fesses obligation British working class to take up, through available every avertu! movement, the fight to force the removal of the Callaghan-Mason leadership, the restorallur politicate prisonal of Britte prisoners and octica troops from Ireland. Any Algerian leaders who had a real desire to mont to the socialism and extend against struggle imperialism any completely programme carry those wishes into practice The real direction of the bureaucrac was revealet 1965 when Boumedienne previously head of the armer Torces. cami cowe weeks later major agreements were sianed with thi French government for the Algeria's exploitation vast minera wealth But open the Algeria to the welcoming capit alist fold did not stop there Geared to capitalism Under Boumedienne's direc tion, the political positions and of Algeria were geared more • and more to Tre recurements or cao alism often in violent contrast to the colourful rhetoric brandished by The verv same eater Today, it the United States which stands as the majo Tradine carmel socialist Algeria. In years Boumedienne proved his worth Stalinism and imperialism alike The task for socialists is to expose that role once and for al The masses of Algeria who still preserve some desperate hopes their bureaucratic rulers.

MANIFESTO: 'LEFTS'

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 3 January, 1979

SHUT UP

another In yet While most display of how supple is politely complied by belting up, Tribunite his Tony Benn spine, man Joan _estor chimed in has obediently aban- with a grovelling statement doned any attempt to stressing incorporate a series of Callaghan left-wing, sounding ministers. policies into the Labour Determination Party manifesto. At the December 20 meeting of the Party's does not extena to anytnng Executive National resem bling socialist policies.

capitulated to immediately Callaghan's Callaghan's ultimatum that tence on cabinet responsib Ministers either toe the line ility of his right wing cabinet, or determination to squash the removed be from their proposals for posts. tion, programmes of public Callaghan's outburst works, came in response to a timid• improvements in the Health by Eric Heffer move Service contained in a draft manifesto exempl ministers nom tne vainly discipline of cabinet collec- by the Home tive responsibility In NEU mittee headed by Benn. meetings-particularly discussions the Inadequate Maesto] Revelling new humiliate the chance to of "left' this pathetic evel allay of talkers who hold a majority package policies, Callaghan is count- the Nationa Executive. Callaghan once more threw ing support from the whole Cabinet and down an open challenge to his supposed opponents to NEC right wingers, but also fight for his removal or belt from TUC leaders. steel Both up.

EEC ELECTIONS

Desperate to whip up some interest in this year's elections to the EEC Europ- Assembly, the Labour Party NEC has made it a crime for local Parties not to participate. North Party, " ne walsall which had taken correct the decision to participate and would-be SouTIous

SCIECUO!

eurobean careerists Deer instructed to invite affiliated bodies and party organisations in ene electols To SuOmt nomalIos This followed anusner Birchills/ protests Leamore ward, the Midland area So far Num ano diners that the valsal Inere abstention was depriving them the right engage in the which selection orocess campaign, The NEC instruction-which it. they expensive any credibility outright hostility of the ate oresent elections are uniikely the level of Since clearly ing to see MP lan Mikardo. Last November Indreid. funds the rumoured join will ne Callaghan Callaghan puts the boot in

MUST PUT UP OR

of them Party chair- ToleranT towards DHOTO. Chris Davies Revor Of course this tolerance latest insis- to his connected nationalisa- and wealth senn Bill Sirs NUR leader anu Syd Weighell have apparent- submitted Callaghan written Policy Com- opposing the Home Policy Committee proposals As Callaghan lines up his forces to impose what could possibly be the most reac- tionary and anti-socialist In taking a stand against Labour manifesto of all inadequate the harsh truth must time, reformist be faced by socialists within the Labour Party: while the not only leadership Callaghan-Healey TeLas uncialenged control, there is no prospect chief of Labour's manifesto union

-BY ORDER

will apply to any constituency Inat takes a orincioiea stana ano decides to boycott these farcical raakllural y Assem ov -marks a turiner sted along the road to a commitment full-scale Labour campaign No decision PHOTO: Andrew Wiard. Report has been decision as to where the cash Is to come trom to tinance sucn e will hugely are to achieve whatsoever The overwhelming apathy oi medis •lildl reacr participation

NEC

now towards an all- out campaign, it will be interest- Mikardo pro-Market careerists tne reaction onett the swing to full participation in the in a letter to plections! General Secretarv Ron Havwarc one who recalis Mikardo threatened to withhold Mikado's countless COntrOS

DOTC

ignominious

NEC

procedec previous plans spend Callaghan-Healey leadership will expect to find £100,000 on the EEC elections.

him a new aly in tae necessary Participation fight ele tione boycott the Assembly break and a Socialist Will Mikardo adhere to and U• oT Te Cr fight for this boycott position?

United States of Europe. bulk of the roune Grouo ane me cueue or in working class living stan- dards, slashed and services forcing through and mass sackings. Constituency mem bers wind the and 101 internationalist collaboration, oppression containing even empty promises of socialism. Benn's latest collapse on this question should come as no surprise. Key member searching While eagerly around for any opportunity to establish himself left', he remains key member of the Labour which has

A PROFITABLE

ROAD TO

SOCIALISMP

that the govern profitability of Leyland 5% limit has ment's pay been blasted asunder in the Tony private sector the 15 issue leaders have been forced to find a new guise for their efforts hold into account in claims. back wage claims. During Phases 1 and 2 they helps openly argued for wage controls ism"! Trade what thev callec Ine "national interest" During Phase 3, support for dealing Tine war Ine redl Te coco vl lo say content of their defence of the 12-month to rule-designed bargàining, the isolate anv section on strike Now under Phase Moss Evans and other TUC leaders of factors. argue that "profitability" of the TiTm mus Ene .cuce to "They workers' claims. example the Common factor profitability, comparabilit) The common factor in each similar jobs. the of case many leaoers to tont yor une moeer UnIOl dent interests of the working this this their class respect position Is no отетет тю тлє consioerino Labour leaders-the only distinction that the union Chater goes on: leaoers are mort acutery awart of the pressure of their member- a radical ship. to form the Stalinists mass True critical ot the Britisn communist rart assisted the union leaders nave to cling on to such policies.

of living ve nave snown now edolo Stalinist Derek Robinson-con- "factor" -alongside venor at Leyland's Longbridge ity"

LABOUB

PARTY

and spelling inflicted the biggest ever cut controls, of instead programme mobilising the working class the social force through the collaborated shamelessly with the CBI in nationalisation of basic and the speed-up maastr) DallK. without compensation manage- under workers' Programme AnCiL .Those 'lefts' that take parties must insist that those NEC even the most claim steps along such a path must be given critical support and oppose Callaghan's policies pressed to go further. take a stand now and fight of Those that refuse to take removal the effectively Callaghan-Healey leadership, up such a iight join up with Callaghan as fully socialist, * manifesto enemies or lne workug cids.

and saboteurs of Labour's relecting all forms oi class election campaign. imperialist and import Heffer This shows just how far along the reformist path the CP hare ne ce ov how Stalinists see "socialism" being brought about not in revolutionarv struccle Toi the overthrow of an entrenched class, and stubborn capitalist out tarouan mass suboort Tor a Parliamentary Labour govern- progressively legislating ment more radical retorms plant-has acted to defend the s relationstip betwe ne a relationship between close But now an article by editor the Labou gover amen nater in. the becemoei Tra0 e Ein for movemen CIn Ll the Communist process of moving from hare to Party daily Morning Star actual- socialism lv arques now orocressive It Is lu Party of Laboul take the employers' profitability course dadicatec to the acnieve within the He proclaims that such a line This is why Capitalst systel working Callaghan attaccs Ine class in order to boost capitalist unions, he says, prolls snouc oe coin moe toan s The only way forward with wages and hours. socialism through the exposure ot this class collabora nct in to mactuo wag tion and the building of a mass, demands during free collective revolutionary party unions indicates Chater's dl licit Teke no account awnoe range once adaln to tnose wno dou•i They do not pluch that the Communist Party their wage demands out of thin counter-revolution- for consicei cost of living productivity, anc workers if true, of course, that leaders do act But ratne ThAr propose a change, and a turn to PHOTO: John Sturrock. Rer mhaeben dent interests of the workforce "What | am talking about is extension process in the context of active for support government opening the way to So for Chater, also, the cost moletta! orotita•|l- Robinson

THE BIRTH OF

Page 6 International. The development of the October 1917 Revolu- the Marxist movement tion in Russia. The in the United States has Opposition at each point been bound up with interna- Communist tional developments. changed its orientation from propaganda This equally was true exclusively at the Commun- when in 1933 the crushing ist Parties to the building of of the German working class independent Hitler Causeu Trotskyist movement to re- assess and change its tactics in relation to the Stalinised abrupt turn Communist Parties in each struggle itself-the end of a period of relative quiescence The German CP's ultra- and demoralisation left policy of branding the mass Social Democratic party as "social fascist" and front with it for joint action against the Nazis, lea to a fatal split in the ranks of the German working class in the face ne a sucha fascism" line The "social fascism had been dictated to every Communist Party Halional by the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Kremlin. It reflected the complete inability of the ruling clique the Soviet Union-pre- occupied was with its preserving power own and privileges-to analyse the class struggle or offer revolutionary leadership .to the international working class. Catastrophe But the final symptom of bureaucratic tion in the ranks of the the working class and the Communist International start of a period that was to was the complete failure of any section of the Comin- bring monumental ation struggles

LOTT

German catastrophe. building of the great indus- of the trial unions. supposed Communist Inter- The brought the supposed "New national in any way ques- Deal" disastrous tioned the Roosevelt's capitalist admin- policies and leadership that had allowed the most Istranon In powerful CP outside the ary public programmes were launched soviet Union and the besi organised proletariat to create low-paid work for Europe to fall victim to less than a quarter 12 million unemployed. fascism without so much as a finger lifted in resistance by the CP leaders. "Arbitration" Trotsky pronounced first the German CP and then the "Communist" The Inter- "dead for the designed specifically to head Halone off riots, purposes of revolution". In place of the five year and unrest among the unem- ployed. struggle by the Left Oppos- ition to reform the Comin- For the million tern, Trotsky declared jobless was now necessary to build there was new Communist Parties, and than state and local relief which a new International to take forward the principles cases revolutionary heritage provide dole. which had brought about But the

AMERICAN

MARXISM

1978 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the emergence of the Trotskyist movement in the United States. The Socialist Workers Party which today claims to represent that tradition offers no more than a hollow mockery of the fighting spirit of that early movement. This article is the fifth in a series of seven being published by Socialist Press which examine the early history of the SWP, the party so central in the 1930s to the launching of the Fourth By John Lister such a "liberal" administra- tion immediately won ove. Left

AFL

union International the trade changed its bureaucracy which declared support to Roosevelt's the internationa

SILS

League Industrial and National Recovery Act (NRA). work aimed "Right to organise Section 7(a) of the NRA revolutionary bright ran to anise ins supposedly Cultly In the United States this the organise But this was little WILl the class more than a sprat to catch a mackerel. feeble protection offered exchange within by Section 7(a) union officials pledged themselves the system of "arbitration" and and state interference in union organisation. file year. before 1933 But the rank and membership were not offered by easily bought off. In six 1933, 1695 months strikes took place, involving which inflation- million workers spending over one In the forefront of these struggles were workers in the car industry oI the employers, driven on by the capitalist allemplea to impose savage wage cuts.

In Detroit and in Califor- nia a rash of strikes broke out. The Detroit strikers at programmes were turned for leadershif

DIST

demonstrations towards the Communist Party, ultra-left "red' form remaining 9-10 trade union grouping in the unorganised workers largely caI industry had little to offer nothing other Disillusioned by the defeat suffered under such many were unable even to leaders, the best layers from this pioneering strike wave appearance of turned towards the new Conference of Progressive "It was Labor Action

(CPLA),

arrival of Guardsmen headed by A.J. Muste The CPLA later became Workers the A mericar retenset. Party. And it was able to sight" principled and "Then lead to resolute an even US labor history late storie April 1934 when in Toledo Auto- Tne fought a six Lite strike began. battle with The Toledo strikers Guard. brushed aside the wrangling and stalling of Roosevelt's arbitration bodies, and walked 13, out on April flank the guardsmen. 1934. men fired the Auto-Lite ranks, ing 25. But the battle battered ordered to ''"By June company including increase, 18384 bargaining agent." (p.10).

signal auto industry. Pickets confront police in Minneapolis Teamsters strike Their AFL union leaders capitulated at to once court order picketing. Not so the workforce. were also active. of Led by members the American Workers Party and backed by the AWP-led dent party County Unemploy- of ation any Lucas ment League, they launched opening for a campaign of mass picket- intervention ing on an unprecedented mass struggles. scale. Thus In six weeks the picket lines had grown to 10,000- and May 23 a strong, on pitched battle opened up as developed by armed county deputies and police attempted to escort scabs out of the plant. interestinese As Max Lewis recounts was that asset in the booklet From Sit- speak fluent Down to Lordstown: thus conduct "For the next 15 hours of thousands pickets laid chefs! seige to the plant by impro- vising giant slingshots from inner tubes. "They hurled whole This bricks through the plant windows, disabling the light tary of the union. The system. scabs inside he, «salaces cowered in the dark... itself, SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 3 January, 1979 until the not the head of a mass move- National ment of workers calcullig 15 hours later fighting that the scabs were finally organisation. looking "sorry All-out strike followed one of An all-out strike began in the most amazing battles in York in January 1934 New With bare and James P Cannon was fists and rocks the workers full-time by the assigned day pitched

CLA

work the on the National by struggle, up packed of

CLA

further group "They fought from roof- members tops, from behind billboards The CLA's weekly paper, and came through alleys to The Militant, brought was out three times a week to "On May 24, the guards- capitalise to the maximum noint blank into on the events of the strike- strikers crucial •reviously killing 2 and wound- German events of 1933 had 6,000 workers merited such treatment. returned at dusk to renew Cannon, Field and others addressed rallies and demon- "On Friday May 31, the in Madison bulatiulis Square drawing an audience

LIOU

WELC

speedily with- of some 10,000 As the dust began But though devoting the to settle 98 out of 99 AFL entire resources of the CLA locals in Toledo voted for a to turthering the strike, the general strike the next day US Trotskyists knew that the paramount question was the the building of a Bolshevik- capitulated, type party with firm disci- signed a six-month contract pline and absolute dedica- 5% tion to principle. Waki Local Hanell exclusive This major victory was to of series new inroads by unions into the Mass work But while the American Workers Party was playing a key role in these struggles, lne brolskyists or lne com munist League of America The turn to mass work in Dobbs the building of an indepen- Field was carried away meant roe daIs by the apparent power and every his official position in the revolutionary into workers He began to defy the CLA and reject its policies early 1934 and discipline, despite con- moves in New York towards tinuous efforts to bring him noter umonisation proviaco back into line. an arena of work which was member established in the industry We apologise for a misprint with the unlikely aid of an in part 4 or this series. un page principal 9 the paragraph reading: could "It seems to us that Cannon he French and did not wish ment (but it is not possible to political say) and that Weisbord discussion with the French prevented from entering simply The t ranks ortne Let oooost tion." General secretary should have read: "It seems to us that Cannor intellectual, B.J. did not wish for a rapproche.

but it is : possible to ment rield became general secre- All of a that Weisbord wa sal prevented parks of the Left Onesign e from entering

CLA

and found themselves at

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 3 January, 1979 Field's attempts to break party the ame time to growing weak- esses in the strike itself.

The CLA took the neces- ary action. Field wak ummonsed to a disciplinary earing and expelled from he League in the midst of 1e suike. Strengthened CLA The had them, principle, natter what rade Union Though whole ly. and lay the for splendid asis The first place in ebruary and won mited gains ell first the tradi- ions of osses. eature of heir first ad been repared with dge that would but ative Union ureaucracy. embers, and mass A hospital, all in ivance by achieved on the emands for Minneapolis well as Realising the key ent of ented by the the rikers the bureau- camsters ulti- Roosevelt taking the oath in 1933 matum for the employers to National Secretary of the by The comply with the deal. SWP, and, as Trotskyist, In the strike which a foremost leader of the followed police used armed great Teamster organisation that force and drives from 1934-39. MaSS efforts But, following the inter- break the action, before, on ot the

CLA

In August 22, the employers Trotskyist movement finally caved in and signed the ations CPLA's Towaros bullding an agreement conceding all independent the parties, perspectives. the main union demands. CLA was impatient to grow In 11934 Trotskyists had faster, even to sink roots sno wil themselves more deeply into the unions mobilising and leading the and establish a wider base ing on unity masses in all-out confronta- tor mass work. tion with the employers. They had shown them- Critique trom the selves ot and aware pIt- pared to fight the conser- The obvious seriousness more wel- vatism and class collabora- and abilities of many of the of of tion every level worker members of Muste's important the bureaucracy the labour in Workers American Party had been demonstrated further initiative by They had demonstrated Auto-Lite the Toledo the necessity for a perspec.

leaders struggle. into dis- tive of struggle if mass The AWP had originated rights and improved Within groupings of militant conditions and wages were unionists, trade who had the

AWP

bizarre of to be won subsequently moved Their forces grew from towards understanding the radical petty bour- men, each of these struggles, need for a political party.

drawing qualitative 1n early November 1933 the CLA had shoven including Farrell forces become

DOODS,

its estimation of the CPLA

THE ORGANIZER

But as Cannon points

SMASH THI

"Behind these fakers and

AUG. 22, 1954

chelater Some serious people, some prolet-

VICTORY!

have previously mentioned the comrades who led Toledo strike. "They had numerous ele- ments of this type through- Settlement Goes Through! Pennsylvania and the Middle West. They had built up an unemployed organisa- tion of considerable size.

"These proletarian activists of the ÀWP were the" types that interestec As leftward-moving heterogeneous centrist grouping, the AWP reflected the political confusion and turmoil of the period; there are few if any similar group- ings found the workers' movement today. The Trotskyist CLA was organisationally larger and certainly more cohesive and disciplined than the AWP.

Compromises pursuing the and file and bade» Reed units back body the wanken of inses poll struggle the two Vote for 574 in the Elections organisations and thus win the key forces involved, the Make Minneapolis a Union Town organisational Eventually issues Front page of the daily strike paper in Minneapolis Police beat unemployed dem were resolved; and in the meantime the discussion on had united programme been pressed without relent by the Trotskyists Cannon tells us that the final draft, ratified at a joint convention, was applauded by Trotsky rigidly principled programme' 1934 the In December two organisations fused to form the Workers Party of the United States-the first unification of forces that taken place the aidu American movement for more than a decade. been gains. for all Nau. ness. In line Trotsky's in the early

OWIE

1930s the the call for the of Labor Party-a party Lade alos of directly few out the of OI tells in the for Not challenged The majority of even the most militant workers remained at the level of trade union militancy, and the hold of the two capital- parties not was challenged. Though this position was —at least verbally-corrected when the 1938-9 discussions the SWP leaders between and Trotsky spelled out the •ot caling tot necessily Labor Party, this early meant the weakness ThaT huge growth of trade union organisation

USA

1n the from 1933-38 could not be accompanied by a parallel growth of working political consciousness or a from the bosses. This weakness in the Page 7 early work of US the Trotskyist ically. from arose the syndicalist of the ultra-left sectarianism During propaganda period of early Left 1928-1933 little questions programme when the issue was win principled Tne elements from the degenerated Communist Party.

CLA

explosive of development the American struggle seemed to Ted perspective of directly intermed- levels of pontical struggle. when the attention and tion through intervention the daily struggles working OI class, assessed Thus were undoubtedly weaknesses and the work of 1930s US which, may be Pioneering work The fact is that without the pioneering work, vision, the tenacity and the self-discipline Cannon and the CLA, and without their determined break from propagandism the „The oI past and turn into the mass struggles of 1934, the basic forces would not have been assembled for tion of the Fourth Inter- national in 1938

Nursery care: vital for Page 8 PHOTO: Laurence Sparham. IFT Axing the nurseries-Shirley Williams In 1949 there were 900 day nurseries providing places for 43,000 children under five years old.

In 1975 there were only 540 nurseries, offering 26,000 places, despite the fact that the same period has seen a dramatic increase in the numbers of women who work.

Such figures give a hint at the chronic decline and acute crisis in the provision of state care for the under-fives.

They are included in a 127-page TUC working party report The Under-Fives, published in 1978.

The report is of considerable importance in highlighting the plight of both the under-fives, and of the millions of women who in the traditions of the bourgeois family are supposedly responsible for their upbringing.

This two-part review of the report will examine some of the facts and figures presented in it, and go on to look at some of its 64 recommendations in the light of the practical record of the TUC and Labour leaders in the fight for women's rights and for the extension of the social services.

The 20 years 1956-76 would nel than what was likely to be brought massive achieved under the existing increase in the number Labour leadership: proportion and of "We are well aware that a in the total women service as we shall De workforce, British and recommending, and indeed any worthwhile improve- in the trade union ment in existent provision movement. will require the allocation of Women now form 41% greatly increased resources of the workforce, and 28% for this state service. of the trade union move- working Prudently, ment-with million party therefore steers well women now in TUC-affilia- any practical

CANI

ted unions. proposals as to how their Yet the glaring problem schemes should be fought that remains is that for all for by the working class.

the legislation on equal pay opportunities, and equal Sharp insight women workers remain denied equal rights as long Despite this, the body of adequate child care the Report offers a sharp resources are denied them.

into the plight of insight There is a massive unmet particularly working demand ior nursery places under the The Report quotes a 1974 mothers lack of facilities. nursery survey showing that 72% of of women have parents wanted some form children aged between 0-15 of day-care provision by the years time their children reached Without child care pro- the age of two, and 91% vision the mother is forced wanted facilities for four- role of year old children. remain in the winanciother, independenced denied financial Recommendations status, and social contact with organisations of goes on to examine the working class. what facilities are available- In many cases the wife's looking, day at nutsened. wage is fat from a luxurious child-minders, "extra" but essential to the schools, workplace family budget in a time of toddlers clums, mothers and falling living standards.

toddlers playgroups and nursery centres. Stop-gap

SILS

relerence conduct such an investigation and recom- This drives many women mend means of extending to seek individual, stop-gap provision for the solutions to the problem fives. child care which conceal the But in drawing up often its real problem and recommendations, the impede the social and educational development of working party concentrated women and under fives By Mary-Ann Todd the child. employed married women Many women find them- with children 0-4 were in selves forced take on semi-skilled or manual jobs to the home-child- compared to only 21% of work minding being childless unmarried women largest aged 16-24. single category. Surveys show that many Such work is non-union- more women would go out ised, uninsured, leaving the if work child care individual deprived of sick- facilities were available, and ness and holiday pay, and that as a result of hil present faced with the costs of using patterns care her own home as a business women are increasingly premises. The (largely forced to slot in to 3 types female) home-working shifts-doubleday shift; labour force 1s known to night shift; and Sunday exceed 250,000. work. Where nursery provisions 5-fold increase entail long, tiring journeys child to and to the There has been a five- take from the retrieve him/her fold increase in the number nursery or school of women working these Other forms of child-care shifts in the last 15 years woman the The final straw is that, olten leave worker vulnerable to forced since those working in child absenteeism if the child is care are nearv al women work is itself this area of sick. chronically 111- Nursery proVision 1ow-pald often available only through carried out organised, and degrading means-tests, extremely poor forcing each mother conditions. prove how desperate are her Yet the years between birth and five years are the Cumstances most formative in a child's Restricted life. A good foundation in nursery education is vital in developing their powers of Women without their own means of transport are and their understanding of even then often restricted in hours and place quality and form. their levels of child Current work conform availability of child care.

care make a firm distinc- tion between the physical This leaves women welfare and the education concentrated in low-paid of the child. industries and occupations- Nurseries largely cater often paving out much of their earnings in travel and for the former, and nursery schools largely for the expenses And women are for similar latter. As for the private sector, often unable to there is no state control or train for better study whatever • over the standard jobs 54% of of facilities staff Figures show Stalinist NUPE bureaucrat Anderson addressing a rally during the South Oxford Nursery occupation provided As a result the situation at present is both anarchic and desperate. Department of Health guidance local arec autnonnes to give onond to those with a special need -which may include single families, the men Dalclil tally physically handi- capped; those from impor- erished home environment, parents sick OI handicapped. Yet this basis even on 12,600 there are currently "priority" children on local authority waiting lists! The last ten years has seen a positive decline in the service, despite the of recommendations the Plowden Report which policy advocated universal provision nursery service as a major educational and social prority In 1972 a Tory govern ment White Paper Educa- tion, framework for Expansion proposed to provide part-time nursery 75% of four provision for year-olds and 35% of 3 year olds by the early 1980s, and £20 million was allocated to local authorities for nursery buildings in the year 1974- But this plan-the first expansion in 25 years-was immediately superceded by the Tory cuts in 1973. Since then the Labour government has continued to back nursery on from £39 million building, 1975-76 to a f5 mere million per year from 1979- 81 -a cut of 87%! So huge are the cuts that local many are SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 3 January, 1979 now not even taking up building grants to finance since they nurseries, 11C W then face the expenses of staffing and maintaining the nursery schools and classes.

Not being opened In some areas including Birmingham and Gloucester- shire. newly built nursery facilities are not even being opened because councils will not pay the wages of the staff But the failure to expand the service is combined with cuts existing nursery 1n provision. Since it is not mandatory education the first to suffer cuts at local level. Nursery places in a class are reduced, two classes are squeezed into one, or wnole classes and schools the most well-known example being the closure South Oxford OT Nursery at a loss of 30 full- time nursery places. This closure-with the tacit collaboration of full time NUPE and other union bureaucrats-was taking place while this TUC Report was being drawn up. And it took place in the midst of hypocritical Labour government circulars urging the protec- tion or expansion of nursery facilities which their own spending and

CHEN

limits are forcing to close.

The real fight to defend and extend nursery provision, as the second part of this article will show, is inseparable from the fight for the and trade union labour movement.

DO YOU REALLY WANT

TAILORED GENES?

A guest writer looks at genetic engineering SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 3 January, 1979 So what exactly genetic engineering? About five biologists ago ytals developed techniques make in the test tube novel combinations of genes trom different sources. gene is a segment of a tive weedkillers, fungicides nas yet gor underway and The recombination process mo ecuP camed prevent crop diseases determines the structure of a foreign and bacterial between Tentisers of the cell particular element Biological synthesis of chem- will or wnich governs some celulal ical commodities rely chances ot creating a process). disease-causing organism cheao Taw materiais toernao. These new combinations of small. And, say the advocates of largely waste such as sewage) and qualitatively genes coulo reintroouced aenetic experimentation. into a living bacterial cell and physical and biological barriers methods encent wan present perpetuated indefinitely as the authorities insisted in terms of energy. cer olviaca. •reventino ine escabe oi recom binant bacteria from the labor.

•rocess cenetic Risky recombination occurs naturally atory are sufficient-though the sexual reproduction when smallpox Birmingham Ultimately evolving bacteria prompt gentes cach ai t o saster should some manufacture commodities doubts on that score. linked Torm citterent permutation in the offspring.

these statements may be Courd Luwarus However taking recombin- removino relance on or ov botn valid and yet it is probably now and at the point of transition from ation aval TrOM tne cer putting it in the test tube allows tion and torming an alternative laboratory bench to the for the first time the breaking source coroanic aw materia that the greates тастогу поот. our petrochemical of vigilance must be kept.

DOWN

barrier: society prevent the joining of genes This because is the between different species.

"s possibe inat the ous of history since the experience is witnessing the birth of a new industrial revolution that biological industry which poten- Clone' not scientific advance itself, but coule combare With ano the service of lis doorcation succeed the development of capital that creates new dangers In practice this means that engineering and chemical manu- the acue

TOM

Tacturine most particularly for the whether •ant animal.- rIsks anowno including man-may be isolated wor kine class. takés them? and incorporated into a bacter- Introducing foreign Weapons

IUM

then reoroouce thus and Da leitur to give enormous numbers chandino Characteristics identical cells obviously also opens the possib- obvious Thus in the most ility the ine ToTelen cene-ol so carta creating disease- extreme examples, 'clone' causine strans emoneerine ano chemicar inous The foreign gene may give It has been argued that such tries of the nineteenth century be particularly characterised First World The bacterium new ano berndos germs may useful properties, for instance, Wal viruient as numans or animal or macnines. the power to synthesise a drug plant species become synthetic explosives and poison infected may been gas and raised the slaughter to or a vaccine. What are the benefits? se to trem previousiy. The scientific advantages of have mamouldliur ful thrust advancing the living cell at its study the most Dasic lever Genes form the venice ov which the information and required for the building Tunctioning oroan sm from cell to cell and passed on from generation to generation.

menes aso control ine work- ing of the cell in its second by and by second existence microscope scientists explain the structure and working of whole tissues ano booles anowilla the study of their isolated parts -the cells. Benefit Now the ability to insert a gene in a bacterium and grow it as a cione allows biologists examine in fine detail the struc- ture and functioning of a single Genetic engineering can change modern medicine gene separate from its millions of neighbours. Even if such a pandemic Medicine will benefit by Hesearch onvsics Was plague amongst healthy people applied • in the Second. World being given new techniques protected War the production of modern medicine an first later understand and ultimately correct inherited unikely. certain catedories ano now devel may risk from new opments and e actronic. diseases causer v maltormed pathogens. allow the delivery genes-such as cystic fibrosis, with Godlikt nuclear sickle cell anaemia and haemo- philia. orecision. nese inciude The the There is little doubt that ir patients on anti- in celtion cenetic enaineer.

very hands of the the ing holds biotic or drug treatments which genetic manipulation techniques cheaper purer source reouce their resistance to intec• coulo simiativ •everon ane tion populations already aruos nave been and refine biological weapons.

now difficult, expensive and by But the greatest toll caused time-consuming to produce.

MULACIOr espetalis The ao caconor sc ence developed countries. i nese include norones industry has occurred and such as insulin which is used to For reason it may be stifl occurs day in and day out treat diabetics, and vaccines Inal eneric manipulation caises workers the amonost The against man's ability to damage himself used innoculate point of production. diseases. and his world to a new level.

interestingly the new It is possible that a nuclear Observation catastrophe tecnnioues will dhow ine manu limited facture of a whole new range of effects the therapeutic biological products potential destruction Indeed the common method which have date proved for the discovery hazards cenet calv enolneered disease to which no one has any imoossiole make Incluind TrOM new •rocesse: perhaps active research but the antibiotic laboratory against virus infections.

subsequent observation of unex- It must also be said that for But the diversity of new pected side-effects and of indus- each or inese theorem ca nazares arising from genetic manipula- commoo ties neeo not stoo al trial diseases amongst workers anarmaceutical preparations.

list occupational tion, counter have Strains will be bacteria illnesses could be written from been oiven doainst mem. ailor-made Certainly no damage from manuracture Asoestosis on. Is genetic manip ertirely novel and potent insec- recombinant work has yet been ulation going to provide 'G' =cides, plant hormones, selec- this alphabet the pattern of capitalist history to De broken at tnis point! This is not a matter that can be tefrear the future Californian Already "called concern Genetech •een ser uo ano Dians to manu- facture human insulin. Fat profits Now the pharmaceutical and brought chemied you seveso, inalidomide and the La Roche profits scandal) are lumbering into starting positions Tor une race to De mrstinto lared scale production using recom- lobbying will be Powertul used to ensure inat the covera. ment safety regulations in the United States and Britain do not provide a barrier to fat protits Western governments are already, pressure of loss of protits and employment prospects, being encouraged to ease restrictions. Failure to do this will ensure that the muitinationas export the whole genetic engineering operation, risk and all, from the vest to more amenaole and more susceptible) third world countries However, most people's contact with the products of genetic engineering will not (hopefully) be due to the manu.

Tacturine oroces. military use recombinants but with the end products them.

TEST TUBE

BABY →

RESEARCH

Fertilisation of an ovum selves rast experience snows tnai the choice of products to be made will governed by health ille fed need. masses ot the woria but by the lucrative treatment-oriented wal Liculally vvest Thus the first recombinant will mass produced certain v de numan insulin ane the first vaccine could well be cholera vaccine. The media will applaud-but watch out Du Pont will ave o Rothestid , Hoffman La Roche and •evotine resources researci into the dietary causes and the diabetes alleviate SOCIai conoitions cholera flourishes Palliatives mecomoinant tecAniduas the hands of capitalist industry will used sorer y maki than preven- caatives rather tives and perpetuate the "illness industry" philosophy of Western medicine Control ovAs the use OT genetic engineering techniques in the private sector is minimal the cunited states the National Institutes of Health regulate only the recombinant research which they themselve fund. Edward Kennedy's bill to Page 9 By Trevor Sellars control all denetic manipulatior work failed to pass through Congress, so that industry has been arven a tree nano and ont complies with the NIH guide lines on i a voluntary basis. In Britain. the directives o the government-appointed Genetic Manipulation Group (GMAG) have the force OT laW All recombinant experiment be notified to

GMAG

control also inrougn a system or local sater committees The government, employers and 'the public nave reoresentatives on uMAu But operates under the umbrella Otticia secrets act ano under a code insisted the employers to protect commer cla secrecy Furthermore although industrial research is regulatec commercia

ОГО•UCTIOT

recombinant techniques

GMAG

ared control Nationalisation Trade unionists, especially in the chemical and pharmaceutic al sector must bring the plans o industries these out open and put forward an alter Talve Sindicav manufacture based on produc of commodities for need profit the thar and on basıs ote tne sates orocec ure with constant monitoring of the health of employees also worker. mus to cooperate interna prepared tionally and ensure that hazards oper countres These policies are unachiev- the able long industry remans n orvate ans They lead on to the need the nationalisation without compensa lion. unde management the drug and industries as part of a planned LITe national health service with a new approach to health care Wat s certain s inat test Bering tentes cantibe eering techniques cannot develope ov modern caoltaiisr anything other than distorted and destructive manner onv a socialist socierv car make the modified bacterium work to the benefit of mankind

GOOD GOD

PROFESSOR,

SHE'S OFFERING

HIM AN APPLEN

—Mike Peters (C) 1978 Dayton Dauy New:

Page 10 Wali

INDUSTRIAL

1979: TIME

YOU RESOLVED

TO JOIN US.

Before you throw away Nursery •coaton. Tine last year's diary, just stop London hospitals and in other areas and look back at the record "AS arowito num oers of the Workers Socialist youth have moved into polities, League over the past twelve the

WSL

the supportec months. building of the Socialist Youth League monthly paper ano its Everv dav of everv week our Red Youth members have been in the *1978 has seen fresh theor- vanguard of the struggles against etica work on reland-with the capitalism ane acents publication of a major Britain. regular coverage oul ATeSS alono with tisa cersoectives The political leadership and *Other issues on which we practical support given by the fought for have international

WSL

have been solidarity Incuce

SLEUC• 8S

workers fighting Eritrea, in a Middle East MaSSIVE the and Africa as well as repression range or struggies *We have played a leading in Latin America. role in the 4 3 trom tô defend published 'Com ww ave Cowley munists' Against Revolution vom vic imsd major theoretical book, and Ton ov ne aw orreaucrc *Our intervention in British of so-called antonsve covede Leyland has helped the bring curocommunism" tt/lll year of our weekly paper.

o1 worker oa uca tion, and gave a national lead in other moverenl fight against coroprate bar- DoasT such a proud and prin. and cipled record. calnio. Ine lImit. massive speed-up and sackings.

All these achievements have movement has been not come about by magic or by the forefront accident. oT suO0ort TO1 unionisation struggles Strength Grunwick, Garners and else- wiere. policies have To make this impact, the fight against comrades have been guided strengthened the cuts-in the South Oxford constantly by the StrEuer

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Please send me more information about the Workers Socialist League. Name Address. Send to: WSL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR

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our programme and by the con fidence that only the policies we forward the answer working obiective needs of the class. It is those strengths and the discipline toveret nary organisation that will carry our work forward to new levels and s in 1979 Inco new ared The not a large organisation, yet we have been achieve all this already dol e our severely limited with resources. More support But extend that work further, ovali nationaly alc more internationaly we namt support and more mombers. we're asking our regular make Tenders real vem Year's resolution this year, and think hard why they have not toine• us eerore. What reason can you nave for holding back?

VOU TE

seriously prepared imperialism to to fight against establish the dictatorship of the prulelartdt.

LT8T

InBre S one place where you belong- inside the WSL, , working with us reconstruct the Fourth Inter.

national Kivile

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*"VURLO SDEALST RE

How to fight ... the Cuts As we go to press, NUJ members on strike are due to gather in London faced with the real threat that their leadership is beginning to crumble. A meeting of FoCs has been called by after a week of wavering state- ments about the future of the

STINS

While chapels up and down the their willingness fight avel wales me crovnca Journast.

Industrial Council been ottering the emplovers a reduc tion ot ai pickets to token level.

if they would aimee to walk.

climb-down-which woud be seen ov memoers ane management alike as a prelude to calling off the strike-was LaKeT witnout any consultatiol with the membership Bosses rejected was only not put into effect because *the Newspapel Society athe employers organ isation) rejected it. The NUJ leadership opposed une strike in une tirst oace. Iner wildly declared that it would be "short and sharp" Thev have been lookina ever since for a concession from management to allow them to end it. month that journalists have been out, not a chapel has gone back to single where individual improved OTTerS nave beer madet the laest circular from Kenneth Ashton. NUJ General Secretary, to the employers, did not even mention the £20 claim Smaller settlements Instead it pointed to much smaller settlements made at the Scotland and and Ireland. Some chapels were preparing tor the meeting by roDosine

A WSL

BOOKLET

Available (price 30p plus 10p p&p) from WSL, 31, Dartmouth Hill, Park London NW5 1HR SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 3 January, 1979 NUJ pickets sit down to block Oxford Mail and Times vans

DANGER OF NUJ

SELL-OUT

strong opposition to this weak chapel line The chapel has called on the NUJ. the TUC and the Labou emolovers badly shaken by the strike. Sales Party to fight to reverse the decision-which could outlaw all advertising have been hit complete ane somt cases placking issues have been lost. The strike must time arrests strengthened have been made on many picket appeals for henewec mine cane une ceterminator

COT

suDoortIn( acton TrON NUJ members to win their rise NGA and

ISOGAT

should be has increased. launched the limited and buil verv voll wiere support alredds received strong vigorous leadership on. C ano was required, the NUJ leader- The full claim itself is ship again found long term answer tor the NU. wantino membership call campaign But must ensure that reverse political ruling the leadership is not allowed sabotage the first all out strike adainst backino ov the court ot Appeal, has been launched by of provincial journalists in the the Oxford Mail and Times mistory or ine union BBC busts 5%- miraculous eleventh-hour tion Committee and the escape green light was given for the which called to mind sui eenling ol tne vouna oj the Tory government's Music. climbdown The award over the supposedly comprised a 4% pay rise to jailed Pentonville "anomalies coupled dockers in 1972, the an extra 122% threatened Christmas improve

BBC

staff's blackout of BBC tele- comparability with thein opposite numbers in ITV. vision was averted by a But the fact is that the rapid manoeuvre. 5% limit has been nOW pay-norm busting breached the public 172% award was concocted the result SeCtO OI by the little-known, govern- determined industrial Central Arbitra- action. Right at

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from Garners scabs British Leyland ballot betrayal SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 3 January, 1979 The premeditated violence dished pickets by Margolis's scabs over the Christmas holidays sianals a new and important development in the Garners struggle ( tor union recoo- alturet Un unristmas bay. bickels the Haymarket Branch of Garners, had to run a gauntlet oT douse ane nima trom fourteen scab managers and hired thugs. vonen tne bonce arrive. Inis scab force dispersed-some Street the Oxford branch where striker Choudri was beaten so severev tnat ne had to be taken to hospital.

It has been clear throughout henchmen have been encourag- ing to provoke ine attacks over Unristmas carefully the Daned company physically smash the picket line. violence is the latest tactic In an ottensive wadeo ou Margolis since the beginning of December, on the basis of Trauculent scabs which went against the union, he declared that the strike was over. Witch-hunting As the of the desperation organised thuggery ot nis scabs shows, he cannot merely the that strikt as tnis descent into violence the London's West End he has also ene meered careTulV Tim ed series witch-hunting articles Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express. mese nave directed their tire against the decision the eight months ago nOL zo ssue new work permits those applying for work at Garners. They are an attempt to build a campagn against the solidarity blacking action

CPSA

and SCPS government Job Lentres. who Tor nine montns have been refusing to handle job advertisements for Garners.

ins connects with the cam- paign directed against the legal blacking. status secondary I ne involvement ine notorious John Gorst arouses than that NAFF and the right wing of the Torv wartv are now neavily involved in this struggle.

They chosen have this moment launch such not only meet attack to Margolis's desperate require- ments tor new scab statt: but to sharpen pressure the the TGWU leadership to ditch this strike during the holiday period

UNION DUES

Renewed violence when the independent strength ine vidence on the dicke of the strikers is at its most lines has made the strike com- vulnerable Thillte s Hec onal decretar this Margolis has agreement with the police limits failed in his offensive. on picketing more powerful and embarassing tor the bureaucracy In tne voL • have couradeousiv than ever. manned lines Staden is now in a position the throughout the holiday period where he acknowledge has wiinstanoino ine violent assaulls scao orutaly and state taat ent by the scabs. strike committee is running the strike with the full backing of The sight of Cyril Margolis stanome outside mme Maymarkel tne union. This makes it increasingly branch on Christmas Day doing the Nazi salute to strikers was difficult for him to resist strike testimony to nis trustration al committee demands for une ena failing to smash the picket line.

ot all agreements with the police and the building of mass pickets ine strikers are more deter- on Garners. mined than even to win this strike. . They know that the press Equally compromised, Communist Party welt lunuke the oostal blacking at in a ce savine move. to send Grunwicks) is not the main axis General Secretary Mac Lennan the strike has simply helped and Organiser Dave to ne pickel mine ur national issue. Christmas Day. Police arrest pickets during the day of mass picl The 2-1 ballot vote to leadership was. campaigning for accept a package of policies acceotance Longbridge convenor and put forward by British leading Communist Party Leyland management is the Derek Robinson result of a long period of one ot ine tirst to wecome ine result and urge that the rational- bureaucratie manoeuvre. isation should now proceed The convenors ettorts were recom ne "ves vote was backed up by a press campaigr mended by the vast majority of designed to suggest that the In package offered a 16% increase.

fact, with convenors. …ne xtoro area y et even inen aostentions or Jaguars in Coventry and the thains lot y 5500t0 o20he first the ballot 20,000 Drews Lane plant, every factory

WELL TERRY, HERE'S TO THE NEW YEAR-

HOPE THERE'S NOT TOO MUCH RINGING OUT THE OLD!

Gehall

AT THE TOP...

HOLD IT EVERYBODY!

LUKD DROADLCT '»

GOING 10 MAKE A DrECCH

EASY AT ONE POINT

NCARLT

LEVERYTHING

For these reasons. no mattel how much Staden would like to end the strike the pressure from

LITE

altu national

TOCUS

ThIs StrIKe become for the working class is greater than Margolis's valn campaien in une press From January tne strike committee intends to intensify fight Tor the av January, and for the calling of a national TGWU delegate confer- organise support for ence their policies. the meantime plans picket bow street court on iu January at 10 a.m. in defence of Brent Trades Council President

FOM

burkin must De ine dasis ser manding thas urkin hor support : on the London District committee communist Party-of which he is a member.

HOTO:

Mark Rusher, eting in December such ballot What does the result mean?

All that the company has really

TOWE ITALL TO YOU, LEN..

-LET'S

WITHOUT THE EFFORTS OF THE

GENERAL COUNCIL LADS, WHO

IKNOWS WHO WOULD HAVE

JOINED US'

...THEN MY SPEECH WENT DOWN A BOMB WITH THI

BROAD LEFT WHEN I SAID "STUFF THE HOUSE OF LORDS"

RIT IM SEEMEI

TO BELIEVE ME !!

Page 11

FIGHT THESE

SACKINGS OF

NUPE MILITANTS

The sacking of the sackings to coincide with forth- the branch leadership at the coming action on ody health service unions, and West London Hospital three they are successful they could weeks ago has now bèen massive turned into an unparallelled programme victimisation. mand se toacitals throughout hospital trade on setback a major Lausill unionists in the •Hammer. trace union orcanisation smith and Hounslow district A defence committee has the reinstate- of London. been set for Bill Tizzard at the Last week Bill Tizzard, who ment or Hammersmith Hospital. SnaS apen a nure shoo stewart at the Hammersmith Hospital Strike action for almost four years was sacked on a completely SpOT trumped up charge This must be extended to both hospitals to include all five During a recent dispute over trade who have been unionists montine leves ar me vosøital.

he is alleged to have assaulted a sacked in the past three weeks member of management. Immediate must be planned both hospitals, Suspended all branche! Torcee to circulote in the Divsion and call a conter Despite the fact that seven all London Health witnesses have Service stewards to publicise the cec arer The charge to be completely untrue, disputes and plan supporting two action. suspended A lot of the blame for the This was followed last week continuer sackinos Cal with Tizzard's instant dismissar directed at the NUPE full time notice officials who have been handling servar wit hou' advance payment, going against the cisoute all established procedure

ASO

The wvest «Londor Treacherous tactics Hospital itself, Tom Nichol, a of

NUPE

who was member It is they who allowed the strike at the West London Hos at the nosoita Three weeks had his contract termin.

called oTt. wher ated following the strike for the action and support to be spreac Tens atement ou la asmusser branch leadership, Alan Pinfold Inrotonou' The and Stan Hunt. division and it is they who have The fact that Nichol played reportedly insisted on going to an active part in organising the neustria runas and picketing during the dispute is the courts infrontari to avoid a direct confrontation reason behind thi sacking. management. These treacherous tactics As a result of these moves by strengthened the hand of the Health Authority, have Harto a mosi the entire union eader. The Area ship in the hospitals have been If the reinstatement of these space of a few is to be achieved then dismissed in the workers davs. in Union _ranches wnich tme reman eacers e taken years of work to hospitals must fight along these nave build up lines organising the forcing NUPE to must be immediate branches and There action tor tne reinstatement o give Tull and otticial support to these trade unionists all their actions. Management have timed the gained is acceptance of the 5% remains so contentious that it is pay limit. Enforcing the rest of extremely difficult to see the the package is a very different company ever achieving its matter. •molenentalon The implementation of the But Leyland workers need nore than hostility to productivity increases beind jobs and the company plans if endershin the Cowley Assembly Plant and conoltions are to be detenceo large sections in A new leadership must be built the Body with urgency Plant, while bervict Leyland will feature promin.

(also in Cowley) stewards last week voted ently in the Carworkers Confer.

unanimously ence called by the CDLM in increase Ine productivity. Birmingham on January 20 The new grading structure

WELL, WEVE HELD 'EM OFF FOR 2 MONTHS ALREADY

SO ITOLD THEM.

BUT SOME OF YOUR STATEMENTS HAD US WORRIED. MOSS

LAW OR NO LAW, WERE

MAT HAVING BLACKNG

, YOU THINK 1 FELT?!

IN

THIS UNION!.

..SO STICK AT IT, LADS: MISPLACE YOUR BLOCK VOTES

| KEEP THE BUGGERS WORKING, AND FOR CHRIST'S SAKE

HOLD DOWN THAT PUBLIC SECTOR-AND JIMIL FIX 11

TURKEY: ONE STEP

FROM DICTATORSHIP

Jan 22: start all-out action in public sector! Just a day after martial law was declared in Istanbul and several other Turkish cities, 300-400 left wingers for arrested demon- were fascist strating against killings and distributing leaflets condemning martial law. They will be tried in military courts and face up to 4-5 vears imprisonment. The martial law also empowers Prime Minister Ecevit and the military clique of top generals to suppress strikes, and close dOWn Dontical Darties. trade unions and associations.

now the civilian supertcucu abbaratus. Yet while Ecevit continues to claim that martial law "will be carried out carelully withoul basic rights" damaging the Communist and

LIC

Telorist Continue pledge tul! support to nis bourgeois RPP government.

Disarmed Indeed the policy of subord.

inating the working class move- ment Ecevit has effectively disarmed the workers the face of the violent and best most •roan sed Tascist movement the world. opened the door for the escalation of fascist attacks uprisings and ane now Ene imposition military rule the "saving guise The Turkish parliament, with last from Ecevit's week overwhelmingly accepted the motion for martial law in 13 Ine rignt wing parties-and especially the fascists-were in favour. They enthusiastically nac Torweeks been demandid military rule. , they are demanding the of Ecevit's govern- MenT ane estaolishment or "independent" government.

The move to martial law was the Eastern city of Kahraman Maras in which 120 people were massacred. Fascist gangs The uprising began of attacked thousands tuneral of two lett teachers thev nao murdered the previous day In riots that followed fascist canes roamed suburo: populated by Kurds and Alevics minority Entire families were killed indis- criminatev ano nouses ourned Individuals were sadistically tortured and then hanged by the TaSCISTS I ne scene was remini scent of Franco's massacres Spain. 11 of the 13 provinces now covered law martial the so-called "devil's triangle" which the fascists nave concentrated their receni terror campaign-particularly against the Kurds have encouraged by the been strucies in ian. In Western Turkey also the fascists have been pressing their

LOTTO

campaieu movement, workers' students and youth. Last year alone

SOCIALIST

PRESS

1,500 killings took place and thousands were wounded. • ne tascists are being utised by desperate Turkish now bourgeoisie, faced by ane l CatastrooniC economie

CTISIS

Trade amount deticIts billions slate does not have enough currency to buy oil supplies for industry Over 1½ million public in

NUPE,

TGWU, GMWU and COHSE are to stage one-day national strike and lobby of Parliament on 22 January.

The Executive Committees of the four pursuit of the unions in Lou minimum wace cale is l followed by selective indus- trial action throughout various sections, from al-out surikes to workine to rule and overtime bans. Workers must answer ThIS

CUTS

CAUSE

CASUALTIES

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safir inflation is 50% and 7 million 'collapse of democracy', the big mobilised workers are unemoroyed Capitalst. nave The IMF has demanded that fascists in a frantic bid Ecevit implement even further destroy intimidate crush and attacks on the working class as a Ine oroanised surenein or the workers' movement. concition for new oans-attacks which would prompt resistance This violence has been made the refusal trade union move- possible by While Ecevit bleats that such mobilise the working cass measures would bring action fascist possible the strongest Ta even turner ben ne extending it to widespread It is a fear of losing control way. of this than a militancy rather indetinite strike pledging return WOrk Wili after the 22 January until the claim for the membership, that forced Fisher, Basnett and has claim for a t60 minimum basic wage and 35-hour week are met

LO I

announce me in full. starting on 22 January. Fisher was in a position to The anger and determination of local authority health, sewage OU and water workers on the ques- alongside the striking Ford wages is now reaching a workers from 1 November, nion point. set canent ud lt public sector Virtually the only Instead he has hedged and where Phase 4 still exists is in amidst clouds delayed of sector, ana rhetoric announcine unese meds- workers are determined not to ures at the last possible minute to militant future image perravals or as memoersni• Workers from all four unions must sweep aside the treacher- delays Cous and natt hearted proposals of their leadership, embarking the

OUT

strike action TUlI claim from 22 January. Fisher, Basnett Spans- wick cannot de Trusted to wit this claim, least of all with their puny 'selective action' and poles rublic sector workers mus complete control of the take strike from the to very start ensure a tun victory Mass meetings should be in all called immediately work es an sons dran Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR.

Martial law areas encircling Turkish Kurdistan; the fascists use anti-Kurdish racialism to fuel their campaign of violence. Chile beer catastroone nave learned by these bankrupt that the leaders, who now urge 'used martial law correctly'. is not vet a fascist military dictatorship in Turkey. But martial law means that such dictatorship is oniy one step away. Ecevit, with the full blessing ot workers leaders. Is oveninc Chilean coup, Astoric deea от Ine likes working class. World imperialism desperate needs

SUCH

reactionar crackdown in lurkey to neip counter the growing mass move.

men •ral and stdollis capitalism in Turkey itself.

But the Turkish working class still has not been defeated.

It mas mne cower ano the will to prevent a military-fascist take- over. do so, the central demand must be for a uniter front of workers organisations Ecevit's independent party and govern- bourgeois ment. United front All organisations- workers

TCP

TLP,

and the union the

DISK

confederations mus break from their bioc with Ecevit and fight his generals and for worKers •аПО Tarmes govern mentimed workers' militia must built as means ou fighting and defeating the fascist thugs. In the course of this struggle a Trotskyist party must be built Street violence as martial law is imposed lead revolutionary atrocities against martial law, or struggle for workers power *Down fascist delence or jobs and living WIth standards. murders! Build workers militias *Break "Progressive" with Ecevit and hi and ceneras! workers peasants government! instedo unev nave created The thusion that acevit as determination for the "progressive" politician is acting Kurdish people! For their riaht solely in the name of "demo independent Kurdish cracv" state! None of the lessons of the ing against army and volunteer SEr ke action coootec suo•ore• by a 10% levy of the member- the weeks leading up to ship in Steps such these are Area and district joint shop already being taken in areas of stewards committees London and throughout the joint thest works comattee. and neve County ario ual branches must combine to measures, with the union leader.

being give full form committees official backina. To coorenote ne concon ano distribution finances a rapid and complete victory for local level and organise picket-

EGA THREAT

The Elizabeth Garrett EGA was made in Julv 1978 Anderson hospital is facing Then, the groundswell of oppos ition the threat including a new threat to its contin- London wide acti0l uation, while a crucial step forced him to back down has been taken in the aban- Developments Bethnal donment of the struggle to Green strengthened defend Bethnal Green Hos- Ennals' hand. The same failure pital mobilise the labour At the EGA the Christmas niche mids period and the shortage the occupation of the accident and emergency department and Nas beer used Ared an excuse the plan to Health Autnority hospital down still geriatric nosolta to run ine •ul Life On 11 June 1976 this same ine mam oolective now is te manoeuvre used close rebuild support for defensive all- down the EGA maternity out strike action, starting with a when nas never deen reopened Secretary State David Health Committee meeting on 3 Ennals' last attempt to close the January