Socialist Press no. 138

KHOMEINI'S ARMY!

BUILD WORKERS'

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 138 * 21 February 1979 * 15p

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sion given by the capitalist media, and press and mass carefully cultivated by the new Iranian regime, the massive ' revolution that toppled the Shah is not over: rather it is entering its critical most stage of development. At stake now is whether the masses go forward to the seizure ot power and the overthrow of or a breath- ing space is given to the bour. caisie to reconstruct the capit. alist state and a new form of dictatorship imposed.

Every of ction the Khomeini Ayatollah directs theTatter course.: Scarcely the smoke ceased to billow over ransacked amy barracks and police head quarters Tehran appointed Prime Minister İranian troops in action pro capitalist nature of the new Iranian "Islamic Republic".

His first moves were to call tor an end to the armed struggle which the Iranian Throuan. had toppled the Shah's colossal ana seeminerv invincible military machine, and be surrendered by vor dus to ad-hoc militias Avarollar Khomeini's headquarters. His second move was to call for end tenacious series men temployees orders, employees government and he bazaar that had formed the mass move- the ment against the Shah and his puppet regime under Bakhtiar.

what t• make it •cipar return. to work means This practice, Bazargan hastened to international last week's "cassure administration Tor including Japan and the lato on the American Embassy, USA that he hoped oil exports ambassador William which "to Sullivan his staff-CIA world quickly resumed. woule avenes ana dir-were saveo trom Bazargan went on to make a justice only by the intervention grovelling of forces loyal Khomeini. Ine Executions And Tollowing the execution of four of the Shah's last week ne nas taken steps to cuisure Indu any Turner execu- the

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take solace on v at hands of his government. Bazargan and Khomeini art acreed above al on one thing: that the power in the new be kept must at all costs out of the hands of the workers and poor peasants whose courage, militancy and down- sachince. fall of the Shah. The four executions of pro- Shah cenerals unal nave so occured took place not on the decision of a people's court but the instruction or me same Revolution- 'Islamic snadowy Council" which ary apported wealthy wourucols bazaran lead the new government. In other words governmental Oil worker. control in Iran has so tar only

MILITIAS!

been transferred from one self- non elected capitalist elite to another And as oil workers , тастогу government worker ano employees return to • work for the benefit of the same private multinational Castlalists ano syndicates; as the unemployed face of unchanded future poverty; as Iranian women and national sellair denied ine mosi oasic ceme adle rents the reality of this will trigger fresh situation rounds of struggle Lne demands which first drove them struggle against masse Into the Shah. Nominees The danger facing SUCh struggle: the unat atter of the most obvious rem oval hardline supporters of the Shah top brass, alone mantary Bazargan will Anomen and simply install their own loyal nominees the псао от тає reconstructed armed forces.

Already a new chief of staff of the armed forces has begun a selective purge And in the airforce Bazargan has bowed to pressure from the ranks sacked the mar ail Torce chiet oniv five days ago in favour of more 'pop ular' choice. But what right has bazargan to pick anc choose commanders? not clear evidence that the armetorces witne reconstructed and strengthened?

Khomeini has tar made only about value noises the old armed forces with a Army" trolled Islamic ruling •CHoue he has said, Ano even Inis, would "take time". Meanwhile he . has called armed unite with the supporters remainine heavy t But neavy righting las week in Tabriz between revol- utionary guerrilla units and pro Shah military force! SnOUIO serve as a vivia. reminder ot the dangers the huge Iranian armed forces are not disbanded Bazargan ha Inteatened "crush" any political opponent -that "destabilises": the rule of Iranian capital. Already issue is being . The raised by Iranian workers them- IRAN: Tudeh Party: a history of betrayal Centre pages Bazargan speaks at mass rally selves. Last week saw thousands army will be used to repress demonstration held. 'in strikes; to end occupations o defiance of Khomeini demand- to help enforce the Tactones. ing the disbanding of the stand.

continued oppression ing army and the removal of the women, and Bazargan government. of capitalists wrivate robert. The task must be undertaken and wealthy merchants such as the Bazargan and wner power of state machine is at its rantan government. lowest ebb The armed forces peasants worKers ano and in vain for this "Islamic oismanter walt by Khomeini's Republic" offer Teace-noi measure: own chosen forces, but by resolve economic armed workers' militia problems and guarantee o rawn from the factories and working basic rights, the questions must class localities, under who do alise acain ana adain. control of elected committees.

Khomeini and Bazargan done, the • represent?

IRIS

not To whom are they danger is that, in the hands of the new regime a reconstructed Continued p. 2 Col. 2 Crowds hoist head of Shah's father

PORTUGAL: REGIME CRACKS

DOWN ON WORKING CLASS

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The right wing non- elected government in Portugal unleashed new wave of anti-working class policies last week. The led government, former official Mota Pinto-a unaer tue oaiazar dictatorsni sackeo 18 ot the ezcers or tne ten-day old telephone workers' strike. nuce pressure nao been but the workers to return to work, including a propaganda cam alen in tae meota accusine them of responsibility (by dis- rupting communications) omats iniuries ano aisruotion caused by last week's floods.

But the workers held firm and the vernent unpic" mented is sacking inreat.

Draft into army It now proposes. to sack hundreds more the strike does not end, and to draft the the strikers reS! InTC Ine armed i Torees-an anti strikc measure much beloved of dic- tators Salazar and Franco.

Though the main union fed- eration, the CGTP-Intersyndical, have held STAlINIST leadersnip back moves to spread the strike to other sectors in response to the sackinos. There is no doubt, however, that the government's provoca- tive. dellons Will ereatly strengthen the growing political hostility to in the working class. • hostility was ARoi that further strengthened last week election (which must take place by the anno neerrenl may happen before) with rapidly rance winister Nunes ot. the new International Monetary declining chances of maintaining Fund-inspired budget. the vote which in 1976 made i1 the largest party in parliament.

"uIS :S.a series ot govern ment spending cuts and The CP's opportunist oppos- consumer increases which ition Covermenu will ' saverev.nit emolovment oainino it .a good daal ot the and working class living support which Soares S sine. standards. addition the This added to the wage 1974 has posed as the chamoion parliamentary democracy ContrO ooricie. Whicn Ine government is trying to enforce against right wing and left wing in the telephone workers strike. lotautaridnisim. becoming every Promise harder for Socialists retain this image • witnou lakee Inflation in the last year has some stand against the present (officially) been 24%. unelected government. The telephone workers' Especially last week when claim is for mere 19% against new moves were made whict the official limit of 18%.

may result in the re-establish- ment of independent secret Nunes trying to senr tne an 18% figure with the promise contica bolice that inflation will fall to 18% in designed to control "the illegal activities of foreigners in Portu- The next veer. but the new ax increases already make that gal" "promise" false look wocco The budget is now due to be debated in the parliament so the political survivai of the more cover mnent once stake. Pinto Mota was originally confirmed in office bv a oositive answerable? To whom should vote of the two parliamentary now turn with workers their bourgeois parties-the Social •emanos! Democrats and Christian Demo.

The answer is clear. The new crats.! regime is unelected, answerable A 'Noi vote from the CP was •to no-one, ano not supject to given the recall. more •ecisivelv because of the Stalinists' know- Under such conditions more that the Socialist Party and workers will recog more would abstain and so allow the nise the necessity to tight tor a government to take office.

constituent assembly • g The leadership under democratically elected by Mario Soares has objections ff0 versal Tranchise. Waich political parties will appeal for TNe bolicies the covern- ment, are undo for their policies, and in whicn to. support much as possible the gains made which delegates are recallable a1 •by workers and peasants in the any time. Such an assembly must be arterman or tne 194 revo- tion. called upon to establish a legal Tramework within which demo.

Started policies, cratic rights are guaranteed, and do rest on the whims of "Revolutionary It was Soares' own govern- «nomelnis Council." all fI1CI8L

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Started Salazar's But insofar as such a body oonces which successars are now putting into attempts itself to operate within action. ue iomework mooserov ne need to preserve capitalism in soares was aroppea by ine bourgeoisie because it believed Iran it prove itself unable he not moving fast enough was to satisfy the most elementary -I0L urouel dosonce oTwil neeos or the m.asses These needs can only •be stoecause nascary was ctHl fulfilled through the overthrow the liking of working class ot capitalism and the establish- the Portuguese bourgeoisie.

ment planned socialist от а And those pressures are now economy. even greater socialist This is why. sce ov side leadership approaches a general with the struggle for a constitu- This move towards a more the right-wing government not authoritarian political structure, the basis of a principled fight following recent fascist soclaiisn

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oaTT OT [E workers, jockeying for position of rival - bureaucracies polntel to mne extreme canoer the Portuguese working What both of them avoid is Tacing Cass anything WiCO WOUlO i Dring them together in parliament or Mobilisation anywhere else against bourgeois cove nent ane barces They have both preferred to The danger can only be over- connive come by the independent mobil- 1974 ot. the gains o1 CrOSIOl Isation or. tne working class reject wage control and spend- ing cuts, demand rein- sacked tele- statement ot the .workers, impose onone government of workers' parties implement policies which answer the material and oolitica needs . of the working class and Crisis has returned to other oppressed classes. the coalition govern- i ne CAleT •ostace to suci policies remain the opportunism ment in Iceland, atter and class collaboration the only a brief period of reformist leaders •talinist and relative calm. They periodically "oppose" IRAN: from front page ent assembl!. workers workers management to seize Irantan need ai to the assets of the capitalists and auuvt casofradlt organs of their offer cheap credit to the poor ano exteno the own peasants; and towards the draw committees and strike lactol ı v 0 oł d worke àn cor e programme of public works to committees that emerged spon- taneously during the struggles provide jobs for the unemploy against the Shah ana mucH neeaca socid services. in eacn localty the workers organisations must send elected Bring down Bazargan delegates to local soviets, which can coordinate ana direct the The struggle for each struggle for both economic and these s dem aods will show the political demands bring necessity down the Aiready the Iranian workers bazaroal governmen! have shown their capacity for establish a workers' and struggle; high peasants govenment ws ave noe e d! carrv through this fiqh1

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central bank workers which a revolutionary Marxist party is published details of the needed party under- by Curielcy ex oortee stands the need for the workind royal government and family class to play the leading role in figures, and of course the emer.

the next crucial stage clilt workers utionary struggle which alone militias. Can i o•en une coor to socialim Occupation in Iran and the resolution of the problems of both and i workers Now it is crucial that these ocasalila LTTe contexı oi d elements of workers' power are •annee socialist economv occupation *Down with the dictatorship •eve ooe• lowards op mig or the books of the big major industries and of Bazargan! For a constituent *Build workers' militia and monopolie. TOrce Toeir without soviets in every area! nationalisation under workers' *Expropriate the capitalist management; towards action to monoseles *For a workers and peasants Torce tne nationalsation ot the banks and finance houses under government! SOCLALISI PRESS, H'ednesday 21 February 1979 Portuguese soldiers break up factory occupation in 1976 rather than make move would which sur cua tiel independence the UnIT working class. unity and. indepen- dence can oniy be co sisuenu Towont Tor ano ceve doed ov tha building revolutionary Trotskyist party to replace the reacner! oT caeer. usurped the gains of the revolu- tion of 1974 and 1975.

ICELAND CRISIS

Prime Minister Johanne. of the son (leader radical Progressive Party of the small tarmers) has proposed a series of anti-working class measures to drag Icelandic capitalism out oi its econ omic mire. Centrally the Progressive Party is for huge arguing threshold pay-

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ments at present made to workers. The importance of these is obvious from payments figures. Inflation Tne 1978 ran at 47%-well up to the record of recent years Johanneson's proposals have been supported by the Social Democrats within the three party coalition. But the People's Alliance have threatened to withdraw from the coalition and bring down the government if the Prime Minister tries to go ahead with his plans. Formed partial conflict with the Kiemlin out of the wreck of the Party, Communist the People's Alliance is no more revolutionary and less Stalinist than the

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familiar strains of Eurocom- munism in Italy, France or Spain. Thus behind their fight- ing words lies the undoubted determination of Iceland's workers to resist attacks from the coalition designed to make them pay for the economic crisis of the capitalist class. Steel- jobs fight reaches new peak dimax new was reached on Friday in the 21,000 struggle against redundancies proposed by the French government in the steel industry. A general strike gripped th industry in the two main stec producing areas of Lorraine and Nord-Pas du Cálais. The steelworkers were joined by iron carworkers miners, toachers, and even shopkoopars protestime against such devastatina economic blow to the regions.

ino sirikes were backea. ut by other methods with occupe tions of government buildings road blocks and various protest gestures Longwy, near the Belgian border, was of the the centr tawn was completely cut off by barricades of roacks the and occupation of the railway sta tion. Here sympathy action wos also taken across the border M workers whose Baloran economic life is bound up with the Franch steel industry.

steel workers them selves face similar attacks in thi name of 'rationalising the ind ustry from government. the the workers' movement under thes!

attacks. The state may wall be forcer to pun back at unis moment Du1 win their fight, the

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programme. Oocupations will have to be developed thi aroulte of open the capitalist books in fight for work sharing on full pay and for the full nation.

industry ausatior under workers management.

Sadat steps in The the tremors trom revolution in iran have spread through the whole world, and in Oman, across the Persian Gulf, they have already shaken the security of another tyranny. Iranian troops have now been withdrawn from Oman in Dhotar. wtiere

LIEY

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imperialist alongside British forces against the Popular Front tor the Liberation of Oman Shah had sent troops there in his role as inperialism's policeman of the Gulf, . 10 OT0• tne corrupt ano dictatona state of Sultan Qabus Non President Sadat of Egypt has SOnT in Torce . 1(0 replace the Shah's army. His rapid move probably the date Suar sest oxam oe Sadat's determination operate as a cliênt state of US woenaist tu tae ared The speed of his action has been forced by the fear that the wotkor. ane oascs ov r inspired by the Iranian wilme sevilt heir se un opreor.

against o rcoor. 200 troops only are involved at this stage Sadat has claim to take over where the • Shah tailec as impertalism s local polceman In the process provided the masses of the Middle East with another stark example of the true political bourgeois Arab nationalism.

Chad guerrillas score fresh successes As we go to press, further imperialist puppet ruler is on the point of defeat in Africa. President Malloum of Chad is reported hiding out at the the

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of protecuon troops. The latest collapse of his army is the culmination of 13 years of civil war which pulling ' been Ilave the immense central African republic apart. Last week fighting broke out in the capital city of N'Djamena between

1OICCS

the supporting prime minister and troops loyal'to the president. The 'Govern- ment of National Reconcil- iation' was dissolved as its two leaaers

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vied for supreme power. violent quarrel But this imperialism's between, puppet and its than side- little more product of the real civil war in Chad. Chad is a massive terri- France, than Spain and Portugal put of together. the poorest countries in the world. Agricultural methods and the are primitive climate hostile. Natural and far few resourCes between, while industry Material factors The mass of Chad's 3½ million people live in con- ditions of total poverty and starvation; ReCUTICAL worsened bv the periodic which afflict the droughts region. material factors Caused the and driven increasing of the and a2a0SE of Presi- French pendence 1960. imperialism But when the was. hauled down troops remained in there-with And one short break-they have remained to this day. Tombalbaye's Under rule, the imperialists contin- ued their profitable exploit- ation of Chad unhindered, the tound

HANSON

lifting of their oppression. because Yet, the specific conditions within the the country,

• SLUREC

developed against wich imperialism took the form of inter-racial and inter-religious strife. Like the neighbouring Sudan, other and Chad African states, peopled by tne

MOTTO

and in Muslim Arabs the south by Christian and animist black Africans. Tombalbaye's regime was drawn enter Irom Lne south, and the war seemed first to SOCIALIST PRESS. Wednesday 21 February 1S79

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struggle between two ethnic groups. wven bourgeoisie still presents the conflict in these misleading

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Skilful imperialist manip- Certay produced considerable racial antagonism. Yet this divisive rivalry has already come to take second place. the

FROLINAT

As extended its control from the north, the black African masses flocked to join in the struggle against imperialism.

The anti-imperialist content the fight has ripped through the 'artificial barriers of racial conflict, and. this develonment has brought far bigger problems for the imperialists and their agents. French called back Even the might of the French army could not keep Tombalbaye in power as he battled against the

FROLINAT

The war took its toll in the south too, as military expendi- massive ture combined witn trophic droughts to produce explosive social unrest. In this dangerous the army situation moved quickly and toppled Tom balbaye 1975 As General Felix Malloum made himself president, the French troops withdrew-. but not for long. Unable to end the war by military or diplomatic means, Malloum soon called the French army back, larger numbers than before.

But all this armed might has prevented the FROLINAT from advancing further to a position where controls more thar

HOW

half the country, and can launch damaging rids with- the area controlled by Malloum extremely difficult Britain reach political assessment of the

FROLINAT.

Organised armies, it has been regional FROLIVAT guerrillas subjected constant which based on the appear to be conflicting ambitions of rather rival opportunists than on political divisions.

Territorial ambitions The FROLINAT'S main Gaddafi, backer • has been the left dictator of Libya to Gaddafi has

HOTLIN

supplied the movement with arms, and Libyan. troops have moved in to the north of Chad. this exercise nowever; has been dictated by Gaddafi's territorial ambitions and not primarily by of giving any concrete support to the rebellion. Libyan forces have occu- pied and annexed the 'Aoun border-a zone' along the Chad, Page 3

CHAD

400 Miles Libya about the size of England.

AOUZOU

(Gaddafi bases his claim on a deal to this territory

TIBESTI

made in 1935 between the Niger French and Faya- premier Lava Mussolini. Libya then was • Largeau an Italian colony). This move seems to have

CHAD

alienated the

FROLINAT,

and Gaddafi was last. vear Biltine unable to persuade them to

LAKE

Djedaa Tripoli with Malloum. •Abéche Bol Serious rival Ati " Sudan Even without this set- Nigeria.

'N'DJAMENA

back, the Libyan demagogue had a senol rival in the race to become 'honest broker' of the Chad dispute Gentral President Numeiri of the Sudan long ago staked his African Republic Cameroon claim to interfere in Chad, and recently his attentions 800 have become more insistent.

Numeiri has been using his year as president of the His own rule is based on of support-the only base Organisation of African an agreement of 1972 which 1,000 troops who • formed Unity consolidate and to limited autonomy his large entourage. gave to promote the position of his President after of and south prime The year. government major bitter civil between squabbled and war minister diplomatic within power black African rebels and the by turns. As Africa.

FROLINAT

advanced, Arab-dominated govern- These manoeuvres have ment in Khartoum. rumours of a coup by Habre led him to seek an agree- chased one another round the Ethiopian with N'Djamena. Last week they Detrees ar in the war in were finally realised Eritrea (the While their servants fight lines are fed from within the the French imperialists are He is now forging Sudan). forced to stand aside and ahead with plans to organise await the outcome a conference of the states in Numeiri's gambit has failed north-east Africa to 'resolve' miserably - whichever side all the conflicts within the emerges victorious, will have Horn of Africa been weakened, strengthened. by the Parallels conflict Numeiri's Numeiri has already commitment reaped the reward of offer- to the anti-imperialist ing the best assistance lilustrated struggle was graphically last year when can to rescue imperialism from perilous straits The he declared his support fo the French imperialist inter- French government has now released funds for the econ- vention in Zaire "development' of the But Numeiri has concen- omic much of his energy Sudan-by French capital- Irated ists. on neighbouring Chad. No doubt he has been driven on by the alarming parallels No comfort between the situation there But the situation in Chad and the history of the imperialists offers the Sudan. comfort. The opportunities for the FROLINÄT to seize are growing daily. power French workers mus for French not wait the Numeiri imperialist army • to be thrown out of Chad by the That fragile peace could easily be disrupted by anti-imperialist forces the which example of events in Chad, movement as French arose last year against wnere une struggie the central troops were sent into Laire pro-imperialist must be taken up once more and developed further. The advanced fight capitalism threatening character. azalist be waged within a With last year's cannot single country Khartoum agreement, It international an Numeiri aimed Malloum's struggle of class forces. To strengthen advance that revolutionary (southern) government by the struggle, workers on bringing of European homelands prime minister. capitalism must place them- selves alongside the libera- Discredited struggles in Chad and Africa, by throughout The man chosen for this organising their strength to Hissene Habre. part was former. leader of the demand the immediate

FROLINAT,

Habre withdrawal of all imperialist totally discredited with troops from Africa.

FROLINAT

broader layers of the Chad masses for his willingness to compromise with Malloum When finally arrived lile N'Djamena August. Malloum Habre brought with him his

CAMDEN CRACKS: NOW

PRESS FOR FULL CLAIM!

Dustmen vote to reject The second week of the full that indefinite strike action by well attached present a threat to the

NUPE

Camden General conditions of its members.

workers has •seen a major Secondly, the drawbacks, breakthrough with Council's offer Labour-controlled Council.

massivé concession to the claim, On Wednesday February 14 going way beyond the miserable the deal that the news nit ine paces or national press that following a trying of Camden labour the Callaghan. night, group tne orevious policy was to be put to next Focus council meeting con-

NUPE

claim full If the une for a dominimla walk and London were 35 hour week, with an almost Camden's altout strike delore certain chance of being adopted this. as council policy. Camden Committee are now increasingly.

Apoplexy becoming struggle nationally. Evening The London under an editorial Standard

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comrade. ters fighting in the labour move- Caves went In Heo camden ment into a fit of apoplexy denoun- played a central those who had supported nave the development of white collared the decision strike action, the attempts to set friends of the people, mostly employed the state, who an organised collectivist fanta- Fisher, and rate payers expense of Camden's.

their The the fight Council Labour things are clear from Two claim. the events of last week. struggle in Camden is on a much First, higher political level now.

the offer put by the concession it's Telecting aroup the total being portrayed as. new offer did the new offer come action, but How demands about? As i have said in Socialist be sympathetic to our fight.

weeks, Press over the last

EWU

example, the fact that our strike INDEFINITE action, of all the the the South Labour Party led IO sections. las our Borough camden gradually grinding to a halt. November. put a tremendous of Many pressure The Counci 'lefts the pressure com- employers, pletely missing if you only take Ken vinostone. have verbally SELECIED action. The second major factor in.

this concession from the forcing group is that the strike rutine labour only Strike committee has o where their mouths were. consolidated all out striKe Red Red Youth Youth NOW OUT-Red Youth No.8 Monthly paper of the Socialist Youth League 7p 5p plus 12 months subscription postage. £1.44. From

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31. Dart- mouth Park Hill, , London NW5

RALLY

Saturday 24 February, at 3.00 p.m. Caxton House, St. John's Way, Archway, London N19. Followed "State of Siege" and disco. Tickets (50p by film provinces, £1 London) and details of transport from SYL National Secretary, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR. break from The Strike Committee know Tne

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the the national necotiations: Ine Strike Committee must escalate forming a joint action these the despite Strike with committee Labour several major hospitals ane stations in the ambulance (reoresents aim to get boroudn WItT concerted indefinite StriKe

NUPE

amongst all to cobble together with branches in the borough Following example The Road dustmen the Cressy indefinite strike action has to be spread into other boroughs. The Council of Action which is the eyes of workers in General Camden towards turning NUPE. and Labour rarty ward.

has to be built to contro he cathen G, thral Stone the actions and extend strike suspiles Camden's success must action. model

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nationa focus Tne indefinite strike action. of all and. suppor- Nure members No acceptance the borough role There must be no acceptance noelle which. out ofte any oppositior rather than giving a real increase and conditions merely in wages already bonuses TorCE consonadle: concede the being paid. victory in Camden on this basis could provide the political As John Seymour says, ' the independent way TorwarO action for workers coming into struggle a major con- cession from the first council in necessary Council in the public sector pay dispute.

happened last Tuesday What turned these then? Strike Well the Camden labour councillors who claim to Committee organised a lobby of the Labour Group as they went has been into their meeting. the st included

GMC

I was went in then since last demand that the Labour Group support our claim. As ! understand it, after we the well Knowl Shaw Council as

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Phil nationalmotion Turner, StICK WitT negotiations-which supported was rejected 14-13 put We turned the pressure of all Livingstone •ner Ker demanded they put their money a resolution calling on the group to concede the full claim and to go ahead and settle locally even if it meant standing against the Labour Government. This last part, "going against the Labour was Government deleted and the final resolutior accepted by 15 votes to 9 was as follows: agrees the

KICK OUT SCAB

group for a basic wage of NUPE claim

CALLAGHAN!

and hour week resolves to open local negotia- implement this tions cecision. This new basic wage include the consolidation earlier phases of

IRAN: BREAK WITH THE AYATOLLAH!

awards policy the Governments ody and also the existing guaranteed bonus schemes. that this policy will • reduce citterentias ahe the reduction resolve that basic hours should lead to increase in employment rather than overtime. What was the response of your members? Well as you can imagine they The London triumphant. were the evenine Davels claiming that the Council were had given in. After the news broke on the my phone never Evening News, stopped ringing asking whether it was all over. Next day some of our blokes turne• vo exocune to cou n.U.P. Wake

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CAMDEN A

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a Manur Mike Taylor, NUPE full time officer addressing meeting called by Camden Strike Committee John Seymour, NUPE shop steward at the Cressy Road refuse depot talks to Socialist Press about the steps now to press home the partial victory over Camden work because we had won. Is it a victory? akthrough for use and cal to some workers When oreakinrough public sector workers. And this like that it Council cracking is an example be done for for everyone. •i what Call in workers other public secto struggle if they take indefinite ments strike actior However if you look closely up sewn at the Labour Group resolution tant next step ir that doesn't can see you give everyone a 40% pay rise.

In what ways? thought they had Well am Durancemer conceded everything and it wa other boroughs. We have a matter of getting the full Council meeting oressure were that cillors by worries right wing cillors would vote with Ene the claim prevent " ories do was to top up the deficit after existing bonuses had been consolidated basic pay. ast your basic pay added InTe your 460 You will only receive the bonus is already over negotiated settle. nationar ment of say, 9%. What was the Strike Committee this new interpre-

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tation by the Labour group?

Well we were angry, it was a clear attempt to split the work- so-called Torce and make higher paid' (like dustmen who the highest bonus) on the for increast Tinance lowest paid workers. We rejected the Councillors' call for a return to work and are starting a new round of talks on Monday. been electeo on u • nave. and 1 can the neaotiating team assure you I will fight against the offer as it stands. How do you think the strike will go in the next week?

Well as I have said, although the offer as it stands is still SOCIALIST PRESS, Hednesday 21 February 1979 Right wing Labour councillor Bethal of strong lobby inadequate it does represent mount Monday's meeting with the massive concession, a concession which would give the full claim councitors As well as giving us a weapon force the claim onto: the to your employer shifts to point to ive NuPE will give is time tó escalate council the action to win the full claim weapon bureaucrats who are carrying out Fisher's policy of tecting existing bonus arrange- isolating strikes and demorars workers who are only too Because we have effectively ing Camden ready to fight the (Imoor An organised opposition has this winning built following Camden's to be claim is to spread the action to example if this claim is to be other branches in the borough, won. well The tasks one much higher remain great out we are political level now. to intensity ine the Labour coun- and method Pickets at Brent transfer station

Putting the Labour SOCIALIST PRESS. i ite 'left wing' on the spot from ordinary people at the bus take up the fight How did vou that they stop on the NUPE claim? resolution through vote Tory. because they re put my branch calling urgently for a Counci or Action to coorainate strike action for the claim and should include the Trades from •credates Council, local

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raTties and NUPE. Then I put another challen- ging camden counch to meet claim 'even if it evokes defiance of the present. Labour 'Government'. The first was passed un- second opposed,

GMC

unanimousiv already committed to support for the £60/35 hour claim.

next GMC was the

DULL

AGM and the wnoie time was taken up with elections and the

NUPE

Report. There we ranamelstar y were with une most During issue of the day in Camen it not in the whole country, with says: of Camden manual The wnole workers out on strike Labour-controiled council and we weren't even able to have a report from the counciliors discuss the, two motions on the agenda. What did MP Lena Jeger have to.

she sooke on me concordal.

She said if the Labour Party the didn't build on the party the Tories -and SOfT would come DOWeT concordat was the only chance, She said she lives in the con- stituency and what she hears GMWU: no way to call branch meeting rota for picketing. Strike action by GMWU By closed North East the workers nad London Polytechnic for an first, but entire week from February 12. planned by the It was Harrington, Dave union leadership as part of went over the programme of selective a.m. strikes and has been full Yesterday controlled by public library next to West timers. strikers have But many to feel the need for begun elected from democratically other

NALGO,

strike committee. Many of them would like the solidarity. to stay out indefinitely and What has with other to make disputes in the area such as for the first time? East Memorial Hospital, the and the school caretakers support and refuse tip workers. regularly for ine pickel A major obstacle is that We followed there is no procedure in the our We had a GWU rules for calling an said emergency branch meeting, of the strikers and of have little experience 'union disputes? fighting their not officials. nadoen mi we ce Socialist Press inter- Cooper, Vera viewed ing till next week. refectory worker. I think it's a good the unions the big four The strike has been very strong indeed. How has tnis aeveloped: WITh OINe We started off, in a bit of gone if l'd heard of one.

of at the beginning ConTusIon How 0o vOU the week 'because many will be won? never been strike It's before. We didn t know our refectory until-we reached work on Mon- different • 8V precincts we had to organise a St. Pancras and her local Labour Party branch.

up with strikes," and with their parents avina ano not buried, their children not going

PAN

NUPE

insults Strikers demonstrate on 22 January Day of Action even in the canteen. It's against the management right up to the end of the week we closed. government. precincts Speaking personally I don't Greengate House nad been opert back. should that was closed

TINK

think that now we've got tnis far we should stay out. And Waltham Forest-Ron I think it would be a good Dalgarno, the shop steward, and idea to have a strike committee the official 5 there early, about next time we come out and that idea to our put and got that ciosea down guided by what the we closec Rut o be Ham don't …know me because the heating is connected In general it is ditticult to find people to be active. We're We've had great cooperation married women unions-NATFHE, WItn

ASTMS

and the Tamilies in the student union. I was amazed by The meetings are at Barking. evenings get there. how ever KnUv been …the response or we cont nave misurtes from women members on strike anything. We do in our tenant S which I'm active:!. assoc alur We have found it a bit of ar we're because ordeal. But there's been a lot of so dispersed. here are six siles they've turned just round here so we never see ine. oiners exact v what full timer Dave Harrington meeting and had it explained and we al Have you discussed all-out strike action and linking up with other will sure what to work on Monday. We won't have a meet- idea for act togetner, We haven't had any meetings unions. i wouid lave think the strike so difficult when you've never been on strike before. In nave CoUl relations with our manageress.

Basnett But this dispute is not just Sandra Plummer, a member of Holborn South Constituency Labour Party tells Socialist Press how she fought for support for the NUPE claim in TO SChool the She went on latest Gallup Poll 'proving' that most workers want secret ballots. the she had agenda DU l calling for a Council of Actior Lection Party to "win Labour and demanding that camden Council up-both passed pay next step -inside with only one vote against Labour Party is to call for She knows whoe SeCTIOnS are on strike who've not been emergency conference up a socialist manifesto for the out tor vears It shows how completely out nexi electior of step she is, and the nonsense Government must de mandateo MP's whether left' or right who of the old argument about the won't comply should be thrown importance OT uniting

HUP

PICKET

LONDON

DIVISION

PRESS

GANG

"keeping the If there was ever a time British army when needed a hero it is now of the six counties merely Ireland. 16-year old Shooting Nairac must back in unarmed vouth in the The ceo te Gros. a graveyard-the latest victim of He is murderers-is hardly the this and •was

WIT

unere influence people. celebration the youth had been dead SAS assassins go responsible for telling the army The press were hidden where arms is bound to be a in the adverse comment even British character, Opportune moment Robert Nairac's election interview. ranks official hero stressed the parents came therefore at an opportune Luby moment and

MUSU

Their son. have been gratified by the Nairacs response. pride. awarded the George He was Cross tor oravery -Int • niones! award the state can make in 'peacetime'. English upper been Hao nare awal uniformed Northern Ireland then Dool would have qualified for the That died. But since the army is merely

LABOUR

PARTY

out-along with the Callaghan the, cabinet. that the the 1 nE orrection Camden Strike Committee has of putting demands on taken oran the councilors to alve the claim is crucial. They must go which demand active further and support of MP's to kick out •Callaghan..

VCMARTMENT OF

AND ELECTRICA

• NORTHERN D

H Pickets on the Cressy Road refuse depot the area for his operations peace'

IRA.

would Northern Ireland and since the agains Tne amount of dead as easily into a republic ; one of those pub background as Irish people and British soldiers clothes result of the

TICT TOOL

inspectors would merge police strenuous peace keeping ettorts into a London East End pub and not the result of war then that rest content with fibre of his body. bearine and would have proclaimed not actually alive to manner to the world that he was a secret honour agent Nairac went one better in his going whereve work To complete undercover his disquise he led the singing o on the award with delight. Nairac was dubbed Republican songs i ne •ols 'Begorrah' between shouting Captain Courageous: His life and death were generally held up as verses. In this way cunningly anitomising all that is right with this wad in was tation away and collected And an example for you interviews ight ris shot. (And if ever that favourite • With verdict of the British inquests how had and how proud of homicide fitting use-this would be it.)

ancestral home There opportunity •swelled WiLl perhaps for admirers of Nairac's art to put their devotion to ta Secret agent test. right blend of To find the Nairac was a product of the brutality and stupidity; to givi classes. the opportunity Henn servI officer les bring it to imperialism; to conclu. six miles from where h sultaos • Traclcom sion. Such stutt are heroes made He had been well known in of.

STALINIST THREAT TO

IRANIAN REVOLUTION

Millions on the streets of Tehran: but without a Marxist leadership they could still face the prospect of defeat 4,500. This had ship was Since the 1940s Iran- weeks under the leadership fallèn to 1000 bý 1922 and Communists and ian Stalinism has taken only 600 by 1924. radical Panjabi party. the form of the Tudeh mid-1920s the 1920 the soviet state In Party. CP, like other Persian brutally crusned by d was Comintern parties under the In its very formation and from military column destructive growing title em bodied Tehran headed by Reza Tone influence of Stalin, took an class policy ambiguous increasingly collaboration and betrayal Compromise towards its own of the independence of the DOS On oppressor, Reza Shah. working class. But in 1927, the Party's Within a year the govern- Tudeh means mass Second Congress saw a shift in the

USSR

party name ment threatened by civil war and to vocal opposition to Reza selected by the Stalinists to problems Shah line with the avoid any specific identific- economic Comintern's left turn with ation with the working class and anxious to protect its which it initiated the Third borders, had made a com- or with communism anu lo non proletarian with the Persian Period'. promise The CP's new policy was signing bourgeois liberal member- government, friendship treaty and with- one of "united front for a sulp ana suppor toilers' government" The Tudeh in practice, drawing ot the section not even a Red Army from the north tnerelore was- 'Left' rhetoric degenerated workers' party: of the country it was established from the Reza Khan's power It called for the end of meant increasing repression beginning on the principles for the young Communist the monarchy, free elections of popular front Party. and other alien астостанс embracing In 1921 when it went demands, a minimum wage, the working class. its member- nationalisation of capitalists The more classic kind of underground popular front-an alliance of bourgeois parties was not feasible in Iran because. at the height Stalin's ›opula: front period, the CP did not exist Dynasty founded, Or rather it had been destroyed. Communist Party was first tormed in Iran in 1920. This was only one year before Reza Khan, a tsarist Cossack-trained military father officer oi tne deposed Shah) recently. seized power with the help imperialists of the British and then in lyco loanaea the Pahlavi dynasty. of Reza Khan's seizure power brought to an end a huge social period upheavals whose height was the soviet revolutionary Gilan republic OI northern Persia. Mossadeq This republic lasted a few and confiscation and redis- tribution of the land this 'left' despite still the rhetoric was declared aim ot the CP to build an alliance with bour- geois nationalists Reza Shah and his British allies The programme slightly increased the CP strength ot but not enough for it to be able breakthrough the on it by 1m posed Dalla Reza Shah's repression. In 1931 this repression was stepped up very sharply and it became illegal even to "collectivist" profess Under this extreme the CP was repression eliminated from the political scene. persecuted Leaders not by Tehran were persecuted by Moscow and Stalin had a number of them murdered during the Moscow Trials.

But before it disappeared the Persian CP had another opportunity to demonstrate its political degeneration as part of the Stalinist Comin- tern. Journal 1932 it In came out • in support of the strongly butcher of the masses and the CP's own oppressor by of supporting his revoking concession the an imperialists. The last of this phase of period • in the history Iranian Stalinism began in 1935 when group of Stalinist intellectuals began - publish theoretical journal. This was suppressed and 1937 52 of in lls leacing supporters were jailed. The new epoch opened in 1941 when, after the Angry crowds haul down statue of Reza Shah.

Nazi invasion of the USSR, Stalin and his new imper- allies occupied Persia ialist and deposed Reza . Shah, who had sided with Hitler Though the 1931 anti- communist lav was level lifted, the new occupation proved extremely able for the development of a new mass, Stalinist party The initial nucleus of the Tudeh party was Reza intellectuals whom Shah had imprisoned. But it soon grew into a party, along- workers'

THOSS

side an equally, fast-growing Trade monover enl By 1944 the Tudeh had 25 000 members and years later the Tudeh-dom inated Council United Trade Unions had Persian 400 000 members The Russian occupation massive strides for- led ward organisation and in militancy of the working class now appearing as the in Persian leading torce politics. Tudeh party devel- oped an immense popular , following. • One-fifth the In the elections to Majlis (parliament) : which 1944 the took place .Tudeh candidates received the fifth votes one (200,000 out of 1 million) in the whole country and three-quarters of those casi in the northern province of Isfahan But the Tudeh did not use its strength to develop the political independence

SOCIALIST PRESS. misresias Bi February 19ªy Quite opposite. Its geoisie. This was evel out. never- to give parliamentary 1ts bourgeois support governments. The WaN With (in Inen with direc- from The was prepared to Azibijan decided to This than more

DOLO

accordance MOTe bourgeois for the an a was movement party rapidly. and The Azibijan and calling for later geoisie the autonomous danger i of winning. front with Ended strike They were led respective Azibijan Demo- Iv bv the cratic Party and the Kumeleh Party-each dom- imperialist inated by the Stalinists of the Tudeh. The Persian bourgeoisie and up responded to the sudden trade union putting power LuLl another pro-Soviet govern- the ment under Ghavam which the Tudeh supported. From August to October of 1946 Ghavam brought three Tudeh ministers into his cabinet. The purpose of this was to head off the • the feet try radicalising effect which the new national republics were attempt having on the masses in the rest of Persia. The Tudeh did their duty The called for a and their readers proposed Abadan the Gulf on August 1946 to end a major elections. lary oil-workers strike against the Anglo-Persian Oil Com- wally, Stalin Troops join "partic- rose 20,000 peak of where dens remained AllH for an was by a accomplished The beat the to Adapting new and the the 'udel Party "left' was to de turn. retreat" in supported. "revolu- all party of defence coll which once again and These fell were the kept Its went into membership. the Tudeh Many members, however, became function- Douseous that . of «White aries in the Shah's Revolution", a few of them ending up Cabinet Ministers. The leaders took stock government's and made a self-criticism- accusing themselves not of new official

ESKI

under Tudeh. Shah was as ad.result splits and Demonstrators run from tear gas and bullets ianism! Their enough unending alliances forces-with Front (the which Bakhtiar Sanjabi), General Donce by the 1960s. issued in orationist then: revolution stage must terence united, Page - of the Shah In 1967 the USSR began 'its the subones whom tyrant, they continued support politically until only a few months ago The Kremlin evidently decided that after 1953 the Tudeh Party had been effec tively destroyed and its remnants could therefore be sacrificed complètely to Soviet diplomacy 1976 In the Tudeh's opposition radio station in closed down Budana war the Bulgarian because bureaucracy wanted to make trade with the Shah The Tudeh however, realised that unless it identi- fied with opposition to the Shah's dictatorship it could never hope to grow again with the of the nass movement with connections known supporters of the Shah have already made this difficult. Despite the Tudeh's unbelievable bragging days that complete control of the oil workers and, therefore, was force which major brought down the Shah, the ‹Tudeh has not grown very fast during the events lead- ing to last Weeks revolu tion. Its lack of strength in the almost certainly reflected the especially unctuous tone of , its present position (out- lined extracts else- in the 8) of page uncritical support for the Ayatollah Khomeini and the "Islamic anti-socialist Republic". the absence of an independent revolutionary leadership however the The Iranian Minister of Rural Affairs signing a trade pact ir danger is that the Tudeh Sofia with Bulgarian Stalinist minister Yobov.

Party may be able to grow once again in the new situa bour- LOIl peasants, petty Khomeini and the shop- national bourgeoisie keepers) civil well help them in since allied the national have servants and "progressive" rule stablising capilans! capitalists whether they will need more reliable merchants owners of agents in the workers' move.

industries." Tudeh Party they than have at Later of this search for have also the bourgeois the National allies of the search and After "United the 1930s "Freedom Front" and oI was smissed the early National Front programme comprise new central The Shah government. The Tudeh Party has played such counter- politica. task of the revolutionary role before. the present clearly ing class, and

HOW

stand the of ready to use its experience one very few i allo Iranian leaders to do so again. capital. Counter-revolutionary the of the "freedom- So loving". in the immediate aftermath of and freedom- the armed workers, rising of the masses to over- of the throw the imperialist dictat we stress the . importance historical understanding of the Tudeh that the snoula de Party and some extracts from its present programme Will serve as a reminder of the its counter- ‹ revolutionary •role and being feted honoured of its potentially warning counter future. Long live the : Iranian Moscow revolution! supported "reforms" Down the the Bazargan and the referendum government! 'which them Free elections to a Con- stituent Assembly! the reforms retreat For socialism in Iran. world the Form workers, peasants. and soldiers' committees camp". But ist they and militias. tactfully For repeat workers' and peasants' government!

CRTURI: Build workplace councils Pabloites' editorial: no call Fi::

IRAN

What others say Stalinist-in-chief Brezhnev by an army which has the most up-to-date Unlike the Stalinists, the country in the Middle East.

the Restor- Campaign

STOR

ation of Trade Union Rights who sincerely and sketches out incapable of working class line - though out are in ustice. anot call for the failing to cannot be wiped 'workplace councils' to link local together to form internationadi replacement WITh soviets. working class internationally.

people These solution" Let ask who problems in struggling against whom what this would mean. Iran? is the imperialist It through their con (...) powers. trol of the oil and other recognise that industries, and the working working class does not yet have And class.. what the a unified leadership it has still of this present state managed to lay some fundamen- tal pillars for its struggle? The working class has shown otner woros. that by using the strike weapon councils. thev can defeat the imperialists even when the latter are backed In order threaten the with a bloody coup:

BUT

will not be threats. They of lives THouSanaS Tall aw The possessing place connoiete a government peasants and is the only USFI leader Mandel political present It is only by uniting all the sincere anti-regime ano anti imperialist forces in one united offensive an TronI Tal Sumi struggle can be organised. and the final victory realised.

Party of Iran, Tudeh _i ne feeling its historical responsibi.

invites all the lity, opposition aside all the politi. forces to set cal, dolorena, and philosopmi.

ditterences come in one united front in together order that the masses of oppo.

sition against

ONE

Colon enemy can, be armed and orga- nista The aim of the Front, in our should be to bring about view the realisation of all the urgent people, which Hamands of the have vividly manifested Them • the the of and strikes demons ations "'the past few months. These demands could be two groups as summarisco m follows: overthrow of Tene the stant men or a Progre monarchical abhorrent Republic based on the will of abolition of all the the people; organs of the regime, repressive

SAVAR:

head them, the trial and punish- ment of all the traitors, crimi- nals, and corrupt officials- the rule of the working people and for the practice of genuine any WeADOnS democracy: Therefore most impor- There is a third force, those the and the most urgent tant Tal Ki aDou! ¡'"'oppression" one; rantan revorution- socialists is to give all poss- seeing that ary these councils solesol Hole out WIthou and to ineir strengten g destruction of the rule This means that all Iranian capital its living outside Iran and socialists to their country of the Inal snould as soon as possible so that they to participate in the work of Iran's building these councils. without being able But it must also be empna concrete terms sised that these . workplace enough: councils not need working leadership Which can through the forma- only At the same time we have to although tion of a revolutionary working class party. Building such a party needs of one. several orercoulsiles, own rule, them organic relation being with the working people; and the workorave the workplace council is one of These councils are the foun- The Most indispersdore dation for the establishment of stones for building such a party.

to break from Khomeini The new Iranian paper of the 'United' Secretariat of the Fourth International carried on Jan. 20 an editorial concluding with the passage below - making no call for a political break from Khomeini or for the building of soviets and workers' militia.

crisis. ensure the The most important isk of success or mis dian. mey ever revolutionary socialists mass movemen. such about either the that solutign. we must ensure Bakhtiar government or military the overthrow niked polan rule! This is the ruling classes' an linked attack on masses The cooitalist system and the bourgeois state tooled ov-

SUCH

Our most immediate task in haven't given this direction is to fight for the the to keep complete overthrow same regime in power, to have monarchy and all the social and "main- political foundations on which and order", to leave its power. is based. crasses in buel number of different Formed inside and outside ras socialist They will continue until the revolutionary Iran the and now in the process of fusion overton monarchy and the establishment -have come together to give a of workers, response to this important need other toilers. This publication is the result of

SOILTION

and our cooperation Stalinists call for a Popular Front The Stalinist Tudeh Party of Iran has responded to the revolutionary situation not with any call for socialist revolution, but with renewed efforts to form an alliance with 'patriotic' and 'anti-imperialist' capitalists, along with Khomeini and the mullahs!

beginning with the Shah and his undertakines in oil exoloration production, sale; a total ban on the down to the criminal agents for She mandares of she paste Israel and the racist regimes past; for Ine massacres Africa South securing of the ine vidual and of all social rights and freedoms accor expulsion the Universal and British tion of Human Rights; uncondi- (the tional freedom • Le Ine political prisoners; the return of economic ane all the political exiles; setting Institutions; abrogation bilateral constituen drawing up of a new Constitu- Treaty: leaving establishing a tion: and finall Government which would em bark on a programme of total non-aligned national independence and the adopting a policy of friendship country's integrity and provide wil all tut democratic freedoms for the •prepared a Government which country's sovereignty and integ would recovel plundercu wealth of the country; which economic treaties immoosea upol would end the the country by imperialists; and put our national wealth; finally. plunder of national liberation • Treatie: arms-purchase from the imperialists; and coulduse all this people imperialism and Zionism. wealth for The imorovemen national economy and welfare of the working people. i ne believes that, under the presen conditions, whereby our people with 2) Eradication of the imperial- тасеа the country onslaught domination of ot the imperialism the bonsing the end with the 'indepen- armed struggle has become one all the of the most urgent tasks of all management We have talked about the neware ot Marxist covering liberal ideas! There is workplace councils-but we further and realise order to build up a strong and should go widespread", the importance of building such should not specify councils amongst • soldiers ano airmen and the lower ranks of The campain supports To of re otTIcers kind The purpose of this would be to turn the armed forces into forward the democracy soloarit campaien actenacis class struggle, which is absurd.

instead of imperialism. as they are now 1...) Those of us who are return- ing to Iran to carry on our fight Any campaign democracy and socialism not make its position clear.

appeal to within that country, class Tne activities continue sympathetic demands will betray the Inter in, and assistance for, interest ests of the workers in Iran.

our strudele. We would OUt that solidarity who should be the focus of such however, any campaign formed for this pur campaign pose, if it truly has the interest: snoula Dt of Iranian workers at its heart class where. it spell out winced stands terms should the university campuses. British worKers Our aim is to link up the • different sectors 01 ment by publishing this national to paper make organising the revolutionary struggle arming the by of mass vanguard the movement with the revolution. ary programme of action. on the Our success depends cooperation socialists. We wil attempt that they make every as their should sea There are some who see the Khomeini tasks of the socialist movement amited scattered simply serving the spontaneous socialist building movement. fused Our understanding of a revo- party lutionary socialist movement refinement, and sale of and the American inte Haence agents so-called "advisers") from Government Iran-American Military Ine im bertails , Organisation (CENTO); ranks of the world's countrie. and countries which are Sanjabi respect opposed , the to the

TOTE.

of the regime and underlausu Therefore feeling the heaviest historical responsibility: supporting all the Central Committee o movements the Tudeh Party of Iran invites Liberation adorent panicula the leaders of the national Palestine against Khomeini, Aaronal Ayatollah Talghani Dr. karin Tudeh Party of Iran all the other Sanjabi, leaders of religious and political manis felts the have Intl armed thi felt crimes of the mately their body and soul reatme and retime preparation for to use all their power influence and authority organise "United National Liberation Front of iran". a Front which include all the true national forces opposed to the regime and impertalisin Such a Front would have the duty of leading the struggles against peoples regime and and imperialism, it would make use of all while the ordinary ways of struggle, it phraseology take to organise the preparation and leadership of armed struggle argument that in against the armed forces of thi campaign one regime. which class CC Statement Jan. 13 1979 it differently, ThIs This position, echoing vard the idea ingt to the disastrous Popular Front that alliances line doove OT seeking with 'progressive sections of the bourgeoisie as in Spain 1936 and Chile 1973 is aped which by the Morning Star. which the Feb. 14 published on does not concentrate around workers' following Tudeh statement.

at has brought amout the about that working people latest events in Iran has united classes strata various and their allies ranging from the working class the British working to patriotic not enmeshed with imperialism.

Therefore the main activitie need to main of a campaign should take place sures this critical on the shop floor and not on tain inis unity which advance to tet and building of a new society.

deeply The movemen anti-imperialist and democratic.

imperialist. against or history's most savages diona backed a dust torships, against imperialists-especially the Americans. The Americans plundered they stood behind country ail the atrocities in iran. so iong as there are American experts in the revolution is in danger.

•Tal We intent • abolit another Chile... the - support Ayatollah his pro because same here and in the anti-monarchist and, in the democratic •resent Conte would like to stress the intagrity of Ayatollah Khomeini. the efforts scare

AS LO

Western opinion by about Islamic I can only is a sophisticated • Tha Iral society. Khomeini women are free and must have equal rights with men.

that it wAy not model alet sid any other le question is, our return to Iran, the Tudeh Party outlawed in 1948 different. The basic task of the was illegally Members of our party played no the Movemen revolutionary it eart • recant events the hope to be able to act freely.

within a short time.

Trotskyist-organised Young Socialists' anti-Tory rally in Trafalgar Square, 1964. This was too much for the right wing. The Trotskyists were expelled.

No socialism and no Poll proves need for nurseries SOCIALIST PRESS. Medresdas 2l Februar: 19:9 democracy! - Throughout the history By the late 1950's however expulsions and suspensions of the Labour Party, its ex- the objective conditions of the The expulsions Incruded pulsions witch-hunts whole and Councilors: ano large scale organised opposition Labour groups were suspended.

have been directed only Labour's Branches in rightwing many working- against the socialist left ship began class areas and scores of unior never the Tory right. and. Trades Councils A ways the response was branches anti-democratic McCarthyism condemned the witch-hunts. And a consistent teature of and

SLL

In 1958 the Holborn and St.

the organised the Teft" reformists has been big their inability Pancras challenge the Labout •arties were purged and ex-Trotskyist John The core of tre tam tind right wing leadership. of the Labour _awrence, leader Streatham Killed is a testament to we Expelled" is a testament was Council. Norwoo latour dartes expelled along. other In Streatham with b bankrust visions or suca takers and chairman, several was branch and with lame references "Labour's Norwood benan was leading member. who are too frightened to allow I ne Lawrence group went on to join the Communist Party Despite rank-and-file protest 8& ondole 1957 Healy's had group the minorities and dissenter. were reored- started The Newsletter, But that will pass, and appear in The Labour Party in Leeds wal reat v Torm ThE a tew years as a growing pain in Socialist Labour, League

(SLL).

was split down the middle, with the Party's advance to maturity The first did was thing they in wore as 19 councilors executive 1949. members expelled and socialists The same affiliation. The reply was swift being framed with absurd year also saw the Trotskyists of and hysterical. Revolutionary Communist charges The Party split over the question of The SuL was oroscribed. and Jack Gale was secretary o throughout the country the the Leeds SLL branch, and his entry into the Labour Party.

NEC

ordered a whole series of wife Celia was expelled from the took the

JOCK

Haston majority into the Labour Party on the basis that: the workino Cass stA look ing and will continue to look a Tany

TOT

SOlUTIon 10 Their problems" (RCP internal bulletin March 1949). It is not very often women who wish to go out Gerry ready entered the Labour Party that anything worth-

LO WOTKI

his Trotskyist "Group" in 1946.

the surprise is that And while is revealed by an Witch hunting even Gallup. was obliged to opinion poll But confirm the position argued This was period of recent Gallup Poll com- TUC's 'The in the report sustaine• witch-suntino in bota missioned by Woman's Under Fives"-that there is the unions and the Labour Party a massive unmet demand for and only the discipline of Own magazine seems a provision of nursery small Healy SLaLk continent endoleo rare exception. them children. to ride out the proscrip- care tion of their Socialist Fellow. The poll centred on the Indeed the answers to ship 195l problem child the survey shoot down. in crousine anTo conventional flames the periodical soclarist Our- look in 1954. bourgeois notion of the and woman's role as first foremost full-time mother and house wanting to wife. Choose to work It reveals that even if all financial pressures that compel many women to go out to work were removed, only one-fifth working mothers would preter work and look after

SLOD

their children full-time.

Four-hitths stated that they get bored or lonely at home, need break from the children, and would still want out to work. to But ot course financial pressures are there.

Police called to remove Trotskyist YS leaders in 1964.

The poll reveals that one Jeff Harris looks into the murky history of anti-socialist purges in the 'Social Demoeratic Labour Party Part Two Party on the grounds are Tha

"VOU

known with associate the Clearly gained furore. though remained somewhat unclear or its analysis of reformism Illusion Its greatest mistake was in that beroetuatinc the Hitsion Labour Party had been at one time • a ostricotea soclalist organisation "A determined and energetic against bans, proscrip- campaign an exouisions is vital iT socialist and purposes Do THIes are to be restored to the Labour Party." (Newsletter ADrI 1959) The SLL continued to fight within the Labour Party ever and durina the eariv 1960's supporters became a major force within the Young Socia the latest in the series of liSts, •because otherwise there would not be sufficient income for the lamily to survive. Estimates suggest that if mothers stopped going to of work the number families on , supplementary benefit would treble. Yet despite the clear necessity for child care facilities to cater for these requirements, state nursery pitiful schools completely ignore needs of working mothers. Only two percent working mothers with children under five find places in local authority day nurseries. And only two per- cent with school-age children found occasional places for them in holiday play schemes. Demand Yet 96% of the women thought that amite viewed such 'play schemes should be provided. and 80% thought that care should be provided after school hours.

vouth organisations set up the Labourites 1962 Left" wa proscribed and 3 members The yo nationa commitee were expelled. The viciousness of the bureaucratic attack snowballed until by 1964 NC meetinas were suspended and over a 2 year period the whole Labour Party yoUT movement Wal butchered :In 1964 there were 722 youth branches. 1965 605. 1966 Inert weTt shrank to 483 branches profited from right-wing offensive evas was анестес at the SLL. These excusive v tendencies included national Socialists (forerunners 'Militant' tine group (formed in 1964), and the runa week But the SLL gained ! most of all and actuallv took the title Young Socialists. for _ Is own 'More than want nursery and nursery school expanded demand-while only 2% favour the present predom- of individual child-minders. declares Own womans its willingness to take up a pressure on this can del Issuc ment Equal ministers Opportunities Commission National Consumers •The Council and even the

CBI

for help. Workers movement Such a "campaign" is of course doomed to ignomin- ious failure. But the figures revealed point yet again to the neces- sity to take up the sharpest fight within WOrkers movement-the trade unions Party- and against the Labour govern- ment's wretched betrayal of working women, Clearly the potential sup- port exists on the estates in each town tor a maor cam.

paign for an immediate halt to the cuts in nursery care and for a crash programme Page y Labour

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movement The Party STrICT oureaucrati control In 1968 the Annual Labou Party Conference heard that it NALSO had bee stant bod • ntiltrated" ov eements unici part principe were opposition to and policies it was auscanceo it wasn't unzi 3 years later that the • present National Organisation of Labou Students was set up Betrayals All this took place against the background of the betrayals and anti-working class policies Ori tell and vison through Labour leaders from I posing of the Takery and 'lefts" Once again the right-wing was dole to organise treely and 4 Tory. MPs • of the sixties were all ex-Labour members More recently emerged in the higherloffices of the • Labour • Party (George Brown Taverne, Stonehouse, Prentice, Mayhew, Marsh, Gunter etc.). all openly declar • ing allegiance to the bourgeoisie served so , faithfully when They claiming to be socialists.

In 1976 the right-wing began make noises dooUl activities ot " Militant suppor found report Daber their investigations to the 1977 Conference basically exonerated these tame cats but left the doo open for raising the matter again should the need arise. Piety At me neent or me re•-oł ing Iransport House bureaucrat newly work with appointed Youth Organiser Andy Bevan, "Militant' Supporter The piety the social democrats • comes over strongly in the NEC Report: calls members of the Labour Party to refrain from attacks : Which adc economic and social problems which face this country. • We reject totally a further descen McCarthyism which ammunition only provide those who wish to bonuse ti reality of Britain's present crisis".

It is time for all those see unemse ves as on to let •1 the Labour Party to take stock of its history, political character alie campaign must mounted to end all witch-hunt So laghan Healer part of a drive to kick out the leadership There must be a fight for recall Conference to decide on a the socialts manitesto TOr coming election. Concluded of child care provision by the state. Public meeting Trade union branches, "trades councils and Labour Parties be theretor called upon order and copies of the discuss

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Under report, and to initiate public meetings in working clas! estates • designed to take forward a campaign for the following demands: *Oppose all cuts and closures with occupation and supporting strikes. *Open new nursery schools. *Open the books of the local authorities never! their plans, and expose the private neea to nationalise supplets and contractors workers' inquiry into local nursert provision, , to draw up a plan for expanded facilities to be provided, free of charge, to all by state *Demand that union 'officials MPs Labour and councillors commit themselves fight practice for such demands.

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two St. George's Hospitals, of The dangers in Hyde Park Corner NUPE's policy of 'selec- Tooting voted to continue in pursuit tive action' with selective action, of the public sector pay veing on become week. claim have These the more obvious over others past week, as full-time Hally clearly have have consis- officials willingness to continue with attempted • to tently and sell out the the pay Challe isolate London's in strikes their full-time officials.

hospitals. Last Thursday, the strike at St. Andrew's Hospital in Instead of was ended East London and the after weeks, Whichever way you look that and prob- neat -or at the struggles ing leaders of the working class facing lems the whether world-wide, working class 'left' winders or Stalinists of the Communist one thing stands out above Party. all- the need for a prin- cipled leadership capable of

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most comerul in struggle. Indeed the Socialist The Workers movement lies precisely League is the oniy movement in rejection of any attempt to find - Britain that fights patiently and build such fight to construct of the leadership in the working class.

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Pickets outside St Andrews Hospital have done the bureaucrats everything in their power to and and end isolate the struggles in indi- arTel vidual hospitals. strike for over a An example of this was Seegar, when Steve hospitals, and given secretary at in London,

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St. Andrews spoke at a mass shown their Mary's meeting at St. Harrow Road to all-out action in pursuit of rosoltal. them to stay out on urge thet alongside his own the slightest lead by strike hospital. He was immediately con- fronted with a GMWU full- Confronted time official who argued for working to work, saying return St. Mary's had 'done spread the strikes, however, that and in practice the necessity for does not shrink from even and transitional leadership with new •rooramme demands which, starting TrON these be open right today's problems and today's talking Labourites within the work- consciousness ing class, 1880 WOrKOrS struggle to grasp the need for a policy has made us socialist revolution the trade union For this reason, though we bureaucracy.

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are smaller than some self-styled offered the workers groups, the ws. lead to revolutionar has featured in the forefront ser Fighes against he sale of pay strength of our against the fight in our TUC leaders. loos against the cuts cuts" around the necess- and unionisation struggles, a Marxist bureaucratic Time

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course essential for the wørking in. Britain but claus outy Name Address Trade Union/occupation AMBULANCE DRIVERS: Call Ambulance drivers are some London where the overtime now in' their third week of disruptive actions in pursuit ban causing shortage of accident cover- of the £60/35 hour week it is becoming claim. Although the pay action is having an effect in more obvious strike action will win the full claim. Ambulance. action, with an almost complete national one-day strike that put them at the centre ot the whole offensive sector. Since then, however. own leaders have come out with series of its bit' after a week's strike and they should 'let some- overtime ban which has body else have a turn' proved more workers than a complete stopp- If the low pay campaign 'is to grow in strength, then hospital workers and prepared stewards must be At a for an all out fight against Birmingham and actions of the poncie. stewaros. their own full-time officials, opportunity co-ordinate who have shown consistent hatred of working fear and resolution

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narrowly defeated. class solidarity. High points that struggle were reached when disruptive Divisional the London sufficient to win the claim-nor Council of

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were should ambulance forced to reach a decision calling all-out action in comparability links them to the and the the London area defeated only by gency services Call probably include the Chairman's casting vote.

clause. And when strikers from Westminster • Hospial Weakness the lobbied a meeting of the Their own NUPE Executive demanding repeatedly shown that they used their power nes. wilet to spread the strikes Carlaohan's threats London

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Hospitals, the whole. cam- possibly Canno! paign seemed on the verge nationa amoulance sunke of victory. Now Out of step But the NUPE bureauc- from racy have shown time after workers in the same pay claim well As time that they have intention of calling for the attempted demoralise the action necessary to win the every stage of the negotiations.

full claim. time 'has the At • 11U treachery of the public sec- tor union leadership been so out of step with the mill- tancy of their own member- ship vital that 1S "

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national indefinite strike, with cover in • pupil a skeleton emergery be provided under of area strike committees-to be their at the first sign of withdrawn army, weak proposals-such volunteers or police already The strike should be linked hospitals workers in and cores pay claim through the building of Councils of Action. Narrowly defeated unio! our educiaoy should be forced to support the nationa meeting ambulance • these links, instead • building 01 different , there was an excelient allowing the low to strenotner the campaign; but a be separated and to campaigu all-out strike was sell out drawn InTO settlements. now obvious however 200 call strength and are drivers for unity tricked into accepting a bogus scheme other emer After two consecutive weeks and which will Oxford short strikes 200 workers at the no striki nosollars Radclitte intirmari nave over whelmingly called for joint un-

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strikes hmited members together. leaders nave The call came as NUPE fur- their weak- fragmented action in the faced with ther hospital the count cren the army-even though the army workers were calling for united with action ambulance drivers were persuaded from one there is a danger that transfering patients reach a hospital to ariother to ease the settlement which seperates them effects of a nursing shortage a the Radcliffe! pubiic sectol The meeting at the hospital this, they have instructed the branch chairman, Pat Ward, to call for the all-out and conius meeting of membership at action ar a weeks branch officers and officials.

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Big response to Garners appeal for help asa Manuel sianco went to soeak ro Anger continues to a series of meetings. last week

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among mount seeking support for the strike.

at the failure to morbers manco tole docent Press. 'We were invited to Liver- win the 13 month Garners the Trades pool speak strike. counci so we soent a ody visit Resolutions are coming in to ing some factories. Region Secretary Sid Staden the Port General Secretary Moss Shop • Stewards Committee diC L0. evans cemanoino allout action • nev immeatatery cave from the union force me f25 for expenses and agreed Margolis to concede recognition.

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bolicles InTO Inel the strike and criticism of their branches. handling of it has shown up the "There was only one who weakness Ine Dolcies sDoke adainst us out al ine adopted by Staden and Region others told him to shut up.

"organiser" Shorter. "After that went a united Speke. We met the also

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fight for policies to win, their "He agreed to put our resol- defence to attack ution to the branch and to ask called for a donation. _outsIce groups WnC want strike". Triumph we were met wreck by stewards at the gate and got No reply promises to bass our. resolution They have no reply to. the even been told str-ke commitee s oocies ota aot our surike, troven Day Action in March, the TGWU although we have a national delegate TGWU confer- of Region 1 Committee сору the ence minutes

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Ine strike was cicarly shown by the response of the and the Shell refinery. At Vaux- Liverpool labour movement halls, Ellesmere Port arthe Brother when strike committee member convenut HOTO: Laurence

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General Executive for this error which was Council chairman Stan caused by our misreading of Pemberton appeared on the from our local platform of a meeting called branch.

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£100 promised ask donation at the branch and to pass the resolution. ne or oriver we metal Transport House !. our took leaflets to take to his meeting in artineton *Pat Harkin. anoiner leadino driver, : promised to give lorry the resolution to Wally Nugent, oranen secretary. lo Deraisca al the next meeting and wil try and give a donation.. "After I spoke at the Trades Council meeting the chairmar said they would pass the resolu- tion. ignore the six picket limit and would send a bus down on the Day of Action, with the Danner. "'He said tney would all stay outside one Garners branch.

Longbridge goes back The workforce at Ley- land's 'Longbridge plant went back to work last a week-long week after strike over the non-payment of promised 'parity" pay- ments. The strike had had the effeci of stopping all mass production of Leyland cars by bringing Cowley to a halt as well Longbridge The major problem at the othe plants waich resuiteo in majority votes against strike unprincipled action was way in which Leyland convenoi first Derek kobinson . nac fought for corporate bargaining he consequentiy leoneastrice

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ments associated with the corporate bargaining plan.

The right wing ledearships in other plants where there corporate not use bargaining this situation to fight for straight claim and the wage of corporate bar oreaking up gaining, but instead argued merely against strike action for of, •Ine imoiementation parity payments. Even then strike at Ine Longbridge call have been еттесті ano have continued but for Derek Robinson. on the Touant marol stewards' committee to get a "return-to-work" recommenda- tion ana only manageo to get a

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The General Executive of the TGWU • suooort tne since commullet policies of: No return to work with- and reinstate- recoonion ment of all 2) Full blacking of supplies and suppliers if necessary all the strikers a oav decent living wage until strike is won, to be raised by a ot members in Region 1. 4) Regular delegations to the pciket line with large turnout on Saturdays. 5) National delegate confer- ence of TGWU. Send delegation and banner to the Day of ActIon 7) Regular donations to the « strike fund" "Also £26 was collected at 195-122 majority. His argument the about 19,000 workers isolation' was ludicrous and means that his plant in opinion Levano snoulo lake SUTIKe action on its own. The vote at the mass meeting was even then, with the return to-work recommenoator or the stewards, only narrowly carried.

Fraser stalls again There was solid support for action from mass meeting of all skilled Cowley workers in Body Plant in which several speakers called for an immediate strike or five- days the over- notice on whelmingly adopted £90 per week claim. Despite this no strike vote and when Roy Fraser was taken attenete mie cooroom commit tee meeting last Wednesday the decision decising on arch o and intite was all skilled workers' stewards.

For 18 months this mittee has been making threats ana canting meetings but doing nothing. of the skilled see this as just another workers WaV Ine avoid the pressure from their members. The feeling is still there for астіопитт tne tak ot thelast 18 months is continued it could be dissipated

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pay strike week ody the we know trom our exper. finished must look to iences that the union members will respond some real support from union eaders try the union to win their tell. us they are "'doing their jobs back best" but that members don't want to do anything FoC Robin Anderson -

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Inev co not want to without any detectable note back us fully. They must realise of irony-told the Morning that we will not go away, we are Star last week: prepared to fight to the end."

"What management ended up with by not taking full time us Donations to the Garners Strike officials prosecuting union sent Fund should be to ine headquarters the the dispute and selling what TGWU Offices 12/13 Henrietta be a pretty provigto Street, London W1. successful paper." By launching their own. (The News) the sacked journalists are Buses keeping up their morale and irritating the Nottingham Post (Brian Clough has refused to speak to the Post). sell-out But the journalists are not a single step closer to winning back their jobs. The management of the danger Nottingham Evening Post still Newspaper the Society and managing In the wake of the director haulage drivers' tremendous Carew, is chairman of the pay victory, which crashed NS new tech nology sub through the 5% limit and Conticc Only a series of strikes achieved a settlement Newspaper throughout the excess of 20%, 100,000 bus Society will therefore get drivers have been looking the journalists reinstated.

for a similar settlement.

This policy is opposed by Basic pay for municipal bus the leadership who

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their big instead look •tc 40-hour week. : Haulage drivers brothers in the print union have just achieved a basic rate bureaucracies have refused to offer any tangible But TGWU national officer Larry Smith has no intention of action in support. But picket has lllass been: called for March nearing ar insulting 5% pay offer from the which could be used io declared employers, make a turn in the dispute.

"interim" willine nas recommone Nottingham miners have supposedly settle. for pledged support the of 6%- abandoning ment oniy picket and journalists from claim of, the T8ou

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al over country dent "inquiry" into pay send delegations. should be supported to t conditions Employers pointed out how the full and irrelevant such "inquiry" used to call for supporting but declared them- would be in the Newspaper CAl vec agree To: one Society field. provided was government will These strikes be harder to call now than it A major sell-out is thus being lined up. But Smith has would have proved to keep persuade a special delegate con.

SONe until Nottingham journalists Terence acca•t mis wietchec proposal were reinstated Bus drivers and ancillary But there is still massive staff must take staps to ensuri among

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ca costes for the Notting dated to throw out the 6% offer mem bers ham journalists. and the "inquiry , and to press Support the mass picket! for strike action if the full claim is not conceded. Call strike action now!

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Low Pay Rally called From the very beginning of the Low Pay Campaign the Workers Socialist League has fought for all- out indefinite strike action with strike committees deciding on cover. A meeting last Sunday of our public sector fraction Pay took the decision to call a reached the rally to present our policy they worry for fighting for the full bureaucrats claim, for fighting the cuts than the employers. for a socialist health and This •The from from order Bette service as part of a planned socialist economy. Labour leaders, This requires new each side declares its willingness the leadership in trade to attempt a further determined and we will have unions stana to stop the torward move ment of the working class prior stewards and strike com- to the 1979 election. mittee members from London and Oxford speak- Sabotage well as a period for ing as discussion. public sector £60/35 and the pay busmen have

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concoral Small Hall, Conway Hall Included Red Lion Square, Holborn London Rally starts at 2.30 p.m.

service Credentials 25p the right to strike. Only a few weeks Though declared that after the armies of the intention of Stalinist Vietnamese regime carried out their lightning invasion of the Chinese troops rival Stalinist state advancing resistance by Kampuchea (Cambodia) forces divisions of several with Chinese troops tanks crossed the border namese at with into Vietnam last week- point, des- end in what was in cribed as punitive indennile invasion.

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into "inquiry' leaders of NUPE and the other invades Vietnam Pekin has has it no Viet- namese territory, reports as we go to press suggest that still heavy despite Vietnamese The timing of the attack has clearly caught the Viet- their weakest an estimated 100,000 troops tied down what seems an almost Communell Deng preserving their new puppet regime in Kampuchea from resis- guerrilla from supporters tance the deposed Pol Pot govern- ment. timing is also But the clearly related to the inter- national and domestic requirements of the Peking bureaucracy itself. Deng Vice Premier Xiaoned from the USA, use Xiaoping has only particularly in latest

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comparable rates of pay And TGWU bus officials are planning 184GT wOre underfoot know sell-out, with ago meer offer and the promise of an Doricies • cani "inquiry". the power held in check Wage controls significantly designed to picketing in disputes, to further But whether - not these me our suat the dimuch outlaw unofficial "Concordat" extend much impose strike action being called, and tr further the current pay round. break the shop. 1982, coming tion from who have always blamed antiatior unmistakeable increases, to permanent implicit pledge ing class wage controls Home Secretary Merlyn Rees was taken). had anv mandate to the latest of a series of do so from his members. is only to declare Every contained 860E OOOOSITIOn 1U88 collective bargaining: amounts to a anti-socialist ment clique sion to Thatcher, gove Party no the Crow is backed up by the twelve right wing TUC leaders who recently noT signed the document A Better "Concordat" explicitly defending wage Way, controls. a choice berween oden lone The main motive behind these opportunist approaches to imperialism has however been the search advanced technological for investment equipment and which could equip the still chronically backward Chinese economy to olen kind of improvements the living standards being demanded by increasingly workers and peasants alike.

In pressing. Thel the assistance for such building, Chinese Stalinists have country offered the capitalists not Soviet The only the prospect of a slice moved quickly to of profitable investment in • the huge, largely untapped if seolences Chinese market, but also halt their hopes of an ally against the other Warsaw military might of the Soviet tries with the Union and the Warsaw Pact.

Romania The attack on . Vietnam- denounced the incursion. linked to the USSR through be a friendship treaty-can both proof of seen as Peking's good Such with regards to such an anti- non-capitalist Soviet alliance, and as a delight only means of justifying its reac- policy and tionary foreign its own its growing military expen- diture the increasingly under seige restive Chinese masses. • advancing revolutionaries and

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socialists however it is yet further proof of the utterly The of movement reaction consequences embodied the immediate the nationalism "theory" of Chinese in the Stalinist Thatcher: the Concordat steals her policies But TUC leaders wno nave and union struggles trample tion, gang crypto- Cot Tories planning "voluntarily" only be achieved if through bureaucratic of their members is control or tae ualons The

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Congress and This is why the "Concordat" conference must Labour Party "advice' effective urgency throw out ''Concordat" and the Callaghan those leadersal. who claim secret ballots prio to oppose Callaghan manifesto power or tne closet 1979 election Any would-be Labour "left" No mandate that shirks such a responsibility exposed helping MUSt Not one ot the us eater that assented to this anti-work- the near certain electoral victory "Concordat" Ino of the Tory Party crucial issue in, thi building SiTuaTion the principled revolutionary leader.

ship for the working class which squalid dea fight tooth anc como ete I ConCes probare the Tory nail against wings the labour bureau. this cracy. • ThrowI means that in the That fight is being waged at 1979 election workers will face only by the Workers present Socialist League. Chinese bureaucrats on arms spree Vietnamese soil and the "socialism in Ulle Vietnamese withdrawal Union has troops from Kampuchea warn the Political revolution Chinese of undisclosed con- they do not An end such reac. invasion, • and tionary national rivalries can Pact brought about Could only exception of through the struggle within the deformed workers states of East Europe, Asia and Cuba for the political over- Under seige of the Stalinist the bureaucracy through between building of workers councils divisions nations can the construction of and crisis-ridden Trotskyist - revolutionary, imperialism at a point where parties Only in this way can the millars oul•osts these and puppet dictatorships are social gains within from countries the form of movement nationalised mass adequately be relations world workers' defended against imperial- ism and made the basis for must Gennal the furtherance of the world withdrawal socialist revolution troops from