Socialist Press no. 149

NO COMPROMISE

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 149 * May 9, 1979 * 15p

WITH

THE

TORIES!

Thatcher's right Healey leadership has shame- wing government may be lessiv imolemented orv policies in deep collaboration home, but they are certainly the class, with capitalist cut far from dry. social service. ane ariven ug It is one thing to take the unemployment, offered no to attract tormal reins ot ottice it is quite another impose the the middle class forces that were class that are whipped

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up by orchestrated Tory press necessary to make or policies stick. campaign. Indeed whether the Tories, Labour's betrayals the open political • reoresenta- the employers and

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bankers, or their loyal servants The door for every one of Une Labour ledaersnio nac theories malor election stalk- emerged as the Election victors, ing horses-anti-union laws unbroken strength and racist immigration laws; social Thirty sta in Parliamenti militancy of the working class service cuts: tax concessions To majority of Parliament: most the rich; and "law and order" was certain to he their ThIS dovernment cannot stubborn problem. opened by similar moves -was "pressured' to change course by The Tories remember all too Ine Labour covernment innocuous protest actions.

vividiv now workers reacines.

which like the ories started nere are no seacerul barld- to fight every attack on their not from workers' interests but mentary solutions to the whole- unions living from preserving the profitability sale attacks now being planned in 1974 to by the Thatcher cabinet. standares oT british cabitalism. premature Heath Yet despite the most sophis- Of the government: and Callaghan ticated election cam- Lay waste forced into the 1979 carried

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lavis! clection with nis policy or wage expense with the aulcance And if these representatives controls torn to tatters by the advertising salesmen, the of crisis-ridden British capital. in both massive pay struggles Tories failed to win significant ism are allowee to run uner tul private inaustry and the pubiic lavers or Labour voters to tneir five year term of office they will sector. anti-working class platform lay waste jobs by the thousand, Instead, in this highly polar- Pay struggles •estrov social services

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Ise• erection Ine Labour VOTE for by generations of workers marginally increased compared Even as the Election took and outlaw trade union rights with that in 1974. The rise thousands teachers estabiisnee centuries the Tory vote came trom a 20% struggle. were engaging in partial action sumo in suobort tor the second over their 36.5% pay claim, with there be no mistake. capitalist the party, This must be demanding Liberals, coupled with the extra Postal striKe. workers orouent down Tne mass Torces • unar turnea out tor Enis action of the working class, just voted l-l to trow out a pay _lection and productivity packag as Heath's attacks were stopped by their right Racist policies in weir tracks only y te most widespread and determined Wine ¡edoers. ano workers are reportedly about to As an added bonus, struggles. 11% backage offer Thatcher's racist immigration The task now is to prepare endorsed their officials. policies appeal to nave word Tor such action. the But should reality that number of votes trom the tascisi not conditions under which the new National Front, which, saddled expect the trade union officials Tory government has ridden to also WILl IVaz label and Labour leaders who nave suffered a severe electoral set- shamelessly. collaborated with oTTice nave been created not by any weakness or retreat of the back. the capitalist class for the last working class but by its historic Whatever minimal consola- five years to spring forward now to lead such struggles. crisis or readersno. tion Labour leaders may try to Five years of Labour govern- draw from all this, one fact Callaghan spoke for his ment, in which the Callaghan- unmistakeably from whole nant wine cabinet last * Friday when "success * wished Thatcher as Prime stressed that she will viinister. need a lot of and support, romised that she will face n TacuILIOU: oppositIon TrON Labour MIPs But equally pernicious are Labour's fake 'lefts who, after Tive ears OT Doolicking suoDori Callaghan's policies and tor refusal to challenge his leader- ship of the Labour Party, of the 5% Da bose as CrITICS limit and defenders of socialist policies. Certainy Canadnanno right wingrom cronies must be removed the LabouT reddersnie socialist alternative that is needed has nothing in common with the TeTOrTISE ane's import nationalist pleas tor controls peddled by the Tribune Group: it must be based firmly Ine mobilise the working class force the nationalisation of basic industry without compensation under workers' management. This requires the construc tion of a principled revolution- dry leadership in the working class Meanwhile Len Murray ano other TUC leaders are already dark threats of eating their 'confrontation' with the Tories and offering Thatcher friendly advice and consultations.

PHOTO: Mark Rushel Their answer to earlier calls for anti-union laws to restrict oic keline and ine • ciosee snor was to sign the Concordat with Callaghan which set out "volun tarily* impose crippling nimits on ineir memoers T-siding testine and offer • similar concessions compromise to Thatcher while off the continuing to head militant struggles of their members. Relentless Such compromises and betravals are a sure-fire quaran.

sensing tee that the and indecision relentlessly forward onto

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The ottensive We say that offensive can be halted; Tory government can be defeated. view, the This Workers Socialist League will the contatue struggle workers movement tor the con struction of pallutionary leadership capable generalising strenotnenine ano every one of the struggles that will break out in conflict with or policies-whether this of against anti-union laws, spending cuts, closures, sackings or racist immoration laws And we invite workers who share these objectives to join witn us in unis nant New turn in WRP slander campaign

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Lessons of Low Pay Fight....

..Page 8 Fresh Court attack on unions In a new round of the mounting legal offensive against picketing, a tempor- ary High Court order was issued last week to restrain stage hands from the National Theatre from stop ping supplies crossing their picket line. The injunction was obtained the request OT Ine management, the South Bank Theatre Board Ltd., who have a ready cecared their intention to sue six of the pickets-mem.

bers of NATTKE-for £193,000 canades arecine taat tais is the loss of business caused by their action. the of the

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ancestry temporary iniunction shows a clear continuity from the spate of anti-union judgements that nave mult oned since the NArr sponsored injunction last year UPW blacking prevent mall to Douln Atrica 'Secondary picketing' Simar tie. were drawn between this case- where it was claimed that build- ine materais irrelevant to the dispute were being stopped by pickets-and the January injunc-

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ayalust naulace anver rail tor the so-called secondary picketing" of United Biscuits.

legal rulings be Call expected Turtne under scope ano numer the Tories, while Thatcher's union- bashing cabinet draw up plans Tor more comprenensive laws to shackle the unions. The only answer to such succia narassment is the mool isation of the full strength of the trade union movement to assert une basic rant to moose that right threatened ne National neatre ludde ment, like the Nottingham Evening Post ruling, the United Biscuits injunction and the ban on NUJ blacking of Press Assoc- iation copy, stands as a monu only the class ment character of the courts out aso to the spineless nature of the trade union bureaucracy changed can only be through the struggle for a new, revorutionary eddersmie in une workers' movement. Anti union Judge: Denning

as stooges move in

CHINESE STALINISTS LURCH

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- INTERNATIONAL

Bishop Abel Muzorewa both the assembly and cabinet will next month be installed unless an independent inqunry Prime was set up "Rhodesia-Zimbabwe". Sithole's appeal tor sucn an inquiry has been brushed aside victory InE ano we can "elections" organised under the manoeuvre interna settement months to come. 51% of the seats 10 assembly No seals cabinet sedls As pointed out in st Another 147 large turnout was secured through intimidation- transitional Jeremian a British observer, Lord Chitnis, won no seats at claimed that Rhodesian troops to call for had and white nerve tion of the so-called transitiona pressurised many blacks to vote government in order to prove to ine wortu against the Patriotic Front was that the election was popular.

one factor that should won. • ne Despite the пої be taken into account involved that this was a fair anotree wasn't; it was a ever. lt nas election temporary success fraud". beleaguered Smith regime.

As was to be expected ine "elections" were no sooner over regime with the thieves began to fall than the some degree of popular approva out. will strengthen Smith's demands Ndabaningi whose

'ZANU"

only won tor international recognition thus. 2 cabinet places!- land weapon in his campaign to split obviously realising his weakened the Patriotic Front or better still position-accused the to convince it of the need to authorities of "irregularities".

watchword The "All be to appears change!" Under Mao the growth of population the was sancu- fied; now stringent measures have been DTOUCIll couples having penalise more than one child. People's Mao, Under Communes and collectivisa- tion in agriculture were the order of the day; now and fundamental revision, breaking down of the old structures is in progress.

Mao incentives Under were out; now lively debates "encour- centre on how to of the the peasants" the the past population heralds. control was decried as With State nourceols nolul. Hua-Deng Now the Communes regime in China has set out the restrictions number of births allowed.

production teams. But

IWU

Repayment mittee ber (Ón several couple are gladly child and allowed one receive allowances, etc. Howe. a, i the thee voids munes) which the previous born, have to be allowances repaid: and if a third comes put forward as their taxes ultra-left line". increased to penalise them.

say early 1S will what sort of reaction grow against these dictates.

claimed However, it is clear that "leftist" been great anxiety committed expressed to the chaos that Now unael "re- has resulted from the of giving maximum adjustments" which have nomy' to been proposed in the agri- team. cultural sector. People's Daily in the The brigades and communes. Peking in fact expressed its front Hunan, page In anxiety brigade attack on the risks of chaos dismantling of which White rats desert come to an agreement. He threatened to boycott That said. Smith's time is still running out. departures from the country reached 1,555 in March the 30U% incredst March 1978 figure. him 9,000 whites have now left tarther over the last six months (nearly of the total white populd As they leave, the backbone of the security forces Is steadiy Ine men be weakened. Chief government Theletpealises sponse 10 whose party the election hao expected. the continua In the USA Carter, who is at •resent Wat economic Congress Groo sanctions, is reported as saying that he wouldn't give a definite obvious fraud judgement until the government in the election , how- was actually formed but that it been an importan right 'step was TO! direction'. establishment Black' imperialist appearance o1 Carter's Andrew Young, "black" ambassador to the UN, This would be an important said that: election supervised by the UN and the presence o UN peace-keeping force is the

INTO REVERSE GEAR

animals either killed, sold or production distributed to the peasants.

happened of The same the exception People's forestry and orchards. the practice organised are happening is a return to the into several brigades which unit and individual sub-divided family Central Com- Disruption documents; unpub- lished, adopted last Decem- problems of the debate in the Thus pages of the People's Daily the accelerated development of agriculture and The work between local peasants and rules of rural People's Com- sections of the party leader- were widely ship worried at the disrup- circulated in the provinces, tion to production. their main been "criticism of the by the announcements from of the the second 5th Assembly which stated Leftist errors of moder- that the rhythm be slowed that many down, more investment is to had been channelled into agricul- the years. be over ture, light industry fostered pretext rather than heavy, and more •auto- "rational' use is to be made the production of resources. comes a dismantling Opposition has of course of all agriculture which was continued in the base of the responsibility of party. In one magazine, Tansuo, example, the which reared given "wall of democracy" there pigs collectively has seen its only option that makes sense".

Carter's main ally nas up le the British Labour now been government of a Tory which government, to the General Election run -uu of the called

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recountion upset plans. Labour treacherou: leadership has paved the way for recognition of Smith through its manoeuvring. Abstained • before the Only two days Genera Election the KrITIS Callaghan alone and France the WILl a vote (carried 12 anstained or testimony to the influence of 3) in the UN Security Council condemned which The querrillas and anooesial in an interview with Le Monde declared them null and void Muzorewa has pledged him- that he thought the new regime continue the war, which would not last any time al di self to level rages at nigner still a black it l: ever. that the Despite the fact

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regime and sends troops we will Patriotic Front did not succeed also appeal. for troops-initially in stopping the election the very vote some areas lonly from within Atrica 30% in Matabeleland South) is This is a violent attack on Deng need to well Xiaoping critique of the overthrow overall from regime. Most of the authors of Slalt this text were subsequently of the arrested. The facing the peasants. choices Chinese people according to leading TIne Tansuo are wish that "Either we that repression. will progress, The the standard of living and develop the Alliance will production Rights has rapidly and that the social completely the system of their reformed Ren Wanding. Or we want to perpetu- ate the class dictatorship in criticised: Mao's way, that is to say to democracy, and refuse achieve adopting therefore never to measures and modernisation the production and the way of together life of the people." movements of thought." Guard The who now produce Headers said to have Huạng. He (Yellow River) in Hong Kong have a more politically worked out analysis. They point out the desire of Deng to modernise and with him that agree small and middle cadres act as an obstacle to liberalisa- tion them Deng describes "The people who mono- the toilets but do polise nothing in them. Dangerous The problem is that it is dangerous to change line under conditions of contin- ual purge Therefore they take no However, the Huang He points out: "When you want proceed to make some quickly adjustments, vOur realise that it is necessary to change everything." Muzorewa US he said: "Their positions are more or Robert Mugabe (ZANU) said less favourable but leave some room for doubt. declaration augers that the ill. accepted elections are a step in the right «Whether its head is white or monster. direction -exactly ha accepted formation of the recognises the interna settement segre "If we can organise pressure certain large countries- from Egypt Speaking of Britain and the and Nigeria, see I don't LIne states- tner how the US or Britain can move in the direction of the Salisbury Mugabe went on to call to an inter-African High Command to defend the Front Line states The emphasis or pressure or Britain and the US is sympto whole Mugabe's strategy HUl: Andrew wiara, Report of understanding completely the bureaucracy the Chinese workers' is essential to tackle fight for the mobilisa- workers and The political weakness of still obvious from the continuing opposition group Human hts legal Protest do inse arrest of three members including The April 5 Tribune has "those who think that by administrative methods violent repression they will different About 30 dissidents are arrested since the beginning of April.

Young Whatever he sav about ne collaboration with Muzorewa, political direction The struggle secret • diplomacy which Cand dominant method. In the imperialist nations the movement must workers of solidarity orebare d canuaig! with guerrilla around independent black workers' action 10 supplying of materials to Smith/Muzorewa recline alic opposition recognition of imperialist dispatching troops as beacekeepers Labour Party the pro-imper- despicable record of placed ialist mus systematically before the mem- bership and a fight taken up for Heade sail supports anti-imperialist replace Struguit much which nas knife them

BOLIVIAN BOSSES USE

Strikes hit Argentine junta

INTERNATIONAL•

Bolivian workers in the streets opposing Banzer's coup in 1971

ELECTION PLOY

without illusioned by the failure of its rising the cotat collapse of his hood -erting faces the same basic problems of scheduled seemingly endless task of killing The election crisis and economic scrols had long been to take place in Bolivia in workers and peasants to main. reime Dalzel widespread unrest 'order have the leading and natenet ma July is not, as anybody with But the Padilla peace reime. [aili Santa Cruz, the 'boom town unlike that of Banzer, has from shown themselves to be at least a passing knowledge of the of the country with temporarily acquiescent towards in the east the start manifested the changed country will know, an estab- from strong oo litica ano tactics of the political control of mandate

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links with Brazil lished feature of its political has focussed on the Pentagon. capital. It the Spring of 1978 human system. motITs oT democlaty to transfer this ne was oorde rights, return of the army. to a Contradictions This poll, like those held in role ac kustre arTort the handing Eruador and olanned in Peru, Is general , Juan Pereda the profes- the manoeuvre of a bourgeoisie back o1 and Banzer between First and foremost, however, Pereda of the bour- ground in face of sonar masterminded such it is the Bolivian masses who,

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Them geoisie. reconstructing their popular mobilisaton. through Such policies do not only organisations and re-engaging in ensuing elections that not even shift in the the hand-picked electoral court emd le ell political activity have deepened Ploy the sub- imperialist cesion TOr contradictions inside the coulo countenance tauyin luc continent. results obtained also rooted in the They dowel ariu The olov is not new-it was are wit- International promised reactionary concession, tried by General Banzer in 1978 am nitions

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of bourgeois nessed the dumping of hundreds unrealised, failed to halt but still powerful had

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of ballot boxes in Lake Titicaca aller (National Revolutionary Move- democratic richts opposition to a regime that hac of opposition elec 1978 the murder When bourgeois Januar imposed the most severe repres- mentoe weLLy Banzer attempted to stamp out TIon otticlats. sion on the masses of Bolivia for populist party that initiated the a national campaign for amnesty whole series airty revolution of 1952). and seven years. tricks. Moreover important sections tor OOITICa soRels vva. The present military orest- These went way beyond the unable to impose his character- General David Padilla, of the army, dividea ana dis- dent, day general strike in protest which comprises a broad It is now over three both at the plan and the of Peronist since the years speci ull union leaders. TestC ons

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Argentine armed forces No doubt Videla was activity. the corrupt The

CNT,

which had overthrew unhappy that the negotia- already entered into a work- regime of Isabel Peron let were necessary, tions ing alliance with the '25° alone that they had become and launched upon an the strike refused to obey so extended. unprecedentedly tero- appreciable call but cious repression of the numbers of its members Cronies stoppage and a working class. inined the 30% turnout was reported- the third On March 29. But this had little to do achievement of im pressive the anniversary coup, all with the conciliatory nature of the extraordin- view President Jorge Videla was of his cronies. arily difficult conditions sufficiently confident of his the growing resis- it ls which the workers position to dismiss plans for under the of Argentine tance live. allowing civilian political workers to the crippling rise activity and to confirm that in the cost of living caused 'Official' would be new measures by the austerity measures of curtail yet Martinez introduced The CNT is now being Economy Minister the and 'official' further powers labelled de Hoz that has been the rights of trade unions. and losing delay the organisation cause and '25' who, object of increasing concern members to the have Union law despite many arrests, on tme parl or tle legule.

intention of ensured that the economic It was the policies of the regime will The 'new mode' of trade the military to impose upon laid down in a defeated and demoralised be challenged union activity, Con ue and accelerated the growth a document known as the class T.ne

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WolkIg 'Law of Professional Assoc- of resistance that has been stringent legal sanctions and evident for some time now.

iation, for several obtain compliance with the difficulties months been the subject of Massive austerity plan. of This had already proved but the events heated negotiations between Tentdll recent weeks show that the the military and two trade less easy than they imagined but it was put right out of Argentine working class can the Comision union groups, Trabajo (CNT) Friday April 28 longer Nacional de on SCOlI COult whẹn the '25' called a one . retreat. and the 'Grupo for and sandwiches ferried bemused •asants voting stations by the armv which is the customary practice cove cn ds obliged to hold elections.

faced Pereda, Witl duly em barrassi ng mishao proceeded with the preferred Bolivian army activity claim- ano carre• oul da coy. ing fraud on the part of opposition and the threat of a takeover' his communis reasons not Pereda, nowever. Banzer. rule was short. announcing that new elections would not take place until May he not oniy ignored the

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precarious

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government in face of the rising revolutionary currents inside the peasantry. orol etaral dri0 MiN and secti anto the office also antansed corps. These dissident officers were not so much to owers ot tl General Torres, whose populist regime (1970-71) had witnessed the the esta santen workers and peasants populd Assembly were rather a group of officers outraged at their failure achieve promotion Cang Banzer and under Inniuenct frightened of the effect on the forces if of unity armed not were somt concessiol. to popular demands for made democratic rights. officers had links with the MNR and partic- ularly with that faction Hernan Silez Zuazo who was victor tne eo timalt elections. Figurehead November conseouentv taking these Commander-in-Chief Padilla reversed their tigureneao, Pereda's coup In preparing the ground for the return civilian ruie ine Padilla government has refusec to court the risks of 'stabilising' approving TMe econom! widespread price rises, which are considered essential by its econ.

and by oMIC de visete embassy. Yet the military have not that hesitated declare strikes that are not preceded b!

a prohibitive arbitration process ,anti-democratic and illegal, Neither have they withdrawn mining the troops from areas where, with the exceptior of the Torres period, a state of siege has existed since the early ous little has As yet veru changed but the prospect 'civilian rule' far beyond the trite self-congratulation put about ov ine douroco sie Leading the treld ot candi front dates the Unidad Democratica y Popula (UDP) headed by sires cudco s MNRI (left-wing

(MNR),

which thantuie populist heyday of the original party after 1952 an Siles is pledged to Carter and has the advantage or nis succes.

However his strategy last year. than drawing coes tt tre on the watte Hous putse the large risps • wae he accepts are unavoidable if he is to stem renewed malanc y Even in the short term Siles' in this are chances for oreak workers tederation-the COB- and the powerful miners' union -the FSTMB-have placed the struggle against the rises in the cost of living at the forefront not even 01 lie Calvaryt! riddled most breuera canc and politically degenerate organ- succeeding ¡salions holding back demands trom the rank and file which outstrip any envisaged concessions possibl by the UDP. Left nationalist Allied to the MNRI in the UDP is the MIR (Moverent o the Revolutionary Left), a left- nationalist' party originating the radical wing of the trom staffed Christian mostly by petty on blustering strong elements, anti-imperialism but in practice aiming at little more than some with timid nanagement of the economy.

The third major • member 01 this on olp ainc is te ron which has an even Moscow amongst lower stane le masses than most other Stalinist Latin America since parties to provide a revolu- its faiture been tionary leadersni. Tas shown up by strong Trotskyist particularly mines. The inclusior Stalinists in Siles' front is likely more damage thar to do nim good as it antagonises the army and does little to broaden the with 'reforms' appeal O1 Ine

UDP

which the hopes transfix the electorate.

hounded on Ireland Nothing got more under the skin of Callaghan's electioneering avuncular campaign more thoroughly than the systematic inter- ventions into Labour Party rallies by British imperialist repression in Ireland. Despite police harassment, and violent Intimidation Laour marty "heavies supporters of the United Troops Out Movement and the RCG! 'Hands relane group managed time and again to bring the Irish war to the forefront of stage-managed public meetings Lies and slanders So rattled was Callaghan by this determined campaign that he resorted to outright lies and siancers against the hecklers, meetines. them iflying And squad" Ot agitators which he

PRESS

GANG

The press seems strangely the world has not been changed: muted. The orgy of trumpet blowing and red balling norelate over. The editorial columns, inflation, terrorism in Ulster and mugging in the streets of urban campaigning, done with seem to have little enthus- Britain cannot simolv be out of existence, iasm for celebrating. It also went It is as if the Frankensteins to stress the similarities betweer of Fleet Street were so intently Ine Tories concentratio Thatcherite monster Sister Into thair wavel. that they scarcely seem to know Telegrapn, was what cautious. On wow lendl power it said: sne has sat up and opened her eyes rrecipitate Despite the ringing war-like field would be imprudent, since pages Tory economic Lones Inal Thied Eneir before last Thursday, it is clear challenging enough without the that the press does not extra believe that the weavolf. handled with care surd cemocracv are outoated Having urged Thatcher for Murray not three weeks to smash this and able in asking bash that, the press now advise Tirst. her to try first recruiting whole- The Observer. warned sale the army of fifth columnists exolosions inside was the

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Class claims worked so hard for Callaghan.

danger, and that The Daily Telegraph learn tron leader devoid of anyspeciTic demands urged country before party immediate Thatcher to have courage and The Financial confidence. tor tact and patience and said Rattled Callaghan when challenged on Ireland that at "public" election meetings ir Speke in Cardiff "Hands and Off Ireland" supporters were illegally excluded at the door, in defiance of the Representation ot the people Act Hecklers ejected Elsewhere were neckiers ejected from meetings only to be faced with police charges. the North Cast

LOFT

Randell, Secretary of Newcastle Trades Counci! and long- standing Labour Party member,

OUT

callaonans asking if there would raliy tor be time for questions, since he wanted aboul ¡relane Cardiff Pat Arrowsmith, running as a candidate against Callaghan Callaghan

OUT

claimed was 'paid' to disrupt his was continually plattorm harassed and once arrested by devoid are the Labour leaders of any answers Though Arrowsmith bluntly that promises but it also recognised that of tax •impossible bullari were "Disaffected schoolteachers, implement. wage claims, "Mrs Thatcher will have to establish relationships with trade union leaders, many voted of whom have stated repeatedly that victory would out of its way aisaster. and wno have become used at least to the appearance Labour right wing and the of having a major influence on covernment decisions.' the Sundav more

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trade union Not only has the Tory press by the fact -snaken bernaos that the Labour vote did not actor ThIs collapse- -urged caution, but will be nave cont mourning for the defeat Into Labo Shie Shirley the gun should who Len everything in social democracy most acceptable to capitalists wells unreason for consultation Fear that a swing to the left inside the Labour Party would that surenetner workinG Cass racic pay tance has underlined what over number Socialist Press has said for more Thatcher had lian a vear The capitalists chose to go Cannan for power in their own name- ideology not from self confidence...but Times called from desperation. attracted only 132 votes, 'troops out' campaigne Brendan Gallaaher. who ran as an independent socialist against Roy Mason in Barnsley, won a respectable 638 very Under difficult conditions, and with a manifesto focussed exclusively British repression in Ireland • while there was definite propaganda value Gallagher's candidacy-in which he stood clearly as a represen- tative the struggle against Labour's torture chief- the impact of the interventions Hands supporters was minimised wrong cail for abstention in the Election The task of mobilising the British working class against the repression their inderaist "own" ruling class cannot achieved through abstentionism but only through the struggle to expose the reactionary role of the Laoour leaders in ortice.

It is to be hoped that those

LEICESTER: THE

ANL

Oxford Anti Nazi League _UxTOro

ANL

meet directed Dear roitor The Socialist Press report or assembly the

ANL

demonstration Front's projected route, Le cester was inopeo soecia-a special effort in calumny and fabrication against national To avancon 3) By late anti-lascist orcanisation. wnich

ANL

is unlikely to do your organisa- • your paper much good. Oreansallon into not organise the pacifist and diversionary march away from Leicester as intended However the National Front, as claimed • para. IU ot your report necessar as reported in garbled way in para. 13 of the since the change of sallie dr title. Indu march wa. organised by the "All Leiceste Campaign against Racialism" in advance. the carried out successfully.

supported by Letestel branch of the inclan yvorkers (However other AssociatIon victoria IWA branches followed the lead secretary Paul of the ANL alla opposing the NF in the centre on people at the Park of the town with the main body ot anti-tascists) 2) 48 hours beforehand, the ANL organised to bring as many ineffectively ‹ot its members and supporter the tront with as possible to a central venue- Campaign" the bus station-instead of the advertised Victori: Ine rark were led through rark, thus errectivery countering the police plans to cordon cordons to demonstrators off from the city the mair suration was manoethis this Socialist Press thanks coordinated

ANL

at the that the Oxford WSL tacts were plain for all to see so

ANL

were cent travelling wav coach, were able to arrive at correctly? the centre Leicester OT start of the day alongside the Was muddies malice. That both that was ANL and that it was organised by the "unity" forces. Wiard. Report That the

ANL

supporters to and that 'only about 400 ANL supporters were cauent the police cordon-the rest had travelled directly to PHOTO. Andrey lie that the ANL did its National aront's through Leicester, when that is precisel what the Anti Nazi League did, and did successfully "ve Hain article in SP 147 left room for SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 9 May, 1979

IRELAND

STROOPS OUT

NOW!

join forces with those socialists fighting in the Labour Party and the make Ireland issue which to struggle fo PHOTO: Derek spents.

ETHE

ousting ot the: Callaghan Healey leadership and the struction principled socialist alternative em battler 'blanket prisoners in 'H' Block at Long Kesh, and the • republican forces Lilt wa l imperialism will soon british discover that Tories can

IFL

su teet their Labourite lackeys. The task for the next period Mason is to build the mass oppositior reactionary natcher's courageous forces that took up government side-by-side with the challenge of making Ireland the tight tor new leadership in an issue in the election will now the labour movement.

ANL'S COVER UP

misinterpretation. But it is inter- congent stewards who couns co note une way in wnicr the anti-tascists supporters, and in partic- members of the Socialist ular point and Workers Party. have eager a route which seized on lusin order to cove up the real position of the ANL casalon forced them Firstly should sidl morning this clearly that it was the case tha leadership the ANL organised in advance ano had succeeded in to divert contingents from the bringing large numbers of anti- pre-arranged Victoria Park venue to the city centre in order Centrt to confront the fascists.

It also : was never our intention to •Was deny this to brina people trom Victoria Park to the city centre But the question to be asked is why the

ANL

in - venue could Leicester departed so far from the official Havi ocen conveved to a our suooorters pacist une or tne movemeni This task was also cation the which fascists the streets but to campaign agains A HAL platior was set ur Park, and

ANL

through propaganda and unem Holborow and protest stunts The answer, other speakers effectively called spelled out in to go our reature article on the back down into the centre of the city nose 14o is that national n • is that national Ant to oppose ine National Front spokesman march, rather than marching off Paul Naz Holborow was voted down 26- away TrON 23 at a meeting of the Leicester "All Leiceste coordinating i race Out of some 1,500 people at committee when he proposed a diversionary march to take place two-thirds roudhiv LUte owner side orce cester from the NF. join up with body of the demon. the city centre reporters Defeated and in danger of were Park standing completely exposed in where Leicester, the ANL on this one they not reported switched line to correct y sts one of 'no platform' for the NF The fact is that vour report is why sectarian ¡ass s-ana sent is subdorters into the city centre. The fact remains that this is diversionary not official by the oroaniser austeni or the ANL, which not only general avoids such with the NF Is wav vou sav bota called its resorutely •oroses cas to use Victoria considerable numerical Park strength to workers campaign • detente the building behind sudas in kev area! _detend the immigrant communities and movement against fascist violence And that is why you have to I not call on two days later after Asian youth had fought on supples to chanence int the Southall to streets of attempt the the NF out of their town. Peter centre of Hain, leading

ANL

spokesman made it clea on TV that he was or tence and supported peaceful protest Rip Bulkeley against the NF. admit that our (edited)

'Left' fakers crawl from Last gasp from Wise- against nationalisation the wreckage Scarcely has the dust "Governments settled on Labour's election defeat and the hastily- rarty goes defend prepared political coffin of Shirley Williams, than the fake 'lefts' have rushed for- ward with cheap militant If Allaun demagogy. 'lefts' had Party chairman Frank Allaun who had lifted not a finger tight Callaghan callachan orior The election, led off with a bluster- Labour Party ing statement warning Thatcher that if she proceeded to attack ot socialist policies would working people, they adamantly resist. Nationalisation? "It's a big. They down cold word. • Tnink some size." things should be run by the Makind state-gas, electricity, etc- worse, Wise blundered on: but not everything." This pre-election confession COnTrol.

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supposed 'left' MP Audrey consumer control as well".

prior her defeat This however was Coventry speiled out the abject confusion of Labour's Tribune fight Group. Having been ritualistically tent reTusal by the Callaghan's "Marxists" the limits, she Militant Group what her attitude was rigmarole of excuses mono- nationalising Ine workers' control, was when she dolles Under Wise waffled on with increasing went em barassment. last July decause ment had been defeated prefer "common owner. election called ship", but the whole thing's have been very complicated-it needs a lot attenders oT of discussion bargaining! "The multi-nationals are too WRP's 'mass party' fraud exposed The farcical position of the Workers Revolutionary Party-an organisation of no more than a few hundred active members-standing 60 candidates the Election has been shown up by events. where WRP In many areas. presence was clearly restricted candidate and «ent little or no canvassing was done.

election addresses, =ven freely distributed by post, were not sent out. Elsewhere WRP Abortive received trom 40 (Luton East) And WRP "public meetings" attended members where Simon proved to be either completely abortive or attended by candidates attracted 800 votes.

audiences in single And four numbered Toutes. candidates-who presumably did Of course the '60 candidates' was designed stunt 400 votes. to casture time portray the But the WRP as a mass organisation.

canelettes But this impression did not where areas have much impact on voters.

Even the WRP broadcast's not WaS presenter, Corin Vanessa Redgrave's nederave pulled 152 derisory Moss Side-the votes. allay Tes come and ortered a belated attack on governments go. but the Labour Callaghan who, as "undisputed leader on. Our job is to of the Labour Party" resolutely those who naa nera onto nis policy of: work by hand and brain". dogmatic five "a rigid and percent long atter his position Less waffle on unis naa been overrun.

claimed Flannery, was fellow "the fundamental ano nis done a bit more Labour's defeat". actual defending of workers and What, then did Flannery do to a ort less wattie and covering up oppose policy? Of the course nothing. Nor do he or his would not have intend to

I THOU BET

oas anything yone into the erection so berett remove Callaghan as party leader.

iroup vice- randmentary tour Party chairman Martin Flannerv also meeting to reelect the need to be broken a more manageable PHOTO: Chris Davies, Report WIt workers to be there has only one instance of Wise's avoidance of when challenged or her consis.

socialist policies. vote wage-cutting Jay •a long The most spectacular evasion claimed that she Wise with this possible Tory ruse, Wise ware controls if the govern- herself cleverly acted and an opponent free CONeCTIVE the Tories would bargaining-a position she main- able tained in votes on government pose free collective economic policy even after the 5% pay limit was thrown out by In other words, to forestall last year's Labour Party confer- An interesting victory in the local council elections was the success in Nuneaton Labour candidate Ivor OT Timson-a Socialist Press supporter. #imson objected strongly to

STILL AVAILABLE

WRP leaders junk the old Corin Redgrave Trotskyism candidates mainly ranging to 200. An exception was Ormskirk, Pirani Standano and Tory

WRP

ar cos campaign-won over main The avoided standing in

WRP

the Price 45p plus 15 p p&p Where cam datoned from WSL, the case-as 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, canca br London NW5 1HR.

WRP

vote of do Allaun leader is regarded as a mere formality for Callaghan, the doorman for Thatcher. At his before the Labour MP showed tive he Tories. incomes bolic the analysing the

TOOTS OI

backing Coventry Labours _oeteats workers should look not merely the betrayals oper of the out arcued. want wine edeers speakers said ise and her for ter have cuts Wise under me orles who gave Callaghan and Healey a blank cheque for their attacks The meeting on the working class. attended Asian workers turned out in their thousands to vote 4,000 The for Sydney Bidwell in TUrnOUT result the ot Southall. brutality and Against the trend elsewhere alon ul une workine class in the arta • Inal Thev pate in political life in Britain.

Socialist win the workers' rejected the of vention candloate in Nuneaton miserable 477 votes Bidwell acted as a block on this politicis- ation. His the Walnetic policy OTTICIa statement both in fighting for the rights of punted by the Labour Party and his constituents, and in the pre.

secured agreement to distribute election meetines as ow, arternative, leatiet.

have discouraged even the most class conscious Support for strikes putting their This included specific oppos authorship of the Select Com- ition to wage controls, support mittee Report, which called fo for direct action including occu tighter immigration controls and pations and strikes against social the • scussee for the passes for immigrants serve Cuts Ene •Cal opening of the books of private suppliers to the public sector to meeting OT-00 l involvement he •ade union committees, and tor nationalisation firms these that the tive lories on the com and the banks. mittee Calling Thatcherites" and some of them tor a new leadershir Labour Party and the inte were quite moderate! labour movement a whole He salt Timson went on to support the with his wife about it and any.

workers way he knew more about racisn cemane TOr squads to protect immigrant tal anyoody else in une roor workers against racist and fascist with the exception of Vishn of British demand the Sharma, secretary arle withdrawal troops Southall) from Ireland. one should read his book on Elected subject before and then resorted An impossible ultimatum for attacks personal Nuneaton electorate? questioners Hardly! 'thickhead" sarcastically to another "you're Timson was elected, while two fellow Labour candi- such a clever running help the official need on English". wert by dories. Another : was lage y

LABOUR

PARTY

LUARD BACKS

"HEATH'S PLAN"

last meeting mention of Labour and every being elected election Evan was applauded. Luard, who is now the ex- Critics for Oxford what little alterna- There was great initial presented the hostility towards outsouken left wing critics. But it soon became clear He argued tor a permanent hostility said

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becdust were same workers in une meeting against Labour being elected.

Heath's though without legal reality the audience "He admitted that the Labour wert and to Lailaonal and Healey government had carried out cut Luard's policies, It is important as one of ine othe that this hostility is now turneo "it better. to remove under Labour than ItFLU StrUCOif Labour's right wing leaders whose betrayals have brought was wei! i Halener to dower by about 50 _weodie 'Socialist Unity' no answer to Bidwell in London, his vote increased by coming from the petty-bour geois end of the constituency".

was a direct The rest of his contribution recent rambled through working the growing realis- his local Class vouth. tions, and his Trotskyist past. have to partici- To cuts tone TrON Socialist Unity Troops about turned, of course. Out he revealed his adherence to the Stalinist position of "troops •The main organisation and to the barracks" parachute inter- Unity Socialist campaign *Socialisi Unity' however offered Taria Ali who got a neither an adequate programme for struggle nor a direction into himself however the Labour movement remove fakers and traitors like Bidwell. Bidwell inaeed while was facing opponents at his eve of performance poll meetina and discrediting front Asiar nimselT workers Tariq Ali's campaign well juddering miant to a liail cowa the meeting ludl voters from populated almost exclusively by cross in his box members and

ING

an assort for of Intamous and seblamians austentionists Workers Southall were right to vote Labour on 3 May.

possibility Now the is over, election Asian workers must take up the When challenged at the eve struggle Labour to' justify his clear racists

SUCT

simply claimed Bidwell, and join the practical fight to construct a new, revol- "weren't that he had argued the IWA Bidwell declared that every the attacking him vulgar calling one saying don't with learning accused

WRP extends its internati campaign doubt-lash When out'. has been the This consistent motto of the of the Workers redaersolo Revolutionary Party in the 4½ years since they bureau- Cratically expelled 200 members who supported a return to une metoo and principles of the Trotskyist Transitional Programme. target •Chiet The WRP's frenzied political has been allacks LiTe workers socialist Leave which was formed by a nucleus those expelled forces and today alone forward carries principled struggle for the Trotskyist the programme bruisa workers movement movement has been allow Bell and the FBI to keep Our falsely accused the 18 files land of crimes dreamed up spectrum otner pigions used Ine reveree imacination leading WRP sectarians-varying against years, safely social and the key The SWP democracy trace union •ureaucracy. through alleged WSL collabora- proposed a possible with tion the Stalinists of settement. debarring tion communist rarty. Imacinea 'adventures" 'and even "provoca- tions" which they claim have brocramme harassment, Deen cared

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members British Leyland's and Cowley car factories. along government Falsified SWP's legal status. Our political positions have ∞een raisinee cuotes rom our press bowdlerised; our members slandered; and photographs nave in the WRP's press for witch- hunting and employers Lureducals But never Unti last week had the WRP quite sunk to the depths ot accusing the WSL and its leading members of acting as Paids freet desa accarture Look place in an article FBi Discover Oxford Attorney: The Strange Case of John Lister' in article. itself a classic falsification

WRP

and double-think, further extension of the WRP's efforts to avoid political dis- by throwing cussion around wholesale ahedations inat Lister's article political opponents dit that thppeals ruling that up held Bellf March legitimate "police agents opponents but decIsion files, effectively rules that Article

FBI

and its The Newsline attack takes form reply the to an dol harassment anionhe lines by Socialist Press editor article harassment Jonn Lister in Issue 14/, which oroposed ov InE dealt with the crisis point worth the paper it is written on reached the 5½ $40 in year "Such amount to liste brought by the mion lawsull Workers Party Sociatist against the FBI. Lister, stands at present statement by at semate. caused ov TIne Larry adament refusal of the Carter's question or the identities or tot Attorney General Griffin Bell to 18 informers was "a secondary comov with a court oreer issue in this case': over files on a sample of 18 FBI informers who operated "secondary issue" to ano arouno ine swe ourine the massive the FBI's 16-year programme of Intormer illegal and harassment emerged politically as the main question at stake" aistuption Lister's article, headlined Socialist Press i ne "US Appeal rules Court went on to attack the tallure

FBI

Law" above the of the SWP to take the Out to •aw a coance sneer or tne paign and the court struggle so far-which has lawsult deans une ro no le brought to light 180,000 pages organised US labour movement.

hithertc Lister called clearly

•OCU

ments, and whole dossiers scare carience

FBI

disruption programmes as Court ruling, well as torcing the highest labour movement conference on entorcement otticer in the USA une issue into a brazen defiance of the "Rather than courts order keep kind of settlement

FBI

identities intormers capitalist state, me or suoule secret. clearly Lister contrasted ThIS balance sheet achievement this repressive state with the political method of the

SWP,

and Democratic parties, can be

WHICH

now trees co WRP leader Healy The late Joseph Hansen defeated only through those ot the construction of a Labour Party of thorthe union strement narks ano stool illegally the union

SWP

16 over WItA representing lock workers' independent interests.

unael ana There is, lihood such change opportunists have any of $5 million course bi the SWP leadership which is tied to the opportunist linkee to an nine. of the "United" Secre the

FBI

politics illegal Fourth tariat In8 Intel surveillance, national (to which infiltration, phone- affiliation by sabotage the US legislation that with Torma snout aso de challenged! declaration of the As a result of this political weakness, a campaign that could stut strike turner heavydows at the FBI's network of political sabotage soems likely to be kept alive in une next ganoe more regime's throuch the tartel heavy handed refusal to concede on the issue than any such rigid the part of the SWP Stant on leadership". But criticisms these sharp are too political for the liking of the WRP leadership. the WRP's any slander-merchants had scented a Taint Chance ot bracketing the Workers Socialist League with the SWP, a party whose veteran leaders nave ved ocen vilified by the WRP as "accom plices of the GPU" and "agents of the FBI" Newsline editor Mitchell Court January 7% 1975 Time Files Oor FisiT. Showed It Harassed Teacher wit for Ine the , York "dirty tricks" are theretore shows Devond the lines along

SWP

- Letter Bad Affiliates Lo, settlement would more than an wrote who also challenged a

SWP

spokesman Carter's stalling trial, Seigle which claimed the up suit supporters S appear the SWP cover-up of the 18 Judge Says FBI Gave False tne stated Lister. cam- the lessons Ot a full. for the Hood backed by seeking No dance for the lating of Koly, dopean.

any with the seeking means of exposing i ne anonvmous wewsint article therefore rips out carried couple of partial quotes from Lister s arucie content, betore moving in to the kill. The author baldly pro to assume this role? Is it because Lister moung tal and the wSl agents being protecteo by the FBi are the leaders 01 the Socialist Workers Party".

blood Without pausing tor breath occasion should arise! or thought, the Newsline rushes on to claim: FBI leaders 'Lister knows this [!] but he has Written this a friend and political accom blood money is delivered?"

plice of the international net- agents Work oT CoCe centre is located in the

SWP

Political Committee' demonstrates So not only the SWP leaders na: rearessed branded principles and police agents with a stranded now Trotskyism to the the pen! But Invented facts digs himself further wover Tron explanation to it this tissue of Groping tissue of lies and distortions.

invented facts the WRP hack!

Of course we have only this to offer: "[Lister] tries pose as a FBI infiltrator soften impact international one ThAT instrument of the FBI

… TOO GS

not an undercover and the us state Department.

Bolshevik Of Lister's article

SWP

actually exposed the Was nitrated eve of the revolution itself.

leaders as opportunists. whose But Healy Pabloite methods make them incapable of utilising even the of the US capitalist roi realiy does Capsule then how can state by their own lawsuit the fact Am agitation in cass agitational weapon in the begun ir trit years ago? it takes ine crazeo sectarians of the WRP to see such a politi- suit,

FBI

left cal the attack simply a ground with cover de man e chance of being WRP's eyes is much simpler: since

SWP

denounce the documents leadershio as F8| agents!

inkling of They go on lyingly to claim harassment that has at all to the SWP's willingness Jadild torced into to take blood money from the US government." spying the conclusion to But Tne the Newsline article which unprecedented way. Tune 15. YoYork Times 2 Socialist Groaps Page 8. 1978 See Nixon and Aide Bell Says He's Unsure Files on Informants in Suit : geney Is If FBI Bugging Is Over Answer in shingion Pos A Burglar Says Agents; Kelley Deposition Ordered in SWP Civil SurE LE Paid for His Silence Some examples of the way in which the SWP law suit has publicised FBI crimes even in bourgeois press WSL leadership branded Healy backs Ba'athist Strange tactic These marks a new depth of tilthy are supposedly controling the SWI out through indeed "A question which naturall) But there is stranger still arises is; why has Lister decider major recurrent torm o surveillance in these himself documents the technique of Wolfe de breakind into local our once. pared to take this kind of ruling and stealing photographing money membership lists, etc., at con- siderable risk and expense to the Or is it, perhaps, because the the SWP have But if FBI agents really ran the

SWP,

promised Lister himselt a cut o'

SUCT

the proceeds if and when the trouble and expense to obtair information that well placec agents inside the Party could In this one, squalid, rhetori- cal question-without a scrap of obtain openlv? Nor Healy's slander- can how mongers demonstrate any vva y SWP's Pabloite trom Which traditions policies i effer the interests of the or the state smear In machinery fact, while and frame-ups of the Stalinist bureaucracy the same time he US imperialisi successIve regimes have stoked up witch- and maintained into a trap economic blockade against WArs own

SWP

LUDar revolution Tine leaders-foremost among them supposed late man the have never Josedn Hansen-nave wantee to deny une bessielty and almost uncritically the SWP leadership contains an defended Castro's Stalinist more than -any oureducracy the WRP leaders can be certai As US imperialism mounted number effort in Vietnam, its majo cop. The SWP for all its weaknesses the Contral Committee programme, emerged in ine very central role in i the huge anti- war movement amongst overboard goes Ask yourself, for example, if th students and Taolcals -d TOTe as released FBI docu which run ine sur explain ments show, the

FBI

was Healy particularly anxious to sabotage that the $40 lawsuit wa Strange indeed for tactic. Ts place, b7 "the FBI leaders of the SWP"!

Remember, prior to the law- Double bluff? overdled unaet. impunity and no exposed: but Let us even assume for : the lawsuit 100,000 pages moment that the lawsuit against revealing an the

FBI

bizarre the extent of illega inspired double-bluff that back the why dril Tired: out leaders of the SWP" press aheac movements •eer the open: whole with it for five solid years books have publicised the FBI's revealing more ane more information about damnin danger their own organisation's ar clan destine activities? The Boston Globe sabington Post June 23. 1976) the FBI - again A 38-Year Probe Of Marxist -Group Backfires on FBI A Dirty L FBI May Have to Surrender So 5. 1a7mea online the pee : FBI Role Cited in Break-in NeW TC

• FOST, SATURDA

Will Bell really go Reportedly fter Spy Program Ended to jail! Harassed Radicals

WHICH SIDE IS THE

WRP REALLY ONP

SOCIALIST PRESS. Wednesday 9 May, 1979 onal slander as FBI agents while butchers As for the WRP's argument that the $5 million settlement is the a cranky way "best remaining intormers the paid" capitalist agents inside the it all falls a •it man when veronine concedes that the SWP opportunists are: milion, privately asking for 35 •Publicly million, , and willing to settle tol much less". This of course leads to the question or wetner inere witl really be any "blood money" to share out among the WRP's of supposed SWP/ growing list FBI accomplices. For this to be the case, the Carter would in daministration ettect tormely nave to concern defeat. Though they secure the the security of the 18 files The whole instructed not to support sorry pavment of even the more likev the Cowley 9 Defence Cam- episode highlights the damages would still paign-even though White political defeat growing question mark himself was one of the nine which ine wo ooureeoise seers placed that must be accused! stubbornly unwilling Instead White over the WRP in the looked concede vainly for ways of getting This means that there will be recent period. further legal stages the capitalist courts to inter- through. Which side of the class vene into the and The WRP, of course, lines is preserve his position. takes this supposedly no sides in the lawsuit. For "Trotskyist" Yet it was the Defence party them it is a simple [?] question on? What does the WRP Campaign that played the tne „Ine one nano represent in class terms in kęy role in preventing the suing the FBI on the other.

planned wholesale victimisa- its practice the class Newsline puts forward no 1n struggle? tions going ahead. demands further the fight Again and again Healy's The Court or ADoeal S Organised abstention ruling: scarcely bothers pernicious blend of sec- it fact that it is the the and opportunism WRP's Elsewhere the been lead which nas or ocked une have seen LO record in the class struggle release of the 18 files, and not members onto the 'State Department'

" SWP

is one of organised absten- the wrong side the on the SWP, tion, covered over by skill- Heav sattacks barricades. in short, serve neither to clarify ful use of the Newsline to But at each point Healy for political questions the impression of Crcait has covered up by accusing rarty s mousanas members and supporters in the USA (and others of the crimes 11C The abstentionism has thousands co-thinkers in its himself was committing. reached the level where 'United Secretariat ine radioite

WRP

Framed members have even lot the rourth international nor advance one iota the class been instructed not to join political In 1974, when the struggle picket lines supporting the founder members of the Garners Steak Houses consciousness the workers movement in the USA.

WSL

expelled, were were framed with the charge But worse by far was Cover for Carter "soft social being on the scurrilous WRP attack OI democracy" and seeking to on the thousands of Asian "cuddle noeeo it anvone can be said the trade workers up to and youth who to be providing it must be cover union bureaucrats". drive the Carter and the FBI

CLO

Healy produced a National Front of out with Ineit aosure falsified Central set of (claim that the files are being Southall minutes the US state Committee by Branding anti-fascist "prove" that such a position demonstrators as "wild eyed out on me insucation leaders themselves! had been taken. ot the SvP |! middle class protestors" Finally, worthwhile reality? What the the

WRP

the was slammed WRP's overall Within months of the expul-

NOOKITO

massive mobilisation against strategy mudstinging as sions it was a WRP Central NF-

ANL

the which easy alternative political -11 Committee Tom member, Blair Peach was analysis and polemic. supporter White who plunged into police-as The question must be asked: murdered by British Leyland's class colla- even if the WRP were actually protest stunt. correct, and the

SWP

is headed borationist "participation" isn't is olitical scheme in Cowley. by a panel of FBI agents, This sheer struggle. what is the best way of winning bufoonery!" proclaimed she hange perior are mee from Right wing slate armchair critics of the the WRP, who have lifted not so bership the

USA

towards White was also finger ¡Trotskyism? much consciously selected for the recent anti-fascist demon- Hysteria anti-communist Sale strations. "moderates" in the deputy The Asian masses of convenors elections by Is it through hysterical alle- Southall get no more than witch-hunting right wing I aations Indu inet Dollical back-of-the- convenor Reg Parsons. ¡ leaders are police spies! Ur Is It hand from Newsline: through patient the WRP saw "Who 59 political exposure of the Canes wnerner reinforce their role as the members of the NF meet

TGWU

DOlLICS OT the syr. ano the lackeys its obvious inability in a hall or not?" to otter a bureaucracy by carrying revolutionary lead the extensive lying attacks on Stay at home working class? the "adven- Ine answer is obvious to all hare-brained turism" of militant Cowley And the WRP effectively Healyite factionalist. TGWU shop stewards WItU its abstentionist urges were facing a witch-hunting out Then Heav nas ost all members and supporters to interest interiss of the Paling. challenging the "enquiry" and possible stay at home during anti- expulsion from the union at fascist marches: ms own deas ano orotesove the of top alliances with anti-communist MaROS "Do fall for the feudal bureaucrats. and even despots provocations of the NF and Libya, No support police. They simply ine Abu Dhabi go tar beyond even want to use these episodes the worst political compromises

WRP

members in the training exercises for proposed arch revisionist

TGWU

civil war". Michel Pablo. meanwhile

MANN

Coupled with this brazen attack Southall anti- on equally attack on

ANL

scurrilous leader Paul Holborow, who attempted to raise funds to fly Blair Peach's Dalcilli from New Zealand for the funeral by selling photo- graphs of him to the Tory press at £250 Not only is this entirely vermissame enanour or Holborow-facilitating the maximum publicity for the in case, and raising money the process-but the WRP's protests are entirely hypo- critical. Healy knows full well that during the 1974 national press witch-hunt against Alan Thornett-then WRP member victimised from his deputy Convenors position at BL's Cowley Assem bly was Healy himself wno pressu- rised Thornett for agree- ment to sell pictures of him to the Tory gutter press!

Prime target Had Thornett agreed and such pictures been published in the midst of the media barrage against Thornett, he could have become a prime larger 1ol any crazed right winger in the town. But now Healy has the gall to object to Holborow- for perfectly legitimate reasons-selling photographs of Peach that could harm or jeopardise him any way at all. Again Healy and again accuses others of the crimes he himself is committing. He accuses us ol mises with Stalinists-and himself then uncritically Vietnamese endorses the Stalinist regime's invasion of Cambodia and whitewashes of its history murdering Trotskyists. He accuses us of refusing to support anti-imperialist struggles-but himself produces 1979 Election Manitesto that signally fails to call for defence of the Soviet Union or the deformed workers states of East Europe, Asia and Cuba.

accuses "revisionism"-while News- line daily out pumps policies on the Middle East and other issues which are diametrically opposed correct positions argued by the WRP as recently as five years ago. And most brazenly of all, Healy falsely accuses us of being paid agents of the

FBI,

while Newsline unmistakeably become has the obedient mouthpiece for butcher nationalist regimes the Middle East. Bloodstained We have time and again asked the WRP to explain to WOTKeTS what is their relationship to the bloodstained Iraqi which Ba'athist Newsline officially reprints while execute Communist Party members 'and jails militants? What is their relationship Ba'athists, to Syrian whose army props up the Lebanese capitalist state and represses the actions of the PLO against the Zionists?

What is their relationship with Gadafti dictator- …The ship in Libya that outlaws political parties in general Marxist and parties in particular? Why did Healy and Redgrave visit the feudal Sheikhdoms of Kuwait and Dhabi, Abu only to return and launch extravagant dIl election Cal Da stallulle one candidate for every five

WRP

members, with or. S1X of many them not even pretending to carry out any campaign!

WRP

Why won't the reply to the of their critique political positions on the Middle East

OFFICIAL

CTRIKE

Page 7 lair Peach By John Lister carried in Socialist Press- contrasting previously positions taken by Healy to his present abject grovelling? The answer is clear: they honestly face the movement WOlKeTS WIl. the squalid fact that their so-called Trotskyist party has become simply a tool in the hands of oil-rich 'left' nationalist takers; that it is off from class cut the struggle in Britain and inter- nationally, and struggling to retain control of its dwindling demoralised and membership and preserve its top heavy apparatus and daily paper. Suppression This is the explanation for the slanders, the lies, the silences strange and suppression of all discussion within the WRP itself members and supporters who wish fight for Trotskyism must The take note. Trotskyist banner still held aloft- 1S but no longer by Healy, the puppet of Ba'athism. Workers Only the Socialist League offers analysis of the WRP's degen- eration, a principled record in the class struggle and a perspective for the the Fourth 01 International on the basis of Transitional Programme. Garners picket line-WRP tells members not to participate

Bitter lessons of Low

END LOW

JHSE-EM

2.60 560 PHOTO: Laurence Sparham IFL Pay betrayal As public sector workers with the soon became a common claim in receive the miserable £2-£3 conferences-that other three annua The militants in the public services members in the public extra in their pay packets sector- look closely COHSE, GMWU and TGWU. over the next few weeks, record frequent public Iner own leadershio and begin besoite they will realise more fully to build a principled opposition appearances, where he preached the extent to which they with concrete policies to fight and bellowed about the plight were sold out by their own Alan ruture betrayals. Fisher soon showed that leadership on their pay Failure not prepared to lead a fight for claim. the tu claim it it meant the months of the The most important lesson slightest confrontation with the ATTer

TWIG

most intensive industrial action to be learnt from the pay strikes Labour government ever seen in tre boolie services inat the Tanure to win the instead or callino tor actior ambulance £60/35 hour week claim was from thé earliest settlement date noso tar

STATT

drivers, local authority, no way due November -when the Ford water, to the weakness or university. and school inactivity of the membershio were already on strike Over 1 million workers took adle done once de which leaves them strike action on January 22 and followed by the bakers, tanker increase worse off against inflation.

60,000 and haulage -Fisher kept marched through The delaying the start of the action, al duality

SLUOV IS

After the 22nd, hundreds of unlikely to promise much more and noping tat the militancy when it puts forward its findings sections of workers showed time anger of his members would die August 1, and what increase after time that pay they successive were it does recommend will be tied most predared тасе The do were deleted. productivity deals and massive scabbing operation attacks on organised by the Labour govern- Determination manning levels and working conditions. ment. volving tne use of the troops, police and volunteers, The strikes were 70 U Thatcher and with up and a large however, the scale Tory press witch hunt.

militancy of the members grew More, is tie statent his iney organised strike com- as each blow was dealt to the mittees which virtually however, statement by covernment dav dolcy Thatcher controlled the public services of Then esponse the calan inat she will 22 January beyond nonour the comparability tind ane tormed links ings he her Tory government unionists in the WITh trace expectations the rally and al The supply industries. new same westminster the The strikes were defeated will at this moment be plannina day and in the weeks follow- the most vicious series of cuts in ing 22nd, not by ine memoersnip and not thousands upon public spending which will even by the scabbing operation.

thousands of workers Throuon include closure country showed that out the Treachery they were determined despite amenities, speed-up and redun- on an unprecedented cancies the waffling of their leaders They were defeated above all action for the full claim.

take Whatever plan, by the treacherous policies and The bureaucracy were forced Ine there is no doubt that there will practices of the public sector to maintain battles ahead union leadership. ance of fighting for the claim- public sector workers over for €60 for fear of The claim complete minimum jobs and living wage and 35 hour control of the membership-but standards. week was launched at the NUPE al the same time they did every.

It is important at this time- thing possible through their annua conterence in 19/8, and

PUBLIC SERKY

GMWU leader Basnett at the head of the January 22 demonstration A London NUPE ambulance driver looks at the record of the recent public sector pay struggles. policies and practice to isolate and demoralise sections were taking action and who prevent the strikes from spreading. The leadership announced a strategy of 'selective action' to the claim, and it was this disastrous policy -plus Ine almost complete : of oppos- ition to it throughout all the lay bodies union and divide weaken divide mosT action If there had been a call for all-out, indefinite strike with no return until the ti S ПРЕ-ТЬ Claim was met. then the militan could have come out sections immediately and fought to bring : other sections, , building the strike

WILT

ine tall backing o the leadership. Instead, selective presented enormous difficulties for militants at branch level.

There was quibbling between sections over who should come out; the partia action often meant that non-unionised weake sections would do extr- work; the levy was organised nationally and meant no extra

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LOW PAID

NOWCALLED

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LABOUR PA

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 9 May, 1979 strike pay: and most important it allowed management to step in and victimise a divided work- force This happened at the West minster Hospital NUPE branch, where management were able to Pheir terms bal suspense • a Out StrIke six domestics who blacked the private parents wing as part o.

are Dranch s selective actior Only

WSL

sympathisers in NUPE put up a consistent, retentless oppositior to the policy of selective action, propaganda-by demanding that the call all-out action right from the the campaign weginning June 1978-und in practice All out action

WSL

member John Seymour, steward for the Cressy Road refuse section of Camden General NUPE branch put up a tireless fight with onel WSL sympathisers in London to force the Divisional Council an out Inaetinite action At the same time the Cressy Road section took all out action -despite we branch s suicida policy of trying to win the claim by pulling only four petrol pump attendants! mis contouted to bringing the whole branch out along with other refuse sections in Bren and Barnet ana played a large part in winning almost the full £60/35 hour week claim in Camden The Camden victory is held the NUPE leadership out by asinine examoe or now the full claim can be won-yet the fight all-out action Camden had to be waged against the open hostility, sarcasm and manoeuvrings the London NUPE leadership. Defeated Largely because the Cressy Road London Divisional Council held January ergene emergency • Ene car tor an- out action was defeated only by the chairman's casting vote. Although they did finally put out the call ane ordan ised a mass stewards' meeting I which voted overwhelmingly for all- action, waited the day . convenientiv late the action was on wher downturn and then sat back and hoped that the full-time officials would oroanise the striker The full time officials them- selves. whilst wranches were permitted to take all-out action, did every- thing in their power to isolate those sections anu aemo aist who were on strike. During the Westminster Hospital

WSI

sympa- thisers were working all the time to turn the strike back onto the issue of pay, . an actualy olavee bringing Tore tri out other hospitals in three Westminster r area The full In cnarge Godfrey played no eastWood part in this and was constantly trying to contain the dispute as an isolated issue, arguing for the use of ACAS and arbitration - when build and suredd hospital time strike this have turned the whole

COLO

campaign • towards victory The oinel main plank used leadership in selling out the claim challenge on thi guestioncy services and supplies.

Custon Following on fror lorr drivers continued to control the flow o supplies in the face press witch hunt, public SeCTO strikers and time again showed their willingnes and ability to take over the running ot hospitals public ane othe services. In the London area alone sections of f home helps from the Camden NUPE branch drew up patients whom they isto regarded as requiring essentia treatment. Agreements And at the Westminster and st hospital strikes, Marv C pickets made agreements with stewards from Esso tanke drivers' branch that delivered oi hospitals maintaining to the of I only sufficient supply keer parts the essentia hospital heated, to be cut off at any time at the discretion of th . WIcKets these and «Decoite other examples of embryonic torms ot workers control. the

Marie Stopes: pioneer SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 9 May, 1979 PHOTO: Lauren NUPE leader Fisher bureaucracy used the issue of "emergency cover" and their so-called "code for pickets to withdraw support from and sell out many sections of workers Without massive army scabing, the lead sacki refused official backing ambulance the arivers grounds that they had ignored the union's instructions to main- tain emergency cover. And nurses claim, ine

NUPE

instructed nurses that thay could take ally acuion "short

SUIKE

action' their claim-thus

OUTSUIT

bureaucratically isolating potentially powertul from the workers struggle. two months of efforts designed to kill oft the strikes the bureaucracy finally managed sell claim with of blatant bureaucratic manoeuvres which accepted the 9% offer at a time when many sections throughout the country were still taking action.

Conferences As the

NUPE

conference approaches on Mav 20 and the In the other public sector conferences during the Marie essential that workers realise the memorial betrayal carried out scare or the by their leaders and right only place in Much more important than must begin now InIS. thev formulate the correct policies to engaged them future get birth control advice.

prepare for major battle with the leadership that sold them out during the always made me view Marie low pay strikes. Stopes through rosy The comparability study will lacies significant otter Imorove This was ment in living and stancards thought, who as pioneer of it does offer is likely wildlever birth control had saved me a form to be tied to ot wage bargaining in the public sector thousands and will attempt to rule from any form of industrial action in pregnancy. pursuit of wage claims. Workers prepare now

MUST

the distribution of diaphram tor action against the compara- caps was much to be prized findings link Dilty this with building in that period before the pill tor action on the and the review the ud le oursuit confer- tion of the attitude among Claim formulated at the ence. family doctors Public sector can tamily wo. kers only their living, поготест made everything by winning a sub. standards stantial casier wage and increase protecting this from erosion by Different picture inflation through cost of living clauses based figures However ped by elected trade union biography committees. Virago gives a very different If they are to wow sucks claim, picture from the progressive workers sector must fight for the policies and thinker had leadership which will mobilise imagined. their enormous and Indeed the strength determination. Marie Stopes' life despite Ine WSL its small how complexly interwoven resources, pointed way Ine towards beginning this fight in progress dre both the low pay strikes, and workers have only to look at the record and within of

WSL

ments. members and sympa- thisers during these strikes It is necessary for us to what realise be understand that alieved fighting principled has never been full of the revolutionary programme in the simply black and white, the trade unions. good and the bad, the pro- gressive and the reactionary.

Realitv IS than that. Nonetheless it is impor- lant. ty, to assess contribution an movement tavour ultimately progress or reaction. Crazy lady Marie Stopes seems, a fairly crazy She co-operating fighting alsu extension of birth control, COHSE leader Spanswick and reactionary Marie Stopes early 1960s and blinded by an egotism Stopes disproportionate clinic notion of her in own impor- tance Whitfield Street was the Nevertheless Marie London Stopes' contribution to the where an unmarried; un- furtherance of birth control woman could significance and W di importance. My gratitude at that has Hostile to workers spect- How that contribution shot through at every was the woman, turn by her hostility to une working class is a fascinating tale. Whatever her motives others wishing keep the unwanted working class from breeding, the historical Birth control advice and outcome that birth control advice is now freely available working class women. Marie bduudi noeralsa- Stopes played a allowing that to Tole and the happen, of lesser tole planning association the significance than rather struggle by the labour move- ment for the welfare state, but a role nonetheless. Marie Stopes was born in , the daughter of a pair 1880, Ruth Hall's of middle class radicals.

published Her mother was perhaps eccentric and domineering as Marie herself fondly was to become, supporting such 'Rational reality of causes as Dress' for women, opposing reveals Irozen meat and later supporting the suffragettes.

and reaction within one individual social Sense of sin She brought Marie up with Victorian strong the world sense both of sin and of her duties to the 'lower orders'.

Marie was to devote her early adulthood scentine Larcel complex botanist, but throughout later life ner strong sense of moral fervour and despite the complexi- the need somehow to 'deal' the overall with the class re- working individual mained with her. illakes Marie Stopes' interest in of birth control was initially a byproduct of her work and writing on human sexuality, for which she now scarcely remembered. was, Her work area she TOlS lady. sprang from the sadness and incapable frustrations her with sexual biography; she was for determined that other should through women the kind of expece of whose which total ignorance write numan sexual behaviour had led her, an ignorance all too many Victorian against her. England and later. Stopes' Having had few dealings with men, Marie married on late, at the age of 31. This marriage was annulled 1916 grounds of non-consummation because whose of her husband's impotence.

every This in itself is evidence enough of personal unhappi- ness; but what more horror. striking that for almost two years Marie Stopes had her heart? continued, unaware that "While there was anything out of ordinary Ene about their boasting sexual relationship. slavery. slavery Ignorance So totally in ignorance every were many Victorian thought, on women about the sexual act woman?" commonly was regarded as an unpleasant experience to be put ur course also with that many of them must have received considerable shock on their wedding night, while others, like Marie, had only the always vaguest sense that all. was within not right. Idolless The marriage repression of women's sexuality view that Barrier pleasure or age old in Stopes keeping their place within This sexual not was discovered. Her Stopes and whilst as late within were part Similarly Thus the by permissive girl support experiencing desire and marriage. restriction that 'dirty'. views Marie Stopes must have reactionary had considerable anguish coming to terms with patterns • the realisation 'her OT own sexuality; this evidenced the Having in many passionate poems and plays she wrote throughout her she life. clinic in As district scientist her response to the dawning She realisation that her husband C" was impotent led her were producing too many research and she read up all the material then available on the subject of sexuality It was on the basis of this written material and not of personal experience that she wrote controversial book 'Married Love' first preface marriage paid such price for ignorance that I feel know- ledge gained at such a cost should be placed „at the service of humanity. While writing the book became of the aware need to include information contraception and sought the advice of the American champion of birth Also afraid of being swamped control, Margaret Sanger, on -Thatcher Page 9 Sheilagh Priestman reviews Marie Stopes by Ruth Hall, (Virago Books), price £2.95. behalf she was lo children: to President Wilson "Are puny-laced asking him to drop one of withered children young of an life, the whose what she and blood not many and the have bothered to of meaning what she • stand doing "If they realised it have would be chains Jones the been, ol race. every "the the to support worst the community." hoped, of revolution. contained She perfect culance. Lloyd George: threats miners' leaders." was to Despite anxious age SnE and the n/v Stopes herself could lived on of sexuality her limitations notably Catholic Her were oW increasingly spent alternate- ly haranguing the Catholic her work on church and campaigning for be birth control both in Britain those and elsewhere-including abortion India outside Swamped by hordes nis Stopes' She was terrified of being however "swamped by hordes o1 Indians and Chinese' By the 1950s, Stopes stood still eccentrically fighting byegone battles. But as kuth Hall comments.

married "It Is important see these ideas in their context Many of Marie's ideas working class would not be tolerated by modern proponents of the liberation women's move- ment-in particular, her restriction of sexual activity those bound matrimony and her disapproval of abortion masturbation and lesbianism." On the other hand "Marie pre-echoed in 1918 central tenet of In f the modern movement for women's liberation-that a womar should be allowed to exodge control over her to exercise We disagree that this is the central tenet of her we deeply approach. are hostile to Stopes' view of the working class. Yet must recognise the contradictory tion this rather woman to the struggle against women's oppression.

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INDUSTRIAL

EGA-first fight gift from A parting measure in and safety" of patients. defeated the Labour (" emporary' government appears to becoming be a renewed and even feature of more determined move strategy -it by the Camden and emploved in the case ot st.

Columba's Islington Area Health because Authority to close the necessary beleaguered Elizabeth period which Garrett Anderson proposed closure). hospital. Arguing that the hospital shortage faces ot nurses. the AHA has called an emer- meeting for May which is expected pretext for a crash closure to endorse a plan that will: programme designed to take *Stop all admissions to the labour the EGA immediately. surprise and *Close all wards by May this hospital which staff and 14. local trade *Close outpatient stubbornly facilities by May 28. 1975. The closure is supposed April EGA be "temporary

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Whichever way you look at the struggles and prob- lems now facing the working class throughout the world, one thing stands out above all: the necessity lor a prin- cipled leadership capable of leading the struggle for state power and the establishment of a socialist society.

upheaval that has now The massive revolutionary loppied the seemingly impregnable Iran and which is now already coming into conflict with placed upon it by its Islamic ants cons serves as a vivid reminder that socialst revolution is not only possible, but essential if the apparatus of repression and exploitation is to be destroyed once and for all. But such a revolution requires a conscious Marxist leadership. And the fight to construct such a leadership is inseparable from the fight in the day-to-day struggles of for internationally working class LIlt method and demands of the Trotskyist Transitional Pro- gramme. The Workers Socialist League has time and again proved to he the only novement in Britain that fights patiently and relentlessly on such a perspective.

We alone are the movement that does not shrink from even head-on battles with the existing leaders of the work- whether these 'leaders' be open right wingers, ing class 'lett" talking Labourites or Stalinists of the Communist Party. Of course this policy has made us no friends in the and centrists of the British 'left'. But it has opportunists WSL has meant that the consistentiv oftered the most powerful lead to workers in struggle.

The strength of our movement lies precisely in our "short cuts rejection of any attempt to find necessary fight to construct a Marxist leadership in the working boas In each struggle we set out to prove to workers both in theory and in practice the necessity of olutionary leadership and for a programme of transitional demands which, starting Irom today s today's consciousness witnin the working class,

NEWS

against Tory cuts? "interests the told by the AHA chairman that: "There will be no sudden regular closure of the EGA. Work at the hospital will continue as management before. The situation will be was recentiv discussed at the next AHA Hospital- meeting on May 14". staff it by-passes the Since then, four consultation nurses have been taken on applies improving the situation sub- stantially. permanent But the EGA, represent- ing a national focus for the Pretext struggle against the cuts, is a in the side of the Inorn The "nursing shortage" is AHA and of the new Tory flimsy undr What involved is not an argument about staffing levels but an by al-out struggle in which speedily full-scale support from other hospitals is needed to unionists have save the EGA. defended since When Ennals last threatened closure on July Indeed as recently as 23 21 last vear there was ar doctors were immediate from workers in struggle to grasp the need for socialist revol- struggles in British in the fight against redundancies and closures, in struggles against the cuts, unionisation fights, might of the Shah of democracy in the labour movement.

"leaders'' simple trade union mutancy or concession to tne labour bureaucracy capitalist but internationall ment the WS stresses not onlv the obligation of Britist workers to support the Irish liberation struggle and rev- olutionary struggles such as those in Iran and Southern Africa, but also the necessity for the reconstruction of the the principles Trotskyist of the world nartv of socialist revolution The

WSL

approach Britain: but lis LO make it the only really serious revolutionary movement.

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around the Name . Address a ever Send to Workers Socialist League, problems Hill, London NWS 1HR lead which they Ennals centrally Nursery. Price postage Dartmouth London NW5 1HR. London health workers. London Division of 1 ne NUPE was forced to call a mass meeting of shop stewards which threatened off, seeking a more oppor- "rolling strike action" if the tune EGA was closed. attack. Strike actior The And nearby hospitals returned to office, organised through the South to offer the best prospect.

Camden District Joint Shop Hence the current manage Stewards Committee passed ment offensive calling

TOI

indefinite strike action the paign has called moment the EGA was inter- gency meeting fered with. this grave situation, At St. Pancras Hospital, held on Tuesday 15 May at the

COHSE

branch call P... endorsed this and pledged itself to all-out indefinite action. and other Backed off union leaders are forced to turn last year's paper resolu- Seeing the scope of this Ennals backed practical solidarity movement which alone can EGA open. This means the 24 hour picket, prepar- This is why the WS has featured at the forefront of Leyland and the public sector, and the fight for This method of approach - rejecting any descent to • is of course essential not only in Britain

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 9 May, 1979 How to fight the cuts WSL members draw out the lessons ot two important struggles against the cuts in have been involved-the

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HOSPITAL CUTS!

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DUFFY'S RISE

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officials an emer- have just received 20% discuss wage increase will 1 nIS to be President mean Terry £30 Dutty's wages up by the hospital. £8,802 per week year It is essential that NUPE of these The hypocrisy public sector trade union leaders can be seen when you remember Duffy's wilcu-lulung into the scabbing attacks and threats action to discipline Roy Fraser, the keep the Leyland Craftsmen's leader, when he led a fight for a supporting £90 week per for craftsmen.

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of Picketing down workers' throats SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 9 May, 1979 Jackson's sell-out bid flops Jackson's night- prevent movement Tom ground for strike action against mares came true with fright- the or dovernment ening reality last week. among the ballot votes were all wynen against were counted it was clear that

HILU

UPW members had, overwhelm- aoverament's policy ot contron 1979 pay rejected tation with the working ciass That bitter deal recommended by the union out on •a colossal 288 branches cast their votes in favour of the deal, while 738 voted for rejection. But this understates the real was the larger branches that Enrew most violently. Branches deal receive one vote for every ten this basis, the result was of 2,7,00 votes in only the executive recommender massive votes agalist. Barbed hook The Executive held an emer gency session last week to work The London out some wav of getting oft this Committee unpleasantly barbed hook. This defeat for crushing meets this yedi s of Jackson's decades-old policy Wednesday. collaboration was ensured 'efficiency' agree. the so-called Tale ment. long dispute TOt In this clause partial consol- nition at Garners Steak Houses..

idation traded off against Betore the introduction rumours soredo dna vuftalkals staff and a 'work study scheme made open ot sneed uo breparations his hand bureaucrats decided to put this besoite part of the deal on ice, and press rights and the question of police ahead with demanas for ine rest limits on pickets will now be an agreement to be met by Post Office management. more before, the such as Shorter and Sid Staden Jackson's main concern oeuvre. the alarming avoid retuse

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picketing and possibility or a strike necessary to secure a basic right.

Management, clearly deter- launch a widespread attack manning levels throughout the Post Uttice, to concede any signif- unlikely this cant around stage. at the same time une scan- recommended by dalous provoked has executive The fierce ander ano Committee throughout the UPW. There little doubt that the present deal would have been accepted two ence on months ago, if it had excluded the 'efficiency' agreement.

No confidence

TGWU

Now Jackson can have no tee, • such annual continence conference later this month will unprecedented Cellamy 240 1056. attacks on the sordid betrayals of the union bureaucracy.

In this context, Jackson will have to pull out every stop to

UNION DUES

JacKsOn Jackson and his fellow officials.

gaining •odav posta workers again. find themselves with the vicious anti conflict postal members union policies of a Tory cabinet the first to move the Heath This time, the bry leaders have already shown in advance stab postal new wateriess workers in the back at the tirs was sold strike available opportunity. suale Success on Garners Day Regional since the engineer strikers have shown a real deter-

TGWU

of the mination to tignt on and Tuesday A Day of Picketing-organis- with no aid whatever On the agenda will certainly 16-month ing all day on Garners restaur- of the ants in the West End last Satur- Unon recour day. And a conference for TGWU General Election (see below) members Strike the remarks revealine StH their desire to sell out the heroic Committee tor June y At a lobby of the Regional the the fact that union Committee neces- sary to win will be demanded And it will be made clear than stab the issue that any moves resis- with oricals Strike will net tance sharp deal hammer blows at any reaining the militant of TGWu Region Creeloity bureaucrats in the eyes of their membership. However. a sell out is Tut su

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INDUSTRIAL

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Pressure grows on teachers' pay only served Teachers in the NUT are anger. and now taking action in every sentine resolutiull. one of the 104 local educa- Executive action be organised. tion authorities in England calls and Wales over their 36.5% i nest from COMe wage claim. Witney and Burford in Oxford- Shirley Williams' pre-election Shire. of negotiations The postponement Teachers protesting against the cuts-now fighting on pay BL shoves 'carrot' British Leyland manage- per week in April in addition to ment have taken an impor- the ally baylics tant initiative in their drive the aradina. management invitec to force in their corporate

AUEW

TGWU

bargaining package. They have declared that five Wild. slotting exercise at the end o TacTories- last week Assembly, Cowley Common Lane Swindon, Body claimine inal tres add dau some and Llanelli-have Hanlaye ment's unilatera and ver grades in productivity criteria thus qualified for the first anu accepted the invitation but the two staces or anily TGWU refused to attend -averaging about £5 i per week each worker they said Ine payment: would be 'banked' on behalf of each individual worker and only in the Dao wen every plant had accepted their highly grading contentious new downgrade: structure-which sections such oirect workers and creates production from citterenlid bottom of £20 a week. This set scene for Cowley Assembly Plant manage- Shop Senio ment Stewards that they intend. following the craftsmens' strike on ine the new grading to moement Committee structure-which is key to their corporate bargaining plans-with principle of mutual or without the agreement of the ment on productivity criteria trade unions on the olant. increase order to the In the sum … lump carrot ine Confed, which bank-they also announced that they have unilaterally introduced the incentive scheme whic WaS relected ov mass meetings a year ago. was doint This, they said, had paid out the oroductivity £4 per week in March and

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AN END TO THE CLOSED SHOP AND A CLAMPDOWN ON

UNOFFICIAL STRIKERS.

Page 11 the NAS/UWT is due to begir *Hel teachers branches are now on Tuesday May 8 amid specula the

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some tion thai strike •emanolo oisaaret WIth likelvicta tion • That teacner contract to work 5 bound by have already hours in school per day. birmincial deduct As a result mey ma from the pay '5-hour day' action by teachers. 'Professionals' strike Even some members of the non-TUC teachers

AMMA,

the "protessional body

TOOK

action (for the first time in 100 years) on Wednesday afternoon ore er which passed motions condemn- ing Shirley Williams' postpone- meet or une talks The must executive immediately and plan which is national strike action teachers have only weator force the Thatcher govern. to the 1974 level ment to restore ot pay as awarded by nougnton.

agreed between management and ine conted

LAJNC

To facilitate the forcing in of Although tha these proposals by a accepted talks broke of 14-12 three unions on the plant matority and

EETPU-

down again when it was revealec that the productivity target that termed manual attained trigger workers Ine Darily The exercise was a means of payments had been inflated to include financing supervisors and staff employees consultations before forcing the In al. as well as ine wore cos The AUEW and the EETPU rises manual workers arising from the recent national doreement on premiun rateshis information resulted in Two weeks ago negotiations again being reterrec ane matter to the CSEU Executive The Cowley management initiative nas done one desces this deadlock and reference back. Condemned They claim to be acting on a commitment Inev cave to Ene the craft unions at the end of the the plant crartsmen s siTiKe

TGWU

meeting package broke plant has con- stewards down at BL National Negotiat- demned the actions of the craft level when unions in allowing themselves to management refused to honour be used as a tool of management agree There Attie count thai will resist The deadlock was referred to semi-skilled workers the Executive Committee of the the implementation of the new then met with grading when company thi BL management at the highest make their next move levethe result of this meeting management if they don't wi. certainiv use iner success d recommendation to Cowley to force it in through- out the rest of BL Cars new criteria mutually

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a front for fresh attacks The Wiehan Report, restrictions these racist whose general legal. recom- been In any case ine mass ol mendations have other controls (the pass laws accepted by Minister of and the lack of training and Labour Fanie Botha, is education opportunities Ior defend the blacks) ensure the contin- tactic to capitalist-apartheid state uance of a de facto racist job reservation. against the challenges to it from the black work- Extending control ing class. Whatever changes are The been Report has made legislation about widely and warmly reported industrial organisations will in the bourgeois press as a nave SOlE purpost proposal extend black • extending control over the and

TILLS

black organisation of abolish statutory racial job workers. reservation. By im posing extremely for stringent conditions Not lessened registration, legislation will destroy those few But the recommenda- do nothing to

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unions, now unregis democratic tered, through which some promote the workers have sought to rights of black workers or to build an independent trade lessen their exploitation and repression. The stringent rules will In fact, the report repres- ents a further threat to the most likely outlaw all most docile and struggle of black workers.

except the controlled black unions. Or Statutory job reservation be black workers will be forced (now totally into unions affects only 3% of all jobs.

controlled by whites. The vast majority of Warm response black workers are excluded jobs by decements Already, black reformist employers BetWeen unionists have responded white unions. The Minister of Labour warmly to the recommenda- has made it clear that he nons, which laey leanse dre endorses the Commission's perfectly suited to their capitulationist recommendation keep

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Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR Printed By Anvil Printers Ltd, London. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office South African Prime Minister Botha argument that the extension between urban and migrant, rights between manufacturing and legal union blacks would sateguard agricullulai workers. Wiehan recommen- against extremism! The dations are one part of a and Skilled labour rigidly controlled limited programme of reforms through which the In a situation in which the international crisis of ruling class aims to co-opt profits has led South a layer of black allies, drawn small but capitalists to turn from politically significant black to increased mechanisation, the Wiehan Commission petty bourgeoisie and of skilled black recommendations upper layer designed to meet their workers and union bureau- demand for large allu cheap skilled and semi- Even while the skilled labour force programme of reforms 1S Clearly it is in defence of carried through, the repres protits. at the expense sion, control and super "progressive workers, that exploitation of black sections of capital have been workers is extended and loud in their demands for more oppressively greater freedom to fill the enforced. only real defence shortage or skiica laboul And politically the ruling against that is the building class seeks to develop and of the organisations and exploit divisions inside the political programme which working class-between embody the independent and interests of black workers.

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Donations should be sent to: Socialist Press Fund, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR. The May Day celebra- tions in Turkey went ahead, in defiance of the massive repression mounted by Ecevit's government and the military to suppress them.

Istanbul, curfew was imposed and enforced by tanks and armoured cars wie patrolled the streets to make sure that the ban on marches was not broken.

was mme same in all the other 19 provinces where martial law is in force Nearly 2,000 trade unionists left-wing militants were anoi arrested towns all various the country-in istanbul the eacer ano dul members di the Turkish Labour Party among them leaders of the DisK trade union confederation were Tory plan for jobless In her final statements Margaret before May Thatcher began to let some more Tory cats out of their election-time bag. One of these was that she force the long-term would whether they were suitable or not 'We will look at rules to see jobs that Take which are available". This is a clear threat to the benefits of the unemployed who correctly refuse to take ow paid jobs or be used as scab labour This is the wav the Torie.

plan to use the unemployed to force down wage rates Thatcher also her gave of opinion of the stopping production of Germany 'The Communists are now and destrovers wreckers wherever they appear". There reason why Thatcher should feel strongly on this The Tories will not be lond in embarking on their planned campaign wreckage destruction ot trace union rent.

and working class living standards Ano the most resolute Toret fighting these attacks and defending the workers' move- ment will be not me morn eaten collaborators of the TUC but revolutionaries dedicated to ine strudoe tor me overtarow of capitalism. May Day fight in Turkey also arresteo optore Mav and all the trade union head quarters raided by worce ano army Yet despite this massive repression, May Day was cele- 43 inousanos or workers ano lei wing militants. Kurdish fighters On the marches Turkey. pasterr pari hundreds were arrested-some tne resa verga Kurdish lipera tion fighters, which has been seen on Turkish May Day celet tone more than 80,000 In Izmir, more than workers participated in a march 1 UY ne Kin CON Party, and another munist 30,000 took in a march called by different left Wi nc groups May Day was celebrated. But the ability of Ecevit's govern. muitary march in Istanbul suppress the must be recognised as a setback worker movement sine this is these is where working class is strongest he stalinist turkish cr ang the reformist trade union leaders the major respon- bea sibility tor this blow Right up to the last moment they continued talks on a com promise with ccevi when the taks broke down the CP shifted its forces to Izmir Stalinist did and the leaders nothing ( lO foolise forces ou confined themselves to militant speeches. Their sectarian action enan ed readers capitulation cover their own CP blaming split in the trade union move. ment The May Day demonstra Tons aiso the nature, of Ecevit's regime and its shift further to the right.

There are rumours of furthel splits in the government and military hierarchies general staff Ine chief if the Enreatened restor curfew imposed in Was nUL Istanbul. There significant •oposition also emerone witn Ecevit's RPP party. Ecevit However the turning point for the regime will. be present Ine dolly or ccevt to nero duce the anti-working class measures demanded by the 30in in devas catalogue mane item this catalogue confidence of the bourgeoisie ccevt wi debene on nis ability to impose these measures on the working class. then the Should he tari Turkish ruling ciass has already prepared the ground to instal or fascist dictatorship military as an alternative to Ecevit.

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