Socialist Press no. 154

IRAN REVOLUTION AT

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No 154 * June 13, 1979 * 15p revolutionary The struggles Tran reached a stage of new and dangerous crisis. and the are still agents of imperialism Torced stand by, powerless the course intervene. yet to intervene and direct forces

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reaction within ran waich now threaten to overwhelm all the oppressed gains made by the masses when inev overtnrew ine tyranny of the Shah. Today Khomeini, the and other renalous leaders placed themselves at the head of the mobilisations, mass ruthless anede WILl determination to impose their dictatorship in the form of the 'Islamic Republic'. Bigots These reactionary bigots still claim to speak in the interests of The workers ane beasants ines still denounce the aggressions of imperialism, and especially leading part played by the US government. words are even comone witn cosmetic opera tions, like the recent nationali- sation of the banks. This apparently radical move nas in tact reeved the anxieties the international bankers. These exploiters and parasites nOW looKinG Torwara Con- fidently to denerous compensa- tion their undertakings come forward Khomeini But has already which had been wrecked TurIne virtaury arained or tunes ma tne offensive in his bid gain disruption of the revolution.

brazenly power orusnine aside promises or an elected constituent assembly.

Constitution Instead, se t-aboointed and dictatorial Revolutionary will draft the con- CommIttee STITUTIOr islamic Ried blic, ensure thay see ata carefully selected assembly, then and approval reterenaum with a simple Yes No a ter- All opposition be orancee as treachery revorution Khomeini's procla- recent mations have centred on the need for a crusade against those to obstruct 'atheists' who The outicing The Islamic Republic'. 'insults to the Within Iran, it is the national are now to be subject to minorities who clergy have sharply and ine autnority tenuously 'revolutionary tribunals' how With oiltenty arbitrary violent Commitca Sustice. the repressed py these Shah's dictatorship, Apparatus oopressed peoples nave surged forward with their demands for These moves are all part of a national rights and freedom.

campaign consolidate Turkmenis, Kurds power

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Ine OT tne aooaratus Which supports the present regime.

and Arabs nave won only vague and useless promises from the While Bazargan makes loud while they renalous leaders.

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TUtHe brotests Ine have been undermining of his govern- аттаскес ano slaughtered by the authority, the

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'Revolutionary Guards' and the revolutionary committee grasping to hold all the reins of remnants or the shans imperia power in its hand. Torces. Khomeini The strength of the tribunals boosted, while work has been with neir controntations coe: oulla - new armed Khomeini's Islamic leadership forces from fragments the Bazargan's the Shah's army and the 'revolu- and which directly caoiner nave snown me balleti tionary Guaras of conflict that will be followed reoresent the re ldious leaders.

as other democratic movements impose a counter-revolutionary cictatorsnio on ine develooment of the Iranian revolution, and plunge the oppressed

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new veroe or reaction and barbarism. TiRnS But that dictatorship has not

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weenposta. tion is arowine to ine inreat oT counter-revolution from within Iran. At present in Tehran and Lessons of

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P 11 demociatic ooposition It was the strength of the iranian -Working

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Waler toppled the Shah, above all independent class through Its action in the massive strikes Many of. the com- mittees tormeo in unar serio still control tactories and otner important sectors of industry.

They of constant tension with the 'revo- utionary guards -it wal attack by guards on strikers in Khuzestan which led recently to the huge rots and demonstra tions of the Arab population.

Soviets These committees can form The oasis or soviets and workers militias to challenge the autho.

rity of the 'Islamic Revolution' and that

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developed. The revolution in Iran has reached a crucial stage, a cross- other major cities, the roads where tnere are man it is turnings but only one road that ¡oeral ano radica section ot the the Iranian masses can lead professional bourgeoisie and clerical Torware - Treedom

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oppression and exploitation.

•Ine teac in oooosing What is needed in Iran now, Khomeini's towards progress and more urgently every day. is tyranny. a revolutionary party that can lead the working class forward Shah with its allies in the peasantr and petty bourgeoisie to secure democracy by establishing the Although they played dictatorship of the proletariat the strikes and major part in laying the for ano basis mobinsations which overtnew socialism. the Shah, these layers were the most highly educated and most Programme secular within Iranian society.

They had little sympathy Without the building of such with the Islamic leaders, and a party, armed and determined today they are the loudest in Tignt with a programme ol demanding The •constituent transitional and democratic assembly, an end to media demands, the forces of religious and other basic censorship ana bourdeois reaction democratic rights. able to roll back the advances Much of Khomeini's fire has of the Iranian revolution and been directed at their opposi- their entnrone own counter Tion ang their boltica leaders revolutionary dictatorship.

while the mullahs have For constituent organised large demonstrations assembly, freely elected by uni support Islamic -OT versal adult suttrade. republic For a secular state! Wrest Some of the least organised all power from the clergy!

and least No to Khomeini's army! sections The working class Completelv disband the forces have even been mobilised in this of the Shah, and build workers form, since Khomeini has used militia to defend the revolu- crude rnetoric tion against reaction. oresent the cemocratic cemand.

* For the building of soviets as a threat to the revolution of based on the factory and strike the workers and peasants.

committees! * No secret trials! For open hearings before the courts of the Tirades soviets. But at the same time the * Self determination for the religious leaders have stepped up Kurds and all oppressed nationa- their tirades against communism Full democratic rights for ana tney nave airectee me aneer of the demonstrations above all women! For an end to all sexual against the forces of the left.

oppression and discrimination The workers of Iran have no immeolate nationalisation of the banks and interest supporting eitner faction in the power struggle all major capitalist holdings.

No between Khomeini and compensation to the exploiters!

But Bazargan. nor can they For workers' management! stano bassive while the architects of the new all reaction seek to destroy

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'Final offensive' in Nicaragua In the last ten days the 13,000-strong National Guard sion of arms. civil war in Nicaragua has were deployea to protect scab •ne turning point in the war labour but many of the soldiers taken a dramatic turn with Wednesday have now been sent to the front June the National since te cosadown or ine cry

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Torce Liberation. Front

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is virtually complete. Guard has been concentrating launching a 'final offensive' its forces counter-attack Curtew the bloody and and bombarding the city bankrupt Somoza regime. lucessantly to 4 a.m. In order maintain the As of Sunday 10th June this attack this on vital centre offensive does indeed appear to are toe domain or arme« revol.

Somoza has dispatched his be on the verge of overthrowing tionary youth who moved to a to buy more weapons in the US Somoza. urban offensive on the night presumably the hope that it regime exercises onu will follow the lead of the

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nominal control in the capital The guerrillas claim to have hich mantens radio Managua and the $65.7 millions May Guerriles Masaya, craft and killed 300 quardsmen.

control

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refinance shore made to loans 14 miles from Managua, be up the crippled economy. the exaggerated, country's second city Leon, servers Somoza has also threatened against Costa Rica which

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Chinandega and Jinotaga. sutral amoralised and in aiding

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bach Air-lifting have already taken place up to ten miles over the border.

The crisis by east remarkaole Support development has been the air- the lifting of Sandinistas from Costa This direct nura ''the port of Puerto Cabezas. military support from Major battles Venezuela and Panama to the are taking place in the north around Estell costa rican ragine number around o ulu, as againsi and in the south on the Costa other hand, Rican border where large Nicaragua a member of the guerrilla force advancing Inter-Central American Defence Briaades'" har been leaned corce

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TrOODS from EI Salvador have been Hooram to a nowame u are taking an active part in looks alongside Managua seen fighting the country is carenue we . began is not

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Hostile unlikew that ine over the weekend 2nd- military dictatorships 3rd with a general The vast and Guatemala will June strike majority Honduras of the elm ceciarea m me coolar coUte. remain. come unalterably hostile to Somoza. critical juncture. Monday the 4th. The strike has been thoroughly successful.

The This serves to emphasise the power now Two thousand of Somoza's enormous international impact rests almost entirely on Italy election which parliament will remain the coalition promise of the the Stalinists CP same. have for so long tried to Christian build with the Democrats is a dead duck.

The Christian Democrats The smaller parties (with 262 of giants (the between the two Socialists with 62 seats, the 630) remain the largest still party but lack majority. CP leader Berlinguer And the Communists are still the only other large 26 party though they lost The results of last seats to reduce their repre- week's Italian general sentation to 201. election can have given result which nothing but pain to virtually guarantees the the ruling Chris- of both drawn-out political agony ot tian Democrats and the Italian capitalism. would-be ruling The decline in the CP's Stalinists. vote has certainly Both of them lost some strengthened the right wing votes: the Christian Demo- of the Christian Democrats, of their crats a mere 12/o who reject all formal the 1976 share of poll; governmental compromise the CP a more significant with the CP. 4%. An it will strengthen the wing of the CP leadership which wishes to play down the formal compromises of In spite of the relative advance of ' the smaller the last two which ycals the out- led to a loss of parties-especially clearly spoken bourgeois support. polly Radical party-the basic So in the short term at

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the least 'historical com- structure of Italian the movement in the West.' the Nicaraguan revolution which threatens to overturn the throughout Central America. The liberation struggle of the Nicaraquan mates nas last week advanced the war against imperialism immea sutdoly, r

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ThIS Creasor crucial that the 'final offensive' should succeed and lead to the

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coolation revolution Nicaragua. This would of Punter such for further

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Central •tensives ThrouGhout and Latin America. Social Democrats with 20 and the Republican with 16), could produce a parlia- mentary majority 'centre-left' coalition with the Christian Democrats. is unlikely that But it any of them will risk the

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loss of their support to the CP which this might involve.

So Italian capitalism emerges from this election further away than ever from stable parliamentary solution to its problems.

The one outcome which the bourgeois papers and the political leaders are not even discussing possibility is for a coalition of workers' parties to take power.

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with the workers

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Portugal faces new crisis - Portugal was plunged into political new crisis last week as the non elected government official of ex-Salazar Carlos Mota Pinto resigned. The for the reason resignation was the certain.

ty that parliament would the motions separately tabled the by and Communist Parties. Together these parties have a majority, and could constitutionally take over the government. The censure motions against Mota Pinto's grossly anti-working class ment reflect pressure on their party leaders from the working class bases of CP and SP But the Stalinist and reformist leaders are agreed on one thing above all: the avoidance at all costs of the formation

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government. they know, would InS, immeasurably the demands the Socialist and Communist parties that their leaders out carry policies meet their growing material problems unemployment and falling living standards.

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Manley tightens wage control SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 June 1979

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FROM SOWETO

The massive events of Soweto were an example of action by te working class generally, with youth playing a key role. Within the overall ideological tramework black con- sciousness movement, and under the leadership the Soweto Students nepresentative LOUn cil, the working class for a time real progress towards Fighting anto indepen - •ence. Yet inal reddership lacked the political training, experience •rooramme needed consolidate and develop that independence and unity. inevitably happens with such spontaneous movements the absence of a revolutionary leadership allowed sections ine back petty bourgeoisie and capitalists to assume a leading role. Opportunist clique This the origin of the 'Soweto 10'. a groupina of black businessmen, clerics and profes- gover mants workers prosti black It was just when the Soweto workers-proved moonisations were seine way, they by TOPi Imita In A same spontaneous political of providing ment on the one hand and state defence weapons, and lique inher reoression ene. InaT cades• or anch workers in opportunist clique ThIs struddie turned to them vened demobilise the class fact, for the last sixteen years the traditional nationalist indepen- ano unee mine dence. oreanisations nad seen The Soweto 10's master plan sectarian, leaving the working class defenceless in its day Was to turn ine workina cass away from reliance on its own ady strugeles strength, towards reliance Hollowness such bodies as the UN, the OAU allegedly "progressive" ano sections of capital iberation of sor to order And while this sellariall gain the desertion nas been coverec ove with much rhetoric about and south Atrica. In that situation, facing preparing for armed struggle, leadership tied to the events nave of capital. demonstrated the hollowness of Ine task was expose the that rhetoric. tionaries to reformist nature of the Soweto The reality behind the words 10 has part of the beer Tne SUDSTITUTIOn small groups of freedom fighters Dulla a revolutionary leadership But the leaderships of for the mass of the class on the traditional nationalist fiove one nano ano on the olner. Ine sacrificing of the independence ments-nemselves more closely tied imperialists, of the class in favour of popular Stalinists and bourgeois African frontist alliances with "progress- People's he Jamaican mandated the union to oppose the 10% guideline and "take and National Party government of Malcolm Manley has cut support acTion where "we satisfied that the pay ceiling from 15% to employers have the ability to 10% in a further desperate way more tian inev otter stabilise Strike wave economy and meet their The island has already been obligations the Inter- nit by a wave of strikes this year national Monetary Fund. resull massive orice IMF loans together with a increases and rioting broke out range of import. credits the woe was are likely to reach massive increased in February $400 million dollars by vynue many ot the strikes are justified militant line next vear. ne booulation The Willy of Jamaica is 2 million. workers to a 60% response Force election ¡ever tallation. tne emolover.

have also locked out workers even paid them to stay The opposition pro-imperial- nome auring strikes called by the JLP. Ist Jamaican Labour rariv nas rejected the 10% guidelines and Turned to IMF called on the Jamaican orce •eneral election within the next six months after Manley has onlv himself to the offer the hostility of the •iame TOr i Jamaican workers and of a 'Social peasants. Contract advancec Elected •y une sur ano ine bustamante an anti-imperiar. ist, Union (BITU) programme inclustrial trade SocialsE face of a major 'destabilisation' The President of BITU. the the ClA, he was Right Honourable Hugh shearer faced with the choice between told the annual general assembly bold socialist policies to tackle of the union that delegates had economic wallailas Immense Part Two: by Jim Farnham ive" sections of capital and the petty bourgeoisie. the ot Only wendust politica bankruotev the traditional nationalist organisa- tions that opportunist collabora- curry s ine Buthelezi's, the Motlana's-can into positions werewy iney can ust strength working the the class masses promote own perty bourgeois Interests As botna continues vorsters campaign of repression, as the opportunists and the traditional black nationalist movements continue to provide alternative leadership the and gallie davances or workers in struggle are all threatened. Soweto and subsequent political developments clearly cemonstrate Ine willinoness the mass the oppressed working class participate struggle actively (TO freedom But they also show that the Tallures or the Iraditional petty bourgeois leaderships and Manley problems • reliance out the cabitalists oal economy-at a price unexpectedly, this left- talking social democrat turned lo the livir tor loans and ne Is now faced with the task of trying to make the Jamaican working Class pay the price o such ald The Soweto events political perspectives act obstacles to the development o1 The Atrican revolution The key crisis facing workers in struggle is one of leadership.

As we snowed last week. ine struggle the squatter community Crossroads political content of the Soweto struggle the DUl undoubted made at Crossroads now stand threatened precisely that •t soweto-Ine crisis ot teaser.

ship facing the working class Indeed role played by the Soweto 10 has now opened way white liberals to tor a far more direct bid for influence within the mass oppo- sition movement. Soweto 10 Organisationally, this is done more and through the more Foundation-which includes leadina members of the Soweto 10 and their cohorts as its members and allies. But Manley still has some friends left on the island. The Workers Party of Jamaica, formerly the Workers Libera League,

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and the larger O1 then Steist partiesno the island (the other Jamaican communist rarev, nas electoral alfiance ottered with the PNP. The WPJ, led by Dr. Trevor Munroe twho is aiso oresicent University and Allied the Workers Union) has announced their ente candidates in the next election 2) defend the government, and 3) seek an electoral alliance with 'progressive" sections the

PNP.

Hack columnists It was the third point that prompted hasty denials from Jamaica House But the capital who see their daily task as convincing the Jamaican people that the INP is a com organisation, lost munise tront time in setting their hack columnists to work, using the WPJ statement and the fact tha has only Manley from a visit to returned the Page 3 Children play at Crossroads The Urban Foundation But however united the become a crucial instrument of Crossroads community was, the ruling class in its efforts to Could welly Douraeors developed to the point it has i1 buv off a laver of skilled black it remained the struggle of ar workers as ruling class allies, and isolated working class tie the mass of black workers to community le talls or co-optea retormists gains made Crossroads are being portrayed by the liberals and. reformists as The mood of solidarity with the product of the 'co-opera- Crossroads amongst the working between the workers of clas nationairy was aoso ute and themselves-as forcing concessions Crucial part of the attempt to foster the from the capitalist-apartheid illusion of a 'good' capitalists under whose guidance struggle have shown nese benefits can be achieved real basis for the In reality the experience of winning concessions Crossroads, like all working class surencen or tne • proietariat . ano only real safeguard of tha somelning The 'entirely different. strength the development the political Vicious attacks the working class Material concessions Before workers had reached been won by the Ene fever on oroanisation. and Crossroaos because throudn toi mobilisation which they did in development of their own Crossroads, other squatter com strength and organisation, the have obiectively asserted a leve munitie were beine suotected to increasingly vicious attacks of class independence from the state Throughout the pointed out those concessions qo nowhere it country entorcemen influx control was being stepped meetinu Ine oblective materta needs of the Crossroads workers -whose struggle is far from over The strength Crossroads and whose victory is far from acrive not mereiv trom more organisation but also from the won level of rank and file participa- Defenceless and tion crossroads oraanisations The de teas and gained In particular, Crossroads is what gained testimony to the crucial role of materay car • only be securec workine ciass women ane voutr through the programme, the struggle-the active perspective and organisational participation all

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develop working sections of the cidss class independence was a major factor community The petty bourgeois leader- in forcing concessions. ship Eite tractiona Major strengths nationalist movements-tied to a polticial perspective alluritis From the very outset of the tue retorm or ine capitalist star and based on the denial of the struggle, sections of the ruling independence working and agents have cass class attempted to Crossroads tavou and create Trontist nattonast alance-cal arvisions witnin I- only obstruct that Ine separation ot Atrican trom struggle Gregured, migrant from legal "legal" from Tact Enel guerrilials strategy has not only failed to unemployed emotoved TrON provide political perspective One of the major strengths Crossroads out nas arso lett ine workers of bee Crossroads defencelss in the face uncompromising demand tor al of state attacks residents to have the legal right to remain. Leadership The major crisis confronting une strude or workers in cross roads-and the whole of South Africa-is one of leadership in strudole rests on the aosence revolutionary leadership capable consonoatine and developing independent working class forces The crucial task now is thi political develo oment the perspectives programme cadre which drawing the Soweto ano cross roads, are based uncompromi. on the independent class interests of the proletariat African "Dulle TEne revolutionary party! *For revolutionary democrac transitional demands stemming from today's needs and today's consciousness and leading unal.

terably to the workers' seizure of power. *Build the 3 independent organi- sations of the working class—In factories and schools, The on the farms and mines, in thi communities *The first task of the armed the defence Munroe workers! Soviet Union. There is only one way for- *Cadres with military training develop defence ward for the Jamaican workers squads within the country. that is the peasants and building of a Trotskyist party *Destroy the intiux control ant of mobilising the masse migrant labour systems! struggle excorate the foreign and native capitalists and institute a planned, socialist Concluded economy.

Tories slam into living standards

IMG SEEKS 'UNITY' WITH DROMEY

Page 4 Fascist threat to 'troops out' campaign An RCG meeting on ward oft lascist In supporting Saturday's Ireland held in Manches- demonstration on the basis ter on May 31 was struggle ol lne violently attacked by immediale British troops from Ireland 50-60 National Front and the repeal of reaction- fascists. ary legislation such as the This must serve as a stark so-called of the need to Terrorism" warning movement Socialist detend labou Workers activity in solidarity will also be arguing for the witn the Irish liberation struggle.

march to make adequate In particular, the demon- arrangements called in London stration itself against attack. hy the United Troops Out ***** Movement this Saturday has allegedly been IN OXFORD the singled out as a target or May successful the the fascist British Movement. move cal been Ireland ads Poorly stewarded up by the consolidation of a working committee. Previous such marches- Supported marches run should Oxford Trades Sinn Fein, know as well as anyone the Oxford NUJ Branch and the ACTSS 5/833 Branch, the police record Irish militants- attended also by harassing the frequently trom Decr nave stewarded, ment. woefully poorly Block Committee and other or simply relied on police to supply to industry. Thatcher must press And ruthlessly with ahead policy cuts in public spending ments no account -and Ull threshold pay- allow workers to ments to against protect wages academics the that iS inflation: conclusion of a forecast strengthen by the London Business resolve of School last week. tone It warns of the danger of of-living real workers' protect purchas- allowing the coming power to grow ing price inflation. the money restricting kind of "unity" What against the Tories? This question becomes more the and important opportunist line of various 'left' takes shape in wing tendentic. the warmurist Pa Communist rarry intensified its turn to couise ras with a alliances popular front huge spectrum of so called "pro- and National Union of Students has or its consummated @ larilale supporters Young with Ine Liberals in a new, broader-than- ever, Broad Left. The Socialist Workers Party, presses meanwhile aneac towards its 'Rank and File' con.

ference Defend Our Unions', at doubt they will once which no of the prospect again OTTeT 'unity' on a minimal programme and combine to avoid the real issue of confronting and remov- ing the trade union and Labour bureaucracy. Bandwagon the opportunist their owr anis leaves trade union Group International Marxist attracted casting around for a aimlessly bandwagon to jump onto. observers, the committee is preparing the first issue of a labour movement bulletin.

will include the This vivid of transcript attacks. speech to the conference by campaigner "troops out Brendan Gallagher, and for the brief account of the Confer- withdrawal of ence as a whole. Fact-finding The bulletin is intended of "Prevention the to prepare the basis for the alist League 12strong

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labour movement fact-find- ing delegation from Oxford to the occupied six counties defend to of Ireland in the spring of next year. A number of other local have bodies trade union highly in the expressed interest labour Oxford com- work of the on the offering followed mittee, prospect of additional dele- gates becoming involved in production and sale of far by the bulletin. Council, that the planned as should act bulletin Dul forum for information and delegates debate on the war in Ireland Women's • labour

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the local with movemen. Heath's blames threshold pay- 1973-4 for the economic chaos that ensued in the wake of the oil crisis.

But while the well-heeled Business School attempt to the foist the whole crisis onto the working class, it is only a policy of fighting for cost- that can clauses against tidal wave of Tory Chancellor Howe

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TABETTER Litt Dromey speaking from the platform of the Stalinist-backed 'Better Life for All' campaign to latch onto the attempted After the evident failure of Unity" "Socialist swt conterence latest Socialist But which conterence reveals leading Challenge also 150 people, the only Silber- has IMG member • Jonathan IMG's Socialist Challenge

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The general election is blamed the Labour more than a month over for the from Arthur Scargill who called and the derisory response on Callaghan to resign the EEC from workers NelIne left capitalist elections has fight against Callaghan, Healey or Mason, but of all parties politicians grinding their teeth. DoIn their left flank. But it is clear from the press still vitally that the capitalists The Sunday Mirror, need Callaghan and the rest leadership. blamed the oil shortage Tine Lavour rail column The ot amount ories inches given over to red witch- French motorists are having " Labour • lefts problem getting patrol More nunts (usually those who least deserve germans would almost suggest Italians. the election was still to come.

Spaniards") called these attacks Callaghan 'astonishing' The Sunday papers gave pro minence to a letter from lory ine coserver lal al of the letter and"speeches, side leader of the Commons St. John Ste vas to his constituency chair- by side with ranted headed "Reds in a new move on man, * Callaghan having about the unions Labour leadership to Mick ostery ar industrial Costello 'Marxists' aside the fact that and Leaving oreaniser to man St. national organiser. John stevas seems Benn, the letter the remarkable for the way in which reouceu the CP's Marxism Today to find • spells out the concern ore.

have with the internal life of the some signs of a threat from the Labour Party, and with charting then scraping the bottom of a very the progress empty barrel traitors. Just why is clear from the speeches made by Labour Party while was rushing to the defence Chairman, Frank Allaun, wno With even stockbrokers forecasting inflation will reach 14% by the end of the year, and oil prices still rising.

living obviously pressure on all sides. Next certain seems and managers Dromey Jack Jack manages to discussion once witnou thorny questio! controls.

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Dromey one weeks Councils Harrogate "solve" ing British workers policy. man grovelling to the organisers place ot the conterence on unempicy ment called by the bureaucracy rec are unemployment that of the SE Region with left' in an interview SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 June 1979 leadership of another ex-agent inside une and Labour Party Cyril Nottingham, defeat, last year's Mayor of Scunthorpe.

Nottingham, a sizable trader right wing in the town Wa. Lanci that even his local Labour Party expelled him showing the loyalty need to protect are that Labour always proclaiming Nottingham immed- party) which an independent IATA V STOOd dS Now the Express claims that on ine isn't that a vendetta was being run against him which had left his wife and children terrified even are This seemed mostly someone with consIs camera taking photographs in a account private area in: his enemies attempt by a report on the CP to present trumped up to try which turned out charges against him of breakin!

health regulations" Callaghar industria " ne and Nottingham or of Benn and Dave Cook, Scargill are all damaging to the which unserver nedill the on to ploughing through claims interests o the ming no lass championing the cancer against the quack • they are really ot cananar faith healing of Benn, the Tory press hope to damp down inside Labour Party those healthy antibodies which are genuinel prepared to fight for a clean out The Sunday Express mean- of the entire disease But, on top of this, the leading passing of the EtC elections already will herald final moves for that the delayed Tory devalua- tion of the Common Market "Green Pound" which will food prices send

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heights to new standards are And further under the way. are on in creases the Steel prices-affecting of price of a whole range goods-will up week's Budget 5-15% July between bring Coal to power stations is thumping increases in VAT also to go up. on a range of basic goods Transport London services purchased by And Tube fares are also going up workers, in order to finance hundreds handouts to top paid -affecting thousands of workers. employers. rank and file versus the leader.

careerist and Morning Star hero It's problem that the veteran at all levels Dunn Silberman cominant Boley fill two columns of has been in favour of the mixec economy. unemolovment that position mentioning the is the allows Dromey and his tellov import to blame bureaucrats TOnE for defeats class workin brought about by the absence of Chauvinist defence leadership and Ine back slalw ing by union officials. of course was the of criticism ol only few Not a word this reactionary challenge Trades view uttered Conference either in the interview or in the make a viciously chauvinist defence of the policy introduction What kind of unity can the of import controls-which seeks self-styled Trotskyists' unemployment offer the Socialist Challenge problem in Britain not by fight- working class on this basis?

employers the kind of apolitical Only exporting the unemployment to Dromey exploited that countries during the Grunwick struggle to Dunn. too, as a member o

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shield and the Communist Party, is com and pave the way mitted to this same reactionary tor deteat meaningful 'unity' No But not only did Silberman be achieved by cuddling up to avoid this-the essential nub of opportunists and Stalinists.

any serious fight that might take conditions create unity in action there must be a

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conTer ence-but he allowed Dromey to clear conflict with those who in against fight and oppose tact oppose action the programme needed to win.

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Callaghan does not The Eurobankrupts SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 June 1979 at Workers fuming Callaghan's recent reaction- declaration that the ary Labour Party will oppose political strikes against the Tories would be amazed at the editorial article in the June 1 issue of Militant.

It proclaims, barefaced, that: Callaghan does not speak for the Carly he done coe cords c article on the enforced resigna.

tion of Spanish reformist leader after he had Gonzalez failed to achieve deletion of the.

Party's paper support for message is But the Never mind tact. rules roost un- Callaghan PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Repor Labour leader chanenced while spineless "ett talkers the Tribune Group and "Marxists" around babel witant taik of anvanine raine than how to launch a fight to remove him Criminal record the fact that Never despite the tormai democracy Callaban and his extreme riges conferences clique-like wine ledaersaid Labour supporters wilson setore them-unilater diy government policy Unionists de everything from wage control to Yorkshire miners leader Scargill has seeneine down their own Callaghan's to lay tums on the line of the Oppos- calling also

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that cabinet accomplice Never mind the TaCT Callaghan's criminal record the irrelevant. betrayals-which led are intention of removing the right return or a or coverc only three weeks ago been wine ledoes. unopposed seal anything to go by, aoorova nIS re eleclos the leader paramentary ratner to Labour Party: adopt their fact policies. Never mind even, the that, sensing the angry mood of has been France plastered with posters for Whose the EEC elections. slogans do you think these are? "No to a German Europe! "I love my country-to stop its decline. For an independent peaceful and and Trance democratic Europe!' 'For France'. 'No to the Europe of Giscard and Schmidt!' "Say those who sell you cheap-your job, your life, Prance . Communist Party slogans ench They rrench extent of that party's national cravinism ano oedied to simply reforming the capitalist state. "For France" Apart from being they not one wit different from those French Socialist Party, the But visually which says thines like France. Make with the Socialists. Togather for country. are even very 184710 Co different from the bourgeois SUn IT window parties' slogans. The main distin- shutters. The bour- joint lak l Is trial

LCR

(the •pois parties use ine tricolor section use a map of Ouvriere la similar the Of course CP and SP slogans also call for a workers' Europe- аттого they themselves to of the CP. address peasants ano workers. due sdy speak for Party- says "Militant' protracted polemic and trade main ot a the country, correctly called for leaitimate is trade union action removal -albeit and how undemocratic owned press. privately replacemell "'left"'-talking tormer Reformist party a nese tee Politely, Militant nev have •oints out to Callaghan and his supporters -who have always regarded the If the line of the editorial is Labour Party as a more enticien they intend means of running British capital- persuade Callaghan to -that: Labour Party was own "The socidilst created because Ine trade unions learned through experience that The article consists in the French and Spanish Stalinist leaders embrace: but CP policy in Europe is completely nationalist "we want a Europe of workers".

call tor a vote tor its iwo canol• they, also dates-Krivine and Aiguiller.

But blue-eyed outright national blond child gazes up at a huge bunn chauvinisan • or ano of red roses; a woman in a white campaigns make an easy target for these 'Trotskyists'. suicienes

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open Ine Lutte vuvriere poster says: French exploiter is no campaign of the better than a German exploiter.

USFI

Iviatoerite -rance. and utte Let us wipeout une vronuers. let Trotskyist' party Chase ouT al tne exoloiters.

SWP)

For the United Socialist States cannot of Europe!' The extravagant vacares is was ne une or te mo Most of its posters simply rally addressed by Aiguiller and bureaucracy, "left wing Benn, in the eyes of the Party's mass working class ietnuersip for programme ot action can they needed a political arm".

the of a revolutionary party.

don't point But what they out of course is that reflecting Militant las the politics of the unions them- tive. Instead built with about gamely the limited perspectivi acalevinc conditions within programme" reforming Party Party with the existing reformis Labour canitalism-the leaders still In has trom the start been only reformist party, surmounted by artic e conciuces dreams of: class "A tionist programme bureaucracy. Callaghan leadership Socialis simply the latest expression.

class-to ne sole buroose or lviarxis Working work within the Labour Party never ending the conditions to and inflation create counter-reform of this expose treatnery Krivine at the Lutte Ouvriere "tete outside paris on June s Their demagogic speeches celebrated the upsurge of struggle; warned the bourgeoisie ino cass of thinas to come-called for the jobs and mobilisation of all unorganised fascism sections; heralded dissidents and Europe anc actual workers in castern insisted on international against the nationalism altly

THIS

of the Stalinists and the bureau have specifically cracy this routine stuff won mentiol the tumultuous applause trom sake of 'unity'! 5,000 strong audience. What is

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declared their speakers ability the "Trotskyism" they that dill _oretence working class were based on the ranstionar Programme The Ouvriere The LO says, that ably, contidence nationa leading

LCR

Michalou might bi else altogether! • Meanwhile national Marxist revealed Challenge June election were davocating vote tor their Krivine candidacy Page 5

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Ageing 'Militant' figurehead Phil Frampton olannee economy. elements such as What Militant will not tell its readers

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only be imple programme can Such exposure together with mented Ihroudl Int mass. an alternative revolutionary mobilisation create the working class. This means a thorough break conditions for the building trom retormism and pariamen tary methods of struggle. And it no such perspec- also ousting oratties medn the prospects of Callaahan leadership along with "socialist other right winger every and talker that opposes Ine Laboul struggles saddle. The This is why Socialist Pres. the supporters in the Labour Party with will continue to focus attention for the hoth on the need removi Callaghan, , and on the betrayals Labour those society is the key to uniting the the Benn. Kinnock and skinner who sit mute on the party's NEC and slightest mount retorm terust and establish a challence to nis control But what neither speaker did was to utilise the opportunity at such a rally to explain the actual Assembly. but tasks facing the European work.

also the motley array of careerist Labour TIOnTInG то детело wages and • against Takers wno lave • cavery the five figure salary and tet prestige of a Euro MP's job touched the set stand they were programme of demands

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and action necessary to achieve joined by the centrists ot the Militant : group, whose energetic In fact the two organisations and TOtall o•DortURIS cam agreed not to paign in Liverpool in support of so-called "red" Labourite Terry matters-for the Harrisor lost by such 'unity' Labour vote in general no doubt give contributed the record any of leadership to the I low 15% turnout in part: set lil of the city. LCR is begging. Lutte join them the quite reason enough in the Fourth Inter-

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member Charles replied that happily be in the Fourth International: called something Motley array the Inter- Socialist . published on tne day that they " revolutionarya IMG candidate Ali the sourious

CENTRAL AMERICAN STATE

WITH ANTI-IMPERIALIST RE

Page 6 The struggles of the last eighteen months in Central America have occupied the attention imperialists and of revolutionaries alike to a degree unprecedented Cuban since the revolution. Indeed, one of principal fears of the White House and the Pentagon is will these struggles unat develop into 'another Cuba'.

not tears al Ci unfounded. Central America has for hundred over four years been an important key to imperialist control in the Americas. Staging post It was a critical staging post for the Spanish in their conquest of South America and later for the transport across the of minerals isthmus from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Spanish hegemony unchallenged. The forces of French and Dutch British, capital mercantile made serious inroads from the late onwards. niteenin century The British and French managed to gain contiol of of the the majority Caribbean islands, whilst all moved down

DU WCIS

the coast of the mainland to and (formerly Guyana

SCISSOI

British Belize nonquras. Louise. British colony in remains a all but name. Imperialist domination remained secure early 19th century when the slave uprising in Haiti under l'Ouverture Toussaint wrested independence from republican France. Civil war Haiti was followed by the Spanish colonies which belatedly Teed tHemselves metropolitan from the after the power Mexican American and of 1809-1825. The of Spanish colony any importance was Cuba where Haitian dictator Duvalier with widespread Coexas l starvation, the most massive of wealth Concenlalo (even by Amen car the most standards) and brutal repression (even by South American standards).

For years the leisured presumption of Wall Street and the Pentagon has been that no major alteration of of system control Ine Central America was necessary. When a local dictator or national bourgeoisie ran into ditticulties the marine.

could be dispatched, as in the Dominican Republic in 1965. No impact Although Kennedy established the Alliance for Progress as a new 'humane...

democratic' system in direct the Cuban it had virtually revolution, no imnact-and nor could 1t since the social relations of production America are so inextricably linked with super-exploita- tion by the companies of the imperialist power. Now hawks even the are beginning to blink and Army takeover of university in San Salvador toss around alternatives.

the struggle for indepen- incapable of sustaining the Worried by the sugar political control and public dence led to a bloody civil workers' strike of 1976 and order required by the U.S.

war from 1868 to 1878 and drillil for a cheap and reliable a massive popular insurrec- Guyana: the growing of tion in the late 1890s. supply primary the Haitian lessness commodities-sugar, coffee, This uprising was only masses with the corrupt and brought to an end by the in- tobacco, citrus collull. unscrupulous actatorship tervention of US troops in truits Duvalier family; the of the France 1898. While Britain, nationalist campaign and contented Germanv Panama over the canal; the New phase themselves with blockading overtures made by Castro to venezue wier sue Icocu the Manley regime of The arrival the the U.S., repaying loans, Jamaica; the recent coup in with marines, along much closer and already renaud Theodore Roosevelt and his the dominant of guerrilla persistence 'Rough Riders', heralded an world imperialist power. warfare throughout the phase resorted to direct military entirely new the State Department this di ca. imperialist control intervention. began I vast critical strategic al ca programme Coca Cola However, as soon as it The demands of the had embarked on reversing invaded burgeoning monopoly The marines its policy for the Dominican Mexico in 1914 capitalism of North America occupied Republic by supervising the Haiti from 1915 to 1934 were evident the most electoral defeat the 1909 Cuba from 1899 to annexation of Panama trom Balaguer government that it Colombia 1903 and the to 1926, dilu 1965 after up of the Nicaragua from 1909 seT Callal. U.S imperialism invasion, But control of 1936, and made incursions entire other was raceo wane ouroreak area was essential to protect several InLU sidles Nicaragua, Today the occupation ot civil war this vital trading link. the renewal of worker and Puppet continues: Coca Cola, Base- regimes mobilisation ball and Chase Manhattan abounded but proved Guatemala, the rapid and escalation guerrilla activity and mass protest in El Salvador. Long tradition In these three countries, the epicentres of the current struggle, there has been a long tradition of anti-imperialist militancy and armed insurrection. This hitherto has largely taken the form of guerrilla warfare rural spontaneous peasant uprisings, reflecting the numerical pre- of agrarian dominance workers Whilst the urban prolelarial the last appreciably decades, it continues to be conditioned to a high degree the deadweight of rural by society under capitalism. The statistics for Guatemala speak for them- 1% of the popula- Shooting during riots in San Salvador Guatamalan Indian peasant tion owns 80% of the land; 70% of the population an annual average recelves 40: unemploy income of 20% ment runs underemployment at over 50%; 1.2% labour oi ine force is unionised; and 63% of the population over seven years is illiterate. been Guatemala one of the most turbulent states in the area. In 1944 a coalition of students, labour leaders, petty bourgeois pro- and army officers overthrew the 13-year dictatorship of Gen.

which had been set up to ensure survival during the world recession the market for coffee had completely collapsed. Universal suffrage The ten years of rule by the reformist wing of the bourgeoisie saw the introduction of universa suffrage for (excepl illiterate women), basic SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 June 1979 rights and 'democratic' freedoms Agrarian reform But even the reformists who were closely supported by the Stalinist (Guatemalan Workers the local CP), were clear that these concessions would avert major political crisis unless ther were backed by a broad agrarian reform. had The peasants already carried out ot land extensive sealer before the measure was put into effect. 1 ne law isell 'unused' land only affected and, naturally, offered compensation The United Fruit Company (now known United Brands), the largest landowner the country suffered particularly heavily, since it used only 15% of its lands, claiming the rest was necessary as a • case of disease'. reserve "it

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 June 1979

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Moreover, the company buses every day. ad been declaring absurdly the rea r urtnermore, tax returns on its land was much greater Increase nd it was on these figures since ine bus roules, walen hat the regime assessed the are privately operated were mount of compensation anerea so inal a num per ol get inps were necessary to Imperialism had not from the working class suburbs subiected to such

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mulsiide dlcd. U.S The replied firms wOlke immediately. There were a lexico and te 30s. series mass demonstra- OI tions and whole families lithin turned out the streets rganısed ot the ghettos to engage In founds of battles with the running At least 500 people police. were arrested. general was

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called -and over 60% of the urban workforce responded.

Arbenz, than This particularly ake im pressive since the two the organisations that made the left. and

LADSCS

call-the National Council The Unity Un Ti adopting a decat Dy (CNUS) and the Council of blicy 'national State Employees' Organisa- conciliation' the tions (CETE) are less than tive years old. loss of all demands The basic leir masses were for reinstatement for ontinued The to all fired as a result of union tample was activity, the all tremely ccasc those arrested, the and early bus IcLun 0I0 services. burgeois in The regime was obliged llIng

DROS.

re-establish the old system but had to pay the gimes has able Dllvac malo a subsuv of 50 million as the price for this move. sel up Key concerns The inexperience of the Army to unions, was nowever. manifest in their failure to

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Lule the asalllo dallale

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WasC These economic and political

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institute a state within the that demands also ate and have begun to turn played a major part in bring- eir attention towards the masses on to the lng of the frightened em bers streets. urgeoisie. The rate of inflation and 100% increase the right of assem bly and Such was the confi- organisation are key ence of the regime that at concerns to the workers and end ot last Septem ber slogans on these issues were Mayor of Guatemala as muci in cviaence as lnose ty announced a measure protesting about the fare at no government in the increases. st thirty had dared This weakness W as exploited by the military aulnionze. urban bus fares. who quickly Cicase mol aDoul his was a particularly assassinating leaders union gnificant move because generai dilu MisuuLed ansport costs take In the last week up repression. 15% ast of the of April alone over eighty

UDAT

orkers' and wage an people were killed by the erage three people police om each family use the This is not gratuitous Armoured cars in Guatamala City It is class violence voience. exercised with one simple aim in mind: to stamp out Liic misunic olal) miove ment of the masses. regime quite objectives clear about its the means it has to use. It is far worried the rest of Central

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Amnenca Lilall carlel bleatings over numan

TIORTS

The most immediate threat to the Guatemalan regime is the collapse of its brother in El Salvador. The this clicdilly small, vastly over-populated population state density of 505.2 per square compared with mile average of 93.7 for Central America whole) and consoli- sm diel mOle dated than anywhere else in the region. The fourteen families that control the bulk of the nation's wealth have diversi- Victims of army slaughter in San Salvador fied their interests and prefer to reside in Miami or Switzerland than at stay home to witness the methods used by their military lackeys to gualall- optimum return on

LCC

investment Six of these families own 72,000 hectares of lanu between while them 305,000 families peasant 42,000 farm total hectares in lots that are too small for subsistence. The sheer desperation of the broke into voasallll y open rebellion in 193 2 when the crash of the coffee led famine Hlalkel throughout the countryside.

seized and Land was crops taken to avoid starva- P the People's Revolutionary or so farmers hon, cgny and foremen being killed in Bloc

(BRP),

which the process. and

CLOTOSE

OreamSdOl The army was sent in and presently dominant spent two weeks killing inside position the opposi- peasants as it could many tion United Front for lay its hands on. Popular Action (FAPU). final death-toll was The The armed of the wing 20,000 and may have (Popular

BRP

the Uvel 1S

FPI

been closer to 30,000. Liberation Force) which fortv vears responsible for much of the OVeT Salvador has been ready guerrilla activity San

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explode. was Salvador. so nen recognition of this fact that dl here smaller in 1961 the army stopped guerrilla groups-the indulging in internal coups People's Revolutionary and adopted of Army (ERP) and the Armed system electoral fraud which has Forces of National Revolu- of gruesome (FARN)-which kept a string tion have and witless generals mainly concentrated on kid- bom bings. power. nappings and The cost of this 'demo- These e ups ap pene BRP. the

BRP.

cracy' the Is populal moolusa- The

BRP

has violence grown lon ana pontica. every four years rapidly 1975 when i SnCe So great was the fraud in became perfectly obvious. 1977 that even the imperial- that it could never come to ist power through legal means.

themselves

DOWCI.

dithered before far granting nevertheless, from a united political party and while it may receive the The current crisisisa direct result of the popular blessings. of the Archbishop movement initiated by the of San Salvador it is heavily last election on radical student Te aI This mobilisation has cadres deepened and extended on an unprecedented scale Students play an of the ability of the because important role in the anti unions maintain their imperialist struggle through- America and EI vicansauon mne ace or oul Latin the predictable onslaught of Salvador 1S military and its private The authorities have long Lne death squads-"Orden recognised this and the (Order) and "The White been under

UILIVCSILV

Warriors" military occupation for over The state has been seven years now. unable to stop the work of important conquest of university autonomy and the two major peasant unions-FECASS of the the right of the students to Christian Democrats, and elect and Icc urers the. more leftist Unjon of lost, left- proressols were Rural Workers (UTC). were shot wing academics FECASS is controlled by often at the instigation 01 Page 7

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their faculty colleagues, and in 1975 dozens of students were killed after an occupa- tion. The western bourgeois press has concentrated the reaction of the youth in setting „TnP guerrillas. No reader of the have over- looked the coverage of the two local managers of Lloyds Bank International, one of the leading institutions of imperialist capital in Central America How lldy

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inches are given over revealing the plight of those who are regularly shot down in demonstrations or In agi for tating conditions would have been workuna rejected by British workers a hundred years ago? How often are we told of the residual but no less devastating Vio ence o1 superexploitation star- and vallun! Let us take normal situation' in the 'La WorK Constancia' factory in sar Salvador This factory, one of the advanded in the mOTe country manufactures un- nutritious soft-drinks of the type peddled throughout the sub-continent. Last yeat its profits were $12 millions.

Occupation Hours of work are organ- ise d meet schedules production So that the night shift leaves the plant at When < a.m workers asked for transport al tne cna ol une snllt lne bosses refused even to con- template discussions. there was no alternative but direct action end of April „Tn e hundred workers occupied the plant and threatened to blow it and themselves unless the management would negotiate. The army arrived before the capitalists, who were relieved to hear that this was now a matter of public and that they could

OIUCT

, go home The occupation lasted four days before LIooD. stormed the factory, killed wounded people, twenty and arrested every- one. Such events uveul weekly Salvador. pre-revolutionary situation exists and civil war is close at hand.

Page 8 Film review

POLITICAL

another yet a tered. "They [the studios] cut out Hollywood re-make. And at underbelly of the film, all the first sight seems just It removie me wade well- another particularly element that was present..

made science fiction film.

Keaton "Diane played But two questions make this rebellious, newsoddel editor kind of like, what can | Tim im boltan!. something would be One is what nappened to ine ady, original film made by Don the Daily Worker of thai period. Siegel in 1956. "And there were scenes of he secono ouestion is way Young people police brutality. ' films are made and remane invasion la thes. came in navina been Dealer the streets by policemen. That Body ne invasion whole newspaper office was Snatchers is aoout ine take-over sell news- of human bodies by aliens.

The trying desperately to papers, beings

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Tner probiem turned into numans are wants their sheet: without feelings. all they're buying are pictures of As victims fall asleep women revealing duplicate nuice Tale •oos burst. Gazette. people. The "original" person "Then there some dies. first shot at a scenes launary wuer The film was chid a way: bed thaid were time when Mccartavism-the there were witch-hunting frantic good in the particularly Deo le 101 reasons. and

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inaustry was "But they cut all of that out rampant in the USA. and in the process removed a lot Plot changed character. betweet Jimmy Caan and Elliott Gouid.

The studio made Siegel add a On top of this open censor- new beginning and a new end to the ship Inere Course nis tim. instead or a pessimistic politica limitations of ine direc ending, the plot was changed to show the main star This brings us to the second important question narrating. anu une main action as a 'flashback' to remake of Bodysnatchers: why warn the forces of order.

re-make this tim specifically Was Commercial skills designed to create the idea that FBI and state witch hunters It is generally not simply could situ save situation, matter now question ine StudIOs deciding that a certain film is to And beneath the veneer of made -though this science fiction lay an underlying More otten the studios havochi. anticommunist messace. choose TrOM Ine lacas

OUT

The Siegel's forward by the talented people in which shows one of film altered who are tilms and the film centres. Tne ways in politically shaped-in Making the commercial skills of such this selection by studio intervention #focalled and the studio bosses. even after Wall l ine

MOST

screenplay have been accepted.

know how successful exploit new recoon st Underbelly developments. Many of the world's great Hitchcock-have Such interference did not directors-like end Director made their way to honywood.

Rydell in a recent interview des- But directors too have cribed the ways in which a film used as a source of new Lucil made 1vo narry insorration Walter Go to New York) was But tilms above and On the run from the pods: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum Once talented Dusiness director has made a successful, science money spinning new fiction film. science fiction films are churned out routinely to they are no longer order so rottable in some cases the market may be created for certain types films careful publicity oule-ups-os THe films. Petty bourgeois fear But this is not the ariving force behind all directors then, did Kaufman So why make this film? He that his motives argues were simliar to those of Siegel in "against the bureaucratic. emotionless neutralty That Wa beginning to pervade the world -which I think is on the rise again." But it seems more likely that motivated by Kaufman petty bourgeois tear or the 1ist Of the mass class struggle in the He continuously looks back longingly Ine eary sixties when middle class individualism the : rising Bob -epitomised by ovian-was al ils peak. Now he TalkS Tine * the order big us "paranoia the york and cities has Like Siegel, Kaufman Kaufman with the original director, Don Siegel SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 June 1979 Sutherland as the Health Inspector contempt for the masses. Siegel torware admitted his position: The reality of Watergate was "The that Nixon absorbed into the fact that most apparatus of the crisis-ridden Us people are poas. iney nave no culture or aspirations. They state machinery was 'taken over' and driven forward to seek have no emotions Kautmar actualy reters to being "pods" even This was entirely people opposite of the way in which before they are taken over This is the reactionary side workers consciousness of their of Kaufman 's approach. role as a class develops in rising struggles true however that he of the development Only attacks careerism. ano cite: [the such a class consciousness and hostiliTy watergate 'takeover' by outside forces of class action offer a way forward the American government?! for mankind and an end to the symbolised by dronesiue allacK. Cutatus "uniformity" watereate And when in the film the Blames masses health inspector (Donalo Sutherland) phones desperatelv blames Kaufman however around different organisations ine masses -ane iner suboosee only to be told "don't create "pod-like character-for fascism.

panic" than Such a view ignores the fact that Is more slight swipe at the corruption of TascIsm establisnes Dowe the bourgeois state machinery.

only through the physical destruction organised The police are involved i strenown or ine working class the cover-up; the CIA and the Despite TaulTS FBI are both in it; and in Kauf however, Kaufman has made a film worth He an mann's version ine DOOs al t even exported (shades astuTe ooserver ane superoiy Muldergate?). depicts the corrupting effects of Kaufman capitalism also compares the He shows how those words one

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"taken over" characters to the the ideology of fascism. "pods" are themselves over' and thus enlisted on the But in seeing the solution in the shape "Dronnetic otner side Dylan" and the individual But remember when you go that in the cinema as well as on struggle against the war vietnam televisior at each Kaufman looks the level help shape the things you see and hear vvd

THE KEY TO THE CUTS FIGHT!

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NO MORE

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£60

OFFICIAL NO WY

STRIKE

FIGHTING TO ORGANISE

BOLIVIAN WOMEN

This is a moving per- sonal account by an articulate, class conscious woman sadly by her overshadowed failure to develop polit- ¡cally and align herself to revolutionary party. Domitila Barrios de Chungara, daughter and wife of tin the Siglo XX (Twentieth Cen- tury, mining camp site Bolivia's largest mine, has been for several years the Secretary General of the Housewives Committee. Women were allowed to The positive side of the be face workers organised book the first hand the same union until account it gives of workers legislation struggles against poverty Does ve denied them access to these and exploitation jobs and therefore to the country where strike action trade unions. provokes the arrival of • organised from siao XX 75 truckloads of trigger-happy sołdiers who fight pitched La Paz to demand 3 months Dames deans workers wno medical are left defend them- backpay. equip- ment and food. selves with sticks and dyna- mite. Arrested The miners are highly organised in a union which The leaders were immed- has as its programme unc latelv arrested and several of Thesis of Pulacayo, based thęir wives went to La Paz Trotskyist principles, and went on a hunger strike and which controls the Federa- sponsored by the of Factory Workers. Holl Domitila's husband has a enormous support relatively privileged built

JOD-

ana solidarity wich working seven days a week up around this pressured the in a government mine for a government to release the wage of £6 per week partly leaders, pay the wages and paid in vouchers for the provide supplies to the com- company store and a one pany store. room house for himself and The success of this action his family. prompted the formation of the Housewives Committee of the Siglo Veinte (similar This house, however, is available only until he like committees have since been the other miners set up in other sites) which all affiliated

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silicosis to the and Wiltidels possibly TB as well, and dies Obrera Boliviana, Bolivian equivalent of the by the age of 35. Less fortunate, but still The committee organises highly coveted work is a demonstrations and solidar- place in one of the exhaus- ted mines-for which pay- ity action with the workers but also sets up its own ment is onlv made for tin extracted. campaigns on issues such as increasing family allowance March and housing for ana JoDs miners' widows. The third option is a two The Housewives Com- year waiting list for panning tin in the river for less than lionised by the have been lionised Women's starvanon pay.

EMA

paper

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NUPE

Working

OFFICIAL

women are in the front line of attack as the Tory government sets out slash jobs, living

STRIKE

TO standards and social services for the working class as a whole. But at the same time women workers have been front of struggles tor unionisa -tion, against low pay in the Penny Woolcock reviews 'Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a woman of the Bolivian Mines' by Domitila Barrios de Chungara with Moema Nezzer. Stage 1. Price £2.95 children with other ideas" The logic of this position is to arrive at shorter working week and bette pay for the men: and simply bigger houses, well fed children and more house for the keeping money women. Domitila's general politics reflect the * most backward of the Housewives Committee Her individualistic all approach levels of government. Recognising that „The working class has been Bolivian miners in struggle in 1971 betrayed by its leadership, blames this the Movement. individual leaders. But the Collar y She "we want worker like us in power, says cross-class favoured bourgeois feminists, definitely and calls tor leaders who organised on class as well as will not betray the people; sex lines. concept appears need for "The the need capitalists repress concept the they're total economic and social people. organised. Their wives revolutionary change. also those She had illusions in 'pro- organised gressive Torres General groups like Lady rolamans and Lady Lions' that exist when he was in power in 1971 and glosses over the Rolivia and that surely Assembly Popular that exist in other countries too.

emerged at that time. So we. the wives of the workers, need to De organ Dual power ised too, don't we?" It is clearly the exclusion Unable to understand the of women from the labour importance of the develop- market which has given rise dual power which ment of to this curious phenomenon potentially emerged during because Domitila is not a that stormv period onor to bourgeois feminist the coup by General Banzer, She was horrified at the that govern- sne says self-indulgence of the Inter- ment was not a government national Women's Year Con- of the people not because of ference which she was 1n its thoroughly capitalist invited to participate. character, but because the workers should have taken Ministerial posts in Torres' On the other hand her position on "women's cabinet. work" is deeply reactionary.

As a result, despite the She makes no criticism fact that she professes her- self of of the sexual division of armed Domtila labour, insurrection seeming almost to cannot be characterised as a subscribe to the 'wages for revolutionary. HOUSe WOTK слеоту. However, despite its seeks to legitimize women's status as domestic servants, political weakness the book although she pushes should be read as a reminder for women to be involvea ll tual …DiDes politics from that position.

paid to the labour aristocracy of the industrial- She makes no demands for the socialisation of child ised west can only be care and domestic labour, afforded through the cruel and brutal out rainer demanes women should be politicised our comrades in the under- developed nations. in order to "educate their WSL launches new women's public sector, and against cuts in health care and education.

The special problems that they face in playing their tul role in the fight against betrayals of trade union ane Labour leaders are reat materia problems created by capitalist oppression and intensified in the present CondItIons mast unemployment, attacks union rights, nursery cuts and social Closures ano crumole services Woman Worker, the new women's paper launched this veer py une workers doctalis League, addresses itself to these problems and to the political leadership amongst working ciass women This is not, of course, to say that only working class women a t oooressed

SOCIA

relations of capitalism. Socialised facilities But as Marxists we do insis that the oppression of women in the unit can only • ended with the endin Ine cantalist system production, and the establish. a socialist society domestic labour, child care and health care can be replaced socialised facilities. At present the tamily uni serves by both creating and rearing the next generation or workers and by servicing the worker for daily labour. set ves as a means disciplining and repressing youth, dividing the class strenath of the workino ciass target for Cand sitting capitalist marketing and adver- tising techniques selling evely concerva•e consumer oroduct Within the home the woman worker and mother doubly directly as a worker and also as a woman in carrying the weight domestic and mall responsibility tor could care Confined to home Both task of taranot both attract most militan laver womer workers and to break down the isolation of who find themselves confined to the nome-inroven unemoovment.

nursery Tacilities carinher the sick and elderly will focu Naut problems facing women: *Unionisation. Despite grow.

no numbers or women in int unions, women's involvement in leading a lu until meetinos remains siont Many women are also in low paid jobs and tace the prospec Page 9 of bitter struggles for the mos basic right of trade union organ- Woman Worker will raise the questions or political leadershir involved in these struggles and tight for the tull involvement o women in the unions at every *Low Pay. The problem o lower dav for women is more the general fight against lov wage rates than of women' medallev Woman Worker will fight fo wage increases, linked to cost-of living clauses to protect against InTiation *The Cuts. With so many women working in. the public services wome particularly hard through loss of jobs. Hospital and nursery closures also force women in un added homf shouldet burdens of child care and care for the sick woman worker, drawing of WSL's experience of the fight will the cuts struggles in gat lor surikes dne occupation to stoo ine cuts *Abortion Rights The Thatche

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government's will hit at the CuLs working class women to obtain the narcontainty of are also But there also wing Tory Bill to restrict exist- ing legal abortion rights Woman Worker will fight for every woman s right to tree, sate abortion on demand *Internationalism. The crisis Inat sours on the orv attacks Is an international crisis-affecting workers Ireland, Iran al une same Britain. Struggle Woman Worker will bring in • international develop these ments and show „role those political leaders who heac off struggles just Callaghan and the urade untol bureaucracy do in Britain In addition Woman Worker will struggle against those bour- see the aeols teminist whor answer to women's problems throughan a clas sisterhood through socialism ot all women women revorahonary readersal. working class as the only answe to the material problems kind leadership fought for Workers Socialist League Woman Worker on sale avalaoe orice ou sellers Trom socialist Press (15p including from postage)

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NUT must throw out Jarvis's pay betrayal Page 10

INDUSTRIAL

This weekend the National Union of Teachers (NUT) is holding a Special Salaries Conference Central Halls, Westminster.

Secretary General Fred and the NUT Executive Jarvis, hope to persuade delegates to swaliow the pay deal cooked-up and agreed with Tory Education secretarv mark carlise. Teachers would then receive a measly 9.3% overall Hitcase in their pay cheques This deal effectively. claim for abandons an original an immediate 36.5% increase on the salaries' bill which is neces- sary standards the

HOTH

level also involves the accep tance of a 'staged' increase with study Professor by Clegg's Commis- rav comparability sion. Sell-out It is, in short, a fraud a sell out. ano must be retectec ov al teachers seriously concerned with the defence of living stan cares and. last analysis education The detence ot the This year NUT leaders had To our on ineir militant tace in order divert contain growing anger over pay. bureaucrats

NOW

The Easter onwards thev claiming (against growing dis- Trom ordanised a tutlie and demoral testi large ising goodwill oi protest resouton. action-and then called it off as their new deal passee, that 'the best possible' •emanes for strike action oecan to roll into the headquarters at At the

NUT

conference at Hamilton House. Easter in Scarborouah. delegates support the Workers LOCal associations In ine oc cities (which are heavily discrim- Socialist the opposed NUT's against un eduersno s ureacnery on pay from the platform. converence representaton system) are particularly moving They distributed material towards a militant position. warning of just such a sell out.

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Hast une chatterano une empty slogan 'Fight for 1974 award that has been used as a stancaro ov teachers sincer. Ent Socialist Press 'Conference that the union warned eduers were the 'terms of reference' for the Comparability Commission.

The NUT is now in a consid- crisis. But nothing praole further from minds of the leaders than a serious struggle

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Trial sub (UK): 10 issues, only. Six months. One year. Europe: Six months. Rest of the World: Six months... Please send me trial sub/six months/one year of Socialist Press. I enclose Name. Address. Send to Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR. Union leaders have been the first bleat at the thumping salary increases paid out this week to top civil servants, judges, army officers, and doctors dentists • Official literature from Hamilton House even extols the virtues of sending the claim to •Pay Comparability Commis pointing out that if this Talls to deliver the goods the case could go from there... to arbitration! as the Workers Socialist League has pointed out, only an all out struggle to smash the Protessional associa- Ton mentality reintorced by the union leaders and for the industrial action and ¡choosal y defend moonisation teachers' living standards.

Sabre-rattling Jarvis and Co. have worked all out to betray struggle. Now they saore Tartine doout me terriote thing.

they will do if things haven't improved in 1980! Teacher In last week's The newsoabel blustered and begged the same time: Mrs. Thatcher has ourice reaffirmed her party's committ- ment (!) to the Houghton principles and said she is aware what happened teachers' salaries in recent years we are entitled to expect that There a de no Say Socivino in sanctioning the full restora tion of Houghton by September 1980. I predict there will be explosion education service if that does not happen".

Jarvis's touching faith in the Tories' 'commitments Cano ni mealy-mouthed servility Teners The National Association of School Masters/Union Women Teachers (NAS/UWT)- the smarer rival union is making meal of impending trie betrayal. £1.50 £5.00 £9.00 £6.50 £8.00 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 June 1979 Weighell bleats at rises They are not so much hostile his be conference fare to the Tories rewarding union conference, friends and allies 30% • in high places Claim s debateo the sheer size of • the Tact. Inev wil

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to fight harder to Tories' £199 million pay hand- now have head off the growing militancy out dwarfs such claims on wages among their member: ventists tor instance-amont the most reactionary NUh leader sidney veignel particular pointed to the money-grabbing elements of the meeical protession-are an annual basic rate receive increase, of nearly €3,000: that's mort than ine tota: wage many workers the public who were so viciously witch-hunted by the Torv Dres last winter for demanding a £60 Yet the NAS/UWT leaders reactionary are thorougniy group led Terry Casey Weighell Teachers as a whole can now place There is no doubt that the trust in une wores o hypoerites, opportunists, tine Tories regard such people and in fakers; careerists, , scoundrels anc •articular no doctors ane con lackeys in the bureaucracy of sultants as useful allies in the • of cuts and devas coming spate Delegates at this weekend's tation in the Health Service conference kick out Inis is why they are so keel Jarvis's plan-but not in order to "reverse an erosion morale" among the most highly dify win the eagers oNas

UWT.

•ale orotessional workers. whire Strike action on a national London Underground train basis must be urgently prepared are refused an improve crews ana LaKen canine basic rates of as low as £45.

trade union SectIons the movement with claims in for

A FURTHER

cash bonanza solidarity for dentists could be on the was in this way teachers can ac IT report issued ast week oi as the spearhead of the move- the National Economic Develop ment on wages that is certain to ment office were implemented.

threaten Tory government It proposes the abolition Labour

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Toreatened on sweets-to allow thi predecessor. British confectionary This is to compete with foreign manu.

the first step that must be taken on ine road o Tacturers building of a principled This would no doubt assist Tine leadership the teachers' British youth and workers unions compete tor leadership of the betrayal! Jarvis c world league on tooth decay- Reject Jarvis! All out for the and British dentists to coin in full claim! still further loot.

JOIN OUR FIGHT-

AGAINST TORIES!

Returned to office after five years of Labour the Tory government has immediately begun betrayals, wielding a sharpened axe on jobs, conditions and social services. Trade Union rights face imminent legal attack Prices are already beginning to rocket upwards.

Plum sectors of state industry will be handed to the Tories' profiteering big business backers; and the pay rises to police and armed forces mark only the prelude to increased state violence against pickets and I anti-fascists, , and an intensified army crack- down in th ine caltagnan-Healey leadership has made it clear that i' will opppose any perspective other than settling down and meek.

ly accepting'five years of Tory devastation though they have once AnIO more dusted oir their nea speeches, "left-wing" MPs have Tore otten socialist Laure continue leaders too frame onto establ Callaghan basis for totals d and the Tory cabinet, parallelling collaborator with hatcher their anti-working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan But the working class has experienced and overcome such 1974, and smash through Callaghan's reactionary controls in a series of monumental pay battles last winter.

wage These experiences are not dead. They point to the way that jobs, social services and hard won union rights can be defended against renewed Tory attacks.

But a principled revoluuonary, leadersto is noddeo limi the TUC collaborators and their hangers-on i Lacoll trators. the Communist Party are to be exposed and pushed aside, ant the mass struggles mobilised that defeat and remove the Tory government. Such tradereia des finds day in std day our radar.

gramme of transitional demands starting conditions and today's consciousness within the working class lead workers to grasp the necessity for socialist revolution And in taking up democratic demands-such as an end te sexual discrimination racial and , it must show the crucial role al us be dayao oy the workino casses ine oniv consisteni ly revolutionary class capable of leading the struggle for the emancipation of mankind And it an international basis-mobilising must solidaritv anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles- whether in Ireland, in Southern Africa elsewhere through. out the world and drawing strength and political lessons fron da what which ousted the natec oran in «ran This means fighting for the reconstruction of the Trotsky.

ist Fourth International.

This method of approach, rejecting any descent to simoi trade union militancy, or concessions to any wing of the labour bureaucracy, is the method fought for by the Workers Socialisi Le next per will see major class struggles in Britain. A principled, Marxist leadership is essential. Our movement though ramme remains small in numbers strong in prog JOIN US and take forward the struggle for socialism!

Call to remove left' traitors "As all the strikers in this show, the room

LESSONS

working class is strong and willing to fight. We were ready to carry on, but the officials cut off even the token support they had given us. "At Grunwick it was easy to say that the right- wing sold out the strike. But Ron Todd, Shorter, Les Brian Nicholson and

OF GARNERS

Communist Party member Sid Staden are the TGWU officials that strangled our strike, and these are all well- known left wingers". These words Trom Manue the opening. stanco. report on behalf of the Garner: Steak Houses Strike Committee, set the tone of last Saturday's called by the wonterence Garners' Strikers to draw the lessons from the ending of their long struggle for

BETRAYAL

1 month union recognition. A notable turnout from the Garners Strike itself were joined over one nuncre and thirt delegates and visitors attractec a strong plattorm including from many re•resentatives the major past and present unionisation battles of the last vew vears. Regional Organiser Les Shorter From fairly early became clear that the main issue as saying the problem was that in catering wiether Union Readers betrayals should be confonted "not usco to unions and head on or avoided turning unat would not affect prospects for wards Jank unionising the industry" solutions Gilliat of Sandersons Phil Forklift, Skegness, where

TGWU

Jos Birds Endeactory on mensess The r third year on strike, said such Kirby's Birds factory actions were by the union Merseyside, leadership as liabilities Chairman Stan Pemberton He counterposed reliance on replying to question about union to support support for Garners by saying given i by socialist organisations.

"steer clear of They ShOUlC problem his recognition disputes". main view, was the "apathy " of the He added that the only thing rank and file. the Garners Strikers lacked was the administration of the union wat was neeoco to counter this, he declared, was a "middle and its f30 million assets.

way" which had credibility on Ine most cerent bica ter both sides. came, not ano THeIsm surprisingly, from Right Work' campaign leader John Deason Jayaben Desai, former torewarning workers about the Treasurer called tor people to Grunwick of the so-called 'left Ine "realistic" treacherv would "take Committee paid tribute wing' leaders and officials.

•trike years to change the TGWU" the strikers, saying This point was dever oped by that the many other contributions.

"bridge". to be need was for a particularly regarding lack lace. built here and now. Speakers stressed that in the of finance, were worse than Garners strike the method had Grunwick. been not to find a way round lessons Stressed The the ofticials but to mobilise the being learnt by the trade union This "bridge" however, was membership against them in the leaders in how to break workers' any sort of fighting for policies procramme but the Rank and File organisa- many ano now necessary to win. talk 'left' but in practice them tion.! saw only nose who support. the Taking sharp right-wing in com- issue with this "apathy" of the rank and file plaining view, the Cowley failed to recognise the GoOV clant way them doing •revent onop steward iony Richardson which this "apathy" is instilled said the was that anything probelm the preserveo and tougnt tor by tne Many Communist Party of the contributions and union bureaucracy from the floor brouaht out the made

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Chairman Tim OTTICIalS not simov treachery of the TGWU Region mistakes, they had sabotaged O'Sullivan said his twenty years 1 officials. the strike. con- experience the union A speaker from the Garners was more firmed that the starting point i ne need TOr Support Committee. quoted politics the rank and file officials was and membership Ine should take every replace the Inev ColO present leaders. Victimised chamber maids' olewaro chen Gallagne from the week-long Park Lane's Grosvenor noter outined ine events reading up to their sacking. Management Wett offering comoensatior and refusing to concede and recognition of their union-even hotel had worker. supported them. other unions were meeting to accice on suo though

GMWU

porung action. workers who had come out were back to work by the official after one day. The seven-month long strike at London Economist Bookshor outlined by

ACTSS

Shop Steward Helen Miller. step up the A joint mobilisation by NUJ and NGA branches and chapels seems set to turn out a much larger mass picket than previously in support of the struggle for union rights the Nottingham Evening News. The June 16 picket however.

can only be ot value in struggle the min. Tulane statement of 28 sacked journa. i and print union recognition programme official strike So far there is no indication of whether leadership will implement the decision of the April Conference solidarity Hill strike throughout the Newspaper Society. special Nottingham subcommittee of the TUC's Printing Industries Committee # hold as wr press. NUJ bureaucrats, tell to t give members, support from the NGA and SLADE. Should this support be forth. one-day action coming would produce a shutdown of Nowspaper Society papers bring fresh She referred continued refusal of the shop's their concent demand for collective bargainin and unsuccestu the

BOTOVOU

at work

THOSE

STut against the strikers Trade was being badly hit options for the alte Tine company were to give up ol close down speaker Pat Lally, remarking on the predic.

table absence officials, said he was speaking as individual member whose branch had supported the skers worn tre west week.

Pointing the way the growing crisis forcing forward previously unor- ganised sections. ne amoanar the changes in attitude of the bosses represented these marathon strikes. Garners was ime lesson the same as Grunwick. There. it was 'lefts" the

SUCT

Dromey who complemented the open right wing. The • Conference significanth Tene included the call for the removal nationa officials central to the sell-out- Regional Organiser Les Shorter, and CP member Regional Secre- tary sid Staden. Nottingham: fight! pressure to bear on the viciousy anti-union Bailey Forma action- this kina of When been ned beca ofter the victory this crucial dispute The danger is however, than Nottingham will become incressingly reliant or their diy Nottingham paper, • a subsțitute for trade unior action to secure reinstatement.

There is even discussion and • pros. pects of launching the News a co-operativo Coming time of the eo. Dong alter he bitter dean of long lessons the Scottish Daily Express, suct a venture must be rejected nol only as im practical but as a tota diversion from the central fight trade union rights st the Evening Post.

Tories hand over to profiteers

OPEN THE BOOKS OF

Blair Peach: Demand a "Who runs the country?" has Herome

TENE

question posed by every anti-union politician and reactionary since mass working class

CHO 1

brought down Heath's hated Tory government in 1974. But with the Tories back in office, tne question Musl nOw be raised in very different form by the organised workers' move- menT Already after a few weeks of Thatcher capi- talist firms that back the Tories nave been rewaroeo ov amno of all price and the have been given wage bosses increases and massive lax buts Recession ominously still. But more oil shortages as the world-wide pushes cabitals nations towards a new wave of reces- Tories have the sion over comolete contrul oil supplies „to Ine giant private oil monopolies.

managers of these profiteering multi- that now decide national firms will wnether whether buses can operate: farmers can have fuel whether whether workers supplies. alu can nave petro to get to work each day. Workers' Control Thev decide how much we have to pay for our fuel.

When striking lorry drivers' •ickets ano erectee committees

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ast winter estabrisned a medsure of workers' control

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movement of supplies and oil, workers' inquiry Published by Folrose Ltd. for the Workers Socialist League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR Dingh Datoltd london. Registered as a newspapel EEC fraud falls flat

THE OIL FIRMS

the country was being the worker who has to drive that "held to ransom long distances to work; women support of the prand and al! those the complete the home; whose wages barely cope unknown, highly paid existing prices of fuel and trans- industrialists, manaders accountable nobody anc Profits basing their decisions solely on their OWn dre literally holding every car driver Meanwhile the oil firms passenger themse ves are rakine in nuct profit rid shorent crisis.

working class family to ransom.

world shortfall Prices are rising almost weekly.

There is no end in sight them the whip subories aves hand to The press eagerly raise prices to new dizzy heights-and to , direct faceless clamours Inest supplies to countries where the bosses to 'price motorists

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the road". Who are these price is nignest "motorists" who In the USA, the profits of anonymous the Exxon oil monopoly have would be torced to abandon tit of their cars by massive risen by 40%. In Britain BP use petrol price increases? has also turned in increased profits workers' movement Middle class must demand a full scale inquiry the these workings Of course thev are not the profit crabbing tirms employers, the managers or the ns means cantino to torea re peres middle class who lin the opening of the books of the oil firms and related companies rare instances where they trade union pay acludtly

TOT

erected petrol and cars rather than committees. claiming them on expense The figures released would spell out accounts) have fat salaries and undoubtedly Tory leaders and the capitalist tor the solenty ot casn to soart unanswerabie cast The casualties will be the nationalisation of these firms monumental press auncued working class: family holidays; without compensation under anti-union witch-hunt, claiming workers manademeal Nationalisation Such nationalisation, incon- ceivable under a Tory govern- ment, would require the full of mobilisation to defeat working Thatcher's gang of employers speculators and bankers such a mobili- Goldi sation must also de tne questior Yet the release of the of defence of living standards.

constable last Big increases to catch unnamed wage week without charge means up on recent price rises must be that still no arrest has been demanded: but at the same time steps must be to protect made for the murder, four-day It* the waaes adainst inflation through carried during the out the fight questioning and subse tor cost or living demon- Southall anti-racist providing regular auto- clauses, quent highly suspicious stration on April 23 up with a matic rises lo Keer And the inquest has been of Special trade union prices index.

release a until July 17. postponed Patrol Group policeman The police clearly intend to was designed last week take no action at all, and to

SERTUC

to allay suspicions of a use the killing of Blair Peach

CONFERENCE

a precedent for estab- cover-up on the murder "Care of the Under lishing their right to maim of Peach Blair Fives" ana kul aemonstralis Southall, then the ruse Saturday 30 June 1979 failed abysmally. Congress House, Great revelation Instead, the It is vital that trade Russell St, London WCI that search of dru everywhere take unionists members' lockers uncovered Credentials (50p) from struggle for a full- up the illicit whole range inquiry into Jim Watson, 106 Mount scale workers weapons, and talk of a lead- the Peach's murder View Road, London N4 weighted truncheon must the

SPG

in of actions reinforce the case argued by Speakers: Southall and Arthur Latham, Chair-

TONI

eve witnesses And, while we support implicit in the Pathologist's the growing demand for the man, London Labour report: that a single blow to disbanding of the SPG, it is Party Blair Peach's head by important to recognise that SPG thug was the blow that Reg Race, NUPE sim ry an the sion oa the

SPG

the role killed him. Margaret Cohen, weeks ago police National Campaign for day-to-day repressive role of had investigations police force the entire Nursery Education narrowed down reportedly armed defenders the Chair: Tess Gill, NCCL of suspects to six Tne capitalist state. SPG men. at the Post Office the barrage of Behind absurd boring and generalisations about "swing" the in last farcical Euro- week's pean elections, one clear result every stares and Euro- politician careerist in the face: had the election been a referendum on whether should stay in Britain

EEC,

the result vuld obviously have been a resounding 'no'. The abysmal 32% turn -out was not the result of clear wand indication that for millions or workers une erecool-" totally and impoten 'Assembly" fraudulent Arrestin their hostilly o offered them way the EEC itself "Democracy" correctly Workers that to vote for any candi- date meant lending. credi- bility to the spurious facade of "democracy" with which this reactionary capitalist bloc has sought to disguise arbitrary and anti- its working class policies This is why in general working class areas including the major indus.

trial centres that turned out small the laughably and why Labourite vote opportunist Barbara Castle who postured as an outright opponent of the EEC was among the most successful Labour candidates. substantial withriger EEC price increases to come in Britain in the near future and attempts by the Euro- pean bourgeoisie to step up the integration and rationa lisation of basic industry on there is •ERC-wide little doubt that this mass hostility common Market will continue to British amongst workers. Revolution But the answer is not to call simply for 'Britain the Common Out' of Market. no Workers have interest with common "British" employers The fight must be for socialist Britain and throughout Europe. The force struggle a British withdrawa must therefore be coupled to an workers in the appeal other EEC countries to take up a similar struggle againsi their own ruling classes and fight for Socialist United States of Europe.

OXFORD TRADES

COUNCIL

CONFERENCE

The TUC Under-fives Charter Sunday July 8 OCCR Hall Princes Street Speakers from Oxford City Nursery Campaign and the NUT among others