Socialist Press no. 158

MPs' pay shows the way: go for cost of living clauses!

Thanks to Tory policies, inflation is now raging out of control. Working class families face a 20% increase in the cost of living over the next year. But MPs don't care. Not already OnlY • nave Eneir TaL salaries been boosted by a £50 per week increase, but next year tney wil oet an adational cast Joseph "The Tories must be mad!" "How did anybody ever vote for them?" "They don't know what they're playing at." typical responses by workers to the Tories' huge increases in the and cost living, the OT wholesale cutbacks in the public sector that herald 2 million unemployed. On the face of it the Tories have one asterik. Social services devastation: al reav crumonna nearn service will be deprived of more staff, more vital equipment and more nosoitals. Working class children face the prospect startine ade beine raisea to six or the leaving age school lowered to classrooms, harassed crowvaca Teachers antouatee booKs anol decaying buildings end to school even In tne orivate sector ine law is being changed to encourage employers further speed JabouT ana

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production: in the nationalised industries jobs by the thousand

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 158 18 July 197y * 15p topped up to take Workers should take note.

nana out account of inflation in the next MPs calmlv vote to protect their 12 months! . own pay against inflation. Trade unionists should do the same. Provocation Claims Tor coming This decision-branded as ar Dav rouno must all incude the unacceptable "provocation" by demand for cost-of-living clauses the Telegraph-shows to provide monthly increases to Inal where uneir own Tortunes кево pace

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intiation. concerned MPs know full assessed by trade union well the kind of policies that are committees in each area. necessary - would se wAterestinG

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the world market leads to the are being lined up for the axe, forecast of a mounting balance and profitable sections lined up for sale to orvoust nessmen ot payments crisis. Intiation, 11 But the Tories are not mad. 5% maill remain at least at the mark. Their wild, all-round attacks or strategy the working class are entirely TO r logical. They flow from the driving up the rate of profit in industry desperate world-wide crisis and not take vale galloping recession of the capit- into account the tuil dimensions alist and of this crisis. system, dramatic fall in the rate of tne World wide orotit in British industry Last Saturday's Financial Thatcher grasp the Nor Times revealed that the impact world wide oT Ine siumo ana or uncontrol- capitalist system which is symp- led world intiation on private Tomisec ov The ol crisis industry has been to cut profits The 50% increase last 12 monins by d over ine prices reflection of the Is a least 7½%. crumonne value or ine collar and other paper currencies and Decline in output refusal of the nationalist oii states to carrv the ourcen oT the capitalist crisis. Ano in a maor economic published assessment Guardian last wisek the The imperialist leaders now Inde- Tace Ine task or moosine that Economic burden on the world's working penaent treasury anticipates class. actual decline in output begin- nIS reality was _rammed home to Thatcher at the recent пІПО UnIS and reacnine d level of minus 4% by the second summit meetings at Strasbourg half of 1980. апа lokyo Unemplo ment, according Hell for leather to ITEM will rise continuously Trom The present otricial leve of 1.35 million to over 2 million And this nas spurred the at the end of 1980. Tories into their hell-for-leather AnO desorte une massive

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arive Une Tale income from North Sea Oil, the exploitation or the british work weakness of British capitalism in ine class. find out how many of the 2 000 a vear Labourites Parliament would support such demands. The chances are that the get Lavour wirs most eager to their hands in the till now will the most vicious in witch- hunting WorKers who fight for a living wage in the next pay round. Their plans for a prepared confrontation with the trade unions nave theretore gone oT at half cock. Thatcher may have secured a Parliamentarv maiority on a right wing, anti-union policy; but her plans to cultivate a mass through hand reacuonary base the police and armed outs to forces, tax concessions to middle class, and the building of enlargea ooor or aesoerate time already the cracks are beginning To Show Middle class families who would thought they benefit Trom une lax nandouts are coine to be hit hard by the impending mortgage increases, by runaway orv-stoked inTiation ane ov the general drive to recession and nationalisation which will inrow inousanas or orotessiona and white collar staff in the public and in private sector Ioustry out oT WOrK And in forcing throuah the attacks on trade union rights, living standards and manning levels throughout natcher is going to nave confront the same undefeated class that toppled working Heath and crushed Callaghan's pay limits. Nor can she count on the SWP politics tail Labour traitors Centre pages run high at the conference of the National Feelings Union of School Students held this weekend. where a unanimous motion of no confidence was carried against President and YCL member John Munford. Full report next week. In fighting on wages, against the cuts and against sackings the worKinG class cal comone detence ot its conditions with the fight to bring down this reactionary Tory Those TUC leaders who have been vainly pleading Thatcher to "stimulate growth' and bring in import controls and the Labour leaders who talk oT waitine rive vears to une next election are completely out of mood of the step with the workers ana nave no answers lu the gathering crisis Indeed the question many workers are ПО U whether the ories can brought down, but what kind of government is necca loreplace unem Political struggle Workers look at the treacher- ous record of Labour govern- ments in ornice. ana correctly •question whether a returned Labour government would oressurised InLO Siftillar measures to those of Thatcher.

The answer to this lies in the outcome of the political struggle that must now be waged inside the labour movement. The only way a government reoresentne Ene nee sencent interests of the working class be brought to power Thatcher through sharp struggle acainst ine existino leadersnio ou trade union bureaucracy to bale the working class her out: conference after con- New leadership ference has revealed right wind officials under huge pressure This creates a favourable from their membership action in defence of basic rights oooortUnity

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the develo ment of a new, revolutionary -pressure which threatens leadership within the labour burst the banks of official movement. control programme of demands that Already this mihtancy nas start from today's problems and forced spluttering declarations snow workers in oractice une Tory plans necessity for the overthrow of from headers …oT ine Teaching capitalism and the establishment unions, NALGO and the TGWU.

ot a planned socialist economy Within the unions this means Isolated confronting and fighting for the removal of all those officials and Right wing miners' leader conventors aroue unal Gormley, who has denounced their workers should hase political action against the demands on the "viability" of Tories, found himself isolated the employer, and refrain from du une vow conterence. where ine all-out action necessary to the solid vote for strike action drive Thatcher from office.

to stop the closure ot Deer Instead a leadership must be Duttryn comery nas torced talk •ult that wi chalenge the va of a climbdown by the Coal bility argument by fighting 1 for Board the opening of the books of the Ano the cemanes that union employers - in born public and leaders act against the Tories private sectors to elected will intensify with the moves to committees of trade unionists.

rusn unrouen une covernment s his will reveal to workers new anti-union laws within tour beyond doubt that unemploy- months-giving TUC bureaucrats ment, speed-up and wage-cutt- little or no time to head off migre an interal bart or ine resistance capitalist crisis; they cannot be The latest turn in the crisis has disrupted the Tories' plans: Cont'd back page, col. 6 but it now otters workers theil opportunity.

BOLIVIAN NATIONALISTS

CANNOT SOLVE PROBLEMS

Page 2 The elections held in Bolivia on July 1 have been widely reported as the 'cleanest ever and have passed without for the major upset of General government David Padilla. the bour- Nevertheless, has geois press been reluctant primarily the subject- because constitutional have never cut much ice in Bolivia. But it also seems unlike- ly that clear victor will emerge, unus mercastig once again the ever -viesell possibility of a coup. No 'official' results will be issued until the end of but the month Hernan Siles moment of the 'left' Suazo, leader Popular

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and the Democratic Union alliance, is leading with 37% of the poll, Victor Paz of 'right' MNR follows with 29% and ex-dictator Hugo Banzer has scored a remarkable 18%. Keliable These figures come from sources and have rella ble been produced with the aid ot a combuter a somewhat farcical item of uneven development when one con- siders the rudimentary and often brutal conditions which votes squeezed from the masses in predominantv rural and backward society. course, largely 1s. OI that the peasantry swings the elections, and the leading candidates of the bourgeois parties have been putting a good deal of effort their into perambulations across the countryside. Paz in spent much energy in an attempt

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credentials by reminding the backward the MNR's peasantry 1953 Agrarian Reform on the other hand, Siles, well aware that the Reform was strangled by the MNR's alliance imperialism through the US "stabilisa- plan" of 1956 has

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turned to the more militant and. advanced sectors with promises of "deepening the process" Banzer "Process" is a word that looms large in the bourgeois natonalist vocabulary and Il is often shunted up against "revolutionary"; but any "process" offered by Siles will be far from revolution- and, unless he al Yi still coup, removed by a further from rapid. who des- •is banzel, pite his intervention in the formal contest, threatens to head such a move by the military His return to the lime- light reflects the failure of the right to find an alterna- tive figurehead as well as its upon cont ued Tenance widespread repression keep the capitalist economy alive. from the Banzer

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Padilla bodyguards had to eastern city of Santa Cruz His which has in the last decade shoot their way out when of entourage was become Bolivian capitalism through surrounded and stoned by oil and agro-industry workers. This prompted calls for Santa Cruz flourished under Beater's dule and ithe 'order' and a denunciation of the election as a "tedious the heartland falangist party which nurses obligation" the leading by bourgeois daily El Diario.

fond remembrances of Franco This is little more than a Mussolini and insubstantial mentary to settle the whole invitation the beneath an skin of technocratic jargon.

affair in their time-honour- Distinct interests ed manner Needless to say fears of a It is legitimate to see the coup have been amply sup- capitalists of this area sabre- ported by constant distinct in their immediațe rattling on the part of the interests from those of-the army, which officially inter- and the highland all presidential viewed "Altiplano" who current v candidates to ascertain the hold the initiative in their "house-cleaning" degree of for "democratisa- support that was being threatened.

They appear to be satis- Even Siles was forcibly fied on this count but this presented from entering is no guarantee large Santa Cruz to give a speech sections of the officer corps is apparent that and it will prepared major part of Banzer's 18% surrender the enormous of the poll was collected in privileges they have acquired after fifteen years we do particle Nevertheless, the growing In powel. ot the expand Com Davy ing proletariat in the east of Not necessary the country has stalled the of In the immediate future conspiratorial progress the intervention of the army the bourgeoisie on several may not be a necessity for occasions. The latest was when the the bourgeoisie since the coalitions of Silez and Paz

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local (Centra' Obrera Boliviana- beginning are show a the Bolivian TUC) refused lexibilly towaras co-opera support a departmental tion in government. strike for more aid to the Should this come about- and the only previous case the sugar industry grounds that it was provoc- of a minority government was in 1931 when the bour- ative and designed to pave geoisie was in a strong polit- the way for a rightist coup.

Banzer faced with ical position and on • Was offensive-it might stave off setback when he was forcibly prevented from military intervention. entering the mining camp of But it would also nullify Huanuni even the most limited pro- during gressive measures Cal valen would additionally bring the Maoists of the the geois guevarist

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(Movement of the Revolutionary Left) league with the most into resolutely ultramontane sectors of the bourgeoisie- precisely those sectors that supported the overthrow ol the .condoned hundreds ulassaril militants and backed Banzer's bloody repressior of the class for WorkIng seven years Deal with bourgeoisie The Maoists have already laid bare the total bankrupt- cy of their politics by throwing their lot in with Paz as the representative of the most advanced sector Siles Suazo of the bourgeoisie'. The

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currently formal democratic freedoms inside Siles' UP along with have been perceived 'safest the pro-Moscow many quarters as the and of best hotch-potch • way' the guarantee eloquent reformist against fascism by virtue of group- ings, Conles NaKe But the reverse is true demagogic gestures. The Bolivian economy is in however, clearly ll nas. pledged itself to Siles' pro- difficulties; all the acute gramme which will increas- major enterprises require the army's including 01l and tin

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services to police the corporations are near to collapse. masses The action of the masses The daily demand for will determine the success dollars is now 1.4 millions 700,000 or failure of the bourgeois against usual electoral operation. and this demand is likely increase three- or four- The largest parties of the the Stalinists fold. working class, ded the committed to tse, Reserves committed to deeply 'democratic process' and the The of restives have become integral parts country are extremely low of the bourgeois coalitions.

and even the slightest redis- tributionary measure would No more attacks put them in grave danger. However, the most Put bluntly, the Bolivian the advanced sectors of cannot support Bolivian proletariat, the without mercastl factory miners and entering severe crisis. workers of La Paz, Oruro Trotskyists, while recog and Cochabamba, have elections nising the given clear notice that they were a bourgeois operation, will countenance no further More attacks on their living stan- dards, their trade union independence or their strikes political freedoms This is why the Padilla regime Continues against maintain hundreds of troops in the mining areas and has enacted various laws to strikes 'anti- Fraser suppress as democratic' and 'subver- sive: Yet the miners, who have The spate of strikes that chaos unparalleled record of i have brought dul docks, telecommunications.

and militancy, are struggie still in the process of reor- iron ore mining and a range in industries of other ganisation and the working remains Australia shows no sign of class as a wnole abating. cautious and disoriented after seven years of vicious Last week saw the collapse of talks between dictatorship. the Australian TUC and the Confusion extreme right wing Fraser government. This has led to extensive Australian papers are confusion in the face of the lists of publishing daily strikes to keep readers -Siles' policies of wage of the reasons to increases, nationalist agita- shortages and delays. tion and reintroduction of SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 July 1979 cannot dismiss them as a mere sham There is every indication that the masses participated and that bourgeois of one nationalist regime type or another will emerge in August as the first popu larly elected government for Illteen years Blind alley The political conse- quences of such an event cannot be lightly cast aside collary. this only by recognising fact and at the same time incisive drawing the most critique of the blind alley of bourgeois nationalism in a period of capitalist crisis that Trotskyists will be able to deepen the struggle for working class independence and for a series of trasitional demands to strip the veneer off the class interests of the reformists and deepen the revolutionary mobilisation of the masses in the coming period of acute crisis and conflict. In this conflict the neat prescriptions reformist wing of capitalist class will be swept interests of aside as the imperialism return to their logical and loyal forces servant-the armed Fascism Thus revolutionaries face two closely connected tasks deepen the offensive -to against new regime through the multitude of basic demands thrown up by the grinding poverty and oppression of the everydas lite of the masses and. at tn same time, to mobilise for the fight against fascism. Such tasks are at the core of Trotskyism and it is only Trotskyist prog-alls that can respond to them The of trajectory Bolivian history has made this clear time and time again.

Berlinguer seeks scapegoats to maskCP bankruptcy Iran regime declares war on Marxist left-wing SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 July 1979 Confronted with rising disillusion among his members after the italian Communist Party's electoral set- backs, Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer has moved predictably to head off a revolt. In a speech to an impor- tant meeting of the Central Committee, Berlinguer indulged in a lengthy "self- criticism" of the CP's recent practice. He denounced a certain "bureaucratism" centralisation, the misuse of the mass media, Ine and systematic alliances with Christian Democrats at all local levels instead of eval- each in tilt area. criticism 1S particularly pernicious. critical effort Stalinist leaders to devolve the for the responsibly hated policy of class collab- oration. (the 'histore com- promise") away from top leadership to the lower echelons of the party. In this way along with an (but apparentiv really cosmetic) reshuffle of le lop Icauers, hopes to redirect the anger of the rank and file towards a lower section of the party bureaucracy. "Self-criticism" turned out to be criticism of every- one else, including by impli- cation the partvs rank and file for not understanding the policy. geois cabinet in Iran have declared open season on self-styled 'Marxist' their opponents in the Fedayeen- e-Khalq. ine prime minister last week Fedayeen denounced tailors [lit government, and so stamped his approval seal of the persecu- Or has been unleashed through the 'revolutionary committees'.

Ine been arrested and lave their mobilisations dry quatus. nave been attacked by gangs ol set on beating off the and them ariving streets. Sharp blows in this campaign have also been struck vorkers rarty

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both the supported OCRFiY. and nine whose members nave been arrested (see page 4). Khomeini, Bazargan and Ineir suodorters are aiming Lo destroy any and every organ- represent the independent class interests or ine oroletariat. ano works to organise opposition to the 'Islamic Republic Armed attacks 'Revolutionary guards' have strikers, and the whole apparatus of local Lindis stands in real opposition to the of workers and their Berlinguer Nonetheless, this is still a dangerous line since if lesser heads can roll, then why not the greater ones too? It is a sen of the depth of crisis in the party that Berlinguer regards necessary to allow or even encourage the rank and file to me themselves of even a lesser section of the bureau- vlavy Berlinguer, however, has taken pains to give no sanc- tion to anv attack on class collaborationist policies themselves To make them more pal- danie no wever rechristened "historid the compromise" as "giving the labour movement a part in governing the nation' "self-criticism" All the was a smokescreen to cover up. the fact that, despite its move into "opposition" the CP envisages onlv one route Islamic regime now set against independent mass movement independent oraanisation in fac- tory committees and strike com- Hicco • ne budder announceds ov Bazargan's cabinet shows quite clearly the direction which these revolutionary leaders Wisn follow, but also points to the obstacles blocking their havi waln Atter the coinssa spending of the Shah's dictatorship, state been reduced expenditure has by about one Tittn This includes a Malor

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purchases on arms to back around one third of its previous diudi lever But at nearly £500 million, massive sum. InIs In the last two weeks, working class demands are been however, there has becoming more insistenl. Italian capitalism seems con- rapidly growing action by (strikes, a long period workers go-slows demned to and demonstrations) without a government. support. of their demands There is no doubt that the more conscious sections

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in working hours of the ruling class are begin- tions million of

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ning to look or non-parlia strikes were reported in the solutions to their mentary official figures for May crisis, there no obvious route towards this nearly three times the level in recent years. at present. These decisive opportunity actions have been widespread throughout the now exists for the building engineering and metal work- nev revolutionary leadership of the working ing industries. class. They have increasingly Only with such a leader- escaped the control of the ship can the working class bureaucracy. defend its They signs of the •dic conditions and launch difficulty its aleshe re cp "against into the government of the struggle class and its allies, united the Italy's politically weakened nation-through an alliance have bureaucrats, now in with the bourgeoisie. bourgeoisie which Cu- reestablishing Polllical the of minate in taking don't govern alliance through which "You Italy" Berlinguer Italian capitalism. has tried DayD, "with 51% of the votes". the survive economic Autonomous the opposition crisis. for the past three alliance with vals The Trotskyist Party Democracy has grown The difficulty expresses needed for such a leadership recent particularly tast 1n itselt in the apparently com- the massive will have to be built not months plete impasse in the forma- only against the still dom- material tion of a new government.

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WaCI imposes (and is designed to inant Stalinist leadership of was expected impose) the working Giulio Andreotti, the out- the labour •movement but also "autono- class have become apparent.

mous against the going Premier who was first asked State President currents the by in labour movement. Unemployment Pertini form new Though these forces government. reflect the rejection of the The policies of the Chris- With the CP leaders Stalinist leadership in favour unable to give him the tian Democratic government which the CP in parliament support they would like to more the poncies interests of the working supported until a few weeks for tear of worsening their own crisis with the rank and class, they are led by have produced a rise dau. anarcho-syndicalists in unemployment, a sharp file, and the smaller parties anu who deeply not daring to move without others are cut wages ana an hostile to the building of an the CP Andreotti entorcea aelay in the long authentic revolutionary postponed wage doomed to fail. round And at a moment when party. control against major capitalists who and depended for their profitable survival on his tyranny. But the main thrust of the nationalsations nas been deter mined the activity of the working class. last year, huge Ine numbers capitalists and managers have been, forced to Viet prolonged strike action, and moved to occupy factories establish workers control and when i inefficient' companies, he is referring to areas which exper- lencer such ceveooments ano where workers are no longer capitalist directly, subjected exploitation and the drive toi profits. These occupations are much economic ar Hore trials lust Inreat to a rearme determined to establish capitalism on a new footing in Iran Large sums have also been By building up stocks emorvonic forms allocated to the workers' power, the strike com- soare cars and ammunition tol equipment and mittees and workers commit ody ment collidels Khomeini madels the itself is trough and tees represent a major politica itself is enough to threat which must be crushed if bazarcan are Tuity determined Khomeini and Bazargan are to to ensure the efficiency of the expose the sham radicalism o army they are building from the the nationa isations probosed hold on to dower These measures (like earlier This knowledge has forced revolutionar Guaras and workers' in relation to banking them respond to remnants ot ine onans armed moves ano insurance must be seen in cemanes Cena They need such an army to the context of the continuing economic exploitation by these economic and political crisis distorted 'nationalisations' violent will be 1 hest movements. tor se t-determina concession: tion of the Kurds and the other A major part or the nation transtormed InIC QUErION: alisations scheduled for attacks if the working class does oppressed national minorities. which already not reject their government and An above dr Inev neeo ar army to impose their counter- massive v cominated ov eirect moonlise incependent state ownership or the personal strength behind a revolutionary revolutionary dictatorship on leadership to establish a workers control of the Shah's family.

and the the lanian revolution working class which formed the some nationalisations nave ano peasanils government driving. force in those struggles.

been used as a form of political Iran. Page 3 Will Eanes call election? as in In Portugal, Italy, the weakness of takes the bourgeoisie the form of a complete failure to find a govern- ment with a parliamen- tary majority. For nearly a year parlia- mentary government. laboriously set up in 1976 by the bourgeoisie with the help of the Stalinists and reformists of way as neutralising the revolution situation which broke ary out in 1974, has been eflec- tively paralysed Two efforts by the milit- President Ramalho ary Eanes to govern- "technocrats' of from outside parliament broken down lave pletely. Last week a series of dis- cussions with parliamentary leaders simply confirmed the im passe The leaders of the largest party, the Socialist Party, are unable for fear of losing more • working class a coalitior support to Jom with either of the two big bourgeois parties (the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats). Eanes But those parties

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together COn nave majority. Of the one Louise possible parliamentary maj, ority which no-one is daring to mention is a coalition of the Socialist and Commun- ist possibility parties. which would be outlawed by the bourgeoisie and the army This is not of course because of the policies of. the leaders of the two main workers' parties (which are no threat to capitalism) but because of the way such a government woulu drous working class expectations and demands. The alternatives for the however, bourgeoisie, di t not any more satistactory. The ending of the parlia- mentary system and the re- of full military rule (recently foreshadowed in a speech by Eanes) would provoke workers massive and peasants' resistance.

The "solution"- other immediate parliamentary elections a year before they due-is a double risk are For one thing allow the masses to speak speak after a long period when both the bourgeoisie and bureau- the labour cracies have been trying to silence them But second, elections are more. than likely to confirm the present parliamentary im passe, just as they have done in Italy. Eanes Nonetheless, this seemed week on the brink of calling elections- because them to resolve the political crisis, but because he cannot think of anything else to do.

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SAS CASE GIVES

ARMY LICENCE TO

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Last week a no-jury special court in Belfast gave British, and its the army undercover SAS squads un- restricted licence kill Irish workers and youth. Lord Chief Justice Lowry evidence was "Vague and

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Alan gunmen unsatisfactory" acourted Hohun and konao emoerev When asked by the prosecu- of the murder of 16 year-old tion it his brieting betore ine John Boyle in a Dunloy grave- stake-out had included reference "killing" yara last Jury that A post-martem had shown would oreteraoe had been that Boyle-who capture, Bolun also admitted have picked up this could have been the ahecco to tildl Armalite rifle and aimed it at case. SAS 'stake out' manned by But such evidence no conun and emoeney-was shol influenced judge Lowry; in the back. the detence of commitment to Bohun, the only one of the the lawless acts british accused into the witness imperialist squads made the facts, box, made te claim Inal doyle him impregnable to had seemed to aim the weapon jury 'and Ine aosence at him. facilitated an easy acquittal.

No evidence Indeed despite attempts by Ine Hi Deras BrITIS oress But no forensic evidence was create the forthcoming to prove that Boyle divisions between the RUC and nee even nanoe•use unodeo Ins court case rifle, and Bolun himself was the whole affair has been "an marked described by the judge by a grand-scale cover- as untrustworthv witness" vo on aft sides Racist laws claim fresh victim A Pakistani worker who any rights for fear that he would be discovered. has been living and working Pakistan his Meanwnill in Britain for more than six father died and his family were years was seized by immi- could growing up and gration police last week and leave une country lo visit Liette.

bundled from the hospital Last year, betore the Labour Government brought where he worked decided amnesty a halt, Heathrow. dory under it tor dermissior to stay. The plan by immigra- Tne tion authorities was to get him For months the Home Office on a plane to pakistan betore too him that ns appear wa. any protest being processed. Farood Chaudry, a porter at Lawyers acting on nis benar Hospital, the Oxford Churchil said that evidence •naa for the past four years, had just presented showing that he was come off living in Bradford in 1972 was aulY ana was return ing his room when the immigration police arrived.

They told him he was being deported immediately an illegal immigrant. seen by porter who raised the te low alarm. Harrassed Chaudry of just one thousands ot Asians each year who are harrassed by immigra- tion officials. He arrived in Britain in 1972 in the boot ot a car, smuggled through immigration by In Bradford will to tend tor himsert. For years he has lived in the twilight Britain regairly Whitelaw backing down trom demanding woman worker

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Now paper gives a

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lead to women's fight against Tory attacks Women's paper of the

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Workers Socialist League Available rice o us e from

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Dartmouth Park nil conno. KUC investigations into killing were hampered from fact that outset by the tine army Would only centiTy the killers as 'Soldier A' and 'Soldier B' farce outright a crowd seven mer wal kee dock, with no clue as to which were the two actual defendants.

Phototit •But as Republican News has pointed out, as the trial RUC made a major bid to tner provide the

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men with rational explanation for their Tyrone youth Eugene O'Neill, wanted for offences in south Derrv. mother immedi- • Neil's

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. protested that the ately had not even sought to tind him being examined. In fact immigration otticials made one visit to the home of builder he had been working out refused to discuss only phone. Without telling Chaudry o his lawyers that his applicatior was unsuccessiur they foved to arrest him. The case has been protested NUPE and Oxford Trades Council. Even the Tory MP for Oxford John Patten, has tested that he should have been allowed time to pack.

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„The HOme Utrice nas suspended susp whit they tatiamine the deportation evidence Meanwhile Chaudry is being heldi Under the racist immigration laws or britain unauery na.

latest date for which the aminesty doptits have to provide any not he was not here evidence that Then ano There •Court appeal against a purely admin- istrative decision In taking up the case and in defending what is in fact a legal Britain,

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right pushed to make

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Ine connection between one this case and the racist which have laws migratul been suoported ov forv and Labour governments There only one way orevent workers Tinct some which offers them a chance That end racist Is to the and defend immigration laws • workers Lo llave where they will: in the world. End immigration laws! department! Last week the Guardian revealed that special marks ar being put on passports by immi gration officers indicate secretly, unknown that they DOSSOOrL novaets. consider they might be a threat to national security or an illegal

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has licence to kill. PHOTO: Derek Speirs, IFL nus cence was Gramacall extended by last Labour which under Ireland torture chief Roy Masor stepped activity

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Cano urged troops to shoot first and ask questions afterwards LaST week saw ine Labou leadership continue this policy by voting once more to renew The ameroency • rower.

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through which imperialist rule Mason continues to be imposed on the iris pedoe al nome ano tat be was work But the licence to kill' is ing in the Republic-but to no restricted British not to state avall A few days later the defence recen counsel referred to O'Neill as a murder Peach Southall ky the Special Patrol "suspected terrorist" for whom John Boyle had been supposed- Group shows the meaning mistaken and shot the such unrestricted powers.

The British workers' move- Dunloy cemetary! its historic ment must take : up and the pne attail, brazen bias judge Ot the responsioilt TOTCt acquitting the murderers spells immediate withdrawal of imper.

ialist occupied troops from out the realitv ot British army terror in reano-that it is aooy!

Si> counties irelang ano and outside the law, and that settle accounts with those reac tionary Labour leaders whose hired imperialist gunmar

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Most brazen example of licence to kill: Bloody Sunday, 1972 Campaign to defend Iran socialists Tehran, Revolutionary Council, Members of the London Box 41/3586 and Karger, area of the WS joined a tenran 40-strong picket on During the week there will be a delegation to the Iranian Saturday last, 7 July, at the offices of Iran Airways in ano a ture at the Iran Airways office on Piccadilly, London. Saturday next, 14 July at 2pm, an inter- This was part of which ail readers of Socialis national campaign of. protest Press are urged to support.

against the arrest in Ahwaz of One group whose supporters will definitely not be present inree mem oers workers council, about twenty to support this solidarity action steelworkers and fifteen mem.

will Healyite Workers Revolutionary Party Ders Ene naot-nargaren-e Sosialist (Socialist Workers scandalous Party), endorsed the jailings of the the HKS members retailing as good United Secretariat of the Ine Khomeinı/Bazarga rourth international Col. This campaign should reaimes caims that InE resolutions have been in contact "with a continued by network of United States agents Jaboul Enrouel movement organisations demanding the overaline in sidi release of these militants, and Newsline on June 11 accuses the HKS of: to M. Bazaraan. Ottice of sent to undermine the the Prime Minister, Islamic "trying

#TROOPS OUT

NOW!

savact nance. Ine people is matched only by their hostility to the British working class Ts or unis reason mnat ent Workers Socialist League will be fighting the maximum possible labour movement tUrT : August 12 national out or Ine demonstration Ireland take place in London. Within that mobilisation we will fight for the clear policies of: * Troops out now! Self deter mination for the Irish people. *Restore POW status to the heroic 'blanket' Wrote los fr and Armagh ine

BOCKS

jail! *Down with capitalist ex" ploitation, North and South: for an Irish workers' Republic!

TV film banned The latest act of TV censorship-following the formal deal reached between the BBC and police -has been to ban a film which drew a connection drug smuggler Government and intelli- gence. Five police physicist arrested Howard Marks drugs He was given bail of £50,000 and shortly before his trial the Old Bailey he disappeared since then police nave Taller to rearrest him although friends say he moving in and out o Britain with ease Weekenc i ne „Loncor programme drew the connectior etween Marks and Di6, saying inal ne was Deme useo minter gence work against Irish repub licans The IBA banned the film hours betore it was due to b shown on Friday. No reason was given for the decision and bA lawyers are supposed to be now considering the film In fact the IBA are waiting for the state to decide whether or not the film is allowed to be revolutionary authorities by dis.

Triottine ostensiov calling for Arab and Kurdish self-determination". And Newsline fails to report that swoop that same arrested the nine HKS member!

also rounded up three militant oil workers, twenty steelworkers ane nunared. or other malant: -who were charge a bid to break strikes in Khuzestan supports the continued oppres- sion of national minorities and women ev Islamic regime that is attempt.

ing to consolidate capitalist rule in iran tollowing ine overtnrow of the Shah. This latest act class treacherv bv the WRP is furthe fact that opportunist political alliance with reactionary Middle rast bourgeois recimes na.

led them into • complete opposition to the independent struggles of une masses ano lo orolelalial revolution in Iraq, Syria, Libya or Iran.

Newham inquest opens SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 July 1979

LABOUR

PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report Opportunists of every colour and stripe are frantic: capit- any manoeuvring the dis- alise on array of the Labour Party.

The right wing Manifesto Group has moved forward with proposals to enhance the powers the Parliamentary Labour rarly They propose that this reac- rump body-which wreck

TOUTS

La Dour Party conference decisions- should have the major say in the ministers and Party policy while Labour is in government. Hollow show Meanwhile the so-called 'lefts' the Partv's Nationa Executive, who still refuse to mount any campaign within the Party's rank and file for the removal the Callaghan- ot Healey leadership, last week put up a hollow show of a fight ir the containing the hones' ot growing opposition currents.

TOLON

moved Anthony Wedgewood Benn pro- line with the posing Party's conference abousnino ine House ot Lords Callaghan should create no more Labour Garaghan as a14ved Callaghan was arrowed coeclare that he will take no notice the and bury the right wing chooses Shadow Cabinet. No intention Another motion. calling for the waiving of the Conference's Inree year rule to make way tor of the elation thi question the election OT the Part *edeer was aso carried-out not before Callaghan had made ant mide it clear that he had no cown nIs own accord. In reply to Eric Heffer who that chande leadership seemed likely before the next election, Callagh~- replied that was merely "wishful thinking".

PARTY

'Lefts' jockey for position on NEC Certainly the abject failure •т неттег ano nis tellow letts to raise the slightest campaign Callaghan's removal leaves tie initialive entirel Ine nanas or the right wing leading clique the best create conditions tor a hand-over to a selected reactionary-whether that Dennis Healey second-string like right winger noy nattersey. There is certainly little pros- of Party pect the conference change Tois vear cecicine to the system of electing the leader. there are already instead signs that Callaghan is working closely with

TUC

bureau- top crats to use union block votes in order io consolidate the riont wing hold on the 1979 Labour conference. This is likelv to mean thai although the NEC voted-again in the face of Callaghan's vigor- ous Justion-lo reo ben Tne question of reselection of MPs at the conference, it will again Crats. Peerage Last year then AUEW Presi- dent Hugh Scanlon Droke nis unions mandate the vote-ensuring that the call for reselection of MPs was defeated. scanion-erstwnile darling of the Broad Left-was rewarded with a peerage. This the AUEW dominated by forces to the right even of Scanion. They have PHOTO: Laurence Sparham IFT interest whatever in establishing democratic procedures within the Labour Party. Every one of the manoeuvres and ostentatious displays of "socialist Labour's left' fakers spells out beyond doubt the impossibility of simply manoeuvring al vultu the right wing leadership of the Party e Call man leadership is Callaghan leadership an integral part of the bureau cratic apparatus that has for so long shackled the potential power British working door to fresh witch-hunt Following the General coverinc ENt TaCT ThaT Labour's May defeat. was Election

EEC

and • the brought about by the treacher- election fiasco, Constituen- cy Labour Parties and the Callaghan-Healey leader- ship is a full-time job and down the country have been strenuous one at that. Agents' Reports This task is even less envi- examining the campaigns. • you in Newham ame PHOTO. Angela Philline North East, where the For many of these people ridden party saw its substitute Tor orv Turn coat neo Frentice James Dickens, walk out on the eve of the election in the face of mounting opposition. Of course an ultra-safe stal une last minute sland din, Ron Leighton easily got his free where he • Westminstei has su oseonentl himself maiden speech in favour import Prentice ane oine SUCh measures capitalist trade war MP in Newham the by Labour's 'left' Carried unpleasant overhead of a perma- battle lancial with hustle to wage controls, public Unseemly spending cuts and cheap free loaders like himself But Bradbury But a problem remains Tribunite agent, could hardly Dickens was a Tribunite. The say these improper things local party dominated by Tribunites. report Instead presented made three points. come this much First it warned "democratic socialist vaunted blotted the copy-book in such a spending a long time arguing recriminating about the and messy and unseemiy manner?

incident. (A wise move!) Callaghan-now canvassing TUC leaders for support The real simple enough Criticism was only Dickens unusual in spinelessness, TO r Second come lack of devotion to the labour a few mild movement and criticisms ot Dickens plus the admission that he must accept a (SO Careerist character stic deal of great responsibility his ilk), chanced to come into conflict with his 'left' bureau- crats Third, however; we find the arrogant hostilitv old trick. Bradbury's criticism and nis desire tor ar easy life seeks to arvert the whole Issue and in doing prepares the In short, Dickens bottled out ground for a future witch hunt when he saw that the ottice o class

PRESS

To fight Callaghan requires therefore all-sided and serious campaign to mobilise the workine class Doin in oopositior to its reactionary leaders in the unions and in the Labour Party.

Parliament The 'lefts', committed .to •Parliamentary forms of action and

GANG

Ine Introduction 'socialism' •through piecemeal reforms of capitalism can offer no such dersoective Benn, Heffer and Skinner, for all their 'left' rhetoric, have in reality far more in common Callaonan s une ot cass collaboration than they have with the independent interests ot the working class While

SAS

Hong Kong, these fakers two had become demancing take up a practical fight for r the incapable of living without soldiers being were removal of the Callaghan leader an occasional fix of sadism acquitted by the Lord time

SITIO

ane al Ene l Came and torture. spelling out the necessary Chief Justice of .The Sun was the only gramme of demands to mobilise Northern Ireland of a paper to lead on the story.

workers and point to the neces murder which they had photograph of sity for the an capitalism, arrogant looking officer in Marxists must plainly committed, the left' uniform filled half the front fight to DUst another soldier, Captain break workers from their page under a headline "The illusions these Adrian Amber lefts' was Shame of Captain Amber' ano the task of ViTa recovering from building a revolutionary party.

Lessons ticking off at Shrews- Far from drawing the bury. lessons that the incident in Amber Shrewsbury been barracks convicted at a court martial ported allegations of brutal- of giving 'water torture' to ity in Northern Ireland and trainees by having towels Hong Kong, the Sun placed over their face proceeded in the opposite and pouring water over them direction: This torture is commonly "Dashing young Army alleged to be used by captain Adrian Amber, army in Northern Ireland.

cribed as "excellent" an soldier, shamefaced Brutalisation walks from a court martial yester- He had also ordered day The soldiers other to urinate hideous over trainees ordered into a said to be completely out of pit. 25 he had character. It might be thought that already platoons such practices demonstrated Ulster and Hong Kong the brutalisation of the and seemed destined for a army and that those who- fine military career. like Amber-had learned Amber was fined £500 Scanlon their trade in Belfast and and lost seniority-but not Page 5 by the bureaucracy ana tne Tory press against the whole left wing. His report declares: why Jim Dickenstoun it nels.

we must ask ourselves sary these generally take unreasonable steps.. Some members of the GC made no secret of their wish to try and make Jim Dickens resign before and use the Incomes issue of Policy to do this fact that they went must, as a matter of principle (!) be of great regret to this Party Minority factions within this especially those having rarty allegiance outside groups such as Militant and the Workers vocaist Ledote. • Shoule nor Tv in the face of majority decisions which are democratically taken My us carry It is hard to imagine a more wretched passage And the witch-hunt is ever more contrived when bracour is forced later in the same report to admit that the Labour vote in the constituency went up in the • election. In other words the struggle for socialist : policie against the line of Callaghan/Prentice Cane their apologists found a real response working class voters of Newham N.E But for the Tribunites every principle be shred must •OSTrUCT. with the right wing re ations leaders. the GC meetino offending passage was proposed that this section be deleted from the vote The chairman refused to use a casting vote and so the section The report as a whole was then passed 20-17 laying basis for future attacks It is vital that those who are duped by the 'democratic pre- tensions of the Tribunites recog nise that this is no more than a cover for their refusal to fight for socialist Lanaonan his captain's rank. What throws interesting light on Amber's preference tor torturing his own troops is a report in the Observer last Sunday saying that torturers military dictatorship of the Colonels Greece were themselves tortured as part of their training. "New evidence collected by a Greek academic shows military regime une brutalised its recruits turn them into blindly loyal servants "The single most import- ant factor in building up the esprit de corps of the poten.

torturers was the violence inflicted on them... "They were forced into obedience instant order, however degrading or irrational. "They had to eat grass, make verbal love to a lamp- post, eat a burning cigarette or run on their kneees." Could it be that, sparing the Sun's blushes, Captain Amber's actions had more method in them than appears at first sight?

SWPs LEFT TALK

NO ANSWER TO

BUREAUCRACY

LABOUR

Last week's article in this series showed how the Soc- ialist Workers Party's theory of the spontaneous devel- obment ot working class flies consciousness in the face of everything Lenin stood for.

SWP,

For the portica pre paration for a victorious over- throw of capitalism the than the linking tocether of advanced worker militants.

This administrative, nota contica uneor oi ine roie the revolutionary party. Those who address them-" Shio and orogramme regarded 'substitutionalists'. Perhaps the greatest 'substit- act mal rouskyisto are guilty suas the formation o esPo the International PHOTO. Inha Stumadk Repar only out of the can class ot the working Tormation OT international party must await the growth of strong nationa partes. Latched on to Now this does not mean that the SWP completely neglects the vunar oi symodinelic organis• ations in other countres.

What it does mean, however, that_ it looks round for virt. barry group cant membership and to the left Stalinist Leyland Convenor Derek Robinson: SWP covered up of social democracy and Stalin. up his role lo laca onto in struggle to grasp the necessity of these is A complete list for socialist revolution. beyond the scope of this article.

such ГО! • VI WorEn reminoine approach the political SWP members (and those within working class development of the International Marxist

SWP

consciousness.

WISA

naturally oppose building the 'unified revolutionary organisa- of parties to necessary with them) through- develo out ine course oi ine uosurce n deten IT and TIOnt TOt the SWP acted as an Portuga Their attempt to tailor their atourney for and cheerleader o fit in with the exis politics the PRP

LINIC

consciousnes: group systematicarv Ine working class means adapted to the 'left' wing of the they reject the constraints of Armed Forces Movement and its any international line or centra- таке WorKers CoUnCIs bolcy ¡ist internationa. The disastrous politics of the PRP culminated in the National level 'Insurrection' in November 1976 which was a como ete adventure Instead their 'programme' and an important weapon in the and perspective starts firmly hands of the right-wing from the national level , referring class international int initial advantage of being large struggie and internationai caui- and that was the talist crisis only in passing or

SWP

for general interest The which the objection In this respect, also, the sWP

SWP

has to the formation of tilas in the tace ot evervinine International -ourth the ford Ton sty the horrin 1938 and to Commu- formation internationals today is rooted nist internauional. objection to the very So when the IMG declares would like 'unified concept or transitondi delianos that em sociec revolutiondry orudhsation will programme-the two cannot be the SWP. within which it would fight affiliation stodraled for 'United' Secretariat it is bitina Upposed off more than chew. The IMG The SWP's notion of workers setting soontaneousiv de ver oping usert une task or convincine tre revolutionary consciousness SWP to stop being anti-Leninist.

On hand perhaps drives them to challenge and the other the IMG would find it easier to

O00OSE

Inose consciously fight to bring about get round the problem 1 con such the SWP that the rest of the USFI is not an organisation 'substitutionalists' fighting trom • tocave orobiems and today's conscipusness the for the Transitional Programme!

working class, but lead workers

SWP

with oroanisation Ine either convincing the

SWP

Trotskyists stopping being Trotskyist yourself. is no wonder, then, that leadership the alarmed by the IMG's courting of the SWP-and that a substan tia section ot the liselt is opposed to the project. Our differences with the

SWP

best outlined can looking at • the practice or ou two organisations. We shall start by examining attitude InA Ine Labour Party. For the the election

SVP

was seen as an intrusion into int real day to day class struggle.

of the Their rejection trick or barlamentar erection: is essentially one in which they notion of politic any which is outside the scope o 'build the SWP' ine wor ke a revolution. re- parlamentary rodu out we co democracy regare socia or what happens in parliament as irrelevant. We the import. recoonises hold over the ance thA working class exercised by social democracy primarilv via its 'lett variety which is bolstered and defended by the trade union bureaucracy and the Stalinists Time and time again while workers in struggle with were the LaDOUT government prominent 'lefts' descended on meetings to confuse and sarel vor kers win oromise ot a real tignt -with the secre tart the gate frentin sererar.

tary of State for Barrier In the aftermath of the Tory victory. une ake lerts are once again parading their 'socialist' credentials. t nest re oresent d barrier to political development which must be broken. vur camoaon for a cadour victory the election was directed to combining a vote for Labour with a fight against the ront wino reacersois In the process of that fight workers in the We train redi nature or Ene ferts election dur policy was a continuation of the line fought for before the election and continue mat ooney uncer ine Tory government The SWP rejects such a fight ano in te Drocess-no how ultra-left their rhetoric- capitulated entirely to Labour.

'Votina LaDoU illusions 28/4/79) we read the following: "whoever wins : on May 3rd there will be further attacks on working class living standards and working class organisations any 1 nen make difference who wins? Yes, makes a difference 'Labour and Tories alike are propping hent vO British capitalism whatever • the cost to the working class But the depend methods „thav can uce on the nature of their support.

easier for the bosses, the police and the racists." the difference between Labour and Tory misses impor- tance of putting Labour back in PART FOUR of a series of by Keith articles White on the politics of the Socialist Workers Party and of the Inter- national Marxist Group's "unity" drive. power as part of the struggle to the relationshle between an MP and his constit- break workers trom …retormism. Instead breeds illusions uency party and the programme from that the severity of attacks WIe! ar oresses socialist a Labour dovernment should fight have been raised will not so extreme as that from the over the last few years Tories. The task now is to deepen that development by fighting to Off the hook expose and defeat the fake 'left'- the Tribunites Little wonder then that the The winning of Newham NE SWP's slogans-one of main revolutionary position which is reproduced below the would be a qualitative develop editorial quoted above-were dealis 'Defend our unions-keep the retormisN Tories out' 'Labour isn" The

SWP

ariu nave abanoonec working-the Tories never will'.

the fight for this Both these slogans rt Castigating ter completely let Labour off the we are castigating the nook ano desoite ine occasiona its refusal to go into the Labour insertion of 'Build the socialist rarty and wignt inal when the alternative into the first slogan, group was the Labour the Party t didn't fight the right tovara. assertina that There is a citte wing then either. rence even if the

SWP

isn't wnen the cruneh with wi interested in it between much son came in 1964 IS members did nothing to elections The culmination the exoulsion. TrOTSKVIST SUDO paraded by Socialist confusion orters of the Socialist Labour Worker durina the election cam League in the Young Socialists in the 12th issue which in une late ous tae sugen!

under the headline 'Defend ou radicalisation-particularly around Vietnam-and the hosti- class announcer Inal ruling class is back in power'!

E ne workint class The refusal of the

SWP

Wilson's policies led IS to wal out of the Labour Party-they carrv ine Darte tor a socialist alternative into the Labour olant nec to be neroco our o Party: has led disastrous the right-wing ! results in respect or weakenino the fight which is going on there Disaster against the right wing In the aftermath of the The whole logic of the SWP's election Socialist Worker carriec two articles by Labour Party attitude to social democracy i!

activists who the adoption of an abstention.

left the party and ist position in elections coupled with the standing of revolutio nary' candidates. Ellicot, Chairperson The SWP: however, does not Hyde Const- ola yonoce ano do this-for basically three ituency Labour Party announced that he had quit the reasons Firstly, their period of elec party for the svr tioneering disaster On June 2nd Denise Fenn wds wrote that her 4½ years figh- Terms or votes ano recruitment secondly because they think right-wing in Newham that elections don't matter NE had been a waste of time much and and she was joining the SWP because to argue tor abstentiol Strengthen right when the working class Labour voting as a class respons Both these comrades were the resoonst ores woule into conflict with ceallv ceever bring them fight against the right-wing and the layer of trade union mili raise a revolutionary programme tants they want to accomodațe Party-thei within Ene • Laoour not doing so will weaken th This "lowest common de left and the right strengther nominator" The battie aaainst Prentici union militants was graphically has been of the most enormous the SWP's recen1 significance in the fight against Rank and File conference.

the

IMG

the retommism most important thing about this leading richt winger has been forced to shor conference was its size-produ his true coloure All the ques cing a grovelling response 'A determined national lea the fight in gainst Thatcher' union bashina olans came ror delegates at last Satur day's 'defend unions' conf. erence in Manchester" (Socialist Challenge 27/6/79) Worker hire was discusion don According Socialist Unionisamor • Unem ployment, redundancies, cuts in public and incomes However, , at no stage does there appear to • have been other than its minimal code practice "1) No crossing of picket of 100% 2) • For defence e adshed against any indivi appliec any nele duals SWP leader Tony Cliff •breaking closed shop

SOCIALIST PRESS, K'ednesday 11 July 1979 .HOIU: Johr repor! 3) For rank and file tiglk trade union policy. you end up inevitably capitulating to, or are simply the edures-no bureaucracy. ballots. Strikes run ov elected committees One illus- Pickets be positioned to at wnicn necesary lo

SWP

digs to relation and in suffi- that cient numbers to ensure defend in British for and financial assistance Leviano. obeke In struggle summed up ever p sticable Support calls made by Tonows. their planned 7) No voluntary without backs 8n0 decision by weeks hagg members concerned-no enforced

IBNU

aute crealt• confusion, mase follow any lead given by the platform. "They Combine chairman off with calls TO1 ano Lonqoricos Robinson Now the 'participation' and part never has ooosea seT-UO „ tne opeke anyone who completely conscious 'left' resis-

KOFFOV

their agents Ine laboui ting Tne steereo Tnt movement. meeting away any prac- following 'Speke counts. •Robinson's omitted any Firstly, abused and consistently exoinited bureaucracy to whip closure of weeks later plant Socialist eaci 'unity' at Press stressed the need combat ano ronnne ut ail tnese us into deliberately the SWP for the

SWP

whose members and time Simoie reasurl tvcly •imel DoliCy Ene facing the working class EnTe Call •caualion struoqles. unempiuy- whose ant. bociaIst something from to an

SWP.

that very alo tiv sas meeting, watch ine wersev Our "From point onwards are CentIcu the took shape vociailst virtualy The The is the SWP's has led struggle recore The strucele had cover uu COver-UO Livino in media; nising t the company, and the social dna "rme alia issuing routine cenunciauions. However have no Deason mentioned hold of social democracy over the "Nothing saps class the

WOT KIG

Workels destroying nave ar

TOK

ThAn Toilnei that hold. officials convenors

SWP

from „to oe the of .workers talk of mass Robinson easily deduce meeting Inat tne class nas successtumy any Ted interest in the Labour Party. fight! occupa- asystmdlic ncuei ssary workers TrOM stewards not for too 'all much but to go lass strikes forced release oj rentonvull being put by SWP members. We would •haCV co -•erare should of approach comoart TAe Socialist "going the pres Tha1 otticias We fought to which the give positive lead. accoulit Socialist started then no such co-operation In our wardness workers anc 'code File and for vva y insufficient defeat. the gle lessons ne come meet the But of There discussion suanadlous echoed by the are obviously refer • Ine working basis that 1970-74 length simolt Tory discuss of this agenda. the Their one of a massive aoalnst Socialist anti-union which the Juilt rate reoort or tne Conference gave no and no government. They the forgotten Comanent resolution • the by orooiem. simbie lr act delegates there. got them into The Garners Conference: will SWP really fight to remove TGWU traitors?

Socialist Worker reported under the succeeding : Labour une conterence ds follows •overnment They still do not recognise "The 120 delegates ( committee's elaborate approved a strike the need Tero dre oase o roso programme wnich wih give Ine lution calling for the removal of working class a perspective for both TGWU Regional Organiser struggle against effects ane bec elany capitalist crisis The delegates demanded As during the Tory last action in future recognition dis- government they will no doubt full outes Witici wi emsule talamter nmatancy oi lne working class timer under the controt ot the effective To a certain extent the IMG committee picketing and blacking do these thinas and after dwellina on the soecial sinike dav trade unionists, 'strengths' of the Rank and File especially TGWU, were urged to Conference Socialist Challenge Das simulldi los ues LTTt TotovIn lentatlve criticism: branches . Io.W. 10.0./g) We look forward to reports in miancme vor lais (the Code of Practice) militants ot resolutions along these line!

o dockers, TS tailed behind movemenı conterenct The the suggesting that crisis atter Thatcher might have last the the consist of. substantial 1 ПЄ conference, democraci with the

LCDTU.

stand is that SWP's stage- the internal the

SWP

"selTr criticism but and more vast gulf which for trom struggle transitional Ine programme All the transitional demands wages, silaing scale work sharing on full pay, sliding scale of public expenditure, and cemanos a orooranme public works, are ways of saying 'no concretely reduction irvine stanodros: oos. ane socid services' Workers control The fiaht for the •evelo •- ment workers' control- through demands for coramutlees lo aivesticale orices organise work sharing, examine the books of capitalist firms and Page 7 Toppled-Heath local authorities which are cuts-al prepare carrying out Lne de ndelstanal by workers the need to replace capitalism by socialism.

The WSL Course areuts for militant action For example WE argue-often the SWP-foi audlns SLTKt action and occupation against but unless that then turthe will WorKeT:

NU T

how to onto know offensive For us unity of the class will come around specmic struggies- and we will work for it. : within that unity a sharp' But fight will be ditile necessary Of course the attacks of the Tory : will pose the government neeo to remove it in struoale When that is posed revolu. with tionaries must ready clear cemane. In 1972 the jailing of the dockers a spontaneous move lowdras d ceneral slTIKt correci Gemand revolutionaries to forward removal ot the amert ent Preparation The only nowever belatedly Carle •U T general strike call and in no way connected it with bringing down ut coverament directing towards the Labour leaders out of office we in which mass action will force Tories removal and will Sic dirty work Torward to do Its again The precise slogans which will be necessary in relation Tory and its ThA cver nenl worked bt das tre struce untola.

preparing for Wil that. The SWP will not. Members of the IMG will we the gul •ConsicaI between Trotskyism and

SWP.

Which way to go? In the final part of this series we will chatillllt eecc aron nec n International Socialist Alliance and review

IMG

Centra Committee debate with the SWP Continued next week

Reject WRP cowardice:

PREPARE TO BRING

Page 8

DOWN THATCHER

We reprint below no policies for workers' leaflet distributed by WSL struggles other than the immed iate establishment of socialism- members to the 400-strong presumably under the leadership conference of the Workers of the WRP. Revolutionary Party's "All I he other notable aspect 01 Alliance", the conference was that 50% of Trade Unions diminutive held at Wembley Confer- duelence appeared to be Iraqis who hac ence Centre on July 1. come to speech by At the door of the confer- flunky of the Iraqi ence culv delecte• trade union- bourgeois regime, in his capacity ists thought to be members or leader the the Workers Iraqi trade union Socialist League were formally The WSL leaflet threw the barred from entry. WRP leaders into paroxysms of They therefore missed a hys- fury and drew lengthy speech from WRP leader of News/in Gerry Healy reacted tat in woon collapse capital- paraded his illiteracy immeciate pontical ism. and unlimited capacity for On this basis Healy offered brazen lying. The working class Britain has now entered a new period of unparalleled opportunity. The capitalist class interna- tionally have their backs to the wall-unable to tino solutions to inevitable slump without vicious attacks on nard won conditions ane democrate rents undefeated workers The Britain will have ditticulty pushing aside this uncertain. reactionary Tory government.

Conference

THIS

reactea PHOTO: Carlos Augistino. IFI Enis ne alminishing band OT ex-Trotskyists and guilt-ridden middle class hucksters who run ine so canee yorker. socared Revolutionary so-called Party the Class dna ls dottly to tiant and ceteat the lories In recent issues of Newsline aggregate meet- and Calcu suetlitually purpose, the leaders of the WRP have to impose blue Telets Tunk in the face ot the coming offensive the working class that clearly feel them- they selves. the action of the working class that they line up with the notor- Internal crisis ious right-winger of the

NUM,

Lawrence Daly, who says in this Despite the combative mooc weeks • ve WIl of the working class the

WRP

not panicked into ill con- have become wracked by sidered action" liteilial CrISIS wave arter because the WRP wave ot expulsions that they are leaders, like valy, do not tight never able to refer to publicly for the development of revolu- faced and with tionary leadership in the work- orobiems They sav are ine cass unrouen ine retenties.

worse than at any time since daily struggle of the masses. they started running a daily This struggle must take every issue trade After ten of calling years union consciousness of workers ceaselessly for general strikes to by finding a bridge to the objec overtnow ever v covernment- live lasks ot Ine overtnrow 01 Labour or Tory-the

WRP

capitalism according to the leaders have suddenly nethod of Trotsky's Transition chandeo ineir position: al Proaramme On 15 June the Newsline The frightened petty alleged that 'the danger in the Clapham Old bourgeoisie present situation Ine Town have com pietery Turned working class might be goaded on Trotsky's prin- their backs into industrial action of general ciples. No policies leaders retuse to raise the burning of estion of the They preparation action by the have no policies workine class to orine down ens wlace pelore workers involved in • struggle except maximalist calls reactionary government, they bleat for the overthrow of the capital.

pathetically about the roblem or wnar is to take tne ist system p'ace of the Tory government Thus in Newsline ana =.:e informed that ] '= =*=. action the working class by Unions against = 13. would only facilitate those masses must be mobilised on a want lu evolutiary socialist a police-military dictator- programme to nationalise basic ship'. banks and land without compensation Afraid of action altu under workers Control. Such statements have more with The' 'ultra-revolutionaries' of common incanta- the WRP are now so atraid of tIons or witchooctors Enan With Since Mr. Mitchell's acquain- tance with Lenin appears to be restricted to a single sentence, and his awareness does not extend to any grasp of Trotsky's struggle for which through workers can be broken trom the hold of social democracy Stalinism, his polemics seldom oroolice • anvinino ot suostance But further evidence that the

WRP

desperate to cover over weekend's issue ast Newsine which parades carefully angled full tne conrerence completely imaginary account the attendance. They claim, for instance, attendnice eer coates WRP refuse to concede that Fords strike defeated 5% pay policy the struggles of serious revolu- tionaries. Lawrence Daly, , Len Murray or any other treacherous bufoon will agree to sucn abstract state ments which commit nobody to anything Wha oureaucrats and utra policies challenge reformists and social democrats at every turn No development The sectarians and reformists are comoletev at one that there is no development of struggle, no bridge at all between routine struggle the retormist and revolutionary overthrow of capitalism • WRP leaders have pres ented for today's conference a 'Programme Discussion' which calls on nobody in partic- war to Nationalise banks, land and basic industry', , even for 'a sliding scale of and the ¿ wages' standing alsoanaina , yet no possible way of achieving such aims. In Saturday's Newsline they reduced to pathetic plea are TUC to fight the Tories to the Incapable What participants in today's must conference Why is it that the WRP is this and so caller noustrial Section', the ATUA is incapable of participating in any way. in any or ine real struggles Tacing from no less than 80 unnamed branches branches and

ASLEF

branches! This the big lie Socialist Press challenges Newsline to present a detailed

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these utterly absurd claims.

the

: WRP

can prove that even 20 TGWU branches delegates to the ATUA confer- es to are prepared to donate to the . News/in€

TUNG

I'n the meantime the leaflet reprinted below sets out analyse lne signiticance Tene latest turn in the line the

WRP.

Ine workin• diass or droviding have they played no Warl unionisation struggles in hotels and catering?

Why did they line up with bureaucracy and the appear- •tanists at uneir rare ances opposing mass picketing at the Garners strikes? Why did they fall back para- lysed after winter when years of calling for 'the immed- tale over unrow ot tne Labou government' the victorious lorry drivers and Ford workers were going ahead and doing precisely WRP found them. tnat. selves unable even to call these struderes victories. witchdoctors who LuKe prayed for rain, they refused to acknowledge the existence understorms that tel upon them. Contident We sav that the WRP is ir crisis now that the working class is strong, confident and capable ot building revolutionarv leader.

shipPine expulsion of the foynder members of the WSL in 1974 and the recent spate of = asians and conciess because the despotic clique at the head of the WRP are unable dismel intertidl even the mildest form, but also because they have long since forward for the fighting SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 July 1979 NUM General Secretary Daly PHOTO: Laurence Soarham. Len Murray working class capitulations of the Internation.

al Marxist Group. " ne war leders nave aoan doned the fight for revolution- Only Workers Socialist thi policies ary the Iranian working

TIONTS

the class the basis of tradition: revolution. Themser ver Trotskyism to deal without question behind its with the bourgeois leadership, refusing to face ever defend those workers confronted with capit- they wetsecult nev nave lone since neader praise on the bloodsoaked bour- why we invite nationalist regime in Irac those who are fed up with tr and the political capitulations ol despotism Palestinian Liberation lack of principle by the present Organisation. leaders of the WRI ' to join us in Now they are coming closer revolutionary LItt

TION

leadership, , to participate in the to nome ov bresentino an utra.

left apology for every hesitation theoretical and historical dis- and betrayal of the trade union our CUssIon. anternationa Summer • School on July 21-29 oureaucracy in britain Today's conference will and to discuss whatever differ provide no policies, no perspec- ence with us in the fullest and and problem cutes tive and no principles on which frankest way workers will ante to throw this Tory *Return government the policies o It will present no alternative the Transitional Programme *Prepare now for the over- Lo be sone case cobra or the Socialist Workers Party or the throw of Thatcher! following resolution The was passed by Lambeth Trades Council on 2 July 1979.

We note with ot NALGO. that it publicly exteme such concern the exclusion from the ATUA conference on 1 July at Wembley Confer- particularly Mike ence Centre of 2 properly Andrews, Chairman of the Security accredited Committee appointed and Anex editor of the Newsline delegates from

GLC

the and Sheila Torrance Assistant branch of NALGO on the National Secretary of the WRP grounds their political to exclude the GLC delevates OT We resolve that until such disagreements with the time as these demands are com-

WRP.

plied with we will sunport no We condemn this action of the

WRP/ATUA

incompatible with the principles and that will we inform all of workers' democracy and affiliated organisations of this demand of the WRP/ATUA tha decision and seek their coopera- it apologises to the GLC Branch tion with it. WRP junks the old Trotskyism WRP leaders junk the old Trotskyism of Gerr Revolutionary Party in relation to the patty bourgeois nationalist regimes of the Middle East WSL.31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesdas 11 July 1979 Training scheme for mentally handicapped youth The last week in June 'Mental Handicap WaS Week' Between and 10 of every 1,000 children born in Britain today are likely to sutter some form of and many mental-handicap more are destined become! mentally- handicapped as a result of accidental injury

MACCLO

or assault in later years.

Yet few people who do direct into not contact with the mentally- handicapped, either through their work or in their own families, are aware of the disabilities and capabilities of those affected, or of the problems faced by relatives who have to try and cope with a situation thev hardiv underst ana laemselves Range The • scope of mental- handicap reaches from those who completely often with dependent, multiple accompanying physical handicaps such as blindness, gross disfigurement, to those who would usually be considered merely "backward" these extremes is a whole range of people will vanIous differing talents and abilities and degrees responsibility. Each requires a variety of facilities and different of support, deares them them to enable advance and realise their full potential. Under threat Facilities and support are sadly lacking and the little that avalault

NO W

under threat following the "Jay publication of the Committee' dalions. than four years MOTe

NO PROFITS FROM

MENTALLY ILL

after This generalisation of the because inception, the them crutches 1TS Committee of Enquiry into mentally-handicapped all that that's can afforded. provisions and care for the person's rights is so vague as mentally-handicapped The Jay Report to be almost impossible to finally published its report disagree with. another example of the But the proposals of her polarisation which has taken In warca The Committee will do place in attitudes towards Committee wasset by the then absolutely nothing mental handicap care. Minister of Health, Barbara This has resulted in uphold or debate largely being reduced Castle, investigate of hospital residential question care provisions. to a 'versus" community" following suggestions in the care Briggs Report on Nursing.

cale This had advocated the Unfortunately, the also care- mentally-handicapped are in establishment "new OI fully at the of caring profession" to deal danger of becoming pawns caring with mental-handicap. in the between the for walt The Committee's two sides. staff. proposals centre the upon Upper hand removal of mental-handicap of the a responsibility staff The

NHS

putting instead supporters the have under the auspices of the community care Local Authority Social undoubtedly had the upper and this has Services Departments hand so lar. model of This goes alongside even- been reinforced by the Jay normality and we Committee. tual phasing out of the large separate There subnormality hospitals with are main opposed

LWO

being this a shift in emphasis towards reasons for this: firstly, they principle "community care". have been able to point to Mentally-handicapped Explaining the good results achieved these people are not 'normal' and proposals, Peggy Jay, Chair- by numerous special treating them the same community projects and man of the Committee and everyone else will not make the secondly to the sensationa- mother in them the same as everyone list press headlines following Callaghan's daughter, wrote: ense various hospital exposes. They need special con- "Although What more proof, they ask, the basis of cerns and are deca beliefs is simply that could be required? requirements which are paints a however, mentany handicapped addition those of people should have the right rather biased picture. 'normal' people and their to be treated as individuals, Experimental commu- basic right that these to live life to the full and to nity units have tended to be should be he argu- have the same provided with model ment for 'normality' can be of facilities and a good staff- all kinds

DCIVILC.

used excuse for everyone else, some of the patient ratio. denying them their require- detail may appear idealistic Also, patients have often been picked according to some. to In particular, our insis- 'Normality their ability to fit into the scope of particular projects.

small croud living which goes beyond what is It is not sufficient simply Many hostels, 'handicapped' generally regarded to call them example, not accept wll. people who are incontinent ideal rather than 'subnormal' many seem 'client' rather than 'patient' or non-ambulant. Ino Dianao e at a time or economic restraint. But our and it does not make sense Results have then been idealism, if that is what it is, to dispense with much compared with under- is deliberate. needed facilities for the sake under-staffed and inanced, We agreed we should aim of 'normality'. over-crowded hospitals for If needs appropriate which are trying to cope

CHLOSI

someone solution even though we wheelchair it is inexcusable with inadequate and obsolete realised that its achievement refuse because most equipment and " 17 to offer might take some time..' walk, many of the more deman- people ding and troublesome patients. Community may calc benefit 'many great patients presently hospitals; but it should be borne in mind that it is not the 'universal panacea'. The Jay Committee is right to stress the need for smaller and homely more its of the hospitals' approach However, on a ward with fifty or more highlv depen. dent patients, many of them with multiple-physical handicaps and with often only three four staff- untrained-the only way that ward can possibly around routine. easily all Coll lead to a clinical approach and situation where patients have to cater to the needs of the routine rather being able than the routine the accom ocare individual and varied needs of the patients. Condemned The large hospitals have also been •widely condemned for their institu- both tionalisation patients and staff. institutionalisation But necessarily does not stem from the size of an estab- lishment much as the type of regime that operates within it Small community be residences can often much more closed and res- than the large hospitals the unly lie usually in extensive grounds which, it utilised to the full, could provide more freedom of movement and occupational facilities than could the contines small hostel in the suburbs or the High Street, and also environment free which much ot the accompanies living outside Living in the community does not mean being a part of the community such and the accepted as hospitals, provide a valuable option which can exist alongside community facilities. The need for more personal and homely atmos- should

MOE

the argument for phasing hospitals out but should the impetus for instead be reorganising them and planning them accordingly It should not be a case of either/or, but which is the suitable tor particular person and their individual capabilities and requirements. generally What realised is the fact that the vast majority mentally- handicapped people do live in 'the community and not in hospitals They live at home with their familities and on the whole receive precious little assistance. Minority report David Williams, the Assistant General Secretary of COHSE sat on the Jay Committee and refused to sign the majority report.

produced own his minority report in which he called for a "properly inte- grated and unified service" which would still be within the framework of the NHS and encompass the facilities presently administered by the local authorities He also points out that a good manv local authorities are not even meeting the requirements placed on them by the 1959 Mental Health Act and declares that it would be folly to entrust them with responsibility for entire mental-handicap the his report he Stes "Mental handicap is not Page 9 considered by necessarily the loca electorate to be a high priority and the extent of social provision will. determined eventualv by rate-payers priorities This demon- strated prior to 1948 when

NHS

the took of local administration authority hospitals of were showing signs chronic under financing and the

NHS

rightly, to be the only way of providing the necessary raise standards resources to national level of acceptability. Mental-handicap had proved to be the lowest of priorities for the majority of local authorities. To accelerate the transfer of residential care from the Nis to the social Servicer is, in my view to risk rever- ting to that form of incon- sistent and inadequate Provision l t mentaly handicapped" The utter hypocrisy of Williams's astounding. He is wrong to say that will social be determined "rate- payers' priorities -they will be determined by priorities and neither the

COHSE

he, the

TUC

nor executive Health Council have lifted one finger to challenge those priorities. Williams and the rest of the trade union bureaucracy done everything have their power to uphold the of reactionary Donele Callaghan and his cronies ir the Labour leadership by selling out the struggles and demands of the workers supposed they di c

TICKETEN I

PHOTO. Are Win Report COHSE leader Spanswick They the have paved Tories road to power by abject acceptance of their wholesale hospital closures of rigid cash the imposition limits on public expendi- and four of • yeals strict wage control The very existence of the NHS is now in jeopardy and the responsibility can be clearly laid at the feet of the likes of Williams. Capitalism does not cater for social need; it caters for profitable demand; unfortunately mental- handicap is not profitable.

Increased technology has reduced the drastically employment to the mentally-handicapped and cash limits and lessening of the overcrowding has drastically hospitals reduced residential places Provisions are presently inadequate and even these face further reduction. Whatever type of service results from the Jay recco- mendations, it will have to fight for its existence. However, fundamentally is for the requirement caring society and to build that we must rid ourselves of the bureaucratic parasites which presently control the labour movement and prop up the capitalist system ana fight for programme will open up the walka dealings of the private monopolies which bleed dry NHS and the expose the fraud they call democracy.

INDUSTRIAL

PHOTO: Laurence Sparham, IFI

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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 seçtors 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 anti-fascists, and an intensified army 'crack- vow in ane occupied vortn or irełano.

The Callaghan-Healey leadership has made it clear that it will opppose any perspective other than settling down and meek.

ly accepting live yeds or rory devastallon thouon mev nave once more cuseo oilaeir near forgotten "socialist" Labour's "left-wing" MPs have continued to duck away from any fight to remove Callaghan TUC leaders, basis for

LUU

lave condooration with natcher Tory cabinet, parallelling their anti-working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan.

But working class has experienced and overcome such betrayals before-to topple Heath's union bashing government in Callaghan's reactionary Phase 4 of wage controls in a series of monumental pay battles last winter. These experiences are not oedo. ney point to tre way Indu jobs, social services and hard-won union rights can be defended against renewed Tory attacks But a principled, revolutionary leadership is needed if the TUC collaborators and their handers-on in Labour traitors. Ine the Communist Party are to be exposed and pushed aside, and the mass struggles mobilised that defeat and remove the Such a leadership must fight day in and day out for a pro- gramme of transitional starting conditions and today's consciousness within the working class.

read workers to grasp tne necessity tor socialist revolution.

And in taking up democratic demands-such as an end to racial and sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role inar must de dave ane workine cass as the only consistent class capable of leading the struggle for the emancipation of mankind. MUst

PONT

on an Internationar Dasis -mobilising solidarity for anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles- whether Ireland, in Southern Africa or elsewhere through- out ine wore ano erawine surenoto,ano dortical lessons trom revolutionary upheavals such as that which ousted the hated Shah in Iran. This means fighting for the reconstruction of the Trotsky- ist Fourth International.

This method of approach, rejecting any descent to simple trade union militancy, or concessions to any wing of the labour bureaucracy, Is the metnoo tougnt tor by the workers socialist League. The next period will see major class struggles in Britain.

Principled, Marxist leadership is essential. Our movement though strong in programme remains small in numbers.

JOIN US and take forward the struggle for socialism!

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, UNION DUES

NEWS

Strikers defeat anti- union boss

NUJ

at members Pergamon • Press, Oxford, returned to work last week after three days on strike with a major victory under their belt. the the first time historv of the firm a union has stood up to Labour millionaire Robert Maxwell's policy and meiscriminate sackinus

WOT

sacked member, Louise reinstated Guiderv. Wa: different of The same department from which she had been sacked, and the company oromised to observe disciplinary procedures in future. Maxwell moved to settle the

SETIKE

SOOr as ne was sure that the NUJ national executive would make it official. thinking wa almost certainly to prevent a dispute drawing prolonged out the NUJ members involved the full lessons. The

NEC

fact hedged over the question of making the seizing Strike lotticial the the full time organiser Gary Morton, that it was about to De setted If Maxwell had learned that the dispute would probably still be on tamf UnIons Pergamon, the NGA and APEX have been shaken up by the dis- oute atter retusing to take any action in support. the NGA a petition was circulatio and in APEX the FoC was on the point of resigning, when the strike ended The NUJ Oxford must now take up a fight against those hi life Labour rarty dru who continue provide cover for this reaction- ary employer by keeping him in membersnio

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EMPLOYERS

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FIGHT THE

NHS CUTS

WITH STRIKE

ACTION!

The Tory offensive to affected to appeal The AHA has been aided smash the basic right to in its build-up to these a decent health service attacks by the attempts of now takes on a partic- confuse the press ularly sharp form in the workers. For example both the London area.. Paddington: Times and On Wednesday 11 July Nursing Times presented the Kensington, Chelsea and plan as one aimed at saving Westminster Health Area St. Mary's Hospital U1 Authority meets to discuss Harrow Road its proposals from three Vengeance Districts to cut spending by £2 million in the 'remain- In fact beds would be 1979-80 financial der of reduced from 400 to 100, year. These will supervised by local cuts give around 500 jobs would go.

effect to government limits' It not merely within 'cash 1m posed aggravated increased this authority that attacks are coming through with a

VAT.

Press has Socialist vengeance. Tories had claimed warned that such an attack The but the speed in their first few weeks of would come office and scope of still "saved' the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson breathtaking. women's hospital in Euston Risk to life But £1½ with 110 W. million slashed from health As a Joint Shop Stewards Camden and Committee Bulletin points Islington this year and more out: cuts on the way, the EGA is "The administrators to be wound up as a general themselves say that clinical hospital and will receive services drastically Will be funding only for gynaecol- will fall, cut, standards resulting in increased illness and risk to life. The list of closures and

CUTS

enormou recount, but virtually every variety closures, ward closures and closure of hospitals whole is posed, as well as cuts in training, catering, provision. Ilalllle- research and other nance, vital services. The

AHA

expects and has made plans accordingly. To avoid lengthy consultation procedures ed the cuts called "temporary' and commence immediately. Further, the standard be suspended making impossible for worker.

AHEM... GENTLEMEN! AS CHAIRMAN OF NALGO

NEGOTIATORS, I MUST WARN YOU. IF THIS

CLAIM ISN'T MET..

O.K. IT'S A DEAL - OH NO... NOT AGAIN!

ogy and related outpatient services Beds will drop from 137 to 40, outpatient clinics will close, jobs will be lost with no security to statt: and the gy naecological unit itself will for three 1101 DoCI years! candies are underwai to fight these attacks, but of the fight the urgency must now be brought home to every worker. Particularly central is the task of transforming lobbies of AHAs and protest meet- ings into a fight to commit powerful

NUPE

Divisional Committee and other union bodies to honour their stated oppos- ition to the cuts. that they means must back an extensive programme of strikes and occupation action against them, calling on other whole of and the London's labour movement for practical support. Only the mobilisation of the power of the unions- which requires fight against those 'leaders' who stand in the way-can save health London's service 110 W

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Leyland workers rebel at job-slotting decisions After much publicised threats that he would place the firm in voluntary liquid- anhyallt ation, it seems that Selected embarassment Toys Limited boss Young officials. has had second thoughts. statement in last week's . Oxford Mail by his accountants Carlton declared that Y oung nad the pickets in béczec onry Tns nenuon ot going into liquidation", and that force them off the grass.

they had not been appointed to Iner take any action on the matter.

labou Recognition tne unionisation The strikers, however, who cliamed are demanding union recogni- Young's side' tion; remstalerel I ve been victimised union memuers, and showing increased wages at the Didcot with wolnod rantory. fave silown no sians ou picket lines. of long-term unemployment #quidating tneir They basked in the any worker who dares to figh1 On Tuesday ot last week the Leyland Cars National Joint Negotia- ting Committee (LCJNC) met. This is the body that is working oul tne job sotting for manual workers within Leyland, in a new national five grade pay struclale The LCJNC is a joint union/management body. were the ones who t ney worked 60 first out the "benchmark". jobs the on basis oi which every section of workers is supposed to be slotted at plant level. The plant level decisions the LCJNC for then go endorsement or not. Last Tuesday's meeting The wiole was discuss the exercise is an essential part Swindon plant level decision corporate bargaining production Leyland whereby place workers above their bench- 1ccocaos mark place, i.e. Grade 3. carried out

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policies to defend jobs, wages and social services Didcot bosses rally against union fight sunsnine outside the small cart.

their vicious exploitation.

board factory-to the obvious Meanwhile TGWU officia ot Youno and his wietched search fon isolutions s Eynan continues son-in-taw John Carlton, and the of local union through

ACAȘ

Ino ustra tribunals, lifting not a finger to mobilise the full weight of the Law on his side

TGWU

SupOrl InE susers emerted

AST

Monday and threw water over a vain effort to cared oo ICe ergeant, who, after hearing the Donations to the strike VaUCs Cono ons gr eve romołer fund should be sent to Brian pro. struggle "the Grimes, ( 97, Wessex Road, law Is o Didcot. employers have also their solidarity blacklistina STL strikers-raising the threa for Mass meeting at Cowley assembly plant the LCJNC in place of plant grading level negotiations. Individual would plants all wage not only lose the power to are negotiate wages but this set- nationally would cuma tdte

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Name.. fighting Address Send_to Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill. London NW5 1HR Nurseries Conference Over 50 delegates attended the Oxford for nurseries 'Trades Council Confer- mercilessly

TUC

ence on the Charter for the Under hammer out Fives on 'Sunday & July. would cuts The conference drew out tne strengths of the Charter but also highlighted its com- plete avoidance of the cuts and fighting question. history OI Ine cam paigns Oxford City Nursery Cam- nurses paign and its occupation of Hulaly a Closed nursert Class lasi year was discussed in detail branches; pointing a way forward in fighting the cuts Coltaci Councils and Kight wing Clwyd where Notable by their absence sere the rion oring Irades to be ship Oxford Trades Council, and County Coun- cillor Olive Gibbs, who had appear Socialist Press. promised to speak. future grading struggles, as workers would become part place production national grade the into structure. grade Needless say the If this LCJNC union side is made company's up in the main of full-time officials and their well and good. appointees. the Most Leyland production equally workers are hostile to their of whom many proposed grading. with get only This Iney . latter small increase to bring them graphically line throughout Leyland. week when Since thev lobby ae cose making up overall maioritt Leyland Oxford workers, their low grading Swindon, seems to be in order to keep bridge and other the cost of the new scheme ham plants. low as possible for To coincide Leyland management. lobby the The principled position in relation to the grading is Plant to get every section as high strike, LOKeT as possible thus raise their wages. the hand of was that the LCJNC voted by five grade grade structure meet deal discuss £1.50 £5.00 . £9.00 £6.50 local government . £8.00 turned out in Norwich Friday in a bid to avert the sell pay claim. But no authority emplovers offered 9.6% increase and an "internal comparability

{OTS

chairmar agreed to recommend thè settle- Merse de are corter nas finally run up the white flag in one of the the public sector-with a dea Pat:: The strike may have been sold out but the debts linger on Clearly they knew that their purely verbal support

GARNERS BENEFIT

would be exposed Sunday July 22 by conterence tnat was eager lc The Roebuck that policies Tottenham Ct. Rd actually smash the 7.30 p.m. In addition to approving Admission £1 on resoluton extending nursery facilities Sponsored by C'entral the cuts the London Branch of the conference agreed to initiate to Musicians Union unionise child- and Artists include Leon minders; to produce a full Rosselson, Flowers and conterence report ior union and to make Frolics, String Quartet with Trades in Tickets available from

UKORS

the entire Clare Almond, 14, nursery service of 52 classes Ladbroke Terrace closed down. London W11 3PG tuli report with' the text of the resolution will next week's We support the fight to workers highest possible breaks the position corporate bar- This will severely disrupt gaining plan, then that is all the company's carefully laid plans introduce policy applies scheme by November. other the meantime after sechlons ‚Tuesday's strike and lobby are aissal- grades. nearly all the production

TOPIT

point was workers in the Cowley Body ilustrated last Plant have gone on an over- there was time ban and work to rule of the LCJNC by 50 or so leading stewards from Impossible factories, The right wing leadership Llanell B irong- Long- have moment une managed control this move by turning it into a with the claim for payment for the forklift truck Tuesday. drivers in the Cowley Body All of this shows that the on a one-day company faces an almost saying that im possible task if it tries to they would not accept their force its scheme in. ara dinoductiohi inh uto down.

As the November Cowley. Leyland This action strengthened wage review gets nearer it will be possible to the lobbyers. turn the workers' frustra- Four grades tions into wages fight. 5 teat she union side by This the union side somelning company and the right wing 11-9 that they were against the union caders lear above all.

They were hoping to use structure and the low wage situation that would be in favour of a four they have get Creded their corporate schemes The LCJNC was due to adopted and so take a tight Monday grip on the workforce. the union NALGO leaders hoist white flag A lobby of 400 militant which offers NALGO members little more than half the going workers Tale or inwalior over tne nexi on twelve months, and a notiona 'comparability 'increase out of NALGO's 15% bilck described the orter as 'the best they could get in the circumstances sooner had local The 'circumstances' faced by members are

NALGU

dominated by toothless study" than bureaucratic unton leadership necomd illat Teluse mobilise MIKe Buck of the union to fight strenolr defence jobs wages. Before this time next vea pureaucracy sles must de laken to construci a principled alternative leader- pay ship in this giant union.

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Summer Fete brings Fund boost McGahey A big boost to our fund came this week when the Oxford Summer Fair raised £340. A fine day and a lot of While press attention at hard work from our members and supporters ensured a the miners' conference Socialist Press readers and supporters successful day. centred on the unanimous decision to submit a 65% responded with donations which took our total to £1547.70. With the London Summer Fair due to take place pay claim for settlement by this coming weekend we are looking forward to another the old review date healthy boost the the fund.

November 1, the most we have only three weeks to complete the impact the However, ot conference was on the fight fund and almost £1,000 still to raise so we must pull out all the stops in fighting to reach this total.

against closures. All donations should be sent to: The militancy of NUM dele- Socialist Press Special Fund cates in suodortino ine struddis by South Wales miners against 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR Deep Duffryn the closure ot conlerv Torceo even ront wing President Gormley into calling the Coal Board to reverse its London Area Workers Socialist League decision.

SUMMER FAYRE

oecame unmistakeabry clear that the South wales Saturday 14 July at Lyndhurst Hall decision to ballot members for Warden Street, Camden, (nearest tube, Chalk Farm) action would produce an stfikt vote york overwneiming ves Jumble*Games*Food*Prizes*Plants and more that miners in Scotland, shire, Durham and other areas

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NATIONALISED

INDUSTRIES

"Ungracious and mean- collapse sectors such as coal. spirited". That was the mining, the steel industry and most from Labour's response crisis and hit severely Shadow Cabinet the essential to the national sirenctn government's "ill-considered of imperialist bourgeoisie. threats" But as the crisis continues to of breaking the PHOTO: Laurence Sparham, Post Office monopoly deepen, the i ories see the neces on sity of revising the situation. mail delivery. Divert investment Silkin's

VONN

the Kelln Joseon snowS Intent boosting the abysmal inability ot the abou and profitability profits leadership resis- private capital, tney for the plans Tory mined to divert investment and Lance from public dealing with public secto resources the and the nationalised industries.

SELLOT

There is nothing "ill-consid This plan operates on several ered about these threats. The levels. Thatcher and her pack Tories' have consistently argued of profit-thirsty wolves want to they would end the Post reduce spending and state tele-com. productivity the munications Labour left' Kinnock most profitable sections of the the needs of wrivate capital and Cuts in the socia services are industry to private capital.

the profit-system. one obvious method-combined with appalling low pay they aim Logic Through ownership and controi, the state provides the reduce employment arastic with the ally By considering such plans "efficiency" cations and infrastructure that it drive on Tor The oostal sector. they are simply extending logic area-the the neeos out can barerv operate a exteres every economic and political a profit. mining Threatenee ensures in And, since the second imper- and steel are the obvious exam- ples ialist world war but especialiv in hortthe tortes-more doeniv end the postal than for Labour governments- the current crisis, the state has also moved in to rescue from monopoly are designed to pro- public sector exists to serve Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HH Printed by Anvil Printers, London. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office

REPRIEVE

would mobilise support. Within hours of the confer- ence enging inese developments had their effect. The

NCB

began making noises about reconsidering ine plan: and by late Sunday was reported night it Thattne Threat of widespread action had persuaded them to pull back and reprieve. the 450 jobs al beep buttryn The struggle marks a major victory by the particularly that ston iticant Coal Board figures • snow weed Duffryn as a substantial loss- making pit. The fact that in this instance union leaders have been forced to wage a struggle that flies in

SHOTION

SIT URNS

PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report duce the same effect by forcing the UPW leadership to collab.

orate further in massive attacks conditions within the Post Office VVITh Inese viciousy cirect methods, the Tories are seeking to drive workers of state em giovment ano at ene same time operate cheaper, 'efficient' services for private capital. Unemployment In the long term of course Thev also

JOOK

to a massivery increased pool unemploy ment as a means of reducing all sector warts ine ustry. Such attacks cannot back by snivelling thrown the Labour front. whines trom bench or

TUC

bureaucrats. Kinnock from the Labour lett' has the next calico lor Labour government without nationalise de-national. ised by the Tories. Bụt threat exists now, and a response cannot wait the machinery of parliamentary elections.

JODS

social services, civil service, local government and controlled industry

OWNED

must be cetended ov now. Closures, redundancies and speed-up must be tougnt with i

THREAT WINS

DEEP DUFFRYN

the face of the standard employers argument "viability" is of importance to sectors such as steel and ship- building. But it also points the Wdy forward in Ine struade adains the cuts in service , sackings and closures in the public sector workers Docians League has consistently argued strong action immediate occupations the ared concerned-coule tanked trade union action Cotticia on a national level, pose a majo challenge public to the services

NUV

proved it in practice At a time when the jobs of

SHUTTON

STEELRUNKS

Steel industry faces new attacks clear programme of demands.

be occupations planned and organised to unite section the labour movement in supporting striki action. Demands massive

TOT

increase in expenditure on the socia services to meet existine needs, with a sliding scale to counter inflation, must aronesice tne cemand tor work.

sharing on full pay in the state industries and a sliding scale of wages Throudnout sector not just for MPs) with the abolition of low wages exploitation of nationalised property service for the profits of private all and capital, the book must be opened to the scrutiny of elected committees of trade (with housewives, Unutes ta claimants pensioners. and college students). With the help of sympa-

TOPIC

ao sers these committees can assess the use abuse funds resources . operated through the system In the struggle to defend al these sectors against the open!

pro-capitalist the attacks ot Tories, the fight must be taken to develop workers control ano bullo tae oasis tor worker management nationalised industries in a planned socialist economy

MINERS'

STRIKE

every section of workers in the public sector are at risk, it sidi wonger indu publicity has been given to the NCB's climbdown forward Meanwhil movement ot ine workind crass conflict with its right wing leaders was also reflected in the shift

NUM

lettward Conterence Right wing General Secre tary Lawrence Daly came withir one vote otosinG nis SeaT OI the TUC General Council Scottish Stalinist Mick McGahey remark. were recently press by Gormley … o• ot Ine ol came letT talking Yorkshire President Arthur The question Scargill outstandine the NUM the (other lAtts Executive will press forward the fight for claim 65% pay Crisis... from front page endec inroudh concessions and piecemeal Only nationalisation ot major indus "rv without compensation unde workers' management can def- end existing jobs and create new ones Within the Labour rary inf extreme Callaghan leadership that rejects any torm ot socialist answer opposes and action bring down Thatcher, must be rem. over I nis entars a tight to expose left Ine Labour's National executive mouth opposit ion to Callaghan but refuse to lift a finger to campaign for him to De Enrown out The working class has the the Tories strength to defeat and carry through the struggle Tor socialism But it is saddled with a reac- reformist leadership tionary, Inal seeks only preserve li own privileges within the cap italist system revolutionary alternative can and must he out It inest leaders are not to pave the way setbacks serious working class. This is the task undertaken by the Workers Socialist League Workers Socialist League

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