Socialist Press no. 162

Token actions will not win

ENGINEERING CLAIM:

CALL AN ALL-OUT

Even engineering more workers were out on strike this Monday in the second Confederation of of the Shipbuilding and Engineer- ing Unions series strikes on one-day token pay. In every area virtually all the members million federated firms are out, as well workers in non-feder- firms who usuatly ated the receration sody vallelis But. the encineerine workers get stronger, the union leadership tres away trom AUEW leader Terry Duffy is talking about maybe now this action • selective strikes This is a conscious betraya of the struggle tain areas or firms called out then the rest of are called. the employers will finance those employers affected and through demoralise striking workers. Strength of feeling No, what is required, as the all-out, only way incetinite strike acton! The last two Mondays have the tremendous strength shown or teetne workers in relation to them low wages and conditions. This is a nationwide develop- ment. In Hull all federated tirms many are out as well as ПОЛ• federated; in Bradford all feder- ated are picaster all tecerated tirms are out as well as several non-feder- aled Goodwin- eicester Barsby which scabbed on the out on 1 ST Carlit secono and tois is aso ine case Leylana Body Plantin Oxoti relation british case the right in une latter wing plant leadership Ined one day's strike.

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Ine Though thev carried

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policy through the stewares were voted committee shift mass meet- ing of over 3,000, who forced platform to include imposition of the Confed's over- time ban Tne resolution- which was then carried by a lassive dully Forced to adopt this kind of shop floor that forced LIle Contec to acoot ine caim tor £80 skilied pay, a 35 hour week for two extra days holiday.

ine same teenne was snown when Duffy tried to lower the claim. The AUEW national com- *tee Tert VULt st this treachery-resulting present battles.

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 162 * August 15, 1979 * 15p This strength is a continua- tion ot the winter dates daainst Callaghan's 5% pay policy.

have proved Workers they strength to win such nave tne struggles-by torcina Heath's government and defeat- The engineers response sur- prised both the employers and It shows leadership mme union that the Tories ano tne ores gloated too quickly about their erecton victory Weakness The Labour government lost of the ATTACKS r on te workine cidss. not because of Thatcher's strength. television All eduy (Chrysler) lans and workers have undertaken major battles on wages. sections will soon be Ciner action against the

CUTS

social And the whole trade union movement will also TOrCe• QUICKIV against the anti-union laws. The and Tories employers fighting mood. determined to try to hold back and defeat this movement.

ine ena neerine employers have shown this by threatening throw the firms that have out of their settied une cidirt Federation. Workers have the same deter- problem but the mindton. facing them is their reactionary reformist leadership.

STRIKE!

Ford strikers: all out action forced employers from 5% to 15% For four years TUC leaders to fight told workers aovernment-and even abour when they called action; Inev called such half-hearted actions as last winter's selective strikes in thepublic she Tories are in, But now who leaders and trie previously used the argument of 'saving the Labour government' same attitude. First under mise the claim oressure cantouse day strikes and an overtime ban.

Now the have the this and responded emolovers haven't conceded.

Duffy is in a corner. these leaders respond to this. inev tark only of "selective" strikes which led defeat when disastrous

AUEW

¡molemented seven years ago. Leadership The only way to win the full claim is through indefinite strike to torce ine emoiovers to concede. fighting policy This Workers Socialist tiants tor the develooment or a working class opposition

TUC

existine ane Labour The possibilities for this are getting greatel Cass moves into action ane une reformist union leaders are seen to beta ma netica son The social overturn in * Cambodia Centre pages Bosses' figures show drop in living standards £10,000 per year. If you get the impression The CBI's answer? They urge Tories' that despite the

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the TUC to keep next year'ş pas

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pathetic tax handouts you.

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are already worse off than in prices over the last 12 months order to avoid loss of jobs last year, you are right.

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Issued guidelines to employers showing unemployment at 2 million by that the standard of living of the Weak ycar „averace wade earne will EVe sacrificing living has fallen standares to eraserve the orot 7.5% last staggering of the employers , workers must defend their own AUGUSt. take action to family of The Tell • ren interest excuse income, says the CBI will range British capitalism. Only socialist planned economy can • era or tre car bolwebl and living safeguard 5.0% tor tamilies on te ou per and 9% those on standards. for the nationalisation of basic following crucial from the Communist Party. based on the industry and the banks without As of fight for a policies: revolutionary leader- *Defend living standards! principled compensatio For wage increases protected management snio. of action to bring downthe class *Prepare united class inflation anti-Tory conference called by the Campaign for Democracy ir

GAUSES

Costilett auto matic increases based on a price Movement Buo councis or acoon in call Laoul ndex compiled by elected com area to strengthen and extend November birmingham struggles on pay and jobs. Fight This is part of the struggle ot trade unionists and MaLLees for the removal of those Labour housewives. for a new leadership. *Open the books of industry and trade union leaders- YeT or right-that stand opposed to We urge all engineering trade union committees to show television technicians such a struggie and come this profits from the Tory who conference and join us in the jobs, CDLM Conference page 11 allo new leadership living standards! Prove the case

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WSL contingent on Sunday's major demonstration on Ireland-story back page

Islamic bigots grapple with Iranian mass struggles

-INTERNATIONAL-

•Strike after strike, occupation after occup- ation, marches after marches, the spreading of lying one rumour after another. All these things displease 'God' and the Ayatollah Khomeini. In a broadcast last week, Anomeini declared that under the dictatorship of the Shah actions suCH 'pleased God'. that they

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threatened the Islamic government, they should be regarded 'major sins'. 'If you support Islam and its principles freedom you must cease opposition obstructionism which weaken the government's work for the nation and its help for the poor. These desperate pleas and threats were wrung from the Ayatollah in the aftermathc of the elections which the 'Constituent announcement Assembly'. Debacle Liary. That brief detour into the realms bourgeois legitimise the regime by democracy has proved to be sanction a disastrous debacle for the supposed regime of Khomeini and people of Iran. Bazargan: The In exile and opposition, already the Ayatollah had promised Khomeini's free elections to a constit- assembly was uent assembly. do no more But once installed as de facto head OI

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Khomeini extended his refinements. attacks on 'Western' demo- and abandoned any commitment the kind of assembly such wanted. Instead, the constitution the 'Islamic Republic' was to be drawn up by the Revolutionary Council and then presented for approval stand candidates. before an appointed group The of religious dignitaries.

The widespread hostility this, 010 Carter blunders on in US crisis One word from the Us In the Senate, President, and 888 billion synthetic-fuel pro- everyone does exactly what they like.

gramme 20 billion budget. Seldom could this have been more true than ininistration sing single-torm Profits tax administration peanut king Jimmy Carter.

Carter But this may has lauriched desperate heavily disguised reprieve if the election. drive Senate designed to prop up exempt all mersity discovered us the Democratic Party's Presidential oil production Konna tion next from year, Arch rival Kennedy fall profits" tax. nator was deftly the news that Meanwhile the momma wholesale him the OK to run for last that piven hey. annual Which staggering 17.3% Spat out Carter has responded by representatives In the House of Representa- food one sonier tives, House "carpeting". too, Carter's frantic enorgy They must programme being their shoes. owly chewed over and spat out Congressmen who have loaded down the Presidential petrol rationing culoris ten But workers it is now regarded as "unwork. attord merely able" Carter's political demise: their Bakhtiar greeted this groupings of the Fedayeen forced Mujahideen-early and Khomeini to concede some reports suggested that one trappings of formal demo- the Mujahideen's candi- of dates had actually been elec- The object of this exer- ted. cise remained unchanged: to But the nationalist organ- isations of the Kurds, and of the some body Arabs Khuzestan, represent the condemned the draft consti- tution and the constitution had assembly calling for been drawn up by boycott. aides: the They were joined by all the bourgeois parties main than rubber- except the Islamic Republic- stamp their proposals, or at Party which supports introduce Khomeini minor The National Front, But the religious leaders National Democratic Front took no chances on getting and Moslem People's they Republican Party were brought position through opportunism and a Free to stand difference of assessment All parties were theoret- with Khomeini as to how ically free to participate and stability is to be restored for capitalism in Iran. Stalinist Tudeh Their stance made little Party took full advantage of difference the results. Khomeini urged the masses the guerrilla Carter's pet was slashed to a mere prove to be a move and Alaskan Carter's proposed "wind. US rise in Teached rate of 14%—led by food rising ter wear. calling Carter for a White interests can only be detended the struggle the unions from their ties to the US shaking in cuilding of tiss Labou bullding Party Labour Party based on a programme of social ist policies to defend jobs and waries. cannot Khomeini rides into town part of vole the from drawn religious observations establishment-who filled in of Ramadan, and to select men the papers of the illeterate learned in Koranic law and voters, and some 50% of the tradition. electorate is illiterate.

Rigged far from clear, but it comes In case the message was surprise not clearly understood, the Islamic Republican regime resorted more direct 73 seats methods and rigged the the elections in the This 'victory' blatant incompetent for alle nothing way. Protests about No lists of candidates were published-but posters the dne advertising the slates of the provoked a deepening split Islamic Republican between Khomeini's suppor- Party were published inside the ters and the polling booths! People's Republican Suffrage which backs ope Ayatollah was notionally universal for adults-but no Shariat-Madari. registers of Shariat-Madari electors were the available and in many areas creation of bourgeois polling booths were to 1I0 be found. constitutional and this has led to disagree- was the scrutineers- ments with the Revolution- ary Council

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His considerable base of

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state of Equatorial Guinea has support in passed from rule of one and Shariat-Madari is dictator to another relying on this strength in the Une smallest thinly-veiled threats against anc poorest states in torial Guinea had been ruled by Khomeini: President "All Francisco Nacias Azerbaijan me. If I declare a holy war Nguema since independence Spanish they, will all rally colonialism 1968 bloodthirsty parasitic tyranny was displaced Losing control weekend by a military coup which nephew land former Diceeinis brought The urgers speeches Defence) Theodoro Shariat-Madar.'s Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. inal khomel While the Daily Telegraph losing control shrieked routine wild developing political turmoil claims about Cuban troops, the It is no accident that the Spanish government has been at Shah's pains to deny the obvious-that Pahlavi and his Francoist regime prime actively sponsored the Mustet Cous Bakhtiar have recently sur- to extend its strategy of order faced to portray themselves developing a new economic and political form as champions of liberty in imperialist exploitation Iran. African Such grotesque • weanesday August 15, 1979 fool nobody. tions Rud these predators have scented their opportunity from afar, hopefully staking ane are their claims Dictatorship Khomeini and Bazargan are driving ahead with their moves to impose a counter revolutionary dictatorship in Iran. The revolutionary tribunals' are continuing to barbaric mcle oul punish- ment both for real sexual ollenders such and for innocent victims of religious bigotry, such nomosexuals But the fanatical frenzy of this crusade has reached the pitch paranoid hysteria where the so-called Justice Minister claims that National Gay Rights Coalition of New Zealand is threatening to assassinate him Increasingly repressive censorship Dress has led to the closure the oppos itional paper Ayandegan and other publications But this has provoked battles between Ditched Khomeini's 'revolutionary guards' and the workers, and has driven the prosecutor-general to resign.

Rebuild army Bazargan has declared inat ic end arms contracts with the US would funda. mentally damage the interests of Iranian the people, and the regime is forging ahead with plans to reconstruct armed forces. But troops have mutinied the religious against the executions of officers condemned for their attacks on the mass mobilisations against the Shah's dictatorship The final results are still Military leaders are resigning daily in protest at the limitations that the on their demands Party for massively probably gained 70 of increased powers is threatening to enaos overwhelm solved the Khomeini- Khomeini Bazargan regime struggles in vain to assert its Irregularit- have been widespread. reactionary aulnonli the working class in has Iran. This struggle cannot con- tinue indefinitely-it inusi Moslem be resolved decisively Party of one class another, the proletariat or the bourgeoisie The workers of Iran have favours time a secular and displayed their strength and heroism.

democracy monarchy Conscious past But those qualities will not their needs if Azerbaijan they are not developed by a now conscious revolutonary leadership, armed with the Trotskyist programme thai embodies the experience of knows the international communist movement. behind There is only one alterna- tive prospect to the task of buiding such a revolution- 2 party in Iran, and that is ertain brutal and Hood defeat of the Iranian = 17=0 perform that rie ?: are gathered in the over tha = ines which num bers grow daily. They are now preparing Asheaf for the moment when puppe1 Khomeini has his Shapour oulved usefulness before they step forward to seize the centre the stage with new barbarism of military dicta- torship and absolute repres distor-

THATCHER ADOPTS LABOUR'S

REACTIONARY PLAN

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday Augusi 15, 1979

- INTERNATIONAL

The Commonwealth Conference has been another venue for the on- by the going attempts imperialists to force a neo- colonial solution on the workers and peasants of Zimbabwe. agreement by the 39 The nations or une cornionwediti Initiate neGotiatIons

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new and election was born of the escalating out pressures envelo sine capitalist Southern Africa and inter- The civil war in Zimbabwe is causine severe economic oisloca tion and political instability throughout Southern and venta Atrica. The prospect of the dragging on of the war is one that is caus- ine increasino alarm amonest int petty bourgeois leadership the "frontline states", and vorces tmen 10 mae commor cause imperialism and its with staunchest defender in the area, the South African state "Marxist" regimes Mozambique and Angola are no samement wnrn coule eno Ene war than are their frontline partners-Zambia, Botswana and capencino capitalist multi-nationals 01 me African transport system remains acutely to attàcks and from disruption unil a me substantiary coul African-financed guerrilla move- ment. This, coupled with the diplo- matic hostility acainst Nverere ov Nigeria and Kenya in particular, means that The tronomy a diplomatic "success" for home Mozambique, facing mounting consumotion articular! one Rhodesian inspired sabotage which would bring with it some neavly cevencent on the south relief to the food shortage by African -well over easing trade hundred thousand workers from Cannels with Ine desperately being Ine norm or Mozamocue paro sought by Nyerere. vital revenue on South African mines. Commodities Sobia trical for endeat lack of economic development in Tanzania South currently on acutely exacerbated by the lack commootties- —ano at le resent threat •t toreian exchange loromoter Time taces the by andal and of developing food massive crop failure if it does South receive African fertilizer sior tact intedtens supplied Inrouen unleash a wave of opposition to Linodowe Nyerere. The ruling clique around

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Kaunda particularly While white emigration escal- and ates the war concerned at the consequence: narbourine thousanos ana Ine refugees and guerrillas at a time Muzorewa-Smith security forces economic being had shoot scores members the reuecico escalating armed loya Inside camoa to rival internal ieaders The continuing dependence who have turned from intimid- political ating opponents of the frontline states on imper- -despite larism- The dittering robberv ane murder types of "socialism" to Socialist Press has they claim adhere-means pointed out, the elections from the Smith/Muzorewa internal anat inev are now air torced to back the Thatcher version of the settlement Owen-Young plan, in a desper provide britain with concitions more favourable to securing a ale restore pontica stability dominance under the neo-colonial solution of imperialism. Capitalising Zig-zags Ine And whatever Thatcher may and equivocation the OT Patriotic Front, , and their failure nave wished. The continuina level of struggle inside to pose any political alternative Zimbabwe has made it clear that . Dasta on tne moonisation outne masses in pursuit of their own a simpie ortion recoonition would interests, Smith/Muzorewa were sanctions be itting OT insufficient to restore stability.

able intimation Muzorewa's ensure a large electoral turn-out.

alleviate the poverty and ultra- Thatcher • has now been able of urban and rural to make much use of this "new situation' of a "black majority daily mine the support he could once vote" government in her efforts win the public To The possibility of a dramatic ot the sidents the imperialist "solution"..

crowin or inoustria unrest in the crucial urban areas remains Thus for their separate but ever oresent. Messine reasons Thatcher, Nyerere and company are make common alliance Using Ine arounework PHOTO: Derek spiers, IF L prepared by Owen and Callaghan secret collusion with frontline states. fories are well abie with these and their more traditional right wing allies, to make ar errective the affairs Intervention in Zimbabwe. By focussing all criticism of the Muzorewa/Smith regime or purely constitutional grounds, everyone has been able to claim personal diplomatic victories to home consumption. Exploitation Thus there was no mentior , of the system of ultra exploita- the lion that and workers peasants to ine abject most poverty, a system the black petty bourgeoisie pro- Owen portionately more power. Thatcher-last Tango in Lusaka with Kaunda As long as the struggle of the Zimbabwear workers . ano peasants remains suffocated by the treacherous Patriotic Front leadership, politica chicanery and secret diplomacy will continue to play this dominant role. important part CAn

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basis for the political survival of such as Mugabe and Nkomo are Their extensive contacts withir the frontline states , the : United Nations, the imperialists and the aeronico workers states. Page 3 Nkomo The Patriotic Front bureau- have with crats common teaculonary Torces desire to deflect the Zimbabwe- an working class from acting in their independent interests Left-wing militants of the Patriotic Front, whether 'ZANU or ZAPU. perpetuate dependency on this opportunist leadership by pursuing rigidly guerrillaist strategies Clients Seeking victory through military they means, not only occome une porticar cuents ov those who supply the weapons, but are also unable to take for. ware ine cortical strudele Militants unable , to defend and extend the interests ot the working class wie Ener them inside are • Isolatedi trom Zambia or Mozambique-many of those who have tried have been imorison ed Reforms Armed struggle in isolation can only place pressure on Zimbabwe carried through under imperial- ist surely sion. If the Commonwealth agree ment is able removi military basis, Patriotic LtH rront lett-wing wilt be withou political base any class vorking take struggle forward conditions such continuation of guerrillaism would meet • with Crusad Zimbabwean militants •and workers break with th generals, lawyers and bankers ol the Commonwealth Conterence and expose the betrayals of the Mugabe/Nkoma misleaders Ine timosowear beowe Only "Working cass in defence mobilising entire ot their owi interests can the forever removed way varied

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ACT NOW ON TURKEY!

1'8e 4 Homelessness, soaring rents and a further lurch to recession in the construc- tion industry are the most obvious fruits of the Tory's first 100 days of activity on housing. £600 millión in Tory

CUTS

s penden, local autority substantial including housing subsidies have come on rounds successive cutbacks inflicted by savaoe Callaghan's Labour government and an economic slump. The outcome is a situation of total chaos for working class families young people ane seeking a home. Councit housing targets had 9/0 already plummeted to nistoric

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low levers Now the Tories, with their determination to force workers The Tories into the profitable private sector housing author ty to rent or buy their houses, have duck" and ensured that the current 90,000 sector council houses year Obviousiv unier cut back to around 30,000. killing as desperate As much extating counci is mean. and •roDerEv boccib a while being take their heads. the public sector y ories Rocketing • salt or ine century in which workers well off enough tnose " But to afford a mortgage the aie beine urged council

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Inelr Mouses ane une rates houses The result will invitably be alongside lengthen the already living ›landdros LuGub: Counc nousine- •rivole oevers re ar confident that they can sell all the misery and discom - fort that this brings to working unlimited class families. Houses. Dear Comrades, We writing to call upon the British Commun- ist Party to play a role in: attempting avert what threatens to be • tragic of the repetition Chilean catastrophe-the emergence of a military/fascist dicta- torship in Turkey. by the imperialist International Monetary believe that

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uniess Turkish sharp turn made IS the workers'

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wartles ane ine trade fascist unions in Turkey, there is a real half a million members it is the danger hall" paign violent wiedest ia tae word. provocatios by the alliance of extreme rinh1 has been to wing and fascist forces will lead campaign to a military coup with the aim of brutally crushing the Turkish tions against the workers' move- both workers' movement. workers the Ecevit government into the imposition of savage martial lan Faced by an insoluble econ- which crisis that been omic almost exclusivelv worsened immeasurably by the and the Uriot S the While 1800 teuchl orice Increases, Turkish bourgeoisie is increas- leftists have ingly desperate in its attempts TaSCST: Increase the exploitation to the workers" papers ue workine diess Despairing of the ability Ankara; of Prime Minister Ecevit and his inose ttoe union Republican Peoples Partv leaders that attempted through "austerity" the traditional May Day demon- Lafry measures on the scale demanded straton tus year. Pinochet's barbaric crackdown in Chile

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local Since production TalK "dead capitalism lakes place not regard the private dd soc d æc vv vev vo •as providina the answer.

and building firms need •rOTIT. private landlords to borrow money in advance at and developers stand to make a rates build iterest risk is regarded as VVOrKCTS drE nouses ine forced to pay extortionate rents high. prices to get a roof over As a result. even the most optimistic capitalist forecasts do not completions exceed .140,000 this year next rocketing cost of This means that the supply high interest new houses avallable fron mortgages, running ooth NuDIc ane or vate source falling working between 40,000 and hlas. 100,000 short of Medu even the from modest minimum figures to _govern- tomorea accorono number building industry Went assessments, An open letter to the British Communist Party The repression Fund, sections of the oppressea Nurdish minority ir Turkey has been bourgeoisie nave con - up turned to the creation Meanwhile acs crate party-with ThA peasantry and petty bourgeoisie has driven them increasingly to The strategy of the fascists turn their backs on the emot- promises and tes ot bourgeois parliamentarians and seek a bold

VOICE

TOVOCa- alternative course. intimidate and lOrCE They find no such perspec- tive

VION

Une working cass Turkish Commun used instead the ist Party, the Turkish Labour agatnst the Party and the leadership of the left wing. wing union confederation workers leTt DISK continue to give uncritical been muroered ou Ecevit's martial law has Ecevit and his bour •OT l suppression of "defenders of CPos oro •as the democracy". in Istanbul and Yet it is precisely Ecevit, in a Loss ctsc and political alliance with the IMF and ton stage array se nonal e vo lin g t working whose policies are bankrupting the petty bour- geotsie! As a result, growing layers of the see the dressee asses working class not as a source of strength but appen- mere dage o* sravit. for a SolutIon problems they turn stpetr instead to the fascist gangs.

but rather than TeSoone le this danger by mobilis- crowino ing the organised working through defence squads united class action and point the wwsi une lascists for a socialist soluțion to wav crisis, the

TCP

TLP

and leaders nion cling

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: tails of Ecevit even as the Coal right wing mobilise in Parlia- ment to discredit and bring government. •OWn The The stark lesson of Chile, in which the CP continued to sup- Popular Front

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Allende's Capitalism, in other words, is collaboration incapable of fulfilling one of the of the foi fosk basic socia needs population-the pro- wor king vision adequate housing housin• Css can accomodation is through an socialist Rent hike nationalisation compensatton Meanwhile for those lucky tion industry, enough already hold ance firms, tenancies in counci accomoda- tion, Tory policies will mean a management. massive rent hike of f2.50 to £3 during the next year. Only This, is due cut in housing subsidies. But to genuine social needs monev does To prove •• lo Tirancr new council building or repairs such • a strategy to existing housing stock: it is siphoned committees on onrecuv coffers of the banks and capital- ist trusts, which in 1975-6 creamed off a staggering £1,400 InO UstV would

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in unterest chardes trom local authority housing depart- scale of ments

VUILS

Anything up to 90p in the from caoita ists Roraight into coe por ker oos council rent ban kers estadined needs and put Interest programme of public works to renees As the Tories' latect £600 provide much needed new jobs million cuts hit home, Such • a campaign will be forced to go to the banks link facing

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tudris Laus incurring Cu tents massive interest class, all of which SuITE more charges necessity for however, will not class ALLIOn ine current situatior "OrV the removal entrely the work of the tories indeed successive Labour Labour leadership and establish governments by their a government of socialist policies and abject needs the government (complete with *Arms and generals) right up to the day i of I urkish workers organisations.

Pinochet's black all military supplies to the stands „ betore Turkey must not Turkish bourgeoisie. ail workers become anther Chile *Down Defeat is not invitable. Ba'athist and Khomeini oppres.

The danger is areat: but it is sion of the Kurdish not too late to mount the neces- self determination sary struggle. paant nuralsn state The demand Inusu addressed Communist Enf aTec dus Party and other workers" parties well mass ur dut government in turkey Where does unions. oreak trom toe Gemo cracy' of Ecevit and the generals stand? Will-it act now to help which has opened the gates to avert a catastrophe in Turkev?

tascism. and Join «todenner fighting detachments the and sinters in the turkish CP surter watch amed workers" militia against the bobcIsis savace when the party's lethal Un V oppressed masses see the proletariat pre- policy? pared fight for to victory will its tnty Join in struggle under leadership. The fascist monster must he crushed and the way through the militant united front ot the workers TMt establishment of a workers and peasants gva satelli which will end the rotten capit that produces the dust system crisis and fascism, once and for We the ineretore call on British Communist Party and its membership throughout •overent leno and its voice SUO•OrT to an international campaign to force turn in Turkey based on the followina oolicies and youth inter- "workers nationally, fight. in your organ. isations for woele COnOC LY and warn of the fascist dangers in Turkey. *Down with fascist-military repression in i urkey *For a workers militia in Turkey. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday August 15, 1979 Joseph plans to tax sick Heseltine with the bankers and capitalist trusts have paved the present crisis - pay - only way in which the resolved uncompromising Sir programme Keith Joseph, the l wasea on without Tory minister who advised construc. ot the the thousands of unem- the banks, insur- ployed workers on Clyde- building societe. side to look for jobs or start and major trusts, under workers up businesses of their own has decided to make it less planned, socialist economy can match production appealing to be on the dole.

Carefully skating around the the necessity for that keep hundreds Laue unionist inousana. and council tenants should form below tbe thu loyeo worker level government's own poverty line open the doks f construction Joseph attacked the construction system, which says mean that it is "a miracle that million.

show the real _people still 90 to interest payments anc all" the benefits of doing by .private made so are so low. the public sec torkers inquiries should be assess housing forward a hlasl present crisis anc woute aust up witn une other struggle the workin! point to the united working • to Dring down the government and fight fo the existing • responsive to the working class aid the Joseph The answer? Not, of course, Ecevit, wage increases for the low paid WiLT but a Tory plan o zz o nation-for unemployment benefit and even sick pay ala dn inde In other words the most *Break from Ecevit and his downtrodden poverty stricken casualties of tne capit * For a workers and peasant alist crisis will find their meagre subsistence benefits slashed the British CP order to provide them with the "incentive" to work Pointing out that it would will it stand back passively take the Tories a few months brothers formulate and enact thi vicious policy. Joseph stressed penalties of their that it had been considered b!

Popular Frontist previous Labour govern. UnE ment. Yours fraternally, Meanwhile an indication of John Lister the wages the Dredo -in that for the are keen force the tories WSL Executive Committee unemployed to accept was given by the annoncement that ever 25% 750,00 hore andeer ig start arica in crease basic rate betweer £41.70 and £50

GMWU

"negotiator" Fred Cooper tamely commented settlement-rail roaded the reactionary Wages Through Council set-up by an alliance o "inde. curuloyers alto so caled pendents"-will leave most workers in the industry claiming suppc ut lary Denels in oreer To ve Environment Secre. tary, millionaire Michael Hesel- tine, has depolita (ledalno onnasaa om baronsaa special ad isos on hoi sian Baron chairman and Salveson (Proporties), which builds houses under the name of Wellmar, and profit. Pinochet

NAC drops key struggle for free abortion on demand SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday August 15, 1979

PRESS

GANG

men, when high production, The press has been cele- least in theory, was the in thing prices matter when you brating the rebirth of the under the Conserva- living In ine soviet onor. . . Salesman. They have un- 'While only doesine earn, centre feature covered in the unlikely guise unknown page drawing, entitled 'Maggie's 100 Days merely of a GEC computer sales- from spectrum of his nunered thousand. hundreas man, a fable for our'times, thousands of workers, views-ranging from Tory a story of virtue rewarded.

housewife a Tory business- and others managers of nationalised and Rewarded to the value man to dory icacher sectors draw wages and salaries The housewife was surely £100.000-since this is the sum ideal domestic companion the he picked up in commission last actually earn nothing at all; they to Super Salesman year. indeed earn mind. since the nation After several days when the quantities, Sue spice isn't concerned overmuch about price increases" by the existence nress rid not quite know now to made "Exper- handle this of the ot these barasite crowins. wir the capicas live by milking, the profits of ience has tauaht her that thev market it eventually computel successful firms. can be no more than a minor cecioe• Inal ne was a oarduort absurd irritant. of the virtues of capitalism-a such UTCoUlse. "To be honest l've pinnacle that could be reached economics esson is not lett we weren't Telegrabst abstract level the all of us-if only really worried about iration, she says. "All 1 know is that our aZV. protected standards have gone up The particular moral drawn living welfare state, etc. Telegraph The Daily is that the micro-chip industry Suedo tv cesole soarine oncos ..

should be returned completely I tend to put them to the back principles of the exolane ine of my mind. After all, we can't market to its readers. Lo rivale austry any about the . . "If you ask me if unemploy- €100,000 a year, , the operative ment is worrying, I'd say it isn't.

The Daily Mail meanwhile That's doubt. The order books are I look after Number One •ointer out inat our comouter what is important to me."

peaked the firm's order books. If only the press could "His commission is paid only earitt between his after the ink is dry on the deal, a marriage •Ado earned art anyt and wheels begin to turn.

£100,000 this year instead of salesman ano super last, the reductions Shopper, they could surely shouid "How

JUCK

to breed a new strain budget begin Chancellor Howe's consider ourse vec Tnar such a Tory, would nave ensuredi tempted home pay doubled from £400 to incentives away and totally impet- to £800 a week-providing him vious to the effects of inflation exploitation. in other countries. with a rear incentive "A back some ine day express nowever ano incideltal surely have called believes that the era where we crises of capitalism that plague would us lesser mortals. him the stakhanovite or sales John Corrie's attempt amend the 1967 to Abortion Act is just the latest in a long line of reactionary attempts to the availability restrict of abortion. However, the majority it the Second received Reading, and the priority it for parlia- given DECl mentary time indicate that the threat greater now than on previous occasions.

Labour Party Only a vigorous cam- in the Labour Parti and the trade unions, as well a huge turnout on the demonstration October on Lobbyist's eye view of Tom Jackson 28, be able to defeat Will the Bill. support for this restrictive The political leadership lar' slogan 'Defend the 1967 will be law in Socialist Challenge by of that campaign Act'. pointing out that NAC: vital, and in this context it The 1967 Act, of course, following "was merely worth examining is in reality a restrictive law, the excellent example of the positions that the National which gives COCIOrS ANL which stated its oppos- Abortion Campaign has complete control over ition to Immigration Laws, developed recent OvoI abortion decisions. but did not make that a weeks. Some doctors have inter- condition for participating preted it liberally and have *Broad based' its demos or joining authorised abortions to any local ANL. woman who wants one, but

NAC'S

In other words, the IMG primary concern have blocked OtHers form, is is to build a 'broad-based' its usual

LIUC

women's right to abortion.

defending in effect the com- to defeat the It remains up to the doctor.

Corrie Bill. abandonment of pro- piele this case aban- To this end with the full gramme-in Eroded democratic support of the International doning a basic that it Marxist And now health service demand-for fear Group and the Socialist Workers Party they cuts have eroded the avail- might put people off! ability of abortion even in In line with the concern decided to drop the have "liberal' districts. broadest to build the slogan free abortion on

NAC

IMG

spokesman Penny possible movement, demand in tavour of what Duggan defends NAC's attacked the they see as the more popu- supporters The TUC economic com- mittee predicting that Tory policies will prompt a in financial major crisis private industry during the unless coming Thatcher changes course. They point to the devastat- ing impact "strong high interest rates and supply on a restricted money smal ane meelumsized companies They could be driven to the wall, TOr large TIrmS

WITS

investment programmes, warns the TUC but Inis prospect comes no surprise to Thatcher. Indeed regenerating I alley or British capitalism depends upon rationalisation ruthless Thatcher's pathetic As darfidence trick, ghe "Sex" dard Index" Living off the struggles to get there is renewed ground, evidence of the galloping at which inflation rate is eroding wage packets. While The ores musta "average family" on its £140 feel better off, week may the alt brunt 'The July prail Prixe price explosion In dex certain to show a full point increase to over 15% as a result Thatcher's thumping ot VAT increases. inflation rate of at least 17½% by November seems

TUC

LEAD

THE

WAY

WSL members and support- ers present recent of the TUC General lobby Council allegedly the "antagonising' union bureaucrats. Sympathetic

NAC

wanted sympa- thetic lobby-believing that they could win the support of these bureaucrats to their "broad-based' movement. back Besides pulling from fight against the trade bureaucracy, who remain the greates block to an effective labour movement campaign on rights, NAC has abortion abandoned also the Labour campaign in TUC analysis fails to -shock Thatcher which the least profitable sectors are cons oned • To Int the public sector junkyard, slashed. and driven up to ‹ milion and over The

CBI,

too, is conscious of the fact that a number of its member companies face a bleak future bankruptcy and the period- Closure: out insists inat ine bolc necessary restore profit- ability CBI leaders argue that the panies means that workers demands should be restric yvaye This reactionarv argument has long been peddled by TUC the workers' leaders within movement But in reality the prospect of long term massive unemploy- ment ane economic devastalful: can only be averted by tne Inflation up again certain. But the prices of British manufactured goods are surging ahead even faster, with a 2.2% increase durina July alone Though THe TOIS rise equivalent an (which annual rise of 27%) is attributeo to the increase in oil prices, does not yet include the VAT increases And while the oodular oress is busily trying to palm off the blame for rising prices onto the wage increases won Dy WorKers during the last pay round, the Financial Times admits that: "it must also reflect a bunch.

ina of rises following the end 01 price controls as companies have sought to improve or malntail

TUC

NAC's sympathetic lobby Party for a 3-line whip to Labour

MPS

obey make Labour Party policy and vote against the Corrie Bill NAC's argument is that Tories the outnumber Labour in parliament any- way, and if Labour put on a whip Tories 3-line would do the same, and it would be ineffective. "confines Trapped in the of single-issue politics, NAC fails political of calling importance so- called representatives of the labour movement account for their actions. All-party Instead NAC relies •on individual pressure on MPs defeat of the Tories, the over- Ithrow of their system of exploi tation, and its replacement with socialist economy. a planned Dinner For all their bleating whining nobody on the is likely economic committee to orooose inis course or actor at the forthcoming regular TUC/ CBI dinner later this month.

For workers, the answer is plain. Wage demands must be formulated in such a way as to make good the losses caused by this and to protect living standards against future price increases. Cost of living This means fighting for every settlement cost of increases Teguld line with a working class cost o living worked elected local sympathetic experts. of all parties-letter-writing, visits to surgeries and so on.

classless forms of protest (applied to Tory, Liberal and Labour MPs alike) will never mobilise movement the labour against the Corrie Bill Expose They will never expose for what it is the hot air that labour leaders spout on women's the question of rights diversion from the fight in They simply trade union and Labour Party the demands and policies that advance the fight for women's rights.

NAC

continues to Nazi emulate the Anti League and refuses to give a lead in the campaign against the Corrie Bill by failing to confront the trade union bureaucracy and the Labour MPs, then the Corrie Bill is as good as law. Friends Instead of dropping the "free demand for abortion demand they should be asking their friends Congress House what they have done to fight for this demand. As a start they could ask Clive Jenkins why Harold Wilson, who voted for the Corrie Bill, is still sponsored by ASTMS.

How Kampuchea be a deformed worker This Is the The tendency of both parties in the present USFI dispute over Indo- China to minimise the difference between healthy and a deformed workers state is closely related to important questions for Marxists. First, whether the social overturns that have place the Laken Second World War be explained individually relation only in to events the they

COURIT

wnere took place or do they (as we argue but as wold again both sides in the USFI seem deny) be requires explained in relation to the overall international line up of forces between imperia. lism and Stalinism? Stalinist role Second, what is the role of the Stalinist bureaucracy the formation of deformed workers state? The SWP, in minimising the difference between the formation of a healthy and deformed workers state (and thus minimising the counter-revolutionary TOle of the Stalinist bureaucracy) argue that mobilisa- mass been

LIONS

Nave aiways crucial process of overturn. And order to do they obliged stoop to crude historical falsification.

Mandel, we shall see, has little problem in demo- lishing the falsifications of the SWP on this point. Yet Mandel and the USFI majo- rity also emerge from the discussion with

DICSCHL

position the on Stalinist bureaucracy which different essentials little from that of the

SWP.

Progressive We intend to show how both sides express a position which grants to the bureau- cracy a conditionally prog- historical role, second of a series of articles by HENRY PHILLIPS about the major political and theoretical crisis in the USFI promoted by the recent wars in South East Asia.

which the positon sees bureaucracy which advances the forces of and struggle for socialism Lne rather than holding them back. Such a position under- plays necessarily ambiguous about the need for political revolution and the construction of indep- endent Trot- revolutionary skyist parties in the degen- erated and deformed workers states In addition, both Mandel and the SWP argue a similar line outbreak of inter-bureaucratic wars the recent period-that they do not seriously endanger socialised forms of property already established. The sharp differences, which are producing a new political crisis in the USFI, great importance Pol Pot But beneath them in our opinion basic under- hes a theoretical similarity, lying which leads in both cases to a position of adaptation to counter-revolutionary Stalinist bureaucracy. In other the words, discussion USFI is the just showing how deeply rooted are its Pabloite politics. and just how far the USFI has strayed from the method of Leon Trotsky. The purpose of these articles develop. the points have sketched we through detailed examination of the polemic now raging inside the USFI and to open the discussion of theoretical and political alternatives which call advance the fight to recon- the Fourth Inter- national. In this article the process of social transformation which occurred in Kampuchea after the withdrawal of American imperialism from South East Asia is described.

WIET LIET CHAO

ЗАК VICT-MA

The defeat of imperialism For imperialism in The

KCP

joined IndoChina, Sihanouk and his supporters the final Kampuchean in debacle, after years of the National United Front war, came very swiftly.

(FUNK).

oh feir 17 1975 Phnom Sihanouk was howeve Penh to the forces soon politically marginalised in the front and retired to the Communist Party-led Khmer Rouge guerrilla army Beijing (Peking), exue which had where he apart sunounded the city weeks, from banqueting lor squeezing and the making broadcasts. reactionary military dictatorship of General Lon The

KCP

itself had Nol and American nominally been a part of the backers into submission. Indochinese Communist Party Vietnamese Stalinists in the largely Open war 1930s. The victory After World War II the marked the end of five years national of parties were split. But the Kampuchean party war leaders in 1954 and subse- between Lon Nol and the imperialists on the one was virtually buried quently. Geneva hand and the Khmer Rouge accords 1954 And 1954 was only the on the other. which had ended the beginning of a long series of war Lon Nol had with the French imperialists further betrayals from the seized and which power from the hereditary same sources. the recocaised ruler Prince Sihanouk rights of the imperialists in In the early 1960s the March South Vietnam 1970 Peking coup and Stalinists formed directly assisted by the CIA Cambodia. long-lasting friendship with The States United had anti-Communist The Sihanouk come to view the rule of was Sihanouk Peking and Hanoi danger in accepted by Moscow, as boin spite of his undoubted anti- Peking and also the were opposed to the KCP's Viet- communism. During the namese CP. launching rural Vietnam war, and especially The objections of the the repressive dhallisi Kampuchean Stalinists arose after the Tet offensive Sihanouk regime 1968, Sihanouk had tried to not from Later, in 1970, Moscow any pompica practice was one of the first govern- opportunistic objection to such deals with "neutrality" ments to recognise the new the class enemy but rather even more repressive, dicta Irom an objection to such torship of Lon Nol. Territory deals being done on their

KCP

however, behalf by the Vietnamese.

especially after the massive From InIs moment the While he did not verbally Kampuchean CP lived out a American invasion Kampuchea which started in support the form of phantom existence anti-imperialist struggle Vietnam he did May 1970, began to defend in as an isolated leadership in itself by building up a large connive at the use of Cam- exile, dependent on the bodian territory peasant base and establish- the hospitality of Hanoi. But in 1960 the KCP in control forces North Vietnam sizeable OI 'liberated and the South Vietnamese Kampuchea itself the was al cas

NLF

countryside. effect re-founded. The In domestic exiles in Hanoi played a part politics Risings Sihanouk tried to preserve its refounding but the his credentials for . "neutral- dominant force were young In 1972 attempted ity" ruling through intellectuals who risings by the had series of class collaboration- returned from France where masses in the cities Kampuchea were put down coalition governments in they had been recruited to which were Stalinist included both 'communism' by Lon Nol and the imper- sections of the They had never been part of anti-com- ialists. munist far right and mem- the old unified Indochinese Then in 1973 came the Kampuchean bers of the CP. Paris agreements in which a Communist Party. shameful political compro- The presence of its Pol Pot was mapped out members in the government between the Vietnamese in the 1960s notwithstand- This group (which Stalinists and the included ing, the KCP was the victim Pot-then imperialists who were by of known as Saloth Sar-leng systematic repression now desperate to find a way throughout this period by Sary and Khieu Samphan) withdrawing the troops Sihanouk's army and police dominated the party from in the face military since the illegal section the beginning and were to defeat and growing domes party was increase their control later LITt tic political opposition conducing guerrilla through periodic purges of warfare the The Paris accords looked countryside during most of the forces in the party who the of formation to the period. were regarded Wall l Vietnamese. Vietnam known the Hallmark Their National Reconciliation and position was always a chauvinist one, but Concord Council which The class collaborationist their chauvinism had been would be composed of the politics of the KCP, a hall- fuelled by the treacherous South Vietnamese puppet mark of its Stalinist politics and cynical betrayal of government, the Provisional show them- Kampuchean continueu interests dis- Revolutionary Government selves in the period after by Soviet, played Chinese and some bourgeois 'third the Lon Nol coup. Vietnamese Stalinist cald forces'.

came ' state

UHE CAO

HAN MÊN!

ДОБРО П дОРОГИЕ ВЕСТИм The Khmer Rouge armies liberators: but they found many and ne tacrored other key economic centres occupied by workers over whom they had no control. The old state apparatus had completely disinte grated and of its most fled-some personnel had clinging desperately to the Vietnamese delegation with Brezhner in Moscow last American helicopters. This the masses had already accord was the Khmer Rouge army. begun presented by spontaneously to the Stalinists great victory over mass American imperialism (and But some sections of the such by indeed welcomed as masses were either including the until Phnom forces wary of the Khmer Rouge then International Malonity actually hostile Tendency of the "Trotsky- having earlier fled from its ist' USFI). drove of thous- rule the The Vietnamese rura leader- areas This the political was ship tried very hard to force towns was the extreme the same settlement on the

KCP

ferocity situation American found on taking power in Kampuchean CP, which was of the rural Kampuchea pressured to enter areas, those with coalition government Sihanouk. Lon Nol and The Their Suicide Phnom than more political was less scarcely had ll been two earlier, ings were thou crac and which they into possibly begu had often been them-seeing into DeLOTe more possible to the CP stage be a ing doubt closer the Soviet was to and step towards

CHION

Khmer But sign At this Viet- Lilt that any economic aid tors trom would appear from China or anywhere else And the productive of capacity Kampuchea Rouge itself-one of the most back- Lil" doubtedly waru In e base world-had been shattered ot sup- reduced that of Vietnam. Acal effects the ERe On this based their prolonged war. against success in wat the Lon tion of the became Nol regime. of course, and edly helped intimately With the the Viet- sweep policies were later nam forces followed by the Khmer the war (1973

KCP

fled puppets from Saigon a lew days expanding. was taken the Khmer Rouge from the outside, Some of the exception- ally repressive policies The

KCP

had played which were later followed already being were ing other urban developed in order to exer- mobilisations which cise rigid control over the hastened the peasantry in the interests of Nol. Vietnamese puppet Samran Khmer Rouge troops-lit The infamous of Sel policies the

KCP

Stalinist bureaucracy unleashed at this point can only be understood in the at the end context of this material and justified political background Otherwise they socialists. appear We simply as arbitrary poncies determined only by the Cambodia whims of the murderous KCP leaders-or even more improbably, -and as the US SWP explains it) as part of an "imperialist plan" against the Kampuchean masses The KCP leaders immed- the iately nationalised not only all capitalist property „tne which had been seized by trading; but also workers priated virtually the whole urban the pelty vour- geoisle. Working class and petty bourgeois masses, including

HOODOIV

the exiled peasants who had power. grotesquely swollen the population of the cities, were forcibly dispersed to of the countryside where agri- culture was collectivised and the masses set to work ir state farms which have been camps. The state established mono-

VARO ES

series Food and China, and virtually money abolished. of savagery deformed involves All of this was clearly diction. carried out with exceptional In those savagery. Tens, not hundreds of thousands (capitalism the perished. The masses Canad politically on nothing but its systematic repression.

is reactionary What this did process amount to? The American SWP leaders argue that amounted to the establish- ment of a new reactionary capitalist regime. They claim that at the culmination the anti- imperialist upsurge of 1975 and Indo-China

KCP

bureaucracy; leadership was able to re- establish a capitalist state after the previous, American Dacked. ialism been destroyed. This is a crucial plank in power the SWP's argument that the "peaceful Kampuchean regime was the aggressive weapon imperialism against the Viet- independent 1978 was should be 19 |> was of all of state forcible of the political words what demonstra- place in in whole sin ce most Laos states contra- been des- within an Stalinist and this political basis of organised of the working class relation to Eastern Europe the post war this contradictory period process has been described and well by Tim analvsed Wohlforth in his important essay The Theory of Struc- tural Assimilation. supplementing that Westoby analysis, in Adam wrote 'Communists Against Revolution, Folrose Books, pp.100-1): "If we wished to express the paradox of the last three nutshell it decades would be this: that the Stalinist which infested the proletarian not destroyed the been by extension of the revolution has but, on the contrary, extended with it "Not only that, but Stalinism has made itself the organising instrument destroying capitalism and forming POSL-Wai workers' states "For three decades two fundamental opposed forces, those of the prolet- social revolution and arian counter-revolution have tound themselves coupled together. Of course, the events in Cambodia different from those which •rainst seales were credier other countries-as indeed each of the countries concerned exhibited certain peculiarities. peculiarities of the The Cambodian variant were: "The political and econ omic isolation of the KCP bureaucracy from the overt 'of the bureau- protection cracies of more powerful already established deformed degenerated deformed creation took place • the world *The omic of Kampuchea which was appalling une war *The ist partly by the (exceptionally of extensive) *The brutality which the the by were carried bureaucrac out. those of Europe, China or Viet- took place llail Kampuchea.

SOURCES

M. Caldwell and Lek Tan, Cambodia the Southeast Asian War Monthly Review Press 1973 (useful source on the wa until 1972 although very uncritical of Sihanouk) Stephen Heder, "Kampu- chea's Armed Struggle: The origins of Independent Revolution an Bulletin Asian Scholars Concerned 1979 No. (indispensible source on relations between the KCP and other Stalinist parties). "The • William Shawcross, Third Indo-China War", review article of three books Kampuchea, New about York Review of Books, April 6 1978.

An interview with a Palestinian Trotskyist In our issue number 115, of 6 September 1978, we published an interview with a member of the Workers League of Palestine, which at the time allied itself with the OCI-led Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International. Since then there have been major developments in the OCRFI reported ir columns. As a result the Workers League sent representative to the WSL's International Summer School, whose views we publish here. How you describe Would the main developments in the political situation agree. Ine ments? would say during the past year, the chief develop.

went nas been a growing crisis in the Zionist regime. been a crisis of the bourgeois covertient entire area. out tor the Lionists meant on the one hand it has increasing from Us imperialists to make serious concessions the Arab bour- to geoisie which general they reruse 10 00. ane on the other hand the growth of mass move- ments in Palestine itself.

The il altian revor ution. zorceo tae radio concim sion of the Camp David accords etween the Zionists the and Egyptian rulers ot the Us imperial. ists, also after an initial period hope among the

JEWISH

Itasse: unleased a new bertod of disillusionment and a series of struggles in Palestine itself.

Demonstrations There have been big demon- strations in the occupied West Basti, and Palestinians strikes among many groups parts of occupied other Palestine, notably among build workers. nurses ano tereners. The teachers actually called off their strike a time after David the accores. •VE resumed when they discovered that the agreements had changed nothing. There have also been and rents have tripled. number of movements particu- any or orellar Jews, are of Palestine react to thie?

the most oppressed amongst the non Palestinians, rapid They cạn against always, rises in rents ane shortage nousino. These, for example, took the that for the Zionists, it is impos- towards sible to arrive at a 'peace treaty' form end of last year ot targe in the same wav scare DovCoLs oT the municipal elections in Jeru- geois rulers salem. They Palestinians from There have also been newly ot tne formed tenants oroanisations state. other manifestations sion of their territorial claims.

ano discontent on these They have questions. The concessions of any sort to Arab wackeroune to all LEns has been that prices in general bourgeois regimes have doubled over the Egypt, despite US pressure.

tabl ycal. Palestinian refugee camp They have aven How will the Zionist rulers carry out the pretenGer agreement reached Camp David to suspend the setting up only so, new settlements on the West by increased repression. Bank. It is important to understand Bantustan as other bour Although the imperialists are exist by the exclusion determined to establish a bantu.

stan state for Palestinians on the Their West Bank, the and by a continual expan- Lionists refuse accept anylning of the sort They are quite incapable Folusco lo make taking a single step in the direc- other tion set out for them thar under u pressure at Camp David.

PRESENT ISRAELE

SETTLEMENTS IN

OCCUPIED AREAS

Tel Aviv : Gaza Likin - Rafat •El Arish

SINAI!

• forces recent period? been tne Since 1976 there layer Although movement, villages ano aso ideology beyond nostility has themselves identifies but goes beyond the policies Arafat and The Palestinian 'Palestinian West Bank, now of state of israel.

LEBANON

UN. Zone

HEIGHTS

SYRIA

Haifa : Camp Kadum Nablus

WEST

Ammar

BANK

• Jericho

JORDAN

Hebron 17) lit's

PROGRESS DRITTE WELT

Zionist bomb damage in Lebanon What are the main develop the universities

COTI

Beersheba ments amongst the anti-Zionist Aviv, Haifa, Palestine during the Jerusalem nationalists have presented lists for student elec tions which •he most notable teature has were capable growth amongst challenging and at times defeat Palestinian youth of the nation- ing, the previously unchallenged alist organisations, as against th strength of the Stalinists Raken Ithe Palestinian Stalinis Similarly, nationalists has been a ran big demonstrations great politicisation of this youth on viay Day the Stalinists post when poned theirs in deference this large Zionist rememoration. existing in the Arab then war dead in the univer- The Pabloites of the Revolu- sities, it does not have any fixed Communist tionary Ledale como ete Uncial section ot the Usri have Zionist state. the completely adapted these This new movement, which nationalist trends developed precisely because I hey correctly take part in the Stalinists of Rakeh showed demonstrations, movements for freeing militanis. imprisoned the compromises with the Zionists nationalist Enose beyond the police oi expelled from the universities and so forth, but they refuse to other leaders put forward any independent policies lorware me Not satisfied socialist tasks of this movement.

not satisfied with the concept oe What The your political policies now for Pales but speak openly the destruction of the Line. As we explained in ou Zionist military terror

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday August 15, 1979 Previous restion on the in tor the Zionist destruction suare one the estab isame. old single democratic Palestine.

We do not place conditions on enis struggle inal it necas to be socialist, though we put for- transitional and socialist ward demanes within le In particular we call tor the setting constituent up assembly in which all the Jewish masses ano an une rarestinians. including the retugees, are able vote to set up a new state for What are the main activities these your movement struggles? In the tenants' struggles we forward the slogan of put Castl works to build houses to rent at low prices. We also fight against all rent increases and beanst the system of temporary tenancies, when at times the landlords can within monins eviet meir tenants sharply increase their rents.

in all theivilies won stipas villages we take part on democratic questions against the new settlements. We call for the withdrawal of LIOnIST Troops TrOM The military installations they have built the areas captured in the 1967 war and for an end to The occubations their withdrawal from all the areas inhabited by the Arab popula-

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ve put this torward as an immediate democratic demand in combination, of course, with our general aim or Ine alsoand- ment of the Zionist army and its We are also proposing at Ine moment to set do in ariance with sympathisers, with nationalist militants and others a maazinen araoc lo elscuss the main questions at this stage of the struggle. Independent In the factories we call for the setting up of organ:sations indebendent _ot the Histadrut, the state run and state-spon- sored colonialist organisation sometimes recardeo as a sort of trade union We call factory for mittees common Tees Arao Jewish We support wage demands ane Call Tor a staing scale of Wales. Zionist leader Beigin with Carter in New York Arafat We also the tilervente democratic struggles the ulliversilies Fonts Arab students to set up their separate organisations the Cartious Ene bombings of refugee camps, for the freeing of political prisoners aru ulie octoralic issues.

vve take part in the women's movement in Israel, consists of small groups of petty bourgeois Jewish women to take of free abortion on "• une issue demand which is very restricted and state turn this movement towards the Palestinian women who face compounded When we last discussed with comrade from your organisa- tion.

VOUS

Hite nationdi you orientation Sald That the continuity of the Fourth Inter.

national flowed through OCRFI fine international grouping lea by the OCI). Since then there has been a series of expulsions and walk- outs from that organisation wnich you were involved. How do you now see the problem of rebuilding the Fourth Inter mationa We always fought against our from exclusion the

OCRFI

because we considered that we nad to be part of an interna tional organisation and seemed that only Lamoert's oreanisatior trying to maintain the contin- uity of the fight against Pablo- always however we were critical of their refusal to take Hassly building of a democratic central.

ist international. We regarded the exclusion of the Argentinian comrades from hastening the Ine degeneration of that body and showing its inability to be the orcanisino centre tOr rebuilding of the Fourth Inter- national. consider that further essentiar now take steps in building a democratic centralist international alliance with sections, tnest Argentina and especialv trom Bolivia who are now outside the OCRFI, as well healthy ten- oencies within une worl We are certainly prepared to dialogue with continue

WSL

and its iternational •CO thinkers towards this end.

In his previous films, German director Werner Herzog has managed to create striking images with his characters. "Aguirre, Wrath God" the most memorable image was of the leader of expecton in lne mast of incredibly the most difficult jungle conditions in South America. Enigma "The of Hause thena Kaspar the story centred on who appeared in German village, from of nowhere. couldn't speak and He appeared to have grown up in the wild presented the Herzog simple materialistic philoso- phy of Kaspar as a devastat- ing contrast to professional philosophers. The actor in this case was Bruno R, someone who had never acted before. His simplicity of directing "back Characiel. to nature", was so striking that Herzog used him in his next film on America. Now his latest film, In "Nosferatu", Herzog has turned the Pointed ears And yet. again he has selected an in credibly striking actor to take the lead. Klaus Kinski has a long drawn face, eyes that seem be hanging • out of his head, pointed ears and a bald head. physical features These combined the are with pallot of his face and two small pointed teeth right in the front of his mouth. This alone produces a striking effect. Image Our first of glimpse Dracula seems just like that painting, picture conjures up so much. Like a picture by William Blake, tortured presents that images don't need Page 9 The struggles of the 'undead" Such films as "Dracula's Bride? and "Son" show that both he Frankenstein and "Nosferatu, TONY RICHARDSON reviews had a toucning respect for social bourgeois relation- the Vampyre", directed by Werner Herzog.

ships-and for the needs of the box office. Spoofs Most of these films have "horror" either been sheer films or "spoofs", , the best which Polanski's "Dance of the Vampires". But because they were so ridiculous they could not be clearly seen for what they are In Herzog's film the attacks on science and the implicit defence • of the of "hell" religious notions are explicit. All the way through the film the haentiststience •KeeD. saying that explains", and that we have with to deal the problem "scientific with thorough- ness". We are living in an "enlightened declares. Clerk The wife of the unfor tunate clerk who ends up Dracula's taking place, keeps insisting that Dracula is a vampire. "I believe what I see with eyes" she declares as if Dracula is some kind of miracle The scientist proves to be completely wrong and the be right. At first the clerk is quite keen Transyl- going vania. He is fed up with "canals that nowhere" go and bored with his

CANECHILE

describing, they being a vampire is the most because are soon draw miserable on our innermost cautioned to be happy with fears. imaginable. our "canals" by what Apparently Herzog bases happens to him. Dracula Developed his film on an early German gets him. film "Nosferatu This is exactly what the Symphony of Horrors". By Sacrifice Vampire is supposed developing on this original fear of a to be; the dread Although his wife kills he has created a minor work living death. Dracula by sacrificing her- of art. But Herzog has self (Jesus?) and keeping At the present time there When developed on this. him out until after the first number of new Kinski speaks the rays of daylight, it is the vampire films. dubbed version it is with a clerk who takes his place soft, agonised voice. Ridiculous So he ends up with that This is the finest piece of that Dracua ha dubbing I have seen. • No doubt many of them described "much worse as It impression will be as ridiculous as most the than death, the inability to gives both with the words as well of those produced die" of in the the existence "Nosferatu the Undead". as the way they are said that last 20 years or so.

ITV

union leaders forced - to act Leaders of the 6,000 independent television technicians whose strike has blacked out ITV screens all over the country have forced into action. National negotiators for the

EETPU

and NATKE had recommended accept- (formerly anna of ance the employers' 15% offer-but strike for found it thrown • out by their members. And organiser Jack O'Connor stressed the ment's "reluctance" with which he improve had called out his members miserable in response to lock-out offer. by the employers,

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who are hell-bent on cling- mass picket ing on to the windfall plant, profits they have built up strikers during three years of pay and research demanding Combativity statement But the militancy of wildly 300 these television technicians some plainly reflects the growing of the combativity whole mass pickel. made two days working class on the wages issue, despite and there seems little wilen. the contrary, doubt that if the employers unions APEX, do not concede they face a

TASS

had mounting loss of advertising picket line for the first time.

in a prolonged and solid strike. Unti that

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to oftice after five Returned years betrayals, the Tory government has immediately begun wielding a sharpened axe on jobs, conditions and social services. Trade Union rights face imminent legal attack.

Prices are already beginning to rocket upwards.

Plum sectors of state industry will be handed to the Tories' profiteering big business backers; and the pay rises to police and armed forces mark only the prelude to increased state violence painst pickets and anti-fascists, and an intensified army crack down in the occupied North of Ireland.

The Callaghan-Healey leadership has made it clear that it will opppose any perspective other than settling down and meek- ly accepting five years of Tory devastation.

they have once And though more dusted off their near- forgotten "socialist" speeches, Labour's. "left-wing" MPs have continued to duck away from any fight to remove Callaghan JUC leaders too. have set to establish a basis for collaboration with Thatcher and the Tory cabinet, parallelling their anti-working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan.

But the working class has experienced and overcome such betrayals before-to topple Heath's union bashing government in 1974, and smash through Callaghan's reactionary Phase 4 of wage controis in a series of monumental pay battles last winter These experiences are not dead. They point to the way that jobs, social services and hard won union rights can be defended spainst renewed Tory attacks.

But a principled, revolutionary leadership is needed if the the Cortist the TUC collaborators and their hangers-on in Communist. Party are exposed and pushed aside, and the mass struggles mobilised that can defeat and remove the Tory go vernment. uch a leadership must fight day in and day out for a pro- of transitional demands which Housto conditions and today's consciousness within the working class, starting Trom today's lead workers to grasp the necessity for socialist revolution.

and in taking up democratic demands-such as an end to racial and sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role that must be played by the working class as the only consistent- ly revolutionary capable of leading the struggle for the amancipation of mankind And it must fight on an international basis-mobilising solidarity for anti-capitalist struggles- anti-imperialist whether in Ireland, in Southern Africa or elsewhere through- out the world, and drawing strength and political lessons revolutionary upheavals such as that which ousted the hated Shah in Iran. This means fighting for the reconstruction of the Trotsky.

in Fourth International This method of approach, rejecting any descent to simple trade union militancy, or concessions to buranucracy, is the method fought for by the Workers Socialist any wing of the labour Lass inext period will see major class struggles in Britain. A principled, Marxist leadership is essential. Our movement though strongin us and ee aird the ruggle or socialism!

amme remains small in numbers.

INDUSTRIAL

Convenors cramp 1 Talbot struggle Workers at the Talbot had Illalazelc gone into work. Chrysler) I ne picket went plants in Coventry, on ahead despite the fact that weeks the clerical

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foremen, now, are getting increas- workers and technicians did not go ingly bitter at manage- On Friday morning refusal to pickets waited for the usual the convoy of cars bringing in 5.5% senior management. pay Other gate Last Friday, following a Ryton al lne But they waited in vain- marched the convoy three miles to the Whitley managelenl had gone in by another gate.

site (centre of management The convenors, who had trusted the management to from the come through the main gate were outraged at what they strikers had saw "provocation responded to the call for a Clearly a good of This had been this reaction was due to the fact that they were made to promises to the staff ASTMS and crossed the time only of Labour

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look so foolish. to see management. It is rumoured that the With convenors had all ance ment with the police who press there had march planned for Monday.

promised other gates would not be opened.

The If this is true it shows the by the Ryton workers is in complete bankruptcy of the sharp contrast to the leader- strike leadership. ship being given them. The ABC of There picketing is has that effort to bring the member- you organise it your- ship forward and a complete self. Every single strike in which the police have been avoidance of involved has proved consis- the tasks required tently the class role that the strike. they play. No strike pay paid out-under the excuse Sat down no doubt affect social The reaction of the ments. strikers was to march on the Whitley where they those who don't qualify fo forced their way through security SOCa the and down gales who spend larg while the convenors went in money travelling picket lines each day. of 'pressure national officials still no blacking of Chrysler cars coming country from France. in the strike. have now proved they not impose docks: therefore make an direct approach to docks stewards themselves the time Press comes Linwood plant should laid off. The staff unions should also called on to out on their pay alongside the shop floor.

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of Socialist Press. I enclose * Name.. fighting Address Hill, London NWS 1HR. SOCIALS TRESS, Wednesday August 15, 1979 TUC hot air over Shotton Steelworkers are likely to draw little comfort from the fact that the TUC last week pledged its support for the fight against the closure of the Shotton plant in North Wales. The TUC's notion of "support" is likely to be as far away from tangible action as the policy adopted Iron and Steel Trades Dy Confederation leader Bill Sirs, who has Consistentl ducked a call by a Corby mass meeting for national strike action against the response from steel cutbacks. this action and as we go to Sirs and his TUC cronies was another will no doubt be delighted at the line being adopted by militancy displayed Shotton convenor Monty Hughes who last week called 10t • lot a workers' inquiry BSC's figures, into but for little been Tory the government to question the case for closure! carrying out to win has been that it would security pay- This is little comfort to

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and those e amounts of to the Without a clear perspec- Even worse, after week tive plant occupation the coupled to there coordinated national action by the steel unions, the obvious into militancy and willingness of Corby and Shotton workers This is the key question to resist the closures will be The officials away by these will bureaucrats and blacking at the way opened for frontal the stewards should attack on section of immed- workers in the industry. the With 10,000 jobs at stake at Shotton alone, Socialist resolu- tions must be fought for in on sale the every steel union demanding be that the TUC steel commit- tee break off all talks with

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management come until the closure threat is lifted, and demands instead outline a programme of all-out industrial action fight would to defend their jobs and working conditions.

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MEs Whe: 1g1 CDLM Conference offensive The scale and scope Tories, torce UCarca of the them out! Remove Tory govern- Labour and union ment's offensive against Itace leaders won't fight! who the working class has *No 1 ory laws on the made clear that trade unions! Prepare mass traditional forms of strike action! *Fight the cuts! Occupy non-political trade all jobs! Work to delend union militancy are sharing on full pay! inadequate to offer any *Defend wages! Cost of way forward in the living clauses all agree- ments, indexed to elected coming struggles. workers' committees' Workers need a political figures. programme of demands that *Unite strikes and occu- not only correspond to the problems pations present towards . step period, but which bulding councils of action.

point to the necessary socialist solu- tion to the crisis. Union branches and Head off labour movanei urganisa- And at the same time the failure of

TUC

utter and Labour bureaucrats to offer any perspective lor a tight against the employers and Tory the combined with their bureau- As the full impact of the valıl alems lo redeon Tories' £4,000 million cuts militant resistance from the package begins make to Tatk ano lue The itself felt throughout the fundamental problem confronting the public Workers sector, working class is Socialist ot ar League branches absence of principled leader- taking up a campaion ore ship capable allalysing designed to spell out a clear combatting and the programme which Haccvvıc workers can fight back. and Labour leaders. national leaflet is beina Social contract prepared the WnICt expiains With this in view the steering committee of the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement -- which championed the political struggle against the rUC-imposed wage controls Labour's "Social PHOTO. Laurence Sharham UnCeT Contract"-has called a con- ference draw. out the political im plications of the mass struggles that are already breaking out against the Thatcher government. The conitrence, held in Birmingham on 3 November am 5 pm) will discuss the fight in the workers movement for the following policies: *No talks with the risher- no call tor acıion on cuts Cehalll

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UNION DUES

tions are invited to elect delegates to this conference, which will also be open to union mem bers and unemployed. Credentials are delegate, f1 per 50p for unemployed. The 'Conference Secre- WSL to campaign c anu poltica contex1 in which

" V1IC.

ai c arven into their attacks on the work and highlights ITe class inability of token action and stem Thatcher's wantor destruction won rights and vital nare services. points to way which Thatcher's cuts have. been groundwork able to build on laid by Callaghan's right wing Labour covernment-anc Callaghan's categoric opposition mass political designed to halt or bring down • i ories Ano highlighting the refusal

AHA

implement the health • service to stress that Culs. "tcoes AHAs and RHAs are temselves merely non-elected dillis management, Watch event need to be challenged and replaced by elected trade union representatives Arguing strongly that only direct action at the point where closures ard cuts are threatened can stop the Tory wreckers, the

THE PERFECT PLOY... YOU CALI

A FEW MILITANTS OUT

IraT acl Delegates at a previous CDLM Conference Godfrey Webster, Laly 99, Barclay Warley, Road, West Midlands. More details including letters for union branches be obtained from this Canl address. on cuts leaflet em habes the import- ance toldo snine _elected demand full committeps access to the books of public sector management The Houres revealed would only point to the huge nOT profits being made from the pubiic sector by private contrac and suppliers, but would TOrS also highlight the way in which public lags expcno ture „Tal behind inflation-being adjusted by less than half the real rate of inflation annually. This evidence must be used back up the struggle for sliding scale spending protect the public sector against te erlects ormazon WSL branches and areas will be holding public metings next few weeks to duscuss Tonl In ine labour move- ment the policies put forward in the leaflet, and the which vvdys suCh strugG es must link up with the struggles on jobs and wages s in the private sector to credl. une conciions for bringing down the Thatcher government. Page 11 St Mary's workers face AHA deceit The struggle against the Committee, who nave successfully led the opposition closure of St. Mary's Hos- the closure must now think pital, Harrow Road, London seriously how to counter these is reaching a crucial stage.

latest • management manoeuvres The Kensington, Chelsea and • Thi inside the resistance Westminster AHA have planned hospital-mainly based to shut the

TGWU,

GMIU

hospital completely and NUPE branches-is i within •tinuing to grow. monuns and have the most callous Over the past few weeks Teverted nurses and underhand tactics to bring and theatre staff have pledged their opposition about the closure une cosure Working through their agents It seems likely that sections the hospital adminis. of medical staff will follow this tration they have begun to close lead in the near future The wards facilities using T ories SaCN ANAS ane Lambeth and Hounslow trickery and lies. They closed Ward 3 has ensured that opposition to the cuts has moving the patients out when begur spread of the staff were having professional and avcl

•*NEC

their lunch break administrative of health Their other service tactics include workers as the devastat the funding for effects of the cuts is recog.

wilnarawing junior doctors nised. contracts, and Hospital stopping agency yayment wandemenı losing the respect of any section Weeicer sritt. In this way they are follow- of staff as they stand exposed as open example . agents TAHA work unell colleagues ing night and day to close down une ucraden anr Islington AHA who achieved the Iwork and Their owe bace removal of patients trom destroy the NHS Elizabeth Garrett St Mary Defence Antasel Hospital by gradually running Committer prepare the ground fors rofrontation vowi tre medical cover St. Mary's Hospital with managemen take Defence Committee and local steps towards a full seale occu District Joint •Shor Stewards win which NaLl ortagasakatr health workers must take over the administration of the pital Only such an occupation can prevent the gradual I rundown o

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the hospital through piecemes ward closures

LEAGUE

experience has

COVENTRY

shown, however, that occupa- alone is not enough to save tion Public meeting St. Mary's The fight against the The oniy way to defeat the tactics of the

AHA

is through cuts linking occupation Elastic Inn scale programme of strike action throughout the NHS and public Near Pool Meadow sector in London and nationally Thursday August 23 to confront both the AHA and the Tory government. 7.30 p.m. Resolutions have been passed the DJSSC and the by Mary's

NUPE

branch demanding that the London NUPE leadership call a delegate prepare action convereno: against the cuts. "How to Fight the So far the NUPE bureau. Cuts' cracy ros.

• IKE

OTeeT Workers Socialist sector union leaders, maintained a stony silence on action to stop League Pamphlet the cuts All trade Price 40p including untonists in the public sector must step up ethe postage from WSL demands fo all-out official 31 Dartmouth Park action to halt the cuts-and for of those union Hill, London NWS 1HR Koval leaders who are tacitly, super. vising the dismemberment services and the

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wholesale sackings of their owr members.

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Labour movement must lead troops out' fight

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Sahara fighters' step forward If the British government The desert war the needed persuading that talk Western Sahara has taken a the IRA about defeating sharp now turn. was whistling in the dark it received dramatic Last week military con- government Mauritania firmation at the weekend.

On afternoon in formally Potter Front, and Belfast more than 5,000 repub- renounced its claims on the territory of the former Spanish selves with the armed opponents colohis latest development does of the British army by attending a rally at Casement Park where the IRA baraded its arms and the war. But it does mark a some of the most wanted repub.

dramatic shift in the political licans the army's list spoke Madnes went Tear (Arab-dominated north-west In Britain the demonstration Africal. through London called by Faced with the prospect of Young Liberals was attended by Ham carent and between developing economic and whom had halt formally adopted a policy of the military dictatorship which immediate withdrawal been driven 1o break ranks with dominating ally Morocco. No support its the Mauritanian The WSL, who brought a southern government third of the Western Sahara, the contingent of Tiris et Gharbia. the march, made it clear that it offered no political support The did not specify treaty the pro imperialist positions of whether this territory should be the liberals. It is clear that in signing the referendum, to the exite simply passed liberal plattorm the over government of . SWP. were not making an established in Algeria the march is the by in polier Frent. inem imperialism has been notorious, beginning either class suddenly supported this major march problem of the Moroccan army in nico their ACTIVISTS WILl an enormous contingent ol will fall in behind the liberals' youth sil romans. them plan for extricating King Hassan I has declared the troops drawn around the Anti Nazi that his 8,000 troops will League. Ine oppression upsetting the Mauritania

WONT

British imperialist grip on the Even the British Communist But he has no intention of Party, which for • years has scab- wortueru retane stdle renouncing the for the i hat is wyny the swr, whose bed on the Irish war of iberat.

War of failing record ion, seeking only a withdrawa solidarity action against British The Moroccan of troops to barracks and a 'Bill occupation forces will remain in the Saguia of Rights' from the British imp two- erlaists Tell aole ston Ene thirds of the Western Sahara platform demands, and turn out with their massive deposits of on the march. reality it was also Moroccan forces who domin- the occupation of the Tiris el-Gharbia. Hassan has now been forced o seize direct control of Tiri l Gharbli order to prevent the Polisario front usino it as a new for their operations. This will certainly not maki conditions dity daniel _Tor The dictator to ung returns in wctory and alory.

an economic it grows Stalinist policy on Ireland - and political burden on Hassan's seeking reforms from Brit- The sanctity of "family regime 'revolutionary monarchy. ish imperialism. life" loses its value to the Tories when they come to deal with black immigrants.

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Young children can be separ- ated from their parents deportation - m once centres with no more •arention from high precio tea. crocodile With half the month behind us we are just about on ranges with our £600 monthly fund. Contributions this Harassment wook mushed the total so far to £291.25, just short of the mark. But such recent newsworthy of vicious cases not theon the he end half osting aar eleating all the indications suggesting an accelerating treatment are only the tip ot a monstrous intimidation or ass iceberg of beside the importance of not only achieving this and madors angar but if possible of exceeding it.

lack (especially Asian) is and supporters should explore every possible communities in this country by immigration officials and The sounce of income for Sacialist Pross.

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Sinn Fein supporters clad in blankets to draw attention to Long Kesh prisoners The question all those who claim IrIST struggle liberation must

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answer is how the defeat of the British army and British imper- ialism is to be achieved • iberals-witr small "'-feel unhappy that Britain one of the world leaders in torture ane repression and look for ways to mitigate these systems. Not only do they have no ambition up the oreak Orange state but they have no achieving

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of, immigrants threatened with arrest and deportation. Raison's answer of course is to ratonalse the procedure sc that the racist immigration laws can bi imposed more efficiently without

LIFE

exisuno aopeat svstem-in Itse 1 a grotesque mockery of justice even by the standards of the •ourceoisie. Already the Tories have advanced. plans for new system to monitor all ane centraiist information on 'illegal grants'. Terrorise Along with this scheme to the capacity extend police and immigration officials terrorise black Tale and workers, they will be putting proposals in the next session of restrict even warrantent further rights of entry into Britain. limited aims British slate uncer Labour or Conservative govern ments-has long since aban. any feeling embarrassment. That does not mean that the liberation struggle Ireland cannot be materially aided britain It does mean however r that the only class capable of forcing troops from TnE _removal Northern Ireland is the working class, under a principled work. ine ciass leadership It is not simply their racism which drives the Tories to build repressive powers Unt developed by both Tory alic Labour governments in the past.

Divide workers They are consciously seeking to cultivate racism in order divide the strength of the whole working class and divert workers away from the tasks of socialist revolution posed by the growing crisis of capitalism. Appeals : on legal or compas- sionate grounds are doomed to defeat: the immigration laws are racist by design The only answer to such increasing allacks ves in une building of a campaign in every sector of the labour movement to repeal the racist immigration law: every ano estdoris.

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worker the right of free entry into this country with full rights of citizenship.

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NOW!

There is no short cut te building inside the British work.

ing class a powerful movement BrITISH 1. Nor imberialism in irelanc there any socialists car avoid this vital task. Demands. must be taken ur inslee the trade unions and the Labour Party to commit bodies to an anti-imperialist position- not just in words but in action.

Such a fight will come up the unions, who have consistent- supported British rule and gooression leadership of the Labour Part who have been responsible for carrying that policy out.

Blacking It means fighting to remove office from those who stand in way means entitin areas where blacking Those "action British arri against supplies for the and tiahting for blacking action.

means fighting for political stoppages against those forces fighting the British ar Within the context of such a campaign.-for the sottearity immediate troops, •political status and releasi repubricar prisoners and for. the smashing of the apparatus imperialist repressive legislatio workers must also go turther They must demand determination fo the smashing of both the Stormont and the bourgeois state in state the South

WAR!

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