Socialist Press no. 166

VARD TO THE 803

The TUC Congress last week set its face firmiy mobilising against mass action to defeat and bring down the job-slashing Tory government. Decisions were made to press ahead with talks with the Tory covernment. manten The reactionary voluntary restric- tions trade unionists bodied Con Winter s and to throw out even cordat, de monstions token campaign regional against Tory snort. ine sade was set for another year in which union Jeaders will attempt to prevent independent struggles their on jobs, social services atracKs and living standards waged by employers and by the govern- years of open collaboration with the anti- working class policies of right wing Labour governments under Callaghan,

TUC

ano leaders plainly lain for the kind of stomach

•TOLESES

1972 against the Heath govern- ment's anti-union lavis. Manoeuvres against Thatcher's package anti-union legislation (which Parliament tnis Wine calleo in the vacuest terms for the TUC to "'resist vigorously "1 after pre-Congress But,

TING

and an amendment icalling for an end to talks with the door

OSOS

• 311e erately left open for continuing meetings with Employment Sec retary Indeed the Tories ward oftered 141 e enforcement of the Concordat. Print leader Joe •Wade declared openly that: the Toried 88 it will their shoulders destructivo confrontation policias of 1971 The

TUC

deliberately

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 166 * 12 September 1979 * 15p

FIGHT

SHIPYARDS

THE

CUTS

TUC

TUC BLOCKS

ANTI-TORY

FIGHT

on future Labour governments to carry out Labour policy was manoeuvred out without a vote when uve Jon moved 'next Kins business'. while union leaders manipulated ane. but vacuous speeche: rostrum in their efforts to holc Similar opposition to a fight was reflected L in the fate of one wack te working class. outsice the ine conterence nail tne ories radical amenament pressed ahead on the offensive Thar sury vec the pre-congres. • workers stepped up their strongarm work by the Genera Council-the call by FTAT for Suu es BL management and British mas demonsterions doninse tne Shipbuilders putting Tories' economic onslaught on shing touches to plans for thou- the working class. sands Wafer-thin ities spelling out new were rounds of spending cuts; two Ever this modest amend- engineering workers engaged in an e oscalation ou taci and growing Len. Murray aroued TOl delegates to "trust your General number of workers looked fo Council" and for their abso- leadership in the fight to defend lutely toothless oos ano socia services ties, not back to the Thirties') te bot to atad with ot actin Murray confined itself to a 'propaganda' In the • want toe amenoment was rejected-though cam ocien persuade the Tories that union wafer-thin majority can out of 12 million control members votes. better than the courts. call. for a Times ding igor exampte, su ts tiona- The Financia, pointed out: ding a national example, interpretad sorvers action Wad artice. the hall [the nowevel, since il sean to debate]. union leaders Conmit the rank and file were nothing at all. not in the mood for a fight.

course, with Lingering possibly mere handful of exceptions. the entirely Any lingering hopes that the Tank 800

THO

were absent from the bureaucratic Congress might match forces assembled periodic soouts of 'left' rhetoric Congress. But as by some steps to break from its of the mood of union officials.

deadly alliance with Labour's and their reluctance to fight the right wing leaders were rudely is undoubtedly an An ASiEF motion calling day. She orbe aceurate asumare Non-aligned conference..

CHRYSLER

TALEOT

VAUXHALL

ELLESMERE

TRELLOCES

PORT

A gauge of this rising tide of the large number t y wan 1.500 strond Committee Defence Unions trade 500 Right

VOTK

mareners Union leaders have set their faces against th Tories. But workers continue ti embark on these struggles and do tending ther dors and leing seek out leaders Standares Conference It is in this situation that a programme for action is crucial to the working class a leadership the Workers Socia- urges workers and moverten su•oort ano

NOV

ember Conference the Campaigr I for Democracy in the , to be held ir Labor weveo The conference is called to discuss the labour talks movement tor an end to win tue cortes. •Beaton Te force them out and the removal of those Labour and trade unior leaders who won't fight opportunity struggles "ica class-and which working cannot be bureaucratically led or manoeuvred away be TUC leaders. (CDLM conference-see p. 10) O'Fishall p.11 TUC Delegates-not a rank and file member in sight

BEHIND

ZIMBABWE

TALKS

Page 4 ..•page 2 First casualty shipyard jobs The first major industry to suffer the full brunt of the Tories' job and cuts the TUC policy of colla. boration in these attacks is shipbuilding. The decision of the recalled of ship- delegate conference Vare Tuosday to to 6,000 jobe

SOVO

industry marks a malor betraya For ay deciding to life the ban By deciding to overtimo which beer immediate response by workers cul backnow o coles Waler are part the Polish ordes launched they all of struggle to retain the threatened jobs. Hostility That deep seated hostility to this maneouvre is present among the anger of the delegater from Robb Caledon yard in Dundee who stormed out of th meeting vowing to contue ine sanctions, and the subsequent mass meeting vote to do just cha1 Right wine leader John Chalmers, who was instrumental in selling i the deal admitted afterwards that the 8.000 10b8 migne sil go whatever window dressing Chaimers and union leaders create, there jobs have been ditched Chalmers himself has appealed voluntary redundancy payments -to minimise the numbers that are compulsorily Impassioned In impassioned ples on behalf no en oval Caledon workers to end their resistanco, Chalmers last week : declared: appell to Dunden to lift restrictione on the Polish ships by wo lle Britid are in • very serious troublo' that Now British shipbuilders have the measure of such leaders, they ww cortari ruthlessly procead to implement the full 10,000 cut in the labour force they aim at by the and of next year Spurred on by the demandi of the Government tha the shipyards must break even the next 18 will swing the axe with a vengeance All the talk Scotstoun Marine and Scoti Lithgow Bowling taculitie Continued page 11

- Basque Castro notches up win Page 3 - iNTERNATIONAL- General Strike The tempo of the long struggle against the Madrid

OCEABOIL

national rights in Euskadi (the Basque country) has again quickened in the last ten days. On September 1 a 16-year old militant was killed by the during a demon- fin stration in ban DebastiviT demonstration was against recent moves protost government made by the French against Dascuto France radical nationalist forces associated with

ETA

(military) for call genera issued strike for Money septemoe 3rd which was followed by the majority of workers provinces The (especially Gulpuzcoa anc Biscay). strenth Such was among the masses that Teeltno the right wing nationailsts Basque Nationalist Party with Socialist

PNV)

along and

(PSOE)

the party the pro-ETA forced loIn forces (whom they normally in calling for the revile) the removal Madrid appointed civil governor out-but the old champ

(PNV)

head the Tito was certainly down Genera Dasobe appealed to Madrid to "share for the count when the control of the forces of law and "responsible" bell order now with local political forces Havana's tone reflects His desperate summit" of growing fears within the Basque uling class and their reformist countries. friends that the Stalinist Fidel Castro October 24th the around the by the Mohamed pro-ETA ano organisations, will confident. The referendum is to decide was an almost monosyllabic whether keynote address (a mere 1½ to accent for Basque. autonomy agreed between the recently regime in Madrid and form ship the right-wing nationalist. reformist and Stalinist forces.

anabolic to press, reports Koran, but continued mass. acmousta policy tiohs, and cashes

WITH

natural the police indicate that the armed non-aligned". of self mockery had thi Castro determination-has not anaesthetic the еттест was away intended to have on the national in such a way Khomeini's army has now deeper into moved extend the Kurdistan to hold of reaction over Iran.

But the advances made this week by the armed forces that not the Kuroish rising has been crushed. the Kurdish Althouah towns are now in ine lanus v the mainary vietory the army, military "victory ne t over the Kurdish fighters.

other In Mahabao and the Kurdish forces oTtered to give resistance

TO KON

withdrawal cover

TOTI

of their armed fiahters. Exodus rolled As the ranian Kurdish inhabitants in, moved exodus after one depopulating , armed ever town. In carticuldi militants pulled out from the tants rural cratic Party and other forces.

continue the struggle with their methods Conventonal guerilla warfare. by armed And a five-day arms amnesty with Kurdistan brought a grand Hiatoo. haul of only six firear ms handed at Garneh. in to the government forces!.

give These new in Kurdistan so fresh opportunities the khomeini's •ume Khomeini's army. Khalhalt Chattal is deening his rea retum for Brezhnev Successful trainer-Brezhnev "non-aligned" that Not quite a knock. the Soviet opposition be the connection would same as imperialism itself.

And China placed the constantly in open rans non-aligned same boat as the USA. denounced the Castro 90 over Chinese for supporting Pinochet, Chilean Dictator bounced South Africa in Angola, the Shah in Iran and reaction in ring

3HKC

Ali at his general. MOSt Ringside In what by his standards And as it to prove the point, the Chinese observer hours) Castro revealed that walked out along with his the source of his champion- US counterpart. was not ginseng, all reports a It by was nor the tirade to please most of the the foreign whom ringside-many •of of the Soviet Union wooed had of course been ally of the for a long time by Cuba's aggressive diplomacy of the last few years. punched nimbly tired imperialists

WON

opponent who stepped into as to suggest

KURDISTAN CRACKDOWN

Firing squad in action in Kurdistan one shahe the Kurdistan ted the overintow in Shah's dictatorship, with more executions of mill never Kuraish beno disbanded and destroyed. opportunity, At the same time, the wave

TAT

WIST

to Khomeini himself sought of reaction has produced attacks unified weapon gangs

AUTOISE

the scattered 46 people reaction massacred in one such pogrom can be judged His success campaign in Kurdistan The development of the war unt has shown where strength of able to operate in a coordinated the manner despite and Battered anc Kurdish attacks by and disaffection which struggles 8IN SOCIALIȘT PRESS, Wednesday September 12, 1979 the ring the next day. The eighty-seven year old managed only thirty Tito minutes of morose but low key insistence that the non- should aligned movement not be dependent great power. Diplomatic Nyerere of Tanzania put up a more vigorous defence seated. anti-Soviet position, of the sion of Egypt was shelved but Tito had that aside from a few minor for two years The Havana diplomatic concessions by the Cubans, this has proved made importance of Cuba's role as Castro's conference-a was political Moscow's and diplomatic matic Mercury. for the Cuban triumph Stalinist premier and thus backers, the with for his the Cuban Stalinists are able in Soviet leadership to intervene in all kinds of Moscow. and situations Castro sidestepped where potentially conten- most presence tious issues by effect agreeing to postpone them.

more provocalive imperialists, This applies to the repre- to sentation of Kampuchea. em barassing ment in Neither the two in delegations present Collill y deposed Pol Havana (the Effective ally Pot regime and the puppet Heng Samrin regime) were defence of In 1900, there nave beel "e significant t policy differences the leaders in Havana and Moscow. and Latin America the two bureaucracies their labour U110 Castro Moscow's ally because, Eastern racies, an and by such left United the Castro especially

SWP.

Muscles Since been even mutiny in its own ranks.

Comecon. Today the army has become dominated one of main props of the economic alliance Khomeini's rule, holding him up in his arive to impose dosolute any dictatorship on the masses alliance with Iran it still Union, and At the same time, represents a dangerous threat to the conference his power, ready to step i Khomeini unanie aligned nations. authority establish The power reaction and preserve same Iran as an area of protitable during the exploitation for capitalism.

Havana disposed Ma ville more countries an the imperialist giant itself what looks Carter decided to attempt credit Castro's Soviet combat Cuba. Their finally given US spy by their soccer pitch!) these troops for Cuba Khomeini Carter-another gaff

USSR

has not The And the proposed expul- denied their presence. And it is equally certain that the US administration Conference has known about them for most of that time. Carter's decision to use winged diplo the knowledge probably strengthened While in complete accord Castro's position in the non- the Soviet leadership and aligned Conceal Carter himself in landed countries new problems US Secretary of State Soviet Vance has taken the line would have been that the 3,000 Soviet troops to the the or are of the United security their that semi-colonial States' is nevertheless presence "very serious" and Brezhnev Castro have more or less ignored Since Castro's important US fulminations: the but US the members Czecheslavakia Congress have converted the presence of the troops into public foreign new pretext for not between

SALT

2 the nuclear arms control treaty.

And especially in Africa have divided but acted as wave to engineer forced hysteria has been Carter effective most that not the say missile crisis another European bureauc 2 should and that he has been able le "independent" (helped was image solved to be question along by the illsions peddled separately wing plan to Secretariat of the Fourth International, the American its apparent the Kremlin noncialence, also stands lose from 1972, Cuba has In its to get of member it has so the Moscow- of far shown international the readiness to adopt the lines But it has not been part military formal US senators the Soviet It remains entitled to membership of troops. of this So, position has been very plain Brezhnev not exactly when, conference of go through opposition, Castro was given they are to posturing the opportunity to show off collaborationist rescue the • his muscles in front of 90 plans embodied in SALT 2.

against unexpected attack from But if all that is a head- like yet for Brezhnev ache another diplomatic blunder, Havana junior colleague Ir administration has meanwhile certainly of interests advanced the position Stalinist the international the non-aligned conterenc global its "discovering" 3,000 partnership of securing diplo in troops strategy matic footholds in the semi- countries within colonial presence was the framework of "peaceful to the away coexistence" with sattelite, it seems, imperialism and opposition revolu- independent It is almost certain that the tionary struggles by been ir last ten oppressed masses.

CHILE: THE SPIRAL

OF REACTION

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 12, 1979

INTERNATIONAL

There are 2 major weaknesses in The Spiral-which is an extremely good film about the events which preceded the Chilean coup 6 years ago, bringing power. The film, at 2 hrs 25 minutes is too long. This makes it impossible to use the film as the introduction to a discus- sion in a meeting. This problem links in with the film's other weakness which is the failure to pin-point, let alone draw out, any lessons of the betrayals of the Popular. Unity government of Allende and the criminal positions of the CP leadership. The blurb put out with the film describes it as the 'defin- itive' film of the situation leading up to the coup. In many this claim holds true. respects working through such companies as ITT, is traced; so are the moves of the right in Chile, and the machinations of the army; and so. too are the responses in the working class and the mobilisations of the petit-bourgeoisie.

Labour leaders are not dealt with in their contradictory role between workers and capital.

The film however makes a good starting point from which draw out the lessons of the Popular Frontism in defeat of this ted to the massive highly organised, working class opens with Allende speaking his prophetic words in December 1970: "They will have to riddle me thieh brutes to top the people?

programme of the people. delivered in This speech which Tine stadium September 1973 a become in concentration camp.

CIA

Jubilant scenes are shown on election the Popular Unity government in 1970 The "The criminally tragic stogan ol felt able to overthrow will people united defeated" rings out through the crush workers anywnere in tne streets. divided into 7 film is In fact

I NE

the arind on to Winter ventions coup and the mitary unta The Game-in Cuba, the Bay of taking over. Pigs invasion, in Santo Domingo The plot shows the Part 1: and in Saigon. right-wing atrem•ts ov collusion with The

LIA,

coldlv calculated over a period International Telephone and of years. and Company • electaun Copper KenniCOTiA naconde Games Company to destabilize The through planned government and to try economic sabotauc devised siop the contirmation Allende as the president by Cambridge, October 24. parliament on exodus money and a new aotose creates chaos right-wing group rainer ane middle class, and Freedom" is formed. foreign apitalists Political assasinations begin assies and the armed force being With Ine fOSI an Genera scane er. strong compel Imperialism justifies its inter- vention by arguing the need to capital American sarerudra investments. tation. El Mercurio practice of this 'game' history states Kissinger caustically won't that we ched out. The Chilean altow a counta nist because of the StUDIOTLY of the people. The

CIA

use El Mercurio, it finances, to pump the paper out its oro•aranod These . are OT course in tre lays before the crushing defeat if the US in Vietnam when it Kissinger General Pinochet to The role of imperialism, Bụt the

BAR

imperialism. machinations Allende and makes sioned speech at the UN shortly telling of work witt some of these inter.

perpetrated _acaression shown in Part 2 the economy. increased, as we see •in. Part 3 (The Front) when the thi covertment nawondilse. copper industry and a total of The massacres in Chile were : Using Swiss business men, an attempt is made to flood the with copper and force the price to rock bottom on the iS devise hyme can Lonoon meta markets. Fletcher The World Bank cuts credit to Chile. School of Law and Diplomacy The newspapers and the tele.

Massachusetts The game uses the govern- , which was still controlled visionhe política Christian Democrats major by parties, the urban oligarchy, the safeguarding because of a lav jobs, swing into full support for The oroleranet. local em- right wing anti-government with Land Reform ineustry. model to explain how to engi- 47% of the land was unused neer a coup d'etat in a country but when during a period of class confron- were proposed to and this the land- owners - destroyed machinery Chile was the working out in • по но.. and mm wortie did not nig of first British Farm then us comination is also sker- back. They organised strikes and government is occupations ortne tane. shown to be well aware of the They set communal Demonstrate.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE CHILEAN

WORKING CLASS!

* Down with Popular Frontism: for united working class action against Pinochet!

* No recognition for the Chilean butcher regime! * Dock and transport workers must black all trade with Chile! Clerkenwell Green 1.00pm, Assemble

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 16

took councils and had to fight both workers tion the landowners and the the had to egally told the ware sar us. tried to legally hold them of the working class waln Throughout the life of the jetsom Popular Unity government the workers developed their being mobilised. The famous organisations. demonstration Minister The left wing group the MIR great were shown to de orcanisite tue Right-wing peasants to take over land. harder after Santiago This pied was made demonstrated Mias, member, Minister of the Interior government 3000 Chlieans He reversed the previous and roman lead it ated' Labour in Virginia. land reform An "Consolidate slogan sionals forward" The urban 50,000 workers, their however, strengthened came to the fore again. organisations. They set up cordons which also non unionised women in including ment's tattered So CLINT ine communities The squators living in slums in the of outskirts which to organise. developed their own administra More and tions and militias. gathered together During shopkeepers' cists workers at the strike, when the All government (The Move) strike 08 far was lently

WORKERS SOCIALIST

strike and

LEAGUE

strikes golng

LONDON

When enacted a law to Public Meeting

CHILE: HOW LONG

followed

CAN PINOCHET

copper industry,

SURVIVE?

owing their allegiance Monday Soptember 17, demonstrations took 7.30pm, weapons Conway Hall the powers usual only Red Lion Square and never against the right When murdered a young worker. Page 3 Dettie Clinton reviews "The Spiral', a new film on Chile, to be shown for 3 weeks at the ICA Cinema, The Mall, London SW1 as of September 14. The film can be hired in 16mm from The Other Cinema - fee £35. Allende could say was "We ar the gövernment but : we do not no can mao cower The Weagon' being forged in Part 6 shows the history o Chilean Army and the counter-insurgency training programme for South America. The machlavellian 1 influonci of General Viaux grinds away in the background. Finally the right closes ranks 'Democratic Con. to form the Too orETIon In June 1973, an army uni attacks Santiago. This is th dress rehearsal. ' "Loyal Forces" Allende calls on the 'people loyal foroes" to "rely the The working class leadership still put forward no polloies to Independent strength defend the and peasant militias. friand, the "Soldier, people are with you' leads the attack The Church on the Educational Reform Plar and rallies support for the right.

military men. "Fatherland and Free. dom" for sabotage group and over 250 attacks on govern- ment property are made, partio.

on the communications General Prats resigns and Pinochot takes over. 424%. this time inflation is at strike copper for 41% Increaso the 100% promised to all workers wages committoes to The truckowner strike and prevent hoarding again. A purge of all put their labour at the disposal carried out. On the 3rd Annivereary poltical otten were the Popular Unity government 1 million people demonstrate tions and assasinations follow.

housewives The scena is set. trail for right. Collaboration More red the home. The CD womer On 10 september 1973 the air force bombed the Presiden university and tlal Palace and the military junta the

LOOI

the flim-makers Although were 'educ say that they reject the view hat the brutal outcome in Chil often apers to be presentad as • •Т claimin war formed Even to say and ex-President Eduardo Frei the spiel of toettom and tore gould have been Castro visited Chile in 1971 need faroes of nly • orgar to try to bolster the govern Left had united around image but progremma." revolutionary the film fo misses out the crucial point. giving the fascists a cause rounc The real prob WaR Socialist Porty and youth • War. way thet Ind Communiet Party tied the Chilean working class t troscherous class collabora this la displayed In Part 4 to reading up saboraged attempts to forge ar truckowners Independent revolutionary road float conven. Chile Wor the time. The shopowners joined the 8200 m to keep the was made available main business con- the government order the shop! this was Ignored. broken supervisors paid in & and to imper- vernment , 8р. place strengthening police the tot was used against Allende

ZIMBABWE TALKS BID TO PROP UP

Page 4

CAPITALIST RULE

gering The constitutional talks died this year on Zimbabwe being held in epidemics. London this week represent

TION

or malee a crucial attempt by imper- cecineo.trom to 231 Ibs in 1977. ialism to bring to a head its efforts secure neo- •To This colonial solution. of decline of any I ne the Patriotic Front guerrillas, as Muzorewa

TRAT

one: the bourgeors oress makes out.

and the continued. escala- war, indicate clearly tion of the have herded 750,000 That toe interna setrement so-called it stands is unable to provide villages' the political stability for which and earth SCOTCHed orchestrated move areas where through recent Common most active. wealth Conference and relying the imperialist-dependent rrontine states the • Patriotic rronti reader. ship (itself already enmeshed in secret dealings with imperialism) looking ¡ natchers now major come oreakinrou-v discredit at hast sectionshot it drawing at least sections

HILO

Nore colonial solution. Ay the Briden i her stin British imperialism, party hardly concerned • natcher with the nees ou Zimbabwean people. Indeed, bat of the problems Thatcher facing reactionary position adopted by some waites in Ene race or any imperialist attempt of racial system which developed through Nas •The Imoosition

STELESH

colonial rule. Like all imperialists, nowever. natcher is muca con- concerned political the instability in Zimbabwe-which pointed : Socialist Press Hids out. a00s To Ine chalences capitalist rule already occuring throughout Central and Southern Atrica Neo-colonial While imperialism frantically aiming as contrives the Meo colonia

SOUTON.

Zimbabwean masses suffer unemployment ever-increasing and rever nation Talc further decline in their already meagre living standards. This is accompanied by the genial to toem or even minimal participation decsions affecting their day-to-day lives and by an escalating human toll Trom the war. No alleviation of these hard- can be • expected within a ships 18/8/79. capitalist Zimbabwe Dear Comrades, The GDP (in 1976 estimated In his at US $3560m) which expanded generous of 6.9% from book Pig Earth, 19650 beer ton made from 1975 wave said cecinine every rate whichr nas now accelerated to a negative growth rate of about 8% per whom I write, for The most dramatic collapses In fact, have occurred within the manu- times in the book, facturing, and black tourism TOUr, nOW adricultural sectors 27% in the years between 1974 • income tell it because and 1978. may underestimale Epidemics takes me: It took Lands In the Tribal Trust (the black rural areas) a stag- own, by the peasants' imagination". whic to try to learn narrative faithful to learn write WaS not ar to truthfulness. Time. a tong cuic political thiel. when he today Dedsavils escast *116 "realist" narrative. Smith 30% of the cattle have While starvation spreads in from produc various the black rural areas capitalist farms capita tion white on the staple has reached record levels- much 350 Ibs in 1962 01 succount exor to Enterprises purely the caused by However, only the larger enterprise. remain The Smith/Muzorewa regime profitable. Only 60% of white- people owned farms paid income tax in 1976. 52% of the tax being paid subjected the villagers on y 6682 farms. Because political policy of the well as economic importance of Ine cuerds arc The white varmers to tne reetie Thatcher

LETTERS

Pig Earth I hope one day to be able France such a book. It ma to write of the volume interesting and oe tne Thiro the fir of which Pig Earth is review of my last Eagie- Terry The fact that one slip and, In a nave no never has lidle to do, tha land yet achieved LEiS that I have been living amongst the peasants, of with what Eagleton choses to "Stalinist formation". two yeals the as said several has WitH it has been extreme difficulty of the task five, and the time that it takes to learn. revealing suggests that he The political theories long how well the left. Trotskyist as ach a task takes. Or at least Stalinist, come mostly peasant take account peasant me four years to reality. not my understand, has to be worked What through is experience beside peasants and a new political describes their theory. mode of thinking very well.).

or dive lead taife could do that in

TWO

time might not suffice. And it took me that long Fraternally, write w John Berger style that could be t experience The style of Pig Earth little to do with that of G for

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Inis question of try!lig i We welcome letters aesthetic stic" one; it was a question or from readers on any achieve a certal Those longer topic. Which takes 400 words may than is right when he be abridged for pub book lacks a the lication. Let us heat right about your struggles, is also probably a deeply your views, your dis- political work of fiction about agreements! would have to of a Comica crisis and capitalist they receive suosoles- amounting to £49m last year.

tion or the war. Also crucial to govern- gap between wages in Zimbabwe industry 10070800- Althouah it accounts for the 8% In 1974. of the GDP, 90% of its product was exported, providing, along white wages black with agricultural exports, annum, foreign exchange wit wate but mi tea crite. than t1/0 Surveys accepted the war though, is paid by the increased Rhodesian the Labour concluded that poverty rate of expioitation or tne urbal and rural workers, , often to the in a wan pread as it was in 1957" point of their starvation.

The and Bourgeois been Much brace Limbaowe achieved inrouon labour gandists propounding the

WHY LE

that the appalling conditions of are Zimbabwean of Nar capitalist are Ent South Africa. conditions, economic sanctions and intransigent racism. While workers of Zimbabwe in reality. racism and wal dre the direct result of the develop.

to depend on selling their labour capitalist power and Zimbabwe, not some irrational and are here one or al and are there to and exploited; while the cven DeTore prescill acute phase international rencereo resundant and orcec

ACTOT

London be Comrades, Woolis , Gall in a large engi- AS a worKer neering plant in West London isolation from • involved in the recent action in pursuit of the capitalist media. industrial there has Naturally enough been a great deal of discussion mong workers in the plant an other of issues have been sheets in Fleet Street lack raised including the democracy in the unions. are forced to It has become apparent to the bureaucratic that dards which the union increase their manne leadership operates workers into the arms o tain the movement. who the press anti-union forces offering more portray "democratic" alternative.

I have noticed that it is not only that are "mode. workers ballots rate" (believing would avoid the need for then ver to take any action at al attracted to this idea hat al genuinely concerned about are people power wielded by the bureau.

over the membership cracy Socialist Press campaigns foi more democracy in tue Labou movement and i think that it i from y important that socialists sharply those calling TOr «emocrat " from a reactionary standpoint.

In particular we should be against the use or stor danar as opposed to voting openly at meatings mass me tanty sooks to break down a working class into a collectio of individual The importance of the secre ballot for them is that it change!

decisions in the шогкеї поте ment from collective ones into individual ones. Rather than voting in a mass SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 12, 1979 into starvation according to the their caolal material condition will be little altered whether the face of the black or cover tient whetner reactionary Tootnessi Mobilisation only through their mobilisation. under une leader ship the working class around a programme expressing independent class ot ine orolerariat mat unt • lias: oppressed can build solution. the struggle to do thi they will come up against no merely Smith and their erst- while radical I leaders Sithole and muzorewa. out all lose wur cau muzorewe crats within Ine ratriotic ron who are tied to the interests of Stalinism and imperialism.

I the escala- conflict intensifies the dosolute black and white the neeo evel more cicarl was rising posed for the • Tormation Trotskyist Party which alone principled leader. provide at ts most orosoerous Can averaged £4500 snip The struggle to cerea Smith, expose reformism and once and for all the and black rural wages less capitalis cationle production in Southern Africa.

ievy by Ministry feast as wides comparatively extensive capitalist has taken Has system ultra-explolta- features most Stalt the urban and rural engaging can be Nkomo Fight secret ballots! the question of democrac maetina hand neare a discus the field the views OT oinervice leave aired the worker to the Tories, emolover votes in his or her own home in and agents who want to undermine the independence of workudte, subject only to the influence of the working class Not only this, hamstrung a leadership We fight for the bureaucracy be High to get it orace for the to be accountable to the memb- that has ership that to the Da propaganda bosses' propaganda ment. I welcome the CDLM confer November which will peopie ence In MOTe fight the take provide to order to defend their living stan Tories and the bureaucracy. | will will certainly be trying to get union eader: workers from this factory along of undemo cratic methods so they can con-

TO IT

Yours fraternally, Gerry Hawkes. It is essential that we take up Class strength in mass meetings

Williams slams into SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 12, 1979 Drive fascists off Liverpool streets tives ot the various lett groups decided on a future policy of Recent weekends have attacking fascists unless of clashes seen a numer they attack the Left. with British Movement meetino took olace in fascists in Liverpool's city the SWP's Liverpool offices just after a particularly vicious fight centre shopping-area. with the Movement. The Left have sold their , mem aers on Saturday afternoon papers also later defended the same several and have for line, claiming that they abhored sycals "brawls" in the streets. because streets of fascists through phys- "alienates public opinion".

ical confrontation. Reprisals the period before the TormaTIOn ine "It onlv results in reprisals" League it was the Anti-Fascist they argued denouncing those Committee-largely prepared drive of the Left groups-that earried "adventurists" StIBBES this out. 'mass movement"'. The

WSL

has consistently -often against IMG calls argued. had no illusions about the nece- "black self- ssity physical and action, must dependable, «етепс ~ лят ' WOr? • ramaole carried out in the mass mement establish defence workers, This is no longer true. The formation Anti-Nazi deuces werever vasest mounti shows itself. Lotte nos mroduced DaciTist superio attacks liberal elements who cannot be without superiority depended on to combat fascist violence. vorces. but we vact remans tra Thin in practice intimidate blacks and workers the street; they slogan "No platform confronted and driven off by al scists," although

ANL

adopted this whose arro every possible occasion. slogan. It is clear that the SWP and Illusions IMG leadership still finding are themselves pulled rightwards by It is clear that many ANL petty-bourgeois opi- nion" and run for cover behind suoDorters. particular y the middle class dilletantes who the ANL's respectable facade of non-viteracted i it pacifist, The uperas. clerical leaders. do disobed- gooders, Labour bureaucrats non-volent ¡enice" and Tribunites ThAT The leadership promoted at Brick be hoped that It is _ane still have gross illusions in Livertoo and else wnere where approach the fascist threat is ever-present tHIS

HOL

that the most serious

SWP

and encode in casica controntation against fascists on the streets.

IMG forces the adap. will of their But this view extends also organisa. some of the erstwhile militants tions, and take up the fight for now in the ANL WILd workers detence squads to drive recent meeting of representa- the fascists from the streets.

YOUTH IN CUTS

STRUGGLE

For five weeks the Metro Unfortunately, when the Club in Notting Hill has Metro the authority's letter it contained little been occupied by black youth in response to the tian vacue •rooosals. rurnermore, Tine local education authority's September the occupation was (ILEA) attempts to close it issued with court injunction. The youth were the realizazion inat ware so proposed negotiations had been taking place, ILEA had in fact ane wrooressive ois taken legal cussions take place.

SLOOS

On the 28th August shese me corneationi meeting finally Yves aulance. Court Heret was discosee. that due 'noise' complaints the Club would have to use alter. Meanwhile they have been native nighttime premises.

overca to •LEA Tute stated tat tne Not surprisingly the youth lietro. would reopen, tor day- time activities only. have no illusions Indeed, it seemed as if some the ILEA's case and totally headway had been made and the deceittul wave Committed Conet- «tenoreneo Tneir •etermination tionally accepted this offer- closure. fight against club's with the understanding that the is absotutely duties Woule une sultaole however. accommodation for evening ses- crucia that the Metro vouth co not conduct this

STUTTA

They This is but one also demanded that the ILEA should produce a forma class tUEs statement to this effect.

the social services, and as such; democracy Any hint of democracy This illusory perspective of eventual appearing the Labour parliamentary transformation to Party would be enough been persuade extreme right continuously used as the cover winger Shirley Williams TO benne waich Ladour Mrs nav in reality been sucked into the with hold her services as a bourgeois state Labour MP in future. machinery, actuana. Appealing this promise or rank and me oarty mem oers may first sight, have been jettisoned in oppor- tunist manoeuvres. emergee last week in ine miosi of a viciously reactionary speech For all of the bluster and in which • Williams denounced demagogy paraded wing; LabouT Tell • so-called lett' wingers to institute a system of and for all their talk of 'demo- automatic reselection for MPs.

cratising' the Party and Intimidation racical concies in ooposition To the right wing ThOSP Callaghan-Healey leadership, MPs make they genuine alterna- lightest bit answerable to the tive to such a perspective.

the Party members who secure wer election woule soel. coom Parliament' for the kind of politics so dear "If that system is introduced Benn Heffer, Skinner and other left! figureheads remain there will never government in office for a full Parliament ..It is an invita- tion to intimidation by

COISE

Tuency bary orticlas". For Labour's right wing, of though they revel in the course socialt any attemot ov. Labour's rank ano file to ensure that democratic decisions implemented b their supposed seoresentatives rs timidation of tha and leaders regarded threat, as worst kind. Allegiance In Williams' view, indeed the pre requisite Tor the leader has nothing to do wire y with nothing policies ane lance rather she thinks that the task is select the • best 'parliamen- tarian" And she rejects out of hand any move woule Give me Party's NEC final say over the Labiour MPs. carried out by the course. even

PRESS

structure and political line the Labour Party, such position has a certain logic Reforms The Labour Party was con- structed from the very outset as reTormist. ya defend which bariamentary would hopefully the

GANG

unions against legal attacks and WOrK banamentar acheive reforms pols ation and eventual nationalisation of industry. According to the Sunday there is a plot to People blow up the Pope! Good news as that is, it must must be opposed. Full support this week must be given! thrilling announcement The union branches should the Rt. Rev Robert Runcie as applaud this action taken by the the next Archbishop of Canter Metro in defence our the and call for the immediate with.

Peoples Primate' the Guardian called him-on the drawa or closure unredts.

Local Labour Parties should grounds that he had been call for a public statement of the Crowi support and thos with repre- Appointments Commission. But Runcie is not just any old Arch- sentatives

ILCA

MUST

pressurised to take action.

bishop. As Telegraph so elo. the quently put it: bishop of Canterbull. o Arch.

"War hero will Iran's new Red 'Shah' must Modest Youth be kicked out! A modest, unassuming man, the new Archbishop is in reality Approntices must- La working class hero. •As Observer pointed the OUt. 'Although he Hooks ike a ¡typical member of the Anglican establishment-publi Oxbridgo, Scots Guards. marrie the Cambridge •on-ne started ¡Coronation Road Council School, Liverpool." His so shrouded in Basi alis at the Pros contes Sunday Red Youth available (15p Analists

SYL,

posture. modest, etc. 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, gave for a few hours, was per London NWS IHR. suaded to ask him whether he committed first and foremost.tc and change seeking • retorms through Parliament. they nave mounted no campaign against Callaghan's stand industrial opposite the Tory

STOP

or bring down government. Williams is of course scious and

SU OUTS

complete separation between "policy making" conference and Ine policies carried out by Ir: in Parliament. But the "lefts'-who •racuce танео то цепі васк ол a single occasion when Caladhar or Wilson in government flouted Party policy to -continue peddle the Lavour rarty car Imoost discipline over the bourgeois opportunist and elements that make up the ranks and leadership of the PLP, Williams was sure he had been baptised.

He has, of course, admirably overcome his humble past.

The Observer again: thin striking He is a tail man. He wears the full purple and has an command of ceremonial. I intelligent, with exous manners доос SITe and memory for names and faces keeps Luton Town iss and. supports Devotees Despite the fact that his of faithful devotees dwin army dles by the day. tue • rress fa •iscovereo a mustia relation.

ship between the Pastor and his flock. The Observer said; inarticulate way however little practical suppor the general public demonstrates demand that Church of England should exist.

"Roman Catholics and Free Church often help people from other denomina tions. but We CAC England vicar has a legal, past oral responsibility I for happen to live in his parish." (1) His wife is supposed to b contemptuous of Pomp religion makes me go

BUCH

saying she would only leave St "feet first" • Apparently Page 5 In reality of course even tentative moves towards Party democracy should be supported. the lefts' themselves neither policies nave ThE necessary to defend the workin class, nor any grasp the nee independent working cass TO DrIN! down the Tories and carry through socialist programme of nationalisation, without com bensatior under workers management. Only revolutionary leadership can fight tor such •ers•ecuve in me caoour and trade union movement. Prentice gets stuck in RELEASED FROM the need even to pretend an interest in : working class or temper his

MOSUNILY

ure tract unions wing Tormer Labour stable-mate Reg Prentice is now romping with a will onto his new job in the Tory govern WelL rollowing nis now Tamou: speech insisting that blind people take their full share of we currend ' emeroer in his post of Minister of Social Security as a key figure in form.

He will toy with such ideas as withholding tax rebates from strikers, benettt to sinkers Tallless. anc into loans machoo recoverable after strikers return to work His Manifesto Group collea gues must be green with envy.

she now recants inis neresy Guardian The like because will he deal with the evancerica mutants in me rank.

the Guardian ¡kened by 'activists' inside Labour Party wards!) The Observe akes because bishops play an impor tant part at funerals of dead earls The Press general because his appointment of the churc centre once 208l T0a1 however serious the setbacks for capitalist rule there is still room the altar meneer or maew cass The pig-loving bishop has shown they can still bring home the bacon Runcie

THEORETICAL PRO

THAT MUST BE RE

Page 6 of the At the end article we previous criticised the attempt by the SWP to say in effect that all inter-bureaucratic be wars must manifestations of the struggle world wide the capitalist between and the working class Vass. attacked' their view We conflicts material Leau nationa netween bureaucracies play no role as an independent cause of such wars. we argued, This, was an aspect of a general feature of SWP's view refusal Stalinism- acknowledge the bureaucracy powerful material force society. point the power of the saucrato the point the point by where it appears to be simply responds which layer either from pressures from the imperialism working class. Parasitic the SWP un- This makes willing to admit the possibil- there been perhaps, inter-bureaucratic some changes in this as con- that rivalries can themselves be a cessions have had to be made to the growth of anti-Soviet cause of war. particular it leads them feeling in the other states of In the notion that Comecon feelings which there could be any economic the Moscow bureaucrats rec- the the motivating magnifying element political bureaucracies towards agress- towards pressures revolution. This would violate Indebtedness "orthodox" that work- view ers' states are exclusively def- Soviet case, And in ensive in their behaviour.

aid-or rather the situation of Yet we must question this indebtedness which "orthodoxy" The bureaucr- mache from it-has undoub- arises acy is after all parasitic in element maintains its tedly which curbing any independent feeding off the privileges by Cuban of the But the am billons and ensuring same time bureaucratic rule is bureaucracy that it does not deviate from the develop- an obstacle chosen the path ment of the forces of prod- bureaucracy in Moscow. uction in the workers' states, and thus cramps the econom- ic base on which the bureau- these questions We not in order to give any final cannot this con- So why them here but LO tradiction lead to expansion- rather to insist that Ency alc part of ist tendencies on the real questions which demand which flow the bureaucracy Trotskyists answer from an from a need to augment the be dis- which cannot and surplus value available to one missed by an appeal to some bureaucracy through "orthodox" theory which the territorial of argues that the bureaucracies expansion base from which it is approp- pose no threat of war. riated? Why should not Stalinist Examine who feed off the bureaucrats labours of their own working Ernest Mandel, unlike the their seek to ease SWP, does at least begin to problems internal discuss some of the pressute form imposing SOlLC towards war that is inherent 'tribute' on weaker bureau- in the conflicting national in- cracies in other countries?

terests of the Stalinist bureau- Comecon cracles. But when he comes economic motives possible be denied that It cannot for he dismisses them war, there was an element of this without discussion. in the expansion of the Soviet (ICP April 9, 1979, p345) Europe Eastern Union

• WILU

after the Second World War.

lines of inquiry Such And the subsequent in demand to be followed up by period the economic arrange- Mandel how- within Comecon have Trotskyists. into the same as to benefit the retreats been such "orthodoxy" as the kind of Soviet Union at the expense

SWP.

of the other countries. There is, asserts Mandel, recently, "no basic economic reason between workers WaIS states." The "ruling bureaucracy profit from plundering can .but this toreign countries no wae structerly the IS In ked the workers' states' economies".

example, he says As all that: "it is preposterous to bel • China needs 'colon- ieve that ies to exploit' when it is des- perately lacking the resources to exploit 80% of the natural known on its own resources native soil." (ibid.p345) So the conclusion is that " the roots of these potential conflicts are political and not economic". fully devel- Though not oped Mandel's argument on this point seems to be based very important some theoretical errors which once SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 12, 1979 econolly. qualitative makes difference. Mandel, however, seems to assume: that the deformity of Stalinist-worker states applies only to a compartmentalised political element. Mandel assumes also that the bureaucracy is capable of developing rationally economy-hence that the Chinese argument bureaucracy could not colonies possibly Wall because it hasn't developed its own natural Conflict But Mandel does not even the begin to consider possibility that, although not Stalinist-ruled capitalist, states could contain which also contradiction, create behaviour that from an economic standpoint appears irrational. developing his purely political theory of inter Mandel bureaucratic conflict, therefore goes on in his own to create illusions in the way ability the bureaucracy to act rationally in the interests of preserving Kampuchean refugees flock into Thailand socialised property. Stalinist Because the again involve the belittling of bureaucracy rests upon the counter-revolutionai) nationalised Mandel, it nature of the Stalinist bureau- Mandel therefore, argues cracy that will act to defend It is assumed that there is property. a virtually absolute separation If inter-bureaucratic Walks between politics and econom the national should workers ics in the deformed bureaucracies will be able to states. In Mandel's view what control under keep them is deformed is the they can And, he suggests, workings of the state of control the the functioning of the econ- collaboration with their OlIV imperialism. (Intercontinental This is not only an unwart- Press/ Inprecor April 16, from the conclusion 1979 pp 346-7). contradictory nature

SWP

to this reply degenerated deformed OI Clark, Feldman spokesmen but it also workers' state, Horowitz and Waters (CFHW) way underestimates the ask "can we really be so sure" which the rule of the bureau- inter-bureaucratic wars distorts the develop- be as limited as Mandel will and operation of the ment that which believes! from would prevail under a work- Challenge ers' democracy. Bureaucratic economic Their challenge appears planning is not a less efficient basis until its correct, version becomes clear. What really oi a truly

CFHW

about worries Mandel's argument is not that he so signaly talls to explal source of war between the states, but that he workers tentative steps makes even. towards admitting that such arise from inter- wars can bureaucratic cradlic Mandel's Comrade future vision of accurate",

CFHW,

"then say prospects for humanity the the bright are

THOU

Fourth International until now" expected (ICP, July 16, 1979, p. 715) They go on to dismiss out of hand the danger of such they argue, the wars because, bureaucracy will be prevented entering them from streeth of the making class CFHW's denial manifest danger is therefore one one import the denial the importance material role of the Stalinist' It flows from their failure to the contradiction grasp Castro fetes Mengistu, the Ethiopian butcher, in Havana between property for sta worker bureaucratic Ulumalch. formal "ort are used to c position-the amounts to a any quali between healthy This means SWP in prac Trotskyist coun the role of bureaucracy. Against ill-founded not wish to the about proletariat. But we in for a scientif devela new have taken p world war continued glo counter-revol the Stalinist Diff These willie! profound differences broken out in the USFI Although raises some of many have arisen a new. They are questions W centre of th the post in th split movement But suC what is a wo

nationalised of deformed their • and orm rule. whatever dox" phrases er up their real WP's analysi outright denial we timerence and a formed kers' state. of imism ture the nents which ind TERe inces been the rhich have Ashes arose at tne sputes which period have Trotskyist questions s state? What SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 12, 1979

BLEMS

SOLVED

Vietnamese militia forces is the difference between deformed workers state? What is the historical role of the Stalinist bureaucracy?- are all questions which have the Trotskyist concerned movement since its inception.

We do not take the position that final definitive positions have been reached on all these questions. Restorationist particular One problem yet to be fully tackled is the Walch deformed workers' states are and the laws of cicalea. which motion govern the behaviour of degenerated and deformed workers' states.

Another define in 1s to what the manner Stalinist bureaucracy is restorationist.

We believe that

ULIC

for condition the reconstruction of the Fourth International. authoritative and. cohesive world revolutionary leadership is that theoretical progress should be made on these issues. But theoretical progress is impossible without the most profound and honest theoretical discussion. The USFI however is an organisation which was founded partly agreement im pose potentially moratorium

VIL

divisive discussion. Obstacle And this is one of the senses which the

USFI

has continued obstacle the theoretical clarification which go hand in hand with the organisation of reconstruction of the michaell Indeed only an political difference within the USFI leadership (implying for

SUPPULL

different sides in a war) that has made the reopening of a theoretical discussion these issues Ernest Mandel's WULUs. we walcome is taking place. any that such sharp discussion make some critical the of comments on kind debate We far from the as a pre- condition theoretical clarification, once again steps limit curtail that to One which this way shows Cuba. It position of the 1963 that was degenerated was not deformed that explicity actions the •Cuban 01 opinion ever "prove" that the Castro leadership is that the theoretical which the raised recent alc events in can be disussion which also includes the In of Ernest Mandel, or anyone who supports the USFI esse majority resolution the Indochina wars, to discuss the question of Cuba. Page 7 This is the final article in a six part seies on the major political and theoretical crisis in the United Secretariat of the Fourth International which has been exposed by the recent wars in South East Asia. The main sources which have been referred to in the articles are the following: "Behind' the Fall of the Pol Pot Regime", Militant Jan. 19, 1979, reprinted in Fred Feldman, Intercontinental Press/Inprecor, Jan 22, 1979.

"Socialist Revolution in Vietnam", Intercontinental Socialist Review April Fred Feldman, 1979, reprinted in IP/| April 9, 1979.

"Imperialism vs. Workers of the World", Militant March 23, 1979, also reprinted Steve Clark, in IP/I April 9, 1979. Ernest Mandel, "Behind Differences on Military Conflicts in Southeast Asia" IP/I April 9, 1979.

Steve Clark, Fred Feldman, Gus Horowitz and Mary-Alice Waters, "War and Revolution in Indo-china - What Policy for Revolutionists?" IP/I July 16, 1979.

For further background on the positions of the Workers Socialist League on the post-war evolution and world role of Stalinism see the book Communists Against Revolution (£2.00 inc post and packing from Folrose Books, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR) and the document The Poisoned Well (30p inc p&p from the same address).

But this explains sm. a fake 'unity' is the ach fact that Today, 1963, such funda. reopen these ger

OSCUSS OR

moves of for the prospects reconstructing remain Stalinism present dispute, shaky Trotsky theoretical world them something which the political organisation edifice USFI rests of terms conclusions So, question of on In Ernest Cuba, period has the Trot- skyist with the the we have challenge understanding extend Inat • 1s debate. er- the side break the within tion lu- Within own party, which problem however, leaders SWr would the which had only have discussion. • back a Open wars virtually for the More recently have we witnessed bitter conflicts bet- the

SWP

position ween Stalinist-ruled stales whitewashes role of now escalating into open wars problem which Trotsky, writing the Soviet Walc Union was the only non-capi- FOr

SWP

members and talist state, did not, of course, "information" have to deal with. of the The emphasis of Trotsky's writing on the Soviet Union SWP's pages was that, although a social counter- had revolution not taken of the Stalinist bureau- place, material cracy a vast was (See Militant, force which, despite its defence "by methods of its the Opposition within own" of the social conquests Mandel achieved, represented a pro- found threat those conquests. begun It is necessary to advance beyond those positions order understand the nature of Stalinism in the soon post-war period. some Its extent and power has articles and take comment debate in vastly since Trotsky grown was writing. the SWP the be "Orthodoxy" on in Both sides in the current dispute within the USFI hold the view that they are defen- whale ill the USFI press, they are uni- ding Trotskyist "orthodoxy" ting to try to preserve the But when put to the test their "orthodoxies" opportunist political agreement reached in 1977.

to be unequal to their task.

"reunifica- If Like the 1963 Marxism

OTTOCOX

tion" agreement this has been involves following the foot- steps of Marx, Engels, Lenin based on a common wish to avoid discussion of the mos and Trotsky, then one of its theoretical and poli- divisive characteristics must surely be capacity to extend and the theoretical and poli- aeveloo i tical positions to cope honestly with new realities, SWP leader Barnes rather than clinging forlornly and abstractly to inadequate The purpose of the articles past positions which 1s not to lar down a tinal dignified by being attributed position on the questions it to the dead. raises but to stimulate further discussion of them. Concluded To this end the columns of Socialist Press are open to both members and non- the WSL. members of We wish to encourage readers to make

WILLLCI

Beginning in Socialist which take up of aspects Press 167: of these •@ series articles or the dis. articles replying the pute within the USFI. texts before the starting main view the USFI XIth World Congress point for any theoretical development on the questions this November. raised in the present dispute must remain Trotsky's of the analysis degeneration , set out of the Soviet Union, Anți-war protest in Peking during the invasion of Vietnam in The Revolution Betrayed

Page 8 As we indicated in our first article, the comrades of the Workers Party have not yet grasped the con- problems of inter- Hete working vention in Tine class. These problems can only be approached by seeing the strucoie Toi погостата as a barween workers consciousness and present •o ecuive Lasas

TAIS

articie we orodose to show how their attitude on questions struggle for ana internationa cosely oar aliels they refuse Again real problems confront the building; dl. Ly ano adain dnev bracuce bow to spontaneous developments in the working class We see the same contemp-

TUOUS

wave une nana dismiss the difficult problems and dealing fragments with the numerous wnich JiKE umeriserves Clalltl adherence revolutionary Marxism. Party The Workers navt complete lack еасиео to tric of democracv in Healv's WRF by abandoning altogether • The necessary struggle to maintain demo- the balance between cracy ana centralisiu We in .the WSl also faced same lack of democracy the

WRP,

have the but within to allow demo Touont since cratic internal discussions, real: be expressed at concrerices clb.. Spontaneity We not, nowever •Navc bowed so far to expressions of to allow bran- soontanerty ches or indiviauais to express different. opinions publicly- let atone to carry them out. that bran- ches shoulo de aole to acl in this way, the workers rarty comrades show that they have : developed 'yet ¡car ane caeorericar unatistanl ding to deal with problems of working class. action recognised they vor nave the real problem among petty elements within the bourgeois orga- ranks revolut naly drive b' nisations woo will de their isolation from Tne clas. struggle futile hairsplitting and endless discussions. of develop- = ne rolens ing trom a tiny orouo intod party are not the same of fighting to develop a nose mass organisa tiuu Trotsky put it, t s not.as 'as if the proletariat were in store, shoe selecting a new pair of boots'.

regards new jeae er simited. Only gradually on ery choice very experience basis NeW through several stages, can tn layers of the masses ecome convinced that a new Badership is tirmer, more rel able, more loyal than the old."

The Class the Party, and he leadership' in The Spanis!

Nevulu uur finder p 362) Development Thus, in the early stages, workers are only won in ones and twos, and are developea cadres through the fight against spon. wit tre wal ly taneity. Democratic centralism . organisational means the necessary polit the cnsurHIs ica deveroouent. nowovel , as Trotskv nimse t expiained. "I da not think I can give democratic 'once and for that Courausiu all' would eliminate misunder standings interpret- ano tace (Writings 1937-8 pp89-90) he want on to exoidli ludu organisational recenacnts vary according to the relative Workers Party- development of a party and its tine ane mme oarlicula cIrunt- stances time and piace 'Democracy and centralism find themselves in do not invarianle ratio to one anower ..Before a conference, when the problem is one of formula- the line tor zin• a onucal next period, •emocad triumphs centralism. When the problem is political centralism subordin- ates yne acos fusel. problem

TOT

Ine comrades of the Workers Party chosen they have is that emphasise only the side ot this balance which they themselves prefer. Through this they have given in to spontaneity. document S nus Thell dealing with the WRP they from Trotsky's Writings quote follows: (p155) I9s00 "unoever acouantcd with the history of the Bolshevik Party knows what a local •rOdO autonoy organisations always enjoyed; th y isch the oe rs which openly sharply, whenever they criticised the ioncessary actions Central Ine Committeé' in line with Apparently , the constitution of

TE S

wew the Workers Party has adopted this clause: and local members party organisations ldy voit yet to break their disagreements with party policy or with decisions of the party boales aily the party ano circulate EneW differences to other members form. Members and asly also ocal organisatrou. raise their «atrerences WItl party policy decisions with full bodies av Uy party factional rights in the press and other party public ations.' T organon tions have tall the organisations party their publish riont propaganda. Such an attitude can only accepting and glori. lead tc

TVINC

Ene soontaricous consciousness of the Workers Party workers and petty bour- will do nothing yeois layers. IT ™o vév à cccc ConsCIus ness or authoratitive ship. Consciousness struggling to Rather leadership thạt ensurt the a•vocates Cortel voity. branches can merely substitute their own point •view. But consciousnes: can only be achieved by means or cemocratic internar ocddlc on policy questions in dispute that until agreement ane dy changed, the line of the majo rity will prevail in propaganda and in practice. SOCIALISI PRESS, Weinesda; September 12, 1979 itself be very one-sided Founded on July 15 of this when it comes to considering year, the Workers Party has been history from which they the WP comrades forces recently formed by ex- Cultic. a short-term view of theil pelled from Gerry Healy's recent past with organisational Workers Revolutionary Party.

seem most unlikely to give them a long- They have now produced six term futUre, of their Bulletin, number issues 5 of which includes a number of Problems articles attacking the positions of But a similar methodology Socialist League. the Workers well propensity This article is the second and problems with a orush asioe wave of the hand informs the and final part of a reply to those Workers Party's attitude to the points : but the issues raised are International, building o1 also of more genera! interest to James P. . Cannon wrote in those wishing to understand rev- Struggle 2 (014) thải: Proletarian partine principles of organ- olutionary for isation.

TITSI

Guestlol every revo utionis ine question of international affi.

from Healyism Without a close union liation co-thinkers lutei' nationa conle a revolutionary movement in our epoch is un.

thinkable.' Bull on the ГО! ( noystor other hand (WP Bulletin No.5 p5): 'whatever nimble feats of performed nomenclature on the cermnoeo ot ine roul them. Under such circum. International *international make stance: Wo. WOL baby thi discussior contine Reconstruct, LoTCTC interal circles. On the other successtu revolutionauy vart the te gor y of co-exis. muist Tirst Deout m BEta of the and before British : Trotskyists can

LOHC

was papers holr trans- OPOSILOl , mitigated by the fact that thi forming the world revolutio- final decision depended upon nary struggie hundreds and th sande thousands of "Lenin's workers world wide The American smal arouDs Party has only a comparatively small number of members Ic. practica the discus 2,500 at this and. is more international was sion Was abundant.' similarlv based Defence of Marxism, Betora

SWITI

Pathfinder p.161) Comrade Trotskv went on to argue consider Concisiuls against the opposition having public paper of history would magazine since was in the a means not to Second there oroviat vince the party,

DUT

to thrty the external world against had taken this position he ever • since ss ane lr articles in The Crisis of the Section (1935-6) Frencl "strongly attacked the idea of the opposition having its owr and presenting different Positios as on such reformism argument I ne StUdeUd a organisational •destion Custio very much at the centre of the Atter Tocerne differences in that with Luxembourg particular struggle and other centrist positions were i nese eriaiis! argued more fully by James P.

betrayal, Cannon in The Struggle for a to Third Inter. Proletarian Party which was national Trotsky (tre especialy p1227) Lenin took up this struggle praised through the effort to initially He argued build the Zimmerwald Lett a a08 nST opposition who were: force the international the 'pressing time to workers movement Theses" or as the normal proce hi: esita ouisn dure the right of a minority "The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution" contradict the party line in , he placed as one of the central preoccup.

the public press. ations of the Russian working He went on no f organising exolain class "The Need for a Thirc shevik methods International" these discusston points amongst others: that Lenin derived great We are on the eve of the success of which will conventior Russian Revolution, this Revo conclude the discussion with a lution itself was only made or Bolshevik workers in a factory committee meeting the basis of à consistent inter- decision. From Inat we stall proceed to discipline in action This the posítion decision nationa StruCell audilisl was the basis of reformist and centrist Trotsky also, and the one ne real tradition o betrayal. The building of aLs E adopted aftel 1933 when the International Bolshevism. Taclo was degeneration total Ca fłe which the opposition wigner Comintern onrectiv linkeo to Inat those of Men. invoke Unt olallnlsi are In dealing with the history social him to decide to fiaht to build pre-war of the Fourth snevisu a new International. democracy of the 'all-inclusive the comrades of the WP give This necessarily began with party the same simplistic answers, of small cadre cevero oment 'Equally fraudulent is the compounded by a sheer groups. similar lack of knowledge of the facts гетегепс: The quotation used by the instances' in the history of the that Fourth International. There ou une matlc! WP comrades from befor All I that , they is necessary such different Tamne CreTels au c understan- and its say. ls e circumstances, Fourth International when tat LeTT ding the Within toe Communist lnter • OT revolu predecessor, The internauonal tionary tide is now flowing so Communist Inter- Left Opposition never strongly favour of the sanctioned publica the national. gals tiui struggle • working class in antagonistic mass parties. Clearlv with imperialism." • mne latel

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avocatus period. is more relevant to us.

programmes Tundamatd The world analysed questions, himself was well just the :Trotsky simply in terms of the forward he The International Left Oppos this change, as aware working moverer showed curino

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• Stdr class and the existence of the strint wit party Dores scale in the course

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Workers Party. bourgeois concilable struggle for a single against petty the American against grouping opposition Nothingness Su! Ce their SWP in 1939-40 WiTT ruocationo He dealt with very similar which, while pretending agree Beside these two facts examples from the history of in advocated ment antagonistic programmes' every other force evaporates used mo snevist • WICN i Wwelt into by the petty bourgeois oppo- Cannon coe. on lo cuult Comrade Bull again: sition the one Thus excention wner (Bulletin No. 5 p. 3): paper was issued for a Schachtman finds, invents.n limited period "Without a single exceptio!

better .ED Sa all the hundreds of parties and the French sections had the same This when two precedents groups affiliated ines Bolshevik Party the opposition various 'Fourth • International' had its own public papers etc programme

DUT

•iuterenees factions refuse to break from over the tactic of entry and so that the party Ne voo ouy talking to different were the conservatisin sectantarisiu at that time had hundreds and opportunism of the post thousands of members, 1ha1 avosences. war-era. The total collapse in the discussion had as its tas!

• can oe seer trat ai the Marxis hundreds of organisation which condemns of these oracuict Vo8kI credentials around 1950 wa others for 'subjective idealișm' thousands ano convince

the that One assume 1950 The onrase used Comrade Bull's with serious summarily ois misses. sary any serious arauments tor most tal Tne just orical and Then declare that process degeneration be ignored. is really a historicat * nose pushed aside are as we to find themselves its logic. lack for Nave

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real world. glibly told Stalinism longer the young гео uTODay element. it did in the Exactly Among nOW inant.' But what anti-Stal- towards

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the OCRr? Or various from these possibly vites? How you going to explain Pabloism these You dre surely coine to satesty Them with the trira on men that bodies- these furthe demon. stration"!. ro say unis Is to leave Ini anti-Stalinist youth the nanos or une raolores single substan- NOt one tial advance' we are told ha been made in Marxism by th Fourth arnational-all sactions' or indeed by anyone 'claiming to be Trotskyist or Marcis the st. struggle against Pabloite Woulda uonism. nowever tserrect ol is pushed aside. *i-conceived no let to the The historic of which split the ot Fourth interna and the setting up o1 the International Committee- from which the WP itself has seriously considered. The issues which led to this split are forgotten. result is that the wr comrades fall into precisely the same errors and those misconcestions their predecessors that they so mindlessly dismiss. James P Cannon In and 1951-3 Pablo, his allies of like Gerry the time Heav. ane mike sane Tel down worship the accomplished "fact" the Yugoslav Revolution. banda Wes Balausiastic bureaucratic convert The regime of Marshall Tito later worshipper the Chi Minh. Colonel Gaddati. Hussein, Ayatollah Knoreini and more.

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however some willing acolytes

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the persons of • Comrades SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 12, 1979 Perhaps are not yet told by lin the same Comrade Vietnam organised

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and played conscious the one CeRTeST Comrade Bull door bes this as nists to tne masses" Truly , to take the course account history, he doomed repeat Coles. Amongst other subjects Ine Tact unat The vietnamese Stalinists the French colonialism, that in order nunoreos ou Vietnamese the Stalinists. 'con- following defeat crushing of the Dien rrenci Phu, the bien Geneva of 1954 which split country imperialists enter the South. aamiration tol masses States have mistoric 1975 At the extricably the 1917 ney are ally concies Trom Ine despite leadership. political overtnrow revolution, pendent the TrOM •The Stalinists impose

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centre bades. Alonosiot The the little Eng. same landism' on Thus us: 'If rum: the key to last Labou crisis mave need. it from this is to ignore the nationa move way this epoch can be built. class the Britain will be EnIs.

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seperate Can struggle. weakness and be Trotskyist. This of the poli behind them the the Workers not take intervention fr Tine Their own shrivel and Thev the long list those they so The Three Mile Island plant at Harrisburg

THE CHINA

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core can overheat to such an released the film extent Will mel Ine foundations of the plant and Godfrey Webster release huge quantities of radio.

re- far China aclivily views

THE

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At a technical level the film is well constructed. The scenes SYNDROME, starring within the TV studios are full of Jane Fonda and Jack sharp and amusing details.

the prospect ing the pervasive sexism of ine Lemmon, which is media is brought out when the director attempts to restrict quake Jane Fonda's role to soft news, "tiger cubs birthdav parties etc The film also brings out how careerism is used to keep the disaster clearly professional layers loyal Ine capitalist power with cabilanst aulnority control of born Jane ronca ano Jack Lemmon hesitate before risking state. but Torces makine control of power their careers by a confrontation impossible are

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Oosse. JaCK crats particularly fine _emmon s Corporation ignores portrayal of the plant engineer they the art engineers' highlights dilemma central Technica workers n capitallsi society Much to suppress the aroung toe knowlege house Workers disso vered Westinghouse at the plant. company Wal built the have falsified welded procedures. •rOTITS. suffering a cancer and there was of faulty fuel causind cancel the plant and his disaster at nuclear plants.

associates who are trying Karen Silkwood, woman Duolle cancer shop steward, set catastrophe. documents The celiver these allegations by otticials and anti-nuclear exerts. unne war sne war killed mysterious road and the Three accident in which the document earlier this disappeared. yeal i nese events are mirroree in both the China Syndrome but unfor- human error and indicator tunately at an individual level, failure led cooling The element of struggle by off. the working class to control Ene Nuclear fuel store nuclear process completely reacto (top) controls at Three Mile Island: above, Fonda and Lemmon Page 9 The film does not tackle the which thorny nucleal powel ooses TO| Ine socialist movement at liberal and It stops short • individua against polest society that daily risks all ou lives in the search for profit.

But where is the energy ti future come TrOm socialist society will need. The "по syndrome" growth a cane as the China Syndrome. It forgets that most of the world lives at starvation level! primargry becausi apply energy Inabiliti resources to transforming the world economy. Fossil are physically fuel limited which is not to den! the shortage that politically and not physically determined), and they are Ine bolitically neutra ano Dollu tion-free resources which some anti-nuclearists would have believe. Middle Class The middle class forces who having nuclear power in their neighbourhood • nave nevel • Shed a tear tor int thousands of miners coal in subjection le ensure a subor or vigole cast oll The struggle to control the nuclear industry must be the beginning the struggle for i SaTe ane bolution -tret eneros supply, whether nuclear or otherwise. And that struggle ca only be waged by • the organisec class witn' a socialst leadership The China Syndrome pushes viewers towards these question:

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leaver tnem WithoUt answer. However combines gripping with entertainment angalorovkine content. An wire we shoule ask Toï mort tham that, we mercit expect i from commercial companies. „science corres concenT ane events that Nave reCENT taken that the relatively see this possible. what when the result of in the human error and instrument failure by chain The in nuclear fission heat given of the WaST of

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mer bottom ThrouGh ot the reactor the rocks the which • was const and on TUCLe• Hence «The term of core as it is known, molten held water rocks of the Tine cause an materials Wher released this film • lobby in America as afte release occurred the disaster of Three Mile Island nuclear powe Harrisburg in Pennsylv. ania. This event silenced, at least for the film's tech. nical critias There is a remarkable coin.

cidence the , where scientist asked I to on what would happen should une Undeo я met down. He replies by saying that the resulting could altect an area we size or rena sylvania! This echoes the real.

of many Harrisburg life residents.

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INDUSTRIAL

Journalists throw out pay diversion: lodge 30% claim the Nottingham members The National Union of sacked, and who ridicule the is to put in a Journalists correct demand claim for a 30% pay increase an extra week's holiday and widespread: a massive cut in the working accused week for provincial journa- 'mealy mouthed hypocrisy".

lists. Chapel representatives decisively decided on tne claim at butting delegates ham on Saturday after rejecting union's leader- move by and Times abandon a centralised ship defence TO claim. with

LIUT

This policy was put forward compile a cost of living index.

supposedly taking a "prin- cipled stand' over the wage claim sacked during amount to offset inflation, and namourness winter's seven week Ody the 30% figure references to this effort.

strike. "Unprincipled" clear vaged for Members of the Provincial the union for the sliding scale of Industrial Council wages nas product despise JournaliSts official Mike and full Bower argued tha since une Society Newspaper had T. Bailey forced the employers, Forman, to reinstate the sacked

NUJ

members would "'unprincipled" negotiate with thei In practice this policy could do nothing whatsoever to assist the sacked Nottingham journa- while it would effectively fIsts. demands abandon Ody jour- thousands charity of their empes ers at their employers at local level. Fake Lefts It was little wonder policy was such bankrupt espoused by the fake lefts in thi union and Boner-usty had argued or a argued for

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still in a distorted form. But the result Is a larde none of the which has for Call of the sliding uniting qualities scale. Hostility to these fakes was The claim includes a demand delegate for a 35 hour week inclusive of cower meal breaks which is in effect a dion in the working week.

working week up the claim, It also includes demands for rejected a fully Oxford Mail imoroved maternity ody. full transferable and pensions Ine lou naist: abolition of indentures. of wages against infla- second year running NUJ committees to embraced the crous call independent tor ar But many motions called To into the wages; one • all backing the delegate its content by itself had vague remarkable state- making The fight we reaky Want

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decent wage increase we've got several years within to be prepared to stand up and wait for it."!

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*Prepare to force out the Tories!

*For mass action against Tory anti-union laws!

*Strikes and occupations against the cuts!

*Build Councils of Action!

Saturday November 3, 10.30am-5pm

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call remained stration against the cuts. veteran cam daletel toki Education class, the call strike Comm drawn up a ttee Chairman, has meet series

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vicious as u assistance Year a of man do the mine 3 vice chairman. Alan Pearson who demanded by Environ. sy bor: ment Secretary Heseltine.

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After being rapped over the supplementary rate imposing Oxfordshire immediate instead making cuts in this financial year, Brigadier and his extreme right anxious cronies WIld prove their loyalty to Tory ideo ogy by driving under fives back into the home Grants axed Not content with closing 12 schools and 16 nursery nursery classes, they plan to axe grants to playgroups, play doventure grounds and holiday play- middle Two also and ten primary

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chop one of THere being the South Oxford Middle closure

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last year: following the 6 occupation of its nursery class children's home and old people's home will be closed and all old people forced to pay for home helps, whatever their financial situation dinners and to Schoo rer uced Stacos school transport reduced All these cuts will involve the loss of nearly 500 jobs and social services will decimate wit an area already cut bone by the tetely the cuts pro- previous cher: burd the gramme under Laboul services. government. battle has already But as Brigadier Streat- begun "there will armed very nasty plan to cut out nuisery educa- against pickets anc tv accepting tive

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members have • S week occupd tien of fine memories of that campaign to will, Union teaChers bureaucrat to say, again try every real fight, but siere is novoubt full well that the possible to evade • Janocave immense received the alle That dof the ratesal occupations and IsolaTed of the of the and its profit. Council and eering private sue pilar. Tine SCrUTINI The Brigadier also welcomed arent and trade union commi of the NALGO clear and forceful ttees will be

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AGAINST TORIES!

five years of Labour Returned to office after betrayals, the Tory government has immediately begun wielding a sharpened axe on jobs, conditions and social 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 and the pay rises to police and profiteering big business backers; mark only the prelude to increased state violence and an intensified army crack down in the accupied North of Ireland • leadership has made it clear that it The Callaghan-Healey will opppose any perspective other than settling down and meek- years of Tory devastation though they have once more dusted off their near.

speeches, Labour's "left-wing" MPs have socialist Callaghan continuc teaders, too tam set gut to estate have set out to establish a basis 10 and the Tory cabinet, paralielling their ant the korias alas ce with Winson and ther Cat laghan working class has experienced and overcome such topple Heath's union bashing governmen Callaghan's reactionary Phase 4 o smash througl I pay battles last winter.

wage controls in a series of monumental These experiences are not dead. They point to the way that jobs, social services and hard won union rights can be defendec against renewed Tory attacks revolutionary leadership is needed if the out a oincidice Labour traitors, the TUC collaborators and their hangers-on in to be exposed and pushed aside, and Party are remove the the mass struggles mobilised that. can - •етеат алю Such a leadership must fight day in and day out for a pro starting from today's transitional demands. which conditions and today's consciousness within the working class, lead workers. to grasp the necessity for socialist revolution.

And in taking up democratic demands-such as an end to sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role that must be played by the working class as the only consistent- capable of leading the struggle for the emancipation of mankind. an international basis-mobilising must : fight on anti-imperialist • anti-capitalist

•VOI

in Southern Africa or elsewhere through.

out the world, and drawing strength, and political lessons from which ousted the hated revolutionary upheavals such 8s that This means fighting for the reconstruction of the Trotsky.

ist Fourth International.

This method of approach; rejecting any descent to simple or concessions to any wing of the labour trade union militancy, bureaucracy, is the method fought for by the Workers Socialist Lo The next period will soo major class struggles in Britain.

principled, Marxist leadership is essential. Our movement thoug strong in programme remains small in numbers.

JOIN US and take forward the struggle for socialism!

Ellesmere Port workers Talbot strikers Shipyards-the first casualty SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 12, 1979 The strike to regain living Vauxhall's, standards at Ellesmere Pori plant comes at a time when the company is suffering from a series of teething troubles over the 1980 model of the Cher- ette, which came into pro- duction after the summer vacation four weeks When the first cars came down the tracks new parts missing and workers nad o88n told to get on with working now the operations without neces- DarTs ThAT necoes complex sub-assembly in many cases. Bedevilled Needless to say the track was out the topping altogether for of shift. izeable part the ounce unen t car sebius lo have been bedevilled by cock incompetent suppliers who have sent

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smashed headlamps resulting in a farcical production To compound this state of affairs there do cars shorto: or caran vira comoo nents-possibly caused by the There build up shoveo no Ine cacoark. von indefinite period, awaiting parts.

im not this back tand the claim flat-rate leave ment on living "shorter* cost working week; time half day (sic) at Christmas; was submitted with militant from bluster (continued) and Cartsdyke on the Clyde on a "care and maintenance" basis ine rose or an

GOSWING

1981 is no more than a cynical fraud. The crisis in shipbuilding is one 9% World trade WiTh the worlds fleet laid up this time last few indications year and o1al U•turn it sioul. As recession will deepens. further decimation the industry. at Robb Caledon I ne

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aware are well That talk "possibly oil-related work and repairing" ship will not 550 jobs стеате and, even if it did, that would the loss of another mean •o exisune oos.

UNION DUES

fight penalty clauses

T*C'VU

6 760

BRANCH

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The company's final offer o an increase of an average 13½% plus time and a third for holi.

days adds up to a supposed 17% average increase. The strings attached to it, amount to an unpre- cedented attack ane rents. The company have demanded: (i) An increase in producti- to be accepted as desirable vity and (ii) working. with unofficial breaks; flexibility and (ili) Greater easier transter worKers cover for shortages of labour, absenteeism etc.; and (iv) the right of manage.

ment to coley workas t scan on sections that are in unofficial dispute. This final clause is only an The so-called "promise of British Shipbuilders that there will be no compulsory Calcies less. That the management and union leaders at are aiming divide Joli from announcement on the gate conference of a new order which worth millions one of the few 'yards to make a profit last year. The obvious intention of me order to ouncerano rather than to one of the yards more seriously in need of orders tea hipyard worked Is to head united ane struggle. latest capitulation Oshall

AT THE TOP...

Picketing at Ellesmere Port during an earlier dispute extension of the present state of attalrs. TGWU ShoD steware clause stating that any sections on be manner do. where ar instruction to return to normal by stewards committee, is ignored!

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whetner mis nas ever been cont in practice, the clause is there be and gives the rightwing dominated convenor an enormous potential and brow- beating sections back into line.

ne cause Theretore. mere seeks to strengthen and make explicit already existing the right-wing stewares committee. ano alve the management the power to the stewards arms into twist should not be seen in isolation from the U.C.S. crisis in 1972 Then, as now, the ootions were either to accept the cuts or go forward in a defence of 10 06 which occome rallying point in the struggle to oust the Tories 1972 the Communist Party leadersnip of neid, Alrilt and Barr in U.C.S. consciously avoided by their spurious tactic of the "work in' instead occupation and a challenge to Tory rule. Whilst the Tories proceeded moremant me terns or te Ridley Report to decimate the

U.C.S

Reid, and Barr manoeuvred to sell off Jonn browns bargain price to Marathon, the Texas-based oil rig construction

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Page 11 stand firm "We're them meeting of telling we mass won't discuss incentive the Talbot workers from Shree: UnTH we sort out me 0:s8 ate Stoke plant in Coventry last ""And when we do discuss Friday showed once again he people the dis we'll be their determination to their fight for WOrk Wul implementing in practice. continue from increased productivity.

But the strike was not a prin.

increased wages. "If their incentive scheme is cipled this the Talbot management have worth E5 much is it resooise to us, part or ine convenors-auer worth the ocen sene ind forced them tiate with?' letters to each striker giving the Visits imoression that monev is on the up in arms SeLlel S al C over being downgraded. hole it oniv convenor. As their action brought the would negotiate; me meetino neare a resor lay-offs for whole of successful visits to a wide threat But at the meeting the conv- of factories in order to enors

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meeting management's fraudulent offer raise financial support menders voted the recommendation "They keep talking about £5 Davi conveno Edwards drew out the fact that of their convenor John Turnbull extr the taking Talbot strikes reject are taNt strike action. The recommenda. the schemes includes! place The same ume as unos tina in suite were not won't in other firms. They what *bils. Stere not staying ing 5,500 the £5 unanimously ge1 we'll have to do to the bills Wor principle gore to membership. suspect we'll have and pride the Gwu convenor, sonn Farrel, however, went to the staying out so we can attord if man members wanted a rat pay those bills." The •av until ine oresent aoreemen expired in a couple of weeks support convenors recommendation continue the strike, with only about 50 Management turned round. with their usual contempt and votes aramst the slightest concession at the nearb! refused The strike Ryton plant also to be ve despite attempts through ACAS Meanwhile the AUEW has had problems with their skilled Tine Ene members who, enraged at having Confed witch utter last year during their fight Talbot take have striKers

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scabbed on this year's action by steps up with other workers in struggle-such as the unskilled members in a at Ellesmere workers bid to even minded retallation . the score. -no cal nationa Despite these difficult condi- strike action the Confed tions, Vauxhall claim and forge a united fight to voTed Tor acTIon which dacer them. alongside Talbot ACTT leader Alan Sapper: detend living standards (Chrysler) workers at the fore. Inere must also be a deter as we go to press. the signs to Taleft carto close the ports front of the pay struggits in t that the Independent are Talbot cars coming in from car industry. engover successful France struggle digging for further in and have Vauxhall would set the rank Tile of the pay sh run tess miliages to fight protonganion SoUl battle that has blacked management. Ellesmere Port workers. they press strike leaders must build on this strike must be fully supported with official blacking action and for job-slashing new tech. strength. at Vauxhall's other nology and speed-up. plants. From front page An important difference this company. time round is that the Stalinists Since then the Clydebank men have faced a verv uncertair nave been ung•e to create l future and are 'left' smokescreen the way every saddled that they did in 1972 with agreement Reid has left the Communist contain a no Meanwhile the reduced rartv ano unsuccesstuly rar labour force at Govan and Scot- Labour _Party candidate down Dunder East at stoun were screwer General Election Airlie has through the removal of demarc ation lines. become 8 Tu! time oicial at Go vaC section of the workforce the engineering union. persuaded were even despite being As for Barr during their rectly WOrK convenor at scotstoun marine he has prudently kept a very Glasgow rair holday to nelp complete an order. throughout betrayals and misleader- recent campaign ship of 1972 prepared the way The fight in the yards is far for that capitulation it must be led by revolutionary to be successful, ane aise vote for the scandalous last to lift sanctions and leave week leadershio which has arasped thi lessons of these struggles.

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The shorter working week is now at the centre of the enginee- ring wage claim. Negotiations opened by the employers last Friday, over 90% soli- faced with Turkey campaign 100 About people

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Crises of acute econ- In the face and omic montreal crises, The Turkish bourgeoisie has been forced to abandon any type of "democratic forms of rule and instese to took esperatery or means to suppress the workers Already in 19 cities martial Workers Socialist Leagu

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SHORTER HOURS

of engineering But also reflecting the be a major advance. darity workers in the first of the solidarity of the action, The pressure is on the employer. They are clinging President Terry two day strikes.

AUEW

The EEF was prepared to Duffy told them that the on because they are able to make improved cash Confederation were

HOL

scop some producuion gong all under conditions of offer-providing the unions interested in a simple. cash were prepared to drop their settlement. deoressed order books dut by the to the economic crisis. for shorter hours commitment demands and longer holidays. employers reduce "Inundated" working week was he said, a precondition to the unions Duffy has new round of entering fight to the finish" Alex negoulations. Perry, the Secretarv of the This uncharacteristic Confederation, has said the naTO HE WHEReL action "may well be stepped Duffy has brought a new up further claim. dimension to Duffy has also said that the Confed has been "inun- 'Shopping list' dated" with demands for For too long the 35 hour all-out strike action.

SAVE JOBS

week been The Confed leadership

SCOL

simply a part of a 'shopping should stop forcing workers quickly dropped to fight with one hand be-

FIGHT

with cash compromise. hind their backs. Now a strike oi nearly

UNEMPLOYMENT

2m workers confronts the All-out EEF with a shorter working Call all-out . strike

MIANTED

the number one as week now! The claim could now Birmingham engineers It that the be won in ful and a heavs true blow dealt against the EEF Wardicu and their backers Thatcher to "a move towards" down and Joseph. the 35 hours; but atter no change in the working week in the engineering industry law is in force to suppress the for 15 years a break through the vorkers movement •the 40 hour barrier would has Kurdish movement. which deeply influenced BAAn struggles Kurds Iran. Defend Iran Speakers | explained further how the fascist danger has deve.

of loped in asult Turkey as a r , of Stali. nist socialists! Turkey who uncritically support bourgeois party Portraying the "democratic' ster KIr as Tine to fascism, they subord. ative! As we go to press there is dants were sentenced to death, the independence of the nate life imprisonment still no further news of the working class behind it and thu charges arising

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disarm the masses in the face of fourteen members of the HKS's support for the struggles roths rical car. (Socialist Iranian

HKS

Iranian women and national campaign on Party) Workers currently the demand minorses vor abreciatic gues facing a retrial in Ahwaz at inst une An energetic campaign the hands of the Islamic pickets and protests to Iranian generals and regime. working to Have bros the first trial-at which surised the regime into a tempo.

class uroven me unne• wontou rary retreat from implementing workers organisations and allowed-twelve of the defen- these savage sentences, but they armed workers defence against fascist attacks. vemain in acute dare ol UnIon stanches other Labour and student move-

FUND

bodies immediately ment must take up this tight and send tele rams to the nan emissy - doese dina the imme- the

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diate • oldest members 810 LITt With the absence of our treasurer on a well-earned repression of Kurdish and other holiday, this is your Editor making a special appeal for national Iran. organisations to action on our September FUND - which is our first but vital £750 target. laST attempt at the new, ambitious, oxtor Nus branch, which sent Recent weeks have seen a number of postal subscribers a telegram calling for the release sending us small but welcome donations with their ren- 'of the HKS prisoners and an Iran. ewals. Perhaps some other regular readers could help out with a donation each month to raise the cash needed for us to survive the current round of inflation?

Picket Every little helps, as the old lady said Iranian Embassy The totat so far is only £73.00. There is a long way to Saturday Sept. 15 go. Hand your donation to your friendly Socialist Press 12 am-1pm seller, or post it to: called by Association of Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 Kurdish Students Abroad 1HR, where we promise to find it a good home!

Hal, London NW5 1HR for the Workers Soci Repression as usual in Ireland Edwardes 25,000 BL jobs to go After weeks of rumblings BL chairman and rumours Michael Edwardes has of the spelled out some firm's plans for closures and mass sackings, 13 plants are to be affected Canley, Park with plants Royal and 'majo Castle Bromwich' closed total cost of 25,000 job: &L a over the next two years. But union leaders have pointed out every 1 job in the carries with it ur

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to 5 jobs in supply, transport and other industries. BL's cut- backs are therefore a bombshel Last weekend Moss Evan: noisily declared that to cut 50,000 BL jobs would prompt *oody ravoluton. Now that 25,000 jobs are to go BL workers must demand to

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intend to take. asking union offi- Go tainted cials necessary revolution" is a bit optimistic. But as a first step threatened adopt an immediate plants must and oral auct national supporting action must be called. PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report Evans As Irish Prime Minister Lynch grovelled to That- cher, and the British media screwed the final crocodile tears out of the Mount- batten assassination last week, the forces of British repression got back into the swing of things by arresting an American television crew and three members of Sinn Fein. Journalist Pierre Salinger, a former US Presidential aide held for 12 hours at the RUC'S • Casterea r rogation centre though he was spared the beating and routine torture metee

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Danny. Morrison and Sinn Fein members Joe Austin and Richard McAuley lucky. however: can they held for up to 72 hours without "Pre- charge under the so-called terrorism

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under ving ickeroung of violent repression by British imperialism in well by press Illustrated Irish Repub releasi cAn internaton manice caree August 25-the week of the Mountbatten assassination.

extreme British army against Catholic youth-none of which have been British press. Bullets One casualty. a sixteen vear old Belfast boy Stephen Mont- still recovered ague, after trom a coma 4WV •cino cownee •va bastic outler at a range of four feet, and then kicked in the head and beater before left soldiers toI (LoyalISI dred has • a tractured skull and a tracheotomy had to him breathing Another plastic bullet victim : 18 year old John Mulvenna WaS nit ov one on the тorene8 8 point blank range while standin in the hallway of his own hom He suffered which TraCTure required over 100 stitches.

And Andrew from young married Lore no suwes ron nea trouble, was grabbed by a baton wielding group of soldiers from the Kings Own Scottish Bord erers. canescater unconscious before waking up in RUC deten- tion and finding himself charged with 'riotous behaviour'.

Careerists Such violence is an everyday faced the nationalist threat population in the occupied.si Counties •Yet the careerist touts of the

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claim to speak for the Catholic minority have just not on the army but on the InA which-for all its political weak- nesses-has spearheaded the : list rule. Alluaing to tne mount batten assassination, the SDLP asks: "Who would want to live in an Ireland created by peoplo engaged in such acts?" Humiliating The SDLP's answer is clear: governed exploitation, brutally imposed the boots, batons and bullets the British imperialist army How many aritish worker meekly accept imitar humiliating conditions Sheaton woe Too soon The fight must be redoubled force the British troops out to Lof Irelandl