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Socialist Press no. 182

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WITCH-HUNTERS

PRESS

Bill Sirs A heavy blow was struck at the right wing

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bureaucracy last week as left wing candidate Bob Fryer was re-elected convenor of BL's Cowley Assembly Plant with greatly increased majority in a shop floor ballot. His 1,173-577 victory extremely high port of the 3,500 TGWU mem- bers in the plant was even more significant, came i we teetn or a desperate witch-hunt organised jointly by the extreme right wing and the Communist Party. Recognising that Fryer's ight wing opponent Jim Barsol lad no chance of winning mas set out instead to alienate Bob therefore produced a leaflet designed spuriously to connect Fryer and deputy con- Alan hornett with the bombing tactics of the Provisional IRA. Factory gates drawn up in A trement. the name of one of the three

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branches on the plant, the 5/837 branch, was handed one po workers on the gates of plant. the Keterring national demonstration held in Oxford October 2o nast year, it declared Sinn that: "Provisional Sinn Fein is the political front of the Provisional Provisional Sinn Fein (a legal members will be

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Kranen to organisation) aware that this march was greet- defence ed with hostility wend and Oxford Trade 01 UxIora, had voted to Union Council refused to demonstration. support it. Many TGWU mem.

been have Defend rights maimed or made homeless jobless because of Provisional It is IRA activity in Northern Ireland ol course even while criticising the tactics (original England of the IRA, the right of the Irish emphasis). Silent of course about the rights is defended in the labour IGWU members maimed. killed made homeless or jobless by the British army out that Fryer, and the Loyalist muider gangs the chairman six counties of ireland, the the leaflet went on to make the chairman of the 5/293 Branc allegation that: "Mass executions of TGWU Branch resolution. working have been TGWU totally carried out. That resolution as far opposes such violence, Was Bob Fryer; then being Oxford accused of being a member of

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demonstratistico Comedi conducting such executions" of fellow trade unionists? totally disassociate. itself from No, crime' in the eyes of such action and deplores it in the 5/837 Branch leadership was the strongest possible that in a debate on the Oxford In

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District Committee Branch leaflet declared fight "The Branch Committee of pricipied defence the 5/837 Car Assembly Branch

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 182 * 16 January 1980 * 20p Two weeks into the steel strike it is obvious that steel workers increasingly are confident that they have the power to extract a substan- tial wage settlement out of British Steel management.

Such is the militancy from the ranks that even nont wind ISTC leader Bill Sirs has had to admit that he longer can no hope to settle for "Our members would not have it", he declared ruefully, calling instead for an ower arouno u. The fighting example set by

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(...) fully supports the District march, and Committee in condeming Black- the 5/833 Black.

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Branch's Bookshop) branch which on Danners involvement participate in the ask: grounds Officers the Senior Steward and oppose the District Committee's vital that, "We feel that the member- ship on this Plant is owed an uner explanation. "Be sure to vote this week to elect responsible hile sealet went on to point Steward" to ether Of course no socialist should 5/55 be surprised when extreme right Thornett, AvaT wing forces attempt to witch- hunt them for defending the against 5/83' right of the Irish oco oe to struggle for self-determination.

declared Posters support from an Such witch-hunts will Fein Inn naturally intensify at times of elections. Committee Indeed a few weeks earlier, the manner" anonymous right the • 5/837. wing group mass leafleted the factories with thousands printed poster carrying photo- Steel: spread the strike!

the oil saikencombined with Thousands of intransigence to result in the remaining steel 13.1% wage offer. unions joining the strike after the rejection of theil pay create a huge confrontation Stimulating . use 15,000 army scabs. And, under the pressure,

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also seems certain to cal out its mombers in the private sector. And in But clearly the power of the strike is also stimulating worker!

with other industries to look 5%-with-strings towards action on their the table, claims. tor a strike is building up graphs, addresses 'Trades Council, teléphone numbers for an all-out drive to secure the Oxtord trade unionists who had election of extreme right winger.

supported the Sinn Fein demon- Jim Barson as convenor stration, an obvious attempt witch-hunt stir violence because of the prompt action of against them. Bob Fryer, of TGWU stewards deliberate interven-

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tion by the 5/837 Branch into and night shifts within hours of the Cowley the leaflet being distributed.

election not written by the right It was wing. written Unanimous Ton' Gallagher -a member the Communist Party! There followed a unanimous Gallagher was appointed by vote or tient solt stewaras and the right wing a 120-7 vote on the day shift as soon secre tary of the 5/837 Branch for the condemn the duration of the election.

(the wort members of the 5/837 branch, produced the scurrilous leaflet. of whom Two out of the three Party members!) people who distributed it on the gates And, hours later, workers on Party the shop floor registered thei Conmunist members. profound contempt Gallagher himself had been by witch aunter the one who whelmingly for Fryer ' raisea ne Issue oi Fein march the The result District Committee and in at

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Declaration of Intert" Fighting for a workers' government Page 8 water and Now is the time for action sewage workers seem headed for strike action to improve on a defend living standards, confront the Tory offensive on A strike in this crucial are: oos and social services would almost at once disrupt struthe must. be takible Wherever supplies and services-and could taken up for formation of councils the Tories proceed with plans to action, drawing delegates from all working class organisations, coordinate, and catcha Feeling for strike struggles now strenother underway against the Tories, BL, where the mobilise defend jointly November pay review still hangs pickel Tients . and create con- insulting ditions defeat and bring company offer down the Thatcher government.

shop floor feeling Steel: see back page fryer addressing a mass meeting at Cowley Stalinists attack Irish solidarity repeatedly attempted as bicparanon victimise Fryer along with other key Cowley militants Fryer and Thornett were failed only bureaucratically fron the plant leadership in 1974 by who called a meeting TGWU Midlands Regional Une on both day Committee. But in 197/ they were re shop floor ballot- electea bi be immediately only faced with disciplinary IGWU aimed at driving Fryer, Thornett and the 'Cowley 9' out ot the union moves were finally nece defeated last Fryer's re witch-hunt now demonstrates once committee stand arall ormeit ed Communist against bureaucracy and for interests of the clas. w windle Cal Tally inflict serious

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anc defeats on the right wing and for •LIt their Stalinist allies. voting over- Text of leaflet, p.11 is a further blow have

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Patriotic Front leaders rely on Rhodesian state repression Paze :

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of, pro- With gangs Muzorewa thugs reportedly through rampaging LOWIl ships in Zimbabwe beating up political opponents, the Rhodesian airforce army, and auxiliaries continue to press home the advantage handed to them by House "settle- Lancaster ment". Over 20,000 Patriotic Front supporters are now herded into areas. And British the assem bly governor Lord soames has b-ver.

the state forces a free hand to those terrorise Hulac that have arenias refused accept une lulas surrender "negotiated" by their leaders Mugabe and Nkomo.

Murdered 13 guerrillas were last week murdered in cold blood-as they made their way peacefully to an assembly camp. Monday And Soames last authorised a fuil-scale air strike designed odtrace 43(- strong guerrilla camp: the action only 15 minutes We have was called off conflict would netore it was cue lo lane place paid for in frenzied after eTTOTLS imperialist fighters. commanders Patriotic forced their followers to surren- naleed Front leaders, the forcible herd- der their arms. of disarmed Socialist Press has consistent- the long Iv argued that bly amounts interests or lne belty boulgouls other nationalist leaders credentials for a place in a black directly Front raleiul opposed to the interests of th bourgeois Zimbabwe. workers and peasants them, Zimbabwe.

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India's crisis not over overwhelming The Gandhi's victory of Indira Congress-Indira party in the elections means that. she will feel stronger in returning to the dictatorial powers for "law and order") as she says that capitalism requires.

The results do not show, as claims; that . Tne western "'India is ungovernable" What they. show is something showed Lentn ane

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long time ago; that the domin- imperialism and atoli economically CriSiS over backward countries means Endl the national capitalist class of cannot even Socialist Party. unose countric allow bourgeois democracy: Dictatorship conTiCt Witn movement whose energies interest pay- massive „' ne the Indian by Ganolt payable ReNES economy to imperialism nave to of the be extracted through the exploi- They workers

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TaLion and concentrate this means a rate of peasants: way of running capitalism.

exploitation that must produce is why the capit- were SitOWI a evore. i Nal nothing to tne alists have Intuiatec arctalul" corruption in so many of the under- Hence the return of the developed countries. dy nasty. introduced Gandhr tirsi MiTS The real dic- "Emergency rOWerS tatorshin in response to a strike movement of the working class.

She was finally removed in a for the Doil cal and interests massive electoral ociedi years ago replaced by Ine ane Dedsaule sole India. coalition Jaltald to the policy opposition The disarray. Emergency Powers. the extreme right tarsugh to the from a coaltion Suci da aval Muzorewa South African army stressed that this the the unchecked oper- Beitbridge, eventuay "auxiliar- the blood of anti- ation Muzorewa's ies" and the police action of the actually break the Patriotic state from the demands and pressures and of the most Pr rank multant and file. This nationalist leadership is nothing presenting their iself trom cess the process Calicalubs ant- merst struggle in a bid to qualify for a government place in a pro-imperialist govern- the presence of ment. Gandhi been exposed in the eyes of the These people, as they had to The various splits masses run capitalism, soon came into the CPl have gained some of its upoe cpane ly ad working-class in Parlia- released after the overthrow of biggest secono • ally ment. But it has repeatedly joined The Janata itself used some "against dic- "Ernergency cross-class alliancts Powers split .started to tatorenio. ane ooks as lnoudl it will now join with bourgeois owr Lnel opposition. uner Darlies id The CP|(M) is so craven tha1 the Daily Telegraph • nar masses odmite dusiness cosinusie ort and expioltation. community Gandhi от їве busines. Bengal, which it controls.

During the power crisis the orobiem • they suggested Calcutta last year establishment of an alternative over for the Indian masses that fights nanolno Haustey private enterprise as a solution moc serden more torceo Tne WorKIe towards imperialism she will be class by struggling for a workers driven towards dictatorship.

government The demand must go up tol workers' The workers movement is in the partier from the bourgeoisie and fight Stalinist CP! was and peasants supporter of Mrs Gandhi's dictatorship that it has government in inald only the possibility of grievous This has not been without a the anger of PF militants defeat.

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an lyon ol tne

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and peasants are clearly on the SeCUOn increase. natonasm nowever caca can placing capitalist AnU. "stability" ana pronits berore thr leadere will be oresto me interests of the masses, the- today. even more neavil)

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Fraud repressive apparatus of th state to crush their former sup In any porters. the The harsh material condi by Muzorewa make that daily confront tions workers and peasants 'elecuon Lall Ulall total fraud only .exacerone

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tion and ballot rigging will play conflict interests with the nationalist leadership. the Patriotic Front No boom the missing with which •Doortunlcs The and finan tently by financial links have been re-opened after the lifting the revolutionary much or ancuons eo alternative economic boom reformism. the follow, but rather point to creamed off by those capitaliss who can take advantage of the and in the towns and rural areas current economie snortazes the international organisation cab tasi bitter reality for class must be undertaken.

recession is a África the workers oi southern arms. ol for it compounds their Sull CEi must be retamnea. bul tne anmee brought by the ultra- struggle must be pursued not as migrant of the main thrust exploitatior labour system that prevails.

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Facing possible must be «gort- term prospect of a 1 vicious white direction of of „łoco end de olzalusallulk. necessity of repression class bourgeois nationalist wolly workers and Leader re the control peasants olicce Way the forward by the elections Stem "rO ming from Lancaster House, but mec cruelt Khomeini struggles to retain power Convulsions are gripping citizen Khomeini. Iran stretch of as every to have Khomeini's reactionary regime still struggles to keep falling-off a grip on state power. demonstrations The conflicts violent "Islamic Republic'. Tabriz have given this Gramatio examole. and political continuing crisis of the slamid Republic' Knomem before between the Hostility elections of 25 January. followers of Khomeini and the of Ayatollah dosCiCc suDDor leIS tionary Shariat-Madari has now reached a stage of virtual warfare in the capital city of Azerbaijan.

nocaisiul cross-purposes: Dozens have been killed, and dential hundreds more injured in battles over station and the demonstrations a saton between to be firmly over the last two weeks his next by Shariat-Madari's followers raise Onl, 'Death to Khomeini, but thei opposition does not represent d US em bassy progressive alternative repressien tof the political and ever confusion and vacillation.

present unstable government in Afganistan The democratic content of ing chaos sealed by its leaders within the bourgeois Crowd nartow religious and parlia- hvsterl: democrati. locar. With mentarianism. the offers Iranian workers out and peasants. • no way can 01 „TeA oniv Too *heir presen colonti And reality the politica canvassed by Shariat ¡alist invasion o

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advance People's wadari's vusiiu Republican Party • nave no exis eraty inside Iran today tence The Azerbaijani Ayatollah is face the problems nimsei under nouse arrasi hostility Qom, where his supporters have Wit Fores loyal do his celles engaged c ashes violence istanan SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesdas 16 January 1980 of workers, poor

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in peasants and renters guerrilla armies The electoral victory of any *Cadres with military train DeLLy VOUlCUIS ing to buld workers militlas 1l reserkino cain in ziteer tor whatever for the towns and rural areas under the control of independent organisations of workers *For without compensation of all land, factories, mines and banks *For workers' management event the moves of of industry and largescale agri :Rhodesian state and threats calute *For a constituent assembly of democratically elected dele „lsciNd and Whee mnEma workers the .peasant. dissolution of the capitalist state Workers and militants within apparatus .mUSt. *Build a revolutionary party election, sieze the part of reconstructed inadver Fourth International created im perlansin and in leadership, working class the politics of Within the assembly camps nocoenuct the working the guerrillas sterile of guerrillaism; -instead placed under democratic .the working *No handing over of arms *No surrender to imperialist construction of Nkomo Soviet-type-com- and producing groning ist of obstacles to it Khuzestan, Thic antadonism. now scenis precarious authority spread to Tehran itself But : Khomeini's where there are also signs of a can still be ot. bersona

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not yet any ortaliscu Khomeini even in the mas opposition from its real historic ,boosting the , the working class, whose . c81066y crucial in the over A combination of ill-health strendtn wa. throw of the Shah. despair has driven fortnight's Denied leadership tne ores centid 'Revolu. Deprived the DONtCa Council! ane Iranian ministers continue to act with utio nary TOr CEs frequently proletariat has not come forward to defend its indepen- one interests against candidate hent -sad cent clas. announces the imminent nation- Islamic reaction and threats of imperialist restoration. trade, only of this time i gracę for _contra cte cne

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colleagues, and so must be nearing its Khomeini bloody end The Iranian economy is in a Alongside this administrative disruption charade, the occupation of the state navoc continues to throw brought about. in tne struceles against the Shah and worsened figure into by the subsequent actions of the Now the Soviet invasion of imperialists ocer colu- introduced pounded by the economic they deserve new disturbance into the grow- bonicies name) "Revolutionary Council possessed by 3,000,000 chant now i nere dr t the figure God's help, we shall wipe . unemployed an0 but rapidly day by day. Soviets' wonder that Khom- religious leaders and their aides IS nc eini should retire to Qom for a ac ten renewed threats now posed to break. oravers ane their independence by an imper- fasting, the Ayatollah may.be some time invoking able to pass counter dei ti Allah on those the wrath of soviet •ureau the leaders who succeed him. For the question is no longer Against this background, the Khomeini can establish whether but what com- his dictatorship o anete Kurdistan, , further Baluchistan and forces will strip him of the last sabota e

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By Adam Westoby Afghanistan has been news since the in the left-wing 'revolu- army tion' in April. Demonstrations in Kabul culminated in the ármy 27 coup A pri .. L021 President toppled i Muhammad Daud. It installed a government Muhammad Nour under Taraki, run in effect by his small Communist Party. then the British Since press has emitted periodic noises • of alarm that the country is being 'taken over' by the Soviet Union and/or succumbing to Communist revolution: What. is the background to this situation? Afghanistan is one of the underdeveloped LOSt countries in the world. Virtual chattels It is larger than France but population will a only about 16 millions. Almost 90% of Afghans are peasants (i.e. nomads), though much of the land is owned by a feudal aristo- cracy. Less than a quarter of land is used, since much of eastern Afghanistan formed of the Himalayas. Average annual income is not much over $100 per person. Almost half those born die in childhood. Women remain virtual chattels. Fewer than 10% of people can read ar write.

In the villages the hold of Moslem priests has been it virtually unchallenged; weighs far more heavily the of "the than central government. Localised Afghanistan's structure temains as it has been for centuries: What SOCLALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 January 1980 Imperialist alarm as Afghan coup consolidates Reprinted unchanged from SP112, August

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1978 Soviet for • example, remained effectively illegal while the Union Soviet cultivated ultra-friendly relations both control with King Mohammad Zahir and, after he was over- ‹thrown with his Soviet Union's with Afghan- totem ent istan-and the reactionary when impact of Stalinism on peoples became tennis balls Soviet policy-go back to in the 'great game' between the earliest days. Tsarist Russia and the The first Soviet leader to British empire in India organise military aid to help In the period after World *Afghanistan resist British War ll the Soviet Union has imperialism (Leon Trotsky great and devoted in 1919) did so as part of about resources (since thé Bolsheviks" general drive 1954) influencing to to help the Moslem masses Afghanistan. of Asia and the Near East Neutrality' emancipate unemscikes But by 1928, with the She counter advance of Stalinism in the o the attempts by US an Soviet * Unien, the Afghan mili- King Amarullah was the LO USSR's tarity encircle the first monarch to be received on a state visit to Moscow.

south-wesl through the Baghdad Pact treaties of 1954-55, follow- •Progressive monarch ing The CIA's overthrow •Fifty years almost to the Messadegh s -nationalist day before the coup in regime in Iran: April Pravda year Union was The Soviet (already transformed into Troops in Kabul then threatened by a ring of Stalin's. obedient mouth- US bases in Turkey, Iran, piece) welcomed him as one economic advance there is is Iraq (until the 1958 revol- of. the most progressive ution") and Pakistan extremely localised. monarchs. in the wast as he Afghanistan's pro-Soviet Kabul suffers traffic jams arrived from his grand tour and evening 'but "neutrality, seried 101112 of. western European Kruscher and Bulganin's outside the capital there are a _ handful of proper only ceremonial visit in December 1955, was the Todus. break in this chain. greatly •Temalas.. divided: there are-over "There 'doubt" mutually incomprehensible "that if Kruschev recalled, living languages. the Afghans hadn't become our Iriends, the Americans would have managed to ingratiate with tnemselves their 'humanitarian aid' as they call it he amount of money gratuitous spent on assistance to Afghanistan is drop in ocean une compared to the price we would have had to pay to counter the threat American military basè on Afghan territory Kruschev Remembers p.466 Since then, the

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has been the main provider Taraki of aid-especially with road- This backward very building and the exploita- country is set at a strategic crossroads, with over 1,000 ol natural gas in une -northern border area. miles. of northern frontier And, even before the with the USSR. a similar coup this year, the USSR length Pakistan, with provided 90%. of equip- major border with Iran and ment and training, and tongue of mountainous territory reaching out to thousands of 'advisers', for the armed (Up torces. to touch ima 1956, air Atghanistan's force consisted of a dozen Poverty stricken biplanes of World War vintage!) Under these conditions, Throughout more than politics in Afghanistan- twenty years of close and relations including the of capitals. class forces within peacetul coexis- Amanullah did have it-are policy of modernisation and tence', however, the Soviet necessarily shaped by the pressures of much greates ¡cauersm never tea to ao mild reforms. other than use Afghanistan powers-military, political But in 1929 he was over- as a 'buffer state' and economic thrown by a British-backed This is inevitable for, a tribal-religious revolt country in such a position, (though not before rescind- Effectively illegal so poverty stricken that its attempt to stay in powe ing reforms the national income ($2 billion year) approximately Thereafter relations with what the US spends on dry They never gave any real the Soviet Union were cool food. support to movements until the 1950s. Afghanistan has been last few years, against the religious despot- In the 'buffer state? at least since ism that ruled the country.

however, quite the early 19th The Communist Party, pressures have come to bear.

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Since the mid-1960s, there have been sporadic strikes and demonstrations soups odorkers, may students in Kabul. New importance And the Indian Ocean has taken a new importance

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balance, the getting military facilities in South,: Arabia and north Africa, "and" the US east i building new the bases in Indian Ocean and attempt- ing to reconstruct a Pakistan -Iranian military axis The Soviet Union has for years supported the Afghan claim Pushtunistan: state to unite the Pushtus in Afghanistan (the biggest nationality in the country) with those in eastern Pakis tan, and landlocked give Afghanistan thěreby the USSR) a corridor to the Indian Ocean. Pakistan and the US, of course, oppose the scheme.

Before he was ousted President Daud conducted close talks with the Pales- timan government (both President Bhutto and, after he fell, military dictator Zia) on the Pushtunistan claim. This well may •have Moscow caused to think they needed in Afghanistan more energetic weight to American power.

In any event, the army- Communist Party coup April got the full support of the

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and caused the CP factions their

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divisions. Thus when papers such the Daily Telegraph Tory inform. their Icaders that Afghanistan is 'going Communist' "because

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infested -with thousands of Soviet advisers, they are not pointing to anything new.

Soviet influence has been strong for years. From the British press such alarm is ironic: for over well hundred years British imper- ialism unsuccessfully tried to "pacify Afghanistan for use against Russia. The ignominious retreat from Kabul' (1842) stands as a monument to British military incompetence dressed up as public-schoo heroism What the alarmist reports in the very western press probably do signal is the desire of the US and Britain the Taraki torpedo and recover some influence (if not a client state) in Afghanistan.

Parallel They will be prepared to mobilise the most backward of and feudal elements society to do this Not only do they wish to retrieve their strategic they also worried at the possibility of revolutionary impact on the working masses of the neighboule states government has promised land reform at the exact same moment as the Shah's dictatorship in next-door Iran being shaken by mass opposition Neither the Soviet Union nor the Afghanistan govern- ment: have policy to "sovietise the country. But ihey cannot leave it as it is. There is a paralles with earlier events in Tibet, the even more backward coun try at the other end of the Himalayas, during the 1950s. The workers. Chinese reclaimed Tibet in state 1950 (as region) but for over eight years Peking Stalinism peacefully coexisted with the serf-owning tyranny of the Dalai Lama and his Buddhist aristocracy. Strong pressure Only when the

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sponsored 'indepen- an dence' tevolt their against authority, , in 1959, did the Chinese Stalinists destroy the old order and impose- for example-any significant land reforms. been Tibet has now assimilated' 'structurally the Chinese Stalinist state.

Although Afghanistan, of course, is not legally part of Union, thẹ Soviet the Moscow for • to bring it under firmer and more direct control is real and strong. so the But doing Stalinists and their allies in the state machine are fearful of arousing the masses. unleashing The of real struggles-on the land and for national rights-would they release forces could not easily bring • under control or use as a bargain- ing counter with imperial-

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'Fighting the cuts'-TUC style Page 4 Postal workers have been struggling front paths up with an additional burden in recent weeks: a package of TUC publicity material cir- culated to selected union bureaucrats and branch officers. Thudding through letter boxes all over the country have expensiviely-produced come plastic TUC wallets bearing the proud title

"TUC

Campaign for Economic and Social Advance' Inside are a range of metal and stick-on badges, and single codes OL Dosters. one leaflet and two car stickers with the slogan "For- meaningless ward to de ous, not back to Lit ed cariboard aqad Brily- titled cardboard Brief- case", purportedly notes on "a series of briefing he TUC's issues raised by Campaign". Inform TUC In reality, it contains only one. winds reader things -such as

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paper; your Councillor. "and TUC about what Inform the you are doing" One thing is clear: the TUC itself is spending a great deal of our more ma lulue ana wars- fact that it is do cor abover the that it is doing absolutely nothing to fight the cuts at local or natiorial level. pathetic gestures of a nation 9 and among at action n demonstration lunchtime meetings!-on May designed to allow the their demolition of social services. But while the TUC continues strike action block serious policies- and occupation to union cuts, Ill alty bureaucrats will be disabpointed that its American-style synthet- propaganda splurge has gone off at half-cock: after all, there are flashy cardboard cam- no paign hats to wear! Saturday 15 December saw the first conference of Newham Against Cuts. initiative of the Newham Nort East Constituency Labour Party and the West Trades Council. ine conterence was attended by about 50 delegates represent- Party the ing Labour branches,

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Newham branches, Women's Group: and North East London Polytechnic Students Union.

The Council Labour Group was not represented, introductory report the central contict came out sharply. No rate increases, Caroly NALGO, Sikorski, for out- Newham after nine recent curs mae Dire Labour Council, rejected policy of rate increases to main- tamn services She correctly argued that the effects of a rate rise is simply to cuts pass on ine impact of to To e Preserving local services woule reduce the this way spending power of the ratepay- ing households. The opposite position was taken Graham by Lane, is for the NUT. agreeing to a 'no cuts' position, he wanted rates to rise in order to increase tne cauca tion budget.

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TUC cuts cover-up kit Newham cuts fight off to a shaky start available to them and would not He was in favour of some pull back from direct confron- thing called a social lation with the Tory govern nape disagree with more money being melt this degree of confidence Lane's for- spent on education, clearly defined than a demand on the working class to spend more. programme of action he campaign had to beg om a recognition of the fa Headed off that constitutional protest against ine tory cuts was useles.

West Trades For Harr and that the Tories were driven Council, Ray Offley tried to crisis which economic head off the issue. thev could not resist In the campaign An equal level of determina- should be directed against the needed for effective tion was Tones resistance. The campaign should decisions made in the Council, decide to oppose all cuts and which completely circum- were rate increas lea • cold covere to government controls. would not go yay. Councilur Unfortunately issue a Commissioner. this should be opposed by occupations and by Plant, John neresenu LO lane Kensington Ward Labour Party, the Commissioner's work possible argued that it was impossible. •ould a campagn wilch would force the Council into conflict Opposing with government instructions to make cuts. Although recog. Devore es can ever nised that the right wing leader- NUT delegates spoke to oppose the rates increase policy.

ship of the Labour Group itsell several nad no interest in rigating Int

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cuts, as their recent statements proposals spreading

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• L0Є within campaign into nearby areas and opposition about many some more dowere tion into the industrial unions in councillors honest socialists who hated the idea of the area reducing local living standards.

Possibly the most extraor- dinary The responsibility contribution came from New insat the cal local MP Nigel Spearing, who called for local people to act good neighbours to reduce thi workers were determined oppose the cuts by all means impact of the cuts while we wait

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for a new Labour majority in Parliament

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delegates angrily replied that practice no fight and leaving it work harder to up to women to subsuture lor raucca sorvices At the end of the meeting, the much to the relief able to they were iribunites, This was argued as being in of maintaining the interests untied campaign. "here is to be a further conference open to ali stewards in Newham at which policy resolutions will be considered and voted on The effect further delay is that the Tribunites have removed campaign source on period during which it begins to draw up its budget for 1980-81 There will be efforts to call a further public meeting • keep backed with this pressure up. passed

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Labour Party and trade union branches.

BLOODY SUNDAY

March to commemor- ate murder of unarmed Irish civilians by British army. Sunday 27 January Birmingham Details next issue SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 January 1980 Murrays: an appeal reprint below has his We an attention towards Noel and appeal from 'those cam- Marie's defence in support of a paigning reportad the later by the Irish 1 The com struggle 20088 •aen axhausted to no avail anarchists Noel and Marie rades decidad have

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• Murray for conjugal rights auton on the munar waal In SP 124 we outlined the ment that they are suffering.

way which Noel and Marie While remains Marie Murray were railroaded into Free Noe prison on and 10I

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Шк matter can on• supposed involvement in a bank paign can play a useful part in raid in which a garda was killed.

focussing attention on the pliaht

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Special Criminal Court where Ireland and elsewhere and we there is no jury and the sole readers of Socialist Press to urge evidenc cone on 'col SP which the anarchists claimed Copies 124 can b OT was secured under duress.

obtained from Socialist Press On of the campaigners wa: acquitted the trial and during Dear Friends, Strasbourg •are very substantial A group or concerned people in Ireland have decided to raise of (£7,000). As it is impossible for funds in support to obtain legal aid a Some a prisoner there. for a civil action to procure this Mas Murre sentence or committee Limerick prison in ine soutn ol account Wor Ireland. Through the Irish and money can be sent. I wish to support this Strasburg courts she is trying to conjugal Win Wits obtained Noël Murray who can from the a life address below. also in So vus Bostolive . send information about-conjugal . the Curraah Military Prison.

At present they have only hour visit every three or wo Crossed seques to W. Gai Crossed cheques There are conjugal rights to a and R.D. . Stenson. certain degree in South Ameri.

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re ane can and Scandinavian countries sand informa you wish to It- Marie Murrav's tenal successful it would change the for all Aiden Park Soad, alview, • 15 St. existing situațion Aider Park Dublin 3. The costs involved in taking case to No platform for fascists! Attempts by NF leader in to disrupt their cosy plans already disorien- John Tyndall to re-organise ted local NF supporters coul his Leicester group enter the meeting they were the defection of confronted by of 21 (following the bulk of his East WIld them on their way through Midlands members into the town. new British People's Party) line with the policy of 'No platform for fascists, they ran into problems when ( were physically blocked as they local decided the building, and they also wanted a hand in!

enter resultant nagge the "reorganisation" NF member was hospitalised and several others hurt. Tyndall's aim was to reform The response of the Nr wa the elester „rane a ver to taking Anthony Reid. to denounce this as "unfair". Clearly they are less than happ Herbert's

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focalle their local headquarters, lost in the split. boot is on the other foot The reply of all anti-fascists Cloak and dagger must be to micasi une saucet for a position of No platform But despite the most elabor- in the trade unions, for the Coak and dagger security

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anti-fascists got wind of the squads physical ana oI and moved NF's arrangements breaking labour ane meedies policy must be com- ero mist reader whose refusal to fight in defence of workers' wages, jobs or social ditions of frustration exploited by the fascists. Saturday 19 January Nationwide day of activity to raise £10,000 for the Southall Defence Fund Support local activities Sunday 20 January Picket of Pentonville Prison Free the Southall prisoners March from Euston Station Assemble 1 pim.

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Crypto Tories renew Labour witch hunt SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 January 1980 Still bruised from the clubbing meted out to delegates Callaghan by last year's annual confer- the Labour Party's extreme right wing is now openly hunting for revenge.

Labour Bunt Tocal Parties increasingly under a militant work- pressure from ing ciass seeking a means ot struggle against Tory cuts, closures and anti-union laws. the problem that faces the right wing is how to reassert their Cut off noses The danger that many fear is That They cutting off their noses in order ts is because m comoali ing elements within the Labour that are pressin Party for Party Owen-warning against party split socialist police for an end ty for and some areas Party organisation the line the reactionary would be reduced to a flimsy Callaghan-Healey leadership, the shell of time-worn careerists and right wing winds up having to right wingers, incapable choose between two unsatisfac mobilising the electoral support on which the PLP rests. could launch a full- They other areas the witch- McCarthyite position be scale witch-hunt hunters themselves could socialist element against any the dereated, alla that stirs within the Party.

a Dour malians cola de cor Some are plainly looking to solidated. Ivania despite itsels of *Or this with the idea floated by bloated Eurocrat Roy Jenkins and given this would be unprediciaok. m Embargo crisis faces imperialists The problems facing the The EEC have tentatively agreed, but the Argentinian die- American labour movement tatorship has declared its inten are amply illustrated by the continue to deal with ton to recent action of the leader- the Russians. of the International The imperialists face similar ship problems considering Longshoremen's Associa- when other sanctions against tion. USSR: trade with the workers These supposed leaders of stares oenenis the coita isis as movement the workers have well as the Stalinist bureau- Carter their outdone pro- cr This is particularly true of imperialism and extreme chauv- inism, by ordering East Coast recent investment projects and dockers to refuse service partnerships, and technological ships Russian canoes aus between destined for the USSR. nationals and industry in the This embargo will hit the workers' states economy of the USSR, at least Ihe encouragement of such much harde deals has been a major part of short In, than Carter's grain embargo and the economic of frenzied diplomatic manoeuvres.

faced with huge bureaucracy.

DTOCUCEVITY

Technolocica dangerous double edged sword problems as well as a decelerat- for the Carter administration.

ing growth rate. of would The Americans cancellation IUl, s neir Courn for humanitarian reasons significant blow sell grain to tne soviet Union Stalinists' Sulalcy bulk because these sales exacerbate the crisis ame these misplanned economies.

ne t pnice paid to une American farmers-a significant However. it would be ditti- force in American politics.

Calle

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save at ne Iowa major wheat-growing time of his election Will food political weapon. Now that the price of wheat slumped has futures easy to see why that was such a popular pledge.

USSR

the grain embargo has had no such chaotic effect. Ins year s narvest was wen below plan, so the extra wheat shipments important-but would be *Tone LO that the embargo will cause widespread bread shortages.

The shortages will affect live- and so will stock reen ormany lead to slaughtering this winter- which long-term may cause banning difficulties. Bread shortages or price rises will be steadfastly avoided by the bureaucracy. because of the threat they pose to their own stability. The grain embargo is also, of Carter-showing his muscles?

course, not universal. a cautious welcome by shadow minister William Rodgers, right Labours Will could simply proceed to split the and attempt party establish along with Liberals and possibly a few 'left' Tories, a "centre" free from new, party any embarrassing links with the working class socialist This, too, is a major gamble which would hand enecurely over control of the Labour cult for the imperialist govern- they have the advantage for the capitalists, of undermining the property relations mn tae sovie Union. They also provide a signif- icant SOUrCE recently opened up to them, Carter is at present desper- atelv trying to ation of the EEC on his moves towards sanctions and calling for all tood Vall exports. The opposition however, is equally ferven West Germany rrance and are particularly hostile, because of their involvement in the kind of deals that are able to flourish or me ceo cente There is no painless way for the imperialists to damage the economy or tne soviet union.

This is the problem confron- ting Carter, and one which when the

ATTICUSTY

acute already in a state of severe crisis.

Party itself to the left wing, and could well throw its advocates political limbo-denied into a votes from both working Labour supporters and from hard line lories. Fight inside This is plainly what concerns right wing spokesman David Owen in opposing this scheme and calling on the right to fight it out inside the Party. The reemergence of the report rather National Labour's former Agent keg (now word Under- hill is another expression of this

PRESS

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The press had gone easy on the steel strike in the hope that it could be wound up early. But as the picketing spread lurid accounts of the dreaded secondary crowd the front pages. The out control. union of Leaders. instructions of their The Daily Mail interviewed Bill Sirs and Sir Charles Villiers the headline The Two under photo- Faces of Crisis'" Large graphs showed them looking glumly out of the page Sir Charles Villiers is: an old soldier witn wound.

and meal ratorod maste" tall ramrod master... the to subalterns' advice, yet confid ent in his own judgement and absolutely determined to go his own way "There's autocratic Norman blood there. His folk came over with William the Conqueror, though not, to his regret, on the day." He doesn't smoke or drink and: "from a sense of social obli rises at 6 a.m and tries gaton to be in bed before 11.00 p.m.

The Mail writes stand forces flying pickets and police into confron- tation he says: T'm trying in little way 'to make Britain That's Wild about, d'ye see? By better I mean more understanding, more In his way Sirs is treated Page S By John Lister dilemma facing the would-be Perhaps this is one reason

NEC'S

why the organisation With alles • from a full scale Ketreating commented once agal against turned down call •for the the very idea of socialism publication Underhill the nave alterca astrad topics

ICDOIL

more restricted inescap- The report itself has now out able target: the Militant' group.

been promptly leaked to the 'Militant' is an obvious target picas Le laculalt

COOLLE

for the extreme right because of ated Tory intervention into the its considerable support, partic Labour Party within Labour's youth uary In contrast, the same com- movement and its ostentatious mittee votea to recommena ma socialist and Trotskyist even the expulsion in Oxford of a

TGWU

GMC delegate Socialist supporter, Ted Heslin, be aren Anti-communist upheld socialists, Peter Two other McIntyre and Ken Williamson For veteran anti-Communists whose membership applications had been rejected, were recom.

outward political face combined practice with a The political crisis confront- stubborn rems to cary our o the Labour bureaucracy support any serious struggle offers for within the Labour Party for th chanc Wild socialists to struggle for a prin- ДРАТ-ТРИТРІРЛЕТО ЗЕЛОНАН cipled programme within the leadership is seen not as a reason for soft-peddling witch- on hunt, but as evidence of Militant No bans perfidious supporters' devious tactics. But a pree ton of scal But for the fake lefts of the Strueur activiste gainst all right the fight Search y the the dant tor st Militant search wing witch-hunts, and against group of MPs bans and proscriptions on social- positions within the party offers alluring prospect of a left an Instead the fire must directed at the crypto-Tory Benn, Heffer and that stands opposed right wing with the along left-talking fight bring

«OWI

leader Alan Fisher have repeat- Thatcher, and unashamedly edly utilised the Militani committed to a programme of repolish thei enoris class compromise and velrayal.

tarnished image radical 'socialists. which at the beginning of the more respect Mail. The press does respect strike, congratulated the govern- thẻ bureaucracy. ment for detached but labour The now dramatically changed Sirs plays his interviewer tape of a meeting with British It outlines the way in which the strike has hardened Steel which the Teeside that they ver Managing Director Derek says very much nearly accepted a modest ris linked productivity, impressed by the rhetoric I have no heard in whatever dialect» a little NOTe near Before he plays the uproar more money would do the trick The climate is now quite differ which follows, the Mail notes Sirs secretary to ent: Plant that tels nic put her hands over her ears closures and job as well losses as current wage tie nicest wolu sile licatu wo : being DooTter' ‹eats de But the bureaucracy what is now a wide challenge, sincerely felt, to the ing the ideals of the Daily govern- to Mail itself-is also vulnerable a for the industry such times. and to some extent for industry n general The paper notes In our view the issue is no about the way he ran his expen sive two-garage house in come betore alter severa. of probably irreperable Hatfield, where he runs in the damage has been done to British morning and sees the lights go on in the homes of stockbrokers industry. We suggest the sooner the better". and mistak execunve. •wil The paper goes on to blame are his neighbours and like him for what he is. bad management for the crisis in Sirs steel, stel bigger pages se and tob and proposes fewer provides the classic explanation eading the strik canceling some "If I had tried to persuad massive interest charges British Steel has to pay, in return for wage offer which is practicall producivily nothin iry. Tuld would hay solution is ol course credibility would have consistently argued et menu norme rema Behind the calls in the press 4218( picketing laws and management now pleads for for tougher classic • Labourite horse-trading a growing uncertainly of which WIlL une surencracy. the Mail interviews are only one indication of the lack of confid.

with which important ence symplom The most dramatic shift has secuons or lie dourceose nou come from the Sunday Times, view the Thatcher government.

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Declaration of Intent national Pre-conference hosted by the Workers Socialist League. The resolution, endorsed by all seven organisations with delegate status at the Pre-conference, is a commitment to conduct the necessary discussions and joint work to ensure that within the next two years the organisations concerned would establish the basis for the formation of a democratic centralist international Page 6 struggles heroic revolution political degenerated workers' StaLes Hungary in 1956), yet these independent movements of 40 years *More than the revolutionary proletariat of the the founding atter the Fourth International, political historical crisis of humanity still remains reduced to the *To fulfil revolutionary crisis tionary leadership. workers econ- *In its deepening political crisis, conscious and omic 1s challenged at imperialism every turn by the proletariat *Workers and the other oppressed layers of humanity in their only end to capital for an struggle exploitation, oppression and state but of universal abolition the leaders-the want. Stalinists *Mass struggles against despotism and military dic- rocked the *The tatorship of imperialism -allies throughout the world. *Struggles for national Stalinist ousted objectively liberation nave from vast rulers colonial Africa, tracts of Asia and replace to this day and continue all the concerted leaders. despite military power of US imper- fellow and its ialism These for searching oppressors. *As the bourgeoisie toys with its last card of fascism discover only the constantly (most obviously in Turkey) dictatorship, shifting varieties of centrism military have surged workers the Fourth International.

this forward to • controll threat of renewed barbar- 1Dill of *Even while they seek in proletarian vain to resolve their crisis, that the Fourth International itself.

the capitalists meet militant the organ- resistance Irom 3' ised strength of acting with strikes and occu- defend patios, conditions and social services against attacks from the employers, the state and the IMF. *Even in their metropol- itan homelands, tne Imper- ialists cannot rest easy.

revolution *New layers are Trotsky constantly thrown forward the struggles, and into these in women WOrKeTS particular have fought to lift the dual burden they bear wage-labourers and the tendencies. object of sexual oppression.

time, the same "At young workers, school and college students have been in the vanguard of struggles tarianism and against imperialism the the. Africa, (South oppression and across Iran, Ivicalagud) principles the world the militancy and revolutionary enthusiasm of Programme. have played youth vital part in igniting action attacks of the against LIlC the extremes hourgeoisie. *Over the last 30 years, sectarlanisi *But the the international proletariat made powertul has suffered serious but socialist defeats and setbacks. through *Yet its enormous objec- remains strength tive chained by the historic crisis ward with of proletarian leadership.

2 world Trotskyism. need to develop, bership contradiction " 1 ne between the needs of the crisis war. proletariat and the actions International, of its leaders is as . Ilassive today as it was at the time of the struggles to found the ary programme Fourth International. class struggle. *Workers have fought in We reprint here the final text of the Declaration of Intent adopted on December 31 at the Inter- tendency, pledged to fight for the reconstruction of the Fourth International.

towards deformed all, (above the of the their (revolu- these new, from struggle forces repressive bourgeois SWP leader-Barnes USFI over Nicaragua has led theit reformists, to the formation of a joint.

and petty Commission the Parity Faction, Leninist Bolshevik in Tendency and torces Trotskyist the declared OCRFI-with the ruling of convening objective of the bureaucracies conference open world Trotskyist movement new, on the crisis in the FI. Only leadership to conference if such genuinely open and devoted debate on the to tnorougi Trotskyists 1n key questions struggles are actively have faced or are facing can that leader- it constitute a step forward the the path towards on shipyet most of them can political clarification neces- sary for the reconstruction of the Fourth International.

and degenerate fragments of of *Beyond the ranks these larger groupings there *For a new element has lies a host of organisations now compounded the crisis which identify themselves. as leadership: Trotskyist and the of ambition the their

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Fourth of the struction International *Confined for the most national isolation part to some of these until now, groupings will play the key fight to recon- part Fourth Inter- the national. *Today the Fourth Inter- *But alongside them, the national no longer exists as militants developed most the world party of socialist struggles workers' from founded Dy must be drawn centrally of and the forces battle, together this into International with those forces prepared Opposition in 1938. Indeed to break politically from the it has been disrupted both leaderships of the bankrupt politically and organisation- OCRFI, IST and IC

USFI,

revisionist or ready to develop beyond a history of centrism, petty *We have come together nationalism bourgeois because its banner has been feminism. dragged through the swamps of opportunism and/or sec- by the leaders of USFI, OCREL and IC, which have abandoned the and method of the Transitional reacting to In *On the basis of agree- these problems, groups such with program •ment the as the IST have plunged into "The Trans- matic report sterile Programme itional Today's Class Struggle" and Fourth Inter- with the general lines of the national will not be recon- Basis" we "Program matic structed as the world party our intention now decidic democratic- build of the Iormation international centralist another international organ- tendency, committed to the isation which puts itself for- reconstruct the fight to sectarian arro- Fourth International. gance as the entire body of *This tendency will work to develop and expand the *We recognise the urgent political fight for the recon- with both struction of the FI to lead the leadership and the mem-- the struggles of the prolet- of these groupings.. ariat and its potential allies the fullest possible discus- revolutionary towards the sion on the continuing post- and the of power of the Fourth of the world dictatorship and lessons which this holds for proletariat. *From this conference the struggles for revolution- have organisations today's our an international established liaison committee to act as *The recent split in the the focus of our political the discussions prior founding conference, and to draw up a document stating the conditions of member- ship of the tendency, as well and commence as to plan coordinated intervention by consistent Trotskyists in the fight reconstruct to Fourth International. will *This document the together bring tendency's programmatic positions as the fundamen- tasks confronting Trotskyist leadersill today's class struggle. *The tendency itself will after be formed only principled agreement been reached both on these membership conditions and on national perspectives and tasks for the member together with organisations, a full commitment to enter into international discipline.

5- *We issue the following all those forces call to engaged in the revolutionary international for struggle socialism: *The crisis of the Fourth has added International the dimension new historic crisis of proletarian leadership in the epoch of imperialist decay. be *That crisis can only through the iat, and set as resolved reconstruction of the of building International, Trotskyist raise once again the banner revolutionary structed and unite the tional. ism WorKers behind the *Today world of the world small, but they leadership revolutionary party. and *Opportunism determined sectarianism offer no way give forward to the international and they proletariat, can oppression, play no part in advancing its Stalinist bureaucracies struggles take our stand on *We the traditions and experien- ing leaders. ces of the communist move- embodied in the native to ment, first four into decisions of the relapse congresses of the Commun- reconstruction the ist International and in the founding documents of the International, and historic tasks. Fourth resolve to declare struggle relentlessly against tive Iles all to or allell old distort these principles.

*Being in no way sectar- ship of the proletariat. we ao not oppose oul ian, own interests to the inde- class interests ol pendent revolutionary proletar- the betrayed are leaders war.

FORWARD

RECONSTRUCTION

THE

NATIONAL

PARTY

REVOLUTION!

Mandel SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 Januar: 1550 Lay Presenting the opening : our task the report to the internationa independent WSL Exec pre-conference, Committee member national sections of a recon- utive Fourth stressed the John Lister develop the necessity to our forces are Transitional Pro 1938 will grow which the through the consistent and gramme had International Fourth orientation been founded. their struggles against imperialist "The Programme was as a dead letter, to b the against writter 1 wheeled political dictatorship of the out for annual exhibitions and designed actso a in the real world. As such the betrayals of their exist- tested worthless i enriched : IS *History offers no alter- developer but enlarged in the humanity prolet or world barbarism 9E12C for socialist revolution" ariat the • said. Fourth International to lead the objective Pointing the proletariat to achieve its problems faced by post Tne war Trotskyist movement in thi *The same stark alterna- fight, comrade Lister stressed ir before particular : the unexpected devel : post-war capital forces who are prepared to opment of thi continuer struggle for socialist revolu- 'boom' existence and expanded role o tion and the world dictator- world scale *Unite with us now in Contradictions the revolutionary unity of programmatic agreement, or Within enet contradictions whet stand on the sidelines as the vital for Marxists to recognis courage, strength and deter- The "boom' itself, for instanc mination of the proletariat must be understood as contair today's ing the seeds of today's slump of future «The vast and rapid accum!

poverty, misery, fascism and of capital lation inevitably int turned 1001 over accumulation- the ove TO

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political lead: It is not enough simply incist. that Stalinism in 19i in 1938, is "counter-revolutio through and through". Y increas the must understand importance of Stalinisn development of the world cl

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ing a firm basis for SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 January 1980 and we must explain struggle, this thoroughly carried through the historically step of exproprating capitalist property relations in more recon tereste docu- tabled The the woL, ment Transitional Programme in Today's Class Struggle, attempts • lacke ine oroblem oi deve the 1938 programme in such changes balance Jook al are current of class forces which presents particular forms of the crisis of working class leadership Peaceful coexistence Despite the treachery social leaderships and the commitment of the Stalinists "peaceful coexis- rence" compromise, the forward move- the masses against crisis-ridden has inflicted major setbacks, , which created the conditions in which struggles tumuluous 1978-79 toppled the Shah and vividly somoza exposed political weakness of US through such spontan- struggles alone the work- class remains unable to free itself the sid and exploitation. need for leadership is niore rotskyist crisis-ridden more once vracked by confusion and a najor international split.

United the LuC SOUt sents in Nicarasca, follow ton secretariat, triggered succession of post-war splits no aisputes lal nave on each occasion followed on an upsurge of class struggle in which earlier brogrammatic revisions have een exposed. And at no point were the nd disputes consciously basis for political evelopment. ull discussion By Terry Smith The adaptation to Castroism and petty bourgeois nationalist forces of the FSLN une mercan SWP was a development of its Pabloite capitulation earlier Stalinist ve namest invasion of Kampuchea But the hand the

OLICI

which has Bolshevik Haction emerged defending the orthodox policy building a

LOLSKYISI

party was itself not free from vacill- the summer during 1979. the BF's interven- Was ton in Nicaragua, Through the Simon Bolivar Brigade which has brought it into conflict with the

FSLN

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change of line. Nicaragua is no single issue, development, Kulated stressed comrade Lister. "It is latest outcome of of develop-

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ment in the world class struggle over the 30 years-a process which left would-be Trotskyists rudderless and cone ed acid points. "reconstructed" today Tine basis of agreement on Nicaragua alone than it could be seriously agreement on the single issue of Cuba". "While pressing for the most active campaigns of solidarity with the Nicaraguan prolet- ariat and Downine advance their struggle, we must deepen and develop our under-

SAWORR

une tance of the Nicaraguan events for the development of the Trotskyist movement." In the discussion which followed delegate the Workers from Trotskyist

(TAF)

League need for further theoretical of investigation the wust wal capitals

DOOM

which had not been foreseen by Trotsky the Trotskyist movencht. Doesn't fit "It wrong claim that the Transitional Pro- gramme fits all the tacts of the period when DOSt-Wa doesn't", she argued.

TAF

amendment, adopted by the of further work on orTance these questions, to develop an analysis based on a development writings of Lenin and Trotsky on imperialism. A delegate from the Italian Bolshevik Leninist Group (GBL) also underlined this point, while GBL's the agreement with the main docu- ment. The Nicaraguan events have method among the USFI majority, but revival Pabloism, declared. This can be seen in the way the USFI has adapted to Casto- ism. and attributed a leadership function to the petty bourgeois

FSLN.

But it is impossible to reduce everything to discussion on the Nicaraguan question-the events there the пас •осисев но Bolshevik Faction and the LTT a series of political I positions and shifts of policy which in no way to a correct political amounT perspective. No regeneration We must neither abstain from characterising the forces that have Parity Commission nor place faith in the possibility that the internal debates now taking once anonest rotsk vist rorces offer th possibit of taking eration spontaneously place. The lessons of Portugal and We present below a summary of the two main reports and discussion at the International Pre-conference.

In next week's Socialist Press we will publish extracts from the documents put forward to the conference by the Italian GBL. of Nicaragua FIT does not hold an absten- generalise experiences from the refute the argu- British ment revisionism will class struggle when that correct itself in He proposed an organised things are verv different in othe . pre-revolu tionary or even a revolutionary discussion between the FIT and parts of the world. There situation periods, they

LIOS

lorces represenica al preconference declaring that boom aroued. suCh by from the planne, put forward by period of the 1950s, in which Austrian IKL, the Transitional Programme and for such a discussion, though demands ате not relevant there are points which the FIT and it is not possible to mobilise USFI and workers conflict with their wishes to tase eformist leader There Germany anna today, they continued, the class say that the struggle quiescent, There all ll to be funda- seem valid and she un possible to moonuse une work mental areas of agreement-par- ing class. Strike figures argued. is wrong to say on the validity of Lost rier eat. ated is pautes it Transitional Programme. and additions. because invation is only 40 and y cal. anaerences can never prevent work in there is virtually no unemploy- tendency. It is necessary to dis- ment. tinguish tactical from comrades were also questions in such a discussion.

high crested f tat a steakers A detailed series of amend-

HUSL

suggested that a strategi the draft ments to Cocutel the future. into the interventior was moved by a GBL delegate German and Austrian proletariat who stressed that they were might require tactical orienta in their view consistent with the reconstruct workers In Tion general line of the document as around the a whole. CADam NOW Democratic parties there the working The majority of these

1TIS

DOSSIble class has for long A rather different criticism fact. accepted by • the WSI class levelled he Workers Graver observer leader- was delegation, while some others ship. from Irish pointed to areas where further

DOLLIC

who felt that the general line of discussion of proletarian leadership. We the documented litt particular on the post-war econ- must also of the omic boom and the question sudical social analysIs o. CuUr class. problems in fighting for them.

follower the section on. cited next section the outerence. agenda between the three was introduced by Trotskyist currents in Ireland-

WSL

report PD, LWR and IWG-as a case ir utive which stressed the historic from Workers continuity of the Transitional point. An speaker focussed problem the Programme and its method from was main through the first four congrestos Communist Manifesto, attention on the section ot the DUl orward document on Permanent Revo lution, which he thought the would of the Communist International agree on the and the struggles of the Trotsky.

Restine the en criticisms of politics of the Beast ist Left Opposition. the front in semi- the 'united in semi-colonial countries and workers une programme demands were therefore not "Ihe problem here is that it related the year specifically to not counter-revolutionary workers' parties, but petty bour- 1938, but the embodiment of a differences method and tactics", method and principles fought ¿cos and pourceois manons!

over a whole leaders who hold back the period by To masses for long periods" tendency Diactiva the US speakeI strategy and Experiences aureemen Socialist League (DC) referred the growing economic crisis risk Stressing the need for ar of imperialism, which threatens contas • a cele. international tendency whose to disrupt the class equilibrium national groupings take up the "stable" even League capitals struggle to carry such a method Tegimes such as tnose or wes declared her Germany and Austria. 11TO une OT THe cas struggle, he went on to examine And observer from the conference's method the US Trotskyist Organising Com approach to achievements and problems of mittee underlined the building an international combined development tne woe in such a light and tendency In the ensuing discussion the proletariat and its struggle speakers from the Austriat pointing to tne low level oi IL and German Spartacushund unionisation and lack of even neither strongly challenged what they reformist working class party in regarded The UNA a precondition. "This is utopian grouping hold tactical can differences) it 3MLe will discuss our Method An observer for the Fourth Internationist Tendency out- lined their historical origins in a on S011I Tine programmatic and questions differences or the method of Fourth Inter- construcuing national. He em phasised that the FIT does not regard itself as "the" Fourth International-merely a tendency fighting for its recon- strucie understand the need for with forces that •dISCUSSIOn Consider themselves Trotskyist. tha we debate and common work is the fundamental basis for the con- struction of the FI" went on to Comrade warn of the possible dangers of Open conterence the Parity Com- convenea by mission, while stressing that the Armed guerrillas fighting Shah's forces in the Iranian February revolution Page 7 Trotsky The speculcau wallicu danger-exemplified contributions from the Austriat and comrades-of basing an assessment on subjec tive based on impressions single the CoulLLy apparent acquiescence OT InE working class to the positions of Stalinist leaders. NoI was there a period in which the demands and method of the Transitional Programme could Sall irrelevant to the class struggle.

The 1950s, for example, saw the Korean war, Suez, revolution and the ponca Cuban revolution. In each case the Programme had a perspec uve to oner. Only in the struggle for a action conflict with the bureaucracy -even this struggle begins from a situation of isolated propaganda work- workers be broken from reformism It is not a question of rejec ting revolutionary such: rather • we must beware of seeking to do no more thar simply carry out propaganda work, and thus turn our organ. into Isalmis sual once divorced from the working class.

The struggle programme the struggle to mobilise the working class on it demands-demands which when acted form bridge upon existe trade consciousness to the conscious. ness necessary for the socialist

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Fonda's CED: the limits of single issue radicalism SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 January 1980 isations to take forward the fight for their class interests- elected strike committees, occu- committees, the books actiore tes throw in shabe dies emerge grow in scale and HE- scope. wil come to res resent the class strength working class,

OWER

which it can and must challeng. the power of the capitalist class and the bourgeois state mach: inery PHOTO: Laurence spatham, IN L Classic 'left"Skinner | As soon as such a develop- ment Decolles

DOSSOWY.

will be essential-to combine demands on the Labour leaders with the fight make Elicili action, and for The call based the Parlamentarv democracy, but on the tangible living demands of ine organised working class In late September 1979, the shadow the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, the California for Campaign Economic Democracy (CED) launched Burnt out: Foot an unprecedented presiden- insolar as any left' is pre tial-style tour of 50 cities in to take up some or all of these fight in 15 key presidential primary the interests the

WOIKI!

states. him her Cass. we O eT For the next month

CED

critical sat tot leaders lom Hayden and Jan time speeches, gave stress mane that the light for ellesc interviews conducted meetings with a broad spectrum revolutionary the union working activists. class-a task fron leaders elected public which left' reformists shy away, officials. and which requires the building of a mass, revolutionary were joined for In tnis tney Wal Ly short sures orthe let fall of the times well-known And we contrast to the class collaboration confusion and and liberal simply raTIV Detrayal activists including United Farm the call for covernment uncer Workers President Cesar Chavez, Callaghan or a Benn Rev. and workers' Jesse Tine President of the National Organ- • covement responsive The Women, Eleanor needs and demands the Smeal. movement com- mitted for to Nationwide debate workers independent interests.

If we resolutely and success- The declared aim of the tour fully press the fight for a revol- was oule anne surenamer une baye ae corancer links with grass-roots organisa- that in the course of the coming tions throughout the

USA

struggles .and political expenences growing sections ol on issues such as inflation and workers will come to recognise energy, within the context of a with us that the only consistent programme of "economic demo- workers coverment is. in tacti cracovida described herself as a the dictatorship of the prolet- ariat, and that the only 1val "Pauline Revere' raising clarion-call to the fight, with us, for the overthrow nation about the dangers facing bring capitalism that the U.S. about. afterwards, immeriate v Fonda took off to make movies, Hayden went into, isolatión Workers Sociniat Li viite a book" and the rest oi

MANIFESTO E

CED had surprisingly little to about the bolcies of the

VOTE LABOUR

rash of presidential candidates

SACK

that. entered the race for the 1980

ICALLAGHAN

indeed on any Novem Der major issue Did CED run out of steam?

Did the organisation built with Fonda's money outstrip popular support! Or. was there some substance to the rumours LA "left". circles that some threat had been made, perhaps to Fonda's acting •cartel, thal encouraged the adoption of a profile? event, and whatever happens in the future, the emer- pressure group to the postage, left of the US Democratic party some attention, especially when it

SUDDOI

STOP-NUCLEARS

SUSOLE

MUNIS

What is CED and where is it •. table for exposine workers te going? carcinogenic agents. summer of 1976 but of the can-

CED

born They propose accountabulity the . of the 3 billion spending. windfall large paigu to wu 10

CORI

the Democratic Party nomina- corporations received in reduced tion for the wake of States taxes property Senate in California. Hayden, who was.a leader of introduced measure which cut the Students for a Democratic throughout properts Society (SDS) state of California ment to end the Vietnam war in 6.0s, lost to the descum ent

CED

defines this John idea that the principles Tunney, despite extremely strong snowing participatory SHOUlU be extended into the economic system" Chicago In more detail this is loosely This success was especially detined as sharing powel remarkable Hayden make • economic decisions llal between recently emergea, clearea oi al workers Consultis charges, from the shadow of a and management. or Politic need month trial and three years

.CED

the ol reviews aner deme accusec oi develop "new COnSIe 103

DISTEN

. 2100 Chicago the culminating that puts the blame for the "in the TIne 1968 Democratic National Con- pront nceas ol private corpor vention. ations" Stressing Hayden sees the need for "a dramatic Inovallye ably strong where America should be going in the '80s". start 1979), No intention

OLLICE

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principles of hopes "trigger he nation-wide debate similar to cracy the popular debates that In part this must be due to their close links with California surtounded slavery in the 19th Governor Jerry Brown, century and the of the but causes Depression in the 1930s" many of CED's policies clearl substantial They disclaim any intention of building a nation-wide organ of measures but maintain that the ahanst oppositon which even Brown's patronage America require lacing national attention. had been unable to overcome.

have They were the driving force been often passage accused of realy just being ar benine. the recent solar energy bills in California, organisation for drumming in the fight to phase out nucleas we canonia ihrough their intluence on the Solar Cal council (a body maintains that: which 'Those is chaired Hayden candidates who was created by Governor a100 Brown's executive order to challenge that we lay out are co- likely get the ordinate the state's solar policy) most : support from the network progres- tney. won a ban on utility com- panies monopolising sives there". T021 exists out energy resources. Brown, then Rent control ati oas of Hayde political aspir- They have Certainly Hayden and Fonda been active are 'central the Lo. , policies and Angeles and Santa Monica and financing and Fonda fighting for tenants' has declarea that she would like see Hayden President of which wil eviction protection and controls the United States on discrimination against and utterly tenants with young children.

cam paigning Hayden the right of workers to know taken both what toxic chemicals they Fonda major political issues on al C in the US. in the teeth of ofter exposer Ther work and for companies to be accoun- violent opposition from the right On the face of things CED like to seems attempt the anti-Vietnam Wal energy of the 6os and direct it towards contemporary r issues. CED has gained the support many individuals and some local organisations

CED

across the Us. But what sees as its strength-a collection issue" activists -is clearly one of its major weak- Hayden and now CED lack support from blue-collar workers, in general, and organ- Without any substantial power base the hepes of estab- "economic democracy' is just a dream The idea that large corpor- ations CHte senous De mouced to share with power con- sumers and labour, is hopelessly utopian. Their rejection of the idea of nationalisation under workers control is the expression of their from confronting the Page 9 Mass anti-nuclear demonstration in the USA Special report by Barry Atkinson Dasic. Issues oi who approDnate surplus value r: Despite the opinion of many and of extreme Howard Jarris, CED not int activist American form of socialism.

Tinkering It is a retormist attemot te tinker with an the realities ignores capitalism: However, the ready respons the activities of CED and similar groups and the massive aostenon eection' show that there is a widespread will to fight capitalism and its system of-two capitalist parties in the US. The always, is question, as of leadership and correct policies. It raises ever more urgently the issue of how to the USA a labour-based party committed to a programme of policies to challenge Democratic/Republican Tine stranglehold Hayden (left) with Fonda , Angling for radicals-Jerry Brown

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Civil Servants' pay The New Year opened chairman, following a growing trend in the with the news for 600,000 Blang dis judee-mete s of giking Civil Service trade unionists have barely any that they established hope of obtaining a wage tuluullds this year that OoodS presages a bitter struggle for al begins to keep pace with the Civil Servants in this year's paj ratè of inflation. Datce. The Their deal will not even com- sy stem, pare favourably

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workers doing similar jobs in the remove u servas vay ucu tati be manolitated by ces private sectot manipulated Government engineers and technologists* olas tinally s claim Ores LO 1979 settled at the from getting a fair wage and will ensure that end of the vear oniy a tew days even worse deal than usual!

before the timar instatmenu the claim -due in April of last year--was payable. Civil and the Association a motion to with- Selective action seven weeks of selec- After tive strike action

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summer -which succeeded defénce establisnments pracucany TO d halt-the union, the Institution Civil Servants, Protessional ne SuLC. Ove] the claim should go to a once- and-for-all decision by. an arbi- zanon undudai. The made Servine eTTeT . une the Civil was a cynical inter- Department. pretation of the 'comparability needed technologists Ihe incrences of about 40% to bring their turside in dustly, ip terthose in industry, where govern- policy pay ment OCUl. hidden avoided by fringe benefits. settlement they have L lIt accept is little been. Torced nere tha tary a bear on an salary avclary em ployers' ofler. Insulting This insulting award Was made not by the tribunal itself, which was anaeo bul Dyıls Get your Socialist Press delivered each week by post

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LEEDS STRIKERS

FIGHT CLOSURE

Writs have been fly- tinuing on the plant, though ing in a bitter struggle police have imposed a limit by the 160 workers at of 10 pickets on each gate.

the EPCO engineering There plant in Leeds. memories of previous redun- the The dispute began on Ualc. which the December 13 when AUEW members threw out a fraud- icatcisilp sackings ulent 6% pay offer , coupled to a productivity deal with be different, strings as a grand as illariy workers will need the full Management have piano. support claimed that the amount on offer was in façt 16%. Dismissal But on New Year's Eve strikers received a letter of dismissa! from managing director Oxley: 'strike" "Your current action constitutes a repudi- ation of your contract of employment. The company that accordingly accepts repudiation "Your employment with this company therefore ter- minates with effect from 31 December, 1979." after this Two days sacking of the entire manual management abortion Bil of the closure announced third and final reading in Parlia- the EPCO plant. Their "dis- ment on Friday February 8.

missal" .had been ettens little more than a ploy to posas to makt harder for evade payment of redundan- OGlal! The TUC, offer had And the 6% 60,000-strong been exposed as little more the against than manoeuvre October has done nothing ,provoke a surike as a core for the closure.

TON-

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EPCO

indeed, far from being an isolated small paign, factory: is part initiative and oI ine McConnell lobby Booker giant multi-national combine, Wednesda] 39 subsidiary which firms around the world. In a period of slump in the industry, dismissal of the premature workforce is clearly an the attempt to secure 'Tational- isation' on the cheap-with redundancy pay being given white collar only workers. workforce has But the not given up the struggle A group of workers gained entry the plant and staged a work-in to prevent With the closure-only confronted by a High Court thousand writ. streets to lack of militancy organised working class. -whether

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and Booker McConnell, •step up bitter. occupation and picketing to are prévent the removal - of plant, and fight for international then Stalinis! national and accepted 100 Booker blacking O ORe without a fight. McConnell isubsidiaries" in But if this occasion is to the fight for full reinstate the

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