Socialist Press no. 201

OFFICIAL SCABBING:

THREAT TO ALL

PRESS

Affiliated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee Trade unionism is under threat-not so much from the employers as from trade union officials. This became clear last week as John Baldwin, leader of the

AUEW

ottered to send contingents of break laggers. As he spoke, 25 black- • Were al work. domg the jobs of 27 victimised GMWU laggers on the Isle of Grain power station site. Baldwin, code with EETPU official Eric Hammond and a coachload of building official GWU mass picket on the longer term. the site, poured scorn on threats of national supporting strike pointed pointed of capitalist firms that out, action. "It would not be disastrous build power stations, if all the laggers in construction plants went on strike. We would sent together with the our members through the picket private lines and they do the would work wherever

CUTESSION

became necessary". the laggers. Delighted can break the laggers the rest of worKers Baldwin's determination to like the 1,300 who were bussed the laggers clearly through Tuesday's Grain picket smash delights employers throughout the construction industry.

Not only does it offer them ment scheme the hope of slashing laggers' pay and EETPU to break the GMWU rates nearly halt: but the -and then to step up the offen- employers can see clearly that sive on AUEW the brazen blacklegging of union members! leaders on this issue is simply a foretaste class to largescale construction and Craven collaboration they will offer in building sites: the driving force Nurses: break from RCN! Fight for a living wage! There's one law for the year of Thatcher rich and the Tory establish- the contrast £80 per ment-and one for the poor.

out to doctors and dentists and And in case anyone missed pitiful 14% this basic fact of life in the last nurses-thousands of whom earn less than £80 per week-should make it crystal clear. The £312 doctors' 31% bring a new round of cuts in the National Health result of the Toincidsh limits.

comcide Thatcher's strategy for buying off the top professional layers in further cuts and closures in the Dasic service But when leaders of 450,000 nurses, incensed and embarassed by the doctors pay deal, last Thatcher week called upor

SOCIALIST

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 201 * June 4, 1980 * 20p

ISLE OF GRAIN

behind Baldwin's blacklegging has As me sunday limes has been the the unreats. ov formidable CEGB to shut down the Isle of Grain power station and the alleged national threat to chemica con- refineries,

SITUCHOR IODS

state firms In words wearily familiar to monopolies workers Shipbuilders British Leyland British deter- ana une mined to break the strength of British Steel Corporation, all of whom have suffered the conse- "Managers hope that if they quences of similar arguments, Baldwin claimed: will fall into line. 1am to save ar and 35,000 members jobs. It is my Waterloo. If I lose it, we as hadin In other words the manage industry" to SaVi is to

AUEW

Baldwin and his fellow bureau- crats sacrifice members' wages. lobs. and now and

EETPU

even the most elementary trade union Bringples, to preserve the Nor is the danger restricted profitability private employers-in the case exploiters in the

VICIOUS

it the imh lives to mone tay government, between the lavish on their Improvement cold week increase handed they got the oller, shoulder Banking on increase the Tracional nurses spinelessness OT the leaders and fact Union that the pro-management Royal million cost of the College 1s consti- barred from calling Will • itse t Lunonaly industrial action, Thatcher made Service it clear that there was no way as a would OLIeT with mcreased But feelings are running high nurses-forced to among

WOIK

pittance sector as a prelude to crum bling Health Service beset by govern- ment attacks. Union leaders have begun to suggest that a nurses' strike Cont'd p.11, col. 6 Thatcher to No answer-Basnett

WORKERS!

construction monopolies. membership Baldwin and Hammond have therefore nailed their colours to skilled job be ane! the employers mast in the drive and by an to cut laggers' pay: but the very management same rguments could be usCu to justify the surrender of wage TUC compromise proposals.

tales ana jobs in any industry in a crisis-wracked British capit- alism! "Save jobs" The GMW leadership have pointed out that İsle of Grain battle is a prelude to an The reality is that in all-out drive other construction mustance bosses to hold down wage rates prior to the launching of a new ot sacrifice programme power stations of spelling out to workers Cornered organised scabbing But after allowing the bonus Nevertheless the dispute to drag on for ten months they now find them- cornered -by selves

PRIZE

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PUT

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NHO CARE IN THE BANK

Nurses on the march in 1973 Labour Special Conference Report page 5 EETU leader Chapple demanding national restate on lasers, that their rate of pay for a dangerous bonuses. reinstate protected: GMWU laggers, and drive the 25 unholy alllance of staus from une site win rival union Within the AUEW-particu- burcaucials actermined to cut back their wages and rejecting larly the construction section and

EETPU,

militants mUS demand an blacklegging which threatens fabric trade unionism, and fight for an alternative every to a leadershin thai GMWU leaders seeks to "protect jobs" by sacri- themselves peddle Baldwin's line ficing the wages and conditions "to save jobs" of trade union members. They are therefore incapable The treat of sackings in the at industry must be combatted by the Grain site or elsewhere the the fight for work sharing with- enormous dangers that face the out loss and for the working class as a result of this nationalisation of the construc tion monopolies without be pensation

HUSU

uncI workers called upon to mobilise the ful anacement strength of all 6,500 laggers to force the CEGB to concede the

AIR PAY

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LIVE INNOW IS MONEY iS 0D C

THE AGE O THE HOUR

'ON

THEATONE MONEY

We WANT /

Botha threatens to use "full force of the state" Page 2

USA

week week In the face of a wildfire spread of protest against racial oppression in South In the wake of the steel Africa, the capitalist apar- strike sell out in Britain the theid suddenly stale union leadership is busy stepped up its repression.

feeding members to the dole Two demonstrating school Thatcher dead queues and studenEs welC

SIOL

installing her Michael police and others woundea out side Capetown. Edwardes clone the Hundreds arrests have management chair. taken olac over te ll twe Meanwhile the international weeks. The most publicised in the Css oi lne secei miuuslly bourgeois press, of course, have nowhere more apparent than in the USA. DIe S0M AC AA0 10 150 1 122 Knocked from pillar to post bnder rie Riotous As ineie under ovune aIce Act demonstrating against market torces cancacm of of their lives and dies by, the American une aTTeSE one longer number. steel bosses even But of the able the majority pretend to be of black, nave шz™ıc cone zo dilesle wwwil the advice of Referring to colurta dnu Asan imitanls ul Carter's an eltort by the rac duchr Foy, boss of Bethlehem ities to decapitate the strength-

LCWIS

stee. ¡secono largest America) declared at the com- pany fs just hogwash. They just don't happening know WoRls any more than anybody else on the street does. be

TOVS

seen in the context of the plight of his and, own company of US TOTe socclaluldily. lhal steel (tne word s secona largest steel corporation) 1978 US Steel made a $94.6 million profit! wow. nowever. mme comoany is doing its bit for the red ink industry uncertain terms. no In the last quarter of 1979 alone it lost sol. malon. This is mirrored all along the Inland Steel and both line. At wneenng-riusburg prons nave fallen by over 50%. The recently had latter rederal loan SOaK UD halls to the tune of $63.5 million.

Republic Steel's profits have plummetted by a massive 84.

.6% wire une mos successi ui ur luc big companies nas Deen

ATICO

with a mere 21% drop in profit over the last twelve months.

US car 1 lic Clisis manu acurne Ino usury dont ensures that there is no upturn around the corner for steel rord. Ior example, nas never made annual

IOSS

DUI

Was down $164 million in the first quarter of this year. The steel bosses have reacted in the only way they know how -plant closures, massive redun- offers well dancies and oe ow nai une curiclll halal inflation. Steelworkers in the US are moreover, with the kind Cuiseu oi leadersmo nal amnosı mane.

Bill Sirs look good (almost!).

Official has been withheld whatever rank- from and-tile action has emerged and The attempt to establish the pay deal sewn up by Ine bureaucracy this year was little a united trade union leader- which ship in Argentina Sl l dil Culieil wase val ne e s d COsL after year's began last of living clause-but one which strike failed general has only allows for a 10% rate of resulting in yet further inmation- noveessv penne lnt own fraudulent abject division and confu- figure of 18.4%. already sorely sion in the wasn't InCIt oppressed and weakened im orovemen allowed for in last year's squalid working class. deal for car workers engineered weeks ao ne mae Conduccion Unica Urlle huluwvincis Trabajadores Argentinos Union. Steelworkers in the (CUTA) split into its in Britain, have not traditionally

DATIS —TOE

COMISOR

most militant been Nacional de Trabajo (CNT) and dlull the Group of the sectons or tre workme cass However the British steel nomination oi delegates to the showed quickly strike International roznis struggle and tion (ILO) and the International

WUIKCIS

ICaIlI of Free hort entecaivers worLeIS Cal Trade Contederation organise to fight for their o#n LDaKRTILI independent interests. The that hav Internal weakness

ICSSUNS

certainly not been

OSE ON IH

international steel bosses and union bureaucrats. intermal waakness of the reflection political The forward for ana vlly W ay US steelworkers of CUTA that this Is planl occu DanKTuDICy pations and work-sharing on full shollld be the issue to cause tof fight closures and sack- schism-the

ILO

has always to be backed up with haven high-flying ings, these been ail-out stnke acuon to ron back la DOu] bureautiats carti the employers' offensive.

down settle tor a coac Botha persed demonstrators much ening body of mass protest.

In several parts more violenty a00 sinere police have dis- mindedly than at first when the county. armicu

ARGENTINE

UNIONS SPLIT

AGAIN

capitalist technocrats in Geneva struggle of the ship tor the while the ICFTU's Pan-american Argentine proletariat against the organsation. ORIT. is an openly of attacks unleashed by which the imperialist body the dictatorship TUC remains afiliated. course, had also

BEIS.

The CUTA had always been been true of the now dissolved Confederation General de legal although the videla aic tatorship forced into the Trabajo (CGT) which had been recognition that it tacit the centre or unon acuvity n Argentina for decades. enea Arcenme movement. While the '25' has certainly been militant than Taken over CNT. it has preferred to force Tor tatones rather Inar 1E0 31 The majority of the leaders the overthiow of the dicta- are from unions of torship. 'intervened the The CNT reprsents the more formally entrenched military otices aken over o nure ucratll soldiers and all effective inde elements of Peronism, the '25' proscribed 'left' pendent activity draws from its Merely within the union itselt).

sector. CNT has Consequently the been closer to the regime always Destruction with it 25 which v.oue Or However. the immediate ih3t are I0: intervened and which called las: issue a: stake is the defence of working vedr s slnke which the dictatorship threatens It was the CNT's upper hand nominations to international to destrov enurer caused the split Last year's labour code pro- government takeover of

CNT

openly ses Illdy all funds and facilities. attacked as being colaboration ist, but the fact is that neither it reducing ine exsane Dooes to noi the '25' nor the ! corporate organs of the state.

was capabie oi proviuuts Icalvi present wave of unrest begar two mullllis dou provoked this sharp repressive turn ny tne is the o y oniy which the unrest

ONIAC CIORTO ABIOR RUTDUATYA

and college students in the cities they first but other séctions of also involving re •obresseu masso. It is estimated that tens of thousands of students through- out the country are now taking strke ane otaer torns oracıon Ao ininhe Cape ponin lar schools and 24 in the Lastern Cape were petre bovcomeo ast week But similar actions were also reported from «Johannesburg and Bloomfontein of the vevera nunure students are among the arrested.

The of the involved in the masses upsurge ac scoas oi lue obulalvl u the Irbal nomelanas and the the homeland of Qwa • Owa 2.000 students and other: joined in a demonstration which up by the was violently broken Donce. Throughout Western Europe the development of economic crisis and slump is creating a vast and growing volume of unemployment. No section of workers lutmune Ion scouree unemployment but one section of workers is everywhere suffer- immigrant* ing most-int WOkCls Imported in millions tRem from countries like Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, and immi-

1 UIA

grants in the vears of the bost- war boom came to occupy an place in laboun important 101C seycrd. especially Germany, w est Holland, Switzerland and France workers were often 1 nOsC pacle pala, aved r conditions have been hounded by the police and have no rights Icsiuchict Wilck 110 T employed. The capitalist class has used euphemistically term what they anest workers lo custoRnon immigrant workers partially against the slump first Immigrants have been to be dismissed and are then repatriated and involve on the capitalist state's urall Tinances In Holland, often regarded as most liberal of bourgeois the states, a law has recently oasseo waca subecas mmmardı workers to immediate expulsion from the country if they have beer continuously employed for two vears in the same firm 7. result of this law an estimated 20,000 workers are now fleeing from the police Over the last few weeks five hundred of them have : sought churches have veet wumme to sne inen п the state. Embarassing The right wing government worthies Cnsuaa faced with The em naras mmg decision as to whether to send into the holy its armed police SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 June 1980 lands also boycotted classes And in Durban 5.000 blaci шоткет. went oasake in support of union recognition and higher wages. the regime used Lasi L'illd South Africa's Republic Day as a pretext for a massive show of armed force as tanks, armoured soldiers vehicles and passed menacy noucRe surecls of the main cities. Not confident Botha threatened to use "the tuil force oi the state againsu anyone responsible for unrest.

empty threat,

LL IN

Dut nor s u a comiclt ule The upsurge of the workers and in sents is, alreadde ane contról control DUWeiU forces of the

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capitalist apartheid state And Botha can see that each the repression Slovill and orovokes 101 torol demoralisation but extension of protest and resis- Lance. Dutch bosses hound immigrants places in order to repress a section oi tne working cass But why the question of the violation of sanctuary rather nm ar

ECOLS

sno Hle Concem the Dutch bourgeois press is of course irrelevant to the working Class hoatevnr in does, revedr scandalous situation which section of workers an oppressed is forced to look to • DrICSLS 101 help against the capitalist state than to the : bureaucratic the leadershit country. powerful trade unions. On their, knees! Cathedral of Scene: Notre Dame, Paris, Friday 30 May, 1980 The Te Deum is being sung : of His Holiness in the presence Pope John-Paul II Among the honoured guests at this glittering occasion dedi cated obscurantisn and SUDCISUILIOl ale the ruling class oi rrance And also four speciall invited guests: Maxime Gremet (MP Somme), Lucien Io with Villa (a raris Mr) Danielle Guy Schmans and Bidard (both Senators) These graciously

LOUI

llal thanked the Archbishop of Paris for his invitation: 'We are particularly touched Dy inis invitation, Thev wrote "given the exceptional nature of Pope John-Paul to these four? Not Who are or intel- prominent Christians artists-but lectuals Donucas And of what Party? Not the Gaullists, nor the Giscardians, or even the Socialist Party leading

CAVI

are members the French Communist Party!

Why did Kremlin leaders decide to invade SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 June 1980° the What determined Soviet invasion of Afghanis- tan was the crumbling of the pro-Russian government and the disintegration of its armed forces. The actions of the Red defen-

AUIIY

wort sive act on the part or the Ussk only relation but southern borders, the the 1C201 Gulf Persian and East. In this region, the crumbling pro-imperialist reques alla the inadequacies of nationalist have created all which ulislabic collival Kinds • rate. manoeuvies on the part of the imperialists are this context the civil war manliests Lile international class struggle ano the capitalist reaction and the workers states.

no tsk vists are not neurdi me this battle and we place of the ourselves camp of the USSR from the imperialists.

This position no way support or justification implies Iot me Doody Donces bureaucracy in Afghanistan and its national total scorn sell cuts i lie Hasses the will Intervening against the exploited A ghe mahe bureaucracy holds the responsibility the growth of Icaculollal y asansist Ene invasion. While raising charge publicly Trotskyists refuse the imperialist to participate The crumbling of the nationalist government. of April coup Willitaly the PDPA 1978 which led to and to a fraction of the army taking pover taking with the backing bureaucracy was a right wing and repressive turn imposed by the pretend mie. impelled by the of Persia Tine military government of Pakistan which the basis for formed in the domination imperialist region. The coup coincided with the mass mobilis- beginnings of the the revolutionary uprising which led disy tine of the led Pahlavi emperor Although The would regime characterised as nationalst and bourgeois petit Decause emerged in an alliance with the and its politics because remained in the framework of the bourgeois state. There was a purge of most of linked the high tunctionares lower ranks of the administra- tion remained untouched. The Communist Party was in governel not oy lue levoll as a result of a military plot.

sought save itself process of revolution the execute mr ammsuauvely without taking account of the evolution of the masses.

INTERNATIONAL

Afghanistan: Brezhnev embraces Taraki What the Com- more, is a small organ- munist Party the peasantry which forms the overwhelming majority of the population. Ievoulals programme tor agncuture ano no democratic banner for the national minorities conditions Under attempts put into oracle that to say, dictated by the state.

PDPA

covericl adopted a series of progressive Transform the feuda agriced tal attempted measures system. peasantry were cancelled e Debts owed by were barucularly 1971-72 the holding and 50 hectaed bever six depending on the level of and anything over this without com- poisone or and did i selling land against discrimination of women veil abolished and dowries were reduced). this starting point but Irom Afghanistan began, para- phrase Marx, to suffer all the evils of revolution without gain- revolorary because reaction was provoked the exploited. did asallll y not respona to ine initiatives or the nationalist it doubted its capacity because to carry lucil vul ne mattery dictated from above measures which the of affected power andowners and une sem-icuda agricultural relations, but they incapable of breaking the were millence allu paternalism of the landowners over the peasantry. Furthermore, the PDPA did the agarito persie the go of and, revolution antalian which has a userty oe country only or mmonter refused to nationalise either the water and seed supplies in the tribal chiefs, or nanus the credit system. Right wing rebels Without such leasules. parcels of land are worthless and maintain the dependence of the feudal land- owners. belore ine impasse created by the opposition of the tribal chiefs, the inconsequence of the themselves and licasules apathy of the ex pole. ianism and terror of the regime created the conditions for The character of the inyasion.

responded to the civil troops war in Afghanistan being fought ov une quertmas cectea by c feudal landowners whose objec- tive was to break the process of social transformation Afghan war was be c exore on o international conflict between the bureaucracy and imperialism

IOI

01 a slatesically Page 3 or an article translated from tie April edition of Politic part ot an article translated trom the April 1 edition Obrera, nuhlication of the Politica dorera crowo orarcentma- section of the Fourth Internationalist Tendency Much of the article presents an analysis and an approach similar to that ot the workers soclalist League and unerrotskylst liter national Liaison Committee.

But would two important differences: the WSL and the TILC, while not calling for a withdrawal of the Soviet troops- would create opportunities tor imperialist inter which we conscel vention into Afghanistan-do condemn the kramin invasion, as action advances neither the revolutionary struggles with Po that such a condemnation of cessarily imprint re nor the long term defence of the USSR. And the WsL and ILC nave spelled out a elements of programme which we see as essential for the mobilisa.

tion of the Afghan masses in the fight for an independent, socialist 4 tahanistan bacer on tre dower or workers ana ceasals soviets No such programme is elaborated in the PO article.

would mean the victory exploited in the Persian imperialism, and from there Gulf With and national oppression. authoritarian the other ther

SITS

cereal

TEDICSSIVC

Incasule hand, will extend the area of the the will of the masses and step world and to • this on this dear at an extent helps the struggle for real bureaucracy nation beata make opposed to national aspirations -which is what holds the masses to Islam The bureaucracy consciousl refuses to encourage a revolu- The politics Not the (connter. •factor of the first order tionary revolutionary oureaucracy.

national The Russian bureaucracy did Enlal not decide to invade struggles ltne the Pushtans, who are found defence oi the important state precisely anc con stretches over Afghanistan, Iran sciously to preserve its caste interests. an astan In 1973, the governments of From here flow the methods latter Then

WICI

unleashed the crush the most basic democratic aballis aspirations of the cost more that 15,000 lives in their struggle for towards smasning

VICCLOU

aLly self determination. independent movemen Kremlin bureau- have the clear objective

NOW

•Lit discouraging the exploited from cracy and Im Derais plotting : to place troops on the coming tocerner ana orcansue.

supposedly guarantee The result this border a of the torian provoke neutrally o1 Airlallstal the Persian surgine of 15 million, souls for reality proletariat adrowt the Gulf and self-determination -a their worldwide, to block the process towards independence struggit wen would workers with respect to Islam in end to fascism han rem orcue tue yoke o1 tilt Persian geoples throughout over Tne peasantry. Because of its politics, the In sum, ovEs melnoas. al in defence bureaucracy raising wall action conceived • 1S between the

USSR

the

USSR

the une Muslim masses. world proletariat and mcrense. that their actions its vulnerability-but that is the became are directed towards the defence politics ot the bureaucracy of the USSR, hierarchy is method for oniy true really surrendering the the defence of the workers oppressed of the Persian Gulf to because of this, states precisely intrigues of imperialism and in tribal chiefs is itemenona revolunon. explaining Instead of the revolutionary character tals way, mstead or strenglael ing the •social basis of the struggle in that area, the bureau.

Workers' states they undermine a legalisti cracy invented piece of pap to justify its inter- There are no substitutes for vention revolutionary mocks the world prolet- methods defend revolutionary ariat strangle any against imperialism. As Trotsky- manifestation of international- condemn the ism. we do

ISUS

invasion of At present in Afghanistan its Russian troops (to do so would role is conservative and its only pro-imperialist) but we do military condemn its methods becaus order country. they represent irreparable Russian troops have not only damage the struggle for the revolutionary not called vital region. survival of the workers' states insurrection but thev have dis Since English imperialism associated their presence in th attempted the Rusian Gils impose country from the struggles of the century. unt need for the Yankies to domin ate this region is now even more vital, borders with the USSR and its proxinis to evol timper alim.

why imperialism started its crusade against the started Invasion. boycott of food supplies and of Olympics and the breaking or Homera cheese essence of Yankie reaction is to prepare a chauvinist climate within th

USA

while militarising Indian Ucean and swiltly _estab lishing military bases in Kenya, Oman and Somalia Soviet invasion means the rejection of the principal oi national ce t-determination However, this is not in itself the but rather main question the class struggle worldwide. Downed Soviet helicopter Self determination today

Page 4 Tameside Trades Council fights TUC censors The

TUC

General Just as successive KrITISh governments have used the Irish Council's recent decision to to launch a gencral attack disaffiliate Tameside Trades Uasi. Darlicularly Council over its anti-imperi- Enrougr the Prevention alist stand on Ireland is a Terrorism Act, now Congress House fundamental bureaucrats attack on democracy within the lolow sull mn an anemoi lo cad the trade labour movement. movement who speak out on tue Issue Len Muttv nas crculateo al Trades telling that no intatives can be antes laKen

TISA

queston without prior approval of the "Safe" proposals are sarei unless the In other words, such as with pro-imperialist Better Lite I01 All campaign, and guaran teed not to deal with the real political Dnlain s Imiltary occupation of the six counties, TUC will rule them out of order! defiance hs willamenae will be met with expulsion.

But with campaign now getting underway in detence of Lameside, acutane d reinstatement, the union leader ship have a right to be nervous.

Terry Parry Already the have been forced Instrucl Haughey bid to stem struggle The southern Irish prime his co-operation valuable.

minister, Haughey, has good nena emanasisec that he did not want to dictate reason to feel aggrieved that people of the North and T0 te ten year old allegations of could that Irish unity only gun running and financing the IRA have been resurr- unfeigned consent." Haughey now caught in a ected. nulciacker. neras direduy anien ated nationalists in the south ne humse t looked bourgeois worthy and many to achieve more effective British sometning through negotlation.

his imperialisin, or coece- Ssor vnen. No rest were talk, Yet as the current revival unity accusations of helping the IRA say that shows augmented by Haughey has out' similar attacks from because nis opposi- TIon Ine southi ne be allowed to rest as a bona fide opponent of the IRA Yet such attacks mav not be Wvd entirely straight forward. The a vival nationalm more Haughey's 'nationalism' at the lack promote, me more camacino is his intervention to the struggle

BUE

Ine bast year off his past Officials connections and cry •ourocois for 'Irish dimension to position even verbal concessions fine. on what Ine Noria. excluder any whatever of all The Daily papers said: man of pata. ways fudy

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his political makes con out by fame de cariat sent out "placed themselves vulsue unc oriciar urade unon movementi And last Saturday's success ful lobby of the Trades Councils Annual Conference bv lameside delegates and their supporters encouraging their io se Call support. In the conference itself the chariman, FBU General Secre- lal y Temuseol accept two emergency resolu- expulsion calling for Tameside to be given reul lo bul tner case. When it was eventually dis- cussed TCJCC's report, several delegates protes eu al ne tul saccision. Confused With delegates confused over the real situation, they were swung behind support ulte typical witch-hunting attack by Manchester speaker Frances Dean. It had been Dean and othe Communist Party prominent West, who had forced the expulsion in

1ISU

place. Ine against British imperialism.

a knolino negotiated settlement Haughey has illusion that strucele perween one bourgeois government in the south of Ireland and another in Britain •sele eterminari iate self-determination the future of Ireland by all the Irish people, we also call tor an Irish republic-which wor kers requires against Haughey capitalist the government workine class The Provisional IRA, who carry the brunt of the imperialist struggle in the north continue 100 vend rule aign and against British British army repression. But evolution of in the south is the nationalism best illustration of how it can offer for • freeing no perspective ine irisa workine class irom un forces. rule of all bourgeois Haughey Stalinists giving the right wing a lesson in outrage and indigna- tion against those who , question Britain's 'democracy CAUs Ils bloods imperialist repression Even was only carried by and subsequent • many delegates (signiticanti embarr- inc uone numbers rank and file a petition condemn bers) signed ing the TUC's actions. Endorsed The Tameside fight has already endorsed been by bodies-including the Conference, •Camden, Hyndburn, Andover and Battersea Trades Councils one TGWU District Committee, five NUPE branches and two Labour CLPs. Tameside Trades Council's labour movement conterence on which when originally relano convened, provoked hysterical condemnation not only from Len Murrav and the CP but also National Front, has now the been recalled for next Saturday.

lascists nave threatened to break it up, with declaration that specially preparea squad of ex-army "hit men mien to destrov m oreaniers to de facile The organisers necessary from such attacks Messages subDori trom labour movement bodies should Trades Councd Secretary forwarded Tameside mallswortn

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• Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.

PRESS

GANG

The parallel between the bureaucracy of the Soviet Union and the bureaucracy of the trade unions has often been made One of the • parallels can be the by the way in which events on ine Isle ol vrain nas opened up the whole trade attack union movement Just international scaboing and delrayals or tne Soviet bureaucracy actually likely the make it more that Unior effectively detenc Itsell attempts by imperia- against capitalism; Ism to restore une beltayais and scadding by the trade union bureaucracy jeo- very pardise existence of the whole trade

UILU1

WICO

depend for their privileges and powerat is why the has press made o1 [ picket the MaSS Grain. The spectacle of unions divided orga- nised scabbing has presented the gutter •press with a heaven sent upportully ortay unions as being opposed to the interests of the working class The acling as tne propaganda wing of the Tory party to smooth the pato. legis- its anti-union That Daily is why Mail sent reporters along with scab and chose to quote Tory bench 201 Ine

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 June 1980

STROOPS OUT

NOW!

IRELAND

Hull fascists' shotgun raid The shotgun raids are by no Fascists in Hull have means the first terrorist attack resorted to gun attacks to fascists by in Hull, who intimidate their opponents.

lave Illally lines trica lo smasn up hours workin class political organisations an trade unions windows shattered by shot gun blasts obviousl Boox-is escalating violence in a bid Une-socialist operatec by the Socialist cash the sky-rocketing on Workers Party. Two adults and city - two chidren escaped particularly amongst school natrov serious injury in the attack.

leavers This vicious attack must be a Arson labour the movement. the fascists In the second one, linked to are not Communist crushed, the their Parly, " •sho cal balda arson, intimidation and violence blas spallered thick plate glass window against the labour movement The smashoshad beck tin will only intensify victin arson attack March 1979 carsi he Mail writesGrain was th the picket, but concemme AUEW official John Baldwin, say ingi "The Isle this modern trade first real test of the power of unionism the GMWU laggers to hold the part of it. Today we have seer industry to ransom its ugly and unacceptable face But maybe flou- the major rish which Press attacks on strikers and Some momen nto can be held ockes nave accome so more contain „ 18 lo tuned that they are producec a formula. Elizabethar against male strikers-to divide or classiçal tragedies there are workers sexual line certami conventos lo sano ana lo demonsuale a constant must appear in the witchhunt myth that women are 'naturally is the pool dogged more 'reasonable' (Tory) thar workers (scab) determinedly Dursulne desire

. WOTK

a headline (collaborate) despite trade Under •Wives union _(vacillation) In who (ho se wies the Moit sate" of hate power Isle the oi Grain it however a question of finding a women ran a Holt nave few individuals: terrifying gauntlet jeerin "The pickets pickets failed miser- they power station workers to their ably as more than 30 coaches carrying around jobs." several 1,200 bona fide trade unionist The women, serve past GMWU offi for the rumbled they

VUDDOS.

110 cial picket lines.' scabs through bicke lines, but double up as "wives" second convention is to praise and pity the poor hard headline police as they "mothers" in the text. pressed neut- their role of The Mail shows the womer ¡ally vally

OUI

upholding law and order. pictured in coach with So at the Isle of Grain when shattered window. (None one of the coaches broke down them were actually driving tha coach, but why draw the line at une impartia role oi tne polce was to push-start it! The Mail a bit of poetic licence?)

remarks: The conventions are familiar, seemed anger but as press witch- ever pickets more than ever, as they hunts, they are only powerfu broke through the police cordon when allied to reaction withi there •wurkeis movement Somewhere there must invented the scabbing at the Isle found space to note that the of Grain. Rather it is the AUEW EEPTU, UCATT and the TGWU strikers are determined to bring une wore trar weu readers Kaou winch nave presented them with and love crashing about their a witchhunt on a plate

Labour's Special Conference

PASTING OVER

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 June 1980 The banners and pamph- lets at the Labour Party Conference said Special "Peace, Jobs and Fredom": but they might just as well "Business read have as Usual" As everyone was at pains to point out, incle were no new Packed meeting of delegates in favour of party democracy

THE CRACKS

policies on orler; there was no new leadership on offer; there much in the was not new , techniques. Inured there of thiaghen Callaghan honoured mixture Joe undand prosperous ine Gormley, thumping arum for wage comos-wille Healey government. Eric Heffer. Joan Lestor and glimmers of light Tony Benn were wheeled out as decoys to in left wing ele- however did percolate through the rolling clouds of rhetoric.

ments that might otherwise lose policies and begin to look else- Bring down Tories where. With the exception of the Lambeth Council leader Ted loony right wing Knight attacked the document's Social Democratic failure to call for action to bring Alliance- "Oppose the extremist there the end orits term, and government down NEC statement!"-and one floor speaker who bridled at the idea went on to stress that. interested not industries without compensa- returning another Labour tion-no right wingers bothered government of the same ilk as ane the last ones not just largely vacuous phrases of the "some differences

NEC

statement. major differ

AUEW

Gerry souKesillall the last entes Russel proudly announced the Labour government. They paved support his the way for the Tories. union's right wing led National South delegate committee tor the document- pointed the absence "socialism" support that was universally from the slogan echoed by leaders of other "Peace, Jobs and Freedom" and unions. argued that: "When we talk about mani- Not far enough last time there's no way l'll go the streets of And while numerous mouth trying to win support speakers-ranging from David He singled out Moss Evans in Rasnett to 'Militant' suoporters attacking ment said to say that the docu "our own trade unions doing ment not go not one that argued and selling out-making Lill was politics a dirty word.' a inorougn socialst chinque or i that offers Labour business capitalist system? neither shred today's activists upnold lne Not bloody likely!" conciele But one Labour leader who as a whiff of a socialist makes secrel for a returned Labour business to uphold capitalism is David Owen. He incurred howls line nuclear build them weaDors-to enormous expense) while going hrough the motions of "arms limitation" talks. Others were more discreet. Clive Jenkins, dressed like merchant banker and paradin: his usual battery of economic argued facts and figures, that industrialist. antagonising and even bankers, the Thatcher "self-ambush- was 1ng and oone rather than later from its own contradictions. Second hand Such learly union avoid determined Leader. action bring dowr governmen GMWU leader David Basnet what appeared to - were second-hand suit which (and several other people had slept in-went even further into cowardly contortions. with his Page 5 employ of the steam-letting exercise to run solicitors • and barristers "Employment Bill evasion" Heffer and Benn diplomatically lines of morning and after the bosses' wound up don lit in suitably tub. practice or lax evasion. 1I001

SESSION

But there was real anger thumping style reflecting Heffer, endorsing the NEC from some speakers. statement as "a first class social- rank and file under the Tory most creat spelled intended •attack. delegate from message of the conference: wota Edinburgh complained that: "T'm not "People are looking ; to the happened in the that's past: interested Labour Party for leadership- in what i'm will ha the methe fut, it and they are not getting it.

"They don't believe that meantime, if Heffer Thatcher has to stay there for

NEC

have then and the way present struggles against Tory live years-and i don't Delevt she has to stay there for five and closures will be left to their own devices while the local authorities have 1 natcher government is treated said they • not implement to the occasional protest March wtl cuts. The

NEC

should support 9-style demonstration and even the

PLP!

Labour them -ana wav one ca councils are not elected to carry stoppages out Tory policies Similarly Benn, in his raptur "We learned how to fight the OuSy recerved wind-no soceca cuts under a Labour govern- stressed and restressed the but by God we needed the NEC ment, that central message the experience" statement, wile ortering onl Three delegates drew strong the same old policies, did offer they of the applause when forcefully the basis for complained about the Labour Party eace, Freedom" leadership's craven support for Jobs, the 'bipartisan imperialist indeed business does mean the Labour Party, usual Ireland, and contrasted the NEC reace ior Callagnan in tne nnal on this with few months before he retires and makes way for his chosen its ready condemnation of the wing successor: Jobs io Other delegates won vocal David Owen, Neil Kinnock and the clique of opportunists and support when they attacked the and time servers in the Labour an links to US imperialism: and the TUC leadership; and seethed with for the Party leaders to continue conference Common demands, flou Market. adopted interests of lities and the its rank and As right wingers prudently sat on their hands and allower members Callaghan with General Secretary Hayward

WEST AFRICA: UNDER

FRENCH IMPERIALISM

Page 6

THE HEEL OF

French-speaking West Africa (a misnomer applying to the language of its colon- isers and the agents they left behind) is made up of four- teen independent states and

MAURITANIA

covers an area greater than 100 troops, air the whole of Europe. strikes against The backwardness of social soes in and economic development and western Sahara

DOVCILY

ienced daily of 70 million is the characteristic result of the direct

SENEGAL

tervenuon or imperansm mic 1,200 troops, air pre-capitalist economies.

strikes against The destruction of the rebels in precapitalist prod- modes western Sahara uction by military occupation penetration of mono- poly capitalism dio not Tred resources for efficient been the

IVORY COAST

case Europe hundreas 550 troops years before when the growth of and advisers capitalism steadily mercantile •vertnrew reversocierv. Profitable investment

MILITARY

Instende new coloma were structured in limited order serve those

AREA

areas oı ooducuon walen wert highly profitable for capitalist

CONPLICI

investment. the отоет create conditions for profitable invest- mining, oil wells and ment in the agricultural crops. Certain rest of the region was stripped capacity and of its productive capacity the se-surcency and transormed boGueleve into a supplier of cheap labour regio Those who argue that the and cheap cash crops. lack of development means that gunpoint to pay rorceu al the bourgeois revolution is stilf taxes in casn, the rura popula- tion had either to find employ- to occur, that capitalism has yet for cash to penetrate the rural areas etc., crops grow hi will not base themselves on any AL line lucal crafts and manufacturing were understanding reality, DuI largely destroyed by the influx rather on the need to be able to petty-bourgeoisie oi European argue that the mass industrial production.

somehow the Cass Will d Where once • the indigenous progressive role to play.

the could produce bare necessities of material exis- Multinationals tence ior :hemselves, , they were for those dependeni Ine tel is Inal the parti- marker the imperialism. existence of high tech. of capital-intensive tech- nology in a sea or backwaraness.

West Africa, has brought about lack of development and distorted formation equally crushing poverty does not mean still •i casses. cabildfisi flas The great majority of the develop in the region. population lives and works in the rural areas. and many of the Neo-colonial states numerically small proletariat are from workers What it does mean is that the countrvside. capitalism in its highest stage, nationals of neighbouring states.

imperialism, has been able to The local ruling class is the create neo-colonial states purely creaon or moenausn. more as agents of internațional tor the realsation or pronil, and that in these regions profitab- capital rather than ility compatible with is quite production. In cals marginally extemes ol backwaruress anu poverto otis rasses. remains left over by the multi- this reason capitalism nationals leave room only is quite unable to provide any very lew pnvate entrepreneurs solutions The inability of either „to ltne •broniems rural poverty, lack of industrial- bourgeoisie native ethnic oppression and their isatioll. Cass le social backwardness. respective dictatorships alone in Africa agaistt capitalism is the The struggle French French West Africa, therefore aves use pelly bourgeoisie- struggle to release the enormous administrators, officers

WHERE THE FRENCH ARE

LEBANON

CHAD

1,200 U.N. peace- 1,400 troops keeping troops fighting Libyan- backed rebels

REPUBLIC OF

DJIBOUTI

AFRICA

4,500 troops

ZAIRE

700 troops including 600 in Shaba Province

INDIAN OCEAN:

, REUNION AND

GABON

MAYOTTE ISLANDS

550 troops 4,000 troops en avers

INDIAN OCEAN

| FLEET

12-27 warships In moments of desperation political etc-much greater the petty-bourgeoisie will even ground in which to bursue theu lead struggles against own sectional interests. will use them between the two main stasses unstable stratum im perialism -bu purely то тоїСе am Derlaus offer them better terms in thei taevare ever bolscu lo co-or role as hat are now the fourteen agents mass struggles in order to block alliance workers and any and states crush

DOUI

Dudsaills alls on ce the til Africa and independent emergence French Equatorial Africa working class leadership., French imperialist troops in Zaire By Jim Farnham Young woman in Senegal French West Africa. colonisation The alms 0l had sim ply peen competitors out and to force inhabitants to provide the for the necessairy miTastructule profitable exploitation region. The French imperialists im posed тахало force theréby forcing peasants to provide wage labour crops in orde! Casi lu pas With the taxes raised, the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 June 1980 colonisers created the state apparatus neecco to mailan control, and the economic infra sufficient the structure goods like of orimary minerals, sind the import cocoa groundnuts and : of that the Haltulacturel unable peasantry were now produce for themselves This infrastructure remains basically The unenanced difference is when the region 'independence by was given divided up France fourteen areas according to their economic function-and 1 cach of separate independent state in political order facilitate bv Conitol independence. three trading posts and their environs are imperialism's Dastons-IvOr. Coast, Gabon and Senegal.

Permanent garrisons They are most closely linked with France, harbour of French troops (a total of 3,000) and employ migrant labour from the Thirty percent of the wage labourers of Ivory Coast are migrants states of Mali, Upp Niger and Chad Volta border on the Saharan desert are which simple reserve been given the statu independent states to facilitate political control the working class among those which accurately fit neither these obvious categories that the greatest problems have beer created for imperialism state

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 June 1980 around the 'prosperous' coastal dIc wealth. African a thousand French

TTOODS

regime President last a to year strikes suDoress demonstrations against Ine Mauritania of the changes their defeat hands of movement une •anToul OCU DIt The regime been Cameroon llas which won massive wage with vicious political Last November troops who had Congo, Guinea, left' petty- soullutis In Guinea, Toure based union the

SUD BOIL

HULC

De Gaulle French President Giscard This regime took power 1976 and faced an abortive by right wing attempt CouL exiles supported by French mercenaries and 1977. West French Africa the ruling class 1s weak and powerless to effect the and economic social transformation LilCE countries that alone -would The condi- experi- tions that now world capi- talist forces Tnest closer attempt through Tecend such

ULA VI

Organisation and (Commercial Mauritius) ECOW ASand Afric Community ATTICAn same time with seek

ACP/EEC

consultative Assembly which (capital city meets of Togo) regulale seek to While unable lism they simultaneously back his

GOWI

was forced own survival. upon fuling sections oi une phone states from to head re-opened citale 1975 ott the is now upon French and with in partnership. the middle Congo power in those will sections the petty- the former presented The the working capital try class. interests 'Marxist- consorcate

NOW

through prog tained itself and endiess casnes

WALT

workers ana Such •are

NOT

students. The under strongly by Cuba which three hundred of weak The oneraes educating demands the oppressea hundred travana. masses. well was given Lella by the the neo-colonial ane _Noueroo Teame reasons. French stand Im Dere The republic Beninois and Benin 'Marxist- discovered. Willa. French protege Bokassa of Africa. total wage force is through OCAM that inside the 36,000 France has arranged her military borders whlie work in the central A Angola, Galle African Republic the statua and Chad in the last lour years ror the petty-bourgeoisie it is such co-operation that is the ownn mony. real meaning of Pan Africanism none Tourteen imperia- states the are to exist lism's agents in ine lace of lile

WOIKI-

struggle of the oppressed independently oppr- However it 1s only the •under The eners

• COSEU.

Evollins, working class, who can give the genuine the repressed. …Tea desire for anti-imperia-

ATTICAT

Unity. ending both national and ethnic and the domination the regimes of imperialism. prejudices dill Self-determination against peasant organise W11 It is the working class alone that can necessary the movement agents of leadership the struggle the throw off the shackles of imper ant pertalisil. lallsm and give genuine rignts ol rise up self-determination to all the capitalist of the national/ethnic area. It is only the working class the right organise acTos. national the petty- bourgeoisie such like ECOWAS tin f regimes. ally to capitalist ments the providing the provides 101 and the Polisario guerrillas French stationed French mirage jet Puge 7 who can lead the peasantry the struggle to overthrow capita list oppression. Workers and militants there- fore have to address themselves task in a the diverse ocasdillly conditions into T.ne against the common enemy International party national workers party in French West Africa is necessary the independent interests of the class and the building Wille ol a socialist socIet The balkanisation of the region by imperialism cannot be of the oppressed masses unity The national proletariats, with their meagre resources anc organisation must welded he one mighty force capable of leading the • voasaliuy. essee and students in order to deliver death blow to imperialism capitalls allu Africa.

THE POETRY OF

Mt St Helens warnings ignored Page 8 Most people today think of the surrealists-if they think of them at all-as a bunch of freaky bohemian artists who painted InUus- taches on the Mona Lisa and wrote unintelligible poetry.

What Is less otten remem- bered is that, under their French the leader Breton, they formed backbone the ot the geoisie. 1vsk yIst oooosigon to rrench Uncompromisingly during the 1920s and and 30s. How this strange denounced paradox to be explained? at the heart of the first imperialist world war, creative outrageous new born In a small zurich night- club. life itself. Dadaism than a vanguard Known the destruction name was chosen because it was oetweet art meaningless-it launched merciless assault on imental poetry Do recos politics and CulLure. reason philosophy, breaking up Enev UnderstoOd certs, staging street demonstra- not as an escape from tons, but exmouons art and scandalising SnocKing awal filess. the bourgeois adherents of 'high of culture' which would spread rapidly throughout Europe and Germany wrote Lenin, Darticular was with Marxist politics: a possible increase revolutionary declaration told: published from Berlin over the tackled in the signature The Central Dada Council of World Revolution', VIll luvuels or tre kaineano com.

was a leading

MURIST

Party Dadaist artist. Infantile, anarchistic and iconoclastic. Dadaism was more a symptom of the exhaustion of bourgeois ideology brought Ist groups about by the imperialist than a constructive response to Japan, Haiti it. By 1920 Dadaism was itself ists had moved close exhausted; but with French Communist the publication in Paris of the Surrealist Manifesto, it was to announced their conversion give birth to a new movement of considerably greater political party. predicted, a happy one. Surrealism Critical Sorane rom of French artists-most

LOUD

matism notably, the poets Andre Breton and Louis Aragon -who believed After 123 of years slumber, the volcano Mt. St.

Helens in Washington State erupted on May 18 with an explosion that blew a cubic mile of debris off the moun- tain and another cubic mile of ash into the stratosphere.

The force of this eruption was nearly equivalent to a 50 megaton nuclear bomb. Although warned for seven danger was imminent people did not take this seriously and many entered evacuated area around the restricted volcano. Now nearly 100 people are missing, 40 are altu least Knowiio de dead In the aftermath of this catastrophe accusations Dark at mid-day in Yakima incompetence are being levelled at the state government both for constantly trembling. not adequately preparing for the eruption and for enormous explosion of May 18 the rescue and relief operations.

released a shock wave and winds which knocked down trees 12 miles away. Earthquakes Later, the Durocasua Mount St. Helens began to avalanches er after a weed or horal March materials and gas). steam and ash on March

LEC

quakes. engulfing all in their path and This was the flattening 50 first volcanic the countryside. eruption the United Lassen erupted in since

WIT.

California during the First The ash World War. erupted _ IntO The before this may remain mimes aer eruption earthquakes of magni- more years. tude 4 OI greater tallen over the W. curle and the ground States and the

LOU

found the volcano spread wherever

TROTSKYISM

destruction the "culture' cherished by the bour- raccar the books, museums, concert halls and art exhibitions i lue name or a theory of the which would drive beyond the narrow contines of 'art' and contribute to the revolutionising of daily Less an artistic movement' dedicated to ot the the surrealists flaunted their exper- and painting the lace of a hostile bourgeoisie; "surrealism', an intensifying of real Cutonary consciousness call the whole of bourgeois society into question.

revolutionary times', 'the limits of the lousallu- and wnal ine bolsheviks political sphere surrealists attempted in the abysmally low level of theoreti- cal development, Breton and his fellow-surrealists sided from the Internationalists Opposition within the Soviet Union. As dealcaica international- Dam one! entitied ists, they spread throughout the Surrealism in the service or ine 1920s and 1930s until surreal- Revolution, they dedicated their art to the cause of international rom England to Egypt, Chile t Yugoslavia poetry celebrated the virtues of By 1925, the French surreal- iron revolutionary discipline and to the relentiess struggle against bour- Party; and geois values. For this they Enel Icaders the vialst Analoic the PCF. Their sojourn within Soviet Lunarcharsk vi

TITST

'Culture, was not, as might be Minister cuft alta cosmopoli- and notably its growing dog- la cunker. bureaucrasanon. scornful of its brutal suppres- From the

PCF,

however, sion of free discussion and of its they won little but suspicion, By our Science Correspondent disperse it But bul worse was to come. Ihe does not significant problem for the rest of the world. Global temperatures may drop by a iraction of a degree first of several because the ash in the strato- (fiery sphere reflects the warming rays of glowing volcanic OI the sun away from earth surged down Very small quantities of ash may noticed falling on the volcano the world. But,

ILIUSL

miles of square loliccably. sunsers may imorove because of the presence of the ash in the air. that has been Although this eruption was stratosphere size to that _of Smar there for two Vesuvius which engulfed Some has already Pompeii in 79 AD it is compared to the eruptions of saster united rest will be Santorini, which destroyed the the winds Minoan civilisation and gave rise Trotsky talking with Andre Breton (left) and Diego Rivera so bins ins postical. one-dimensional vision. A threat Luis Bunuel, bonuca stainism philistinism, the cutura. Palest im surrealists stood firm by their revolutionary ist: his films exploited cultula scious and defence of prostamme Hazely tu traditional Bolshevism From the beginning. and in 1931 they had grasped the transforma by lascist gangs potental or tne rreudian theory the unconscious. "Today's Determined to break down the wrote Breton, barriers and vetween Catu politics, culture and everyday life they the rejected any hard-and-fast division vetween on oi cabitanst vocery and the social consciousness explosive, unconscious forces ists belief in which it repressed. Illay nave aims were to give these unconscious forces a ally take. voice-to let them rip through 1934, the stable, sedate forms of bour- from geois society and challenge its Association to the legend of Atlantis, and municate with those on the Krakatoa, ground because witen aevasteo much of coastal Indonesia and sent an were tuned to different frequen enormous tidal wave around the world in 1883 There naicanor teams seemed to be dragging that the eruption will go on their feet, through summer and final toll of devastation will not and relatives of those missing •reachedne known for some time. and searched the devastated area themselves-otten digging in the Not heeded cloying dust for hours searching pathetically for a trace of those they had lost. Accusations of incompe tence in the handling oi the disaster began volcano in Yakima, a town of Governor wiel 50,000 péople, Dixie Lee Ray declared a state- attempts are wide state of emergency Washington, evacuated brusn on the roots the grev asi from the Volcano which fell like living the flanks snow on the town. volcano and restricted access to the coacuated are to rings ts However, Several feet deep warnings the geologists were not heeded St. became MOUNt Helens tourist attraction -with sight- roots are cleared seers coming from all over the turn to a concrete-like substance and crush buildings.

UNA

The state police were unable stop heaps several feet deep in the visiors and residents angry at being forced streets and it fills the air with a leave their homes from

COK IC

GOTO

entering the Even here the see what was happening services seem inadequate.

before the majo 50 residents of th eruption of Mount St. Helens it is not the evacuated townshin of Toutle prediction of geological hazards forced the Governor to let them that presents the real problem into the area to inspect their but what is done with the pre damaged homes. diction On the day of the eruption If the yet another group of Toutle guide What residents were due to visit the should a large earthquake strike San Francisco or cancer zone After the eruption, rescue attempts were hampered: concern about the authorities' dile borne rescuers could DO Col ability to cope. SOCIALIST PRESS. Wednesday 4 June 1980 By Terry Eagleton Writers and Artists for publish ing a letter critical of a dreary Soviet tilm which celebrated the virtues of the nuclear family.

the : same year, Stalin was hatching his notorious dogma of , based sucials Ivansm in art on a naive, reactionary subord ination of fart to reality as it is' By 1935, swinging tamely into line behind the Popular Front sell-out of the wurk cass to an anance witt "progressive" sections of the bourgeoisie, the break between Stalinists and surrealists became inevitable. Seizure of power Just as floods of fellow- travelling artists . and intellec- tuals were rushing into the French Communist Partv. enam.

oured of its new brand of class collaboration, Breton and others sickened this were on the way boisnevism, VUl In • the French general strike of 1936, , the surrealists called for workers® militia seizure of power, while Stalinist leader, Maurice Thorez, made his infamous • pronounce ment that "It Is necessary of the now now to eno a sinke coloration, the PF Complacent their class orector was able period, was an avowed surreal- 'uncon- to dismiss the surrealists as no more than a 'degenerate', 'deca- remorseless dent' of ultra-leftist . group bohemian Buduct am in Paths was raided showing In 1938. now free of the

PCF,

Breton travelled to Mexico, where he had authentic art historic meeting with the exiled hand 'goes Leon Trotsky.' win revolutionary socia activity. Like the latter, it leads Manifesto confusion and destruc- Idealist though the surreal- Along with Mexican the imagination artist Diego Rivera, the two men it was more drafted out a manifesto calling than the Stalinists could politic for an International 1 Federation of Independent Revolutionary Breton Was Art which developed Stalinist

SOOI

the number of sectons Revolutionary countries. was in the same year that the Fourth International itseli was founded; and this parallel international tion and international socialis culture is of striking signific ance After the second imperialist world war, during which Breton took refuge . United State, on sume so aver sporadically; but its main strength was clearly spent.

their some oi the radios teasts- particular -had Amarol defected th 1930s Because the official rescue convinced Trotskyist and active artist until frustrated friends 1966. security cordon Powerful fusion The decline ot surrealism in hand with the coes nanne eclipse of proletarian revolution 85 miles south west of the in the Cold War period; and it of course, free from was not. feverish serious internal flaws. being Its demand for a poetry of the was often _ unconseous naive; it thrived, artistically, frenetic bursts of energy rather than as a planned strategy; and it contained more than its fair Romantic-anarchist Stare If it rains heavily before the elements On the other hand, the ash will ism represents one of the most powerful fusions politics which the century has drifted into witnessed More than a century before its birth, the English revolution dust. olgrey ary poet William Blake had emergency written the that business mankind is the a mater oy the events things in common. Breton and surrealists were the great inheritors of this belief, united as they were in agreement wilt Leon Trotsky's watchword: To conquer for men the : right events there are a not only will happen to bread Los Angele. is grave cause for

COLD WAR: PAST

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 June 1980 Carter

AND PRESENT

The state of relations 1950s on either side of a power between the USSR and the unleash almost instant imperialist countries has nucleae cold ar always been a fluctuating The Cold of the late even from 1940s and early 1950s did not hour to hour. Needless to begin overnight. All 1ts major elements were to be found in neither side has say, ever the imperialist policy the dropped the guard of sus- Wat esoec picion and defensiveness ially the aggressive stance of Churchill towards the USSR.

which is characteristic of all international diplomacy. Basic harmony Nonetheless there have been long perioas wnich are clearly however, On the surface, acas maintained identifiable changes of climate basic harmony in these relations. orlween une orannist and moer- Hence the almost simultan- powers. imperialists 12 |19} Japanese attack on the eols allowed Stalin, as agreed, to set

USA

and the Nazi attack on regimes (initially bourgeois the

USSR

up in 194l opened a ones n rastern aurope wnich were under Soviet guidance.

the two sides as wartime allies They looked on with partic- and then, in the agreements to ular divide the world effected at the susation asn come so Stalin acted ruthlessly against famous series of summit confer- the independent movement of Tehran, Yalta Potsdam, as mutually recognised the masses. Iran Stalin wrecce aie OllL LilC Dollica dutifully betrayed the mass movement and allowed imperi- This alliance was, of course, alsill forces. showed itself western lonary influence with the mass CPs in

HIOSL

Italy and , France to face of autonomous movements of rebuilding the of the masses which pointed, as Greece, direction of successful. In S.E Asia the Vietnamese CP: Inost chusiasti Incompatible force welcoming the post-war arrival of imperialist occupying alllllls Ane in the estantshment oi tionship, however-most the United Nations 1945 notably Stalin conceded just about every 1947 War trom dispute

DULT

m101 yous-cannot Incer. between the USSR and imperial stood without a realisation that ism: for instance, he dropped imperialism= demand each 101Ce. Socialist Republics of the USSR W001Ca resT OM snoua nave a seat. bases-the one on capitalist and Despite the political weak- the ness 15. imperialism in Europe forms-which

DOUCES

and oI Asla. Illally Dal Es incompatible with of the se seille co mase mai one another. of these specific concessions Stalinism and Thus imper- recognition are at once unitea and strength of the USA. which had opposed social forces. emerged from the war econom- And it is this contradiction powerful more than ever ‹the USSk had lost 42% of its series of 'freezes' and 'thaws' of capacity industrial and in the post-war re atons million people) with period. monopolý of the atomic bomb.

sur aso uns combex tez- Monopoly other elements; some as the

LISC

Tures TO ' nelo reso ve irermi political problems in both the It was in fact the USA's Stalinist and imperialist underline measures that and others new- siales, monobory anc manlan mid which began the process existence There followed a rapidly hardening ou nosure alluue. which developed into the Cold of escalating series measures WaTruman's decision to drop wen cultud ted in the creation of two armed bombs (the only ones alliances explicitly directed the two Us against each other 1947 Stalin Japan in August 1945 was at least demonstration to soscod as to much designed founded the Cominform. And 1948 he gave the in rebruary

CLOKYO.

on ne de canzon d The put North Korean Peoples em natoo on the distribution of all nuclear Republic and information in 1945 was one of which established Stalinist ago-essive incasuie. regime in (zecnosiovakla which the US took as the wal In March 1948. the imperial- came to an end. signed Brussels ists Another was the sudden and which resulted in the unilateral abandonment of lend- tne ant communis

NAIU

alliance. In January 1949 Stalin founded Comecon (though the the Soviet Union was the main and most needy beneficiary.

explicitly Warsaw Pac These changes coincided did not follow until 1955).

with the death of Roosevelt and une accesson ou trumar to ut US Presidency, a change which helped to bring right- : a more wille, agortsavery layer centre

INTO

Tne political power in the US, later reinforced by growth of McCarthyism and, in a more centee way. une eecuon of Eisenhower in 1952. It 1947 that the imperialist decisive turn: The imperialists came were by then confident that (with Stalin's unacknowledged Dotellially tionary montene the working classes and oppressed had been deteated Illasovo Greece, and most Iran all in Italy and Marshall Plan And now the main fear was prospect the possible the future growth of Soviet strategic strength In June 1948 the imperialists In April and May of 1947- the revolutionary threat having declared that thev intended to been restrained by , the Stalinists abandon efforts to ne ate a German solution French bour geoisies felt confident enough the ahead with a monetary reform in the Western zones. ministers from their The Soviet reply, the Berlin ments. Launched the Marshall Phan for month surprisingly plockade broken by an imperialist airlifi and was lifted in May 1949. But European economie if Berlin was first recovery. rconomia 9101 Was offered under the plan to the conronaron or me coo war USSR and to the East European the biggest was to be the Korean War of 1950-51. countries in its sphere of influ- Although many the cnce. out unis was manmy seen by the Kremlin as an attempt by actions taken bv Stalin through this period of the Cold War were capitalism to cause heavily completely main and it around turn nanomaliseo economie Ielations was rejected in July 1947.

hetween Stalinism and imperial By Henry Phillips ism was an imperialist offensive the USSR expressed in against the truman Doctrine of.con- tainment' This was first enunciated as US policy and then full fruition затег orongnt to under Eisenhower and Dulles after 1952 with the creation of millar anance. around the Soviet Union

(NATO, CENTO,

SEATO, etc) The offensive partly Was base on a con on une part of the imperialist powers that their military which resulted from the atomic might prove short-lived. In of the spite sometimes defensive provocalive of the Kremlin in the face of this offensive, Stalin and his US successors knew Wild nuclear monopoly them четт with little alternative but to step down any con- berore illa. decisive stage. Relative strength The imperialists correctly calculated that : Stalin would not Gale

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weapon-potentially devastating ation working class agalnst capitalism So the Cold War was a period in which their counter- were recognised by both imper- ialism and Stalinism but in which offensively Il veausil

TOOK

strength against Stalinism was based therefore on the rela- tive strength of imperialism It was not long belore this situation began to reverse itself Whereas the death of Roosevelt had accelerated, not determined. the imperialist Cold War offensive after 1945 the death of Stalin accelerated but he Cold War which began t the mid-195Õs and emerge in which by 1958 was expressed in Kruschev s policy o. coexistence" and later the imper- ialist conception of detente What had realt the balance of military power.

This was necessary =

USSR

back position tions and to alow the common the sides express warming of relations The "least the military redressing, balance was surprisingly rapid In the testing of the first atomic bomb the USA had a 1 Of4 years over the

USSR

(1945-1949); in the explosior the • thermonuc e device (hydrogen bomb) the Lead cut to nine months was (1952-53). And then in the develop- ment of missiles and space US lead sattelites) the wa. rapidly eliminated Peaceful coexistence' and 'detente' between the rulers of periods sometimes quite sharp worsening in relations freezes ouCI tempotan occurred over the 'invasion of Hungary 1956 over US in Syria in 1957 • Iraa 11 woll 1958 and China in Septem- J Vi ber 1958. The temperature went down the Berlin November 1958 and later with the failure of : the Paris summit nadir with the Cuba missile October There crisis wert tuner connces ater une invasion of •Czechoslovakia 1968. nothing, not even the decade-long involve- ment ma me moo-nmese war reversed the move from the Stalinist bureaucracy and the Suceast Cos brelation SALT e cultural relations by the alle conferences on be crach Security and Cooperation Europe In this context the provoca tive action of the

USSR

0 19197 invading Afghanistan and the imperialist decision to use tnis as a pretext Ior tne reversal of a whole series of of detente is not eass aspects to explair ment aover more prob able that the continued evidence of powerful mass movements in varous parts di tne wora woud bring the two-counter-revolu- tionary forces into an even more powertul embrace. especially in view of the growing evidence of economic and political crisis both imperialist and Stalinist regimes. It is clear from the world that the situation explanation l0l tue lecel moves lowards d new cold war les not in ans new mood of self confidence among the imperialists (as in the cast ui une last co war ou ine markea relative weakening imperialism • context of the weakening of the movement of the work es and oppressed masses) • The economic crisis. and the disintegration ring of oi the alliances with states bordering the USSR have led the imperial- ists to make a desperate attempt build Land to re alliance with China, I alliances with anti-communist state Whatevel difficulties it seems clear that the US (is determined to pull together its avaldoit in a new Soviet more aggressive "anti- alignment designed primarily the rise Cure levolutionary struggies

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The 1980 conference of the National Association of Further Teachers in and Education Higher (NATFHE) was held against the background of cuts and redundancies and a failure on the part of the leader- ship to mount any effective fight back. The clear aim of the bureau- cracy was a conference swathed anti-Tory rhetoric but which the NEC a tree 101l specinc action to be taken over the coming year.

Tyrell, union's CP President, set une. tont nis opening speech, lor much ol the work done by the Stalinists at the conference. "Dark clouds" Morning The Star quotes Tyrell with regard to the threat "senseless •i war. as ceschong une cark year'S gathering on the inter- Mountbatten" clouds national horizon blue blooded militarist) -a state- But the Star to talled was for Troops Out of Ireland from ing statement condemning last

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

ly deceptine five years or iory devastation And, inough they have once more dusted of their near.

forgotten "socialist Labour's vers, That her and toe collaboration the working class has experienced and overcome such but through Callaghan's reactionary inese exoeriences are nor ceco. nev ooint to me way Inar jobs, social services and hard won union rights can be defended gainst renewed Tory attacks revolutionary leadership is needed if the But a principled Labour traitors the TUC collaborators and their hangers-on in to be exposed and pushed aside, and the Communist Party are the mass struggles mobilised that Tory government Such a leadership must fight day in and day out for a pro.

cramme or wantonor comanes wnien conditions and today's consciousness within the working class, lead workers to grasp the necessity for socialist revolution And taking up. democratic demands- -such racial sexuai discrimination..it must show unar must do piayed oy tne workin• ciass ds the onty consistent- capable of leading. iv revolutionarv ca emancipation of mankind. And it must fight on an international solidarity tor ant we one anti cooitalst whether in Ireland, in soutnern Atrica or elsewhere through ut the world, and drawing strength. and political lessons fror evolutionary upheavals such as that which ousted the hated Shah in iran. This means fighting for the reconstruction of the Trotsky.

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UNITY

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The main Killing molon on cuts (the well-known instructed call on all local author me all calls Jues not to CarrY LATORe DUDIC Ales resting is by a authorities already resisting cuts including mcalls

DUSSIDIC

monstra action i neesary.

of Frightened by talk than Clay broader movement need to be pre Future ne the executive moved whole be motion This

NEC

would have prevented a vote at conference They were clearly shaken when Was flvavlly whelmingly passed Branches fight for the

NEC

send national delega- of Labour to Cons mice Labour louDs and Councils to demand they hese delegations should be backed up by a mandate for supporting strike action if needed and the pay rises to police and .The Under-secretary

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for Education MacFarlane, was "left-wing" MPs have Callaghan to establish a basis. for Tory cabinet, parallelling Phase can defeat and remove the starting trom todays as an end to the struggle for the Get the answers in basis-mobilising : to simple Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement

AFTER THE STEEL AND BL STRIKES-NEW LEADERS

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greeted less than half the 450 mace wak out inflation leaving delegates still in the hall.

index Star Morning

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reported the walk out. -but union cost of living index.

neglected to indicate that large numbers standing of ct members stayed In me nas! The first day ender the requested who striking slightly better note NÉC they collected. whet of the whole second deletion part of a resolution on increased Challenge overseas which support to Monday's branches which let in student: amidst anger wno nad not paid increases anc night's Sunday who refused • cooperation with the Home Office or college debate ruled out of order Hilallas billcult The NEC's main motion on salaries had attracted. no legal casts 1es. than amendments. "immediate merger of Lectures by / his and Lecturer 'II scales" conduct aust be deeded "Reduction of pay differen- tials" followed with CP members who were mandated by regions exercising vote against the their „Tree amendment a meetental in lectures and favour of the inclusion of large the order for debate Day Needless to say, there was no talk of how to deal with 20%

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conference ing to maintain living standards will be centred around high and resolutions from the North increasing unemployment. West area and the Midlands North West's £80 demand and an amendment for on the national basic wage.

General Secretary but nevs expose tine and the NEC this year capitul- cowardly lack of fight the • NEC Bill emoovers oralls • and ation, the BPIF, Keys. ing offer of £75 As a leading member or the 37½ hour week delayed with a TUC General Council, Keys was involved in the also shamefully inis was atter the sUuAl leadership had churned steel workers' 14-week strike in literature defence jobs and living Icallls importance or Bonne with tae •stanuarus. NGA and NATSOPA to win the resolution from for £80 and unt united claim Oxford Branch calls for a sliding • › ours * so as veal. scale of wages to keep up with As a result of Keys' betrayal the high rate of inflation.

the NGA was left to It calls price rises to be for the full claim, while SOGAT eers

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membership, normally" during the reliance the often astore one arce mack. Indeed Kevs went further But the motion has been and attempted to ride on the backs of NGA's possible success by claiming similar rata increases to avoid a large differential arising. amounted to position siding with the employers against fellow • print workers-in struggle which is still not finally resolved after five weeks or lockoul ane suike aclion Motions naa to be submitted for the conference as early as last November. point some thought Hi lilal 1121

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Oxford motion union policy on must part of the fight to develop an active policy 01 l2r and living standards against the Tory attack.

IPC

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ON NUJ members on

IPC

still magazines are following suspended narrow majority vote for rejecting a deal which would have them three given quarters of the back pay in dispute. original bigger eage rise has become sub- claim merced Coult OVel whether the editors and journal- ists should be paid for the time been have officially • sus pended.

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-which attacked the union after minimal action had been taken -Is losing mullons o Golne and ruptive action at Mirror News- Pavels The chapels had continued going into work, though offices, heating phones, off. allu

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Hall nev nave made ineir main demand full back pay for the length of the suspension, which they retused to recognise. Mem- now, called for any supporting action. A first offer of half the back 18.5% 11SE Was rejectea and the company then offered of the back pay with negotiations over Hau returned to work. This rejected was by narrow majority in chapel votes.

between the manage- The gap original cem is now very mahe ment DUl chasers Cannot let a major dispute attord to leave them worse off in the long They should be demanding other magazine UJ members and strike actio in Mirror Newspapers, not just tne vack pay, our on lnen full claim. in ISTC deal Following the agreement to 5,000 sackings at Port Talbot, leaders of the Iron and Steel Trades Confeder- agreed to the ation have axing of 3,600 jobs at the British Steel Corporation's Llanwern works. The latest cutback will slash the workforce to just over 4,800 and cut production in half.

is part oi a package of similar redundacy she is ders by breathing soace credita by Lic ment of their When the delegates eventual- reject sell-out A heavy blow has been by the stepping up of practical

GMWU

support from within the GMWU struck at the and other unions. bureaucracy's attempt Too often in the ho peaders force through a sell out deal strikes the similar of the 8-month long union led to deleats strike at the with and recognition the Garners strikes-which also Chix bubblegum factory in involved mainly immigrant Slough. meeting st The leadership's plov in Chix strikers week has clearly been organise only minimum assistance and let union full- ment negotiated time and demoralisation create time officia coroitions ror tien to den ln would have left a majority strikers' demands. the sacked workers on the dole The picket line at the Slough and back factory ano de not even cive a startle date for the 19 who had been must be strengthened. "reinstated" The ground lost capitulatioh, struggle where up till bureaucracy's hany drowned voice has been effec- stockpile heavily • depleted up by smooth supplies be renewed blacking of the plan talking allu GMWU bureaucrats, and its supplying firms. the nerve to hail their agreement

GMWU

leader Basnett has as a 'victory' at the union's con- forced into threatening been support of the Isle of

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the sinkers even na train mar caes chanion to cont dor consider it), this should be made to assist this full rein- other crucial battle for basic statement must be followed up

TUTE - SCOTLA

EIS rally in Glasgow EIS leaders back down on strikes This week there is to be onl Despite a growing deter- one day of strike action-on Scottish mination among Tuesday. teachers to with justification of this their struggle for an 18.6% position, securite needs that strike action wage claim, the leadership should be suspended during the of the EIS has decided to negotiations on Wednesday alle "deescalate" the strikes in during the union's

AGM

Stirling on Thursday. their third week. Llanwern jobs sold The "tremendous nressure' under which ISTC leaders have collapsed like jellyfish has been meet, they -shop tactics new Will be presentec with in of the Wales ore - 'transfer from the USA, MI ings in South Wales, lan MacGregor and Scotland Ostentatiousiv touring South Wast fait accompli. Wales, one of his first projected disaster areas-MacGregor's first Echo

DUDE

Britain were directed towards In words that echo those of speeding up the sackings pro- union bureaucrat ducking every gramme! squeals period. official Keith protest that this blunt state- Brookman said: Bill Sins have now been posed drew from leader •We have agreed because we feel it is in • vest lone let squcals or embarassment- interests MacGregor was speaking out SLantern survival. We alternative before Llanwern deal was the face tremendous signed and sealed! the Corporation to implement their proposals.

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NURSES

Continued from page 1 "might not be ruled out". And the pressure has even forced the contemplate changing KUN to 11s constition to Derm accI shout the RCN _which still comprises a malonty of organ nurses-.has 1cec never preten to ded "professional' always been a tool of manage ment helping practice to keep wages at rock bottom for a livin wage against the attacks of the Thatcher government and even in the defend their struggle Health against Ene nurses need the strength of th labour movement and a genuin trade amon fight-inch ding Only strike action -is waged now can maintained on a nurses whic the never Can further decline staff and decay of the NHS. message-break Strom the RON!

Nurses take 111 US Join union and fight action? *Stop the cuts! No to cash *For a sliding scale of public spending to keep pace service with inflation. *Defend wages against infla- tion-for cost of living clauses in all agreements *Bring down the Tories! Alan Armstrong, leading figure teachers organisation has this his toy the bigges the of betrayal els-and it would be difficult to argue with that conclusion.

In the face of an obdurate the executive management, already signaled the retreat las week by ordering back to work he teachers at Braidhurst, the nost militant school in Lanark- shire, which had gained support the workers' movement locally. The Executive afraid of the growing militancy and political in union ranks. Strike committees Have sprung up every wnere and links have been established with the labour movement. the Springburn area of Glasgow last meeting of over 50 parents, s and local trade union- pledged Ists . 10] struggle. This kind of momentum must not be lost. There mus ve tre most actermined pressurt upon the Executive in the course of the AGM to press for- into the summer holidays and beyond into the new session in August. same time the figh must be taken up in the Labour Party demand that the councillors regional especially those in Strathclyde agree to the teachers' demands.

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The Labour Party's National Executive has voted to uphold the appeal against expulsion lodged by Socialist Press supporter Ted Heslin. Heslin was expelled by the Oxford Cer in January selling copies of Socialist for Press. No secret i he right wingers who have pressed the expulsion have never made any secret of the fact an attempt Heslin' outspoken the removal ou Callaghan-Healey leadership and their supporters, and lor a pro- Kinnock socialist policies to meet the crisis. But it has become increasing- to be inrown wider clear that it is not only the nght wing feel uneasy at who altered such policies being taken within the Party. who does not. week Heslin and Then lasT expulsions who

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t an appeal lodged by Roge But it Fox and Stephen Haseler of th will reactionary Dollar DemoCraTIC organisation Hilance -an crypto-Tories urged 28 retrospectively supporters not to vote for left the wing cantloares in tne Chara election, and has threat- ened to stand its own candi- on Heslin dates in the next. Is twin reprieve was the outcome of a recommendation instruction from NEC's organisation disaffiliation Only Judith Meanwhile this Hart attempt

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right with couate Tne right socialists, calling for sub- commitțee report to be referred Labour bu wanted nasert and fox expelled. Her proposal not only the was defeated 13-5. leadership But issue is far from resolved. Kensington GMC has already Trotskyists as a major threat informed

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that they have intention takins image. back into out membership Healey leadership! in the throes of expy SA Hornsey

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Tories! Douglas Eden-and secretari *Reinstate Ted Hestin! seem likely to Yake similar stand his similarly upheld. SPG license to kill

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the state (as were the Socialist Press and the Worker inquiries into Socialist League called from the beginning for a workers' inquiry into the death of Blair Peach the state and attack the left.

We do not place any illusions or faith in the courts of the ruling class when what is question is the machinery for me pose une labour move upholding class rule. That is not to say that the limits of "left' decision to • press for an inquest with Was licite. statements me lest proquiced from police that would the likes of Jack the have been made to now workers' inquiry. silence on the murder of course, boycotted the inquiry means called by the Southall Defence inquiry results to be Campaign). the inquest has shown unions oeyona doudt that the police murdered Blair Peach, regard- the

TUC

less of the verdict. verdict that the police murdered What was wrong waste Didn reach imbue the inquest itself with means any degree of credibility, and to demand for the the SPG away from its libera tall to warn in advance • that thi inquest was an arm of the state content and would defend it group of police "out of control" And a public inquiry would into a demand for the disband- only the the unlikely event of one being and into an attack on the state conceded it would be used by itself. Ted Heslin lobbying Judith Hart outside the NEC meeting less clear what be taken by the Korean Uxiord GC in the Heslin case Although the GC voted 43- endorse antic. army Conboy-who wrote an unconstitutional letter NEC-it is dould visa la ey an NES wish to defy an mops up thereby and as Kinnock ha stated and as the unity of left' Students and workers weekend's involved in the recent armed Conference showed uprising in Kwangju against socialist policies must now com the South Korean military dictatorship have been given increasingly until Saturday to surrender em barassed and bankrupt bodi of Tribunite 'lefts', who regard -or face court-martial they are caught their carefully cultivated public Some 200 or so are thought have to taken reluge in the the Callaghan/ massive country siat armed forces of General Chon *Kick out Labour's crypto- Too-Hwan moved in to ture the rebel city in which ur 200,000 armed workers and *Fight for socialist policies!

had previously driven students out police and aboy ung s the neighbouring country alcas une luguves are lker to find sympathetic. villagers: and includin Chongju and the poit of Mokpo demonstrations nave contmued defiance of Chon's martial law clampdown -clear evidence that matters tal

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resolveu In noted country's vast savagely exploited working class spurred . bj Ull unemployanent and spiralling inflation, has been awakened the struggles: and Chon's heavy- handed imposition of undis more rule is likely to entrench than elimin- • ațe political opposition.

But "or General unacknowledged Chon will the murder ist rig the which than shout nevil dately and toe urunwic.

dispute to defend the forces of regime. wenunrouenou give centries refuse give assistance workers We call for the establishment fighting the puppet of a workers' inquiry in order to government a the contA As ever, the Stalinist bureau.

cracy of Kim Il Sung fears above ment to the state, and show th all the revolutionary movemen Labourites and Stalinists in the labour move- sit back and watch repression of the South Korean It mears placing demands on military machine at work across Dromey, who the 38th parallel. Lulls it fighting for the

CHINA

taken into organisations of the work- the Labour Party and themselves reach translating the disbanding of condemning ot the whole police force