Socialist Press no. 202

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Morecombe and Wise; In the wake of managed "socialist" rhetoric of Rogers and Hammerstein; Marks and Spencer; it is Labour's Special there has been an unseemly rush hard to find two names so of formeriy clearly fused into a single anxious entity as Callaghan and Callaghan. Healey.

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and ASTMS General Secretary Together, both under Wilson Clive Jenkins led the way: they and then with Callaghan as have st Ken been Prime Minister, these twin advo- Stalinist cates of IMF policies in Secretary of TASS. worked

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movement ram home three solid years of Lame story wage controls; tagether they imposed

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together they raised unemployment; together Callaghan to stay on beyond the they inflicted the biggest cut in autumn-to lead next election. British workers Ical wanes for. over 100 years. lame story that this would give Tony Benn the Unseemly rush himself 1C Part Yet enough 'lefts' has been workers credulity Chanion, chorus of praise for such leader

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leader Weighell (who last week

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 202 * 11 June 1980 * 20p Police attack demonstrators in Johannesburg

PLUMP FOR

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the stage- appealed to Thatcher to intro- duce a "fair" incomes policy!) Conference well the right extreme wing AUEW leadership. union lest talking to back More committed leader Moss Evans, The story retailed in the press is that union leaders would keep joined valerial l pace to step in- Gill. General Inan allow healey because they believe committed Wart controls! VI course it is impossible to more committed than Jenkins specifically called on Callaghan controls. wage reality, Labour in the ing at the clear evidence of the leftward movement in the ranks of As excie ne otterer tha the Labour the rally anci Unions. pportunit The standing for Benn at the end of the Specia Conference has been correctiv This rightward swing by the recognised not as an indication greeted support for Benn's actual Callaghan reformist policies, but bureaucrats for "socialist" Basnett,

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he has created with the made help of the media. in mass revolt For Botha's racist regime conversion in South Africa the troubles South Africa' are now coming in any overconne batallions. be imposed June most cramac ano sor.

luwalus winch Arab of prising of lark veck events sa ing countries made new remarkably successful last week. attempt (reportedly two of the This glaring

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intensely secullly Call onl coal-to-oil whites. Talk about socialism is one entire labour bureaucracy thing: but with the economic With the right crisis now pulling the rug from ol the Party at a loss to deal under the Thatcher government with a militant rank and file and prospect of openly feuding creame The autumn, selves theretore needed to keep Benn that what al stake simply leadership of the Hence the Labour opposition, but Callaghan" selection of the designed to prevent the issue of Prime Minister. Tine of course is wedded sharply raised this benn the bankrupt parliamentary head off reformism the of the anger that would erupt if Heale г cace. Benn govedment could resolve were forced in by the PLP; and ricedom document. to provide a breathing space for none of the problems facing the the working class. out a longer term strategy.

must Trade unt must be readied po union branches Consciousness ousting exposure of such a government election The Healey, and for the construction conditions of mass struggle Dasis lot a carry out a nationalisation ConscIo usess basic industry without compen- working class This would challenge sation under workers' manage.

the ment. cosy privileged positions of the Tanzania's 'non-aligned socialism'

CENTRE PAGES

Starvation and food mountains...p.5 S. African blacks lants at crucial to These fears will not have been settled bv the monstrous Dans international 30-year jail sentence dished out economic sanctions which might last week Renfren Christie academic I produc- location of the "revealed' the the

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plants fact which anyone can dis- cover in a public library failure of state but while the DASOL sabo tage makes the have mtens. • jump, fied the fears of South African what now makes them cy ck ta tear is the calt the windi evidence of of black Illasse "independent" home- land of the Transkei last week had to impose a state of emer in response to the massive school boycott and the growth demonstrations against the stooge black regime. Gathering struggle the the school boycott, the called off the comedy beece о тете ni massacres as the anniversary Soweto (June 16) approached.

DU defeat for a mass movement of and workers which would LO still gathering strength The textile strike ended with i partial victory Ior the striker! • But •i meat worker: backed continues and is being all -important workers had to be dispersed by police gas at mining community centre near Klerks dorp in the Transvaal, and one • mine had to stop produc tion because of strike action.

Leadership All these events have hiok the problem of leader- ship of a mass movement which everyday more clearly. on the offensive homeland leader Chief Buthelezi as during the Soweto events tour years Clive Jenkins ag, vemonstrated ine extreme dangers of the kind of "leader.

ship" he and his fellow geois and petty bourgeois wing leaders politicians provide. His reaction to the SASOL sabotage • was to call for arme them- vigilantes-to protect back desperate measure. were buildings! "resurrect leadership autumn; to Cot tal Liat OI Party's right wing to work combatted s and CLPs. Callaghan socialist leadership as the banks SASOL plant

MASSES' DEMANDS

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- INTERNATIONAL -

Shackled to the restric- tions of preserving capitalist profitability by its reformist bourgeois nationalist petty Mugabe the pruelallllic. is unable government

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meet the most basic of demands the working class and rural in poor Zimbabwe. Farmworkers, industrial and women workers, workers in the service industries move mto acuon against unel bosses fully expecting the those nationalist support of whose militant leaders mamuestoes woll mass however, Mugabe and cabinet have a banconer Tner mandate or a 'socialist Zimbabwe' and have sided with the plantation owners. factory owners and bankers.

'National interest' As their calls to workers to so back to mark interest have 'national interest have increasingly fallen on deat ears.

the Mugabe government has sent in the to break strikes and force the strikers back to

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the police-ine came porce Smith so loyally - that were also sent in to the Salis. arrests in order to stop workers dealing with the informers and Smith Kuners regime. also baton charged 400 women protesting outside Daruament agalnst ponce brutality. While acting to reassure the capitalists inside Zimbabwe, has sought Muzabe key With outn employer Oppenheimer and other leaders international establish capital closer inks ano assure ten mu there will be no nationalisation.

Borrowing bureaucrats At the same time Mugabe drafted has hundreds and the auvisers Irom the BBQ British service. army anu police to oversee the restructur- ing of the state apparatus There is even talk of borrow the LUC ing recale

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to organise official trade unions on behalf of the capitalist state

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BULLETIN

No. 2 Articles on Nicaragua, Parity Commission, and TILC Declaration Price 40p plus 15p p&p from WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIV 6XX

MUGABE FACES

of Zimbabwe! The undefeated Zimbabwean working class that has for years faced the dows • a viciously repressive capitalist state crisis is now set move into escalating levels of struggle, with the potential of giving a power- ful leadership the broadest layers of the oppressed masses.

Defence As growing numbers workers come to realise through the experience or struggie la Mugabe's government acts as the first line "left" Cabilal

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emerse aro unu demands relating to govern- ment, the economy and foreign policy. seck to lead wnetner inev opposition to the government or simply to become its 'left face' role will be one of the independent struggle of the working class. and militants must Workers fight tor the bullding or mae pendent the townships and workplaces can. mobilise oppressed around a transitional programme demands that from their independent start and forward in the struggle for a workers, state. In taking up such demands, the working cass wil come lo control. over to represent its leaders seeking the hesita- interests. fions and blain the thay ake and clearing the way for & revolunonary redderse Central to the programme is the demand for workers' and peasants' government on a Tom or nadonansalon without compensation and massive development public works There could scarcely be a more striking reflection of the mounting militancy and tenacity of the anti-Zionist struggles on the West Bank than the action of the of Nablus, Mayor Mr Bassam Sharka. Even after having had both legs blown oft by a Lionist cal bomb attack, and suffering fron gangrene, he adamantly refuseo Tealed oy

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occupation forces: The conisi "Long live the PLO!" shouting he carried was eventually on a stretcher to a nosowa mn cordan mayor-Karim

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Tellow Khalaf, of Ramallah-suffered a similar bomb attack and is still Focal point stand-part Their offensive by Mayors from other areas in Zionist stat-tormea the tocal thong toi new mass demonstra- workers

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against te it occupation The dions nave reoned a renewed crackdown not by the occupied West

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also the •anK •UU of the Jewish state. The latest barbarism by the

WEEK BY WEEK

What might have been by far the biggest item of US and world on two news occasions last week-com- puter failures that twice put American nuclear bombers and missile bases on alert and brought the USA within 25 minutes of all- out war-was in each case averted in the nick of time.

chiefs re- But military blinking from their DunKers ксу. that could launch a devastating battery . of intercontinental and submarine-launched missiles the Soviet Union false alarms raise important political questions. Speed Firstly frenzied the impact of Carter's cold war Soviet Mugabe against the Cal dall Union •Can be t seenrom utt under workers' the working class in speed at which the armed forces and order to management, together with free tocrease false alarms responded to these credit and assistance for small reassert stable capitalist control farmers, and collectivisation of in the region incident seven months ago.

Under these conditions that Despite fact that une large capilast lars there Through such a programme exis today was absolutely no • political basi the fight can be taken up to workers' militia vital assume unal any

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provide the working class with working class military attack should be forth organised defence necessary the USSR, leadership to the rural poor.

from signals last week aelena •and ехІе Now that into interests. 116 crews leaping the erty ed the conditional fos bourgeois nationalists B-52 nuclear bombers, petty stal lull: Revolution their engines preparing to

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to take over me dullustrall off; Air Force command planes of the government and thereby To this end it is crucial that were alerted-and one actually poliitcally confuse and militarily and with oppose struggle, military training

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demobilise illaso officers unlocked tnerainer • IneV keys and awaited the order to while all the advantages they ZANU and ZAPU guerrillas into from General Walls' army. have gained are taken Yet last November a simila must be urged false alarm which lasted twice to place their arms and training ror while Mugabe attempt: as long did not even lead to the balance between the disposal of the indepen painfully the implacably opposing dent organisations Carter's bluff and bluster in capital interests and Working class anu rual boul of the Afghanistan the working class, imperialism looks programme inter moment been invasion has even now for means to defeat of the socialist revolution!

with real preparations for all-out Zionists fight to war. In this situation it is impor- tion that could develop if such a so fault were not quickly detected Command plane control West Bank analysis the In the final decision as to whether to strike back against before any a Dovicl allack racist oppressors against the ialist attempt to head off the supposed The actual Palestinian people is a mark not lands in the studie USA 1s entirely of strength but of weakness: the the of the : US President can only attain its goals by the destruction of the Zionist state, international recogni his arowing high cureling tion of the PLO and political and of a the establishment comman de isolation of Israel are an imper- Defence experts claim that it secular rarestine President certain order to tire would give tie Trotskyist International Liaison Committee Public meeting Wednesday 23 July at 7. 30 *For a full discussion on the crisis of the world Trotskyist movement.

*Reconstruct the Fourth International!

Speakers from the WSL and TILC sections Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, WC1 Tickets £1 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 June 1980

USA

until he was completely con- vinced that allack was genuine. But we are dealing with a gave his President current who personal avorova to une lunatic military. masco . and nas dithered and lurched around wildly virtually every political issue. Geriatric And, the are correct the front runner in the Presidential this • geriatric reactionary nonalu neard. Walle ness contemplate attackson any and persimon imperialism jingoism of his advisors and top military supporters scarcely man Keagar his facts. The primary elections have brought repeated press his tendency to revelation. trot out the most absurd and unverified "facts" and speeche.

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—litally Them oneton Digest or odd news clippings Examples have included I his false Vietnam thai veterans are not engidie lot the Gi Bll ol kights on caucation his claim that US Occupational Safety Health has *144 regulations • VI climbing ladders" (it has 2!: his confusion of Indochina with his claim Indonesia; and General Motors employs 23,000 people just to do Federal paper- work (the real figure is 5,000, mainly dealing tax returns) Challenged by a reporter on more one his Was. w. don t ten me ma s ou true. It's such a lovely story, Id really love it to be true.

and . the elec- Between • the US bourgeoisie decide whetner it can anore are prospect of such a man holding the reins of office. economic sums don't add up; his foreign policy is rudimentary; his anti- aborton sana and roselity women's rights seem millions , taking office at 70 Wears on moe o sistent concern as to his ability stand the pace of four years of the Meanwame capitalist class are so alarmed that absence of any choice drive might them towards the suncing of d labour

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Anderson, the dissident Repub- has emerged as a third i call candidate Anive is to sinte one hastin save system objective

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Page 4 strong support won on the same The struggle against day lobbyers British military repression conference of of the Irish people is gather- protesting at the ing strength in the British ton or lameside frades Counci for convening a labour movement. ment conference on Ireland.

One recent indicator of this was the vocal support Opposed Party Special Labour conter- delegates who for those ence challenged tre alance wa censor discussion of Ireland in the Labour leadership ano ine Tories over the war in Ireland.

"Labour and heen ooposed by a growing list A new bulletin of trade union and labour move- the Sre and. produceu bodies-and newly-formed Labour to unleash Ireland, hammered home to all delegates the fact that no CISCUSSOn attempting to suppress! less than 44 constituency parus Meanwhile were represented at its founding endorsed which Commie lo comerence movement conference on media censorship of the war in Ireland.

conference calling on the next Labour government to. "immed- solidarity what it calls in republican process" of a full "political and in their military withdrawal" from Ire- engagea "blanket" year land. Another indicator was the important step An ground last forward taken SwaN genical sulalvoy. Saturday in the struggle to build an alternative leader- Britain. Stalinists and ship to the social democrats in British Leyland. The called conference itself Birmingham by the Leyland attracted Committee DroDosals

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struggle militants from ship the plants-Cowley A reemniv DanI plant, Rover Soli- focussed at this stage Cowley Body and Jaguar, Longbridge Browns Lane. Although the confernece of 36 was smaller than the organ- isers had anticipated it was able fronted. Since the address itself concretely year by the a lich has belped tump Negotiating Committee which has helped turn Ireland: fight on in labour movement concentration camp in Northern Ireland, has ben launched by a Trades Councils, including of. supporters TUC disaffilia- from the Czech narter „move- grouping. The Charter-now being , cir- culated • labour tnrouenou movement-spells out the basic for the restoration of demands stripped This bureaucratic attempt to une Coolical stalls from republican prisoner: the Labour government in 1976 in a vain effort to browbeat the nationalists into submission.

these thus seems Ene the developments another Conter for Withdrawal" ence 1UC organised by wide has been the NUJ is now. range sponsors ana Vaseu convene a labour rather ironically, at the Nationa Liberal Club. The Liberal Party of course "Charter like hoth the abour aba lor Irish supports the continued parties will British military occupation prisoners STIl heroic four- counties of Ine the Ircland: protest in Lne

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Liberals have not been slow to H' Blocks of the Long Kesh

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official strike from the corporation into a testing against Edwardes' imposition of the employers against the the 5% and 92 pages of strings, have been made by the moves whole of the working Class in union bureaucracy to supercede even inis servie Douy. The JNC is to be "reconsti- Action proposals tuted" more bureaucratic addressed body conference before series of action General Secretaries and National which the set up above Officers has been arounu ültimate given for alternative The Je and corporation can be it rite tonsign armens so 190 agreements heads 90,000 Central to this over the next

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workers in BL Cars! few months is the 1980/81 wage already review, around which there are

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Ther nave signed such an agreement.

May 8 and secret agreement with this call earle the BL National Joint management giving management for an complete control of grading recognise the opportunity and 'inde- project a adopting a image by Dencent general call for a British "with- drawal" march convened under this slogan last autumn demon strated precisely how slender is pacitist demand is addressed Unlike almost any other international question, a stand mumbered the Alberats. march opposition wal Ireland" . demands stand against the British ruling ent trom a demonstration, now Class opinion polls have L no ugl information repeatedly shown a majority of

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British voters opposed to the Ireland, the importance of the war

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Ireland oniy the most conscious layers can generally be mobilised on a effect: measure of debate over that demonstration to and few of them are so confused and for Withdrawa as to be firmly committed to Young Liberals. "Troops the the an" and Out Now!' contingent on th This policy was with mass and response in the Cowley Plant.

be catended into the ot extended plants and developed in directly involve workers democratic procedure. This campaign alongside the the opening tanns l HususI appeals. To do so. the officials over workers of £120 per objections from both the JNC and the convenors' living clause now ence. aereement effect being operated by management.

approached The conference the toration of all agreements.

bureaucratic grip by sup-

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The resolution the initiative taken porting the shor the by conterenet rew aays committee stewards claim Cowley Assembly Plant review dale November. Delegate conference addressed They have called for conference BL delegate the up the 92 «worker highest hool WItn -10 which an elected JNC would be answerable. growing number of Mass meeting at Cowley Assembly Plant SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 June 1980

TROOPS OUT

NOW!

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within August far out- the labou

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movement. A conference is rather differ But in angling towards hopes all-embracing, "broad", ever. It is able to convey much of a forces cross cass camoa or a wi drawal of British troops possibly only beginning to grasp nothing but workers It is towards the increasingly It offers the possibility of a ranks of trade responsive

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The Voices

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conference can that the fight must be directed, bureaucratic leaderships with existing in this wav make a contribution to the struggle against "bi-partis *Troops out NOW! pro-imperialist the question of the five grade formulated structure and no recognition of into a peltion, wilch das lie the "appeals procedure" of May entoucasi LAC Conference there. Full support must be mobil victimisations ised to fight any the into other

HODS

called for continuing opposition to the -despite way throughout BL in order to switch by tne Mas. • Voluntary the struggle for IGwu to support ll. must opposed are would and where be must preparation for Valalitic wage nego filled and manning opening i books or BE, co arguing The conference decided to campain for actreco pation against closures and work production week : and , on full pay in place conference , a cost redundancies, take stand CEnt went future ect, the abolion of the for inflation; opposition any import controls There was a report from the 92 page document and the res convenor of the Adwest plant in adopted by Reading-a BL supplier -whose workforce now in the sixth the stressed action against importance of strike action on strik! immediately victimisation. And there fraterna reached greetings from the Ford Worker conference 2 SC itself to current At a point where the Tory/ offensive has workers calling the plants in many industries confused as for a policy of no recognition page document and the to the wav forward. this quall of action against it. conference marks a Vital step towards an organised fight It called for support tor the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement

CONFERENCE

AFTER THE STEEL AND BL STRIKES-

NEW LEADERS NEEDED!

Saturday 5 July at Digbeth Civic Hall, Birmingham 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Credentials £1 Write to G. Webster, 169, Barclay Road., Warley West Midlands

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 June 1980 Starvation in Uganda Food mountains in EEC! now being embarked upon by Television news broad- leaders in their Cold week brought War offensive. home the full horror of star- is even now final- 1 natche vation that now threatens ising decision spend £5.000 million the the of at 12 lives Trident missiles for the Polaris million people in Africa suomarme neer. taour muion alone. is already being Dent on aeve But the very next they oping a new British torpedo threw their weight behind the nunarcus mons pronouncement reactionary dollars are being spent bi Shirley Williams, David Owen imperialism deploy ing Cruise William Rodgers they and Pershing 2 missiles through- would split out and

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Ine LaDoul And billion has been Party called

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With. drawal from the Common allocated by Carter to building Market. the absurd Mx missile system The EEC of course provides In ine UDA. Men exite in arialid force.

the most glaring testimony to the inability armed existing feed the world administer totals tens of billions of pounds the interests of producuon m the vast majority of the popul- peer mountan nutter mountains, milk and wine lakes silos packed with subsidised crops

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ploughed back into the ground in excess of £5 cost billon this year-stand in Stark conwastro tee grmase poverty the tortures of hunger deprivation that face whole and in Uganda. cist where in Northern and Western Africa. The EEC shows the wanton destruction of foodstufis on monumental scale by capitalist vandals in the pursuit of private there are still more available feed, resources clothe and house the impover. Thatcher masses: the money used 19hec for the huge arms programmes

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"Behind its white than in the spate of publications surrounding wall Russian which have spewed the streets following the SAS raid soldiers lie swathed in ban- the Embassy dages on the makeshift cots Malllal in overcrowded wards. Barely a single Fleet Street "They has not been in disbelief newspaper when told they will never see or associated with one of these walk again". special commemorative issues So The Sunday Times is pro- ran part of the report The Express has Kabul ducing a book. wired from Bruce Loudon in the Daily Telegraph.

•lossed a pictorial accoun His inside source is not revealed of the raid; the Mirror involved in production at the hospital-which he savs 1s under heavy. Russian guard, and another and the Observer used the hales port is died siah the presses at the lockout bound IPC to produce its account com- signs fantastical plete with an introduction by alecory. "I learned according to sonn Le carre. diplomats East European Kabul people to at Corruption • appar- ently because. it is believed that..: What does this symbolise?

Behind this smokescreen of Everywhere the evidence which guesswork invention The paragraphs of how the cratic' forces of law and order Soviet to their stands tarnished and abused.

troops react Hardly by day mules cleo as a wall jeer. without ponce aerenaing them- selves at one inquest or another into the death of someone in 'Violence' custody or during a Donce police action. Trials of police involved in atever their editorial liners, whatever their editorial theft and corruption violence' as an abstract thing ir una balcu, in Eclanu une amm volence sulters one dereat alter another depends entirely on who is on at the hands of the IRA. the receiving end. Duan SASS seige This admission of material- itself soldier was shot dead in Belfast raiding a house

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each year. AVIl yesigned to perpepeate imperial- ware IS rule world: yet there is scarcely even a token gesture of concern when Ethiopia; Kampucnea whether Uganda West Africa-strikes millions men. women and children. Meanwhile in Uganda itself workers and peasants have the suffered multiple Elle vent savage dictatorship under Sand- hurst-trained butcher Amin, the presence ot 10.000 luw uy 1anzana proppin up thinnity of me.

Though the anti-nuclear power campaigns so popular in Europe and the USA have largely fallen flat in this country, growing sections of the workers' movement are making it clear that they are opposed to being blown to smithereens in a nuclear war. This stand is causing consid-

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was suppressed until News after the seige was over.

Editorials about one roller apple begin to look inreadbare set. alongside evidence that the whole barrel is of one piece Fervour The SAS raid has therefore stirred Fleet Street nationalistic fervour unseen since England's World Cup win in 1966. No cod the van n! are holding meetings in celebra.

tion of the SAS's stirring deeds made nationalists holding the embassy get up off the floor where they lad surrendered and shot them Excellent

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00OO heroics!) But however fervently the fascists celebrate this victory for une traneo Karers they wit not be able to exceed the display which press has churned onto the streets. No doubt there will now be SAS tee-shirts, SAS coffee mugs and SAs bed sock: Hooding onto the matket. But next time an SAS mar or ordinary soldier gets blindec a bomb in Derry or •Belfast to be marketed in the pages of the Telegraph. Ugandan the economy -in clutchesof imperialism-to plan develop sysicillalic

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one Tne MOSi naturally fertile and abundant on earth spells unmistakeably materia for the overthrow of neces v imperialist and capitalist exploi lation and the establishment o economy planned. not on a national but an inter national basis. Until then. despite all the occasional handwringing liberals, and despite food parcels from charities slalyallull woverty and nunger wit remair ever-present reality of life for the majority of the world's population, Labour's "Peace" gimmick erable annoyance to military chiefs, irritation to the Tories and embarrassment to Labour's Hall wille Labour's Special Conference saw the novel exploitation of the call for "Peace as a major element diversionar document put forward by the Party's NEC former Foreign Secre- tary David Uwen at the specia Conference tried to argue the case favour further oi a expansion nuclear weapons offer he a barcamine arms limitation talks! Owen was howled at for his pains. succession of floor including Agricultural peaker

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JaCK Boddy got up to voice voca opposition siting hundreds of us Cruise missiles Dillain, targeted Ine

USSR.

Out of 580 Cruise missiles in of the whole Europe, 170 of are to Anglia! the bomb is to fall, I hope it tals on me". declared sentiment no doubt Boday-a echoed by thousands of militant angered rarmworkers successive Dav sen-ours. Opportunism "Left'-talking MP Martin Flannery however pointed out wal wille une carty prattles c about "peace" only 70 Labou MPs went into lobbies to latest Tory VUlt aralist defence estimates. There is certainly à hefty measure of present Concisio verbal commitment to "peace".

has Conspicuously talk grown louder wale Labour Is m opposition, and not in govern- policy statement 'The poor fools won't know which one to hit' Page 5 Defending food mountains: Williams declares that: of the Irish people by British "The Labour Party opposes the Manacture such leaders to talk of ment or cruise missies ana die "peace" is a fraud. But there is neutron bomb, and refuses to also another deception involved.

permit their deployment The Labour know Britain bi the United States OI full well that Thatcher there is no government is nen-ben But course aggressive cold war militaristic withdraw commitment policy: and they know that the imperialist NATO oniy way this can be stopped 1s masterminding that the to bring the government down.

missiles programme : or from the Yet the "Peace" rally and alliances other of Special the Conference state ment are a conscious altemol lo Only last week NATO minis- head away from any such fight.

their Only through deployment not reformist action cruse musses ane omer ages working class or butam and un sive military hardware against whole world secure the right to the Soviet Union. live in peace. Until this alliance against the workers of the world is broken.

Sit-in "peace or safely there be no guarantee of But the whole woolly notion of "peace" ONlV dawned on Labour's leaders as a backs vote winner The June 22 "peace" ralv- complete with posters, , badges, sticks of rock and gay £500 TGWU sponsored band -is the first anti-war gesture called by the Labour arty since th Suez crisis of 1956 worker - The Party's raid record includes support imperialism in two World Wars.

and support for imperialist agg- Youth staff have and ression occupied the Third Feather The sat firmly on its I ally Youth Club in Earls Court throughout the barbaric nanas US Vietnam -while in protest at the victimisa- Harold Wilson as Prime Minister tion of their youth leader, hobnobbed with Us mass mur- Richie McMullan. derer Lyndon Johnson. Labour McMullan sacked by leaders have time Major Raymond Seymour and and again given tacit or oper committee backing to the aggressive colon managemen ialist policies the because he is gay Zionist was state of Israel against the Pales saise 15 years moment's notice tinian and Arab people. And even now they support work m ine vouto clo He toured coonce ly and tne vicious military repressior Pouth Service: Association- affiliated

NUT.

the Assoçiation is now investigating while the occupiers case demand McMullen's reinstate ment. The management commit- tee's case has been refuted by une protestors Management claimed membership had fallen: has almost doubled in the last year; they claimed ne alenated the rest of the staff; in fact 8 out of 10 have supported him priest, for the un a friend a night-is clearly ludicrous The campaigners have taker some steos areas. • 1 ney have pointed out that the

ILEA -

which all the wages and pays Ju of the running

COSIS OI LEE

club-has been forced to adopt a policy of no discrimination agalist says now the ILEA hav

UNTI

handed over without money control on how it is spent. The occupies nave • now Dressea 101 Labour ILEA members to press their case This firm stand in defence of Richie McMullen all liloor Bill Mauldin© 1980 Chicago Sun-Times lant mmualive in acience or unt workers in educa tion and social services.

TANZANIA: THE MYTH

'NON-ALIGNED SOCIALI

Page 6 For nearly two decades Julius Nyerere has posed as a leader taking his nation of path of Tanzania along "non-aligned socialist devel- opment", to great the of bourgeois applause reformists of all shades and of the Stalinist bureau- cracies. But behind the opportunist socialism' 'Aircan HaSk

HICS

LOC

all agent imperialism, compelled to step up attacks on world crisis of peasall» a. The Nyerere regime balances and unsteadily more between its imperialist overlords Ine WOrKIN mas. Tanzania, as it battles to stabl the face of mass strugglc. Decline inenzanian economy s now into plunging decline, reflecting market that LiCa gripped by capitalist crisis.

Following temporary breathing space in with

ECCESSOR

international picked up momentum dramatically. for the agricul- l'alling onCes tural exports on which the econ and rocketing Dance o oil wich now acvours mall the total export earnings) have country's has aistupica supplies vital imports like industry. food inputs is drawn ever tighter into the oro once coa through its growing reliance on bank loans. these loans consume increasingly large shares of the total surplus value imperialist •rive or means that the condi- profits loans laid for granting tions down oy une maor banks and the international institutions of capital

(IMF,

World Bank), increasingly involve severe allacks on the livilig stall dares of the masses. Last November Nyerere was forced down a IMF loan for fear needed That te as comondons could unleash mass opposition that rapidly advanced beyond the control of the government (par ticularly with the army tied up in Uganda). Nyerere called on the masses to make sacrilices in ine lace ol an manetsocialism. imperialist attack on Bailed out kv. March on tos ver tie chronic shortages of essential foodstuffs could no longer ashuiscu as lil pulaly Nverere Dul at urgent plea to imperialist governments and was bailed out and banks, bv a World Bank loan. This was followed by the recall from Uganda of 10,000 Tanzanian troops we ever or company on the undefeated Tanzanian work- class and. poor ing peasantry This is developing within an forward movement overal the working masses on a world pan Alica Central in Central Southern with which Tanzania has close Diamonds Tea is structured in such a way that local Invesunehi muust y depends on export earnings from agriculture Cashew In the epoch of imperialist decay, the stranglehold of capit- alism lead only to the can nuts of the disintegration Turtle. productive Cotton ishment of the masses Force-moved Over 90% of the total popu lation of nearly 18 million lives in the countryside. Out of coffee 90% ruTa

OVC]

(that about mallon have been force-moved into over government-controlled 8000 villages, where peasal came granted the use of small are plots. The great majority of the village population

TUTT

consists of the semi-proletarian the and layers peasantry. Tanzanian export trade Barely s band, this down- Throug working the land, trodden section of the peasantry the world market went historical, economic and into hand in hand with the Is orce mn varyme uccrees lu polluical les seek wage-labour supple- of its masses to the international A weakened im Derlast ment to the miserable family seeking desperately to stem th backward small- from tide struggle On the basis of armed colon income revolutionary finance capital scale farming. and create conditions for restor- conquest, lal This provides industry and ing capitalist stability.

super protits from the agriculture with large-scale stability capitalist forced cheap labour control in backward Tanzania pauperised rural masses. potenmay massive reserve army of labour, , which is the basis of itself of the low and wage importance to imperialism, Backwardness which strikes by of the crucial factors in discourage: one more unskillea workers shoring up imperialism's The legacy of colonialism strategic outposts (most directly and the continuing neo-colonia run-downs either Kenya). domination In pereisu result Under the heel of imperial- backs Cul mean that the economy suffers militant action, ism, the development of capital- 1aC0 penny and extreme forced with their families into 1cm monocent the villages by the regime.

country's productive forces to Production-which takes serve the profiteering of foreign place solely in searen or pronts Peasant farming -is so geared to the moro poly Cabilal Tanzania, as a German and of cash (mainly export crops British then thawn into the word market 45 colony, that these In this way the impoverished coffee and cotton). account for neariv 80% of tota Tural masses serve to teneve lne materials export earnings, while food pro capitalist state of the bulk of Source law (mainly agricultural), duction has been retarded the burden of social services market for capital and manufac- of sub- economy is completel Pari O1 U tured exports from the imperial- dominated by fluctuations sistence for the exploited layers ist nations. the prices for these commodities of the peasantry may frequently cash or food on a world market controlled by come from selling Conquest finance call

CIODS

government coopera tives, which are dominated Industry was stunted under and remains back. peasants and capitalists Industry, transport and tech- involved trade, storage ward despite the growth that were transport-all whom imperialism only to the extent oI Tolowed of that they improved the system- direct imperialist rule. their share in the organised The backwardness of indus- poor peasants plunder siance undermines the development capital. country. or gricuture, yet the conomy Although agricultural pro- The integration of Tanzania Workers on Tanzanian collective farm duction for the internal and wore markers is commarco o large-scale enterprises, a signif- icant share of this production small-scale peasant Tarming production is enforced by the drive regime vital foreign exchange Torouet earnes or case col exports and savings on food crop imports) on the big The workers fraction of the employed sector of the working class. (The total nan neer nata on out of a total labour force of nearly 7 million). over the commence countryside by the towns. the economic are and political nerve centres in capit- assures urban proletariat the decisive strategic position backward countries under the domination •i llance Calllai Together witn the agricul tural proletariat, the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 June 1980 is in potential working class chief the command industrial, transport and agricul tural enterprises. Commanding On the other hand, the over- whelming domination backward capitalist countries by bourgeoisie imperialist the nationa bourgeoisie weaker corresponds t the level development of the productive se uneven ana comone nature of capitalist development has raised the numericalv small working cias.

the commanding social position in the nation But to mobilise the under- lying the working struggle Sullas imperialist control, a revolution ary party based on a transitional programme must be built In the struggle against imper ialism, the working class face:

SM' historical legacy of petty -geois lationalst leadership Nyerere's

TANU

party Chama Cha Mapin- since 1977) came to power political Dass ot the ingth of the working class in colonial rute. mass struggle against smashing colonial unfolded as the high point forward movement of the king class man emerged out of the ine period erialist world war. During the the working structurally been gthened omic growth that was stime- through „une We othe ialist war machine, and by ption in imports from SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 June 1980 Last month the supreme body of the Nyerere regime met to investigate the "violation of demo- cratic rights" in Tanzania. This cosmetic showpiece along with other desperate postures and rhetoric, arise in a context of gathering mass militancy that is fuelled by a rapidly deepening economic crisis.

Jim Farnham looks at the workers?

struggle in Tanzania. tackle the reassert small peasant rock were maintained inat colonial rule. The failure of the logic of alliance with June era prop to finance capital ation™ betray in the ther becam really cause of profit- Concer ability. described above. grievances amongst the new component the the TelormS struggle colonia rule, This the decline тІснита pro (follow- rollie. ing fall in the head 1964 Nyerere in when laced a over une wages and British following officers and threat solidarity Iverere nBritish troops from imperialist crushed the the Getting on famously: Nyerere with imperialist envoy Andrew Young colonial had been smashed law, ne to the the

TFL,

opponent growth of settled urban (TFL) and workers and proletariat. These changes in working class Lure enhanced position

TANU/TFL

vehicles of in nation. despite the struggle. setbac In the class sixties in the late fifties The given the of official militancy These Trat between strikes from seventies. number for consolidate sweeple nationalsanon necessary develop the levels The state ownership banks, houses allu million. a controlling sanitations state share imperialist industry In the to period of struggle, tion, while management, finance, workers' this is bound distribution period under into move wally their control. struggle. bourgeois the With the undoubted growth profit and cast wake Nyerere com- •DOSITIOn to amongst layers of the urban

DIUSI

bourgeoisie, there is a per- offered. trutal sin imperialister spelle emergence nationalisation forced protected contenders for the leadership of onto struggles ready defensive mass mobilised the colonial weak class, international Leadership Coffee picking wIll monopolies. Through This highlights the crucial Workers moved into struggle task of revolutionary Marxists in defence of their living Tanzania-the une act standards from building position

COE

as junior strength, aramst weakened with ruling class, and the movement profiteering. ing cratic and transitional demand gained force of chre the Mustallic chalenge With relative ebbs and flows peasant take up the fight-in conflict been launched with all reformist or : Stalinis this on movement working were currents-for the dictatorship of drawing in its wake diverted from developed. working class. the anti-imperialist struggles of the broadening Vly the overtnrow oi capi and saw lay as ut the peasan pendent regime of amuncer the and urban petty bourgeoisie Ls y Deleten the stonen alliance oppressive social bando ver British working class and relations maintained under the the poor peasantry, offers a way racist colonial regime, combined state to the tne forward oppressed

CLOT

strugglayes of the Will escalating neve a the masses in backward Tanzania.

moves allane served to workers imperialism, to with (which the The social economic TO e and radicalise broad retreat from

TANU

came position of the peasant masses urban petty bourgeoisie. increasingly represent under capitalism mean that they demands democratic incapable playin, petty are made by the bourgeoisie independent political role. Only coincided in form with the working class in powe will many o the demands raised by the work- aware of their ated from oppression and ruin Nyerere he strength of Marxist theory, as confirmed working class positi US under Worke cass revolution, keep Tanzania the domination shows that although the down promised capitalist air-class the trodden these leas while alanct on une productive have an objective balance countys of Jemands, and sought to organise economic, social and cultural workers interest the socialist revolu tion they give it their bold peasants. The gramme анситита vasallls, d the credit, came revolutions country,°f theory For the absenc basis lot the struction Tanzania dictatorship On the that the ment of the covement and that the

TOT

Ine other roads The ialism ution Only leadership the Page 7 for power, pro- poor aid tallis. fertilisers, the large- leadership bourgeoisie. separaton o international the Stalinist Marxists, economi socialism 1U t the develop ol a workers WIll masses-all the end the towards WUlACIS

'MISADVENTURE' THE

MASS KILLER

STRIKES AGAIN

Sparts and their sick motes Page 8 By Bill Davies In recent weeks the ques- 'Who killed Blair tions Peach?' and 'Who killed Kelly?' have been Jimmy pushed to the fore in spot- lighting the ruthless tactics of the forces of the state.

A less publicised in Walton has centrea on lue ucall Wilkinson.

PTISON

George a ss year ola convict wno took his own life by refusing food and liquid for an incredible 17 days. Hunger normally strikers take liquids to avoid the violent im mealate and tota dehydration. Wilkinson died on 'S Decem- ber 1979 in the most physically paintu way bossole. i was unu only way he could escape from systematic and patient the prison author- call valin Dy ines to break mis spirit.

In Wilkinson's case it is not much question who killed him but of who destroyed his sanity. The ended Wednesday with a verdict "misadventure and with total the crucial questions involved.

forestall the anger of Wilkinson's family and ¡menas and to acruse any pubne campaign, The prec ano ine painted George Wilkinson "Britain's most violent he was presented as a raging animal with colossal physical strength and given to uncon- In fact, for the last two years least, Wilkinson had been reduced to the ot vege- and one rother the prison authorities with his could find fault Sheffield S. Yorkshire 5 May 1980 Socialist Press Dear Editor, We recently read your article "Sparts for Press Socialisi 1980, NO. and would like to correct some of the untruths and lies that you the Spartacist League ana tell during the steel strike. the une Spartacists despised by steelworkers is totally untrue. did mary steeworkers always agree with tel political and they were nonetheless respected LICu volvelll allu seriousness cory wanting as we a did the of the steel the strike. As an Spartacists were welcomed and Invited

TAE

NOTISI

Leyland| Cowley flying picket during the steel strike because committed themselves to Lucy supporting the victory of our strike This we would ask of any organon me abou move Possible needed all the see possible. many ourselves included,

WULKCIS.

a to was always something think about, interesting and we at benefited by discussing with inem. As far as we can tell, a lot of your arguments centre around

LONC KESH

Yet why was he kept for the a monas ons existence brick specialiv built to block off the view from the one obligatory window? Why was he shunted round the Spartacists attacking people who cross picket lines. As far as are week strike, a lot Wherd strikebreaking/scabbing took like Hadfields, Sheerness place, etc. we donke cross picket lines either.

We hope that in future that if you wish to treat yourselve should more seriously

YOU

address yourselves a more truthful account of events the publication vy ailinle of our letter in the next public- ation of your paper. ours fraternally, K.J. Hall (Stainless Wks.

Sheffield M. Hart (Shop Steward T&G Stainless Works) Dear brothers. Thank you for your letter which first read A merican DartacsI Workers Vanguard then and received. We note that neither your at ache in Vanguard, workers makes any attempt to answer su stantive Clarke • we laye raised against une that one their having covered his own absence track the sick note, stood on a picket line scabs because ting calling workers refused

ISA

coltall vacuu ball taking strike action

LONG KESH

Demonstrators protest the plight of Irish political prisoners 10 different prisons COUl Why was he in solitary con- finement for nearly all of that period! Why was he subjected daily and warders from the other side of individuals! Such conduct in our view is a brazen provocation.

The Workers Socialist Les hit string potica. other political against tendencies. has always sought to unify all tendencies in common action during such struggles as the steel strike during the stec strike focussed on the need fo come out in other sections to was Workers members 2100 supporters who first argued fo the steel picket to be brought te owley to stop ones callyng SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 June 1980 the special mesh and bars?

Jimmy Kelly and George doctors pronounced him Wilkinson are the tip of a very pumped And why mentally and physically fit was ne full of massive drug doses and he was continuously treated as ugry iceberg given electric shock treatment?

mentally ill (at one stage he was The time is long overdue for workers' the enquiry into 900 mg ot Largactyl a day.

will unus sustamned activities of the forces of thi Ano all this took Dace an‹ kinson clearly took is without doubt taking place state. today) in Walton Jail, Liverpool Such within his enquiry cannot decision he had lett ignore atrocities committed by power-ne starve ana mn rsons mousnout unc himself to death. country. BrITSO TrOoDs and George tikinson as a violent Dubious tales of what goes the occupied North of Ireland.

doubt that hospitals, The will coachiny Soviet mental In when the state man when Irs Tare. beroved Ine imprisoned. But his fate seems bourgeois are oltel

TESOET

HEOS

trotted out under r the banner of methods of attacking workers to have been sealed when he go who come forward in struggle 'human rights'. But what "rights' involved in two hostage-taking The refusal of the present incidents while in prison.

does cantanst oner to workers labour demonstrations, picket movemen leaders lines, police custody or in take up such questions can only serious and warders con- the disarm such workers at the most prison? cerned unharmed, cases of Blair Peach, crucial time. The fact that he retused to pena dOWr sCrews meant that he had to be broken.

Coming from closE working class familv in Durham he was sent as far away possible to Parkhurst it i We be sace ava remote prisons Iron August • 1975 to December He was consistently refused permission to marry ns nance He became a human guinea pig for psychotropic drugs. prison doctor •ne only treat Wilkinson attempt psychoanalysis through rather Inclea authorities and has now left the service in protest at the attitude unce to mecca teament o prisoners. In each of the ten prisons Chief warder Whitelaw

BTEELWORKERS

that To suggest we supported in any way scabbing CO 2215100 Hates or sheerness scar ao ave can dam been fec a Dolle of false allegations about our members. Our dispute with the Sparta- cists is not over whether picke lines should be honoured. We have consistently fought against scabbing The nub of our disagreement Spartacists comes With TRe down task and revolutionaries mies as came a caos res ponse in it is the fast of lesso utionaries or militants to keef mer own mands cean al un expense of a class response.

Spartacist: slanders against us have reached such a Socialist Press who successfully supporter WSL fought for solidarity action Steel strikers: supplies and we discussed e trade thion officials ains happent of locked brought journalists detail with steel strikers on . the the trade union

NGA

fight against the sabotaged the picket, that we obliged -with NGA agreement- organised luwu scabbing ina was taking place fought for blacking and for to cross the picket line for two It was also the case that our fficial instructions to the lorr denounced Udys. Was Ult individuals members offered as Spartacists as not fit crivers to ve upned. to refuse to cross the pickets We don't know regarded as a member of the about any (which were aimed at deliveries Spartacist members being "wel- working class! factory and which comed and invited" We would be glad to discuss Cowley flying picket. We do with record ou more detail ou never asket. Ene proçuction workers not to cross). steel strike and on that of the in the

KAOH

told to go We were into nartacists were too stee picker mes. we con muk u work by he steel strikers them strikers to leave picket if the Spartacist using Technicie they would stop calling sick notes as a substitute for who the not Saves. correctly strike is the method for and action „need not OUl martyrs, but for a class response support in ane event. cooner on which would bring the factories abandon their slander campaign, each other in struggle. they did in fact leave! to a halt.

'SOCIALISTS' WHO

OPPOSE i

REVOLUTION

Archives refute WRP SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 June 1980 The Labour Party, like Second International had this its fellow social-democratic to say. system capitalist parties throughout the cracking in all its parts. It can world, is a reformist party, only be saved by serious and committed to struggling for urgent measures. We are at the eleventh hour. frame- Take care that reforms within the prolet work of capitalism, through does down

HOL DL

Casile parlamentary means. me colmns or mie temoe.' Yet despite the fact that That perhaps, the most their politics confined succinct statement the are within the limits laid down DOSILOn

WILT

regard to the capitalist crisis one by the capitalist class and its coutut pe for. formal bourgeois demo- But fact one of cratic system, the reformist culmination Illally . oI une whole politics of reformism.

parties continue to parade we ind Germany example, 'socialists' the leader of committed - in the indefin- the trade unions stating: "One ite future- to the establish- must not lose sight of the fact that the working class ment of a socialist society.

chich systemn, Is part oi the In practice, however, this the downfall of which system is not the case. its own downfall; and herefore Their disagreements with the ш a coca co O ane working écc c o oo ClairiiNI

GRAY

HOLI

means of the regulation of capitalism should con- wherne that place system the but how tinue hould be The differences run. HIVEnCLL whoie soca stuc ure ететоте ourely tacu cal Similarly, in France, Montel How best should they try to one of the Socialist leaders, hac keep bankrupt world imperial- proclaimed as early as 1928 Is r ls 1ccc Socialist Party will preach w mere The lones present itself as the only party direct confrontation with the capable working class and the saving smashing

POUILCO

society."

•DANC ARIES.

SaDome With their view totally con- urge cation, collaboration and leader Ebert, defending his fined within the bounds of the compromise. strike six years aCTIons In Contuy oI capitalsm . tnece carlier: Inere is, as tne saying goes 'socialists' are unable in the end more thận ne vay to skin "Declared that had the working class any cạt. central emphasis dc d HAA remains, the mainten- KUweel. bring the strike to an end So when the crunch came in of capitalist system soon es pas se». ance The Britain in 1929 Labour leader come what may. supported in this Ramsay MacDonald voted with was We cleariy the explanation by

ICHOW

of the 1920s and 1930s period tus icel anla went to lake up nis Scheidemann who said: seat amongst the Tories in the when the world economic crisis "The strike broke out with National Government. drove capitalism to the yery We out our joined knowledge. brink of destruction. The role of me sunke commitee witn the Agents of capital • reformism firm intention putting Cass was, then as society speedy end the strike by

HOW,

crucial. Such politics take these with govern- neroraug Sune If we look, for example, at traitors much further, however, ment. There was a great deal of the position of social democracy than mere collaboration opposition to in the Strike US in Europe, faced with economic In order to preserve capital-

M AAM AM

catastrophe, ism they are also obliged to ac Lass wl plu y' pauperisation of millions agents of capital cirectiv workers and the rise of against the working class. fascism what do we find? this they do quite consciously! 1932 speaking in the Iwo trall dies wil sollice Belgian parlament In an infamous court case in • vanderve de the Chairman of the reformist 1924 the German Socialist The Battle for Trotskyism Second edition of the opposition documents presented inside the WRP by the present leader- ship of the Workers Socialist League With a new introduction Price £2.50 plus 20p postage and package from Workers Socialist League, BM Box 5277, London WCIV 6XX "the strike stranglers". We see the actions not of confused or misguided men but oo nica jeaaers German Democracy - Socra carrying out their programme to the letter suane ung or toe STaKe wave was a conscious political provoked by fears that the strikes might challenge the capitalist lounaatons system the wake the Russian Revolution The leaders of the British TUC acted with equal resolve to destroy the General Strike of 1926 Thomas, the SI nus.

JOHA

Joseph Hansen railwaymen's leader, entered the strike that the praying would win alle was after the Tories' un- comment qualified victory: "What I dreaded most about this strike war td e e an coace n should have out of the hands of those who be would able every sane knows what man would have happened." Joynson-Hicks, the Tory AS Home Secretary, gleefully infor- med his constituency tion: "The responsible trade union leaders retained their hold upon Underneath a full page piece by the OCT's leading historian Pierre Trotsky Broue, giving an account of the newly opened Trotsky archives at Harvard Uni- versity and what they con- tain, appears a short boxed piece with the title 'On the Sanders against J. Hansen', which reads as follows: "I cannot resist the tempta- of Informations Ouvrieres will aware the slander paign which has been conducted scal against Joe WOrd Hansen and Georgi who accused by the British WRP of bemg 'agents' O TOe GPU and of the FBI. The Joe Chanker aralst ranen are barcu ar v disorace ful in that they allege he was an dent onthe inp0 who played i the LUle

STOISKEV

Faced with this campaign, Joe Hansen was led, two years before his death. to Stali utal been contacted in 1939 ne had by the

GPU

and, under instruc- Page 9 Ebert (in overcoat) chats with troops Armed workers march through Berlin in 1921 the trade unions, and took the of constitutiona course admitting the general strike was ut are caled itott." Social Democracy, therefore, times of crisis is obliged Oi Ils DOnCs To Jan f with the employers and the ruling class against the working class. This is the bitter reality-a: true today as the Labour Party • way iorward as was l 1920 only une alswe-low then-requires the building of a principled revolutionary leader- ship in the workers' movement.

tions from

BIOISK

prolonged this 'contact' in orde to strengthen the protection of the house at Covoacan standerers howled scandal that Trotsky certain could never have approved such fore 'confessed', etc Their structure is in smither- cens. I have in my hands a letter LUm JOC ransel

STOISK

• confides him his anxiety on the eve of hi: 'first contact' with the GPU It seems probable to me that this is the only evidence that we will find this since this letter will have escaped a cedill

SHTOLSK

questi mod diem there that documents that question Ildll. aanme stolen. risk the life or the of anyone (Joe Hansen security in this But this one lette Cast) is decisive evidence. At least the slanderems show that Trotsky himself was "gell ul GPU and that he took part ir the reparation his they wish murder! If to do that, them good luck!"

Page 10

INDUSTRIAL NEWS

1980 claim The Fire Brigades Union's 9-week long strike during the winter of 1977 will not be far from the minds of the union member- the few ship over next months in the run-up to this year's wage review. that historic And • thougn national action was isolated by

TUC

sold out by the

FBU

Callaghan's coalition and its Phase III wage control policy intact, the : present lory will covarmenu nced reminding of the enormous dis- play of and militancy shown by the union's rank and the rostrum A part of the return to work annual conference last month.

deal in January was the rally Was bitterly against the all-out strike Line remes bay round wages carned by the top quarter proposal industrial to be heavily voted down. This workers-for the tollowing two years. amae ne was more circunisoccl •Inal agreement is now al an with end and as from October they tion declaring only the union's desire 'seek are back in the open market their position in the Do il was al oluci

FBU

DurenaCay. nexoco bi te suress was or inc neu tol veteran Terry Parry, who took discussion within the

JOIN THE

WSL!

Returned to office after five years of Labour betrayals, the Tory government has immediately begun wielding a sharpened axe on jobs, conditions and social services. Trade union rights face imminent legal attack. Prices are already rocketing upwards. seciors or state industry profiteering big business backers; and the pay rises to armed forces mark only the prelude to against pickets ana anti-lascists and an mntensinea army crackaown in the occupied North of Ireland The Callaghan-Healey leadership has made it clear that it will ino tive vers ot tory devastanon And, though they have more dusted off their once "socialist forgotten Labour's 'left poetics continued to duck awav from any fight to remove Callaghan TUC leaders, too, have set out to establish a basis for collabora- tion with Thatcher and the Tory working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan class Ilas ca perceu berravas perore 1974, and smash through Callaghan's reactionary controls in a series of monumental pay battles in the winter of 1978. • These experiences are not dead. They point to the way that jobs, social services and hard-won union rights can be defended against renewed Tory attacks. revolutionary leadership is needed if the Dul d Labour traitors, the TUC collaborators and their hangers-on in the Communist Party are to be exposed and pushed aside, struggles mobilised that Such a leadership must fight day in and day out for a programme of transitional demands which, starting from today's conditions and today's consciousness within the working class. grasp tne necessity Ior socianst revolution And in taking up democratic demands-such as an end to racial and sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role that must be played by the working class as the only struggle class ol leading tne TOr tine mankind. And it must fight on an international basis-mobilising solidarity for South Africa or elsewhere throughout the world, strength and political lessons from revolutionary upheavals such nal wileu ouseu une nalca onan lem ne reconstruction ortoe totskvist rolan internation To this end, the Workers Socialist League Trotskyist International Liaison Committee which fights to reaffirm and develop

LIEC

al racies riogramme, ana or ral discussion in ine worla lotskylst move ment. period will see principe Marxist leadersipe in essencial. Strr meseme Bt thinugh major JOIN US and take forward the struggle for socialism!

Firemen prepare of membership and a 'testing temperature' words a complete absence leadership Nevertheless, events within union since surke senathening of its ability indicate important defend itself from another direction For not only has .an additional 'McCarthy enquiry post-strike recomendalon that the working week be cut from 48 to 42 hours been imple- llan means whov al te expense o working conditions since man power "has increased overall by And this has been achieved Parry in the face of an escalation in the union's public spending cuts generally.

ast More fought autumn Nottingham authorities wilu sack a number of attempted to three years ago, Tremen. a agora cal brouell a massive response with a high proportion of f the FBU's 33,000 an El-backed. resolu- members turning out-to demon- surale towil. 1 ne sackings were scrapped. pay casua. a nis experience or une powel of class action in defence of jobs Brigades confirmed by for resolution supost Brigade com moved by

BUCKS

mittee delegate Mick Rowlinson.

an immediate recall calling for conference to consider action in the event of any redundancies being declared. A similar special conference was to the agreed. consider position on the wages is to be convened issue, when von une emoovers oriei is known and the national earn- ings table While Howe and other Tories present plus retam unel position. will be handed to the Tories' Thatcher may yet be turning police and super-paid out alongside he increased state violence army and navy strikebreakers at the wheel of a Green Goddess!

wing' MPs have parallelling their anti- and overcome such government 1n Phase 4 of wage remove the lory govern Atal workers Colsistellly revolutional!

emancipation of Get the answers in and drawing ilus means ligating lo. iș affiliated to the 1938 Transitional struggles in Britain. sold out The attempt by strikers at the Chix bubblegum fac- tory to throw out the sell- "settlement" accepted out their behalf by the GMWU negotiators was met by sustained sabotage by local official Gerry McMullen. He obstructed all attempts to reconstitute the picket line and the blacking campaign that nau orougni was due meet ACAS the following Tuesday. mn te event sulkers. mcreas ingly suspicious of McMullen's organised their antics, owil lobby of the ACAS talks. When McMullen reappeared he declared had a "very he new offer. He arranged a good" strike meeting tor I hursday ottered Little difference the strike! AuTel suading day-shift There was fact little accept querence between Ent new card offer and the original offer of

VULC

cecoled with the sang or the

GMWU

Carned Do t votes to s at the whole night salt-including dil the strongest militants. Were no Under the new proposals nine named production irom the co-strong nign SulT were offered the arose in tne next six montas Stalt vien The significance of these names to swing. the honoured fashion vite sinces vas nine "the they threw EreT support wiin tne ly day stanices

FIGHTBACK

FOR WOMEN'S RICHTS

CONFERENCE 2

JUNE 21sT 11 To 5

DIGBETH HALL

BIRMINGHAM

DETAILS FROM 41 Ellington Street. London N7 i WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE

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Chix battle Basnett shift workers who were already but leaoing surke committe reinstatement this member Mrs Brar retorted tha would ensure a majority to end "circumstances" -8 month: strike-applied equally dav and night shitts. Intensive work per thd deal, Mo Muren to to workers "We have been on strike to get our union recognised and to to get our jobs back-not and declared i1 made redundant! she pointec Night shift workers are bitter o'in fact the outcome of the vote-pointing out they strike is in line with allowed to while a show of hands ments of the GMWU bureau had indicated that the nine had bals only in fact still voted with the night union paid any attention to the dispute because Asked by Socialist Press to It took place at a time ol a GMWU recruiting ; drive on the thi deal. argued time- Slough Irading Estate With two full-time officials that it was Paul Kenny and McMullen, in best under the circum- attendance, have worked both to win recognition and to like management clearly that deal, which secures recognition while

MOS

mental? and class conscious strikes, will achieve this objective in the long The reality is of course that Chix management will seek to whittle away at the remaining union members over ine next few months, with the long tern eliminating or deci objective mating GMWU membership. Ine victimisea and belrayed night shift workers are now calling all union branche on to GMWI to send resolutions deal. And they are correctly a national calling for confer strike ence hammer •home to the labour the lessons of the movement Scholl

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Dairy fight Tameside conference SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 June 1980 defeated Unfortunately unionisation recent management struggle at a Runcorn dairy, ma violat P.L. Rigby and Son, has shop stewards were barred from the sacking of resulted resulted in depot. the two shop stewards. action wack force to a point where half the tated this rents nary step dei which Frecipi- events returned to men strike obed one day Then coreneues ostensibly over unjustified disci- plinary measures against one of implicitly stewards the victimise •ner or unree acuon m macu nition. defence from the workforce.

The solidarity of this action The stewards were resulted in management rescind- sacked ingly me mie warmne all following the action. talks witn ine umw.u. Two weeks after the meeting In took place, the company con- retrospect tactics would have tactea te umon rerusug 1ecog- nition. out on the day of the strike and This immediately call upon the local labour move- was mobilise followed ment spurious written warnings and acuon verbal threats. Union members responded appreciate to us win a accision to curtal the anv further colection or monies crawi outstanding on the various milk- Rigby's. louds. Sit-in print firm closes down Journalists on the management Weekly Newspaper Society, was that all Runcorn News workers would be reinstated.

arrived for work on Wednes- day to find security men Closing down with guard dogs occupying their office. farewell the was of Jewspaper Swale, John from refused to give his printers their signalling closure jobs back And three Merseyside weekly papers announced the and the loss of over 200 jobs closing tilal Was seven

WCERS

print alvision altogetner officials had tacet ConTUSion contradiction to saved, he said negotiate with autocratic go, lave managener NAUrA men Sacked employed and And their members had been News were too that ther living in uncertainty as rumour would also speculation filled agreed to the vacuum left by a lack of prope The NGA's response was to occupy the company's Widnes information. It all began when Swale Red assle a widely repor sacked eight printers after call off their NGA refused to he son ender seven cars later when work-to-rule and overtime ban pa support of the cany gr reinstated all the printers of their support pay beliet that a solution had beer 'hours claim. TOUNG l But when All 120 printworkers waiked ut in protest over the sackings were put to the terms und in their turn, they too were they chrisser who enearted relection. When the national dispute would ment even the A angree settled, part only 12 redundancy payments were far Getall

AT THE TOP...

UNION DUES

excessive pressure whilst roundsmen. in a demor- Fifty black youths from Moss Side were among 200

SOIL

Lne

WOIK-

defended anti-fascists who normal work- the conference on the war informing either shop in Ireland held last Saturday in Manchester by Tameside This left management free to Trades Council. stewards with delegates severa. instore referred to the identification by accord- and Asians in Bristol the Monday Southall and elsewhere, with the SLIUggIC Ireland. The postponed conference- the correct the TUC's held defiance of been to stay Blames at- marked an important step in the struggle to defeat British imper- solidarity ialism in the six counties.

Opening conference tne ts imperative maat workers over 80 delegates Tameside une lessons to tes Dave said secretary lessons must defend the left in DIllall stillal armed colonia StruggLe. Ireland as in Vietnam, against from generous and could have organisation, unt been delayed or up to twelve Again Swale threatened to close the three newspapers and company was going to But Swale, retiring President met again and Society Te econ Swale's proposals; two manage- instead ment deadlines passed without ne following week last week then action allu down the employees sent photo- were copied letters telling them the could be company was closing 61 would But there was no mention along with all 40 of liquidation and there is now speculation that swale win wall Journalists and clerical staff months and then try to the Runcorn, with a carefully again Liverpool Weekly serecrea worklorce jobs go unless the NGA redundancies.

LATEST

of the union bureaucracies to vote themselves management a nandsome pay increase are the the 1,600 officials of the TGWU- with rises of 20%. Moss Evans Was le key 11a the settlement responsible for ending strikes by workers BL workers demanding than Edwardes' 5% pay offer with still have meant jobs out of 120, and IT'S GETTING VERY EMBARRASSING -HEALEY DEMANDING WAGE CONTROL

LAND OWEN BLESSING NUCLEAR WEAPONRY - I MEAN, HOW INDISCRETE

1 PEACE • JOBS FREEDOM

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NO SWEAT... BENN AND HEFFER ARE KEEPING

EVERYTHING IN ORDER FOR "PARTY UNITY"

defies all threats the imperialist tactic of creating annual conference a majority out of a minority by Councils had produced 60 dele partition signatures in A speaker for Belfast Women Tameside and some 40 councils Against • Imperialism said it was had now signified support in British sparent The conference British from double other factors oppression or women. for reinstatement. TUC apologists seconaca carried i recognise• a ce Pool IS Support up wer

IRSP

Support Group wel- comed une government bole exposure of the TUC apologists British imperialism and Party as Seamus Costello and tive allu other ikor leaders assassinatca conterence to int by forces of the British state.

Pat Lally (TGWU, Oxford) described sen determanor the labour movement bureaucracy and the Communist tion of Terrorism Act ran in xoru. varticularly uil the question of Ireland, snowed steering those forces could be defeated. tion urged In the witch-hunt following and the NEC the Provisional Sinn oressee lo October demonstration Oxford the development 1cas to had been the CP's witch-hunting intervention censorsus on canu Only a consistent method of An abstract away 11U1L propaganda and into tne mass IRA and INLA was carried.

had ensured the of the right to speak ter Chris our on meano During the discussion, trades council delegates from A socialist strategy Tower Hamlets Leicester on mobilising Oxford, and Widnes Kuncorn in Ireland and Britain Wirrall and arew OU! Ine essential fight with the TUC and of local importance labour conferences and bulletins on Ireland Trotskyist International Liaison Committee

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

TROTSKYISM AND THE MASS MOVEMENT

July 20-27 1980

*TROTSK YISM AND THE TRADE UNIONS

*TROTSKYISM. STALINISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

AND

*TROTSKYISM AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION

*TROTSK YISM

AND

PETTY

BOURGEOIS

MOVEMENTS

*THE FIGHT FOR A TROTSKYIST YOUTH MOVEMENT

*RECONSTRUCT THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

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Page 11 in town NF paper sellers were • The successful lobby of the rapidiy persuaded to disperse Aid The police support of Group (550-strong in all) was called out and made most of the six arrests or anti-lascists voted for a march on and lobby of Septem- Scots ber's 1ul as part or a campaign A Workers Power resolution

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teachers War campaign had to aim to break collaboration with Ireland, confer had to be fought in the Labour as in the trade build should As one delegate at the The an on Tameside and seek to win that EIS Annual Conference at to troops out now weekend said, Stirling last pontica the Executive are union status and repeal of the Preven- being dragged "kicking, The resolution called for a smiling" all screaming and L Were the way to arbitration. elected to it). The same resolu- Despite their protests at dis that local branches of the NUJ should covering that the management side unilaterally this week can Carry

OUT

the chairman journalists' union's conference the organise labour Scottish Teachers Salaries Com movement conference on media mission Lord Robertson, TП2? have irreparably negotiations dispute ROG resolution collapsed and that th for unconditional support of the be put to arbitration, , Iney Will in the sigh with relief majority that they have been let off the But as sociust tress suppor Erswell pointed out hook of pursuing further indus- guerrillaism is acceptable only as trial action. be the case that a ot the Executive are is based the working class recover to nress on in bursa!

of the 18.6% claim but the majority clearly have no heart Dunng tne day a threatened National Front team of ex-army tor tne struggie hit-men failed to materialise and The Executive chamited four emergency resolutions on wages on Friday morning of the oi these comeree. committed the union to tne of 18.6% and the only figure for the concrete following week wa involving 10% of the membership for one day. , manne in which this extremely limited action was submitted the that the delegates suggests leadership wil meekly whatever pittance is doled out by the arbiters Having allowed the militant delegates to let of steam in the salaries debate then used the right wing domin- ated conference to rubber stamp relation to conditions of service ably abetted in this by its glib Kier Bloomer-the union's chief negotiator.

One bright spark the in darkness conference Was

NATIONALIST

decision teacher. known homosexuality should dismissal from his/ not justify ner post or lack or promonon A more thorough examina- tion of the issues raised at the will appea in EIS conference week's issue of Socialis „exi Press.

YEAH, BUT ALL THIS TORY BASHING

AND TALK ABOUT SOCIALISI

ABOUT SOCIALS

POLICIES COULD

- CANT YOU CONTROL HIM, MOSS?

THE USUAL

PEACE IN THE PARTY

JOBS FOR US, AND

FREEDOM TO IGNORE

POLICIES WE DON'T

AGREE WITH!

THE INTERNATIONAL

JOBS MASSACRE!

SOCIALIST

PRESS

It is not only in Britain- unemployment now the worst for 30 years -that recession and ration- alisation are taking a savage toll on jobs. capitalist system inter- ny thally is throwing workers tens of thousand onto the scrap heap In Holland, the jobless figure of 229,500 is a new post-war record. Spain unemplovment at 1½ million is now a staggering 11.2% of the And

USA

over mion more workers nave been thrown onto the dole queues in the last two months alone, Carter's policies economy

LATOWN

CEne abruptly into reverse. Alongside the rise in unem- ployment llas Hassive

CISS

wice range industries hit by falling markets and cut-throat international compelon. The plunging market for cars Echoing a similar prediction At the forefront stands the industry, which both and 'otner venicies nas brougni a by Asimo leader Clive Jenkins parallel slump in the component on the lack of investment plans USA recorded and the Britain Matthews Last week Lucas industry, catastro. MaV sales cown phic 33% on last year's figures.

announced the closure or wo poinica out that: US car firms plants and 3,000 redundancies "Many companies are forced and 1,500 jobs all their attention • 5. Chrysler over to devote seen the immediate impact of today's tall by 41% and 34% respective ty and are marryi huge "natural wastage" orders, casn now and pronts.

Other component firms, It is hard to recall a time while market particularly in the Midlands, are when planning ahead for even General Motors is doing Icacer little better. two or three years has been so and production cutbacks At the same time the textile Short time industry, boot and shoe One US carworker in every Dotteres stee mous try and even the computer temporarily four nOW similarly engaged industry are permanently laid off. In Britain, where BL workers ranonansanon. cosure anu this year, redundancy programmes. were laid off earlier And thère is worse to come. Tom not a Socks are now Last Matthews, estimated at 400,000, and both week Sir Pete Vauxhall and Ford have now TIne chairman nyckersa announced production cuts and warned engineering monopoly, the impact devastating lay-olls firms large Elsewhere in the engineering small of the allu industry there are similar cut- orv Donces oa man exenang rate for the pound, high interest backs: Perkins diesels last week and slump on

DUI

While the home market. Britain; International Harvesters infinitely are already on short

USA

Massey time; and in the reachery is eptie of position reaches from which rerguson snutauwa production for an extra two months this summer. Minister for sackings: Joseph exceney sow.

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• LI alla receiverships up by 34% in the first quarter of 1980. Growing complaints Such growing complaints by top industrialists have now even Deer Services run Manpower 2 million unemployment oi ove and eno protested at Tory cuts of £114 million the Commission's budget. While such complaints are an The Health Service group of NALGO has voted in favour industrial action -if necessary strike action- to force an increase in pay offer to the 14% nurses. NALGO represents 30- 50,000 the

HOUSES

forms of action considered include a ban on overtime, refusal to supervise wards unaided, and a refusal to wake patients earlier than 7 a.m. Hach of these forms of action would clearly benefit that union leaders prepare membership for strike

IF I 60 UP,

AREN'T

yoU To

SUPPOSED

GO DOWN?

indicator of the unease among weaker secions or tre caotams class and the state at Thatcher's "cold shower" for treatment British industry. none of then oner any guldance to workers who bear the brunt both of redundancies and the speed-up inflicted the Increased DrOns The fact is that a bankrupt capitalisil

WULACES

neitner tne ront 1o & 09 nor a secure standard of living.

And jobs are under similar attack not just inroughoul the world. The answer must in each vase ve mueberuct class acuul to chaulenge the right or the NALGO vote for - action on nurses- pay action wage to secure to defend living standards against inflation.

Telegrams In NUPE, health service official Bob Jones has admitted receiving phone calls and tal allis. letters calling for a fight to improve on the 14% Meanwhile leaders of the "yaofescole body, the Royal College Nursing, have set their faces American dole queu employers protect their private profits at the expense of the workforce *No to the nationalist policy of import controls: contront the posses attack! sense strates bad rac and pations, action to force a policy of work snaring on tull pay *Open books oi the employers who threaten redun dancies or reluse wage increases and and une. Suboners bankers! Prove the case for their nationalisation, without under management! trade union leaders abound *Remove Labour a workers' govern ment! against any form of action - to the delight of AUEW leader Terry Duffy. 26% increase "It's wonderful gesture" he enthused. peopic are. putting patients before themselves Duffy raved only voted himself a weeks ago thumping 26% pay increase The fact is that the RCN is, as always, putting mange- ment interests before those of their members: nurses wish defend the NHS and defend their own living Standards should leave the

RCN

and fight for action in one of the health service trade unions.