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STRIKE WAVE

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SOUTH AFRICA

SHOWS WAY

In South Africa a major strike wave has developed in the Port Elizabeth area-one of the country's biggest industrial urban centres where much of the motor industry is located. Beginning at the Volkswagen motor assembly plant last week, action rapidly spread to at least eleven other tactories Within around 10,000 workers had come out, paralys- ine producuon ar une ooavear General Motors, Ford Cortina Generat Tyre and other factories. Wages The being central demand raised the wagen plant 3,500 workers are demanding an increase from 63r to til an nour wale workers at the Goodyear tyre factory are from 63p to demanding a rise 2I.V une strikes redect the rsmg state of militancy and combativ- working class. racing ually allacks desperate nosses maintall workers through- out the country seizing the are organisation, demands around their economic and exploitation political Cape Town, the point of mass struggle recently, class sultagli The VOlTS DOVCOEL OI SChools has come to the fore in a whole struggles Lause day udy Issue. South African policeman crouching with drawn gun while his colleague clears rubbish from the roadway in Cape Town working class which, by mobilis- boycott of meat products.

the ing colourel population alongside The oes leaver ne apartheid capitalist state danger- prices, cotts centred in Cape Town.

ously exposed month alone Squatters there have been major strikes in Cape Town's textile and minin industrie Meanwhile алонов то an oncolne strike by fruitworkers in the West Cape, over 800 Cape Town mcal workers nave also been on strike conditions over recognition-a the absence of struggle which has been suppor- This ted by a widespread solidarity wave 'H' Block ruling Page 2 Helen Keller, socialist • p.8 ..p.6-7 Capitalism and reformisi Labour inquiry back page repeatedly demonstrated the Ana m response to mcreases entaus asm. determnone transport willingness workers oi the , there have been bus boy struggle : in a way which decisive the reformist vullialin. straignt-jacket Then leaders clear that just as the the Soweto followed on the defeat of imper- struggle to detend the couatters settlement of Crossroads high- lights militant opposition direc- the contidence oi the Viciou back masses in the bresent wave network of influx controls and of struggles in South Africa has adequate hous- been enhanced by the recent Continued page 2 oi action has

European Commission blames South Africa-from page 1 Page 2

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'H' Block prisoners Root of the problem: British Army landslide electoral militant appears his rhetoric or victory Mugabe's so-called "extremist" even actions, can produce the LANUir zucrrua icauersno mn which simultaneously leaves the Zimbabwe elections. And determined mass rulers and apartheid movement now challenges promotes workers' interests.

aparinca ilal тоте 10a1 ever o ater ano encire ed the lessons and forced to sustain a massive Soweto, into military occupation of struggle are spontaneously turn- dilu materiais strencia ano suooort. A significant feature of the In the unfolding struggles in of strikes has been the factories, communities and current wave mood tre develope leve ol workie tilc class solidarity. This clearly shown in into a generalised movement of Elizabeth by Port the indepen- joint struggle. This means fighting to. e 1 e cz em e tentative suggestion union *Build workers committees of limited blacking. ate chores one to ges, head support of the initial VW strike.

con- ¿ nousanas or workers came oui altons and Joos strike *Build independent trade moneyce Tne unio Link and develop growing.

not only effectively adding strength of mobilisation around

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Action. ineir own cemanos. At a time when annual wage events have shown, negotiations being are between bosses and conuucica increasingly forced to rely on an effective working vicious physical repression.

voice to the negotiations.

The moving of army tanks and armoured cars into the Port strike ar maki clept hat Elizabeth area one accept and more oi a callivie mmeoate centaole lor t not meet their army in defence of the capitalist coes demands. state Trapped between *shoote to kill -di ce The order of upwaru Gally Intel acceptance facing young workers in South 970 employers right profits, Africa-points to increased reformist trade unionists state terror which faces workers HICICaSInELy The growth of right wing " comoromises which go no way towards meet- terror directed at ing workers' demands. militants and workers is inevit- no wevel able. Ecevit escapes gunmen While Mr Suat Karatasli, Turkey today and in particular Mayor of Siverek, it is clear Turkey

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and a member of Bulent wipe

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which poses as the main voice of Ecevit's Republican People's the working class. Party was being assassinated The killing of a leading by right wing thugs, Ecevit solte Weeks 890 oas himself was under attack in intensified the political clashes, and what is increasingly clear is the town of Nevesehiv. The former Prime Minister i more and more being fought out was attending a funeral service on the streets Jocal RPP

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It is all the more criminal, Zeki Tekinel who had been shot therefore for Ecevit to seek to bring doven the Demirel govern- Ecevit himself was not hurt ment but Mumcuoghi. motion of censure which it was 1V1 navI Turkish Senator and a Deputy noDeu wowa sol te suboorl 0f in the Grand National Assembly tne rengious ngnt wing Iatona!

wounded Salvation Party: after Ecevit plays allacket parliamentary games it is only a Inera orocesson Political killings are running matter of time betore he himselt al a stonaly mercasing tale I talls victim to a lascist bulet.

By stretch of the

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imagination are Irish repub- prisoners treated lican as common criminals by the British occupying army in the six counties of Northern Ireland. interrogated beaten and tortured at RUC/army barracks reserved for political opponents of imperial- They are interned

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years. on end by im prisoned without o remane — cel esca ved for political prisoners.

They before special no-jury Diplock courts.

most common which une "confession" or the extracted under torture secrelve statement ol dr disclosed police or army officer.

Amnesty International out 70-90% Diplock court admissions of guit -ont Dasec wnoly -obtained In facing these threats-the frantic responses of a capitalist economic facing workers is that of organis ed self defence been tragically llas wave of brutal police murders of mobilie amipis by the state conced • tnt acalis, ana ne indicate that the number of murders is likely to far higher than the TeDOnCu OU But militants are also being attacked by thugs mobilised by black bourgeois leader Butnelezl attacked by capital-backed vini And youth ante salles Soweto have organised privaté armed gangs. brutality from Terror and police are ever the army present threats. 20 years in which Yet after they have officially espoused a policy of "armed struggle" TAlf present period of class action throughout vast areas of finds Laul tional nationalist and Stalinist leaders

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offer the working class any way Ior wara. The individual courage the ANÇ's recent raid on syn- thetic oil plants offered neither massern cirugaelene sirikes and boycotts then under way.

thousands of ANC oi the asil WitO training in the use arms arises from the movement of the As it turned out, the censure motion proved to be a complete squio wnen less Illan -zo the deputies the Lower House needed talled to turn up to acoate tne motion. Break from Ecevit The Turkish workers must break from the bourgeois parlia- politics . Ecevit and mentary form workers detence squads to Ham une rasast menace. At a point where refornist and Stalinist trade union leader locked Ecevit and alllancewill Unt highlights the necesity por a highlights the necessity revolutionary party to be buil

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• in the interrogation centre republican Once sentenced. prisoners are dispatched pecial jails-Long Kesh and Armagh Jail-at which hand- Picked thugs use tactics vase ior from beatings to the use their system se bid to spirit and cow and humiiate them Yet view of the . in the European Commission Human Rights, republican PoWs are not entitled to be recaraea as political prisoners! This ruling, in response to an application four victims of the Long Kesh "H Blocks, comes as no surprise.

The Commission is a tool of European CnC "rignts it derends are those of the capitalist class to exploit and oppress. Nevertheless its criticisms of the role of British imperialism in the 'H' Blocks will come as a certain Thatcher and is a renewed con demnation Callaghan/ ottne Mason leadership, working class. They must be freed from the grup or tne stalinists and retorm and directed into the struggle from which they draw their strength *Build united working class action against every state attack first task armed struggle is defence of the work- ing class ing to build workers defence squads * Build a workers militia.

task of the labour movement to fight for a programme of inde- Denacul workme cass acuon u.

solidarity with the struggle of black workers in South Afric 1) For open-the-books.com muttees uncover DarT played each company exploitation South Africa, effective action and to prepare support of the struggles ol black workers 2) For the immediate black.

ing of all supplies to and from the strike-hit Goodyear, Genera Motors, Volkswagen, Ford Cortina, General Tyre and other plants. For the immediate blacking of all arms to the South African state, Nationalise under workers Contol companie. 4) For workers control of trade MARCH in solidarity South and Namibian political prisoners and detainees Assemble at saturday June Lo

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_p.m riace Embankment, London Ecevit SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 June, 1980 Initlatea tne moves to crimin Ine brisoner republican prisoners in a 1ce Kennoncans mongesi 19T6he Commission declares it and Armagh-casualties in the liberation • W as against British imperialism -art necessary Lor une bason autnor "keep under constant quite right to press forward 1ties te review" its reaction to protest their and courageous ; and to reconsider recognition struggle ior thi masuleis. their political a prison regime inat nao mani cause. ana ine festly failed to prisoners' 'rejection of criminal status 'Charter 80' protests. In Britain a new And the Commission accepts cam parente thai movement for the restoration of DEsoners are dentes any effective means to complain their political status, and should be supported existing law in the occupied six But trade unionists and must also fight to im peralist tradition, the Commission break the labour bureaucracy declares on the one hand that ITom ter suoport for moerlal- "almost subhumante ist repression and step up the chaurie conditions struggle for the immediate with- -while claiming on othe drawal of British troops from that it was all their own fault Only 1nc oliter lack sinal once when reed on u in prison, there are virtually no of imperialism and abl VOKe forms of protest-other than to determin their future own escape-which Cal Ine short term worsen the plight of establish genuine human rights.

Strikes? Lies! - says Tass - The Soviet news agency At une same me a bary o Tass last week added its Western businessmen claimed to have actually witnessed a four voice to the strident official at the Kama truck that widespread denials plant, allegedly over food shor- strike month action last halted production at the these reports appear to be timed giant car plants at Gorky Ior the run-uo to une vlynoics.

and Togliatti, whose com- is not unlikely that tne bined workforce is 370,000.

Russian proletariat is in • fact The press has carried letters showing itself : ready to fight the

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workers tne altacks on tnen nvmne standara alleging that reports tne • Durcal stoppages were lies inspired b cratic deformations of the US intelligence agents nationalised economy.

TROTSKYIST INTERNATIONAL LIAISON

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July 20-27 Eight days of lectures and discussion un basic questions of Marxism and the fight to reconstruct the Fourth International. •TROTSKYISM AND THE TRADE UNIONS: USA in the France in the 1930s. The postwar struggle to build 1930s Trotskyist parties in the working class.

"TROTSKYISM, STALINISM AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

as tole for the FI against Stalinism in the 1930s. period of entry into social democracy in -essons France and the USA.

"TROTSKYISM AND THE FIGHT AGAINST WOMEN'S

*TROTSKYISM AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION

*TROTSKYISM AND PETTY BOURGEOIS NATIONALIST

MOVEMENT:

•THE FIGHT FOR A FROTSKYIST YOUTH MUVEMENT

"RECONSTRUCT THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

Evening meetings include Eagleton on Ideology and Sutcliffe on Economics. Films and sociais also planned.

the The school will be the TILC and members of th ,A special invitation is being exrended to supporters of the WSL to take part in the discussion and leam more abou the WSL and the TILC. y WSL branch or trom: WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCTV 6XX Cost: €12 tela in do piro ded ao dato time ane apor dali e chasp. a poolod taro arrangement. Creche facilitios

EVERYBODY WINS'

ITALIAN ELECTIONS

Glowing future under Carter Last week Flaminio Piccoli allowed himself a public sigh of relief. said 'Stability is preserved', the General of the DeCrelay Christian Democratic Itallan Party. In reality Italian parliamen- tary and electora boules ale stable in about the same sense as the San Andreas fault. What Piccoli meant is that in spite or tne tremors Delore lne egional and municipal election of June 8, the earthquake didn" nappen tnis time And that is because the Italian electors continued to the unwritten and very obey speer tues or raman erectoral politics. Ton result is alle is d to be election result is allowed to very amerent from tae previous on This is so that no obvious about The Salting parance power between the main parlia- mentary parties. Evervone can then interpret barely perceptible changes The recommendations of nuclear a recent report on waste storage the USA have been included in a plan President Carter has sent to Congress. It calls for bury- ing radioactive materials in underground rock forma- tions by the mid-1990s.

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- INTERNATIONAL•

their percentages of the vote as election. crats lost than that they them- The Christian ( Democrats' creat comurmatons Ene selves won ns is because toe correctness of their policies.

explanation of the CP's own share of the poll was This is very closely connec- lowest they have achieved Party's success is that the extra with ted therefore, the second votes were the or's rewaro or une last unreenaton-wide being sensible enough to join elections-despite relatively

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asses tal party games, Cossiga's fiery oppositional campaign.

children's coalition prizes hidden in the Christmas coveramel pudding, everybody has to win.

But, or course, according to Contradictions of this the rules, the Christian Demo- crats also lost. Course interpretation grathe resibles What the results do highlight main argument for this 1 lit interpretation results is that virtually none of the so- is the wav in which the contra called "red administrations" in dictions and delicate balance of every doey loses. Italian electoral politics have the regions and municipalities Increased share the (coaltons communist Deconne concenralcu and Socialist Parties) were Socialist Party. So on June 8 the Christian unseated in the elections-there Both Christian Democrats Democrats erased their share of the poll fore, and Communists have now alsullicill incre Was nO move towards vase arguments or new restoring office the local victory not on their own success sInce Lne oreVIous regional elections in 1975.

Democratic but on that of the Socialists.

They also won because the Far trations unseated in 1975 from the Socialist Party, had just which Socialist Party as a whole tas simply accentuates the already Combined vote ition in the central government increasingly virulent the Christian between its right and left Indeed the combined Com- increased its share of the vote The right says they did well muntst-sociast vote rost mentary elections. (Italian share of the total since the legis- because of their central govern- lative elections of last year.

very nearly broke the ment alliance with the Christian nere

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our moe er imas i casier lo vemocrats. neel as wa large a change from the previous argue that the Christian Demo- because of their municipal

ENNSYEVAR

STOP-NUCLEAR INSANETY!

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STANCE

A small number of potential more fully in the Nuclear Regu- ened are Louisiana, Texas, sites would be evaluated over Utah, lator Commission's Nevada

WISSISSIOD.

the next five years and by 1985 procedures. Washington (site of the Mount selected The President should St. Helens volcano) and one or maem wolo be as the first facility for long-term establish Mexico. 18-member State storage of nuclear waste A waste plant at Carisbad ir Colne consisting o President some state governors, e son tribes and one MalC Carter established an tatives of military Interagency Review Group public. Its responsibilities would nuclear programme Nuclear Waste Management, range Wice nuclear waste disposal problems.

consistca or representa- Arsenal such as siting and timetables 14 federal agencies, to report to him on the viability Signiticantv. in Carter's olan But this site, together with of underground nuclear waste the federal government do not Savanah River, the Nevada test disposal. the states the propose give Hanford nuclear site anu Ene Washington are power or velo on waste disposal arsenal in Adequate sites. strong contenders But he has set up a planning for a high-level nuclear waste This review groud completed of 13 state isolation project. its work recently and its find- and others, under governors have strongly influenced They are already heavily Governor Richard W. Riley of' involved in nuclear waste Carter's South Carolina to give them a pIO propose casiation u Was tele voice l boncy. The review group recommen- therefore weaker be ded that: here than in the case of a new Objections sit There is no doubt that some Scientific knowledge adequate to begin looking for a Many permanent repository for voiced means of disposing safely of the strong objections having existing high-level nuclear wast nuclear waste. nuclear waste on their territory: basic must be found research is needed into suitable containers notably Utah-whose unti that time further and geologic formations, already exposed to abnor- wastes should be mally levels of produced. This means a halt to because unless the solution radiation appears Irom the Nevada test site the nuclear power programme The plausible, then local resistance • State Planning Council token to assuage may prove a great obstacle to Kesidents Utah are buildings advised criticism of Carter's proposals • waste not look out their isolation schemes. windows during nucleat for eye- Labour movement Not allowed Nevada damage. In is sential be an ani Governor Riley's state is the 3) should of the No state home ation Savannah allowed to bar all nuclear dis- that oppose the righ waste storate movemen already three that government • lis boratis,

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cone the and should be consulted each being used for low-level and energy monopolies dump stage of a waste isolation plan.

military wastes. letha wastes where only they see fit * plates snould participale uner states unar are unreat- alliance with the Communists.

Koth the cr and toe cors tian Democrats seem quit content moment to le at the unis situation contiue battle wain he Socialist Party surrogate watching the keep their own armies out ol moe boat ano so slave oil 1oi a little longer the earthquake of class battles ened for so long to break out ir Italy: Abstentions But for all the parties there ominous sign in these was an The election results wartellas • most was tnar or absten tions and spoiled papers.

The electors seem be to beginning political tell th eaders that taev are unwas to go on playing parliamentary charades for ever. Nuclear fuel store nem propose disposal fret ave in Britain proposed for investigation by 1 natcher s government.

But will we have even the of a planning token tole gesture The debate on nuclear waste do so must bronce to the proposals can b crucisea.. exposca ana 1oucn the movement- workers' sahich stops to sake then ces safeguard future sot the human race from the anarchy and vandalism of the capitalist exploiters.

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USA

week week How deep a slump? It is no longer a case of when the US economy will into recession but how go deep and how prolonged that recession will be. For the recession is here and as figures published this week show it is a major one. In the last months the actually American economy surank ar an annual late 01 ok making the relevant comparisons less and less the 1974/5 recession and more aro more win une sumo orud 1930s. In situation there Ens tremendous the OI cartel covernmen taxes in order to stimulate the economy. Working class Ihis pressure comes fron the mass of ordinary working class people who give their ' support to the Demo cranic carry ano woo are dele hit directly by the increase unemployment (800.000 extra last month) has been cars which this show a decline in sales of over 30% will severa thousand car workers laid oit and car plants shutting down.

The threat the Chrysler Corporation haspeen tempor arily averted by a government backed rescue operation whick will involve handouts of $1.5 billion Over the last few weeks there have been among creditors as whether they would give their blessing to the recovery deal which •DroDien meant that agreement could no be reached straight away is tha wall ol lue acal las ocel arice not to Tne creditors demand payment of debts. At present the debts, which amount to 94 billion are owned to some 400 banks and 2,000 supplies. was finally over the weekend that two major banks which had been holding out had decided to tal in with the deal However, while this will now release some $500 million, losse lor leis vear are areas norecast in the region of $750 million plus. Carter

THORNEYCROFT URGES TACT

Fightback against any political demands 25A Page 4

TORY

round-up "Softly, softly catchee flunky" is the motto being Tory im pressed upon ministers by Party chairman Lord Thorneycroft. He is worried at the increas- ingly response even Tent ws on caul oc sistent Tory speeches insisting hold wage must because the back runawav raze oi intaagon.

As the Thatcher government towards Imposn celine onay rises in sector, public question is for them to secure the compliance of TUC Icaders. Failing Ane with even e benerai Murray calling Sccretary last weck for pay rises to match mutation. cilc alatal colly falling to acmieve inis oojecrve.

proposal for Tory ministers to play much more UnOH Ivaues fundamental •weaknesses -ineir unshakeable for the employers* to

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and tnci natoials! devotion to 'British' capitalism agaiat Yor cien competit® hat.

Rather than arguc WorKers sno uld wikk order. to increases attempt to bail British capitalism out of crisis, Thorneycrolt suggests The Fightback for Women's Rights Campaign the Socialist initiated DI for Campaign

CGDOUI

Victory fell into the now usual swamp of disorganised 'unity' at its 2nd conterence in Digbeth on Saturday 21 June. The initial attendance of 500 its inaugural conference March plunged to 200 at the recall conference suppasedly convened duul programme But orloning the tradition omens Charter of the Working foundered campaler

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when the TUC realised it could stronger charter adopt without being women's rights Oree ay bls the International and 'Women Group's Women Inaction" —sorry. Action -newspaper

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tne Women's Rights Fightback opted once again tor the usual vague promises alms ana build a mass campaign of the major action deallsl asainst women by this 41900 government" Fine -but how and on what policies? ne oDa se ve ląr of the labour movement response to the Tory attacks".

Joseph Ministers im press on union "the ogders TnaT CoUnLIY afford high wages without higher productivity.

nis way is nooca workcis Good-but how do women contront present cratic leadership movement-which cuCE owerful and insidious block to movement building that labour response to imalener ana c.o.

"We will encourage and aid the organisation and the labour

HES OLIN

WOlCL movement and fight to change sexism and ally with fighting for democracy in

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The LaDour PaTy Even this mild, "Im 01e1 cricism of the Callaghan-Healcy is mingled with axis manu ay tnose Wu Hlc up with the accounta Diily Labour Party democracy struggie. 'Left' MP Joan Richardson: uncritically supported CBI throws in the towel For all the brave noises shattered two major attempts at employer solidarity. of the Tories the Printing supposed decline of working i ne

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Industries Federation is at this all is not class militancy, moment engaged in a gloomy employers' well in the DOSt HOTECH chamllalivk anscover conce icl camp. attempt to confront the power of the National Graphical Assoc •Not onlv are Torv interest pound pro. rates and the high NoO TeuOnPu 1ua0a BM dOueE ducing a rising list of bankrupt. out wound up such an abysmal failure. militancy cics, out tne growing the event the 'united the working class has should be out on the factory can be more criecuvely press ganged by both bosses and floor making profits. "The past expansion of these union officials into further job- stashing proouctivily acals ane insulugon. nas ПO1 onl) esced-ip in the "national inter- excecded our capacity to pay for them but has taken up much of the scarcest resource o nornevcroll s casc apocar.

to have been particularly rattled initiative," a-niman by the recent blundering specch pronounced Joseph. US Keith Joseph in which clecironics emproyers, Bell calls for glibly boasted tnat combination of and the rock bottom wages now being раю о BrIGSO wonkers offered unparallelled opportun- profitable ities for investment Inc brus maustrar waste land. repatriation Eggs and tomatoes Mcanwhile Joseph -whose public popularity was indicated during As the Tory government the stecl strike bv ine donations of eggs and tomatoes forges ahead with its racial- adoring ist White Paper on immigra- crowds of south Wales worker: tion, leading Tory racist Sir -nas been snooting ms moulr off again Ronald Bell has attempted called for an end to Hc has to whip renewed up the universities expanson frenzy of race hate. ano Do viccanics MP all, why Bell, tor the secluded Alter botner educate people simply to stand stockbroker belt constituency which, of ea iniousd called to hann tho queues unaer Joseon s peday art mOre viciol growing rapidly to new record immigration and increase repat- levels? And anyway the best people Making clear that his attack teaching in these cducationa was aimed exciusively at black institutions or working in local im migrants from " the tropica Bell aimed his main government and the civil service areas action programme to fight on, Workeri to all cuts and a we ares or uneci auon calltor

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10] against capitalism" Again, wom ns pioymto ork smash sentiment but what worthy Employment abortion rights, Bill, the COurSE aclui restrictions Ull campaigners proposing? conscious political and called for the defence of elements that organised and ran benefits and social wages, tne conterence must accebt Ies services from inflation. for the bankruptcy WSL. members and Socialist of policy and perspective.

Press supporters pressed for a oi the development of this programme eaoeisnie campaign, and bearing main res

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Labour councu ponsibility for nebulous fight the cuts -mo dulsing "aims and objectives" passed as campaigns around no rent and well as the shambolic and instead lalc liticasto say bureaucratic chairing of the bank interes Terusne Day lay's supporters sessions charges and opening up council of Workers Action books to working class investi- o tne rignt or unese com- pallull rades, and arguing strongly even raised through ane v of deletion ior the concrete examples the question commits of the right aty adey hip ir Doln (occaust women to tontine camasa Party Lile LavUul were members the Inter- unions ane emonasisca unat national Marxist Group, arguing soon as women begin to struggle to defend their jobs, wages and TOT a SOLV SOlLy aboroacil lU women. socia SCT VICUs tnicy Hus l ul The IMG strategy, as ever, is armed with an understanding of how and why their struggles will aubarcitly ll any be knited by these bureaucrats raise afey in a sot reranm The conference however and policy voted not • discuss these built have proposals proceeded

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lucy and come connaence du conscous endorse the initial "aims anc ness about themselves. mack aikely obiectves 10021 decision seems Alone fighting for the of complete unusually policies metnod ane of the Women's Fight Trotsky's uclls Programme members back grouping as any lorm ol WSL comrades serious pole of attraction for Workers Power women in struggle. and Socialist Press supporters.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 June, 1980 ; 170 said: "no"; front' splintered asunder as each sala n

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and only 200, under consider- pressure, agreed to take settlement that would ao vantace ove Wal competitors Larger UrmSn particuta! Ás the print bosses lick their reluctant to get involved in an open-ended gamble which, the

• CBI

last week woullus scrapped in. a vear of widespread strikes muen-neralder plans for strike insurance could have involved them in repeated fund payments Out of 4.000 CBI membe "premiums" running into ten: firms only 400 replied of thousands of pounds. questionnaire on the scheme: 30 The CBI estimated that some £50 million a year would have Deen neccea insurance scheme. Now, just like earlier CBI plan for r Tim s by when band lugculc strikes. the olans have wound ur in the waste bin But would much encouraging io mOr( wurkel. 11 Their trace union ano Dol leaders were half as energetic in fighting for joint action against The most obvious task to be t ores

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alt keen to mobilise joint action tacke u man onve the period is to rid the against the unions. nCXL British working the class of government i natcher Joseor that is laying waste the most Prior hard-won rights and living stan- uarus. looks to officials attack at those black workers ano voull wnio oll litllal! protests against mass unemploy- ment and police harassment: "Is it not reasonable to ask why someone of tropical origin wno does nor lke alalc ms ts heeshouly otre to rather than leader Another Tory riots in ours?" cause sounding off last week was astoundingly SoeH wonl so-called Employment •to accuse the meala-always tl‹ main vehicle of racist propa- Secretary James Prior, 'pampering supervisor of the new anti- ganda-o1 protecung wnat ne ternea bil union laws. •'alien injected element' of Speaking gang It is necessary restore a American businessman in South clear meaning to being British, that Carolina, he argued: "One third of all the births militant shop stewards are losin!

Greater London their influence in Britain.

This, in Prior's view, had two foreign mothers: does this make it gav advantages: sense? Bihsh it that is all that DrOUO and it meant being "a new authority being British means?" inat bower was movine back u full-time union officials This Was particularly Rabble rousing welcome to the vast majority of Bell's speech-stopping little tul ime oiticas oaacuany ai short of the undisguised fascist level, declared a rosy cheeked Prior rabble rousing of the National "The officials won't ever say Front and British Movement-is of the tensions it, but they know that a resur- Ietlell gence managemeni which were onlv with difficulty it is about is clearly knows what suppressed in the immigration policy at last year's une best subpor! • liiey call itav against the militants lory comeicice On that , if little else As Tory-created unemploy the nail Prior certainly on ment and cuts spur on frustra tion within the working class, the As workers in BL nead Bost and betrabels count there will be many other Tories cost betrayals their in coming montns wno wul seck officials, the officials are count- the racist card in the hopes or ded novemeni, and ing the blessings of shelterin.

behind a ruthless management.

movement woIKCEs Such a situation can only be rallving the most backward and degenerate elements 01 contontea oy tne construcliul bourgeoisie behind the of a revolutionary leadership in petty capitalist the labour movement. BaCK "national unity" Tory conference delegates

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Social democracy: reformism without How the bosses view Labour leaders Page 6 Social (in Democracy Party) Britain the Labour of b'ases itself on the idea reforms for the winning working class by working within the capitalist system.

is argued, In this way, process through gradual will ao vancoucal. move in the indefinite future to wny Is inis! creation 'socialism' For Marxists, reformism has through parliament. represented the reflec- always In many countries, particul- lon n une wołkers moverenl Europe, this reformist arly ideas which reality been and has perspective represent the intercsts of hostile remains the main pontical trend class forces; ideas which though within the workers' movement.

of widely shared DV AVerS Each lection workers, rooted not in the working class but WOrKCIN TeLull needs of the then Doxes ruling capitalist in those of the "their" party, inc party whic! class wnich secks to preserve Is supposcdly represents the basic system. interests of the working class.

material Faced with social democratic wach new reality of the capitalist system, government leaves them dis- workers have for centurics spon- appointed, their hopes unsatis- fied. of struggle to lessen their own Concessions oppression tnrougn ine ligat fot reforms-whether at the level of union workplace In periods or on a broader IcVc.

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StuRgies). expansion social democracy-or through the formation of mass 'moderate' parliamentary parties. evon senl-comcu! pointed I out in his Lenin bourgeois parties-may oc anic definitive political broak from offer concessions the on working class tnc retormists, conscious desire of the capitalists to idcol- ness that it is insufficient s oncont yso piccc. ogically bind WOEKerS

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mcal-and present system and secure the favourable condition of bourgcois order must be over most thrown by revo utio nat Ine contmuca ballacyu struggle-does not develop spon profit. on a mass level in the But in periods of slump or taneousiy of 'progres recession, instead working class workers save SOCial Teor.. Revolutionary party find themselves confronted -by social democrats alike-with wage con Sections of workers can of strides for- course in ake great trois,

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rights and the axing of jobs and WAlTO Donneal acre banc in the course of their struggles: so vison How does the ruling class view the reformist leaders and the role of social demo- cracy? Occasionally, in the pages of the Sunday Telegraph we get a column written the elinSE o rereorne voorstone But the cearest exposition of a worked out capitalist assess- ne tond in eme rages to period of post war the first Social Demo- consolidation, TOuRO Dages "Letters to Leaders" (Deutsche cracy" Fuhrerbriefe), the confidential We might bear this in mind "achieve- bulletin ontne rederdtton wien ments" of the 1945-51 Labour German Industry circulateo 1931 and 1932 to the financial government, but let us continue and see how the bourgeoisie see leaders of German capitalısm this pro cese first reg ts wortnwne cuetne dl length these documents, ine TIrst acoustruclion run-up to era of the Hitler's the bourgeois issued in Dost-wa 1933, the era from 19234 regime seizure DOWel split the 1929-30, the give a clear picture of the view.

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and into writer commens wasco which Social Democracy capital- "The problem of consolidat- ing the bourgeois regime in post- ised the revolutionary upsurge social democracy war Germany is generally seen not as a serious opponent, minet ov toe tact wat tue cau ing bourgeoisie, who but as a means of splitting and nave diverting the working class away control over the economy, , have from the struggle for power.

small in order oacome T0O uphold this rule alone, They require for this rule, if Special character : wish to rely on the The co WOl extremelv danderous weapon of It could do this because of purely military force, an alliance character with strata which do not belong special socially, supposed workers party. social "Thanks reno el CheW being originally a character carvice or anciorina tael tule u Demo- and thereby oerne WOlKBTS auLy, the actual final bearers of this CrACV orov nt lite of reconstruction nat time rule This in addition to its purely political .18CT outeruost more valuable bearer of bourgeois rule was, in Torcu. Somer! reforms By Colin Morrow consolidate and extend brings Marxists into but to therefore ,with only those and carry these deve ooments ConTuCI

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them into broad layers of the workers who l are Te clall break from mere trade union- class a conscious revolunonary the Labour with bu party is necaca ISm. alsu Only the revolutionary party .and trade VITOl ourcautialy capable of utilising the existing balance Marxism InCOr analyse and consciously respond working between

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roa sh s cogl, apro to osor hn class and the employes-ur offer or which their power and privileges struggle, this basis a consistent derence o the independent interests or the class against the material and ideological attacks or ine bourgeoisie. Science developed science, and As i not simply a reflex response to capitalist exploitation, Marxism must be brought into the trade unions, the Labour Party and as a whole ir working methods conflict with existing LinKH allu consciousness. It is not simply a question of bombarding with revol- workers revolutionaries utronary lucas seek to concretise such ideas ir tangible demands, winter today's Problems, connect to today 's working consciousness of the as they class and, insofar are fought for taken up workers lead in practick struggle to grasp the need for revolutionary action. The ficht for such demands and enduring, namely the organ- ised working class, ano waHle revolutionary paralysing energy chained them fast to the bourgeois state" Social democra:y therefore capitalism as the equiv aCES TOr alent or a sluice gate, stemming the tide revolutionary class struggles by working periodic minor oblatE cessions social on wages ana policy-none which evel challenge bourgeois actually rule. Threatened bourgeois German leaders recognised however that hecause retormism rests on ent ability poitical hold is threatened ins reforms ATTLeE period ot economic crisis• itin Whipr ces a ot "The trans working class will begin to turn TRAl in the direction of communism and the bourgeois rule will be because the econom- at oresent. necessity crisis taced with nacercirv desLOs these achievements, passes SeTTING a maay arctdlor" through the stage acute ship. This stage would mask the of the phase of the danger that, with the disappear- incurable sickness of bourgeois ance of these achievements, the for disrupting the ue. working class which is based on Thus, while the social demo- cling desperately to crats these achievements will cease to eternal virtues of parliamentary operate, with the result that the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 June, 1980 depend. The consequence of such that, while the leadership well be Party may LaDoU tering capitalism. "workers' party" in terms of its social base and support, it pro- duces not workers governments represents independent Gecleatec interests of the orking class, bankruptcy but bourgeois basedo which see their role as admini Left and right alike, reformism offers workers only a blind alley democracy. tor the bourgeoist this form of rule „sno mor of possible one option bourgeois regime based a liberal bourgeois consti.

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SCl Y support on social Democrac allow Social Democracy and adequate achievements geois destroy: reomme WilCh ashievements must sacri fice Social Democracy and parli- ametarusiu The narliamentarv fetishists of the Militant group would do well to remember this. For the bourgeoisie retorm- ism • a usetul

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wnlch is ultimately dispensable. working class ГО reformism represent. historical barrier, which must be totally broken down between STTUCOlE opposed class interests in tsE period of capitalist crisis there- centrally become 1010 grip ST UCCle Silas!l LI Ft reformism betore it ines uo zo and dissipate the strength fighting capacity the and organised working class We urge readers to join us in that struggle. of reformist . eyes leaders, the crisis of capitalisn the historica! of a social systen the accumulator capital through the exploitation

Leadership is vital in fight to mobilise SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 June, 1980 oi the working class, but ratne] social and economic "the has to nation which mulude sacrilce. Their emphasis throughout is on the maintenance of the capit alist sy stem society. the Labour- of course ites ana ine co-ininkers abroac face Capitalism offer crisis unable any The reformist therefore obliged to approach the working What class

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Hlallus, we get, as in the present period, without any pros- pect of reform! are stripped Even bast cans away in the frenzied drive to protect the accumulated Cabilal anu restore prollabully.

reformist leaders, committed as are to maintenance of system. obliged dulls every step of the way. Only the construction of a evolutionary arty, from what capitalism stalls the basic requiements of defence of jobs werking class in Standares. Calt i offer workers a serious alterna- tive to the destruction of what rights and working conditions.

class action "The bosses are on the in e senuments expressed offensive above are far from rare amongst and the mood sections of workers. amongst many workers has also shifted to the right.

"Wheréas ten years ago employers offensive picket lines were respected against trade union rights, jobs, now trade unionists break stanuarus conditions, many workers Tee them; instead of blacking -and some, having wit- and support to help fellow their nessed betrayals from trade unionists they are left icaders, nave occome acmoral- out in the cold" ised. But the quote does not come from a conusca anu ucmoral ised worker. comes irom a leaflet distributed the gates British Leyland's Cowley Plant by the Socialist Workers Party! And, as such it sums up in a why cannot workers revolutionary lead in the present period. Incapable that the SWP are shows the nature present Deriod incapable of correctly assessing and incapable recent past; the central political tasks to be confronted now. Because while it is of course true mal coe bosses are on unt Evans offensive, it is not true that "the mood of many workers has also to nas -accoran its own statistics--been presiding over a wave l sele anything since General Strike Steel workers-after 50 years near commancy m a nant-wue dominated union-responded instantly an solidly and Call Stayed without strike pay for 14 weeks.

When BL Convenor Derek Robinson was sacked a stagger- ino sui corworkers in vanous Midlands plants walked out almost unprecedented show solidaritv manoeuvred nack • WOrk through the sabotage of union officials. Sell-out Moss Evans' subsequent sell- place the a struggle too place with workers already strike others on and ready to ioin the mass walk out The solidarity of NGA print workers last month confronted and largely defeated acterminea attempi at a bosses offensive. y has admit- en Len Mu: that the 1979-80 pay ro nas prouent an unorececentec num net membership rejec tions of officially endorsed pay Everywhere there is evidence that the militancy on the shop floor far outpaces mealy mouthed left and slatelicals an11- orV conterence speeches trotted out by union bureau- crats and Labour leaders ysis is incapable of recognising such contradictions. For them, the fact that the Unon bureaucraci controlling and succeeded blocking actual struggles is not Comba bureaucracy monie workers to torne their removal, but a sign that mood amongst many workers to llas une Nazi rally one fell swoop the SWP off the lets the bureaucracy hook, and heaps the blame • the present situation Int prime victims-the heads of its working class! Defeatist Tysis des backed one-side d double-barrelled historical falsi fication. simply not true "ten years ago picket lines were respected' There 'golden was no such without struggle- there would have been no need to picket! The history of trade union organisation bitter-often for such basic discipline against the individualism and backward- ness or backiegs What is true is that it was ir to mobil- one sense union struggles at a trade lever ten more vears aro before the full impact of the capitalist crisis made itself felt in mousury At a point were capitansi still appeared to be in a period of 'boom' and healthy aval sion, strikes over wage increase.

improvements working could conditions carried Intough with Most woIKers Con fident of eventual success-or 'union bureaucrats Page 7 By John Lister SWP leader Tony Cliff SWP tail ends reformism- they turn workers that at very worst tney instead face temporary loss of back themselves, seek answers individual and callins the rank ano ure ever yet in today's crisis, "We must rely only on our- sue nest move towaras sinke rank and file organ selves, our action is met by a barrage of isations and strength. employers care about your provaanda about ine inreat u fellow workers "viability", prospect of the interest make : you an in the public sector, incessant talk of cash limits.

The harsh fact that strike today over wages or working conditions means for witnout a pollical grasp ol tne oking their ambl gamble role of the trade and many possibly Labour bureaucracy, alto. and gether at a time of mass unem- ployment materiai the . economi Where they are denied crisis and bosses' offensive are and clear political perspective having thinking, policies wo oppose subli lucals Talk alla flit oreanusanon. must wind up simply reflecting апо то непт тастог cocurec an‹ redundancies, workers are there- the SWP claims to be understandably combatting. 1U1C nestlant berore embarking on wen une workers. socialis.

all-out action. League do not blame workers for the sabotage and scabbing of Leftward ten omcas. we do not accom' odate to the weakest and most layers of former Indeed the fact that they militants continue do so, ' under ou view. Tne harsher conditions confirms the revolutionaries •to mobilise militancy le wara movement or tre cass growing on as a whole! around In failing to understand the workers demands beyond trade lactal ass lol workers con SIll DiC fusion in ine present perioa, tne militancy would-be 'revolutionariés' of the In us wa we strugge to SWP wind up simply tail-ending expose and defeat the reformist demoralised bureaucracy and thus politically

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unionists, offering not a shred the prepart class of political direction in the fight wage the struggle to bring down Tories and establish against une saborage or ine trade union bureaucracy. workers' government. Rally in support of victimised Derek Robinson: rank and file militancy sabotaged by trade

symbol of courage Page 8 Helen Keller: -and socialism "I am no worshipper of cloth of any colour but l love the red flag and what it symbolises to me and other Socialists. I have a red flag hanging in my study". people KnOW Keller Helen overcame the terrible being fore dumb) doing human Decame courage and determination What do most not know, nowever. Im DOT- tant part of her life she an active socialist. We are taking ersary ot ner anne 1880, redress this balance and the time sallle tribute to a life which has beer an inspiration to many millions of people-whether handicapped or not. 19 only ATle

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normal life Helen Keller fell ill and never heard or saw anything again. Cut off For the next tive years she areu do tal ato to mapearle grew totally cut off from intelligent contact. Luckily for Helen her family Graham Dol-ue mnventor oi the fale phone-her parents wroté to the the Iamous training school for the blind in Boston, asking about the possib- ility of for their daughter. The of. how Anne Sullivan turned Helen from little more than a savage into a highly educated, cultured woman Ilas been the film 'The Miracle Worker'.

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water over Helen's hands and Helen Keller then using the manual alphabet spelling out the word water into attacked what she called 'indus- Wels that Helen her process carried Dal. trlat binaness and social deat- H.G. out over and over again made the initial breakthrough.

for Old' and turned her atten- Sulian Tsband Jused Mace dismay. accused tion towards She joined the Socialist of manipulating Helen and the Graduated socialist movement of 1949 cynically Her struggle against personal for using her Ils OWI enas Pram to ead and write and blindness and leafness had course, mechnersell was read and brought to learn to write hei endless 'confused' and 'easily led'.

mattering then after further special educa- the tributes capitalist press. Here, after non to speak Devastating All this was accomplished bis was a good example • of how the and the remarkable woman went on how the ethic of conouer she was able to reply in a learn German, Latin, Greek and beloved of the devastating manner: French becoming a "T like newspapermen. I have capitalists could be shown to he known many, and two or three rity in the process and at the age the dy namic, vital force in life.

of 24 graduated with honours When, however, editors have Helen among my 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 most intimate friends. newspapers have been of great assistance in the work which we have deen trying to do the blind. It costs them

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social that different matter. That goes to the root of all poverty and all charity.

The money power behind the news- paves bo asallsl Socais and the ecor obeatent hand that feeds them I will go to any length to put down Incertine influence of socialists. ... The Brooklyn Eagle . that Helen says Keller's mistakes limitations her maltes development" s ago I (the) edito of the Brooklyn Eagle... the congress that Pois compliments he remember them. But now I have cone

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blind especially liable to error. I musi have shrunk in intelligence Surely it is his turn to blush".

(Why I Became a Socialist) Because oI ner own nandl caps she was able to bring out more sharply the social Cause. blindness and deafness and speeches she aruces denounced the profit system which condemned mas aves or poverty ano ou sease. Wobblies was helenn ele no mur and water socialist. She opposed the First World War anc battles between the sy multallsi maustria workers or une word and the reformist wing of the Socialist Party sided with the former, saying, in 1916, that SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 June, 1980 "I became an IWW because I: found Socialist Party that the It is sinking was

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the political bog" Russian Revolution She was an enthusiastic supporter of ine kussian kevo- lution and involved herself the battles ; against the of the • yuuliz workeis sidle With the decline of the TWH in the early 1920s Helen Keller's socialist writing becomes much sharp less alil mixed in with religion. She was of course, well into her forties by that time. radio programme about her life managed to spend only 30 to 60 seconds of its 50 minutes referring to her socialist retained for the rest of her life Indeed she was one of those who did colaps message veteran member Elizabetl Flynn was in jai political views. Ior nel Helen Keller in 1968 aged Readers of Socialisi who press • wish to look furthe Into lais side or ner nite shom He read "Helen Keller Socialist Years". and soccent. contos published and Honer International Publishers, York from which for this article has been drawn.

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Gay Movement-a history of gains and setbacks SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 June, 1980 By Henry Phillips Like all important social reform based movements around a single issue, the gay movement has tendency towards a narrow- ing of its view. of history and an exaggeration of its own succeses. Todav it would be hard to find 'London underground platform without least one al person wearing a gay liberation badge; that Derson little danger of arrest or being pushed under a train Except in rare cases the odd contemptuous gance ana a bli of ribald abuse is the worst thing likely to happen. Gay News the same time Gay News At sells 25,000 copies and its show continuing contents all. films, pubs, discos, as details of socialists, gay collectors, goers and so on. The fact that all this still takes the of a. ghettoised that social milieu- within -alu very outer suo gaettoes o1 much ana women-does fact that eleven years of struggle produced • gay rights especially in North America and western very changes in the position of gay people in society movement today is une gav infected with a strong proclivity to view this undoubted progress part of a linear and irrevers in 1969 when chents of the Stonewall first shy, ally police contine ros list future. a pen cive for of which has instance been widely shown London in recent montas called

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of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts. director, rather arrogant German tionist named Rosa .Praun- heim, has now also produced a book of the ilm Just pudasnea by Gay Mens Press (another symptom of the gay move- It is a wide-ranging and often vivid documentary s, Social fire, life -demonstrations, Donca ano persona nternews designed to demonstrate the up- of the surge gay movement in the United States. Ironic As a political progressive' von Praunheim adopts a relative- tone towards such tnings as gay churcnes, and gay fascists. But basically his perspec- tive is that anything that things are better than others. It all seems to re seneran ex oF tolerance capitanst society The final peroration of the film's commentary. is a plea for liberty seen tolerance allu States might cribed as Jeffersonian. In lact, the bourgeois liberal- ism of Jefferson the slave-owner on the question of homosexual- should not punisnea death (as it was in the state of Virginia up to 1777) but rather It a: man. Castlallull. woman.

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Tne cart all on here at the half inch diameter at the least'. This is one of the numerous interesting documents collected San Francisco gays riot against right wing violence together by Jonathan Katz in a von Praunheim-is that the gay and scholarly book called question has so frequently been large American History (Avon Ulv regarded.

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Dv DoureCols Books, USA). reformers and by socialists) as book outlines a long something quite separate from medical history of legal and the transiormation of society a: repress on of nomosexually a wnole. well as many instances of homo- gay oppression course, love the treat has sometimes been the result of among ‹Alexander MiStoriCa reversons towards Waldo Whitman, Ralph barbarism in which all freedoms example Emerson) well the crushed -for as as people of American common lascism are stammisu history. One Reversals section of the book 1859-72" called Nesistanci crate society there ais Ine political importance oi the material in this section is not there democratic society only that it shows that the gay very sharp reversals of the Deen before struggle. very particularly Stonewar out Tatte interesting long struggle for gay rights ha case to understand in this con- in as eise. States, text is that of the Mattachine of where been through cycles Society founded in California at partlal gains lollowea by new The end or the yaus waves of repression. main founders • were members of the American Com- Seen as separate munist Party and it is not coin caental tnat ine lounding It would be wrong to draw the Mattachine marks their break with the party. But the simplistic conclusions from this experience; analytical a good oreak _ occurred history of the political fight for ordinary way The Mattachine's main liberation has yet to Hay, founder was Harry willi But it is hard to escape the intellectual who gave classes it conclusion that part reason why So many historical the CP and the California Labor been wiped out School gains have the Hay gives lengthy interviews both in Army of Lovers and in a view or mstory represented by moving and humorous documentary consisting of 26 interviews with DeoD e called Word is Out (made by the Mariposa Film Group in 1977).

But his most revealing still very inconcle benn printed in Gay American History. Ray McCarthyite repression and was forced testify before the Unamerican Activities Committee in 1952.

expected (wrongly as it turned out) that he would questone• on ns gav as well as his Communist Party activities that it us out for to deaded Because different i his "fellow representeu lawyer from avoid their being tarred with the brush of homo- sexually cano ne so a mao struggle find any lawyer willing to take his case) Then, decided to he WItH devote nis wnole acuvity to une question of gay rights through the Mattachine: to the Communist Party and discussed this total call' upon recommending me, They them my expulsion and, exPulsIon honour ormy egoteen vears as a member "a security dropped me out as a me one men ol w Page 9 people" were rein- Repressive laws (Gay American History, p.622) stituted by stallr 1 10 94 ang The Stalinists thus adopted remain in force until now.

position on its gay the At the same time a reaction- menders das de scullly sol ver 10c0109 ca canals W di unleashed by the ot the Us capitanst state, which Stanis same time conduc- were at the regime. It reflected in the its periodic anti- the treat- change star LE ment of homosexualit gay witch-nunts From Great Soviet Encyclopedia his statements unt position of Hay himself remains and quoted by Lauritsen unciear. He does not seem to be prepared to The entry in the first edition criticise the li s position, though he does say 1930 presumably written earlier) is based on the that: 'not one single political or work or vagnus niscuicia ant pressure let alon among who both regarded Tne liberals natural human lifted either sexual finger protest the monstrous social anc feeling. When Stalin's henchmen had civil injustice or ine us govern ment's anti-gay witch-hunts the Encyclopedia the of the published was reduced to the follow- Nor do any Chill) explain Hay merview. will how he reconciled his personal "Homosexuality, sexua the at al question perversion consisting in unnatur persons of the about the with the fact that al altlaction le time he ioined the CP Stalin wa: same sex. It occurs in persons or enacting anti-gay laws both The penal. statutes the Soviet Union and dispatch-

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the socialist the ing hundreds of homosexuals to countrie. ane ever Siberia bourgeois states provide for the This is a fact which is drawn punishment of homosexuality in another useful book by Kat allellon nor that book or source material on une history of the gay movement Thorstad very towards The Early Homosexual Rights the writing of a critical history Movement (1864-1935) by or tne say moycleil David Thorstad and But they pote begul (Times Change Press). to uncover some of the great This book covers informa- of material will wealth briefly tively very many need to be examined in such a aspects of the history of the history struggle for gay liberation in th And both they represent and Britain along with corrective uportal political/biographical sketches O-Commo view movement hedan and as ay •Kichard Kurton Whitman, Edward Carpenter began and the great pioneer of scien- enta millennia of gay oppression

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researen on sex t. Magnu: Hirschfield of the German Insti- Of course, other correc for Sexual Science (which tute tive towards lo ally suppressed by Hitler in the wa inat view today is inat in Pride . Week 1980 the British The upheld interested hors especially has recently the "reasonable the dismissal between une ca

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socialism. Scotland; in Iran last week Ano in inis contexi they concentrate on the German the Islamic regime to death Democratic Party's advo- of "drug addicts cacy prostitutes' Delore nomosexuals ana First the Greece the government world war … ano on and in situation in Russia after 1917.

launched anti-gay anew flai (The writings of the revision- witch-hunt These examples could be Democard easily multiplied They all too Edward Bernstein On Homo- show how extremely brittle are have been just English by the gains so tar made by today!

publisica So they gay BritiSh and irish communis point to dangers Organisation -a Stalinist group its growing political demobilis who have added a grotesquely ation. reactonary muroduction, And they underline the need One of the first acts of the for a serious commitment revolutionary government of the Bolsheviks was the abolition of mass organisatons or lne working class against sexual all anti-nomosexual laws as par oppression general policy of "the Revolutionary socialists absolute non-intervention of the must be in the forefront of the and Slalt sex Ud fight for that matters so long as noone For many that will involve injured, and no-one's interests throwing off a legacy not of the : encroached upon. Bolsheviks but of Stalin-the They saw this as the belated still common implementation of the gains of view that in th democratic revol- warmth socials societ. the bourgeois homosexuality would melt away ution ana ineir approacn was and problems of sexual oppres partly guided by the Code Napoleon sion would resolve themselves.

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This year's their supporters, Scottish District Annual Conference failed to ine orner mi reflect the changes in the District Council. union created by the successful have action over pay comparability undertaken seriousy over tre last yeal us a result or ine cectora successes earlier in the year. of the Scottish group on the

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Executive: meetings Orators that will have taken place before ine industrial action, and tne majority of resolutions will have of previous isers been formulated at about ine Scotland -Steele, ame ame Nevertheless it was possible Mact'adaen-were this ycar able to sit on the rostrum in comfort to discern a certain leftward to watch the desperate antics of acycopment nam осси by a dack of national organisa- Enel Crstwnlie tion. colleagues in 'Progress".

In the year since the last Group were present in about the Party's Progressive same numers as m ure bst two Alliance" has collapsed or three years and had no. dis- pletely, and failed even made by their handful of exper produce a bunchin for toes year: The NPA was based on two Jencco groups of lower bureaucrats and Fancy (Lewisham) and

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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. Plum seciors of state industry will be handed to the Tories' profiteering big business backers; and the pay rises to police and mark only prelude against pickets and anti-fascists and an intensified army crackdown in the occupied Norin or ireland The Callaghan-Healey Gendershis ms made i cical any perspective other than settling down and meckly accept Tory devastation ing five years of dusted off their have more Anu. lilcy Labour's left sweeties. continued to duck away ftom any light to remove Callaghan What her and the Tory cabinet parallen their ara- and the Tory cabinet, working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan experienced class DUl petravas perore-to roboe nearns amonbasta 1974, and smash through Callaghan's reactionary Phase 4 of wag 19ntrols in a series of monumental pay battles in the winter of These experiences are not dead. The ocial services and hard-won union rights can be derenaca agains renewed Tory attacks. But principled, revolutionarv leadershio is needed if the TUC collaborators and their hangers-on in the Labour traitors. the to be exposed and pushed aside, struggles mobilised that can defeat and remove the ment. Such a leadership must fight day in and day out for a programme of transitional demands which, starting from today's conditions and consciousness within Working revolution frasp ine necessity for socialist And in taking un democratic demands-such as an end to racial and sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role that must be played by • or leadi class as the only consistently revolutionary capable struggle class leading the And it must fight on an international basis-mobilising solidarity South Aimpa of came ante aralist the word, and drawing, Africa elsewhere throughout the world strength and political lessons the hated Shah in Iran. This means the reconstruction of the Trotskyist Fourth Internationai To this end, the Workers Socialist And devist op the meand and Concipete the 1938 Tonstional method and principles of the Programme, and for full discussion in the world Trotskyist move.

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the onc White (Hertsmere). Council and so much of NAU MAS nUng the Metropolitan their experience on flat rate pay when the pay claims that Relations between these two • is removed from the agenda to a deteriorated special mecting later in the year they find themselves with no clear reason for being there at all. partners The fact that the member: lett been are not satisfied with this disor- ganisation of the left in NALGO was renecca i tre larse allell dance at most fringe held by the various The left orators and organ- left groups. Notable among these was the White and first appcarance of

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Left', a rosiorsed on the North District and also an unofficial meeting pay question London the called by the Islington Branch The SWP-led NALGO Action Failures Both meetings were charac terised by search for tactical beyond that the agreement that reason for the tallure of carlie attempts of the same kind.

Barry But the absence of a struggle for a clear programme, as opposca to snort term organ- is combination or props vip combination groups be able to build a force capable of replacing the existing rotten leadership and inspiring a fight- among the member. ship. Despite all these problems in the lent wing or ine conrerence there were a few important advances made The first day of conference Is aways ocvoica. to scoarate meetings of the various service groups, and the highest point of Health Group meeting which backed calls for industrial action in support of pay claims by increased. state violence

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revolutionary upheavals such as fighting for League is affiliated to the in Britain. nurses and midwives. whose pensions Few speakers were prepared at this stage to argue for open

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discussion focussed on • Hese tine's new need action tion for further of ensure Ine rulure castence Two rule services for patients. The other service groups did ODDsea Dy not achieve this same height of that any person blacked post mantanev. our bay remainica tre key debate in each of them, technology a close to join. with new secona Local Government is the largest of the groups, and it was employers had warned that th unwilling to meet the NALGO had the claim. branches failed to be carried The debate was diffused to. a are dearee by une accision to case of Sheila recall the Group Guscus. progress in the pay negotiations steward which were due to open on 20 «ULC branch June The National Local Govern give

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ment Committee had to promise rule to affiliate to any that it would industrial organisis consistent with ano wnen it proved constitution but would not be tied down to when the specific programme preparing a of action at this stage Was reduire quite a lo The more experience industria the action before resolutions of that now policy debate, succeed ir Kund likely lu to again

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NALGO's own variant After all, this year's action on comparability was the first a erase and wage policy history of the members have much experience bureaucrats on ferramn or tas Kind The first day of full confer- heard token ence even President John resolution tron Meek, who called on the whole action against an) support their union industrial colleagues in the Health Services and their former coneague.

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Trial sub (UK): Six issues.. Six months One year:. Europe: Six months Rest of the World: Six months .. For a clear Name.. lead in the Address struggle against wage control, cuts and redundancies 6XX. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 June, 1980 NALGO leaders in conference.

were at risk. •were unde This leaves the way open for defended therate Vot joint actions with tenants and reductions clients against cooperale services

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‚opposed • this manpower statistics in prepara cuts motion mount or ed it forms change motions They • the NEC-ensured accepting heavilv defeated and missed would be • kicked opportunity to out of the union or not allowed Lice tore position presen instead of as a dia amenament metrical alternative. Backing Thursday afternoon centred woon unt But a further left wing move tion, of and she one of the left major weaknesses to ensure that NEC candidale: backing of their own There was widespread agree.

the ment on the need to generate Dasca around and support British a long serving NEC member who is not industry, a view sup- own norted by ne cr Down m acodu and in their fringe meeting with A second left wing move to guest speaker r Derek Robinson the right under this motion effect means that

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OD. ation having aims and objectives destroyed Rritish micro

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technology as opposed to th also defeated nasty foreign variety! argued that method Weakness of left affiliating to the Labour Party.

day began with economic regular The overall impression is of which led onci action possibilities the passing of the weakness among the present lell sulates elements • mounting complete with import controls challenge through a dear the leadership alternative pro which Hus!

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Action against cuts union open Incude Traci defiance the Tory govern 01 A significant gain by the left and its plans to destros . was made with the victory of a the buoye services. backing industrial cuts, whereas previously poncy nad restnicied . to situations where NALGO members jobs

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COHSE conference: no call -Vospers College workers fight st Mary's gets SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 June, 1980 In this year's conference of the health service union

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David Williams, Assistant General Secretary, spelt out the betrayal facing nurses over their pay claim.

Banging the table to raptur- ous ambase wullamas recom mended branches to vote against the government's 13-14% pay oi ceare. "Let no one De. mustaken This means business. If we go down this road we must be care- ful to ensure we win. Apart cal for

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caution Williams made no attempt to explain what action MP Reg Race was bemoan- ing the low-pay of Univer- sity workers in Parliament last week, a group of that Oxford's Pembroke College were organising strike action for im provements in pay and conditions. And when, college to thor ut faltem, al espond 47 NUPE stafi walked out ince inev lomeo the at the end of last year, though made, concluons tave remame• unchanged Promises were made broken and the workers' frus- Then last month contact was The first day of action in support of the 60 sacked workers Adwest Engineering in Reading was highly successful. The 150 pickets, including a coach from Oxford of sucecucu m sovolle lany the scabs going in. Univ a nane- ful of the 300 defying the strike went in. protected by heavy police tactics ran a gauntiet militant pickets as they arrived at the site. strike in support of

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convenor, the sacked deputy convenor, and all TGWU stewards who have been sacked 60 done wIll

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alle defender in via supero in the initial support in form both TGWU and the AEW

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unions are now playing candalous rol The

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refusing to declare the strike the AUEW has concluded a deal them sole negotiating plant whilst all picket Moradys strengthened the strike, which continue. Mass pickets will called every Monday and a date to be announced. The strike is to committee lobby

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Rules LIte Kevision conterence this week.

commites should demand that

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branches tre sunke is mace onca ano the tul resources oi the union thrown into the fight to defeat by vicious attack Hallass support and Mesmares donations to the strike fund should to Danny Broderick, 46 Berkley Avenue, Keading. to break from RCN was proposed after rejecting the He demared the thole labuts.

declared the whole labour attempt was made otter and no movement must be mobilised to unite otner service workers alongside the nurses.

denounce government policies However the and save the welfare state went on to oppose tion of where Williams and the He then Hall branch stane came

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calling for joint action the with the RồN. member- alongside industrial workers!

Mass action see nato now d

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rejection pay It must be spet out clearly oi the mean type that denunciation will not can any policies. business "business cacool. Only mass action is capable ol usua e o arows ro its ranks members of an organ- isation whose constitution bans Pay and cuts cannot be seen as separate issues any lorm oi industrial action both part and They AlDerT was even his verbal parcer or the same allack anu moIC muitall £1.38 an hour, as recommended back by the Clegg Commission. Though there the will management, all the indications are that they intend to take the union on and break the strike Trade Union Liaison Committee benne mer decision nes une and the stewards and members cartel-like relationship between decided force dozens of different colleges as Oxford Univer- which make up delays IcocalCu

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Valsil demoralisation. sity s baston or bourgeols icarl- of union sub- ing. scriptions paid for of nothing was An indication the College's determination to tighi nor que to une conece autnor ities alone, since responsibility came aDOTTIVe for the union's affairs has rested negotiations with full-time NUPE where present throughout Alf Tepresentatives' the

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employers denace enouess delays and cono e dealing was clearly more to the the meetine proceed under and his thos conditions oi management than the official unon men ders The demand for recognition support, means is now central to the workers' mil nerd to facete the wien tackle the union work need

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101 retall along with a minimum rate of cecismo lo prove successi ui Adwest day of action once it is accepted that profit is the central criterion and not social need, then the same logic the closure car firms ame steel also the closure of schoois and hospitalear call must go out now unite alongside

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support seek. une of industrial sections of workers. No government-Labour or Tory-has . ever heen mandate to attack the NHS, and labour movement whole must be mobilised not in denun ciation but in action in a general strike to bring this government The Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Area Health Authority continues to run into difficulties in its attempts to live within cash limits by cutting back the local health service. Having modified their proposals and extended the time severa umes opposition to their plans, they have found that the opposition At they close six wards and the casualty department Mary's, Harrow Road, by April 1980 unch lucy aricca . lo a con sultative period with closure by Page 11 fight on wages With over 2000 engineer- ing workers at Vosper Thornycroft's (Woolston) shipyard still out unofficial strike and another 333 facing a management Vosper lock-out at Ship Repair (Eastern Docks), shipbuilding and ship repair Spanswick in Southampton is being hit very hard. Electricians and fitters at VSR have responded bI Cally ing out an occupation of key buildings and the strike Woolsto: extremels remain

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. solid with and all

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members oursae although some workers (AUEW continue fresh reprieve picket lines under orders tom umon orniciais. As this report is filed these bureaucrats have • failed to lead a return to work but it was to br October 1980. at rriday's mass meeling wner Then they decided that the the crucial decisions will be could be taken Casually ucpartilcul Meanwhile of kept open five days a week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. warships for NATO is virtuall halted acneme The • dispute Woolston, made public on June 18, would staying open 24 casualty week • reflects workers' deep hostility very da com me to the 1980 wage deal imposer the time only 'walking throughout British Shipbuilders Deo ambulande cases -would accepted win conred union officials. arrangements would be made for ambulance cases to Speed-up another local hospital. other nationalised The cuts at St. Mary's out- industries, the arive loi speed• lined in the consultative docu- up and protes oly are the ment drew dozens thi far many central features oi opposition reaching sellout which leaves

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community and workers facing even greater parts of ine hospital staff on jobs (new technol Two lobbies and pavement ogy), in job demarcation (flex 14 meetings were held on Mas lol or lavour and ware cul Such was (Confed's 13%) ana june lo. Tne meposition thae 18a motiontA opposition

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, by transferring EETPU members twelve Vickers BS (Harrow) and paying Terer Dack une whole cocumen to the officers was only narrow- them tu over the loca week!

ly defeated rate the employer has sought to Instead the decision confront the workforce and ram was to refer the

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It now •Io ! gramme. seems likely that further lengthy delays will result Significant elements of this St Mary's on Friday be found in a Inside programme can Vospers documen June the stewards and hospital National Agreement' part C, workers successfully prevented clause 8. medical equipment being moved Here we see that flexibility" is the order of the day: Irom si. Mary s in harrow noad to the other St. Mary's in Praed *Steelworkers (ASB): Total Street interchange between all sections

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Weirs *Electricians

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Flexibility on installation work with ASB members sackings *Engineering (AUEW): Flex- ibility fitting work with LETPU and CSMWU membel *General

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Icpall 780 jobs are under the Flexibiitt in renair with ASH and CSMWU members. axe at the Cathcart and Transfer of labour to be Alloa plants of Weirs effected between any section ol Pumps, in a redundancy British Shipbuilders. Contracted plan which management when blame on reduced demand uccessary their conEcer. contine for their products. activities to 'essential' tasks.

The firm had been regarded stable Stone age one of the elements the pointed out the . picket quickly enormeering 'essential' task though the sackings follow on redundancies Weirs British

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help the bosses reduce our living plants this year, and run along standards back to the stone age sac a proposed eu redunoas cies at Weir Westgarth In voting with their feet, Stewards of unions at Cath- cart-where 590 jobs are to go - workers Vospers nowever at have rejected the Confed-

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inspired Now betrayal. they ban on overtime and called for should supporting to strike into every work being sub-contracted from section of British Shipbuilders *Reject the Confed National But the stewards' statement focusses heavily seeking Agreement! on *For . wage levels including means of propping up the com 'cost-of-living automatic index pany, and shows that they have not yet taken the decisive step elected assesscu is the workers' committees! prerequisite fight against the serious sack out British Shipbuilders declare Ines unes uivoca defend all jobs without loss of commitment occupy the plant and begin the fight for pay! *For an alternative to arma- concrete supporting action from ments production under workers' control! movement.

Basnett's bright idea turns out

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It all must have seemed such a good idea at first.

At a point when Labour's wing. encouraged by the lett 1978 over Callaghan's 5% pay policy, seemed all set to a backaze oi aemo- cratic reforms to the Party con- David Basnett of the stitution, GMWU came forward with what aopearea ne lear a verson -an inquiry. After all, moury lakes the matter off the floor of the comerence-wiere memocis are watching-into closed offices; it takes decisions out of the hands delegates and places oi elected inem Ene nanos o tal-ume bureaucrats; and by imposing a year's delay it must surely offer Ine ment wine leeway co reerous Far from and time for the left wing cam- out steam things that-for have worked out of positions differently 1U1 Dasilell s monopoly control of the Parlia- inquiry. rar Irom taking place background mentary Dart-has roube sen left high and dry. leisurely manocuvre and abatnenc membersu. il llas head by the standing ovation for become

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heated debate in both the Labour Party Denn unt and the trade : unions as workers Conterence ast monta with Ila ve lurwall backers union militant demanes against the Tories and for social-

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Owen, Callaghan, Williams: "another fine mess...

the left losing cratic reforms insistently It nas been the nant wine amance de une mass or ene bureaucratic Party's active membership.

would power have to be made if control was oe ceou m tae manos or tre right wing. brought to a two-pronged move therefore to bottle saulicica ParLy S unines uo *on the one hand, union Both Callaghan and his chief Duffy leaders from Terry recognised . Communist Larougr rally member Ken Gill (TASS) were

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confidence in Calaeca as Pariy leader. the other hand, the Commission of Inquiry, meeting Ine ADIMO CounIy mac- away, began tormulate "compromise" deal designed to pacify all concerned. The outcome fell far short of hopes of Callaghan In1112 and the right wing They were forced to concede the reselection of 101 for extreme right wing Labour- Indeed it had ites. lo averl cre amolementaliol poncy-carnea BaST October's conference-that Inquiry had been established.

Vote in favour is running short. We of Socialist Callaghan was also forced to vOTe TavOUT o lakene election of the party leader out of the exclusive grip of the right

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25% unions, 20% constit- uencies and 5% affiliated bodies.

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Denounced Labour 'lefts' have-for diffetent denounced these last two which fall far short the demands voiced by a grow.

1ng cambac tion of the Party But there seems little doubt the that Inquiry's proposed mise" formulae left wingers will find themselves the up against •oi union bureau

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volt crats who have _no intenton o permitting than token : Labour Party democracy in the of the leit wil. Caus however be made easer ov the most party right headed

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wing une amamentary Labour Party. Harlingtor MP Hayes Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement

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Saturday 5 July at Digbeth Civic Hall, Birmingham 11.00 a.m.-›.0v p.m. Credentals c.

Write to: G. Webster, 169, Barclay Rd., Warley, West Midlands Basnett an attendance Nevite cande son as once 2923l last week. aren declaring that the minister Roy Hattersley. including snadow ould breathe a is only the certainty • 1iva1 thai Sandelson is one of a group course to a lifetime in politica that holds these reactionaries from making thei onten awa from the Labour Party and conterence ceci who have from the workers' move and Tory flag o1 with which they have willllawal task facing *opposition to unilateral dis- activists in the next period is to step up the renationalis- these alien elements, along witt the Callagnan nealey leaaersm which always rested upon 20 their support unese wild men This means fighting not only their views at least on the EEC to carrv Inro e ou o policy are shared reselection, , democratic election David leadership -and ministers the party William Kodgers NEC control of the manifesto with the minister but combining this struggle for forres so theornday would expect socialist vigorously rejected by tne lignt willg• *Britain out of NATO! For numbers of right wing MPs who their local unilateral nuclear disarmament. as reselection Troops out of Ireland now!

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this For a Socialist United States of hans for split by Europe "those who seek *Mobilise working class action to bring down the Tories To desuoy ramanenry acto undermine national and force the nationalisation of industry and the banks without workers' slightly less pug- under compensatiot management! Manifesto group of MPs Adwest picket-p.11