Socialist Press no. 206

IMPORT CONTROLS:

UNION CHIEFS

PRESS

Affiliated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee From carpets to coking coal; from pianos to plim- solls; from fish to furniture; from steel to sperm whale oil; from televisions to tex- tiles, the raucous voices of union leaders and desperate employers are clamouring the Tory government for to impose import controls protect the profits of British companies. The campaign has gathered pace alongside galloping the rate of redundancies

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policies industry as i hatcher's along with the worldwide crisis capitalism bring a slump in unemoovment. It has found vocal advocates both from the ranks of the CBI whose last conterence voted in import lavour sective controls-and among leaders of

TUC,

has just published a booklet spelling out Ine very same poncy. Duffy Within the labour movement itself the campaign against been Im ports nas taken up by elements rangin righ

AUEW

President Terry Duffy to the

ISTC

leader or a toune toln Only last week saw Duffy, along with TGWU leader Moss engaged svalls cher sir Michael Edwardes. on the 'problem' of Japane imports outstripp- BL sales DIILISIl Edwardes, president of Common Market Automo- bile licly Shoul delight the Communist Party which last week hailed Duffy's conversion to the cause of

DEU-

nationalist tectionism in the Morning Star: "Good to see that Terry demanding and others on the AUEW imports and Duffy British' campaign. Executive to do nave accued And with the multinationals STC and other and fight for import controls. Let's hope they on they a velle. members' jobs by the tens of WeLC thousand, supposedly championing Derek argue Robinson" profitable Thus in the fight to defend British capitalism we find the restricTed the folly Yet employer who sacked their lead- that ing industrial militant, and the

AUEW

President who betrayed Capitalist 112t the and employers are raising almost identical demands. Textiles Ine USAl steel union This unholy alliance is now lined with emerging throughout industry. owned steel firms Textile Dan une worked jointly shed er met tan and the sin nave repeatedv with union leaders to mobilise steel from Britain demonstra- Indeed tions against imports. oi protectionist measures under The Stalinist-led furniture capitalso only invistonsonalinationally.

nationalistic trades Unton "AU recently held stridently

SOCIALIST

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 206 * 9 July 1980 * 20p

SIDE WITH

BOSSES

WORKERS OF THE WORLD

UNITE!

demonstration Were major capitalist halt country to impose full-scale Cuca urging buy import controls in the well trigge steel industry, full-scale internațional

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trade capitalist which national class- • supported by ma Base occasi be ma drive union leaders-lought to could its competitors to the wall.

went Imperialist war of such illustrated by such conditions other possibilities of a renewed out- break of imperialist war grow to courtes -u USA-union leaders frightening proportions What is it that drives employers to redup such a ded bureaucrats for instance bureaucrats have perate policy? the privately weaKest emplovers. of course the call for import Lo cal or d "dumping" controls is a desperate plea measures to suppress the market forces of capitalism Ellal unea the whole direction cn to arive them to toe wal.

ability extract netr towards intensify- sufficient from their racialist workforce threatened by

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* BRITISH

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IS BEST

...AGAINST THE FRENCH,

... JAPANESE... AMERICANS

...GERMANS... KOREANS

..RUSSIANS...ITALIANS

that

...AFRICANS... POLES...

industry terms

PORTUGUESE...

Juriner closures,

INDIANS...

speed-up

BRAZILIANS...

the working class. proposing measures that CreatE ployment pallons. mass action ened jobs in Britain Thatcher ployment serious national competitors. a plant closure And than meekly Not union leaders right the they issue hysterical and hypo- critical an ale for help living union and Labour leaders, other on the nana. sent import controls as an alternative been an official any struggle to defend jobs and conditions on shop bankrubt national operations Sooner than expose to unior workers the real bankruptcy and anarchy of the capitalist system an us complete speated off by the banks guarantee workers even the right speed-up, to a job and decent living stan.

reformist leaders. • Dcuuit supplers

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the illusion that capitalism can firms and industries , and jobs saved. they по "breathing space" is needed. it wilc which are with British employers.

DITTISA

capitalists from international she dec competition and one which does through government cash hand- me cass is an me mononal cass facing compeluve They remain silent about the enemy.

TILC

Public meeting For a full discussion on the crisis of the world Trotskyist movement!

Reconstruct the Fourth International Speakers from WSL and TILC sections Wednesday 23 July at 7.30 p.m.

Conway Hall, Red Lion Sq., London WC1 Tickets £1 50%

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British furniture workers demand import controls

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INTERNATIONAL LADIES

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US steel workers join the chorus of nationalism British The working class can only make competitive Rach win the right job decent living means standards, to ade. further social service. alisation" and further Edwardes future of peace and security and attacks on through mass action in every shop floor organisation in order country ior the overthrow •ot to increase the exploitation of the anarchic system of capital- ism and the fight for a socialist while happily planned economy. would struggle und mall confronted by

TOW TO

unem enem t amongst workers workers in any country is not they lift not a foreign capitalist finger to fight for factory occu the employers at home and the state machinery and government supportme strikes and defend threat- through which they their rule. government Biltain this means tha has been able to force unem the struggle to defend jobs and towards two create jobs for the unemploy- million mark without a single planned official struggle against public works) requires the development and in one instance have extension of strikes and occu challenged the vations and social services; the building preserve or restore profitability councils of action to coor- at the expense of the jobs and dinate and calend

SUCH

standards of the work- struggies ano une light lor a General Strike to bring down the This herd rate t Not in one instance has there fight to force the best conditions to expose the refusa ne ovenme or une Dooks orla British and multi- of the existing leadership of the Labour Party to elected implement committees programme, and reveal the wheeling and dealing show the necessity to establis scenes workers government to lead employers' overall strategy for the struggle for the nationalis the profits Banks Withe industriest inn "loss-making" workers' management unde which alone can lay the basis for Yet the fact is that there i a planned socialist economy "national interest lt Is precisely because ine share existing union Labour workers leaders are incapable of offering exploited class. such and perspective Workers Socialist League fights not own the revolutionary bula a new, leadership in the workers' move.

common capitalist ment.

FOR CAMP DAVID DEAL

Page 2 Despite the apparent military invincibility of the Zionist state of Israel, the mounting trom TecHnice the dispossessed Palestinian masses against the racist having is state major impact. numbers emigrating, particularly educated

AMOROSI

western people of tne sort wro provided the backbone Zionist expansion in the 50s and

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800,000 Israeli citizens (about 20% of the population) are now living abroad. There are many reports now of what the Times on forboding, pervasive 15 June called of Israel. Reporters Trom paper found as many others are that doing blend of cynicism and is seeping through every level of (Isracli) touching Israelis in almost every aspect of their aves This has produced explosive within Isracl. Uri and Knesset member revilery, Price rises of basic foods followed by immediately labour unrest The pattern is a familiar one, and it occured again last week in rOlariu workers al over une country managements confronted demanding pay increases raised prices to cover the newly meat ana In many cases, according lo reports, the terrified manage- pay up-thus agreed to neraline whol DuE DUSC of the price rise which is to curb the standard of living of Polish newspaper could only lament the state or te economy and call on the govern- ment to launch a programme of LaSI Comecon-together with reports of disruption of sup- mies and strikes umon-succestca lial lilles arc similar toroughout une stannst- ruled states of Eastern Europe.

Difficulties Last year their average rate ot growth or producaon envis aged economic plans CP headquarters after riots in Poland 1970

ZIONIST CONTEMPT

Beigin with Carter persistent critic of the excesses Zionism, nas reveaico une racist given Isracli soldiers in the occupied areas.

of his party were wrecked and ne has now called for the setting vigilante Stalinist regimes face crisis was 4.7%. The actual rate of growth this-only 2.3%. The once boasting Sovict leader Leonid Was was suffering significant econo- mic difficulties. Sanctions He blamed them, needless to sav on une economic sanctions taken against the soviet Unon by imperialist countries. He did not, of course, men- ton tne oiner Dossiole solice of shortages and economic dis- diversion ruption-the vast the Olvmnic Games in Moscow. and prob the mash more important invasion of Afghanistan and the maintenance oi the nara pressea army or occupanon Brezhnev volunteered nothing Comecon the how meeting about bureaucracy would resolving these problems.

But his junior partners Eastern Europe all gave evidence of moving rapidly in the same direction. involves abandoning the paraphernalia Stalinist forced cuts even miliar! this has led to spending and more and more defections from the government since une much publicised departure of defence Ezerf Weitzman minister May has Weitzman not been replaced yet but he was very renance Minister Yigae Hurvitz nearly joined June • boycotted One Cablet meeting in an effort to get the government cuts he considered necessary to combat inflation.

Wafer thin Two other actual defections from members of the so-called Movement for Democralk Change' • in the x nessel were announced on 23 June leaving Begin with a wafer thin majority Begin has responded to this by a characteristically ferocious groups" to defend himself and other critics of the regime of 13 statement June saying that the PLO should Ine begın government na. part of a neace process ol opinion polt have seen bic Recent even mention the possibility of the Palestinians having a state 15% support amongst the elec •i tael own The economic crisis has torate. it was condemned by yet Begin in terms that compared present to their fascist and Nazi prede- cessors. In detance ot all interna norms une tionally-agreed Begin proposed on dISU move his personal office to Eas Jerusalem. Finally on 27 June it was revealed that the Israeli cabinet the for ha: Walls permanent muntary c occupatol of the occupied territories.

It is clear „ тететоте. Israelis intend to retain complete control over the areas cared autonomous I1 lit use i Daniel seems to settlements as a means of effectively expanding their Irontiers. Aggression These can onl • be used to Jettison the new Us-sponsorea peace talks due to begin on 5 Indeed a new • Bli nas just carried through the been right by the extreme Knesset Tehiya Party to assert wing Zionist sovereignty cove Jerusalem. This flies in the face on the Security such Polish leader Gierek

COUNCI

stance by the Zionists centralised planning and turning It is plain that The srael are even less willing to compro- market towards Ust this demand than on forces and profitability criteria.

UL. Speeches about the need for the West Bank question profitability controls And Zionist aggression na: in continued with a savage raid on rises and the Lebanese village of Eitanich workers north of Tyre, killing 11 people mouths Hungarian, czech and Romanian leaders would This underlines the fact that sounded at all out of the Israelis seem now to have no 10l Have David Camp place lom natche or DarIe materest From Brest to Vladivostock agreements. austerity is now the rule-always But in the face of this hard line the Palestinian organisation or course. lor une workels.

Fateh at its recent congress ha: Parasitic begun to talk of the possibility separate states Nothing could more clearly Palestine. demonstrate that, contrary Stalinist mvthology, the greatest Hospitalised danger the nationased property relations in the Begin himself has now been states is not deformed workers' hospitalised once more by what the danger of imperialist attack appears to have been his fourth hit the sabotaging role or lne parasitic Stalinist bureaucracy heart attack on June 30 itself. un nis ack deo noweve was now that his gone by revolutionary Opposed to that his government news socialist So utions to une econ omic crisis that arises from the had survived a Knesset vote Dy the workers? states, 60-54. isolation .O1 The Israeli Labour Party lea mousine potential of their own Workin! which seems virtuary certain ce these bureaucrats First ce Proied the nest ture capitalis West Bank instead approved the with then world EEC Declara- imperialism. concemneo let This why the fight tionlearly parties capable of leading the choices facing the political over- more narrow revolutionary Zionism grow the Stalinist bureau internal

DULE

cracy is a varamount lask or tit externa that tena cowaras is world Trotskyist movement.

destruction grow stronger.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday July 9, 1980 State terror in Guyana The killing of historian ing up public meetings, staging Dr. Walter Rodney of the acmonstrations in lavour or the Guyana Working government and People's killing opponents of the PNC.

Alliance on June 13 has, of this and Members sect as expected, increased the agents have OTHe growing opposition to the been planted in shops and other

PNO

public suppress any Forbes Burnham Rodney's death discussion of regune. and arrest those who disobey Rodney was killed instantly Kut cecoite a news backoul protest has been vocal and when a bomb olseulser transmitter exploded in widespread his brother's car when they were A call by the Guyana Human across George Rights Association lor a return town. • and the rule ol accracy His brother escaped with immediately and for an law injuries-only to be severe the murder has Hilu unlawful possess- charged with and professional and church ion ol an explosive device.

After being forcibly remover groups. from hospital Donald Rodney is Mourners now on bal awaiting trial However the appeal koaney is only ine latest ol number leading

WPA

people' for criticise 'ordinary be murdered, their failure to "take their civic the violent deaths of responsibilities IonowIg serously allu Koama Okene and points to a last opportunity to no ward Dublin apart from daily unpub.

peaceful society! attacks : to fight for attendance at • orders forbidding The mES tarough une covera Tuneral

3U.0UU

ment controlled trade unions carrying banners and shouting accepted

IMF

slogans accusing the government week marched miles programme last austeilly which will raise the price of rice from Buxton to the Georgetown electricity and transport and bring state-un University of guyana and staff further • hardship to the sectors of the popula- to Government have been sponsored death, , continuing a long battle which started months ago when thuggery in Guyana is unprece- dented, even by Latin American appointment to the faculty standards. canna out not by the regular army and police What is needed is a political but also the armed youth leadership capable of organising the PNC (the "Young wing the anu Socialist" Movement), CuLs units and by thr racial lines as the WPA does, but special ponce feared and hated House also stands israchis is a religious sect dil, committed independent acience David Amencan interests or in and mown wasanton who is wanted by the US police all with the clas once and is therefore dependent on collaborationism which has trad- roulet uuy anest The politics political WOrk oI lne House of Israel includes acting This is a task the WPA has as a strike breaking force, break.

yet to undertake. Indian bosses mourn Sanjay ruling class had sought to culti In his masterly study of vate a bonapartist leader, well the rise of Louis Bonaparte of incapacity awart Marx anticipated the rise of Imperiaiism to guarantee bour- geois democracy Sanjay Gandhi when he set Sanjay represented the wing himself the task of demon- of the class most discon- "how the class strating Tentec Lite struggle in France created 'democracy' fest in his forced sterilisation circumstances and relation- and bulldozing campaign ships that made it possible so ualle call us for a grotesque mediocrity Emergency to play a hero's part". His key tole in the recent rubber stamp assembly elections Marx's materialist method of in securing the political author- analysis insights that followed are as relevant today as congress further to the reliance invested in nis own time in him by sections of the ruling The kernel of his message, contained however class No doubt the bourgeoisie imperialist universa

NOW

will recover from the loss of its interests throw • leaders potential 'hero' and after havin ensure the preservation of class espoused vica ootuares w adapt its interrupted strategy And it is this lesson that can accordingly. be drawn out when looking a Sanjay lancis denti significance Tactical question as the Having re-emerged will include Whether leading bourgeols party in mala Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi Maneka Indira Gandhi's • Congress Party today confronts the task or some unknown chiet minister remains a purely tactical ques- with the increasing tion for the : ruling class. com nativity ane sureneen or lne In their day-to-day struggles undefeated working class.

class and tne moldl are prin held Instability cipally the Stalinist leader- ship which seeks to contain the mandate that Despite the cass strugge verma cross-class.

instituted Gandhi in power, the popular frontist policies.

Congress (I) is wracked by polit It only principled Trotskyist programme based or indepen role Ihe growing mass unrest u une caule allu North West continues dence of the working class thai the point to the problem . of enforc- can present a i way out ing political control if the ruling order and break the working class from counter-revolution- gration. And it was in the repulsive misleaders in the fight to figure of Sanjay Gandhi that the socialism.

ANGOLAN WORKERS

FIGHT S. AFRICAN

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday July 9, 1980 of Namibia- housands based South African troops, backed up by massive artillery and air cover, invaded and occupied the southern provmces Angola last month. According to the

MPLA

stained boasts, the guerrilla Angora.

SWAPO

has clearly troops, TorCe included been dealt a heavy blow. scores of tanks and long-range The indications are that S. helicopter gunships and African military chiefs French Mirage aback scale laken oy une Ene DIgeest or Ine

SWAPO

put up by resistance cross-border raids ongoing But in the absence of deter- launched by the South African mined support from MPLA and full-scale was heavily tipped the baance S. African army, acting as the against the SWAPO fighters.

weapon of imperialism, failed in The MPLA regime, and the its bid to crush the new Cuban- Kremlin oureaucracy backed MPLA regime that had supports it in the maintenance come to power on the back of a of capitalist relations in Angola, mass mobilisation of Angolan incapable workers. consistent defence of SWAPO or against African Invading forces Ango a attack MPLA government is The

SWAPO,

Sources the driven into deepenins Namibian renance inability

LOD.

to meet the demands invasion involved the largest S. increasingly militant Angolan African military operation since working class second imperialist world The S. African government. War. connivance, WItN LaST week Tine Angolan thus able to exploit the instab- government reported that over ility of the MPLA regime. civilians had been military attacks are designed to massacred by

MPLA

mcrease Dressure forces. Which continues nei SWAPO to further compromise through Angolan in the anti-colonial struggle The Kremlin's concern is to sabotage and installing the anti-

UNITA

MIR LA

Torces strategic positions the This was denied by the African Covered caimed that its torces had with.

drawn after successfully mission-to smash military Heavy blow S. African generals claimed that nearly 400 SWAPO fighters were killed and hundreds of tons of equipment captured destroyed, for the loss of 16 South African soldiers and one helicopter Despite the undoubted Botha 01000

INVASION

Angola as part of its world-wide military/diplomatic balancing act with imperialism. reformists and Stalinists largely confined their invasion response the within he hallaof tot S

SWAPO

courage fighters, contrasting the class Will Treacherone collaboration of their leader- ship, found an echo militant solidarity aroused working class by lne Angolan predatory of the apartheid capitalist regime.

The fighting instincts of the fully demonstrated last week in Luand the industrial of the country, when ove 100.000 WorKers and YoUL turned out for a rally in protest against the invasion support of SWAPO and combativity 11t Angolan masses sounds a warn- African regime and imperialist who powels. cannot rey too lar on tee diver.

so by one Mof the od its class

MPLA

Stalinist backers In showing their anger at the and their Alrican attack solidarity with

SWAPO

guerrillas and with the struggles in Namibia and S. Africa Itsell. Hugo an workers ane volEn are actively seeking a way forward in the struggle against imperial. ism Only revolutionaries armed with a Trotskvist programme and perspective can take for- ward this a danger ass solidarity as all ul une smugge or tae overinrou of capitalism in Angola under revolutionary proletarian leader.- ship. the defence of In taking Angola and SWAPO, revolution stand s must the loretront African imperialist aggression. Auth the p timeat sey must take political struggle, against all currents of reformism that is necessary and Stalinism, develop political organisational working class around revolutionary programme and under revolutionary leader- ship key demand to be raised s, and the fop a mosters fight must taken militia to secure the immediate defensive tasks posed by external aggression, and to pre pare way lot moving onto the offensive against state power Namibia. the working class has emerged undefeated from

OCTIOU

oi struggle wach les Aincan state anc its agents launched an offensive that effectively crushed SWAPO's internal organisation.

Steeled in the experience of Line, andad, the worn struggle, and facing standards, class is charged with explosive militancy and combativity.

Confidence The massive development of struggle in s. Africa must have dramatically strengthened the Contain Namibia. workers and These developments pose a threat the reformist ambitions of the SWAPO leader The reformist strategy o ship. guerrillaism Cena weapon or tnis leadership in its aftergie to diet or midas struggle control militant workers and youth turn Guerrillash serves to the working class away from reliance its independen own massive surenen. towards renance tne musion oi sal vation the guerrilla army (hand in hand with the UN) And it acts at the same time as ormists and stalinists to drac militant multants away trom the dav-to.

day struggles of their class and into the bureaucratic command in the guerrilla • ally While broad layers of the Page 3

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RELEASE:

NAMIB IA

POLITLEIN

Prisoners working class look to SWAPO icant extension of political and for leadership struggle mantar powers Naminia setbacks like the one At the same time as it seeks.

miltary suffered in the African with imperialist connivance, invasion threaten to demoralis agents. thi the working class S. African government is forced the continuing

ALLO

actions involve military the working class to whether thes the door to a form of incorpor politically ation of SWAPO into the admin- working class at a time when i istration of the capitallst state is set to move into major open in Namibia. truggles against the stat Are sat no moralim si deepening crisis seizing on the It is only t consequence. mas tendershis. Africa stalinist working class that the and stale can currently hope to secure state Africa itself- cass or south capitalist control in Namibia provokes frenzy Last week African amongst the bourgeoisie in Governis DA party a signit- the tribalist. governmen search for stable capitalist

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DEFEAT TORIES

contributions from the floor Page 4 "Moss Evans is brought into friendly chats with BL Michael boss because he starts, Edwardes, from the need to preserve capitalism" In this way Tony Richard- mint ee or the organising com- the Campaign for mittee Democracy in the Labour Move- ment opened us oneway ference on July 5 by highlight- role played by the the and trade Labour leaders. "The crisis is not some kind of natural disaster in which we It is a are production for profit sevent crisis of a specific ', he went Ult. Opposed A society organised on the hasis of exnoutation and Drivate ho in can be planned. And exploiters interests and the exploited are not united but opposed to one anotnel.

To drive up the rate of profi for the employer means to drive Do me rare or exploitatul the working class. Inis is wily no difference for between arguing controls and arguing for speed.

up on the lines. In each case Il fighting to increase

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employers'

DOLLS I

expense on kacnarason well expose twin the attacks John embodied in the Tory policy of interest rates. not make "Money LUcs money: onlv the exploitation of workers increases capital.

rate from the working extracted On the other hand the Daily Telegraph others had among underlined the Tory strategy of using interest the rate means of forcing employers hold down wage settlements and attack their workers in order to survive. Resistance this, Michael Echoing Edwardes was now forcing une attacks BL's patc component suppliers-Lucas and Adwest. But with unemploy- even towards two rocketing million the Tones were meeting resistance

TONI

working whose readiness and fight time timidity the InTO of union Steel. BL enders in and the public services. CDLM conference, con- The Richardson. cluced within designed which workers could discuss the independent or newe political kind Wildi lead the struggle to defeat the Tories. The line of the main conter.

ence resolution was challenged by two counter-resolutions from the Workers Power group, and the amenemenl Socialist Labour Group, Commis- section of the Parity

SION

proposing the The speaker Workers Power resolution "Foi Rank and File Revolutionary the declared that CDLM programme was

WIUL-

and inadequate" the ques tion of in demanding workers under nationalisation management. and in calling for a General Strike to kick out the Tories. Rank and file out that "reform- Pointing saturates the working class ism every lever, ne moved document that pinned the the blame not

OUT

leadership amongst the rank and file-at the level of shop floor militants" and which while in

CALM

echoing general simply restricted demands soecancaly its general strike demand to the objective of defeating the Tory Employment Bill Workers Power second resolution, moved Dave

NEEDED TO

Lucas workers in Birmingham individual should follow their Peter McIntyre (Oxford NUJ) described the fight at both con for action at me ron action at the Oxford national and local level tor sup Times Mail action Journalists

DOLLIE

recent NGA dispute for a united polici during the successruniy of support for the NGA. While NUJ right wing Gerry Casey (Union of Com- argued for a position where each Debate on policy Tighki for allenariotal cank and struggle for new leadership "national rank non or a and independent conference"

IOT

file sponsored a prospect movement bodies ent open unc Stalinist-led including the another calaenan-neak

SWP

front government. and the

LLULU

"We do not demand simply a "Defend Our Unions We paign". covernment musI fight to take up the question o!

These resolutions were class taking power. the working opposed from the This means taking up the ques from the struggle tion government bureaucracy in the against the dynamic way," stressed Clinton.

what is in unions. and oftering Returning to the same ques many instances his summing tion in up. abstract organisational solution quoted to the political problems facing Irom Micharusun •Programme the working class ransitiona Trotsky's insistence Group The Socialist Labou Marxists should not simply amendment was and demand reformist leaders form a context welcoming the confererice and endorse-

CDLM

government meependent or ur bourgeoisie, preamble of the but develop agita ment tion for demands which draft resolution. should form the programme o But resolution was "abstract" claimed

SLG

such a government. failed argued Richardson because speakers.

CDLN

of the the include the demand of "Labour the bring down to power" demana. Failing to raise this demand Tories, remove the Labour anc union leaders who won't they une Labou fight, and fight for a workers leaders off the hook. Responding Alan Workers Power Clinton (Islington both the resolutions and the SLG amend.

capacity) Delsulla. defeated by the nointed out that wale di course which overwhelm- favouring a Labour victory ove carried the draft resolu- Tories, raise the uncon- "Labour to tion. ditional slogan of Workers personal munication capacity) pointed to th uous role of sabotage played Di the union's right wing leaders.

During the Grunwick strike, the ud be leaders the coat it had halted supporting 2C101 actually fined those that had led the action this year the same leadership had ignored a 6- ballot rejection and a conference majority in order to railroad through a productivity deal. The fight a ternative policies means a fight for union against Jackson and democracy co, stressed Bro. Casey. Steel strikers outside the BL Cowley plant SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday July 9, 1980.

Sacked for fighting bonus 180 delegates and visitors, representing a wide range of and unions.

CHES

calvales Labour Parties, attended Satur- deal day's Birmingham conference of the Campaign for Demo. cracy in the Labour Movement.

Victimised shipyard electri cian Arthur Pearse told the con- ference or us struggle to moo value Asided to mas seemed Added Bonus scheme at Thorneycroft yard the Vosper We must oppose alipe uc- • principle. tivity instead for workers must fight ConITol-will Malanciel elected and answerable to the work put her aid. out a leaflet oppos- And ing despite a t100,00u publicity campaign, management lost the vote in the ballot "Because this. ] wa: sacked. I didn't expect promo- tion Pearse went on explair the way in which EETPU unior while officials intervened, admitting that Pearse had been persuaded the elec- victimised, caus n une yaru lilal li wa.

not necessary to strike m support. industrial tribunal hin hich the Instead there had been evidence of wannesses brushed aside: and an external "impartial whose chairman accepted by EETPU chairman be an ex- officials proved to Vosper manager he At scheme hao the first stages of the been VOSDe perse of his betrayal pay are beginning

EETPL

The third stage involves com- pete flexibility of labour and a And the British Shipbuilders had been delayed to pay aalt action alongside the steel workers.

(TGWU

plants had used Moss Cowicy ave runninson directives Assembly) explained Evans Cowley

OBEL

the latest pay lines of lorries: that officials had then intervened between structure National eventually нжатоес ane too umon bureau allu Organiser Ron Todd called for a crats means that no BL worker will have a voice in the annual halt only to supplies of raw steel, oil and gas TeVIeWi The whole of tne bL work- force is now represented by a trial pants had been the steel strike. handful full-time union Joe Quigley (GMWU stressed the oniciais. capacity, Annie Pile of the Oxford sonal new Tory Spoke orke struggle tomoree oi cancers struggle to force It is not true spoke amnloyment bu less dangerous that this is any officials give

TGWU

than Heath's Industrial explicit instruction that Would Relations Act, he argued.

stop lorry drivers crossing steel- the new workers picket lines. conoler wIll Social Security At first steel pickets at BL's

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday July 9, 1980 Anne-Marie Sweeney Joe Beckles Action to stop the cuts- • can be no "There clearer Meanwhile leaders union Red notalthe eswatn example the crisis 250,000 people homeless on CVICLOn while building the streets nurSer Unt dole and are on the brutal break-up

WUIKCIS

oi the work-in stockpiled" at Derbyshire's Ettwall Hospital.

oricks are aTeued Shire Came Sune Agait ord- It is vital to fight for a policy Campaign Against linked occuDaeoas supporting strike action to stop CUISi. the custn har suede niro eme a cecok o the fight to halt the Tory on was taken slaught on the public services, up by Joe Beckles of St. Marv's went on to show the scope Hospital Defence Committee, of the cuts-from school meals West London to closures of geriatric hospitals; are workers!" he rauenis from punitive charges for home told the conference. helns to cancelation of school People in hospital beds did crossing patrols. not just come off flying saucers from Mars. They are people like "Impressive record" I mCTO0n It was not a question patients but fighting for Pointing to the inaction of determined interests. that St. work-in had Report, Columba's Hospital in London is still open 15 months after Cuts, its closure deadline. Lampargn Commiuee, Wilc ll of Leicester fact consisted of producing sare

ALKU

"three bulletins" holding two Nursery Campaign mner mer and 'lobbying efusal of union leaders the colecIs (NALGO) to fight to defend Tory Minister oi state at the

DHSS!

ana exter nursery Drovson.

Bill before A ssemb tes now Parliament, amounts to combined anti-working class stalery. The between Cvsons employers on the Bill were that it based the fact long destroys estabusned framework of collaboration and between bosses union olilciais.

(TGWU)

pointed Pat Lally Roland Sheret out that even before Prior's new nigh level ol mutancy in the Bill is passed through Parliament working class as reflected in the spearheaded Tories ballot of Scottish lldyo attacks on tine

SHO 0

stewaras teachers' union. the EIS movement (BL) on the closed nered a Cholce o nnree shop (NGA dispute) and on the options on the next step in their struggle improved TIzIL o vICAC pay MacDonald (Social- A murew offer, the teachers had voted ist Youth League), speaking on overwhelmingly to reject arbi- Cou thr unemployment c poldea. the tration and continue being not SANKe acordar lase lem nI wit me tonc acouately mn Scottish schools. (See p.11).

"it's a bloody minutes-because big subject". Fighting Labour's Labour movement with 10/ov more school leavers joining the dole queues month alone it is clear leadership the bosses' cannot control their own system. out fol i nere wav vouth through individual rebel- ion and protest. It is vital that a Ted Heslin

(TGWU),

,intro- draw lead is given the discussion ducing on oco ole jaboul

LELE IOR

NIC Wi locuesuo m Lic ment in the fight to defeat the Labour Party, iirmiy linked ine Tories he said witch-hunt directed against him- Roland Sheret (Stirling self and other socialists with the Trades Counci. personal Ilass bressult capacity) referred to the bureau- Party leadership. by Scottish moves Labour councils being alt TUC to repress earlier moves to oppose the cuts-but forced •cotusn conrerence Itsicau Cally ile Lilous! the sponsored by savage rate and rent ino mases Stirling Trades Council. This is why sections of the as well as the right Welcoming this Labour "left' conterence as one that set out to establish a afraid of are increasingly cea dosAy t bizlane lol ceme Socaust o oDosiLIol action nerer ooe oz ae cee ат Hune inoree we disappointing that the Inter- Labour personal capacity) pointed to the national Marxist Group had now special ceased to support the CDLM.

bureaucratic moves used to sup- He went on to point out the press discussion on Ireland.

Ireland The CDLM conference saw a savage attack on the pro-imperialism of the Com- munist Party from the Sec- of Tameside Trades retary Council, Dave Hallsworth.

ineciivel armens use sido of tive staty When the question of the state is raiseo . tne are as

• CUCK

react as the National Front" his CP and the role attack the Ull inev Daver n neane co witek hunt and disaffiliate Tameside into Stalinist-dominated Council -

LIVCT 00U1

Alaucs where ne causeo an uoroar When CP member defended his Party with a refer- Upper ence to Inc WorK"l Clyde Shipbuilders Hallsworth 'had silenced him by rejoining: e Ao tine ccs to horp fot class to

WOIKII-

notning and tnen moomsca ine rest of the working class to pay the waes". must challenge the credentials of the CP within the working class, in the ractones where what they do all the time is dampen down struggles" struggle Hallsworth's Ireland is that of a class fighter.

Socialist Press and the CDLM both have major differ with him ences the Provisional IRA and partic ularly their bombing ot cvlar but in his figh targets, bourgeois poll whole DaCICI 1S l( heartedly supported "We fight on the basis of the right of. working class to The right of us armed struggle. to take up guns and explosives and against Them exploiters" said that when a Mersey- He been side Peace Counci had proposed counterposed he Mersey side War Council-for class war! The struggle for reaffiliation of lameside by the lucis one which must be taken up in every Trades Unon eyvly Colncl. Hallsworth sees the battle as analysis lost aavanice-an which leaves our or account un effect on the bureaucracy of a struggle on the issue has however given nim insoat mto une work- ings of then Be ish WreD Site three presence on Tameside Trades memoers Council, Just one chori graph ali n the recall conference was published in Was Socialist Worker. submitted by SWP Articles members and per were never published, leaflet the of UlaWI UlIC Manchester branches of the SWP red by the SWP leadershipy the was barred from being distribu- refusal This criminal SWP to defend Tameside should exposed. Ine w snoll explain why they have suppressed the struggle that has laken oace ana uc ш uv ul Ted Heslin Fight TUC line on forces, and why they have aban- doned even their own comrades in that struggle. We do not believe that iden tifyin the

IRA

Provisionals Irish class is vith th working likely Cltic accul ale develon a sertous wae-soread struggle within the working class in Britain It ábandons the Protestant working cass toan eleroa rolc ates to pety bisurgends capit- pro-imperialist capitu- alIsill. ut it Hasworia is serlousv wrong on this question he has Dave Hallsworth shown that he has himself estab- the traitors of the clash with lished a record as a class fighte line up with on Ireland and one who must be

IUC

unconditionally defended in his imperialism

NETROOPS OUT

NOW!

IRELAND

PRESS

GANG

of found in this a sort of second- The identification with hand chauvinism sporting prowess Australian and American the prestige is national some- players might be, tennis thing the press works hard won (as have tnes coulcl l remarked) at. UlICSS they had been married In Britain the use of sport- Englishmen! events as part of anti- But the same papers which Sovietism is a long practiced of this distinction reached made mos which las are those which have campaign- pinnacle the MOsCOW ed against the right of women to Olymut it is not just the Olym- British nationality confer two years cnem lore bl ds ror the ves. wasL t hora and мк were to Martina British they marry women, 'provided the Wimbledon writers would presumably be déported with a fruitful source of copy.- in the micote or une secona sel as if it was only by rejecting the for overstaying. Czechoslovakian state that she Chess, too, has been a happy perfected her forehand nunung grouna 101 alltl Soviet Bur crusaders sn ce ithere t asimbledon such oppo : 1O Bobby Fisher hung up his rooks tunity this has been blunted by Instead there was sh old curious that the Soviet contradiction which be lacl paye has proved himseli the K arDoY causme some second mougilli best in the world. in Fleet Street, particulariy the gutters where the Mail, the Skullduggery Sun and Express produced The failure of Korchnoi to The Wimbledon women's unseat him in the world cham- Yvonne Cawley, pionship champion, contest was treated cliched of promotee a Surte connmanor or sovet Nskll headlines (The Queen duggery. i Motnet Mother's Day) which show that then chess writers who include where concerned, some (like Keene) wullcil ee acc eccn d WIlUSC an covetn redenes twisted to confront them with the point of hysteria, have put their role wives and it about that Karpov is a second champion, mothers'. boring and that he is sure to be role as wives was the which brought forth the contra- toppicu diction. article by Leonard AN Both Mrs Cawley and Barden in the Guardian gives Britis the lie to this. Lloyd married to He points out that in terms British men. AS blay Cis Nau of maio! Deen eumin?ed

ITOM

Loum men TeNuTS Coe stiind ite ese ay e Karpov has already proved him- second self the "most active and the press week, Page S Support for workers struggle speakers from long- strikes were given the Confer- warm welcome by ence Brennan Irom The ion ik umorician solgoe 9-week unofficial struggk by 140 EETPU members against speed-up tion carried through with the collaboration of their area otilcll Jean And DuKes

ITOM

Aeh for brci rio ol ore related their 9-week alle vic tunsallol uwu convenor. stewaros ant 58 other workers at the plant.

"We need mass pickets-both and stop production intr cm vartas.

OUI

orliclal. giving us support", she stressed.

collection at the confer- £50 for cach ence raised ausoute Jean Dukes siment reigning champion of all He explains the campaign by saying that: "a reserved. ically slight, well behaved Soviet citizen is difficult to fit into our neroic stereotypes in tne west.

But even by the standards of British press reporting, ar article Telegraph Saturday's lasu • must take tne discull Under a front page headline: "Coe becomes Soviet weapon ir " the paper sought to halls iuw the deruse exDIosvi even which will take place in Moscow -the struggle between Coe and see who is the • tastes vvelr co middle distance runner in the world This race, which has caught the Imaginaton oI tne DrILIs polin derm ine orte ao cotan undermine campaigning against the Moscou Olym pics has reported Coe condemning Thatcher and saying that it was a true sign of the p bsl lu sluy ment ornene TuTtie disgrace on Britain. The Telegraph stated: •His remarks were :reported in severa newspapers and marz But the general feeling Zmes. despite his cour the 1,000 metres, was unwell at the time" At the time he broke the world record Coe was hailed a at the peak of physica being cona ton Telegraph w na1 wono the have Mrs Thatcher do? Commit Coe to a mental hospital for the would really teach the Sovie Union a lesson!

1969: CASTLE'S BACKST

DEAL WITH THE TUC

Page 6

TUC

In June 1969 a voted to Special Congress endorse a document under- taking to police the unions unofficial and stamp out disputes, using disciplinary measures against militants.

This "Programme of Action" betrayal of the fight against the Wilson govern- "In Place of ments waite rapel Strite, drawn up by barbara Castle. But this betrayal pUDHIC compared to Was notnig

TUCS

scandalous activitie behind the scenes. battle While was being socialists lo mobilise the working class against Ene the

TUC

con- measures, Was of ducting a breathtaking series cynical deas in secret micetugs with the government. stitch-ups time, known involved Enose struggles. The publication … ot baroara Castle's the Sunday in January of year has aiven us a glimpse ot these manoeuvres and the relationship the personalities White Paper had that she one reveals decided very earv on to Tully involve the TUC leaders in her she had

SOON

completed drafting her Paper mid December She saw sne maut 10VC. that the key to tne situation wa.

George generd of the This to stand her in assessment was coot steda. see afternoon 'in Ene George Woodcock a one. [Woodcock of course was still General Secretary of the TUC at that time but was in the process of handing Vic over reatner, . "On impulse I have decided to take him completely into my about what 1 am confidence Donovan. proposing to do He istene to my vuu resume u silence and then, to my surprise, he didn't think there anything need Was move. trade alarm Ene ment. Wilson with Castle ' could hardly believe my But he urged me to take ears! the TUC Finance and Genera Tibes it had dood the fisa.

Woodcock purooses Committed voviously already consioerine becoming she goes on chairman of the CIR there was as l rather no chance of him opposing her know that whatever I tell them measures. will leak". Following this private con- with Woodcock, Castle met the

TUC

'Dividends' F&GP in December The purpose of the meeting But Woodcock pressed ine out ine inen nel Was point. Castle conceded the point • all-out attack or the basic rights of the working ane expanicu. "'He knew I would be taking Class a risk She opened the meeting by • but ne was sure it would reap dividends Just asking these leaders of the work- left ing for an assurance This not confidentiality. was Christmas casually That. aver the Diary I should want to verv the chairmanship of the about on Industria 'Then George said they all

CIR

[Commission confiden- accepted a pledge of his Relations. he tried face dead pan at this eyelids flickered and could atmosphere as I talked was quiet . Even the questions rising' nd seriou! almost veer mis noses and there This eagerness of Woodcock wort Frank to feather his own nest is partic certain attacks astounding when you Cousins ularly frowned CIR was not while George played it dead consider that pan. Nonetheless I was under no even set do dr taat te would It was part oT LaSTe s BlUSIONS package of proposals-and there- happen when the press closed in would up if on them." only

•OIC

In fact some of it did leak to ine proposals went through.

embarrassed. this was union leaders to her the press and Castle was mildly But she was quite clear that of monu. meetina contal importance and he ter these plan was Woodcock SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday July 9, 1980

ALAN THORNETT

behind the decision o to proceed with its ant Mass lobby of the TUC Special ( Tony Benn who greeted curious line-up more important than fand main opposition to it embarrassment or protocol.

i he her cheerul witn une word.

Callaghan. He 'is cryptic", came rom The future was to prove her the penal clauses were "futile" cryptic comment was correct. "harmful" whole and As an ex 'left' and Tribunite coor

DOSSOM

ITILU

and Healey on the hearted support for Castle and bent Castle had a very good grasp o!

her anti-union plans. other hand stronaiv supported the necessity to carry the trade felt Castle and Jenkins Still sticking closely 2 1969 union 'lefts' with her should be brought ir measures also knew the damage January Castle quicker she jointly met the TUC and the opposec

TUCI

CB Naturate the Cos. oan ned ner probosais one nao an cauy CBI said they The Naturally Cabinet line assessed AUEW President nug Gardener, Short Thompson Scanlon as the main 'left' in the proposals were very tnouch Gardener, Shackleton good but should ge Jenkins, Benn, Stewart Then she explains "After . and my Co-operative Crossman, Ross, Shore, Marsh smuggled and Callaghan. my room and s formally offered him the chair manship of the CIR. Although She had worked closely with Manoeuvring carefully controlled his him breaking the Girlin eyes light could strike onv weeksoetore TIons Later, NEC of the that time she wrote: up. He repeated that he thought on the "Hughie was Paper was excellent Party Benn voted most co-opera. _about "unhesitatingly" with almost pasion Castle or tive And he went Interventi atelv to sav that I had given the supporting the White himselt wit Tne Paper-which was defeated 15-€ meeting could be arranged.

trade union movement Tite "He is an odd chap. , I can't opportunity he had always January the Genera. help liking him and he is worth wanted. and clearly inferred Council of the TUC-the officia that my penal clauses would be this time -came out wu Jonnnie bovos anyway with against the White Paper I'm ready sup often Incentive

TOI

Hughie but I will never take a do the job themselves". i ne aoreco short spoon" Wher she presented her resolution sharply condemning Paper Labour moved by

TGWU

'lefts' White to the I ne rarlamentary Frank Cousins and seconded by very were no more of a problem. She cannel Tnere wa.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday July 9, 1980

AIRS

examines the manoeuvres the Wilson government not -union legislation in 1969 Strong supporter of In Place of Strife, Benn

UCCALA

ngress at Fairfield Halls anny McGarvey. through in any way he could Castle explains that even at Castle "keep at meeting there was manoeu- contact like this' ring behind Vic the scenes: 1 think he may turn out to rang be a great General Secretary", reatner. Sne savs. the overnment secretly to she wrote! nem that everything would Feather however was not as despite the VOSOJULIOn CHe ayrt ds vooucock in maintain- dvising her to play it cool ing a double tace He told them that Woodcock Shortly his meeting lectured General Castle, the with ouncil that day scathing unid in never imorove flace sinte•-one dustrial relations unless there employers magazine and ere sanctions to give backing other in a Soviet trade union any proposals magazine. which were auc. Castle responded saying: private chat. another "That's all fine dandy. explains that: ut 1 get a little tired of hearing "He seemed quite surprised that I should take his articles de unon sedders tar sense n rivate attacking us in seriously". ablic for doing the things After all, this was merely very ey know must be done" what he was sayine in bueiic. By late Januarv Feather had Surely a politician of her exper- from Woodcock - didn't believe meant Ken over ath in public and in the what he said public? Didn't veloping back stairs collabora- know that this was Simory his Ine consumotion memoersnio‹ o allav her tears On the very dav he became he assured Castle that he would Make a constructive Secretary dined meras hA vately Castle on the White Paper at the Exec meeting on Februar 27' to nelp get the legislation "It'li be alright, luv," he patron- isingly reassured her taking place in cabinet circles on the advisability of bringing in a short Bill quickly, which would simov contain dena causes This ad argued hat the Wilsor would pace with the who were still opposing The public despite their secret deals.

Eventually Castle conceded to this and began the drafting of a short Bill. Complication Then a complication arose which meant that it never off the ground. A quarter million workers struck on May the -esoite . Ine ettorts ot TUC to defuse the issue. Urgent consultations were held demonstration of hostilitv ment should situation drafting the short Bill, shoula place relanci ine lul, work with them as closely as possible and await the outcome ot the June 5

OLIVER

Special Congress. The TUC leaders, of course were only too ready to comply. AS SOOn as reather nas com pleted the draft of his sell-out document-brazenly entitled Programme for

ACTION

Croydon on June 5, he sent Castle a copy She quickly arranged a secret meeting with them to discuss it.

The votanient canto individual unions to accent res ponsibility for and to discipline their involved strikes. It also called for changes to TUC rules to empower the Ine TUC to ensure that they met the commitment • push the TUC as In order to far as he could, Wilson argued • that their document strong enough in a number of bastie recoros Vic "Under TUC docu- admitted that ment edges" maintained that if he had taken proposals any further

NIS

wouldn't have got away with it BuT added don't mind alamone hard you go, so long as it comes Page 7 from you"" The vote went in favour of In other words, Feather was Feather's for saying screw the working class, but don't reveal that i have beer haggling auter some ritua Castle's In Place of Strife colaborating with you to do it in favour oby Wilson's pressure failed government- changes and produce proposed that there should be a

ACLION

Croydon deal and the Turiner meeting детогЕ Croydon. period of In Place of Strife, It should, he said, be: which trade union and Labour Strictly private discussion: taci suruceita lo with a few key TUC people of not even the General deep economic crisis, , have hac Which Council would know"' reaching consequences fo fellow trade union Not even the working class in Britain Edward Heath came oureaucrats snoule Know-et the working class who in June 1970 and began power they all purport to represent!

the preparation of the Industria said she was ; about to relations Act, a piece or legisla tion more far-reaching than co on nondav out woulo returr firmiy for the talks when they were Place of Strife but built arranged. the laid Toundations It turned out that she had Barbara Castle certainly secret ballot principle panto a sumotuou. Forte's was taken up by the Tories. noloav-on Charler yacht in the Adreatic. was a Labour • Minister But probably the most last- engaged in anti-union legislation effect of In Place of Strife ing ana cerenome nerset ov savind class she was strongly pro-trade union long cementine Ene Tern her legislation was political collaboration , between designed Parliamentary unIons Takino a nonoav with a viciously anti-union millionaire Lavour rary coverament employer his luxury yacht Both of these wings off the Italian coast. accepted the reformism argument that in a time ot crisis the answer is no This was Tal tot ot socialism but for someone Castle discipline and attack work be ing class-whether this the ano crude covernment embiover. or the union leaders themselves Forte This did not show the life of during husband clearly • thai particuld accompanied the most which only lasted a year artel lavish even flew Croydon But it was to dominate the relationsni derween waison ant when the Labour

TRE

reelected Nothing too good for CrISIS ine inree dav week and even deeper levels of economic called from luxury crisis. play- Jack Jones, having cut his teeth on the seil-out of 196.

Ine luc emerged as the lynch pin ot tou stages of harsh controls the General backed by Scanton who had and so wa swung sharply to the riaht afte confrontation ocanion involuntary with Heath's Industrial Court that the could Nor union leaders further forget -or on the pledge than terms of th Wilson the otTered ano The she says, British capitalists Vic vas positivel Feather at Would never conference guessed Hughie Scanion Thal Where workers derv thest had just come from a speech committees individua declaring all out war on us!'

unions would to She went on themselve taking action undel tneir own rules despatched with relish Within months of the return got down to business. of Wilson to office in 1974 Jack 'How do had set a cracking pace in you ste the s now. vic! She at first expiains that CIOs collaooration there was argument-but then employers such as with "over the brandy" things British Leylanc "crystalise out ing a "clean "Hughie" union through the witch-hunting was very frank: "'Let's face reality', he said In April 1974 my victimisa- The question isn't whether our deputy convenor tion scheme works scheme Leyland's Cowley . It is the fact that our

WORKS

assemor people won't accept government Plant signalled the start of a nationally-coordinated drive by intervention' He reminded us that he wa union bureau very difficul personalv reoroanise the union people position having led his principled out opposition to the White Paper thus crealt Moreover ne lares an elec oest conotions tor manaoement tion for the Presidency and h increase exploitation could be accused of a "volte throughout BL 1978 we again Cantit "But back the Tucatared •repared unael altack from the unior the Connor matil a t37ha, 0g cost". shoulagain Feather convenor argued that Wilson fure torcem hino sucess accept ine loc in its month "'Cowley rrooramme tor action the TWiainst expulsion from existing form. If the government struggle Was the TUC would not accept the Edwardes' 1980, Bill imposition the 5%-with-s Feather string offer rigidly even had the cheek, having bargaining stands on consistentiv ooooseo IT "more toundations to Inreaten wilson with JaCI action like May 1" if the govern- Jones Ine ear period o ment went ahead! "workers participation" and the Social Contract in 1974 Although volson made Barbara Castle never have seen In Place of Strife on reoiy. ne cleary knew that thi been struck and the document as it stood would be Ine statute books' out with the aid of reformist union leaders adopted at Croydon whose first fo concern is the une trap was set tor the viability British working class. The government capitalism legislation sne nas nepea to snackle and rUC had publicly condemned it stragle in defense in impede working class but agreed privately that it was necessary. Jobs and wages In this way a leading Labour conference had • beer 'left" has done her small bit to called on June 5 to help the Thatcher government's tne nite raper-but a deat had offensive. today's worthy • Charles Forte's Cafe Royal chet. militants to draw the inescap- able political The TUC had volunteered tr only a principled revolutionary job themselves, and Tn e working class police the iedaersaio Dasing seiT Tirmiy behalf of capitalism on the fight for the independent interests working class Betore the Crovdon confer can today defend the most basic took place the out- ence even come was already cut and dried rights against attack.

The union that fought to overthrow capitalism Page 8 JOHN DOCHERTY reviews two new films, 'The Wobblies', a documen- tary film by Steward Bird and Deborah Shaffer, 89 minutes, colour, USA 1979, and 'Dawson J', a film by Don minutes, colour, GB, 1980, currently showing at the ICA Cinema in The Mall, London. nothing do _to These two films are capitalist press and TV. well worth seeing hiring for meetings. is not so much that this is This is not because they because are perfect either in their ruling class because their form or their politics, Dul and form make it impossible because they raise questions that for them to present in a and tell things should be known. serious way industrial militants. The about the victimisation of a shop steward, "The Wobblies" struggle against manage- ment, union bureaucracy and media It uses the clever device whole of. great movement Dollayus struggle through the eyes of of proletariat police surveillance States in the early years of However, does this century of the struggle Workers of the World (IWW) ShOw

MUCH

itself beyond stating "Wobblies". Tne alias the factors at work, introducing the main protagonists and The

IWW

in the discussions union that the front room of the vic- American timised miltant. from Mass media DUlE difference. It aimed to over- throw capitalism The only theme discus- sed comparatively fully, only through this story though interviews with survivors of conversations Is the dllilade to the mass media. the movement, some given the over Here we are for having regret the arguments Article extracted from Politica Obrera Through the medium of a violent letter, the Brazilian Luis Carlos Stalinist leader "motive force" **unIon declared his Prestes has cratic front": break with the Central Com- majority mittee of his party. organisations According to Prestes: ch it is iet penari e it that the Brazilian union ship with the communists Dreak In this passivity and take the destiny of the left" the BCP in their hands, rebelling arbitrary against

LIC

Party: of the authoritarian melnoos outset and eadership and trying to elect at levels, leaderships that Wally majority tie that respect. reall WIll

CIEC

expression Ene indicates various committee levels there are already two commun- ist parties tunconne never-abandoned Formally prestes place himself to the left of the he accuses of leadership, talling the bourgeoisie. leading the Party lu student "Abdicate its revolutionary role,

PMDB.

broke sumn the popular move- popular move- Prestes seeks to upon ments, of (acting as) a guarantor of a pact with the Nevertheless strategy tne relalion proposed by the secretary- the Cr

BCP

doesn't the 'general differ from the classic Stalinist contair revolution way revolution and adapt envisaging starts be socialist, wowull l the anti- upon 'anti-monopolist allu rushed latifundist' flas with

TUIN OL TIESLE

proposal by he present leader Apparently (bourgeois) ship form and "democratic front' workers „TO

01 UNC

opposition party- bourgeois been d with diverse the right included, The only concrete political Mason and Nicky Mallenson, and all of them with the were in, remain socialists, or, as they would prefer, rebels'. The view we are left with This particular film tech- Theme a as but nique allows the story to be agents techniques told in a very moving way.

A militant stands against the backdrop of the ruined mill the where he worked over sixty years and tells how ago, brought the workers they out strike, how their on 'framed' local leaders and how the great Big Bill take Haywood came The other film is about a of the matronly We see rather the United old women talk of how at the age of 16 or the Industrial to from factory went factory to organise workers into the IWW and how they fought for the overthrow of the capitalist system and for was a trade organised 'sabotage', by when licy workers meant go-slow apparently working. 190so tae 1s it was a union with a Limitations The film chooses to tell of Yet the technique around the film also has its limit- ations. now Some of the incidents None of them in the history of the IWW struggles

SPLIT IN BRAZIL CP

"historic compromise". difference that Prestes indicates members-a in relation to the present CC is Thus some favourable position towards minority -would have aanered Euro-communist these the of the of the Italian CF the whole of Neverteeless left the Brazilian are already to be without limits, the Russian inva- found inside the Labour Party - sion of Afghanistan. a workers' party led by a section anti-Prestes sectors increasingly understand however an automatic sense the "union of positions of the with is a proposed vould bureaucracy tive directed against the Labour compromise the solidity of their the CP opposed it from longed-for long-term agreement Prestes doesn't with the bourgeoisie as a whole seek a distancing show anv sign of a change in alSO from Castroism-which is now unity" for "left clashing with the "progressive" with the Andes Pact the bourgeoisies MR-8, an old guerrillaist splinter (the Peruvian Embassy affair) Prestes on the other hand 1s group when recently renounce armed struggle while keeping its faithful Moscow man, ano unconditional support poses the stages-that is, for the Soviet bureaucracy as a priority. It has some positions in the the perspective and hererore, is not of the rupture ВСР Nicolle Prestes incorporate faction moving closer to revolu- but of an increasing like- this eater not manoeuven it the next ones of manoeuvre break up of lihood Brazilian Stalinism. opens up This for the opportunity 'The split in ine ur revolve around differences over the best development and growth of the the rèvolution Labour Party, because it puts in bourgeoisie anti-working

TOLICI

and this is the key trick played class strategy of supporting the Brazilian left, which bourgeois PMDB. to greet The militants of the Labour Party must advantage such differences таке the crisis for the building of an were initiated around a balance which authentic sheet of 1964: one believed that possible withou the "correct" line ought to have demarcation from Stalinism and broader alliance policy of propping up the bourgeois state. in a type of are a little confused, like event in the State of Ine Washington when a number of Wobblies were murdered on a boat by the National "share Also, though of Hially. militants show old Tne themsleves well aware of the issues, there is little serious the political discussion ideas of the IWW. The Wobblies represen- ted the first serious ettort of the mass orcallise American workers 1n face of the craft exclusive- and pro-capitalism of ness the old unions in the Amer- ican Federation of Labour.

They organised Ilally battles the heroic against the big textile monopolies, and the port farmers employers They restored dignity to members of every down- of trodden section American society, recent women, lumberjacks and blacks. They propaganda made for socialism against Tn e of the religious charlatans, the violence of National the police and Guard and the corruption of the capitalist politicians Yet they away impact of the under the War First World and that

VICUS

followed it. The film tried to explain and the defeat this decline, of the Wobblies simply in new internal divisions. than that. thought that provide perspective members. out, , they to the First World War. One mustn't forget that the Brazilian CP has a history going to confront it. back more than 50 years. It is the main reason for the One of non-existence of a mass workers and its DarTy countly army but ne policies repeated defeats aro was 'stupid'. repeated defeats Brazilian frustrations working class in recent decades

UNE

Student protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday July 9, 1980

INDUSTRIAL

WORKER

L THE WOR

Painting of early US industrial struggles and IWW leaders Because the IWW did not terms of this repression and struggle politically see the But there was more to it they could not in the enc Because the IWW fulfil the hopes they implan ted, by challenging capital- the unions ism. Nor were they abl: to themselves could overthrow maintain their organisat.Jn capitalism, they were unable in the face of repression political But for all their limita- for their tions, the Wobblies were the heroes of their day. Every Thus as the film points struggle of took no attitude American Hilass the working class since refers back to them. It is the The result was that their strength of this film that it members did not know how their shows their heroism, makes filmed heritage, and the militants actually joined the possible consider thei • to limitations and understand sees it now their defeat

Fighting policies for US SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday July 9, 1980 The 1980 UAW Constitu- tional Convention faces one of the greatest crises since the for- the mation Lne less than ten years, nearly 35% American auto workers have veel lowl out or worn, many with no Drospect or relurnme to a re-opened plant. massive assault on of auto hundreds of just begun. SUB (Supplementary Unem- ployment Benefit] payments are ceram run our even at UM and rora, ana tne plant shutdowns started According to Chrysler Executive Harold Sperlich, 'in the May 26 issue of forbes.

the auto industry needs to shut another 30 plants to be "competitive" the U Ihese permanent shutdowns (the auto bosses discuss them openly) would decimate the auto mousirv in muca une same way as plant closures in steel 400,000 during the last 10 years Peanuts and Import

FOR ESTES..

Controls. In the deep depression in auto, UAW

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Doug and all

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those officials who support his nave absolute serious programme for putting UAW members back to work he deepenio debression ouT the auto Workers still had to bu and dad at or bynthey coals.

he situaten will get worse before it gets better. Unemploy (measured official figures) should rise to eight o nine per cent year-end. Inflation will be down some by then. but real wages will stil bo talling.

LIVIN

WIl continue. contoyed and deemployed. decline both Toware the ena or yo bar ne recovery will be short-lived. The will grim

UAW

and workers (...) World War Protectionism Would ne big step on the road to Auto workers campaign for cost of living increases .

fascist and down, hiring more workers, and world war. Working people will find no solutions on that road. But US standards To lower ine work alongside load, enforced unlimited fighting and German. Japanese. Brazilian and strike, could eliminate spced-up.

AurIcan workers. can create their own workers' solu- tomato the capitalist crisis. ity access to all jobs and appren- of these solutions can crestol of theragnes hiring, recruitment be found in TOnS Ol the lAW. anu tramne Inflation. The problem men oll ine plant noor could inflation can be solved through greatly reduce race and sex dis- unlimited crimination on the job. full cost-of-

(COLA)

Chrysler and dowance bankruptlics replace our present, partial and American inadequate

COLA.

COLA

that they ca cannot afford a full

COLA,

for 40" and the increases should be determined workers committees mn ine orner measures we delanu.

by the bosses' government). Open the books and Plant Closings. LayUlls ine Droneme ol plant closings can be solved by our union must force anv dividing the work bankrupt company to open its books. If it unable the available workers is to meet demands. then the unior witn no loss in pay 1his is the idea behind the showo take a over. exoroomate

UAW

demand sation wealthy 40 hours pay) which even loca and let the workers control Its union Frank 0tticials like operation inrougn the union.

Runnels claim to back. To answer the capitalist crisis with these workers militant tions will Ban overtime achon. une waw would nave to pull is entire membership out Combining a sliding scale of against strike hours with a ban on compulsory corporations and against then government. overtune and retrement at rul pay after 20 years would elimin- We would have to cal! on the ate general unemployment besto the about me went to the auto industry. strike with Specific layoffs and plant political general sunke or ine COsmos coula Drevented working class against tne capital through strike action, including ist class. mass picketing and plant nccu- Such a general strike would pations. organise the entire working class Speed-up. Slowing the lines m ucien l dis own mecrests.

carworkers We reprint here from the June issue of Labor News, the paper of the Socialist League (Demo- cratic Centralist) extracts from a joint statement to the Constitutional Convention of the United Auto Workers by the Socialist League and the Revolutionary Workers Group.

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strategy trade to survive. auto companies workers launch must natonalizeu partv during the 1930s is today workers' (not control

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coming back haunt token Fraser on the Chrysier labour movement board of directors) Fraser's attempt Shutdowns must be stopped the Democrats workers who occupy Dressure supporting phan t. Then The UAW, in every local kennedy taken seriously even by Fraser and the midst of himself. election, Dresucillia

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Camerater Fraser offices including president of and virtualy officials are politically paralysed the U.S their continued Delegates at this convention vecause have the opportunity (despite support or te Democrals and Republicans. the rigged mikes and controlled UAW support for Carter votes) to break with Fraser and the last nas begin tne process or the eleclot nothing but of officers who have principles misery Pressure by

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and to defend UAW members drop Kennedy. and staffers support Carter 1s ludicrous and despicable mn tre race or wna Forged in battle Carter has done to American workers. Whether or not this happens The only policy Fraser can the convention, muster is collaboration with the bosses im pose import necessary and will come sooner controls against Japan the or later he later it comes the rest of the world. violent The UAW was forged in battle and it including the In most locals. will defend itself in battle, with Konge. are not fighting the companies to stop

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tne unle the but Frasers and Woodcocks shutdowns are pushing are more than one-third 1ol umly will tile bosses ardust of all auto workers out of work?

foreign auto workers. Tho police vil emptinue to Whi are ene companies closing plants from Mahwah, New 'why Detroit Los speea-up and ngeles? the does auto exportanon or triose face depression eit in tne pants conditions? Instead protectionism, For years the U.S. auto com- workers need American panies have systematically national class solidarity against refused to invest une posses wno are uo to unem capital factories able produce smaller more fuel-efficient better-made cars this, Japanese, Because German and other foreign cars able have tos. capture fourth Chrysler With Gin all Aspen/Volare) is legendary for Ford (fire mismanagement and (tin-can GM Liar vega are not ar bere But the problem goes beyond capitalis mismanage- ment. The underlying cause of Douglas Fraser Page 9 Carter the world the auto Crisis is capitalist economic crisis With noiry prates do vo, capitalists monopoly havi ret usec several • years invest, _ever nave been pushing their prices : sky- hieWorkers have been thrown inflation has out of work, while cut real wages D lIve and more in each of the last • Workers borrowed their living money Lo keep un ~anatos as tong as caey coura but the end consumer along with overnment CutDacKs social services make the problem even worse. Labour Party Party No ems. state • has been forced Jonn denna: by rank and ille pressure to cal for : discussion of the formation of a labour party. California carpenters have of a labour party now convention can provide leadership to the entire American abour movement refusing to endorse either of the candidates and by calling for a national conference or arabour to dean ate romna tion of a labour party. ARe Local i60 Submitted the 1980 Local call- convention Is a resolutiol ing formation

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labour. party. The passage of this resolu- ton woud onl • a slee 101- ward the and for entire labour movement if the rank and file forces the bureau- CrATS TO CATTY IT OUT The rank and file must have full democratic control over the building of a labour parts give order montan pro strict independence o strict independence from Labilalist parties "Alternative" In Canada the UAW leader- ship backs the New Democratle Party (NDP) as a . social-demo- cratic "alternative" to the capit aust barues This is not enough, because

NDP

is not directly con- the trolled by the labour movement of what workers need Meanwhile, in the US, Fraser to break with the refuses even Democrats AmerIcan about s continuing encorcement outne capitalist parties shows its back ward position, even compared to valialid should American Umons break with the Democrats and Republicans and build fight for a party workers workes coverme workers governmen would have policy and nationalisation practice maior industries such as oll anc auto under workers' control.

It would have policy of work at ful spreading the pay vi every worker nas aloo arra a decent income. rank and file member- trade union move. the ment must have a direct say on all candidates ana poncies or a labour party if it is to truly represent the working people of this country.

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redundancies Falling sales their Midlands factories, Lucas, are the multi-national compon- customers ents company, is extending production in some other way.

its attacks on the workforce on to the wages front. Stale old charge As the crisis deepens it is perhaps reflected most sharpiv in tne motor industry. As all the ends major motor Charge that British workers are and redundancies just not productive enough.

could only be a The logic of all this Inaller Ol capitalists ume clore ine supphers were affected. In with other all ware blames exporters, Lucas tile Testore neir profit. sales overseas-but mention is The Attle made of the fact that this is a already begun and last week saw direct result of the Tory govern- the announcement of wage cuts

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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 state industry will be handed to the Tories scctors of profiteering big business backers; and the pay rises to police and armed forces mark only the prelude to increased stato against pickets and anti-fascists and an intensified army crackdown in the occupied North of Ircland.

The Callaghan-Healey i made it clear other than settling down and meckly accept once more forgotten Laur sett commuce to duck away from any light to remove (allaghar TUC leaders, too, have set out to establish a basis for Lion ingel as archer wilhelm and bin lagalleling their ton with inatcher and. the Tory working and overcome before topple Heath's union-bashing smash through • Callaghan's reactionary Phase 4 of wage controls in a series of monumental pay battles in the winter of 1978. inest experiences are not dead. I he!

menis can be defended agains social services and hard-won union be detended renewed Tory attacks. But revolutionary Labour traitor Communist Party couggles mobiled eat can deed and reshede sie Tory on exposed and pushed aside, and the mass such a stagersmp must light day in and day out for a programm of transitional demands which, starting from today's conditi today's consciousness within the working class, lead grasp the necessity for socialist 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 plass dapable or leadina sha hugle for entertain ry struggle for the emancipation And it must fight on an international basis-mobilising sulidarity for anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles- South the world, nrougnout from revolutionary upheavals such a: taice onan 1 ra Ims means nighting 101 the reconstruction of the Trotskyist Fourt, Internationa To this end, the Workers Socialist League is affiliated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee which fights to reaffirm method and principles of the 1938 Transitional ana develov the Programme, and for full discussion in the world Trotskyist move- ment. The next penao will see major class Mass meeting of CAV as Lucas told the unions that in Britain are ver dut prepared to olli attributed to the fact that major nore than 10%-120 Most workers employed by eitner … on short time working or cutting back on thimsmore in line visubhe rate company submitted inflation, i.e. around 20%- 30%. These claims, the bosses maintain, "completely This pale on woe stayit ably unrealistic", and the offer they have made is a final one that slalc they will not negotiate designed to set for the each sections workers course other's throats they have said enforce speed-ups, redundancies they only culs m an allenDu lo money WIll falling rate of wistnue berween skmed and unskilled workers. redundancies have These being employed not only in the parent company but also in ine sub sidiaries as well. The course of events one of these, Lucas

CAV

may illustrate the way they are operating.

Attacks Lucas CAV is involved pri- . marly ine DroduCtion starters and diesel pumps for vehicles. customers are BL, Fords, and Perkins are mounting attacks on their own workforces has fact instructed

CAV

to or BL will not trade with them any more. Clearly Edwardes is not pre pared just to lead by example that it will austed oil their near wing MPshave collabora- anti- such against needed if workers 1o Get the answers in -whether in Ireland and drawin Acton workers against redundancies in 1975 but is forcing supers increase exploitation of their manual, from workers on pain of losing con- factories in the country tracts. In an. abou The has been with ists met softening up workforce Tne with propaganda about the lack managels of CAV for a of profitability Diants constactabie amount or time depth of the Class Issued trem vitimatum There would be tions on this year's employers would any bargaining Under short-time working! there wowe have to be some. pawaraes This message back : to the Attempts to: reduce the worklorce nave met with some receiver wit unions have anger. success as agreed to "natural wastage" and phoney early retirement suiciles Hundreds of lobs nave dis appeared over the last year or leadershit two. Having laid the ground care- viability fully the bosses moved in last week. In an unprecedented conditions of their members.

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* Name.. fighting Address. policies to defend jobs, wages and social services 6XX. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday July 9, 1980 trade unionists, both staff and pointed to the need, for the all of the CAV unions to form a combi com mittee v trade unon- Bob Lucas. the than allowing plants director of

CAV

and played off against each other oi each of the Coolted to need for such a combine to fight After giving a lecture on the to open the books of Lucas to capitalist crisi and the expose that why it was all the fault of the off b creamed Danks •an( finance houses and to see what managemen the state of the company really no negotia- and the Should the company really the bankrupt it age which would be all the com need for it to be nationalised under pany cou amoro ano would de management impossible to increase through with conscusation alone motor We rest WIll Tne industry as part of a socialist questonig CuCa even the planned economy. package were accepted, he coul not promise that there would

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday July 9, 1980 Crosbie still sacked NUT no action Eileen Crosbie, the the action-even though several other schools wished to carry Nottinghamshire nursery took a stand on. teacher who Meanwhile the against the cuts in January members men sets a Eileen Crosbie's the Robert Mellors refusing to teach a class School, walkeu oul is still on strike and nave been out to1 only one assistant 10 weeks, picketing the school sacked. every morning Suspended for the Spring jobs-like Eileen Their Crosbie's Term she was eventuauv sacked OWn 100 -are being by the Nottingham Education coachers acad me-union or ple Committee April 22 for and scab organisation "breach of conduct such a

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carry out ine monicion one smash toe strike. headmaster. In other words the head teacher is the dictator and Rolling strikes iate obedience! this extreme attack on (The one NAS teacher in the the rights of teachers produce schoo. wanted to loin the strike muncalate ICSDOnSC

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National union Teachers? Was there a call for then organised immediate out action Toting strikes ringing succession schools out on l lady bal very for three days- until responded strike favour! NuT action bals be before the scnools were suikme

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been action has restricted Many these teachers oncuay no-covel of picket Robert aCт101 in tne seconday schools of (an action immediately defused Mellors school while most allu Authority providing and NALGO members teachers and class continue to cross the picket SUDOLy SIZe action in primary despite union advice, succeeded schools wilch Teachers and a headteach o prompted lock out of 40 away HuLK who delivery worker and the NUPE Terse to susoend dis stall.

grass cutter The

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caved under Then the LEA offered talks these suspensions and called off and immediately the NUT called Adwest: police crush picketing rights The nine week old gates thus creating oI the dispute at Adwest Engineer- scab Condon labour going in ing of Reading took e neat the caul was dramatic and sinister turn anywhere the bale this week with the arrest of

TGWU

way and threatened with arrest.

convenor Danny This merely preempts Broderick. Prior's vicious Employment Bill The arrest came as the cul- when seeks to munt numbers on mination of a high-profile strike- picket lines and restrict secon breaking action by *E' Division dary picketing, but renders Reading police by backed up redundant before it the Thames Valley tactical cnance or becoming law. and led upport unit (SPG) bubermtendan ITom Questionable woe con When the 80 or so pickets take their What Winship and his positions outside Adwest's gates superiors attempted on Wednes morning was the complete илете were cav police waiting for them: more prevention abolition of arrived shortly after 6.30 am The formed which then Itsell would appear ques- point four deep on either side mona bie in terms or the law.

Strike fund donations to Danny Broderick, 46 Berkley Ave., Reading Police bodily carry off Adwest convenor Danny Broderick off all action except for the Robert Mellors strike. Petition Many motions both locally ane nationave been bassee calling for indefinite strike supported by a national action and 216 nave their signatures to a petition declaring their wish strike indefinitely unta meen crosole is reinsta- ted. The lates ballot has produced a 2-1 vote for strike action. The NUT National Executive call this must support out immediately next term begins if the present talks do not result in climbdown by the Far more than nurserv class size-important though this issue is-is at stake The rights of teachers to take trade lo teacu refusing oversize classes cover for absent colleagues host of other work rule sanctions are under unreat.

Executive caves I the Nu in in the face of this attack has abandoned any pretence of a went acalst une cuts and m defence of teachers' conditions and pay. 7.30 Danny Broderick addressed the convenor anu DICKeLS through a megaphone informing them that in his view the action of the police was unacceptable vecause il was wenylo pickers inel lawlut rignts. He then walked between the to the gate and ranks of police was Immelater arrested . or obstruction draged t the highway bodily to a waiting Black Maria for meanwine the reinstatement ot the strwil convent, stewards and

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workers at the components pant goes on Now more support of ever needs the trades unionists everywhere.

*Mass picket. Monday July 6.30 at Adwest Plant, Reading. Electricians fight on On May 16, 150 elec- management agree to reinstate tricians working the evervone Throughout the dispute and Metro Cammell site in Bir- even with this victimisation of mingham, went on

EETPU

COUl members strike for a 20% wage rise, improved to support the strike and to get an redundanc official recognition for it though scheme and lay off scheme.

the

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Management refused to birming nam atea nave declared support for the struggle make any areemen umess ci electricians were prepared Wright and call censuring give up their current bonus ing for his removal This would have led scheme. Meanwnie 25% sacking letter to the strikers rcuundancies can lowe wages in the future. declares that: Following the strike, the «We have been authorised by production workers-who make Area secretary the trains which the electrician: EETPU to inform work on, were laid off. On Stewards Comice the Joint company linal for Shop offer, and the strike continuer against that advice' ine producuon workers issued a statement that management now for rein- The strike 1s should the statement or an me eeccaes that they would be prepared to en blacking of all and, they Co-operate way management to get the trains out suck Mid The implication was manda coacos co connue that they were prepared to work the picketing and blacking cam- with scab labout On June 24 of the send all messages of striking electricians returned to SuDOOrt and aonanons work. breaking the solidarity of Dennis Squelch, 33 Hereford the strikers up to that point.

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The following mass meeting of the strikers voted that they would

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All are members the National Union of Domestic Appliance and General Metal Workers. The affair was clearly carried out with the connivance of the files to who gave past Tne police WOTKeT. whose homes were also raided in this round-ur Labour MP Ted Graham ha taken u• to case ana is secure the Home Secretary to protest At a lively discussion held at the local Enfield and Edmonton Steve King nades secretary of the Campaign for Racial Harmon gave a stirrin account of his discussions wit une renaves. two or wnore rad rush to Heathrow with meagre belongings in suitcases before they were summarily deported. Inquiry The Trades Council secretary reported her discussion with th umon oranci secretary

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An attempt implement edicts would be inese new the The Mojahedin and redavin are both large ations with a good deal of influ- sections of the popular masses. And they are armed An attempt to disband them would almost certainly initiate a The "moderate prompend around President ban-saar are anxiou.

to avoid this their power is wanin Bani-Sadr was forced last to make a ceremonia of his resignation to Khomeini.

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Ine islamic kepublicar Party's public abuse of him has the ban on demonstra become increasingly contempt- tions! For full freedom uvus organsatiol To judge from demonstration End state cen- an merven sorship of the press! ne gave to Le monde two weeks ago has become under *For the rights of self-deter pressure a half-demented para- mination and separation of the • people Little wonder when he national minorities *For free elections with nenolds predecessors Bahktiar and Bazargan, his piti- to a genuine unversal sulla limited role. constituent assembly. *Defend the workers' com- occome little For the building of than a spectator as the battle mittees! reaction and elected soviets the Iranian masses gathers pace *For the right to strike anc form free trade unions! unreatenine • barbanc conscoutn ces but at the same time open- trials, san secret up further police! Kelease being added revolutionary gains Drisoners with the Shah's dictatorship!

121l topple the Shah-now belatedly *Against sexual oppression! dying on the banks of the Nile.

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together with public living standards of the working sectol umons onesent case Heseltine with the threat of a The Lambeth Left motion total shutdown of local govern on rate/rent rises ment 1 acreated substanilld not made avallable majority. but tnere was progress on the question of how In reply to tnose delegates many of them from Lambeth- to resist Heseltine rate rent increases Forced to choose to mobilise listeal

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government, Knight replied that With local government cash Heseltine's Bill give • him running out it seems likely / that the Labour will be lilally concus irrelevant. : next rendering ine policy • Choosi The Labour Party in few months between Lambeth had been campaigning, draconian package of last-min but had tailed to achieve a mas: Tory govern- response, ne added Tamon with une Public sector workers would ment. The facing not accept a : strategy that might crucial task socialists inside and outside the sacruice anu ware. without a much wider base of Party so ways to easin support that when such confrontations in the take place the working • class is meantime, of course mobilised and • given a principled Lam beth council is lacking lead the defeat Doin counci tents and ine rate: deflecting the Tory cuts from both the unlatche the their right wing Labour lackeys.