Socialist Press no. 207

-SCHOOL FOR

THE GUNMAN THEY

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 207 * July 16, 1980 * 20p Daily Months of surveillance tion for what they lack in and investigation and weeks evidence. of harassment by journalists The investigations for this of and photographers series go back many monuns to the appeal by Ted Heslin, Workers Socialist League Oxford of Socialist supporter members and supporters is Party Press and leading Labour being turned into a series of Party member to the about

NEC

against his expulsion by wildly inaccurate witch- the local CLP. hunting articles in the Daily The Mail covered the lengthv Mail as we go to press. al prory to Red Tealines Desperate to draw a Red Ted" and (non existent) link between the WSL "Labour Lets in the Reds".

and armed Labour Party guerrilla members around world, the Mail • the NEC were photo- and the Mail named reporters make up in imagina- graphed

WON'T NAME!

Charlie Cramp is a free- asked for a woman by hoping to establish whether she lance photographer. He is a Central was there. member- of the He then waited outside, hop- Branch London Freelance of the National Union of wrong house). same afternoon. he Journalists. He is not a nice Dul unat returned to the street, where ne guy. was photographed in his car by He is known among journal- Socialist Press staff. ists as a man who is sent on the Photographed sort or loo were me ceobie ne is tat photos doing te glis goes, When Alan Thornett, a shop therefore Last Wednesdav. Ine Dall stewaro al bus cowev dant Mail employed returned from work he, too, was him to go Oxford and photographed by Cramp and supporters of the demanded that i hornett memoels Cramp identify himself. Cramp workers socialist Leacut Cramp, who is we-known retused claiming that it was for his anti-communist views, none of Thornett's business.

Oxford Thornett then grabbed his Thornett has where Alan Cramp's which lay on camera nome nis ao as ne sat in nis car During the morning he It was at this point that approached another house Thornett says Cramp leapt out

MONDAY, JULY 14, 1980

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them, together with positions that they allegedly held in the

WSI

More recently a Mail free- lance photographer turned up on a picket line outside Adwest Reading Engineering photograph

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(many of them in the same union as the Reading strikers) write a witch-hunting piece alleging, once agam witn rinks scrap the prand out a proof, 1KA. But it has been in the last fortnight that the investigation become most Harry together with Porter, Longmuir have been based Core solush Kandoon Hotel carrying out a money-no-object investigation into the

WSL.

and Members

SUD DOLLCIS

have been harassed the on phone and at their front doors; followed by

LOCLOT

was photographer on his afternoon round of patients and a woman was followed through the streets and Longmuir trying to locate a militant BL's Cowley of his car with a large revolver in his hand Holding the gun down at nis the side with chamber open Cramp came round the car and told Thornett: I'm not Joking, give me tal camera Another BL steward, Tony Richardson, who was Thornett at the time suggested Inat nornet return une camera as Cramp was holding a gun.

Cramp camera-and jumped back Into nis car ano soea on down the road police were called and traced Cramp's car back to the Bally Mall. betore inev were up, he was able to bick Cramo tipped off and surrendered him elf to the police, denying the accusation ana claiming unal ne had a tyre lever" in his hand Cont'd p.11, col. 1 Mail factory. The first article in Wha promises to be a lengthy series in Monday's Daily On the front page the Mail the fact that the WL is led on hold a summer school next to week lor members and suppor ters which will be attended by international organisations, some of which are affiliated to the

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Liaison Committee. Described "school for Mail ignores subversion , agenda of the comerence which has been published Socialist Press every week for last couple of months and the school is about the fight to win support for the mass Trotskyism.e small forces of the Mail tries to Instead, develop the theme of the SL's supposed inks With TerroTIST out that "some (delegates) face arrest in their nome countries and ouncis are actively armed involved in struggles".

THE CALL FOR

A WORKERS'

GOVERNMENT

CENTRE PAGES

Next issue Socialist Press is taking its summer break.

The next issue will appear on Wednesday 30 July Porter Socialists from at least one has the gall to refer favourably meeting of Conservative country -Chie-would certainly face arrest for their and Allied European Parties in views-even the

TUC

would be Austria". An international gathering of cal unuer une rochel ucla torship. reactionaries is clearly in order Needless to say no guerrilla as far as the Mail is concerned.

It is only when revolutionary groups wil be summer school. Trotskyists get together Perhaps the most scandalous discuss how they can win the aspect of the Mail report of the support of the masses sum mer nowever. ale ana the statements by trade union that these leaders. lefenders of democracy" d Frank he BETPU 1s quoing right wing perately try to witch-hunt such Header oile a gatnering to a standstill Another aspect of the first by the mall as urging securit forces to ensure telephones at Mail article other school are tapped, theme of 'WSL infiltration into the summer of the and that a full report une abour rarty The Mail, of course, backs proceedings is obtamed. Railwaymen's hate These Callaghan, Healey and the right S10 Weighell argued that: wine au une way in mel surugsie links with foreign organisations against socialist policies and against any moves to democra showd be thoroughly invest gated". Party-no the tise Lavou Such is the cringing subser- matter now imited those move.

might be. vience or unese rerormist cauct.

to capitalism in crisis that they which Their campaign are prepared to line up with the attempts to draw a link between most right wing forces-includ- Benn and the left wing of the Labour Party NEC and Trotsky- ing a lory paper wnose record extended in the 1930s to sup ist groups with which, of course, port for Mosley's fascists they nave notning in common trade Hitler -against has been growing in the course and socialists within the labou of the Heslin case movement. expected to reach John Patten, Tory MP for Oxford called for the summer Labour Party conference in the school. to De banned autumn. pressure will no doubt continue Workers Socialist to be placed on the education League and its supporters withir the trade unions and the Labour Cancel Hall booking for the summer school.

Party will not be intimidated by The article in the Mail witch- taus crude witch-nung hunting the WS summer school The growing economic and political crisis confronting capitalist system at home and 20то2 makes Wire-its the press and surveillance by th state all the more inevitable Wilal ulc stale. ue piess all Tne rerormists and stammists a the head of the labour move- fear most is that and working class oppressec masses around the world wil turn to revolutionary • the policies of Trotskyism. fear the independent hev mobilisation

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the masses around their own class interests with confrontation capita ano is agents Doin witan toe labour movement and the state.

The Workers Socialist League and the Trotskyist Inter- nationalison Committee Wil continue the fight to build Trot- skyist parties and for the recon struction of Fourth Inter namona to leac the masses the struggles that they now face.

We call on in Britain and internationally Cramp

Crackdown in S. Africa carworkers

GREEK GAYS ATTACKED

Page 2 The tattered "national- ist" credentials attributed to Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey when he came to office last year have rapidly fallen by the wayside in the light of his increasingly servile relationship to British imperialism and the Thatcher government. But this external policy has seen inked UD moves repress republican forces fighting to out of the occupied six counties. Problems This drive has not been with- problems-in out particular success ul ao ped militant Osgar Breatnach against his frame-up sentence for a mail train robbery. But continues with savage orrensive by ponce in tne "Free State". Republican News week headlined brutal assault by Donegal police republican who were subjected to beatings and attempt all force them into confessions that would secure their conviction in the She a Court, gave detailed THe matreatment meted out by Haughey's police, level underlining repres- the 26 Lidt counties. Irish Free State soldiers in action against Republicans Amfi is the title of the quarterly magazine of the gay movement in Greece. This week its trial will open n Aunens. will publishing an obscene poem by Nicos Spanias If found guilty it will face a £1,000 1lne would be a crippling oow to the As Greek Gays Under Attack informative pamphlet just -all une amm Delence Fund, makes frighteningly clear, this trial is only attack now bay» being carried out by the Greek state. The instances mentioned numcs examples of censorship and the proposed reintroduction of the Bill parliamentary "concerns from Venereal Diseases and Regulation of Related Matters".

1ms vaLucly grants wide-ranging powers prostitutes and anyone suspected "soliciting cite public public", "provoking" importuning, of indecent bodily attitudes movement" "Free State" Workers in the motor industry in the Port Eliza- *Refuse suspects the right But more 1s on beth industrial area way Collins remain sient while the minister South Africa have added the Gerry last week interrogation. announced that a special cabinet This last proposal is not only strength of their itself, meeting independent actions to the Attorney General to draw up all demands pay currently new, even more draconian laws license to torture suspects who speak police being negotiated refuse to between supposedly to Collo ism captors, in order to torce them union officials and manage- Using of the the pretext to break user suence. ment. policemen These latest moves to crush/ two democratic rights Unwilling to rely on union vonday. naurney s gallg alt the State are Nice make ne volce proposing to: workers heard, and determined Irish the onus the price being paid by ortler wage demands, pursue their accused prove his/her inno- workers for the preservation of to statelet more than 10.000 workers have instead of the at different times over the last tion having to prove guilt.

month, taken independent even harder for strike action. suspects to obtain bail. counties.

ITALY FACES SLUMP

After last year's relative- deficit soared to 7000 million ity and telephones and increases in VAT and petrol tax ly fast economic growth in of econ- Even these measures will cut nese intimations Italy, latest economic omic catastrophe underline the the public borrowing figures the which 40,000 suggest that serious situation from requirement Unly Italian economy is plunging lira million tales O1 CISS measures million introduced last week. lira. headlong into new and The aim of these But it is the most that the deep slump. of measures Cossig impose the burdens of this crisis industrial pro- can possibly hope monto duction fell by 10% even when on the working class. to get away with factors hạd been This is to be done by seasonal price But, despite the fact that the first five increases whole range for. for the allowed main union leaders nave greea to Cossiga's attack on the work MoRTao une vear me made ing class, there are already signs that he may not be able to get Militant trade unionists have launched widespread attack on the union leaders for tact colaborauon win cossin and his Finance Minister Pandolfi. Surcharge which has measure angered workers more than any- else 0.5% surcharge on wages. the revenue

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which Will used 1O] investment in the underdevelop South of given to companies in difficul hes. Cossiga leaders present this measure as an alternative to the scale included in Himate suall wage agree- cotective neuts The unpopularity the the measures Communist Party leadership has untypically leapt into an oppos- ¡tional stance towards the econ organisation, from concluded that both the content Anvone convicted of these main gay vague offences can get anything marching demonstrations. of the film Con up to one year in jail or be sub- reformist

PASOK,

dangerously undermine the according to the pamphlet, put sane traditions of Greek compulsory clinical lected people and the accepted moral Bill and no political party or resistance at al to the ano lab tests under ponce super «set or nomosexual n Bill specifically will have a destructive effect on similar police state group came Greek youth' was Iwo yeals del Eurocom- Film censorship of this kind largely because of international Since then the some left from the gay move- munists and groups is exercised under laws passed pressure someshar under the Nazi occupation less anaber passed in 1969 under

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Protest vote lo ine questen del But it remains true tha: = Rautica In particular the Dutch parli- the face of the new legal attack

OF ART 2OJ

was induced to ament vote threatened by severe gays and others blows to democratic almost unanimous polest lo tilt Inis oporessive count on support from be vigorously week goveminen. ane much Dutch government was forced organisations Greece resisted by socialists in Greece to threaten moves which claim to be socialist.

and internationally. of the Amfi pamphlet Donations lowatus L Of several cases of bizarre censor- Defence Fund to Lloyds Bank, reece into the BEL The Amfi Defence Fund ship. Gants Hill Branch, 377 Eastern pamphlet focusses correctly Avenue, Ilford Essex. shoddy *The mamohlet Greek Gavs Ine Tole played in all this by the main The National Films Censor- Under Attack is available from workers' parties in Greece.

Micky Silva, 75 Otley Drive, ship Committee recently Ultall The pro-Moscow Communist Ilford, Send imously banned the British film Essex G2 60x Nighthawks (by Ron Peck and 45p including postage and large ition that gays are "hangovers Paul Hallam) and Pasolini's addressed envelope bourgeois degeneracy Salo *The Benefit Show- in aid of the Greek out with the advent Nighthawks, they say, is "a ment (AKOE) will take place on of socialism" propaganda piece for the spread the KKE seems to of homosexuality.. Sundav Juwv 27 at 8 om. Alban At least stopped its earlier school Empire Theatre, Creek Roa teacher Deptford, London SE8. minors... From the above it is force back bosses The developing strike wave demonstrated determined working class and almost immediate brought 20% offer trom empioyers. I nis, in itsell, repres ents a significant success for the strikers. Rejected Union officials described the offer as satisfactory and immed- different-meetings at the major Ford, General Motors and Volkswagen all rejected officials was one of "surprise".

CP leader Berlinguer omic package in a clear errort i hold back the working class and frightening rift prevent between une lanK and Ile of the workers tne leadersnip With the trade union leader- ship clearly exposed as a result The miscacuation NoT the rank and file reaction to these measures the CP bureaucracy stepped lias secton or tne leadersmp immed- iately able to head the move.

ment and make sure that it is Kest under connoi

TROTSKYIST

INTERNATIONAL

LIAISON

COMMITTEE

Public meeting *For a full discussion on the crisis in the world Trotskyist move- ment *Reconstruct the Fourth International!

WEDNESDAY 23

JULY at 7.30 p.m. Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London Speakers from WSL and TILC sections Other speakers invited from IMG, SLG, ICL and Workers Power Admission £1 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 July 1980 The same union officials had also been surprised at the las wave of strikes at Ford, as they were at the emergence of the more recent strike wave. the onl even struggles of the Port Elizabeth which cannot workers have Sur sca officials at all was the return to It was only in this aspect of totally involved. Solidarity Workers have shown their willingness to struggle on the basis of their class power drawing strength trom the sold arity of their fellow workers.

Their rejection • the employers' offer emphasises growing determination. it was te inde strike action, taken b and immed iately strengthened by stoppages that other major plant so the added decisive weight won, demon unders the 20% demands olle This ongoing struggle stood threatened however not only by the threat of dismissal, unem- proyment and stal but by the active misleadership intervention the most of the turnt to work ie hich tad plants alongside colle workers. Even though workers plants subsequently major joined the VW workers in reject- ine toe cuo olter umon omca succeeded dissuading anall Reversed management then announced • was menting the 20% offer on July 1 in an effort to break the strike- but this attracted only 60 of a Sinking worklorce oI ol It was only after union inter- successfully vention reversed the immediate develop- men that VW workers "the themselves relatively isolated bowed to strong union pressure anu returned to worK Despite the return to work workers have made clear their rejection of the 20% offer, and accotlation alt between employers and the start off accepting capitals right Reformist unionists to make profits are inevitably caught up mises with employers, at of the workers inter. ests. such relormist misleader only stand standed an the workers' demands It is essential that worker.

every •workplace develor independent workers commit- tees through which to take up and organise the struggle for their demands. Control through the development of, such commit that control of unions can be insured. and inde committed penden

VITIONS

uncompromisingly the achievement of workers' inter- be built. For the motor workers a the present time, , it is through such committees that an effec tive working class voice can bi added to tne current manage ment-union negotiations, and unified class action be prepared in support of wage demands Build independent workers committees each workplace Build independent trade Prepare joint strike action through the motor industry in support of wage demand: through sliding scale For to be national minimum wage, set by workers' committees and protected through a sliding scale.

ZIMBABWE: WORKERS'

ANGER BEHIND SPLITS

MIAMI: VULTURES MOVE IN

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 July 1980

- INTERNATIONAL-

When the masses of Zim- babwe voted Mugabe into their office to transform conditions of life they showed, even then, that they were not simply rely- ing on numerical majorities in the ballot box. In a widespread strike wave which followed the ZANU elec- tion victory. workers gave warn- ing ol the own independent voice to Mugabe and his bosses' Even as he set about the task stability and of restoring moting conditions for capitalist profits, Mugabe was lorcea to respond to the mass demand for real change. of the warning posed by the strikes and on the the tremendous mass pressure which had won him election. vucave was lorced te promise material concessions to workers. Mugabe's cruciat proposed reforms mum Wages Bill which, on the appeared as a sub- ot it. lave reform Indusallus of starvation-paid workers, even the proposed new levels though remained abysmally low. Minimum wage s sezz or domestic servants was domestic servants mole to dates or workers level towarv ano commerce Even before the date the ineffective- implementation, Bill ness defensive measure for workers had become transparent. indicate that in the Salisbury area alone, employers dismissed than 5,000 than pay the workers being recruited at the WOrKCIS. lallili l minimum rate. minnoum rate Worst hit some workers appear to nave have temporarily benefitted, the while domestic servants and been farm workers, with hundreds of to Mugabe's . Icactlon workers reportedly complaining Minimum Wage Rill has heen to of dismissal throughout the make additional thousands of country each day. workers jobless workers Whatever the laws it passes have beat laid he withi in parliament, Mugabe's govern- ano ve minimu have cannot promote both ment As the dust settles, holiday resort of Miamı beach literally, on the rubble that the hub of the city is the central the head- which was once the Northern sec- houses di va tion of Miami, some of the quarters on severa maor mul- national companies and a large inherent tensions of capital- American and Euro- number of ism begin to emerge from oean areas of Central America.

the smoke and ashes of This the also haven of America's most explosive . of the shadie some capitalist race-riot for 10 years. racketeers, many of them close cadership by ind Richard Nixon- The civil associates like Bebe Rebozo. liberal leadership The black community concen- areao" evidence trated its fire on the role of the that the property speculating police in provoking the riots.

vultures circling the are over true in immediate terms, out inere Is une . seem s nothing Carter and and price the blacks the US bosses would like more than out and into make- to pass it all off as the inevitabie shitt suburban shanties backlash against a corrupt and Inis woula provide tne lacal department opening to give a base to many police the Hispanic bour- Than one ared In fact the blacks' outrage

ITOM

against the acquittal more unstable situation ot the beat Arthur Central and Southern America. who The Nicaraguan in the very foundations of big is already come for examme business exploitation and racial- and exploitati or blacks an exploitation Blacks make up roughly work is the maior A author that or spot potor prerequisite lot Inis scneme half of that popula- It is against this background pros- that the police tion is Hispanic-the most : campaign against nerous of whom are the cuban blacks has to be viewed. petit-bourgeoisie campaign ana aisplacca HalS has a beer capitalists. Miami even more waged diligently than in such notorious Apart from the up-market and its petty bourgeois agents.

parliament will not control and Param am laws will -capitalists laws of will profit will govern. workers and ANd and ZAPU mutants ale increasinely Con fronted with the failure Mugabe's government to meet their hostility, tensioll conflict militancy and mount. Agriculture Thousands or workers are unemployed. The vast majority employed face but increasingly harsh reforms, conditions as capital struggles to boost profits. While agriculture remains in the nanes or rnance cabilal dilu directed towards pront. tne future holds continued poverty and misery for the masses. of rural poor. Under these conditione Mugabe's proposed land reforms can at most benefit a stratum of the rural petit-bourgeoisie.

Thousands guerrillas either remain camps, facing unem•ovment contriveu mcal ceration or the discipline of the bosses' generals and officers.

As the current disagreements within the cabinet indicate, the increasing militancy, dissatisfac and workers, guerrillas and the rural petty-bourgeois opportun- ists. The most verbose opposi- tion the petty-bourgeol. who won the last election will inevitably come from the petty bourgeois leaders who didn't Cynically exploiting Unemployed workers in Salisbury problem into which Mugabe's reformism leads, they will zig- capitalist profits and workers' zag from left to right in popu interests. left The interests of the workers list demagogy -combining demand full defensive wine rhetone with toe nurtun of reactionary tribalism which can be secured populist demagogy on ov mer owa macoenocni and organised, mobiesd strength.

promises ludl While ownership Trom Micanes reormit ooDor ents holds for workers the same production and dead end as the populist dema- control of the repressive state in the hands of capital gogy areas as Los Angeles, Houston and Memphis The McDuffie murder is just the • most connecting series of attacks and violations. National figures show Inat y does more backs ae as a result of police homicide than whites. In Miami now there are over 1300 awaiting trial for offences arising from the riots. Police have detained only blacks suspected murder, done 0111 have nothing to track down the gangs of white neo-fascists who toured ine streets killne strav Diacks And what of the measly million in $11.5 "rebuid" the Northern streets of the city? 35i10d Already it has gone to pad out the bank vaults of the very nusinesses oronteering stranglehold led to the grinding deprivation of the blacks in the aust oace But there's just one thought disturb the sleep of that Miami busines community as they vilas guard compounds not even most high-powered Florid: sulance offers a policy against lightning striking twice in the same place.

Mugabe and his change crom supporters progressive social rela- tions anel for which workers and militan: in Zimbabwe have been fightin cannot be secured on the bas or backward lorces oi broul tion with production organis for It is only in a planned soci economy. tive forces unleashed from t constricting grip of profit ar airecica towaras numan ne that these changes can be re ised This demands a workers' and peasants government, basea or the organisations of the working class their starting from mac venuen cass mierests and not the protection of capitalist It requires that ownership of the • 01 taken from the hands of the capitalists and brought • under the control of the working class It requires the arming of the Zimbabwean working class to defend against capitalist reac depenas on the carrying through the Southern African and

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revolutons unrouga waich alone socialism can finally be secured Mugabe's bosses' government and Nkomo's Lags stana as oostacies between workers and their goals. The capitalist state machine remains intact, in defence of the System

ING

laW proclamation and no speech will remove that fact. Workers have already given and warning the bosses of their own independent class strength It is through the building of Trotskyist party able develop and lead that strengt! that the working class will be ave to move aoead a saugge drawing the mass of oppressed behind it-to the only which secures the independent interests of workers-the cas workers' and peasants' govern and the dictatorship o ment USA week by week Wreckage after the riots Page 3 No end to iran political crisis The crisis of authority of the Islamic government in Iran has continued. The beer mulans organising further mass demon strations have convened the initially basis of three death traitors-Carter, Sadat, Begin".

But this slogan has been con vertea during the demonstration into curdling paranoid "death three cries 01 Trators monder traitors), democrats and fedayin of their So, fearful authority, the Islamic right wing is stirring up the conditions fo an attack on the more left-win Hass oreanisation: These preparations follow statements two weeks ago from the top of the Islamic hierarchy imposed on the Mojahedin and Fedayin. Bloodbath Clearly the only way which such ban could be imposed is through a vast expan- son one door oddac already being imposed daily enemies of against under the guise of pulline sexual "abnormal- women and university students .Everv dav in recent weeks a number of people have been stoned to death as adulterers prosultules • nonlosexuals 0I suD porters of Kurdish nationalism.

this kind repression unleashed were now Moiahedin Fedayin-tens of thousands of whose militants are armed -ther it could only be through the most boody cv sirite still appears that the religious authorities are hesitat- . ine oclore come as lal as ulls This must be through uncer their power to tainty impose their reactionary author- threatened allowed the time to prepare Bani-Sadr In fact the has Tenne once again give decided enormous prominence illegal Iraq US and backed militar CoUl was pre-empted by Which of arrests leading while it would not be at all improbable that such a military planned, President cuu. Bani-Sadr -now limping pathet- ically behind the Ayatollahs- described the aesence o promole a ∞re o outrage and national unity.

The officers, he claimed, had •ane to sere an amorce oas and send planes bomb- once of the halise Ayat resi horrors! -the horror a homem amusem

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BEHIND

ATKINS'

LATEST

PLAN

The Tory White Paper on isolated or excluded from the the six counties of Northern concern for security which is pervasive" Ireland was at least accurate in one respect: it made. no Is unererore at gunpout the people of the six secret of the fact that the counties resence very existence of the sectar- will Inc proposals of Humphrey Atkins' ian statelet depends upon White Paper with its ludicrous the brute of force the platitudes about "preserving the 15,000 strong British army macy one baot nox of occupation: No say "The involvement of the UK government in the fight against man- terms In fact, no matter which way power, equipment and installa- the majority were to vote unde and their operational use new proposals, they would Inc - Is such that it is not realistic to have havica ture, since the hite their conferring on Northern Ireland administration Paper "the makes l clear that responsibility overriding authority West and the police and be preserved" prison Equally, the services. and that the proposco devolven administration should would have not even assembly business either token conuuct powers over detence, Labour NEC on 'H' block Amid the outraged com- and denied proper sanitary and Tory medical facilities the ments by press about the Labour In Long Kesh, H-Block, male recent Party NEC motion on Irish prisoners, because they refuse to wear prison uniform political prisoners, not one die ocked uD or paper actually presented it wearing only in full. blanket, in a cell only damp mattress, are denied read- In fact the resolution, reflec- ting the politics of the Militant ing whiling materials, anc subject .to body searches are includin robing the mus. reformist let out that: The

NEC

implacably implacably opposed to the programme and opposed to the programme and methods of terrorism. Equally methods of terrorism. Equally, however however opposed and torture in the repression and torture. prisons of Northern Ireland. In other words the NEC by Such repression could, endorsing the resolution in certain way oppressed thei be Der struggle of cucullslalees. oppressed

LIST

DCODEt the Labour movement in Britain against the state machinery and in the future armed occupation forces of the The NEC therefore calls for British oppressors-simply LaK" consideration to be given to the ing an impartial "humanitarian' lonowing points: stance on Britain's longest- 1) The right of all prisoners runnior indeed does to wear their own clothes.

indeed does the resol- 2) Prisoners to he allowed way call for the UTOn In any full access to newspapers, TV, immediate withdrawal of British books and writing Matchas troops from reland-a position with no restriction on letters.

rapidly gaining currency in the 3) Prisoners to be allowed a Labour Party. minimum of two But unsupervised supporting the visits and two food parcels per demand of republican prisoners week. 4) Prisoners to have the right Armagh Gaol for portial negotiate choice of status, and calling

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scrapping of the no-jury Diplock COurTS. reso ution coes to trade union membership.

politics Labour's right wing leaders.

b) Prisoners to be allowed to elect their own representatives now Talsing Issue to ne ofare oing the hon.

throughout the Labour Party, socialists should fight to com- scraDDIng 10- liv Diplock courts and the closure exteno its of the special police interroga- position to a principled demand tion centres. for the immediate withdrawal of The NEC opposes all forms British troops of repression il Northern "This NEC deplores the and and calls for the repeal o in pati prond of which sist which exist repressive legislation. Ine NEL asks the Northern Study Grou and the We note with concern news Human Rights Sub-Committe paper reports that look women the prisoners in Armagh jail have repression and prison conditions and included section on it are locked up for 23 hours a day

DI TOUCTI

foreign policy, law and order or tazaloll powers roughly WOud nave equivalent to the Greater London Council. Ana, snould it cver actuall take shape, the assembly would remain rigidly ' British Tore British government-the ment the let or Paper White bleats spending Northern Ireland : i which 1979-80. was raised in the six countics.

Nothing could more clearly the utter irrelevance unacrune such assembly the tor working class of the six counties whether Protestant or Catholic - who face the full brunt of the capitalist crisis In the

IRELAND

LIAM

WHELAN C

12 YEARS

H Block prisoners unemployment, crumbling social services and a savage fall in living standards.

Recession While the Tory government has reluctantly taken steps the collapse Harland and Wolff shipyard, the recession in British industry has been sharply reflected in the six counties with closures in textile: -neaaco oy courtaulas-and ir engineering. The closure of the Grundig plant West Belfas with the loss of 1,000 jobs will bring unemployment there to at least 25%. Against this stark back- ground the manoeuvres of the Loyalist and SDLP politicians-

TROOPS OUT

NOW!

*JOE ROKIERAN.

8 YE SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 July 1980 each seeking best advantage and offers them anything at all.

the largest This made particularly and superfluous positions in any difficult by Paisley's suncen new puppet assembly-stand out statements denouncing any kind in their true colours of minority veto Loyalis Loyalists-whether they legislation, and explicitly reject Paisley's so-called Demo- ing an kua ol nvolvement o cratic Unionist Party the Dublin government in talks or samne. Molyneaux's Official Unionists or closer relations kind of deal that sco te any fact course tha • of concedes a with nationalist sentiment still substantial voice to the SDLP.

the sis countes, , the using in Both have therefore rejected Atkins proposals to offer Atkins' anything to the

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Catholic minor that after the election of an 80 ity hanoeu in une cerrymander man Assembly by proportional ed and sectarian statelet.

executive The existence reoresentation an very of should be composed in such a Northern Ireland British way include Sillia provinces in aenance ot toe propors nal representation.

wishes of the majority of the would mean that Irish people party with 25% of The material problems facing the Catholic and Protestant workers would take a quarte the executive, and North and South On can would amount to a re-run of the resolved not by abortive "devolution" . Likeling experiments attempted under Paisley-style "democracy" but only by the struggle to drive out Edward Heath. Neither the Paisley and Molyneaux have any hangers-on. and for interest In inel attempting to sell such a deal to united socialist Ireland their supporters: each has in his talks with Prouuce d Irmly Loyalst-run can offer assemov which least the semblance of govern- ment.

SDLP,

the other hand, representing the Catholic petty bourgeoisie, has predicta bly veloposed of pins, and is proposal of Atkins, and is much less able itself in favour ol nas second Proposal hip is toe meet made up majority party Atkins which wallies. proposals to Only su binils within a united Irish "Council of the Assembly" with workers republic can sectarian some token delaying or block- discrimination be eradicated on the basis of improving the living Since only a 50% plus one standards of the working class as majority would needed to rubber-stamp Executive While republicans and social- ists take up the fight in Ireland Proposals under such a scheme the SDLP leaders recognise that itself, it falls upon socialists in they would be the British labour movement to completely lend tangible support to their Marginalsea and impotent or any policy decisions. struggle Their refusal to reject this This means fighting against plan the prevailing "bi-partisan vitally Tom power large of trade union and Labour numbers of leaders and ol Tine immediate available for all concern bu wat rama and the right of the Irish peopl ency recognise that lt will be a task convince their whole to determine their nard Catholic electorate that the plan own future

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London Labour needs more than new manifestoes!

ILLISTPRESS.

i5Jan 1350 The July 5 conference of the London Labour Briefing saw a number of proposals selection candidates and the drafting of manifestoes in the GLC and municipal elections over the next two years. First speaker to Take vo Lois theme was Ken Livingstone-a member both Camden Council and the GLC. series proposed democratic reforms designed to increase members control over Groups councils. La DOU These were: Group observers from

IGNU

each ward • not iust CIPs.

Group votes to recorded and circulated. 3. UMCs to from and question Group mem- bers. 4. Group reports to be given priority In GMC agendas. ences discuss Council policies. He pledged 'himset to vote against the budget of the Inner Education Authority

(ILEA),

previously, if it included further The campaign up, prevent tne break

ILEA

by the Tories is being The Labour Party's failure to seriously hindered implement its free travel policy some areas by the ettects of the lad contributed in large all lu the electoral deteat of 1977.

years cuts. He argued for increasing the The new GLC Labour Group rate in Ise is 05% commethi will have to be prepared to fight base to implement its 1ala for using the GLC and the ana m so done contabute to me la!

organs of redistribu- of the Tory government, argued

ILEA

as n Livingstone. tion The lessons the 1973 Finally reminded dele- GLC manifesto should be drawn gates ol ine neca to pass conter- ence amendments by 31 July.

Reader's letter Lambeth Left The Editor. Challenge, Socialist Action and Workers Action. Socialist Press, Dear Comrade, Une workers Achon suppor- May ter had, in fact, supported the you. the TeDorI 1980) 0n proposal in the debate tor a London-wide meeting called by delegate conference. the "Lambeth Labour Left"? A Socialist Challenge suppor- Many argued "Lambeth in ine "Lambeth Labour Left" had to fight hard even to get a London- wide Some face it, and that "now is not the Hicclile time" comrades, in particular socialsi Challenge supporters As if the government is going dangerously parochial oppos ion to any move to take the to wait around while we take our time to build the opposit- struggle against cuts or rate and Bond Thent by using arged nes rent increases outside Lambeth.

groupment using arguments To get the meeting Which would foster the fears as Was d hesitations in the audience and step forward, out its outcome was a step backwards, or, at undermine the whole struggle of best, marking time. the Left. Evidently Socialist Challenge In the meeting I moved a and those who supporters motion which re-stated that we followed their lead in this meet- need ing are not guided by any aware-

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ness of the zovement with a coreo dano Labour Councils, refusing the Labour Party together implement cuts in form. Ihis means are not the first, if ally

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struggle for this only they knew it, to give way oramate …lne stand with a campaign of public to these pressures. leading a delegate Do uney Ieally nope to Illu conference in early autumn.

ence the Knights and Living stoncism and by krating stones their Naluy a monon with woren anyone present could have dis- keeping silent one would think? Of abous and rate policy of raising Their the debate produced she Left leadership™ talking' about Let these comrades take the of people warning.

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coes this like Knight and Livingstone course make them the markete of the batale ve cal an arene about thi "tone" of speeches, but in the Left. end comes famous prose, STATE WHAT They then because those themselves will nothing whom they alc WIl procedural motion aside when ine. carried by 32 votes to 20, which no longer need them. my Yours fraternally

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Bolotoe 90% of those who Steve Stannard Some 90% Councior voted to suppress my Convenor, Lambeth

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were supporters of Socialist Conference chairman Arthur Latham proposed that selection mcclules ask canuldales lor Ine шо n that they would stand down they were not : prepared to fight

GLO

101 lic manilesto London Tormulatec Regional Conference October. 1 It commerence broke into workshops to discuss the GLC manifesto, links with trade allu strategy and control. The workshop report on the

GLC

manifesto begar lemmame delecares or ene time table and procedures for sub- (Amend amendments

CLP,

ana musI oe suomitted by the end of July). It was said that, wherever possible, amendments should be Clause IV? When the Labour Party is in office there is generally little reference to Clause IV Gay Pride defence After the arrests on the Gay Pride demonstration a Defence has Committee been established The cases will first come to court on July 23 when there will be a protest picket outside Bow St. Magistrates Court in Sunday July 20 at Also on 8.00 there benefit p.m (theatre, disco and band) for the defence committee Action Space, Chenier St., London W1 The fight for support for the Defence Committee must sulously all tapidly laken up in the trade unions and Labour Party Labour movement organisa- tons can resist the provocative ponce repression of tne march particular financial support and by mobil ising

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EVERY

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drawn identifiable nose est o unhealthy trend and opposed.

more snould which the Group can be tied involvement by the Labour down. Party in trade union campaigns Proposals included and vice versa reduced class sizes, refusing recruitment But little was said in con crete terms as to how this could lacmies lo ine army and police and the guaranteed re-employ be achieved ment of any GLC staff sacked Inevitably the rates question by the Tories dominated the final plenary Democracy session. A series of speakers mostly The workshop on relations from Lambeth, argued for the importance of the no wite tade unions locussed on questions of organisation and tale vil uses, no culs posuon.

democracy. local struggles mansiormis Ihe proposed constitutional into a challenge to the govern- changes to permit workplace ment. branches would generate closer The overal line they pro- links. was that Labour Do ser lett' and Lambeth in councils, i nere was par- in London CLPs towards more ticular, were obliged to give representation from white collar leda al unis pout, in order that a mass campaign should be gener- alll Illallua unions. This was regarded as an ated. Anyone remember (4) of the Party constitu- Party democracy Tne lett on at the 1980 conference, tion from leaders of either the Callaghan right or the Party bureaucracy itsell nas put the on a left' face-issuing a badge 'left'. beanies thed wording of It is the clause thosthe ri t clause the slogan wing impossible 'Remember Clause IV' over- left' wing printed in red remember. ane ene successfully forget. It is, in fact The badge (20p) is available the nearest the Labour Part from the Labour Party at 15( Walworth Rd spelle our a com London sEll mitment to a socialist policy of Red paint to add the necessary nationalisation. question mark at the end available Now. with the Tories in from most good do-lt and the Callaghan gang limber yourself shops. ing up for the showdown with

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FORTHE WORKERS BY

HAND OR BY BRAIN THE FULL

REMEMBER

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SYSTEM OF POPULAR ADMINISTRATION

AND CONTROL OF EACH INDUSTRY

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Page S Other speakers were less con- fident about the development of such a campaign, at least in the immediate future The public sector unions were not prepared to see devel their oDments 1021 jobs at serious risk which the bankrupting of councils would Demands were also made on "left' MPs to disrupt the func- Parliament tioning alic gnore calagnan s instructions in Westminster. Limited But it is clear that from the limited left reformist horizons of the Briefing _Labour confer- would b extremel difficult to wage the necessary sharp fight to expose the vacil lations and retreats of left" talk- He Mrs or London councilors Only a programme of action which bitty of cously rejects viability' capitalism and stalls ocence workers' independent interests which to ith serious serious basis on This is why it is not enough to tinker with the Labour mani- ¡vot all democrause une orcar isational workings of the Party: a genuine alternative leadership built must be throughout : the ¡al movemen This means fighting for: No increasest ts! *No rate or rent Confront the government! the unions! Occupy facilities threatened with closure, with supporting strike action in the public and private sectors! *Unite the workers move. councils of action, drawing dele- from trade unions, workers' barnes tenants' organisations, cuts cam- students, claimants unions and pensioners' organis extend and defend anons-to struggles against cuts and closures *No more Clay Cross-style Isolation right lor generalisea action against the Tory cut- backs in council spending Ilig to d general strike to bring down the Tories! *Drive out the Callaghan/ Healey leadership and hangers Kinnock who alke nothing but elected. Fight lor a wurKers government to carry out a pro- gramme based tion of banks and major indus- ly will columnon une management and workers crash works restore the social services and provide iob: or tne unemployed Makers of Modern Marxismi By Terry Eagleton A Socialist Press pamphlet

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THE CALL FOR A WOI

Page 6 workers Sane ТОГИ government (eventually the peasants as should be rasee every where as a general propaxanda slogan. But slogan present-dar

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call for a workers govern- the ment greatest in countries wher mi boitenl situation bourgeois ine particularly unstable, society where the relationship of forces oelwecn inc workers parties ana puts on the Tane pourceoiie political necessity escala the to the question of wulk soyicul In nese countries ine slogan "workers government an invitable consequence of the corte urttca-trone tactic.

Second DaTeS OT International secking 'save day these for

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forming coalitions between the bourgeoisie and Social the Democrats récent Themr Most attempts do this of parties Second Inter (in national Germany

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openly in a coalition sort bring it into being in a disguised This was no more than 2sol0n a manoeuvre calm the masses who were protesting aca mst suen cortons t woc no more than sophisticated swindle of the working masses.

To the coalition between the bourgeoisie and the Social Democrats, whether it be open conceaed COmmuniste counterpose the united front of all workers and the political and tualliull against Daries power pae later onder nd in order bourgeois overthrow for all. mne common strugge of these bourgeoisie, the entire state tal avodalus mUSI Tine hands of the 'workers govern- and this way position oi the wulkIne class wils de strengtnened elementary The most pro- workers groll bN bl s da allle cre olorctaral ocalae the counter-revolutionary bourgeois installing supper• Vision over production. insuring taat ne mae courcen oi taxa tion falls on the rich, and smash- ing the resistance of the bour- aols countereo luon. A government of this sort is Comintern Theses oniy possible if it emerges from.

the struggle of the masses thom.

selves, it it is based on working class suited for conval and loracd InC broadest layers of the oppressed working masses.

wolacss ДОУСТАЛСИ parliamentary resume rom g combination also provide an opportunity lor strengthen. revolunonary worker" But it goes without movement. contaca existence government carrying out a revolutionary lead must tierce struggle and CvCn- Lually. a r w t. bourgeoisie. The proletariat's aLICIO

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workers government immediately Witl encounter the most violent resis.

tance on the part of the bour- ask. ine sosn ol a workers government is therefore capable of giving a focus to and setting revolutionary struggles. Lvi lell ca cunistances Communists should declare that prepared form Thev to with workers and organisations pallies are non- ommunist But they take such an acton oniy when guarantces ar given tnat enese workers govern ments will really carry out struggle against the bourgeoisie n une sense meicoteo shove this case, the normal conditions for Communists participation such government wouldbe ine lolowing Labour leader Henderson 1) Participation in a workers government can take piace oniy with the approval of the Com- munist International; 2) The Communist members of' a workers government remain under the butselenl wltll treur barEy 3) The Communist members of a workers government remain in direct contact with the revo organisations of the utonary The Communist Party has the absolute nant u mantal and retains 1s Duol‹ TaCnuv complete independence of agita- Despite its great advantages the slogan of a workers govern ment also has its dangers just united front tactic has as any As a precaunon alamosa unesa dangers, the Communist parties should not lose sight of the fact Labour leader MacDonald: not that, although vuy bourecol. every workers government is government is al ine same time a socialist government a capitalist government, it is not true that every workers govern of these phony "workers governments actualy DO CaTAN that is, a revolutionary instru- In the period of the decline ment of proletarian power.

of capitalism. a period in

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principal task consists winning a majority prol- une communist internation.

al should anticipate the follow etariat ove the tavullvll. ing possibilities: objec- Lucs covertments I) A liberal workers govern- tively contribute to accelerating There is already a govern- process of the ment. decomposit- ment of this sort in Australia; ion of the bourgeois regime there may also be one betor Communists are prepared to march with very long in Engiand workers- 2) Social-Democratic Democrats, Christians, workers government (Germany).

party, etc. -who synaicallst haed for the di atoship or the › A workers ano peasants government. This is possible Balkans, Czechoslovakia Dorc antal 4) A workers government which Communists participate Under certain circumstances genuine proletarian and with certain guarantees, the workers government which.

Communists equally form, can only

ITS

Durest pinaleu lu support a non-om represented by Communist mumsı workers covernment.

Party. But the Communists must at The first all costs explain to the working LWo yes governments are not workers class inat lts Ilberation can oni revolutionary govern- assured by the dictatorship , but rather governments of the proletariat: Hacils, coalition The tfo l camoua t other two types between the bourgeoisie and the WOlKCS governments are types counterrevolutionary leaders of Communists 1071 the the participate in, although wulke Class they period, these , a critica still do not represent the dicta "Workers Governments' are torship of the proletariat; they tolerated by weakened bour- . represent necessary form of sose mn order to deceve tine transition toward the oro elara as to ine real Class dictatorship. but thev can servi character of the OI, of departure for point the assistance of corrupt work- attaining this dictatorship.

Il1- Class lanes. Gera l The full dictatorship of the revolutionary offensive of the proletariat and gain time.

proletarar can onv pe accom.

Communists must not partic- plished by pish compo sed or cor gores.

workers wuch governments. the contrary, they must relent- lessiy expose to the masses the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 July 1980 In fighting for the defeat of the Thatcher governme terms for "Labour to Power"? Should we specify "Lab the mass Labour Party against the Tories in the contex parliamentary Labour government but to establish a go on the independent strength of the workers movemen necessary steps of nationalisation and destruction of the It is in this manner that the Workers Socialist Leag workers' government. The workers government slogan widely abused by sectarians and opportunists alike. He munist International, and from today's Trotskyist Intern

ZINOV.

Conste souciall me bourgeoisie discuss detail the to some Every bourgeois government is a capitalist government, and WOrKerS ment. It is not yet quite clear cvl llally wuikeis zoverner to me whether there : are serious bourgeois governments Cala difference according socia opHor. witk regard to this question, whether composition this question has been complete.

I think that the main poin ventilated, or whether a good there are workers govern differences were svall caused by variations in termin- ments. I believe that ologs workers mua mne lour kinos In the course of the Congress governments, and even then we will have exhausted the ana auring the workig oul the resolution on tactical thes, solut oh ich te shal dest po ssi bilitles after utsu! Revolution, this Kussar W1fi become clear. You have As far as l am concerned, the government which, according to question has nothing to do with CoSmoI WolC liberal workers government, for une wola pseudonym waet has been quoted here. 1 am example, the Australian Labour quite willing under Several of our Australian aacunslances,

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that the word say term workers government is incorrec nificance. think, because Australia we have cullaues. made had such workers governments mat mae oue ion wuioe clear myself express ol a bourgeois nature It is us that workers u nest . wert reall but their compos worces cycl lsd Burelenlts carlat covernment. it is har‹ was purely liberal imagine a bourgeois govern- character. They were bourgeor ment-the mule of the bourgeois governments, one worKers may so term them. Class -wiilea is nol al une same time a 'capitalist government Let take anther example: he general election: are taking place in England. It is not probable. but one may as well allco encory. But I fear that one cannot possibility that workers will be elected reverse lal vld .verv work ing class government is not a which similar to proletarian government; not Australian Labour government, and will be of a liberal compos- workers gororne socialist governmont ition This contrast radical. Thus liberal workers govern- lorcals the fact that the can, under ug en y na anc certain circumstances,

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nave anel outposts within our class, but the • starting point of revol- workers have not their outpo utionizing the • situatoa within the capitalist class. i nal cou• wel nanoen. ki by itself, it is nothing more thar InDOSSDe

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us no lave oui outposts in the camp of the a liberal workers government.

Lenin

Trotskyist International SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 July 1980 t, what perspective should socialists offer the working class? Should we simply call in genera!

ur to power on socialist policies"? Or should we not place our critical electoral support fo of the overall strategy of socialist revolution in which the objective is not simply anoth ernment genuinely representative of the working class, a workers' government based firm organised through councils of action? Only on this basis can such a government take f nachinery of the capitalist state.

e raises the demand to bring down the Tories and fight within the labour movement fi s not our invention: ít has a long history in the communist movement. But it is curre...

we reprint a number of explanations of its significance-from the leaders of Lenin's Com- tional Liaison Committee.

EV We, Communists, the vote in England for the Labour Party. That is the same as voting govern- 101 hoera workers. ment. The English Communists are compelled, situation, lo vote for a loeral workers government. right tactics. e 29 Becals this These absolutely objective would be a step for- ward; because a liberal ment in England would disturb a starting point for the dictator- would culorium bankruptcy of the capitalism. kick one social democrat after seen Russia nave another out of the during the Kerenskv regime how oh i the the position of capitalism was smashed, despite the fact that the liberals were the agents of mistorical possiblity. cavials!. government Plekhanov, the period February from WUIKerS October. Communist 1917, the Mensheviks Called semi-Bolsheviks. ment, which is the true workers We that this was an exaggeration. They zovernmen. I believe but

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not semi-bolsheviks. possibility just quarter-Bolsheviks. We said this because we were dictatorship that it is truly a workers govern- at war with them. and because ment in the true sense of the the we saw inel treachery to word. proletariat. Objectively, Plekhanov was question. The right. Oblective'v the Menshevik fifth or sixth government was best adapted to all be make hash capitalism by making its position impossible tor a broader revolutionising of the situation. was then Jul bally fighting the Mensheviks would workers not and could not see this.

The coveranent revolutionary parties arrayed

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overthrow

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the have here to distinguish between two things: Under such conditions, agitation; we how that they are speak to the workers, how we Call traitors to can enable them best to under- working class. stand the position. They are not For that bourgeoisie, Dul when. the slogan of Workers Govern- the bourgeoisie ment" is best adapted. hands, 2) How will they mane certal steps which are objectively against the historically, bourgeois state. forms will the revolution mani- Therefore, fest itself? in England, support the must workers and the covemoment Cuts on Party The English bourgeoisie nevertheless difficult any are right when they say that the workers government will start with Clynes and finish in the government from hands of the left wing. to the realisation of the prolet.

workers allan The second type whether the is that of a Socialist Mustage es the yorkers govern- necessarily can one unlagle lat tne United social Democratic Party forms purely Socialist government.

Our friend That yesterday that would government, mediary step to the dictatorship word- Socialist-of course in quotation of the a possibility, ilalks. OT. One an exceptional possibility.

easily imagine can ¡tuation where This does not mean that the we would give slogan of the uch a government certain con- ational credit, a certain con- ment is not go It s a go itional One instrument of Vall the relation of forces makes it nagine a Socialist government possible. the sTeD volutionising of the situation.

But if we put this question: A third type is the so-called workers government alition government; that is, a lovessal y revolution? I must answer that valuable Trade Union this is not ders and even perhaps Com- can solve here. nists, take part. the least probable of all One imagine such In countries asibility. Such a government developed bourgeois class, not yet the dictatorship of can conquer proletariat, but it is perhaps force alone, Dy

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war. In such a case an inter mediary step not be Coull oil It might take place, but it is useless to argue hére about it.

All that successarys lia possible we see clearly all the ways towards the revolution.

The workers Illay ot notning more than liberal Labour government, as it might be in England and Australia. Such worKerS government can also be useru to the working class. The agitation for a workers many advantages therefrom. But in no case must we forget our revolutionary prospects. This is why I believe that we adopt the policy of the can workers WIll the only under Zinoviev condition that we do not forget what it really amounts to Woe to shipühen all goes right, we can us it we ever allow the suggestion to creep up ir propaganda that 011 workers government is a neces government sary step, to be achieved peace.

power is in the hands fully as a period of semi organic Communists. Inis is a construction which may take the place of civil war, etc.

Fourthly, we have a workers It such views exist among us Ically a must combat we government-that is, ruthlessly; we must educate the workers govern- class by wav of telling friends, unem dear éstablish a workers government, that this fourth the bourgeoisie Itust is a pseudonym for over a and cerenced. of the proletariat, The International must adopt the right tactics, but there lactics means outwit the

WILICI

Ills Dy no means exhausts bourgeoisie and glide smoothly There can be into realm of the workers type, and they can excellent starting points important thing is that une we overthrow the bourgeoisie, after which various forms of the But, in order to construct a government may the established sense, one must the bourgeoisie; and

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mortal. We must not forget that we 1) Our methods of best purpose. I believe events develop Wildl At each step in the struggle look the for transitional democratic and sides. • It is demands, Trotskvists to make consider the best ane prediction. If we now look tactical means of conducting the fight in such workers a way as to exposi this new and discredit existing The as a concrete road treacherous mass leaders of the working class. revolution, we may doubt Such tactics will generalty revolution include tighting for workers to place specific demands on those pass luloukn trade union and political leaders that retain mass Radek them said break their Trom policies of class WUIKeTS collaboration possible inter act in the independent class proletariat. I agree, it is Mel them ders more exactly As the Transitional Programme shows, the culmina- tion of this approach is the for.

demands workers covern mulation of Stalinist even agitation where nationalist bourgeois leaders that they break with the bourgeoisie and form a workers (and peasants) government.

towards the The slogan can, as the Tran- a question that we It is a way, but sitional Prodramme shows, be used flexibly as agitational with a highly slogan in particular situations. As the is that

SUCH

power focusses the attention of the through masses on the civil clas conarora- With regard the tunities of demand for a workers govern- A workers covernment 1º not the proletarian dictatorship,

NOW

Tne that is clear; shall we recline one or the possible transitorv all stages to the proletarian die- Slidl tatorship. the fight on the _ Into The their own possibility of such ot th state sue to une allusi fact that the working masses in workers covernment! the West are not so › amorphous politically as in the East.

government They are members or parties and tney art stick to their parties. place beside bring easter them into Iola oi Communism aller ta of the revolutionary outbreak storm In your countries it is masses much more difficult. government is an empty The German, Norwegian and Czechoslovakian workers will more readily declare Ing asallls! Caution with toe bourgeoise preferring a coalition of labou which would guarante the eight hour day and an extra a starting ment struggle for crust ol Dread etc arises tatorship, party usually such this manner, either covernment through preliminary struggles or Cheatin and it mend re ment not combination, and it would cushion, but utionary means. believe has comrades toric necessity possiblity a comet form be would wrong development of man from People's necessarily musi the phase ment. (Laughter.) such a is possible in a number of coun tries having a strong proletarian peasant ana where the working whelmingly vourgeoisit, as is the case Trotsky England. • Liaison Committee- tion of their leaders and the The workers necessity for a government that slogan thus will represent their independent the dynamic of the class struggle interests. In every instance it is in which the working class, gain.

vital ing in strength and self confid.

une Workers government with the necessary ence, demands programme transitional more or Its bureaucratic demands and with the struggle leaders to the point where they to mobilise the working class in insist that these organisations from the through which it will fight for power in their own hands, such demands. implement interests of the prolet ransi explicit contrast to the various Programme stresses, it was: parliamentary formations passed ott by of the Mensheviks retormist, centrist and Stalinist. currents as take "workers and peasants' exposed during the July Days, which definitely coveraments Indeed while the call for workers government can be used slogan Bolsheviks." aviatonal advance the political conscious ness of the working class from Now the level of spontaneity it is time to insist that: TO Ene comprehension of the necessity "The of the revolutionary of Fourth International consists in power, culmination ot the struggle for this old leadership • deliar mus tism is in final instance-as The Russia in October 1917-be the tion to definitive break tions of disintegrating capitalism WItH ano destructior the political and represents the chief obstacle forms, institutions and state to historical progress. machinery the bourgeoisie and the the Fourth establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

advances against the traditional Page 7

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farl Radek folly to turn aside the oppor- such a situation in stubborn doctrinaire lashion arises- upon this soft cushion and take a good rest, or we Tatner lead the masse basis of illusions for the realis programme of a If we conceive the workers politically ourselves beaten. We would then take our social-demo. crats as a new type of tricksters.

if we tuner nand keep alive the consciousness of that i worker. . shell unless it has workers behind it forging their weapons and form.

councils lactory compel it to hold on to the right Radek track and make no compromise parliamentar mene a stamagpoth for the victory quite point pos present ellense place in proletarian dic- elections, possible Oul ll l workers in the future and ther eventually What is make room for a Soviet govern • question Will arise: the Labour government? Is it no more than a new edition of the bourgeois-liberal government, or the conquest of power by revol can we compel it to be some- thing more? believe Auster the Chamberlain was right in saying, said "If a Labour government comes "The workers government is not a his into power in England, it will but a historical begin with a Clynes' administra This is, to my mind, tion and end in a government of the left wing, because the latter absolutely the assert that problem. the Thus Comrades, Commissar that the Executive on the whole pass through the right attitude in nas taken workers govern. this question, when on the on hand it warns against the propo variant in history 1 sition possible, and in the first place it nothing, ment. or other hand makes movement, tilt worker government a sort of parachute Class over the outaunoe government organisations of the proletariat contains within it is the fact that they do not wish to tear themselves away the political semi-corpse of the bourgeoisie, increasingly "Under these conditions the demand systematically addressed to the old leadership: leaders break Break with the bourgeoise, take take the catemen important weapon tor exposin!

measures the the treacherous character of the partios and organisations of the Transitional and Amsterdam Internationals.' "The obstinate unwillingness While promising such leaders and sis to revolutionary support against dramatically capitalist reaction struggle for TiDE doomed them Trotskysts must and maintain their political indepen victory of the dance of Suck leadersales Cant their own critical propaganda spelling out at each stage just as much in 1930 the role of the old leader and the necessary programme of of thi demands to be fought for by the TaSK working class the proletariat from its It is on the construction of whose such a Trotskyist revolutionary wonserva leadership the catastrophic erup- ability of the reformists alte Stalinists them. selves into a revolutionary force that the fate of the struggle for "The chief accusation which a workers government and the of the proletariat must depend.

National Child Care Campaign launched Page 8 The Conference July called by the London Nursery Campaign to dis- and form a National

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Child Care Campaign was in deep contrast to the recent Women's Fightback for Rights Campaign's Second Conference held 21 on June (see SP 204). There was a more positive and constructive approach at moe conterence ano unc work- shops. The conference began with already existing speakers from like national pooles

NAU

National Women's Aid Federa- tion NCCL on how they work lationally. New body What was ciear after some discussion was that the now national body if formed should orientale towards union and labour movement but that union should not be allowed to cat up control the Campaign Workshop sessions followed where anu policy to be considered by tn Steering Committee were hearing some bric out normie reDorl

ITON

WANT

areas where cuts in be or had been were mauc The discussion in the work.

Ealing parents fight for nurseries shops and break periods struggle on the cuts in provision USCIUl. Calle across was that despite lack of coordination or political direc- were fighting back ane tenne pack bare What emerged worr fighting the Under provision leading

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arcas and realising very quickly

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necessity form even and organisations initiate links bringing togerner an thosc 1ghl-

KIDS

the cuts. FIlE Such new bodies have begun to auscuss Scrousy using y policy such as opposition to all public spending cuts, and oppos- ing rent and Tale mercases do ult "alternative" to cuts. Confrontation These policies bring • about a the union confrontalion 3n(l movement oureau and especially the fake cracy who declare acallist culs impose natas on ine work class by raising rates and also lose support by rents but official, not content vocal in spelling out the mair come so with the The Islington Campaign had hold he already seems to have reasons against campaign been successful from carly on in centred workplace mainly remain In king no une voluntary sector sleeping Committed (playgroups) etc) with the state whose function is to employers making. women provided and the government's sector (nurseries) all leaflets and publicity wonda were oorn unaer unreat Trom te can be. UsE They had nearly succeeded For any campaign intent on Tachines nike nurseries and nos

TO NUPL

he entere fighting and purine pitals to drive women back to traditional the vorkers in the unions stepped alongside, frontation with the union in to stop this nere tolowed a delay inter union leadership is inevitable Unemployment dispute arose who of the main discussions One orcallist VOlullaly

WULACIS

was on une orientalior loward: Female unemplovment has campaigns by union branches NUtE 0I lUWU (ALIDs). risen in the last four years by for workplace over 62%, and in some instances Provision Demoralised 1 1C where workplace nurseries have Workshop stressed the dangers existed employers have closed of the way in which at present them down order to remove This resulted in demoralis- the union leadership is intent on female staff easily ation and a lallure to organise using workoace this which could have ment at the chix campaigns to divert away from the management at the the with

LEAS

the fight to defend and expand factory providing a nursery workers the state funded in existing provision. where sectorat emerged in the wark- encourate the workforce were on strike is

SERTUC

meless will pre of to a marse snops was une reachonary loit provide of the leadership in the unions, who use and direct campaigns The recently held SERTUC when they need a large female workforce. conference on workplace nurser- for their ends stop At the SERTUC conference oft the «C101 gellig • alual y VUlC there were scandalous references ground. completely. One example of this was in Socialist Press and Women's to tae actua c or cose Nottingham, where the NUPE state nurseries being offered by Voice supporters were the most NUPE leader Fisher-no lead for college

JOCA

autor tes creches! It emerged that the students non rolecn has to vote every year for their nursery to continue-raising the danger that the provision could be lost one year it there is a right wing majority debate workplace mu beses was uscul anu lesultcu stering recommendation committee that whilst those campaigning suppoill workplact nurserIes. main emphasis of the Nationa Childcare Campaign should be have government statutory obligation

TO DOVICE

and integrated care facilities and facilities child HOT IRe , over • S. forced to take responsibility for all such provision. Charter NUPE give no lead in union- "Charter tor Isallull, uespile Ils the under as ane it was rebor ed that workers at one Nursery Centre and education) had had to Cart ask to become members have their own branch. London Nursery I ne have pressed South paign Last Region of the lUC to hold Conference for Under 5's workers. Mass campaign amar session or unc last hour of the conference saw trit sells up Care Campaign

(NCCC)

and the submitted by London Nursery Campaign sarco cerv nar les overal alm was to build a mass national the demands campaign around comprenens ve rexole child care facilities provided by the state place Discussion then took on the structure and the form- ing of a steering committee.

1wenty-sever Ted serve present this is overbalanced by campaigners in London this will ng commitee wir meet ever six weeks and it is intended to the next conference early 1981, where further in Januar poncies wil be decoed SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 July 1980 A special Socialist Press report There then followed brief reports and policy cations Irom the workshops 101 the steering committee to con- sider mendations to emerge from the report-backs was a press release a lobby of the lUC and Labou farty conterences and an appea for trade unions and Labour Party constituencies to affiliate.

Il was also • surgesitu lat unt campaign should call on regiona TUC's to implement the

TUC

Under 5's booklet which the TUC have alowed to fall out of print and are trying to bury. Trades Councils are to be encouraged suo-committees were mey o not exis of pree mi One the tangible most contributon Concenco was pooke between Oxford Nottingham Leicester and Wandsworth May' paisle. Nurseries Action Conference 11 Nottingham). This brings together their combined experiences of two formed campaigns and the lessons learnt from • them as a guide ior those about to set ur campaigns or to broaden them out was a recommendation of the vetending shop Steering Com- mittee produce the draft version done WIll am chuments omissions before the next The setting up the National Child Care Campaigr is a new step forward for local campaigns fighting in isolation It could mean the start of ar and aggressive paign that will link local cam on a regional as well as walls nanna das Any individuals loca that wish to affiliate to groups Campaign should writt

NCCC,

, c/o Surrey Docks Unla Care Project, Dockland _ Settle Redriff London Koad. аналов lets Individuals, £2.50; local groups,

CPSA officers victimised

TORIES SLAM

INTO SOCIAL

SECURITY

benefits Social Security and pensions are due to be November increased 1980: but this year the so- "uprating" called annual will mean a severe drop in the living standards of pen- sioners and social security claimants. Many of the proposals in the Social Security No. Bills will be operative from increased pas priceso earninge In the pensions nave -whichever is the higher.

Prices only will From November, they Jinked Pensions will be increased by 16½%, which ment's estimate of the sitivase prices Novem bel between 1979 and November but will be com- the increase because pletely by 75p per child and the one inflation is already family addition will rise parent cost of living will rise even more between now and November ITOM LOU lO dJ.JU There will be many changes Mor alonel nanonal musu- Benefit the ance benefits, the increase will November result- be even less. eneme rol ing Supplementary neit policy, a part of lory Supplementary Benefit sickness and Review. benefit, maternity allowances and invalidity 5% less t will 8. The review was planned to simplify the scheme but than the cost" basis, and what estimated rise prices ...e. major cut benefits. Department of two days' official action The They have also taken strike sacked Employment have in the Phil Cordell and Richard local office accommodation Cleverley, two CPSA branch which an alle office but 120 Over 120 staff work in the officers the Brixton at Branch officers have calculated Unemployment Benefit that there room office. premises for only a third of the The two have heen sacked num Der. taking time off work to There is infestation of mice, for fleas and lice. picket the CPSA allend committee Largest at the height Ofthetend pay attend call balli It is the largest unemploy- lobby oi farlament on o Jan- South Ball. this year against the Corrie ment bere once London with approaching 8,000 unemployed registered and The other against high turnover of staff. Cordell was sponsoring a news- aper advertisement against th Alter a TWO as accommodation there has ational Front and signing i been considerable LiDA Dranci Deciciary. DIAlUl the Unemployment Benefits Office.

It has clear trom Cleverley's other offence was campaign start or une I0T Ine day's holiday reinstatement of Cordell and taking one extra Cleverley right wing the 'Daylight' NEC and full These offences are minor and the clearly time officers are determined to sackings are sell out the dispute. the

CPSA

Wouldalack They and a Day of nart ot the or govere or-alliscu strategy to weaken Action on June 13, the day ol Cordell's sacking, which was industries and to in all intended to divert from all-out break down all effective oppos- strike action branch has a record of effeub-

UBO

There was no instruction for strike Instead

CPSA

in circular-which late official no cal Was action on pay, public spending cuts and suspensions. take the C/11l form 1979 whatever action the campaign pay decided by a members' meeting, thev took one week's unotticial action as well as supporting the extending from a protest meet- the supplementary Benerit Commission will be abolished present allu lil dil made u the owe me Benefit Officers actem Supplementary 'on behalf of the On many of these decisions will have right of claimants will be much less There discretion making •ayments invididual local : officers will have more respon- sibility (with no additional pay).

ing in official hours to industrial action for that day" this, there Despite was good response with a 500-strong demonstration rally •and Brixton, and thousands of civil strike throughout

SUE VOIELS

the country. Absence 90% of government offices that in Scotland were losed on 13 June Al une rally CPSA President Kate Losinska and her NEC were conspicuous oy men dosenee Hillname otticers • A 151211 Graham and Terry Ainsworth from the platform stressed the necessitv for postponing strike action until Service Appeal Board hearing Cleverley Cordell, from the several orner speaker: floor said that no faith should be in Civil Service put Appeal Board and the industrial tribunal and that strike action was the only way that reinstate- The rally ment woulc be won passed the lollowing monon.

"This meeting agrees that Brixton UBO hould be brough until Cleverley OlE and Cordell are reinstated".

3-day strike Cleverley was sacked on 27 June The NEC authorised three By Marie Murphy Social Services Secretary Patrick Jenkin and they will only be made "in exceptional circum- stances". There will be a reduction in the money allocated to rent and tales on genends number people living in the household other where there with the claimant. Cut in benefit : standard From November contribution of £4.60 for each adult non dependant will will meat mitrouuccu cut amount The benefit paid At present a smaller amount

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dependants who are themselves other national insurance benefit.

Tories in conference

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overtoe £4.60 will standard apply them also And claimants At present supplementary £2,000 will Saves 01 ove longer entitled supple- "exceptional needs pay- claim mentary benefit. ments" for and replace- will affect people who footwear, clothing, ills nave received reaundancy bedding and housenold zoous ments or other lump sum pay- and payments are very ments of insurance. The will also affect cuis Tightened up youth. school leavers present however, benefit at the end o can clain …arom november. the rules on "exceptional needs the term tney dave selloul payments" will be tightened up But after November, CPSA will then go dans' st25-2actiond Called or mendation, Tribunal called Industrial and protest meetings in the then action would strike appropriate the country Brixton members were He says that industrial action now would be: dissatistied With ills an of members' on June meeting out on unofficial strike for resources by depleting the fight- sudy ing fund at a time when it is anotner week. A week later they met again necessary Consere out for a resources for the battles which voted ' to stay alla lie ahead on public expenditure further week. The unofficial "Brixton pay Call 1981". UBO Campaign for Trade Union The Rights" have organised a levy to unofficial campaign pay full pay to the strikers.

Thoven trev ave worke mala.

have failed to put pressure on the unofficial union leadership.

Condemned The Department letti Employment Section Executive Management have responded have been very lax in not calling by employing 20 casuals to do an emergency meeting and strikers of the

CPSA

• branches must bom-

WOIN

doing bard Thomas the

NRC

oiner orates dusU clerical work. calling for the withdrawal of hi The response Ken circular and aemanding Immed Thomas, CPSA General Secre iate strike action. was members circular condemning No illusions the unofficial strike! that the state. There should be no illusions industrial action authorised by has been "consider- the Service Appeal says that no furthe Board and the industrial able" and will tribunal. action Concu unlI after the Civil Service Appeal The campajen urgently needs which does not meet money and donations should be Board made payable to "Brixton UBC until mid-August. Trade Thomas says that, if the Civil Uniot Campaign and sent to 16 Knowl Service Appeal като тесом

TELLS

Cowley mends reinstatement, and if the ton House Estate, Cowley Road, LONDON SW9. Employment Darticul school leaver aged between 16 and 19 will be able to claim the benefit end of unil lot holiday period following his or her last term at school someone Incall. leaving school during or at the end of it will not benefit before be able to claim This will mean that for that unemployment period artificially wil reduced as school leavers will not be signing on for benefit.

and vcruDallulial sick pay from em plovers will De into account in full when assessing benefit some of it is once. disregarded. Sponsored immigrants be : eligible to claim benefit not be deemed responsibie 10] (There will be no right of appeal on this. category of ofticers with deal hi calc problem cases. his means thal of the poor , for example many or blacks, will be Sulkiel. singiea out as problems All these proposals will cause conflict between statin camants aney mcal. Natetual return the days Assistance Board and Poor Relief when claimants had no rights. There will be much more fraud em phasis on and less on the welfare oi ciaim ants. particularly disturbin organising that the

DHSS

are each local DHSS officer little There has been mention resistance new Bill from the right wing In fact Kate CPSA leadership. Losinska. CPSA President. man oeuvred all discussion on the Social Security No. Bill off

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conference agenda Ine It is essential that the civi service unions •and claimants organise action against unions the Bill, linking up with othe workers down savage Tory government

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As unemployment shoots unemployment in Leeds. upwards towards the two Labour million the ployed -3.07 mark po in Hul, T7.2% in Dons aster and trade union leadership being prodded into ana a nanonal average ol 1.0% gestures and protests. other ment The unemployment and wage cutting Hallordi average. of Doncies conditions, 1omer co man in nanc cam paigns on J0P while not spored MP West Leeds has clashed with Keith Joseph over tinuing existence strategy oi the the way the crisis is now biting ment is a dangerous farce.

in Leeds. Dean said in the House of Commons actua sinouron or ine unem.

Torv lial oolicies ployed. were now destroying the basic engineering industries of test survey conducted already allnost destroyce me comme trade.

He pointed out to Sir Keith ment rate in the inner city areas.

that Leeds North East had actually cut his majority at the worked out that in Chapeltown, last General Election. Lecas, area West Indian, But Dean's European proposed solu- tion to the problem was import unemployment level is around protect British 30%. COnITOIS For black textile firms. Nor did he even call for Keith's removal let vary alone for action to bring down Last week were only fifteen vacancies une orv covernmenti He has now contacted the 5,000 Leeds Trades Council and other MPs to sound out the possibility was contronted with a queue oi campaign against over 300 for the jobs!

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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 sectors of state industry will be handed to the Tories profiteering big business backers; and the armed forces mark only the against pickets and anti-fascists and an intensified army crackdown in the occupied North of Ireland.

The Callaghan-Healey leadership has made it clear that it will oppose any perspective other than settling down and meekly accept- ing tive years of Tory devastation.

though they have forgotten "socialist' Labour's continued to duck away from any fight 1o remove Callaghan Icaders, too, have set out to establish a basis for collahorn tion with cabinet. working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan.

working class has But the experienced and overcome betrayals before topple Heath's union-bashing government i 1974, is in a series of Calmental ragbattles in the winter of controls in a series of monumental pay battles in the winter 1978. These experiences are not dead. They hard-won union rights can be defended against But a principled, revolutonary leadership Labour traitors, the TUC collaborators Communist Party are to be exposed and pushed aside, and the mass stubbies mobused Illal can delcal and remove the Such a leadership must fight day in and day out for a programme of transitional demands which, starting from today's conditions and today's wittill Lit working class, erase une necessity for socaust revolution And in taking up democratic demands-such as an end to racial it must show the crucial role that must be and sexual discriminatior played by ine working class as the only consistentiv revolutionar class capable of leading the struggle for the emancipation of making And it must fight on an international basis-mobilising solidarity Sou an Africa diseased are thralist strune whether in treland, the world, elsewnere throughout strength and political lessons from revolutionary that which ousted the hated Shah in Iran. the reconstruction of the Trotskyist rourth international Workers Socialist League is affiliated to the • 10

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une Trotskyist International Liaison Committee and develop and for thid assion in eno world Trotskyist move.

and develop of the principles period will see major class struggles in Britain.

The next principled Marxist leadership strong iN panamake forward the mergie for socialism!

Protests no answer to unemployment How do lackie problem? Leeds Lecus nas over a guy unem- enormous The the Council's direc works depart- This compares with ment has trebled the number of apprentices it is taking-but that only words VOul in Leeds is less than the Geroge Mudie, the leader of the Labour Group admitted this Under waging purely local was only d esture to snow une unemployment Council was way questioning the con already millions in debt and overall He is writing to the govern- Tory govern- ment asking money 101 to tackle unemployment. The crude figures distort the he common also said was He contact with the Market. So, for instance, in Leeds a chance that either body will be bothered months about the fate of youth 15% unemplov From these figures it can be Labour Chapeltown Ward with Party (the Leeds ward that Asian and Eas and is part Covers ceremo of Sir Keith Joseph's constitu community. Int ency) tabled a resolution which calls for a canad between 55-80%h estimates down the Tory govern- bring policies. Leeds there must acted upoi for locally. school leavers. One shop Constituency Labour passed the resolution but didn't vacancies ano send it to the party conference Militant Hailly Decause Ine Group argued that the Labour leadership ravour bringing down the Tories!!

(They could not quote any examples) there are tangible steps But that ine Labour leaders could take one or end. the Labour rally should convere a natona conferènce Labour Councils and instruct them resist totally the government's allacks Other councils are carrying out Tory cuts and blaming the Tories must be ouch councilors exposed and replaced by those who are willing to fight.

Only intou serous moves to mobilise the trade union pay rises to police and movement and the working class to mersee siste violence lo: ng down tae government can the menace of unemploy- ment be tackled. wing' parallelling their anti- such point to the way that jobs, needed if the Tory govern. lead workers to Get the answers in and drawing upheavals such as

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fights to reaffirm 1938 Transitional policies to defend jobs, Our movement though The complete bankrupt- cy and cowardice of the public sector union leaders in the struggle against the cuts was confirmed mass meeting of the kitchen staff employed by the Humberside Education Department in Hull called by the GMWU. how fight The meeting: held last Wed was called to discuss the nesday. redundancy situation The trend public the in the cold cl se in October actually took wick •oerore place, in the form of a scandal- leaflet fight the drawn cuts

GMWU

possible. • circulatea to the membership, which declared that: "It is expected that volun- for redundanc will. he This called for-this will warmly people under 59 years age. if this should happen forms wil answered be opened with meeting over 550 kitchen staft ao tchen staff and the role of the local leader • was la cal when int 1 Olil Organiser Bill Allan Aren addressed the meeting giving that she had details of when the redundan- cles would take place and how mumDel many jobs were to go whatsoever had planned on now to migni redundancies, Allan went on to tell his members that the union kitchen staff Caller that tary redundancies and that if this failed then the union would procced on a "last in, first out' kitchen the DiSIS take any cuts in hours. When the meeting was Yet now thrown local Labour open Councillor asked Allan why he was not calling for opposition school increase in charge to 50p Socialist Margaret Nix (who is the only woman shop steward in the Hull division) then attacked the plat- pointing out Tory County Council's work for them and were therefore carry- ing out Tory policies. by the Convenor meal services do? Do you want us to let th county Councillors to go to th indiscriminately?" issue he claimed was GMWU leader Basnett Nazarel

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* Name.. fighting Address. wages and social services 6XX SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 July 1980 GMWU implements Hull sackings Officials hand out redundancy forms to the redundancies and giving a applause when she replied: "What kind lead to the members present on of a union is if these that does the Tories work for allack. She also reminded him that them? What we should be doing at a public meeting on the cut fighting these sector held in Hull all you should be leading tha of last vear he har fight!" When stated that he was prepared to the leadership was questioned as to their reference forms, redundancy the conveno picked I up a bundle of Personal attack up shouting that they were available.

At this chaos broke out, contribution was with many of the the women present asking for redundancy but Was forms. • by a personal attack When order was restored the on tne Labour councilor ov Ktr Allan saying that as she was no chairman made ludicrous worker, she hac statement inat endershit "only looking after right to question the plat were interests of the members" When the question of oppos The Councillor pointed out been an the redundancies was active again raised the member of the union and also a chairman played the oldest Education Tne mOs Branch 5 for longer than he aespicadie trick in tne book- immediately putting to a- - vote The platform had no answer proposal for all out strike to this. Then a member of the allion ine toniowing day raised With no preparation for such the point policy obviously heavily was al a previous mecime nerd defeated with in April over redeployment the same leadership had instructed aboul ten members voting ion staff strike action. to retuse to were asking iney The platform, gloating over workers to take a cut in jobs!

The platform got round this by this success ther asked it anv other action was desired by the resetting to ine arop in demand membership A Socialist Press meals since the supporter then called for a no- cover policy for anyone sick or supporter ries on holidays The chairman blandly replied that this had been tried the past with the that cleaners but had not worked - failing to mention that cleaners implement

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• naa tried to the no cover policy had received leadership. support irom the Indiscriminate The Hull betrayal is clearly no unique example: it is Just This was answered sharply instance role of the school public sector union bureaucrats sao ared or joes and sevices asked "what do you want us to slaughter and service without lifting a finger opposition This is why the fight against Tory the Cs DO IT "not a political with the struggle for a new revolutionary leadership in the drew warm labour movement.

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Mass arrests at SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16 July 1980 Once flared at Adwest Engineer- ing this week as the Thames Valley SPG (Thames Valley Support smashed up a lawful picket line. As the 85 pickets arrived at 6.30 a.m. were met with Tae v uniformed strike the same police tactics as last breakers on either week's day of action: ranks of Adwest s gates prevented pickets from taking up and vi cale pathway for the blackleg labour 10rce This time

TGWU

however, Danny gunman convenor Broderick, himself aliasicu earner udy or acton, announced over megaphone that to deny From front page picket line unlawful act and could not be tolerated.

at the time of the incident.

The police have

HOL VOL

Gates charge occiaco wnetner Cramp. The pickets then marched in Between the time Thornett ararag's aDioston thre es.

phoned tle onice ano enerr Reading's Division reporters arriva Baliv Miali intervene, Robert Porter and Harry Long- the ensuing 40 demonstrators muir arrived at Thornett's house livin. form a line across manaceo to -a week 'ana a nawt atter they the entrance. first arrived in town-asking to t was then that the support speak to Thornett. group Although mye m dna arter ten , UCS COrECS COT minutes of police violence, the story of Cramo and the aun dragged off and the police the Trom evening, the Daily Mail has arrested and

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this cases with wilfull obstruction of carried story and the highway. none uney nave suc este• toał were held for six hours incident was the Tne who e of the Workers in the Keadine cells and hauled Socialist League in front of a special court in the afternoon. Most pleaded desperate etons tod guilty and will appear for trial discredit the Workers Socialist" League the Mail is prepared to cally M AUgUS. -icale ds ulaty itaculary tertor- ists and fictional gunmen as are Vicious assault necest y to do the job. Mail-no Despite this vicious assault, doubt unwittingly-hire pickets still attempted to form notocraoner Wno arentel ar ine. and five more gun alongside his packs a real bringing camera, there is only one plac tlic . lota for that story-the number of those arrested to 26 Daily Mail of the dustbin! al but one strike committee. an angry Danny Broderick spelt it out: "T'his strike is now of central Odall

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Adwest Lagry importance to the trades union anu worki cars a noe "Because we are fighting to defend lawful right picket this must be scen as une the

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sinke country and, as such, must b supported financially as well as physically. 'We urgently need financial aid to keep this dispute alive.

"We call sympathisers everywhere conol-

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to une strike lung wnich because of factors like fines, costs and legal lack of strike pay Is desperately low' "Given the actions of the "The next day of action is help received from police August II. AHOne concernec those who democratic rights should • uluesd elt WIll be there and meantime ancee or tas sirike we are now more determined than ever donating money CIsue to win it. ' the survival of the strike".

St Mary's rundown The dangerously low by the supervisors and in some manning levels and the expected to do the case are gradual decline in services at work of three people St. Mary's Hospital, Harrow Rita herself has been threat- Road, are taking their toll.

ened with disciplinary action for refusing to move from one staff are under the ancilarv department to another -not to increasing pressure from super- provide cover for staff who are visors take extra off sick or on holiday (which and the to carry out is her job) but to take on extra WOlK ol work. olci rade or sa Maxim, shop steward kita Direct attack and ward orderls who has worked at Harrow Road This despite union 10] policy told Socialis that members do not carry out severicoo yeats domestics and such work ThaT orderlies are constantly harassed Such aulons amount to a

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Donatons and messages oi financial support should immediately w arl Broderick, 46, Berkley Avenue.

keading attack on trade «rect union organisation and wal tiulal the shop stewards who stand ur the interests anc ocleno fellow workers. Only through strong and democratic trade union organis- management tne. attempts to run down services be thwarted The fight at St. Mary's mus be win the drozcener to support the local labour of and must link with other campagns agains cuts and the Tory govern- Ill till INDEED! TAP THEIR PHOMES... DEPORT EM.. LOch

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Page 11 Parents occupy Coventry nursery- Over 100 .people crammed into Wheatley St Nursery School in Coventry last Sunday evening to take part a public meeting called to launch a campaign of support for the occupa- tion, which started last Friday. Consistent appeals from valvlts le Loven s anont council had failed to stop the planne casca ored torse% which walcie chlidren and has an extremely good reputation in the city.

No alternative Faced with no other hope of the appeal to Education Secretary Mark : Carlisle would succeed parents leveloie decIsIon supporters moved , occupation when the term ended last Friday Al tne public meeting a cam paign to resist the closure : was formally constituted Coventry Campaign

I UISCI

(Wheatley street) In the mair speeches out lining the situation W as stressed that the • Glosule was sender Cul already of places num ber and bat thes wecie hait was buildings wolc sun pry a smokescreen Independent An independent survey snows that the cost of repairs is nowhere near what the counci is claiming. Messages of süpport for the heard from vuuupalion wert

NUPE

branch secretars Joca. Joe Little chairman Coventry SE Labour Party, . T0 f Oxford and Nursery Lencester Campaigns, local Women': the Voice group and a number of Labour councillors. 1 he cupalion nas come a few after ten Labour cavs councillors defied the Labour whip and

YULEU

mctcase mn schooi meals charger from 35p to 45p battle s underway within the City Labour Party commit the council to a policy of no cuts. The occupation has beet visited by

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more porters in just the first few days, and it is clear that the campaign a instsheco su capper a. Messages

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ano donations should be addredsed The Occupiers Wheatley St. Nursery School, Coventry.

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against employed Black against white Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League. BM Box 5277. London WCIV 6xx. Printed by Morning Litho frinters Lta, Londol The high priest of racial- ism, Enoch Powell, has joined the growing of Tories and fascists seek- ing to exploit the conditions of the present recession to whip up racial divisions in the working class. month Tory MP Late last Sir Ronald Bell gave vent to his National Front sive vict lidl black workers "Trom trooical areas" should be repatriated.

Singling out attack those black your have backon the streets ot bristo. and Southall against Tory policies of mass and ben went on to compiain. inar.

"One third of all the births Greater London ore mourers, doos tris make sense? Who can be proud being British if this is all that being British means?" venomous

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was followed up last week by Tory MP Harvey Proctor, demanded end to all immi oration ano an energetic doucy of voluntary repatriation" These together

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Prior the To people many prospect of two million on the dole queues in Britain horrifying waste human energy and resources -a bitter lesson in the work- ings of the capitalist system.

But for the Tory government and their big friends unemployment has illass uses: *They hope to use the threat fellow Tory with Anthony Marlow; have launched a cam- oalon reverse cover- already hypocritical commitment to a multi-racial socICly. Thatcher herself in the run- up to the election showed how regards seriously she commitment. when she stant- lessly sought the racist vote by ssuing well planned press warn- a flood of immigrants OT su boseory swamping Ene British "national culture".

Loyalist Now Powell-currently ovast vr—nas reasserteo nis leading role in the campaign to incite racial hatred. similar to „houres thoe nroniceo nv he rowell warned that the recent riot by black youth Bristol vvas simpiy a foretaste of the Tuture, in which "urban terrorism' could be expected. supposedly i ne Only more •moderate resoonse Whit a how me Serenar from Tory Home Secretary around the tact that the govern.

*ment's forthcoming Nationality Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office, Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist League of unemployment to bludgeon workers in mausury me accept ing wage increases , wer seou rate of inflation. Hence the ultimatums Lucas Chrysler/Talbot *They hope combine unemployment with growing atacks on social secuilly allu other benefits, and with harass by

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in ment jobless and youth into workers lowest paid jobs. Sir Keith Joseph only delighted the recently employ ing class by calling on the boyca lo Olle WOrK estabused rate of pay. Employment Secre- revealed tary James has dates objective-to lower wages in the public sector to level benett, by dragooning workers Bill is an outright racialist piece legislation that adds still the restrictions already savage Immigration Acts imposed by successive Labour and Tory governments. Indeed for Whitelaw as much as tor rowen tne use or racia hatred provides a handy weapon class-a the working weaton wilde unev are COmI mitted to use Racialism is effective for the Tories in two respects. While rallying the most des perate ano decenerate cement the middle class the squalid banner of "patriotism" it also represents a bid to divid The workers movement alone racial lines at a time when Tory cuts and closures and Ilas: historic crisis in housing and the social services. By offering up black workers scoottool impact capitalism living standards, workers' hope ally united cass down the Thatcher government and confront the attacks on jobs and working conditions.

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Unemployed voluntary scheme", he declared The Tory offensive is now into unpaid "voluntary work reaching full speed ahead: hospitals and community Then Prior, in attempting to trade union service. ThaT blan every conscript the unemployed into rights standards "It seems wrong to me that alid made the services achieved we are payug out large sums ul workers decades of struggle scheme even clearer. benefits and get nothing for it " he declared last week. are under allack He emphasised that Gowrie words, while Tory In other Far from offering to talk to meant only to coerce unemploy- about his reactionary cute ano closures deciate it Prior ed youth into the existing youth paid workforce in the public employment and scheme to top ministers are • Fisher and his fellow temporary employment schemes oloyeu. planning to draft in unemploved should be called

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chiefs -In weeky wast workers and youth to cover over is a princely £22.50 per week, as upon to prepare genela surine the impact of against dole payments of £15 action bring down the allacks-anu wulse Thatcher government It is clear therefore that the wenken and erode trade union - workers' Tories are plotting to exploit a AnO and the fight for vast pool cheap labour- movement the fight and conditions among that up for principled Wants latest reports expect that leadership public sector workers. least one mmon youne worker.

the right wing Callaghan/Healey Priors Minister speed the aged netween Will Gowrie spelled unemployed next year. Earl clue in tae abor racy and This of spell out a socialist programme cours a savage clearly 1acl llld for mass action to bring about a whole working schémes would from aLlack volunthere is no coercion at the Yet case recerven only socials pianic most weak-kneed opposition alone which NUPE leader Fisher improved living standards and but we may nave to monnell. the right of every worker to a public sector union think again if people persistent- anu ly refuse to work under this leaders. the assisted treacherous role played by the trade union with collaboralin every public sector, and waging not the slightest struggle against closures. Tuneances and walt cuts. = in common action adainst the class enemy that the workine cass cans besi achiev unity in struggle. . By rejecting such action, create conditions •emorarsaron australion in which racíalism can fester.

The menace of racialism and be effectively fascism can ConsulCion the orkers derment thin workers com- movement

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*Repeal the Immigration Law Defeat fascist violence: for workers so ude. defend black communities and the labour movement! action *Prepare Ids. bring down Ine oly govern-. Powell