Socialist Press no. 208

DEFEND BOLIVIAN

MASSES AGAINST

Black all arms to the Junta!

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 208 * July 30, 1980 * 20p Affillated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee Bolivian miners armed with dynamite The driving force behind the vicious right wing coup unleashed by the Bolivian armed forces on July 17 is the relentless demands of worki imperialism. And of course the main tar- not the ousted President, the lacklustre Lydia Gueiler, or the svaliec Iciails tlic charade or paramentary demo- cacy in Bolivia. The target Bolivian working The Cwo.

CHCIC

«immate The noer ship of the workers' movement and assail the ranks of the work- I uzas wil billuctCu vIol- ence until, through sheer brutal- hunger and fear, its resist- ance is broken, What is occurring in Bolivia Is an attempt to intlict a massive ana decisive deleat on the work- ing class in the manner of Chile 1973 Uruguay allu Argentina m 19/0. but as yet 11 is far from clear that the junta will succeed in this task.

Dictatorship ne rs_ week ol за dictatorship dopcals Man y respects to be simiar to that of the ill-fated regime established last Novembei Colonel Alberto Natusch Busch. import- noere are. no wever. ant differences. Natusch, pise tops, aleme en to ped ray the violence employed by his regime as 'populist'.

He entered into negotiations parlament the Lydia Gueiler Croil

COB

(Bolivian TUC). Nasca was aiso opposea by a signitic- torsios ot inle and Ateentina ant sector of the army was better prepared, both polit- Even faced ically and militarily id chan t with massive halt the "anarchy mas una ble polac resistance, all clans suUeessVC accus military parlamentary Wul2. anta wilk une sane Bollvlan was necessary pantomime. orviced the day concede advocates of bourgeois demo- Disarmed стасу. He Ine overtarow ol nis dicta- was however, torship after sixteen days was greatly aided by the fact that celebrated as a popular class had been

VICLOTY

Lne working but politically disarmed 11 omu or act tne rignt and fed simply retreated to reorganise grotesque musions in parlamen- its forces; far 11vlll laly urmocracy aurino the pec.

defeated. campaign by PetY, T10n months later General nationalists Garcia Meza, presiding over united military apparatus, alcel elections was vividly mo lian both the exposed when dry run' cooperation with attempt was made in mid-June civilian right wing and the dicta- before the poll. This was stopped as a result of open hostility from the US, unrest among army conscripts and hopes amongst the officel coros that the eventus reci might place rightist Victor Paz Estenssoro in power. Alliance The elections therefore were allowed to take place. But the victor clear, ecame would be Hernan Siles Suazo of rovulal • Democratic UnIOn alliance with the pro-

(UD I

Moscow CP and the reformist

MIR.

The prospect scenns "communists electea to bowe much for the military was toc high command. Troops took over the major cities. meeting organised resistance for the first 24 hours, despite the anti-coup vacald tions lidut the Defence of commolttee tor Democracy (CONADE), a broad civic front supported by all the ulal bourgeols parties and the Church as well as the COB.

The COB headquarters were attacked lignitlst vitantes Continued, page 2 *

IMPERIALISM

The Thatcher govern- ment stands four-square the most behind barbaric dictatorships in Latin Amer- ica. That is clear from the decision last week to lift the six year ban on sales of British-made arms to Chile.

There is no doubt that this will move be tollowed up bi sales of arms ane orner trace Argentina and witn BORVt. othe equali blood-stained regimes. Labour's new Manifesto reviewed Page 5 Prior's anti-union Bill p.8 p.9 Bugging technology. Junta chief Garcia TG WU leaders on Chile demonstration Gormley Fight for blacking action!

The British labour TGWU dockers move and atra trade, ment-many oi wnose endero black ¿laue declare a verbal commitment to military vo celali! aurin. solidarity the Chilean equipment, to Chile, Bolivia and working class and the Bolivar Argentina. take active steps Immers-must And NUM leaders Daley and to force a halt to this trade.

Gormley be forced to Bolivia in particular is a land- Hlasl mount out TUC urogrt mime oo actil locked country particularly anae oi astor vulnerable to blacking action by with the beseiged Soldamty international labour Bolivian miners. ROve Pressure mem. tne bolvan cub (luc must be placed on has appealed for such support union leaders in Peru to ensur who headed the that Bolivia's main trading route last Chile Solidarity cut by blacking and strike Match called upon to instruct action. Iust be

BOLIVIA: from front page Page 2 Bolivia: two years of struggle 1978 Jan. Hunger strikes for political amnesty and legalisation of trade unions; generai strikes in departments of rotos!

ane caucuisacar President, General Banzer forced to announce elections for July.

candidates Hernan Siles (UDP -bourgeois July. Elections; principal centrists in allance with er victor raMNnA Gen. Juan Pereda (Air Force-Banzer's candidate). After widespread fraud Pereda preempts a marginal victory by Siles with a coup to institucionalistas' led by Gen David Padilla, accept end of dictatorship and overthrow Pereda; elections announced for July 1979 Beset by right and lett. Padilla simpiy "holds the decisions taken. fort'l 1979 July. Elections: principal candidates,

UDP, MNRA

and Banzer. Atter a relatively clean polt siles narrowiy wins presidency but raz obtains congressional majority-stalemate results in further interim president-rightist Walter Guevara Arze to hold new elections in June 198U. Congress initiates impeachment or banzer tor treason Oct. With constant bickering in Congress Guevara threatening to сОв prolong his 'mandat', announcement of measures alre Dancer Trinidad garrison attempts coup and fails.

No aled in overthrong: out on chi leveral srine: Guevara overthrown by tiations between army, politicians and 4ub leadership Lethat call. off strike; miners continue.

Natusch removed for interim president Gueiler (proPaz). Army stages further "passive ensure Natusch appointees retain posts.

Jan. Military appointments controlled by ultra-right, constitutional elements sent to distant garrisons April. Militarv riaht fullv in control of army under Gen. Luis Garcia -openly attacks civilian rule. Assassination of Luis Espinal, leftist biggest demo since 1952 revolution. Inflation for first editor, draws duarter at sir uener seeks to moose wir diaus in defence of de/hoday i to use roe to forkades and general trike defence road blockades and general strike • Lechin (COB) and Garcia (army) sign 'pact' in event of coup тестост June: Coup led by Garcia forestalled by opposition in lower ranks.

US warning Assassination attempt made Gueiler by chief of her leader of bodyguard. Jaime MIR and vice-presidential candidate for UDP survives sabotage of hi aircraft. Tarror canade atack UDr meetings out non commane reluctantly accepts elections (13 June).

and troops amongst which were This was an important devel- specially-trained over collicle Argentine soldiers. miners union (SIMB of had broken Icader of the the military-peasant congressman aliance which

MATCO C

Quiroga Santa Cruz, head of the General Barrientos in Tne Party 1960s and became there- Socialist early • a critical base of support

OUL

beaten and summarily executed.

for the army. Juan Lechin, leader of wounded

LUD.

wai Peasant union captured, paraded later to ignominiously front of TV Some 20 other union national Late last vear the cannelds. peasant union joinca the cub enders were ass niler unprecedented and an step, The

COB

and

CONADE

were prepared gencral although these called the dis- Trom revolutoody ancy suke ane olockade oi rodus anu played a anti-mintarism Siles urged continued resistance to the army. prove cal superceded apathy Characteristic Censorship pcasant masses. The results of this develop- Although it is stil ditticult ment have proved uneven in the ascertain with confidence What occurred in the first dayse last week, of the coup two Peruvian jour- counted ,400 because or tota censorsano and nalists OVer the unreliability of bourgeois bleak in the information, it appears that for Andean altiplano as a result of road blocks. Tner two work as ate the coup the general strike was It is, nevertheless, against the solid in the towns miners that the army nas trad by mid-week after itionally directed its vengeance.

threats of dismissal, with the numbers Lalse widespread deployment were rapidly ferried to besiege and rightist vigilantes, and take the southern particularly the major centres o their political and union leader- Catavi-Siglo XX and nuallulli, ship (either dead, Chocalla. captured) the urban working Radio stations to work. Urban resistance became students, There, the strike was total bravely continued erect and careful preparations for self makeshift barricadies, snipe defence, based on plant unions patrols and sabotage communi- through coordinatec union radio stations, were put sporadic activity continues into concern of the prime Contrary to early reports the outside of military is. however. miners … are nol neavliy and the limental but almost totally reliant upon and the mining their weapon of Nevertheless, heroic camps, the 'namos Bonvian economiy and the nome leaves progress very slow and costly ol tne multant vanguara or lne working class. was defended Huanuni vehemently and retaken trom a large occupying Torce. Resilient likely that this battle cost many

LIVOS

Fierce also It is here that the strikes resistance wa. and blockades had the most reported in the mine of Santa Potosi, where the allu hild most resilient. army was held at bay for five The days. peasants played However, one the important role year's last stations have fallen silent radio overthrow of Natusich bv block.

ing the main roads. and Tate Collictely Armoured car in peasant district near La Paz retreated surrounded, down the This what occurred in 194 19 Miners in the Siglo XX mine, bomb the minc unless they surrenderel have now laid down their arms.

Latest reports suggest a truce these. is, however, clear that class is extremely dictatorship in the short term.

This is most apparent in the balance of class forces in simpie terms of power without coherent the prolet political leadership, ariat has suffered a major set- back. Violation and his fellow Garcia butchers on the ruling junta, ostracised by remain at present who have Tae Deanses cut off aid and withdrawn their protest the ambassador violation of human rights. They are also isolated from the Andean the countries Pact but they will continue to derive support from Argentinian butcher Videla (first and fore- most) as well as Pinochet.

Bolivian

AT USE

officers appear to have joined those South American regimes that are prepared to enter inic partial conflict WitE imperialist leaders over the form policing their neo colonial states. They know, along with Reagan and the more outspoken monopoly marshals capital, that buoyant profits, guaranteed investment and are not in the political stability in Bolivia or any. east assurel where else by respect

CIOT

"human rights". Luxury How long Washington afford the luxury of its current verbal opposition to the coup is afraid Latel concone the roman gamester.

yet his minions are beginning to "middle way. realise there is no Dillial geoisie, totally insignificant international terms, has suffered the full force of the crisis of imperialist capital and the national economy is verging on The was truenel темне engaged in talks with the IMF savage which wants to im pose on rescheduling Bolivia's £1.5 billion debts. be There can no douot thal the UDP would have been unable to meet such con- been obliged ditions implement some torm of redis tributionist and would have measures state and crippled the the teen e local businesses It was fear of this that drove sectors of the middle substantial the last classes to the year, stituency for parliamentarianism and imperialist capital- whatever Carter's bleatings-lair and square behind the coup.

Meanwhile Bolivia workers attempt to regroup and defend Ine against further attack. essential that armed self defence established the squads proletarian centres. At the same time the for- ward movement of the : Bolivian peasantry against the junta must SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 30 July 1980 Polish strike wave The Polish working class continues to mount a grow- ing wave of what the Stalin- ist bureaucracy refers to as "temporary of weakening dynamics" production otherwise known as strikes.

The strikes have now taken place major maustry and city in roland The demands made in these have rapidly extended strikes increases beyond bureaucracy's recent meat price rises Demands have been made for the right for workers to organise their own unions.

Assurances plant In the tractor played Ursus, whose workers such an unportani uprising of 1976, shop stewards forced the management 1o give that assuralice. would be no victimisations.

demands

HISU

rapidly thor each escalating strike. In the first week 5% was the common settlements. In the second week it had risen to 10% naves ine direct was forced to concede a 15% 30,000 steel WOTKeTS week railway And by workers Ostrow support or a demand for 20ke in support ol a demand lor be developed: it is important Workers' Self Defence Commit- that workers movemen should champion the demo. 70 factories have cratic demands experienced total strikes since the beginning of July.

alien land, fair prices. At present situation is ane cheap the credit. which the growing one workers demanas or in contagi becomme he casuzzy Alliance ous and are finding a spineless to make bureaucracy But in seeking to develop an concess ons al crely tail Having started by attempting alliance with the peasantry it is some of its economic to resolve to the politics of the petty bour- problems by cutting real wages geois political formations.

bureaucracy the arrived at a position in which its little news problems has emerged of the TaTe Lint working Treat hit foer sint ovy this worsened because the class is forcing however concessions or Guillermo Lora, real wages POR, led The bureaucracy must now the cons stenu warlice be to workers' movement attempt Consults al. imminent danger of a coup and stop ine erosion or its power Dy pointed to the fraud staging major confrontation

COCCULY

with the working class ulent nature or tne elections calling boycott and and workers' struggle Battle for power peasants government The bitter lessons oi the It is a situation which could coup must now be learned and • sudden v erupt into a new remembered bv all revolution.

full-scale battle TO! Dowel aries in the next period as the between Polish working and petty reformist class and its Stalinist oppressors.

politicians and their hangers-ol this will indeitocratic opposition to the rapidly are alia that junta. fellow Stalinist consult leaders in Moscow There little doubt that by the : Polish SerIOuS rISINS oust Gierek workers that might could provoke a military inter vention by Kremlin troops alon and Czechoslovakia in 1969 6 ine imes restore the stability of order to forestall rule and ourcaucralil any struggles across the border into the USSR itself It is precisely in seeking such Marxists pollica revOlULOl Wild while detending nationalised relations property in the USSR, Poland and othe states, their detormen workers siut with the workers for the overthrow of struggle The bureauCraCy We call in these struggles fo establishment of workers the councils to challenge the powel of the parasitic stalinist me basis workers' states through Eastern Europe. Bolivian workers in struggle in 1971

RISING TIDE OF VIOLENCE

AGAINST TURKISH WORKERS

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 30 July 1980 Islamic religion in Turkey The killing of the leader Ilas been divided between the Sunni of the Metal Workers' Union and a founder of DISK, who are a branch of the Shi-ite Kemal Turkler, indicates the sect. the depth of crisis Turkey. Ambush Political killings are running In the last The deputy chairman of the at neariy ten a day.

TWO

montas reacionary NAt, Gun sazak, was Kliled 1n former Prime Minister, an RPP an ambush on May 28 deputy and leader Sunni shopkeeper fascist NAP have been killed.

Corum explained: This latter killing sparked off "Every thing after статтес an offensive the National Sazak was killed. The NAP boys Action Party. For centuries the decided left … The

CALSON

INTERNATIONAL

TROTSKYSTE

TILC supporters picket the Turkish Embassy in protest at the murder of Turkler Defeat Turkish state repression. *Against repres- Behind the political crisis of parliamentary sion! Smash the fascist rule, and bands! slaltmale oresiaentia elections, lie the effects of the *Break from the RPP- deepening world capitalist crisis For a united front of on the ruined Turkish economy workers organisations Astronomic levels of infla- tion, throwing the banking *For workers' and system into chaos, and a quarter in government of the population unemployed, Turkey! has forced the Turkish class further The fascist attacks on the into the arms of working Cass nave reached a new stage with the agencies, who explolt this situa aS metal workes union leade.

MADEN-

further reiy in the evolutionars strategy Middle East 1o unume member of DISK. destruCon T ne Felly MADEN. 39 mencos, Shah's regime in Iran has forced imperialism strikes by members, new the DISK leadership's response darmes to the outrage was to call a 24- hour By restricting Turkeys rele region. For

NATO,

through this action any possible today therefore macoenaeal taxes on a creater imortance.

struggle by working class, In addition, US President reformist Communist Carter's cold new war anti- Party of Turkey leadership once soviet policies means the Penta step up their

CONE

general. remnants bourgeois demo- military collaboration with thei and with it their own counterparts. Turkish and l1caus. WUlACIS lesson but they could not raise the state at the Black Sea port So they of Fa tert-wing petty bourgeois support. decided into religious battle. Incy party, ver. Iol, nas estabisnica ed" control of the town council controls and In December 1978 a similar price introducing eliminating the black market.

sectanal massacre left over 130 dead but According to Prime Minister Corum the this "com- minority areas Demirel left-wing mune" threatened the state

WEIG

anu o calista. and dawn curfew was followed by a Barricades weapons prevented a massacre house to house search. Over 500 were arrested. No army prepared aulow resistance was pul army operation. e comparative tallure Corum provoked the Corum no fascist forces were ment to assert the authority of involved 10 10

KUPDISTANDA

PASKLARA

SON

FIAL

statement adopted by the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee Summer School, July 1980, and signed by the following organisations: Workers Socialist League (Britain); Socialist League (Democratic Centralist) (USA Trotskistisk Forbund sympathising section); Arbejder (Denmark); Gruppo Bolscevico Leninista (Italy); Liga Obrera Bolchevique de Chile.

the increasing drive towards civil pasais must now coniton a war et class aesperate to impose its rule by new means. still the fate of the Increasingly Turkish remain tied to not parliament but the police, army leaders bureaucratic WIll

USC

fascist bands on the anu to me anti-imperialist and streets that the bourgeoisie now demagogy as a cover for main- turnet the working class shows taining :their class collaboration WILl

LUSOT Y

acmocratc and again its willingness section of the bourgeoisie and ability to defend itself from these conditions no these attacks reliance be placed on. saleae auances to eraica wils TARIS workers in Izmir a few Ecevit's bourgeois Republican months to Peoples Party pretenders continuing The defence armed defence of Corum against democratic rights cannot i be separated from lascist provocaron tance is strengthening to martial tion itself. increasingly Only paralysed Demirel government.

through a united front Last the oppressed ot

WULACIS

aliu Kurdish peoplé, inspired workers multas penmo wnich their successes can be rallied the Kurds and the the alliicu proletariat's petty bourgeois 201 mucendence Iran, remain a major obstacle to aes car une теастолат оне- the military and fascist leaders' sive be defeated and the basis laid for the construction of plans for dictatorship. w beyonde as as of I, key Illass revoll. cominuis now beyond party. Ankara government's left-wing town of Fatsa confirm The sophisticated combina tion of parliamentary tactics and extra-parliamentars violence practiced by the NAP ConTrast starky we bank ruptcy of Ecevit and the RPP.

Exploiting their relationshir with Demirel to the full, the

NAP

using the support of local administration and police to irv estaouse con. trol of towns like Corum.

Where the fascists are unable to operate. as at ratsa. the NAP order. When sight-the fascists provide their own security When Ecevit and a party of MPs were stoned recently appealed to Demirel and then to Chief of Staff Evrun for state protection! While fascists escalate the crisis in the country they can look on with satisfaction at th laree presencu oy li Hollal ment. For over four months no Parliamentary business has beer enacted because, despite no President ha been elected. Although candidates RPP's nominee including the can assemble a majority for their candidate Ecevit's solution to this one but the fascists. Demirel won a vote of confidence after Ecevit's vote of censure failed. The reactionary religious

NSP

who are normally allies o the RPP. demanded the premier ship of any future coalition with

RPP

condition Demirel. voting against Ever Ecevit could not concede thi condition. Unresolved The crisis in Turkey is far from resolved. As yet the military unwilling to are tear away the veil of Parliamentary rule. The fascists, although their police and local administrations than in the army, are not stron vulsiut unt orela or martlai law imposed E cevit Page 3 by the army. The vote of confidence can reflect imperialism's be seen to billion in loans and weeks •rescheduled Decla granted by the IMF/OECD. new defence agreement does not 101 CO Turkey's borders, PEruakem has , preparing bastion which imperialism lackca m une drea since une lan However this be canolly accomplished after the crushing the Kurdish and masses' resistance to Demirel's policies of free IMF-inspired trade wage freezes in the and context of inflation over 100% devaluations since January. Turkler As yet the Turkish working casos nor caterentreter. ible defeat. Their ability and fight was clear at organise Izmir earlier this veai he continued reastance a in towns like Corum shows why fascists as yet 'cannot rais Do buali army tries to stay in the back- groud Kurdistan the Turkish barricades short-lived Also occupallois LOWIl reactionary Iranian regime attempts crush the Kurd resistance to Turkish oppres- sion The key to the situation lies with the working class Turkish its leadership Without a break from the pacifist parlamentar- oi Ecev1 military JallsIll lascist coup is inevitable The questions of the defence of the working class now. allow oI no otner answer tran 1nat o socialist revolution To this end the first step is a united front of workers organis

2T10NO

• bulla a basis Iol effective workers' militia, and to and workers Coverne WOld e minare the fascism provided by the: bour geois regime in crisis Turkish police in action

Coventry nursery fight: occupation ended-battle

TORY 'MOLES' EXPOSED!

Page 4 goes on. Since the last issue of Education offices singing songs and to continue the struggle Socialist Press the occupa- Ilom lue bulsiuc. anu cuartlne sioealls. tion of Wheatley Street nicker or the schoo. was hah spirits immediately established in order march reflected very strongly Nursery School in Coventry to prevent any attempt by the feeling outlined on a leaflet has ended. counci to remove the turniture distributed alongside the march No doubt because of the aro orner eouoment mat mne councı mav nave wor widespread The campaign has received a a battle but they have not won which the Deputy Educa- the war" letter Coln ata

SCHOOS

tion Officer giving closure has generated from the under- final hours of the Petition occupation urmte equipment removed Labour Counci lost no time in from the school in advance of a The campaign's momentum oblaining a possession order anc carrying out the repossession of ot State has continued and grown since accison o Decretary the building. Mark Carlisle on the application the eviction took place. for closure made by the Labour should be noted in fact Kecuar valurady. sessoas it that the Labour Council moved the city precinct have been coulicl. end the established hundreds occupation more -where Support petition vurckry man any couneu nas m laye other nursery occupations.

counch supporting ine demand The decision by the council The letter also states that the to re-open the school, calling for to lock the building a few council meeting hours Council would be legally obliged re-open alLel occubaLor Octal une

SCIOOI

Lo icrels cn ucisul o Cusc should also be brought out for start of next term if Carliste's deploring eviction and tne all workers to know about.

decision has not been made by calling public inquiry Here was a Labour council's the council - thc plans Lildi udle which onlv last December held a ATTer MOnEDS oI aSKlS OI scrooi silt. fraud of a conference to suppos- such a written statement and Alongside this the Nursery plan a co-ordinated response it is clear Campaign has launched an inves- getting the councils that the campaign s support is dsaiisl Cuts tizallull

_IILO

nurscry • necos mn worrying the Council. the City LnoeolT ne coanit—akie the decision to lock people into However, it is also clear that It argued by of fightone a building! Carlisle's decision is likely to be involved that Dalt Despite appealsi for at least spceaec up ana tnat tne Cant- Ene i cuts is establisning that the one door to be left open as a paign must redouble its efforts point must be the asser- slal lulg exit, this Labour forward central tion what needed, pins locked the doors and simply •emas! c ae tile dosvoslll, Wild we cal act Oul ul occupation every school at the start of next term vister tne une capitalist state The investigation is also seen morning at 8.00 a.nn. to find out fully staffed and equipped with is an murireant way port borh anyone wanted no loss of pupil places. out' further the occu- rour nours alier SuDOrI-voln piers were parents wa cean navance or eneteroverl alecuy.

STOIN

the bailiffs' arrival to withdraw supporters of the campaign nursery age children, and from shop from the building at that point marched from the school to the unions, stewards Daily de Mail

MONDAY, JULY 14, 1980

EXCLUSIVE

has broken out A rOW Press exposes the role of one of rs ares sent" network the leaders i of this conspiracy - trained plotters are out over an international con- the Daily Mail. daily militant subvert working spiracy to From a grim faced building revolutionaries

WOTKETS

anlu class organisations. Street. in Carmelite Labour Party members. London placed for a view o The Daily Mail has registered Today -after an investigation strategically the other side of the as a newspaper with the Post asume severa minutes-sociataa Letter from a Mail "supporter" ...t i committees, etc. who are being asked to help in the enquiry _rrom the tisn ull autt is to tre nt that tion and important that support is made concrete in • weeks area It is no accident that it

NUPE

has given the strongest support olalvull vales une maembers or mis ton ace the most savage attacks on jobs launched by services

LOIY

governmenl anle mole mented Coventry by the Labour council It is also important that the verbat support givelt lo the call maion bv the NUT and NALG( before the occupation be made into a reality Wider than these unions. o course, ai noas ae a airec interest in the fight for nursery, places and against the cuts.

Office and duped the publicly subsidised postal service into allowing it to send out copies newspaper rate nacr despire ine veneel of cartoon cross- words and 'stars', the Mail is the centre oi di reroæon nel work of subversion of working clase ore niseio s. week spoke nunareas or supporters or lle Daily Mail. Although some have beer taking the Mail for years and _TeDeauna fts polson in bars ana atu bo skae cocktail patses andre by nights, not one woua admi lo deing a member. "ust suoport its policies' said 46-year-old "Hatchett' Jones from Buddleigh Salterton, He DEVOl venied the TRaT tge voll's policv on family was designed to oppres women and brainwash children As he lectured us for half an hour nesmy wasted doorstep on the joys of family life', his children could be heard sobbing bedroom #lUlE wnere iney were lockea in, anc his wife was peeling potatoes in punishment for haei Matpre font orginisa-

HO O

organisa tions range from the •Ideal Home Exhibition (where instru- oppression mens Ior womers are bought and sold freely) to (where members jumping Family' NUya allu reported in the last As we Socialist Press . the Urcuvallul wor •ThE

SUDOOT

WIll section • of Coventry's Labour and the sup porters there are deepening their struggle. The campaign is demanding that an emergency council meet- held decision close w neae Seine urged tita co unciat catre and councillors 'rebel' varticual councillors 'who detied Labour whip in the last council and against meeting voted ool ma oe mccas layı a responsibility to take up this demand Some Tebels' gave OI tE their the full support during As we go to press a lobby is being held of the : Labour Group others are invited to whip horses crowds pay watch wole Behind the facade of the Mail lies a shadowy organisation known as The State' Secret Armed men are dispatched world-some openv _terroTISI such as the SAS-and uniformed constables' patrol the streets were the Mall to succeed 1t im posing is ruu programme, ne would assume some of the horrors of Pinochet's Chile une wauy man s arect rea tionship with the State is a closely guarded but secret providing photc calcnus graphs demonstrations OT return for Special Branch infor- mation. Mail's „reporters" 'police are almost in( indistinguishable. staff Ticensed to let doe tyres and apparently often to be found carrying are "tyre levers'. Mail 'supporters' have infil trated the Labour Party, where Inev move moce re olunons ol "moderation' 'pay control' and 'immigration laws' Pinnacle By spinning out meetings SOrTALIST PRESS, Wednesday 30 July 1980 Rally in support of Wheatley Street of councillors to press forward for a campaign's demand Clanse ol boncy major fight is already taking place in the Labour Party being over the cuts which are molc cled Nune w neatevtreen .oceu pation and campaign is one of sharp edges in the fight against the cuts in Coventry Indications immediately after the occupation are that the Campaign Coventry

IV UESCI

Tw senteyoee can ccneal closure laid a firm basis for the development or use surugue over orner cur.

Further details of the cam.

paign can be obtained from Nursery Coventry • Campaign (Wheatley Street) 37 Beacons field Road, Coventry.

PRESS GANG

SPECIAL

with interminable speeches supoort oi me rung class me seek to drive workers out of the Labour Party The pinnacle of the Mail's success is to succeed in gettin one of its 'supporters' as a Labour prime minister Vull Cnels • dEC noweve worried that their international plot Falling tion. increasingly angry workers ano ackasn acamost inei policies are threatening to destroy their power base Now supporters have beer Toa to work lraeaLV 1o. *Break up the trade unions.

* Abolish rights for women.

*Jail and TevO OANe strikers. *Sack militants from their jobs.

TOMORROW

How the Mail turned my wife into a Maggot, by Princ Philip.

SURVEILLANCE

Tine Summe International of Britain's School kept DUlII wonderu « ponce cnel holidays Special Branch officers struggled to keep pace with the dNelens aner usne The Daily comman- deered flat and nearby patroled the perimeter of the school photographing people at the school and passers-by indis criminately.

Labour's new Draft Manifesto: a move SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 30 July 1980 "Britain needs a new Government. A Government determined to get the econ- omy moving and get infla- tion under control: Government able to rebuild our industry and create the jobs we need to restore full employment". With these grand words the Labour Party's left-wing led National Executive begin their Draft Manifesto-which Ilas by •Deen smoenty attacked Norman Stevas crypto-Tory Dr. David Owen.

Confusion Yet these sum up the confusion that besets the left of the wing seek parliamentary answer the galloping crisis of capitalism.

possible by a few adiustments to a get une econ- omy moving" when the capit- alist system on a world scale is plunging headlong into and when it is precisely its inability to produce an ade Grouch Brish to with has brink of collaps industry to the How can the Labour Party- which refuses question the 'right of the employing class to protect its profits at the expense jobs and living stan- dards-hope Icarrance une existing chaotic we ten "create jobs need restore full employment' nOW, wimon The nanonal ation of the major corporations, capitalist banks and trusts to the left?

DRAFT

MANIFESTO

and the establishment of socialist planned velvilly (none of wachs proposed n the new Draft) can the dreamers *Tebuild our ! industry pe Labour's

NEC

Manifesto skips Ine raTT nimbly between these contra- dictions, offering the

LABOUR

1980 illusion of a gradual, parliamen- Lary evoluto towards. not socialism (the word barely the draft), appears but a lane kulu or cavitalisti "We are seeking nothing less benn. peaanng confusion ana class colaboration Page 5 By John Lister Callaghan the Party dictate the terms of the Manitesto. determine allu the line or any luture Labout people their ing materials; powers to buy up government. families". individual companies; and "very The production of radical- reality of the considerable" be course to sounding it wrongheaded resolu- Labourites are seeking furnished through the NEB nothing Moss dre the NEC lefts' is thus meaning Lilal pretental ronson tunus ana me assur ance less unless linked to Telors with a system woose schemes

WOWC

, "industrial invest- anarchy and decay has for the diverted into within ing struggle the Party last decade brought a barrage of ment" for the • canastan mounting attacks Healey and the abandonment of Yet what form would such investment take, if not under- their policies of class collabora- Cort and uralikes run by capitalist taken within the context of a ally "Investment" at present in That the 'lefts' have "Pick up pieces" capitalist corporations means intention of waging such Miliouuclun lignt Is indicated by the Dralt S specific pledge to world imper points out that ine brall the first ialism that: ask or a recite "The next Labour Govern "to pick up the pieces" and ment will maintain its support Labusanus. a oldl "salvage : whật is left of British for NATO. work sharing on Jull pay preserve full employment, such The Draft [capitalist] industry' calls not for the only • mean still The investment can National Enterorist unlalera a salmanen further workers on the dole.

Board would ride again, once British imperialism but for the more pouring thousands Yet private emplovers wil utopia of only invest in order to increase millions of pounds drawn from even of their work the exploitation

WOE INS

cure to cauce cerence soone force basis as a middle classes into the coffers tor increasin ing simply bring the of ailing capitalist defence budget "into line with corporations employment plays no part that thropean alies: carried our —or as the Dratt puts it: lllall their calculations "a huge injection of state The Labourite dream of vast finance tough new And while notionally sup- planning framework "the rights of all peoples sums in investment mopping up porting all a s unemployment bears no relation nificant extension public anu nations lo to the workings of capitalism- enterprise" tion", the Draft makes no break The Labourite bid to resusci as the doubling oi from the British imperialist the Wilson/Callag- tate ment under repression in Ireland or pledge floundering choven. han government painfully con Firmed import controls aimed at penal- As a statement of confusion True, the NEC's new Draft ising foreign competitors: diversionary policies . and class Manifesto does talk occasionall collaboration in Britain and on a determined not to we are about -well, not nationalisation allow world scale. the Draft is usefu such but "extending public continue to destroy our evidence of the inability of the industries and jobs". Labour "left" offer ownersio. Among candidates for this serious socialist alternative of course not imports tentative process parts of the Callaghan leadership but British emnlover! who are banking and insurance, North closing factories and sacking Only insofar as it reflects the workers: yet these forward movement of Labour's employers ver on mee power nant inaug try, the building materials indus- and file rank and lace a tuture not of nationalisa.

otters al road haulage, generous Labour

TOR

willie ad cash transfusions: debate on itself dices when rahe the ports and cace mande "Labour's aim is to double In this respect therefore the does party new Draft be the can seen as a Level manuractunns ¡corescal a sleo lorward investment within our first certain shitt to the lett br course such Parliament". NEC under pressure from the debate, dore thil met to see ted most advanced The government's cash hand- working class. But not even this piecemeal vuls lo me chooves wake lolty various forms-ranging from and inadequate the bankrupt capitalist system significant public stake" in such likely to see through Parliamentary tinker- light of so long as the right ing and recognise the necessity companies as pharmaceuticals.

Callaghan/Healey leadership are medical equipment. micro-elec tot a revolutionary leadersnip lI tronics, construction and build- allowed to rule the roost within the workers' movement. - Musicians must reject deal "saved" and enlarged Sting the entire Whenever there is a dirty the sell-out only by being supported by deal to be done, especially Day 1 "independent financial fession owes Lord Goodman an in the arts or the media, enormous debt and now Goodman Fixer, Harold whose contribution will Lord always' restricted to £100,000 Wilson's legal voting in a ballot, who think ou our nee notone in tse seldom far away. agreement which will guarantee It was Goodman who was these "independent funds" the architect of the proposed And the light But already the "saved" BBC threr

VELICI

agreement close, musicians in Scotland are saying orcnestras WeEK

TRUST

old musicians' strike against the though the BBC agrees to offe tney mo tot acceped I a most principled way that

BBC

"contracts" their settle The settlement reached las ment even though it "saves" one • Wednesday the between of their orchestras. and officials Also MU nanonal members Concessions "saves" three Musicians Union Northern Ireland have said that out of the six orchestras which Iney will continue their strik!

the BBC wanted to close The BBC has made conces- because the proposals for But the sions compared with its earlier Northern Ireland are so vague.

known BBC Scottish Symphony proposals. Despite the executive recom Orchestra will be maintained as But the new bians fal tat mendation for acceptance the a smaller orchestra than before short of the musicians' demands only way to fight effectively for freelance Ine London studio Player despite the severely threatened interest.

"contracts" , will still lead to 63 of musicians will be to vote "no?

And Northert to the Goodman settlement and ret uncancies. Ireland Symphony Orchestra MU assistant cecretary Stan to continue the strike

Fighting for a workers' government

'WORKERS ACTION

THE MISSING LINK

Page 6. demands and forms of sterent "How to be harmonised. even it only within the imits or one city!

History already this through soviets. nece will unite the represen. tatives of all the fighting groups • Soviets are not limited to an row oven uner

LOOTS

the exploited All political the leadership of Overs DaNa democracy. widest of soviets, therefore, crowns the transitional Profane (Trotsky, Transitional Pro- gramme). "What then are the tasks of revolutionaries? 1) put forward in the full labour The socialist rahe brinin of socialist transformation of society ... 2) To crown that programme with the call for the creation of workers' government which will at least fight for the immed working muchests class, breaking with une bout. geoisie where necessary and to ure exten neccosaly . we agitate and make propa' ganda for the pecific measures and demands of the actio gramme, nghting to collie bite of organisations abou [our emphasis) movement audie or tell • n Britain there is already i existence [our emphasis, SP] : network of factory com- vast expand which mittees Their actines to colo lu dominant the point of being organs of the bourgeois even before creating soviets, could be the pass old decisive struggle. (. . the work. must, in the the strugge, car connuence di its own democracy potential existing organisations Lour emphasis, SP! expand into a working class self- framework of in the whole of society rule need io the renovate. at lecol struct the existing [our empha- sis, SP] labour movement as an essential prerequisite: wonkers covennell. the essentias Labour forem- bourgeois Labour govern- Mense lake . . . We pose the period ahead the creation of the forces of

HELY

Marxism tionary a0ue perspectiye: of serious and realistic omentation to the polt 10g and trade union movement, and organising the work of Marxisn

J01CCS

only

MADAY

Hoveriests which exists [our emphasis, SP) in this country (Workers Action, articles on workers' government, No's 174, 175). There is clearly a yawning gulf tormulations between Elle Trotsky in the iransitiona. Programme and the above taken from series I Lives 0L00 15 Xeroxs Action on the question of the workers' government. Trotsky specifically directs build new, to the fight to em bracing 'ano bodies-soviets-to bring political together ments, trade unions and other various orean ons class inited to the power of the challenge capitalist stalk The Transitional Programme states that Hrom the irst moment O Soviets, appearance, acting as a pivot around which toilers are united in millions of theis struggle against the exploi become ters, competitons opponents, of local authorities and of central government.

committee

CLON

creates a dual power in the fac- солов поптиь воволюцію Russian workers carry the slogan "All power to the Soviets" during the 1917 revolution gramme's focus on the question tory, then soviets initiate power is replaced by a period of dual power in the Workers Action's stress on the country. central extracts from the view

ONLY

government can carry the pro- Workers Action show very gramme through", alteren emonast. ral of counterposition stressing the neca for new, mat organisations to unite organs of workers power to the various centralised authority and mobilis capitalist state indeed the the masses, the per STUPICS Ul from element spective offered is one of shaping arenand "Teno- the worker acron perspeculve limited for aw ekars vehat hit kind of working exactly organisations ot the Workers class. does governed Action have in mind? Dual power To answer this question it is more closely look necessal y "crowning call" at the Workers Action Trotsky's • allary Sis of the present stage of develop- replaced

HOT

soviet ment of the crisis in the Labour "crowning workers

ACTORC

call" for a "workers' govern- Party. ment" In their view, the entire com plexion 75 year old the Transitional Pro- SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 30 July 1980 Delegates to All Russia Congre It is not necessary that the Library any become ol party-or should Wil become that The Brighton decisions are- ratner the beginning oi a process and renovating in the labour movemen stewards' committees through Party Parliamentary Labour Briphton demonstrates that transforming the political wing and thus that it is labour

, DOSIDEY.

demand for a workers' govern where in th in Britain Initial Stages such a goverlen • would inevitably have the Party its major of only component for the We wil leave aside. •Labour i on thi ence accison. Party, ana tner concepnon or reformist party being "transformed" way the work- anstrumen ing class" We do not share their views on this, and these questions will reformist party has been funda- be dealt with in a further article changed the mentally Ine pol however is that everything cecsons or last vears Labou Party conference at Brighton these towards passages the fact that the Workers Action the political wing of the labour version ol a workers is essentially little mor movement to more) Labour chance sane than begin to change sufficiently for struggle it to be to set for accountability withir a goal its transtormatior Labour Party. that further changes are pressed Roundabout through) into a real instrument of the working class. Is this not a more rounda- of the for a left of calling Bugled through and if they are bout the government -ir pushed through consolid. Labour manner the Communist Party and others? Labour Party accountable and course less more worKer

A CLI

and struggles heroic- denies this, trolled by the Labour and trade ally but unsuccessfully to draw movement, open up unIon between distinction

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 30 July 1980 '& Colin Morrow and hn Lister of Soviets, June 1917 slogan and such a perspective the plague We avoid bke delusory generalisatons "Labour to power with socialist policies." ( ) A government wil ve d workels even in a minimai sense, ony l dem andl really fights for Thece Action's Programme], mea breai wi25 going

ACERIR

the bourgeoisie. We explain that the light of all experience such a government would have

SUDOOI

perlaes

(ECOS

probably) initiate working class to disarm the state action of sections

JULCUS.

CanG nO peai o nilu e counter to them" But Workers Action fails to coupie inis evasive passage will any explicit call for the inde- the pendent construction workers defence squads or local hased workers min1i2e L02T would be needed to "disarm the forces" though there is state elsewnere a passine reerence le squads in thel 1oea nt detence their Action Programme. No exception Instead, the initiative on this maner cez on țe ov vd central government "support" "(less probably) imate wonkin class action.

anls excenton. Workers Action articles, three for example, fail to link up the demand

CIOT

nauonaisaliun basic industry with any call tot workers to organise independent and trade union committees APInoM o HoaP o Colno factory occupations 300 l omen the books of the employers, pre- to a socialist plan of valatuly producton likewise fail to spel s nev out the kind of independent organisations and actions needed to halt the public spend- ing cuts and launch the struggle for programme public workers' manage- wUrks ulucl ment. And on international ques- The storming of the Winter Palace 1917 tions, too, the crucial element All this is very different of control Action as the end of portrayed securing trom unt aproan Lnte solidarity demand for a workers' govern-

OVC!

olackur alll in the Transitional Pro- acinsss leIt out. wnue tae tne route. calls vagely By leaving out the perspec- sialll. monopoly of tive of developing soviet-type state that from Г aI sursestllte of workèrs in the organs orrugles ahead, and legernn ohe foreign trade" without in any simply revo tinzne srol d way explaining how workers are support such a government and influence this new state of await its initiatives from above onestion • O1 arine an0 organis theiwo er tia aftatrs TrOLSK " scens oul ayrumic Action When the Workers Action strategy in which revolutionaries Action Programme declares in fight drive forward the class

SHAN SKA ATORORA

therefore that under to defend a Labour government struggle such a govern- against reactionaries but offer- for "Revolutionaries mICHE oruer expuse state based on workers reformist and Stalinist mis- its readers and supporters councils"- -it does so without noula seghte roess if "Of all would process parties and organis- ottering any susnLul development political passing ations which base themselves or now such councus mignt actu- beyond the stage of left reform- ally emerge in the course of an tre WOrKerS peasants and intensified class struggle.

speak in their name we demand ism. that they break politically from much of aisteall the bourgeoise and enter upor workers acwwn berspecuve lo Theses 'workers" government" struggle based The TOAe •OT foI ine on the supposition that it workers' and farmers' govern- Workers would be an elected, Parliamen- ment. The first Action this tary government road we Dromist article for instance quotes from Even if resting on a Parlia them support against tne comintern 1 neses ol 19LL.

majority (which is the capitalist reaction. At the same which declare that: mentary "The most elementary tasks the we indefatigably develop time

HEOSC

DobaDle valle. of a workers' beginning) [it would base] itself trans- agitation aronde Those government must on the working cans in ely itional demands which should in consist in arming the proletariat the bourgeois its mobilisations opinion form pro- disarming counter-revolutionary struggle against bourgeos resus- of the workers' and gralme Olgallsd- tance farmers' government'. tions. Can Workers Action serious- What tangible form could In any case, one thing is such the reliance on working not to be doubted: even if this enviseage totally class take. in the absence of any "renovated' mey moD be roa come CLaDOuI ralt organs power where and some time supervising clase amm the f the workers challenging capable of the becomes a reality working the tragic and centralised power capital- farmers' example of Chile already for- and govern- workers ist state? Workers Action's per- menl avove mentioneu guliell. spective hangs politica sense If not, what course of action Is established In lact , vehemently denying that would represent merely a short do Workers Action propose to the Parliamentary road, episode road .working class when the it olters a out yel lailng to spel out and Insisi actual dictatorsnip or the proiet- abourites re BISe to cany upon the vital extra-Parliamen- ariat" this elementary step? support which alone could The silence this-as tary what for Trotsky on 1s a many similar "short episode" on the strategic oner aa amernalive u ues ons-s sa lih demonstration in Petrograd two weeks before 1917 revolution eloquent testimony lo tne lau Workers in fact fowaro. parliamentary government which they being itself bs driven on in struggie on the workers' SOdOl first the • Ot "Thus the revo mon ner prepared are tees, even (naturally insofar workers)" But clea both Comintern from Transitional neses allu "osten- only support government" SuDIt struggle independent organs a around workers The indeed exoJea Labour along the im plied by revolutionary workers' but disguised coalition Delwee bourgeoisie and anti-revolution- ary groups. tolerated Cuca ThA weakened bourgeoisie, in order to dupe the the : to true class character of the state Win uit ae ol e corrIDi leaders to divert the revolution- ary onslaught of the proletariat and to gain time" It is obvious that such desperate tactic on the part capitalist class in the face of workers struggles would o Del enormous opportunities further the revolutionary mobil.

isation of the workers' HOve ment But such mobilisation must be fought for independently of OsteasDIe WorKeIs coverT ment lsell, and by no means depend on the willingness to arm the workers!

Independence ror revolutionaries the task would td e politicat consistently fight for independence o tne : WoTKe Cass onu programme 01 class demands which were counterposed to the vacilations and compromises of bogged such covernment. down reformist: "parliamen- tarianism' Thus, as with the Bolshevik Page 7 demand in 1917 that the Men- sheviks and socia kevolution ostensible Capsul workers government could ther bee nestruction to pre ciuratins destruction bourgeois power Yet the failure of Workers Action to spell out any such independent road for the working class makes it plain that conception thel different from that of Trotsky and the Comintern. Overstating In response to our critique thai CouIse Action might accuse workers the Workers Socialist League of ultra-left diz uil maximum programme. After all. the Transitional Programme's on Soviets s section Socialist

TICS.

quotes extensively this article, does declare that: "Soviets can arise only at the lime wnen tne mass movemen enters into revolutionary stage But if anything it is Workers Action that is overstating development the political The "first of the three situation. articles in question begins with their stark analysis that "A catastrophe threatens the working people of Britain.

The ruling class can settle for nothing Hesi decant defeat, perhaps a fundamenta and crushing defeat of the worl The prospect ahead is one of bitter class struggle. To imagine that in the next period the class struggle will not escalate is inl bo do th wore ng bow down before and destroying Tory

ULEYC

accept feren peaceml Nothing in the post-war history of the working suggests this is even a possibility..

It is probable that the 1980s will see either the conquest of by the British working power the destruction of the British labour movement by the forces of capitalist reac- tion" t tece are not condition in which revolutionaries should spell out a perspective for the emercence or soner oowe Britain and make clear the centrality of councils of action Workers the fight for what Action socialist solution", then perhaps mameoa Workers Action could inform us •Wilal alc

Page 8 If the hydra head of revolution lurks potentiallly within the bosom of every strike then nothing expresses this challenge to the rights of property as forcefully as a picket line.

The employer Ircuuenu perceives this threat with a far Licalcl consuiousness lnan lne average trade unionist. The bought -and-paid-tor scribblers in Fleet Street and the ucensed wite -da9s west. minster defending the same social system this alarm and critical times for clio ocas such wilne thece individuals expending much and ingenuity energy in emas labour's Lulctll cusacity against the derene Ifce t rapacious, insatiable demands of capital. Ine pickel line mist he r prime target for such individ- uals. So it is not surprising that OTess Tn CO unleash campaign whose inculcate the is impression in the public lllu inar une ocker unes a ste o violent and wanton destruction.

Threat to life With that happy facility that possess for Tne middle classes• she nicee tine is presint d as a.

upside down, and mUTOCOuS InTerr limb (not to mention a denial of personal liberty of tho se wish wilu o mury umm pedec towares iner own exo oltation) The real maiming of body and soul that daily grinds behind those picketed gates and orougnt ine picket InTo exist. ence in the first place intrudes into the reflections of these formidable Ireedom neaters. For whenever the so cial reality capitalism's Contadl will la bout comes le surface these pen pushing Tne prostitutes find themselves to be out of ink. 1o gauge tne measure or ine proposed Bil it is usprul to attack Prior's Employment® up in which workers in response to attack their upon tion by ther management retali.

ze vb d cęrer ov ącznc are all lawful under the present legistation. Hypothesis Hypothetical situation. management at one of Dunlop's Midlands sacks a Wadlils

LIEC

but the keeping stewards committee know

N C OGOL

better nor Forse than othet first warmin The commed e The committee ree se bean oc militant, ry pone wil young leader factory give plenty management trouble. A lOI marene! cont waye derr some tome the For some time way. shop committee stewalls felt that the Dunlop ment badly need a short sharp shock and they believe that this with which SrUC administer it. Action Action. They strike and with support from fellow trade Prior's Bill-a strait jacket By Jack Burnett for the unions Current law: Prior's law: It shall be lawful for one or.

son "i shad nee mpáton oa 2) If a person works or nor- more barcon‹ in contemoaiom or furtherance of a trade dispute person contemplation mally works- to attend at or near- turtherance of a trade dispute to a) ornerwise Than at any one where another place, or orac: attent - person works or carries out busi.

a) at or near his own place of b) at a place the location of ness; or work, or which that attendance ' SUCIt any other place where b) if he is an official of a there for a purpose mentioned trade union, at or near the place sub (1) above another person naopans to de not being a place where he of work of a member of that impracticable, his place of work union. wtot Ne s accompay.

TOI

Tne ouroores 'of Inar sud the purpose only of peace- section shall be any premises

TOT

for the purpose only of peace.

which he Tut~ •otamine or connolnc ing information or peacefully fully persuading any person to works or from which his work is persuading per son to work any work or abstain trom working.

aministereo. • dostal om wor! Report

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GARNERS WORKERS

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Prime target for Tories: unionisation struggles unionists. get through the docks. this shop stewards' committee Virtually supplies and at Dunlop's is organising: Illegal movement of goods in and out 1) the picket at the factor) are stopped and Prior's Bill would have this in dispute would be illegal-as it Pittelll to say about the picketing that consists

LWU

other youueliuk plasils they have une comoany asKeu

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union Tne there to black any extra work.

TELECRAPH

Dock workers Report

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further publicity tine shop stewards send a delegation Wigrd

NUK

down to London to picket the company's head office. But Dunlop have associate world companies the committee hear that dikl some us orders are oenng compaporis Italy. exports from an associate the committee approach dock workers to black imported components that are suspected ol meetme omaer by the factory in dispute The committee also feel that they zIoue DaSHCC uno. in the company receiving com ponents Italy black them as well if they manage to Many unions depend on the fight for solidarity action by fellow workers workers who according to Prior nave no rignt to be there workers from a local plant ol the same company and the loca •trade unionists not employed by that company who turned up in solidarity 2) Let's suppose this illegal picket line reduces its number.

cane tneretore lis emtectiveness to bring in line with the proposed Tory law Would tnen oe lecany cnutica lo stou all supplies and movement of goods? answer no-only Lllc goods rect! dispute. So even a lawful picket Prior's meeting restrictive criteria would be ruled uniawiu if it picke no im edel pas aie goods involved dispute. Too vague An employer trying to break a picket line could just throw one extra item wagon that was not involved in the dis pute and he would have a case atem ca ol thet mg ira picket that work at other plants within the company? Well you can't picke other plants-so you have lo no orner meas or commun.

icating with the workers at : the And just blacking extra work •is too vague. Some of that extra might not be WOrK plant in dispute; and if you en couraged the blacking of that. sno• stewards commnitter either as a body or individual members of it could be sued for damages resulting

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encouraging the breaking of contracts of employment!

4) The idea of picketing th company headquarters-which is no doubt a good way of drawin attention to the dispute-woulc allowed in this case the workers are already picket- ing their place of work They r cạn't do both find it People wh would difficult to picket their place of work (caretakers in schools, oil 42%

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 30 July 1980 Prior rig workers in the North Sea o1 workers who work at more than one place who work al their a place that ls owned bi employers cun DIcke Council of the local authority or Wimpeys offices appropriate • to Italy (provided the committec Can nt toua customs) would be legal-but it Vouk vor uis ankay w to ak

JULFY

WILYS LO

• DiaCk. dil goods. Can't picket Picketing the docks is in any the n enerenbop Cast workers don't work the dockers cannot black th goods nor can transport workers refuse to carry them They not, according Prior, directly involved in th concerned uisoule. with carriage only! 6) If the Dunlop workers that an Hallan supplying work they TeoReT persuade the workers at that firmi to black the Italian expor- tea componenas But they couldn't picket to help enforce the blacking; and if Italian recelving the 11IIl. goods applied for a court injanc- tion to prevent the blacking the CIn DIOYC. ulice un oo workers conie snom worl existed beontact hor thi existed between the firm ana punos. b) the purpose of the black was just to disrupt . tha ing and logulal Coltldl inspired by any other motive or pressure; c) that the judge had reason teel contident (!! tnal oi blacking supplies to this firm the Dunlop workers were mater ially im proving their chances of warne uner aisoure *c noł cà one on coe riteria but all three tests th Dunlop workers must "pass" Woll acciae not to grant an injunc tion to stop the blacking!

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TECHNOLOGY

rife Speculation amongst computing experts that British Military Intelli- developed gence computer-based system for transcribing human speech into typescript. A series of recent articles in strongly Computing magazine Home. Office suzesi unal tut may ne anoit to for tape recordings of conversations.

'he source ot these record- ings could be "bugged" tele- phone calls. However, in answer Annh bl e fion. the home •nice Mimser Brittan, has flatly denied that his department has bought commuter CaDaole iranl- scribing the human voice.

Advanced work Until a few months ago a transcriber human voice was of the Ciouct lo .VC a YISil next decade n aori. nowever

IBM

announced details machine ululativli been retted point where it can transcribe the majority English words trom continu- laliz laze ousy sooken out. IBM's efforts are aimed at office work. But, speeding-up the oi this tech- I bIcaLIOs nical achievement for telephone "tap" 1,000 lines capacity to of interception simultaneously. has telephone With newly available comersatols been aiTec TO• cale the recordings ob- labour-intensive process could lamicu anaysee listening to each tape recorded yield essential comDuters for significant information, and ilyelsalluss output in some intelligible form, mrormaton. However, new telephone such as a typescript. can be rigged so that exchanges Computers

MATAM ANO AP MANOAA AATI

This on when a suspect number calls could scanned another suspect number. quick signirica human operator New significant intormation Auttule "'tapping" orere manz

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belte

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transchibed centre exists at 93 Ebury Bridge cemnditer olde mord br Road, London SW1, with the computers words the way In the grip of an ever tracks during a dispute with the deepening French economic reces- Tanay

COTOO CLOA

ONEr „colle now lead to an sion the French govern- imprisonment of between three ment has now unleashed months and two years another attack on the police ne grves carte blanche to harass and the democratic rights of the imprison workers in struggle.

working class. Anone asecl o s ıa Along with the Berger law property onade TO a ocer dismantling during a trade union dispute is socid services. Une and now morin ebueation covered stringent the Bonnet law on immigration cilind ersoloa ane ucurs Giscard's government has armed the same penalties. The Peyrefitte

ISCIT

anotme powerl law also goes weapon: the Peyrefitte law.

far beyond Silol y duLaCKI TO ten-day debate 'trace union immunties exteno Parlament-anc the ing various aspects of criminal tulalik of Communist and legislation cooveration in order to strengthen Socialist who Ine a orte lav walked out of the house before will cono ottender receive at least a doubling of • vole in orolest acalust une use o cn cc v țe sentences for the same Speaker, the law was passed G 1. l Lic MabL TiCcOcu Jucor majority on to commt ene some crime more than twice before any increase the sentence *1 n s æw cars avera ities with the Tory Employment imposed. Bill. provision This would alse Various categories of trade limit considerabiy the ability ol union struggles are now declared workers to argue mitigating cir- and the law is designed Necas. cumstances. reduce to the bare minimum sentences without privil- totally eges (leave, conditional dis- unuct iric efficiencv union charge , open prison, etc) will be irade struggles. acd co cover dn dna and offences. will ansance ne aoltional Cannes tactic of • occupation of rail automatically for operate

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Giscard's bosses' government will Conne s onsalonr or the working class and encour.

aged by the lack of CP or SP opposition, Is alreddy preparing another law to limit and under- mine the right to strike.

French CP leader Marchais The Home Office's denial of being com oute voice transcription haser belied by the revelatior Computing that they have just orucicu. aru vernaos eceyen American number-crunching device that is ideally suited to the processing of speech record s toreil th me Senetare Commons omnicial lgures tor the number of warrants issued for phone tapping' for the tirs time in 23 vears. Page 9 By our Science Correspondent These showed that there had been oramalic "tapping" in the last decade. This is commonly held to be a Icsuil ol teroms acuyy • Britain However, the Ebury Bridge Road centre was appar- ently • planned in the late '60s- the onset of terror- we perore ist activities in the 70s. Further Lalst lu. COnCON lies in the fact that the numhe.

Office warrants to ot Home calls includes "phone miatiy selal wallalls waci allow all calls to be intercente address. : TUC head trom Congress House, the offices yudilvis. , O1 a o sare by ne Home orind party. several figure. centre sems to e oniy 1 ad Ebury its capacity for the police the rest being used by the security forces, such as MIS. No Act There does not seem to be Act of Parliament that the legal conters on the state powers to he Interceo • Cominltl atis m erly various relevant Acts recognise the practice of interception by the sta ehe House of Commons was told William Whitelaw April that a continuous indepen- deni check on T00ne ue in future be made by a senior memh volthoudice ry increase in the level of 'phone "bugging" that is possible computer-based the new the watchdog's effort. mu uts will be laughable. Moreover. the first, wont even be published! "tapping" The new 'phone technology Https to bide te ee as Whitelaw's Netteance interceotors represent a new and ominous of state's enhancement megal and .raconay surve ance of individuals and organis- ations. Giscard with Thatcher

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 30 July 1980 School axed! The logic of the Tories' Education Bill is now work- through ing. with vengeance in the county of Dorset-giving a preview of the things come else- where in the country. Using their new discretion- ary powers to vary the price and provision school meals-- which less than

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months ago seemed a mere sick joke in the minds of .a few extreme right wing Tories-the COUTCHOrS Thursday end school meals for all primary and middle school children /UU

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meal workers. Police The demonstration mounted by parents dilu tiduc against this horrendous decision was met who cleared petitioners out of the Council chamoer. many fight

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what une 1 ones ao want nationally by the major trade involved -NUPE-was union fare state' with individual family reflected by the plaintive crv of taking official, Paul Dunn, for all care of children, the sick the local when he bleated: alla "When the government in Trmiv hack announced intention central plank change the Education Act it was strategy to schoolma service collaps the its intention Ine workite cass met with the determination of wunn is totally wrong. A protest picket was staged last week outside the court, where the cases of 24 pickets arrested outside the Adwest Engineering plant at Reading were due to be heard.

The pickets were seized on the July repeatedly denied strikers the right even to approach workers going into the plant in defiance of the three-month strike against victimisation.

make the strike official, and funds are dangerously low. Donations are urgently needed: they should be made payable to J. Dhoot and rushed to Danny Broderick, 46; Berkley A venue, Reading.

1 UNION DUES

meals NUPE leader Fisher reasons, this is precisely the trade union movement, lead- ing A compete end to the wel Assing adi trade union responsibility leaders including Alan of NUPE- -avoid or dissipate the work to mie eder. Dacng womer licht with nat hearted belost titiugh sanctions and allow jobs the home is a of the 'natural I wastage divide and weaken and voluntary Technancy. The viciously proceed lones will Fory determination must be with their plans enc the Whole state welfare svstem Day of Action by police, who have now The TGWU is still refusing to

HEY O FISHALL

LOOK AT THESE UNEMPLOYMENT

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FORGET ALL THAT-THIS IS A GREAT DAY

ART - WANNA COMES HOLOG

THE LACUUK MOVEMENT.

Encouraged by the com- plete refusal of the

TUC

leaders any struggle to prevent the of James Prior's passage "Employment" anti-union Bill, the Tories are sticking the boot in. has been announced that the Bill will be suppiemented by a code of practice limiting any picket line to a maximum of six will not proposal passed through Parliament-but will simply be enforced by the police. over ano above ine legal restrictions on picketing contained in the Employment S1ll, this new move is designe complete a full-scale scabs' charter. Mass strength But the Tories know that in restricting the siLe anu scope ol support of many trade leaders, who hate nothing more action. the lilall using mass strength anne pect of an against the class enemy suruceit Ina Labour/TUC Concordat over ender S concluded the proposed code-to proposed restric- periodic government review tions on picketing: and TGWL closed shot officials during the unionisation struggle at Garners them to continue Steak Houses in

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a secret deal with the police to pained ThaT stabilise industrial relations" It picker lines to six strong are Tikely ty be driven C to ders The only Indeed driven into ever cosy collaboration Tory attack is through annoy- ance at the prospect of it being bureaucrats over recent decades 2 million ... from back page workers denled the right to a workers as a lever to force down job. Murray whined that mass Wants unemployment would lead, to: movement. I! and ore in that minds a ven having resentment Socialist TUC and Labour leaders wing right ment a tne to forestall any rise in class con- sciousness class to remove the Tory govern- - articularly the youth, who are by no means ment and establish a new, social- the miserabl ist leadership planned them by movement. But it with a fight in today's condi Destruction Yet there is no solution to threatened plants; fight for sup unemployment without strikes action. Demand work-sharing on struggle io une overtarow crisis-ridden • capitalist full pay to preserve all job: system in which the pursuit of profit the vandal. to elected trade union commit- cutals whole tees show dermirron sectors of industry social and services, and the utilisation of Lilt banks without unemployed tion under

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- AT LAST

TORIES HAVE STARTED TO LISTEN TO US...

Page 11 TUC: no action on anti-union laws It is forcing the TUC leaders to choose between either fight- for the removal of the Torv government or acting even more openly as defenders i of a bank. rupt and vicious capitalist class in a ruthless drive for profits.

Agenda But a good indicator of the leaders have DaTh the chosen be the • can seen agenda for this

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CONCES

While a record 48 motions blast out heated all lol rhetoric, alt • mistake able moves towards a new wage- "social contract" with but tille the Labour leadership There is no hint of action to challenge or defy the Tory anti- union laws-and - belicial cano le are from any practical proposals or action to be taken Venin car for a campaign "to bring down Basnett the Tory government and bring • o office a Labour government defied by their members in mass pledged to socialist policies con. tained in Clause 4 Part 4 of the Indeed it is largely the pros- Labour Party constitution".

upsurge in the clas enrages Waste-basket Prior's And with last year's TUC as oI waistle a sorry example, it takes hitle imagination Union predict that arrangements requiring an 80% ballot vote for Bakers Murray's _Len • Basnett com- waste-paper basket would de- struggle against the Tory anti-union laws, like the struggle the Tories' course of any present tne barrage of attacks on the work established ing class, requires a new, revolu and union Lunary leadersmo m ene trace unions and labour movement.

men'Organise the unemployed!

Full union rights unem- ployed workers youth alla Force the union leaders to figh Tory attacks on dole and other The struggle for full employ.

benefits planned, *Build councils of action. Fight defend and extend rulest the occupations and strikes through working local bodies acresate. labour movement tTON the labour • organisations. to bring down the must begin Tories! Demand union leaders in the public and private sectors for general strike to drive out the Thatcher govern *Stop the sackings! Occupy ment *Kick blacking the Callaghan/

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