Socialist Press no. 216

DOCKS : STRIKE CALL

DEFEATS JOB THREAT

St BENEDICTS: UNION CHIEFS

PERMIT NHS MASSACRE!

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 216 The tenacious stand by 24,000 dockers in defence of their right to a job has important lessons for every section of workers. bringing humiliating defeat to the dock employers, nationa the threat: of strike defend 180 jobs aCn lO vernoo docks ac heavy blow at the Tory govern- iticilt. Firm stand t is the fist time since Thatcher came to office that willing fight redundancies and closures have Deen aoe to:rorce tre. unon leaders into taking a firm stand.

And it shows that in the face of the united strength of a key

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indeed one factor that seems have cmace une covernmen strongarm the employers into a fighting for similar action?

climbdown fact that The dockers went into battie

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woud soSe To derend a six-year ola agree- Priors te f antt mol lac to .ment which guarantees that Prior's new anti-union dockers made rédundant by any which they sult one Cm vel SAOLd uncy wonlo win merate se •De reallocatea The question that must now other dock firms. be asked by wherever In other words even while redundancies trade on the docks has declined, al c hincaltilca savagely way taer unor omers are not Tle wor once alelt the TUC and leader of the Union of Public Employees, why sum up reason made an appearance on the T'hatcher's vicious govertnell picket line at St. Benedicts las been so casty aole to carty through the axing. of tens hospital last week. thousands of jobs in the public But he did call for action by come to siyles. announce any his union's thousands of NHS Ready to fight mender isondan at tas Coba cons work-in held the Fisher_like COHSE . DE. beltuicts lender Spanswick-knows that hospital Cosure lor ten monund Instead he made a briel to fight the face-saving uttered appearance, cuts: dozens of arrests, attempts a few platitudes about the need L DOck LIc cales me ooker hospitals, out to pickets at

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Dones meted wan re ug and disappeared Benedicts confirms this the beleagured beyond any doubt battle it out with The union leaders know that sudUs duld the only way to stop the Tory

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walla. as tey fought to prevent management cuts is concerted national strike effectively kidnapping elderly action in the public sector-with St Benedicts patients and dump- em ergency cover providca under local workers' control. oLneT hospitals. Only week they were Now that the patients have able to see again the impact of * September 24 1980 * 20p pruned by programme voluntary redundancy in 1974) nas been able to aejena Is joos - effectively sharing out available work without loss of Such policy work-

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sharing •on full pay expense, of the employers is also

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and closures in every industry, ously to lobby a Labour council force MeCRHC. Inus nelping to councillors to reject to scraput sche dockle s suicen.

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suctess- fully forced TGWU leaders into their jobs, Fisher, Spanswick and

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opposed to national or local action defend St Benedicts. They have even muove co secke une b ack- ing of the fleet of private scab carila os unes outhes carried the luckless St Benedicts patients correct, if rather Even ine belated, walkout by 400 health dariSt Ceoth s Hosp i sal solidarity beneaicts pickets nas talled to shift these union leaders.

They would witness the destruction o n voe ders or lne Nos lan mount ant as employers continue to cut back : production. And the dockers strategy- calling national strike action-is applicable other section of workers lgnling reaundancy. Admittedly few sections of the historical workers sulariy dilu ceonuri muserr o1 the dockers: out at a time ol decisively ouncturcu ne nodly old lie peddled time and again excuse by cowardly bureaucrats-the claim that "the members won't fight". For those thousands members who will and who seck a way lorwaru. une ounlume ol d new principled leadership essential. The November confer- ence called by the Camnaign for Democracy in the Labour Move- gesteril foto recele tir question struggle action to defeat the lories We urge public workers- secto1 whether as branch delegates individuals-to attend this iportam conterence. Details of CDLM Conference, p.11 Labour Conference Pages 5-8, Turkey Page 2 Tory-fuelled recession, every pleas or bankrupicy; ana thej have mounted challenge cosure. every sackme is a uredi whatever to the To the wor m, caa a we never-ending In fighting for occupations stream of sackings and closure.

of threatened plants, and strike oven wale ine dockers were successfully .forcing

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acliol Icuunuancies. active national officials into calling ar workers milst demand on a ocal leve-tonnen Suph ot fellow worker. all-out 180 delend

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Liverpool jobs, BL car workers the fight to buld councis of in the Cowley Body Plant face action, drawing with 1,500 sackings were unabl delegates from all labour movement evet per suadt bodies-and on a national level, convenors call a sicwards meeting to discuss it!

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supporting strikes and blacking Evans and the

TGWU

action throughout major com- bureaucracy will now attempt supply and distri- to use the docks example proof that they are really read butig maustnes. fight: WOLKOS IIUSL exDO :Central to this broader fight this 'demanding is the need to open the books similar action wherever closures of the employers to elected redundancies trade union threatened committees links expose the and deals time docker Al tile sane must oppose TGWU attempts to petween maior commamies. the Posmalie t mig banis trom dooky d.al volunare duk the banks from profits made dancy dock cmdoves desenen to ger enest in ugile to yalo t e for instance, redundancies by the back door.

the struggle to closure of Dunlop's plant on Mersey Example side should have been extended into the fight for strikes and But the success of the blacking action dockers in forcing their leaders Llou-nUu the motor into action last week must agair •Duno anc CInTO industry. be taken by al example But instead of any such workers: demand action now t action union leaders have beer actene au oos action to tesıs accept the all closures and action to bring

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Capitalists rally behind new Page 2 Turkish junta Turkey's alliances with imperial- strengthen The only indication so far of disquiet among the ism (lest there be any fears that ranks of European capital- he was a dictator in the mould of ism at the imposition of lett-nationalist Gadatti Evren's initial steps to military dictatorship in consolidate military rule have Turkey has from been not all gone smoothly. Belgium. They have staged a Deadlock protest exer- cises now being carried out in the western areas of Turkey His early assumption of the port of aerialis resist Presidency but an ena to many Soviet months of deadlock in the now closed-down National Assembly.

campaign of dis- More than a hundred votes creet had taken place in efforts to fill approval 101 une new Turkish junta's rule, presenting that vacant position, all proving it as "peaceful' and the 'demo- abortive cratic credentials of already Yet the junta has Lilt itself twice failed to agree on a venerais nas ensured a sympa- thetic response from the hypo civilian candidate for Prime "Freedom loving" critical Minister, which now makes It governments of the West. inal Even will take on With few that office as well. exceptions their stakes on the regime's success After than a year of are the huge loans made virtual civil before over war the the years coup it is not surprising that the divisions which have wracked all vale our lurkey s ravagea econ- omy. aspects of society during that period should permeate Creditors into the clue which has now Laken control At the root of these clashes The country's international been the have activities of the are looking for proof creditors lascist natondas Acuon rary that General Kenan Evren and specialising in provocations and National Security Council ruthless armed attacks on their are and able to get to grips with the problem. The decision of NAP fuhrer his fellow Alparslam Turkes to give him-

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Generals will not st a thinn self up, having initially easy, their first week arrested wwn the other power has begun to show Parliamentary leaders. was Despite emphasising at every shrewd move aimed at boosting opportunity his determination nis 'law and order' image among Polish unions divide Last Wednesday in have now left the official Trades Gdansk 250 delegates, noW Call independent trade unem selves representing million unions. workers, came together to discuss the development of Suspicious new unions. They discussed the way that Members of the new unions tactory managers were narassin: rightly look this upon workers, threatening them with the "break- suspicious, since the loss of social security unions still have the same away benefits, to keep them in the leadership. They regard the breakaway more as a manoeuvre ole unions. Lech Walesa, who was in the designed to hold on to then chair, reported that he had been membership. offered control of the If sectionical the lens shad Weilla official' Duard unions unions. He correctly turned it genumely been won over to the down movement 20210sl oureaucrac Although the conference then they would be fighting to the Stalinist- coorumale single natipal unise teargued onnosed setting and join the genuine movement

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would too much independent trade unions.

Bitterly opposed We are convinced that this One strengins or tne consh bureau- cracy is the way that it is able to isolate sections of the working class. through its control of the media A national union stoc ture would counter such moves Similarly, Walesa's insistence that the new unions support the calmoac cnurch Is also aanger- The Church hierarchy fully behind ne bureaucracy which has now allowed a Mass to be broadcast and on radio for the first time.

Church stands bitterly opposed to the revolutionary theory which is vital in the MaIXIS the overthrow of the Stalinist bureaucracy Eight of the official unions Walesa Iepresenting 4./ milion workers the despairing petty-bourgeoisie who form the social basis of his mass following. nis long and teen renn ship with establish- ment he is well aware of means the tavourable Cone ons Lne latest measures have given him.

His collaborators among the brass. no lably veneral Necael Uruq, comman First A is that the Ger unconvinced of future capitalism I ne nands of themselves uno ce latter-day Attaturks That does not mean that the juntas present poncies are not ruthlessly repressive. Heavy clashes have already been reported between the army the nationals in eastern district of Sivarek -with many Kurds dead. Death sentence In the southern city of Adana a left-winger accused of den or an air captains down of an army captain week been sentenced death. even though the militari court accepted that he had not fired the shot. A second man was jailed for 11 years. The exact number of arrests under the dictatorship unclear, but it is call to be not far short of 10,000, perhaps a good deal higher. reaction of the the working class to Generals' abolition of the right to strike nas only been seen on 50,000 The workers engineering and other industries who forced back to work will. be impose policies will res blance premature and misplaced. Despite the capitalist propa- necessary abou Une nature of the demon- strations and ppositior building outside Turkey. rolowing on the London demonstration reported last week has been a protest 5,000 demonstration Alens and opposition to tne Turkey coup was one of the slogans the anti-NATO demonstration West Germany. In Britain a unanimous vote of the national conference 1½ million strong AUEW condemned the coup. Gene — warfare? The United States Army is to enter the genetic engineering field. An advertisem ent t in the classified Ine prestigious journal 'Nature recently called for scientists to submit proposals to clone 101 a Rutal ename aceovicho nesterase.

This is the enzyme inactiva ted by nerve gas used chemical warfare. Exposure to such gases leads and death of convulsions victims. By cloning the gene for the techniques ceremo engineerine the US Army will have access to large quantities of pure acetyl cholinesterase The enzyme itself is not suit- able for use as a weapon. How antidote to nerve gas poisoning and it certainly will be of use antidotes an in testing other • lesume new nerve ras weapons.

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Once again Federal undercover agent "has been exposed being involved in a violent Ku Klux Klan attack; during preliminary hearings at the trial of six Klan and Nazi Party mem- bers charged with the murder of five left-wingers demonstration Greensboro last November, it was revealed that Bernard Butkovich, an agent of the Treasury Departments Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms was actually and involved planning the attack. some reason Butkovich is not listed to appear as a prose-

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witnes terence lawyers for the Klansmen have announced that they intend call him • as part of an entrap- ment derence Butkovich had been involved infiltrating Nazi in some a nose members partici pated in the murders. Now other Nazis are claim- in that Bunkerich aid ford members bomb making, and had proposed taking guns to the Greensboro rally. 'Revenge attack' Although he was not present a ne snooting ne ater ver one of the arrested Nazis offered to burn his house down algung lal l would be seen a: a revere attars Party Chos munist Workers' whose mcmocs nad been murdere a the rally. in Greensboro Police have also admitted, not only they knew of Butkovich's rol before the shooting, but that they had their own agent inside the Klan at the time. They still maintain however that they had no advance know- ledge of the racists' intentions when they drove convoy towards the

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Noven Der S The • likelihood of since the tria opened. Despite evidence film showing them unload weapons from a car and open the selection of the in and now unveiling pretext acquittal makes distinctly

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DOSSIbIC SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 24 September 1980

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The new Turkish National Security Council Race justice in US murder trial The article below is one of a number of important features on the extreme right in US politics (the anti-fascist magazine).

• nibauers are urged to subscribe to searchlignt (E5 for 12 issues) are available from A.F&R Publications, 21 Great Western Buildings, they will escape. first murder" when selection of the jury are the enemy" communists the wife of a deputy sherrif , and much comment. Jurors were question- a Vietnam veteran truck driver.

ed by a defence Delence lawyers have also showed "prejudice who alL) • Illaut a pomt ol asking black potential jurors to confirm have been excused aloud their addresses-while The they telet in used Klansmen in the court make it because fought cleat unal tney are committing World War. the addresses to memory One second was selected was Octavio The prosecution's attitude is Mandulay, an expatriate Cuban best at, potential irths. They are busmessen, a memer or ne far-right emigre potential They group jurors Twentieth Inenters the Klan and the Nazis May' who asked whether the fact that une alleged victims were com- 'strongly patriotic. munists who held views which De was approved not only by the are un-American and repugnant the judge, and defence but by or "the fact that the Lo us all incredibly, by the prosecutin form alleged labour unions and to overthrow o stact attornev Other "approved" the government would affect jurors- all of them white-include one who with defence . Ine stage Is set IoI one ol the most disgraceful white- suggestion inal it was less or a crime to kill a communist than washes the history of wyneed sey the charge to anyone another Makers ofl Modern Marxismi By Terry Eagleton

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El Salvador: FOR A

WORKERS' AND PEASANTS'

formation The of popular front alliance of opposition forces embracing workers' "liberal" parties, capitalist and left wing petty bourgeois groups in El Salvador has, in recent months, taken a further step forward. There has been an agreement of the Unified Revolutionary Leadership

(DRU)

that future the DRU and the Revol- Front Democratic (FDR) are "the only two revol- powers" of the DRI DRU have agreed that the more Co-ordinadora Revolu- Ta01Ca cloance de Masas (CRM) tall wine Stalinist forces) will cease all its activities Salvador. The CRM's goods and funds will now pass into the hands of the FDR which, the agreement states, sationalist is Censure Indeed the entire document ane arsessite militancy or the

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stating instance that The merger of these forces into comprehen- a new

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Cross-Clas. allanct and une lignt to contam the activities ol ts left wins is not itself ecisive political victory for the Indeed the left wing control the ings wolsuicult

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poweriul lorce on the FDR But the moves to discipline the most indicates a major swing towards strategy tne "policy between autances the cras the pet the bourgeois petty 'liberal' forces, proclaims itself opposed to the ruling junta In this sense new align- swille political development than that which place the among

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forces •Nicaragua- wntre the political convergence and moves to suppress the left consolidated in wing were only

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a terman or une deleal dE Somoza. Political problems The popular front leaders in El Salvador are hoping to create conditions suppress those political forces that might have popular frontism, and to elimin- the organisational even such waging struggle within the framework of the CRM. this way, political problems in the development of the anti-imperialist struggle in El demonstrate with that the exper- clarity lence being an aberration, was part of the general pattern of struggle internationally The fact is that petty bour- geois nationalist leaderships, matter how radical their rhetoric, must inevitably fail to Tallat independence or full democratic rights for the oppressed masses win the allegiance of often broad layers of the proletariat in the anti- imperialist struggle, such leader- and ships lack programme Strategy SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 24 September 1980

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stil locked in the e wrad up locked in the embrace imperialism. the independent mobilisation of the pontical eternally seeking Druictalial. "pIo- with supposed a streble to mobilise geoisie, strength the peasantry for lack of a compre the petty nensive nropramme. bourgeois leaderships time again obstruct the the necessar surger

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complete overthrow of the system as a vhich alone Vall i lie load and socialist tasks of the revolu- tion Trotskyists wultiouse the petty •ourgeois call tor a "popular democra- tic" government the demand for a workers' and peasants' govern with no bourgeois parties or ministers. the Transitional pointed Programme out "When the of the party proletariat refuses step bourgeois democratic with the is simply turned into as was thi case vith

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Social Neolutonaes the Communist Party in 1925-27, now the troncase with the France and other countries". To these examples could of course ne pasic lessons or tne nuean Unity" government in which the "Marxist" Allende and his sup porters tied the Chilean workers to an alliance with movement "progressive" capitalists and generals. Young militants in El Salvador: Trotskyists must win the best forces to a Marxist programme The Socialist Workers League, aeration t as part of the Trotsky- Committee, puts forward today political lessons. Petty bourgeoisie In El Salvador, as in Nicar- agua and every country mass movements against I bel nave lalien ander leadership the pett! bourgeoisie we raise clearly demand for workers As rovernment. parties and organis- ations which base themselves on peasants anc speak in their name we demand that they break politically from the bourgeoisie and enter

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struggle for workers' and (peasa s) is road we. DOnN them full support against capit- alist reaction At the same develop agita those government" (Capnasis added) In El Salvador it is necessary not to exclude or to ignore the political mobilisation radicalised but to accelerate their radicalis- ation by asserting the leading role of the working class Without lead, these sectors will rapidly draw back from the revolutionary struggle and become the allies of the bourgeoisie repressing demands of the working class The forces of Trotskyism in Salvador are, beyond Page 3 Final part of a series by Don Flint workers to rely for their protec- tion on petty bourgeois guerrilla groups can be combatted, and new blows struck at the regime LIlt economic demands of both the working class and the poor peas.

antry must be given a clear-cut soclalist answer Open the books raise tice a and tor ant raise demand opening of the books industry banks

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agricultural supplers and transport show how both the workers and the alt Cleous not only finance capitalists but also of "democratic capit- alists in E I salvador itself (wh regime presen because they see it as simply ar obstacle to furthe extension of Thus the demand for the opening the books can assist the cross-class FDR

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and alliances-laying the for basis work designed antalia. workers and the revolutionary expropriation of capitalism in El Salvador The demand must be raised alongside wages. and demands for a programme works to create lobs for the mass of unemployed.

Revolutionary party And Trotskyists must insist in El Salvador as in every other struggle that such revolutionar demands Cal under the doubt, successai The best of these forces can • very weak--not least as independent oI a result of the and must be won to Trotsky sim proletarian revolutionary chaos that has absorbed the lessons of anu liquidation of permanent revolution. under reformist DeLaye the In driving a wedge betweer нестетаті! Stalinist and nationalist leader Fourth International following the healthy, militant forces of ships in the last sixty years and the split over the Simon Bolivar the oppressed on the one hand frmly grasped the necessitv to attair in Nicaragua last and the 'liberal' bourgeoisie and the struggle carry through to September. their petty bourgeois allies the establishment of socialism. Moreover the task of party Lilt building would It is with this in view that in any event be transitional demands must Worker the Socialist League fraught developed which centres on with emendous culties in the present conditions independent and une • 11L~ regara solidarity

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and of repression and civil war.

with the workers and peasants interests of the proletariat of EI Salvador This must include the central Nevertheless there exist large Trotskyists demand formation forces amongst the rank and file with the task of recon- world of the left wing organisations, in structing the confused, factories and working Ine the unions and ridden and divided Fourth Inter class neighbourhoods, to defenc guerrilla that already national in order to lay the basis trade union unem sever

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Ine bullding ol irotskyist against revolutional engaged in the struggle against parties in every country.

state and right wing violence.

imperialism. In this way any tendency of Make up of the opposition in El Salvador

PCS

ERP

FPL

FARN

MPL

MNR

PSC

Union Coalition

UDN

LP-28

BPR

FAPU

PCS

CRM

FDS

FPL

FARN

ERP

DRU

FDR

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DRU

Direccion Revolucionaria Unificada Ligas Populares 28 de Febrero

FDR

Frente Democratico Revolucionario

BPR

Bloque Popular Revolucionario

FDS

Frente Democratico Salvadoreno • Frente de Accion Popular Unificada

CRM

Coordinadora Revolucionaria de Masas

MPL

Movimiento Popular de Libe

PSC

Partido Social Cristiano cartido communista de El salvadoi

MNR

Movimionto Nacionalista Revolucionario

ERP

Ejercito Revolucionario del Puebio

UDN

Union Democratica Nacionalista Fuerzas Armadas de Resistencia Nacional

Page 4 "A fall of manpower 1.8%, although an all-time record, simply not énough". With these arrogant words, Tory Environment millionaire Secretarv Michael Heseltine last week unveiled a new, savage £200 million package of cuts in loca covermmrent soerona- In the last 12 months 35,000 jobs local authority Siashed: but reseltine wants still more workers on the dole.

services and council house building have oeed devastated une culs but Heseltine wants still more he has announced new "high- penaltles aralsu spending" councils, b bs a lateral £200 in England payments to Wales 1980-81-to be 10E between sharec cocai authorities. Letter Open up debate! Dear Editor Much as I agreed with your *Bevond Cee as eune the Fragments" conference held I think dismissed recently, you the participants too lightly.

I, like many peopie, co nol belong to any left group because 5. the history of intense sectar- lansn 1 ver just leit the Socialist reader (amongst others). Despite some political differ- , I am open to the politics of the WSL, who like the IMG seem to nave turnea away Irom the pedantic diatribe of groups "Spartacist like the sectarian League winose Ianlmes are divisive in the class! It is because of groups like the SL B that mally Iulials remain isolated from the "organised" left. Socialist Challenge opens its columns tor serious debate; Will soca rrewoHow sua I hope so because 1 believe (along with the IMG the and others) have a great contri-

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селина formulae for the united party that will lead the class struggle!

I was not able to attend the "Fragments" connerence

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from what I hear, the organis- ations of the left cannot ignore what happened. and how these tae dilemes ant orented (and wilderness organised

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evolutionary organisation! However this must include a self assessm ent left of its practises and dogmas, including perhaps a re-think of how "democratic centralism" is put into practice. way the

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Valle of Stalinism catastrophe avoided! Yours fraternally, HJF Peckham *The columns of Socialist certainly for Press debate and for

DUTIONS

Leners sond nrerer- ably be no more than 400 words in length.

TORIES STEP UP

ONSLAUGHT

MORE CUTS

Heseltine Three Labour councus- Hackney, sanaton and Lambeth- -are to share a further million cut in government aid lor community proiects But, scandalously, Heseltine

CLOSURES

Thousands more workers were informed last week of their employers' plans shoulder the make them cost of the economic crisis.

Figures revealed that manu- now sunk tacturlg oulbul Hlas 1975 nelow levels ano bal investment manuiacluril dropped by 5% in th rs a or yel combareu to the second half of last year.

Redundancies And the meaning of these statistics was shown LIic steddy stream or redundances and closures that were by including announced United British Leyland, GKN uass. oora ane reec dramatic Among the more examples was Reed's announce- ThenE Clo Se the largest wallpaper factory in Europe-the Shard Kydd plant in Dorset-at a cost of 400 10bs.

The work will be transferred to othier

GKN,

bemoaning the high interest rates policy pursued by the Tory government, announced reduced profits and a further 2,000 planned redu 1980 Can CRes. Daneing Lnel total of sackings to 10,000.

Tootal joined the massacre of textile oDs ov anouneg 750 redundancies in a rational- isation move-and more : textile 10 0. were axed nornern Ireland. And Whitefriars Glass put up after 300 years the shutters

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workers on the dole. and demonstrating that capitalist profit the laws aollnow sanl Iesect 101 history or tradition. Commitment Cheshire Crosville buses in wholesale revered Inal

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redundances in tne area meanl thạt workers were longer using their buses to get to work Lucisc ves ale therefore to make 450 more workers redundant! sackings follow on a marve w revoanees che pe viouen thek, andsomea and come at a time when the GeCIIe Llel commu meu has been able to single out seven been fully implemented -lea ving aDout councus-sounwark Dnvate mms carvine ine mal Haringey, Swansea, Newham burden of Tory policy Manchester, Doncaster construction firms had Tydfil-as cut basic Heseltine tc mictiy! Ituue. wicsseu exponents re them spending Councll spending ano NO1 and reprieve from carry through the alternative special penalties. line of attack -a moratorium on words, Labour council building programmes other councillors in these arcas have building TEne gone further than most in imple- industry's workload-and there fore probably more than half its Halca salare alli working class policies. Ilasslve prous-ale ac bonucn upon public expenditure. ensured thus Pressure that the builders and bankers wnd . Wifl пО И aoe to tero Meanwhile Heselt ine has additional sums to local author- his decision made it clear that ities strapped arcan off profis, voile cash oi unese Cusas beenaneu cuiule le pressure from private tne oa. une voung tne sck an employers in the unemployed face increased and the giant building Iullls suppuers Private employers have complaining begun Heseltine's £700 uratullal mumon curs programme nad nou jobs Slashing The public sector. Yet still there is yet to be an officially-led CalDarel defend jobs and prevent factory closures. Only by occupying fighting for umedeerodils supporting strike action, the books of opening employer to show the threat to wider layers emboalea in every bosses". and a fight defeat the Tories mass action to Can une non-stoo wae ol sack ings be halted. Union leaders would sooner with lodge perso nal appeals feeblt SnuRustes. ma0 uHl petitions, protest or negotiate redundancy pay than engage in such fight defeat aily unatcter

MORE MISERY

Tory attacks on the masive facture compared with the of workers to poor, the unemployed and take up benefits to which the pensioners bitterly are entitled-with resulting hard attacked in the final report ship. strikers of the Supplementary Bene- Payments families amounted to a grand fits Commission last week.

total of only £3.3 million out of Commission The slammed „on a vea into Tory moves to cut the real mentary benefit budget 80% of all strikes last les: vaue on som erm oenels o 5% and to penalise the families inan tne two weeks necessary lo of strikers by cutting social be eligible for benefits.

And it gave parments the nolict

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Plight mass bempirte: ean dive soters: depeie dni iniI: The report draws attention "An econom! «hich fazs to plięht of single people Io he provide jobs for so large a pro- mN M ∞ o NOuL artion of its workforce candot under the net Tory regulations.

be tolerated indefinitety...

Thes would be ineligible for view of the unemploy- any kind of benefit. The com forecasts it would ment MKCOn me tone langerously optimistic to must eventually this policy-but warns that there is a the recent riot in could not be repeated

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el cane ca lcoy wu starve to death first. Contrary to Tory myth, the And ridicules the Tory idea report insists oniv 3% of unem- social Hlaucu lale nover workers receive more ir security payments acring as an benefit than they did in work- "incentive to work", under con- largely because of low wages.

ditions insuficient hets a vilele, ane are tiny r'iduu SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 24 September 1980 Tory fanatics applaud Thatcher's policies at last year's conference misery. That is the acme of Tory politics. Is your While some Tory leaders are bleating ricseilmne s "injustice" in cutting payments councils, to mount any serious fight on the issue. firm workers must demand

BUT

that union leaders and Labour wuitvis worgnae -ou struggle including strikes and ocupations to defeat the cuts. "victt ally and confront ano rents on the Heseltine and the bosses' that seeks government only im poverish workers to line thei own pockets. list? - As Thatcher's i govern- ment sags in the opinion their polls and glossy Saatchi and Saatchi election facade is stripped away to the brutal face of reveai capitalism, it is worth look.

where the Tory ing at just Party gets its support from.

The Labour Party Research Department Mas ust oroGuce valuable Information Paper listing the companies givin conauos lo lue iuly ralky dik its various front organisations. Il makes interesting reading.

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Page 6 last Labour government first came to office in March 1974, after Heath's hated Tory government had been driven out of office by the miners while attempting to impose a third phase of statutory wage controls.

Workers correctly saw the Heath government-with its social service cuts, soaring prices and rents anti-union laws, and mounting dole queues, as the main enemy.

But five years of Wilson/Callaghan in office soon proved that the reelection of a Labour government is not in itself a class. the working means of defending question is the exposure of the reformist leaders in the eyes movement and the construction of an of the workers' alternative revolutionary leadership.

some of the major turning catalogue just Below we pro-capitalist role of the the points in which Callaghan governments was starkly revealed and cigarettes. No tax on Wilson March wealthy. Income tax up. government elected, pledged "a major shift carry to

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28 March in the balance of wealth and £47,000 power in favour of working trial Relations Act-bringing people and their families".

total fines against AUEW to includes But his £208,000. Jenkins, Reg Prentice, Roy £217.50 to recompense con Callaghan Shirley •W 11121008 Mech along with the and Healey, supposed lefts financing garnish for three and Foot. Foot wel Benn families! comed by Tory press as a imaginative choice"

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government as Employment Secretary. Orme Act. Stan key job in repressing given ment Irish working class. surcharge counciliors who defied Tory March Housing Finance Act-to no millionaire welcomed avail. Rupert merchant April 1974 Pinochet the terrible horrors pulling Chile. or Common out of Market." Relations Times The entire assets pointed out: with "Labour faced pay £47,000 fine. task the to repeal the Act. April 23 order only 6 days payments." to go to the Tory Court! Wilson's Queen's March 12 drops all Labour's and May 8 nationalisation pledges, pays AUEW decides to keep Tories? Pay as national along Board functioning with Heath's Phase 3 pay Liberals limits. Tories and express approval. claim specific hear Speech evades Tory repeal proposals Relations Act and Industrial inadequately Housing Finance Act. repeal I.R. 'Shrewsbury 6'-Building it with new laws. workers' pickets jailed by Tories on frame-up charges End of May -left to rot in prison. industrial Healey's first March 26 confirms Tories' pay Alan Fisher million massive £1,200 spending cuts; public Eventually borrows $2,500 international bankers. from late July. €500 million allocated food subsidies-propping up profits while giving illusion June 1914 of lower prices. Budget also raises electri- charges, rail fares, cost strike sooner city him Jail stamps, con- alcohol counties. fectionery, petrol, TUC leaders 12 June declare support for volun- tary wage restraint to follow the end of Heath's Phase 3 - the "social contract" 1974 Labour October reelected. Former November 1974 Labour minister Stonehouse cloud of vanishes criminal fraud and scandal, to reemerge an open Tory.

November 12, 1974 Healey's second budget: improving "aimed profitability and liquidity in the company's secO shifting resources from con- sumption into investment «exports, financial benefits Total estimated at companies £1.5 billion in 1975. "Preven- 1974 November Terrorism" of through parliament the wake of Birmingham The essential bombings. This 'emer- pub measure has gency' Deed 3,500 each renewed Irish people held, mainly dozens banned or deported, Wilson- under it. November 1974 Chrysier announce redundancies for 7,700 white collar statt.

Imperial January 1975

AUEW

•fined announce typewriters the Indus- closure -3,000 jobs to go.

Fine includes 1975 Industry February National Bill Set management for Board-centred Enterprise holiday Spanish scabs and their 'participation'-with penalties for trade unionists Still no moves by Labour 'confidential' who reveal the to repeal details to their members.

Labour NEC asks govern- March 1975 Troops sent to £7,000 squash scab on Glasgow dustmen's Cross Clay strike. TUC formally ahandons Shrewsbury 2. Ryder Report on British Leyland. Labour govern ment agrees to sell warships April 1975 Budget outlines dictatorship in €1,000 million further £3,000 milo 93-0 60 1976-17. cuts April 9 Threat by Industrial

VAT

Taxes alcohol, cigarettes and road Court of AUEW tax all up in price. retaliation for its refusal to food, Subsidies housing and to nationalised Foot still makes no move industries all cut. April 1975 Special Labour speaking Foot, 2-1 Party conference before AUEW to campaign for a 'no' vote assets due to be seized, tells Market the Common union's National Committee Wilson ignores Anonymous donor fine and costs engineering strike call receives overwhel- ming response. Strike called off. But NIRC scheduled to for million against TGWU on 15. Foot belatedly and Andrew Wiard, Repor to

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Act and replace

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Nurses take up

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against action continuation of Tory nase SiMU-NUPE- TEND laws-attacked "irrespon- PrINCE sible, amateur adventurers".

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Anti-market 'left' minis- and motion ter Eric Hefter sacked by Wilson.

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management MP for Newham N.E. demand 20,000 redundan- but shelve the scheme ces. after union leaders sign deal in steel and pledging speca-ut and engineering of working con- worsening over 4,000 jobs.

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Unemployment reaches 9,50,000. councillors £63,000 June 1975 Railwaymen's Housing Finance strike threat produces 30% pay settlement. threatens Hise Tory policies in openly to use new, tighter 'social contract not accepted. Committee tion July 1975 Unemployment climbs over 1 million. Jones railroads

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. "flat fraudulent scheme for rate" "voluntary" limits through TGWU con- hours, Within ference. declared state Healey has control 1n wages - of crease to be £6. He says: "We must accept a 10% cut in the standard of living and public expenditure. The alternative [!] is to crawl to the

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and accept the for £1,000 million loan upon terms come

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impact women's relative pay Januarv 1970 ment tops 1½ million. "Prevention

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demanding March 1976 dorsing £3,000 million defeat. But ment's January 22, 1979: biggest stoppage on wages since 1926 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 24 September 1980

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746 -and the cuts proceed resigns-and not • Wilson abstainers is one of the 37 160 Labour MPs willing to run for the leader- ministers sign leaving Wilson's hench- defending Prentice Foot and Benn to pose against moves to oust him as men as "left wing" challengers.

• Political status stripped " of wai August 1975 Closure plans from Irish pasoles by "tough guy" torture textiles industry, chief Roy Mason. to slash July 1976 New budget on September 1975 Clay Cross of Phase makes eve sued £1,000 million more cuts.

for defying Tory Phase 2- Act-gov- August 1976 ernment refuses demands to 4½%

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September 1976 October 1975 Government threatens to expel Seamen's accepts Parliamentary Select threatens and Jones recommenda organised

TGWU

restrict abortion if NUS proceeds breaking threatened strike with against Phase 2. NUS leader- mass working ship, despite government class support, climbs down.

Chrysler boss John Ricardo •October 1976 Labour Party to pay £35 million to get rid conference votes to endorse operation; and spending cuts public wage controls. million to persuade Chrysler November 1976 Courtauld to stay on-with the loss of plan to axe seven factories, cutting 4,000 jobs. offers "letter of By-election defeats intent" to IMF in exchange strongholds Walsall

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and Workington. December 1975 Equal Pay 1976 November 17, and Sex Discrimination Acts Massive 80,000 strong dem- force-little against Healey's onstration in im proving cuts- of public rates restricted to one-off single or furthering struggle protest union for equal rights in employ- bureaucrats. In One not instance have union officials taken the initiative in calling Unemploy- for strikes or occupations to stop the cuts. Result: thou sands of jobs and important February 1976 Talks begin services lost. • on Phase 2 of wage control.

1976 Strike December Terror- break out against 4½% pas ism" Act stepped up. Frank limit in Midlands engineer Stagg dies on hunger strike ing plans Ruber Owen an Transmissions- Salisbury prison in the six counties.

first signs of a big wave o resistance on pay. 37 Tribunite "elts abstam Ill a volo ell Court rule Healey's planned January 1971 that UPW has no right t package of black mail to South Africa cuts, producing a temper 5y Start of new legal offensiv the same against unions, at first spea then troop loyally into the

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headed by lobbies to support a vote of endorsed by goverr the "economic policies" ment.

ILOGUE OF BETRAYAL

olice clear route for scab vans on Nottingham Evening Post picket line. Now the courts have acted to ban solidarity blacking.

February 1977 Former CIA Phillip Agee and agent Mark journalist dosendal deported without trial Home Secretary charge by Rees on prompting of CIA.

Berry and Campbell arrested and charged under the Official Secrets Act. Foot February 1977 Wave of unofficial against plants Longbridge and including flows BT.

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Threat to sack all strike. 3,000 strikers, endorsed by Scanion, leads to spontane- ous moves towards national

AUEW

skilled strike by men. Scanlon howled down by toolmakers. March 1977 Callaghan forms coalition alliance with Liberals get through Parliamentary vote of con- fidence proceed with 4130 Phase 2 and Phase 3 of wage control. April 1977 Major unofficial strikes against Phase 2 at Heathrow Airport and Port steelworks. Healey Talbot unveils Phase 3-a 10% in meaning only the S on basic rate. Summer 1977 Escalating violence against police Grunwick mass pickets. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 24 September 1980 February 1978 Thatcher June 1977 Mason announ- launches ces intensified repression in her offensive on Ireland-SAS immigration aimed murder squads enlarged whipping racist votes up from middle class and back- July 1977 TGWU confer- ward workers: Callaghan reflecting mood throws out "problem" working NEC reveals its plan Jones "left-wing" plan "orderly return" to free for an unemployment-to cut it to collective bargaining. 750,000 by 1981! August 1977 Queen visits counties, March 1978 Labour's the occupied six congratulating torture chiets Secretary General Ron Hayward boasts that and military rulers. Labour is the party of 'law and order'. September 1977 Total ban on marches in Tameside All demonstrations are prevents anti-fascist mobili- banned in London ior two sation-to be followed by months to restrict anti- similar moves elsewhere fascists. Owen's reactionary for March 1978 Labour 'lefts' Anglo-American Tories preserving capitalist stability join with racist in from the in Rhodesia announced. Commons Select Committee Relations and October 1977 Hounslow Kace Hospital work-in ransacked Immigration. vandals. Health union leaders May 1978 2,000 police Strakon Mied ay teeds- nothing. Trades Council. The Leveller Peace News October 1977 Labour Party and The Journalist fined for conference non another naming "Colonel B'. No event. challenge whatever to the Lib-Lab May 31 1978 Liberals The coalltion Telegraph pointed out that: deal after the end of Phase "the to chance its arm by endan- gering the new-found unity July 1978 Police pay to go in the party in the run-up to up by 40% as a reward foi the election."! strike activities- but Phase 4 revealed as 5%.

November 1977 Merlyn Rees's

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thugs go on Grunwick August 1978 Metropolitan Iampage 290181 mass picket-250 victims police chief McNee calls for need treatment: swinging new police powers mealcal 113 arrested. Home Secretary Rees. November 1977 Firemen's strike: August 1978 Government Cauagnan calls scabs for eight weeks. increases on North Sea army TUC-'left' and right alike- monopolies-supported holds back by Tories! struggles to allow firemen to fight alone.

Then openly accepts 10% August 1978 Chrysler crisis 2162 millon of gooke ent having soaked up January 1978 Amid revela- cash, the British operation is tions of big business plots flogged off Peugeot- coalition finance Liberadi endangering more jobs and between the remaining securely Labour, the Liberal Party private hands. votes to renew une coantion deal, confident that it September 1978 Bingham Repott, though a whitewash excluats sociaust poncies.

of ministers knew which sanctions- Smith Rhodesia. Callaghan pulls Iran after thousands. o demonstrators shot down by troops. September 1978 Ford strike leads massive wave of struggles Phase limits: to be pay followed by bakers, journalists, lorry drivers. civil anc COUDIl

SCCLUI

servants. October 1978 Labour Party Conterence throws out 5 pay limit-but no opponent 10] Callaghan Healey leadership.

Reselection MPs blocked by Scanlon flouting AUEW mandate. Tribunite 'left' Heffer sums up for NEC motion, greater support for 'law and order' November 1978 Queen's trade unionism. Lib-Lab coalition squalid

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deal with Ulster Unionists- promising additional MPs to the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, with devolution Trade Sec- November 1978 Edmund Dell resigns to his merchant - L0 banking job! November 1978 Thorpe hearing partially lifts the lid on the nature of the Liberal leadership- Callaghan's chosen coalition partners-and their links with the Labour leaders: December 1978 Callaghan defeated in Parliament ole to enrorce sanctions oi firms which pay in excess of Page 7 rawly: Anorew wiard. kenom 5% limit. impose permanent wage In new precedent, controls: it is signed by Coll "secondary rules blacking' TUC leaders with no man- of Press Association by NUJ date whatever from their to be illegal. members. January 1979 Strength of February 23 1979 Civil lorry drivers' strike action Servants stage Day of whips Tory Action. Callaghan, Owen

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frenzy of anti-union propa- and Foot the are Callaghan ministers who ostentatious- Hallud declaring his willingness to ly cross picket lines. picket

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rites followed in this 'stand' by February 1979 'Shankill butchers most of his cabinet cronies.

jailed: one turns Court against rules out be member of "secondary picketing" Ulster Defence Regiment. United Biscuits by transport drivers. Another firm seek: March 1979 Devolution damages Irom "secondary" pickets. referendum brings defeat Wales and bare January 19th majority Scotland- Picket killed heralds new crisis scab lorry driver Labour's deal with national.

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January 22nd 80,000 public March 1979 Furore grows sector workers join a huge over 'RUC's systematic demonstration torture of republican Lo don to back their £60/ pects" Castlereagh 35hour week claim. Though interrogation centre. . Public- "selective action" of Bennett ation Keport confined to by their leaders • followed by Mason's claim breaks through the 5% limit that it "clears" the RUC!

it leaves them, settlement, worse off than a March 1979 Devoid of any yval azu, pretence of socialist policies February 1979 or Callaghan reforms, "virginity tests" revealed to electioneering anches be carried out by immigra- attack on costs of Common at Heathrow Market agricultural policy.

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on Asian women. March 28 1979 Collapse of February 1979 Court rules squalid deals with national- deport Astrid Proll- ists and Ulster Unionists alleged West terrorist-to brings Parliamentary Germany where she faces of defeat in brutal imprisonment and vote of confidence: tipped likely death hands of over the brink at

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prison authorities that have hack Gerry Fitt and Inde. already pendent MP Frank McGuire murdered members of Baader-Meinhof gang. who abstain over Callaghan's refusal to sack February 1979 Mason butcher Mason. publishes tour-page sheet to "answer" 'IRA cam- March 31 1979 International paign Day of Action on abortion

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inflicted republican rights. Healey's cuts have of limited right to abortion on prisoners Long would cut Kesh concentration camp. the NHS Tories Two

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back further still Lugs charged with murder of 16 April 1979 Building on old Boyle last precedents of rulings against year.

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court fines NGA for black- February 1979 The Concor- ing advertisers who continue lat appears. This is a TUC use scab Nottingham Government Evening Post mplement Tory policies struggle for union against union rights and to nition.

Central illusions behind Benn's arguments for Page 8 A recent public opinion poll in the Sunday found that of possible leaders Labour Party, Tony Benn was the least popular with voters, even

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No result would more clearly the public show For the future of opinion polls. bre casune Dollal evolution of Tony henn those who support him is of the grealest mtporlauce include Benn's supporters the vast majority of the left class. If a within the working capitalist rule is to cece o develop in Britain, it is this layer which will have to develop the and organisation necessary Jead une class loe For this reason it is vital that révolutionaries both understand ane lmorouyiy •alisWo. puild ideas, reflecting as they do both the strength weakness. of advanced layer of workers.

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of the Under the impact. exper- economic crisis and his ience covernmen. unele no doubt that he has continued to move to the left. In 1964 he was the foremost anvoc te ot wicons vew llal British capitalism could regenerated by a "technological Now-after eleven years of colaborationist Labour class have shown Poveals bankrupicy or sucn a poncy-ne puts forward a call for a trans- society that dvdcc exploits capital and not aDo1T the other way round. It is say how far Benn's this change unprincipled adap- oas vee dl tation to militant WOrKeRS anlu genuine develop- ment through experience We merely point out Call now ar ne somas LU lidyel d his socialism is to go beyond rhetoric. of the greatest strengths of the British labour movement has been commitment gaining a greater democracy and SocieLy. within its own sphere a greater control over the factories, over over its oca cotimumls education and ser vices, and over its own organisations.

struggle again been trustrated Tim e ane. on layor ot thekie clon layers working class leaders into the state. But it is a great traaluon nevai llcs clit one which must respect. Gradual process wèakness of the But the labour movement has been that cmn Ene Ialll vicwc extension of democratic control a gradual, process of trans- forming the existing than destroy-

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Latilci ing and replacing them. That is why so many work- class leaders end up ser ving the interests of capitalist govern- ments or industriasts i orue.

to "preserve themr inmluence over capitalist institutions.

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struggles of the working class for democracy as a continuation of ine struggie or tile LyolOs thinkers or the honiet in tocit, radical bourgeols This is not incorrect the debt

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iE socialism which the working class move- ment had to the democratic early traditions geolsie But nevertheless Marxists see working class not in terms the of its past but of its tuture.

see the working Cass embodiment within capitalism socialist demo- Iuiui cracy. virtue of its position in society the working cass the demo- develops will be the which Clall socialism; for of toundallon instance the creation

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who are elected from stewards their own group ail old workers and can be recalled by them. class also But working for social- comes to the struggle ism with many lacas wilieh Iust be discarded. the class working as dll oppressed and class exo oned was not .commatee •o ul- ideas, capitalism would long ago have fallen. on the Tony Benn's stress continuity of working class and bourgeois cruge es on oeno- leads him deny to the of the for a dictatorship SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 24 September 1980 Geoffrey Weston reviews "Arguments for Socialism' by Tony Wedgewood-Benn, published by Penguin Books sections of society working class over the bour- quered supremacy this working This argument requires an the one hand dc geolsle to acnieve soclaisin.

es mis on He even tries to claim that away with all the old repressive unaerstandung of belll s allerlla shared machinery previousiy used tive to the dictatorship of the Marx proletariat: is a theory of the Czech against itself, and on the other UnIS COLeR reformist svitals wno statea l stares deputies and officials by own Hirst. enn teus us we nave "Marx all without to elect a Labour government strove them lor a wide of Then this government will bring the humanism exception lilal subeck lo retalld bourgeois democracies any moment. thate in aws reomame lare lwns lc s wide ivi oi hts the transformation draw up planning agreements knew. and Against and creating nationalised the of the state and the organs of foI 1101 Slllg ur with sections industry dictatorship one Cass The cate into masesococek.

political party". an inevitable transformation tern sane uul Marxism. As states, the But , not previous D annine agreements witn tae Engels wrote: made of two Commune This-says Benn-will be the Social first ATe une anabe means. stage of partnership' 'equal Democratic philistine place it filled all posts, admin- • nas onee Labour and capétal, oers Wil been filled with whole. istrative, judicial and educațion more basis of partnership workers some terror at the words al. by electon on the take greater and greater tatorship universal .suffrage all con- orneochial control-until they the Well subject to the right of good gentlemen, do cerned, 1 vall this recall at any time by position of hiring capital know what the same yuu walll lu they choose the dictatorship looks like! Look at electors. second

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wace afl od oals high o wage, This utopian scheme ignores the Paris Commune. That was dictatorship of the prolet- the cenà ve ven vx first is the proven power ariat". received by other workers capitalism control Labour Instead every Engels describea the organi: oi deciding of the Commune thus six years which mem- three governments eol the ruling class the very outset the AS One aS LaDouT caders remain committed to achieving compelled to .Commune W 4 mierTe n e PeoDe ul all reforms through regener. recognise that tie workig class go eno me to po eric the old the people constituted in ating industry under capitalism.

the old individual they managing communes unaoe co mole state machine; that in order not Benn every other suttrage SelYa employer in the search for the to lose agal Ius only ust col knows workmen and managers of hi business" when the IMF fold Wilson policies for nationalisaridns arid Against this description of drop Benn's industrial the aictatorsnp or tne proier propo sals agreements ariat, Benn's for face planning govern. financial collapse Wilson did democracy and open not appeal to class the working stand only as the palest men of pale shadows. sacked Ben1

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supporl, • Dul double quick (and no ne Benn's cabinet colleagues He calls for the annual elec- defended him either). tion oi tne cabinel by mis, lut right of parliamentary select World slump interrogate committees to the He knows that when ofticials. an end to the secrecs

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cuts of cabinet papers demanded Soclule But all of these proposais health locked within the price for new loans, Wilson and remain Healey obliged. Indeed he now of bourgeois resent syslcll democracy -the very machinery claims that this was the momen up by the capitalist class to became a sient. cabinel rule against the position-holding) socialist defend :now ignore So why does he working class. The argument we have to .the reactionarv politics oi the Benn's supporters is right wing leadership? win with The second reality is the that oniv the dictatorship oi the of the conditions proletariat can bring real demo- ecolollk cracy into the lives of workers present period. "In the middle o1 Callaghan: Benn avoids any fight for his removal a world slump of massive pro.

non-exploiting other alil Benn on the platform of the "Debate of the Decade" nortions ane unor eeoe e the power of labour to bargain economically with capital is not great. Benn says he agrees that the working class must be mobilised achieve Parliamen outset any advances. bur the quesuon is around what programme.

there are this question muncametla one Benn's approach on ane hand he appears to accept tha by the defence of job: occupa but correcl says wrong . to. othe he resist the introduction of new technology His ideas remain a confuse mixture revolution" illusions of regener- capitalism alulz nitute ror wokes conot ideas about self-management within capitalism on the basis of workers necus. No middle way But Benn has to make up his mind. n te breser defending the living standards, jobs and conditions of workers thing salllc nack ine neces ate re uciul and modernisation of capital.

when overal production is stay There middle nating or falling. Marxists clear: . they the defence of for stand fully if working class interests-even in the short term this make worse the total crisis of capital.

we o bod dc cuve] ment in this period could onl defend the interests of workers by declaring war on the interests on cabilasm situation only the ntnis mobilisation the working ot class could sustain it. Party ( LaDUu. incapable carrying OI.

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such mobilisation: has programme or the the leadership. Wha DCIUl S answer to this situation?

Concluded next week

CUT PRICE NOSTALGIA!

New Communist Party slams "Gdansk wreckers" SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 24 September 1980 Socialist Press doesn't often review records but we could hardly miss the Rock Racism Greatest Against Against Racism's Greatest Hits released this.

Hits album released earlier month. this month. "It's not vinyl, it's the theme tunes of a says Andy Xerox in massive Anti Nazi League movement Carnivals and ine LiD-LaD pac This is an accurate statement came rushing into my head as I of what the album is and as such put it on the stereo for the first it could have caused time. a leval the tipsy-turvy just shows what . exploson rocksed the year go when ten years; both happen politically and musically.

Rock Agamst Kacısm movement Punk music and Anglicised reggae nearly then. If you left school you still a chance of getting a job: Minor ripple stood went on strike you and it you the were sparcu Today, however, its release provisions of Prior's Employ- only caused a minor ripple with ment Act if not the hostility of reviews the Lic vouce capitalist music Guardian critic ticking it off as 1980 Heavy Autumn Metal music wild album the month" (How survive the winter. music cults always seem to start industry release a month any- -or rather are re-started in the how?) Spring or summer- The album is one big dose of But. the carches nostalgia-which isn't such a bad superbly the end of 1978 where music heroically «nour snor punk use To ear hot summer of ended its most fruitful year and The 'long the growing reggae groups with their distinct racist violence of 1977 and the differences from their Jamaican "Communists slam Gdans! wreckers". So ran the headline of New Worker, paper of Britain's New Communist Party, As the most brazen mouth- piece of the Kremlin leaders and the Stalinist bureaucracies deformed states, New Worker did not trouble hide its bitter hostility independent struggles. of . Ine Polish masses. While the Morning Star more poses New poker Stalget New Worker plunged "Irresponsible anarchic and anti-socialist groups The readiness of hundreds of thousands of Polish workers to fight the dictatorial rule of the parasitic Stalinist bureaucracy was branded as "efforts by the Polish right". And New Worker-perhaps its incautiously-threw weight problems". unambiguously behind the now more interestingly the

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ousted Edward Gierek. "This no-holds barred impossible contradiction when explanation of current events in it attempts to conclude that: The redon se one avenue trying wreckers the man in the best position to difficulties only up the whip Edward Gierel plans to aid the boss-class nave Even as the strike movement atew to te verge or a venera The problem The stainists Strike, New Worker was assur- such a formulation is ing its readers that: that of course the major imper- outline . of laust bowers actuall solution is one sure to apped lo the assistance or lerek and the thousands of ordinary Polished West Germany Polish workers* hurried through new loans Lickspittles

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misman economy, sooner Unfortunately for Gierek, than risk a further escalation his outline- despite the endorse- revolutionary struggle in Worker- of New 10 U anu

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on cowin already. neavy investments and Polish workers as it did with the financial commitments Stalinist lickspittles who Poland. lead Worker The Nur Ivew course Subsequent developments made a of the from right wing German 'have nonsense politician • Franz-Joseph Strauss came dervew worker flat "rhe Polish United Workers' condemning the new programme and the fact is that the loans were may I LIC made by the imperialists-to policies sort out present Andrew MacDonald reviews the album Rock influences were meeting huge success. The a track optione Cabis LP is the Carol which is punk reggae but a Joan

HOL

Armatrading/Pattie Smith type. Ut Wille. Watershed RAR's first album Actually (and hopefully not their last) peculiar watershed comes at a It has been able to carry its mass suppor into Rock Against Thatcher the seemed development And a crisis of perspective has loomed up. resulting in the temporary disappearance RAR's extremely Hoardings (well Temporary least u saving us to is name...

Musical Express, four of RAR According central committee ten-strong have restgned Nevertheless for £3.99 you could be the proud owner of the Brezhnev greets Gierek prop up a tottering Stalinist bureaucracy And the

NCP

course despite its ostensible sture the

CLO

Great Communist Party completel committed to supportin: SuCI I preache loans as an integrai Stalinist coexistence' with imperialism condemn imperialist manoeuvres Poland The single material influence biggest exerciscu oy tae umocranst: form roland takes „the masse debts to the he Gratist run • IeSuIt Ol . develop the poten tial of the Polish economy while opposing revolutionary struggles elsewhere in Europe. i he debts ana the economic Poland are the crisis in three fruits of decades with "peacetul coexisterce imperialism t'heré is no doubt that the working class in Poland and th detormed

WUIACIS

stales Has 14-track album. And with the Clash, costero 2100 Attractions Tom Xray Specs Band, Little Robinson Fingers and the Gang oi fou others from the punk Cute but And cumbi, Steel Aswad contributing reggae tracks you could natal go wong. On one side there are epoch- making classics by Xray Specs Tom Elvis Costello, tracks The Piranhas and the Mekons I doesnt ac made some gains. They of unemployment the suffer scourge countries should also bear wardess of the fast uropean mind economic back- lamen a yet workers lishment deformed workers stales m une bost wal berod.

Privilege But the fact remains that 30 years after the expropriation capitalist property these countries and 63 years after the smashed Class Lilt owe capitalism Soviet Union , the ruling Stalin- ist bureaucrats have still not created anything approaching for working people Instead have defended their own power and privilege with competent beckie up els consistent v seekine world into peacefully coexistin Page 9 Rock concert at the end of the Anti Nazi League's first Carnival, 1968 harm hear the liberating Four. What do you expect any- words of Poly Stvrene way Irom tnal cnque or capital "Some think little ist roaders and running dogs of yankee imperialism?) girls seen and not think friend that said heard DU

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you can tell at out me 3,4... they beysonality by the records Once you've heard that you forget Ton He replied "ves. can tell 'never A Mol Robinson has some lot about yours-you're on dead excellent about low wages thing: say So "the winter of 79 i you're skint and selec- tive like side comes the KAR's greates on tne omel heavyweight stuff from the must for your record nits is a Clash and Stiff Little collection! called along with a vi stalle. 'Why Theory?" by the Gang of By John Lister and Dave Ashton A tottering Brezhnev gets a helping hand from West German leader Schmidt opposing the independent revol- recorted to suen measures utionary struggles. But as the working class ir of Yarth, post-war settlement Britain , comes increasingly into reheran and Potsdan conflict bureau- with evacally hanged ove Cran Greece and Indo-China to the mobilise mass action to defend imperialists, and Stalinist parties workers against the Tories- -the basis is created for a tar wider.

sulu vul Massive bos war revol utionary opportunities reaching understanding of the France and Italy phenomenon of bureaucracy as The economic isolation that Itas • warpea ine nationalisec economies of the deformed the NCP's frantic headlines states thus littl than more accident: it Is the outcome o Canute-like attempt tr SLeill LIL' •tarnist DOnCy as a privuegec lorware movemen or me work bureaucracy struggles to ing class at a time when even the preserve its power Polish Stalinists grasped events East the need for flexible tactics to Germany 1953, Hungary 1956. power 'cerene anet Czechoslovakia privilege. Poland 1970 have shown Such Stalinist formations Stalinist leaders will use contronted WIldl Trotskyist programme for revol.

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Solidarity action halts London papers in NUJ battle SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 24 September 1980 brings the total in the offer Weekly papers St11 weighting payment LOndON London area have been £440 a year, less than nau bile severely hit-and in many £1,000 claim. cases stopped-by the strike of journalists over a London Large white spaces allowance. week more papers The strike started after two In one of members have heen SLORUOn mCCLlS than in the whole of the seven £2-£4 London n 210 Telecie provincial journalists' week week offer from the news 1978/9. Largely Society Out of 450-5.00

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pauv Ere ning lail less the weekly has neen decause Nua memocas

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have been refusing to cet anv- 21001

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thing other than than 20 are scabbing. comment Within three lays of the editor's ano column. Thus papers which have strike starting the employers- have had large white appeared by Press WeSS SLOT * hatchet man Frank Barlow-had .spaces. slight increase in the response by the made K11T offer and promised to index link NGA-the outcome of several negotiations the orer. bul ine 14 a weck

WCERS

PRESS

GANG

damaging to the nation, Gdansk stuff is This of the lea alaba catching. It is one thing to strike weapon. 'supporting' a strike in Daily go AS the workers than a week states in the commented more ago, it is for the employers in hope that it is in a pro- this dispute to back down.

But look capital direction. Well yes it can. And not just where it is leading now. the Mail. The Telegraph too has really be the voice Can this cancer Huse

ITOI

WIlt employers. Why? of the Daily Mail? the Tory "An agreement of this signif- hen presck ries its attack icance cannot ш aero torn up by the port employers working class, it also wants it to of Merseyside merely because it To attack, at this stage, one is no longer i uter alerests, organised of the best and mos For politicians ancl those •owe Secons ui cc usaso cynically head on, on an issue which has have WIlU united the opposition, is no part biled on solemn pav deals.

of its plan. Now the boot is on the other foot and it would be thoroughly dishonest to pretend that it was emplovers tave displayed not the crushing

TOTI

anno moterve

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brutality of a Churchill, but the carpet slipper. Liverpool The port incomberece cart don-ant even the Daily looking Ion emo overs welt really believe that "bover'. In the these circumstances, une cidee ol ine bæll Diwauc was a victory. Britain's SLIe the class war discre- dnarers cerensive tion is the better part of valour.

offensive. However potentially

AT THE TOP...

UNION DUES

officials of the two unions-is clearly the opposite of what the NUI fought for during the NGA dispute-members to rense lo picket where a scab

WIUDD

publication was being producea.

Now even this present inade- quate level of NGA support is- -threatened press-

NGA

The T71L0 wundrdwal. counci meeting on weanesday was due to discuss a proposal to set all l editorial copy words

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ULIICI

scab copy. tary Tony dubbin s istroughre-

NGA

contact with the News- be in pjus ing tery tati acerdie Society -who • navc occil to NGA response durin wille Dariuw. negotiations, expressed himselt BL jobs Every day brings further of redun- announcements dancies in British Leyland.

Solihull there will In Rover, straight 120 ruutuan two atter the wet. saulo wil followed by a further 500 after Christmas. Steel Swindon, Pressed Fisher mangeme Ila, announced a further 300 redun- dancies bringing the workforce down to 3.300-and even this 1s assuming that other workers will move into the press shop to take up joos crealed Dy work Ult Cowley Body Plant convenor Roché-no stewards' meet- ing

OLD, AND IN THE NEW.*!

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MUCH BETTER!

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to be satisfied with the NGA đẹd NG A he has clearly suspen- West- ded members on minster Press who tollowed the line. He has also taken the unpre- cancelling cedented stet trainee journalists D aces college for their strike Darli allud established practice is arrenous that college n acer nave been cancelled although some- a to Lunes of underwrite course). Tough battle

NUJ

members-who just completed process of drawing up a claim for 120 a Recession hits more the Minl Melo In the Cowley Assem bly where there has been a Plant, programme COlLIEUUs the redundancies volnEay company has announced that a further 388 must go Body Plant the Cowles further detais oi the proposed 1460 redundancies are Callce staff-of 290 of these are volunteered, whom nave creating ; a strong possibility of compulsory redundancy. are mandal

WULAVS

scheduled to go by the end of The of neom oban the year. whom have like already left), are

NO LILL-

this figure. So again it is clear that the have to enforce on balLy redundancies, But the TGWU leadership of the plant has not even called a discuss meeting stewards wnat to ao. These sackings are picture. All of these partial off for an nants are also laid additiona week, tollo wee o and four day week three the present after week's holiday. The Rover plant and the Cowiey plants are now workin: at a mere 20% of capacity.

There is a similar situation ecees Page 11 Oil rig bosses draw up list of victims NGA leader Wade week and a 37½ hour week with of vastly improved maternity The management national claim - now Ayrshire Marine Construc- barric. They must rof datol i tough prospect nave ult tors at Hunterston, where 900 workers have been in

NGA

agreements not to members to observe the pickets dispute for three weeks over and fight for the real solidarits inadequate safety measures, action which alone can win the now stating that they cla im. will reopen the site only on 40 workers condition that of their choosing will not be reem ployed These 40 obviously / include the leading shop stewards.

Setback their determmer campaign the workers received the Friday when SeLDauk Las government's Health and Safety commercial vehicles where declared that the the Bathgate plant which war employers are clear in relation week on and one working one down to to contitons onlne ste week off is now going The strikers however remain four che o eye noise of resista e only noise of resistance committed to the struggle, con- national level has от Арт vinced their from seek ing support They are trom kav' tantal who has threatened strike action througnoul the labour ald wau!

against compulsory union moverent. financial and redundancies. messages, moral support should be sent to BL workers must repare for occupation Thel blanls the shop stewards commaee compulsory redun- (Hunterston Distpue) i c/o TUC closures and this Clut Ardrossan Rd. Irvine, dancies OI supported by national Ayrshire. must De strike action. Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement

CONFERENCE

"BRING DOWN THE TORIES THIS WINTER"

Saturday November 15 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.

Digbeth Hall, Birmingham Open to all labour movement bodies Credential £1 (unwaged 50p) from G. Webster 169, Barclay Road, Smethwick, W. Midlands

GRENT FIT! SO WHAT. DO I DO NEXT?

WELL

TO GET INTO THE SWING OF THINGS

THE T.U.C. LADS ARE MEETING THATCHER FOR

A NOSH-UP NEXT WEEK

WHY NOT TAG ALONG?

LABOUR CONFERENCE:

FIGHT MUST GO ON!

Adwest strikers occupy

SOCIALIST

PRESS

"There's many preferable right-hand manoeuvre betwixt cup and Dennis Healey) fear lip". This old TUC proverb unal alava chance or leadersio could place Healey in office.

appears even more true of while they make their this year's Labour Party tactical decisions on these ques- conference than many of its tions, the proportion of predecessors. Ger entes -where relatively impotent constituency top. union bureaucrats union delega- and parties Happie Juise laut will slap-up tons rigidly bound by mandates La0OlI • enders over meals in the next few days, from above line Inem serves pattern voting once again excluded from the emerge of decisions and which real will determine making just luw poncies. reforms fought for by socialists Indeed this year's conference will be adopted at the Black pool either of a strengthened socialist comerence next week challenge to or certain: the wing One thing 1S organised campaign for result in no way depenas on the o1 any charade of "debate" that will be action to bring down the lories And while the Callaghan publicly televised-nor any on could gang embarrassed trade unionists, hiock Solde motons - particularly votes will be bandied about by Those on re an unera s armanent and some calling for national officials. the disbanding of the SPG-were depends on Kather assessment by senior trade callicu. 1CW all leaders of the implica- union equippea with enougn teel (Il the form of a commitment to tions of blocking once again the tangible action) to draw any long neeaea and populany sup- moves to introduce

DIUUU.

reselection mandatory is on mer aolay to see the political offensive on MPs: the take perspective the policy and election of the Party leader out wake of this year's constitution- of the vice-like grip of the right wing PLP; and to allow the NEC al decisions that ine • Iignting capacity of the "att' ad as representative Party Callaghan opposition to the to decide on the election manifesto. out in the eyes of the member- signs that, in the ship. wake ot the wu deckon Many of the key questions back the principle of establish- college" involved in such a fight will be electoral dealt with by guest speaker Ted the choose

LIC

rally Oxford CP for pel support m from under David Basnett could follow suit -and tip the scales in favour of socm rress al a soecial 1r12c which had been meeting organised by the Cam- this measure. Democracy the expectea to de acrcaied. paloll Monday Labour Movement on ns apocals to Do lukeu l September plat- 2y. A molner a bizarre Keep Callaghan in t speaker at that meeting Keep at the time the Keep Healey which will be Sandra Plummer, confer- the Party's ence delegate nom oh. ranclas veroneerce South CLP. and has gathered pace with the We urge Labour conference expectation that Callaghan may in this delegates lake bali reure cus auluna i do success important discussion on fully defeats the Party reforms.

programme and perspectives on Union leaders (who for some which to fight the right wing.

Callaghan

ICASON

Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement

LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE

FRINGE MEETING

"The fight for a new leadership in the labour movement" Monday 29 September at 7.30 p.m.

Hotel Victoria, 35 Station Road, Blackpool Speakers include: Sandra Plummer, conference delegate from St. Pancras South (speaking in personal capacity) Ted Heslin, Socialist Press supporter still barred from membership by Oxford CLP Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, BM Box 5277, London As we go to press Adwest strikers and supporters have House occupied Transport in London in a determined effort force

TGWU

General Secretary Moss Evans to meet them. The occupation followed the latest mass picket outside the Adwest factory in Reading

SUDOIL OI

SULKCIS WIIO

dismissed after taking action in defence of a victimised worker.

Two pickets arrested by police. Protest Immediately the mass picket finished several car their supporters

SLAVIS

alll •tove nose protest at the failure of the make strike-now the in its fifth month-official.

Evans was National Ron Todd who was vitalised earlier the day involved negotiations the Ford workers' pay claim was WC1V 6XX. Printed by Anvil Pri Reblished bas a newspaper at the Post Office Signed articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the Workers Socialist League

STOP TONY

rume The question facing Labour activists is whose prepared to fight the Tories?

Transport House decision informed of the tc occupy the union neaaquarters and later met the strikers.

Although

TGWU

announced that Evans would be meer une srker. following day the occupation nevertheless continued, with a demonstration 101 their support on the lonowing morning in Smith Square. Deaf ears Previous efforts the strikers to bring to the attention . leadership their ot the nationa. ansoute and the laluc o1 loca bureaucrats make • ІТ ОПІС have fallen on deaf ears.

because the whole of the

TGWU

from mined back a strike which has been in the forefront Prior's LIt arallls Employment Act, and would from the a determine vulcanal fight legislation rather than the hot air and rhetoric that they have , London.

FUND

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Y

STOP TO

settled for instead. time Evans must be forced to intervention by instruct the Regional Commit- previous of the give official backing to the national leader ship LeC TGWU failed to persuade local the strikers. officials to back the strike. This