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Not Tony Benn This week's Labour con- action ference will echo time and •hatcher out even to mosas prevent with calls from all agam implementing sides for "unity" against the main enemy-Thatcherism'. this backing only It is clear to all that the lory government's . non-stop torrent the working class that of attacks on lende The Party, neste Luca as 1vvs. TUC bureaucracy. from the labour movement: but it is equally clear to every class

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tal defeat in the amount oi protest or peacelu. matter how governent 'united'-will change the course vividly his fellow declaring that: bankers and speculators. "We Tory ofensive isto brite o the only stem the governments of all varietes, but we government, the using sion immense power of the labour power which movement-a WIll change the government: stopped the Heath government But the dead •its tracks in January 1n 1974. union eners make no secre ol their opposition But while Labourites right' action to defeat and leit call ior unity within the Party, what is their attitude about the Labour left'. noisy fight for such LOWaLOS democratic needed perspective of struggle against Thatcher? their crucial turning point on Callaghan has openly Wednesday? declared not only his opposition Not these union chiefs! Tory union-buster James plainly well Prior was pleased last week as AUEW eader Terry Duffy declared "live his willingness to with" the Employment Act at a conference organised by the Industrial Society. Duffy warned Prior to avoid a "provocation" like the jalling which might of a union uncontrollable response. Employment Act stood a better EETPU leader Chapple, too, chance had some advice for the Tories.

employers could help by "using Speaking another one day it properly"! warned Thatcher conference offensive has now won the tacit not to try to into the ground" Heath's 1971 had workers. bureaucrats try do too much al Deon lo 11101C once, said Chapple: Share wies vicws.

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 217 * October 1 1980 * 20p laison Committee Do the 'lefts' have a serious bring down alternative workers road struggle the lones gains the lories? Leading leit their policies Benn certainly does not. an interview with Socialist (25 September) Canele Dennis makes it very clear that he too and the right wing clique opposed to the fight for stands raramentay generalised

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but also of the down the 1 natchel government: Joe Gormley. "To come back to the ques.

tion about how you get rid of the Heath Thatcher government-after 1974 socialism llas IHUSl 20 years of silence on you union chiefs, trial muscle. You've got to tackle the rea have fights with that thes which must never give the impres the public into consciousness any other union and then you have to build support continues his Benn right wing and vague of "injecting estate into the public arguments all-out Thatcher con- consciousness Thatcher, what- tinues to destroy jobs, services and democratic rights.

efforts to introduce long- strengthi of left procedures wing currents within the Labour Party only produce forward movement in the class struggle insofar such concepts are diversionary unly by presenting workers a clear perspective for government against the of the class enemy in detence oi their jobs, living standards and hard rights political won can consciousness be raised Councils of action unambigu ously the ellissiy ot This spelling means local struggles extens through the building of councils of action drawing together dele- bodies, mass generalised with the objective down this savage bringing Doses covere means exposing all of trade and Labour tho se Duffy leaders who mouth 'opposition' Good allowing her to proceed with he attacks until 1984. Thatcher's anti union new, revolutionary mee phip. drawing together the most pr COCe How many labour movement in a struggle for the independent interests of practice the working class. *

THATCHER?

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HOTO: Mark Rusher, Workers remain ready to fight the Tories Not these councils 13 Labour councils-10 in London plus Sheffield, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Afan in South Wales-are to press their struggle agains field the Tory cuts not towards a mobilisation of the. working

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class in a full-scale confron- Chapple and Sid Weighell.

into the High tation, but Court! certainly no Thev are to try to prevent the real position Environment Secretary interview tine imposing E 18 merspendingl "overspending" authority other Labour councils continue attacking its decisions. faithfully After implement sector cuts. anc • OI workers face declining standards and the wholesale loss enforce What is needed is not face- saving legal wrangles, but a clear of oppositior Chappl cal for mass action to bring down the Thatcher government this winter. tomorrow. Occupying Mr Kitson's Castle Page 4 Break deal on Ireland! -

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of One the clearest of Labour/Tory examples collaboration is in the "bi- partisan" policy of support for the imperialist military occupation of the six counties of Northern Ireland vent cabou alcacci succeeded in forcing a debate on the conference Ireland onto motion being heavily voted down as a result of union block votes This year composite is to be debated on w eunesuay. Caltle 101 *Rejection of the bi-partisan polic pudiation of the policies successive govermulents Ireland. the Labour a policy leadership favouring pontical ana mullal withdrawal from Ireland' *Calling on the next Labour government "immediatel this process full and with- political military repeal drawal" Not "Prevention of Terrorism" Act.

Calling political status for for the prisoners in "H Block composite motion is not the ideal policy Ireland: all particular It is amoigueus whether is calling for "'phased" or an immediate with- drawal of troops. and lacks any

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for a mobilisation of the call British labour movement in with the Irish libera- solidarity The Tory press has had a supposed y feft wing purge" But the fact that Ireland has been forced the order attacking onto paper Ior year and the growing number of right wingers motions on the question are an increased aware But GMWU leader Basnett- "left'- need to fight in opposition to imperialist clearly British oppression. Nationwide'. It is certain that once agair stake, he stressed, is the central votes the key against such of the TUC and the policy will come from union need to stop its leaders publicly of whom will delegations--fev standing the question from their confer ences.

TUC

The fight for the immediate Contideli leaders are preparing the ground withdrawal troops KT11i9t such from Ireland and the right suppressing all formis self-determination : Irisl oi the people must therefore be taken up with renewed vigour within may be une victut the trade unions at local and today: but it could be Scargill nationa teven

W. German workers face a choice of evils Page 2

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There would seem to be more than a few parallels between the US Presidential election and the election to be held next Sunday in West Germany to decide the Chancellorship. Franz Joseph Strauss, the Union Christian Social • Union against the Social Democratic Party incum- pent schmiat looks very much like Reagan against Carter.

Hostility It points to the same poverty of choice for the bourgeoisie of respective Tine • communes such apparent electoral liability as Strauss was chosen to oppose scamial Vicious hostility to Strauss has shown itself all over West Germany wnere antoirauss committees have been set up focussing the rallies he speaks at.

big northern industrial centres Hamburg and Bremen- tens people • Ilave attempted to break the rallies political accomodation not only with the Saudi -the most economic monarcily ally powerful imperialist ally in Middle East -but also with them- selves, through a proliferation of deals the

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France and Britain leftist rhetoric, Despute the bonapartist regime Hussein's Arab Ba'ath Socialist Tally. relalls its oower only uy the most vigorous repression of trade union and democratic rights within Iraq. executions of opponents have

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only Communist Party members and militant student and trade opposi- union leaders, out also tion elements from within the Ba'athists' own ranks. regime even while Atone declaring slater mination it self favour of the Iranian Arabs of Khuzestan has pursued its own persecution of Kurdish within Iraq's borders. Indeed the initial

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No. 2 Articles on Nicaragua, Parity Commission and TILC Declaration Price 40p plus 15p p&p from WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIV 6XX up and riot police were called in to disperse the demonstrators Cashed in Schmidt has of course casily Casted une feeling and has used both that and the relative stability bernal economy Lic likest of the capitalist recession as his election platform.

IRAN/IRAQ

From page one contested 1975 treatv. with the Shah was to establish a common framework for repression of the

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StruggIe 101 nationai independence. Sovereignty In exchange for Iranian help the containing conceatu sovereignty over the al-Arab estuary Now Hussein has calculated this hut the tragi fosson.

forces But have baniv ouno ure muldly zolle than they-or anyone far from else-expected And, being rapid surrender, the Khomeini regime this external plainly regards Treat as anal or ll to win back some of its lost a war support in "national defence" Already the 'Marxist, forces Fedayeen been Islamic dany paper blala al cal- ing upon their thousands of hounded Khomeini's supporters-to rally 'defend the revolution and independence of the country of attacks from the face the fragile fascist regime" is that in neither lact ray noterest one me are interest the military defence of the ruling cliques. nomen nembers a arect cuenl state of imperialism, their anti cannot hide imperialist rhetoric governments aam astereu by petty bourgeois demagogues within the framework of domes tic ana world captans/. Persecution They locked into the are and world capitalist market, seek, aerena lne exising balance of class forces. Both therefore pursue the ot national minor- persecution ities, the vicious oppression of women and of gays, and seek to suppress all torms of socialist political opposition. Schmidt with close ally Carter (above) and an anti-Strauss demonstration (right) Although because of Schmidt's continued detente with the USSR Strauss attempted anti-communist witch-hunting, policies of the SPD the CDU/CSU and are identical and the SPD only retains a majority in the Bundestag by with formal That both are now prepared to enve be van ven which both need to export their oil, rather than throw their military rese Palesbehind the present f Palestinians and present Common ism and its stooges in the Middle testimony their contempt and hostility to •boressed masses O1 LIt Middle East. Ciyil war Socialist Press this defend war. neither Khomeini nor Hussein other: we would against either or both however defend against an imperlalist altack.

In the present war, the task Iranian before both Iraqi and workers is to turn une surusele from a territorial dispute with strugele agains the mussein and "enemy" k nomeii regimes ai nome.

This means the fight within forces on each side the armed committees 10] Tank and soviets to halt the hostilities and the formation in Iran and Jrao of tactory committees and committees of poor peasants to turn the war into a civil war in contront the walca une lasses state forces that daily. repress them, and take up the fight for a workers' and peasants govern ment. Minimum step It would be necessary demand am a verme should, minimum as the nationa end ' oppression of the Kurds all other minorities; extend demo- cratic movement open the other rights workers industry to the workers move- expropriate capitalist ment; holdings and establish workers management over and adopt enterprises; anti- internationalist imperialist foreign policy, pledg ing active support to revolution- ary struggles in the Middle East SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 1 October 1980 majority must be returned and capitalist Free Democratic Party cuts he will have to implement after October 5.

(FPD).

workers inen prepare l take able attack on the lone take against Because of the apathy of the Prepare fight German electorate caused standards that will be launcher the politics of West ov the schmat government l the the face of the growing Schmidt has warned task confronting 1 ne clear. sion essential ster in the against complacency German working clas amone al.

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supporters and has care- No votes mus co to lot orree Democratic leadership fully avoided spelling the Party, An

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lab leadershient. in the German out overall with spending long predicied paone

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2,000 students and teachers demonstrated through Paris last Monday against closures, increases in class sizes and the gearing of education to industry Gandhi's new -Polish- stoppage crackdown The newly formed The National Security so much in debt to imperialism National Confederațion of so much of their income Ordinance brought in last free trade unions in Poland tied to interest payments that week by the government of they are doubly affected by the has called a one-hour strike Mrs Gandhi in India is very world economic crisis for this Friday. similar to the Maintenance ¡hat a democratic Inala cal The of the only be established by a socialist of Security Internal Act action is that it shows the nev revolution is shown by the way introduced when she unions being driven into united Thate de coros move action in the face of the move last in government to dictatorship. The moves are osten- This Act was so anciates prevent groups of workers join- sibly attributed recent that the Congress Party was ing the unions overwhelmingly voted out in the communal factor This united fight is import- which is a shortage of jobs and would falling living standards anl bureaucide But the alternative presented have liked to separate out the several of the the Popular Front Janata was in really. sections of workers and pick statements of MIs Gandhi have coalition which while calling for hinted at recently, the aim is to them oft one by one democratic reforms, continued The with a capitalist India. suppress allu Silesia workers are now coming rising prices. The dictatorship depressing the to the aid of others is vital-nol The Janata, made up of both aimed least for their own defence.

living standards of the working ane workers namier The decision of the new con- soon broke up-leading class publish their own federation to One of the provisions of the Gandhi eight Ordinance is months ago. National Security paper 1s important challenge to the .ane economies or countries Stalinist bureaucracy. such as India, like Turkey, are for up to twelve months.

TURKISH JUNTA CHOOSES

GENERAL AS PM

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 1 October 1980

INTERNATIONAL

The (win bourgeois form- of the ations Democratic Republican and parties continue dominate the US political scene despite their unanimous contempt and hostility to the organ- ised working class. Even the renomination of Jimmy Carter by the _Demo- Convention failed Ciali produce any explosion of anger among trade unionists who had previously attacked him. -In particular William Wimp- isinger, leader of the 950,000- Machinists Union, failed strong walk out as promised atte Carter secured the candidacy.

As Labor News, of papai the Amercan sollalis searut (DC) reports: Wimpisinger declared tha: he would remain a supporter of Ine Democranc tarty, he would form a committee of "Democrats for Commoner (the Citizens Partv candidate).

Wim pisinger, of course, has business the stayIng trenero evren US bosses parties in cold war campaign Democrațic Party, whether its nominee is carter or Kennedy.

It is interesting to note that the one issue which both Carter and Kennedy did publicy agree the pre-convention upon am 10 "hostilities" was need the bill deregulating the Pasu trucking maustry. Attack Teamsters This bill has been devised specifically to attack the Union, under the 1 eamsters pretext of making the transpor- tation of goods more economic- al under present high gas prices.

Wimpisinger neither

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nor anyone else at. the fit vention saw attack tc Kennedv for his pro- penałol moting the right-wing and anti labour Senate Bill 1722. syllable there a W as unleree To ennere amerrot supporting the Shah of Iran or ordering helicopter invasion ot that land earlier this yeaI. Or for sending troops to E1 THe POLLS Ex-general and former The striving of the Turkish Turk-Is has _been named ruling chief Bulent Ulusu, class minister ot social security navy Ilanlilal an apparent "counterweight' to ulusion ol ine present regime as appointed Prime Minister by classless and based only Ozal. Turkey's military new is confirmed by Meanwhile the political ¡aliullat uilty rulers; last week announced the two key figures in Ulusu's killings, briefly suspended, havé cabinet. inevitably begun to re-emerge his cabinet. In oniy the second week of In his inaugural speech he Employers federation dictatorship, many cities T.he made it clear that his intention are again the scene assassin- the Was contat corluli ations and clashes between the and international policies of the Turgut Ozal, deputy prime leader of Jet-wingers witn deposed Demirel minister, is a former many dead sides. administration. MESS. the emnlovers federation Ulusu followed .comprising . major industrial line of the junta's leader the at its Kurds killed Kenan Evren in declaring oppos- conterence spelt out the need lett The worst incident has been

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lor ine laclory owners to use and right. the new conditions to raise the in Turkey-Kurdistan last Friday he carries out his inten- level of exploitation. when were killed by the tion to 'eradicate all seeds of military t ney stressen ine needto terorism' and purge the state 'lead workers towards moderate Noticeably, the targets in the sector of militants of both sides away from unions" ung DiSi amon conidere lent.

the left solders dont‹ are not ine ron will have achieved the and fascists who impossible. Ozal has established his cre- well aware that It is they who There work- is scarcely dentials within the ruling class will eventuany benel trom the shop office which army takeover. ezelne une bosses m unen marathon lockout of the metal nemra ne •erene ık cus - Turkey itself was the culmination of the workers union 1977 and nilitary's response to the deer Icecnlly allir- of negotiator with Western govern- wal all. torward by the ments and the IMF sacler enver country's eco nomic crisis.

and conditions as a major figure crisis remains as an une vene government Sadik Side, secretary of the Solidarity ruling class have cosaninc still to surmount. yellow union confederation Campaign In Britain the Turkey Solidarity Campaign this week's pressing Labour Party conference for support to a labour move- ment petition that states: "We declare our total onDoston to the mimar com Turkey and its suppression of Salvador. Jack Anderson Colum nis all democratic rights including Or for busting the strike of reported the existence of top- the United Mine Workers. independent The secret plans oi Carter to invade for his trade and the right admitting into Hall mid-uctober, with the to strike. optimistic ('Born Again") Conces onki the British candidate from California who hopes that it would be "populai we ceote government's Klux refusal to a member ol te ku win une cicciorate . condem n the military Klan! dicta and its complicitt Immealately lollowing tnen Acceptable LOLSIlLD both the NATO's war preparations. two Republican We call for: and Democratic Taking his cue, Secretary of 1) the immediate release Party carnest the themtes of their 1980 canacates Desar announced Defence Brown Turkey apo t halt potioeatsned DUlL d behind the back of the campaigns: to prepare the popu- of State, the secretary lation tor another war millary poncy or ine us would be that a limited nuclear war Solidarity with Foreign We tonsi tre Vicdan var val against selected non-civilian declared that targets would be "containable' and therefore acceptable!

"noble cause" The Socialist 'League points with only thing wiong wa: • WI we cannol that the government didn't support either Carter, Anderson really want to win it Reagan, there limited chief Bolivia masses Carter. _execulve Donuca seds taa can be taker went theme less about this autumn, addition openly, for his task will be to fighting : working class power the United States into a wat get on a daily basis. oy Novemper mn suca a wav. as Hr T natonay ve caltor a to make it appear that it was Che Sacanise orker Party ley, not his doing. Workers. Party can- Socialist nid-August the highl: The International Comm- odale

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restenl Washington-baser credible United States ittee of the. Labour Party We do primarily because has added its voice to the Le sanas or une anoma. condemnation of July's of a Labour Party in their stated programme. vicious military in coup . for the SWP is of VOtng Bolivia course hardly enough, and we But its resolution looks urge workers vallpaigl to the Tory government, their unions ior withdrawal of financial support either not the trade unions, to Democrat or Republican candi- block trade and aid to the aates, and to utilize their unior junta, and support to the exiled capis forging reann To waTO working. class stop 1 capit• vall y plant closings, create full alist government - which em pioyment • a livig wage offers nothing to Bolivian ana to oppose Ine plans for wat workers. We have supported recent Meanwhile in Hull, the for a Labour Party following, the UAW convention in Califor.

resolution has nia, and will call for a Labour been carried: Party upcoming for Teamsters Democrati Union meeting this autumn.

This, the Hull and Also call upon supporters District TUC deplores the of the Citizens Party to demanc that become Citizens/ military recent coup Labour Party with a socialist in Bolivia and expresses programme" :Page 3 War between Turkey's bordering Iraq stales confirms the volatility of the Middle Eastern region and gives added Wc o merasirs determination to patch up the tattered relationship between Turkey and Greecı Plans are well in hand io1 Greece to return to full partic ipation in NATO mea s aereement mus be reached quickly on the vexer both Cyprus and questions o vic nervdl seabcu ana alrsoact both being sources of sharp dis agreements and national rivalry.

So far the junta's cautious approach has meant that it has yet to be fully tested by either Discontent is already growing.

executions end to all economic • all ane m11ar aa to tne junta from the British government 3) soldarity with the Turkish . workes DeMInE Kurdish people including Labour Party support for action onudusco une anue InOI •movement. Press urge Socialist readers to raise these demands their union branches, along with call for trade union acuon ul olack armS supplies destined for the Turkish juntà The meting of the Turkey Campaign to abe helen ondub Tote at the Roebuck Pub, Totten ham Court Road, 7.30 p.m.

with the its solidarity struggle of the miners, peasants and other of Bolivia workers against the new Junta. It calls on the TUC to give maximum material support to this struggle in: 1) a full organising scale blacking campaign of all trade with the Junta; 2) participating in bulding a national cam- paign of solidarity; 3) using all necessary means to ensure that recognition and aid are withheld from the Junta by the British govern- ment.

The occupation of 'Mr- Kitson's Castle" Page 4 On the day before TGWU leader Alex Kitson was joining the TUC 'lefts' and voting Frank Chapple of a top job, he was OuL calling the police to the union's Smith Square head- and supervising olaies them throwing out a group" of strikers and supporters from Reading's Adwest factory who had been occu- Transport House pying. demanding official support for their struggle. leading figure in Klison (a the Chile Solidarity Campaign) the Luzeuc Will uniul s acer KOn who has been prominent platforms demand- recently democracy fIOri Party na0 peen embarrassed by this challenge to their carefully cultivated Lations socialist Cham Dions of the oppressed: The occupation had follow- ed last Mondav's mass WICK eL outside the Adwest plant where minority workers al v

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MollA a surk e against victimisation. The mass picket it self was the latest in a series which have repeatedly come up against the Tory/police moves deny DICKer Circuivety, alic wien nave seen scores or arress in the process. Smallest But it was the smallest so and confirmed the severe problems faced by the strikers sus am une acuon without union support. The small turn-out undoubt- Southampton Regional Office ediy accounted for the arrogant Ashman whose secretar KONr decision by the police to had used past financial irregular- ities and pickets non-paymen iney oi dues iceaucu as louvie makers ana . LO1 arrest them for no reason what- union backing. soever. Immediately after the picket Only official came an announcement that the strike committee were calling on as possible to join them live strikers and twenty-tive as many in all made the journey, and by o demand I00Uy mid-morning nine wers. assembled London office to outside meeting with and action from sults Houses the national leadership. LaTOW T.ne Parlament. Soon after they were met by Power and Engin- Sympathy eering Fred rob) Tra0 e NATI0na Officer Howeil who Time and again the strikers announced himself as the only had raised ther plight directly senior olliclal in tae bullaing with General Secretary Moss and invited éveryone inside for Evans, Ron Todd and national a move which he was official Larry Smith. latel „º cví væe d recren promises Howell was peturbed to find •vmnathl anc were received in abundance that no record of the strike had of them had shown any Dctil suomiillcu nill even though the dispute fell within walle ness overlurn The bureaucratic. decisions of the his trade group. Police evict occupier bi side door Adwest strikers still refused support

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convenor Danny Broderick outlined history sulke anu detalled the continued refusal of the union leadership to concede official status (which apart from finance vauly-necaed _regulat provide the conditions Wold for stopping supplies and black- production) nowel was • visibly shaken by the strength of the case. Another striker, Bashir, told how he and many Asian workers on the night shitt Ilat called out Dersonaiv local official and told to Tne stay on strike even when this meant risking the loss of thei jobs. Disbelief When told that all of this been made known to the TGWU's officials leading Howell expressed disbelief and undertook to ralse il again witn them, though Evans was away and the others could not oe ono By afternoon the determin- ation of the strikers and their such that they suoDorters agreed to wait as long ; as neces sary for a personal meeting with since ofter promises cvans.

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had been given , personal 'inquir- ies volunteered and nothing hac now been kon LOCO nac located negotiations with Ford management on the wage revew and amancemens madt for him to meet with the dele- gation he When arrived his initia reaction was a good-humoured "tell me all about it'; but when it dawnca on nm thal the people was dealing with were and business his serious meant attitude underwent a dramati change. Cornered over his earlier broken and promises pressed his tecord OLIeI Convenor Danny Broderick (right) argues their cas Bureaucrats coming and the doors of nous HoLing last Tuesday there specialouT were rather more of them and rather flarasscu

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Others were crammed anxousiy together inside the doors m ne nal outside ine room taken over by the protes- Throughout morning hectic negotiations had still failed to bring the meeting with Evans, who nau ooviousy con cluded that the occupiers were not going to be off by noo fo talking and ut to risk. a mcg ingat prove damaging The tactic all along of Evans and Todd and the others had been to keep the Adwest strike avoid direct arm s lengtn, implication with it and the fact was in the oreiront ot tight CIle agalnst tror s anti- Pickets outside Transport House union law and allow them to afterwards that any blame Iol workers' struggles (he had been betraval Tested secretary of London Region bureaucracy at regional level.

The foring of Im a arce oa otee marcon a confron- union recognition battle tation had put an end to that.

Garners Steak Houses and took Delsullal even running and similarly soon became clear how longer betrayed strike at . Sandersons the leadership fork-lift truck plant in Segness) decided to play it when joining ne creamea unat ne was deing A a oo az cocc! accused of responsibility for was Ron Ashman freshly arrived selling out every struggle sinc from Southampton the Battle of Hastings! He had, apparently, by coin- cidence, with been "coming Uniers ol a meeling London anyway" and had called Moss Evans were given and then taken back in for a chat! as loda was driven frantic by the strikers' persis- In fact the purpose of his visit was to put the hard line he badly He needed help and had so often put before agains any concession on the question Touno lt in tne orm or alex Kitson, Evans' number two and of making the strike official.

experienced This was then dlll Halullis .Secu vos Kitson as being the union's final •ureaucral Kitson's last card in getting position rid of his awkward visitors was ultimatum was given An the to fix a personal phone call to oceaners -lave him self. Victimised police would be called. Despite H Vane striker Martin Kaufman then the obvious nervousness of Ron spent the next hour trying was lamen mct pin Evans down on a meeting publicity' the occupation The best he would offer was was attracting, it was clear that half an hour in Blackpool at the the bureaucracy were absolutely Whoie week later! Conference

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determiner to pul an ena to the action by any means required. é n ee enæ Non-members They were adamant that they would not compromise on their When Kaufman reaffirmed uelanas and lorce wouid nave to be used to remove them their at cisol poin strongly building until they got both a made in the TV interview giver meetins and official union . ruled that snotuy delore ine police mover Evans in that pull in; Martin Kaufman denounced non-GWU cast all mem ders the those hypocris! union would have to leave the leaders who declared opposition premises. Not wanting jeopardise lo legal allacks on une union: to and then resorted to the same their this was agrees chances themselves against and the three remaining strikers. members of the TGWU settle Under directions from ll 10l dl vellugt slay Kitson they were physically More strikers had come up by the following from Reading police, care- removea by r .Ihf fully using the side door.

Ilal The two-day responaea to ine occupation s call for their supporters bringing together occ Dation mount : a demonstration outside the i Dos poleren and the policemen the bulding to publicise theu unions action cause deals. WolKeE. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 1 October 1980 tighting on basic rights is appluprale corromanon waic the deco e mose fans tors fight against this Boreriuclt ts steppeu-up militants should u Wu protest and raise resolution: condemning ; last week's outrage press harder for the union allu • to give official support to the Adwest strikers. inspectol AI y o clock an and sergeant enterec room with Kitson and informec the occupiers that they woulc nave to leave When asked upon what lega grounds the police could remove was GnSoeCO flummoxed and asked to speak to cupers in corisidered private while the Depres Tinel position" At 9.30 p.m. a more senior officer entered the room witt original inspector and sergeant and with Kitson in tow I he question oi me cool of the police action was again raised. The. senior officer repliec that une occubiers Wou ne removed from the building under "Common Law" As the officer put it Englishman's home his castle and Mr Kitson's build ing is his castle."! Todd Kitson

Fascists exploit Tory unemployment wreath in Hull Oh Frank, you're PRESS SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 1 October 1980 The failure of some of the left wing organisations and trade unionists in Hull to take the threat of fascism seriously was highlighted on • Saturday 22 September. The ful branch of the New National Front were allowed to lay a wreath on the steps of the City Hall-supposedly destruction of the British fishing industry. Although the fascists' inten- tions had been known for some time it was only on the previous Thursday they had announced the time and date of the wreath laying in an advert in the local paper. short time available, In the the managed mobilise about 120 demon- strators to greet the fascists. The in theor quate he others in Victoria while others situated on the steps of the building. substantial 1u10ct police nau beer turned out to carry out their What is it that Frank Chapple has that other trade union leaders do not? this star quality that makes this differénce between a super hero and an also-ran.

the carol crude consistent right wing line.

It cannot be the iron shackles in which his members cannot be the matey bonhomie that he shares with the hard men of Fleet Street. There are others that would share his crown if it were this alone. Who else can be so brazen about his careful solicitude for Bis is capit for or be a in contempt workers who want to tight? So obviousiv at of the Daily Express he pastes Daily Express of Daily Mail? Their man For unlike some of the other open right wingers of the TUC Frank Chapple does not crawl for. the respect of the capitalists.

He does not have any sense of He ambiguity. their man, nook. mme ano saker And they respect him. They want them gives blood. They wall crawl. He makes his avorkers members crawl. They play word games with demociacy. He suppresses the last vestiges of workers' demo- стасу in his and own union, then is hailed as the man wno supported workers' democracy in Poland. His pedigree is unempeach- Not iust the man who actually was a CP member and then exposed them That sense of danger; of the sir, one contented hose contaminated 'New' NF lay Fascist youth usual function of protecting the Their first action clear the front of the City Hall «orm a cordon berween ine demonstrators and the building The fascists arrived in a mini- so... Frank. hatred for Communism does not on a naked vendetta fuelled by the material privileges that his So there he stands. If Fleet had an Order of Lenin; Chapple would be the man to win it. Friends So when Chapple is snubbed; when ine oureaucas co a the TUC closes its ranks against the man who breaks their under- stallulles then he has as many friends as there are words in the Fleet Street headline almoury. over who saw sim first. They ble newspapers lor the most outrageous quotes They tumble over eachother in their condemnation of the TUC They even trip without irony defence the TUC's Into whole history, which is that the 'elections' commers are a charade in which the hacks keep their seats and the rest wait for a death in the family.

Gutter press The Guardian has been try- ing to demonstrate that it need learn little from the gutter press when it decides to play rough (Its leader last week on the attack by the NAS/UWT against the headteachers' scabbing guide classic of anti-union polemic). the Guardian launched defence of Chaple abhors Communism at home and abroad, with all the zeal of a one-time party member and he finds the

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baked matiness with its East bus which parked in the middle opposite the. City or the road Hall steps while all other traffic was held up by the police As the fascists emerged from the bus they were greeted wth ve val douse ala tre chantic or slogans by the demonstrators.

Two the Union Jacks while John bearing ndal carried the wreath. Skirmishes antoncene steps of the building some of the demonstrators attempted to through the police lines break the skirmishes that tolts ed tie the fascists and police made live arrests.

demonstrator Later was arrested for throwing empty cans at tae mini-ous Four of the arrested were charged with breach the peace and appeared before the magistrates court on the follow- ing Monday where fined £50 each while the other muteen year old youth-was fined £25 after pleading guilty to the charges. European counterparts hard to swallow. Though not incomes policy man, disliked Winter Discontent for for the young, the old and the disregar for the young, sick-to say nothing of Labour's should run Not that you with the idea. that away Guaratan is about to launch : defence some democratic accountability of TUC leaders.

No! The one admirable thing it finds about the TUC is its bureau entrate and li anu nonour- able tradition round the general been- argued last week-that jobs are TOnO out on a mixture of nanced seniority and muscle" The Daily Mail had been the first to see the full potential of the story. Every other paper on Fleet Street had felt obliged lead is mont page win tne Iraq/Iran war. Not Mail the which summed up the world political situation in general in the head- line "TUC are mean and vindic- tive" The Express hit back with an editorial "The giants and the pygmies" seemed parody the mindless patriotism of the Beaverbrook ghosts.

"We did not win the last war because people indulged in an endless debate on labour. won because We l everybody banded together. Mr Chapple has the realism and common

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see that that is the only way we are also going to win our present economic battle". A profile of Chapple (My members won't give a damn) which shared the page, seemed Page 5 20 fascists hit London CP rally The fourth. another vouth pleaded not guilty and his cas vas adjourned for a week in time if the other two arrested A' of about 20 and group are goie harsh heged or t rate National increases (!) Front fascists this lesson The interesting speech, when event is that regardless of the erupted into violence last it was able to resume was by fact that the wreath week at a Communist Party Was Joe Bowers. destrover aner ne ascists nad rally Acton, West left, the New National Front In a annicult-to-lolow con• London. had achieved their objective.

voluted record or the Panditsked the the CP and its present Shouting "The Reds, the Thev had made their gesture in Hull and had got away with Keas. we ve cot to get rid ot the promotne

COTS

cussion of Ireland in the British Reds" they hurled and Labour movement Until the labour movement punches all "We reach contribute mobilisies action to the all-out prevent the public actions of the The 150-strong atmosphere of silence around meeting fought back and Ireland" eventually fascists they win congmme men He also stated that although reactionary agitation, exploiting bundied them out managing to racial tensions and some of their own to attack the are was ght nationalist medicine on them. attack "Troops in areas sentiment -particularly people" The signa , one harmful side effect of mo unetony ment. to start the trat was given by the regional organ- of this was to dampen the dis- fascists Willie! iser of the NF during the speech cussion of Ireland in the British re ures me bulone or workers Joe Bowers from the Irish workers" movement defence squads drawn out of the labour and trade union clearly move- The stewards on the door reflected major differences ment. had been alerted as to the man's Ireland inside the Communist The anti-fascist sub-commit- identity-but Party of the Hull Trades' Union who se tee alwar han Council, dormant for some areas, particularly Oxford, some The main speaker, CP Secre stood at the forefron of those time, must now be bult up and Gordon McLennar witch-hunting tary consider these

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seriously socialist anc questions. bennite-type trade unionists who support the specull cline ot import controls, bigger wages struggle for troops out.

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can who pour out evewash than Chapple can even poke people in the eye She gushed away in top gear: one brash tolstering public image. of Frank the thick skinned, Frank the fearless, he says is totally alien Writes poetry his five bedroomed house the where he's and where sheep graze librar on twelve acres He kèeps 200 pigeons, goe hikes and . drinks m le cocoa before he goes bed to He's a marvellous cook 'bette •Wan any woman' He the pugilist, tu shoulders of the dramati a dema gogue, the sexy charisma of a matinee idol and slight tendency to address individual as though they are on the tenth roW of a public meeting".

But after wading through these sexist, sentimental banal- ities that eventually we Cont himself. After learning : that childhood was a rerun of Jesus Christ's comounaed

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men with his wisdom) Chapple goes on: "I loved animals. We had rabbits,

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Chapple canaries. If anybody had a sick cat dog they'd seek my advice. In to have been composed on the incidentially if the could • some strange way this • press make up its mind whether he wrote: has been humiliated or not).

"He rushed from TUC head- If • you breed animals you're In that. article he had argued always taking decisions on thei supposed humiliation at such a pace that viciously against political strikes politics is only benali and we: dodged buses, and extension of this taxis and of lavoul the Well in the EETPU no doub bemused tourists lor nall a mue elected' Thatcher craticall as we talked". it is. The membership are called government The Express upon to jump through the hoop named The Daily Mail was not to Chapple's as Chapple plans out their route articid OWIl outcome Tolower pages on of Action story up with another profile of slaughterhouse. It is no the as one reason for his 'supposed Chapple not written wonder he is as sick as a parrot the humiliation'. (It would be useful at his demotion but by Linda Lee-Potter.

POLITICAL BACKGROI

Extracted from the WSL pamphlet "Don't Let Turkey Become Another Chile" published earlier this year prior to the coup Page 6

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ROMANIA

SEBASTOPOL

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The intensification of the economic crisis, world bringing rising unemploy- ment and growing inflation i thin the advanced capitalișt countries, expressed on an altogether different level within Turkey. For, if the country's entire post-war history has seen reliance on Western mountis credit, confirming the inevitable inability of the Turkish capital itself cass. lo IrCU imperiaise domination, broust have brought years industrial stagnation. which now paralyses vast sections or ine and virtual national bankruptcy as ta Nearly work; repeated devaluations of bring huge price rises where ductuate. figures nearing p.a.; oil practically imports are for standstill meaning power and bringing regular 5-8 hour power cuts; the while market whole range of basic ities are millions, meat has ago the super-luxur Dassed unLO Meanwhile imperialism's the IMF and OECD bankers. haggle among. themselves over should sacrifice most to who sustan toe ravageu econoll y.

Discarded serious the since since Though having discarded ally oi such debts being repalo and scarcely even bothering to fill out the cheque-stubs, neverthe- less every dollar and mark is lent at a price. terms: and conditions The attached are commensurate with the vastness of the sums achieved, However cost, whatever demands measures which will go towards least way condions profitable production. The proposed denationalisation and selling.

to private capitalists or sections of the country's huge state- particularly owned resources, land (in form, not 'mies on and unlike the policy Tones Britain), are a direct response to these demands. But imperialism s mierest far from limited to Turkey is country's The strateric boston to the Gulf area and the Soviet Union an, not least, its massive combine to alilly, make it, In the present period,. R

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NA Particular: importance to Since the founding of the Turkish republic, the multary seldom been out of earshot has country's political life.

oI. Ine K133T from Ine ALLaLUIK"CU armed struggle against imperial- ism, the army poses more than arbiter respectable mOst between the bourgeoisie and the exploited masses. In reality, its regular internal deployment over has been to serve as a years broker between antagonistic sections The today, bourg Dis politics each class itself when, ruling an upase. the threat in. was 1979 of Armed December

PAZAR

PIRINCLIK

.... Chief. of Staff General Forces Kenan Evren. In frank terms he spelt out to both Prime Minister Ecevit, Bulent Demire and to opposition of leader at it bea People's Party, failed the "democratically militancy of the working and crush the rising national struggle of the liberation LuCI name 'nation', brute force would be the alternative.

Blunt warning Significantly, the military chief's warning bevona tne domestic crisis and referred to the danger of "hot their only real ironically, now in Ultimately, irrelevant is, the process of finalising a whole hope of regaining the initiative and creating conditions for a battery legal measure needed offensive rests on from granting police badly ranging unlimited a decisive deleat for a sizeable almost search and harrass likely oppon- section of the masses in that ents, to State Security no-jury vicinity. Courts such as dispense justice They now openly conspire Turkish i bourgeoisie in with the Sweeping additional powers well carrie martial law strengthening aware of the measures necessary op postion til pro the achieve the mass that these moves are designed lo be used against any opposition bour- AS une clean their geoisie in 1973, Turkey's ruling immediate and heaviest applic class now finds its fragile 'demo; tion will be against the Kurdist cracy' breaking, under the strain national minority. of the social crisIs. wuch adil assumes more and more the pro- Strategy portions of civil war Though martial law has been.

extensively imposed, the last The continued subjugatio period has been characterised by of oppressed nationalities imperialism's globa working class resistance through the trade unions to attacks on strategy. wages, jobs and basic rights.

plight of such peoples i against the bosses reminder strucere. the starkest have turned increasingly InTC whost savager Syste direct confrontations with the existence is based not only or state apparatus. With splits and • exploitation labou divisions wracking almost every nation states but on th within sphere social Geneti mobilisations of students to the right exist as a separat lore, still the boldest and most people. militant response has come from only the industrial protetariat.

many in that position he 2o million Kurds, the Essential features overve curerent countics, al particularly acute victims during the such persecution Events in ismi early months of 1980 brought Their histort • has been on of the essential of unbroken armer together many allost liberation thoug which struggle for features of the climax diverted the class . struggle corry turn by their leadership nOv reaching. city's TARIS state- hopeless faith in diplomacy an In the • reactionary of verne owner Tacrores.

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ment-directed policy using alliances. thugs smash ins Throughout, their oppressor fascist armed arm's-length assis have hac UnIOl shop floor organisation led Tance on me cremm

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7,500 workers seizing the only lip-service to the principl of self determination Plants. Fearing this reaction would louder than A Cons socal one of the bigges spark a general movement words, for in open defiance of the govern- blows struck against the Kur Soldiers carry off confiscated Marxist literature ment, Stall of in Demite launched was une sen out dy war' within the Middle East.

massive army and air force oper- first Kurdish republic, a casualt!

between th ation against it of the carve-up Demirel too, talks increasing- and thousands bureaucracy an in the same language. Yalta using USSR's troops put the factories under imperialism siege • and eventually over-ran Potsdam. invasion of Afghanistan to step with mass arrests Victories the hasty re-opening of Turkey's ing. Following prolonged street-

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Agreement for tonal nee bases fighting as workers and youtn the area demonstrated their Kurdish military victorie solidarity, Izmire joined Ankara Islami over the reactionary is but a part of imperialism's the regional strategy and despot Khom eini being acoN Still shell-shocked from the under martial law Iranian border has give from to the tel effects Such confrontations renewed vigour or une mass movemen populate Turkey which swpet away Iran's Pahlavi now on will tvoiv the kind 01 robbing them of their explosions detonated by the Kurdistan. dynasty. polarisation of capital The present martial law tha strongest and most dependable area is fi state ally from which to oversee and labour. their Persian Gulf interests (and these tensions which from new. From its earlie, led an unprecedented the Attaturkist have years, with smolar lyrannes lar lol well : understood secure), the imperialists' role fo nation has taken on , much measures. The Parliament which Turke threat posed by the Auras to ll they designed make stability. greater signiticance

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rilitant in Turkey With crude government propaganda presenting nurdisi people 'mountain Turks' while brute force deprives them languagé or tneir ano cuae. resistance has sharply increased.

On this more than anything ese Do urceoisit Is. unulcu which lines up both Demirel and Ecevit against and claim AUlUS

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sece sion am comole nanol Nationalism in its most reac- and pernicious iorm 1s aronlary historicaly a consistent leature of fascism. Systematic harrass- ment of ethnic minorities flows

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chauvinism and bizarre ideas of racial purity and superiority.

For Turkey's tascist Natonal Action Party The KUTOS. mlE the elsewhere has. been the lot of blacks and Jews.

como enentee Moslem fanatics of the Islamic National Salvation and the wilkl

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Colilald pursue state, The TaSCIStS campe dim ontensor of breath- Whilst expanding Ilavll? anl group of deputies within Parlia- ment (which it uses to force the attacks), Dale 01 zoverlncal the. NAP relies for its influence on open terrorism. Backed by finance capital, it araws its suppori predommantly of any proportions. Central to this has the hilt inability from the petty bourgeoisie and tne backward youth which, organis- neen' tne TOe OT Tne tatve Do reeose avweelu Communist Party (TKP) leader- carry through the democratic ea into urey woives bands, nave revolution and assert their inde- ship and its accommodation and sta blood. bloody record ruthless boomao o „oe bolces

RPP.

in setting oul and elaboral Though itself the victim of ing the Bolshevik programme of Assassinations Permanent Revolution, Trotsky extensive and DIoscilolIul suppression, IT sinks with tne grapnically IlustIaleu

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daily Prestige of the Boleheik revolut inability the indigenous Assassinations are ruling class to carry y through events. Liberals and intellectuals ensured have tasks historically set iot 1t university proiessors and stale condccrdde m ono soec contrary, demo officials regarded as too progres- ifically within the left trade the Tne

DISK,

which establishment of basic sive are regularly gunned down.

federation Hilil dl rights in such backward But it ls trade union multants organises imo Usta l Clalil and socialists the workers. countries becomes inseparably are bound up with the struggle for since fascism's But even in the face of Lalcl socialist and countless numbers of their own goal 1s ine pnysical nquidanon revolllvl of all workers' independent members being wiped out, the workers ane peasants TKP have fought bitterly against transitional step organisations. of this towards the proletarian dicta- SteroIne arecl

WOIKI

Class acilun orientation through attempts to against the fascist menace.

torship. force workers into the corporate Beiminng Ents primi ple MISK federation was behind the maintaining Disastrous "pro- Isma Conirollalion

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uchocralil allu yet tne reasons tor Lascistns gressIve cectlon oT ine ruine rapid expansion, indicated class, they ruthlessiy oppose any in otner woras at une oas measures which would alienate of, and flowing from, the TKP's the disastrously Ine past few years and confirmed by Ecevit. policy against HaNCIs autumn's elections which Applying the classic same mould the Peoples brought them a projected vote Popular Front prac- Menshevik idea of a two-stage' Unity and the Eurocommunists oT coe on wo mon. de nol Tevo uTIOn-TITO . democraic IISeOv to be found within the ranks of capitalism, then socialism-they lies a profoundly counter-revol: ling to the legacy of the RPP's reaction alone. utionary method. of the much the hardline

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exammauon lormer anti-im perlalsm. noweven policies record In doing so they ignore the pro-Moscow the encershir vorkers' political leaders reveals of the present epoch and scoff at their 'soft' Euro nature may paralysis Coesten Europe ande elsewhere, vitallisallullal 10 W Lilc lulyvuu ycals suice wulals Turkey's foundation confirm to pacuist prostration or crimmai Demirel addressing Justice Party election rally in reality they share with them a common rejection of the leading naeoendem and decisve role ( the working class

TKP'

The appeals to, and reliance on. the capitalist state sim iar rejection of Leninism.

deal with the lascists ls a Aside from the colonisation one NAr oi wnoie aea o the state machine (particularly the ministries, and armv). Ior Marxist:

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the state exists for one purpose alone-to represent the interests ol une cas lnalrues Rifts and divisions will un- doubtedly emerge within as 'the crisis deepens. but for the TKP to appeal for defence to 'patrioțic' military officers is to Couel cataslio ule Pinochet in Chile was at firsi belanse's P' his f yaty fo rals because "loyalty to the constitution'! To achieve their state power the workers and poor peasants must smash the bourgeois state and replace it with aovalalus its own. One cannot evolve into the other Conditions within Turkey today pre-revoll tionary. The struggle for demo- cratic rights and against fascism separated cammot be tromn lne degenerate destruction oi the capitalist system itself.

The demand for a united front of workers' organisations and building of armed defence squads against T.ne TaSCISL challenges organisationally and politically al attempts to bind the revolutonary lorces to an!

wing of therrulin class. forms of programme arected loward. dual powe along with the s linked to a demands for wage WOIKeIS ull latiull occunation ane workers contro hd shap ceto lor the oal as steps towards land reform peasants to free them from the landlordism-cul tylalll Illalu, ouu ls soviets workers, poor rank file peasants and and

OCTS

The Republican Peoples Party is a member of the Second ekora oi bocidi Delo cratic parties. sight, it appears to in common with the have a lot Party. DIIlsI • LaDO l. DUl history 1c comnlerel aniteren from the history of any social democratic party. The

RPP

is not a bourgeois workers partv.

as Lenin described the Labour Party Historically it has directly represented the interests ol a section of the Turkish rulin, and only recently has it class seen u besi pursue tnos interests by adopting the guise of a party of the organised labour movement. The

RPP

originated as the of party the one-party state founded bv Mustata Kemal. A the only party in Parliament it stood for a form of corporatist shared veracal bual It was strongly nationalist, though secular; it was in favour ol a suor sate waca mer vened in every aspect of life, it democratic severely restricted nenis ano reoresseo ary •auto nomous workers' movement.

It has been the rejection of Tule secuo d oI uni bourgeoisie which has made the RPP try to shift its ground.

Both before and after World War II during attempts to imple- ment a more convincing form, of parlamentary acmoclacy. bourgeoisie swung henine represented their parties interests under what were very changed conditions-that is they were in lavour ol iess stale control and greater freedom for CaDILal In tne crisis or tne tnirties this party (the Free Party) was shortlived because the bourgeoi- sie stll sougnt tne security giver by the strong state policies of the RPP. Page 7 Turkish women campaign against rising prices But war the post economic boom, first Menderes Democratic Party TneT Demirel's Justice Party won the increasingly large

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sections of the bourgeoisie anc Turkes ruled through a liberal democracy In the conditions of compar ative freedom and economic expansion the organised labour movencul clew labiui) 'this movement. Which the

RPP

had ipr vousle and suppressed, development it had no part, that 'The kre nw a res o lee The growing strength and the militancy of working, class rocelne Will catnenm. economic crisis, provoked inter- from vention the military Equivocal Demirel's Justice Party was equivoçal towards military and under its new 1isol. 'left'. leader Bulenl scevil ln RPP moved to fill the vacuum through the Parliamentary leader ship of the opposition the aressed i celi clothes of Social Democracy with a programme in defence of workers' rights, welare state, etc., wrapped up in left, w st ricol Like T Nt DOlTCeOT Democratic Party in the USA similar pro-labour wil! veneer, the krr nas never nac organic : links with the workers Hao yoil callt Social Demo cratid UNUK t parties which are the reformist parliamentary expression of the ¡avour movencu-oult oy luc working class but with leaders who consciously serve the bour-

RPP

historically is geoisie, the the party of the Turkish state Though now covered in a cloak of liberalism ' and 'demo- cracv Locav. as oelorc RPP is an organisation built for and dedicated to preserving the Turkish As OO uIsCOls slalc sucn, not oniy nas lt no interes whatsoever in defending against capitalism, it is

WULAUID

incapable of doing cenaicdly So. Itsie mantenanas od ute and .the maintenance links with trade union result from the influence forces within the working class wn ledr lae conser uchica independent political action by the proletariat. The experience of the masses will inevitably confirm the disas- trous results of continuation oi that alliance in the struggles ahead.

Benn's followers: forward to revolution or back Lid lifted on US gaols to Benn prides himself on the openness of the Labour Party all of socialist thought. true that one of the It IS • strengths of the British working its ability Class flas create unified union a trace and a unified political structure But one is tempted to ask whether this is not due in large spinelessness of measure to the tne socialist wing or tie ment. where other countries fought have cerermined capitalist programme the abour open movement, lost Ilave time in splitting the movement. And even within the Labour Party which have Hovell lls really in e wing,

SLL

Young Socialists in the I96Us. have been uncere- moniously expelled. period of British bencfits in perat strength, the exploiting

OCO DIC.

and Asia could be used provide capitalists come relors and us oro yuca material basis for pro-capitalist programme leauersno or lne Labour artv But nat basis does not exisI right wing any more. open lory resort lU the working style attacks. on class, and demands for them to accept sacrifices with nothing ir return. Their role in the only Labour Party is now to sabotage the ettorts of the working class defend itself. The Labour Party's "broadness" has become just a cover lot tne light.

No demand refrains from Benn ally demand out, drive inem although is likely that reforms were carried Drilll S most or them would walk oul The struggle to democratise the Party is important itself because LaDoul Pantrol evet ers manitesto Party members to more and rapid development of their political ideas. expose Practice will quickly. the incorrectness. of ine Tell policies or, and the and tnem selves voted they incompetence • caucis Even more important are the raised by the oppos cuestons ition of the right wing. Clearly how shows up using the of support the Labour implement policies which are against the interest oi Labour Party memvers. And this is the case, and the othe wow world lll lefts fight to kick Let ask or arrying the broad church" has become an intoler- class. Decline This leads on to the question future of the Labour oI le We would with agree Party. benn inaline one of the decline of capitalism, that half-remedies are good. But if the reform of capital- is out of the question, how iSm is the power or capitalism to De broken! reforms? This is the second, concluding part of a review by GEOFFREY WESTON of Tony Benn's book Socialism' for 'Arguments (Penguin) une thing iney will nave te break with the chauvinist tradition of the British labour movement senn ways a supreme example of this.

He assumes that ot the Britist ment is superior to a others Look for instance at the follow- ing passage: and Engels,' Rosa 'Marx Luxemburg and Trotsky together with a whole range o socialist philosopners, nave beer read by British socialists as we home have developed own grown beliefs in freedom. demo cracy and equality, and this is reflected in of the Labour Party implicit into superior tradition that a few useful ideas absorb If the British working class is to achieve a society, it will need to socialist Callaghan devotes a chapter to Could this link -which questions the Benn • Such the mediated the now the trade Revolution, tragic the need democratise Kussian army, and union a scusses bureaucracy - survive te tesson: possibility of a future

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adoption by the Labour Party Unity in Chile and the power of British of a revolutionary perspective?

the workers' mass movement in intervention against defiance of the Treaty of Rome

UMOR

•ureaucrals Ike Is the Labour Party the kind Labour's right wing leaders see academic interest. of party which could defy such their privileges contain the essential power armed with the continuation experience bound up and workers' resistance to multary capitalism. Will nO 1 programme. oralisatul intervention? endorse revolutionary politics. leadership of the working class of for the achievement of social- Benn warns the But what importance would the experience entirely lacking 1sm, lessons or caren

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nave withoul kind trade union links? politics not the same n oe cacon left' sounding confusion as that These be It is also necessary for the questions cannot working class to break Popular They British Deconed answercu inculately Unity leader Allende? can only be answered TrOm poncy о оссируш. problem to be con- course of a for correct Ireland. Benn does not mention Another the question of Ireland at all in and principled leader- • 1aCt Unle Labour Party was created by the his book Benn has now signed arter tod trade unions which by their very omission, is a grave will Labour nature are organisations devoted the betterment the *Charte . workers accisive pari within the framework of capit- education the present-day concerning, political prisoners in supporters of Tony Benn. Ireland and has agreed to speak Guest reviewer STUART SUTHERLAND looks at the film 'BRUBAKER', directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Robert Redford public and used against the state Redford in the state and winning general Robert plays that he loses his Brubaker, the new reToring warden Of course we knew from the support. at a prison farm in the deep Redford could not be He is start that the political south USA, who arrives dis- soon, for political expedien marked out by the ev of his backers and he is told guised as a new convict. He director as something special by to cool it. witnesses at first hand He the golden elegant Way and corruption of the brutally Environmentalist coiffure is preserved during the the heavily armed trustee con- induction proceedings and the the prison govern- vict guards, W di 1 cilialls Redford is a liberal in real or ane ine oca capitalists.

and curine violent Brubaker hides his true and life, environmentalist, cruel actions of the prison arises. identity until a crisis guards. so is Brubaker He goes it alone, one man This is not the behaviour security area that is worse than the system, against Ke expect from the Sundance a pig sty goes wild and threatens lila all

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of a fellow to break the neck prevail broken when his political inmate unless ne treatment, Slave labour masters withdraw their support He demands the to see the critics the OI Niall emphasise what Brubaker ends the supply of "Brubaker' waruen and lo

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he wants he sings Aretha slave labour from the prison to liberals. …the Franklin song 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T'.

They pompously write how businesses, and JOCa his Redford Brubaker reveals true conaltions actor Calllu establishes contemplate self irony the convicts, and identitv to a disbelieving crowd their hands in horror the throw up of onlookers and then proceeds prison and stops promising exploitation because Hollwood is cashing in calm by ine oronari convicts by the trustees. on protest through the box offrubaker", "China Syndromee turns that the the Darkne reformer Brubaker has been sent politica it is orters. But it when he discovers and "Coming Home" amorous Dollide backers prisoners have been This point is of course that expose the situation at lilail true, and obvious. But it ignores prison as a way of discrediting murdered allu more powerful political groups presses hard for this to be made the many progressive and impor the Labour Committee on İreland Fringu at the conference But the main question is the withdrawal of British troops and this Benn made commitment. A last question concerns the future Tony oI benn nim sell • of Benn's policies in the 1970s designed struggle against capitalism.

Planning agreements For instance the widespread for greater •control industrial policy was oreclee Dent lowalu planning agreements for the strengthening and worker "partici Caolausit. pation" without power (as British Leyland) In the present book there are formulations tree collec investment products, exports, manpower lorecastlag: and product development which tant features of these films. In a like no other medium manner before huge bring Lucy audience important issues such as the abuses of the prison safety nuclear reactor system and the impact of the Vietnam war-Brubaker" allegedly scandalous incidents at a prison in Arkansas in the late sixties 11 TY powerful sequences, despite the rambling that presumably pace results from the change in direc- from Bob Rafelson to Stuart Rosenberg. Violence arbitrary violence d prison the graphically depicts distrust and теАт have each other, and the the authorities' need to break spiritually as wel physically order for the function prison business And that 1s what prison l the USA is all about. They are profit making SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 1 October 1980 Benn Benn believes could provide the social contract- basis tor a new under capitalism. Wage freeze would

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mean joint union/management , raise decisions to ireeze wages.

prices, cut jobs, etc. Benn also goulasts pla mine agreements betwee and management. but Inis Is les.

likels the than combines act yet lessly possible source opposition to capitalist rational Benn does appear to be at a s no • his followers becaust crossroads too. Which path they take-tow- ards the dead-end oi reforms o the road revolution -Will determine the immediate future Britain. All this •makes the concerns "Brubaker" well worth movie our attention. Respect The fatal weakness of this film is that ultimately it is about Brubaker's relationship with noteably the young men Bullen a look-alike for Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry and the pivotal black played magnificently by Yaphe wontent me film • are a whore and a cold calculating careerist Like the maximum securiti prisoner this

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• beginning movie is more concerned to win

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anolence . [O1 Brubake: man than to tackle the political questions raises Can a o or attention.

Max Eastman-from fellow traveller to witch-hunter SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 1 October 1980 The recent republication by the formerly Trotskyist

WRP

of Max Eastman's 1926 pamphlet The Young Trotsky has attracted deser- critical vedly little tion. However, the occasion opportunity recount what Trotsky's relationship Eastman, and Forte benedi of Sociatsb Press readers unfamiliar with sUly have come to Keaders woc know of the WRP's penchant "investigation' may be. for find that the new edition of Eastman's pamphlet is published without the proper of cautionary foreword whie wole be expecteu iron sparty as the criy "security conscious Cine footage would be ColIse entirely scurrilous of talc this suggest 'lapse' was in any way with the WRP's financial crises and its need to utilise and monopolise ating from Eastman's collection.

born in 1883, castman edited 1969 He radical journal in the period before carly World War I and was an supporter of and the

1TOLSKY

Left Opposition and was res ponsible for translating many of Trotsky's most important books into English. Blick (Robert Black) wno This passing into the camp of footnotes from short term Pathfinder Press "Writings" stepping stone on the road to Why then, is there any need the ruling class to go Lure! The of Eastman's trajectory neea to de requently great deal about Trotsky himself tepeated to which individualistey any struggled and the problems he intellec- overcome in conducting mis work. James P. Cannon in Secondly, it yields important Ten Years First American which essons ways l Communism' recounts how oppoșitions within the Trotsky- and Eastman were part of the movement slide into American delegation the Congress of the Comin- tern in 1922. most spectacular example of such degeneration in During this Congress it was who arranged Eastman recent years Is ur course novu Makers of Modern Marxisml By Terry Eagleton

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wrote to the Party before and to break out of the isolation domina- his death the MIDOscu Ull The. Opposition was under tion of foreign of expulsion if groups. threat ducted any public the same book Cannon controvers with the Party, and the public writes that tre lus Americal ation of Eastman's book had al Trotskyist was undoubtedly Max Eastman'. Te namars or a allemot oy Trotsky to circumvent the disci pline of the Party. Newspaper leaders of the oune Opposition were During 1928 Eastman prepareu to risk expulsion on the issue of published the Platform of the and called on Eastman's book, Left Opposition and some othe Lare Capiton domene hid Trotsky to reject it publicly.

The Political Bureau of the considerable gave Cannon drew up a statement of Militant' Party establishing after the expulsion of his rejection, Dresseu Trotsky to sign. (This state- can be found in "The of the carliest documents repres- Challenge of the Left Oppos with ition, 1923-25"• collected and his relationship published by Pathfinder).

The Trotsky. The preface to the original Party press by world hurried to publish the English edition. reprinted statement widely. Tne heaviles Colitalis reject the Trotsky's letter to Eastman in to

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was which he makes it clear while he statement on several occasions does not object to the proposed 1925 onwards, beginning his letter Muralor of will with biographical project 11 1928 which was provide background information geotem Der and will reprinted for it, he une new national in 1934 any pontcal responsib- Stalinists The were to use ility for the resulting document.

Thus he writes: the incident against Trotsky or a number of occasions, as were I cannot agree to read the petty bourgeois opposition- your manuscript, for that would ists in the SWP later responsible make me somewhat Trotsky's relations side with nOL OnY lOI une lactual much less Eastman were but also for characterisations this incident than and valuations. It is might have been expected, if the obvious that this is impossible available documents are a full of The publication account. (Eastman in his preface Eastman's biographical contributed substan pamphlet Ine toung benn telers le a large body of correspondence which does not appear to have holding together the developing opposition the Troika of De publical Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev For example in his letter of 11 July 1929 to Maurice Paz Factional struggles

HOW

Formed', Trotsky writes: Eastman designates himself At almost the same time a "fellow traveller not aspiring another and more important book by Eastman, 'Since Lenin to any leading role m une Len Opposition, content to assist. was published, setting out BIed unable correctly, in public for the first time many • He has acted positions of the Opposition movement." account the Within a few years this easy Tact llai relationship seriously was set out, and more import- Was Trotsky addressing the Fourth Congress of the Communist International in 1922 strained by Eastman's rejection of the Marxist theory of dialec.

tical anu difficulties encountered by East Trotsky in working man as a lanstalol ana metal.

agent. By May 1931 Trotsky was expressme as concern in a private letter to Shachtman difficulty about . obtaining pay- experiencus ments of the

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which was of main sources oI Ulle income. The publisher, koni. was claiming his 5% royalties for excerpts from the History serial- Isea in varlous papers voices ths lenter tro Eastman s letter Trotsky first Talure interest in this case when the was urgently needed to auner a merman lournal. Although Trotsky and East- not bound together man were , their collabor a contact. ation continued, because Eastman's many contacts with American publishers introductior 'Young Lenin' Eastman claims 'some that .got handsome prices for articles by Trotsky from the American press During 1932 Eastman's open rejection oi the alalectic iea le some sharp words from Trotsky Lenin Page 9 In his letter to Glotzer of July he describes Eastman's philosophy as follows: "Eastman was here a week ago. We discussed various ques- tions. dialectical I materialism alienates him from our world outlook to a very high degree, despite political sympathies for active the Left Opposition Even though he has relected philosophy, he has a philosophy less 18th of his own- -more centur. translated into the language empirical-utilitar- Anglo-Saxon ianism (engineering mind).

Despite our strong sympathy we will for Eastman have draw a sharp line on this most when of questions theon Decement te same December of the year, writing in the Militant on *Perspectives A mencai Marxism', he goes further in his allacks. "The attemot of Eastman to throw overboard the materialist dialectic in the interests of the "engineering art of revolution' represents an obviously hopeless and, possible Corese quences, retrograde adventure.

A month later, in anuar 1933 Editorial Board of the Militant wrote Trotsky seeking to clarify, his relation- ship with Eastman. He refers to the long history oi personal anc literary ties between the two and expresses his gratitude Hastman translating the History of the Russian Revolu- tion into English in an excellent Despite all this he found it essential to oppose Eastman's Marxist translate and to make a public declara- tion of this difference. Eastman's deno unceu philosophical revisionism as no different from previous petty

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Bernstein's, even nising Eastman's continued sup- port for the October Revolution and the Left Opposition. Continued next week

Page 10 "Regretable" how Winsford's Labour con- trolled council described the closure of Metal Box and the loss of 500 jobs, in a company's letter to the head office. They were going to use the word deplorable' but this was considered too undiplomatic by Labour Councillor Percy Tipple,

UDE.

recent arlenace Buckingham Palace 'booze-up'.

But and deputy mayor lony Wałsh, wa clear about ine tasks ancad.

"There's nothing we can do, but we must do something 010 unel rapidly to "Any other business"! whilst workers in the town. face the biggest single closure yet, these poltroons play une pontical equivalent or blind man's buff". the five unions Among involvee howeve "wu.

AUEW, EETPU, NGA, ASTMS)

there is no lack of will to fight.

Une practical step laken was to form. a joint shop stewards coordinate committee defence • and Kon 1 allwoul. DIstrict secretarv tne Engineers was quoted as saying We will do everything redun- power _ resist unese dancies". Che Communist Party, in a public statement, while finding the closure a cause for regret', called for Mid-Cheshire have «rades counch to orzanise a one day conference on the closures in the area. But in terms of what is to be done concretely only the The five week old strike of 900 workers on the oil rig platform building site at Ayrshire, goes Hunterston, on. Despite capitalist media lies 1O LIt Collary. involved have received the of the support onshore liaison the six rig. building yards Scotland. Hannurg ti was immerate. ly donated to the strikers' fund

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Fighting Winsford factory closures Workers Socialist Leahul llas covernment can only be defeated through spered our a course or action.

leaflet the the workers similarly uniting In a put factory they said: Drede 1ol

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"Ihe as a Irotskvist bring the Thatcher government organisation, puts forward the down, as was the Heath govern- following programme of action Councils of action are neces- wica starts om une neec o protect workers' interests first: sary to mount a joint campaign *Occupation all firms between aline threatened with redundancies to Winsford area that are fighting show the bosses that the factory employers. is not going to be thrown on the in cne laciones scrap heap a motion to that une interests of must profit. Implicit. this is the effect mass meetings and need to stop the bosses from wwwn branches. lne machinery Delegates plant *Demand the opening of the It is up to the militants in firm's books to elected workers factories threatened by the committees reveal the need closure to see to it that the dele.

nationalise the whole gates are sent to such a body.

combine along with other firms In doing so they will come In tne same branen or maustry; trade the the suppliers and bankers who officials and in many cases this "deal with the firm must also-be will include the convenors and made to nana over ineir books the right wing in the factories in order reveal their They will Tem se ves. profiteering rote in the claimed and divert the the steps, bankruptcy or tne employers.

struggle away from The information the ournmed aoove. unal are neces workings of the firm's accounts.

sary to defeat the employers.

They be confronted snoud then de usea lo rommu late a workers' plan based on with an organised campaign to the needs of the working class, make Inem carry unest not the need to make profits essential and practical steps and demands. inrougn exploitation *Worksharing on full pay This will place them on the sliding scale of hours, carry would be a central part of such them oul sOUL under pressure from w workersus anDe and file work distributed must inen ene strugge wa be take forward: If they fail to do this between the whole or the popul- ation needing work. then the conditions will have (...) been created in wnien they car *Build be exposed in front of the Colnes or 3СlOn Workers have chance of membership, discredited and the defeating a united employers' their remova prepared wav Hunterston fight goes on the Health and Safety Executive and an agreement was made to Jalse a levy m tre outer varas is carely discale as bel Plans have also been made

TOUT

inspection was aone for the when work was joint approach by suspended.- SUC and oi related unions to the Minister for Energy on the The strike committee has Active support producea a leaner explaining in more detail than previously This determined struggle background to the dispute. demands the active support management's covering arrogance and lack of British nonenoul for the safety of thé men on the industry. Details of the dispute can be sile obtained by writing to the Joint As the stewards point out, the all-clear given to the site by Shop Stewards Committee With workers by the thousand taking to the Tory. oppose to Sucer policies there is plainly no lack of militancy in the organised working class. Yet the existing trade union bureaucrats and Labour leader those perspective … to ottel workers or past fight defence jobs, living stan- dards, social services and demo cratic rights. These can only be defended through policies Ine needencent interests of the working class, which international class, has nothing to gain and everything to lose trom attemois to restore the profitability of their employing class In a period where the contra- dictions of Ine anarcnic cabit alist system torce the wholesale closure and destruction of the of only plantice

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Iraq/Iran border war Whether Iraqi despot The Iranian armed forces are the more depleted now because Saddam •Hussem or islamic full reactionary Ayatollah onslaught which has Khomeini emerges ware on une NurulsIl coole. "victor" in the present Gulf whose renewed demands for the to war, the losers on all counts arising in the context ot similar will be the workers, ities, threatened to break up the peasants and oppressed minorities of the Middle centralised state power constructed by the East. Shah and his imperialist backers, and defended by Khomeini.

Ine brazen attempt by the on the Iraqis and lor DUl military isolation disarray the reactionary Iranian military allu. that still seek to restore or the anan «ae ma oo lo 1975 treaty has the old which triggered war moves Khomeini have not misery to the masses and hopes of control this Support crucial strategic region.

time the the Post-revolutionary Iran has DUl Khomeini regime, which nas shaken imperialist domination sprung the defence of Middle by the Shah, negotiated Iran for the Palestinian people: it nas demons me bevone cool since it rode to power last year DeC

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nothing to offer the that it has fight to raise OPEC oil prices in the face of anger among working CiSS Azerbaijani, Arab and other national minorities within Iran- nose of US imperialism in the and - perhaps octales hostage issue; struggles for democratic rights Tenan have been stubbornly resisted.

unstable political powder keg in a key strategic area of imperial- Rekindled KI COIRIOl 1 here Is no Though warmongers would American fervour that animated the mass dearly the Iraqi love which ousted the movement attack precipitale a pollical provided. Khomeini crisis DidI in wnien Iranian multary with his base of support has not hardliners could move forward yet completely evaporated-and down Khomeini, crack Turner Iraqi aggression-Khomeini and Iran back firmly into the imper- the reactionary Bani-Sadr ialist camp. had increasingly New deals been resorting moves repress the masses and left wing The imperialists-who under such Fedayeen. conditions or wore sume nave They feared that the succeeded in replacing lost oil Iran-would also Fedayeen's demands for anti- supplies from welcome the destruction of the caDuast doeasures wou unegel renewed struggles by the work- vast Abadan oll complex ing conditions of would virtually force to seek new deals crisis and the Iranians HUgE Couville rampant unemployment. Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement

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Digbeth Hall, Birmingham Open to all labour movement bodies Credential £1 (unwaged 50p) from G. Webster 169, Barclay Road, Smethwick, W. Midlands struction of the relinery upon tottering their already which economy remains dependent.

Verbal opponents And imperialists happy watch the tually Iraqi regime-one ol foremost verbal opponents the of the Zionist and egypt/israel ailance military hardware and combatting a rival "anti-imperialist" regime.

The Iraqis have in any case towards a been visibly shifting Cont'd p.2, col. 1 Workers Socialist League Public meeting

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Hussein Khomeini Tories snatch redundancy money In the midst of an un- in toer enoris to crive dow!

the level of wages. precedented wave of It is linked to their moves to closures and redundancies, Cul Denises 101

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Tory government families, cut the value of child ine measures bringing in new scrap related unemployment benefit, all which will penalise a cut the wane on sckmes receiving 'large workers and unemployment benefit by redundancy payments. These moves can be stopped After November 24 any with capital over -by stopping the Tory govern- €2,000 will cease to be eligible ment in mass action to force it out of office. for supplementary benefit than half a million And more workers will find that they are tional needs allowa ces beause longer eligible for excep- Ther nave more than the per mitted level of savings. Pensioners applies to This of course aroe numbers of workers whoa leaders have persuaded them to steel and sell their jobs in other industres large voluntar redun diso hits pents also pensioners who excess of have saved Sues £2,000. But the new regulations will 10 1 actually sayt LIlt government money-since Sirs 44,000 claimants will be freed from deductions when the limit

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Union leaders-worried that if the become new measures find member. res stanl to vote redundancy-are up in arms.

Strategy Members of the NUJ in London were voting as

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ISTC leader Sirs has to press on a to su oner lot & London a eight for more nt in payment in called for a "thorough investi- reply › a claim gation" remark- But there is nothing for two weeks after receivin able in this policy: it is in line initial offer which wouk with the Tories' general strategy nave given most members t1 d week humiliation and suffering upon unemployed and the poor