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BY TURKISH JUNTA

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- INTERNATIONAL:

If the struggle of the Demirel ity Turkey-Kurdistan, Kurdish people for national liberation has been an ing vast areas of the country's important factor in the con- mountainous eastern region, has flict between Iraq and Iran, always obstacle to the attempts to pass it is no less so in the mount- off the ing resistance within Turkey entity. to the new military govern- Despite massacres amounting virtually venocluc ment. armed For General Evren and the areas, imposition of military junta the principle of Turkish nation governmen une continued. against divisionism' has been a constant theme. of Kurdish rebellion from even Long before they moved to overthrow parliamentary the earnest yeals that Kurdish was to the continuing forced to Turkish domina- resistance capital city away from Istanbul the working well as on the far-west Bosphorous into class that army The threatening pointed as une

BOLIVIA JUNTA

DEEP IN DEBT

At first the After than ten

HUC

General weeks in power, misnamed Garcia's grossly native Du a luc of National 'Government Reconstruction' remains in crisis. The junta continues. to face internal opposition resolute of the about Enat military are themselves from distance Pact, and them regime which is still treated as a forced Garcia bourgeois pariah while chancelleries of the world.

Even the dictatorships of the succeeded in "playing down' Latin Southern cocaine America have muted their praise red me du of the junta and are now throw- junta to ahow in thical regeston or ine IMF and the US dictatorship that wu claule uc The extent

USA

and free the Mr and the banks for power renegotiate Bolivia's massive foreign debt. administered Bankrupt imperie sos te bankrup billion Her Bolivia une gotiation debt external 1s 33.l 0I earnings) political export of legalising which $1.6 be to the banks before the trade), a major the peso, end or the year Credits to private banks have been suspended, However, now Tner

ENAF

class stellat Willyally unable pay contractors I01 tin, COMIBOL (the state mining military corporation) alone is due to pay debts of $50 million by.!

the end of the year yet it has virtually no cash- -and 1980 tin produc- decisively defeated. the since Although the lowest

TON

WIl 12UI Within ten days of the coup ended Lle the price of bread in La Paz had cooperation and 750% and widespread risen by speculation and hoarding forced isation declare a price producuon freeze to avoid bread riots and OW. strikes in the civil service and Yet the $100 million in cash the junta received from the lead- traffickers cocaine proved totally useless in holding mining camps back unemployment and infla- tion-it was used to pay bonuses to the troops to guarantee their loyally. Similarly, Videla's offer of

COB

hundreds of deaths, $200 million, Iree generous terms for the purchase 2,000 is of marginal political importance and has, in any case, been partially withdrawn.

is desperate to to consolidate in retreat.

avoid a devaluation of the peso unemployment and will the same this becaus political destroy from sections enjoys alla national bourgeoisie and leave it of the isolated in the lace or massive popular opposition.

KURDS ARRESTED

the country Figures government's author- of Kurdish Exact are available. nationals occuby' compiled by Officia statistics authorities whose job is to deny the Kurds' existence, as a separ- pees put the population at around 2 million. simple as a reality it is at least four In times that number Evren himself has been visit- some the • region recenuy Tess ance Security with other central Ankara cone mices Van he the city repeated his theme In fact, so great was the fear only over Habila! prevent civil var comin Turkey's lament continued Was into smuggling to move the country's dulls country. In response to the military's arms amnesty, he said already Anatolian central areas of of the anti-dictatorial section army and the bourgeoisie rallied around the the bourgeoisie in alliance with and Garcia clique in fear of the alter- Communist Party Tane petty bourgeois radicals of the in this

MIR

unity are becoming dally more Siles, the leader of the bour- geois UDP and President of the government Cocaine now left Bolivia for Washington to lobby the State Department, capitalists call for the overthrow Julita s alA off the dictatorship is treated by leave the Angean solidarity representatives international campaigns as identical with the this of bourgeois supporters of the former conso leatly 'General Banzer, have democracy. It was precisely the inability of bourgeois democracy to rule connections of obliged the Bolivia that lea to wile coup slave consistently and uniquely take fact Lael the Trotskyist by charge of negotiations with the oroclalla its material So Wil of Banzer's bid reproduced in SP 215). Revolutionary Marxists must unclear; is still the campaign for what is beyond doubt is that 11 intervene In solidarity with Bolivian workers would mean continued bloody efficiently and work for blacking more and the defeat of the dictator clear must fight they ighted in its alliance with the

SHID

consistently against the spurious "democracy touted by Siles.

terms for rene- al c "clean-up' (i.e. no more workers' and peasants govern cocaine ment, which is the only means by which democratic rights will devaluation and the sacking of at be achieved and the imperialis stranglehold broken in Bolivia.

least 10,000 state employees.

ins attack on the Schmidt's will unified without Glusive opposition-tor the working class has suffered a election major setback it is by no means strike in the mining areas effectively failure weeks last August, go-slows, sabotage, non- union reorgan- the have continued and tin

HELMUT

+ German Chan re-elected West German remains extremely election results with the judgement that cellor, greeted

LIC

could be very 'Drastic sanctions' pleased with them. In fact this was a carefully Military commanders in the worded comment because it was regularly Have Dallie. "Liberal threatened workers with drastic ruling coalițion, this "treason", Democrats

(FDP)

Free but even with the physical des gained most seats, extending the 40 in the Bus stority to over truction of the headquarters of (Bolivian TUC), in the med Shristian Demo estimated former 2,500 voters turned away and wounded crat (CDU) Cold War prisoners, from the ultra-right mention the thousands of exiles policies of Franz-Joseph Strauss and those in hiding, the Bolivian the Bavarian Prime Minister proletariat is able and prepared In an almost exclusively two- cornered fight the fringe parties Communists this process is not than and neo-Nazis-polled less thing as learning tn previous elections whilst the lessons of the coup, remains the over- West Germar Laviol whelming danger that the forces Ecological Party politics, will Greens) gained 2% of the vote working drawn behind the reformism of had been enough Faced with renewed evi- handed to arm that dence strong unit! Since this is only a fraction of upsurge militancy in Poland has in of the amount still at large, it is to grasp the extent to possible has no way which The •ovulation Stalinist become militarised during the been forced into a further of left defence many against state and fascist armed face-saving purge. terror. Six top Evren's appeal for modera ing Kurdish forme tion will all on deal Rabich naive Even spoke, Illas from the Communist Party atter were taking place in the arrests city of the Central Committee with more than 1,000 rounded up by soldiers. Gierek remains undecided until eclipse Meanwhile the the outcome of his heart attack democratic rights goes on at full 'Shoot to kill' rights have is known. speed. All those been given to the security forces previously been replaced in thei regard as against they "suspicious' or who new bureaucrats their authority. and by been attacks have MOre organisation made on any power in rolana since bile estau which any way meetings lishment represent a potential opponent, omy in the late 1940s. to the dictatorship. the Kenin Against those attempts to slap a "clean" tace country who attempt to organ- condemnation' Sitterallulla the and opposition generals' rule, special steps have with foreigners" contact with a view to giving the real of repression to those picture the lying outside and exposing campaign of the world's press off the junta as 'blood- less at is now and 'democratic' illegal. special treat Selected for are journalists who face menu six jail sentences o belwel months and tall it they intend 'inten. of appeal) erroneous, tionally DO Daddle unfounded or exaggerated intor a manner to mation in or excitement among the public" the Meanwhile of the Turkey Solid- petition launched arity Was at last week's with enormous We list below the dele- success. gates and visitors to the conter- ence who signed the declaration which states 1) the total "We declare all political opposition to the military cour Turkey and its suppresson ol all democratic rights including executions end to independent Titt right and military and the trade unions to strike solidarity deplore the British Turkish refusal to

WOTKELS

government c and Kurdish dicta condemn the military. and its complicity in torship organised by NATO's war preparations. movement.' We call for: • Signatories to the petition Benniegahy she sale. Ron an Hard

OTHERS

i can Officer: Valerie SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 October 1980 New cosmetic purge in Poland workers to see the fruits of the concluded the wave deas that the recent the swept of strikes that lave working class country in the last few months one-hour hundreds ral evaporated, the • stoppage thousands of Polish workers last has bureaucracy was vivid proof to the their efforts bureaucrats that delay of independent trade. : trade independent bureaucrats includ unions and the implementation Prime Minister expelled increases have occl unsuccessful. that the move acrimonious all-night session Any

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ment subside would have been dashed. And yet the The fate of ousted President bureaucrats know full well that thes formal concessions Tine made to the workers would, if implemented, stand as a had purged to their own major governmental posts-by power and privilege. the Polish Stalinist: So far from outflank seeking extensive privileged rather than confront the prolet held political arian threat to their control: but a real danger remains that they of a nationalised econ- they may ver Concuut option but have cosmetic latest stand-and call on their Lull military Stalinist regime stands sponsors aid in a savage crackdown the determination of the Polish Polish dissidents handing out leaflets Press We Socialist immediate releas demands prisoners readers to raise lnes Turkey and a halt to threatened branches, their union fight for trade union action to supplie all economic DaCK alllls destined for the Turkish junta The Turkey Solidarity Cam- from the British government paign invites affiliation from all with the and peasants Further details can be obtained • people mcluany the BM Box Labour Party support for action the trade union

Paraguay: pawn of the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 October 1980

NTERNATIONAL*

imperialists The recent Latin American Bureau publication Paraguay Power Came ought vigorous interest whose ruling elite country has held sway undisturbed for far too long. it is readable handbook, useful full including a concise histor ades- cribing pattern acute economic deformation common to all backward countries.

Throttled Socialist Press readers will be with the all too Trotskyist analysis that shows throttled the development capitalism almost its countries such the formation independant national capitalist the class capable laying politica and social economic. bais foto postos cast be These positions must the concrete development particulal countries if they are not to become mere cliches for us Game, ruruguay whatever its other can be highly recom- mended as a set piece, a dependence and impoverished corrupt such which it has ' 101 me remen since remained Pas Dr de Fran na val economy was denalion- Helde for nearly 30 Francia who alised and saddled with a huge years from ruled foreign debt loans which the foundation of the Republic vanished into the pockets of the in 1812 and his sucessor Presi- who handed over me ence Carlos (1842-65) collateral the customs, revenues, pursued progressive policies of public lands, railways and extensive state ConTo Oves public bunaligs. economic resources, welcoming State-owned land. was sold foreign technical expertise with off Argentine and British and OuL or vale myesull cill capitalists give-away endimo the country to become wwe me raros wao nad sacu one of Latin America's leading with the Triple A ance tradiel amongst themselves organised farms Colorado their Liberal and and a policy of renting land for meriods from foreign economic boosted agricultural domination production beyond the point of There followed a long period selt sutticiency to the export ol oi occasional timber, cotton, toDacco and coups and bursts or organisca fruit. discontent-while far new imperialist star was born.

Schools (1932-5) came to a conclusion satisfactory Standard Railway lines were laid and interests in the an ron loundry estadlisnea, all ingly negotiated the paid for by public money from the Peace profitable state enterprises and Conference. loreign trade carnings. now the Colorado Party Free and obligatory primary was graduany gaining the ascen dancy, consolidated which boasts combined victory over iliteracy over 100 years later.

nece noicie were vewed as detrimental to the interests

TROTSKYIST

f the rulin cliques in Buenos

INTERNATIONAL

Rio de Janeirc Aunes dit alll European capitalist

LIAISON

tnet masters.

COMMITTEE

Matters came to a head when Tine was overthrown with the help of Brazilian and cul- intervention signing of the Ireaty oi tne irple Allance Dy Brazil, Argentina and the new Uruguayan Colorado regime ‚ir the political and uruguay - - Will financial backing of the power-

DISCUSSION

aimed to take

BULLETIN

Paraguayan No. 2 есолошу away lom and. annex strategically important areas of its territory fighting years Articles on Nicaragua, the population • 1101 5000,000 to 250,000 destroyed Parity Commission and the economy and saw a quarter TILC Declaration of its land lost for ever.

Price 40p plus 15p p&p Dependence from WSL, BM Box Paraguay was thus reduced 5277, London WCIV to its proper place in the imper- 6XX Estaes of throis sa "Febrer- (bourgeois "golden debacle) and the Communists.

A certain Alfredo Stroessner steadily scrambling his way was undisputed LICi leader of the pack by a military coup on May 4 1954. He is now the longest surviv- ing nead or stale in tne world In present day Paraguay the of officially organised extent ensured smustant flow or cheap goods -the dust. One was in the lavatory; another couldn't operate the electronic voting machine; and one arrived a few minutes too late from a trip to Hong Kong. , to general astonish- ment, single vote Italy's fortieth post-war govern- ment tel The astonishment resulted the fact that secre from which

VULE

Atoloni

«OWT

Cossiga's centre-left government on its important series of auster ity economic measures had beer preceder a iew momens eare by a public vote of confidenc comfortably won. Absentees absentees (the incon thent, the was the incompetent tual) which did the damage but the 30 wilu then government public against it in secret. bein in the 30 and demitady No-one al tendences Tie Democrats and Socialists are accusing the others of being the Paraguay Power Game, price £1.50 plus 30p p&p can be ordered from PO Box 134, London NW1 4JY.

For the capitalists, life is not half Paraguas undergone period economic over recent years with Itaipu dam together with Brazi ano mae massive deverosment o the eastern border region.

has been increasing penetration by transnational • meme von and extreme conditions and a huge influx of labour and Brazilian capital, militarv control in that region However, booklet the points out: "Hor the Paraguvan beasants in the eastern border region, the Brazilian invasion and the conse agricultural cuen

COON

evictions and increased repres which has effectively aborted sion any remaining hope oi aevelop• According to the authors, ing an industrial infrastructure.

Unequal land atroessners represson nas cicl tively quelled opposition has agricultural produced , with the exception of system so criminally metncien 'ligas ágrarias that only 2.2% of land is under cultivation, the most leaving subore o a com orla Catholic church. peasants to 1or tunale This may well be true, but meagre living from tiny min1- fundio" plots, and to wide- an analysis of the labour move ment beyond front of the book would have Rv 1979 a avarter of the been useful. population was living elsewhere.

essentially swelling the villa mainly

DOOK

'human rights' orientated, and miserias in Argentina ITALY: Another one bites traitors. 30 "trator"* But was the not nor even the hundreds of Communist

•MPS

of the bulk

LORE

opposition who brought down government, , but rather the Italian workers millions with inflation wnose and the growth of unemploy- ment is coming to an end.

Berlinguer With its desperate need to out of the purely parliamentary the Jow solve problems arena in order to maintain some pro fitability, Italian capitalism now once again lacks even the Kin o conto o lo movement. Party General Secretary ented by the Cossiga cabinet.

said Enrico Berlinguer im mediatel verd ent crisis led Fiat struggle over the Fiat redundan- cies: management to retreat from an "If the negotiations fail, we expectea controntation willl Ili think of harder will need workers . delaying struggle proposed forced redundancies

TOTH

occupation". crisis is so deep But At the same time Berlinguer that has called on the Socialist Party redundancies were replaced by 24,000 immediate "temporary the Christian Democrats and 3-month lay offs. even to form a joint govern- from calming the explosive situation in the class struggle Fiat's action has This is a new develonmen though does not seem to provoked the immediate imply a basic change in strategy.

throughout Italy heringuers words de ratne anger of the working attempt to shock • The rar class has forced the CP leader- Democrats and the Socialist allowing the CP into Party into collaborationist stand in particular by moving class Page 3 there well documented of Stroessner perpet- ably sup- .abominations uatec his ex-Nazi cohorts Africa and elsewhere. The book's failure lies ir is entirely reformist and that it social democratic ir Chalallel welcom ing signs and : "change within itself is a the Colorado party crucial determinant of progres- Paraguapo itical change Whereas it is true that splits in the ruling class are critical lo the dislocation and overthrow the crucial deter- of the regime, minant for real politica changt can only lie with the revolution- ary organisation of workers and peasants on class lines, not mal. wodk content bourgeois reformists, Not only r do such reformists their ends, funda seek own contradiction mentaly those of the oppressed, but they historically incapable of carrying them through Both options are clearly far from imminent: but a look at Paraguay's neighbours alone should be proot enough of th impossibility transforming OT dependent : countries into stable bourgeois democracies coalition But Socialist Party Secret- ary Craxi's purge of left wingers from the SP leadership, and the appointment of Christian Demo.

cratic President mission oriene mate the ad- mission of the govern- ment as improbable as ever Berlinguer of course is much experienced •himselt Stalinist too bureaucrat to leave left escape positions. He still says the CP must be either in government or it wil be in opposition. But the let-out says that the opposition can be more or less strong dependins on what policy the government pursues Already he says the CP is economic austerity when had to be dropped o coverer e provoking : a major run on th ira-only for noW by raising interest •rates But no-one expects Forlani to be able quickly to form general government. And There can be no doubt that these circum stances more and more sections of the Italian bourgeolsle wil de searching I01 than something better the increasingly unstable parliamen- Lay system • It was a Unristian Democra tic MP who commented when Cossiga fell that "Turkey is not lar away'

Constituencies vote Royal Victoria killing sets back anti-imperialist fight Page 4 for Troops Out composite For many years people have been fighting to end A clear indication of the the bi-partisan policy of the leftward movement of rank file Party Labour Party in regard to Labour and activists was the extremely Ireland. CLP delegates high vote by favour composite ground. Ireland was forced on oI a o the agenda last year and is resolution on Ireland calling for a policy of withdrawing vlle drall uoiule yuu luudy.

Why is it, though, as soon as self-determination troops, we raise the question of Ireland and political for

SLALIN

Party Labour attempts republican prisoners. are made to stitle discussion!

The motion was Why is it that we can rightly seconded by of condemn South Sandra delegate rights countries hemocratlc Chile Plummer, a Socialist Press and South Africa Her and yet deny these same rights speech *u• SOILCr. in the six counties? reproduced here in full. Ne can call for majority rule was bitterly attacked umnoaowe-oul N0 U by Labour's spokesman on re anel Ireland Brynmor John, To answer this we must opposed by

TGWU

'left' look Labour's record Kitson, calling Ireland. AVe. behalf of the 'left'-led NEC Wilson was unGer the troops were sent in-on remitted pretext of being peace-keep- rejected. myth that force In the event an estimated 1112 Was exploded with events Tne 80% of CLP delegates and Bloody Sunday in Derry, where union delegates sup- civilians, unallle ported which rights HOLIUl. peacerui Gemon. was defeated on a show of stration were shot dead in cold blood by that "peace keeping' hands. has set back the struggle of the Two members against British m mert ne Provisional IRA entered the has raised strong suspicions Royal Victoria Hospital last amongst the hospital workers of a backlash from the UVProvoKe week and shot dead Robin 4 c erae acц Shields, ambulance station officer at the hospital. Strike This act-which threw the Catholic work- largely ancillary The hospital was the site of and lear IoI IOTe HILO Dallu a strike by both Catholic and their own lives-and produced and instant 'em ergencies only" Protes ant workers earllel

TOIS

Protes- year against the presence of the strike from argely British army, tanl amouldnce uryeis ulust ve Since the strike the presence condemned. By any class struggle criteria alane y vecusty force). under Labour was 1 inter KOv muson DY Ialllc that political status was with- drawn from the prisoners of H Armagh

DIUVK

_ proved European T ne Court of Human Rights. under Labour Was Ss was stat theo as the was sent into counties. Not mentioned Preven- Then there is the. Act- intro- Terrorism duced anotnet LaDol minister Roy Jenkins (remem- ber him?)

PTA

has sinister impli- 1 lt cations for workers here as wel as in Ireland. why Jim Callaghan i mention the war omitted to parliamentary re ano report yesterday and Iréland is not mentioned in the proposed manifesto. to talk about Un, ls nme and freedom, of peace •nc s heard so have much: but what about peace and freedom tor the rsh: The manifesto called Peace, reduced. The reason for the shooting -according to a statement from -was that Shields had reservist until last been a bonce year with the RUC. have been allegations his that had used Maut spy DO SITIon on callou nationalists. In previous statements, how- have Provisionals ever. encouraged rTotestanls themselves from • forces by reservist positions-and assuring Trem laae suCI . d sicu Jobs and Freedom calls for self-determination Afghanis- tan but not in Ireland! how nypocuca Imagine if what Derry and happening Belfast was happening here in Newcastle and Glasgow Would that not be the main agenda this week? item on the Would we be expected to remi on sucn an Issue! what ts hapraig in tho take: make nay or reaie cur laoocll 119c It is being used as a training ground and can be Do you know that all pollce otticers over ine rank erasoec toe ae to unta to Dof dity in Draw from that,

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comrades. Let us be perfectly cent There is no British solution to em a ledause the.e is the Irish there TOIO DICl vocausg only an Irish solution. It is not for us as socialists such a attempi impose T'hat is chauvinism

SOHLOI

we in 1920 nad a po sition of recognising the right of the self-determina Irish people : to tion. Let us telura to lu If we do, we must from that ensure their removal from the IRA death list his management DeSD l position popular helds amongst the ambulance workers His killing staff. and hospital was certain to provoke a back- lash. On before the the day funeral a Union Jack appeared nyiThat might toop Pao visior night two Provisionals hospital and returned took the far down They stoked up the tension still further during ; the funeral a series of booby plabls SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 October 1980

STROOPS OUT

NOW!

IRELAND

hands. Such a history, we as social- ists should be ashamed oi and condemn. This struggle will continue until just solution there is class

WOIKI.

remain divided as long as Ireland itself is divided. Back again As long as we in the British ob vee e o for our brothers and sisters in Ireland for national liberation we ourselves are hvpocrites anc hamper our own fight for socialism If we fail this we will year, be back again and again until we As long as the trade union block goes against us we Sandra Plummer will be defeated : union conferences logically support the withdrawa Liaut

MILSI

CUSCS

oi troops trom the six counties Ireland. miles across the I urge you to vote for com. Irish Sea comrades, there 13 bloody war going

DOSILC

SUD DOH

held demonstration beine . 11 a history of over 800 years London on November 15. Britain has the blood hundreds of thousands of Irish men, women and children on its and ne afayk o Vico hia had Victoria short perlod Deconnt 10] indication thattotestain Catholic workers could unite in against the cause The killing has done its bit towards destroying that emby- onic solidarity: sede question that must be trapped vehicles around the city, bringing traffic to a halt whether taixed Many Catholic workers Provisionals intended the inevit- the hospital able backlash funeral of the man from the The killing is a product of Shankhill-at least some of them petty bourgeois nationalism.

feared that thi It runs completely counte Decause Eney would launch a reprisal of the working to the interests attack on hospital workers.

deman Cass wad! lowiul! responded Paisley predict- moves to unify the ably by pointing his tinger class-e dirend the lion the unarmed hospital security the Provisionals defend staff and alleging that they must ПО ПРАФИ u Aolu uoum complicit the Irish workers can navt have murder. illusions their ability to This statement put the lives Only imperialism avicl of the security guards sharply at the programme ac cal would working class and unify it can sunce lac obvious targets for a UVF hit do that. - WRP 'Public' - meetings The All Trades Union meetings was held recently it Glasgow two supporters Alliance, industrial organis- Socialist Press who turned up at ation of the Workers Revol- tickets hand [ne cool wiln utionary Party were renmced cente that were launched a series of public cateurs" and were asked throughout the meetings you allow police into would the country to promote your meetings!" building of Community This refusal of admittance supported by Michael was fully Councils the of doors Secretary Banda, National which will specifically be the WRP. opened to reactionary rate- We can be assured that with sudlemoctero alactitios and payers associations.

DIKCHOCIALK

oracllcs. Yet, although a direct invi- present campaign of the WRP tation is sent to the forces of will be reaction, revolutionary socialists thei recent need not apply for admittance ventures into the politics oi the oi these Dublic Middle East. wa one

Rank and file pushes Labour SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 October 1980 Telling confirmation of the of a mass emergence anti-capitalist current with- in the British labour move- was offered by this ment year's Labour Party confer- ence. Such political develop- brought protound 10T

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"Gang of extreme •right wing their supporters, but "left' MPs established LabOul tne have • been overtaken the militant demands of rank and na per contradictory lighted contradictory position of Tony Benn. emerged as the henn leading champion of the struggle for reform of the democratic for NEC control over the Party's election manifesto devastating allu

ORADOSE

sucessive Labour leaders-and drew massive, well-deserved applause: Abject failure But a still bigger ovation had taken dace voar молние мае Lambeth council leader Ted Knight had slammed the 'left'-

NEC

for its abject fallure halt the Tory spending cuts, and fora dus- trial Knight's effective strike to halt the Tory offensive brought constituency delegates to their feet in wild applause. to the left Yet that same evening at the Tribune rally Tony ally opposed general strike action to bring down the Tories.

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about requires period of persuasion argued Benn: and propaganda, majority is indispensible.

Thirst for action the there should efforts he mace initiate open ended "discussion" and debate. Benn's gradualist, parliamen- tary road-one shared by his co- on the plat- speakers Michae clearly at odds with the mount- thirst for action ing anger and

COHSCILTENCY

longing for a lead against the him self, of course shitted under the impact the movement 200 | Party and the working class.

cast aside tie on tomany deste the customary diplo- revealed dIK De ater Tire exercised by hab durtatorias -insight dictatorial His espousal of a "troops perspective and call fo united Ireland have a consider- impact avers Labour Party until now unaware of the issues involved. Benn's political evolu- But tion must be seen in the context the Party which meant that last composite resolution advocating Waiting in the wings: Healey Taking a back seat: Fisher In the limelight: Benn carried on the nod; a call for

EEC

withdrawal from T.ne carried by two thirds needed • to make manifesto carried aranisi endorse- ment oi a succession or olger left policies including steps to illegalise private education.

Even the trade union bureau- cracy righton the conares carried morte de succession of mealy- complete surrender by the evident left swing of the Labour conference into a more militant salles The task in 'the next period is to put to the test those like Knight and who emerged at the head of the left wing current. Full support Insofar as they take a stand against the Tories, they must be given full support: same time the weak- yet at the nesses exposed. This is why Socialist Press foreful while the emergence a powertu current within the Labour Party stresses once

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principled leadership movement which rejects Toad socialism, all fronts the united strength of the working class to bring down the lory government ana caus create conditions to Callaghan from the leader- Well, Shirley, where do we go from nere?

gang ship of the Labour Party.

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 October 1980

D STRUGGLE

ght back against ind flows. complexity and • This liversity makes it impossible to counter action nolence ano terror moorisco ov mperialism and its agents in ach situation. advanced workers DUt nust be armed WItn evolutionary and based the general LIaleyy development choency vithout such political weapons, he necessary preparation and old perspective is impossible.

Workers defence Throughout its history, the vorkina class resorted nas armed methods truggle spontaneous lefensive actions. Revolutionary TrOM confidence in the strength and vorking class struggle, and seeks evo utionarv oirection. The fight for the building defence squads armed and -trained, lemonstrations strikes, protect and . meclines attacks by state and soldiers, throuch links between extreme rightwing forces-must rank and file committees in the workers' the novement as part.of the fiaht to development nobilise and organise the tne armes como in defence of its vorking class organisation of the working noependent class Interests class is the first real step The squads cetence musi the road the arming • to controlled by independent the mas tight vorking. class committees to the The rucole. Dasec mas: militia must be accompanied by organisations of the class where persistent propaganda •TOr The Industrial workers of the workers general arming the of the core nust torm and poor devence soudos The historical experience of As part Tne internationa workers programme taken into the day struggle shows that the working struggles of : the working day class will arms when for the wants them (fo seriously *† netence staristrom une Russia 1917, examote- experience and needs of the 1923, Germany Spain 1930 Portugal 1974, Angola 1975, Iran and Nicaragua 1979) As Trotsky wrote in 1934:- Militia "The proletariat produces them. transorts By turning. workers towards the buildings in which they are kept defends those buildings chance on maer own moonisec trength, the demand combats against itself, in the army erves to all its Creates oui lieue the locks is neizner watts which separate the proletariat doitanst state so cagerly souent the reformist and Stalinist from arms, but the habit eaders. hypnosis submission, the also prepares the ground Gas Cominalon. . or the future offensive on state it is sutticient to destroy owel unoei new These evolutionary leadership. will stand stone wall As the struggle broadens way. That and deepens, nocessity it will find them. The task maroens tor mne ceve ooment ou workers' militia unifying the of the revolutionary party is to defence squads and linked and awaken thic resire o the fight to build councils of facilitate its realisation".

• Whited front ") Central ordans mass struggle. A genuinely Like tront Init militia councils of mass workers' organisations, the ontrolled by the workers' militia in itself is not the

CLION.

enough to secure victory in To the extent that the Civil var. vorking class puts forward bold revolutionary programme Party moasures ne ruin or the dooresseo avers of peasants and petty bourgeois, correct revolutionary thus shows action policy is necessary, as shown in lead

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truggle for a new social order, examples except Russia in 1917.

workers' militia would gain The final victory of ne broad masses. and support of working class sympathy I coules building revolutionar On this basis, the possibility party apatin of organisang armed uprising open up fraternisation a general strike at the opportune etween TinE wo kers ange moment oace ragically in the Spanish Civil and the Chilean coup of War 1973. The popular frontist policies put, forward by reformism and rationalised peddling the NlusIon peaceful evolution of bourgeois democracy into socialism.

Britain, coline where decaying bourgeois under seige by democrac big capital and ls agents, triest misleaders try to tie the working class to s with "democra sections of the bourgeoisie.

tic" They organs 01 JoOK to Int the decaying bar lamentio regime to stop the drive towards methods extra-parliamentary (police repression, fascism, mili- tarisation). Pretensions The hypocrisy behind ever the democratic pretensions of the Britain, is most sharply exposer by its line up behind imperialis repression and propaganda "terrorism' of the FRELIMO freedom fighters in Mozambique part played by the I Te ruling BrITISi History has provided systematic terror, starvation and Bolshevik organised by imperialists exam oe-tue Mart wars under Lenin and i rotsky inal who the led the Russian workers terrorists are. power in October 1917 The British bourgeoisie the the of i rotskyIst oro responsible for death gramme and strategy show civilian each ane sorele forward the way dies in the course of imperialist self defenc armed th aggression against Ireland Revolutionary Marxists fight defence through into an attack Tor the workine dEss movemen on state power. to support, without reservations The political arming nesitations workine class imperialist struggles of national revolutionary programme, lays nooration movements ane r the physical arming defend their organisations and of the working class. militants against forms of central feature InIS the repression and attack of the Trotskyist policy.

This support is the starting Armed struggle conducted point tor ale!no The font Tor a class is a form the working working class leadership of the or the political struggie imposec national liberation struggle.

on the working the In political opposition to the the class transformation programme and strategy

•OT TNE

strugale into civil war, and thi: existing nationalist leadership in turn results from the ruthless guides the tactics and fight of the maintain its decaying system programme and strategy must Armed *actio she any be advanced 1Ke tactical act political openly repressive Under struggle, must be assessed cantalist recimes une rerormist relation to the over-riding task- and Stalinists may at times de forced to their popular our• une conticai maeoen dence and mobilisation of the with the mili- frontist strategy working class, defence tant facade of a commitment to interests and in leader- class "armed struggle". In this approach, the threat ship of the mass struggle The exIstino retormist ane on violence is seen as part or te Stalinist misleaders the pressure on the capitalist state working class seek to tie force the democratic reform workine class to a cass colla of conne-vien. borationist strategy of seeking trust, will then evolve peace. reforms within the system fully so-called alliances with This perspective of gressive sections or capitalists quermarsm. a retommist surateos Iney attack ine class inde with a particular attitude to the and leading revo- question of armed struggle.

role the working utionary • Class. anc Guerillaist The revo urionar moolisatior of the working class into sterile and nationalist and Stalinist leaders bourgeois parliamentary "pressure'.

i nese ship OT organisations trom obstruct the tasks of workers'

ERP

(Argentina) to the ANC self defence (Namibia), Ahe PLO (PalestinP) (South

SWAPO

politically confusing anc By (Euskadi) ousarmine une Cass they obstruct the organisational (Ireland) embrace the and physical arming guerilist strategy o part of as the door maintain masses ane 00d leadership danger physical over militant mass The defeat of the working class at struggles hands the monopoly capi rotskyism is certainly not counter-revolutionary talist. guerilla actions (assassination state agents Torces ane so oni But in themselves, even the spectacularly successful most guerilla way aulo weaken capitalist controt At most they cisruot tem- porarily the smooth functioning of part of the capitalist system .Kine takes place continually througt the decay of capitalism) each particular case or a tactical usi of guerilla methods, must the decided relation of movernen working class. is the politics of revolutionary mass struggle. struccle wnich musi command the gun and bomb at all times popular in which the frontist strategy UC: 10l thrent) overiii actions politically weakens the class by fostering the working won illusion that Call and defended outside organised and mobilised strength of the working class oertoos

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workers' struggles, ouert laisr undermines working class workers by turning away Trom relance on tael owe independent strenoti toware: the false hope of liberation by bourgeois led guerilla petty army. At the same time. some ot the best the heat the mass struggle removed trom the struggle: the workine cass Tne illusionary search for a revolu- forward tionary under guerilaist leadership Removed from the strength Page 7 and direct pressure of working class struggle, these militants are increasiniely vulnerabit contro

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guerfrais bureaucracy on whom they depend materially for training ano arms Frustration and disillusion create antagonisms between the militants revolutionary must exploit in seeking to turn the guerilla (with her and training

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by the poser workers' struggle But frustratior and disillusion can also foster ultra Bert ao venturism ano even terror against the working class-and tendency exploited clearly by •Dureauaac anic •V Ine imoeriallsis 1s seuls guerillaison ing guerillaism class struggle, ever ano sationis abas don ca class.

the for China the examiore alle Stalinist policies of the CCP had led to a disastrous defeat of the 1927 workie class in The turned TO ThE revolt that still rolled through the countryside. Without changing its popular frontist perspective, the Stalinist

CCP

organised •rural guerilla completely dis- warfare, connected from the demoralised troan workine cass As Trotsky argued, without the mobilisation and leadershir workin! . Class Tine rural guerilla war can only serv advance one bourgeois to taction against another | Paris Commune 1871: Armed guards at the barricades

Lessons from history of British Trotskyism National Cabinet 1931. Back: I to r, Cunliffe-Lister, Thomas, Reading, Chamberlain, Hoare, Front: I to r, Snowden, Baldwin, Page 8 By John Docherty A number of important historical questions were discussed at the first full of the Group conference Study of Leon for the Trotsky and the Revolu- tionary Movement held on September last at the Polytechnic of Central London. were the items dis-

NOT

cussed at the conference merely of academic interest, centring as tons the formation of oi revolutionary proletarian party, the. phe into ento ront intervention processes oi alice m Lilt 1114111 bourgeois democracy The first read Geoffrey Tition of deal the disaffiliation Labour Party from the pendent Labour Party , and the the • Revolutionary Policy Committee willi. particulariy . Delore instrument of the became Stalinists disintegration the of the ILP from 1934. Opportunism Comrade Littlejohns, and in the subsequent dis- speakers LIle break took place

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including Macdonald, Samuel, Sanky.

opportunism the of and our bo sclessless demoralisation which independent power base of tne the membe stipisamlation at

ILP

possibly disaffiliation time illiance with local Catholic 4,000 by 1932 little reflected also the beginning of 1934. The crya moroneren The apposition to the betrayals of also meant Contusion he 1929-31 MacDonald govern- that the ILP did not even carry out of the and the possibility tinued by the ultra-left Stalinists tea aeraave moveneat to n complicity in these betrayals of in the period amongst the unem- like ployed. Labour Morrison and mender on. Confusion Dalton, who * the last mome front baCk the This helped allow the MacDonald and the others with WhO orional the Tories. been taken completely unawares for this reason that the development of the Trotsky who that it was affiliation but condemned une Policy Committee being neces i to iately to the mass of Labour benefit from the costysion a no infected with Party members, mood was reflected in the lett resolu- lake over some or lne leil willg tions of the annual conferences members of the split. 1932 and 1933, calling for As number speakers the nationalisation of the banks no thing was and much else, inevitable wel lo this deeme of any programmatic policies of Revolutionary Policy until the conferences much included least summer of 1934 such more recent umnes However, the figures Matlow and Palsey ILt leaders as is well known, did not take the who part of the Trotsky- advised Trotsky. ist entry into the ILP. direction remained influ- were Itas Meas important reasons for this..

ential even atter they shown by the redom in ance of the slogan Centrism sanellon. U1 elle Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935 The first of these was the Had the Trotskyists been as inveterate centrism of the ILP their leaders, Maxton and Brockway.

They spoke intervention as Trotsky himself advocated, then matters could councils, but were have been verv ditterent willing to break nom a palla- mentary orientation. The second paper, read by Martin Upham, dealt with the rockway i particular spent deal of by election Aylesbury 1938 where Reg Groves reconere the secone adore Internationals rather than who had been a member of the making break from the recently dissolved Marxist betrayals of both stood as the Labour reason was that

LIC

Calluale. Line central largely as a result of this, had Pressure little conception of what had intended from come election Groves put In this Party. Were they to be simply a version of Stalinist-inspired popular front.

wing The 'Peace Alliance' Labour Party

OLIC

Illaully electoral contests interested supported by Canulualt were they to become a revol- local Labour people, most Com- utionary party building workers especially viciously munist party are presame misunred tion and the seizure of power? attacked Groves and called The fact The about t wineman support from him and support posed question, such instead the Liberal candidate.

alone answered it. led to a feel- Transport House did not go as far as this but but consider abou prest able the local anothe more conciliatory candidate.

rejected Ture all these and fought tenaciously to get Groves a vote of 7,661, far the highest Labour ever got the constituency, him the

LETTER

14 Regina Roac London NW4 12 August 1980 Dear Editor You have repeatedly invited the accustol TILC's politics. war in Afghanis- tan remains front-page lows Dress Prest months prese ved suita sotto i voce. substantial article after Kabul uprising in February, was two The first half accurate aulluls. and the violence with which it was suppressed, helicopter gun- Lenin only candidate to gain votes rom une brevous eeco keg Groves himsel pomted one thatra Party isthe area tor Liberal Party in the area for good, anu was a stoo d weakell nich the Stalinists were at the Peace time trying to revive the popular front poncy collapsed with the end of the ambiguous on Afghanistan snips staling unarmea crowas The second, shifting from facts programme that Trotskyists detend the Rec Army's and from editorial safety advised Afghans to 'unite' with them. perplexing. You have said, more than thạt Russians should have gone in, but not now that they are there (and how!) they lest should stav perhaps?) fil vacuum" would be created by their too precipitate (Yet you have unaccount- failed denounce ably to titth column' which may yel force the rapid redeployment o Red Army-the workers of Togliattigrad and Poland).

An organisation prides inal itself on its Leninist-Trotskyist orthodoxy should have little difficulty discovering the becaus on more tormen defence of the Soviet subjuga- tion of Afghanistan. Has the

WSL

Executive forgotten

LIC

days "healtny workers state In 19zl when Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin jointly attempted • to force upon by foreign bayonets' that Marx condemned half century has it. overiooked the simia; but successful military annexation of Georgia in 1921' last but not least. why Hild is the WSL so reticent concern ing that run for SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 October 1980 the Stalinist policies. pity that Comrade it 1s Groves did expand this ches than eulogising the consciousness rural pleasures of till from : his previous • bene period the annutes Trotskyist movement The given by John dealt with the McHugh. torch brought together virtualy tionars Communist all groups of British Trotskyists, in the by-election at Neath ir May 1945. The candidate was time Jock Haston, General Secretarv of the RCF The RCP chose to stand in a strong Labour seat during very LELl wartile ceciola. when the main parties did not stand against one another. saw the intervention as a genera are ut against imperialist War ane do Labour to i power on a socialis again the strongest opponents or sucn policies were the local Stalinists who by. now calling for were and Ton Labour leaders. However the effect of the

RCP

propaganda compelled them Done debate the tere tholl Stalinists accuse Trotskyists being 'Fiftl coum nists with calls for defence 3 of the independent CP/ILP/Socialist League • Unity class and for socialis working Lana 1193 popular front did not collapse Allnough Ine not collapse Bene voTe i it was not conferences enormous but the impact of union what was then a tiny all via Douis Doral to bas as great as could be Wa. flect hi had showth the te could front now that expected successiu workte cas alternative to the treachery of Socialist Press reminded us, Trotsky san satellitization and LeNI Trotsky's of must be ever-mobile to escape Outer Mongolia? extinction. Red Army invaded Forty years on, why no clear Mongolia in 1921 and installed staement on tre none can a government thickly laced with embodied the expansion of Soviet 'advisors'. Moscow had to the 'genocidal workers' state" Intervent the tiny Mongolian Party

WE REPLY:

members of the 1921 The above letter from Messrs Blick and Westoby indicates th Congres:

AULUSI

sorry degeneration of two intel- Congress chairman, was fool- Wile argue for each made valuable theoretica hardy enough contributions to the Trotskyis independence irom castle ul analysis of Stalinism. Moscow. Before the Congress, with full Soviet waked out of the westony Workers Socialist League several approval, he had been removed the basis and shot. the anti Leninist positions in his y call letter, but arguing that he could develop Marxist theory individua outside • of WSL organised Marxist movement So confusion Blick-a former understandable. Tenth! member the SLL-was for time in the mid 1970 some the not such as to hand by with the

OCRFI

such as the and on the "Buletin" grouping in Britair Spartacist tendency Now • both individuals have ce by tier own douou combined forces sudden whether it is possible to carry about-face anti-communist people closer by demand that the WSL-which Meantime the wSt leader- has defended consistently ship itself abdicates positions theoretical responsibilities, fail account for itself! sellar full reply up the historical questions so flippanthe lessons of Lenin's. pioneering role as 'proletarian' imperialist Blick Trotsky's mature analysis of

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Westoby is beyond our scope UNA was Counte here-but will appear as a centre revolutionary workers' state'. page article in our next issue.

But the concepts of dialectical

Max Eastman-from fellow traveller to witch-hunter SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 October 1980

PART TWO

Ernie Stubbins has been using the occasion of the the WRP Max Eastman's book Young Trotsky' The to examine Eastman's political itinerary an intellectual anti-com- Marxist turned munist. Trotsky's political oppos- Eastman ition to was hardened by the reports of discussions sharpening within the Communist League of America (as the of the Left US section Opposition was then called).

Shachtman was already lead- opposition dealist eativ in 1933. Eastman cannon. was operating around the fringes opposition and a sha clash occured within the

CLA

tendersio •nachman s attempts to present Eastman as a speaker in a public meeting further ences to published works until November 1935 when conversation with Harle Birnev. he returns to his attacks on Eastman's 'engin- talks about the colora create a revolution a8 an ena- eer conceives a plan and builds Enginees! acces nevolution

KOWS

them. He knows about nothing bridge building Does an engin bridge of his (in such matters it is always very In June 1937 he argued for head does receive hard for me get up the une paruciaton or trotskyists command from the capitalists courage) Thus, to date l in involving proposed weekly journal up and paid voluntarily Eastman needs require nave Lasullall the bridge? Does he form a plan of his head or is the received a very high fee as a lectuals. of translator" In cult a the accumulated He goes to criticise the of vears Knowieuge building, incorporated in text- Dastman s transid- relalons with Lal Amnella books? disagrees again Tion ot vome and sot tre 'History' and his demands for Eastman's the engineer of value now 4% of the earnings from 'Lenin' publicised individual or because of his had creative power wen, in accept- command he coordin- which ines that. and sections of were the interests many years later. published 'Young Lenin' 1938 he who command Again those makes elements of nature and science in ar LIe Dulls which exist independently journal Intolerable artice him? com- Eastman meant "engin- During this period Eastman sense, we the translating publishers, hac noviced accept his definition Betrayed' and Young Doubleday Doran up But he thinks of the revolu- which serialisa were hope of the book Lenin ever tionary who This appearing. concludes: conceives a pron and ten gives episode of considerable strain orders. No there "1 free see getting and ill health for Trotsky engineers and many plans. Eastman only way 1S during which Eastman's its own yucceed suggesuon ne was workme Ond SWP to we encores new introductior the engineer plan that explaining and the 'History' which was eventually anas ers. historic explain ed needs. of Trotsky's The become Revolution Marx that belayed. this would be intoleraim tanaes Under circumstances stood". A letter from Trotsky Sara Weber in September 1936 alleged political sympathiser, in Disness ren- control a major a position to tionship with Eastman was suffering as of consequence it is something much worse.

the deep philosophical differ- During things contin- points: ued to deteriorate. In February "Somebody should visit Eastman to him • rotsv made a satemen reec angi Intensity is to ting Eastman's interpretation of The Revolution Betrayed' let me free" Trotsky complains that East- And equating the soviet siding man had demanded 10% fascism: publisners Trotsky's earnings addition "I carry no responsibility for Max Eastman. I hope that my difference his translator's fees, understand March will went 1ca0li of the 'History of the Russian my trans DeTe lator". Revolution'. the Something of the intensity party Participation liberal o the ba connectons derve n Mannian allu the two men can be learned intellectual from Trotsky's words in this It is illustrative of Trotsky's party, political maintaining this approach durug "In this way his work would period that he was not prepared be paid from two to three times cut itself off from "At the better than worked 112C mercilessly vears. But I did

LYDE

not find the courage to say NO Eastman operated. Eugene was mazin • We must show them that Lyons. take things like Marxist seriously, and theory very we

TOURSE

not per we unpresso that Max Eastman can be our and at the same time, incidentally, an enemy of social- ism". to Cannon promin- April Cule willingness to close principles OUl he argues for an against Dewer ODeL confused of equivocal his tnendshi continued to Lage Inter LIe "Max wrote that Trotsky much value • 101 becoming that the approaching the

SWP'

mean on Hook, had called The League Abandoned Hopes' ne traced in the a mixture of rationalism empiricism, became the national philosophy

USA.

theoretical ethodolo of Henry Ford- oth regard livir society from point ally. Historically (Eastman ally). the disdainful toward the explained by the fact that the Trotsky grandfathers and grandmothers of Max Eastman and others did not need the dialectic in • order to conquer territory and enrich Themselves ЗВ Н changed and the philosophy of or bankruptcy tered a i period has just American capitalism"• Origins its Lace. his agitation the Letter Burnham 1940 he refusal astilles discuss stopped ago' and warns leads: "In the Eastman Sidney Hook their friends He Burnham's when the circles should have the been party stainist longer access to the in the letter to heard, hypocrites. published Page 9 activity avoid public split. Don't forget it was before famous Trade Union Commit-

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before the emergence of even the Zinovier prepared Lastman s book to destroy the Opposition.

Trotsky faced the for choice between fight which tae upposition prepared, and signing the repu- diation. It was wrong to transform this into an abstract moral question, the bour bett! the SWP wa geois opposition in do.

ITOLSKY

writes of them: "Our old Mensheviks were real heroes in comparison wit them" Trotsky's final reference to in Eastman comes 1940 document untinished Denouncing Eastman's individ. ualism • anecdote deserve to This text of a Circlet history of the deat After the of the both Burnham and OPPOSILIOn mover into the camp of the bour- geoisie. Burnham a made a career lor himselt out of anti commun- lecturing at tne College and editing the far right 'National Review" for denounced Nixon • SUlE line against moscow and reking He even gave evidence against Shachtman as a subversive.

anti-communism Lastillall Burnham's but equally dedicated • years he edited the keaders Digest, one or the most widely circulated right 1950s. journals the 1969 he was an active Nixon supporter. However there was to be one Tuttner twit or the Knite To em sorry tale Eastman's literary collaboration with The completed were section. denin' prepared pread a first boubme toward the completed work could Before they publishes they vanished from Eastman's home, stolen presum abstanise rosenes Mysteriously the stolen sec- tions appeared many years later Ibrary at Harvard Univer sity. Eastman 'chanced to find' in his three remaining untranslated chapters Thus with bitter irony all of Trotsky's complaints about translation Eastman's delays were borne outin! Finally a few words on the value Eastman's pamphlet. originally set Lastman complete biography his own admission (in 'Young introduction SLen when the book was half done.

"Young Trotsky' is the result.

pamphlet be 11C recommendeo to ree conne new to Trotskyism. As biogra- phical material i is pooi, than sketchy

TOCOWEL

more richly in Trotsky's own which the reader should interested turn The students

WISE

gorancer will find that Eastman's docu- adds only a few incidents ment to what we know of Trotsky's youth, ana пошише what we understand of it

Page 10 The six week old struggle of the 900 men at the oil rig construction site at Ayrshire, must Hunterston, all be inspiration to workers into battle to go against big business and the Tory government. victim ised by management, media betrayed • the harassed by the police by their own union leaders. they have stood firm in their determination both secure their jobs and enforce adequate safety conditions.

What began struggle as a unsafe working conditions has become a fight to

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management claim Inat the ate closed and all 900 men sacked. Intransigence The management Intranse has carried a stage gence with request

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Younger the Secretarv of State for Scotland, for permission to seawall breach the order to partially TOWi away Will pleted rig: At a mass meeting in Irvine last Monday the men again the workers thousand taking the Tory streets oppose policies there is plainly no lack of militancy the organised working class. ver me exisimo tidac.union and 'left'- -weetner oersoective InOS workers prepared fight living stan- dards, social services and demo.

cratic routs. Car through policies which start from the independent interests class class. of the has international and everything volume od to lose trom a remois to restore the profitability of their.

"own" employing class. In a period where the contra- anarce Capil' alist system force the wholesale and destruction of the productive force of socialist •anne

INDUSTRIAL NEWS

Oil rig workers stand against sacking threat union leaders' efforts rejected delegation at the Labour rarty to push them back to work Conference swing their the crucially important votes behind

GMWU

union officials, the The reso ton or a chance workers voted to return but the the method of election of the party leader boilermakers decided to fight on This took place whilst It was dya manly of the the threat to the gret or the umon boilermakers that sparked off members, Chalmers a100 the dispute in the first place.

James Murray, were absent from the floor of the conference.

Support

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tensions llla come to a nead in a lortnign s time at the forthcoming Boiler- The challenge to the leader- ship of the Boilermakers Society makers annual conference.

The tollowing demands must dows daly as suvoUll wuld l.

immediately be taken up in the Tor The men at uner ok union and move. the organised labour movement.

those who Among *A picket against and mass moral and financial complete black upon any effort workers

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to remove the rig. buildin trade at Cluebank and Suidarity aids all the Councils Edinburgh bulang yalus and country. Stirling. *Increased pressure by I or Me may, the seo eated.

upon the leader- elect who ship of the Boilermakers Society work is to get the men back to or ecent To make une sure vilia *More financial and moral His election to une the struggle to be post secretary was only Shop Stewards the secured by 200 votes and there Scill (Hunterston committed dispute), c/o

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Club, to malpractices in the ballot.

Road, Irvine, Ardrossan Further dissension been

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WCIV 6XX

DAY SCHOOL

on Latin America called by Stirling & District Chile Solidarity Committee Sunday 26 October 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cowane Centre Cowane St., Stirling 50p Recent renewed specula- tion as to the extent of the reserves of North Sea oil as the yet untapped and the possible im pact upon Scottish economy have been the for fresh inspiration political controversy on this issue. Statements by une coatin Shell John Raisman, at a recent seminar at Aviemore that increased investment by the companies £40,000 million in the next 15 years will number involved in the of those directly industry and probable reserves that into the century refuelled Have DULl argument. Reactionary These have heen topolls opportunist fashion by the seized their

SNP

Do ste Inel divisive separatist campaign featuring drinking as a vampire revenues of North Sea oil.

expensive publicity This lightly dismissed for, as a recent article Failure Socialist Press argued controlled councils in scotland to contront SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 October 1980

DON'T GO INTO

THE FIGHT BLINDFOLD!

SOCIALIST

For a

GET

PRESS

clear lead in the struggle against wage control, cuts and redundancies

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TGWU in that area. the limited impact revenues i the context of an economy in recession enla from North Sea Oil ove hereased Honeys last year have been totally absorbed by the rising cost of -unemployment benefits. All of hopes ot an ol bonanza are being dashed by the bankrupt capitalist economy.

The prospect of 80,000 jobs s by related industries seen within the 199 as lo oc Context or a recessionary tion in which there is already an overcapacit the petrochem- projects, such as that of Dow Chemicals, operate in climate of falling demand for their products.

even an expansion MOreover of jobs of the order promised hold back the mounting tide of redundancies other fold. The forward for way

INSULT TO BL WORKERS

Print unions tie hands of NUJ strikers SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 October 1980 Manchester engineers occupy to save jobs Workers at Gardners, the mantee stewards earlier Eccles (Manchester) diesel discuss jo int action. engine company have occu- pied the plant against redun- committee has yet to work out its programme of demands; but dancies. place one LHev

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took Sute takeover consider is for following a mass meeting last books of Friday. Talks between made to make 590 of the 2430 had redundant Siddeley, as well broken down when management mac c r ine igat do decice and Foden for themselves who should be Gardners for 90% of their bus sacked and who should stay.

Ine occupanon al The is central to the fight against by Gardners' made North unemployment the Dankers a consulais Hust oc exposed. Myers, a nearby mail order 1600 firm announced redun- ago Weeks that and just up the road, , Chloride, port already has lines of broken the manufacturers, are battery down aill encines irom a further round of sackings.

raises the need for the national- call from Salford Trades isation of Gardners as a part of Council for mass demon- port system. dancies last weekend was only And the weakly supported but since the meeting announced, was stewards the splendid support from othe le locade unie stri FBU pose the need for a Salford local Fire Brigades colmen or acon Dascu Un LIc gratetul Danie 101 Trades Council, but widened to support during theit strike from draw Gardners' workers, has imposed 10cal WUIKOIS oi Il per member per defend and extend the struggle.

week and the occupation com- now Journalists on London provincial papers returned pay claim that has been drawn to work at the end of last after three week week the provincial journalists are by strike for a London weight- no means a spent force. ing' allowance. The strike ended three days Impressionism alter a mass meeting narrowiy voted 188-161 with ten abstentions to accept an offer of allowance total London to £9.30 a week. of the end This sum is considerably less and file the rank turned their back on militancy nave towards their claim and the problem (€19.23 ment of £1,000 a Year total week) but

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habitual treachery of officials of has shown that the still, as ever. the key print union, the NGA.

ne narrowness or mne vote showed also that even faced papers Industrial Council accep- with such obstacles and ted inat Imas management. members snomi hard faced opposition, the spirit that a rank and file action com- to fight was still alive.

mittee Lessons from the strike must day to uay control Chall

AT THE TOP....

UNION DUES

Edwardes has offered BL workers a 14% wage cut as a this year's sett ement on wage review. £2.50 6.1% (about in the be seen in any way. On top of this Edwardes has Chloride offered to raise the maximum this week to bonus figure from £15 to £22.50, a 50% increase. occupation sleight or hand is itat hostor The hand that most the big blants. like Longoridge and Cowley have never reached oovousLy the opening the starting point for bonus, let Gardners itself, alone the maximum! spending £17 million Lay-offs Hawker as the vehicle A 50%: increase on zero 1s zero. This is not likely to change

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do use

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consistent production manage- ment announce lay-offs. BL workers had 5% last year extent of the profits suppliers, and 5% the year before. 6.1% make 16.1% over lale The social need for the bus inflation in one year! Wage settlements in Britain tact averaging 22% have over Lancashire United Trans- been wages further and further behind.

new aW GILLIs The recent Intucon report casteceved licity put Britain on the lowest the

EEC

with exception of the Irish Republic.

forthcoming joint So how can Edwardes hope on a workforce Gardners and foist 6.1% to who are already the lowest paid the caI workers atrover his tactics. answer on last year's review, Edwardes representatives of all created a crisis. announced "overstock- ing" • when largely The was the most be drawn out in prepara- strike democratically run the union's history with three mass held and meetings First the strike showed that the floor motions taken on each occasion negotiations with other unions remained in the hands of The oriens. The task fell, almost by on the CP officials wno nature, Militants in the union, who have suddenly blossomed in the had been claiming since the complete absence of CP influ 1978/9 strike that ence in the rank and file): started, Iles lau

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freelance organiser Peter van was getting den Berg struck the deal that tions between the two unions- contrary the strike question is for limited support, return how to win. be une

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The NUl's Provincial News- told not to ask NGA members to respect their picket lines.

meetings In the face of hostility from the memersmp to tns deal lie should be elected to take When strike started, therefore, NGA members were

DARK CLOUDS IN BLACKPOOL

THIS YEAR...

WHAT A SHAMBLES —MANDATORY RESELECTION

- UNILATERAL DISARMAMENT..

...WITH ALL MY BLOCK VOTES.

I'M BOUND TO BE ONE OF THEM!

HMMM... I CAN

SEE IT NOW!..

EDWARDES' NEW PAY

exist and introduced cutbacks, BL workers-since short time and voluntary redun- dancy (VR). small plants) and not to others.

As soon as the 5% was bull- But which meetings,

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short-time was things in BI. callea of plants, like co ley, the she vote au thebyenants some

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production increasec previous levels and switched to Longoriuge recruiting labour even before over VR had been thm plete programme Edwardes has pulled the few dozen same stunt this time. No sooner one vote.

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announced short time, cut backs and more VR. Again, (with the excention of some models, like the there sas stocking; the move was tactical.

After laying off the e Ital they cratic structure in BL. have now reintroduced tull time working because of an outcry by distributors that they simply could not get any to sell But the fact is that BL considerable workers have bargaining power if they decide to , and not just with the use it, rai Irom not wanting cals generally low stocks put difficult management position to face blackmail should called. Every time management says "if jobs will you 101 go' One thing sure. to win their workers are going £17.21 claim this year thes have watch tael significant that the JNC For three weersto consinet adjourned meeting weeks to

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consider 6.1%? It is also cleal "offer" on the bonus is that the spit the

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except advertisements and an editor's columns. But opposition was stitch-up. that 40 by the fact silencer

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(although police during the first week Employment and appeared with blank papers pickets and Those who struck the deal to withdraw were therefore ablt to point to the fact that more papers were stopped than during the whole resources left seven weeks of 1978/9 strike. end the But the inevitable result of about. manoeuvres with the bureau- During the crats came about. earlier days the NGA instructed ATTeT council stabbed the journalists in the back and instructed their refuse to copy and struggled to enforce this members had been claimed by the editor.

Papers began reappearing ignored beg The NUJ officials, including union officials

... THE LUNATICS

EVEN WANT TO ABOLISH

THE HOUSE OF LORDS! BANG

GOES MY

RETIREMENT

PLAN!

COMRADE PEERS, ON THIS OUR FIRST SESSION

LET US REFLECT-

BEFORE WE SIMPLY

ABOLISH THIS

HISTORIC INSTITUTION,

WE SHOULD AT LEAST

SEE HOW WECAN

MAKE IT WORK FOR US...

AT LEAST FOR A TRIAL

DECADE OR TWO!

Page 11 floor it is worth reflecting shop workers and with the BL would TaKe chanet the situation in Bl often decide completely opposed bv the national ofticers 40021 • plants Nave who control everything in BL at the present time Therefore BL , workers must 13,000 members has one demand that action is taken or wages this year. They must say vote-and a craft convenor from sell Edwardes' offer out. possibly members also has ings in every plant Let the members decide what should be Conference The national officials have got their pay rise; they are on This is why it has been so Edwardes 2200 is on £55,000 a year. Those who important to press loI a aemo have to try and live on BL rates fully representative dele- should decide what is to pay 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 General Secretary Ken Ashton It is clear that NUJ members turned for support to SOGAT- future must demand clear solidarity and an end to such Some support was promised 'bargains' and a mass picket at Uxbridge The strike accessit howerne totally unsuccessful. paper stoppe enforced the employers are now committed stand on the orring Act forcing increase the differential in living line with costs for the next twee yedis belore tnere Is another review. support, Lessons learned long strike with only their own t was at this point that th Moreover when the trike cam employers refused an adequate victimisation deal the This year, the NUd had three days before one was ts members notic agreed, showing tha t the lessons work on scab publications and ol tne Nottingham Evenng ros lines cross picket had been learned. The political lesson-the cry.

But when the interests of the ing need for a principled leader- NUJ members were at stake, its unions, must now be learned. int throughout olliclais went ake suppacants to any deal going from print

C... BUT HOLD

LAHA WANT TO FLOOI

• UPPER CHAMBER WITH

14 AN NEW PEERS T0 TAKE

| ONE VOTE TO ABOLISH IT!..

WELL, BENN MAY

BE AN EXTREMIST-BUT EVERY

CLOUD HAS ITS ERMINE LINING!

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