Socialist Press no. 231

Reagan takes the reins

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 231

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"What's with $1,068 wrong bankruptcy?" wiped Ronald Was mere $150 million in cash and Reagan's first response to uu miton in wortness shares news that the Carter govern- -make it clear there will-be no more bank loans ment had bailed out the flagging Chrysler Corpora- uonual as recarucu as aureauy bankrupt. tion at huge expense last The most year. sion was

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Neagan suoscoucnuy tone ais public position cracy, who handed over a 2- down

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their But the new President has ridden to office on a platform

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of policies strikingly theories ilar to $1.2 billion to -on which it is legalv bound te ment to lay waste whole areas British pay interest, and which it must 5 the further milion mark UWeS When Thatcher travels to the USA to congratulate Reagan cool $1.8 billion last year.

his election victory Ret a dis sinking ship would amount to a Carter, she will hail the success maior ane emoarrassing retrea a campaign based on pledges from his declared policy: of: *three sucessive annual cuts another 500.000 to *a conlesio staindustry ployment queues of the USA.

health, safety and servironment scrapping Spending cuts tal reguladons *a major increase in military spending; *a cut in public and social economv as a whole will certain service spending; ly leel the impact of une massive *lowering the minimum spending wage to persuade employers to to impose to finance his planned hire unemploved vouth at rock aX CUES. bottom rates. Virtually all of these policies to the downturn in have in one way or another been molementea Inalener catastropnic belore the working masses or results for the working class.

the world centres on Reagan's If Reagan attempts a similar commitment policies increased military spending.

aus economy TeeTerno on une Throw ot Us-backed that ships in Iran Leagan, along with top militar chiefs and Breathing space capitais case 1s determined te ase force if necessary to prevent of his further such setbacks for imper- The first casualty monetanst scaemas coulo de une Chrysler Corporation, now lingin onto life only the of US by ing kin of its teetl Deserto help Prop srael state Auu milion covernment backed loan last week offered ladat's puppet regime in Egypt firm breathing nd a "get tough" polic space before revolutionary imposing shutdown But the terms agreed to cariocan Chrysler's whicl Dankers -1

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million of debts was exchange for a for a corpora- by the United workers union Dureau- . freeze on behalf o members staggering But the dying firm still owes government ume. $1.1 billion For Reagan to bail out this but low Chrysler to g mmediately ad une unem- Whatever he decides the US Reagan will need This in turn will further add the world But the main threat posed to massively uaumauc cactator- Nicaragua, US his attitude toward intervention in El Salvador (see sections of the u back page). on the tona tons o atu nuge war un une last He has proposed the station- two years. Carter's outgoing troops in the Sinai budget provides for an unpre- cedented allocation ocaceuune of S200 bilion-which Reagar is committed to increase.

agains Carter's plan includes: struggles in the *Increased for the apay armea LoIces. An early test of this will be *More cash for new strategic * New Secretary of State General Haig (right) nuclear weapons. *Improved and airlift SCd capacity for use in Europe and international level. Isewher Both in cash towards the office Rapid Deployment anner Force This atready major can stop them. increase lethal While the arsena or muclear and conven deployed Tonal torces

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the workers of the world.

In this respect, Reagan is of the political task of times

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Unemployed queue for benefits in Michigan starts from a point where there theory remain in not workers' mass a menace to humanity / in existence. The •the political

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ation of the workers' movement independence of the American working class, the building of a main obstacle to o rabour cartv ano mne estao.

lishment of a progrmame for a moonsauon m balta remains the Labour and trade Mania in tho tặn to tờp struggle for union bureaucracy in the USA organising Reagan. ana moowsme ue workme class

Capitalist crisis behind W. African 'anarchy

TURKISH JUNTA SEEKS CASH

Page 2 The capitalist media have described the political events that have occurred in West Africa recently as d mindless and random of coups, civil procession sufficient providing and murders workers and peasants to prevent wals. famine and endemic disease mass starvations. The last period has seen the ism with which overthrow of the regimes in (enira!

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Keouonc colonialists were Liberia, and Upper Volta; the Cabral from the strategic of Guinea tea by colonial struggle. the Sahroul people war tec ine rousano beste leaville against Moroccan sive apparatus of the state agents, a massive military masters took response the a Ca But prevailing anarchy the the capitalists with racist Pract or naked peoples of in fact the anarcny born Geravine colas a l c colonial system. These political events occur Mauritanic of the economic anarchy Out aves LIlE

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masses into struggle against puppet governments and weak neo-colonial states. during the colonial period chained the pro of West Africa ductive capacity to the profiteering and plunder- ing ol monopoly capital, anu enslaved the masses to a system cash mineral producton gearea lo promit anu not the workers needs. This system is incapable of Turkey banker cannot "Having expensive ally an process." This investment decisions, anguish from the Financial Times reflects the problems are not yet certain. imperialism in its facing the attempts to prop up shattered Turkish economy.

ditions for investment, Year the Since The New Turkish military junta has been reschedule over $3 seeking Ine of loans secured during geois democracy. DIOl In centra. the coup banks, as . well as seeking liesl from the private capital lost in the number Illainels For there has been a marked year, and mosuy reluctance on eering sector. cane Darl private market to risk any capital in Turkey class, ts and west The imperialist principally the counte to evels ha have instructed their Germany, central banks to lend to Turkey arbitrators between the not because of any return on the money advanced and Turkey's they because strategic position on the Eastern side flank of NATO. there to protect- Turkey's position is central A lole imperialist strategy ne cent inal lu Is nol the capitalists they with contrecuul. imperialism itself. Middle East the the USSR.

But simple merchant War in El Salvador of the junta for a liberal' period. It is precisely this sector that Milane Itay the imperialists are quickly rein- balance with the FMLN remember the While extraordinary enecaveness Somoza's LaN in indicamin pinning stopping al the general which produced ale not close such Callane This was largely Nicar wa. over apparent had the army, that Weekend action in the cities. barbarous Policia de Macitia San Salvador and Guardia Nacional, as well as 1,000 ex-members Guard were but large Somoza's National able to regain certain territory deserted vital roads: but this and open Deen turned massive indicate camp. Goes П0 ! much counter-attack tactical the with ram guerrillas, anxious not to over- Valalive forces simply for their the defence of territory.

the initial offen- Moreover, clearly had a deep-seated sive the divided and ultra-rightist apparatus. serving military large number of tiny states in for the facilitate political OrUCI control for their agents and also to further ensure the continued created the mechan- dependence of their agents upon and West Africa, the make ment. In this situation of turmoil WIll and anarchy, opportunities now ine growen or lne allu like exist for adventurou Gaddafi exploit the

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TRel own ends Moreover because the imper- the colonial the precaution of ened the neo-colonial regimes in alcd Loyd Egypt

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Niger Mal unde sucan present their such entertain colleagues grandiose ideas. The iron laws of balancing act as a continuation of the of Mustapha profit and loss must determine and the Kemal. that 1s ol relative prospects in Turkey for capital pendence, their ence to imperialist interests cuts across this ideology. military junta are here It is precisely for pointing dilemma. For in this that the editors trying to bring about the con- Turkish daily Cumhurriyet, profitable • 1C121 paper, were detained. they have to resort of to measures which do away with Similarly,

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the Turkish central bank, Ismail of bour- dismissed Aydinoglo, with nine months before exoressne 7.8 million days were monetarist policies of the junta These policies are the contin uation of the economic package for any previous with the in the engin- Demirel agreed

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appointed by form RP Pring This activity of the working combined with inflation been and mass unemployment made

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unfavourable replaced by a banker mOrt with the economic policy tune Demirel generals have posed as workers government. inevitably These policies include open- OU l ing the way for foreign invest- nove come down Foreign new interests they are Department the capitalists. under the personal supervision.

and more it the Prime Turkish Ministe nOW in days applica processes will obey take seven that usea.to

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years! For while General Even and Several units mutinied and the demazozues There is now no semblance Colonel under of the 'reformist' regime estab- the y Cl the coup of October lished throwing in his lot 1979; last week's readjustment saw succeeded of officers manding public transport, mosions who provided the mainstay the previous Romero dictator- coincide with the offensive did presided over the down all production. and 10,000 Fives in 1980. This war will due to genocide fact that. as in August. the milit- extraordinarily cruel. taken pre-emptive

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nor neither I Cl the FDR are Marxist-Leninist, as remains under Socialist Press has pointed the control or une alctatorship at great length sectors are either Guillermo

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leader have effectively personal buddy of Brandt Ungo armed lilO Callaghan, stated last week evicent Une will not socialist this insurrection has yet to but democratic take place as ace to resitary povert col and anti-oligarchic. It is not for nothing that the torces i precarous. a laul uic

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enjoys. the support Pentagon clearly appreciates as the Second Inter it begins to ferry in material to and bankrupt junta of Mexico nationa also Germany 0 Ti

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colone widely-publicised dissent docu- Christian Democrat maintain their Dast imperialist press dependence they are now being inexorably forced to make more climbing into their backyard, it open military be these ventions prof motives Gaddafi's regimes under conditions con- cynically less favourable than siderably H t struggles twenty years ago. The current clash of inter- apparent este netween ine rrench mock tions with imperialism to boistel ialists and Colonel Gaddafi his image, and as a imposed on the Libya has crack down on civil war in Chad that has raged for many years. His is a disguising anti-imperialist

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Yet while answer TOTi of production dominated capitalism elementary material demands isation of the

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Gaddati Nevertheless Deputy PrIme operates Minister Turgut • Ozal, limits meeting witn private bankers i London, did not get an immed imposed by eliminate iately favourable reply. the Turkish working class.

And when he travelled on to is this task Bonn immediately arterwards his claim to further aid from the lurkish working central banks irritated the West moment German government. Turkey has chosen government, aware : OI on the is and or both the the fascists Sve Action West the milion take over the Germany, cannot seet to the aid of rush But should too mulary ululaluisillys ing pendent these legal unions To overcome General lascists rolan reassembly to be used as a last resort.

the announced Whereas Turkes, var tament Lilt However, old discreditec the politicians will be excluded!

_the the NAP have been freed trying politics General's orean without politicians, the lunta will hope to create body the sensi both satisfies of imperialism to such an Should these tivity on trial a NATÓ's the world and also betweet for disagree- allows some room working class could arist ments within the Turkish bour- solidarity for geoisie. What the Bonapartist junta

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ment emanating from a percep tive group of CIA-Department of State and National Security Council personnel. The grave international con- senuences ' of the Salvadorear civil war are clear. Guatemala, a series of carefully-timed guerrila have played a dictatori dictatorship's divers from the build-up on the Salvadorean border. And on wider level Isvestia has published an early condemnation of the US The spectre Vietnam will haunt his first day in office: 11O11 become a bloody microcosm of the global imper alist crisis •It is tor inis reason tal.lne international campaign against escalating US rapidly militarv intervention and ior the overthrow The must be strengthened. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 21 January 1981 of giving direction the squeals with and al enderst for oppressed layers in West Africa Gaddafi the conscious and confronting of national presumed that are pure. division by wade sonni the labour using Ariall The workers of West Africa boris to up teen be are already effectively united DI the of migrant and the international nature of the task production;

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Cavitals internal opposi- remains to sve laila this internationalisation with their own class dangerous game of uniting brothers and sisters around their dependenct imperialism with anti-imperialist common interests. the French particula. working class must be mobilised incanabe or avana cae lass struggle one Giscard's military offensive against the oppresse Gaddafi has no Wes Atrica, masses against Gaddafi's regime.

wes Alcal masses, there is no way forward • out existing Africa! off *Imperialist hands Based on deformed relations and Libya! totally imperialism *For a workers and peasants West government in Chad e workers y unable to grant even tne mos Dult for the workers democrati enderst with West Africa! The result that even partial struggles *For a socialist united states of Western Africa! challenge capitalist profitability.

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Only the independent mobil- working class in Jim Benson examines ine and background to the civil war in around their own class interests purpose the Turkey Solidarity must ensure is that this Parlia Campaign was founded. wittin

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The TSC was active before limits being the pressing need to the coup, aware of the fascist threat, and inevitability of • the military intervention, and today the defeat of it is trying to organise effective class, that action in solidarity with working class in Turkey, faced still faces the Generals. For the as it is with Thatcherite policies oscinine milary class administered by military tatorsh those to carry out the task, repressing can should who oTte Natonails. support the rally of the TSC the NAPS Seekin seeking to the Conway Hail hened London, on January 29. the attempts of Included among the speakers te lunta to discipline bie work of the exec class by smashing the inde- will be a member

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fail, then the utive une from the CPGB, from the Assoc organisation Kurdish Students iation the Com- and tron the rascist leader, remains on trial, some of for The Hille Democratic Rights in Turkey second line leaders of the 2,000 leaders of the independent trade For more details of the organisation activities and programme of unionists be pur Solidarity the Turkey major confrontatior 1 write to TSC, BM Campaign 5965, London WCIN unla

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3XX In these conditions the need the British •working class is clear. tor tne Scene from the fighting

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Ireland: national struggle and SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 14 January 1981 The West German econ- workers between which been omy, November and December last proverbial for its buoyancy the y cal. LUWId and growth rate, has taken a recession WnICh une industry, manufacturing sharp down-turn over the and the construction industry last six-months. espec aly nard Manulaclurm: Unemployment broke the orders, for example, were down 3% in November. sensitive 1m mark in December These figures coincide with wwh o d d calea with 3.0% in Decem Der 19/9).

Degnune anila Short-time working hit a further wage negotiations. Metall,

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Dear Editor, It is quite correct to expose, enjoys at the expense of another and ou tright collapse into you border, a "Ireland: who real nationalism there is a criminals" (or

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zi tlic bounuary ine unal dl tunes cal hypocrisy of the British govern.

slight and admittedly labelling 'as difficult to see. ment in resișt the brutality It seems to me that in your of its rule. artice here are enree arstine for you cross that also proper border and consequently English socialist paper to cham- pIon 2n0

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Lile vour very alicıenı hileliliulls "political" character end up siding wilh ine nationalist resistance to British bourgeoisie against, the prolet- state and Loyalist violence.

ariat. To deal with these in turn. with thẹ AClve l sa valily Narinern arelana anonsu victims of national oppression moderately informed people the your contention that "wild gün- ocialist subordination found struggle Ullly that undestanulle amone exe cec s vi to he „oța vecek vi the Loyalist movement" will produce two responses. all Between hostility dismiss oppression and all privileges that uneCarllavl hopeless as a • Innocent one group, class y uu nanon De Valera with Arthur Griffith, 1921 We reply: article The legal and semi-legal Loyalist

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that clear we paramilitary groups who seek to ilaca profound disabreemerl wIlll delend imperialst rule tactics We have intention no itikal programme of the republicans- Irish painting sted* any defend their '-but neither Camecorcaly nanonansn "right to fight, arms in hand, to intend we 10 1 ano st drive the foreign army of British "socialists" who wish to paint it black. their Our article could in no way country." •We do not in any way equate be consuted nine-county rather often uster. looked at the political manoeu- Collet PlUuuVYe imperialists nationalist

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lignters with the activites or lne natonansts wcnucu the strong million meral workers union, which tradition- aliv sets the pace tor the wage round, napcared Jus aeter mination mirases in tine wih, for • Wal with inflation- currently running at 5.5% Combined with 2.5%-3% for productivity increases, the Metall are demanding 7.5-8% as compared with management's oner or eoo bul. as ın britan.

abroad while the sceptical will dismiss charlalan hawking nationalist wares under a solalist sign take Ensand

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llldy some readers the reality but Ireland even • Northerr inen tanks mere musi oc a lew with sufficiently good memories to recall only a few weeks ago your paper carried an article cold blooded conaemnne muraer

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onerus. Protestant ambulance controller Royal Victoria Hospital by the Provisional IRA. will aney oresumauly dismiss you as an absent-minded muddlehead. Secondly partition was not a Lloyd- ComDromIse Co th in December 1921 end of independence Nor the Britain. when dualils t Republicans Treaty to end that war was the quarrel to do with partition.

back Nauonallsl

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today may Thin k should have divided over.

But the plain fact is it wan't anu VI dIXISLa fidye better Things to 00 wiln Enel time than rewrite their history for them approach the problem of 10 nartin

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Col Didull "that in 1911 nobody had ever a six county Ulster" is den to MalzIsil The separate development of North-East Ireland throughout made 19th Century ¡ partition a possible but by no inevitable solution England's Irish problem From 1892 when the Belfast DourceoINe IoOK CoLLoI ol Lic Unionist movement

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Southern Protestant landowners organisational effect that Wa. citaleu possiole outcome. In 1914 March James wrote articles in Connolly and "Forward" "Irish Worker Irish workers that warning ute nationalist leaders Kecmona Devlin prepared excluded from the have Ulster Home Kile bill the Home Rule Anu wilcl passed straight- Bill was its implementatiot away Susi nended tor tae duranon ol te War it did indeed contain provision that stipulated Ulster was tu uc ticaleu sevaratory.

prevent the establishment of a 32-county Irish republic Of course much more couid been said T.he •cass Ilave character of the republican and the detail of the tedaersi political deve ooments lodom Parition the articie SP22: that Our reader supplies some LaSA ucertu tonanon tuluse questions. But he does tho vàcc not any basis to question mar ane se eobi laye ocei.

take socialist measures protect workers' jobs At the same time Chancellor Schmidt has had reason to tea anout the luture ot nis covera- ment, which is kept in power by the bosses are hoping to force shaky alliance acceptance o1 Iow seltemcnts LIkI Casusl threatening workers with witt me tr. and with the high Divisions have manifested sackings of temselves series uner o ovucul lale The response 'left of the ruling conironlalon. Detweei Social Democratic government bench SPD deputies and hack the FDP recession has the economic Many SPD members feel that been prencuaoie enoucn. prefer to listen to the warnings minollly ball from the Bundesbank about the outmanoeuvring them. dangers oi retlation rather thar nationalist leaders the Easter Rising in through the lenses of After Lloyd-George 1916 persuaded nine ahistorical Carson accept Home

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Prat Uster ter is not hard to understand and was exemeed Ulster would take a six epithets such a "artificial" and "sell out" are revealed to be country shape was made likely alne winel undel quite oesiae ine polt. pressure from Craig and Carson From the Spring of 1920 the the Unionists of Donegal, Cavan war of independence against the ano yonagnal roluctanlly kritısn took on an mercasuizly their rights so aal med her tan Con lega- wanve under the Covenant. • alarmed the Sinn Fein leader- The Ulster Covenant of 1913 ship. Land seizures by poor peas- binding al unionists under, oath to assist each other in resisting ants began Wes Home Rule Ireland and in May of that year Крос спі What divided pro and anti workers Treaty the Limerick reou Ducails Wa. ercamcl the wording OCEn men Ders IlansoUl! allegiance to the British Crown Union) seized the plant, ran up and Irland's status within* the the red flag and under the slogan of 'we make butter not British Empre 338 Ria Dir Pratamen ore ahe nartition? OrorltS caved upon une tldut unions to become their buyers The Co-Op in Belfast did so were These : radical developments Iltaly aevotea to tne quesuon ol par acten as poweru stuulus and those nine, six to the Republican leaders, were provided by three deputies with Britain and make peace TOn MOllayllal. enu wal In the process of establish ing its governmental aparatus Secret debates with tural 1 disturbances in the South and West to contend Winn anr eMl nau nol cile slightest intention of clasping to The publication in 1972- its versary. for ore dangero atter ine yo vear rue resuncuno access to state papers expired- duvelsal y of the secret debates in the Dail contained the sociall Belast most powerful, best organised, in the fighting Gurine ult and numerically class conscious шТА не is devastating for both romantic and their gullible in all Ireland. nationalists suited Sinn Fein Marxist camp louowers very well-for it set back, For de"Valera as t.ne oTeal republican who led the forces. the Connolvnewr WOlO rejected the Treaty and oncoming unity of the working Lilal class then led the anti-[reatyites It suited Sinn Fein precisely the subsequent civı wai candia- admitted that Republicans necase t was aor ay represented the only serious had not and some of them had not challenge it for political force the use inclination to

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would break the back of such a challenge many years to come. . So Collins Valera abandoned the and de avle caci couul bowcl vote itself out of the Republic if natonals Norl-Last it so wished." Ireland with as little ceremony as Craig and Carson abandoned one in 1911 had their fellow unionists of Cavan, heard of a four-countv Uste either yet that is clearly what de Monaghan and Donegal. Valera is contemplating in this The bourgeoisies of Dublin and Belfast grabbed speech which it should be said could and what evoked

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terTIlory from his fellow republicans.

determined une oouncaries • O1 events of day the two states was not hallowed are tradition but the limitation on examined from the viewpoint of enforce class struggle than Tammel Defend right to struggle!

fighting-under various generally a time when the continued dom- leaderships for inanlon Dro-imDenais centuries against British bureaucrats the British several ovet labour movement is perhaps the imoenansl. principal obstacle to the con structon ol a mass troops oul Domination current. While struggle The fact that Marx at one continue "critical point saw revolutionary metnoa . ll would oe wrone 10] movement of the British work- us simply to emnrace the con means he himself discarded class as one possible Ing more than a century ago. of lifting the oppression of the Irish people Inermualer John Lister offers us no guidance today-at Page 3 Schmidt The SPD/FDP alliance has the had its ups and downs in past, and may wcll survive ines!

But as long as the allince lasts, it provides for : an excuse

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collaborationist deputies' class and lets off the hook the deputies, who cam o nebresent une imlerest.

of the working class neir rule and au thority.

cartographers Aacl all gaelic manste • ano sovers leprechauns may find all this possibly even lamentable, sordid; but history's chariot has always Macen ronensnoe ove the dreams fantasies reactionaries and utopians.

for proper

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Marxists to intervene is from its platform not under its wheels.

Finallv. Marxists who rejeci historical materialism an0 follow nationalists in reducing all the various stages that Anglo Bs els mo unuttson centuries-old liberation struggle" would no deply shocked to dissove that embarrassed doubt

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oooosec wanle O'Connell's movement to repeal the Act of Union with England the 1840s it seemed to Marx that the growing chartis classe coutd top the capirkime movement working ano erene condtors lor a lict federation of both peoples. O'Connell . part worked furiously to extirpate tron onarts imumuence ranks of the Dublin artisans, see- 1860s And when the Marx did come to support self derem anon. n was ol e a obligatory discharge ahistorical duty, but based upon specific alalysl conditions prevailing time. The defeat of Chartism and working clas. a revolunonary leadership had been succeeded by piecemeal reformist integra- anti-Irish wall Lavisil component part of the retormist ideologs while the indepen- dence struggle against England had acquired a social dimension amstocats curnel asalll. off the land to provide cheap Pnglardasd wool cheap food industrial develop- ment. Emotional talk about "cen- turies old struggle" is no substi- tute tor an anavsis of the torce.

at work in Ireland today.

Marx's critical method is provide it than DICLeIYL! the soIter optor wcn yol have clearly taken your painting article red and socialism green Y ours traternallv. Jo Quigley Marx

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Colin Morrow. The slogan "No Return 30s" the has gained to general, popular throughout the labour movement in the past few yeats. came immediate as an response to the break up of the "boom'-those Dost-wal wals steady wnen ine lusion or a "a ca aing living rising standarus seemed some lo throw into question the Marxist analysis of capitalism as a bank- Now. with the unquestioned re-emergence of this underlying to crisis and the rapid development conditions worle wide It Is lalulal for the labour movement look back the which wracked pre-war capitalism.

Profitability As unemployment rises, fac- tories, shipyards, •and mills and the capitalist mines again bolster class prolla bullty exploitation in order to attempt the working pay make Stalin (left) with Bukharin, Kamener and Zinovier ior the crisis ot then allal coll Caball stem i Bauc union and Labour leaders troop out, one one, to lament the horrors of the "great depression'. The same politics led to the Such leaders must always the aven 1120l WIlL splung or the LaDour rally l Time nemselves unme up Labourites can sing this song. 1931 when MacDonald put the ruling bourgeois class against So, at Blackpool. Jim Callaghan defence of capitalism before the the working class the launched the attack politics of Nau interests ol ne workine class oracuice wages And it was these retreats and reformism, then and

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duly rose, straight faced, to he dels that ed they by tor the politics of defeat, flow from announce and draw their parasitic strength will Second World 1U E ¡rom Enose acicals tolerate return to con- War. Socialist Press has, on many ditions of the 1930s. drawn on the lessons How could the present occasions, But what these labour move.

period for workers in reformist leaders be expected to trom Calls consistently tal ment wiseacres recove this probiem terms or are counter revolu lon when the root of the problem is anti-working : class role of to point out-and Inaced cannot ary, point our do re vera it o to build a leadership to combat reformism. equally important to an nel poutical lucas: DU returned to, is the politics of the seeking gradual within the the lessons to , be learned about the an pre trade thnipolitics the the degeneration of the Third system of the trade union International need to begin at all times Iron Labour leaders which led to the Stalin •The independen econome anu JoseDn allu political interests of the working counter-revolutionary role These same politics led to Stalinism in the crisis of the the the before They seek through electoral- 193S ism and employers offensive in lne reac oine GiverSIons ins is or particular import- Monde-Turner talks of avoid mobilising workers to ance because 'Comintern' resting on the credentials earned 1927 challenge for state power.

British General Strike, 1926 First of an occasional series by by Lenin and the Bolsheviks Russian Revolution in the still presented 1930 revolutionary alternative to reformist social democracy.

Dul unue vlaul s icaucisi had become, reality, major factor in 1 the preparation the defeats suffered by on a world-wide Class from the mi0-19/0s coalf onwards. Nationalist 'theory' In Germany, Spain and throughout Europe the working class was day ter for me counter-revolutionary policies of Stalinism therefore, to the nature or une perravas med our ov the Comintern that this article will address itself. The Comintern under Stalin began not from the actual development and requirement i of the class struggle on an inter- national cae Nor did it start from the struggle to break the isolation of the Soviet Union through the extenson o me relo advanced countries capitalls! Rather it began its analysi Stalin's from conception "Socialism Dune ins Country" This nationalist 'theory" Stalinism, which is central to was first introduced in 1924. 1 became official Soviet policy in 1926 as Stalin began his drive the Soviet Communist Party Trotsky, the leader vof the Left Opposition, to the clos constant DOll inter-relation Which • exIsten between. Stalin's internal Russia and those carried out by and policies requirements une internanona Opportunist In 1925-28, for instance, there was a marked rignuward the Comintern. directed Communist Party the DIllall lowalls and

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bureaucrats in the Anglo-Russian Committee. Com- China to the bourgeois nationalist Kuo Min Tang of Chiang Kai Shek In each case the results were the Tie sellout Bothe 1926 General Strike, whole- allu a munists by Chiang in 1926-7.

The turn towards opportunist deals simply tic policy Within the Soviet Union he and the new Kremlin develop an alliance with the rich (Kulaks) and other peasantry Conservate lores threatened withhold food and began supplies even chalence nationalised economy Stalin was forced into panic measures-brutal Kulak land in posed at arnoom under tae slogan "liquidate the Kulaks as a class All sudden, five-year of industry were drawn up. This found its election in the also lurch policy domestic orientation and the Comintern-the policy Period" Stalinisn to Stalin's new

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post war capitalism had passed through thre had beer and Olit Cabilalls. revolutionary upsurge, 1924. The second period had beer of capitalist stability (1925 one out this now beer succeeded by the "third period" -the period of crises and immi- nent proletarian revolution.

"Twin' of fascism As an element of this assess- ment WORe moreover, the social democrats, wooed in the period from 1925 i were suduely written out ol The worker. movement entre.

and cast in the role of a 'twin' to fascism Robin Palme-Dutt, the Thus BrITISH announce: the YOPs! £23.50 per week (minus travel), no canteen facilities, fines for "misbehaviour' and wage increase frozen by the government. These are just some of the 'perks' of the so-called "Youti Opportunities Programmes (YOPS), organised and escalater by this government to cut down , unemoloyment lizare aven this arament waisoer ed by some unions, is sour. The real reason for the scheme and us escaauons uc exoloitaliul of working cars volin on tot dole, in a situation deliberately created by the Tories-600,000 youtn unemployed

YOPS

The roots of the doesn't there, scheme stop though. You may well say, look- 1709 Canese conditions, that what they need is a weion. let's look back 1979. The TUC (yes! the TUC!

Could you become a steward for the young?' Did this mean that they wanted stewares anle organise against this exploitation? what the TUC were actually doing was asking exist- ing trade union members to of the the running

SUDEIVISE

slave labour YOPS factories and schehe TUC still claims to have some say in these schemes, and it calms be agalnst programme being used by inscrupulous sponsors. Well if the TU( opened its would find lots o eyes Sune these 'unscrupulous sponsors' not unlike the one in Leiceste • workers £2-£20 for lines SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 14 January 1981 This is the lesson of th episode of Social Democracy Social (correctly, Imperialism working class history episode which beginning to draw to its close. as the worker increasingly awaken illusions, through the experience of fascism. pointed out continuously this time, Stalin's analysis based completely movement of the class struggle.

early 1930 Trotsky as Turn of was to write in communis and Germany": "The ninth plenum of the the Sixth Congress and

ECCI,

cent adopted a course towards an abrupt and direct revolutionary

LUSTE

WILECI

was absolutely excluded at • nA time _by the objective situatior existing after defeats great It bulan ening of the Communist Partie throughout world, under com particular! and industrial boom wan oraced a senes or lt most important capitalist countries The tactical turn ir Communist International the Februar 1928 wa theretore • orecT \ contrary roadictual turn of the historic was because This of cours the bureaucracy still attempting control workers state was user acums from a standpoint directly con- to the interests of the and international work Soviet Ing clas. will week's article Next examine how this rendered the Stalinists incapable of offering a lead to lie well rical iat • tne lace or une rascis Unionise ottences such as looking a supervisors, or 'wanton destruc tion of machinery In the last 1½ years he ha: cut down his wages bill by more than three-quarters The problem for the TUC is that the way worker. usual ahead of them ised into the here a against the lousy bay dna conditions orga naced into the local wi have snowser arest series wide naday movement support. The time has come to realise the

YOPS

schemes are that

MOIC

una super exploitation of working class youth All of the YOPs schemes nave to de uposed and ave.

a lead in fighting restinal that verse isolated sections of workers are brought Into une light to bring down the Tory government.

The unions must fight for and organise increase on al yers senemes backente November 1980. Protected sliding scale by a wages in • O ine with prices and inflation *An immediate independent enquiry into the trade : union dealings of YOPs and a revien of wages and conditions. *That a programme of useful works such as housing, public council work. etc under workers control, and ine unemployed employed on them at full union rates *That the TUC gives a lead Tory government, througl general strike action.

The politics of SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 14 January 1981 childcare

FRANCE

*re-schoo educaton is Just over 200 years old. It began in Alsace in France where Strasbourg Hrederic 1767 provided minister, village school Fifty children attended aged and attention was given to play ana exercise as well as educa

TON.

Three women-Madame Oberlin, Sarah Bonzot Schepples-helped schools in Europe. schools, although achieving an international repu- lanon. welt other parts of France. Private philanthropy patches flickered only across Napoleonic Europe •man schoos or care cenues appeared in Paris, Germany and and what started England, Children at work in mines 1842 from Paris to Hisale was lakci quirk London ana history, reexported from Paris in 1825. London back to Madame de rastorer opened an "asile" or refuge for children mothers in Paris in 1800.

under working us consertu oy nistollalls that Robert Owen's WOrK TOr young children at New Lanark infant westminster dilu LOnUOlI inspired by the discusson that went on in Britain after reading of Madame de Pastoret in Maria raceworlos novel wauale ut Fleury'. Social need ne name c to become the foundation stone of a whole school of pre-primary sy stelli social need-the disease surva tion and dangers of the streets for children. Salles d'Asiles charitable institutions in France in 1827 and were not officially 1837 Gradually council and commun- funding them. were 102 in France by 1836 A manual of 1851 reminded working class members societet nothing be lacking for their health added which could be termed a luxury, the even an extra comfort, of children care whole life will be spent in con Home conditions in East London 187.

ditions or privation Liberal reformers who held Durinish is on cord of firs.

the future of early childhood education in their hands were of carly child. develop- want better torced lO to put their ideas into practice ment and opened included school for them in 1837. He -these Virchau, Eduard Seguin, Frokel, formed a joint stock company and Victor Hugo. manage maergarten In the century after Oberlin project, but his last years were clouded by opposition from the the accepted

VIEW

France was that local autor autones ano severe linancial ities were responsible for the problems. and education the care influ-

.BKILAIN

raine Robert a self-made enced the reconstruction of the capitalist, sed his money as Salles d'Asiles. The style new medus to moto society. were to be His plans TOr voluntary, secular ana mixea, Institution New Lanark, and see of the maid at the Scotland, included a playground municipal or expense for children where they aled parish councils. coula go belore they were old Ministeral

CNSTEHCUOS

enough to enter the school in 1881 stated that local councils the middle. should bear expenses of build- Robert Owen founded the colonell. first infant school based on government assumed respon- freedom, fresh air and play.

for teachers' salaries and It is interesting to note that how the centres were run.

a century and a nall later, artel two imperialist wars and radical social capitalism change,

GERMANY

been unable to provide Owenite In Germany, Frobel expan- ded existing infants schools 1or ule ma olity ol le theories, under. fives. through play. His poperience in 1830 or soullaleously observing the growth and devel opment of friend's child led

AMERICA

of the Frobel to his book sent plans for Summary kindergarten to his brother-in- story of a nas wevelopmen law in Philadelphia: but Frobel died before he received a reply.

sympathisers It was immigrant kandergarten Wisconsin for German speaking children in 1855. Elizabeth Peabody of Boston took up tne cause In 1o00 an‹ 115 local assocations were formed By across the 1880s mne rancisco Association alone was able to suppo was economie re economic recession was Sylvia Pankhurst: opposed war and fought for nursery provision cut back and opposition that the advance. Boston closed the public kindergarten the grounds that the city could not аттого 11. Private « gene actor. also closed their purses to the • bad. cause when times were But in St. Louis William I Harris incorporated the kinder- public school gartens into St. Lour: System alla weatnered the linancial storm: which many kindergartens disappeared the United States Interlinked look at Britain a close during the 1800s shows how the concern of infant mortality, the the industrial neea lot a nealtny luture work forced with social eforms and.

with social reforms and "child care' in that period . class kespectabie miadit children were looked after for the first decade by a nurse and une midde cass nursery wa a dream world of fairy tales and dolls completely divorced fron the victorian day discomfort of Working class children were less fortunate. They spent their days on the streets, in factories.

Page 5 First part of a series of articles by Ann McKinley looking at the history and political background to the fight for childcare facilities.

to keep them quiet. _ in response these con• ditions, charitable campaigns 1870 the movement By • Towards ear caucation Was Some 23%: 01 3-3 year old children in England and Wales were at schoo The proportion rose to 29% ten years later and 43% in 1900 The school entrance age of 5 years Wa estabusted 1870 and Shaftesbury trier unsuccessfully the age to 4 on the basis: , educational disci- pine as a means or protecting from the poverty greed of their own parents greed of the IT was unt capitalists that children needed to be protected from! emplovers had begur realise that were hanies required not only for the main Empire but to the corenue brocucuon Women were seen as botr the producers of the future but labour also lorce a Dour reserve-to be summoned to the tore wame or sacked (as in times of high unemployment) when economic Mortality Concern the falc infant mortality from the capit- view aptly expressed in the termin ology of commodities and assets in inis quote Irom .t. twart In 1910 "If the men income be used and spent ation, women must be consider ed as capital to be spent sparing the present carefully for mustanged future and for the welfare of the race The propaganda on the its bias towards motherhood did attitune. between child, family, and state It consolidate helped the "mother's role" as view of the child rearer and homekeener This served the interests of industry that children. next genera- (assuming they wet! men! would be raised at a minimum cost to the state. ideological alsc set married barriers women, work outside the home, while at the same time leaving them labou avanaole force for emergency use Kindergartens were therefore limited to the fee paying middle classes But in 1910 the McMillan fought battles for the sisters slum children and set up a clink in Deptford which later became a nursery school Social reforms were used as dark mines sweeping bulwark against socialism during camneys muren as a saboul ine years or inaustrias multane.

force were a cheap investment before the first imperialist war.

and realised high profits for Lloyd George and Beveridge visited German) alll emplovmen conscious othe • success children, although prohibited by Bismark's authoritarian imper- the Factories Act in 1819, was and this ialist administration Sull Carmed

OUT

resuited employers throughout the 19th national insurance for Britain.

century. Part time child labour War work was not made legal until 100 years later! Social stirred Constitut Money was or course lound and liberal pioneers reformers and nurseries for te soaking to tight for education for the working nurseries lower orders at puduc expense mothers needed for war work This was despite Lord Londonderry and gave a 75% caven boards its a d Graham, plus a • 7d allow- sellative , for the attendance ol expenoure ance per day children.

HOWEVEI

simply: exploitation yes; expen- mother also had to contribute!

Act of 1918, Section 19, Stated After Fisher anure no. The landowners and capital- feared that education for ists poorer classes would mean were empowered to supply or aid the unem permanent supply nursery discontent with their role in life schools and classes for children There was a clear connection over two and under five between mothers going to • work But with the end of the war, mortally the return . of men to the labour «nuarer were et in tae care o market and an economic crisis very young children of seven propaganda actuades women. year rapidly changed Babies given pap Wait their Continued next week ole—ore sortenee ang mashed warm water and dosed with laudanum (opium)

Page 6

"GANG OF 3"

SET TO GO

When will they go? That question the only real hanging the future over careers of Labour's "Gang of Three" as they contem- when to stage their plate split the workers from movement. the they break from Labour Party in the immediate aftermath of Saturday's Special which they virtually certain to see an elec toral system adopted of concedes degree willi trade union participation in the elec- tion of the Party leader? They said thes nave ¡cocalculy could not accept such a situa- Or will they bide their time -until March, maybe? hold fire They mav evert until after some of their coun- ciltedo thin local ge been re- posiuoll On 'Labour" platform in May.

They being pressed by casting round Roy Jenkins-now tor a sott caat do brise DonuCs after years of living off the fat of the EEC -to come out of the closet and CxISt- ence of a "new" Social Demo- cratic (i.e. capitalist) party.

Secret discussions At the same time they by Liberal being wooed whose leader David Steel party. is engaged in secret discussions group of Labour reactionaries The Liberals are keen to win over. the disarlectea Labountes Easter-presumably their exploiting in she locat eleciolai

SUDDULL

local government elec- David Owen stating WIll electoral 10111 William: alicaly mitted against ever a Labour platform unless certain the split is looming. Gang The WIll hardul of extreme gay ving realise they unlikely reselected their oca Dares or who ocel the increasing drive towards within the accountability ¿abouT rally They realise that the Party membership is pressing for more left wing policies- and cannot hope to stem this they that the split It. is possible the support of Frank leader of the 420,000- Chapple, who Is aready regarded as a political pariah in the labour movement. Disaffiliate Chapple has apparently deciated 11al Williams and others leave there to stay for." He has talked of balloting the EETPU, proposing disaffiliation from the Labour Party feel con- While Chapple may fident that ne has cal muzzled class consciousness to Chapple «Labour Party in turmoil- Special Conference Yet the resolution is such a Behind unlikely dramatic change from previous banner of an USDAW resol-

USDAW

that there of demo- possibility it ution, advocates that 1 cutalls cratic reforms to the Labour witnerawl. union's votes thrown in behind Party are marshalling their the orthodox right more forces for a complex battle policy next Saturday. votes to the PLP. force unis through within the

WWTPU,

it is doubtful if any Mathematics will tioned stronghold of the right other bureaucrats Party-has within the on such Chance. the So complicated are venture. tabled a motion to the special mathematic involved that The Conference calling for an right wing elec spillers n to consider AUEW leaders art that toral college to be established the Party Labour know of the election the Party wetner or noe LU They cannot nobe Lo lake WILl 30% allow their delegation a more them the basis of mann conca flexible mandate. support of the workers' move- the FLe there the 40% to the trade unions. Amid baffling series of that by rigidly cast. towards possIbllly moves ing their votes against any resol- different alternative marginally "Centre Party rest inercrore on ution which fails short of allott- ability of Jenkins and co. to proposals, lous resoluuon, vally ing 90% of the votes to the PLP, the backs, its the criterion enlist the

OI USDAW S

29,000 small the votes,

TONS

cavilalisis least possible wind up creating conditions for businessmen and the prosperous awardle

LIC

NEC's proposal- the 'Labour one third middle the influence to mne tarnamental. media Party while standing a and one-untu Casil of success in the • split-to secure a majority.

coverage for mne ant socials. Ica calle More enlightened reaction- views. Goodbye to the labour movement: Williams and Owen Camden councillors face left opposition on the council to "re-affirm a was needed to help "sel the rates package by demonstrating platform Cuts allu Graham Shurety looks payer redundancies" rate support Camden NALGO's decision not council were acting responsibly!

at the campaign of and council houses policy open

CUTS

support the policies of the Local Camden Labour Left has the illusion built wing Government in Crisis Confer- and the right Shaw ence of November 1 1980 That li was possibe co the storm the resolutior Before Christmas Tory Ine good policy of repeated declared that: Council's Camden that 'marginal savings "Conference accepts rate rises leadership, was sent reeling Tory legislation under it to protect services Heseltine's impossible for councils by living defend ment that Camden was to Workme class Opposition standards, jobs and homes, with- receive nil grant in next into local govern. out running year's rate support grant.

potential and ment has led to a growing Shaw, leader the penalties. Onlv an active loca Roy within the opposition council movement can defend Labour Group file Party, rank councillors from these threats.

allu impact of this on set our tre reassess Camden's finances I perm sica move! confrontation policy of "no rate Camden Party Confer- Labour councillors must work cuts" rises. ence on Saturday 10 January together with CLPs, trade rises. council tenants November's advocater

TICON

and in top oi last supplementary rate of 6p in the the Party pound year's ition to the Tory government.

this policy has in rates The tight or Any individual councillor ncrease the setting have to be who is not prepared to face this heen strenginened by Camden would now up of the Camden Labour Lett.

jacked up another 56.4%! resign organisation la Pary replaced by those who will."

Party Moratorium across the three Con- Although the motion was defeated 32-27, the narrowness stituency ratules lial make This calculation actually Camden, to discuss the political of the vote (last year a similar the effect of excludes forward against the _Tories motion only got 3 votes) and Way hese tune s moratoriul Labour and against those in the the success in getting it debated council house building and his leadership who seem hellbent on and passed in five wards estab- controls on capital expen- new doing Heseltine's work for him.

lishes the Camden Labour Left as a serious force in une oca Shaw • nroposed mar on to! Model resolution Labour Party 56.4% rate rise, 600 plus of the small The left caucus "volun- through jobs should go councillors which includes Ken It made clear its intention to

ATV

reduncaney witn une organisation Livingstone, is forcea to onen- direct labour department and become d the Party the estates camden LaDOul Significantly, council- provide Conference on 10 January.

(which lors voted for the CLL motion the build to the conference should be WOrK

TOI

ane Labour with Livingstone aeclaring me Camden ended immediately unequivocal support for it.

model would amount access ly moved doubt Despite many

DLO

resolution five destruction of the List members may have held towards which among other things called Camden. Shaw SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 14 January 1981 ariep are any college a mandate to SUVDOLL alLy majority or votes to tne rur At present it appears that- including the AUEW-there 2 million trade and voter committed tr democratic reforms opposin, within the Party The task will on Saturday marshal therefore maximum support behind Tne which the while concessions standing a chance of command ing a majority in tne conterence But one thing is plain: while Saturday's itself promises to • pe ute more & a complex day of constitutiona tinkering the democratisation of the Party in the next perio‹ have profound poutica implications-not least of which belated will be departure of. Williams. •wen Rodgers and several crypto-Tory right wing. the overall strategy of the CLL • were determined to oppose they the individual cuts proposed by the right wing Councillors Shaw, Bethal and Mills, the leading hawks in the Labour group receivea a drubbing the afternoon session of the conference.

job cuts were overne minay deeded.

The alternative put forward by left winger • Fletcher to con- the Estates Moder- tinue with niceton recuce the DLO workforce by natura!

four won wastage Labour meeting Christinas Shaw before and Milis threatened to resign An emergency Labour group January 5 to cuss the matter failed to make did the Labour accision. group meeting on January 13.

Both these meetings were lobbied by January On Camden. 11 Ull the 300-strong lobby occubicu the council chamber demanding be present the Labour group vote on the DLO Crisis point Camden has now reached a crisis poll. ine Labout group is in a stalemate over how to respond to Heseltine's policies. The left councilors sc have successiul docked mato cuts, but have overall strategy of their own to offe It Shaw's proposals continue tenants can look forward to a 70-80% rate increase in April.

Rodgers Coventry Labour raises rents In the face of growing working class hostility Heseltine's housing policies the role of pernicious Coventry Labour Council was highlighted particularly week's sharply last council meeting. After offering long , drawn- raising council rents by 26% and expressing , keenness to "balance books' with hese une s orecaves me maor ity on the council voted implement a new round of cuts.

Labull Council has not onlv flouted the Coventry Labour Party's policy of opposition to rent increases out alou them in February well before the • Tories' own set date of 1 April. Agents councillors i nese thus not only serve to perpetu of • Tories ate the rule also act as their agents in direct ly and prematurely implement- ing anti-working class measures opposec 1lc welco 'rebel" group councillors, ten previously against the school meals prices, increase in their Lnus Mall lalllill: •Pilll cipied stana agalnst une cals ele and vely support the bour Party inside the Labour • all coun trade umons lo lorce cillors to made accountabit policy, it is Labour Party vital to develop a working class movement in to ooposuon u the rate and rent increases Already the Coventry Feder- ation of Tenants are proposing a rent strike TeSS increases. housing week of action has also been planned in early February. Last week NALGO adopted a no rent/rate increase position Tenants must organise loca rent , in th strikes organised strength of the trade Responsibility The left councillors must further their stand and take on the responsibility by act or canst 10cd

• HICCULES

estates, GMCs Labour Group meetings thei refuse compensate no Heseltine's proposals. It is vital to call on the rebe Labour councillors to adopt a *Direct action in the form of rent and rate strikes to oppos any attempt to make the work ing class pay for Tory policies.

"No cale or connel nonse *Open the books of the loca authorities union committees to show who profits from ocacovernmen spending, and expose the banks who work with to ans local WOr

WILL

cuts committees ane tenant local associations to build support *Support the Lambeth week attacks on local authority spending.

Lambeth conference from back page SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 21 January 1981 no action! to Hesel- nana over to aavone recall conference indi- the Tories or the bankers."

tine, he tanes on the cated how who sup- ThotougnIv SuCa have been applied by that there portel union leaders. showed also that the labour movement against the those sections or workers cuts. try to break this vicious circle Lambeth took a stand, being the • prospect they lact 4810 TelusCO ignored and isolated by leaders increase the rates, it faced the determined to wage no fight prospect of isolation from mass against the Tories. support Dankuolcy anu a luly service, for heaith government commissioner being Longworth Hos- example, the brought in to impose draconian pital occupation in Oxfordshire

CUES

work-in currently the only This argued. would Tney pave the way for far worse cuts.

a nospilal closure-yet, as Far accept speaker better Marie Sweeney ointed out to Labour t took COHSE lal divas three weeks to declare it ollicial they argued. and the has still not provided the slight- interesting facet of the est material All campaign to back or extend the conference was that this classic- reformist line-the very action. pretext used by the last Labour It is in these conditions that Knight and the Lambeth Labour government. Group have begun to argue that implementing Tory Doscies defended by vigorously they must was self-styled the Time ofen suil ina esto buy.

to build a mass move- Trotskyist Workers Revolution- ary Party mentie have come to listen to, WRP marshalled their The alite", he told the conference, speak and vote we intend against every proposal 101 serious action to defeat the NUS leaders 'amazed' by strike

NUS

branch "I am just amazed at the

ALAN BUI

Can metianin raid hendan response" said National Union of Seamen told the union January •General that the rank and leaders Slater Secretary Jim wantee no relance al ala us "The

ACAS.

Friday 16 January. As we went to press 3 problem is going to be to topped b

NUS

ships were get them back at the end."

action in foreigh ports and 83 And militant NUS members ports. in British who spoke to me are increasing- going vessels and 52 in home affected by ly convinced that is just how the were Walkis other limited union leaders see it. ame oans and action. meeting national Holding back officials decided last branch Monday to continue the dispute Wary of a big confrontation vith lightning 44 Or 40 nour toppages on ferries with the bosses and the Tories, But ferry workers the they are deliberately nolding back the fight. iggest section of the Nationa of Sate sayithe in the wilsal Union membership, are not being bosses off the brought out on all-out strike.

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HTOM

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WRP

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doral iled the role Impact by the Commun- usually the impact of Tory And ist party in sucn comerences- chief apologists policies

TOT

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of refuse collectior emerged in tota inis une culta pulso contrast to the militancy and southene coltel. Amontor defiance of the Lambeth trade the resolutions put unionists who have taken a lead forward debate the Labour Party Young in the light for a week ol action gainst the cuts, beginning o • out in some sociansts, spemng detail the necessity for Labour alance the books attempt 'Culual y Councils to reject any "Heseltine can put who he in line likes in to run Lambeth. It we Los de rom te eN 1 1 don't work them. with Hece tines demanas. the Tory a contenta the outh force a confrontation with can't do anything, (Direct Labour) branch. ana tne bankers was narrowit Disappointment defeated. Passed, , however, was a resolution calling for Lambeth Trades Council for the Lambeth week of action tabled a resolution- repruary the conterence-call of a series of similar actions" Canteu o ing on Labour councils to adopt

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Page 7 Also passed, by a majority of 37 votes. was a resolution iron the Leicester branch which called for: *widest possible circulation of the adopted at the

DULCICS

November Labour Party bodies-in partic- ular stressing opposition to rate ano renu ases to conocnsale lu Tory cuts; *regional conferences to dis- Cust action against cuts and closures; resolution from further

NALGO

calling Southwark councils and

NALGC

Labol. branches. to Ine law alll block the sale of council houses was also carried, as was a CPSA calling resolution nationwide support to Lambeti in a ight against rale ana ten increases, and for a lobby of the special conference Labour Party demand the NEC take u such a policy Greater London Associa tion of Trades Councils resolu- tion supporting le • UU week Labout mobilistalin the CLC and calling Wa. four WRP-sponsored resolutions and calling opposing cross-class "Com instead for Councils were defeated, along with a UCATT Regional Committee motor that the Lambeth suggesting tactical of action is error". The task now confronting put the those wishing policies Lam Deli conicience into practice remains a hard one But only in the struggle for nocer oz de co cono the independent interests of the movement be mobilised to ning class united working down the Tories. Scots jobs protests The Scottish Central Region Campaign Against Unemployment demonstra- tion in Stirling on Saturday February 7 is finding grow- ing support in the area. Last week Council's policy resources com- mittee decided that the Counci support demonstration Party •Labour contrul The the Council, on the casting vote of the convenor. The Council will help practical ways. They are giving a : of the hall in which the tree rel rally Wt ( tney collection of Stirling will they • demonstraton display posters in including halls and premises. offices, advertising the rent demonstration. This week sees the start of door leafléting, door leafleting offices unemployment and factories. confirmed that has been MP Hugh and

TGWU

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Regiona Secretary STUC General of the Council, will be speaking at the rally. Liverpool Following the November 29 demonstra- Party tion the Labour Scottish organising demonstration against unemployment on Saturday 21 February in Glasgow. The STUC and the TUC are presently mobilising in support of this initiative point on 21 The assembly February will be Square, include Michael Foot. Tony Benn. Olive Milne, Jenkins and Jimmy STUC General Secretary.

Recall conference highlights problems

ACTION NOT WORDS

KEY TO CUTS FIGHT

WAR IN EL SALVADOR

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"Can you build a mass end. At the end of the day movement out of retreats?

of delegates voted for majority Can you build out of weak- the reso ution: ness and compromise?" strongly advocated sharply posed Thornett. This question,

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only way to build Thorne delegate Alan summed up mass movement is to stand anu fight-to give leadership. theme of discussion to mobilise a recal conterence movement behind you .. Government in Crisis' last week- Ted Knight (left) on Lambeth anti-cuts protest National Front -a tiny Front! National could have been stopped from The fascist going through Birmingham cobble Front managed to together a measly 100 or so In the event all that could be for a desperate supporters done was hound the along infuriate march through Birmingham of with shouts on Sunday 18 city centre 1s a January. little Front-Smash the National had Front" The police, usual, protect The previous day about extensively prepared to the march people which hael "British jobs for British march National 40 so-called the Front' and Support members workers' ‚police, lan black noters counter-mobilisation of a the lascist march was switched hundred anti-fascists from the afternoon to the morn- few assembled the a ca stop But with the miner to une rront 1om massive unen- manch land had hot bee easily phe Ne and the fascist groich it had not been for and other fascist groups the police who cleared the route exploit, more ana arrested al lease Inan evel fascists. Nazi marches more anti-fascists massive labour movement resis- out the fascist march turned laille Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist League.

"At last conference, Ted the As many delegates repeated- Knight said 'we don't want any ly pointed out, the strength of more defeats like Clay •Cross the 800-strong November Clay Crosses But conference had been that it exacti need onered worker. today. That was an important policy to defend jobs, services stand against the Tories.

and living standards and build today we don't just movement against the DUl flas want one Clav cross. we wall e tory government. 6 Clay 4, tossert Ki Voted down that won't happen until some- stand and

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spechicaul) cared upon Labour councils to adopt retreat wnien i nornelt a policy of: -and other floor speakers-were "no rent rises or supplemen- attacking the decision by tarv rate increases this financia Lambeth Labour Group (which year, and no rent or rate rises to hae convened une ira conter government compensate for sece as Noe mont rund be in front And swarmed is la ca opposing cuts) THe SaCK for united mass action "should down from a policy of ho cuts

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mean unions, no rate increases'. tivity of others to justify imple- Raise rates menting or accepting cuts Instead thev have raised a November 20% supplementary rate and are voted settles again in amendments tabled by the expecter d fisted xecutivey and April-affecting thousands policy adopted instead colicu tenants in camocul Such a policy, , defended by Lambeth leader Ted stop the cuts and to defend any means of councillors penalised for taking Knight as a necessary a stand against the government build a move marply cincised by many was against much January 17 recall conference reflected many of the political eventually and practical problems in fight- rejected by the recall confer- ence. ing the cuts.

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Chalatenango

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san viconte Zacatacoluca Our policies Socialist Press pamphlet outlining programme of action against the Tory offensive. Prom 150 including Box 527 London WCIN 3XX. showed first and fore- most that the adoption of even by confer- ences is nowhere near enough to dee dee dor once was also significantly smaller and less broadly repres than the November l conterence ora nintional probelms: par was cue partly by to a political retreat Laboul. November been to molemen cuts; and partly a boycott by layers of trade turn. ing their backs on any real fight a canst une ones

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for example, . was conspicuous by its absence from the recall conference, after send- ing namona orncer kon seaung present amendments last November. the influence of the

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detentist notcies neccied NUPE's leadership was unmis takeably as it present became that cica

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Country et at union dading he she t defend jobs fight services Key role The NUPE leadership, for all left' rhetoric, is its occasional Inus playing a key tore In per Last week's 'final offen- sive' by the combined forces the Farabundo Marti of National Liberation Front finally brought the Salvadorean civil war to the front pages of the bourgeois press and puts the taking of power by the revolutionary forces on the agenda. Within three days Washing- had denounced Soviet, ton Cuban and Nicaraguan interven tion, arms reviewed supplies (includin six helicopter ships) and increased the of military name of Duarte rights" President Napoleon Ramifications The fighting taking piaz national scale, in semi- on a formal encounters, abroad political ramifications de deally substantial ne me or me mense had long been common-know- ledge since the Frente Demo-

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petuating the self-fulfilling beloved brooned. labour movement bureaucrats.

y cly call to act is ho mass, they mass claim support; wHet no ting rally around workers see for struggle; the perspective this situation lasts the 10120 more loos are conditons lost without the slightest resis- the more demoral- ised workers become. This demoralisation and the lack of struggles is then in turn as the reason for calling • quoted Cont'd page 7

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two years to the day Ted was Heslin from Oxford City expelet Labour for sellin Socialist Press the right wing ar allow still refusing him. in- the NEC has nov even holdi twice reinstated him! • meeting on A 90-strong GC Monday voted by a sub. nigh stantial majority once . again to NEC instruction reinstate Heslin-and invite NEC speaker to the next meet ing. cratico Revolucionario; the coal- ition political forces opposition, had openly declared wanted Reagan with a fait accompli'.

Build-up The build up of forces, the particularly along inacces sible border with Honduras, hac taking place several been

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weeks, that the guarilas little the guerrillas hav doubt beet Iecelviig steauy suppue. of modern weapons Two probing attacks in Morazan province in one November and the other in the after = it == 222s 101 te vi Santa Ana reactio io join the rebels advance attack on the major military airport of llopongo neutralised the vital Cont'd page 2