Socialist Press no. 232

Labour Right defeated

DEMOCRATISE

SOCIALIST

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 232 * 28 January 1981 * 20p liated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee Williams: if I don't win I'm not playing On your bike, -Shirley! Also defeated was the plan Should the Labour leader favoured by Foot. Wach Woule be made answerable to the have given the PLP 50%-and workers' organised move- therefore effective control-of ment, or conunue to rest the accord coucce the contempt for the notion of And the VaruC Gang of Three's histrionics and "public opinion" and "the attempts to blackmail the Party electorate" as supposedly InTO voung wav echoed represented by the Parlia- from one rank and file speaker after another. mentary Labour Party? the aftermath of this This was the essence of the humiliating defeat the Gang has debate at Saturday's Special taken the belated steps first towards a split from the Party.

The extreme Together with retired European which minimise • WallLs

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JenKIns mey LabouT une nave естао isned so-called working class, avoid any kind of "Council for Social Demo- accountability 5 the cra They have been joined in tion that secures their election Scrolance this venture DV nine extreme socialist policies, was right wing MPs. But other, more soundly defeated. wary right wingers such as Roy Mason are warning them of the Nose dive Canoers avising Tem to Toni on for their anti-socialist views The "one withindeed the Gangto. Three ludicrous vote" one electing Indeed the Gang scheme lor by from any une sendershio peddled are nOT Shirley Williams' *Gang position of strength. Three with the They embarked on huge fell press campaign which Its Will leave them COuLSC

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SO ate Tom une vast Doey Ol million votes_260.000 of which the organised labour movement, from Frank Chapple's with just a reer stable morted CaL COLISEs, aSSUL LCU "It's about accountabil- ity," TGWU leader said Moss Evans, stressing the reasonable nature of the democratic reforms adopted Party by the Labour at last Saturday's Special Con- ference. reactionaries, press barons and wealthy sponsors to lean on.

that it but unev recognise was only a short while ago that their discredited and Isolated the VICWS WelC or me abour steader ship. served inree ministers Wilson and Callaghan It is the bitter memory of the betrayals they carried through in that government which has driven forward the for democracy and alternative policies. This is why the conference nad Ittle ume to spare lor the right wing quitters and reserved for FBU its biggest dele- Bill Deal who pointed out: gate "Any other three people like them would have been on their bike and down the road. If that's where they want to go, let wen.

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Gangster Rodgers *

NOW LET'S

He went on to explain that what he was advocating was ar electoral college that

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ree et the leade on an annua basis-but be suspended while Labour in was uness a spece mono Wa. passed by the Party conference.

Yet there was something of a paradox in Evans' contribution been once Because that far elected. Evans knows from lacing annual elections, ne remains General Steretary w the this illin- ment! And he also knows that of the TGWU's army of District Secretaries Organis- ers ortional officials ottes Two are ever the elected by the membership at all. Not accountable They are appointed and are then accountable to nobody at all until they retire at 65 The of the same is true majority of unions. And even those-the

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Petion where there gu election a postal ballot splace elections now take in such a way as o avoid collec- Live eiscussion and maximise the impact of the Tory press and mass media on individual memoers m mieu nouses. Just beginning While therefore welcome the act that millior of union votes were mobilised тотсе

TEN TOUCHE

fast Saturday, the must sep ahat Saturday, we must see tha job of securing rank and file control over the organisa tions of the labour movement is only just begun. Within the Labour Party the fight Wing tos must be sittissed tort sitting remove ware usme me new reselecuon procedure. within the unions the fight for the election of officials accountable and to make them The membership must carried through. Union bureaucrats at present Lambeth Day of Action February 4

DEMONSTRATION

Assemble Clapham Common 1.00 p.m. March to Labour Party Headquarters Walworth Road

THE UNIONS!

The bureaucracy UTOn would rather the Tories of thousands workers each week onto the struggle that than mount a would chauence me very bast.

of the capitalist system.

Political answer The growth of the left wing within the rank and file of the Labour Party is one indication that workers are increasingly ready to oppose such positions ana seeking a ponucal answe both to the Tories, and t Labour's right wing. important that such workers see a perspective to challenge and remove the union and leadership construct genue alterallye his means that the monto he regular election of all unio them to be paid no Hore ulan ule dycide Wage u heir members and for them t Evans: job for life be answerable to annual con- ferences, must be linked with a are engaged in an unprecedented fight for the kind of socialist series or betrayals al local and national level. programme unal can establisn a In the steel industry, British real basis to defend jobs, social services and living standards.

industries and firms jobs are axed wholesale, in the Independent strength being public vital

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CULs services and continuous redun- The fight for elections and dancies being carried decisions take place after with impunity; and shop discussion at Nass workplace stewards ana convenors-Iron meetings and not unrougn posta.

Derek Conway Kobinson ballots is part of the fight to Xavier, from the TGWU stew- develop the independent ards at Adwest Engineering strength of the working Clds.

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ana exemde me nuence or the Victimised sacked ano betraved Tory press. while union officials sit back Steps must also be taken and do nothing. to bring women more centrally

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umon Mass struggle holding meetings in works time Or the arrangement of child facilities Cal C

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They look first and fore- maximum attendance most to There has scarcely ever been

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cowardly betrayal by the intluential positions, lat salaries expense accounts within and bureaucracy that has not beer They fear the existing system. Damed on ine rank and 11le Only by the fight to mobilise as muca as une empovers mal c mass struggle of workers could rank file in and vorkers the hated Thatcher struggle for policies to defend place unpreceden- government, mterests can mal ne be squashed, and those that use it LCUl uchanus •Labour removed from office. government, and begın to ariv out those "leaders" who stand How it Happened-p.10 opposed to socialist policies.

'final' offensive halted

POLISARIO SUCCESSES

Page 2 In El Salvador the ten- day offensive of the forces of the guerrilla FMLN (Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberacion Nacional) which was widely proclaimed -as have so "final" many before it-as appears to be over for the time being. The forces of the dictator- so nave retaker almost a or the key centres captured by the guerrillas in their first push in the second week of January junta's Temporary regaining of military momentum delivery coincided with speedy 'advisers weapons and of combined with statements towards Cuba Nicaragua and the Americal oldle Department. Unfounded But the basis on which US allegations of intervention' by made Nicaragua and Cuba were 1s now agreed even The l in San Salvador to be unfounded. There can be no doubt that the army's Junta neaded by the petty ultra-rightist who backed Colonels dictator komero. exists tom day to day only thanks to cash and arms fron 1 Washington Chese will have to be greatly increased

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further offensives. is because,

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trumpetings the Dress. une been defeated, while the repres apparatus, , is highly tive separate mu cules. nervous ana lar lom consola ated. Infusions of blood form of Honduran urudle Polisario troops on the march in Morocco Important successes have been. won by the • recently Western of the people Sahara in their struggle for national independence. meeting of the Labour Middle East Council held in the House of Commons on 15 February bi Kamel Lahiar, represents who the Polisario Front in Britain.

outlined the speaker details singee by the people of the Sahara going back as far Western as 1958 and since 1973 agains the moroccan enorts to occupy their country. snowea inal as long ago as 1975 a United Nations dele- ambassadors gation including El Salvador Victim of right wing violence malan troops and ex-members or somozas anonal qualu wil only hold the breach

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The current lull repres- ents a critical conjuncture in the accumulation or lorces. However, ThIS critical military question is underpinned by a comical political one aupal.cil that while the

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struggle for engaging liberation country goe LIle bourgeois opposition, organised Frente Democratico the Revolucionario (rR) 1s taking tighter hold of the polltical direction the movement. The foreign representatives from Cuba and Iran had tried to aoreemen

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Moroccans and The

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guerrillas. Support has been neighbouring amongst slates. 1979, the Since August government of Mauritania have military operations, and ceased to contest their claims to the area.

The Algerians have the recosinsed

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West people sele determination. FoI this Algerians entacked beer Dar aculal nave the western capitals press as in some way manipulating the independence une voroccans lave trayed as the injured party!

The fighting during 1980 of the FDR, of which there are great nute ber conaly stress the danger of US interven- breath their ardent desire to prociali FDR's According „Lne London representative tine whole purpose of the last offen- talks force SIVe Was Washington rather than destroy the dictatorship militarily.

would be Such produce agree designed to ment whereby •the FDR would agree to maintain business links.

private property men oers existing army The have launched was mostly concentrated around efforts of Moroccan forces construct a sort of 'Maginot the sLme Ult

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ful phosphate-rich land in the north, in advance of the inevitable negotduons.

Enclaves The Polisario guerrillas have responded to this by confining enclaves in the Northern part of also themselves have order occasica. territory. extent of the control the Polisario exercised a delegation of SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 January 1981 break from the bourgeoisie which engaged in open whilst treason •even numbers, 'workers ana poasants die In backie.

The "popular front" politics the

FDR,

which the

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and the party belt the masses 1s strengtnenea D.

the struggle the fact that has confined to the been largely countryside. This has brought an effective une working • class whose role reduced to awaiting the call fo a lightning general strike at the end of the fighting. This leaves the working class demobilised vulnerable ano ure utta-man terror scudd as we have seen in recent weeks.

The dangers of petty bour acutely geois guerrillaism evident increasingly threatening ever the task of defeating the dicta torship in El Salvador. Left wing gunmen run for cover road politicians of the FDR. themselves the Mugabe and Nkomo. And they to seen are as perceptive Reagan's stafi far turther down the nave gone Carter's path of selling out the popula those Some ol than did their bourgeoi State Department Defend vociferously for an 'entente Bolivian masse counterparts in Nicaragua at cordiale the sine along corresponding stage of conflict FDR a: proposed bi UlC Radicalisation extricating them dest war selves from the crisis. No doubt this difference is Similarly, social agains because of the undoubted radic- Mexico, allied with democracy imperialism 219210M Walen extender na decor cr a sock Under these circumstances vention must be supported by masses campaign supported Actory tor the guereas ot equally strong campaign Price 32$ peep from WSI • victory guerrillas of against the : FDR's strategy for Box 5277, London WCIT betrayal 3XX We must call for the FMLN be a actory lor te cabilalls

POLAND

From back page • the Soviet pres No wonde now talks of joint military man.

the Polish and of the four main Russian They are even liberated areas--even while con- memoers allily or be intes to vien tinuing supply arms saying that a Din the irst who visited "Solidarity" leadership are days of 1981, "counter-revolutionary' Also October 1980 the General leaders Vivien, a deputy The Kremlin need Hudli. Assembly once again called for desperately winnam of several During a period the withdrawal "political elements". Such Moroccar travel throughout they hope, intimi days troops and for the settlement of attacks will French date the Solidarity leaders: fail- westem the contict on parliamentarians saw principles of self-determination.

ing will provide InIS. Moroccan pretext for a military interven evidence tion into Poland occupation. even in the au The delegation Western Sahara cannot now Walesa's declaration that hi the hollowness of the boast of far off. i no longer needs assistance from this costet a grace ion dissident group KOR is in King Hassan The anti-imperialist and anti- to the colonial struggle of the Saharat tree woul be bedle Uy ulc will people ot 1980 Ther Nor was the French delega- against the corporations the only no of forces in Poland such conces tion to move in to exploit sions lessen serve ple alls Soviet interven ance of the Polisario

DOSSIULILI

The US State Department out • grasp ton out actually to strengines has also sent a delegation to the Moroccans.

Chad: key piece in black SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 January 1981 African jigsaw society

TUNISIA

evolve during the next five

MOROCC

from consumer yeas society productive society in order to achieve

ALGERIA

full socialism ... The call for the militarization of schools and factories is a revolutionary decision and a

MAURITANIA

fundamental question ... As well as abolishing govern- official ment and institu-

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Army and arm the people."

GAMBIA

Such wishill Thinking expressed by Colonel Gaddafi in speech launching the five-year

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plan stands in stark contrast to

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regular army-a recessary component of Libyar

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foreign polcy. weeks of bitter ALler

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fighting, five thousand Libyan

LIBERIA

soldiers supported by scores T-54 tanks and heavy artillery Dalarict favour of the governmental coal- ition in Chad. Decisive O Milos 500 Their superior sophisticated armament was a decisive factor The WIll French military presence capital Chad; and on the night of December 14, the rival Central African Republic: 1,400 men (incl. 320 sent W du and partly definitively routed last weekend) the month later, two 600 men plus aircraft Gabon: announced countries "fusion" Into wing Ivory Coast: 600 men the bordering countries into a state of total confusion.

Senegal: 900 men plus aircraft of September Libya unexpectedly proposed instant to nearly half a dozen columnes will common denominator but a border.

Tombalbaye called for French support to Malloum. After unsuccessful attempts A "charter" troops to put an *August 1978: _ end to mne to tuse tastern border Toubou rebellion in the north W20 missent Lnen Will of the country Habre prime minister to General and even win walk inac Mallouin. *1969-72 Renewed interven- turned its attention to countries *February 1979: south of Sahara, with Last ton or t'renen troops loyal *August 1971: Unsuccessful specific betwee hoops Tombalbaye broke off Malloum and tnose loyal lo principally to destabilise puppet with regimes where the military oli- relations *March 1979: Kano agree- garchy and the ruling elite act L1071973: Libyan troops occu- installed provisional as open agents of imperialism.

council pied the Aozou strip. Headed Goukouni Oueddei *April 1974: Three French Tyrants *November 1979: The Lagos citizens were taken hostage by the "rebels" in Tibesti. The roused Lic But Libya's approach has

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anthropologist L rover- Francolse been consistent nor of National Union) the eve causue was evenmany releaseu ipled. Its first military exped eleven main political tendencies, after nearly 1,000 days of nego- tiations in which Libya played enatann ansaster ant presided backed some of Goukouni Gaddati even Hissene a versive lu the most hated tyrants Habre appointed General Felix * Apri 1975: Idi continent Amin and Malloum succeeded the assassin- histol *March 1980: Start of the sulperor bokassa *June mutarv success r civi war between raN lanned General Chad has finally crowned several Forces of the North) loyal to offensive by the FROLINAT in efforts Heterogen lion of tr years pose the north. France intervened credible threat giving powerful logistic again neterozencous interests in Africa. Libya's involvement in Chad

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is nothing new. Gaddafi recog- unstable long nature of this reatme. with rivalries between different different cliques to Socialist tr10a TacTions. ownere imperialism masterminded every and of the intricate Chadian imbroglio. 1973, Libya Press annexers the Rates Northern Chad, challenging the the imperialism; erected bi and it

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nas since baved an acue all in the troubled history of Chad.

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Trial sub (UK). .£2.00 Civil war Longbridge: now sell-eut Six months. £8.00 independence S0, Chad has endured fit in 1960, One year.. £14.00

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*January 1965: The French Europe: Norther Chad to the control et gradually handed Six months. £9.00 Rest of world: centra covenmen. triggered a bloody rebelion in . £10.00 vix months... Ouaddai, an eastern province bordering Sudan. 1966: Formation of "June Write to: Socialist Press, Front The

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*August 1968: President

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Oueddei's Popular (Goukouni FAT, (Colonel Armeu rorces!, Kamonaues chaolan Forces) and FAC, (the Common Action til 1900 He labre is stripped of his post. *May 1980: The last of the French troops left Chad June 1980 Defence agree. ment saned between sloyd all President Goukoumi Oueddei.

*November 1980: The OAU cease-fire sulenes ment-signed by Vueddel.

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ignored by Habre *December 1980: The coal- by

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ToTCes, SuDDOrLOU Libyan troops start a general offensive against FAN past twenty years, French and tammer Tuered constan tensions and created endless divisions justify its involve ment in the affairs of Chad bee less dal clevel mator out a foot nes buste minor ones built around personalities or groups or interest. Chad is a key piece in the Name Address. Send to: WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX.

By Jim Benson Black African jigsaw and friendly regime is a necessity economik interests. would be impossible in such article : to analy so front circuill

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However latest French escapade in the Central African of the

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call Did governments coloness and Con fidence in taking over with impunity a sovereign country.

Fifteen months after over- inrowing empero Bokassa, lne "Barracudas" (nickname given locals to French by the para- Coopers. Nave consulualet civil

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education and health service and eyes governmenta pose ice control some sevillai Presidency. Denutv Director t the Treasury Deputy Director Customs and "technical tutel- the military , coupled with age presence, • proviaca enougr for foreign invest- ments and F rench to start It is not surorising that the Giscard-Barre government see ; Africa as a direct ment in Black LIlt France nas enjoyea for decade build dissolve entire governments, sometimes direct military action. of ex-French Equatorial Africa is of vital logistic France ha , so tar attempted a two-pronged approach. First significant military of its in reinforcement troops Carea and asabre all exercise, mobilising its Mediter naval forces to try and direct pressure apply Lova. IncH SOCOnUIY manoeuvres Grimmin support for an African confer- took place in Togo, ence which and where 12 African state condemned the such condemnation was not unanimous. Some countries hostility to the "Libyan ideol- and campaigned for ogy direct rrench milltary interven tion in Chad. Others viewed the Libyan favourably as intervention counterweight neally rrench pollcy In black Alrica The final communique reit- erated the validity of the Lagos denounced da calls. lusion, dec arin. a lo void, and asked Libya to with- draw its troops. the United It also called on Nation TO alve Is blesste the sending of an African Task supervise free elec- Force and tions before Apr1 1981

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Please send me more details about the Workers Socialist League Page 3 Hissene Habre The demands of the confer ence provoked to violent which threatened riance with an econ omic boycott. This constitutes a significant turn in Franco-Libyan relations WiCh navi developer • sleauty since Pompidou's over• " 101112| tures to the rab cata fundamental Willus neither party can resolve over- nie Firsty France in of s stalllia. • Libya, participates in thi

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development the country thousand French currelli Libya to develop technologica know-how in all domains) and solid trading partner nopes to salen sigulicallt coll tracts to be dished out during the implementation of the new Live year a 1901 Further has contin ually supplied Libya with including equipment alrclail Tensions ironic that while tensions between me two slut have reached unprecedented levels. new Navy Libyan destined io. nas been launchea al nerbourg shipyard durisite last ek.

between tensions Seans Arcan ambitions. Libya reception to Such tensions foreshadow an Imminent Inside called 'Steadfastness which, , so far, has not resolved contradictions and internal seems little prepared to offer ar effective opposition coming imperialist initiatives in the Middle East.

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new Turkish junta Page 4 Confusion on nature of The coup d'etat last autumn in Turkey brought to power a junta, the nature of which has been a source of continuing controversy Turkish left-wing within organisations. Characterisations range from Communist the Party Turkey's lessen evil to the Stalinists ultra-left A santan theory that nothing has changed -there "tascism' Was Derore Behind them all is a lack of scientific understanding of the diferent capitalist class rule. Challenged articles we intend In these junta advanced by the Tne Iscinin Sesi (Workers' Voice) group, an organisation recently split trom the Communist Partv and represented 1n Britain by the Union of Turkish Progresiveir agazin Turkey their and other publications ocav they have challenged openly the Trotskyist characterisation the bonapartist

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military dictatorship. The argue that the regime 1s lascist. the Hitler and MODe Mussolini dictatorships Iscinin Sesi's leading theor- Yurukoglu analvsis of General Evren and etician devoted the National Security Council.

UTPB'S Tenth of his report to Tane "He is a fasist and he is leading Annual Confer- a fascist regime.' ence to polemicising against the Trotskyist view. judge from Tne1T published material the What Marxist theory leads reason for this conclusion is the him these conclusions. brutal and systematic repressior text of the Accoraig Tne of democratic rights carried out speech (reprinted the -mass arrests, Autumn issue of Turkey Today) of torture, suppression LIle answer is very alle unions. nanona minordes. etc.

In raising criticisms of the But this line inadequacy of the Dmitrov/ carries dangers. Marxists it 15 Stalin definition of fascism as enough being "the most open dictator ship of the most secto de similarity of methods used by most chauvinistic section varying forces. Yurukoglu torcea to admil inal. Dissimilar *Definitely a more complete definition is required. And there Otherwise such the would world communist movement."

possible lo make sweeping com- This iluminating statement parisons with quite dissimilar confirms that Isinin Sesi and distinct formations. Com- parisons Ior instance betweer vorimalta

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along with a In particular they have failed to whole host of regires in South draw America today, and the 1919-23 the rich tradition of

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counterevon a The rise of fascism in Europe Kornilov's in the Russian corresponded with the degener- Revolution; between Chiang ation of the Kai-Shek's slaughter Third Communist of millions alleillaliolal wiluse Icauer. and Kemal Attaturk's one-party increana y Diacea ine reacton.

policy of 'socialism in one rule in Turkey with its genocidal of the Stalinist bureau- policies against Kurds, lacy l nussla above une necu Compite suporession working and murder of •i une woro oroernaı cans the entire leadership of the young Communist Party. Guide Or even the no-jury courts and concentration camps in Only Trotskv Northern Ireland, yet adminis- against this. His writings oppos- terea by a parlamentary demo- ing the Comintern's criminally стасу. wrong This does not daunt Iscinin Spain-alone Sesi. The fact that fascism did They Germany ana provide a methodological guide with dealing not ascend to power as a mass louay s problems. movement from below the ques- Germany Iscınin sesi pose but is being establish- tion "What is fascism? What is the point of separating fascism Generals with the doricult the junta from any have as creating on a mass basis answer. now. This does not prevent them reyunes surtadie ideology irom sindently declarino thein thus the revival of Kemalism

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AYRILMA,

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and an upsurge of Great Turkish nationalism were witnessed during the last two months objec tive one.' "Historically objective?" After all fascism in Turkey no dew onchomenor a was if we accept the Iscinin Sesi from propostion-in power the 1920s 1950s! Lile

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Comintern! Poor Lenini Coor Baku Congress in 1920! How foolish they able to see this fascist essence of Kemalism! stupid to allow the delegation the 1 01 to attend the Raku congress! How counter-revolu- were the Bolsheviks and military ald to Kemalist move- "ascist) ment in Turkey! How perfidious of the Baku Congress declare Mustala nemal s movement is a national liberation movement.

We support it Iscinin Sesi comrades monkey out Lenin and Bolshevism Fascist party? If they seriously believe what why hold unev sav inen back from calling the Republic Peoples Party, vall formed by Kemat, on the basis perpetuate Kemalist anu lo ideolnd i faneys use ty? they bolster use to their argument the fact that ArtiC er and 142 of the Penal Code were taken directly from Mussolini, why decare kepubucs with its outlawing also class struggle, fascist too!

Thịs ficial and albreperdalist yer- analysis comes through tinuousiy. 1ney say. mn aerm! the relationship between fascism and capitalism that: The Turkish National Security Council

-AKESE

SILAH

TASIMA

HAXKI

Confused slogans on the march in London after the September 12 coup "The of fascism For capitalism in the imper- ese ce found not in Hitler and the Nazi ialist epoch all party which were the agents democratic malitar v fascism but in lascist or any otner are instru dictatorship ments of the rule of finance Thet imposed and the corporate state capital, the dictatorship which they constructed and finance oligarchy. How could it administered for the benefit of otherwise for possible handful to rule millions Marxists recognise the state people? as essentially "bodies of armed men and likewise Qualitative of bourgeois rule as the dictator- splicit biolence ortice bond through implicit For the bourgeoisie there need be no difference between all these tactical forms. For Lenin's view was that "polit- working class qualitative dis ical reaction all along the line is tinctions exist in the interests of imperialism" When iscinin Sesi sav tha Mussolini: used fascist mass movement to atomise working class SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 January 1981 JACK JOHNSON takes an important dis- cussion on the character of the military junta which rode to power in Turkey last Sept- ember. Hitler was not representing • Lascis out was an agenı o fascism, what they really mean fascism monopoly capital Hitiel allu was agent of that interest But every government in the imperialist world also represents Does that monoon mean they are all agents of fascism? Corporate state Not exactly, reply Iscinin Sesi, that requires a • согоотате enough, that is slate-ana sure Evren and the Generals what have established they ПОи declare Turk-Is, the yellow trade union federation set .up in the 1950s to be "fascist" -a corpor state union-and announce ale that "fascist Labour discipline is being imposed everywhere.

a moment: they Dul wall class is not yet defeated and crushed in a way, say. as in Spanish Civil War"! So the corporate state has been established and labour discipline" introducer the working class is still wille not defeated! How can this be explained? Does the Turkish working class voluntar y acert 1his ascien discipline? In any historica Spain Italy Germany, -the corporate stat coula ony be estabilshed atte the workers' been atomised by fascist mas Continued next week

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The politics of SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 January 1981 Geddes Report in 1922 included an attack on nursery provision. Only one year earlier Queen Mary had opened the London County Council extension of the Deptford Nursery School. But at the same time the government was warning of the need for economy and forbidding new nursery schools! the Despite this reversal. School Association was Nursery formed in 1923 to fight for the and expansion of puduc assistance to nurseries They secured occasionai sympathy from the nolitica the of But al live mothers of children were seen as secondary ine netus capitals it recoup what could during the depression years Women needed until wasn't 1939-oter -when imperialist wal women were weeded once more aurseries labour reserve -that were provided 'at the of Ine numbers nurserICs increased from I0 1,10% between 1939 and 1943. It is interesting to note that trade unions increased threefold the same time. Another important develop- of working class evacuation Day nurseries, canteens. 1 out ot services which better the evacuation schemes a relate lo me neces sity for ex manced and hord our fo generatin ot generation babies neally 1cniane loss ol labour in war "That attitude of the house- wife to gainful employment out- the home is not and should side not be ne wine « ulat ur uic ringle woman. She oiner Taken as a whole the security puts a Dak or bulld premium in place of penalising it in the next thirty housewives as mothers have vital work to do in ensuring we autyuale continu ance of the. Kritish race and o British ideals in the world."

plans for Beveridge Allowance and Family maternity peneli women was discouraging them Irom employment, driving them back breed home moena. Kace Yet a study-not publisnea until 1951-showed that many working class attitudes to family allowance were at rom enlaus iastic. Resentment Despite government ganda persuade coupies have more babies, the study showed that men felt su visast Tesentment stressed the day need tor and not only as a war- wale blasale "progressive" the in really Labour government had cut the from 100% grants for nurseries fees 50% and meanstested were ncreasec rom one stilla 5p) a day to 16s 6d (82½p) anc 1 6s (£1.30) a week the unions. that Whal other voice of the working cass.

doing about this attack on their women membership? They were advocating day

ILLICTICS

factory run nurseries, tying the mother to the employer!

TUC

Annual Report of 1947 stalcu. is no doubt in the childcare Women workers alongside men in World War I arms factory minds the. General Council outside the home and 62% of of ThaT The nome is one or line the temale WOrK were important spheres for As one report mourn- woman worker and it would be us evident mar me com munity already extremely ot the nation women were persuaded or ones to mesti dependent upon married women domestic emphasis) maintain, let alone increase

OUT CS

natond oroduct, dilu wnere were are young caudren it seems mat mis dependence to cater for." going number that a growing halls lucialic demand for nurserv dependent upon facilities the trade unions 1n mother's earnings. continued 1953 Union

TUC

Lile were Teachers. WilUSt Congress the National Union of Hosiery unnappy about une situation It deplored the 1960s carried out a survey closure of nurseries and called publicity Questions read gained tor cheaper nurseries. Godwin summed up the General Council's view: in ine house or commons The survey revealed that "while we recognise the right 80% of nursery class ol women to seek o eve areas described as working ment I do not think that the and neads complamed or oelne lovement has ever accepted an faced ever-increasing with the obligation lists, and being forced Hall talli to discriminate between deserv- charen or mose who do co oul to work." me cases. 7½ million At that time yet the women were working, Only

OTOVI

sion was in the prate sector.

A Tory government circular of 1960 stated: no resources au ben ca be spared for the expansion of nursery education and in partic- ular no teachers can spared who matt omerwise work wit children of compulsory school age. It is interesting to note here that four years later the govern- mel conced us tune instructed oca theres ar places would encour- back women into be profession they should made available. 1965 however, the Labour government in an adden- om to me so crea caree that nursery education was "primarily.. • for the benefit of children and is only secondarily of value in helping to the return to service of married wollen teachers. once yo!. tne increase the female labour force had been made married with the single won e and 197ling Between 1961 and 1971 last count meant that 42% of manen women were cover Part two in a series of articles by Ann McKinley looking at the history and political background to the fight for childcare facilities.

The

NUT

launched a cam- Denartment of Education and government Science-eager encourage a that they would not be the system made a grant ol 1944 Education Act. responsible I01 Was 1967 paper and sup- an obligation on new association, valid for three was inactive law but •buseuly because all cole. y vals. the wealth- -and they were quite Other government depart- the situation. happy ments followed suit, and the middle class areas, of State for secretary however Services provision existed, Inere was a establishment fee independent private • paying une urban frogame Con nurser tributed £250,000 by 1971 for in numbers during this period. playgroups and advisors. Local Fed up with official inaction widely varying the grants from £25 to as much a: wrote one €9,000 Sile attacked for its forming a 'playgroup' for her was own child nece cass backeround. vel l was in the middle class hundreds their and that according to the NUT there thousands mothers and sympa thisers took up the idea, which was no aursery senool Drovisor became Ped tal as have play- however helped Britain not just for class children but for a group movement middle Bv 1967 there 3,200 playgroup in attendance. 80,000

WILL

cred ma orily 11 Ull children class areas too. iner Page 7 The playgroup movement and 1101 Cal nurse care ol education: but it fills a gap, a need It has been likened to the early rUSh assistance project—it famine te 1e enthusiastic well meaning and not terribly efficient capitalists are As lal as lic concerned does not release women for the labour market, , volun- because it is fee paying lary: and collers part time provision Labour government of 1964-70 same time the playgroup movement while still neglecting the more pressing 10] nurserv and child care facilities they were planning to raise the school leaving age! Part time places Women's employment rose 600,000 1966 and 1974, while males in between work declined in numbers million •wan prowth in the Dudle services a this time and women remained a cheap source of labour of Plowden Keporl 1966 cannot understood without seei interen of part into women employment. mended unal. mother who connor cas fy the authorities that they have exceptionally good reasons should low llayt priority for time nurserie for their children." The Plowden Report recom- time place Women workers, especiall offer ZOzEl

WULKCIS

number advantages employers who want to make a profit quick such a situation employers a Te unlikely risk heavy invest- productive highly technique CaDE Intensive production which would enadit them a high wage labour force likely "They are or reap asses and relatively cheap labour and relatively Women capital investment. workers especially becaush such both they are renively ched employment and because they more displaced and more cheaply when longer netued. time employment enables employers refuse vocational training for women it avoids all the problems concerning care of children. wel fare for mothers unemployment because part are regarded as being on Part time work also involves jobs that are familiar extensions to women s comestic role in the home. The Plowden Report-like Thatcher's later proposals on tions geared to the needs ol capitalism, not those of womer or children. Continued next week Glasgow nursery

Backing for Scots campaign Page 8 Electricity, gas head price explosion in price. Postal charges go up While wage increases for This week. of millions workers Rates and rents seem certain to go up in every area by vary- being squeezed below 10%, the cost of living continues inSTance more than to climb on almost every increase in wages won by most front. workers. he recession or course nas held a lot of retail prices com- Robbery paratively steady for some time as rival Manulaculcis ala stult Now the gas and electricity Chains struggle boards are their announcing undercutting their competitors. Electricity High never ending

LIKES

hence vales anu cut-orict last year-is thum rig li- offers. by another price prices are esewhere 12%

THOUS

months domestic electricity will more expensive-with petrol have risen in price by 42%!

fares fares Gas ofters a similar storv of increased in price in the last few cavent toopery it now looks weeKs certain that domestic prices will Milk and some other food- rise during 1981 by no less than stuffs have also gone up sharply Camden faces crunch on cuts At a Labour Group meet- rates of amoens average £404 per annum are the highest ing in December, Camden's theseline's nil right wing leadership argued OI that because of Heseltine's grant, Shaw une late support already proposing reduction in Camden's increase on top of this. Housing Pro- Investment stands, i reacts

PULL

gramme alloction it was im- anything further £14 to a possible to continue with million will have be found rates if the council is Estates the the much-needed 11 OlI Modernisation Programme. detend other 10 05 in the borough. This that would mean a further 20% rate rurtnermore, une lact from 1981 building have to oper- departments will Reflecting ThiS pressure Mills and Bethal have in under accoull Shaw, meant that to stay compeltive turn threatened to resign unless the DLO mew boney was rcuiscusseu anu from have be reduced adopted future group 1.130 to 530 by apra 1982 va meeting. process of voluntary redun- this coniext that was ir dancy and early retirement.

January. Stunned At this meeting it became clear that there was no Council leader Roy Shaw, wav of financing the EMP irom and supporters the sale of council property.

Andrew Bethall and John Mills, that even if : was revealed were stunned when leit winger "inessential land were sold would million- Talce Ty arried cuunter-proposals that near enough to locked this destruction of th continue the EMP.

ULU

To avoid a head-on contion- Fletcher, chairman tation between the right and left Works and Services Building of the Group, it was argued Committee, was agreed to set up a working party possible to restart the EMP from viablly H etcher's nans and report back other than the Housing Invest- to the next group meeting on ment Programme. February 4. He claimed that the

DLO

This that final could be detended by a gradual reduction in the workrorce over a period of four years, through to be further delayed. When it to the dis- a process of natural wastage eatence resign if the group endorsed a ight wing sprang a further sur policy For time since voluntary the firs uancy Hese le screws on government ine economic and Local pressure this obstruction expenditure John Mills outlined be gauged by look. direct cut in creates can social services in Camden ine allis culect un tile lates.

already organised two demon- Despite a heavy snowfall strations in Kircaldy and Dun- which had blocked many Ternate thirty roads in the region, The Committee is supported almost by every union in the trade unionists turned up at a meeting in Kircaldy, Fife, Las BOOKcu to take people to the Giasgow discuss the campaign demonstration and every indica- tion is that many more will be against local government cuts and the demonstration needed It has also called a demon- unemployment against outside the Regional Glasgow on 21 February. Council meeting on Tuesday 27 The Union January to urce mo comoronusc Action Committee has existed with Tory attacks on local for over twelve months, and has government expenditure. 25%. existing government figures on The impact of such a price Illalon This is whv it is high time smaller increase for industrial that local price committees were users-would be to push British established by trade union profits to an astounding bodies, to work in conjunction £l billion per year with Tenants Cane As the GMWU has pointed pensioners and Parties 9. compile out such huge revenues amount a working class price index.

lo an unemand mvdis ul lax raising by The • ones expense of the working class.

Protection course Meanwhile gas WUIKOS Ilave On this basis they must the current pay round. spearhead a fight for wage agree clear that the soari ments and benefits to catch up past losses and ensure full of living means a real fal

COST

living standards for every against future working class household. cost-of-living automatic an accurate picture of

DUL

line with the rea divinast increases, rent and rate increases Tale or mrauor. and other living stands is impossible using the By Graham Shurety decision on the rates, on the une resus orms request l council officers last November EMP. the DLO worktorce and the effects of a now cuts in services has to be made 10% cut were now available councilor it spor What 'left' the ne usted unree calegories or possible "savings": 1) recom- responsE 'savings £1½ February, working When party reports as they and the Negotiable "savings' of £4½ million and unacceptable "savingt of legition impossible find alternative of funds for the EMP? categories one and What will they say when [WO would De possible. nt said, win acceptance Shaw that the conse. 'savings' worth £4 million.

quence of rejecting a "vigorous voluntary redundancy policy" is successfully blocked another 20% on the rates or a Fletcher who won a motion by massive rent rise! How will they respond when refer these proposals 10 12 right with the wing return back to respecuve apartmenta cuts committees until they descriptior can atlanta detail where these necessary to sotten the blow on the ratepayer? and where the

CULT

Without "saved' is to be a political alterna- money spent tive to the right wing the dange Revolutionary socialists, 1s that the leits will capitulate It is vital that left wing coun- remain a minority. Ken Livingstone, cillors such as have to support left' councillors in these tactical moves to block Phi. Turner. Nel Fletcher. Pat Driscoll and Anna Bowman CELs break from seeing everything as Not enough within the Labour Group, join ano will On their own, however, such Camden Labour Left in building moves are not enough. There is a movement in the working class cancel capable confronting bulding up on the couneu non defeating the Tories. these successful blocking tactics will explode in the of the wave of cuts Work Class ll d if they are not ano _rate nses combined with strategy building a united movement of tenants and unions which along actually politically challenges this Tory government's right to Buying time is inadequate in situation where time running out. clearly the case comes at the Group meeting on where February Heseltine The Region has agreed to Tory government allow spokesperson for the There is a determination t Committee to address the full make t marcoul council. engh. This eternationas heard built The meeting also upon campaign allowed to be dittusec the

MUNCIVIC.

secretary for the Central Region government Campaigr Against Unemploy- brought is:. details explain no way can capitalism's let demonstration in Stirling problems be February: was agreed

OUL

support Stirling demon- There can comprey seust he tought-es suallull fought-let There is no doubt that 1981 has begun with a new enthusi- inose wno nave no stomach ivl asm for active opposition to the the fight stand aside. no picnic. A grisly reminder of the game of "Russian roulette" being played with our lives Thatcher's military build up against the Soviet Union is the surge of inter- nuclear fall-out est in shelters. publicity £2,000 per head commercial She Ter neina planned Dy Bristol consortium. But in the oh public week came kind of the government itself Prices ranged from the bare minimum brick-shelter-in-the- Soare oun

CONCO L

super-de-luxe underground chalet for a cool £10,000.

In line with this wave of pUblicit Nuclear Wrotee- one welling Meuld borough firm, tion, run by Tom Butler, has circulated an _ of fall-out equipment, together with Food Guides and suggested menus picnic. Tom Butler's complete plan 7-person shelter would for set you back £9.000. In case you are nestant equipment involved, he offers up £l billion The Tory government is proceeding to increase milit- ary spending by £1 billion year-while slashing next back on social housing, services, education and health. The proposals announced in Parliament by the new Defence Nott were pro- Secretary John came a maon cur B in reality the for a drive continuing, from Et1.25 billios arms buuzet up The marginal cuts involve the earlier scrapping of defunct but ships and equipment: compensate oy une lact lal di the recession grows ever-deeper, new equipment pro aced than expected with little else to do. manuracturers been cushioned from the main curtailed Nott's Leave untouched the colossally expen- sive Trident submarine project, the lornado multi-role combat plane, The new chaere con and the Navy's two new anti- submarine cruisers. Suppliers can thus rest easy profitable contracts are secure.

But for British workers there SuLl SlYC SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 January 1981 Nuclear war the alluring prospect of a trip round his own personal shelter as well. of package includes technical specifications for the blast doors, air filters The daily menu he sets out caravan holidays and remote areas The only difference in this instance is that when your 20 days at up anu you oke youl head out of your hidey-hole even the most developed city will have become a landscape remole alla caravaning holiday being followed by return to the realle Lialillas attempting stench of death, the wreckage of the most elementary productive LoIce. allu

HOLLOIS

military rule by a capitalist class that has already taken steps to crush all political opposition in une dean ol sc a war. If you've got £9,000 to spare Butler wasle Shelter. Give it to the • Workers and help us Socialist League, build a revolutionary leadership to mobilise action to defeat the orles and enla une war unive.

Arms spending Thatcher's arms programme is being sustained at the cost vicious cuts in hard-won social the loss of tens of each week thousands of jobs at the risk of dragging Britain behind Reagan a military controntation of major propor- tions. "Growing threat" Nott explicitly pointed out l orles what he termed threat from Warsav unle bureaucrats seek only preserve their positions "peaceful coexistence through with imperals The …comes rom decaying and bankrupt capitalist through seeks

HONCE

rule and its exploitation of the neo-colonial countries -and to working class intimidate thi within the imperialist countries themselves The threat is personified in Britain in the aggressive policies or tne Inatcner government To counter the led inn be mobilised class must Tory the government ano torce intonen a unilateral nuclear disarmament

LONGWORTH: VOTE FOR SUPPORTING

STRIKE ACTION AS AHA DIG IN

"SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 January 1981 The determined occupa- vacant posts for nursing staff tion by staff at Longworth which are becoming vacall.

They plainly Hospital, Oxfordshire con- force policy tinues to grow in strength, concede range of attacks despite a of the hospital-witn loss from the local Area Health quent area already Authority. peas below revulcueals. most insidious of the AHA attacks locusses on a blu to strip the hospital of medical different. very advertise refusing to cover by COHSE members at the nearby Warneford Hospital take and to back a lobby of the AHA Problems demanding the notified. dog Elsewhere, port has been coming in. Univer-

WRP

members As members of the WRP. meet for their 5th Annual of Conterence, TEll Del problems will weigh heavy on their minds. doubt how they One is no ostensibly square "Trotskyist" banner

WITN

the WRP's "Mani- more Testo ol willi flas common witn Unit politics of the Morning Star.

Entitled •Tory Counter-

VRP

Reply The Revolution: the mandesto seus coul unashamed Popular based on the extension policy 'community Ciussylass councis o craw i pelly vul geois and capitalist forces-small small businessmen, shopkeepers, ete-outside of the labour move- niell The Manifesto also empha- sises that, matter cuts a 00 Tatt licises proposed, "we must avoid at all costs fighting Labour councils" (p.10). Expulsion Not surprisingly in view of lurch opportunist tne Eastern connections-as Iran/Iraq exemowieu war-a Committee statement on August 28 pleads Unity and demands week in Party the within colleagues on pain aulo Journal, matic expulsion! been closed under them. This is backed up by a docu- The strike ment supposedly on "security which consists of a reprint of coincide with a picket of an attack on the WSL by ex- brint worKs al Trotskyist Robin Blick, together stop scab sister papers. Void any war member WRP itself. Woe Testimony Community now Councilsopposes Perhaps most dominant ir strike, de intenthe handal cress of financial crisis of huge the WRP. Healy confesses that by September the caly yews- and Isallul month. There is no hint in phe losing • £10,000 nalists outside Fleet Street.

conference docurents as where such money comes from. Perhaps this is a suitable case "Newsline Investigation"?

for their own

LEEDS

of two tacts; tirstly Camden iournalists have Workers Socialist and secondly League/Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement

PUBLIC MEETING

Friday 13 February Leeds Trades Council Club 8.00 p.m. Speaker: Alan Thornett students have now joined sity those supporting the the list of hope 24 hour picket of the hospita by staff to gates. • Regional conference to the planned closure And voted at of COHSE delegates a conse the weekend to enne- geriatric gency resolution their NEC them Caulle industrial The necessily 10I action support ane LOnE- But the response has been worth work-in. A of COHSE-the health union the bülk which organises far strike action Longworth stati-ha: given only token otticia sub- 27, port. But the enthusiasm of, the Jallual! indicates be conference vacancis that could branches now begin to mobilise in active too, fresh financial and political support.

Longbridge '8' conference Saturday 14 February, 2.00 p.m. -5.00 p.m.

Dr Johnson House, Colmore Circus, Queensway, Birmingham Open to all trade unionists and Labour Party members Credentials/Details, contact Longbridge Defence Committee, c/o 10 Green End Rd., Moseley, Birmingham 13 NUJ solidarity with jobs fight Journalists on London managements. suburban papers have voted The Camden journalists were handed their notices out of the to call a one day strike this before Christmas, of Due a lays support one issue before production was the Camden due to stop. whose paper has Solidarity called to was : the They Eve and production of two out condon newspavers-came solidly in sup sub-group, the sub-group, the paper Hornsey Journal has a core of scabs stil working Although only a one day watch has panese a t are owned bi decision majority of more than 30 in a papers meeting ol zou memoers) Is a Midlands at Leamington, Nun- striking testimony to the organ- eaton, Rugby and Banbury and that unity at Haverford in Wales

NGA

compositors Posed NO Nuneaton have The practice of holding mass picket lines saying they must national condil. But 14 NGA meetings, introducea during th their for a decision WalL cost of living London cal I September/October has wedded mempers staved out last week 1.

together small fragmented units has display of solidarity which shamed their national Many of the journalists fear jobs and The key issue of blacking- strike vote came in recognitior which could force the manage- that ment to suspend beer has criminally not bee discussed singled out for their militancy that the method of closure will be used by other Our Labour Movement policies Conference Media Censorship and Ireland Socialist Press pamphlet convened by National outlining programme of Union of Journalists action against the Tory Saturday February 28 offensive. Birmingham Details from Ron Knowles, Price NUJ, 314 Grays Inn Road, from BM London WC1. London WCIN 3XX These The supports In the Oxford City Labour "Gang of

AHA

Chairmar Party, where McCarthy General

LAOV

about Committee member, a reco l Oxford Mail the tion censuring role on Longworth and calling on her to dIt any press statements put out by comply with

A DOUT

policy : which is to support the while giving defeated my 3s Votes at tast of the at last deleted reactionary week sir meetne. who MaCarthy has pro question hospital closed dowr from the care on ter questions Water strike Leaders representing 33,000 manual workers in Workers Union well the and water sewerage will support a suike. industry are to meet on 3 February to decide on how officials are respond over- to all-out strike call for strike whelming detuse _ the through pursuit of their action in "selective" 30% pay claim. em overe their miserable 7.9% offer.

Regional delegate • ConTer. the GMWU -which move towards organises 20,000 water worker: nationai -have neer than likely that all out strike action. A ballot o will be forced to 10,000 NUPE members is likel upwards for a strike recommendation. tially the last two meetings of the despite NuA Nanona coulu pool urgent pleas from NUJ officials.

Monday 19 January. The has national for NUJ members. it is the irse case or rcuunuall beth mervin supre the provincial press to leadership cies large have the vacillations The Camden Journal is 100% Lace ya a est of line a editor, allow the living pay The paper has taken : leftish line, supporting tenants' groups and Camden workers on cipled lead Pegged leadership, As a result its circulation has accepted Fords pay been pegged Hear England management and the strings. paper is now under sentence of death. of NUJ solidarity the not to be thrown members is all-out to away Call all force NGA blacking must be waged

SOGAT

which London blacking action withdrew through Which the Hornsey Journal and Isling- Gazette had been stopped 4U11 also be week must

IOL

forced to reimpose the blacking.

we have only paper Press. begin Dy Our Page 9 right wing Party members should campaigr • donations and messages of the occupation, But she has little to grumble from local papers. Both well as resolutions Calle Oxford McCarthy's removal from blocking GC : and calling on the effectively

COHSE

NEC

national campaign to back the full vent the Longworth work-in. the

AHA

and Messages support and to: donations Cal wish Barbara to see unt wantedler Farringdon Road, Longworth, Abingdon, Oxon.

Trade unionists and Labou threatened with the Tories' unofficial pay AUEW and TGWU officials Agricultural have said they The Tory government does • water not directly employ Until they hear whether the And there is scope to workers. prepared to mount the employers meet a pay increase by raising water rates.

Water workers present multanc) 37. Tay haras on yo- . partial and the They have shown them- action, to fight. selves ready Want un Only the most brazen But if the water workers do betraval by bureau their cracy can now stand in the way first ever of a retreat by the employers or scuild a major strike that the employers thei to other workers through lead sooner . out the public sector mn une ligh than against the Thatcher govern- prompt a lul-scale ana porcl damaging confrontation Ford: final sell-out The final scene in the It must have given Broad- Ford workers pay claim was head and Macguire, the works acted out at South Liver- convenors. culin Football Ground on though they both gave militant sounding speeches neither called further the It was the culmination of an tor stilke action to they the union seriously attempt to call for a rejection of the offer Battered and bewildered by They concerned of the union with the _conalton. bureaucracy; by the decision to compy conscious spooser smaller, less. militant sues and then litting splitting the the two issues and on lenath of ime alowed to elaps Them logemier l before letting Halewood vote they succeeded in torough. the announced redundancies confusing the workforce-and confusing themselves for the total lack of a prin when the vote was taken they from the don't seem le KnOW workers reluctantly the motion had failed or been offer along approved! with a whole series of BL-type even so the vote was a close

FUND

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As Heselfine plans new attacks

UNION LEADERS RUN

SOCIALIST

PRESS

FOR COVER

Manual workers in Lam- saved the way leaders maintained with no rise in rates: has way for the and any threat to remove, super- beth have given a vital lead hat ruthless Torv ofiensive on socia a council to the labour movement by Cour sullildist services, health, housing and aencil must be met by lud scale calling a week of strike education. tráde action-strikes in action protest against occupations Done nothing The are Tory spending cuts.

WULNCIS

rignt. Inere is ory one way lo One the Illall NUPE-with 600,000 public Thatcher But massed

TGWU

1/763 involved, the sector workers at risk-has done industrial will action branch, nas correcuy starea the skies. It will prepare Ital descenu Iron view that "only massed indus- e action against the cuts. Similarly start only wnen a Labour coun trial defeat will

GMWU

TGWU and other union cillor or union leader is forced present government" officials stood back and that have declare enough step the week oi action as a detenceles. Jell unel court. in buck stops here.

towards such a struggle. in the face of the Tory attack.

The focal point of the week In absence of action defend public action the ton on weanesday rebruary

LAMBETH DAY OF

sector it 1s oly through Lambeth to the Labour that even councilors Mer Party headquarters in Walworth

ACTION

leader Ted Knight for means of duck- Rodu hould look Wednesday 4 February ing

COHOL OR

WELl Resolution "Tory So compensate for Hetel-

DEMONSTRATION

for Hesel- rates compensate Assemble Clapham 1he Labour leadersnip nas Cut-wilde obediently conspicuously Faile to do ye Labour councils Common, 1.00 p.m. thing slash jobs and services. implement March to Labour Party councillors and union resolution passed at emergency

DUL

last October's conference, headquarters, Walworth Beaders Cannot wowed which called the

NEC

continue each other Road and dodging a fight. organise campaign of action both called They HusL But pernaps a more impor- tant target for anger must be told to take a running workers' should be the TUC. For it is the jump-jobs and services must be Polish strike wave still rising of was called off on the By Friday Walesa was forced Last Saturday most to go along with the movement Poland was at a standstill the cal for a national -most important-ine estabush and make due to a strike called by ment independent trade strike on Saturday. Solidarity. The only places Strikes of industrial workers unions. the have taking those desig- working were meant that Ins lias als

UCCI

place nated "essential services" by demand for a Rural Soldarity® Polish working class now has a curing week expressing its means Solidarity. they something peasants and larmworkers valancs. Strikes taking beer any nave not nave in or the onel Cont'd p.2, col. 6 place throughout the week over Eastern European countries.

refusal of the Polish govern- This cannot last The bureau- ment to end Saturday working, crats in power in foland canno1 see as vall vi cale ive cranence agreement their authority, police state and which concudeo the material privil and occupations eges. A confronta- Gdansk last autumn. tion is inevitable. This rising strike wave is Polish Pope ma of Lic bureaucracy who were hoping use the Solidarity leadership to hold back the struggle of the around the world. His first trip see me rove but even The "free Saturdays' move- during his visit strikes were ment is in direct contradiction erupting in Poland what told Walesa Pope vulvaukid. 11t Thev tread free recures. WIsh solve over Ine crisis that their mismanage.

Saturdays issue. When he has created in the Polish Poland last Monday ment returned the the Walesa obediently talked of Late they

CRO.

meet ol Drudence Dul des need more intensified work, not pite his opposition, strikes took less. during the even in his own base area of Gdansk.

Walesa Ine FoLsn movements ani Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX. Prin Resistered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views oi the Workers Socialist Leagul

HERES A NICE CUI

How the 'unexpected' happened "A situation which, quite frankly, we didn't expect.

This was how Tom Jackson of the Union of Communica Workers tions the decerined trouncing of the right wing at the Special Conference of the Labour rar at weekene. The defeat for the right wing was of course a reflection of the crowne cenanas for democracy arising from the Party's rank and file But in a more sense u arose mon InOs quarters High unlike v Court and the casting ; of union block votes. The right wing were hoise for once from their owr petard. *The High Court stepped in to issue an injunction prevent acting at the last minute remove left winger Jock Mac- Quinn 35- from the rherson This meant that instead o anticipated 17-17 right, division -in which ten Duffy Would have usec casuing vote, boya and Dum were faced with an 18-17 majority for the left. ed by Morning Litho Printers Ltd, London

HESELTINE

tactical voter

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democratisation of the Labour Party. the AUEW's

SUOI

toral college votes to the

PLP

had bitten the dust, Duffy was torter the left cruise to victory *Meanwhile delegatior from right wing-led shop- itself in the embarrassing and posițion o unaccustomed the left wing offensi heading at the conference. The USDAW leadership's hopes of withdraw- their motion--calling of votes to the unions, 30% the PEP and 30% to con- stituency parties-were dashed unions and CLPs got up own resolutions in favour of USDAW. With

USDAW

locked into left and the AUEW locked the the 40/30/30 formula steered its me horror of jackion and narrowly Leadership crisis in Irish war- The brutal attempted murder of Bernadette and Michael McAliskey by mem- bers of the legal Ulster Defence Association on 16 January is part of a concer- ted effort to intimidate and eliminate the leadership of the anti-imperialist struggle in Ireland. The McAliskeys are still serious I in nootal Daly, and. Noel Bunting Little-have been murdered by Loyalist gun- But the renewed spate o murders and assassination carried out in the six counties of irelang in the past few week: spell out not only the undis- param ay orely also paramilitary forces: bankruptcy the 10 11c republican leadership The struggle around the Long Kesh hunger strikers in the closing months of 1900 saw a rising tide of mass support for the anti-imperialist struggle.

Strike action A day faction called by the National 'H' Blocks Committer brought the important develop.

of widespread • solidarity strike achon by the North and also in numerous workplaces throughout the 26 But as both the Tory govern and republican men the command within Longs and Kesh moved with de-escalate the nesila Lions block protest it nas becomi increasingly clear that the leadership political programme to develop support extend the mas they had begun to mobilise there Instéad have been a succession Britain and armed guerrilla actions in the six counties, non which advanced flas •truggle an

COUT

¡nich have served to isolate the from armed struggle the struggles ol te lasses This is the most dangerous possible period i for The concessions to such • tactics. Ton to thou Block prisoners, th release of the critically ill repub- prisone McLaughlin and the still undis crosco content drune too leve talks between the Thatcher and Haughey governments have whipped the into Loyalists based oł nostlity • OI insecurity. Violence The result has been growin in-fighting among me covas escalation and eaders Loyalist violence against leader: of the anti-imperialist struggle and resultne eDD Block cent is where what without ally focus lol lls aritatiol.

programme democratic and transitional demands designed mobilise Illass as factory closures, redundan social cuts, service and talling are the symptoms of imperialist rule in Ireland. The result is that increasin ly the political initiative is fall ing Into ine nanas or reaction and a reversion to guerrillaism by the IRA (as opposed to necessary armed defence of the Lauron mont de coe Loyalist murder gangs) can only make this situation worse.

: It the struggle is to go for ward from the partial victory of the 'H' Block * fight, then the development for working class action against imperialism essential. The republican leaders plainly have no grasp of this This is why a revolutionar Marxist party is vitally needed to advance the struggles of the Irish people.