Socialist Press no. 251

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 251 * 18 June 1981 * 20p Affiliated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee Russian troops at the ready positions and rejected "Put your house in Thei they are supposed to repress those order-or we'll knock it party members down for you". This was ent the blunt warning lurking In what amounted to two separate votes of confidence beneath the diplomatic in the Kania leadership, the wording of a letter sent pro-Moscow lacuon secured by the Soviet Communist the backing of little more Party to its Polish sister than 20 out of the 120 CC party last week. memoes al une mccle. The 7-page letter was Rebuff effectively on pro- within Kania's came

MOSCOW

narammers the pre the Polish Communist Party largely from provincial the present Party Dartes. Lactory leader Stanislaw Kania tives ane une mutay -unose still holding office and feel- to impiement an mumculate crackdown it respond on polica necessary opposition both inside and of the rank to the teelings outside the Party. and file. crackdown This rebuff to an unusu- nO took place, the letter tacitly open move by ally suggested, then there would to influence the Polish Party no alternative but an poses Brezhnev with a majo invasion. Polida ca as the date for the congress looms

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Compromise ever closer. His initial letter had been prompted the growing Kania stood his he Kremlir recognition in ground against this attack of the pressure that The While himself promising to working class is now placing launch a crackdown on polit- question mark over the ical opposition, he defended of the Polish Com- renaulity his own approach of seeking munist Party itself. demands through selim an defuse Solidarity s Defeated compromnse And his stand won the Stalinist backing of the most influ- Sensoned ential forces on the Polish stalwarts are finding them- selves defeated by militant The Central •commitec opponents in the elections of Moscow line succeeded in delegates to enlisting the support primar- next monus party congress. of the disgruntled and Already over one-third of isolated Stalinist old guard CP's 3 million almost all of whom have the Polish members have joined the been stripped already independent union Solidar- ity-leaving "official" unions nothing but an empty shell. 150,000 Party members have resigned disgust at their leaders' opposition to Solidarity. But others have taken the the Party itself- fight into devastating often will results for the old bureau- cratic Party chiefs. Party meetings with seethe beginne pol workers be in seculons workers begin to raISe demands democratic and accountability TeTOrIS ot their leaders Hopes of either drawing the Solidarity eaders inte the apparatus of the state of seeking through an influx of party members exer some control over Solidarity have been dashed. militancy of the working class keeps sondar ity leaders Under constant. Happier times: Kania with Brezhnev the while same pressure militancy within the working membership une Communist Party has helped 0T19 aboul Puls over - bureau crats since the mass struggles began last August. Small wonder therefore that is the - crum O n! control of the leadership hoi the over the Party which major foca criticisms and unreals Brezhnev's letter. com- plains for instance that: "In the past period un he PUWI situation Inside [Communist Party) has become a subject of par- ticular concern. Little more than a month remains before the Party congress. Despite forces hostile this. it is the to socialism who are more and more setting the pace i for the ele the campaign tion of delegates and of the Why workers should back Palestinian cause-p.5 Red Youth

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are forced to contemplate It is this analysis which and in Moscow. desperate military measures The Warsaw leaders now under les the reneated asser- crush the forward move- tion in Brezhnev's letter that have to make good some of the pledges they have just "anti-socialist" ment or the rouse masses "anti-Soviet' down The fact is that-just like made crack on munist and Polish bureaucrats-the forces are gaining the upper and privileges of the hand in Poland: pose censorship. tightening restrictions on the They have talked "They are carrying out a krem in eaders rest nol or their ownership of factories struggle for power and are other means of produc already winning it.? possession and use of private ion but on their ability t duplicators and on unofficial There is an open retain them

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over the publications those means of productior scale censorship: through police terror called particular Situation bleak attention to the fact that the political opposition. enemy nae calcu control u This is why the Kremlin the mass information media They have announced bureaucrats look with horror mad become instruments o plans to get industry work- of Solid six days a week by the ing and aritv as the organised expres introduction of shift work anu-socialist

CLIVELICS

sion of the demands and self- a move lkely to be resisted which were Demo useu confidence of the Polish undermine socialism and dis by many militants and why they But for Moscow the new working class organise the party. the The letter complains that situation is also bleak

HOOK

wilt Solidarity's Polish leaders Kania have not simply and - Taled challenges to the power of Jaruszelski, after oust Party leaders they find unacceptably weak: they une slate verbally agrosule had process demon Moscow's the CrITICISIS nave l done nothing to change thei strated for all to see how weak is the popular base of concessions and policy of their most loyal followers.

that compromise They the after letter may of the struggles DOSItIOn momentum attracted a group of Polish was another surrendered permanentl Poland wil without taking into account Stalinists prepared undermine the power of th of the endorse an invasion: but the documents Polish

UIC

sta insteadersnip these leaders Central Committee plenum, isolation spread across rolands from the masses also con drawing attention borders into other deformed scale revolutionary 01 workers' states and into the tirms une huge popular opposition such ar threat. so kitsel. invasion would confront. estimated that some 750,0 00 no ana done it would be wrong to conclude that their polit of the 3 million-strong CP ical weakness in roland wil occupy full-time party posts force the Moscow leaders to The fact that the carrying varying. degrees same take no action. Kania and • Jaruszelski have ower and material privileg the contrary, he numbers of such burea secured a substantial . the more tenuous bureaucratic vote of confidence from the Cont'd p.2, col 5 control becomes in Poland, Cenira ommutee Dose: the more the Moscow leaders problems hoth Warsaw

Debray to act as Mitterand's calling-card in South America Page 2 One of the most inter- esting of the political appointments made by has Francois Mitterand of Regis been that Debray as the chief of his secretariat for foreign affairs. generated a storm of critic- and calumny ism the Capitals! 41 all wore witn accusations Iv- Mitterand having brought in a "revolu- Debray's revolutionary' credentials, such as they are, are based on as periou will Che Guevara anon 1967, the Bolivian guerrillas in ara venezuelan astroite move- Debray this sense, embodies a great deal of tne experience of the petit bour- in the the Cuban revo- period since and the containment that revollioldiy impulse by Stalinism of tens was Devlay revolution- or thousands ol aries who was ivliter0n0 Cuban revolution to believe the revolutionaries came to be possibility Ine channelled military guerrilla methoo as a mean.

the problems of overthrowing capitalism period this building long ine revolulion 1 Ul in the towns and party view was were neglected. ess link ten en A menica wave of guerrillaism effects have long 1 ne but disastrous eventually oroke autost unc Deer rock of US military support for ine workers anu ocasalts of Latin America. himself was cap- All energies of the betray Left wing boost for French fascists Every political move- More recently the world has witnessed the appearance ment must carry with it distasteful Sulsularly all the burdens of its own movement history. with title 'historical ot tenet revisionism' Ine at least in Europe, the wing,

OI WAICH

record of Hitler's atrocities history or ine secone wond Wai tivi falsified by the DeTore anu villa and Bolsheviks. Second World War stands as obstacle thi massive VIeW grea deat of time in building of any credible mass •: to prove that there movement.

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Mitterand was quick to make use ot ebrays miek lectual abilities in various and also party commissions card as nis Calle Cuba, Venezuela of Mexico, and Costa , Rica 1977 Debray was awarded Cune uterary Prix Femina tOI hisnove 'La neige (The Snow donated Burns) and to the Ligue Com mone muniste Revolutionnaire, the French section of the United Fourth Secretaria the International. By July 1979 his revol- still credentals seemed to hold good, as he was one of the first visitors to the victorious Sandinistas in Nicaragua politics recent published interview, just before his Mitterand's appointment Danish journal, 'Informa- In his view, the election of Mitterand is an event ol global significance, because: "The election of Francois Mitterand could promote the and saw the collapse of that deveoomeri Mall tured suttered unrec decision making centres years" regime. in the On his return to France notorious ( amiri prison, des criticism he wrote enormous Intella- tional campaign for his relecting his earlier views or release. armed struggle, ano amer period of sympathy for the In 1970 he was released in the Althusserian ov tenera man dose lores Communist Party and took refuge in Allende's the Parti friend and adviser of Allende became eventuay Socialiste in 1974 The question remains can the same: WIll govern Italy? But the answer last week By Ernie Stubbins became more elusive That because the answer has. it possible, to genocide practiced called Veille wing group was called Taupe (Old the Nazis the dealise Jews and others.

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would seem to be a It that Vieille appears Haurisson hopeless task, given the enor- supports Taupe mous volume not simply • documen tary evidence that exists, but speech' position, but from a small actually agreeing From front page I1U Vi Crist Vasl with his assessment of the group, dedicated to publishing historical evidence. ians crats in the Soviet Union They as beneficial everything view other states of and demolish attempts to that an Fastern Europe are large: holocaust. 'myths'. It is these people who them Most This may be ine lts defence their own under occasion when the revision grouped togethe positions-are warning of the shown itself to virus has be capable of infecting parts dancer socism evies Historical Review'. ented and the wing, anu called for measures to crush should stand as a recent the Polish mass movement.

one or le anti-fascists warning writers to contribute to ine As the Kania leadership around the world 'no holocaust' propaganda a prestige ins In Britain groups such as in Poland-its one Robert Faurisson, a enhanced has the British Movement all year •O O lecturel the League of St. George are stand against been engaged spinied of ultimatum-prepares for the polemic with makine he cashle political test of next month's the over material produced b' historians realistic 'historical revisionists', par- partv conoress. une kreml reneate asseruon unal were BM papers leadership will be consider- ticularly no gas In champers aimed at school students ing their next step. has gone so far as to accuse In 1968, under cover of icaton la- The verdict of the trial. his opponents together with the result of a "anti-soviet' opposing and. tion brought Kruschev forces, one of hi • into Czecho Russian troops During the first few days laurisson against of the of this month several groups critics, will be announced slovakia on the eve and later this month Czech Party conrerence once invo vet at alls whole bizarre affair became Clear anti-fascist the work Togetner leaves the impression of the established leadership was associations represent- with losing control of the Party the complete members forme The defence of the gain: revilay of the at ent ever and their tamilies Kesistance of the far right, even made in Poland since the families acau "socialist" strikes August newly began asi came together to bring a civil not simply the demands Monsieur France. against development of a conscious Lasi The closing moments of of him accusin leadership the trial were marked by an revolutionary wilfull falsification the Polish working class, but unanswered outery from one history fight for solidarity of the accusing lawyers: also the Such cases are not unique workers "Where are our families USSR and other East Europ in trance. A similar case wa.

Faurisson? Where Monsieur brought against they states ean Rassinier. The unique our parents Ar hiding somewhere and living : an feature of the laurisson case move. mobilise mass opposition to under false names like the That the puDasner. bureaucratic rule. Nazis?" iratis 1 atarisson s SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 18 June, 1981 around the world, putting an end to the present bipolarit giving a new weight to the nations taking their positions Washington and betweet Moscow." This of course is no more "third style the 170US dressed modern However Debray that things are actually than ever "The election of a social- ist president of France undeniably going to contri bute to preventing a drilt to been cold war which has • visible in recent years, but a Soviet military adventure in to detente. is of course careful to such an thinks add that he nypothesis improbable here are inacations or a slide towards anti-commun- Debray's ism He believes that the Frenc Communist Cannel any important part in play political life because French or ine desertion 0i really by its intellectuals. • 01S 15 & flimsy excuse indeed denying ministerial positions to communists while grant-

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satisfy two conditions: the Minister chaot be a Prime that be seemed proved last week when out- Arnaldo abandoned l'onlan efforts to form a new centre left coalition. Corruption This is because his party, the majority party oTtne Italian is now The stetee or orruption aid than steeped senior members Were implicated Licio Gelli's lodge, masonic known as P2. non-membership Christian Democrats the condition for were tne orry forming there would be few problems plenty of willing for the canadates Premiership particular Bettino Craxi, the Socialist , Party icader Second condition The trouble is that there the Pecone cannot be any- Premier cannot • be any. than a Christian thing other Democrat, because the Chris tian Democrats are unwilling relinquish government which they leadership monopolised since 194- It these two absolutely rigid ther logically minded readers will that 1 concluut imnossibl any government at all. The same conclusion will ing them to the MRG and t Joberi There doubt that Debray will be of enormous value 0 er cą America, where there exist markets high technology exports-parcarv in tee communications and nuclear power. As a representative of the the 1960s, Debray will have automatic with entree any nev ment of any complexion in Latin America, and will give massive rrenci competitive lead over

USA

is also likely that he to work recon will be pul support the Algerian recalled. anu stasest as socialiste • a barrier credib present uly figure Somi such Debray is therefore urgently if •France is to take full advantage of the growing tear or dada derven tions in other North African scale. sooner or later be reached ovine less logicany mmucc Italian ment President Sandro Pertini тлететоте nave Lo general elections Italian politicians, how- terrified of sub ever, besmirched uncl recoro to the electorate l may just be that one or of the conditions other prove less tnan absolute At present the leader of the tiny bourgeois Republic an Party, Giovanni Spadolin to break snow aerobic the second condition forming the first post wa led by a non government Same trick predecessor Spadolini's Ugo La Malfa who tried the two years ago same nick failed to form a government and died shortly afterwards Even Spadolini succeeds in the lesser miracle of forming a government it is hard to believe him capable greater miracle of ot the keeping in office for more than a lew week. look Elections …now inevitable. But there almost is little that they can solve tor ine bourseolsic Their most likely result be the present would of the Com strengthening munist Party which has been relatively untainted by the scandals recent It is now very unlikely take any maior step patte parties taken from receive sign results of the local elections on June 21

Fascists mount Coventry murder campaign: labour movement Irish car workers win important SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 18 June, 1981 must act. Fascists in Coventry 253 he monstration ideniry bility it will also ban al identity labour movement and anti- are continuing to pursue thereby Fascist leaders from the No.

five activity their organised campaign giving the tascists a breathins of terror. space Wollen The application by the in the last The change h acac...

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Socialist Press has consis through the march wo weeks is ioa iney tently carefully planning their predomi dos ONCk ¡'oie) arauca inar tne naiv Junc and selecting hill area on ht. ine oua braverv of bsck vouln al latk anti-fascist and militants of the labour same day an victims t urinet inu allack. sacrificed are now made with the movement will De 10ck ea dyl avel ! vr. tli intent to kill. gme cev o vne bo c for nolg the time opcration is being Sallie int launched against those followed at top level: photo- Ihe tascists know that.lr Thew were to marco winou! laDpul • MOYErC thallol massive mey woudhoe protection. . consistently block the not get one yard fight to crush the fascists: Sacked Bul . ålu achille oo ov n ne kneee lal Political lead the cowardice and treachery right wing leadership The duty of all serious -for • ne baose maovemell wal labour allow them to win a propa- militants, within the ganda victory movement must De Already necessary political lead the screams time as at the same mese tamors donasc iose community being of the Tory press and race detence Ine Im neolatc They then disclaim all relations industry. those under racist attack for a when every the R('T who respon oil on ine maren nas caven catel attempt e buck ana laughable threat a credibility to bund themseive: try labour movement to it does not deserve the trustraton or the yout.

real workers anti- gay build a through political direc- The fascists know that it stunt fascist defence is labelled in shameless maren goes ancad. CT Nt Uu: the press as being the work many thousands of police C00(: [()() of a London-based vigilante protect them will strongly .condemned Shell is the Susan necded to themselves press Declaring latest victim of anti-gay labour lighting the attack not only anti- "Coventry' y

WOMACIN

prejudice employ- and the labour move- detence squad tall halt j traitors in moveillil dozen of them). they branca gno ware s noe l the bourgeois nicll . mcal vul efs simple matter of proposin! have the nerve lo Susan was sacked on May Atmore rg {o Qemon- "vigilante motions paton ess

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(ii u docv the march is banned incl recollu. lor adolescent UR rn n! the black making Ocals Borough besides boosting their credi Barking. w nin Residential C'are discovered Shell Susan ty.cd. sne

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asKca l0 resign and. when she refused, was summarily dismissed. s case now. months in waidh mi icccll sacked have victory on jobs The mos Ld y

DHO ECISO

naVe ocen ases of Gordon Wiseman. it ecturer in Saltord and John Saunders. worker at a Scottish youth (aflI +. Tho legal decisions which have followed these sackings After three months of industrial action, workers

NAVO

estaD isoca thal the law clary lcdle at the Talbot plant in Britain it asserts that Dublin have defeated an for masonaoie attempt to make 90 car employer dismiss

MAMIE VORKERS

worker for being gay if their assembly workers redun- involves 116IN elly Lustel l dant. al an wile voune peooie started This puts tens of thous- Kumours of people (espec- January ands gay that tno comba to phase-out car going tally in education and social

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The vorkers h one day sers server danee rosne asschery their jobs and forced to live responata oy

TRADES

their lives in in on icareto 23h9pl red secrecy

STOMATA NON HOUT RONC

March 23 90 redun- and domated by tear dancies were announced and ss s a maor issue lon

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1' Chole kiboemovemend. the entire worktorce went needs into occupation. ouderl responded Management mee condr en dl with leal action airs 125 labour movement bodies. detence workers and But her must threatened with they were itsO oe seen as Dart oi they unless campaign repeal 1911 sentence. present discriminatory legis- ended the occupation. After resistance lation and end the scandal of Dublin workers march against tax increases the workers ended the anti-gay discrimination workers at all with Dunlop Ancillary pation going oul continucu strike action and a picket of in C'ork, creating new plant Socialist Press readers are the plant. jobs for workers in the area. Services SOare husortdis urged motion to The Talbot workers have withdrew a threat of selec- Put industrial action InelT • HON OI LabOUr tuły Sit-in acceD|

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the pursuit of a pay claim earlier DEanen tollowing retaining a Dicke Ines Al the beginning of June until the agreement is signed this year, while they awated 'This branch condemns workers staged a strike the outcome of Meanwhile a group ol the the London Inquiry. . On June 9 alliot Court another «1 -1 pay ano workink Conu. rejected the Boronon O Bakse CK' court ruling. 120 ASTMS members at t.nquir! Susan Shell because she 10 all Fiducational Building workers. claim . for highe On June demands her is a lesbian. threatened with Society has now entered its wages. workers porters and boiler- hamerste sr mikono! •The redundancy sith woek. were OTICTeC al reinstatemen: mon at the Rotunda Hospital Namate employment C'opies of these motions Strike have given a lead to alt the lighi enginermg i and/or equivalently worded Thes a arkers by taking pay H J2 .*.. OCE!n should be merone •solt .. 55= were alse offered opportunt- and boilermen Gay Rights Rotunda Hospital in Dublin ties of retraining. louro ihai can mox ht watTe ckwick Court, London began an unofficial strike.

a victory. The 90 car assembly jobs The first anti-fascist mobilisation in Coventry's precinet reformists and letts. Which fizzle right wing majority. A basis exists ior a real fight inside the labour move- ment tor workers solutions to the rascist inreat The May 23 demonstra• tion of 12.000 people repres ented a truly massive mobil- isation for a city of the size of Further ihe and contusion genuine it the left reformist leader- ship provide. ortunities for the build- anti-racist defence in In the six counties on 8 June 200 redundancies annonced at the were factory Goodyear Craigavon. This follows the sacking of 72 workers in the trans port cenar ment a wck and the annoncement that .210 clerical workers ai ine lactory W il loose their jobs by the beginning of July trade union leaders, rather than giving a lead to the workforce in a light to instead jobs have saye appealed lo ine companly to come clean aboul its tatur lans which they predict will the entire the closure of 1 CiO] On June 10.630 workers were sacked at Courtaulds in Campsie

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. This follows the sack ins Carrick- workforce : the fereus factory in february of this year with the loss of 306 jobs he Campsic factory has only been in operation for 5 and received €20 vcas. million in government funds.

Tee ¡actory which rectired the labour movement. easily be lel. made fight through mobilisation of support for self defence- WUIkeIs Decause iney nave nowneie else to turn. Militants while totally of state opposing forms Danl, lascist. mus counter-propose ine aeman the labour movement leadership facilities for antı-racıst delence We must telephones amand onces printing facilities, Sackings in the six counties million in government sub made ion in the ront Sides first of [l/-milon nine years of its operation.

The company say Tha £1.5 million There are no indications that trace con icaucls a either factory are prepared struggl against Wast companies multat old ted by the possibili eta the possibilities. fat profits at the expense o with- . only t0 the werkes draw once those profits are threatened. Workers at the Euroweld plant in East. Belfast gave: lead to the workers in the six counties by going .of this naton dy •r corual y at. tnt anouace closure their by LaCLOl) O'Neill of America throughout the • Workers 32 counties are continually thet klingy demonstrating attacks ness employers :tobs

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and. working con- 'Warcs ditions workers: in "une stene Dublin Corporation's Direct Puge 3 port and finance as a first step In every workplace where workers are exposed to danger from the fascists, the Dosser „ mece finance labour movement protection. blackmne acuon musi di taken up by unions against fascists schools, colleges and tactories. Enquiry labour organised movement enquiry must be set up in the • West Midłands tascists lI • lo mveslzaee .lf every town, ano. io. tenor regularly .as to their move- and membership .HaciE acutes Such an enquiry should boevin hed to dass mut or al be linked a Dour organisatons Every inch that the. righ forced to concede wing possibility will allow the new layers ullu ult

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ELe 00U movement, with trec. defeat class energy , the Laltoi.

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ponce/state van on the fascists! *FOr labour organisalol anu imance u anti-fascist defence! •*Build black and white defence laboul moyencol squads! *Build unemployed to organise workers unions the unemployed. *Drive the fascists off the streets of Coventry! Blame bosses not blacks-smash their e araks of the Western emp ovet .Regional risheres board arc all oneer neli nedite immediate aelius While workers are willing to fight they are shackled by which acts at to hold back anc evaly gives sonate Siluris. no policies • 10} defend against the attacks o and their employers Sate c alainse Every resistance employers the • TEe been built : has governasl themselves by 'WOrKeI against osce ol tl union leadership.

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Foot sells Healey Press Page 4 Michael Foot had most of them eating out of his hand in Brighton last week. Amu ne was iccume cucu on a diet of Dennis Healey spect ray Halt his opposition to Party and the Lauvul pead lint confused line on multilateral nuclear disarmament. onue relerences to mos backing Tony Benn and the for democracy struggle the Labour witn rati drew spontaneous applause.

Tiny But then Foot was not addressing trade Just He conference. speaking to the 452 dele- attending

IGMWU

gates the annual congress. held gloom of Brighton's Dome pavilion. The union-despite losses Ine recess on- has over 900,000 members.

The conference is therefore EUSe union delegate conferences.

But the is only the lack of demo aspect of cracy in the GMWU. Delegates at the confer- ence are selected and resolu- uns move on tie 100l OL Congress from 1O1 branches but from Regional Councils. Many branches are evel

ICDICSCECU

Their own kegiona cornels Through such a mechan- the rank and ism, file milanes Lal possible filtered tong out before it disturbs the routine the annual Lian ully congress. "Moderate" of succession man- dated "moderate" speakers can thererore se conutes mo at a moment's notice from he platform Basnett leadership's une with lengthy, monotonous laboriously-prepared contri- butions. Most craven of all were the succession of tired old hacks wheeled out from regions" *around back up the GMWU leader ship's "Special Motion" setting out a so-called Cam- paign

TOT

after the various opposing resolutions had been moved One after another they droned about the "realism" and "firmness" of which specific- Lilt avoRer Continit ment to action in defence of jobs. Gesture Instead it called simply for priority to be given "minimising the eltects 'Docces plans for roundan y, natural wastage, cuts anc in a gesture losures; thres for

SUDEWEL

overtime; and called vaguely far "control" new over technology Arternanive comooste motions-one calling automatic support to indust- in defence altun lanci of jobs, and the other calling "industrial and political action to resist lory policies drive office". - were vigorously opposed Basnett and heavily defeated. But even care- this fully-controlled environment -line to GMWU Conference report by John Lister things did not go all the right leadership. Also wing's way. carried against the Basnett steam- platform was the decision to Lue. rollered through a mandate enco e a morev or uncon to cast the union's 650,000 ditional withdrawal from the Common Market. And against Lavour Idity the electoral college formula left came withi canner une adopted the Wembley 40 votes of defeating the leadership's new multilateral- Conference. But, somewhat surpris ist stance on nucical usan- ingly, the platform made no ament in favour of a unilat- eralist position. attemo to ve me sure votes to suhe deprDy leadershey deputy Absent elections-adopting a rather surprisingly and see stance that decision But it is hard to imagine union conference in TVe. Ly DIcal 01 it Attempts to political ferment now estanise consultation through the entire process the union to govern the cast- workers movement ing

DOCK

VOLeS welc defeated; but the right wing perfunctory witch- suffered setback hunting references left to submit GMWU the seige atmosphere MPs to periodic review. This which dogs the wing followed other unions defection . one Then - Tom ine sponsored MPs to the Social CPSA-was significantly the absent from the proceedings Democrats-to embarrassment of the untor Il tic Lullie. SDP uses block vote The bizarre ideas of would-be candi- between "democracy" peddled by dates, but would-be specta- of the inevitable Social Democratic the toral disaster for the SDP in to Party were exposed the Warneton by election.

more public scrutiny last Shirley Williams won first into the field week. with a declaration that in no On the hand way would she stand. undemocritic of the Gang of Four proved decisive in the he sine in tan net Lumbered of a leading nessman &5 the Party's Chief Executive.

Roy Jenkins, slower off The о 020,000, катор a which carries a mark, found himself the salary with only to top managers. able campaign good 100 miles north of his Hefty losses usual gastronomic haunts.

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of the winnabrity of seats cant, SDP's computer Warrington out of 630. credit can healthy wrong-and will more: than those Jenkins as their public face, Booker this over-optimistic rating as chair- should obviously be revised presided over downwards! healthy transitor profit to hefty loss * Meanwhile there were On the amazed outrage other hand the Setcalls SDP's right week as the wing Fabian Society emerged narrow majority to har SDP full strikingly unorthodox. from mem- not bership. Gang 'Real bullets and she the would hance that was one of stand bounds that the more lucid headlines bourgeoisie found convenient amongst the jumbo sized hysteria of the Sunday papers. has a The six blank shots fired such a role by the young failed Marine the Cueen curlinalau we sit i was colour gave the media an the Army, changed opportunity assassination only to cover koyal to train with them for weeks but In fact the only blood " #У display came from the far too ELt hard. Then on Was the RAF dragged by the hair over a oné of security by Her Majesty's heroes Well did heaven-sent clearly was a opportunity The bloke scope novel support People. anu uratonall what a ludi now virtual antine and l . distinct for crous the that they that The left in the confer- Have not deludly dau lo lose homt ence was largely figure-head reach Militant and such a position SuDDUllCIS message ine communist rarty witn fact a whole new cult ot a vaci elit revolutionary forces either in day the would be nearly asessmatons muzzled absent allogethel. Treading neither the out right provocative pro-capital- ist line of Chapple, Duffy and Losinska, nor the path vi lakes bureaucial. as such rusher Buckton, the Basnett leader- ship successfully demagogi Calls and threats militant action with day-to-day passive accep- tance of lory rule. and falling «ale closures livine is is and what made the

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conference such ground appy huntin fichael Foo But whether drawn word nave forth the rapturous applause delegates accorded to Foot is union leaders will be anxiously calculating in th months to come. TV review The Silent Majority By Peter Macintyre come under attack. supposed to be and we "If you work on the have Heatin lake me mcke our or o ward, you have to be the claimed film selves" that The person who says at some Reading was obtained The powerful most that it has been decepit and sequence showed point "go and amuse lad, Nicky, yourselves' and then goes Taken outo Corlex! pulling aDie But the film had an evi- cloths to the floor and over- and has a cup of tea" dent which those turning chairs in a desperate integrity Those were the words of did nothing aLLaCK. allenot to ram alention impute But as he looked around "orner bacement nurse a Broughcourt Hospital for the for help the hard pressed handicapped Warehouses mentally only had time acaulls. Tant une cars or scaratter the cloths. that the callous scenes Large for the final solution was appearing on our TV screens mentally handicapped -quite to tie Nicky to a pillar where work ti1t Itsult

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stillati siTuatet wep. hospitals against his bonds Chose ou were at inev. itable result of the way the mentally The isolation unit at St Ili- nave long beer hospital run Knowhat Need Thouses was Lawrence's contained Nigel Evans particular the staffing levels man who had been I all Sull • nurses tacing a 12 tive him dic Was • fever • tnl hour shift, spent nurses called it a slammer).

hours struggling to dress and of the mentally handicapped The programme showed a 20 heavily and inhumanity circular from feed more society towards them dependent men. staggered : to turn them loose into One saying that nobody should patien a fenced grassy compound down the be in isolation for more that stretched and with dracula half an hour The tila which focussad out of his sticking the another told Tally handicapped at both mouth programme also claimed that it had been unfair to nurses the camera: of not That stressed us SO; it Was tal mental are South London Asylum) has treet und SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 18 June, 1981 shot A double decker bus was later reported to be under atrest! Kent police spokes- man said: The bus has beer fron service the trom estion ha have taken from thoroughly inspecting allu at now Ene ceat This clear conspiracy • DI this (What colou was it? Red? Take that down constable!) has given a whole twist to the trooping the colour Composure supply heroes and heroines is essen.

tial for the ruling class According to the People "The • nole nation was stil marvelling the Queen's amazing composure The truth is that whether by working class will . Whoe shortly be marvelling at the crackdown to come The Queen (right) victims of the system. The

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olacemen said: "It would be absurd to provide suppose you care. It would be absurd to the best and m nut ca are and most carin That's why people around. they thos Tesseet wonderful adverts" Greater tragedy The weakness of the programme was that it failed explain why these i so under

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• benine the tragedy on the screen lies the greate: tragedy -the Labour Calul. indifference or tne barone government to what in many victims o • already maded uate nealth care It is the (heare unlon. which will not take up c fight against these cuts 1cal and for decent social services ought next to be inves. who tigated

Why British workers should -back Palestinian struggle SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 18 June, 1981 Palestine, like Ireland. of has been area an struggle that has proved within Talse the British labour move- ment in recent years. The Zionist lobby here nas veen very sucessill. Labour Party. So so that, for example, une moen acume Labour rally Chairman lan Mikardo felt free at a Zionist anniversary olicials Office "public boys who share with the towards homosexuality, asm for horses and enthusi- romanticism publication of the pamphlet Palestine: Our Bradford Struggle by the Movement Walli. paign for is therefore very wel- arity Collle. It fills a gap by providing necessary short the Palestinian of case backed Dy an economic use of important statistics and the very effective use of quotations from the Lionist leaders in Israel whose blunt over the years has speaking much to contirm the cone about the nature of the Israeli state. pamphlet begins 1 fit with a orer account oi le and ideology Zionism. The authors show how the emerged Lionic response of a minority of the Jewish middle class to a new which wave on-lisili itself rooted was ine feudalism and the decay of capital- of ism. Rejecting socialist inter- Zionists the into another form of racialism. that was Delicyllk imnosob e o educale diti- in the non-Jewish the Zionists communities, solution argued that the only was the creation of a "sate haven" for Jewry. achievé this However to meant driving other people from their homeland. Palestinian militants revolt, 1936 Zionism developed at a history period when European colonialism was at its neignt. In us idea dispossessing ot people their another countrv was quite acceptable in European middle Cass circles. Once Palestine was selec- country, the the Zionists began buying land Arab land- absentee lords and evicting the Arab peasant fund established-the Jewish land for purcilaseu Jewish con- cettlers dition that land was never resold to Arabs • "pre- Israelis launched their But this process was too emptive" six-day war Lionists who slow The authors then proceed under cover of British army of Arab to discuss the question Israel Socialist?' by looking 1930s [LU. anu institutions that began military training.

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By the apologists tor comsm pom -the evidence Israeli state was created- ot Israell Kibbutzim armed and trained fighters ano ine riscaulul out of a total Jewish popula- The Kibbutzim, far fron being socialist cooperatives tion of 589,000 racially are pian for parti previously destroyec tion involved handing over and the land area of villazes closely linked to the army.

The new Palestine to israel. 36% of army officers are country would contal who in kibbutz members Arab turn make up oniv 3% of the Jews, while population. 809,000 wolld contall Arabs and 89,000 Jews. The Palestinians opposed Massacres the plan but they were nevel consulted. As for the Histadrut-the ine wester capitalist powers backed the "trade union federa- Zionist plan and so did Stalin. tion"- the authors point out When that was dist facully drew from Palestine in 1948 exclusive until 1966; that it: war armed wing up to 1948-the immediately erupted Haganah-participated seized Palestinians: massacres status opportunity presented the war to expand second largest ther (to 77% of the lan territor employer in the country the area of Palestine) and a The racist nature of the same time Israeli state is clearly estab •rove une paes tinian Arabs across the pamphlet. The lished in the thus creating a and the border, o relati of 1952 maiority of Jews within the Nationality Law new state. Jews throughout the give world the right to return to Israel and Refugees citizenship. Israeli This law apply to non- not coes did, quite by the use of matt TeNS simply, al a prussian os Massacres of vitlagers that terror that at Deir Yassir can immediately move Jew (carried out by Israeli Prim to Israel while a Palestinian and was Minister Mendent who Ned in 1948 is barred from Irgun terrorist group wert and of 500 Pales returning. 350 were Racial discrimination villages. housing completely destroyed. extenas to WOrK and the health service. 900,000 Palestinian refugees were created by the concludes with David section by made war. sustemen! The pamphlet then goes Hacohen. Chairman of the on to discuss the 1967 war Affairs Department Zionist Kr Brito Visi from of ine of British multary leaders lo establish group that Israe! was not in danger 1973. "But they are not human of Arab invasion when the Page 5

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reviews the pamphlet "Palestine: Our Struggle" Roy by Stoves and Barry Turner, published by the Bradford Labour Campaign Movement for Palestinian Solid- arity. Begin with sponsor to that boat tha pie tories of their own." • that had This quote is taken fron support report for and the Labour MPs political contained It called for Israeli with- position territory occu within it is the result of long drawal fron and supported vear. colaboratul ora m 17o between and the the rient o ralesuluns u British Labour Party return to their homeland.

beings, they are not people, end o the last At the they are Arabs" Deplorable centurv ine susce in mans The pamphlet goes on to Jewish communities took other aspects of the discuss form the conflict Clearly the record of the Middle Past crisis-in partic between socialism and LOI ular the response Labour Party on Palestine ism. One consequence of this Arab bourgeois regimes most international emergence humiliating After their questions, is deplorable.

Zionism combining defest in the 1967 war. Rut it has been possible LIOniSIT leaders backed through patient work reformist social democracy increasingl isolate those 1902 Poale Zion the Labour Party Nassel Workers) (Zionist group previously. were sei uo Their motive was hunger began 2tTra01

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divert attention and disillus- within the Labour Party for their own their Zionist goals. equally necessary thei El Fateh, , the largest of InAT sociaist tutu Extreme right guerrilla attention to the question of the Palestine and create a similar the leader- assumed ship of the PLO and created shift in opinion. In 1920 Poale Zion affil- that anti- in Jordan (where most of the iated to the Labour Party Zionism and support for the Palestinian refugees lived) a • It remains affiliated: to this Palestinian cause is the same day despite the fact that virtua care as anti-semitism must not be for the Palestinian people for example it constitutes lasted part of the Lionist redera This pamphlet-a mine of September useful information -wil : his army or the ele me socialist in th against the wing assist ever Patestinian guerrillas, their :prepare crushing Movement their to take up that fight. and ending Menache Bas been resistais Such has Coacy

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border raids into Israel for Zionism within suppor The politics of the PLO the Labour Party that Britis are dealt with briefly as the

PALESTINE

1945 authors point out the weak- the Labour govern- ness of their purely national- supported and , Our Struggle ment actually pro. assisted the Zionists in their ist programme for gressive derrocrati non-sectarian Palestine Zionists were fighting Britist which Christian, Moslem an troops in Palestine 1960s Poale Zior Jew will worship. work, hye peacefully and enjoy demo formea a iront organisalor.

cratic rights". "Labour Friends of Israel" which has others Transfer Shore, Eric Heffer, Grevill Janner, lan

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Gormley and Tony Benn is followed by sections on Israel's links with Zionism imperialism and recent devel Wilson, who in return for his opments in the area, includ- unswerving support for Israel Available from Bradford ing Lebanol received financial backing The pamphlet concludes Labour Movement Campaigr leading capitalists to with section the Solidarity for Palastiniar his "kitchen for Zionism in the support esta DIss Flat 3, . 40 St Paul's Road cabinet" in the aftermath of Bradford, price 85p includ Kritist cabour tares his 1970 electoral defeat "Palestine Is a cas hand a On other ino coste. : up in 1969 called group sei tion. Labour Middle encouraged to move out a: was for years Council the Jews move in Arabs have very wide terri- prevented from affiliating

Mandate TGWU to vote Tory anguish as occupation brings Victory in nursery Page 6 for Benn! By Alan Thornett, delegate to TGWU Biennial Delegate Conference week's TGWU Next Tne decision has not changed his biennial delegate con- view) seem ference mandate must pressive It nas a very nasty the union's delegation to sting in its tail. Executive this year's Labour Party unanimously Conference to vote for decison as to whica ca- Tony Benn for Deputy date the union will support in October and to urge Leader of the Party. decision be taken at the But this will not be the case if our union's General Executive. has its Deferred way. At its meeting läst week The decisión which The: reve necuta stance the cano uate wow receive c union's 1.25 million votes taken since : Tony. unot: las Benn decided to stand: that deferred until Septemoer 27.

his decision was wrong and and should be me one the Labour Party confer- had been the bine And it woüld be taken by taken and argued on behalf Tne acle of the union by Alex Kitson, gation. The Executive would Secretary General meet beforehand and make a vcouly Party ever since bern ins move seems to have decided to stand. It had been borrowed trom Clive been union's ASTMS con- endorseu Jenkins at the Finance and General Terrace bieks siti Purposes Committee. vote. Maybe Benn criticised Moss not "Every right" elected for rvans for being The decision would be , Everyone knows that But the Executive's new crucial. dericion decarea Insecau that Tony Benn had "every single right" to stand in the contest Party conterence. Know that if They also for venuly Leduct. But whilst the overturn- Kitson's right wing ing 10W it wid nave time le affect the decisions of other (and has Postions After 11 weeks of by then running with its full children. occupation, parents and quota of supporters of Beal Street Meanw ne maintaining the occupation until discussions with social Hay centre have woll a major victory in their bid satisfactorily to keep the play centre concueer on connume luc playgroup over the next two open. Following Labour gains that scems certamn The coca elections socia services wir recast a newly-constituted Social member of staff to run the Committee has playgroup started during the Services agreed to re-open Beal Street occupation. as from september 1 1o1 a triat period or six months.

Involvement Two emploved to run the centre.

The resolution passed at which will remain open after the six month period if it is the committee meeting tast National conference

WE VE HAD THE MARCH -NOW

LET'S ORGANISE!

Organised by Leicester Unemployed Workers Union SATURDAY 27 JUNE 10.30-5.00pm Leicester Polytechnic Students Union Sessions on Organising the Unemployed and The Fight for Jobs Accommodation available on the Friday and Saturday night Social events on both nights Further details 52 Wyville Row Leicester: or phone. 0533 857828 Constitutionally, Executive does not have the

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stop takine vole on bennie conference highest the body of the union But they can recommend can obstruct tic procedure emergency refused, the resolutions are lake move refer agenda. this took place wone reverse iner decisio and probably lead to a pro- • Delill 010 The Cowley 5/293 Branch the union . oi tabled an amendment to the Labour Party, callng 101 a vote for Benn This has been accepted as a legitimate Tine weenaa and coula De difficult to avoid taking this emergency motions blocked. attitude of the Ine Broad Left could be crucial.

The Morning Star has

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move to deter a decision.

The Star June › commented: the feeling among let- (i.e. among the CP| wingers there is little for early decision on the Deputy and that the time used could get the more fundamental issues of policy fight! for Wednesday Involvenvit in it parental running of the play contro Parents see this as crucial to keeping some control ove the centre is developed continually They have asserted inal ine centre ha.

deliberately run down the last years and Uval could convinced that it are herome once on a livin centre for the under fives.

The occupation has imagination and attention widesoreze in the layers stood as a Leicester. anu Has the cuts. is for this reason that has generally aven 200d publicity the campaign, ran an article two days. the decision to re-open nead- lined victory a cereal lo democracy! claimed article support wholeheartedly and aims applauded their They showed a purpose musi Thines Wala admired. week flinched trom they never their aim and they good deal in getting a public sympathy nefi condemn-, Here ned the mathod wied: of TGWU policy raised by Mr Benn's contest." ment is being necdlled. the Morning right to give him credib- course. ility. Star well that

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the time will Do used not lo build support for Benn. but It is the first time I have ever heard praise for Silkin Opinion is already being whipped against him Bine candidate even is not least inside the TGWU candidate chances of selection are zero.

Silkin's decision to stand is also very important in the ris camoan is rust a cynical Silkin manoeuvre to split the Benn is not 1 only a Deupty MP. but Sponsortu also Chairman of the TGWU Leadership to the right wing Group. Tony taken Tony Benn Benn nember cannot given but not a sponsored MP of his support. But because Already lots sana oo аетостаси Labour Party-a stand which supported. he Silkin's our union "It the It is a trend already means that has tate sion. existence. Workers who dis- management moves paid yet again. like factories or action has proved vitantl rezthy occuDy mate bite tor by than disturies. lawful effective disrupt occupy "democracy" dis- the premises they have, The cussed in this article give in erect, used force-doubt less convincing themselves the lories the end justifies the destroy services, jobs that the rights fought and paid for by Medis Obviously the Mercury Ine work le cids. would preter The right of workers te us lo nave merely made empty protests defend their 10hc services is described as "coer- about ine ciosure cion" and likened to "soccer hooliganism Springboard The •Tories on the out going council who made the But there have been decision to close Beal Street were elected four years ago massive protests. moomising millions of people in demon- the Labour govern when Tory cuts against own Strations ment nau beful attacks on public spending.

over ine last two yeal. Protest by isse as no The swing massive Tory paby an chant in Labour in the recent election policy nor resulting in a hung counci ins cast was a voté of opposition to nell cuts in services course That whole question The occupation like this could be and accounta workers atmocialy springboard to the now raging and other oppressed sections labour movement is a direct of the community to take response to these attacks similar action Faint-hearted liberali "But what if all council the may well take heed of decisions were cnanchged warnings in the article: but this way by groups of peopl class conscious workers can who objecter strongly only gain strength from Polities by pressure the victory. achieven b3 would be me order. or the occupation day. SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday 18 June, 1981 Kitson chatting to Callaghan during last year's Labour Party Conference will be presented as a "cor should get the vote for For Heale Deputy Leadel outon o a new doorude. win would be a major be a device setback for that campaign.

: a device to stifle any di the real issues o Ireland which are having Special statement increasing Im Dae labour movement. 8130.0 Despite havin The Executive alsO trying short-circuit dis- to member. another import. [which covers Counties], the

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ant issue-leland. I hey have leadership have a long recor "make a special Gected to to the suppressing which sion My mandate is to figh usually accompanied for resolution recommendation that my branch the subject are which supports the delan remitted to the Executive of the hunger strikers calls for immediate with which 1 lit delegates Wil

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set ulawa advance of the conference, Counties. Royal Pride strikers need support After 3½ months the skilled workers. mostl who were Royal Pride workers at sacke he picket m furniture factory the scabs, closed the factor Salford are still fighting dismisint em the striker wrote for union recognition. On March 17 the picket At the end of last vear all entered the factori the hat dime joined TAT occupied it. Novak took ou time) joined FTAT Then injunction. When their demands or i stepped a was cease were me and persuaded the strikers t with an offer of a 207 cut in eave the factory after a two occupation -henc day Novak strikers putting the bought off some of the mer much weaker position with promises of putting up For the wages full union Novak has not been seen an rates if they left the union estat une lactor flas rebruar agent's board workers walked out on strike claiming it for sale or let.

and set : up picket lines is near th plant Novak couldn't maintain centre of Manchester and i • producuor witnou valuable site rumoured that after sellin Novak would set in th Salford Enterprise Lone thus evading local rates an The Transitional Programme planning controls. in Today's Class Struggle spite down by their official , th The founding programmatic women are determined n document of the Trotskyist to let Novak dismantle th factory International Liaison taining their picket outside Committee. They receive only £15 week strike pay and despe Available, price 80p ately need support including postage, from WSL, BM Box 5277 My see be sent to London WCIN 3XX sent Shouta 37. Ansen: Noa Park. Mancheste Victoria

SOCIALIST PRÈSS, Thursday i8 June, 1981'* NALGO Conference backs CND demands of shoupu blie then please do so. But think sector a Labour In a surprise defeat wurkers caremutv. government be returned. The resolution gives for their executive, official support "to members Britain's fourth largest •HuIsuldE aCLI

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union, voted NALGO's present stance accordance industrial with support of rocedures, outside Party the ,abour action last week to ballot mem- bers on affiliation to the Hannoes tnar arnl tncoioYHl But there were authority's stand against the Oiner Labour Party. setbacks inflicted government." important NALGO's uOns aacuuirv. n as a 'non-political' union in resolution Was camed which support for mem- The Executive was also management pledging bers taking action in defence defeated in its attempts to aluuucis will WOIKeS Ha 1aKen nammering vư ang cvc cvc Dreveni

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duoDion 01d result of successive rounds of action was strictly policy Tn1S vzer ccn government spending cuts. speaking illegal. The union's 782,000 votes will now join those of As one executive spokes- While there

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pect or a reversar oI tne cuts Illan sald. OUnCL du caus ColE under the Tories, a fight "If you have a branch mittea to tnis polcy in this mandate to break the law, year's TUC Congress. also necessary to press home Ansells: call for inquiry in TGWU closure of Ansells, the battle By Jim Denham It's a crushing defeat, became one force the to that's what you have to of brewery reopening say if you're going to be and to save all 1.000 lobs.

honest"-that shop was 'Compromises' steward Dickie Murphy's the out-

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of the 21-week Regional. Secre- Cutic Brian strike at Ansells Brewery, Mathers. LarV Divisional Officer Doug Fair.

Birmingham. burn and other full time "But „don't blame the made officials very soon continued, members," cear wal iney uun t calia the fight could tney were sona hom stalt io won finish." Throughout dispute, Another Ansells steward. tried to foist manage- they added Alan Harrison. ment s comoromise ucals on the workforce and acti were solo our by tne orncials Regional and Divisional undermined attempts level, but we're keeping our spreaa ine aispute to ouie.

Allied breweries. 'branen logelner ao sudyl TC tho because the Finally, made the more than vse or comoany laciules lu shed heads ore the neer •ncs u sa ol us. heads Ansells Mathers Cosy deals and their branch stewarus payment to tose wno are officers. not reemployed. The two 'choices' offered Despite everything, the The choice wording by Mathers were: 1): "I fully ¿ wecass what make it clea understand that the brewery organisation, and

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onicome vatners wanteu le make that will •not reooen oul wish tu see! working class, continue dispute fights for the the willn the company and accept that ana o stoo ine orilcias wilc Settlement the compensation want deals resuli wiin Tne gaffers instead of a fight for which had been offered will be withdrawn. working class interests. have reconsidered Even then, a mass meet- The dispute which began my position and accept that ing of strikers voted to con- on January 14. was initially impos- negotiations to stop the should Tinue une a soure Unt usilaly commence for the reopening "satisfactory negotiated Edwardes- 110 l Nucleuel and settlement" reached, Aldridge was style package of conoions Ansells brewery. When mounted raTK astron deools. aIle Duckets weIt coupled with the acceptance Breweries Allied on toe cates or une depors to of the offer of compensatory.

stop workers who had been owners) announced

JOIN

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Please send me more details about the Workers Socialist League.

Name Address Send to: WSL, BM Box 5277 London WCIN 3XX And the union also voted

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memoers ane oranches who rense to ne involved in civil defence exercises : •such as Operation squate Leg The shift towards greate political awareness and tow. aras tne lelt In NALUU Is a reflection of the moves place taking among other wae cona uaions ane ue working class. The task of socialists in the forthcoming Cul. struggles is to turn NALGO" general policies into tangible both against action axe- and Labour swinging and Councus Thatcher government. offered re-employment breaking ranks But Mathers', sabotage broke the finally down determ nauon strikers. At a meeting on Thursday 4 June they reluc- call off the Lanuy voltu strike ana allow suu workers to take the depot jobs. But workers are not to allow the comrade- chin nel soncary oat uo over 21 weeks of struggle to They voted to waste. keep their branch -the 5/377 - Togetne IO1 employed 300 and the unemployed 700, and to all use this to ensure that vacancies in Ansells are filled by branch members on a fair Vasis Protect interests Shop steward Barry told how he saw Blinco of the branch in LIlt Tolc Tulure 'We're keeping Ine branch protect the interests of all the mem- ana to ensure dal tic unemployed members •Can call on the re-employed ones recruiting Ailsers stall from outside. But more important, use we're going resources and experience In the best interests of the rest of the movement-especially fighting similat WUin s and strucgies ove Cusult redundancy. Rover nove is indo ll cn the immediate one for them. and I hope tney learn some lessons hom oul defeat. Strike fast, hit hard don't depend on and oricias counciuuls 'public opinion -oniV 'strength and the your own rank and Sile porkers other support of Control leaders Barry Blinco added that he hoped the 5/377 would the forefront reneled econ or all ta the renewed campaign controh the Yeadars, officials, Talik and file make sure that and we can nO eTOuD V let down like we were. eve. agaın The meeting Thursday 4 June had already to voted v3 BimS) demand an investigation into Mathers and. conduct Fairburn, and branch chair- be will man • k en Braaty the matter unions torthcomine Biennial Minsford : 15p

A PUBLIC SHAMBLES!

Left-wing attack 'kills' jobs talks Hell hath no fury like a Tory paper rallying to th aid of a beleagure right Here see wallach. Winsford u nesnire. Guardian' in cry tull Socialist Pres against Dave Murphy.

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Hic emmer MP Sir Nicholas Bonsor who had the gall to attend a public meeting called to discuss anemployment! Black workers fight S. African bosses' attacks Leyland South Africa Has vac acies for Assembly W

OUR STRIKE

The workers call UN on the community to stand together • Minimum ra • Plenty of over • 44 heur weę Us • 15 working

BREAK

• Leyland • lmmed • Grol o Su close to ublic

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ere are still vaca son, with either a U.I. card nice, to: Gate 1, Wimbleo eath OR Epping Avenue Leyland drives ahead Strikers have been reprinting Leyland vacancy adverts overprinted with slogans appealing for against the employer. Attempts to recruit scabs have been only partially successful.

Sirikersat rpland's Blackheal! (han.

Page 7 Buardian Teenage trio blast MP satore, Eeni labe to man to the continuing black struggles of workers the against bosses apartheid state in South Africa, the need for class solidarity action is sharply raised. Solidarity action in Britain WOlAel great strengtn to tne of South African workers- the particularly DaTter eruo arans! managements of companies owned by British capitalists Ila ul sul uasit this kind are currently being waged by workers at the sub.

of BL and Rown sidiaries uee-vach mIlOsI ames. normabon available to Socialist Pres is that the BL workers are strike maintaining the against huge odds. . Manage da ched masine ment has Diupasalile

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anu

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lias organisations the com munity have built support for the strikers have -ome SunKer. returned to work and some beer new recruited managemen! cas oatli doill have been the deniea Di workers who have said that important production is takıne Diact May

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leaders called the strhad discus have had to Clanllcu sons win iu redutis ove action could be taker to pressure BL management workers | Du all 1l Lu Kritich anour movement as a whole must demand of TUC they leaders that organise concrete cass actol Ros theese ser store. Sit0 struggle. the black been • Wilson-Rowntree sacked bi and are fighting tor reinstate- ment Their called union the TUC. But : support from workers at Rowntrees plants heard httie H TItaN or nothing since then of any to mobilise support- HiUVe iee acton Messages of support to Leyland striker the Britist sent to NUMARW snouia oc Goodhops

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Street, Bellville South, Cape Town.

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offer from their leaders are: Ambulance crews in all-out strike various parts of the says: -which would out strike ody country have now added block all dole and benefit their unofficial strikes to payments;

PAY

*Continue with selective the tally of public sector €60 action Tinanced stoppages on pay. ncreased levy; 01 Militant walkouts by apitulat to drivers have government's 7% offer. ambulance

NOW

pecto wern ocouana anc nine dre London ahead of the official recommending that their final stoppage reject Wednesday. officials option - while inev represent nanny av extension Ambulance crews during the low pay struggles of 1979.

advance warning or the parise trike alber the that Britain's mobilise all-out 17,000 ambulance statt, do Somale not intend to accept a pay The fact is that only an increase which is more than all-out strike-with a corres- 10% lower than that of the ponding demand tor soldar- fire service and the police.

ity blacking actor The willingness of the bring this crews to take all-out action, pute with no emereeney cover. Is • LO aavourable speedy outcome. experiences of being Such strike action should

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however be organised in such manipulated by management a way as to keep ranchionine army during their last pay the key computer centres dispute. which handle the • automatic many cases manning pavment of giro cheques Ic claimants. eves are The Israeli bombing dwindling popular support. the service is already down Unemployed workers "emergency who see civil servants taking virtually raid Iraq's Osirah He caremy arranzeu a con frontation with the Syrians cover only steps to proteci them, nuclear power plant was the "Lebanese missiles Meanwhile 530,000 civil leading a determined fight no act of self defence. crisis" selective against the Tories are more in order to stir once servants, It was a calculated act of again the flames of patriotic strikes have been paralysing likelv to rally to the struggle fervour amongst the Jewish for meaningful TUC support.

terrorism. designed to intimi- offices; civil service unions date the dispossessed Pales- And and cow the collection are at the crossroads. pull masses made Us tinian navine Arab envoy Philip Habib appear as surrounding now from all-out actor laual Jack Ticks ul impotent imbecile pleting states. process mass read aimless bid at shuttle diplo steet of their 19 weenext setback the The Zionists know full se t-contie their 15-week ence of the membership and that Iraqi macy begin has gone unl alask shopfloor Israel tweak their ment-unlike is a sig the nose of his malt alsoule international sponsors-the The organisalion. Lilt nro iteration treaty ant that its installation at Tamuz subject-unlike Flouted

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research estab- own nucical modern F-15 By using ishments-to regula national inspection. and combat planes 101 know that the raid on Iraq, They ne quite flouted the con- that nuclear Inere is no way which the sod tall weapons, even it I ne liduis - that possessed could were nomilaly Well, we're half way through the month againsi Israel, they a war used tor derensivi used in purposes only and so far we only have £280.75 towards our would since thus engages in i the deaths the fund this That of £850. means target thousands of Palestinian designed le

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month has got off to a slower start than usual.

people within display himsell as ne cour and Arab lone defender of the So there isn't a minute to lose in pulling back poraers or ine selles sidie Jewish the situation. people castel Our thanks to the anonymous reader from Dual purpose do this because recognises who stuck a fiver in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, the US imperialists. neither The raid however. served an envelope for the fund. If every reader of imperialist a dual purposé: it reminded other Socialist Press were to do the same. we would Israel's opponents that Zion nation, nor ine soviet duce- ship prepared to take any have to raise our fund target!

action that might and make sure that we Meanwhile, let's just boosted the hopes ieopardise the security of the Menachem Begin's righ! wing Zionist state. manage to achieve the existing one. Send your Reagan mouth may Likua l'any 26 mid and donation to: condemnation scheduled for empty fen Socialist Press Fund week's time military BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX had aircratt: inarener has seeking butter up the about •Printed by East End Offset Ltd.. London EZ London WEIN 3XX. registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist Leagu ublished by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, BM Box bzT The election of two H-Block republican prisoners to the Irish is Parliament another decisive nail in the coffin of the hoary old lie that republicans have no popular support. Paddy Agnew was elected to one of the five seats in Louth. and hunger striker Kieran i Docherty elected for Cavan Monaghan. 15 per cent Despite a press campaign designed to portray republi candidates as hopeless outsuers

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15% nearly stood. This show of support, the 30,000 following votes cast for Bobby Sands Strength April, confirms nationalist feeling on both sides of the It is for this reason that the Thatcher government is attempting to through 'Repres tation of the People Bil to exclude the possibility of imprisoned people-whether other Saudi Arabians aliu Vertb by coedishn ere ray verbally condemn and Moscow corerorism" (correctly) but Begin knows that they would state upheld Zionist That upsurge class

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they republicans, trade unionists or other political for elec- activists-standing other words, while denouncing republicans falling to use the ballot box the lores-with the voca backing of many right wing taking MPs-art LaUUU. caron over seven eertain people from standing and thus restrict the choice o1 te ceclorale i the first shas pro duced first substantial breach in "bi-partisan" the the

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Curlilits PLP to support Tory policies on Ireland. Meanwhile in London a some 3,000 demonstratior strong joined a 3 hour march last Saturday in support of the hunger strikers and thei This was larger than some Irish solidarity recent again under- Hual CICS. remains pitifully to respond to Deadlock *The Irish election has deadlock ruling Which Fianna Fail party of Charles Zionist humhing raids take a heavy toll of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians dependent bill-is entirely US knows as well as Reagan tha cannot be cut off such ald consequences without for imperialism. precisely the pro gressive implications of the Palestinian struggie and Arab peoples make necessary workers to support that figh -both bv lending solidarit Fitz Braids Fine nor Garret gerald's Gael hav sufficient parliamentar to form stabl government. The Labour Party, whic and saw •it lost support Clusker zeroe defeated at the polls, appear talk o ready to once again with the reactior ary Fine Gael. Nothing to offer Republicans wer came loo port for the prisoner cand date: came from forme Labour voters. as the Labou leaders have nothing to offe workers who regard the figh Ireland Bloc crucial, the campaigners have failed t address the other issues con irish workin Ironin? CO class-unemployment, livin standards, social services ele geois parties sale adve niche. far erists seek a thy should Leaders budo prime leadership north south and remains unresorved to the organisations oppressed and by seekin cut off avenue. supplies of cash and materia aid to the Zionist rulers.

Only the destruction o Zionist stat the racist. onen the door for a deme th cratic solution problem the nationa oppression of the Palestiniar people.