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DOCUMENTS OF THE OPPOSITION EXPELLED | THE WORKERS REVOLUTIONARY PARTY IN problems...

We ask you (the army) for nothing but neutrality ... The Junta recognises the important mission which you must fulfill as a guarantee of the period of building the new constitution and the urgency for the Provisional Government, assuring respect and dignity for all components of the armed forces, initiate an immediate solution to their specific problems.

The Democratic Junta has now formally united with the Socialist Party's Democratic Platform to form the Democratic Coordination, SIMILARITY The fact that this has been possible shows the similarity between the political lines of the Socialist and Communist Parties.

The PSOE, like the CP, pays lip-service to a socialist future. But all its propaganda and demands are related to bourgeois democracy.

And, like the CP, the PSOE defines the objectives of the workers in terms of the needs of the bourgeoisie. It justifies its unwillingness mobilise the strength af this untino class bv constant VAILABLE FROM:

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LEYLATE RIDER WHIP. SOCIALIST PRESS. Hednesdn ih Apra 15 5 Behind the capitalist press rantings about "the end of workers commit Hari Kari" which have poured out of Fleet Street over the past three weeks, there is hidden a carefully co-ordinated offensive against Leyland workers by the combined forces of the government, the management and the treacherous supporters of the Ryder management participation scheme.

The recent spate of strikes, which the media claims have "rocked the pound to its fourdations" have an important political significance. They reflect the growing opposition of the working class to the state pay laws of the TUC and the Labour government, an opposition which begins in sporadic ways because of the open treachery of the trade union leaders.

The initial decision of the 32 toolmakers at SU Carburettors to defy the return to work order issued unanimously by the AUEW Executive Council reflects the strength and determination of the working class.

It was also a mark of the growing suspicion and hostility of the workers to the trade union bureaucracy who demonstrate at each stage their commitment to the employers.

The - sU Catburettor men only returned to work atter tactics designed to isolate them had obtained return to work decisions in most of the other plants involved in action and the massive pressure of the media turned on them alone. Friday's Daily Mirror called on them to URKERS baUth "surrender" and Scanlon used his personal "left" reputation to achieve this end.

The defiance of the SU toolmakers was matched by the actior of skilled men at the BL Washwood leath axle plant who also struc or a £10 parity claim and by th itter hostility of many worker fter the return to work decision at the Triumph and Rover plants in Coventry.

In Coventry the AUEW District Committee in a surprise decision even rejected the executive instruction for a return.

Scanlon's disgraceful statement that "not yall here obused by British Leyland are Causeu Leyland workers" conceals the real lature of these struggles - workers re fighting against an employers offensive on manning levels and protective agreements backed up br government policy.

• Alongside this attack managenent have another strategic objective in view.

Working through the "participation" committees they are determined to destroy the right of individual plant bargaining and institute corporate negotiations carried out by national union officials.

This management strategy is supported by the union bureaucracy. Speaking last week on the wages issue, Harry Urwin, deputy to Jones and a member of the Ryder Commission, pointed . to the "need for flexibility" in the next stage of wages policy.

This, he made clear, was not to defend living standards, but to "enable companies to continue with long term wage restructuring" which was the only way of solving the present "anomalies" which arose out of the plant bargaining system.

When Jones repeated this proRyder Shop Stewards Committee.

Robinson's advocacy of management's wages policy is therefore shown to be connected directly to his further shift to the right. (along with many other conveners and shop stewards) since his involvement in the Ryder class collaboration committees.

The March meeting of the BMC Committee also demonstrated in a clear way, the effects of six months "participation' on the shop stewards movement.

Discussion no longer centred on support for sections. .in struggle against management but on assisting productivity and the viability of Leyland.

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