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first leader of a Western Communist Party to be permitted entry to the United States since the Second World War.

Carter's government couldn't have made a better choice because this 'communist' continues to show himself to be a good friend of American imperialism and an enemy of the working class.

He began his lecture tour by giving a very concrete example of this when he twice crossed a picket line to give lectures at Yale University, where university workers are on strike for higher wages. The strikers union and the embarassed US Communist Party had both appealed to Carrillo to cancel the visit to Yale.

Carrillo responded by expressing "sympathy" for the strikers' cause as he marched through their picket.

The leader of the. Yale strikers refused to speak to Carrillo, who was greeted with cries of "yellow" from the strikers.

Carrillo showed his usual unconcern about such matters and tried to justify himself by saying that:

"In Spain we think that American trade unionism is to the right of the Spanish right"

The response to this from the CPUSA has not been revealed.

The American capitalist class and its representative Jimmy Carter, are more to Senor Carrillo's taste and in his lecture he defended their interests unstintingly.

He supported US military bases in Spain as long as the Soviet Union kept bases in Eastern Europe.

About American investment in Spain he said:

"I am a realist. Spain needs technology, investments and credits to develop: As a commúnist, a supporter of socialism, I can give an assurance that foreign investments will be respected by us"

He repeated his well-known positions on Spain:

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CROYDON - NEEDED-HOME ace Sperham, IFL DUNKENS VORKERS ON Clearly the Confederation of British Industry has been taking lessons from the TUC.

Its outing to Brighton for a first ever public conference last week included the familiar trappings of many a union conference-manoeuvres against rank and file In case there is any doubt about the importance the coalition government attaches to defeating the firemen's strike, it is worth noting that so far less than 500,000 workers have settled claims since the end of Phase 2, in other words the remaining 96½% of workers are still in the pay queue, eagerly. watching to see if the FBU can crack Healey's arbitrary 10% limit.

And of the 3% of workers who have settled, there have been no recorded instances of workers settling substantially below the 10% figure for single figure percentage sums as originally demanded by Healey. officials. Praying earnestly for a fall in inflation rates to lessen the pressure. behind claims, union