Socialist Press no. 78

PRESS

TUC DUMP

FIREMEN TU

PHASE FOUR

The scandalous

TUC

by Group last Friday for a permanent Pay Board to leaders for firemen to ret-

TO LOI

urn to work and accept state mechanism to cope with 'anomalies and differentials" the 10% pay limit is part There should not, of a major turning point be any automatic return to in government and TUC free collective bargaining next policy on wages. year. makes it The decision quite clear that no section of the next day series of talks with CBI and workers will be supported in TUC leaders on a policy for fighting the pay limit. long-term pay controls, which he hopes to write into the Floating plans next election manifesto. while the FBU is Even Times CBI leaders left the locked in the fourth week of talks "encouraged by the fact determined strike action for a that Mr Healey has started increase, SUo ody MOVe government officials and floating plans Ministers are conference. for the next phase of wage control, when the 10% policy ment Prime rule 12-month and expires next July. statements. brought Last week positive rush of speeches and gaining, statements along these lines.

ceased to worship Denis Healey, speaking last years ago". the Labour's Wednesday to British troops 150 have been flown out to the tourist-rich colony of this weekend, increasingly coming to recog- Bermuda to keep nise that the supposedly "order" in the wake of strike-breaking the barbaric execution of capitalist class. workers black two Significantly convicted of murder. will Irish worker diverted at short notice.

Every meaning of, such the know "peace-keeping" activities. of the rudimentary army the British imperialist army.

* been about While posing as a 'neutral' West London. force seeking to pacify two "warring camps", the role of troops will, these than. hose ensure. the Ireland' he t continuation of British rule.

SOCIALIST

* Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 78 * December 7, 1977 * 15p out wen 9 bargaining and a annual pay settlements, and a US-style three-year turn to contracts. Left talking Arthur Scargill again failed to fight said. ballot. strike for Friday the

TUC

* On Finance and General Purposes Committee unanimously Healey followed this by voted to call on the firemen launching a work, and return support decided that whatever would be given the FBU-effectively backing 10% limit. the Chairing meeting, According to the Financial Secretary

GMWU

tenera Basnett had already com- pleted a major article for the Sunday Times. the down same road" as adopted at the CBI 6 million workers That same day in Parlia- This proposes the impos- Minister ition of common review dates Callaghan defended Healey's and a permanent review body to fix pay scales for 6 million As for free collective bar- public sector workers. said Callaghan, would create that 10 This move for the ideal conditions A Caribbean Ireland? 300-year domination of the And while firemen contin- ue to man picket lines in their The surroundings may be bitter confrontation with the different, but the army's job 10% pay policy, they too are is essentially the same in both army is not a cases. Though two-thirds of the 'neutral" force, but a direct, is black of the 55,000 population tool the leading governmental and administrative positions 150 the held by whites, and whites- soldiers sent to Bermuda were often expatriate British-also majority of the comprise They had just completed island's vicious police force.

"train- ing" in firefighting, and had and trade union take i ne labour movement must unite South duties to demand the withdrawal of British troops, and the break- Bermuda they will be ing of the Lib-Lab coalition able to use their rifles rather that has sent will government and pipes, move in to protect Britain's them into action.

THESE ARE

REAL

FIRE BRIGADE OFFICERS

Fisher Boilermakers' leader John joined in Chalmers witn a similar proposal to fix wages Since the ma in British shipyards. ance or Determined head off The real meaning of the might breach it. TUC decision was summed up And by Len Murray: it envisage "We cannot could be taken action that been suckea m lo deflect the which would government", he said, Phase If the government can't be "deflected" Irom is poncy s Liberals then it must be defeated.

But since the 1uc is deter- mined to protect the govern- wing. ment, these leaders must end The

TUC

up accepting the 10% limit as provoked well. This latest turn of events 'left' is dramatic confirmation of

ASLEF

argued by the position Ray Buckton, Socialist Press since the fire- men's strike began. We have stressed from the

IK OF LISTER.

STALINISTS

SCAB ON

SWAN HUNTER

Page 11 Grunwick pamphlets reviewed ..p.8 Taylor Report. • p.4 James Connolly. .pp.6-7 ..p.9 Workers Defence Squads. 15:h8 0t

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- 200000,000 Deuco Settle 4 years

THE

Certainlv these workers on that coalition is the mainten claims alongside the tur control, This is why Socialist P means that the TUC is forced has consistently fough to do everything in its power the up setting struggles that councils of action, consis of trade union bodies, tena means that top associations-and working cl union officials have already political organisations the long- order to spread and strengt term plans for a Phase 4, a en the firemen's struggle of and systems each area. permanent wage controls now councils of actio Such being mooted by the CBI, by provide will also and by their leadershi for fight

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bedfellows in Labour's right of the trac independent union bureaucracy We have also highlights decision has the diversionary talk by lef verbal opposition MPs aiming from FBU leaders and certain, Labour firemen as the bureaucrats, including portray "special case". General Secretary, and t Healey's speech and Sheet- of the

TUC NO

metal Workers leader George position refute this line once and f all. The fate of the fireme strike will now clearly dete mine whether or not pla proceed for permanent wa controls affecting the wh working class. If the firemen win it crush Healey's plans and t coalition built to impleme them. A few lefts' have blea complaints at Host Topiar But their reis this to mobilisin Lo br coalition the accomplices make them of next year's phase

LETS LES

Workers must demand t talk is turned into action Labour from split and oust Liberals Callaghan-Healey leadershi All those-'left' or righ such who obstruct must be removed, and a p cipled leadership construc in the trade union and lab movement.

FACTORY CLOSURE HIGHLIGHTS-Tories- Treachery in Zimbabwe talks Page 2

- INTERNATIONAL•

In a sharp, abrupt have pulled now announced last although move occupation of prompted an week, the Dutch-owned the plant by the workers on Ferenka has company strike, who are determined to decided to close down its keep the factory open. steel cord plant at Anna- Open the books Co. cotty, Limerick, out of Jack Lynch's Fianna 1,400 The correct demands now throwing workers Fail government, which has for the workers involved are grovelled at every opportun- out of a job. for the ity before both national and The ostensible reason for Ferenka's books to reveal its international capitalism.

the closure is the dispute at Tax-free concessions for the plant involving 900 the uncompensated national- members of the Marine Port isation of this multi-national Ireland, coupled with relative- and General Workers Union firm. ly low wages and government

(MPGWU),

which has cost Predictably, the Ferenka handouts. for capital equip- £1.2 million in lost produc- decision up ment have combined to tion in the past seven weeks.

shutters has the life "adjusted scared that the wver two monks ago, Lit of return" earnings rate of the Irish man-lonely reland is the highest in the Transport and General world-at 29.5%, compared Workers Union

(ITGWU):

to the world average of 11.7% switched the MPeWD it British figure and the at the hidebound protest 2.370 conservatism of the ITGWU bureaucracy which has done Programme nothing to protect workers' interests at the plant. Such a rate of exploitation is not confined to the south, Militant sounding but in the Crisis Itappedis which ridden north, also The MPGWU-whose own suffers the military face of leadership is no less conser- imperialism-the British but who vative, indulge in and its local henchmen, Army more militant-sounding talk- the RUC and the UDR by refused recognition What is clearly needed for Ferenka management and this by revolutionary prompted strike action programme aimed at expro- MPGWU members. priating all capitalist concerns Taking advantage of these in the country as a whole and "labour troubles" Ferenka The talks between to impose an internal settle- and freedom fighters in Moz- black leaders and racist ment-that is, some kind of ambique in the last week of November. Premier lan Smith aimed ment recognised internation- In these raids the white at an 'internal settlement' alv but without the presence Rhodesian army Zimbabwe in have of imperialist troops which have killed 1,200 guerrillas.

opened in Salisbury: the Batish-American plan Muzorewa will almost envisages certainly be back at Smith's The first session meant very little since, in addition conference table when the Friday to the representatives of the talks regimé, y Deeember, though he has not United issued a reply as yel People: Organisation, a letter him by Smith sent to led by stooge organisation Chief Chirau (Tribal chiefs "Because reluc- of your effect tance participate the LIn baowe are local authorities appointed by new initiative (to which you the Smith regime). agreed last another WeeK, week will be wasted, resulting Gambling in many additional unneces- sary tragedies. I ask you as a man of the church to search The talks will not have any and real significance your conscience ask pontical yourself how your action can unless they include the other be justified. leader who originally sup- "Finally, you request them, Bishop Abel ported 412 undertaking that there will be leader of the Muzorewa. Muzorewa United African National no more simiar massacres. As first talks there has been such session no

LOWEL.

Smith is gambling on there because he had massacre your question decared "week of mourning" political irrelevant. protest being enough the country for for the massacres the However, in case there is suppori in OI a IRELAND PROFITS driving the occupying

OLL

army in the north. That opposition to imper- ialist exploitation is not just a six counties matter is shown by the Ferenka events; that the working class are willing and capable of fighting such Militant tries to ignore troops good example of what type of programme the Irish workers do not need was afforded in the December 2 edition of 'Militant', the paper of the geriatric Labour Party Young Socialists. Under "A the headline Challenge Sectarianistn" Militant announced that the Labour and Trade Union Co-ordinating Group

WCC

standing a candidate in a by- election to be held in Bally- mena, Antrim; on December. The chosen one-a certain gramme proudly presented on Eric Johnston-had his the paper. Reformist Allegedly concerning him- self with 'issues that concern people", ordinary Brother Eric puts forward a series of sub-reformist demands: "All recreational facilities to be open seven days a week, and to he tree ot charge the end to the hospital run down Proper housing maintenance and estates to be designed with the interests of people (!) in mind", etc, etc. Brother Eric is also against the 10% limit, for a shorter working week with no loss of pay, for "the nationalisation the major under workers' management the clear make function our security OI the forces to protect civilian population of the against terrorist

COLLI Y

attacks. "If this should necessitate defensive action outside our borders, such as the recent defensive these vocalis. actions will be taken" by far the The massacre. of its kind since the has also had an it in the wdl effect in of the camp Front, the alliance of ZANU and ZAPU leaders Mugabe and Nkomo. Suspicion Relations between them been strained since was aroused that suspIcIon Nkomo had taken part in the secret talks with Tan Smith arranged in Lusaka two by international "Tiny' capitalist Rowland, the head of Lonrho. Now ZANU, are accusing Nkomo been having SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 December, 1977 oppression is likewise clear Both eight the year old opposition to the army, and the eight week old strike and •Co. Limerick occupation in eloquent testimony to i Te that. -all of which are perfectly supportable but which remain a dead letter as far as this pseudo-Trotskyist concerned. Eric is also against sectar- ianism and calls on Northern Ireland's trade union move- ment "to stop the killings". What killings is are meant deliberately unclear, making the demand thoroughly pacifist call for "an end to violence". Not mentioned Most notably, though, the Army and British imperialism are nowhere mentioned in the policies put forward-a startling omission in view of the fact that Northern Ireland crawling with

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30,000 State-financed, State-

RUC,

(UDR,

armed thugs British Army, etc) The omission is undoubt- edly determined by the fact that this sham socialist standing the staunchly Protestant district of Bally- mena, where principled calls with- for immediate troop drawal are probably none too popular. Toad But to capitulate and buckle to loyalist opinion in this fashion is the behaviour of a toad, not the behaviour of a Marxist. Johnston cannot criticise the Army at all in his platform, he-and Militant group which uncritically back him-should not stand at all. guerrilla which he controls. fully to pontically the war. Since most of these are across the north-west borders Zimbabwe, of this holding back allows the Rhodesian security forces to concentrate their forces in the east against the ZANLA armies which are politically closer to Mugabe and ZANU. It is on the eastern front that all the by massacres white troops have place. going on between Mugabe and Nkomo in Maputo (Mozambique) to political try to find response which will prevent being outflanked by LLeN Muzorewa. and the Past experience readiness of both wings of the Patriotic Front to reach negotiated settlement with Smith the imperialists and suggests that the capacity of the Front remain Credale Muzorewa is diminishing and who rules' election? Australia's With general election now just a few days away (to be held on December 10), it seems likely that Gough Whitlam's Australian Labour Party will secure a narrow victory over the Liberal conservative currently Party which shares office with the Country Party. This outcome will be something of a surprise, since Prime Minister Australdn Malcolm Fraser had called the elections confident that his party would romp home.

The last month though has of financial scandals involving the Liberals, and this has contri- buted greatly to the govern- ment's possible undoing. Mid-way through November the former Finance Ministe and deputy leader of the Liberal Party, Philip Lynch, resigned in row over land deal irregular- IElES Shortly after, the Prime Minister himself revealed that he had set up a trust fund in order to avoid payment of Legally there was nothing irregular in the set-up, but the has incensed revelation Australian voters had to put up with Govern- "tax dodgers' for s on menl for the past two years. The admission that Fraser himselt was precisely such a "tax dodger costing him a good number of votes If Fraser does lose the elections, it will not be solely financial because scandals. Above all, it will reflect Australia's the strength of working class, an important section of whom-the Trobe Valley wor- kers-have just ended a three month strike for a $40 wage increase Who rules? Taking advantage of the crisis caused by the strike and lock Fraser called the outs. elections he's been angling for all year. His main electoral theme has been-like Edward Heath in February 1974-'Who runs the country?", , the unions or the government. But this strategy seems like backfiring, as the workers of Australia seek to ditch the party programme wage-cuts and unemploy- ment. Their alternative at the the Australian moment Labour Party, whose policies and structure is akin to that of the British Labour Party. Socialist Press calls for a vote to the Australian Labour Party as a way of drawing the class line between working class, and the direct of the bour- geoisie-the Liberals and the Country Party. Our support is of course ALP's critical, since the to reformist appetite administer the capitalist state means that it cannot satisty the real needs of Australia's workers. But if Fraser is booted out and Whitlam voted. in, would constitute a small but important step towards class for the He Becce

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on brink of new crisis which deadline The Soares Premier Socialist the for getting set support of the opposition parties for his programme has passed. And Portugal is once more political on ot „The Both the main bour- crisis. geois parliamentary -allies have implied that they will against the

VULC

vote of confidence which he has now tabled in parliament.

May resign If the Communist Party with him he does nor vole be forced will lose resign. Even if the CP does Soares, which for of

VOLC

there is now a strong chance, he may still resign. And such election an would take place in a situa- tion of mounting working class anger at Soares policies.

Only 350,000 recently workers marched through Lisbon to protest against the effects of his austerity the proposals-in massive 12% unemployment level-and Agricultural The Reform Law which provides for returning collectivised land to former fascist owners.

Opposition The march also voiced opposition to the workers negotiations now taking place wiin the imr for a new loan the that -and strings are certain to be attached to it.

SRI LANKA

Right wing premier Jaya- having him-- wardene, after self voted virtually dictator- ial powers through the parlia- National ment wnich Party controls with a massive majority, has now set up special commission to investi- gate charges corruption popular front against lormer Mrs. Bandaranaike. premier The main charge against her is that she amassed a personal fortune through irregularities in the administration of the 1974 Land Reform Act.

HOLLAND

Philip ex-American agent and author of a major expose of the CIA, is now being hounded out Holland in the same way as of hounded out Britain and France earlier this year. He is appealing to the Commission Advisory on maintaining Aliens Antillas. that he has not violated the conditions imposed of the residence. One con- ditions was that he shouldn't Holland's relations with other countries'. It is US clear that ment's attitude is such that Agee's mere presence will damage its relations with the Carter No 'human government. rights' it seems for this American citizen. Portugal teeters capitalist parties want to pursue. Portuguese CP s and lining more up mole anti-working behind Soares' class plans. the bitter enmity Despite between Soares and CP leader Cunhal, the CP leaders are no those prepared than of the SP to lead a struggle for the independent demands of the working class. This would almost certain- with terence ly another indecisive «torce recent weeks has Soares In , unless Soares general election, been that Soares wants all the form new manages parties including the CP government on another basis, support his programme from as he optimistically says he the government and might. formal oppos even CP leaders ition; the Political differences want to form a government- al coalton or at lie partite The political differences distinction of 'with Soares and the between ideological kind'. revolve capitalist But just like the Spanish Pallite around economic policy. CP's, the Portu- and Italian Soares wants to implement Stalinists nave. now Autor a series of austerity measures started to present an agree- which would create wiat ment on programme as a step unemployment, and spread this grand popular towards no doubt many bankruptcies front alliance. of small Portuguese capitalists as well. Parliamentary life It is their interests which the capitalist parties are In a press conference last protecting when they call the week Soares recognised this unaccep- change in CP policy: soares programme table" and as being "In the present conditions on is knees" the Internat- in Portugal I

DEUC

ional Monetary Fund. Party the Communist from want to parliamentary life and force capitalism in Portugal rescue it into an extreme position.

profound economic contrary I On the must Irom Its crisis through a policy even of Being win it for democracy. frontal assault on the the leader of a party of the working class and its organ- left, cannot make . of the with parties. isations. allance right and exclude the Com- Indirect means from Party that alliance". Soares . like other social The CP, he said, was a governments democratic party: Western Europe great influence in pursues With policy which is no less direc- the world of labour. And for ted towards the interests of of democracy good capital. don't want it to polarise the But he putting the discontents which exist in interests of international the country. capital first and is attacking as I too am a leader the which World eat working class of a party than the of indirect menes influence labour, I must always main- tain paity * dialogue with In BRIEF Soares described the CP's reaction to his ultimatum as being certain "Positive respects. It is undeniable that they have shown a sense of responsibility. An effort has been made but there is still a long road

PERU

to travel for their positions 40,000 miners and metal- different on remai threatened workers have numerous questions. go on indefinite strike from You ask if I am ready to 400 unless the this week with the make an alliance workers sacked from their Communist Party and I say jobs_after the general strike NO. July are reinstated and We will not have a left exiled union leaders majority neither permitted to return to their ment nor in opposition. homes and jobs. Why? For one thing,

CHINA

alliance, such an because the given the political and milit- The between Chinese and Albanian bureau- ary balance of forces in the country, would risk provok- has grown to judge cracies d'etat which ing coup the coo way In Portugal". the anniversary of Albanian Soares went on to rule out national greeted in the Peking press a grand coalition of all tour parliamentary parties and increasing attacks in the major 'because the right refuses against the completely to allow the Com- 'three worlds' theory. Mean- Party to enter the munist warm we- wille ine recent come given by Peking to the government' Thus, says Soares, he must leader of the Cambodian CP has been followed up by an do what the bourgeoisie demands or it will do it itself attempt to bring together the -a position which the Stalin- Cambodians with another of the CP have shown ally, the left-talking military ists that they accept completely.

dictatorship in Burma. In supporting Soares over the last few weeks has the negotiations accepted with the IMF and most of

CORRECTION

the anti-working Casa We apologise to readers which the IMF measures of the the _ misplacing on to reduce for the insisting titles of our In Brief articles balance of payments deficit, on Vietnam and Peru in our the government budget deficit and the rate

KAY NIE.

inflation.

TRUE IMAGES

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TERROR

ARGENTINA

ARGENTINA

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6.000 MAGES

6000 DEAD

DEAD ERROR

PRISONERS

15,000 ANTI-

. 15000

I SAPPEAR

DISAPPEARSEMITISM

10.000

POLITICAL

PRISONERS

A picket of a film show promoting in 'estment in Argentina stresses the mass repression being carried out by the Videla dictatorship.

VORSTER'S LANDSLIDE

WIN FOR REPRESSION

responsible for Biko's death, The racist government and has been unable to sup- vorster s lanusilue tier tion victory were a shameless press the damning evi- demonstration of the single- dence about the security mindedly repressive inten- police which has come to tions of the white racists.

Biko's In their election the white light in Steve population of South Africa inquest. voted as in the past they built flaunting In fact by laagers (big fences to

THAT N

hideous cruelties throughout protect white settlements) to the the election defend their white suprem- regime showed altogant a Vorster's contempt for the black popu- ... Nationalist of South Africa and Party, which already apartheid huge majority in the all white throughout the world got 134 out of the total of 165 seats. Laughable verdict Since the last election the the main party former English-speaking whites, The combination _ ol evi- disinte- United Party, dence of the trial, the laugh- nas grated. 17 seats were won aole verdict unal noone was the smarter white (mostly in suburbs of Johannesburg) by Progressive the so-called Federal Party. Mining capitalists This party, the darling of the British 'liberals, property of the mining. capit- alists and sections the professional petty bourgeoisie. Nationalists it believes in white supremacy büt clothes it in rather more tactful language than Vorster.

The main criticism which the 'Progressives' raise against Vorster and the nationalists is that their repression is carried out too provocatively. Vorster's election was in part designed to demonstrate very plainly to world capital- - Steve Biko 53

CUT IN

WAGES

MEANS

HUNGRY

embodied the ism that he only practicable way of main- taining white supremacy, on alt its hypo which, despite critical protestations, capital- ism feeds in South Airca.

Parallel assemblies Vorster It also provided mandate for his with a clear current policies of "constitu- tional change" up of parallel assem- setting blies the Asian coloured population, a fraud- ulent system of "local govern- ment" for the black ships as well as the continued denial of all political rights to blacks in "white" areas (87% of the country). For black working be class taken as a warning. It is a warning of the ruth- less strategy of the racists. It is a warning that the kind of represented struggle black consciousness which Biko of was leader, bound contemptuously by Vorster's

ARCINIS.

Essential prop. successful struggle apartheid must be simultaneously struggle the capitalist system against apartheid is of which an essentialist be a struggle in ust the class organised working in its own independent organ- Crowds at Steve Biko's funeral

Teachers must break from NUT leaders Page 4

NEW SHOTS

IN TRADE

WAR

Scarcely a day goes by therefore threatened with the without some new shot import restrictions being fired in the growing

EEC.

between the trade war capitalist countries. This week the European Econ- not only in Community half measures of this kind but also omic competition for succeeded in intimidating through suppliers of its major less than cost price), govern- textiles into limiting their ment export subsidies, and in exports to the EEC. the giving of export credits to companies. the last month 12 Over have been such agreements

EEC

ing of forced. by the No West European number of its suppliers. especially agreement has been possible, with India, Brazil, Soviet Union led last year to however, conclusion of a Egypt or Pakistan. the agreement' men's These elitism The Taylor Report on the system of governors managers in schools and greeted by has been howls of rage from NUT leaders. In September when published after Report was 242 years work, NUT General des- Fred Jarvis Secretary cribed it as a "busybodies charter" He said it treated the head- "governors' teacher as boy" rather than office "managerial with person authority" and would "hand things over to a committee largely of people made lacking in professional exper- tise". Equal representation The main proposals of the Taylor Report are that gover nors' bodies should give equal the

LEA,

representation to pupils schoolstaff, parents, and the community and that they should be directly responsible for the running of the school in all its aspects, framework laid within the down by the LEA. There then bea clear line of authority from governing body LEA to the to the head and teachers.

The Report rejects division of function between the formal curriculum of the which, according and 'behaviour problems', to the NUT evidence to the general teachers Taylor schools, commillet 1n should be responsible and the and

CUTS

curriculum' 'hidden LAnG between the which general cational laeologe school is organised, its non- erupted academic activities ana rela• Tyndale. tionships with the ity). reformed ot system No concern The NUT leaders in their hysterical defence of bigotted knowledge. and bourgeois professionalism • show no shred of concern for conf' et millions the interests of the YIlk working class children, way. many of its mem- In the bers daily bore and confuse.

increasing The interests of class childien clearly do not figure in the motives of the standards Taylor Committee either. tenance; large classes, etc.

Its' concern rather was to the The impossibility attempt to solve task education, crisis makes expressed mass truancy imposition by the the major European capitalist The trade war shows itself charge the protective governments same rates of interest. Last week this agreement exports seemed to be on the point of dumping (selling at breaking down rumours as spread that the Soviet Union had offered France a huge export

OFACT SOI

and equipment if the credit The cut-throat undercutt- terms were better than those credit terms by the by Britain, Germany offered countries, and Italy. on exports to the The French government were apparently on the point 'gentle- between agreeing; this OI

UNEN MARSTON FIRST SCHOOL

CUTS A POKER FITURE

SUFFER.

full, at in extremely unlikely. The minutes of governors would also provide meetings the LEAs with the detailed recorded information about individual schools required by Madeleill methods the enlarged areas covered LEA's since local government Appointees Under the existing system committee serves a number of schools, 26 in an extreme case found Jarvis with dissatisfaction schools, and usually keep no protests conflict the Most of the governors and contradictory edu- such William Over party and merely restate the views of the local education The Taylor Report sees a "participatory" as the Taylor Committee's ques- means of achieving improved back-up to the school in the community, of bringing more youl ot the local area into the school, and of resol- context of evel cuts this involves reconciling parents, staff and pupils to staff redundancies; equip- The school noards set up ment, school meals and main- were ot this the implementa- tion of the Taylor proposals,

GATT

economists the attention protectionism dangers of its intensifying the world slump. They that a way to avoid it would Tor no the rules" and adjust payments changing rather than by tariffs. Gloomy view The other GATT's annual more gloomy view. It says that growth already being the pered by protectionism. and duction French PM Barre meeting Soviet PM Kosygin in Moscow involved prompted Denis Healey to cannot, however, write, a stiff protest to French world-wide response premier Raymond Barre. CrISIS. contradiction The outcome of this dispute is not yet known; but economy and the restrictions the British has government offered to match any credit ol tne nation state is express- ed through protectionism.

terms that the French offer.

The growing panic caused inevitable It IS crisis capitalism the trade war was high- in two reports pro- destructive lighted solutions. duced by the international body, the General Agreement fight on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

solutions and One report by three senior

CUT

_LESS EDUCATION

13 and children were in highly 'higher and being students grade taught tem to Portugal. working chularen. Inat the of science teaching elementary be afraid the Cockerton Shortly the opposed to AC! ary situation. the have no authorities larger probably and But ally by biggest teachers the 1830's. mild approval. Control over poor relief Certainly, and over council rents were must similarly taken over central the government 1930's and in 1971-because sionalism', Labour controlled fight abide authorities by the restrictions centrally proposed. There is no way in which education under capitalist rule can be fashioned to ade- the quately serve Class interests of workers' children.

which the Only 1n a situation dual power such as was achieved through mass struggle in France in 1968 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 December, 1977 capitalists draws policies of the spread of •worker against turn Tarnic and the worker on a world scale. Socialist solution pathetically Such chauvinistic solutions (supported by "clarification of Communist *lefts and of trade and tariffs the Party in Britain) are part of of balance capitalist solution to the by the problems crisis, a solution for which exchange rates the working class pays on a worldie foreign" compe- While tition is blamed for sackings.

document, in Britain, workers are duped report into support for their "own" trade, takes an even employer rather than action to force the nationalisation of world recovery and the employer that demands ally

TABENCH

redundancies. seriously ham- 'A socialist solution must growth of manifestation oppose every the not in ol protecuonisily The evident threats to pro- *free interests of capitalist employment trade' but of the militant and protectionism principled unity prouuce working class. capitalism the Conference between the ot the fights new will turn Criminal fratricidal It is the task of socialists Law Act against these against the mounting The oppos- ition of the working class to the battery of attacks by the Lib-Lab coalition found an expression at the recent conference of the Campaign Against the Criminal Trespass Law. 300 delegates-represent- ing industrial workers, public students, service employees, Trades Councils squatters, and Labour Parties-packed Digbeth Hall, Birmingham, for a weekend conference two days before Part Two of the Criminal Law Act 1977 (Criminal Trespass Law) came into force on December 1.

were left in no Delegates doubt of the vital importance of occupations in struggle.

Workers who had been in- industrial volved occupations spoke of the ad- vantages of being gates-protection from police harasstent at the picket line, facility refusing deliveries of goods and the warmth and were The new their search and without осси- offence, pations a in on six month jail fines of boulelicks £1,000.

WSL

to oppose by tion councils break Kule 15 Lib-Lab smashing coalition. should opposition extract was the result diehard head- inter- some back up its ruling class policies anti-working is all • teachers the the class motivations "profes- sections and by certain and purpose of real law and in label action class of working enemict the ways of develop For the

CACTL,

campaign Street linked to 35, c/0

Last Monday's action by principled outfitters at Swan Hunter shipyard has unleashed a storm of abuse. Their refusal to succumb to employers' blackmail and to call off their overtime ban even under threat of redun- dancy has infuriated leading Labourites. Labour NEC member John Chalmers, who is also on the board of the newly national- ised British Shipbuilders, and who is also General Secretary Boilermakers Union, of the was possibly more annoyed than most. Rationalisation As a leading subscriber to Labour's reformist pro- gramme ne nad welcome le the ship- nationalisation yards-setting aside the obvious fact that such nation- alisation would inevitably followed by rationalisation, speed-up, and the sacking of shipyard of thousands workers. As an employer's spokes- man on the board of the new was nationalised capitalist to as keen as any enforce a no-strike clause on the Swan Hunter workforce.

And leader of the Union Boilermakers' he stands in complete opposition to any inacpendent acton Dy workers-which of course otters a clear lead to Doner- makers and to other sections of workers in the shipyards and elsewhere Other reformist spokes- men had less complicated reactions One Tyneside Labour MP described outfitters' "kick in the decision as a Another teeth". thought was more of a "kick in the Labour's bus cuts protest Barnes and Richmond Labour Party has taken up the fight the against plans of the Tory-domin- ated

GLC

to stop buses from suburban going further than central London. This involve half will each day million people change OI having to buses Tube, transfer to doubling fare costs, and the plan will cost £10 million to порсшень. Inconvenience Typically the Tories ignore inconvenience this will the cause to commuters, and the problems attendant

LABOURITES ANGRY

AT SHIPYARD

VOTE

guts after their campaign to the shipyards national- get Only Jarrow born John Evans MP time mention the role of manage- britisn oniodulders who had allowed the ment, dispute to linger pay three months and attempted to end it with ultimatum. He attacked by Chalmers who spelled out his class of complete

DOSILION

collaboration. 'It's our industry now and its an industry with big mouth which will take a lot of feeding". Bankruptcy While Chalmers clearly the feels with home capitalists on the board of the cor- bnusu baponwacts, is of course now the possession the OI working class or even slightly controlled by workers. Like British Ral, like the National Coal Board or like the British Steel Corporation British Shipbuilders nationalised only at the point wnele lls povale ownels were verging on bankruptcy, lurch- ing desperately from one goy- ernment handout to the next.

And while steel, the principal by volume shipbuilding, is now produced by the "nation- alised" British Steel Corpor- ation, there are a thousand staff facilities and garaging, finding suitable termini.

Despite the careful silence of the campaign on bus cuts by

GLC

implemented the when was Labour controlled, it should be sup- ported. But it is essential that the fight is broadened to include the whole labour movement, especially TGWU busmen and union branches whose mem- bers will be affected by these cuts. be For this campaign to will be fully successiul, necessary to demand an end The to ail business secrets. of London Transport's books will reveal the need for long term plan- of transport ning interests of the public and the workers, need transport realised by only to workers' control. mass meeting at the Swan Hunter yard PHOTO: Chris Davies, Repott John Chalmers and one ways in which these 'nationalised' concerns are their capitalist exploited boards in the management profits of interests private industry. of suppliers, Hundreds bankers and other enterprises 'nationalised' the use industries source revenue from sales or interest payments. Chalmers, insofar as he is functioning member Shipbuilders board British and not merely a decorative topping to give the illusion of trade union involvement, all this. But he must know remallis such. Occupy His boilermaker members Swan Hunter however, at who are now being threaten- ed with the sack, must line up alongside the outfitters in employers rejecting the blackmail. They must demand an elected committee be given access to the books of the 'nationalised' determine in whose interests Le corodo I be run They to must neieu being prevent redundancies imposed and demand that if orders are short, then the reduced of work available divided among be each section of workers with no loss of pay. Declare support And in the meantime they must declare full support for being battle now pay fought by the outfitters.

Union delegates to Labour GMC's must take the lead in demanding that those Labour MPs in Tyneside and else- where who have denounced the outfitters vote must be thrown out, and representa- committed oppos- ition to the 10% pay policy Lib-Lab and The elected in their place. Inquire into LP's Coalition In between writing a major feature article for the 'Sunday Times' advo- cating permanent wage controls, General and Municipal Workers Union supporters leader David Basnett has been campaigning for an inquiry into the Labour Party. This call, first moved at the Labour Party Conference, estimated £5 million needed have no intention of broaden- has now been backed by the ing the base of the Party by •wel ubiquitous John Chalmers of keep the afloat' and turning it towards the kind of party Boilermakers Union. by build its new headquarters.

socialist policies explicitly

UCATT,

the Post Office Callaghan the by TeleCted Piper Engineers' Union and by the and excluded by leadership

TGWU.

the Lib-Lab coalition deal They setting out to Far more likely is lnat ensure that the bureaucrats Rightly suspicious beneath a cover of concern who pay the piper with their of the Labour tor the tate members' money opposed by It has been Party at local level, Basnett,

NEC

tune on policy from the top Party's 'lefts' on the Jones and Co. have a plan to (which they already control) who are rightly suspicious of increase their hold over con- to thee tom mostank that the intentions behind such an stituency parties.

JULIES

inquiry be conducted in ought to Particularly alarming is the Waning membership

GMWU

every constituency resolution way Ene demand that the local MP or Basnett laments the fact that: never beet show the slightest candidate declare where he or recognise that seen to "internal Lib-Lab she stands on the the Labour Party is no longer interest in the of the

GMWU.

coalition and the wage-cutt democracy' mass party ing policies of the Callaghar membership. We must Yet matter o urgency for: his motion 'as a leadership. attempt to reverse the down- that support them "An inquiry into the struc- ward trend in Party member- those be removed at once. should ship and Party activism" ture, organisation, finances and of Those that claim to oppose for all to internal democracy Yet it 1s plan put must be the most moribund the Labour Party at all levels them see that the forced and to declare Party and relations with affiliated test, and deserted Labour that they will branches are those controlled organisations and other Party openly

VULG

consistently against the Lib- by the right wing who reflect interests". of Union bureaucrats know coalition in parliament, political outlook LaD and that they will launch Banett and his fellow with TE121 Ine walling bership and financial standing campaign throughout labour and trade union move- And it is certain that the of the Labour Party, they are ment to remove the Callaghan going to be the ones called on union officials who have now -Healey leadership. swung behind his inquiry call to cough up the bulk of the "inquiry" along these An lines would create ditions for a renewed struggle socialist policies within for and clear the Labour Party aside some of the dead wood 'tefts" right wingers and take that have politically alienated Labour Party thousands activists.

A REFRESHING BREAK

from bourgeois legality promised by the Oxford City Labour foT its dismal Xpro- the gramme for Bazaar': "Also many stills the operated party branches, gifts, raffles and many side shows" (sic). Out correspondent however eager failed to find any trace of booch on sale. Basnett at the TUC

PRESS GANG

Looking in the mirror In any event it would be For journalists on the ately enough, learned of the difficult to the TUC

TUC

plan in a letter from argue for once 'Daily Mirror' with the that assessment decision to ditch the fire- Fleet Street headline writers It said that in return for men publicly must have of

TUC

blow made going back had a special meaning. and a promise of more talks against the firemen. The Daily Telegraph said: the journalists agree They returned to normal would "TUC spurns firemen in pay that negotiations: work on the same evening battle"; The Times:

"TUC

so arranged that be that the Finance and General fight full production will continue leaves firenien to Purposes Committee of the alone" at all times, and that the rele- TUC issued its stirring state- The Daily Mail, which had accepted ment that the firemen could vant and normally reduced deadlines will be kept". been published get lost.

TUC

form after action over pay by The formula also journalists "The constraints of pay their said: Murray was reported as said: 'Firemen You are on told: policy guidelines also a sayung: your own" factor" in the talks "The government is not The Mirror itself relegated likely to be deflected from its In other words they can the story lined simpid TUC able to present course of action.

and headlined simply similar take action and so long as He echoing was snub for firemen" statement that the TUC Print- for 10% they settle probably the ing Industries Committee had was productivity deals. of the weakest assessment issued over the Mirror pay Whether this had historic betrayal by any dispute. 'negotiated', if affect on Fleet Street journal- the Fleet Street papers. The

PIC

Perhaps it was too dan- ists is not clear. inal is the word, a return to Fleet gerous to hold up a mirror to normal work for Mirror jour- Normal work in its own NUJ members. What Street generally means the nalists who had taken action of Tun of witchhunts is there to see is a horrible claim for a rise normal TUC without its against any group of workers £3,000 a year. who take action. The journalists, аррорп- Inash.

Ireland

ROOTS OF

TODAY'S

CRISIS

Part Six:Irish Labour and Connolly's failure There is a myth that Easter Rising. It should not Annals of an Irish labour was taken by be thought that the Executive memous. majority were opposed to Ire- Active Life, Macready William O'Brien after the conceded that: land's right to separate from 1916 rising in a rightward "This state of affairs was a England. direction and different Far from it: in fact when serious set back to muitarv actions during the best season from that adopted by Larkin union leader James to the Dublin Trades of the year." James Connolly before

STURE

Council just before his depar- This was 1920 when the his execution. October 1914 on a working class that Connolly ture in But Connolly's TaCt fund-raising tour of America he told them that "he hoped British entire practice laid tne basts the for the national separating bear, pike for Ireland offensive. But the understaddiot the question from the class ques- before he died". With the tion. struggle lor when he heard of Connolly had Yet independence against Britain, strategic importance of trans- Connolv's growing national- the truit oi that oractice was ism and military preparations port in January 1916 appears born out by labour abdicat-: Larkin trom deserted nim ing the field completely Attito say "the boys are April. the petty bourgeois Sinn Fein Although his union did party of Arthur Griffith.

Gesture not dominate transport As the national resurgence totally (there also brought a clash with Britain The Rising was essentially members of the British based clear it became a gesture. Connolly, the most NUR) Connolly's failure to Connolly that in the Labour clear sighted of the insurrec- call a transport strike-calling Irish party Daser on TAne had knew it out the union which (in Trade Union Congress he had chance of success and made Larkin's absence in America) helped to create an instru- no serious preparations for it Connolly himself led-can ment which was totally inade- to be successful. only be explained by seeing to lead the the Easter Rising as a blood Hale Three months earlier in his struggle in a socialist direc- paper the Workers' Republic sacrifice, a romantic national- tion. he had said that: ist symbol to inspire a future He swapped horses in mid- 'The power of the enemy genetation. and not at all as a stream and went over to the to hurl his forces upon the serious attempt at proletarian

MATCHINS

forces of Ireland would be at the mercy of the men who Obscure Executed conroes system." Various alleged 'Marxists' Besides Connolly, other have attempted to obscure The truth of this obser- labour executed acknow- the lessons that should have vation Michael Mallin, from ledged by General Macready, been drawn this by 11 C 0 ec Richard O'Carroll and Paedar British claiming that through Ireland during the Macken. Connolly labour participated chel 1n William Partridge, tortured in the 1916 Rising. Independence war. in an English jail, died a year Labour's political relation- Precedent later. As well as those dead, a ship to the Rising and the whole layer of the trade subsequent struggle against munition. the British however is well strike begun in May 1920 union leadershin was arrested Connolly's and incarcerated expressed seized on tne precedent sei decision to raise not the red British In short the attermath of dockers, by who the Rising was to see Irish the flag green refused to load munitions on Liberty Hall, headquarters of "Jolly George' labour enter the Indepen- the ship Connolly's Transport Union.

dence struggle and play the because the arms were for the When a majority of the decisive part. But it played it use or the rolish government Executive objected, Connolly against the Soviet Union.

as a decapitated movement.

It fought but the fight was their reluctant British soldiers secured When by informing moved in to do the dockers carried on under the banner acquescence of Sinn Fein. And it was the work, railwaymen refused to rection was about to take what the troops had petty bourgeois nationalists who reaped where labour had unloaded. place! Such was the reality of This stoppage seriously sown. Tragically Irish labour had labour's participation in the disrupted British attempts to been developing to the stage where it could consider insur-

ICELIOIL.

When the bourgeois press labelled the Easter Rising as a 'Larkinite-Labour' affair they did, this was not simply middle class malevolence on their part. No other force seemed offering capable of challenge, and the idea that labour should subordinate itself to petty bourgeois nationalism appeared to cut combatew color c ol development up to 1916. Sinn Hein's pape sold 2,000 • the copies a week, Irish Worker sold 30,000. While Labour had candidates counch's throughout the country, Sinn Fein was limited to two colncilors on the Dublin corporation. Popular While the leaders of Irish labour could call strikes and lead thousands demon- strations, Sinn Fein had next to no populai support. As a national party Sinn Fein had been in decline since and -on the 1910 eve of the Rising that was to propel it to power-it had so shrunk as an organis- ation that it was confined to one central branch in Dublin.

Only the efforts of British imperialism on his right and James Connolly on his left Fein raised Sinn leader Arthur Griffith to a political height that was quite beyond •WIl

NOL LO

those of his near mention non existent national organ- isation. process whereby Connolly could abandon his socialist colleagues and throw his lot with confused Members of the National Executive of the Irish left to right, James Connolly, dreamers like Patrick Pearse and an old Fenian conspirator Clarke like lorr beer Ilas adequately described by Sean O'Casey his little booklet is ditticult to stand the almost revolution- ary change that was manifest- ing itself in Connolly's nature. The labour movement seemed by him to be regarded as a descrescent force, while the essence began to assume the finest element of his nature irish the high creed of nationalism became his daily while the higher creed rosary, humanity that had long bubbled eloquent lips, was silent forever and Irish labour lost a new leader." An accurate description is not wever an explanation.

That be sought in must Connolly's politics. And not Connolly's the only since Labour Party that was not only the created was work of Connolly but anything was Larkin's. Connolly was to turn awdy from what he had helped to build, while Larkin, when he returned from America too late to guide events, was to both reject and be rejected by the party he had largely created. Irish Labour The Party developed out of the Irish Trade Union Congress and in fighting for its Connolly and Larkin had to with those trade do unionists who argued that labour in Ireland did not need its own party as long as the Parliamentary Irish of

WALLY

Parnell, led by John active Redmond, was so. TUC and the Irish William O 'Brien M.J. Egan, O'Carroll. Sitting, Thomas MacPartlin, D.R. Campbell, P.T.Daly, James Larkin, and M.J.O'Lehame Connolly Westminster on behalf of the cause of labour! Congress To prevent the moving towards setting up an Irish Labour Party, these advocates were prepared to enter into a bloc with a group unionists in Belfast ot trade led by William Walker. Walker and his supporters agreed with Larkin • that the working class needed its own party but they claimed it was more "international" for Irish labour to affiliate to the British Labour Party than to set up their own nationally limited organisation. At the 1912 Congress Larkin and Connolly finally overcame the opposition to the Irish formation an Party by forty-nine votes to another nine teen abstentions the following until

YOT

year's Congress were serious moves made implement the resolution and the Party and rules were SaraCLuTe Party's revealing the future problems. Whole Class Connolly and Larkin both shared the view of Karl the national Kautsky that sections of the Second Inter- national should be parties of the whole class. This was a conception that Lenin formal too gave adherence to-while in prac- tice building a very different kind of party, a programmat- Ically homogeneous vanguard.

Lenin had fought against the ideology of the bourgeois- le wnenever ne saw it in the working class movement. He traced line of continuity from the Economists through the Mensheviks and, after the Labour Party in 1914. Standing, Thomas Cassidy, W.E. Hill and Richard

20020020 defeat of 1905 some of its HAne Revolution, Yet the that Connolly the Liquidators. envisage coulan t that Lenin professional organisationally representing "bourgeois the influence ideas within workers not movement. Kautsky saw reveals opportunism as some- Connolly's idealisation thing that have material base within the (ie working labour but a hang- him. union flowed proletariat. To fight to be party ground, On TA TRAGE party, self view Lte was the kind that party Arguing socialist until Larkin its own party, was party. union. cation was another fighting undermine capacity create division in the ranks. Labour Call iccomplish a deal great Second Inter- use of national at its congress in one arm Amsterdam adopted the with both party" and the irms-the arrived Ireland com- Here which he beileved positively for the Despite of the whole class. its leading this would only passive the class's gress put it; and flows forth all its class strength in struggle the dance the bourgeois only one exists hat could that vaLY only There- make every effort this basis For such unity the society anew. international the Significantly the Irish before they are party all responsible fatal affiliated trade The breach. smali- farmers their societies Whether Connolly was of the _Leon American Labour was by the Party party's that the than fact that he LaLL trade. union be swamped co-operative test at which applied various he expressed the socialist well. including even Indepen- One was time given over sexual -of which leading the questions, of Congress monoga-

BEDPOCIS

based Connolly and the other party, mic Campbell William these days Johnson the copy of Weekly (the SLP's members! While the tinding Panel! Party attack Trade Congress the in it. bn_ the same. clergymen were not. Connolly that their absurdities- professional "The party- Manti nothing which we ing party Irish trade the The complicated Labour would be by the responsible the aimed WOrKCIL

SOME

VELY

Just as their barbs at his De opponents. industrial fight Leon was antl hible." Catholic unprincipled way dominant culture is Catholic where it is but in America. the ruling class's ideology.

American immigrants Catholics. prohibit the question. have nothing to do Immigrant worKer. He Erfurt the programme 1891 which declared: "Religion matter for members party" Unknown Kautsky protest. Lenin a year ent view that: "So far as the party of the S0019101 proietarial concerned religion is not a private matter. Our the emancipation iation cannot and must be indifferent to lack of religious belief." What diffetence outlook this little quote It tells us in its expresses. compressed way everything we need to know about the different parties two very that these two men built.

Connolly starts from and remains at the existing con- of the sciousness working class, believing that to main- tain a relationship with that class, its lack of class con- * "The Party of Ireland sion anti- theological its meetings private. This with the chief parties in the world which have frequently for and be matter action." Evangel) women, regarded De he August women, middle class could working Cause political economic present led to was but you can hundreds were studying by judic- io us extracts from its pages.

James Larkin: "The boys are not to move he saia from America when he heard Connolly was making military preparations and turning towards nationalism.

assume, while underestimat- political tasks that ing tme that Connolly's conclude The key of the party. Clara party to trade unions with the best book agitation to accurately the society". rising of the These Connolly class. As he through brought Ireland Liberty Hail America and insurrection close friend tered--if there hope of success. for Connolly emphatically his own support was meant, in agricultural ution al all both proletarian character purely that the Irish revolution must L The uprising fails. Some of those taking part are marched under armed guard to Richmond Barracks.

If however the role of the party is seen differently, as the bearer of the class con- sciousness of the proletariat, as the conscience of its his- toric vocation then not only are its leaders valued rather less fecklessly-that is the least of it-but the party's tasks in relationship to the bids die seen In a less passive, less fatalistic light. Fortress That homogenous mass that rises up the wall of the capitalist fortress until it laps over the citadel is recognised all as homogenous not at composed of quite diverse elements that can only he won through the most advanced layers. Only with such a vanguard partv can the class constitute itself class. Only as by sponlancous trade union struggles can the working develop the being consciousness of the protagonist a revolution which emancipates not only the workers but the whole of society. Exclusion Connolly defended the exclusion of farmers' cooper- groups the . Congress-based from Labour Party not because of programmatic differences but because of a fear that trade union affairs might fall into non-trade union hands. In this showed he how far he was from andy Lenin's conception, and illu- strated instead, by negative and tragic example, that Leninism is the Marxism of this epoch.

BANKRUPT BOOKLETS

ON GRUNWICK FIGHT

Page 8 Mike Higgins-reviews two pamphlets recently published on the Grunwick struggle. 'Battle of Grunwick' is published Socialist Challenge at 30p. 'Grunwick' is published by by Socialist Worker at 10p, (16pp).

DISTRIC

Шон? ng The hard fought and behind When Trotsky was sections of workers attempting to give a general the Grunwick strike would at protracted struggle at the very least challenge the characterisation of centrism Grunwick has always policies of this he made the point that, due been an important test of formlessness, it could would its and Lover ment defined strength for the trade probably whole only place the DOSIlively great difficulty. What of the with union and labour move- future Lib-Lab coal- one could say with certainty, ition government the ment. As the messages of that though, support, ( resolutions and eclectic and theoretically Swept aside mass pickets continue to 'played with all the colours of the rainbow'-in a nutshell solidarity demonstrate, The 10% straight- pay *nothing more than for the strikers 12-month jacket rule, and crystallised confusion'. immense and widespread. both concocted by the of The guiding thread and Yet for the strike to be

CONDOM

confusion and accomodation would be swept aside by such successful this solidarity has to the bureaucracy is woven a mass upsurge of militancy the always required a leadership each of night through and the role of the "lefts' in to direct it into the correct IMG pamphlet's 13-odd pages Westminister and out channels; key sectors of the of type. would be spotlighted for all working class must be led to to see. IMG method black all services and supplies But the fight at Grunwick to the company. the plethora of has also through DuE Rather than each of its 20 different, Recoiled the radical left groups and Without exception the spot. largely unconnected sections During the last few weeks trade union leaders have stub- the method of the IMG will clearly from emerge looking at a couple of points.

At the outset -the pamphlet sets itself the task of 'mapping out the path 3). the victory' (Page For

IMG,

this path doesn't just leao in tne same dreclon as the strike committees, follows it inch for inch.

The section entitled 'Sup- Committees-the port example demonstrates this pertectly.

The IMG was lyrical over only self- the role of their initiated committee support and

CALCILS

defunct). purposes now the strike committee and un- critically reprinted and distri- of pamphlets on buted its bulletins. couple bornly recoiled from mobil- Grinwick have aopeared: one Quite wrong ising blacking action and from the self-proclaimed "Trotskyists", refused concrete support to Inter- are quite wrong to• They the mass pickets. Marxist Group national that 'we have not from assert This comes as no surprise

(IMG)

the other the with specialists of "rank and file' ditterences to only serves to maden 4o. (Page Workers the strike committee illustrate once again the total the Socialist Party IMic s dem and tor nationalis- since apart from union

(SWP).

bureaucracy which is chron- To read the IMG's ation, they have not had any offering, Battle of Grunwick, of ensumng incapable differences. the elementary to learn something of the most The results of this method trade union rights. IMG's headlong dash towards leads them to the disastrous The mobilisation of whole

IN REVIEW

5/2 C

GRANT

COVLE SOL

UNIT:

statement that the strikers 'were lucky receiving deal of help from .. great Jack Dromey'! Spelling out Quite what form this 'help' took the IMG prudent- avoid spelling out. In fact Dromey's role has been just the opposite. He has acted consciously the to constrain strike. At key moments such on the publication of the Scarman Report, when should have initiated a break the bureaucracy and from fought for the independence of the strike committee from the APEX leadership, mOOl ising whole sections of the working class behind the call for blacking action, Dromey manoeuvred to head off any such moves So was Dromey adamant that these policies wouldn't even get a hearing, let alone be fought tor, attempted to have the WSL banned from the strike com- mittee headquarters! More confused The IMG's section Scarman even confused. In the past, rather than call for a boycott of the the IMG remained silent. When it was published, silent. actually called for the implementation of its As we have made clear in past issues of Socialist Press, these findings served to create cover behind the finite bureaucracy could manoeuvre in their bid to sell out the themselves

SITIKCIS.

report's proposals mean only sackings and no union recog- Through the distorting of opportunism, things though, appear differently. The main thrust of this SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 December, 1977 10i

KIM IN AS COUNCIN

Jack Dromey section of the IMG pamphlet is to argue that in failing to findings Scarman's George Ward proved The

IMG

himselt a tyrant. view Ward consequently not a chaotic despot. This tinpot employer is then seen as the obstacle reinstate- main to ment. Follow this line of think- ing a little bit further and you with the abstract demand for "nationalisation control" workers' under touted by the IMG Little space It is tempting TO Deleve that the IMG, in giving little the question of space the nanonansanion pamphlet, had begun to see of the this demand at the time it was raised. likely, though, it More raised barriers in their moves unprincipled; anti-Trotskyist shapeless, 'Socialist Unity' bloc. the IMG's latest After all, Big Flame stated bedfellow, openly in last week's issue of Social to Crodiece et kind of want to produce the kind publications that "even W.H. find to Smith Wold resist stocking" The Battle of Whereas Grunwick does contain an chronological interesting table of events and a useful section on the laws of picket- ing, the Socialist Workers simply Party booklet-titled Grunwick-contains absolute.

nothing to recommend it - apart perhaps

UCAT.

5 PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report from the price. mass picket- For the SWP, ing has always been the key to winning this dispute, and has always Provaca Socialist Worker inspire Rather than seeking to draw out the lessons from the mass pickets, highlighting the tole of the police and empha- sising ine neca lot poliucal preparation and organisation, the pamphlet remains trapped in the grip of sensationalism with Councillors "white and drawn", "having more police fun beating pickets and their supporters", MP's shout- "animals" to the police ing *dragged being and pickets off by the hair" (Pages 8-9).

Sabotage Of course the pamphlet's is main Durpost gandise the SWP's so-called "rank and file' tactics. Seeing the leaderships union woodenly as "right wing" and to "sabotage the strike' ready answer lies they Deneve me in organising workers outside of and away from the bureau- cracy and the official labour

MOVCHICAL

That this sectarian policy has some resonance amongst sections of the working class 1s without doubt. But the signal lack of success of the SWP orits 'Rank and File' front organ- isation in disputes during the last period demonstrates that.

it offers no real answers.

said, As conscious striving for unity on a revolutionary vanguard of pecular to the proletariat." the {Crisis of the French Section, p. 65) Lead vanguard The task of Marxists is to build and politically lead the the proletariat. vanguard of That is a political task shirked by both the IMG and SWP. The questions of leader- ship, programme and theoret- as absent in ical clarity are Grunwick and The Battle for they are from Grunwick as issue of Socialist Worker any Challenge you may pick up.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 December, 1977

OUR

POLICIES

FOR WORKERS

DEFENCE SQUADS

the workers' movement must to take the necessary 'Engels defined the

NICS

policy of self-- training for that purpose, and state as 'bodies of armed adopt defence. acceptance of the democratic men'. . The arming of the book Teamster required his discipline proletariat is an impera- Farrell Dobbs Politics out- combat unit. activities tive concomitant element lines the methods used by 'Moreover, its were conducted only with the for the American rotskvists of to its struggle 1930's to defend their consent of the membership of liberation'. involved, trade unions against fascist trade unions TITe Transitional Programme and under their control. threats. As the class struggle workers sharpens the movement comes under physical attack from two directions. The state has, for the purpose of repression, trained armed army, the police) whose job it is to protect the property of the ruling class. Trained The recent trend towards of the armed forces as use strike-breakers in industrial disputes (firemen, air traffic controllers) is only few steps away trom the use oi The Trotskyists were then 'As in the case of Local these forces as direct agents in the leadership of Local 544 544 itself, the guard repression, TOlE functioned democratically in which have of the International Brother- they been Steps Teamsters, its internal affairs. thoroughly trained over the hood of taken to carry out its assigned eight occúpation of Minneapolis. decided through Northern Ireland. Local 544 had led open discussion and majority number of sharp battles with see the expansion of special the employers some of whom vote. This procedure was also used in selecting leaders who Special now

UNTS

such cncouragg command Patrol Group whose job it is 'Silver Shirts of were to have fascist America' to start a campaign authority during any combat.

to provide the sharp cutting structurally the body battles between the in the city. eage In was divided into small units 1938 police and the working class.

August In response to this threat, Local to facilitate rapid mobilisa- The most recent example tion in the event of a surprise decided of the special role of the SPG 544 to organise was, of course, the attacks on defence force. From the start attack the union move- ment: Squads of five were the the Grunwick picket lines on this was seen as being based November 7th. with a member of each widest possible norm, designated squad being support. Self defence captain. In a relatively short an elite body. It was simply time the force thus organised At the same time the was built up to about 600.

fascists are stepping up their a businesslike formation open to any active union member.

onysical attacks on the black Intelligence unit The only requirements for community, socialist organi- Individual members contri- its ranks sations and the workers' inclusion in buted arms to the force; drill readiness defend the movement generally. and lectures attack, willing- sessions To deal with these attacks TO TronI

BLAUN

WHITE

UNITE

Mass demonstration last year against racialist attacks in Southall. Marches like this were the first in which masses of immigrant workers and youth were mobilised against fascism.

creating a real possibility of workers defence squads.

tactics to be used in fighting fascists were held, an intelligence unit was set up to the fascists keep track movements. guard section of the dispersed one fascist meeting and followed this up in the Northwest Organiser propaganda The Minneapolis Workers Defence Guard designed to scare the fascists off. So well organised and strong was the defence guard that a public display of force enough keep the Was fascists out of Minneapolis: emergency mobi- • = • ali lisation of the defence forma- tion was called at one hour's Only three people knew what was up. As part of the test al others were left with the impression that real crisis had developed. By the designated assembly time, just sixty minutes after first call went out, about 300 members of the guard had turned out ready for action- an impressive performance'.

The mobilisation was held on waste ground in full view of the Minneapolis popula- tion who could see that Local 544 meant business when it came to fighting fascists.

Wider sections Some months ago a sharp rise in racist attacks in Dillall develop- led important ments within the black Many community. of the youth broke decisively with policy of the demanding police protection against the racists and set up their own defence organisations.

WSL

The welcomed this development but argued the extend the base of need to these groups to wider sections of the workers movement. 'We of course, support the right of immigrant workers to defend themselves what- In against ever racist and fascist attack.

But we also have responsibility to attempt to direct these self-defence groups towards calling on the organised strength of the whole so that the most united class launched can fascist provocation and violence. If the black workers and have been the first youth target of the fascists, picket lines and trade union will be meetings Fascists have already attacked meetings on ireland. and members

"WSL

the supporters areas affected must therefore pro- pose at their union branches, trades councils and 'Labour Parties that a fight is waged workers' defence squads jointly between organised and trade union immigrant organisations. 'Where possible we fight for this within immi- grant organised defence squads by attending as dele- gates from the trade unions and arguing that they unify with trade union bodies, par ticularly moles their fight fascist attacks'. Socialist Press 37 avoided this way now Wiard Report mechanically counterposing non existant workers defence so naas base of rade noIs the living organisations developing out of real struggle. Our policy is to demand the labour movement defends itself and other oppressed sections from fascist and state attacks. of see the necessity we confronting the conservative trade union leadersnip al d national and local level.

wait for But we do not the trade union bureaucracy when attacks are taking place.

We help organise and support such defence formations as emerge in the living struggle trade union bureaucracy begins to lose its the class, workers grip over will face increasing battles with fascists, hired scabs and the forces of the state. If the workers' movement Page 9 Pitched battle between strikers and police in Minneapolis is not to be smashed, defence squads must be organised.

There is no blue print for their development. What we can say is that the most likely will picket lines basis which in a situation of sharp conflict will need to be well organised and drilled Workers fighting to defend themselves must reach out to local trade unionists and seek to form a permanent defence the whole squad drawn iron and responsible for the area defence of all under attack.

The scale of attacks present make the emergence of workers' defence organisa.

tions on a mass scale unlikely.

Those that do arise will, in periods of less attacks, tend to die out. This does not mean that we cease advocating workers For self-defence. we start from the understanding that further attacks will come and any example of workers' self will hold important lessons for future clashes.

Police clear route for fascists in Lewisha The 'Transitional Pro gramme combines defence of workers' 01 living, their organisations and democratic rights with the go on the offensive need to against capitalism-to destroy with and TeDlace socialism. The demand for workers starts bött defence squads from need for the working class to protect itsel from its enemies and also to itself the for necessary armed struggl against a capitalist class which will not leave the stage 0. history without using all the force at its disposal to protec its interests. The struggle for workers defence squads now lays the workers' militia in the future.

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Mass march of London firemen last week.

men's case. Committee launched The first meeting of the committee attended by convenors from 10C41 factories, Trades as well as Counci delegates and local to back the firemen firemen. It drew up a list of all large factories in acc which are to be contacted to arrange for firemen to speak Warley Trades Council maioritv to set up an emer- to mass meetings. gency committee. in the West Midlands has has arranged for ane commutee is doen c moved support the production of 5,000 leaflets to representatives of all working - firemen. putting the case class organisations, the context of the men in branches, After debate which union shop fight against wage control and centred on the question of stewards and committees appealing for weekly levies to the Lib-Lab coalition govern- tenants associations. be imposed in factories. and the lack Its job will be to organise an It is making preparations alternative government which regular financial contribu- for demonstration be to would working class tions, and to organise leaflets reflect held jointly with other Trades factory interests, the rades Council Councils in West Bromwich.

meetings to support the fire- voted by an overwhelming CPSA's week Lof action Lots of speeches, hun- government The have dreds of leaflets and mili- Pay declared Lial tant-but unco-ordinated Research Unit will be not -industrial action that activated until. April 1719 was the content of last the pay settlement and that for April 1978 will be within week's CPSA-backed "week of action" by civil ine too gulacuics. servants. Convoluted position Last Wednesday (Novem- Fisher postures for press cameras ber 30) was perhaps the high But given that non-public NUPE stalls to point of the action, as civil sector workers are going to servants in offices throuchout the country staged a one-day than 10%, the CPSA gicalel of their

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their that авис demand for immediate held down dispropor- being Pay reactivation tionately, and that average Research Unit which assesses should to apply Civil Servant's pay. them as much as anyohe else.

and Social Employment This convoluted position is Security offices in London a distorted reflection of the 5,000 shut, and Over

WEIC

fact that civi servants-uke workers packed Westminster's The decision last week workers elsewhere-are begin- Hall listen by union officials repres- vacuous speeches from CPSA cuts they've suffered in the enting million one tops. post-1974 period. council workers to seek Reactivation of the Pay Suspended more talks on their pay Research Unit in itself is not The Unit claim is a conscious move Pay Research going to compensate for that was suspended by the Labour fall in living standards since tor sabotage the firemen's government in 1974 when it al wage increases are lageing strike, and pay to introduced Stage One of its behind inflation. preserve the 10% pay Only a full sliding scale of guidelines. The function of the Unit is wages to compensate for each

NUPE

quite simple: provides increase in the cost of living Last Monday trade while doing assessed by announced that. in the private sector, and on can achieve nothing to mobilise their own run committees the basis of this data recom- alongside the fire. 1us end increases for Civil Servants should now men, they would, to preserve mends 'left' workers

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NUPE

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PAY CONTROL

The leadership of the NUM will make a decisive attempt this Thursday, December 8, to flout the of their decision both annual conference and of the national ballot, by introducing productivity deals in selected areas. of the Exec- meeting utive is expected to approve demands from local officials- including those from South Derbyshire-that they start negotiating the very same 57% of the membership in October. Far-reaching proposals This is nothing more than a device to avoid action over the union's £135 wage claim.

But it now emerges toat Gormley and the NUM right wing have written into that claim far-reaching proposals that. could end annual reviews altogether. US-style Proposals for three deals being 41e thrown around by officials desperate to take the heat out of miners' pay talks. This, linked to a derailing of the £135 claim, would be NUM leaders' contribu- the tion to the planned phases 4 and 5 of wage control. isolate firemen to the FBU. This gesture has now been aped by a donation of £1,000 from the

ASLEF

leadership headed fast-talking, acting Ray Buckton. Buckton too has repeatedly denounced the 10% limit-but has pay made no moves to challenge li ll pracuce. The return to talks on the council workers' review despite the fact that their 30% pay claim has been an employers' offer of met by only 10%. The round of second 'talks' on this offer can only result in a further deadlock or sell-out inglorious

GORMLEY MAKES A

BID FOR LONG-TERM

Lawrence Daly-one time 'left' talking General Secre- tary-sat firmly alongside Len Murray last week as the TUC General Secretarv announcec the F&GP's decision to dump the firemen. Determination It was an outward, visible of Daly and Gormley's sign allow to their members move towards suike achion al luc same time as the firemen.

Gormley himself is now behaving as there had never been either a vote over the productivity deals at the annual conference or a ballot.

The current issue of The Gormley Miner quotes saying: undoubtedly 'Ihere feeling in this and strong Derbyshire South already formally asked for permission to negotiate their

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"Many of the areas who national voted to accent the incentive scheme feel that in there for there Is money their and it's only members be

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able to get their hands on it".

the reply from so far. Arthur Scargill in any con- crete form has been conspic- uous by its absence. The move is not just an assault on union democracy

NUPE

leaders much as a struggle-even after 17 out the union's 10% rejected the offer. Meanwhile NUPE leader

GMWU

Fisher joined leader Basnett in calling for a for public long term plan service pay that would put an end to free collective bargain- ing. Local authority manual workers in NUPE and other fight through unions their branches and stewards' reverse this cominillets demand position and for Immedle the full claim. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 December, 1977 Gormley PHOTO: Chris Davies. Report McGahey -where does he stand on £135 claim? but carefully conceived sabotage any MOve attempts to call strike action over the £135 claim. If Scargili is serious about leading a fight over pay then calling he must act now by for immediate strike ballot. The for the right basis wing move is the discrepancy • figurés betweer certain areas. In South Wales 83% voted against the deal, in Yorkshire 76% and in Kent, 71%. Campaign launched In all these areas-notably Scargill's Yorkshire-some sort of campaign was launch- ed against the deal. Other areas where opposition was allowed to be voiced, showed much lower numbers voting against. In Nottinghamshire, '38%, South Derbyshire 29% But the corporate nature of the vote is not one of the left's dcas ahead productivity schemes locally, Scargill must campaign for strike begin a action on the pay claim throughout the union, begin- ning in his own area. No date set The management and the union are to meet again on the pay claim but no date has been set or will be set until Gormley and Daly think they have got their way. The simple fact is that for every 10% increase in output under the scheme, luree per cent goes as 'incentives' pay- ments and seven per cent increased exploitation to the employers. Should Scargill fail to lead effective an immediate and fight, a blow will be struck only against the miners but against the firemen and the whole working class The miners' place is along- a united side the battle against the 10% limit, not alongside Len Murray in fight against the firemen.

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PHOTO: John Sturrock, Report Tripóli summit taks offer no lead The Arab "rejectionist' the Libyans, Algerians, summit which ended in agreed Monday Tripoli on than rather concluded in December Egypt, with some disarray, with Iraqi League from Cairo. of the walk-out delegation. Boycott Iraq has always taken the verbally bombastic 110SL Zionists, the Sce Hall but the intensity of their trading with Israel. Thetoric often been their inverse proportion LU Tripoli agreement willingness to take action.

Correct economic support for the Syrians. On this occasion, however, though the Iraqis themselves did murderous not take any тоте Palestinians verbal fight against than the Zionists and their friends, forward either. they were correct to say that One the others at the summit had other not taken up any fight at all.

The statement signed by

MONTHLY FUND

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The first donations to arive were: Oxford f5; London £52; Leeds £10 £2.35, South Coventry and Hull £16.25. It is important that a real effort is made to raise the fund in good time this month with the diversion of Christmas only a few weeks off.

All donations should be sent to: Socialist Press Monthly Fund 31, Dartmouth Park Hill London NW5 1HR

METROPOLE HOTEL AND ROLLS ROYCE

JOINT BENEFIT

10 December at 8 p.m. Saturday School of Intensive English Studies 21, Star St., London W2. With the Broadside Mobile Workers Theatre "Divide and Rule Britannia" A play about the nature of racialism followed by discussion. 50p admission (all money to the strike funds).

Sue Slipman (centre) applauded by predecessor Charles Clarke in March this year.

Yemenis, Syrians and the "freeze" - end-relations and the headquarters of the Arab There was also a call for an economic boycott, but appar- ently only on firms actually sections of the Palestinians of "recognition, The only stipulation of the conciliation with the Zionists. not purely rhetorical was for This appears to be a differ- and military ent line for Arafat and the other non-rejectionists of the But in view of the Syrians Sadat's belly-

PLO.

Before attacks initiative" crawling in the past this seemed to be moving people can hardly be seen as a step themselves towards a Geneva conference and other negotl- important ations with the Zionists.

aspect of the Tripoli confer- complex However the ence was the rejection of all.

Arab bour- shifting sands of diplomacy Arafat and geois Fatah could easily reverse this -Agents fiasco Judith Hart, Minister of Aid and Develop- Overseas ment has been overturned in the bid to cover up her actions of the Crown Agents ventures into massive specu- Labour MPs helped defeat their government оп the affair in handling OT TiTe £200 than which more million was lost. A public inquiry is now replace the expected inquiry which Hart private insisted was the 'best' way of finding culprits to blame.

Hart's Skinner, Dennis the fellow Tribunite, led attack on the government but all MPs left or right, Labour in too 3 Damouth Park Hill, London NW5 IHR. Printed by Prestagate of Reading-

STUDENT

BROAD LEFT

BLOCS WITH

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Broad Left Executive mem- of The Federation the bers of Conservative Students, Tory students in a rapturous (FCS) are now so conti- sustained and right wing dent in the ovation TOt policies of the Broad Left minister who over the most vicious cuts in that they were walking education since the war. around the NUS confer- stickers bear- ence with in which Shirley a picture of NUS had justified her massive cut- ing backs in education provision President Sue Slipman at all levels set the tone for a "İ'm and conference in which the now Sue Slipman close-knit executive member an alliance NUS policy decisively to the of the Communist Party. right. Last Friday in Blackpool, Williams As conference Belfast College Studies was being held by the Special Branch in the Terrorism Act. Blame Left Broad members refused to support a call to picket station where Hands was coing new anu tue following day dent rete so for the fact that Hands was still in detention. the

NUS

finds highlighted Arafat-a new line adopted?

latest stand and move in the other direction socialist programme mobilise essential Palestinians and Arab masses Zionists and against against their own reactionary bourgeois leaders. The turn the next on diplomatic roundabout could

PLO

(along, with the Iraqis) perhaps, joining Sadat on the road to treachery and compromise on.

the the national rights dispossessed Palestinians.

Hart loses in Crown over "job wastage" This or Tory are looking for heads to roll-as the Sunday Times "people with faces, put it, certain and monthly names checks-not just long-gone cies. Ministers". But the Crown Agents, who sell British experience The current specula- in the mysteries ot right tion to foreign governments, were not victims of individual extent • Pede response to The crisis that overtook the the property It agents in seems market and fringe banks was Slipman part of one of the sudden capitalism that crises sweep through international markets. to unions. Slipman's opening speech

NUS

joined was almost totally concerned standing with attacking the left. "There who are those the has presided wis to see students umors operating as political parties, ideology imposing a narrow This response to a speech on our members", said Stalin- Williams ist sionan Policy defeat conference major success of the Broad Left in Left/FCS cementing their alliance with successfully moved the right wing was the defeat union's policy Oscists of the "no platform for ste iron maintained since 1974 when delegate supported by the Business was Broad Left for The "free speech Blackpool fascists" motion in the racism of Prevention debate was jointly written by Tory and Broad Left unions.

The lack of any campaign at all on the central question executive of grants and cuts this year was crystallised in a policy the been police have might Emmanuel Minister Williams hersell.

written Education Deputy Presi- Ashby blamed Thrown out those students who had done Mass action against the cuts was thrown out in favour and The acute crisis in which of toddies, subinissions and the itself working parties was thrust of the campaign is to week when towards directed anomalies such as discretion- means ary awards the test. the tactic This has been the Tories have been advo- time as cating for some of diverting a inass meals mobilisation of the stronger At the same time the Left have sought to Broad the campaign divert whole debate about the need to democtatise education.

'Racists' The close connection with Williams was also highlighted by the Education 'racists' to the students who have ban certain Shirley Williams activities of the Zionists.

staff at the union's London This was closely connected headquarters went on strike the Broad Left/Tory change the union's move to dispute-which to allow the constitution resulted in Broad Left mem- suspension of unions who act bers of the Executive crossing against the Zionists. the picket line and calling for The wholesale crisis which scabs to replace the staff-is the has developed in continue since a NUS provoking in itself major conference motion on "prior- Left, Broad splits the 'no ¡ties decided lo reele vacan" particularly

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platform" question opens up the opportunity for the inter- Desperate state vention of revolullal y eadership on the basis of the defend CP-controlled dogramme Broad Left leadership is to a and all other education cynical students' interests. centre on the desperate the This must demand for a sliding scale of state of the union's finances.

with likely that public expenditure, committees of representatives has done some sort of deal with Shirley Williams unions and other of students education, higher to delete ine umon s fellami 1N ing principled positions and level of the lench anal extremists on inflation. extremists" return for certain concessions including an increase in tees