Socialist Press no. 81

Firemen: In the wake of the TUC's 20-17 vote against the firemen's fight to break the 10% pay limit, the call must ring out loud and clear to the 17 General Council members who voted to support the FBU: Make your action match your words! By publicly declaring that the firemen are right to fight the 10% rule they echo the overwhelming view of shop floor trade unionists. Huge response Were these union leaders to call on their members to take action now alongside une pursuit of their tremen in own pay be a huge response. But the TUC has set out to If their isolate the firemen. claim is to be won, then it is the crucial firemen them- selves act now to break that isolation. Firemen must drive home this point at every meeting Resolutions they attend. should be moved at brigade area and regiona committees demanding that these headers cal action on wages. leadership, he which has consistently pulled back from exposing the role of the TUC leaders, , must be forced to put demands on the 17 General Council members who claim to support them.

EETPU

Frank Chapple, Secretary, General for example, is on the point of confrontation with the Elec- tricity Council in pay negotia- 100.000 for power tions workers. Their claim, like that of the firemen, is for 30%. "Bloody war" A few months ago Chapple 'an awful was threatening bloody war" if the claim was not conceded. Now he has to put up or shut up. knows there is no prospect of the employers agreeing to the 30% figure, but has made no preparation for action.

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TUC 17

MUST ACT

demand Chapple obtain the reply from employers on the claim, and call action alongside strike the firemen to win it in full.

Split three ways moves must be made by workers in AsIMs

TASS,

SOGAT,

CPSA

and ASLEF, whose General Secre- taries voted to back the fire- men's action against the 10% limit while doing nothing to regain or defend their own members' living standards.

The TGWU delegation was split ways-with three women's officer Marie Patter- son defying conference policy to vote against the firemen, deputy general SCUICLaLY Harry Urwin abstaining and Harry Evans and

WON

Pemberton voting to back the firemen. Stalling Evans himself is currently long-running stalling pay involving negotiations of oil and petrol thousands tanker are arivers WALe demanding 30% rises.

ACAS

attempting to head off this claim until after the firemen's strike. But the government means to hold the 10% against these PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report Chapple drivers. Already they are preparing to build on the precedent set the firemen's strike by shipping thousands PHOTO: Chris Davies, Report troops from Germany to scab But under the pressure of on the tanker drivers should the firemen's lobby and the hey take strike actior demands of their membership leaders were pressed

TGWU

branches and these must that nearly stewards committees into vote demand Evans mobilises the brougal a sharp setback lo enormous industrial power of the 10% policy and could have meant collision with the this section of workers to win their claim and help the fire- Lib-Lab wage-cutting men destroy the 10% policy coalition. in the interests of all. Joint action And the whole trade union That pressure must be movement must oe alerted to the of the military stepped up in every union. In dangers wider of this way layers strike breaking that has the fire- workers will come to see that already prolonged men's strike to a. weeks own aGOn claims alongside the firemen which duration, and now clearly stands as a threat to is the only way to break the 10%, and "left' talkers like all sections of workers.

TASS

leader Ken Gill and Sold out ASLEF leader Ray Buckton can be put to the test by their Meanwhile the 17 bureau- membership. crats who voted to back the Those that opposed the firemen have no intention of firemen on the TUC must be translating their votes into challenged their own action. by members taking action Among the, for instance, fresh from their pay claims. was Joe Gormley We support the call of the his efforts to destroy ane FBU executive for a recall of miners' pay claim, and Alan the full Trade Union Congress week risnel, only. a before had sold out 1 million But this must not become discuss 10% policy. local authority workers by substitute for immediate calls accepting a 10% pay offer, despite a clear mandate for tor action The fight must be taken Inside 4 years fight at Cowley p.10 - p.8 Press and Print Technology - • p.4 1977: Year of the rat ...p.3 Castro against Trotskyism Turkish government crisis. back page Permanent pay laws planned Throughout the New concerned". In the name of "fairness" Year holiday the bell of Healey said this would mean permanent wage controls a pay poncy lot tae privale was rung loud and clear sector too. by Chancellor Healey and Sunday By comments had been ampli- coalition Prime Minister fied, and the Sunday Express Callaghan. revealed that top ministers Healey began this latest intent upon restrict- ате пои series of informal announce- ing pay rises to 5% atter the ments and speculation limit expires in TaNU current 10% Thursday when, interviewed August. by the right wing Labourite Fraudulent connection Socialist Commen- tary, blandly announced he When questioned in a New Year's Day interview "More and people more Callaghan confirmed that this are coming to realise that no is the figure the government Government can avoid having has in mind. an incomes policy so far as its Drawing completely own employees are fraudulent connection between wage settlements inflation figures, he and announced that the govern- ment were looking towards a 5% inflation rate in 1979- which would, he said, mean only 5% pay increases. The of Healey arrogance brazenly and Callaghan floating proposals for per- manent, rigid wage control at millions of time when workers have yet be forced settle under the to 10% policy may seem surpris- ing. It is certainly an embar their

TUC

assment to lapdogs. But, as Socialist Press has consistently pointed out, breaking of wage OnLy limits by workers in struggle can prevent Healey's arbitrary Phase 3 from being extended even more Phase 4, 5 and 6. postured The

WHO

to avoid a and manoeuvred with the clash government Phase 3 have now become the policemen Firemen on the December 21 lobby enforcing the 10% limit. up at look love rise no deles Avoids fight action comprising dele- trade gates

ITON

And they already union and political organis- beginning to line up for a ations to strengthen and repeat performance on Phase spread the firemen's pay Moss

TGWU

Evans, fight, mobilising additional General Secretary elect sections of workers on their announced emptily: own claims, and organising to "There is no question so far as the TGWU is concerned of there being a Stage Four pay policy" fight no break the 10 chase But such talk lim it-and doing prepares the ground for the next round of attacks. These long term moves against the unions must meet a united response. Workers in every industry must recognise until pay limits are free collective broken bargaining will remain a pipe- dream. Fisher-sold out 1 million They must act now, but voted for firemen claims submit catching up cut fuel and other supplies to linked to cost of living clauses and take action alongside the scab army firefighting depots.

firemen. In this crucial fight to The wage-cutting Lib-Lab break the 10% policy the be broken— coalition must Lib-Lab wage-cutting and the architects of wage coalition can be broken and control within the Labour those who openly or tacitly leadership removed from defend it can be driven from once.

NTERNA

Socialist Party leader Mario Soares in the of forming process front popular govern- ment to replace his mino- rity Socialist administra- parlia- tion defeateu in ment last month. The SP policy of leaving office in order to return stro- nger" has made some head- way. After his defeat Soares by insisting that the began largest of the opposition par- ties, bourgeois Social the Democratic Party to try to form a government.

The Social Democrats got no support from the other main capitalist party the Social and Democratic Centre

(CSD).

Only person The previous formal alli- ince of these parties has for now more or less collapsed.

Soares has, as he intended, produced a situation where only person who no 1e THA could possibly form a gover- nment based on the present parallell. His designation by Presi- dent Eanes as his own succ- essor as Prime Minister was the welcomed by of both the CSD and by the Communist Party. Soares clearly cannot set up a replica of the defeated minority government. The formula he 1s now hawking to the other party The whirlwind devel- of diplomatic opment activity in the Middle East over Christmas-and further important meet- promised over ings are the next few days-still hold great dangers for the Palestinian liberation and the movement struggle against imperial- ism in the Arab world. The Ismailia talks on Christmas Day between Sadat and Begin showed that it is the fact that these bilateral talks are taking place rather than the actual issues being In BRIEF

SOUTH AFRICA

of anti- new wave demonstrations government has spread through Africa's black towns In the last two weeks. Police violent- broke up demonstrations ly. near Port Elizabeth after the funeral of Mzukisi Nabhadula another political prisoner who met his death while in police captivity.

CHILE

has Dictator Pinochet on Called

TCLCICIULLE

January 4 to solicit "popular support" against the condem- nation of Chile by the United Nations. But the junta has been publicly divided on this tactic. The Socialist Party and the Caristan Democrats have both called on Chileans to if the referendum pote 'TO' Finally takes place. Portuguese Stalinists stab strikers in Popular Front bid is filthier than that. said that The

CSD

has their support for such a gove- required further mment reverse the gains moves working class made by the since 1974. want further rever- They sals of the land reform and the return or more nanolai- to the capital- ists. It is in full knowledge of these conditions that the CP their Stalinists have given support to the new govern- ment formula. Austerity They know that the only possible programme of Soares popular front government now being set up will be one Socialist base with personal- of economic austerity ities' measures directed against the The CP and the CSD both accept this formula on the working class. They have already publicly understanding that it means agreed on many occasions to their leading give undertakings to the Int- will be offered members ernational Monetary Fund- ministries. Portuguese Already this amounts to a from which the needs desperately an reversal of the CP's position state $800 million loan. Christmas that there Stalinists seriously should be either a CP/SP gor- It the wanted a programme for the ernment or liesh ciceuous.

would But the CP's compromise workers then they Reject West Bank buy-off discussed which heartens the Palestine and the surrounding imperialists and the Zionists, "occupied" by aca their friends in the Middle colonialists who nave estab- lished with the help of imper- East and the capitalist press.

The issues discussed show ialism a state based on racial the Zionists do the exploita- clearly that not intend to hand tion of poor Jews and Arabs, Over all driving out of the inch of conquered territory without the most stringent Palestinians. Because of his own inter- conditions. nal problems and the pressure Fact obscured Sadat is US imperialism prepared to discuss only the To call the West Bank, the of the recently- fate more Sinai Gaza Strip occupied and the Mid-East grabbed parts terri- peninsula territory, and whether or not tories" is to carefully obscure there should be an indepen- the fact that the whole of dent Palestinian State set up West of the the Ull Jordan. Buy-off it is intended to buy Palestinian

ITALY

The Andreotti government has proposed compromise much for measures to Italy's support as

CHINENLY

main trade unions in an effort Bank State. i.e. prevent a one day gêneral However, Sandhurst strike later this month. In any of Hussein trained will case Andreotti says he not resign if the strike takes The Communist Party place. a sell out. continues press to brought into a government, leading according to CP member Giorgio Napoli- "shift will The tano must HUnC from doubt consumption away towards investment" (that Is cut wages to help profits). As last Thursday's 'Morning Star' "the Commun- pointed.

COH.

ists and five other parties have propped up" Andreotti's since August government 1976. creation of multi-racial mobilise the working class.

It is in fact doing precisely the opposite, as it showed by conduct the recent strike of pilots on the state of TAP, in support done. higher wages. Manoeuvred Instead of linking pilots' demand to the needs of the rest of the workers, the the Soares CP leaders-like government-characterised the strike as 'against the nati- interest and manoeuv- onal red to isolate the pilots from the workers' movement. combination of this The with the Socialist govern- ment's use of the airforce to break the strike forced the pliots back to work But Stalinist and SP lead- not have long to work out a deal with the capitalist parties

IMF

before other the sections of the working class militant strike action as see the their only answer rapidly deteriorating mic conditions. On December 20, the Indonesian government announced in a blaze of international publicity of the first the release 10,000 of 30,000 suspects hekl without trial since 1965. be The others are released over the next two years. "release" However, appears to be a rather inappropriate term 40% jobless For instance, they must with the find jobs, and prevailing political regime in and Indonesia unemployment it is difficult will believe employers offer jobs suspects. will be The remainder deported to labour camps on the underpopulated and of largely infertile islands Kalimantan, Sulaves and BaThe 30,000 have been held since the right wing coup led General Suharto over- threw the government of President Sukarno which had alliance of the rested on an nationalists (PNI), Peking-dominated and the Communist Party (PCI). The PCI had pursued the policy cosses the according to which Strike wave sureeps Tunisia of industrial act The wave political movements Hedi action which Prime Minister Nouira has characterised the continues to sweep over wage •presentation Tunisia has caused demands which employers crisis governmental unable • to meet, as are the one party within regime. President Bourguiba emerged from retirement to dismissais the and supervise which have resignations produced a new cabinet, solid in its determination to crush the working class. Reliable technicians and bureaucrats have been when to replace those politicians who, from various sought to mouves, with the strikers and demon- strators. Workers' demands for and improved higher wages conditions nave Tunisian sharper the economy has experienced the ravages of the capitalist crisis in an acute form. At present these struggles have been expressed through the UGT, the only legal trade union, whose highest officials automatically occupy leading necessary within the ruling Destour Socialist Party. The union's general secre- Habib tary, and declared that the strikes 'not Suharto (right) with Generals Suharto regime dons velvet glove industrial goods, interest with the peasants, necessary and their increasing indebted- workers and petit-bourgeoisie in resisting world capitalism.

ness to landlords and money- lenders. The There ore hold back By protecting the free attempted. to market rights of imperialism radical movements for land reform and workers control, and the property rights of the but these movements were bourgeoisie, suharto's regime makes these problems insur- enough quite frighten the national bour- mountable, for all his rhetoric their friends about development. geoisie and among the army officers. So-called 'amnesty' As a result of the PCI's and policy, the workers It is therefore not surpris- peasants were totally unpre- ing that open opposition to pared for the right-wing coup, the regime is once again grow- and it is estimated that one at the ing rapidly, million communists were moment it appears to be very killed. unorganised. Destroyed The increasing need of the Suharto regime foreign

TOT

The PCI which in 1964 down holding three million members had the Indonesian population is affil- and 16 million behind the probabiy iated organisations was ganda destroyed within so-called "amnesty" week To transform the peasants' Indonesia has diverse of 150 million Indonesia it is situation in population private people, the fifth most popu- necessary lous country in the world.

of capital and ownership from small ethnic land. Apart class minorities at Stone Age levels working of development, the leadership could provide the great transform- bulk the population basis for Scid concentrated on the island of ation, which would have tos be carried out in determined.

Java, and lives intensive subsistence agriculture. opposition to the Indonesian The major problem facing bourgeoisie. nonconte is the falling those duche leadersio remains

Castro launches

INTERNATIONAL

attack on Trotskyism The following article was Although this filth is not published in November 1977 untypical of what passes for in the section of the Cuban political education in Cuba, it also marks a new stage in the Communist Party hawwspapic. "Granma' reserved for polit- fight Castro bureaucracy's ical education. against revolutionary social- We publish it to give read- ers an opportunity to see at scandalous Although the Cuban lead- first-hand the method of lies and slanders ership has any neter doubt of its hostility to employed by the Cuban Stal- Trot-. inist bureaucracy. skyism, and although sland- The policy of Trotsky -the "Judas Trotsky" as would Lenin say-was disguis- characterised by capitulationist ing its in ultraleft essence an phraseology, sonorous but as the sea empty shells. - While Lenin gave the Party the made balt that utions are not but arise out of historic crises and which have turning points matured by laws, independently tive the will or parties and classes Trotsky considered that revolutionary leaps were the of the action of result select which certain group "accumulate" the will of the proletariat for the transformation revolutionary of society. He sought to cheat history cunning, claiming that with downfall of the Batista dictatorship in 1959.

soviet power. completely voluntaristic way On the eve of the October of In

IN COIN

Trotsky declared Revolution, revolution he permanent that the imperialist epoch left claimed that steps could be for national revol- leapt that history utions. always proceeded by leaps.

denied the possibility He in reckoned that of a socialist society in one certain conditions of social development some phases of it could be avoided. He wanted to raise the He was expressing what we slogan of a United States of witnessing sensing Europe without monarchies, today. In the epoch of power- without stanulle

ANCON

feudal without governing countries and peoples have to castes and without secret pass through all the historical diplomacy phases of social development which This slogan, known to humanity. nothing to do with the prol- But that didn't mean that etarian revolution, as is seen, when the corresponding perfectly plain the conditions didn't exist that it cosmopolitan and capitula- was scientifically admissible tionist character of Trotsky's leap over certain stages "theory of permanent revol- whose premises must be ution". tactically used. proclaiming this idea, In the case of the Russian the Russian precisely revolution, what was people were adyancing indicated was not leaping towards a revolution, he was over the stage of the bour- expressing his lack of faith in geois-democratic revolution,. the possibility of the triumph but to work within to 1t of the working convert it into the socialist his allies one country, 1n revolution. forgetting of the national history - have Jime and peculiarities of the class that the of shown genius struggle. Lenin was right. After the October Revol- The bourgeois-democratic ution Trotsky, on the pretext revolution of February 1917 of carrying the Russian revol- was converted, following the ution to other countries on inexorable of course the points of bayonets, materialist dialectic, into the his revolutionar snowed Great October Socialist capitulationism and his lack Revolution. of faith in the Russian prolet- Trotsky denied the revol- ariat. utionary potential of millions and millions oi peasants who But Lenin argued: made up the majority of the radical change now consists in the creation of the He always had a contempt- Republic of the Soviets of uous. attitude • towards the the

KANSA

SUCHIC

both for us and from role of the workers of the thing, countryside in the revolution.

the international point of view, is to preserve Trotsky had prophesied this republic which has now that the peasants would make the socialist begun revolution". war against the working class would place the History proved that it was under mortal conquests possible to set up and main- tain the workers' and And what happened? What peasants' state in one country had forseen. The and that revolutions, as Lenin Lenin pointed out, don't break out alliance the all at the same time. with working peasants erous references to Trotsky have become increasingly recent years common in official publications this emphatic and flag. the most Trotskyism attack on to have been made up to now.

'Granma's' slanders are lifted from the standard Stal- cow. The fact that they feel obliged to publish them again the class struggle in concrete they political terrain which cannot countries and circumstances. Trotsky spread reto then to the whole world of armed detach- ments from Soviet Russia.

His Atilla-like revolutionary adventurism was not limited to theory: In the peace negotiations, in Brest, he tried to drag the Russian people into a war and Castro place it under the threat of military defeat. of Lenin genius obtained the national peace needed - to consolidate the socialist state, whose victory would be a model and a stim- ulus for the development of revolutionary world process. The international revol- ution would be the sum of a chain of national revolutions which would follow one after the other at different stages, in accordance with the objec- tive and subjective conditions of each case. Imperialism would go on smashed its being through weakest links. years have passed Sixty since the October Revolution.

Practice has thrown down all the metaphysical and testifies to the continued in- of Cuba's counter- security revolutionary bureaucracy.

The bureaucracy must be oyerthrown by working class under the leadership of a party based on revolutionary socialism, on Trotskyism-the political force which the Cuban leaders are forced to revile because they fear it.

We do not intend to use the limited space ot these Readers who slanders. wish to follow up by reading to such Trotsky's attacks referred to the are books advertised on Page 9.

Trotsky and the Trotskyists.

28 the first For years socialist state the world 1n held working and developing itself alone. It did detach- not export armed ments, but it spread around the world that the workers could emancipate themselves from the yoke of capitalist exploitation and take power for ever. Attacked by fascist its hordes, enemies from the vast soviet lands; pursued mercilessly their to final bunker in Berlin, leaving in the footsteps of the glorious Red Army a constellation of not new socialist lates. imposed but born out of the historic premises. Today when the red star shines its light of salvation on

TENE

hope of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America; liber- today when national ation movements ask for and receive the cooperation of the Soviet Union and of all the of socialist the peoples community; today when the international workers' move- converted into what will the Trotskyists say in relation to true proletarian international- ism and the world revolution?

It was not, nor could it be what Trotsky wanted; but it was as Vladimir Illich Lenin wanted and knew be. However, remain There pseudo-revolutionaries, petty bourgeois minorities who, in the summit of the face OI socialism and the unhideable the Soviet Union, truth try to revive Trotsky, to take his ashes and shape them into mud images and empty reeds blowing with lies. Arismendi, first nouncy of the Uruguayan secretary Communist Party, accurately these Trotskyist called sunken boat setsam remnants from The cruiser Aurora its triumphal Polisario Front fighters Sahara French troops move in defence bud The prolonged guerilla increased which absorbs one third in Western Sahara war total expenditure. has now provoked direct Amid constant denui military intervention ations of Algerian aggressi a deputy from the PPS (fr from French forces. of the. Moroccan party Last month French air- spoke demanding greater s craft port for the troops in West the Polisario Front, killing introduct danara and the and wounding many prisoners of general conscription! as well as guerillas. The Polisario Fr inflicted by damage Sine possess neither the techn these attacks was the heaviest nor human mintary resou by the libera- to resist for long these rapi tion army during the couse of growing antagonistic force the war. This situat urgent immediate requires an Growing concern and appeal for support to The French government Moroccan masses who has always provided the into been dragged supply imperialist adventure. advisers and technicians to At the same time th and Maurtan- THe CONCEn governments, which ian occupation forces. past have mouthed stage of involve- with the liberat 1 mis new solidarity indicates the growing ment the of Sahars struggles concern international must be- forced to transl imperialism with the inability these fine words of those armies to contain concrete assistance. the activity of the Polisario Front, and safeguard the Petty-bourgeois substantial capitalist interests Here the role of the pe in the region. bourgeois 'socialist' regim The air raids took place French Communist Algeria is crucial. Traditi after ally the international spon Party leader Georges Marchais of the Polisario had successfully negotiated behalf of the •French Boumedienne's governmen on government for the release of seeking way French hostages held by the extricate itself from with position Polisario. This incident will compromising its "progress no doubt be used justify reputation. continued Geographically and ec aggression to omically Algeria is in the t protect the rights of French position to aid the Sahar citizens'. Meanwhile all the parties but an all-out struggle agai the regime will be needed Moroccan parliament in united that such a com giving unanimous ensure approval Hassan's vastly ment is realised.

SOLARIN

Bish Zimbabwe: The negotiations between lan Smith, Muzorewa, Rev. Sithole and Chief Chirau have continued. I black delegates have not dared accept Smith's demand that whites should have a third of the members of any new pan But th ment-enough to give them a constitutional veto.

have apparently accepted the principle of reserved privue, for the Whites and Sithole for one has said he expects a set

MAJOR STEP IN

TRADE WAR

the history of the operation the In sion is charged with negotia- capitalist crisis resent "voluntary' agreements to ting 77 will go down as the lim it steel exports to the EEC ear in which the protec- Japan, from of the ionist skirmishes Union, years began to den. few South Africa. the form of a full le war. 'Voluntary' agreements the centre of this wat steel with steel industries Meanwhile aprofitable government has been trying Western Europe of to negotiate its own indepen-

ISA

system ariffs and import controls, dent import ments with the Soviet Union voluntary' and compulsory.

These are directed espec- and Eastern countries. ally against imports IrOM those On December apan but also against Minister Edmund Dell reveal- som other sources. ed just what these 'voluntary" agreements mean. Provisional system When, unlike European The EEC ended 197? by countries, iet Union failed to give 'satis- atroducing a new provisional factory assurances' about lim- trigger" lystem of prices for iting its steel exports to Brit- would prevent steel which ain, Dell imposed a total em- frọm underselling bargo on all imports of Soviet EEC products. is in steel. While this system 1977: year of the rat level the coalition every While Contract has certainly meant government's honours list than includes the usual gifts to means an end chiefs and to the police tion with supervisors of the imper- all fronts. But the Salist occupation raged on-from the wave of Ireland, the Northern strikes glittering accolade most the BLMC toolroom that brought the downfall of was reserved for TGWU Labour the leader Jack Jones. through the Heathrow strike, pinpoints the This fact the feature of a year in central the Lucas toolroom workers, which the police role of trade the power workers and now bureaucrats local union the firemen. and national level has been crucial to the survival of the Lib-Lab government wage-cutting programme. such Only through "leaders" could Callaghan hope to restrain a class that continues to show its willingness to fight.

Increase Indeed evén as unemploy- riew record rose to levels, and TUC leaders joined government's efforts to the down wages, the year hold union saw an increase PHOTO: Andrew Wlard. Repor membership-including new public anionisation 1n atte services and catering. Throughout the unionisation strikes were progress. marathon Grunwicks The battle, the six-month strikes for unionisation against Trust Forte and other and the Desoutter botels. roognition strike. Victories THF battles Though the and the Grunwick посте 105t strike continues. there were as well. in spite of victones toe union bureaucracy: of this EEC Commis- The significance, move is infinitely greater than of steel quantities tinv involved. probably Soviet Dell's move Eastern Europe, Swe- the most nakedly protection- Brazil, South Korea and ist action yet taken, by any capitalst governmen. It is now expected that the retaliate Soviet Union will and so the trade war will rec- eive a new boost from an un- the British expected quarter. Crisis hits control European Trade Kremlin plan East other The USSR's refusal to the Sov- *satisfactory assur- give based ances' is not on any principled opposition to economic nationalism. From figures revealed to a The same wages militancy the Social was reflected in the summer which conferences wage control-it of formal acceptance made the

TUC

by employer on Phase impossible. while union leaders struggle wages were unable to deliver Phase out to the New Year, to openly, they the back strike wheel it through door. The 12-month rule was government, manoeuvred through the TUC weaken any Port Talbot electricians, to isolate. and that fought Healey's 10% limit.

HUNGER

Not feeling the pinch of the crisis-Brezhnev being agriculture which decl ined by 5% instead of growth by 10% as planned. scaled been means that the targets of the present 5-year plan cannot be achieved by the target date of meeting of the Supreme Sov- 1980. December. it appears Serious setback that the Soviet economy in has had growth rate since 1945. for the Soviet bureaucracy.

And its The national product grew emphasised by the fact that by only 3%, the worst sector A comparative handful of workers at Fords were given until slight concessions weak of relatively group like public sector the firemen, could be picked off by government and TUC Throughout these struggles of approach method the PHOTO: John Sturrock. Repor fought by the Workers foI League started Socialist the objective from clearly needs of the working class.

requirement Foremost mobilise the full remains to strength of the working class treacherous its bureaucratic leaders, in order the Lib-Lab coal- break ition and wage control, and revolutionaty prepare leadership. Bitter opponents the

THF,

Throughout Grunwick and Desoutter struggles in particular, we have fought to expose ine role of the bureaucracy, and to direct workers lobbying key union commit- tees that stood as obstacles to their struggle Most bitter opponents of against the bureaucracy. the such were Meanwhile Stalinists of the Communist Workers. Party. And it was the Stalinists who were most thoroughly Desoutters exposed when pressed ahead and strikers unleashed. lobbied North London the

AUEW

Committee District "solidarity" file for a district levy and black- ing all. year Suspended national Marxist Group George Leading Stalinist Anthony opposed that only while parading firmly on levy- around as a main CP speaker on Grunwick. real gains. nature of their leaders were lessons The Similar learned Grunwick when

TUC,

lobbied the strikers only to be suspended by the with

APEX

bureaucracy, and firemen. threatened with expulsion if they called a mass lobby.

Despite these attacks Jack This opens new the darling of the Dromey, and bring CP the Marxist Group, has continued the only answer which Bi appears to have for haev anik worn-out cliche are more hectoring of the work- ing class. The economic: wisdom Brezhner consisted in saying: 'Choosing the concrete with a mini- sectors where, mum of expense, one can rap.

idly get the maximum poss ible effect; that is the art of planning and of guiding the economy in general. He also declared with "near-blinding originality, that: the solution was 'the rationat use of economic resources.

When it doesn't know what to do the Stalinist bur- still has its old caucracy answer-blame the workers.

So Brezhnev spoke harshly of: 'violations' of plan discip- tolerated line by some leaders' and demanded: 'order and discipline in all spheres of economic activity Work today better than yesterday and better tomor- that is the than today, slogan; and better means: efficiency, produc- quality, tivity. Next year's target has also Battle of efficiency down which He called on the trade unions and the youth organ- isations to join the battle of and show intoler- efficiency ance towards those who vio- late discipline. •This is a serious setback In other words keep the creative force of the Russian working class under the heel of the Stalinist bureaucracy.

IS AVENS

GRUNICK

Scanion met by Desoutters strikers picketing AUEW HQ exposed tacit stand to divert away from the fight or supporters of the 10% policy.

Socialist the Socialist The Workers fight over the last of League's Party's policy rank and fileism continued to year to direct every struggle towards the central issue of ignore the need to defeat the bureaucracy if the full power leadership has been complete- ly vindicated by events. of the working class is to be The coming year must see of the WSL In their calls for rank and the expansion

SWP

and its work in every area, as the political force have been joined over the last only currently capable of offering costs" merchants of the intell "unity principled leadership and an independent programme the working class. Yet the whole experience of recent struggles indicates Fight when the focus 1s of We intensify question the fight against wage control and leadership do workers make for cost of living clauses to lobby inflation, firemen's protect against visibly shook the TUC leaders sackings speed-up, against their roots, and virtually unemployment and against all split them down the middle, 'worker participa- forms of the voting tion In doing so we will at the same time be mobilising the Stand exposed forces necessary to break the Lib-Lab coalition and to fight possibil- ities for demands on' the 17 for the removal level in supporters at every own out the workers' movement. members on their pay claims

Singing for his supper

LABOUR

PARTY

OK. JACK.. RAM HOME PHASE 3

AND YOU CAN TAKE YOUR PICK!

• Social Contract. 1976 gave an idea of the deter- 2721 c994 of the TÚC leaders to Such tansions witt mination

THE ORDER OF

The annual awards by the British bourgeoisie to the labour leaders who their interests serve scooped one of the big- gest rats of all this New In doing so he has found Year awarding by true place in society- of Honour his Companion shoulder to shoulder with the to Jack Jones. against the working bosses instituted The order was class. by King George V to reward "conspicuous national service' and Jones will rub shoulders Tory and with of Labour politicians most them peers. Jones has been rewarded with the highest honour that the bourgeoisie can give without the

C DANSENCE

of having to take title. There are only Companions of Honour in the whole country. Embarassment News of his elevation was relayed to Cuba where Jones his Christmas was spending break. accept oI More than anyone Jones responsible has for Weel holding three years of wage will the the working class and inflic- ting the bosses' policy on his Through such members. an open admission of his Jones will no doubt suffer a few ot r ment as he hangs the golden bauble around his neck. of the RIC torture Camel But as he swallowed the gnat of the MBE, as he took a job as Crown Agent and as he pocketed Quango salaries on quasi Governmental posts, has eventually Jones swallowed the camel of the Companion of Honour. Tribunite MP When Norman Atkinson was Labour Party elected as Treasurer, the Tory press hailed it as a victory for the 'left'. Atkinson's latest But effort at fundraising for the Party's unmistakable sign that, uke so many owner Inbumiles is completely in cahoots he with Labour's coaltionist right wing leadership. appealing desperately for an astounding fl.6 million Atkinson embarks on an extended defence of the history of the bloodstained Labour Party: From Socialist Press of S January 1977 itio gon -aUL dise. th with "left ther reS Coni comp admir Britist faster atter sharp forci furt! on Get tra complete determination to hold it

THE SCAB

"Soon after the First World War ended in 1918 the Labour Party set about the task building Socialist

LICW

movement in Britain based on membership. individual Primarily it was to be an elec- toral machine geared to win- parliamentary ning majority.' Atkinson cap WItH hand, is tactfully silent on the record of leading reformist politicians in supporting their own ruling class in the First World War-and on the 'paci- fist' stance of the ILP lefts' wno neia back from support for the war effort while refu- sing to lead all-out struggles British capitalist against the class. And of course he stays mum on the treachery of the PHOTO: Chris Davies Report the Labour Party which allated - wich its parties in each major capi- talist country lined up along- side their 'own' ruling class in the war. False pretences But while such dishonesty expected be any EO the next reformist, sentence indicates that Atkinson determination aghan's determined to appeal for fin- appease the Liberals and to false ances abandon any hint of progres- *The whole concept devel- sive socialist legislation while oped as come ent providing a stable foothold to moving trade union opinion impose

THING

from Her that away wage controls. could pers- industrial power he ignores the fact And uade Tory and Liberal gover- that today's TUC leaders, by nments to bring in progressive Lib-Lab propping up the legislation capable of ending and its wage government dreadful conditions the controls, have also suffered by working people.

turn back the wheel Atkinson feels it necessary working-class history. the fact that, to reality of Mean while the through the Lib-Lab deal, the working-class hostility to the has

COVETANLE

job-slashing wage-cutting, gone back and attempted to policies that have distingui- reverse this early and partial the Lib-Lab coalition towards working class

NACO

and the Labour government political independence. that preceded it, is lost on For this reason he ignores Atkinson. the fact that govern- for the From the comfort of the ment's programme House of leather current session of parliament Commons straightfaced'y dictated entirely by armchairs

PRESS GANG

Cooking the books In the old days news- men of the North and a mere used paper pundits to 34% in favour in the South.

Even this sample, of test public opinion by which the larger southern going to the end of the element is clearly unrepresen- and asking the street tative of the truth, the Daily first half dozen people Mail could find just 9% in the South and 6.5% in the North wearing the right school who said they would vote to tie what they thought. accept the employers' offer.

The technique has been But the most brilliant refined for the computer stroke was in answer to the 70's but the powered following question: 'Should principle remains the the union delegate conterence and nowhere has it been put be recalled?' (What for to better effect than in the carefully excluded from the pages of the Daily Mail. question). On the day that the FBU To this 47% of those in discuss 7% execute the South in the the future of the strike the North said yes. Mail decided to run an opin- Loaded sample poll among firemen to ion find out what should happen So the Mail, with a loaded ICAl Which firemen-or indeed devoid of real meaning find in firemen-Daily how their most favoured area Mail reporters spoke to is not minority in favour of a recall at all clear, indeed it is not so conference. Surely this must much hinted at, except that be a story to tuck away on they are divided into two cat- page 23! egories "The North' and "The In fact the Daily Mail disp- South'. layed their figures proudly on In a strike which was sup- page one and draw the tol.

ported by 98% of the memb- owing startling conclusion.

ership voting with their feet "The results of the survey and a 2-l vote at the delegates are remarkable and show conference the Daily Mail definite cracking in the fire- pollsters managed find

CLU

men's resolve.' oniy 49 who were in favour And the minority? That's of the strike to begin with.

easily explained away. This total they divide into The men questioned were 85% in favour among the wild Norman Atkinson suggests that shop stewards organise shopfloor collections the Labour towards new Party headquarters! 'Memorable years' foolhardy For anyone enough to attempt such exercise there is little doubt that, in Atkinson's words, 1978-79 "memorable wil be they years'-in which were escape lynch-mobs. lucky to And for anyone still harb ouring illusions that Tribunite MPs are in any real sense poli- tically distinct from the Lib coalition, Atkinson's Lah patter makes begging sobering reading. The Lib-Lab deal must be broken and its grovelling def- enders-both 'left' and right alike-driven out Labour Party. on picket duty and deliber- ately chosen as such, and so could be expected to be anta- gonistic to any kind of climb- down. It should not be lost readers that although the "crack in resolve' bears no relation to reality it bears a the close resemblance to Daily message that the Mail wanted to give to the FBU executive at its meeting that very day. It also bears a remarkable similarity to the wish fulfill- ment practiced by the Press after the firemen's lobby of the TUC. On that day as hundreds besieged the TUC of firemen and even threatened the trai with physical violence,

LUN

the ability ot the Press twist through 360 events degrees was shown in its full glory. The almost universal posi- tion adopted the next day by the Press was that the firemen surrounding the bureaucrats were not firemen at all-but "left-wing extremists' dressed up as firemen! Perhaps there is no strite Left wing extremists either. kidrapped may have simply the and be maaga. firemen erading as FBL members the picket line.

поде в nowevel. and well governed sne would in arts, commerce and manufactures, spring up like balloon and leave England behind her at an immense distance. There Is no computing the rapidity with which she would rise'. Tone's words were fanci- in exaggerated truth. economic Despite inflicted by Britain on Ireland, the economist great Adam Smith at the trade of Ireland', the the

SHITE

put paid British were to bring ot economic degradation Ireland bad, which not than catastrophe first by the Napoleonic impact High led wars. especially the British exports and able to GIle support growing population. fell war slump. wages next 25 years. But population continued grow-irom half the population (about of Great Britain). farming was potatoes. 4411- At the 'prosperity' farmers bankruptcy who the the land- -was lords he vears due to rent portion simply production which nical such as was

TURE COO

elsewhere taking remained the landlords unproductive, well; the continued to do tenants or feedcrops). the grew, As growth and remained on the Dull slightest everywhere polato At least six famines, the end of war ance 1840s. early they have been by Tire Great Hunger 1840s. the From 1845 there of the major were potato crop. There in the food But million profitable them.

TAAC

England continued Wolfe Tone undiminished during the cally In the unique. nine- teenth The government Ireland for a genocide. In Smith restric- It more even tions on trade through Portugal and countries, capitalist by independent Turkey to the class. of capitalisi that the The were a new Trish the Irish murdered million the famine because law This end of new food as capi- talists saw chance to does not the by British capitalist represent campaigned came. enable them wages. at the Irish landowners whose especially Death lendal systems or lemure were now the most primitive in the brought the British Isies and who helped Irish irom keep up grain prices over 84 1845 long as they had the pro- under only ten Corn Laws. tection the years later Both the famine and the The population abolition decline for a or ine woll Laws the boost to sharp further century so that even trends in agriculture which the population of Irel taking were directly going on. land (North and South) it is evictions and emi- Deaths, was at the gration allowed landlords to the nineteenth beginning of consolidate holdings, some- century. Irela

ROOTS

TODAY

CRISIS

PART 9

IRISH

CAPITAL

Gladstone's Land Act thing which was necessary for the conversion grain- 1881 was prompted by of agricultu cattle new wave producing land depression following posture. For the abolition of the famines the Corn the final new death blow to grain produc- 1870s. For the first time (exce tion in Ireland. Thus Ireland became the 'Emerald common) for Land Act fixed money res unconscious euphemism the transformation of its for statutory tenancies fixed periods and allowed t agriculture by imperialism.

sale of remaining portions Exaggerated unexpired leases. To some extent these falling Rut prices ma these fixed rents even m changes represented the of burdensome and a compani growth capitalist agri- culture. But that shouldn't Arrears was deceated by waive some be exaggerated. Irish farming based House of Lords. continued to be on relatively small-scale peasant The failure of Gladsto and the Party Irish to through as late as the 1960s Home Rule Commons in 1886 brought of holdings were less than twenty hectares; and Tory governm by Chamberlain a power only 15% of those working in backed agriculture the Liberal Unionists the arch-imper headed by list Lord Salisbury ienced a more radical degree The Annual Register of land reform than most of 1886 (the official record parliamentary reports a speech by Salisbi

COLLEY.

was long in which he 'maintained t 'emancipation' of the Russian Ireland was not a nation l serfs that British governments two nations; held that th were races, like the Hotent decided to make some kind and even the findoos, w LU were incapable of self-goy,

nd

SHAMR

PARES

NEWYOR

OF S Many

NOTE MOUSL

veloped becoming place even though confidence who development shipbuil noW not the. Hungary *My is Sinn Be- tween these govern Apply that barriers. consistently and for twenty therefore, the cal classes and Ireland's which in the would be dramatic Hungary gifts local in way and national struggles be- monarchy. repeal of 1905 The working "A nation to give her' Class greW AcCOT- 1907, in oing to a changing workers, than half of them in Ulster. before any "A came such à class. almost Irish more The 25 CornerEn quire saw real acceleration peasantry ral growth. Land Acts of larger class. by the richer peasants But market. series). figures At the time required the develop- 'Griffith began again of the where Connolly and other labour failed build, perialist 'he of this series). movement agricultural also though gre w Cleaned weak and class. series). One section the In the Unionist 1916 to in to the which measure look which hand Irish divided squabbling alist represented trol. a second States, the ders. dabour in en Ulster flax mill Housinesel was

USA

but perhaps leader Arthur in which that of

STOLE

promote pro- agricultural political A mere good to pay higher of the the labour of years of it these was great which took-a with the bourgeois 1922 boom in Britain had changed

HUME RULE

in 1921 to a deep slump with a catastrophic effect on Irish

CAPONS

The industrialised most were split off from the new state.

And important installations dairies) had been (especially wantonly destroyed by the Black and Tans. For ten years the pro-trea- William Yosgrave pursued an econom- government ic policy which claimed to be moderately protectionist but was in reality based on the reviled in nationalist rhetoric, of stimu- lating meat and dairy exports to Britain. The main architect of this was the strategy Agriculture Minister Patrick Hogan who coined the slogan: "One more cow, one more sow, one more acre under the plough. In 1932 the Fianna Fail under de valera won the elec- tions on a pledge to introduce all-out protectionism in order to develop industry and shift agriculture from its export Sean said

ARIG

1928: 'We believe that Ireland providing all the of living in adequate the The Develop- for foreign ment, first Britain and 1938 he From to from the Market, Japan try But a and the USA. The Irish and population labour to pocketing a tion. very And the fact high. The States Department Commerce had in most In 1938 the therefore, an in- Fianna of nised the Britain the figure puny 5.5%. The have, of ment rati- course, the North, British where This was re- Today are 680 ty in 1965. 206 of these, with a capital are valle worth of the Fianna War. the Second World Foreign was dis- protected subsidised. 1930s, was in operations based raw becoming an materials. 18th century So, employ- ment, with closer to Ireland's trade Hong Kong or 1924 deficit. until Singapore, or South today has been norca between Tory coercion 50%

DOLLS.

dustrial Dublin. investment, especially since the late is sometime past economi failures second. has lowest in Western Europe in the Though has the growing labour the Europe. the 1960s had of one Europe's rates of inflation. The parallel with this experience that of 6 counties of Ulster. The has not lism, in of imperialism to play. Through preserving its "divisions" and the border then sections

DOSI

pitiful class have to some ex- tent managed to conceal the utter bankruptcy which has been its characteristic for lically two centunes. Conditions in today's Northern Ireland textile mills

Page 8

IN REVIEW

PRINT JOBS

UNDER THE

AXE

Technology', a new pamphlet published by the NUJ to develop a policy on the threat to thousands of jobs.

Thousands of print workers in the newspaper visual display industry face the dole in into a computer. the next ten years, It of regardless whether sent for printing without ever making being seen or handled by a newspapers are compositor. profits. The technology New tech- newspaper for the pages to the nology given the visual on employers a golden oppor- without printers tunity remove up to to paste up 40% their of labour costs, snow bene with a relatively small capital the Daily Mirror in London although A production complete operating the machine). line of highly staffed machines Endless IcasiDIe. The introduction of tech- nology, which has been use taking place rapidly over the and many past ten years, expected 1S and the inciease, oursunppug 63.000 jobs lost print seemingly endless. between 1967 and 1976. The loss of these jobs has adapted to feceive news and almost without exception de versenel with calling them up lakell place trUL finger of resistance being the pIll leaderships. Converts PHOTO: John Sturock, Report Far from trying to protect their members, the leaders of

NGA,

NATSOPA

SLADE

have become wonders of converts to the of job-cutting solving the economic prob- the Fleet Street lems of papers. A joint management/union document, A Programme For presented Fleet Street and journalists late last year with the full backing of the print NGA General Secretary Wade union leaders. banks operated by Despite their best efforts Office, BBC and ITA. this programme for the Faced with this technology the loss of a massive number methods of jobs was decisively re- at local jected by the membership.

inadequate Despite this the vote, The simple truth "reasonable' men who lead printers the big three print unions ener are impressed with against the management arguments for cutting which is getting rid of their members, process or they will go down that they intend to resubmit to a shattering defeat at the a similar programme to their hands of the employers, the knowedee that the paid Most dramatic army the print In Fleet Street the battles as are betrayals still come. Union yo Last in the provinces, where aerspapers are highly for a year's ban on the intro- profitable businesses, much duction of' of the technology has already technology aeen introduced. display phase-where committee set more jobs are annual delegates 404 mus Or ways the produced a policy. I slE-Is in many ost in Amatic. NUJ member Peter McIntyre reviews 'Journalists and New The technology exists for with 'lefts' and has produced a report which adopts a mili- type copy on a unit straight tant hostility towards the technology. will neverthe- can then be edited and less be totally inadequate to detend those jobs. Muddled also exists be designed muddled presents amalgam of lines of defence, display units from refusing ranging negotiate the introduction of pages. (This method the technology to little more introduced at than displays of bad temper once the machines have been printers, introduced. The pamphlet contains some useful research and an accurate description of what Much of this is already in the new technology in some British papers represents: papers in more Егоре. The in our possibilities are whereby work that Televisions can already be will by data machine follows from defined precisely instructions'. figures to Royal support the Commission the Press that the contention technology they require. Fleet could in equip itself 'cold type" £20 million, £30 million spend getting and 'save" 7,000 jobs the Post wealth of traditional solved. The of defending jobs level become is that will and journalists cut throat find a joint defence massive job from already television radio leave the auyellsug in of bureaucrats inside unions nave cone much as anyone to bring of tech. nology does the National cut jobs. It also deskills Journalists called making for the 'direct entry' management introduce (that is visual scabs to terminals) while introduced. by the offered drudgery. In auto- The committee was larded selectively

THIS,

THI

UNION

UNIC

SPE

by management to cut jobs; with the lower the price of labour by dependence reducing on expensive skills; progressively work from the worker

TALONE

(basically control of the and the process transfer it, via the machines area of work. to management'. That where they take happened firm in Rich- union where an for been defeated. advertising the out the by ever got

UJL

with a turnover 30-35% the

NUJ

of the (while this resist one that draws 211[01 together. operating display reject fifteen from away Nottingham its printers accept it or not.

put forward This for to adopt are must then totally The strengthen committee about not the without at a successful be put up. It that the As

NUJ

defence SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 January 1978

THIS IS YOUR

UNION LEADERSHIP

SPEAKING—

YOU ARE

FIRED!

D print journalists alike must fight union (correctly) and that it should jointly at a local level for only enter into negotiations work sharing on full pay.

direct All entry the work available machines when other unions must be shared out among NGA) have the workforce with no loss of already agreed to give up that pato do this it is essential in means that two win manning agreements important cases the NUJ will which fix the levels of jobs.

The policy De forceo to accept Job cuts ot no loss place with jobs, coupled with no accep- the connivance of the print tance of job cutting tech- bureaucracies, and nology goes beyond a static NGA chapel has trade union defence. to the lead

I USI

workers under threat going on the attack. Managements which claim

INS A PLANE

they must have the new technology to survive must be their made to throw open

BOSE WORKERS

books, plans and all secret to elected commi- ttees of the workforce.

NO POST

Nationalise their claims of insolvency turn out to be true (as is likely in Fleet Street) then workers must demand that the are papers nationalised without compen- workers' sation Under control.

SUPPORTE

They must demand that Striker at US Washington Post the complete control of all The only policy that can editorial matters passes into attack on jobs is the hands of the workers and the unions that the onvate businessmen who manipulate and control NUJ members will have to the press at vast protit in the motions of waiting to provinces and at some risk to see if the NGA agrees to the their fortunes in Heet Street new arrangements and instead are stripped of their instru- make it clear that it will not ments of propaganda. accept direct entry as part of For print union members work-whether the much is at stake. Side by side a fight to provide closed first line of defence shops for the NUJ through- be used newspaper industry of the resolve must go hand in hand with a demoralised print chapels to a unite and determined igni stage where they believe that to resist job cuts-based not united fight can unionism on scientific second line of understanding of the forces and involved.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 January 1978

OUR

POLICIES

Defend the trade unions Trade unionism is the employers. When the economic crisis under attack. The assault makes it impossible for capi- is not new and takes con- many forms. such a policy hides Cessions, Wilson's In Place of Strife' the truth from workers. The firemens' strike again and Heath's Industrial Rela- tions Act both tried highlights the political emasculate the unions. questions posed by the wages Phony 'workers' struggle-including partici- the schemes nation are being survival of the government.

used to undermine the shop Bitter struggle stewards' movement. In 1977, Grunwick the Under such conditions, the and hotels' strikes were just "realistic' examples of vicious only

TWO

pollo is

HOL

reaction by employers. and which aims solely state to extension of union but one which

LU LENIN.

rights. also the prepares working the revolutionary Cass

CIOT

Dead end of the bankrupt overthrow capitalist system. Despite such Defence of the unions now resistance and despite demands bitter repeated more betrayals membership struggle than that necessary build them. continues to grow as workers And, the move to defend wages and TUC's betrayal of the fire- conditions. men demonstrates. Ne malf For this reason the WSL enemy of independent trade fights at all points to defend collective

LIONS I

cano tree the unions. bargaining the enemy Without trade unions the within. British working class would In the 'boom' of the 1950s be powerless, If the working capitalism could class cannot defend the inde- afford to toss a few crumbs pendence of its unions now to the workers. it will never be able to build the organisations necessary to Transform But energetic defence of Then, the cap-in-hand the unions does not mean policies of retormist leaders, that the Trotskyist pro- like Jack Jones, appeared gramme of the WSL is simply and 'common 'union militancy' sense'. Today, this is a dead-end.

Now. under the onset of Determined strikes are often international economic lost precisely because they Slump this is transformed into led militants whose its opposite. aim is restricted to simply The TUC bureaucrats can concessions from no longer walk a tight-rope

TROYAL

SHOP

STEWAROS

COMMITTEE

'RISE

YE

WORKERS

The release of the dockers jailed under the Industrial Relations Act.

"peaceful coexistence" with the bosses that they will not build the even from which organisations they eke their parasitic existence. Fransformation This defence of the unions foremost means first and driving misleaders like Jones, Murray and Scanlon.

Preparation for the battles ahead requires the thorough transformation of the unions The fight for this is a task of the WSL. Genuine union democracy Heath -that allows the rapid between labour and capital- removal treacherous they in ust show their true leaders and the open fight for a programme to defend

CULOUS.

They now act openly as jobs and wages-is essential.

agents of the bosses. All officials should be This process is inevitable.

elected and subject to instant Periods of push recall. Self seeking careerism privileged bureaucrats into should be ended through pay- their role. as policemen of of ment workers' wages to union leaders. wag color and unemploy ment, in order to save their elevated positions. Tory media Socialist Press has detailed their uSe witch-hunts, Manoeuvres like postal kangaroo courts sharp ballots and must be opposed. election practices They against are aimed at allowing Tory opponents of these betrayals.

the media to appeal There is hardly a rule in the of heads active the book that remains un- unionists and gather support broken the attacks on for right-wing from the The militant members. most isolated and ill-informed The outright betrayal of sections. the Grunwick strikers bears Voting should take place out the WSL's analysis of the the open meetings, bureaucracy in the unions. open to all members. Each candidate should be No fight aid the a hor she pres on appeal for support on These officials are SO equal terms at such meetings.

preserve their concerned to Only voting in this way can end the situation in which the whole electoral machinery is controlled by the trade union bureaucrats themselves fight for union I ne democtacy is an integral part the fight for the new Ligership for a leadership. that fights transitional demands, such as the linking pay to prices under workers' control, as the alter- native to capitalist crisis and wage cutting. Record of fighting That such demands-which both the answer burning needs of workers and also open up the prospect or d struggle against capitalism itself-can response from workers, was shown in the recent elections at British Leyland Cowley. There, militants with record of fighting for such policies, were elected senior positions despite witch-hunting. (Significa had bureaucratic opposition and the Cowley workers organised a guard to ensure no interference with the ballot boxes); For the WSL, the fight for our programme in the unions, and for the acton necessary implement it, is indispen- sable to the preparation of the working class for power.

The alternative for increasing misery • the while the working bureaucrats are left to use the unions for their own personal benefit. Yet the fight in the unions is only one terrain on which the class struggle takes place.

The unions can in no way be for a levo- Jutionary party which must up the struggle against lake capitalism at every level of society. Wholly possible Without revolutionary leadership, the unions are like a muscular body that is not directed by a brain. Thus, in our fight in the unions, the WSL sets out to win the most class-conscious fighters to our understanding of capitalism, and train them in the Marxist theory vital for consistent struggle against In 1940, Trotsky warned by that unions led the reformists could never truly independent and would become 'concentration camps' for the working class.

His words ring true today.

But: 'Wholly possible are revo- lutionary trade unions .. In this sense the programme of

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4 YEARS STRUGGLE

Page 10 1974 Victimised 1977 Re-elected

FOR PRINCIPLE

of new banner The Tom White, a Central Com- Too baliot. It also ordered mittee member of the leadership for the trade a new branch to be set up.

secretary and workers Revolutionary Party union 4021T- movement in the on his slate and with a much man or me new branen were unmis- car industry was to be elected at a paid mass reduced majority takably raised last month weeks Alan same meetine on the plant. In Ine -when elected the existing right The right wing knew that Thornett as 5/293 of the wing leadership was over- the continuous Chairm ar

HACE WEEK

witch-hunt had done its job Branch. floor turned in a shop under and that Thornett and Fryer was achieved ballot in British conditions where the Parsons and other lett-wingers such as Leyland's Cowley Plant. Tim O'Sullivan had little candidate withdrew in favour of Tom White-who became Defeated was Reg Parsons chance of winning. the right-wing nominee with a left face they hoped would be Big victory hunter who was promoted by useful. the right wing of the TGWU Parsons' election was a big at Regional and National level The Branch elections were victory for British Leyland and installed by ine irst major blow against.

which they had and one to since the national witch hunt. the right wing devoted considerable 18 months Elected was Bob Fryer the victimisation with whole the removed left-wing earlier. hearted backing of the TGWU Curveill in 1974 and Alan Thornett, a bureaucracy. had been Trotskyist The who conclusion drawn by convenor for six years deputy most left groups was that the up to 1974. Fryer-Thornett leadership had become isolated from the Speed up workers in the plant. that true certain This result overturned four wrong, policies, flowing from years of work by the right the influence of the Workers the destened to create Revolutionary Party in the conditions to reorganise Ley- land, for speed-up plant, nau playca a pan. But against this was and control wage rates. their long and principled Although directed mainly record in unionising the fac- from Regional level Jack Jones _GWU, tory, raising wages, opposing General Secretary redundancies anti-trade involved and the was union legislation, and fighting from the outset in the moves Tom White the Measured imposition Cowley leader- aminst the Day Work-forced in after a ship. They were a shot across 6-week strike in 1970: It was his decision in 1974 the bows of the right wing a witch-hunting lo act on and had demonstrated the Programme better from Parsons. ability of the previous leader- This was sent during A leadership which fights ship to win support through three-week strike of the trans- behalf the the fight for programme. ot of defence class will have periods in This had been demon- Alan Thornett: after the office periods and out of strated by the support for the management withdrew recog- office; the important open the books committee in nition from him as a deputy question is on what principles the months prior to the elec and shop convenor and programme is that leader- tions and in the fight against ship built. 'participation' scheme The outcome of the strike The test of how firmly the enthusiastically supported by was an inquiry by the TGWU Cowley leadership was rooted Parsons. Regional Committee. in the working class would This was narrowly shop only be tested in their ability accepted by the Cleared of charges to withstand the attacks of shortly before the stewards The the following inquiry right wing elections through the crucial completely deared Thornett of all the Parsons' election and the way intervention of the Stalinists.

rebuild This was the first time the licy company-but found Fryer, majority support. Stalinists had emerged in any sho had made his had even Parsons significant way in the factory.

charged with anything, guilty objectives clear from the start But they were play to an oi drive anagng the into - LU LIte dotskylsts mcredsmigy Important role as disrepute line main hard line support from the factory. the nasanhas Ult Paranor Branch elections was to call a meeting of selected right wing stewards and members and to publish a statement through- plant saying a new out the organisation had been set up comprised entirely ot those "dedicated to the destruction of extremism". More substantial - The itself bureaucracy substantial made more They knew that the support gained by the left the previous months UYEl would be multiplied now the Branch leadership had changed. Jones personally appointed David Buckle, Oxford District Secretary and fanatical right winger, as Assembly official for the Plant. The appointment was of it completed a reliable chain downwards from Jones him- Mathers through convenor. Anti-Trotskyist of every The importance link this chain being unshakably anti-Trotskyist emerged as crucial in the following as the months bureaucracy met the strength- with opposition ening weapon they had- only bureaucratic increasing dictatorship. ppointmen On his Buckle Joint abolished th Shop Stewards Committee to which Thornett had just been elected chairman and set out 5/293 Branch to isolate the by refusing to deal with in on industrial matter-a decision endorsed by Mathers "Plan" Parsons publicly boasted now 'existed which would the result 1n Trotskyists being driven from the plant. In August 1976 four shop from the North stewards to defend a sacked worker with the obvious and scarcely concealed collaboration of Buckle and Parsons. At the mass meeting called defend - them Parson defended the management's action whilst Buckle said that the a strike would resuit in permanent of the plant. Second blow Despite this the meeting them down voted supported the four, shutting down the North Works. The decision of this meet- second ing the was blow against the right wing.

were able Although they LO end to the strike bring 41E after two weeks with the announcement of a Regional Inquiry, Parsons had lost his the North Works support in and he was never to regain it.

The bureaucracy held the until December inoury back and withheld its findings until Aprill 1977. They then turned it to their own advantage and used it as the framework for the final stage of Buckle's plan.

The report found the four stewards guilty and withdrew their stewards cards. It recommended also further reorganisation of the TGWU structure on the plant and gave the Oxford District Buckle) the COMMElLICE authority to decide the shape of the reorganisation. Tim O'Sullivan Buckle's recommendation was anolner addition to the existing 5/293 and 5/55 and the formation

TOWU

stewards' committee a constitu- with tion written by him. His call mistake was to

TGWU

meetings OI 111Q3r members ine plant in an attempt to his get SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 January 1978 mendations endorsed. The turned into meetings the third major blow against On the the rent wing. day shift Buckle and Parsons were jeered and abused when they Thornett, refused allow to Corti and O'Sullivari to speak of, the officers existing branches the to answer stream of lies and witch- hunting coming from the platform. problem by claiming that the Buckle over meeting had voted in favour of his proposals when no vote actually had been taken. Minority pressured The result of all this was a disaster. Although Leyland of invested' hundreds thousands of pounds in the new branch, releasing picked hand right wing their job stewards from on full pay to work full time for three months recruiting into branch minority of workers could be pressure mo jolling of this opera The failure ion posed a ditficuit problen for the The right wing. biennial election for convenor was looming in December and their support. all was all The TGWU stewards.com- mittee had been set up with a constitution straight jacket but they had lost the support of the stewards. Strike action This had been made worse by attempt to ban Parsons stewards' Thornett from meeting which had resulted in Thornett's strike action from section and a mass attendance stewards mem bers meetings. obviously Buckle was forced to the conclusion that win the convenor's and by elections, hook crook, was not enough-they had to control the stewards and the branches оп the plant The support for their opponents was growing. The S/293 Branch Report, begun magazine which had publication in May had been carrying the Branch campaign a £100 per week plus a cost of living clause to protect the wage packet against inflation. Their approach the problem began to emerge at the October the Oxford District Committee.

Chairman Roche provoked meeting dictatorial As soon were they made accused the the new done and destroyed. cedures tor convenors' But the emerged those moved were running the be the from inen, of the closure previous meeting, Com- mittee right boxes be given wingers morning started sit in and then recommend sentences to place. for Fryer 1195 votes All the Thornett, dates in the then position out including time positions. elected. were expulsion circle. Fryer be to were weIt vote-the in, 1974. 42 months in Cowley March 1974 Widespread strikes South works over mutuality clause and speed up April 5 1974 Strikers receive sack threat from Lomacy. April 8 1974 Strikers vote to go back against advice of convenors. April 9 1974 by strike in rant

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Transport dept-Thornett's section. April TO 1974 BL Management withdraws recognition from Thornett esulting in 3 week strike by the May 6 1974 Inquirv findings published- Thornett cleared on all points- Fryer found guilty of bringing union into disrepute. No charges Fresh ever laid Goalsu elections ordered by shop floor ballot and branch in the a new Assembly Plant June 4 1974 Parsons elected in "resulting ballot June 1974 5/293 Branch set up. Majority mem ders Dersuaceo into Thornett and other militants join 5/293 Branch.

June issu- ransons Control. tom dany December 1974 make macr avancer many levels and protective agreement-particularly mutu- ally. December 1974 delenate " to hornett voted Biennial Delegate Conference for 5/293. July 1975 Thornett goes to Biennial Dele- gate Conference as delegate for 5/293. July 1975 Oxford Trades Council dicattlater from l as riont attempt consolidate wing their position in the town August 1975 Levland Cars meeting convenors accept 'participation' in principle. September 1975 Joint Shop Stewards Committee the books committee open ormed. November 1975 Participation accepted in Assemov rant ov crucar inter- vention of the Stalinistà.

November 1975 Tom White, (WRP), goes onto November 1975 Tom White included on Parsons published slate for deputy con-

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December 1975 carsons re•e ected convenor vith much reduced majority.

December 1975 Tim O'Sullivan elected chairman The branch January 1976 5/293 and 5/55 branches challenge "impossible votes" in National Regional Committee, Committee and GEC elections January 1976 Despite massive evidence point• allegations refused February 1976 sagion orders tresn clection tor National Committee. Regional Committee and GEC due "technical infringement of the rules". April 1976 Buckle official appointed Assemblv Plant by Jack Jones.

May 1976 Thornett elected chairman Joint Shop Stewards Commit- Lee May 1976 Hight wing manor vote d the Oxford District Automative Committee declared elected to Automative National Conference winen malorite Thornett. The inquiry findings now stand in ambo at kegional Office one knows and what Mathers will decide to do. oftice oI The IGWU stewards met soon after the election and opposition declared they would resist to the full any attempt interfere with the results of the election. on the The people who only spoke in defence of the Stalinists inquiry were the right of the who opposed the motion on the grounds that it "could interfere with the outcome of a constitutional inquiry".

The next issue be to The ballot confronted leadership will be the blic the new declaration by British ballot Leyland that they will not Wednesday recognise Alan Thornett. This will come 3 when Thornett is January due to take office. Parsons Almost Vindication cast T01 him The election results are a the 28 pursued by those fighting for alternative convenor in tne plant over the past 3½ years - also was fight against closure, open books, sharing on full pay, for catch- Thornett ing up claims to regain wages by popular method lost over the last four years and for cost of living clauses to protect against inflation.

June 1976 After complaint by majority of Automative Committee delecates. Mecion reçognise travesty but withdraw right of the Oxford Com- the to send any delegate to MITTee Automative Conference. Oxford Automotive Committee July 1976 right wing •istance Decause. had lost their majority on it.

Recognition removed from 4 August 1976 British Leyland stewards by defend victimised worker. Mass meeting votes support but strike sold out weeks. Decision for a after necional noonry into the four December 1976 Regional Inquiry victimsee stewares. published-4 April 1977 Inquiry findings found guilty of bring- stewards ing the union into disrepute Stewards cards removed. Oxford authority "re. given to

TGWU

the the Assembly Plant. May 1977 First of 293 Branch Report circulated May 1977 Buckles. proposals for 'reorganisation' —a new branch formed, the 837, a TGwu and stewards

COTT-

mittee created with a constitu- tias ritten by him June 1977 to endorse buckles proposals but Duckle goes ahead. Massive campaign to recruit into new branch. July 1977 Second edition of Branch Report circulated. July 1977 5/293 motion calls for sliding scale of third of confer- wages, ence vole toll July 1977 l stewards commite formed with straight-jacket while Thornett and constitution •'Sullivan are in the I.O.M 5/293 begins campaign for £100 August 1977 plus sliding scale Third edition of Branch Report September 1977 Circuieted First meeting of 837 Branch.

September 1977 October 1977 Fourth edition of Branch Report. October 1977 Leyland hold ballot on Cars Bargaining-workers accest cudous barot. Massive problems of implemen- tation remaining November 1977 of Branch Report municher Nov 22 1977 Special meeting of Oxford Committee nantoo court Dec 1 1977 MaIn come dates elector receive list of charges against them. Dec 5 1977 White, Thornett. Corti elected and deputy convenors. Doc 8 & 91977 Disciplinary busrin fryer held house. Thornett refuse attend because the hearings outside of cUle Dec 19 1977 Thornett re elected chairman of Dec 30 1977 voted off General Exec- Council in ballot greatly influenced by the struggle for democracy two years ago. Tom Jackson and the

UPW

leadership have shown their real attitude to the Grunwick struggle and to their own members' democratic On December 22 the UPW disciplinary committee fined Icaulig total of £1,400 for their part the blacking of Grunwick One officer, John Taylor, penalties are far bigger than meted out by ary JPs to Grunwick pickets.

Unanimous The sole 'crime' these men had committed was to imple- unanimous decision of District the UPW's London Council-which called for the blacking of Grunwick mail.

scandalous action bv

UPW

leadership just the about completes tue picture of

TUC

Grun- betrayai.on wick. The only section of workers to have carned out effective action against any the employer receives huge fines. CP buries NUM wage claim MeGahey As the final tatters of left wing "opposition" to incentive schemes pit were torn to shreds in the High Court before Christ- mas, it was left to Stalin- Scotland leaders in ist and in Kent to utter the last rites over the £135 pay claim by agreeing to incentive talks on area schemes. The Court desperate and reactionary move headed by Yorks leader Arthur Scargill, who had retused to call for action on the basic claim-proved pay futility of seeking only through workers' democracy

INDUSTRIAL NEWS

Scandal of the UPW men fined for trade unionism is far more important tha union rules. The UPW fines show th the union bureaucracy cann th relied win The Grunwick stril struggle. committee

HE USL

threats of action against the by the APEX bureaucrats al prepare a mass lobby of tl

TUC

At the centre of th campaign must be a fight!

bodie press officials, shop stewards ar members to sign they will tion that act of any section support workers that black electricit post and water to Grunwic and demanding the TUC c officially for such blacking.

parallel to the I nis is a every union, suspension of

APEX

strike particularly the UPW, resol members for

COITOLICE

tions must be passe picketing the TUC. demanding the lifting of th The London postmen's fines on the London postm of action typical for disciplinary actio and response by rank and file against those who carried o trade unionists to the Grun- this shameful attack. wick fight. John Taylor said: "The principle of fighting for union recognition and the

NUJ

credibility of the movement talks New talks with loc management have starte Darlington NU at as gai bourgeois courts. members try to from Wes concessions pronounced no punches. Press minster manag th ment for a return executive was not bound work. either by the conter- en The NUJ members been left complete now to act contrary isolated in their 30 wee strike for a closed shop.

London office journalists he referred to the who supported the strike f months-were drive seven of 'balance back to work before Chris mas after it became clear th escalation before Christm areas. was not on the cards. he When London office me the increase in prod- quoted bers returned to work We South uction Derbyshire 1n Press with

INE DICI

since their incentive scheme viciousne customary began! imposed a series of humili: ing demands. included the lifti Whether or not a majority of blacking by all papers of members were the group, a condition sign the opposed to incentives,

NUJ

General Secreta by judge declared, the majority Ken Ashton, without seemed to include men uke knowledge, let alone agre cokemen and the power ment of the membership. group already on bonuses.

Oifices Swindo to imagine a It is nard Oxford and Uxbridge more brazen declaration that then presented with the doc whol and

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ment by their managemer the instrument and told that if they did n helneva Diy their Lond ol lne employels and their blacking opposed to the agents and office would members independent workers move- holiday p pensions ment. for 1977 and continuity The long employment. struggle at the Metropole Hotel in London The only way forward has ended in defeat and dis- for the Darlington chapel missal for the seven workers make a clear call for escal prepared still on strike. tion be Inese WorKers were betrayed by theit union tackle head the burea cracies that have left them: officials who were able increasingly isolate the strikers. This will require a fund mental change in approach t future issue of Press will be Darlington Socialist we publishing history of the itself to become prepared i and the lessons that opposition struggle confront have to be learned. of capitulating to it.

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TUC. General Council egg on the way in. The following embers arriving for the

DIEN

firemen's trucial vote lobby was part composed of before Christmas were 'extremists' risibly shaken by the men, and even inal were almost outnumbered by them cene that met non-tiremen! outside Congress House. About 2,000 firemen and Ludicrous few hundred supporters the The ludicrous over thered trom ountry to express their hos- this claim was evident to any- TUC refusal to one present, not least in the to the apport their strike. conservative General Council members men. ("Que sera, vere booed, threatened and stuffing the TUC" bet entered the bused as they of the most advanced). building white faced. bureau- In contrast, any rat who gave a hint of sup- All Trade fort was cheered and slapped megaphone, on the back-even when their mouthed General Strike in support of ecord betraval amongst members was the firemen, their own drowned in a chorus of anti- communist abuse. Hit by egg of police trolled by Hundreds rafted in to protect although the Southern Region of the they ureaucrats,

TUC,

tiled to clear an exit after

WIIU

he meeting as the firemen credentials before permitting a succession of dreary hacks Tom Jackson,

UPW

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General Secretary back into offer "solidarity". the building. Len Murray was hit by an

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The December 21 lobby scabs day tried to claim that the dressed tire. enthusiasm with any Rolls Royce strike firemen from the committee at Willesden, out on But% but pay 512, representative Alan Thornett, of just elected as deputy nature steward at Cowley Assembly Plant was refused persion to speak. It seems Dromey was there adopted by 'the fire- the London Region of the invitation • We're

FBU

being one in his role as Secretary of the Southern Region of the TUC.

A WRP speaker, using the Union Alliance Useful had barely And, the Express for a demand

FBU

bureaucrats revealed, had found Dromey useful in 'keeping out the extremists".

He was in fact being used by the FBU as a fingerman, Official speakers were con- leadership against anyone present some Secretary of who might political direction. was powerful vetted their to unsettle some of enough and the

TUC

bureaucrats produce the close 20-17 vote verbal purely against the firemen. It reflected the strength of The only speaker greeted

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National Front dent Koruturk with forming a The government in new government. coalition The basis Turkey fell last Saturday.

defeat was the resignation of Demirel Prime 12 deputies from resigned after his government Party. failed by zLo-Llo lo win vote of confidence from the one retused to vole, National Asser bly. coalition for the leader Bulent Ecevit, Republican Party has of the Party. Presi- now been charged by Demirel's inability of a $1 billion loan. NF The divided on abandon its

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treacherous leadership. IMF loan. lobby also cing revealed the other side of the Turkish lira, -the lack of political dispute- and wage controls. leadership. To solve the contradiction their militancy and between the political conservatism of Of

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DISK

ousted header' were while the from their posts, RPP took a majority on the Executive and on the General Council. The leader of the reaction- confederation Turk-is- ary who criticised the old leader- of Demirel's of DISK-promptly ship his Justice declared he had no Eleven of these voted with the new leader- against the NF coalition and ship. calling Not enough between Ecevit's RPP and the Justice But even this support for Ecevit will not be enough to resignations reflected confidence of win the big bourgeoisie. They see that the old democratic forms of duce the measures demanded by the IMF as a precondition for inadequate rule 41 d vicious attacks on the work- Ing Kiss Divided Within Demirel's in are now coalition was favour of unification with the the IMF call to fascist party, whose provoca- planned

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have brought 117 tions heavy industry, and deaths and over 1,000 injuries to scale down projected econ- in the last five months. omic growth from 9% to 4%.

struggle With the class But the main force behind described by already being Demirel's fallure was growing both fascists and RPP spokes- to the workers civil men as at the level ol NF's right wing policies and period the next to increasing fascist violence.

wal, crucial. This was expressed in the Ecevit's coming attacks on recent municipal elections in coupled the working. class, which the Justice Party lost of working with the crisis class leadership push could But despite the line put by fascist into the forces the new supporters in ranks. Party and the union bureaucracy it is Full freedom clear that an RPP government must Revolutionaries will be anything but a govern- Ecevit's claim ment for the working class. It by "democracy represent as anti-working class fighting for full freedom for working class organisations.

task first 1s to mobilise They conditions of the must around the demand for the This means enfor- repeal of repressive legislation of the of for the abolition price employers' "right lock-outs, and for the right of workers to engage in solidar- Ousted ity strikes and general strikes.

Armed workers militia this does not must be formed to disarm the make the RPP the same as the different fascist thugs, and a united have attacking the front WOrKtIs tions built in the fight against defence of Ecevit relies heavily on the fascism, and 1n jobs and wages. trade union bureaucracy. An emergency conference of the Immediate measures must the confederation be taken DISK ended last week with capitalists and monopolists, victory for RPP supporters.

big landowners. Only workers control of the economy can supporters including Turkler the former answer the economic crisis.

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