Socialist Press no. 95

TGWU WITCH-HUNT

PRESS

Thatcher plays on Callaghan race record Tory leader Margaret Thatcher put her personal stamp of venom her party's vicious on immigration proposals at the weekend. In a populist speech to the Tory Central Council Leicester, she described opposition to the anti-black she proposes But she reserved her sharpest remarks to show that Labour politicians did not in fact oppose the measures to shut black tamiies out of the country. "Every time we have brought tighter controls Labour immigration Politicians have attacked us have fought proposals e at used bran o have every sin in the book. "But they do not repeal the laws we introduce when they come to office. Indeed, recall the that Prime Minister brought when he was more Home Secretary". More reactionary ward has been taken in Time and again in her the Thatcher reterred to speech militant nine Callaghan's spell at the Home members at Office-when he showed him- self to be more reactionary Cowley on race and immigration than from discipid action many Tory Home Secretaries.

TGWU Regional officials. hands Labour politicians have no basis for attacking the Tory proposals because their own A 200 TGWU members from plans are riddled through and through with racialism. nearly every The Select Committee union report immigration did Saturday on anO backed a resolution more to show the unanimity of thinking between Labour for should TGWU officials decide and Conservative politicians to procede with the threaten- on race tnan all the protes- tations of Rees ed discipline. manage to cum ulc us duv ayson. *Thatcher the on immigration fever,

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action being see page 5. Previous TGWU inquiries Council delegates. into the Cowley Assembly action Plant are now being openly leaflets which had described as aimed at TGWU cecision to jort une lowu witen militants. nunt Jonn Power President any mandate from Trades Council Oxford Trades Council told more 100 last Friday evidence against any delegates give delegates attena ine nad been autorised ov the describe the "aimed al curbing the aclivilies or certain are dele- people some ot whom mandate was necessary since they gates to this trades council" nad an independent responsibility that told delegates to the lUC secretary, Keith had been called in to the of formal -order s with the GWU ine luc, and that they were Tra

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* Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 95 * April 12, 1978 * 15p

CONFERENCE

STEPS UP

DEFENCE

CAMPAIGN

the An important step for- leading members in Cowley Assembly Plant", and called for the charges to be campaign to defend dropped.

TGWU

Those present voted: Leyland's the back into Io go Assembly Plant Branches and Committees and obtain the represented affiliation of those bodies to the this campaign "To extend this campaign conference of nearly within the TGWU and obtain the maximum affiliations to the campaign" region of the met in Oxford last And the resolution unanimously pledged: calling "To reconvene the confer- mobilisation ence, on the basis of the affil- iated and branches committees, in the event of any disciplinary action being The resolution condemned taken of the against ally "continuous disciplinary Cowley This conference against will decide further Laken Wildl TUC role exposed whether not they had the rower said ne was considerine supoor or meir oranches. against unspecified can't complain to *we attacked his branch because all round robin saying how this i you could une Des delecate Neither Power nor Dancy had possibly have". "We have complained to the and were davisco to lake i delegates. up. We sent complaints in writing.

We won't and don't Not necessary withdraw from them" But they claimed that no such Lancy s speech pinpointed the date at which the officers first started their back door moves as last ivovember-oreciserv ine time Power said he had had "a lot when the right wing began to lose their majority on the council.

ana intormal contact Power meeting -InE rather than allow Alan Thornett And he stunned delegates by about the witch-hunt actience sor those discipined" action should be taken It s urgent that this reso ution is acted on immediately throughout the union. Once the victimisation takes place TGWU officials must be con- much fronted larger conference, based on branch and shop stewards commit- tee sponsorship. Saturday it was Even clear that are strong There supporters of the campaign convenor with three who could not attend this was the conterence. first of its kind stewards and two for TGWU members years within the TGWU branches and leading militants sent apologies and for which they stand. messages of support, and a large number of branches was deputy committees allu stewarus have sent motions of protest Thornett -who Regional Committees and threatened the General Executive Com- from the mittee. Political motive

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for fought The conference itself was strategy of sponsored by 130 prominent clause

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members including against inflation. branch officers, convenors and shop stewards. opposed A central issue dealt with and in speeches and in the subse- Edwardes plan. quent discussion the was the politica

COCCO

their allies motivation for the bureaucracy, Velm sons

TGWU

officials have majority decided that those who speak the independent perspective interests shop floor heavy blows workers in Leyland have to silenced all

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cies and speca-up This has brought them to the unprecedented step of attempting to expel, bar from office or discipline newly re- Three faces of official betrayal. Page 8 CP splits deepen . Back page Film review: Julia • p.8 • p.9 Our Policies... T&G witch-hunters Evans (top) and Region 5 Chairman Davis Bob Fryer, along the company to expose the newly between Leyland and elected deputy convenors, three shop major sections of the private- militant owned component industry and the banks. This McCarthyite purge is told the He conference aimed not at the individuals how the policy-taken up in the face of threatened redun concerned, but at the policies dancies-had won widespread pointed out that popular support in the plan and led to convenor Alan the setting up of Open the Books Com- by Plant with expulsion mittee Assembly union -opposed stewards. The support won for the Jones' call for a Phase 3 of at the policy had been a major last connerence lactor in the the alternative of the right isolation wing cost-of-living and the re-election of Alan protect Thornett as the chairman of wages the 5/293 TGWU Branch All of the Cowley 9 have The open the books policy 'worker partici and the fight for work-sharing ine Job-cutting pay and factory occupation is now crucial in evanu manacement ang in the

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the fight defend the Triumph Speke know that leadership placed in office by which threatened with the under the Edwardes ot closure

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membership fighting on such plan could This is why the struggle to strike defend the Cowley 9 against Edwardes' al victimisation, as part of the proposed closures, redundan- struggle for democracy within the

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One speaker in particular is an essential showed this when he detailed part of the fight for a new principled leadership the fight that had been waged Leyland and throughout th in the plant for the policy of

WAGE CUT IN PORTUGAL

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INTERNATIONAL:

US WORKERS

ROUT NAZI

MARCH

The plans of the Nazis youth. "parade They lined the hold their national to route"- -some just to see what in St. Louis convention but to was mUSL on March 11 was, quite register their hostility to the simply, a declaration of fascists. war against the working Incensed class of St. Louis. hostility St. By noon The Nazis selected Louis proper because of the excessive unemployment. and Nazis decided South St. Louis in particular because of the nineteentn century background of many of the workers who live there.

These considerations, plus the fact that in the state of The was of incensed at Missouri the emplovers nave highly financed organised to instill "right-to- the Nazis. work" laws directed against the basic the unions, welc of the Nazi components could Snowballs, formula. rained bricks And for the first time and since 1945 they were given a "white permit to march and rally in a forced to Thel major US city. The debate among leftist and centrist organisations, as a whole opposed to the racist ideology of the Nazis, revolved around 1) whether the Nazis should be permitted than Rather stop at meet in South St. Louis Gravois Park, where they had if Nazis were Nazis and 2) the rally, the planned a stopped, whether this should stayed on the truck and drove accomplished on. police and by the Squads of police rushed to courts or organised working class protect the Nazi headquarters from the crowd and eventually loaded the fascists Hostility into police vans was resound- protection. The debate ingly answered in practice by The grand Nazi revival had turned into a fiasco in which thousands workers The Communist Party- demands made by the Stalinist leaders of the CGTP dominated trade union simply played can be federation, CGTP-Inter- with in this cynical way by sindical, last week hailed Soares, and the demands on 'victory' wages and jobs of the Trans- when the itional Programme-such as coalition government of the sliding scale of wages and Mario Soares announced work sharing full pay. on 26% increase in the Fraudulent and a minimum wage 22% increase in pensions.

The Stalinists will not the This just make these demands because

CGTP

been demand- had they know that capitalism in ing insistently since its Portugal cannot grant them.

February congress. The following day The Stalinist union leaders became clear what an utterly prefer to maintain hollow victory had been won.

winning position by Soares followed up this fraudulent 'victories' which move by raising the price of can be wiped out, as in this hasic subsidised foods by an case, in a matter of hours.

of 22%: he raised average The Communist Party has : ariffs on public services ¡ electricity, gas, transport) by 25% and 50%; he between :aised taxes by 15%; he a the interest rate from 13% 20Fc. These are the measures agreed with the International Monetary Fund as conditions :: a new loan. They are monstrous awack on working class living standards very much greater even than Soares' previous set austelly Incasuite February 1977 Unemployment They will, along with the of wage increases to huge fall in ead to a :: " 39CS are expected to And the! unemployment level of its Crowds of St. Louis workers bombard the Nazis the fascists had even had to flee from their own offices.

This lesson must be made of the preparations in part the Chicago labour movement counter a fascist march scheduled to go through the suburb of Skokie on April 20.

Mass by the also shown in another respect for this week of the the independence working class by uncritically declaring its support for the "left' commander Lisbon military region, General Vasco Lourenco, who was by President Eanes at the same time as the right wing army chief of staff General Rosca Vieira. These dismissals follow spate of rumours, fostered by Sa Carneiro the former of the Social Demo- leader cratic Party, that Eanes plans to abolish constitutional government and stage a coup in order to bring to power a 'Peru-style' military dictator- ship Although these are no

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working class-and not the appeals to bourgeois that have courts begun granting the Nazis per- mission to march-shows the way to crush the fascists and strengthen the workers move- ment. This must be combined doubt of defeated there reactionary can no THat une army crisis, which follows the reinstatement of both right "left' officers wing and removed the last four over reflects the years, weaknes of bourgeois democracy Portugal and the readiness of certain sections of the army to seize power again in the event of any major working class upsurge. Though that threat is real the Stalinists who enough, the dominate organised labour movement abuse it to justify their abject refusal to mobilise oppos- ally working class policies of the reactionary Soares coalition.

IDARITY

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 12 April, 1978 Problems mount for German officials bureaucratic in their engineering, the union leaders of West Germany are running into mounting problems. Eugen Loderer, president o1 IG Metall (the metal-workers had good Unon congratulate himself on the deal with which he ended the recent North Wuerttemberg. strike Norn sacen The agreement conceded a 5% rise, and compromise terms pay new OT In TOUCUO technology, speed-up and cuts in manning levels Although ma coware to meet the needs of the metal.

did this package represent a significant concession from the employers. settlement, • this achieving IG Metall's Executive had success confined members' fully militancy to a partial strike in one region, despite overwnelming support for a total national strike Their work seemed a model of how con tair irresistolt pressure from their base by con. trolling the dispute so as to cause the capitalists and reduce independent action by workers. But Loderer's triumph was short-lived. The employers' feder • revused to accept the deal a ation a national norm. terrifying spectre further strikes rose up before him, denounced "extraordinarily intlammatory political behaviour" also developed within Norti wuerttemoerd North Baden. Official strike actior continued while a ballot was held with the fight for the political on the agreement. independence of the working factories, where other class, breaking the unions employers litted the lockout the from their had imposed, workers refused to allegiance to the bourgeois Democratic and go back. This unofficial action was thi Republican parties and fight- indication open first ot ing instead for a Labor Party opposition between rank and file implement

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members and the bureaucracy programme. The union officials may well able smooth this , but that will not solve Round-up their problems. The meta workers' strike has been one of the longest in post war Germany. By creating lay-offs it has been one of the most finan- cially damaging to capitalism.

But its importance •ПОТ of Italian of quantity simply Following the dockers' and print- workers' strikes. it nas aisolayec militancy of German workers and given a lead to other sections.

Already miners and workers ir left-wing the public sector have come into conflict with private and govern. wage over their ment employeis claims, and other groups are lining up behind them. these confrontations During As the final ultimatum and social oureaucial 'Red democratic politicians from the arrives Schmidt's coalition government Brigades' stipulating the wiltiner increasingly necossan conditions for the release to try to end the formal 'neutral ity' of the state in labour relations of Christian Democratic • some form of socia ano estaolist President Party Aldo contract such fellow. as their Moro, the Italian police traitors have developed in Britain and Interior Ministry an aerody have taken the kidnapp- ing as the occasion for a

IRAN-

vast round-up the Italian left. THE WAVE OF anti-Shah Hundreds of militants have Iran two been arrested and questioned; demonstranon been weeks ago was much greater large number detained for "belonging to a than originally reported.

The demonstrations came subversive organisation 40 days after the massacre at papers Documents and Tabriz on February 18 wher have also been confiscated.

the Shah's police shot dead The extent of this wave of dozens of demonstrators who repression can be judged from themselves protesting the fact that even the Com- We C previous massacre which has been against a munist Party. 40 days earlier. in the vanguard of the move According to the Com- to strengthen Mark Rusher, IFL mittee for Human Rights in has state apparatus, been Paris-based Iran, forced to protest against what it describes as 'indiscriminate isation, the of these demonstrations was: Ispahan police intervention'. 50 dead, wounded; CP deliberately many blames the and Meched, state of emergency police wounded, Kashan, many exonerates the Christian 4,000 workers strike; Democratic government a student killed, 300 2om, which it keeps in office. And dead: arrests; SiX fails to mention that the several of anti-left arrests has Laar (Teheran), wave hundred prisoners on hunger been facilitated by the special

IMPOTENCE IN

Jimmy Carter is the first ruling President ever to visit black Africa. went because, unlike _He presidents, ne needed to. He was on a rescue mission on rapidly OT ine of worsening fortunes imperialism. Africa the was continent emerge from direct colonial rule. Before, and then after, "independence" it has been for imperialism concea largely by its historical imper- ialist states-by Britain, France, Portugal and Belgium. But the growing weakness oi these imperialist states and the United States in its imperial- ist wars in Indo-China has left saring the 1970s a political opening in Africa which the Soviet Union fill. nave been quick to Crucial Castro's government Cuba has played a crucial role in this first the the place Cuban maintained leadership African links with various liberation movements, offering military training and orner material support, even when, deference to Moscow, had cut off they to such movements support in Latin America. Among the African move- ments assisted by the Cubans were Frelimo in Mozambique the

MPLA

in Angola, the PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau and the Eritrean liberation move- nichl. Partly as a result of this.

the collapse of Portuguese colonialism in 1974 and 1975 produced a crucial change in the international political configuration of Africa. Cuba's large-scale military intervention in lne war of independence in 1975 than anything else more weakness of showed up the the imperialists, who could in practice do little more than watch stand dients were defeated. Bureaucratic Under the protection of he Cuban forces, the MPLA cadership under Agostinho un a bureaucratic regime increasingly modelled * that of Cuba. (uban soldiers continue to = 1 cruca support to lnis * me against both imperial- s-backed and genuine : pular opposition. Thus a defeat for imperial- was prevented from being any

MPLA,

Cuban and ulti- sei! the soviet bureau- :: wanted it to go. the formal ¡heration of Angola 'anogue was one ol i which lead to the sutback for the stimulus

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IMPERIALISM

PARADES ITS

Carter with Nigerian dictator Obasanjo ation movement in Zimbabwe and to the black theid forces building up Africa after years of South demoralisation. This dramatically shortened the time which the imperialists had expected to have to devise some compro- neo-colonia realme Zimbabwe and even (they hoped, in their most optimis- tic moments) in South Africa, the increasing v rebrace provocative racists under Smith and Vorster. Inability Meanwhile, hoth the North-west and North-east continent two struggles were which were also affected by the inability of the imperial- ists to intervene decisively.

In the Spanish colony of Western Sahara, the Francoists whose power was under growing threat at home did a hasty deal in 1975 in for a share of the of economic SpOIlS territory's phosphate deposits, Spain handed sovereignty over to Morocco and Mauritania Thus began the increasing ly successful struggle of the West Sahara iberation move Front) ment (the which threatens to upset this neo colonial acal. Sudden end In the North-east 'horn' of Africa the Sovict where

AFRICA

military dictatorship Somalia, the medieval despot- pro-imperialist ism Lne Haile of emperor Selassie Ethiopia came to a sudden end revolution which threatened move The main forces holding this hack were the "radical military leaders who formed an alliance with the United States. But, still licking its Vietnam wounds, the US was unwiling to commit its torces sufficient strength protect its client generals against a growing number of enemies within. coup inside the ruling (the Derg) military Julla brought power the Colonel unscrupulous Mengistu who, though trained in the USA and initially pro- imperialist, responded rapidly aid the ollers ol trom Soviet Union and Cuba Fa:: Nkomo by the events threatened in Southern Africa mise deal which concedes a Stirred Mengistu Angola, saw the than in the Horn. least portion of political That for David alliance with Havana and accounts power to the guerrilla leaders Moscow as the only way in Owen's sharp anti-Cuban and could anti-Soviet speech last week, Offensive he power his left-talking military though in spite of the sound it signified, if not clique, which was now under This strategy is backed up ana lury attack from both right wing little nothing, very In with more and more bullying Enem and left wing armed oppos- terms of real material and verbal warnings to itions as well as from national threat. Havana and Moscow liberation movements , along with a diplo- in ine intervene of Adverse effect Somali populated offensive to get the di cas Ogaden and in Eritrea in the of other black The Owen

SUDOOTI

worst that north. African this states TO. could think of to threaten The Soviet and Cuban aim solution was that Cuban military inter- to clontri with Mengistu was That was the objective of vention in Zimbabwe would setting Carter's visit to Nigeria where contribute lo be bound to have an adverse up of a pro-Soviet alliance in with humiliating ne benaved effect on East-West relations the area consisting of the deference toward weakness leads the Ethiopia, Somalia and dictator General Nigerlan imperialists into rather perhaps a partly autonomous Obasanjo (like Carter pathetic diplomatic offensive Critrea. fervent Bonapartist). in which their chief represen Obasanjo's At request tatives are the British reform Contradictory Carter beefed the up anti- Foreign Secretary Owen ist' of apartheid and the American "reformist' In the short run at least.

prepared speech; without civil activist however, this former proved all public comment he agreed to Andrew Young. internally contradictory.

Obasanio's insistence that no liberally The Soviet Union suffered only by human right flashing their 'reformist the embarassment of being should appear the final credentials that these sent packing by the Somalian communique after their talks.

regime in retaliation for its men can ope to rescue anyi Carter's tour, far from re for thing imperialism support to Mengistu establishing the power Southern Africa down the Somali- Africa imperialism has Last year, fer instance, the supported guerrillas simply given further evidence Nigerian foreign minister Ogaden. obligingly described Young as or lls weaKless But embarassment "the black conscience looks like being very short new Weakness lived. Once again the paralysis who comes from . a symbol of the of the imperialists showed This weakness, however. new and constructive policy itself in their unwillingness to is not directly reflected in the send any significant aid to advance of socialism Africa" Somalia. The Cuban Soviet and Now, when Somali troops presence and its alliances with petty-bourgeois leaderships is have been forced to withdraw obstacle from the Ogaden altogether, to that, aimed at heading off indepen- reported dis-

TRAT

Tne illusioned Somali is struggles junta dent revolutionary contemplating making the by the black masses of bad Africa best job and its ties with the Although in Angola Cuban renewing Soviet Union, forces have fought against the whose material aid is regarded as better than of imperialism and agents the guarded words of encour- racism, Ine stalinist presenc agement offered by the USA.

Africa is an opportunistic and counter-revolutionary Into battle a genuinely It marks not It remains to be seen to anti-imperialist strategy what extent the thousands of redraw an attempt the Cuban troops boundaries in a world which Ethiopia will be thrown into Stalinists should the

ACCOL

Eritrean battle against the between them- liberation forces, of many selves and imperialism and in Mengistu wnom were trained in Cuba which they see no place for In any case the 'friends' of That accounts for the the Eritreans are as few and launching, simultaneously as unreliable as those of the with the verbal attack Somalian regime. Cuba and the Soviet Union, a Despite their almost He W of complete control solution In e Anglo American Eritrean liber- territory, the Zimbabwe, as well as a new ation forces must now be effort to force South Africa facing the possibility of not to introduce a unilateral physical liquidation. Namibia Soulo The apparent ability of the excluding SWAPO presence of Cuban troops to After a couple of weeks of permit the Soviet Union to hesitancy the US and British become the arbiter of events governments have now seem- in Africa has, not unnaturally the decieed sent the imperialists into a 'internal settlement' state of panic. Smith, between Muzorewa and Sithole has no chance of long run survival the radical do allist They sections of the black liber• look next to Zimbabwe where undoubted- ation movement. Their main aims, therefore ly conditions exist in which a similar Cuban intervention (as Namibia) are could have a decisive errect.

preserve capitalist interests bi retaining the though Castro has insistently of confidence denied any such intention.

the present leaders of the guerrilla and I his is even more threat- noveles. Eritrean tighters ening to Carter and Callaghan forcing the whites and the imperialist economic more overtly collaborationist

IMF statutes bid to prop money system :=: : It was, not inapprop- riately, April 1 which the capitalist world's leaders had selected as the day world when the monetary system which born Bretton was 1944 Woods in was finally laid to rest. This system was based on che American dollar being :xed in terms ot gold (one iollar was 1/35 of an ounce gold) and all other fixed surrencies being to the American •cidll doldr Dollar The dollar was to be the almighty god which the capit- And alist world worsmpea. fact :hat possible, was inevitable, because of the economic over wnelig power of the United States at the end of the Second World har Over the

LCXL

LWCILY

years, no wevel-noclcco- tibly at first, but precipitately later on-the Te dave the aconomic power U'nited States (and Britain) This partly secimed W as :hrough the rapid more growth of productivity W'estern Europe and Japan mention the workers' I not to states) but also as a result of the desperate and costly attempts by the United States to police the world. Vietnam war The process culminated in :he Vietnam war-a massively US costly olsasier

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imperialism. The dollar and the monet- at system based on it could =0t survive these pressures. B: 1971 the huge American expenditure on the war and :he delining relative produc- aity ot its industres had led :a an outflow of gold which :hreatened to leave the dollar completely defenceless. Nixon was forced to of acknowledge Ene he United States' economic *akness and broke tne ink dollar and gold the actaccl sink to a and let the dollar level in relation lo wen :y orner currencies Collapse The collapse of the dollar was a signal for the outbreak period instability the capitalist zorld. All the moves towards economic inte tclloll pration and the relative stabil- sation of tne previous dramatically were aclaucs :eversed. They have been runaway :epiaced anation, protectionism, cul- ihroat intercapitalist rivalry, ercanse :ates. 1976 January at Jamaica the Woods s.eton was :hicially declared by the major capilanst governments On April 1 this be dead. :ear it was finally laid to rest That was the day on which new Hileillallvllai tary Fund statutes came nalke une brelo which alaluteo forced a set of rules äcnden Hos ! semblance out of the previous •ne new statutes are So in the new statutes gold is abolished officially as the bedrock of the inter- national monelaly

SICIL

and replaced with a "basket' fluctuates currencies whose value from day to day. Countries longer no ale maintain fixed expected The

IMF

exchange rates. pleads desperately, however, they should not that use fluctuating exchange rates for their own short LeTT adantage commercial (i.e. they call on the leopard to change its spots). The last six months has seen a further sharpening of national rivalries between the capitalist states as they all try simultaneously raise the of the rate of explotalol working class and yet at the time maintain sallle their share of Inctedst world virtually stagnant market for commodities. One feature this has been a new round of currency Once again the dollar has been lalling in relanon to tne other major currencies. In relation to the Japanese Yen, the dollar has been devalued by nearly one third since the beginning of 1977..

The dollar's decline began the massive EbOlse and growing US trade deficit which reached $25 million in 1977 and is expected to be well over $30 million in 1978.

PHOTO:

Callaghan In February alone here was a deficit of $4.5 billion.

Carter fears to reverse this situation by action on the US that would economy since send the unemployment rate and his own already waning political power down.

SÜCLALISI FRESS. »:trac:

OPEC,

therefore, Within there is tremendous pressure oil price, which to raise the would immediately throw the balance of trade American even further into deficit.

Tumbling 230 The OPEC countries in the 240 last week have found that announcement that eversn they are going to hold a meet- 250 ing sends the dollar tumbling.

the inings 260 which still holds them back from raising the price : 270 again-that, and massive diplomatic pressure from 280 Carter (expressed in his visits

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to Venezuela and Nigeria ten

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days ago) and the unwilling British the govern ness ol ment to go along with OPEC 300 1977 78 on oil pricing policy. Last line industrial capitalists. Carter is still forced to try to halt the government's The British decline because North Sea ot its pricing inflationary effects Oil. therefore, has and its become próvocation to OPEC. the last line of defence for and the dollar. Carle Although Britain is not yet Force Carter contemplating new attacks on US workers?

oil one deCSI situation contains the seeds producers, its actions are able Carter's only way to stem As the of its own orsening. to make a significant effect the the dollar Gecune falls and price or the aollar on world prices in a situation without a direct attack world inflation continues, so of excess productive capacițy production in the USA is to the decline in the income of

OPEC

countries try to force other capitalist Solne the OPEC oil exporting coun- forced to were actually countries-in particular Japan accelerates. report reduce their prices a few days their reduce trade -L0 published last week estimates ago in order to compete with surpluses and import more that the real income of the oil North Sea Oil. American goods and/or exporting countries will have The decline in the dollar is export less Japanese goods.

declined by two-thirds in the increasing profits in the USA 1 he capitalists, daDanest following five years the and so it is accepted with however, have not surprising- increase in the oil price in late silent ly shown strong resistance to picdsul. 1973. Who will fight the

NUS

Stalinists? Broad Left continually hammered • this clear when he declared: from A moving appeal made their message that "he Broad ett stano for a retiring NUS President and 'student unions shouldn't replace broad-based do nothing campaign; *Party Communist member I'm for a broad-based do some- the iob of political parties' Federa- Sue Slipman to the This Stalinist thing campaign". cnort-nand difference for complete avoidance of serious little tion of Conservative Students statement and that between this discussion provided a fitting end to the on poly to resesele the interests student ot newv elece• broao celt rres!

Easter Conference of the fighting the cuts in education and dent Trevor Phillips, who announced that "Racialism National Union of Students and fighting mass socldt services than unemployment. in Blackpool. otode poutid The marked rightward move differences". Sipman's opening address had (which com. There was virtual unanimity in Broad Left of the seneo out ine comelete lack Oricec the stalinists. Ine vationa TT16 Gonlerenice nerelort leadership and direction from the Organisation of Labour Students support for the Anti-Nazi League

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Executive that has charac- movement so broad-based as and non-aligned 'socialists') since terisea ner vear as rresiaent its open alliance with the Federa- almost entirely on inc uce senev bwenr Focussing Conservative Students signatory of the racialist Select racialism. she on

(FCS)

indicated the Committee report! Was

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10 Duta oludu waste voting tor Executive positions even concemnea me strategy non-sectarian aoans! Tories for not participating in the racialism, which she counterposec Siphoned standing ovation for ANL speaker the Hain! ultra-left" The Broad Left has iphoned oea that tascısm can oe reality behind Slipman's defeated by leaflets, protest and "non-sectarian" layers or moderate ores away divorced from propaganda from the

FCS,

and in al ToU: shown up as soon as she went on for sabbatical posts on elections socialist poncies wnatever Is Ont dIsCuss union autonomy- that the SSA and NOISS clearly which is currently under govern- Ine cecutive tme tores camt l found completely acceptable.

fourth, with ment attack. broad Socialist Students winning, since ine unions are tinancea Defeat National Alliance second and from public funds, they should be accountable, Organisation publicly inter natond Socialist Students third.

The sole significant defeat for declared. This implicitly acleJis NOISS nor SSA But neither that court actions will be taken the Broad Lett was when the 'no student unions that make otterec a rea alternative to [e platiorm tor • racIsts oi aya is t Broad Lefts notion "broad- ultra-virespymenis to suspor NOISS presidential jeopardising the Broad Left-Tory political or trade union struggles.

based unity "Hello, New York?-Get me stabilty at once.. this pressure which has come very forcefully in the last few weeks from both the Us and the EEC Already in of the spite relative 'success' of Japanese unemploy- capitalism, the ment rate in Japan has leapt from 4% .8% in the last year. Far For the working class, the meaning ot anese cecono l contortions is that the world capitalist crisis is as far as ever from being resolved the inability of the states major Cabalaus! to impose a historic defeat on which the working class intensifies their cut-throat competition with each other.

all of them the DU class and its working economic and political gains overriding the remains sudiceil lalsel Slipman (right) when newly elected Yet Con ference while the revealed the lack of a coherent to the Broad political challenge it did persuade those orooiems inat the broao Lett na: an answer. Students recently occupa. Tons rurne caucatior

STU

dents mature students and blact groups caucus all managed at intervais to penetrate the bureaucratic set-up Exe culive s tailure t0 implement protests at mandates. These disgruntled forces must nov TUrT question bulding a principled leadership on a clear programme to stop the culs ana derena student. TOnT. if they are to strike real blows at the Broad Left-Tory bureaucracy.

Need Such a programme must stress the need students to join with the workers movement in tigntin!

to break the reactionary Lib-Lab calition include the AnC demand TOr arant ana eauca expenditure to be protected inflation automatic by dualisi increases baseo on an assessmen inflation by elected committ.

ees of studerts and trade un. o

Thatcher builds on Labour immigration fever SOMEPRESS needs

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The Tory strategy of using racialism as a means of rallying a reactionary anti-union base support took a further week. forward last week step The Tories' plan goes a bit through the door opened further than Bidwell's racist by the Labour leaders. proposals. It calls for: Years of reactionary Lib- "A register of dependents wishing to come to Britain, to Lab policies, slashing living jobs, conditions be followed by a strict quota standaras. of entrants from the Indian and social services, have created the necessary mood sub-continent. of frustration among layers of *An end to concessions on entry of male fiances; tighter workers and the middle class.

restrictions on parents, grand- parents and children over 18.

Refusal *A Nationality Act continued Labour's workers from enforcement of Hong Kong. Tory and TUC *Further ruthless immigration laws harass refusal to mobilise working ment of "illegal" immigrants, class action against the with possible internal fascists of the National Front controls-meaning effectively of a system the openings introduction Laws" of "Pass in Britain And the racialist recom- parallel with those in South mendations of the Parliamen- Africa. tary Select Committee report, signed by Labour

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Answer? MP Tribunite mciuang Bidwell Sydney spelled out What then is the answer of elements basic of the Labour's professed non-racist ine Tory policy for a drastic curb on the democratic rights of In the they Rave black workers announced last followed the reactionary line

PRESS GANG

Let them eat smoke It is getting harder and of the NUJ as accomplices Last harder to pretend that week Italian businessman, terrified anyone cares-but it was thoughts of the Red Brigade, revelation week royal shot wite and children again. dead and then blew his own The headline writers have brains out. Even the tragedies of the one eye on posterity, in the hope that a future Dimbleby bourgeoisie seem to have an will pick their front page as revoltingness of their own. proof that the sweated over wiletaer Chatter Margaret would stay or go.

Leader writers calculated These titbits provided the * hich possibility would shake background chatter to the he Royal foundations least.

newspapers last week. The We will leave it to Socialist redundancies are being Challenge to finally assert recorded. Another factory which were the progressive closes, a thousand more here sections of the monarchy.

or there out of work. Until then we will have to The Sunday Times back remain neutral, and hope. after two weeks away and as Even the Dales were taken off self satisfied as ever, produces •he air eventually. charts excuse

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how well the world economy Scabbing is likely to do in the next two It was also ycals a week in even* in their No-one, man charged with Killing his wife was provided article, really sounus convinced. with a partial motive that he * 7s scabbing on an NUJ dis- The Dail! Mail hails the rule and was at the time Tory unue? a great deal of pressure.

racist plans with the Any we boast that the Tories stand monical

NOW

•trict the knock on the door alone against immigration.

= Lord Goodman at the head They have hard ¿ special freedom of the making a case out of it. Most detachment of police of the Three years ago Bidwell in different company, on the platform of an HOIO: Andrew wiara, Report of Home Secretary Merlyn Rees, who last week argued ment the of the provisions Committee Select report "sufficient controls the inflow already exist on from the Indian sub- continent". Racialism Such a position is merely, racialism with a "moderate' face. It rests on the fact that racist legislation, passed years through parliament ago now having its effect on immigration For socialists, however, the "air" Sue not whether "foul" means are being used to cut immigration but to assert the right of all workers to live and work in the country of their choice, without harassment from the bourgeois state. The Labourites on the Select Committee starting from the mass unemployment created by a slump-ridden Tory plans with the dic Labour leadership's racism Even the BBC noted that Thatcher kept harping Mrs. on Callaghan's period at the Home Office because he had to introduce done more racialist immigration measures than just about any other Home Secretary. Horror stories The Daily Telegraph hung the flags out for the poor old British Tommy The horror stories about their low pay enough to make any- went one weep. Workers, of course, only low paid because they are lazy or for some other good reason. But, according to the Tele- graph, one army sergeant has lust had to take up smoking to quell hunger pains, because he is too poor to buy food.

Perhaps they could persuade Healey to introduce such a scheme as part of next year's pay restraint plans could ask the Royal Family to back the scheme, which should clinch the support of the TUC. Non smokers and asthma sufferers will have to cope as host they ran If thay cannot mere was nonecutomore capitalist Party for resolutions argue that this of condemning the five Labour right workers must be sacrificed to MPs' decision to endorse the Select Committee report. make the system work Trade union and Labour Party sponsors or unem withdrawn in the must oe next election because of their clear of racialist au vocaly positions Party and CLPs branches must demand the of all repeal Laws, Immigration coupled with action by the trade union and labour movement that defence squads are mobilised protect immigrant communities against attack. This fight for policy on be immigration

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combined with the fight to break coalition Whitelaw and for of programme But the issue is to tight socialist policies restore and poverty unemployment public spending cuts, create through programme new jobs through OI socialist policies designed to programme of public works, overthrow capitalism and nationalise major bring industry and the banks planned socialist economy. without compensation under The fight must be taken the management of elected throughout the Labour workers' committees Living conditions in Garscadden, Glasgow, where right wing Labourite Donald Dewar is attempting to beat off Scottish Nationalist opposition in order to hold the seat.

Scottish workers in the area clearly have nothing to thank the Lib-Lab coalition government for: but the 'socialist' alternatives fight- ing the by-election (CP, SWP and Scottish Labour) all fail to confront the need to break the coalition and fight within the workers' movement to build a new leadership.

CND rides again

MASSIVE

campaign like the CND pa reda Ashton hopes will become the

CND

has present-day can red of seeing off the fascists accune fascist

VOTE

ar une next chance election and finish them for ever, with leaflets and placards as the according Labour CND had in ending the threat of Ashton last week. nuclear noocause from the To defeat the fascists means took a speaker audience to to Ashton mobilising the working class that in spite of the efforts of CND the streets and a political fight for we are now faced with the advent the Page! Callaghan- defends Front It's alright for the ban government to workers' organisations from marching in London under the pretext of banning the National Front: but it's not alright for unions to take steps to sling fascists and racists out of their ranks-according to Prime Minister Callaghan.

Speaking in Parliament last Callaghan week declared that "utterly deplored" and "did not find at all acceptable" that people should lose their jobs because of their political views.

This was in reference to the decision correc weeks by the Nationa ago Union of Railwaymen to take disciplinary action, including fines or expulsions against known of members National Front. Closed shop Since

NUR

nas closed shop arrangement on the this would railways involve fascists being driven out of the industry-to the particular satisfaction of railway- thousands of black men Motions have since been tabled for the GMWU confer.

ence demanding similar bans Britain's third largest union Callaghan's position on these makes Move. absolutely clear that it is no accident that the decision to ban all marches in London for two months Boresta casi between the NF and the anti- Ilford was

LASCISTS

1n accident The Lib-Lab government mouthpiece the OI capitalist state, would sooner impose swingeing restrictions movement than allow independent class action to crush the fascists.

This is why we can make no calls on the state to ban the National Front, but must rely instead on mobilisations working class ment to combat the fascists.

Speech Callaghan's speech shows that he would actually sooner see the fascists free to work within the unions to destroy them than the union leaders forced to take action to get rid of them This just further evidence of the need couple the fight against fascism with the fight to break the Lib-Lab coalition.

But union militants must care formulating In demands for the expulsion of fascists, since union bureau- crats no less than the Labour leaders will be eagerly loopholes searching for through which they can link action against the NF with a crackdown on their left-wing opponents within the unions Already the Southern Dis- trict Council of NALGO has received an amendment to a calling for resolution the expulsion of NF members . substituting call for the of Socialist •W'or- kers Party, Communist Parts and Labour Party members from the union 1 Though this thrown out, it is on the cards union officials could soon seize on such opportur

In the rapidly changing enditions of the inter- tional class struggle an lequate revolutionary only be adership can if is equipped it ith the most advanced d scientific method of alysis-designed to contradic- mprehend and changing events. Marx, too, the of understanding the world is real the problem of grasp- ::at they are in motion. This is made more difficult -he fact that the course of events it *: no means obvious that is = the case. Beneath surface Oriy when things break ¿tenly crack and does it become clear was movement and Lize operating beneath the within them all the but under ordinary cir- things es.ances many of appearance FIg at rest. superficially seem Trings a=:. unchangeable or solid point. But in fact a aisal reality is conflict of or: nuing forces-both in the Posing social world- and = will eventually shatter stability appearance create somelning new, will contain the content of apparently stable ~ur which will be essen- i terent from it. Changes :ock in the desert, for Call avocal very real and very the short- continually ::: and changed by the slow erosion OI are of the rock. desert travellers will the may stain conditions heat :. a point where it maintain itself a clue up. 3: 1273:05

DIALECTICAL

MATERIALISM

The science of analysing movement of matter By Andy Lowe al content, but nevertheless a different and new thing has been created by the destruc- tion of the old thing. The contradictory forces within the rock have sprung to the surface and brought an abrupt change in practice.

Eruptions This is not a phenomenon confined to one example. The whole material

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abounds with examples of such change-the cracking of produce the new- the egg chick; the bursting of

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bud the Ine produce blossom; the shattering of the to reveal the the mushroom DuLLer ly. cloud that indicates the pent- up contradictory forces of an produced bomb have alvill their cataclysmic change.

All these sudden eruptions of preceded by change are omarent stability periods of longer or shorter The essence of Marxism is its understanding of the inner the tension, the aynamic, within all potential Chance all phenomena, and social material forces, that flows internal unel contradictions. Material forces all Contrary forms of religious world views, Marxism asserts that the inner laws of the material universe of have _proaucea physical, chemical, biological and historical processes that have resulted in the present situation of mankind. And Marxism insists that there is no absolute obstacle under- man learning stand these laws and standing the complex work- ings of the world. Indeed, Marxists argue, it is the historical struggle of man to survive in and shape the material world which has mis aevelopea under- standing and given rise to his ideas. Ideas, with varying degrees of reflect the accuracy, material world: thev do no1 and cannot have any indepen- dent existence, nor can they non-material flow from Opposite -combined dialectical philosophy with materialism Marx- is fundamentally materialist.

And in its conception of the material world as a moving internally contra- Changing, whole, it dictory 1s also dialectical theory. Dialectics has long history. The term comes trom the Greek two, opposed, clashing ele- ments, and "logos" meaning reason Hence we mean by dialec- splitting tics reason D Y into two" and this concisely establishes the importance of dialectics to Marxists to their class unaerstanding struggle Coolidist society. Practice We see the working through of dialectical mater- lalism not as an adstract, nol just as an appled tneory as absolutely We see essential to the practice we within capitalist

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society to win the working class to a programme which will destroy capitalism through the process of the internal contradiction within capitalism, the physical battle and struggle TOl Dowel between social opposites: the propertyless working class 110:00 SOCIALIST PRESS, beanesia: CArr:: These uprisings were led in ition when the situation tnat penoo oy tae emerging demanos. bourgeoisie in conflict with The method adopted of the landowning aristocracy.

depends the state Yet in great bour- profitability and the geois, movement there were condition of the authority of outbursts from the ruling class. that class which was the fore.

Those reformist politicians less who see the state in a fixed runner. MOre developed, of the modern way simply as a venicie lol proletariat. conceding reforms are perpet- ually confused as soon as it Not yet developed exhibits its true role as the of capitalist rule mechanism by violently suppressing the Thus early socialism was a theoretical development from workers movencill Opposed to this organised materially class power great movement developed. progressive movement In the eighteenth century forward of the propertyless communistic theories actual and exploited working class- began to develop fighting to liberate the The demand for equality forces productive from limited to was no longer shackles imposed by private nolitical rights-it was ownership and production for extended also to the social protit. conditions of individuals.

simply class was Leadership which to be privileges were but class distinc- abolished, Though the working class tians well itself the contains within An acid Spartan commun- to destroy and ism, denouncing all pleasures, over the capitalist social was the first form of the new

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order, this potential strength teaching be. fully tapped Then came three Utopians can Fourier through the development of a -Saint Simon, and Robert Owen conscious One thing is common to leadership. This concept of opposite all three-not one of them appears as a representative of forces in conflict sharp vitally important the interests of that proletar- OUl class which historical develop- understanding of the lat ment had by now produced.

struggle, the way that in an ever-deepening crisis the They looked emancipate all humanity at and diametrically respective and opposed poles attract Once develop their forces and enter Unjust confrontation with direci eachother. In the view of these three There is many an armchair 'Marxist" who will debate social reformers the bourgeois and will dialectics till death world was unjust and irration- present a horde of fascinating al and must inevitably soon polemics about the nature of end up on the dust heap absolute truth, Pure reason and justice did reality, and the not rule the world because nature, rest. men didn't rightly understand TO the But those who do not see them. crude the relevance of taking the conditions of capitalist pro- of that concept and the crude conclusions of dialectical materialism into conditions corresponded revolutionary programme crude theories. Utopians attempted which to fight The practice within the working lo evoive sorunons to social the class, can never grasp problems from out the of the dialectical human brain alone. relevance materialist method beyond One genius was thought the still and motionless pages show the world of the formal textbook, nor its wrongs, and the rest follow the even unaelstana Is practical world WOnd Fourier began to use the lessons. dialectical method to argue Material conditions that every historical phase has of ascent and its its period But the methods of dialec- period of descent, and applied this to the future of tical r materialism did not the whole human race the spring ready-made mind of Karl Marx. owen rowevel was for long a philanthropist The complex processes and the conditions of work at that brought this theoretical his New Lanark factory were development in the mid-nine- counterposed to the squalid teenth century are related to conditions of the proletariat material and historical elsewhere. conditions. production and assumes early Greek he advanced beyond Among the under its own name, philanthropy in the direction philosophers, who were also there are constant signs of the of Communism, and the earliest natural calls with communistic existence of the class contra- scientists, were some whose oul dictions of society within our theories special interest lay in study- Private everyday work-whether this property, religion and ing change and motion which laid valuable in ine explosions of the In seeing a stone thrown class struggle at Grunwick, in foundations for Communism across a field, they saw that the victimisations at Cowley; the thing to develop. its motion Lib-Lab coalition's changed from being here to of wage control, imposition they and belg fight by reasoned that motion is the break these. change of the state of things every instance where into their opposites. workers struggles come to the philosophers Since some surface the concept and that went method of dialectical everything is in motion, it is materialism is verified. to see why dialectics casy We know that the struggle an important is between two interests that tendency within philosophy are irreconcilably opposed, from very early on. leads the Rationalisation concept of polarity dialectics. In its theoretical form, Within capitalism there are two poles, two essential ele- socialism originally held logical ments, are wilch together in a surface calm by of the rationalist extenson the capitalist state. principles laid down by the great French philosophers of State the eighteenth century Like theory, every new Lenin shows in State modern socialism As itself with the and Revolution, state intellectual stock-in-trade reconcile these allemois its hand, however ready to antagonisms in various ways "peacefully" where possible, its lay deeply roots material economic facts -capitalism under mass Before the emergence of working pressure from the here theoretical of class can.

ever. material They saw historical man. The theory пітестео ок While ent prevailed.

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impotent backward German and minating In Hegel. Hegel anc early Greeks. auluvidhy profoundly reactionary: scientific not was the

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of absolute indepen- as was France and conditions virtually economically zooKed WOlK for his England back to the motives were in spite of of know- - 5/29

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development ning

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Marxists, how difficulty of we don't towards devoted study to nor do look changes, devoted political ment. every- thing-all in beginning and an end this concept of applies Political Critique of Economy. Here, the surface in a mass movement of workers erupt to which all world foundation How, then, Hegel tics from tion: human ourselves approach reality? civilisations. of have products His grown up. he Nothing outside level, by new, and nature that dialectical philsoophy he was under religion only the deni principles itself human fantastic of senses perceive. them. ourselves. Marx, many form, the product, are greeted such critical points, this perceive andhe etc, appears as merely and most correctly out the WOrK moment, vanishing diou that these by party views. Holy of up The production ther The Family. the appearance process here appears surf reality. and Marx 1º TO THe and conflicts problems politics eccenta with work Marxism Because criticism logical of love. and politics. reasoning. these the moment to uses Feuerbach Hegel false weaknesse conclusion that only the tactor in ism" took its starting- logical concepts worked out system at rest. in the mind have any reality in the scientific He went further than this, opposition. Knowledge. and envisaged constan from the body separated completely. From the The abstract, idealist "mind" was said to be the 1830s the wing-the Young only force that could perceive their the point ovell, and comprehend reality. This ortho- changes fight internal short step doxy teuda reac- concept away from "God" uninterrupted processes Holaric "proving" the By bit the the thus conumue existence of God, Hegel made Marx 1845 demon- to the «Theses in strated his position secure within the Feuerbach" that had he Prussian behaved had duluciary, properly and was buried with grasped essential state honours. are teachings. And Inadvertent "Theses' is

TCCOALON

only practical orthodoxy and feudal Inal the But the conservative Hegel struggle change form of Teacuon inadvertently contributed Frederick on the process of Sal theoretical part theoretical philsophical partisanship throne, Marxism problem about by He reviewed and gathered

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systematic form together in philosophical on with _concedts. the previous history of dialec- weavulls. abstract aims. into the turned traditional destructon religion of the examined the The main body Having Young the

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vamous sausage Hegelians by the of its practical . the machine in motion .. driven fight churning sausages Anglo-French back materialism. Marxism. where human So then Hegel. This them into still frame Still, conflict of thing? the Hegelian system an mentally alienation And with this and the is back contradiction they floundered best they could. reality? Imagine a wheel half way bach's uf the and down a hill. Christianity. flatulc If we visualise it, it is a still pulverised object in our mind at a fixed society-but and "freeze down cannot the point of progression frame" • out in reality it is the hill struggle to few month! cioser: "still" which we We have make standing struggle the class product i struggle centuries history. We are on economis factors. As which of course predeter- flows not and actions of men women its ver! to essence of change the necessity and to shape SOCIaLSTO Though dialectica materialism made century, the modern Darwin Firstly, the ialism things 1s it is entirely "electrica of atomic nature mollon oi it 15 3 the of realiti omic and technological overturn embrace complex heads. the through concepts, change of away.. dialectica absolute, reveals the character uninterrupted except of endles ane note dialectica "And philosophy brain. of we equip the struggle. is above all i method analysis -ne

NEXT WEEK

second article Historica examine the Materialism. study of the derelopmer. numan societ

Grunwick, Garners and Sanderson : Three faces of oiiicial betrayal Three strikes for recognition now being fought out have major problems in I nev all тасе Common. employers who have openly challenged not just the right their own workers of but trade unionism organise, itself, and who are all suppor.

ted - openly or otherwise-by other sections of the capita- class in the National list Association For Freedom. All have been extremely pro- the dispute tracted strikes: Grunwicks North London tactory now going for been nonths; that at Sandersons Fork in Skegness is approach. lift plant anniversary and the ing

ITS TITST

strike at Garners steak Houses if Evans Jone: London's West End is into its granted, and the winning of every rise these gives The mONE cemocratic nent within capitalisit But in tact, the real common

TGWU

has demanded struggle and case that three denominator all under Jack Jones, this has cul- sacrifice. and members in, actually strike: But now the sharpening of the assuming minated officially backed by, Tite bosses' crisis of profitability and responsibility for drawing direct General Workers therefore the drive weaker up and forcing through the …ransoort ano Union, whose local and national Government's resistance has coincided Labour wage- worKers leaders have through a combina.

cutting Social Contract. with a turn to union isatior and deliberate inaction more and more sections of the TIon sabotage brought them working class. Class collaboration dangerously near to defeat.

Sanderson's Ine strucole confirms that this movement This commitment by the Ban confined immi. union bureaucracy to class colla. not simply grants and low paid demands a strategy to workers Doration attacks rights The recent rapid growth of the the sutression ot everv trace of Dasic to enord round land demon.

TGWU

2m mark the membership's independent organisation and mobilisation reflects ement of that Garners strations accident the supporters have themselves been union in inis oroces That London But those same forces of infla.

Ao A oriente she which sets out the ban on class struggle tion increasing to subordinate marches. ine centre

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anu offensive is inevitably within the ment 'conciliation' which nave torced

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аго тав опалої also drive bureau- procedures also predomi. laue nately the prodigy of Jack Jones.

cratic union officials increasingly ine riant to ordanise within a

ACAS

workplace has never been some- to the right and into an even more fiqures AnO thing which could be taken for vigourous defence of the system nently in the current recognition

IN REVIEW

Oscar-winning romanticism out the mindless petty bour- The film columns of Julia's death at the hands of geois hysteria that character- Nazism in the late 1930s.

the bourgeois newspapers Both children of the ises fascism as a movement.

are have received Julia with Hellman Julia, ruling class, but Julia is the 'exceptional' of heavily plastered and high praise. the more violent of exhibiting praiseworthy bandaged Newsline, paper

LOUS

Tine tWO, for episode, one Workers Revolutionary Party, moral concern for the poor ana is the she further occasion gave it a sycophantic review- and starving wnom last we see of the character unexpectedly, since stumbles across occasionally not abroad who gives her name to the is still a whilst holidays Vanessa Kenadve title of the work. leading WRP member. with her incredibly rich Redgrave herself has made granaparents Hellman As about sets it known inal actuauy becoming identifies with the character successful Much of the film centres best Julia authoress, becomes and won a Juild, on the trials and tribulations Oscar for involved in the resistance to supporting up-and-coming authoress while the part. Nazısm Hellman, who despite unease The film is based upon the Austria. in the company of some of film recollections of authoress deserves the repulsively seedy Hellman (played by compliment for striking Lillian ine Jane Fonda) of her relation- scenes depicting the Nazi take and warned representatives of quite of the high society, gets on ship with Julia from over ultivelily strikes. Garners, Sandersons and sheltered had the em •over. behind ACAS for a year or more They had benefited from the they had been breathing space the given, not only Enrovan growth complacency unpreparedness which reliance on the state oroouce membership but also prepare chance to through the breaking e aborate STrIKe Confrontation able Finally they choose the most suitable time to provoke the inevitable Contron tation. Grunwicks common as Is knowledoe. ACAS has been and i: being used not just to direct and defuse the fight at key points, but to tind a ever aTts moment 'settlement' which can serve as a burial place the suitable strikers. The respective bureaucracies are more concerned up the credibility of this bankrupt body TOr Inel future use than anything else.

The treachery the rodi Heatersale nowever over the blacking of supplies and services on which to some extent Tne victor or as tree es a without which some cases defeat is almost inevitable.

TWU

Wiltie members have been involved since last the blacking of to Ward's factory rests services primarily on action by workers in other unions. pledges of support from

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the TGWU tor any union whic cuts off would clearly supplies orovide ine oasis tor me renewa Redgrare Lines like "I'm the toast of the town", "I like being famous" and (ugh!) "I'd look swell in a sable coat" sum up the tedious success story sub- plot that occupies a central part of the film The dry wit of Hellman's thriller lover, writer Dashiel Hammet, (of Maltese Falcon fame), is the only saving grace this section. Amidst all this Hellman's concern for, and Constall contact, Julia, lost the stormy somewhere European political situation, is somewhat incongruous. As Hellman chalks up Garners measures such which nave already been shown to be possible But just as with the call last August for a mass picket, which Regional Committee the London voted unanimously support and then bureaucratically over- ruled, no initiatives of this, or any other kino nave been lakeu And the answer is not nara to find actual fact, the TGWU's blacking crystal dutitude clear. As with the Trust Houses Forte strikes, the General Execu- tive Council ruled blacking of Sandersons "Illegal the oIne wores threat of legal action by NAFF's land Sanderson lawyers manace net softle „Tirm as George ware nas mean the cders of the bie union in country of surreneered one important weapons in the arsenal of trade union solidarity.

Blacking Laws to prevent blacking were in tact a signiticant part of the defeated Tory industrial Relations '70s which these Act of the early same bureaucrats claimed oppose. No-one can be any doubt about the moortance or olacking the Sandersons strike-three quarters of all the output factory coes to ine clant vimpey buriaind contractors and are handled there- fore by large numbers of trade unionists -and chassi: which the trucks are made are actually produced by the

TGWU

organised rora plant in basticon!

Despite this, Cairns, the Regional Secretary last SUIKets difficult to see what the iwo meant to have in women are common at all. In fact untortunate Is that there will never be a film based upon "Julia's' recollec- Hellman-which ot

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could well be a much sparser, less warm ana arrecuonale affair altogether. Contempt have The two women moved into worlds and classes and while was apart, possible to authoress finding bourgeois Julia's world a subject for romantic fantasy, it is hard to Julia could how have considered Hellman's world other than anything beneath contempt. finally meet in The two Hellman, Berlin, after through a system of carefully arranged contacts, has agreed $50,000 (for smuggle prisoners of the bribing out Nazis) to Julia warmth of the brief The in contrast encounter stands with the reality of taking bourgeois woman small risk after relatively much indecision and a revol- minded women, now crippled by her fascist enemies and dragged from bed and her brutally killed Hellman recollects That being warned "Try not to be heroic' perhaps the most Steak

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Transport & General Workers Union 1/373 Mass picket outside Garners in Oxford Street week oronounced that in his viev the strike 'cannot be won'.

A decisive contribution to the union bureaucracy's ability to seli out, has been the lack of a consis.

tent and independent alternative and file Strike rank committee leadersnios This has meant for instance that even the Sandersons strikers themselve 1 dist crucial importance of blacking in their calls for support. Grunwicks In Grunwicks it has ensured that the division between open right-wing officials Party's tavourite lett brooressive lack-ol all-unions Dromey has kept the within the bounds of the oureaucracy Strikers in Garners, however have begur to raise the possibility of a real fight against these same obstacles-in many repre- cases sented by the same individuals!

ther InIs tunity of decisively breaking from the stronghold and bureaucratic needed to Ine action win the strike conclusion, two should de stressed First, there is no doubt what that all of these strikes soever, can be wor Second, that tne dangers defeat are not so much an indict

TGWL

/ in particular ment ot the as an exposure or ne ms or a individuals and organisations who to hang working class seek witn the rope or retormism The lessons still of new leaderships can section every • workers. By Pat Lewis directing nevertheless The anyone knew the technique cleverly with child acress and Fonda well chosen disrupt plot. The work is superb for one watching excursion into It is only a disappointment to those who would go in the belief that a film in which a "Trotskyist self-styled appears, and which touches upon turopean tascism in the 1930's should have a serious anything bearing upon of aportance In far Redgrave as identified with Hellman's this only picture of Julia', goes to show the extent to which woman once "romantic Tory' now sees polnca commument to lut working class movement through the 'romantic spectacles of middle

OUR

POLICIES

The fight for women's rights By Jill Ford The bourgeois family strengthens the positions of the - bureaucratic is the most basic social unit of capitalism, and is allowed the central institution for backs on the mass ortne of the oppression oppressed. women. Fight unable Capitalism

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develop the productive forces to overcome the anachronis- to link agitation on women's tic limitations of the family.

day-to-day problems with the domestic fight to weld them into the resuit labour remains individual, for the and private instead of social, mechanised and collec- throw of capitalism. 'Must From this material basis you avow, stem all the bourgeois notions

TOT I

be linked with our principle prejudices that and woman's "natural" place is in aim-the and the establishment of the are nome. The dictatorship most aevastaling social and political conse- proletarial: which permeate all present, the pores of capitalist society, will continue to be, our alpha and material Iom absolutely clear. confinement of women within the family. But the broad

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1 Ap

"RENGTH

Priord nursery struggle puts bureaucrats on the spot Denied full equality in the irresistably -at process or production.

carred from full participation = industry by family oppres- ran and by mass unemploy- rent. women find themselves forth the Jericho. the their life amily, where *stricted to the narrow arena personal relations. The frustration this female masses *potence and the pettiness drudgery, and of domestic wishes • 7› senaration of housewives women. com the organised strength They should :: the trade union movement makes them potential fodder ship will ir fascist agitators and the complete equality demagogy religious with men, both legal and fanatics. practice, Obstacles it also of the bourgeoisie power same time which On the -aterial obstacles Women. p.113. the majority of i amen trom piaving a part in he political arena of the class *ruggle are increased as the rate imposes social spending throwing more and Lus. more social functions-health .are. nursery education, ete- at onto the tamily. etclusion of movement, their to turn as wel as for men. The right to a job must be accompanied by the right to Lenin emphasised the need unemployment klalil. benefits, by full nursery pro- vision for all children under five and adequate paid mater- revolutionary party struggling nity leave. revolutionary are to partici-

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women pate equally in the workforce they avow. must nave control over that the struggle Therefore their reproduction. free abortion and contra- women s rignis must also demand are vital ception on conquest of power demands for in achieving social equality.

of the The

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takes up these democratic demands workers as a means of bring- this is, and about a change in the ing That clear, balance of class forces to the of the oppressed advantage of and exploited. lasses We working women will not feel do not restrict our the struggle for drawn struggle for state power if we demands to the parliamentary harp on just this one demand.

the contrary we have long maintained that the even though we mav blare it battle for equal pay will not rigged No, a thousand times no! tribunals set out in legislation We must combine our appeal but, Trico, by class politically in the minds of the the workplace alliull with the against the employer. sufferings. the needs and the the Expansion working all know Similarly, while we oppose what the proletarian dictator- all anti-abortion legislation we say that the call for free them- of rights abortion on demand cannot achieved without an the in the lamily. expansion of the NHS under state and in society, and that the control of the working spells the annihilation class. the In current tact. in the period, an! struggle for such Emancipation will demands bring conflict workers into state,

WILS

bourgeoIs take awas Oppressed which must now democratic ngills Because we see women as attempts to solve the crisis of one of the most oppressed capitalism at the expense of sections of the working class, the working class-so we see the WS fights in particular social services, in for the democratic rights of hospital and nursery closures.

Thus the need is posed for We say that every woman a programme which deselope i a right to diot. and that International Women's Day March-an early victim of the ban on marches in London the bourgeois state. this reason the WSL For for new for transitional fights work with demands in its existing demand that *In the fight for equal pay we raise the need to fight low and defeat pay, imposition of wage controls the union and

TUC

broadened by government unions, intervention. We fight for the policy of defending wages against into of inflation through cost cuts committees. living clauses based on figures each elected up draws Coll of trade mittees

HONES.

representatives, udut iciallis leadership. committees, etc., draw in and involve women in monitoring the cost of living.

*The fight for the right to work involves defending being through occupied existing jobs work full sharing pay where redundancies and closures are

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threatened, backed At the factory occupations.

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fight for same time we

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creation of new jobs through

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the breaking of the Lib-Lab coalition and the demand for a programme of public works.

LET THE

*The public spending cuts, that increase the oppression and exploitation of women, be fought by the struggle for strike action, and the demand for a sliding scale of social service spending to protect against inflation The main obstacle in the fight for such policies is the bureaucratic leadership of the trade union and labour move- ment. Only when drawn into the organised labour movement will women become part of the central task of overthrow- the bureaucracy and Ing bullaing a new revolutionary leadership.

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A crucial step in the fight and supporters in the Oxford leadership in the labour movement and the unions is the exposure of the wider communily The bureaucrats. Expose leaders take action against the The consistent focus of cuts plays a key role in this the has been to campaign This demand must begin in branches and be draw out and expose the local trade union leadership, partic- to draw in other ularly the fake lefts in the housewives and Labour Party and the others-organised if necessary Stalinists of the Communist committees or by Party, placing demands on them that they suppor the focus Cast must be on the diversionary the occupation and approach the County Council demand- and inadequate actions of the filling of the jobs and labour ing the "saved" by the closure and the reopening of the nursery.

This method can be clearly seen in the campaign to stop At the same time the occu- the closure of a nursery class pation campaign illusions that the battle will in Oxford, which is currently by parents be won by these people and is calling for a working class

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inquiry into the books and finances of the council,

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an end to secrecy and

MOTINGHAM

surrounding the profits made of

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by private business out education supplying the LET Ren Case m service. Shackles The nursery campaign- which so obviously combines the fight to liberate women from shackles the family with the fight against the cuts-is a clear example of the for way the struggle women's rights connects up at each point with the fight for new leadership within the workers' movement whole. This political task which involves a break from mere protest and single issue cam- paigning is shirked by every tendency other than the Workers Socialist League.

Spillers slash 8,000 jobs open food firms' books

INDUSTRIAL

sackings British Steel Corpora- tion plans for the Ebbw Vale steelworks redundancy mean half the existing work- force unless a determined fight is begun now. This week saw the start of early negotiations on closure of the heavy end of the works, in which manage- ment are attempting to press through 2,200 immediate sackings. There is no hint that the stee union leaders have anv of revising their intention well-established policy selling the jobs of their mem- to"compensation r the bers employers for token pay- ments. The fruits of this can be seen in the 10.5% unemploy- ment rate in the area, and a 30% cut in the steel work- force the last three years. BCS's new plans would leave ot on v worklorce just over 3,000 who them- selves face speed up in BSC'S what they OTve acicvc euphemistically untenainally ompetve describe manning levels. Ebbw Vale has tradition- ally been one of the safest of safe Labour constituencies, presided ovel

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OlC-LInC "left' Michael Foot, talker now a senior Lib-Lab coal- tion minister. The fight to defend these jobs in the steel industry thus bound up at every lever the fight for leadership in the trade union and labour movement and the struggle to break the Lib-Lab Coalul. BCS's books must be openea lo cekicu hade alon committees, and the avallable work at cobw vale avided between the whole workforce within each trade-at no loss of earnings. The private sector of the steel industry-which expanding the cabalaly. midst of the slunp-along will privalc suppics, manu facturers and hauliers must be nationalised without compen- under workers ana saliull anaecllciil. The long fought struggle by NUJ nine members in Westminster Press newspaper offices against victimisation first of showed signs paying off last week. Journalists on the Barrow' Erening Mail offered a deal giving them full back- on ne nanodal uclul settiement-iwo aays alter was brusquely simiar olter l notaln for It is the tirst time several weeks that there has ant mave in the disnute Ebbw Vale PHOTO : Chris Davies. Report faces mass One result of reformist politicians grovelling for crumbs from the capita- lists' table was announced last week with the decision of food Spillers monopoly to withdraw from bread production, at a cost of 8,000 jobs and almost certain price increases affeting working every class family. Since the re-election of the Wilson government in 1974 bread prices have virtually doubled astonishing all 28½ pence for every tasteless prepackea siccu 10al Snatched This despite crazy such reformist schemes food subsidies-which from snatched money workers in taxes and handed it to the food monopolies as for cash saGOuS l Ictul minimal concessions priccs With bread so expensive and unappetising SO that sursing scarcely has fallen demand con sis- tently since the war-leaving the bread manufacturers with a surplus of baking capacity could be usefully

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employed in producing more attractive food stutts. Avaricious But, other as the of industry, response these avaricious private employers has been ruthlessiy to cut back productive capa city pursuit of maximum profitability. The figures trotted out to justiry tis lalest closure can- NUJ chapels win one battle Press to torce westminster backdate the £7.09p agree- ment. Although every other employer provincial In field & has paid increase Westminster Press has heid out. partlv in retri.

bution against chapels which showed willingness to support six month wallatull strike for a closed shop.

Now the eight chapels left have taken fresh heart from The Barrow une setlic cul. offer all deal the bring jobs

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attack Production cutbacks at Ferguson in Massey Coventry have led to on jobs in the attacks companies which supply components for the firms. Birmid Qualcast at Warley are to sack 390 and 15 staff out of the : 600 who work in one of the foundries One whole gang has been cut the other out and reduced. Foot not be accepted at face value.

by selling ils proaucls lo Spillers claim to have lost an workers. £28 be incredible million over COSUre BH USL i in bread The fight must take resisted. Ine last six years baking-suggesting that the up the demand for full access accounts whole affair has been run as a the charity for years. divisions of the Spillers com- bine as well as those of RHM

ABF,

other food anal anla monopolies. There is no doubt that these figures will how con- that the whole bloodsucking privately-owned must food industry nationalised without compen- under workers SaLOn. management. Chris Davies. Bakery workers must join with workers in the rest of Ine aDOU HOVC E CIlE fighting to break the Lib-Lab coalition, and to win support Castle-proposed subsidies Shop stewards at Yet Spillers' gigantic Thorn Consumer Electro- milling operation-as that of Hovis its main nics-which announced rivaSKK Associated McDougal and last week the closure of British roods)-has remained two factories in Bradford profitable throughout. So has and Shipley with the ›pilers combine axing of 2,200 jobs, have whole. But pursuit made a false start to any Spillers profits, тилітит fight for their members. management decided have Two initiatives have been that bakery WOrKCIS of which launched both must join the growing dole accept the logic of closure queues. and the responsibility of the The whole affair, and the work force for the prices being to pay enormous problems of the owners charged by the food monopo- One is to ask Hitachi, the indicates the futility LIcs. Japanese firm which failed reformist attempts to tinker for get perm ission organised

WILS

LAls factory of its own, to take area of capitalist exploitation the plant over. ns ceciro which lives by DOll would of course, exploiting its workforce and

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no more be able to turn loss into profit than the British firm without reducing jobs massively. The second initiative has been to form an alliance with actually leaves the NUJ mem- middle management to make the company 'more efficient' bers there better off within one week than if there had and therefore profit- ¡lULe been a straightforward settle- This will inevitably lead to menl over Dalkuatıny a worsening of the Similar claims are being orK Y conditions the factories at Dre baree ov me o e cıle chapels left in dispute. and again accepts that redun- dancies are inevitabie Moves are industrial In the Yorkshire Erening call for Havl of Friday April 7, Post the action throughout the News- Shop of the paper Society membership at Secretary the annual conference which Stewards Committee, Matthew Teale, said: starts on luesday "It is in no sense an occu- The Barrow settlement is a pation or take over" blow against the campaign by Westminster Press to destroy the NUJ. The remaining eight The leadership should be warned should take heart tactor Chapeis against to solve attempting Tom oz vc oye SOCIALIST PRESS. is:iren::::- Massey cutbacks plans some time this week There have been large scale lay-offs the Easter over period and tule comoally stated some weeks ago that full-time working could not At present the sackings are be guaranteed past April 1.

going through procedure but The big five producers in the fight has been weakened Britain Massey herguson the acceptance by the by Harvesters International Maintanence Department of David Brown Ford and redeb ov. Icaundancy anu British Leyland (the only ment. British-owned firm) each export over 75% of tractors At Sterling Metals, Nunea- produced. ton, the rounary working a 2-day week and GoWLu lI sales of tractors in world workers there expect redun- 1977, following a boom in dancies to be announced. 1976, which has led to the Massey Ferguson itself is reduction in work sharp expected make an available at Massey Ferguson.

announcement of future decline ın traclol exports from Britain can be seen by looking at the figures 1975-136, 1976-140, 570; 1977-126, 077. All the indications are that sales will further decline this year Not only Massey Ferguson is being hit by these develop- The International JU CIliS for example, Harvesters are 18% planning reaunaancic. out of 1700 workers at their factory in Bradford. In each case the employers for a socialist programme for aim is to force the effects of an expanded the economic crisis planneu,

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grated nationalised food capitalism onto the backs of industry in which all jobs are the working class The demands guatanletu centiai fight necessary against sackings at all these Mass picketing con tinues plants are for a restricted at the Oxford Street Garners Steak House in support amounı or work avatabic le the strike by TGWU members shared between the workers in those plants-with for union recognition. Readers and supporters of no loss ot pay Socialist Press And alongside ( this are urged campaign for the opening of the picket support mass the company books must b 12.30pm OnWaOS „ oxore Street, (nearest tube, Bond fought for. St). Inspection of the com books would Messages of support and panies provo the strike the need to save jobs through contributions to nationalisation without com- TIIne chollie setl

CLO

TGWU,

12-13, pensation and under workers Room 04. Henrietta Street, London management. WC2. Thorn false start this situation round That is ine same atlituat International The last

AUEW

Shop which Stewards Harvesters allowed 250 on March 29 passed a resolu.

carried etne ces out with absolutely no fight.

tion from the Anderton Inter- Shop Stewards Although the leadership of nationa the International Harvesters- Committee at Shipley, calling for a policy of a sliging scale like some of those In lai Thorn wages to counter leadership at ductivity deais which lead to Bradford -is subjectively called to class collabora- redundancies. opposed il also tion, it did not for a special meting of Shop carry out the policy of AUEW Dis- Stewards in Bradford to dis Committee and trict which cuss unempioyment called for a policy of non- redundancies. This motion was endorsed cooperation redundancies. There are now last Wednesday (April 5) by Committee big dangers that similar Distric will the AUEW lead a fight falure to The conference should be occur at Thorn. used as a focus for policies Now a major development has taken place which could which counter the and sackings lay the fondations to turn Cosure

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Militant sacked as TGWU

LEYLAND WORKERS REJECT BONUS

SOCIALIST PRESS, H'ednesda! 12 Aprii, 1978 Pete Barnes, a leading

TGWU

militant in the Export Packing Services factory in Banbury Oxfordshire, was sacked last Friday following complaints made to by Bill management Official Morris, District of the TGWU. Morris made his complaint the convenor to voice their four days after he had refused disatisfaction. motion of no exchanges took place. confidence in the right wing MOlBS

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convenor of the factory at a Pete meeting on ine site- causing an angry although he has only one wit- reactor from workers. ness against a large number Closed meeting ot stating clearly that nothing of Morris had closed the Ine sort look place. The meeting down, which resulted melnod workers gathering around used points itself to trumped "HOTO: Laurence Sourban Mig Tunnel miners, who last year hit the headlines by their occ- upation of a Finsbury Park site (above), last week picketed preliminary work on the new Jubilee Line at Bond St. tube of the 14 tunnel Hut Co. Branch, were completely successful in their fight for severance pay of £600 from contractors Nuttals at the end of their job.

This victory will strengthen the tunnel miners in efforts to improve conditions as the building of the new line proceeds.

The ballot vote by Leyland manual workers to reject the manage- ment's incentive scheme reflects bitterness on the using the senior shop floor. help them policies. The voting was 46,106 to 21,759. Management and the being doing they are now capitalist PIeSS everything they can to under- and having another ballot.

play this vote because there are no advantages in a bonus scheme if the work-force is hostile to it. with the Having said in the run-up Earnings' was unanimously rejected by to the ballot that the vote was expected to go in favour, they now say it was expected changed, through a ballot.

to go against. Leyland So the management highly busy skilled and have planning fishalls Diary

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official complains to management up charges. The alleged attack took union Angry place But Morris did not meeting. take the matter up within the that Callus Barnes punched the the back — No representation Instead he went straight to and Pete got Wallace cill willesse Barnes sacked with no chance even of representation, since convenor and the Morris has union official who are supposed to represent him are laying the charges! It is clear that Morris is leading out WiCa-nut militants out of a plant which has long been a problem for the officials. Last autumn the factory

1/955 TGWU

Export Packing workers during their pay strike last year

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move. Now the problems of for Leyland leadership workers comes out clearly.

become particularly adept at Aspects stewards to None of the senior achieve their incentive opposed stewards All the talk of the result schemes on principle as creators of unemployment.

'expected' means that They only oppose certain thinking of aspects of the scheme. ways of rehashing the scheme None of them is leading This technique they have anv struggle against speed-up now taking place in their own learnt from their experience *Security plants. document which It was workers on the shop floor, the and the workforce and then one produced the stewards that year later brought in, slightly rejection the incentives. oI The way the senior stewards argued for only are managelicit helped the company.

I'VE RECENTLY HEARD A LOT OF IDLE GOSSIP FROM

SOME MEMBERS ABOUT HOW UNION NEGOTIATORS OUGHT

TO BE ANSWERABLE TO THE SHOPFLOOR-

WHAT STUFF AND NONSENSE! FOR EXAMPLE,

P'M ENDORSING THE BASNETT PLAN FOR THE

FOLLOWING REASONS=

WE CLEVERLY OUTMANOURE THEM

AND DEVASTATE THEIR ARGUI

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as on sake or dx wee gainst the government's 10 wage policy. Now as Pete Barnes was escorted out of the factory, Morris has set himself up in office site Tne "inquiry" into conqucl al the

TGWU

5/194 branch which covers the factory

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picket outside Claridges yesterday _cHers tormed in a spontaneous strike against the sacking of their GMWU steward "putting too little allegedly salt in the ratatouille' unionisation fight simply the latest reflection of the class con. growing militancy. sciousness amon! caterin ers. (See unionisation feature p 8) existing Labour Party points to all in And tney WeTe favour of participating in a ballot, accepting corporate the principle of corporate as opposed to plant decisions There is no doubt that the company will utilise this at a I would later stage. So the struggle in Leyland must continue new fights Name. leadership that on principle against incentive and for plants to Address schemes take their own decisions.

We will be making detailed analysis of the Leyland scheme in our next issue.

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Page 1! WSL Public meetings Leeds Oxford Wednesday 19 April 7.30 p.m. Trades Council Club Birmingham Centre Princes St. The Nursery Campaig "The Struggle for and the fight against the Leadership in British Leyland" cuts Sunday 16 April, 7.45 Lecture Room Digbeth Civic Hal

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Cross MARCH-from Charing Embankment (Cleopatra's Needle), 1pm, Monday 1 May WSL PUBLIC MEETING-Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, 4 pm, after the march The Workers Socialist League is a Trotskyist organisation fighting to construct a principled revolutionary leadership in the working class in Britain and internationally, and for the recon- struction of the Trotskyist Fourth Internation- al on the basis of the Transitional Programme.

The WSL fights at every step against the leaders of the trade unions and the now firmly harnessed to the bourgeois politicians of the Liberal Party in an unspoken coalition arrangement.

Against their policies of class collaboration we put forward instead a programme which the independent class interests of the working class, its need to organise indep- endently to overthrow capitalism, destroy its repressive state machinery and establish a socialist planned economy.

Only in this way can workers resolve today's problems of tumbling living standards, mass unemployment, slashed social services, racial, national and sexual oppression.

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The crisis within the so- 'Euro-communist called parties has sharpened rapidly in the last few weeks. As these parties move into an with ever closer emoracd capitalist class so open opposition movements have been developing.

homogeneous consistent. In Spain at present it revolves round the largely formal question whether has not been Leninist for 40 ears should continue to over call itself 'Leninist in its statutes.

But the apparent issues are not Beneath The real questions lies the growing discon.

working class base of the Stalinist parties and stance

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systematic collaboration of the Header parties which make ships of those openly the them every pillars of the bourgeois order.

Publicly opposed The leadership of the Spanish opposed by CP. publicly already the local leaders of the party week suffered Asturias, last even more dramatic reverse.

Socialist The powertul United Catalonia Party name the Communist Party uses which catalonial. CP ship in are wota the whole of Spain, voted against decisivery the Carrillo's plar ce to Leninism trom the abolish reterence Carrillo party statutes. Marxism declares would Carrillo's premier Adolfo Suarez Tne Marxism of today' than Lenin.

Last week in a press interview Carrillo, for lona a sunporter of called approvingly, him ouarez Spain that 'the only quarantee again into two irreconcilable camps'.

Last week, Malaga in the south joined Asturiz; and Catalonia as a opposition 200 leading Carrillo leadership. members of the party there were open petition circulating against the undemocratic methods of the leadership. Questioning members have Several party critical also written openiv articles in the bourgeois press.

which besets i ne salut Carrillo nas Sine: Tue broken out also in the French CP.

Here too, there is evidence of widespread questioning and open opposition to the leadership.

Its extent is so great that Party Marchais was Secretary geordes forced last week to acknowledge a long press opposition which he tried very statement unconvincingly to put a gloss on 'It is true that in the French Communist rarty at tue prescile time engaged unprecedentedly wide-ranging debate: in the party cells, sections and federal committees. Ana " say frankly we are pleased about it.

"This great democratic debate has neen encoutacte our attore in tavour ot life within the party democratic decision and also the the meeting Committee until the end Central have tried to give communists a time to discuss and reflect. said, inal

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CPs individuals, others from groups of 2 or 3 comrades. Finally 2 or 3 letters were written in the name whole cells opposing Head to roll? this opposition is to MOSt our policies as a whole. basically finding the same are time our 22nd Congress. a general who are opposing our rule, those who today •oficie. 22nd opposed them Ine Congress That also sees from reading certain news does specialise in putting these

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BeTore thIs ores conterence I was asked 'Is your head going oll?' I replies 'No: the basket Undoubtedly empty. will remain the expelled from party e expelled party but The will be There time expulsions actory for over us. same way are those who would like to challenge the 22nd Congress. That also is inadmissible. The com eter 22nd Congress is a definite gain there are because our party that the Tendencies i debate can ceve or generaly among all communists about the whole policy of our party.

As Oxfordshire schools reopen for the Summer of term the occupation South Oxford the class enters its Nursery fourth week stronger and developed than its more ever organisers considered. nearly 20 class children being by unemployed taught helpers and teachers and children being are enrolled daily. This however must only be a lemporary siluation The occupation campaign is determined in its demand for be class to by ence coco cell Council's education County department with all the jobs LuCU They taken these nave demands into the local labour movement. The has aimed Colludici particularly towards the three public service unions directly concerned with jobs Our method-categorically not to exclude or sanction anyone dl all-doesn't constitute the recog nition of tendencies but a consid erable advance along our party's road to democratic life. I repeat: wish to move on this poin ceaselessly forward". As in Spain, the CP opposition in France is composed of severa diverse elements. None of them at jobs lobby It has pressed the local three leaderships these unions to join a deputation to Council with the the County occupation committee. the other However

NUT

only three the hand concluded months ago sell-out negotiations lengthy question of the cuts, on the and NUPE and NALGO have signed extensive just and early redeployment retirement schemes.

JOBS AXED AS

HEALEY CUTS

While TUC leaders and

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'left' Labour MPs continue to shed crocodile tears about employers unemployment, proceeded with last week their efforts to stoke it up.

Certain that the union bureau- will organise no resistance, workers will be compensated b cracy they confidently announced plans an end to wage controls, Healey to slash another 13,411 jobs.

talking от а already *536 jobs are to be lost in embodying a repeat of the l moves month rule coupled Tationaisatill to a low rise in average earnings than th Toota textile tarm the „ to o in current 10%. Decca colour TV closure So as Healey puts the finishin Lib-La plant in willennall another *2,200 jobs are threatened in Touche. budget-grandly giving workers by the Thorn the decision pittance in tax cuts and a toke plants combine

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latest speci the nane -out Bradford "job-creation" gimmick-now is *125 redundancies good time to get an assessment Sunderland ship the devastation in workers' livir eched lied builders. standards brought about by *2,200 steelworkers in Ebbw treachery of their trade union an Vale face a planned early closure political leaders. of their workplace. *8,000 workers face recun Stamp of approval Spiers to pull but of thie bread decision cancy Indeed it is certain that th baking business. 'left wing' stamp of approval w These major cutbacks come on to this state given • of atta individual top of the counties ThIS weet LaDUu through jobs 'natura continue tramr Tovally each week the Lib-Lab coalition lobby wastage leaders up and down the country support another Healey budget collaborate with employers' Laboul Party member. attempts to speed up production , branches must demand th unior in every industry. vote against this budg their MPs struggle and oreak Declining workforce : coalition dea with Liberals Indeed a new report by But there is little chance th Wood MacKenzie

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the letts will set aside a liter that productivity of spinelessriess to wage any fig DoInts likely to grow 3.5% this year with at lnis slage a static or • declining workforce North Sea Oil, which produces Leadership no jobs, will increase productivity by The struggle • reverse I' in the employment Cuts in attacks can succeet industries centres on a complete rejection unproductive service will improve productivity. of

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all forms manning reductions ot a rev savaut ano tne constructior levels and "overcapacity' in steel leadership within and the car industry. coubled workers' movement speed-up are also major factors *Break the Lib-Lab coalitior relied tacitly 1c leaders *Defend all jobs--occupatio upon in the report to assist lut must demand work sharing on f bosses in jacking up productivity industry by pay in manutacluri *Open the books of employ without corrid this year and threatening sackings additional employment. clear represent Fight for nationalisation UnI present principled break from the cass workers management. Stalinist Phase 4 *Ston the cuts! Strik! coldooratiol leadership. to demand restoration of pui But the crises attest to protected by slid And a fall in employment in service. the realisation is expected to crowing sector scale or spending disastrous Ine seT vICe working *A programme class pul , aise productivity by 2%.

consequences of this class collab- works under workers managem believes unpreceden- They create efforts to inflict oration to create new joos CP win Inese conscious opportunities *For planned, socia ter the burden of the crisis of British militants to Trotskyism and capitalism onto the backs economy Transitional Programme. the unions and in the Labo union delegation to a general resolutic Party by raising delegation, Trades Council demanding the reopening thus turning the move into a the nursery and the filling instead gesture mere protest branc the jobs To join deputation ol a serious move to pressure Party wards and Labour would have raised by three unions the council be sent up to union Divisio question of re-opening these been which could and reopening by industrial committees es and negotiations backed up floodgates of dissatisfac- Party General Managem: the action Campaign supporters must tion from their members. Committees ensure that pressure bureaucrats celebrated up John Power, witch-hunting right wing and of Oxford President District Trades Council saved National youth the day for the NUT, NUPE and NALGO leaders. the triple He amended meeting The Economic Crisis and the Way Forward for Youth SUNDAY 7 MAY at 2.00 p.m.

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