Socialist Press no. 97

Defend democratic

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 97 * April 26, 1978 * 15p Lib-Lab ban hits Mayday march - Workers' traditional May youth and workers. Day demonstration in Leeds the WIll eagerly rush to will be this year, banned from along with any other march 1,000 police saturady by workers or trade unionists ott an entire area or tne towr until May 7. protect a TasCiStS This fresh attack on the demo- demonstrators! cratic right to demonstrate freely Silent -a ront rouent for i generations of bitter struggle by the workers' movement-yet again takes place unoer me pretext or carong tric men fascists. silent on the Leeds ban-which tows trom the very policies they Warning advocate Just as in Ilford-where the of anti-socialist forces within the National Front ANL has rendered it incapable of decision or une to hold a march and the certainty offering a socialist answer to the of a massive turn out of workers materlal to drive them off the streets led ment, falling living standards and to a two month all-London ban social service cuts that provide the by Lib-Lab on demonstrations ground orecaine Merlyn Rees- Home ecretary. among demoralised and backward the Leeds crackdown must oe recognised as a stark warning to middle class the abour movement. To call on the forces of the the breaking state to ban the NF fascists, or Lib-Lab coalition that is master- welcome such bans as minding these attacks on workers, leading spokesmen since leading ot the AnTI Ilford), quick N Avebury and others are among its Nazi League suicidal policy that could lead complete Dan democratic right Joint action march! Anti Nazi League, BUt the which draw

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possible joint wOr GS OT DOlTICS •Ine CHUrCH sport, entertainment and the arts TascIsm simply to propagandise in order action must Front against • The National strengthen and broaden the indep- incapable of seeing this danger.

endent action of the working class -and not head off Set aside workers into dangerous illusions thazis ard reliance on alice bane propaganda ensuring that they do Busy of their famous not ottend anv can defeat the National Front sponsors, the ANL organisers have set aside the only policy that can *Defend ensure the fascists are driven from No to police the streets-ine mass moonisation @rive the sr trom une streets of workers in independent *Defeat struggle and the organisation of Workers Defence workers detence squads agains contront Nt inugs the attacks of NF thugs. knows that no Socialist policies to defend jobs, everyone amount oT unIon bureaucrats. wages and the social services.

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* police who deteno the Nr anti-fascists. In Leeds last cordoned from me of 650 meeting But Anti wazı Leaque sookes.

remained tactfully And the heavy representation rights! problems of unemploy. tol and the sne ANe cannot even car tor of the anti-socialist Lord heral Two journalists and an ex- soldier stand to suffer 14-year jail sentences as victims of the determination of top police military officials to and preserve the Official Secrets The Workers Socialist League the -oroacest Act. against action This fact, which could well be toraotten in ast weeks Turort But we insist that such joint naming of the now designed "Colonel B" is a symp- legendary tom of the continual attack democratic rights being carried and divert out under Labour ministers who nave willingly come torward ds c against respectable "front" for the forces the mmieration laws This means an all out Tiant to.

"Prevention of Terrorisn caller democratic rights! Act" , wholesale bans on the right bans. Workers must and the depor- demonstrate, tation Sast year Journalist fascist attacks! Phillip Agee and Mark Hosenball to squads are just some of the more open recent examoles or the way the *Break the Lib-Lab coalition!

Labour leaders have strengthened the powers of the capitalist state and attacked basic rights.

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The Labour rarty is nominal eariv last year pledged to repeal the Official The three were Secrets Act, and to replace it with charged under a measure to put the burden on the public authorities to justify

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witholding information". But the proposals to be pub- lished shortly by the seek only to revise Section _ or the Act-wnici makes illegal It prosecution. communicate OTTICIa InTormation ne martel how innocent-whose disclosure has not been authorised. "Enemy" "Clause is to 0+ Section so-called left "spying intact This lays down that it is an offence receive communicate an V Intormation that might be 'directly or indirect- ly useful to an enemy. It carries a penalty of 14 years imprisonment. And it is the law against journalists levelled nOW Crispin Duncar Auorev Campbell, and ex-soldier John DeTTy Section 1 is seen as essentia protection by the top officials of the armed bodies of men through which brush capitaism mautaris its rule over the working class.

And st analysingh a the Tore Party anew analy sill balance of forces that led to the defeat of the Heath government network known by the miners in 1974 and weigh- of using the ing the prospects satentes ground smash comparable strike wave today, the employers and the state aoparatus snare ar munications systems in suppressing infor He refused mation on the working of surveill.

deny whether ance agencies. between Campbell had Crack whip Because of this, the intelli leaving gence forces took the decision innocent discussion! in the wake of the struggle on th ex-CIA And t deportation agent Phillip Agee to crack the whip o the Official Secrets Act.

Through phone and tapping anonymously. of sup clandestine surveillanct porters ot the Agee/ nosenbar Defence Committee by MI5, watch was arranged meeting between Aubrey, Berry and Campbell which took place Leveller

MAY DAY

GREETINGS

The Editorial Board extends May Day Greetings to all readers and supporters of Socialist Press and to all those workers and peasants engaged in the international struggle against imperialism. Forward to the Trotskyist reconstruction of the Fourth International! the facts that were revealed about Colonel and in open court arrested! and r both Section 2 and centitiea nim as • colonel muel Section 1 of the Official Secrets A. Johnstone, they were sub- jected to a High Court action a une nanas o1 Labour Attorne Surveillance General Sam Silkin, in order to silence them. the NUJ paper the The dreaded "Colonel B" wa Journalist came to their defence the "expert witness" produced by it too was attacked through High had been court action head of the too secret surveillance When MPs last week raised a feeble protest at this censorship attempts by were met Tney the Speaker of the House and the Director of Public Prosecutions to and to restrict the silence them freedom of the press to repor Parliamentary proceedings Apparatus What is at stake for British capitalism is far more than th of one former intelli naming gence officer: it is the preser vation or tne wnoie apparatu of law which protects the armed force of the state To sweep aside that law, to unveil the squalid "secrets" the huge network of undercove surveillance ofth Istne task

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organised workers movement This means that the Lib-Lat

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decisively coalition must , and a leadership construc ted within the labour movement as its task not the Inat will see preservation of the capitalist state as apparatus but its exposure and its which collates material from spy destruction der lals planes, listening posts, and diplo Trade unions matic, military and business com- The defence of Aubrey, Berry confirm and Campbell. and the fight to the discussion an end to the entire Officia and Berry must now be taken Secrets Act into the widest possible layers of actually involved leaving re of possibinty mate all the Labour and trade union move possionit ment. three go to jail for a completely Already the NUJ conferenc nas votee to orepare or one a impede anyone who strike action on the day of t This must wishes to challence ns mont te court hearings give such "evidence" the Colonel develosea Turter was allowed to give evidence is done all the Until This Colonels from to

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continue laughing all the way to Facts revealed their decoders. When Peace News and the magazine out togetne

Carrillo in the Cortes Spanish -in time to halt the split? Spanish Com- The munist Party has Just first held its legal Congress since 1932. For the Carrillo leadership, the only leadership of any major Spanish political party :oday to have been politically active in the Civil War, the Congress came just in time.

In time, that is, to prevent the wave of opposition within the from developing pally out of control. disten leading up to the Congress has been marked by body blows the some

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. eadership. In Catalonia the leadership iost its bid to get a majority in the Central Committee for the deletion of the "Leninist" from the party statutes. Reinstalled The main pro-Carrillo leaders in Catalonia resigned aiter the defeat and reinstalled panic-stricken manoeuvrings •y lario wno managea to his majority in the local Catalonian Congress.

CP AstulLas. Icaullls opposing Carrillo members, of JOCa and have publicly congress criticised the leadership and demanded the replacement of President Dolores party Icarrur (La rassionlalla)

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CP Congress: In nearly other provincial pre-congress meet- bureaucrats party ing tne encountered sharp hostilly from pro-Moscow not only sections of the party but also from rank and file opponents of the party's class collabor- which ationist policies symbolised in the renuncia- tion of "Leninism". with comparison al the four-day Congress this, was a peaceful affair Filtered out Opposition had largely been filtered out the process of selecting the 1500 delegates Even so about a quarter of delegates against the leadership. The ceremonial burial of Leninism was just one part of a long display of loyalty to the Spanish bourgeoisie. only other Not wert WOTKeTS parties presenl guest observers Tne Congress but so were Spain's bourgeois parties oists ing Francoists the ruling Premier Suarez' Union of the Centre Democratic and the ultra-right Francoists of Fraga's Popular Manuel Alliance. Oppressors these Tense butchers and oppressors ‹Racing against revolution The two most energetic ambassadors of imperialism have just completed another gruelling lap in their desper- race against time and ate revolution Cyrus Vance and But David Owen there can no their arduous yet from Foreign ministers from France, Canada and West converged Germany London to review the next stage of the and inspect hurdles faced by their chosen celedates to sournern Atrica their missionary exercise the athletic apostles undertaken the revolution Have errand snatching Limeowi and Namibia from the brink revolutiondry wal The new imperialist gospel of 'peaceful settlement has not altogether fallen on stony ground.

The leaders or swAru and ini Patriotic Front have listened these soothing attentively promises, while keeping a watch ful eye on the movement of the masses which they claim to lead.

racist oppressors of the South African and Rhodesian CARRILLO: 'not social democrat' Carrillo began by hailing the historic character of the first Congress held in legality for over 40 years. concen neo Dact the Socialist Party between (PSOE) and the Social German emocrats

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La Passionaria CP leaders have gone to such abandon the mystique that Carrillo's line is passed and a lengths to make it clear that, Committee elected, everything gained by Central although they may be "revol- in the mobilisations street most of whose members are utionarv" they can and recognise that the CP the the counted on to stand firmly in legalisation to the unelected Central Committee owea Ils the path of any moye towards fact that the "civilised right" predictable that (Suarez) had acted intelli- gigantic purge of opposition- The Spanish CP still claims gently. ists can be expected. "Marxist" and "revol- Carrillo has foreshadowed utionary". It is both these the Not Marxist pre-conterence things to exactly the same by discussion insisting inal degree as in the last torty- The Stalinist leaders tendencies and factions are five years it has been Leninist support for Suarez' Moncloa outlawed in the party. -that is. in no wav at all Pact anti-working class At the Congress itself his of One of the main objectives threat was more specitic.

measures remaRs comIcic of Congress was the fact the only mild "Anyone who doesn't In approval of the Central Com- reproach that Suarez has ever agree the wong party policy with our is in mittee's report. received from Carrillo is that he is not carrying out the In spite of the rapid Outspoken growth of the membership of Moncloa programme. Forty years ago, Carrillo, the CP-from 50,000 to 200,- Even from the hand then head of the Communist 000 in a year-there can be Youth, said: little doubt that the Congress picked of the "We Marxist will have convinced a number some questioning are not slavishly collaborationist tone youth; we fight for a demo- of militants who support the fight socialism that the and content of this cratic, parliamentary for republic". Communist Party is document. Spanish "Leninism" particular, in some of Today indeed the wrong party. it IS the closed commissions of the not "Marxism" which Carrillo A clear lead based on the Programme Congress, it is reported that Transitional leels gives

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the the bourgeoisie. capable of attracting delegates questioned 10 W adulatory tone of remarks And today he fights not these forces to a revolution about the Francoist Premier, , Trotskyist position for the parliamentary ary, Adolfo Suarez, of whom republic but for the That the The Leninism today monarchy Carrillo has alwavs been the flag flew "Leninism" CP sloughed off by most outspoken supporter.

obscenely over the CP Congress The party leaders respon- Congress. TENe ded to such doubts by was in any case no more than Now the Congress is aver regimes have been no less com.

forted Already such 'implacable' opponents imperialism Nkomo d their wabin gass subtle indicated their willingness to converted the same spirit of brotherly love statements muttering about 'Marxism', car shuffle to gain an edge of support over Nkomo within the Patriotic rront But the reviving confidence of "has shown imperialism's agents that major concessions have beer made in the recent talks.

The South African administra tion has moved to impose emer gency security •owers

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Namibia, while Owen now feels able threaten Patrioti Front with political isolation if does not cooperate fully in the 'solution' he is advancing.

The messengers of imperialism fervently hope that they are the heralds of defeat for the blac aurican masses Their proposals must be rejected along decisively now with all those leaders' who flirt with such attempts to surrender the liberation the eager grasp of international capH alism. Stalinist, not of the CP a vear ago He claimed that the change from dictatorship to democracy without intervention the foreign or clashes "Without that then what is happening now would have been inconceivable". did, however, complain Inal •ootica remains o dictatorship are moving tne around too easily' "We cannot expect that what we calt. in our terminology thi will take on forms which we havi te cassi known in orner perios and omne countries; cannot assimilate • notion of revolutionary crisi LUTe to insurrectional crisis "The oligarchy at the moment does not the VIeW change with the same calmness a it did a bit more than a year ago it begins to and disquiet" If the monarchy continues tr play political role ir The chance respects will and scrupulously people's follows the Constitutio it is of the forn passca. Ine cuestor government will rose dramatic and conflictive character other nad ume. history Spain when those things were not fulfilled" our perspective is not t diverge from but converge with the PSOE in a unitary policy".

accused

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Carrill the of However Creatine saying that the forthcoming but produce would radical switch in the balance o political forces" Hypocritical To those : who argue that authentic "Eurocommunism wa impossible: • we are going to show are wrong-that Them mney option of a revolutionary Marxist neither social workers' wal by democrat nor Stalinist. is a rea option." ended with a hypo. offer maut that his the knowleag. position is absolutely secure: "If the party thinks that this role of Secretarv General should fall on someone else then with my card in my pocket I will go party •ack to me rank ana me as om more militant cause socialism and communism".

conference delegates Bu Lilt decided Carrillo s on e more prop for Spanish capitalism better acted out in the court leadership thar _ tne ranks o the Soanish Stalinist party

Defend Eritrean liberation

MARCOS RIGS THE VOTE

We print below the text of a statement issued by Nafi H.

hurdl, the representative of Popular Liber- tne Eritrean ation Front in france, and published in Le Monde on April 14. Ethiopian Derg The has launched the invasion of Eritrea which has long been in preparation. It will be without doubt the bloodiest of Africa has exper- Jen ccu. Ethiopian air- Even now, craft are bombing the villages around Asmara and troops, equipped with ultra-modern heavy armaments, are massing Tigre-Asmara-Massawa in the triangle. Bloodbath After the checking of the 1975 offensive-during which the military cooperation between the Popular Liber- ation Front (EPLF) and the Front

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Liberation succeeded in liberating almost the whole of the country of Eritrea-the Derg tried again in 1976 and 197/ to create a bloodbath by throwing 'red march' against the liber- ated zones. Recent events in both and the Indonesia Phillipines have under- increasingly lined the hold of the shaky military regimes in those countries. This connected of course to tie growng con

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fighters! The statement clearly reveals weaknesses the political of the

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EPLF-in their suncular critical analyse Stalinism. But we feel that it is Castro But our fighters, firmly linked with the masses, routed the tens of thousands of peasants and unemployed workers (mostly enlisted by force) which it threw into the frontline of its attack. EPLF holds Today ine Ethiopians prisoner, 6,500 omic and political weakness of the United States. The protectionist policies of the United States hit the working population of South East Asia especially hard.

And the inability of the United States government to contemplate another military intervention Asia gives In hope to all those opposed to

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important to publish for our readers this principled call for international proletarian with the solidarity Eritrean revolution ot ine the differing attacks and

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Stalinism. and treats them in a humane and fraternal way. While clinging to Ine of tradition Haile Selassie and chasing the same dream as the Negus, the new head of the Empire (now rebaptised 'socialist republic) continues to try and justify his colonial policies by resur- that recting argument 'Eritrea does not exist' but that 'in this administrative area there are quite distinct nationalities to whom we will grant autonomy Dismember defeat our it it cannot revolution, the Derg aims to and asmember our country to maintain access to the sea for Ethiopia by holding under its control at least part of the Eritrean coast, and in partic- ular the port of Assab. Denying the existence of all Eritrean national feeling, the and history of our people (which in fact stretches back through it has the military regimes supported. Phillipines The was former US the and Marcos dictatorship has been upheld both economically and militarily by the US.

In spite of token gestures such fraudulent land reform the Teal income or workers and has continued to peasants decline, while Marcos friends have and relations amassed huge fortunes. parties are All opposition but this has banned not prevented agitation both by constitutional means and by armed struggle. Secessionist periodically Marcos television the announces on "final surrender" the Muslim secessionist move- in the island ment Mindanao but this is no more than his claims convincing that his opponents are drug addicts. It was in an attempt to divert some of this opposition that Marcos announced January that elections would neo lor ConsulaC assembly. endy to use "Free debate sion" apparently to was allowed. But in spite of his monopoly of the mass medi and finance, opposition soon which scale found intolerable. Death sentence Even with leading candidates kept in jail under sentence of death he was still forced rig the vote. in Monilo to capure a victory for Cuban troops now baking the Ethiopian forces independence, they loot, the Derg inhabitants: several centuries), countries sanctioned its enter disembowel has mobilised its armed forces massacre, of pregnant women, they poison genocide and land to by alr, sea Derg with a providing the wells and watercourses; they basest crime commit the massive arsenal. destroy crops and livestock.

our people-a crime 500 Soviet policies Still worse, These criminal which will also be an equally 'technicians advisers have driven more than the direct 500,000 people to flee to our 3,500 Cuban soldiers and disoriented Ethiopian revol- some 100 South Yemenis are liberated zones. ution, which the Derg claims at hand in alread Asmara besieged the alongside seized Since the military Independent Ethiopian occupation forces.

600 power in Addis Ababa, of This policy of direct inter- After the decades villages have been Eritrean the vention against our people is suffering and oppression, flattened and 25,000 civilians incompatible with the conceivable relations have been killed by Ethiopian only principal of proletarian inter- between Ethiopia and Eritrea bullets and napalm in Eritrea.

nationalism are those between two indep- Although it is possible to Massacre CROCEL SLaLES that American And it is only with this woes and The forces has no desire to occupation status that we will be able in imperialism have taken to every kind of ousted from a region of discuss with be the future … To against the such importance neighbours all forms of our sulaltell and so cannot reconcile itself regional regroupment for the of well-being our with greatest Eritrea to be unless peoples Moreover. the Eritrean and governed by reactionary in favour of maintain- Ethiopian peoples have common interest in peace and ing US privileges; although it possible to under- equally progress stand that the strategy of the That is why the free and independent Eritrean nation

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that 1s power, it is difficult to under- would not be able to organise The brief experiment with a blockade of Ethiopia, which stand the behaviour of Cuba democracy finally ended on and the Democratic Yemen.

has no outlet to the sea.

600 Sunday APrIl iv wien the On March 16 of this year, against demonstrating fronts the Eritrean of the election were How is it conceivable that rigging concluded a unification agree- charged with Cuban leaders, who in arrested and the ment, and this will have great February still declared that sedition. historical significance when it 'the Ethiopian head of state is put into practice on April Mengistu Haile Mariam, may Opponents not use Cuban aid to fight th One of the main provisions rebellion', , and that They join 64,000 other Eritrean of the agreement is for the for 'a political solution' must be people arrested political setting up of 'supreme their opposition over the last five found, today send military command with si soldiers to Asmara? years. members-three But the Laban coalition

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front. their which opposed Marcos in mental principles, or is it simply a Manila had no programme for Legitimate case of a "mistake"? the masses. Its only uniting factor was If we take into account This command alone will the revolutionary very real the demand lor a return to have the authority to enter parliamentary government.

possibilities exs with into negotiations Ethiopi bet fostered in their development contane dam Derg on the terms that our of labour leaders, clergymen.

an! cannot has long put way by the genocide of our students, and former Liberal revolution of the forward-recognition people, who are struggling for not could senators Wilc of the legitimate right possibly their national liberation.

agree Eritrean people to self-deter- programme meet the mination and to indepen- No revolutionary proclar.

desperate economic needs of dence; recognition of the ation can make us forget the the workers and peasants EPLF and the ELF as the 'One main point: peope only representatives of our which oppresses another car.

Guerrillas liberation struggle. not itself be free'. But the bloody regime of the Faced The struggle for indepen- the Derg does not want to aggression and exterminatio= dent working class leadership recognise the obvious. our people's only perspective is still in its infancy. Unfor- By allying itself with the for national liberation is ther tunately the largest supposed- Soviet Soviet Union, Cuba to fight on with guns in the: ly "Marxist" organisation, the and the Democratic Republic hands until the final victor: National People's Army has Yemen, it seeks to We call on the peoples c: oi ine cut itself off from the masses have done with the Eritreans the whole world, the p:=- by a guerrillaist strategy.

and their revolution and democrati: startling cressive Perhaps the Some have take up thes forces, to of the Laban success supported the independence responsibilities now they campaign in mobilising of Eritrea the 1950s faced with this genocide tha since workers in Manila will give a Eritress (when the UN, at the instig- lies before the boost to those seeking to of American imperial- ation people create independent working ism, imposed the fictitious We call on them to rat: the class organisations binding Eritrea to Fritteans' right to sei: the Phillipines. Ethiopia), and indeper. up to determination and recent times. dence prevail, and to g But, rather than advise our people the humaria- the Mengistu regime finally to support which

Stop Windscale's million-year aton Defend Kim Gordon The workers move- by ment must rally to the of Socialist defence Party militant Workers clashes Kim Gordon, now on bail National Front pending appeal against a

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6-week jail sentence and a £150 fine. brought Gordon was acquitted on absurd charge power gamble If current plans to proceed potential to to expand facilities for the destruction. reprocessing of nuclear waste Nuclear at the Windscale plant are not beseiged The and problems. stopped, permanent serious damage will certainly wastes has attracted be done to te environment decisionl which will affect the lives and during the the health of generations to (from come. and orocessing coalition Yet Lib-Lab government-subservient in this as of nuclear in enerything to capital, is clearly opportunities international capital, is clearly exposed determined to press ahead regard.

less of the dangers. arist And the same

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Headers refused to defend the who have jobs от tnelr members wuctevel they have come under attack are that they cannot A fast arguing because of the possible obstruct new Jobs neutrons involved that might be created from the reacions. now contains Great efforts have been made conventional thermal reactor.

careful scientists many reactor s vuel satety of the processes surronding used the atest plans

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reported The Telegraph has complete come out the opposition to the 10% limit and has launched a powertul "The campaign for a major increase of about 30% for all workers.

this the run up to In week's expected government on workers' announcement pay the Telegraph has shown merely are big increases have how badly cannot talk been needed. their weeks ago because they reported that one senIo] been forced to cul. worker "They take up smoking to cure his to packet hunger pangs. unnamed week an Last group of workers in a stale- Telegraph the ment confessed that they had had from enougn. 11 sometning was nol children done to bring aboul a major their living Kim Gordon of two senior testimonv officers, who claim police that Gordon uttered "threat- two charges but found guilty ening words" through a mega- magistrate David Prvce- resulting the phone, Jones on a third count of stoning of a police van and threatening Lewisham police station. with the This allegation was and their countered by evidence from Douvzudrus 21 photogrpahs Lewisham last year evidence" and even a video film proved for In each case these

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that no-one had seen Gordon occur) takes up new properly developed, also has the reactions cause spectacular positions in use If the rate of temperature ris is very rapid, the core could melt programmes molten WItn unsolved problem iqua sodium used as a coolarit of the ultimate disposal of nuclear Reprocessing fast reactor particluar Tuel elements involves assolving the fuel from its cladding and In fact, at virtually all points the separating nuclear Tue! Ccie through uranium and intensely radioactive transportation, fission products. appropriate concentd right up to utilisation and storage tions plutonium, like other fissile materials) there are people to be for materias. Can •roouce a spontan uncontrolled, fission chain radio. stanticall the this property activity or for other hazards to reaction, mate we or atomic some Ten accidents involving un- controlled chain reactions More plutonium known to have occurred resulting in several workers being injured called reactor and some deaths. speed Or Int Plutonium is perhaps the most in its fission toxic element known and has no and Amounts as low as one • more outonium than a can be hazardous in lungs and bone.

design fast and by "Half life" elements them WIth Sultaole elements Its corin and results „Trom It possible to create more plutonium radioactivity the fact that once it gains access to the body it consumed henc term fast breeder reactor (FBR).

is retained for long periods.

"half-life" the also has a Special safety hazards in time taken for half the li.e. fast reactor can arise from sudden Lne extra power the atoms activity) -of to lose their some 24,400 years! (where fission

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Workers rule OK! families living

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beans and potatoes all week workers senior a pound of and mince were threatening to resign in Sunday dinner. A group of women whose worried superiors husbands worked at sea met of morale were Minister Prime fighting hard for big increases Plymouth but

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of their association called SSAFA treasurer said that he gave them little Workers and Association) was hope. 'The crucial point in the paper their claim for a 10% increase saying that 90% of problems plus a further 30% in the X class had working factor which takes account money as a root cause. of workers' special risks and of only way achieving a cure must be an conditi .. "A local headmaster had overall rise in the workers pay second opened packet and even inen it musi overalls shop at his and some "So many of our families house wives selling items of furni- We Deguil In at least of them cutting ture. wives had been forced to turn accordingly cloth to prostitution." have NO cloth The Telegraph by this bold the encouragement exist from pay demands of the workers, by packet and pay what happens when Michael detence or tne secrecy a senior ranking surrounding needs new shoes? Something worker and by their support else must be done without."

who workers

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"Reports reaching 101 advocated preparing tor its welfare officers tell armed struggle are believed to left alone while than have more their mothers 'are out earning with the cause of with a loudhailer or carrying out the actions described by Superintendant Geoffrey Priest and Inspector lan McFarlane. clergyman, journalists, solicitors, a barrister, teachers full time union Cvell officials unanimously endorsed the view that PHOTO: Mark Rusher (IN L) loudhailer to one used incite the stone throwing.

not charged Gordon was incitement-which with would have entitled him to a with use of jury Tra Dul threatening words. magistrate was there- The able to set asie fore evidence of all 21 indepen- and declare dent wesser Gordon guilty on the say-so of two policemen. This frame up must be the labour by movement as a whole. movement of three tons of plutonium every year Trom reprocessing British calluls suggested as likely sites nas beer should FBR's be established acc. suitable Britain. 500,000- reoresent. 000,000 times the maximum body laid permissible • statute in this country •own The A phe the handling of pluponium • TIrS! handling of plutonium cuestion and reprocess formation FBR's Increases ds ing plants HIKf vinascale ai t significant established, the chances must be that the number of accidents will the second also increase. actinides. Little known Executive The high activity wastes programmes nuclear reactor techno laica most enduring safety oresent ine mentioned. problems. The wastes are of two fission products and ever arous or elements. wuen incude.

plutonium and uranium, known as actinides. suu vears The fission products At present, moderate acid solutions in storec are soresents cooled. stainless steel launs present, This temporary ated with storage necessary safely dispose of these wastes that acceptable method yet avanaole Provided that they CaT separated from actinides with a years then of efficiency high cearer converted to glass and stored in a geological formation, they stable manageable Low would about 800 activities only after Anyway, development of the liquid orocess Conver id wastes to glass has so far only reached the pilot plant scale.

achieved. 83% The actinides themselves and the products of their spontaneous in the however. remain a hazard decay, for millions of years. There is no tinned method available for Whid convincing their to for storage Conversi manageable substances Four methods for the disposal 'ecology' of actinides are being studied at present. These are: burial in deep and May, jay tols was hand school, had just have passing

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Stop this Fran Protestors outside the trial in Camber stable geological formation; burial the problem. The fiah be taken up for control ov under the floor of the deep ocean; of energy and its suitabl tonG lived containers on the bed of the WOrr and irradiation in reprocessill preca to convert them reactors until satety reacto to shorter lived materials.

art acce orable Be crittes too ll ar Highly dangerous from all industr drawn asses saver aspells the power generators. method begs geological *No further work on n What reactors until a safe and ef can considered over geologically disposal means time? And and potential wastes is period and melnoos run up against the long life of the "NO red uncancie. nuclear industries-work on full pay for those who The fourth method is acknow- ledged by the Health and Safety transferred to research having pending these developments *For increase arricultes the most satisfactory of the ones spending on all aspects of ri into the exploitation of r the would under ThIS nowever. yield materials that at best would electeo workers committee.

remain highly dangerous for 500 *For full publication of on known existing hazarc compensatior disposal low and activity wastes also victims Un. life. At 'experiments'. hazard Solle Waste contami small amounts plutonium and other tainers that are designed to leak and are never expected to retain Their contents tor more wan ter Control activity liquid wastes from reorocessine and tuet idori cation at Windscale and Dounreay are discharghed to the sea through Radiation Celtic Sea have caused a great deal of concern. One type had risen of permitted levels by 1975 and there has been a tenfold rise levels caesium in fish between 1973 and manner of reactionary that alt cleal land" bourgeois petty use aroud. fears of the hazards we have listed Lone TUC opponent to oppose all nuclear technology Windscale gamble, m only a fool would turn his back leader Arthur Scargi

YOUR POWER COMPANY REGRETS

THE RECENT NUCLEAR MELT DOWN

AND WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT

THAT NOBODY'S PeRFECT.. YOUR PoWER COMPANY

LABOUR

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THE LIB-LAB

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In last week's Socialist forward policies for indepen- Press dent working we printed class action, Labour and places squarely before manifesto put voters the need for out in the Kensington

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policies against the betrayals Ward of Newham North- the present right wing East for the forthcoming coalitionist Labour leader- Council elections on May ship. One of the candidates in 4. Kensington Ward, John Plant, Socialist Press supports has written to socialsi tress this manifesto which puts and other labour movement Socialist Press: Why are you standing Labour candidate in this election?

John Plant: As the manifesto clear it's a continu- makes ation of the fight over the last few years against the right wing policies of the Labour leadership. Locally this took the struggle tne

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Prentice against of But I've always tried to make PHOTO: Chris Davies. Report it clear that this was a fight on policies leadership and rather than against just one traitor. The same fight was reflected in our opposition to the disciplinary action taken by the local Labour Council against Lose councillors who opposed the It seems to me absolutely Prentice necessary that having fought policies and immigration against the policies policies that the ot the coalton deal imposes on the labour present leadership you must ollow that through movement croposing alternative In the course of canvassing policy =nd programme. And if those we've often had to point out policies win to disillusioned Labour voters support dearly have to fight for them that we're fighting for new they'll policies and new leadership.

i herever have all We're not standing on the mpact. basis for ot support the leadership Is there any danger of or its Dresent policies. = =ng another scen

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-hour candidate along with leadership has of course stayed silent on the of Callaghan, Healey!" Benn and the rest of fact that we were right ages about Prentice This JP: There applies equally to the Tribune won't be musion on behalf of the the vast majority of whom from le members of the Labour signed appeals Parliamentary branch or the GMC Labour Lne Party pleading on Prentice's heard me argue iate behalf. consistently against the leadership shan-Healey Scared stiff .... manifesto of course nur oppos- We won't confused with Callaghan-Healer and we

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THE POWER

The candidates are giving full backing to struggles against hospital closures publications offering to be interviewed publicise the policies on which the election campaign being run. Socialist Press believes that the questions raised by the campaign go well beyond the confines of one East London constituency. The WaTO following interview by Mark Hyde was conducted on Thursday April 17. Plaiston Hospital-threat- ened with closure under the cuts-for example can't be Tribune. kept open local They've always authority but a local author- ducked out of the fight for leadership that. 1tv was seriously scared stiff of a concerned about the welfare -they're serious fight. of workers in the area would obviously organise Have support among trade SP: The programme printed unionists and housewives.

Socialist Press last in week In just the same way the quite specific fight against all social service contals demands which are quite cuts will bring us into conflict different from the official with the national govern- manifesto for the area. Why is this? The last time Inere was JP: Our demands are directed conflict between senous clear quite concrete Labour local authority and problems that occur in this central government was over area the Tory and at the same time Housing Finance highlights the betrayals of the present ledaers elected this Mobilisation Ull programme will have a we sold basıs to conduct Clay Cross was the central the fight for socialist policies example and the fight there in front of the working class.

had The importance of a clear the labour movement. programme is best shown up But such fights can only contrast with one be won through the indepen- produced in nearby Wall End dent political mobilisation of ward, which ends by the working class. That's why 'Join the fight sayıng for our programme can only be socialist policies' but nowhere based the action of the states what these Socals working class in the area-for policies' If elected are. we example when we call for the will be able to say that the committees

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our ward have workels in unionists and house- liduc given a mandate for a clear to determine the wves programme. necessary public services programmes and when we SP: If the voters do elect you demand labour movement what problems will it solve?

defence against the fascists.

JP: itself, electing Even if a Labour Council councillors won't solve any- wanted to restore and defend thing. What we intend to do living standards of the is lay the basis for a real fight workers UnIs for socialist policies this would bring headlong The policies we put dild. against the government and forward can't in the end be union leaders and require the carried through by Council mobilisation of the working resolutions-they will all class against wage control and the depend on active for linking pay to prices.

organisation of the working John Plant held by the Ratepayers. What kind of area is it? JP: Yes, it has been held by them for the last three terms of the Council. One of the reasons is the steady decline the Labour Party under the right wing leadership It was not until the Prentice fight that ward mem- bership actually reached double figures. The ward mainly 1S residental with iew places, except for shops. It has high immigrant population which is contin- uing steadily. workers are divided about evenly between central London office workers and industrial workers. There's a council estate in the ward but also a high proportion of owner occupiers-which turn means attention is given to long-term were confident of serious response to our programme.

SP: Obviously there's national swing against Labour now-because of the ship's betrayals there serious chance of kicking out the Ratepayers at a time like this? JP: Yes, I'm convinced there We've already 1s. recruited new members in response to vur laniesto and the reac tion during canvassing has been very good. Our policies against racial- ism and fascism will wir support-the Sikh community has already asked address a meeting in temple. The fight against Prentice has anyway established the idea that Labour candidates .. ... Page g is of course not the case Last year for example, in GLC election the the local candidate was John Wilson who had a public record of opposition to Prentice and we had a swing towards Labour largely for that reason. Of course on the GLC Wilson supports Reg Goodwin's policy of avoiding contact with workers whose jobs are under attack the GLC itself where I 1n WOlK. On top of that it's abou the first time in fifteen years that Labour's been organised to fight an election this 1n there ground for optimism. SP: How do you see the link between your union work and this campaign? JP: Firstly ways since I am NALGO branch the

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chairman at completely linked to the fight jobs of our members and in the services they provide.

Secondly, the campaign can link up with the struggle for decent wages for council employees, including a sliding scale of wages to keep their conditions up to the cost living, as determined by the workers themselves. Thirdly, as a way to take up the issue of housing. From this candidature, and on the itself will be possible to campaign for the freezing of rents and the public ownership of property, as indicated in our manifesto We would also aim expand the works department and to requisition property and bring it into immediate use SP: Other groups such Socialist and the Socialist Workers Party, have candidates in some claiming areas to offer What's socialist alternative your opinion of that? JP: None of these put forward serious programme that can be the basis of a fight in the working class. They remain silent on the questions central leadership and the coalition and just engage in vague talk 'socialist alternatives' In fact Socialist Unity unprincipled that it was ready support the so-called West Indian Block in Lambeth-the problem was that the WIB preferred the Liberals!

SP: Have you been attacked for bringing national issues into a local election? JP: Yes The right-wing and their 'left' friends are making every effort to exclude politics from local elections Their local propaganda material contains absolutel no reference to the history of the fight against Prentice or policies necessary to fight social service cuts and other attacks on the working class Some right wing Labour Party members have refused to canvass on the basis of the manifesto put out in our ward, but the effect of this has been more than out. weighed by the new support we have acquired. The local problems address in our programme are only local instances national questions. Public service cuts hospital closures, rent increases and so on don t result from specific conditions existing Newham. They all arise ou of the general capitalist crisis would obviously quite wrong to state a pois; in any different terms The crisis today cani s by utopian loit so ver The local strugg schemes. has to be directed toward sweeping general soluters The whole point: campaign on the streets. doorsteps Is ic depth of the need for programme: new

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The founding of the 'brotherhood' and "justice' man workers' society which helped them they founded Communist League and every theoretical obstacle".

They maintained contact he publication of the While the League of the Witne Leagut or une Just, Manifesto Communist Just grew and spread its ideas attending their meetings to Tere the twin results of through workers' associations discuss propaganda and 'choral societies' and 'athletic tactics, and circulating docu- Marx and Engels' success Germany and ments amongst their members socicles n defeating the utopian elsewhere in Europe (the des- in order to counterpose their communists in the cription chosen depended on own theories to those of the League of the Just, and the legal conditions the 'primitive communists'. particular country), Marx and ransforming that Merciless criticism Engels were developing a very into organisation one different communism, based aied on scientific com- They particularly directed not on vague notions of against Weit- nunism. "brotherhood', their polemics "justice' and but on historical materialism.

ling, a leading German com- League of the lusi The publication of Germ- munist. contrit- secret society tounded establishing 3 theor- : in 1836, whose inspir- an Ideology in 1845-€ mark- ions ic etical base to his propaganda ::: largely drawn trom Tul development co ne by equalitarian com- historical materialism Was tallie back primitive Christia- theory which could both exp- as Doculan nity. lain history, as more than Marx describes his object series of more-or-less "accid- in intervening in the League Revolution ental' and, events of the Just as being: this historical expl analysis, merciless subject *to ain why ana now cabilalism the reformist criticism In a series of would be superceded by pamphlets the medley of Eng- • ers or Louis biane ana ciass cos society. the other lish and French socialism or lllav1 current at the time, German Scientific and = ague of the Just recog- philosophy which then B iore the founding of the tormea tne secrel leaching 01 the Communist League. Marx and the League, and replace it by to overtarow establish is state and Engels were working in Brus- tenable theoretical the only : atorship of the prol- foundation, sels, from where they spread namely scientific their theory scientific insight into the economic str- ¡ever, one point where through their of bourgeois society; communist ucture Deutscher Brusseler and, finally, explain in ian take issue with paper to task within the Ger- popular form that ¡as on inel concep- :hat conspiratorial society would take through organised coud. ast this, Marx argued dictatorship of the could only be shed by a mass mobilis- working Tne leadership oi an revolutionary League's philosophy inequities of the S0c1ai system cured by sharing equally amongst the Indignation i not analyse the at work in society the SOUrCES of wealth. • dalilles The v analyse from a historical demonstrate necessity for the capitalism. ores were rooted or at une narasnip y-bourgeoisie and re class, rather than understanding of i class struggle Enges points out: •Tha: mattered little: for 'equality' Eugene Delacroix, 'Liberty Leading the People' (1830) symbol of the French Revolution being "nEe was not that of trying to kind of bring any utopian into being but was system that of conscious y particiD.

ating in a historical revolutio- nary process by which societ!

was being transformed before our eyes Engels As Marx and explain in section 3 of the Manifesto, voiced communists the demands of a small and developed proletariat, in the period early development. Although the! crud forward manus. dau hit. ers. new cwh lacr standing matched the lai development of the working and they were doomed class, to failure. Materialism Marx and Engels point out that it was the development of capitalism and the polari- sation bourgeoisie between and proletariat that the condition, tor their ai discover! rialism. and the wider aider- of scientific socialism over the theories of primitive By the Spring of 1847, the leading majority

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members of the League of the Just, in particular Tnose London, had come to recog nise the inadequacies of the communism, and primitive Josef Moll, one of their most prominent members, was dis- Marx and Engels to join the organisation and Engels, having vida satisfied themselves that their old criticisins of the League longer applicable, agreed Mari accepted "he angelodile more imponanty. rejected equalitarian and accepted Marx's hailsill historical materialist analysis oi bourgeols society and the necessity and inevitability of proletarian revolution. Marx Engels were and the League interested hecause of its strength in the German working-class, which te or their pouted their political activities. the summer of 184- the League's structure out the overnauca to wipe old conspiratorial and mocratic relics, its name was 'Communist changed to League', and it was converted with a clear into a society statement of aims. Its first article declared: of the League 'The aim is the overthrow of the bour.

geoisie. the rule of the prol- the abolition of the etariat, old. bourgeois society based on class antagonisms and the foundation of a new society without classes and without private propertv At the Second Congress of Communist League, November 1847, Marx and Engels were commissioned to a Manifesto which up they had completed by the outbreak the February Revolution in Paris. Upsurge founding The of the Communist League and the completion of the Manifesto coincided with the mass revo- upsurge which through Europe swept 1848. Manifesto The which Engels describes as the the detailed theoretical and pract- ical programme of the Party' was therefore essential to of the equip the members League especially

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jacobins Germany where they were strongest with a programme to tight tor in their participa.

tion in the 1848 revolutions Sune secuon pamphlet explains the theor- etical basis the analysis of the amme: the class struggle between bour- proletariat, the inevitability of the prol- etariat's complete victory The authors look at capi- talism and the struggles of the working-class from a histori val standpoint: they examine the development of the bour- revolutionar! lass in con lict with feud- iSm. The old feudal system of production could not satisf!

the needs created by the ex- world 'This market has given an development immense commerce, to nov land. This communication by land. development has, in its turn reacted the extension 01 industry; and in proportion as industry, commerce, navi gation, railways extended, the same proportion the developed, incr- bourgeoisie eased its capital, and pushed the hackground evert handed down from the class Middle Ages. New social order As the bourgeoisie became economically dominant. through their control of the means of production. new they destroyed not only the methods of production old but the old and exchange, social and They overthrew the ruling aristocracy who had tried to preserve the feudal relations.

both economic and social, and created their own social based principles more conducive to the sway of free competition and free trade: 'the means of production and of exchange on wnose bourgeoisie foundation the built itself up, were generated in feudal society. At a certain stage in the development of these means of production and of exch. the conditions under alice which feudal and manufact uring industry. in one word the feudal relations of prop.

erty became no longer comp atible with the already deve loped productive forces; they became so many fetters. They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder Into their place stepped free competition, accomp

SOCIALIST PRESS. ¡nednesdar 26 April, 1978 1848: the storming of the French National Assembly Not only anied by a social and political must capitalism develop in such a way as to constitution adapted and by the economical and get deeper and deeper into bour- conditions of economic and sway of Ine geois class," social crises, but it must also The control of the state and Hialena political conditions for its was wrested trom the hands of the feudal aristocracy, and eventual overtnow. taken over by the new ruling- Working class class, the bourgeoisie The same process carries Specifically it creates the on in a ditterent guise under capitalism: the industrial working class. economic system, based on concentales workers m idlet factories, strengthening them property and production for profit ceases to be revolutio- politically: "But with the develop- nary and becomes a fetter on of industry the prolet- economic developmeni. not only increases number; it becomes concen- in its TraTeC nd it tests anc There- the

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form Unions) the bourgeoisie; they club together feet the which wallacill order provision products beforehand for "What occasional Here and into riots". The an spells 0UI of the the peasantry

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Although, the OliC the time. Marx's the analysis The exact mechanism by which capitalism becomes prone to periodic and worsening crises and unable to develon further Class does the forces, proauctive not appear until the publica- status and consciousness of Capital 1867 members of the bourgeoisie tion in In the Manifesto he merely and refuse to follow the lead their inadequacies di lie working class, laty are *The productive forces at but HoL • only conservative, the disposal of society no reactionary, since they "try 01 longer tend to further the to roll back the wheel of history" development of the condi- perished, tions of bourgeois property; ments have on the contrary, they have Gravediggers Iesull become 100 powerful for forces these conditions, which bv The whole analysis of the they are fettered, and so soon class struggle which forms the they Louis overcome revolutionary

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fetters, they disorder the bring programme of communists is Into ne nole or coursedls

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summed up best at the end of society, endanger exis- ine chucisins tence of bourgeois property.

(under Communist Manifesto: Bourgeois Ine conditions of bourgeois

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nattow "The advance of industry, Social wealth created once ner whose involuntary promoter by them. the replaces bourecols e European 'The weapons with which the isolation of the labourers, phenomenon the bourgeoisie felled feudal- competition by their dreamt of in 1848: ism to the ground are now revolutionary turned against the bourgeoisie due to association. The devel- "A part itcalf" bourgeoisie appropriates bourgeoisie political the and 'com- not differen- to and their most or the other same class and workers' of of them or equivalents-a which was not of the bour- ing social grievances, in order secure the continued exis.

tence of bourgeois society it requires in reality, that the should proletariat remain within the bounds of existing society, but should cast away all its hateful ideas concern- ing the bourgeoisie". Immediate needs The of the aim communists, their guishing feature, is "summed the Abolition of private property"-in other words. and social revolution the establishment of the dictator- sip or tae prolelanal, suice this is the only means by which the bourgeoisie can be persuaded to up their vivority In order to mobilise the working class behind the League, Communisi and prepare them for revolution, communists fight immediate needs of the work- ing class while at the same the Line torward to a higher stage: 'The Communists fight for the of the immediate for the entorcement of the momen tary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present they also represent and take care of the future of that movement" Republic The Communist League had its strongest base in the German workers' movement and their the German programme for working class and through the of their Cologne-based wakes Part - Manifesto. 'In Germany ICom munists) fight with the bour geoisie whenever it acts in against the absolute monarchy the feudal squirearchy and the petty bourgeoisie" But at the same time, thes go the class drawing between bourgeoisie calling proletariat and measures which strengtre: the proletariat figh: against the bourgeoisie: Representatives of the people shall be Daid. so that workers too, will be able to sit in ae parlament or une German people. 4. The whole population shall be armed... 5. The exercise of justice shall be free of charge. 11. All means of transport railways, canals, steamships etc. shall be roads, stations, taken over by the state They to be transtormed inti state property and put at the free service of the needy".

With the demands Communist League were putting into practice the general principle laid down in the Manifesto: "(Communists) never cease, for a single instant, to instill into the working class the clearest possible recog- nition of the hostile antagon ism between bourgeoisie and proletariat, in order that the German workers

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bourgeoisie, the social and political conditions that the bourgeoisie must necessarily introduce along with its in order that, supremacy, and after the fall of the reaction- ary classes in Germany, the fight against the bourgeoisie itself immediately begin? The German Communist League's programme and the general principles lying behind it still relevant dI C although today, not TO] Germany one of the (now most advanced capitalist nations in the world), but for underdeveloped and colonial countries New conceptior: They constitute the basis of the : theory of permanent Marx, and revolution which later Trotsky were to build on and develop. Marx The Communist Manifesto Zeitung that we can see how is not just an historical docu- the League fought of academic Incul the general concretise anterest programme put toward in the By synthesising the theory Manifesto. of scientific socialism with March, 1848, the Un J1 the practical application Communist League published the fight for socialist revol- The Demands of the Com- ution, it laid the basis for the munist Party the concluding words of the out the world Manifesto: "Proletarians Lenin sums up its achieve.

all unite!' countries, and ment: expands the demands of the "With the clarity and brill Manifesto, applying them to of genius, iance this work the particular conditions of a outlines a new world concep- divided Germany, which had tion consistent materlalism which the also embraces revolution. realm of social life; dialectics The first demand, there- the most fore, the , is that: and profound doctrine whole of Germany of development; the theory shall be declared a single and class struggle and of the the indivisible Republic" world historic revolutionary By supporting the national of the TOle democratic demands of the creator of a new, communisi bourgeoisie, the society". Communisi League were pullng

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Back yard of the multi nationals "Unemployment and the MacIntyre reviews Peter by Coventry Workshop, available from Nationals in Coventry" 40, Binley Road, Coventry.

ment in the black community of fortunes The is running at about 5% higher linked Coventry are than the total rate. firmly to the fortunes of the multinational car nationals made significant cuts in industry. of number production When car Leyland, British the war, boomed atter Courtaulds, But as the Coventry boomed. Tube Investments and GEC.

crisis which has engulted the of Many car markets of the world for switched been the past decade emerged, so where ine vanished from the gloss higher and many have been Coventry's manulacturis eliminated altogether industry. spur of capitalist competition of 1972 the wages has driven the firms to greater manual male workers in the automanon. town were £6.70 higher than By 1974 the national average. gap had shrunk to £3.40 InIs and by 1976 to £1.50. More dramatically, unem- example, Coventry rose ployment industrial roDol of the than the rest over LaKc country. produculon 1956 (when Between economic 75% was unemployment and 1974 the national rate it reached 95%) the at a time of underlying trend In remained steadily and irresistably upwards.

correctly 14 firms the that milked by The have become jobs companies. gathered in fewer and fewer hands until half the jobs in industry the town are now controlcu relevant all of them by firms, enormous multi-nationals. The growth of this multi- profitable' British Leyland.

national grip on Coventry and The its effect on the unemploy- future ment rate and for the working prospects have been class in the area a duplicated documentea in to spent pamphlet produced capitalism' gro of rationam Socialis Its more International Socialists however, Workers (now the Socialist with in loos Party), called Coventry Work- shop. The pamphlet-Unemploy- ment and the Multi-nationals in Coventry-contains graphs show how and statistics to the manufacturing industry in the area has declined and how Coventry concludes: the town's dependence on the has resulted motor nausly in massive lay-offs. is to be control, that unem- oI IT also note. and Coventry ployment--in hit cvery With by decisions hardest at the most oppressed multi-nationals groups. currently Significant cuts of these to be challenged" ¡hool leavers are capitalism to the pre-war Multi- in not crisis-torn present, of the international but crisis of capitalism, the arrival on of Coventry's doorstep coi the of most developed capitalism's exploiters-the All but two of the multi- multi-nationals. the nave alca "The shedding of jobs the place through does not take including jobs, some kind of natural, inevit- Chrysler, able law, like the shedding of Alfred Herbert, the leaves in autumn. result of deliberate decisions, the jobs have by particular firms". countries For all the programmatic of profit offers, direction could make pamphlet as the ammunition for any populist the wanted to replace who 'bad" capitalists with a foot in many countries by the 'good' capitalists who stay at home.

Memorial the importantly

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In the motor industry for Coventry Workshop make no distinction at all between the American an capitalism towards which can Unive speed-up and sackings and its the many achieve its line Jobs has all objectives. OI lusI Orel 50p an hour and can work an average stretch of 400 hours Not optional the section There is probably not a single left social democrat or economic power of the multi- pamphlet the the Communist member the makes point would disagree, Party who health service including those who helped the drug allow the sackings to LaKe place. In the context of the car There is no description of would be more resistance to the sackings to the they point by which the means profits made bi were brought about: component firms out of 'un- end, From beginning there is not a single mention the either. of the betrayals of the ConClusionl pamphlet is that Coventry has union leaders nor of the tasks the potential to become "one of a socialist. of the notoriously depressed These are 004010 natters which can be deal areas of Europe, a memorial of phase with or ignored after consid- ering the details of the impact likely fate is, of the crisis. decline continued effect of The net sudden fluctu- pamphlet which presents the ations in times of short lived crisis of capitalism solely terms of multi-nationals and makes no mention of the role Populist working of leaders the must be to strengthen In its final paragraph (and class Stalinists and first mention of opposition) the Socidi who intend Workshop Democrats direction oIler desire of the working class to "If the future of Coventry fight. brought within the who ine Nationalists work here (instead of being leit to boararoon.

Nor does it oppose those the fourteen who blame the nationalists of entire control the local capitalism on the weakening economy) then the very logic British imperialism multi-nationals has which have political

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Encounters Close some of the taking in the history of the cinema.

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December 1975: sackings at Chrysler's Stoke Plant Chrysler stewards ensure no fight against redundancy It is impossible to answer the drive towards unemploy- Coventry any- which Calliot demands. else programme of opposition leads forward put forward in the Transition- nationalisation al Programme. workers' opposition under Such an demands policies WOlK- sharing on full pay to fight the of programmes sackings, OI public works to create and demands that the socialist economy. jobs, SOCIALIST PRESS. waiti: The sheer technical brilliance of last ten minutes extra dimension to son hat brought be ot the ettects must breath- most dominates the film completely.

versed in the To anyone not of the wizardry latest technical likely film studio, the most seems that Columbia explanation used some of the vast profits from Jaws to tron hire a spacesnip and film it as l outel state landed. who Douglass " rumoul produced the effects in 2001 ha in that everything outstr Doed space odyssey. The film was made by Stephen director of Jaws, the the most of and imitates one successful features of that film first half of Jaws Fol of the monstel nothing shark but its dorsal fin and bits o left at the sIde o lne people plate. In Close Encounters the visit ation from outer space is little but flashing lights, electrical blackouts and a six note refrain, until the final majestic appearance of the mother craft. shot The • impact or tis with the first clos comparable that Richard Dreyfuss encounter reaction in Jaws was to stagger back, gasping "We're going to need a bigger boat", but the spaceship in Close Encounters is demand bigger enoual planet Jaws after all was only the size of a single decked bus; the mother craft dwarfs a mountain. the spaceship is casc more playful and friendly than a conversation shark-its musica US space with the agency into land is more like the comes conversation intertoen film is The heavy connotations Those resciou. visitatior "touched The called to its final descent despite every obstacle put in their way.

complete pilgrimage (more with • ac encountube. with Jaws). similarity muc wayside and a final falling by the thei triumphant vindication faith for Richard Dreyfuss Melinda Dillon, the two stars revelations include he tina disciples (complete with th US flag on their clothing), cosmic music and a Tinal rival the original crucified by gets Stephen Spielberg, least of all the space authorities. They come in for some mock ing as they elaborately seal off the rendezvous area by declaring it to be affected by poison gas, but th film makes it clear that if benig creatures from another and wave a • aoing to com wil bet they anyone, vou can head straight for the americd likel seem very doesn t that socialism is going to descen from the skies in a flying saucer and misfortune to contact NASA committee would be accomodating than th working class should examine les. Clos the Technicals the books and secrets of firms Encounters. their meet Close Encounters has a stron powerful actin story It is a programme which (including an excellent child p first the and is magnificent formance screened. It can be guaranteed of the firms send its enormous audiences awi management and on further to an end to What is more, Columbia kno anarchy capitalist that they can pull in the million outlined in the pamphlet and without having to run the risk its replacement by a planned anyone. Even Jaws h sharper teeth.

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Read newspaper report ot any workers struggle and one thing will be almost certain- young workers will be in the forefront. It might be young hotel striking for union WOrKCIS recognition at Claridges young school students cross- from Zimbabwe ing Mozambique guerrilla fighters; young Pales- tinians taking up the struggle against Zionism or black and white youth on the streets of Britain opposing the National Front. Fight back of youth The response throughout the world to the crisis of capitalism is to fight back, to resist the attempts of the employers to make them pay for the crisis. And is, of course, no accident that young workers should figure so prominentiy the struggles working class. Many of the gains fought for and won by the working class since the Second World War in such areas as health, and full employ- education ment have been of particular benefit to young workers.

crisis But as 10 W. all these gains are deepens, being viciously attacked.

Cuts in public spending are falling standards resulting of health and education; tens of thousands of youth each year face long periods on the dole and those lucky enough get jobs tace low held down by the collabor- ation of union leaders and the Lib-Lab coalition government on wage controls. Past defeats In other words, capitalism cannot offer youth a future.

But have both the youll ability en stan anu fight back. They are free from respon- sibility for the past defeats of the workers movement in the 1930s. Moreover they grow under very different conditions from the boom period of the 1950s and 1960s which led to the form- opportunist leadership in the labour This same leadership, con- fronted with the collapse of boom, the are

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determined to head off any by workers to defend their jobs, wages and living standards. Revitalised Now the way is open for youth to play a central role the fight for principled As Trotsky wrote leadership. Transitional Programme: movement revitalised by the youth who are tree of responsidlly loi Fourth Inter- The une Dast. national pays particular atten- of the proletariat. All of its policies inspire the surive to youth with belief in its own strength and in the future.

Only the fresh enthus- iasm and spirit of

POLICIES

Turn towards the youth! serious fight be taken up for successes in the preliminary capable the of struggle; only these successes prograllie can return the best elements defending the wages, jobs and conditions of youth and for a of the older generation to the leadership prepared new road of revolution The task of the Workers fight for that programme.

Socialist League in develop- Defenceless strength and enthus- ing ine iasm of youth is to arm them With tens of thousands of with the programme and per- youth still left on the dole Marxism-to spectives each autumn we demand the beyond enable them lo go of unemployed these spontaneous

MOUL

purcly youth to join a union. individual forms struggle As long as youth remain against capitalism and take up unorganised their energy will the fight for a new leadership be sapped and they will be in the working class able to lead a successful struggle for leTT derenceress agalls. harassment by the state it is Within the unions for young workers Aspirations take the struggle in to up of wages, jobs and defence practice conditions. nis means forging a revolutionary youth In practice this medus controls of wage movemenu ODOsILIOll re cellul point by bureaucratic leaders of represented at this the collaboration. of the TUC the trade unions wno qulle deliberately ignore the needs with the 10% "guidelines" aspirations of the Lib-Lab coalition govern- and y vulle workers and instead concen trate on the top layers of the In place of this, youth working class. must fight for sliding scale of wages rising point for this struggle young point with inflation as deter- be a powerful workers can minea by eleclea trade union lever against the bureaucracy.

committees on which young That is why we demand the workers should fight for right of all young workers to representation. young On jobs, workers All barriers yhich preveni should fight force the young workers from playing bureaucracy to open union leading role in the unions the doors must removed Youth he unemployed youth of commissions at all leveis the trade be This would lay the basis of imposed a fight for a policy on youth oureaucrac. who must be forced to fight employment which would for the specific demands of include control over the Ust youth. of young labour to be under the direction of trade union Only with this turn of the organisations vouth committees lo prolect youllg WE

•"AND

FOR

JTH IN

ENTINDEE

By lan Swindale employers; compulsory train- facilities, with the cost ing the employers; borne supervision of training under trade union control; workers control over youth wage rates; sliding scale of wages; work sharing full pay UIl redundancies where di c and the opening threatened of the books and occupation threatened with Vidil closure. Given the high proportion of youth who are out of work it is not merely the defence of jobs but Cristaile creation of new ones which is posed: part of the programme must include demands for the maintenance and the extension of training by forcing the repening be factories

GOWI

used as training facilities.

Public works In opposition to the fraud- ulent "job creation" schemes, youth must demand a trade for union campaign commencement of large scale public works under trade The growth of racialism and TaSCISI

TO LISL

the fight for countered by workers defence squads and of black the recruitment youth into the unions to take un this tight alongside tneir fellow trade unionists. This with the figno musI hand in hand Lib-Lab policies coalition, for the breaking of the coalition and the removal wing Callaghan- of the right

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anarew wiara, Report With British capitalism black youth face Where gripped by a crisis it cannot harassment by the police and solve, except at tremendous trade union Ine law

COUTES

the working class. inquiries must be established cost tc there will be major class to draw out the class nature battles ahead. Young workers of these attacks. be to the must In the schools the National and of School Students

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MAY DAY

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

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INDUSTRIAL

Stalinists Party Communist members are coming to forefront of the very moves by the major car employers to industry conditions and attack union strength on trade the shop floor. week's Fords last of record announcement exports and profits was sales, 80% pay rise matched by an for chairman Terry Beckett, declared plans for who €1,000 investment millon over the next four years.

good f100 million of this come seems certain to from aid. And government modernisation the plans for and re-equipment are certain- intensified linked ly to an drive to impose speed-up on the shop floor. Boycott Union officials boycotted convenors of Beckett's announcement the plan. Executive

IUWU

Bernard Passingham THem Del complained that, despite the quoted, large figures being really amounts to a the plan investment, and British of turning strategy Ford factories into suppliers of components for assembly abroad. But such reservations no the of response coloured Stalinist Sid Harraway, chair- Ford national man convenors committee. He insisted that the invest- ment plan was due to "union pressure" would help and towards "job security and future" Ford for workers. This Tantano management Ford blank cheque to force in new and working machinery methods, all in the name of further increasing Ford's pre- tax profits of £246 million.

Fellow Stalinist Harraway's Meanwhile Eddy fellow Stalinist, McClusky,

TGWU

convenor at Chrysler's engine plant in demonstrating was Coventry what this collaboration means in practice. Chrysler management two forklift drivers' sacked stewards, Paul and George long-standing O'Brien,

DOLI

workers in the plant. An immediate strike took defence their workers on their section.

But dedicated to the inter- ests of Chrysler management, nothing McClusky for the support Orgalise strike. he got contrar

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with con- traether stab struggles in car plants the forklift drivers back to work. They attacked the strike as unconstitutional. And they forced through a decision to scab on the strikers. Next day the company sack any worker that did not return to work. As feeling rose in the plant Shop Stewards the Joint Committee was convened. and the appeal from the two stewards for a policy of re- pending instatement ACAS inquiry was carried.

Victimised But the company flatly rejected even stewards and the backed down and left two of number victimised out- their side the gates, thanks to the efforts of Stalinist McClusky: McClusky and Harraway's Stalinist stable-mate in British Longbridge Leyland convenor Derek Robinson Socialist As last week. Press pointed out, Robinson, a leading Stalinist, played a key role in ensuring that the workforce at the threatened Leyland factory at Speke on Merseyside did not take any decision to occupy the plant closure at their mass against meeting. Divert He used a barrage of 'left' to help divert away rhetoric this crucial policy from the decision which dividing line between an all- SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesda Str:!

Bakers

NEWS

jobs sold out with a Work-sharing substantial cut in wages seems the prospect fo bakery workers i the wake of a major sell-out of jobs from the doomed Spillers bakeries. A mere 2,000 jobs are t be salvaged out of the 7.986 workers made redundant. And these jobs are to be discontinuing preserved by the rest-dav working inal ha.

been essential for chronically low paid bakery workers to take home a living wage The bosses have offered £4 a week as some compensation for this loss of earnings And this basis Bakers Union on called off their threat of an overtime ban against the proposed sackings Secretary Sam General Maddox pointed out that the extra £4 on basic rates was in recognition of 'higher produc tivity. Work harder words, as 6,000 In other bakers join the growing dole queues, the Bakers Union is actually its mem- organising bers to work harder to make •loss of • their for the

CUD

sacked colleagues! Maddox went on to appeal against any bakery sit-ins to combat the closures. that the sacked reasonable manner et should workers In making this appeal for his members to depart quietly door behind and close the them Maddox professed "highly himself satisfied with the settlement done Maddox has thus whatever he can to bury the decision the unanimous Bakers executive lu him the threatened also helped defend all waving the fact that jobs. conceal Robinson himself is the major doing so he has Andin struck a substantial . blow at defender of worker participa- the fight against redundancy tion and the Edwardes plan for rationalisation of Leyland and mass unemployment. is which have resulted in the The whole affair indictment of those comet both Socialist stor both Socialist Worker who believe that protest and from Challenge divorced and Socialist pressure Robinson's hypo- occupation factory accepted critical speech at face value.

sufficient to save Jobs Socialist Worker described "moved him as Picket during the emotional meeting" (though the front fell into article the embarassed silence to greet point where it should have reported the steps Robinson proposed to save the plant).

May Day Their "last word" comes from Leyland worker Dave Manning: "The only way they are social get me out of the going to with a policeman on gate is either side. Protest

FOLLOWING

objections Yet the danger that

TGWU

branches and from members and other sections with Communist Party of the Coventry labour move.

their head member Leyland workers could be led ii, che ToWU District ment, TINe into a hopeless and demoralis- Counci. the Committee discussed its ing series of protest gestures instead of an all-out fight for decision to hold a May Day occupation and the defeat of social at the Allesley Hotel.

the Edwardes plan. The note Kilpatrick is well known for the struggle sharpens in the car industry only his anti-trade union and racist of clear record pollical awal class collabor- Despite the protests and a the treachery and ation the picket its meeting OI equip workers for the fight in District Committee voted by defence of jobs and 33-7 with a large number of abstentions to go ahead with conditions. that cover for the social on April 27 Those up the Stalinists or fall for their Trade unionists

NUJ PULL BACK

FROM JOBS FIGHT

Between the frequent reluctant Colonel Johnstone could have been focused on interruptions of the the need to regain and defend Colonel affair, the living standards, National Union of employers would Journalists annual confer- next year's wage negotiations ence at Whitley Bay took with a little less confidence.

number of crucial Confused decisions on jobs, pay The unoR and the independence of itself, almost without dissent, the union. to a return to free collective bargaining-but rejected But the policy which has about five to one a call for a reen adopted for union mem- sliding bers facing the introduction scale workers and housewives com- •: new technology has left a mittees to monitor prices and aapig nole lor opportunists to a claim to restore the iving cooperate massive standards to 1974 levels.

redundancies. The dominant left force in Although the union has the union -the taken position against an Oxford members operating direct ment backing the sliding scale =put machines, has of wages and condemning the that when

NGA

TUC

for not their members' sell firemen. NUJ members will be they

BUT

circa lo lake them over. confused:

BACK

OFF

i Mail journalists picketing Westminster Press management in their pay dispute decision which is SWP's "rank L0C to nasten the drive oI organisation epioyers to massacre all Charter had been rs. including journalists towards the *e sophisticated equip- amendment and publication of abstitutes a policy of Charter, hedged over support its dog for a principled for the motion. An

= OI 100S.

The union is now left with amend- Irom Ayreshire the kind of motion ning up the policy was diligent General *. defeated. and a motion from the TUC •Duon in the name ot Will be able to translate back word branch calling for into support for sharing on full pay and guidelines or control produc- 01 will 10 ma defeated after the emerge. spoke strongly against The Whitley tracted the support of ence was forced to recognise one the the on pressure authorising strikes in two of the biggest sections Living standards regional Thomson, where the same attention as on one paper were sacked for Fent on publicising the operating a work to rule and Nishalli Diary

... YOUR MAN AT THE TOP'S

FIGHT TO STAY ON YOUR BACK

Westminster Press, where five papers have still been denied the 1978 national pay award.

the The strength of the mem be facing bership was demonstrated in a whole host of structure of the aroune me union. Right attacks, WIllg committed suggesting a merger with the scab "union" the IOJ, and a move towards by merging with 'creative' workers were heavily wages, defeated. By an overwhelming majority, the delegate confer- ence condemned right

LWO

wingers who had taken the union to after the SWP-voted executive paid fines 101 amend- people Grunwick alresica al and Darlington. SWP members were claim- supporting the ing that the conference had shown a swing the right, remained this not was So. What some supporters of had happened was that

BACK

file" and Journalists Charter had Journalists weakened its hold on the lett.

drawn Fringe meetings, well sliding scale attended delegates, oy special demonstrated When why. their paper, Bernard Roche, a print FoC, forward put mixture left talk right wing policies Inal a redundancies Over new Secretary technology, Charter members refused raise of anticism 'advisory Alan Thornett, victimised whatever Cowley deputy convenor, eventually spoke to another fringe meet- hunts the

WILCO

Bay confer- press, basing his approach on the impossibility of capitalist by papers representing any other interest than capital. of the It came as a sharp blow to newspapers. supporters who were arguing Journalists that the difference lay between 'good' and "bad' journalists.

AH, O'FISHALL, ABOUT THOSE 8,000 REDUNDANCIES..

•TAKE A CRUMB OF COMFORT FROM THIS..

YOU DRIVE A HARD BARGAIN, O'FISHALL... NOW GO

AND TELL THE 6,000

THEY'RE FIRED!!!

John Power, convenor of the British Leyland Spare Parts division in He Cowley, and President of the Oxford Trades Council remains victim- ised by management investigations Power was sacked two Haut ago tollowing alle- gations of irregularities meeting-just before a expenses for National Joint Negotiating Committee meet- day ings. that management intend On Monday of last week Power himself urged a mass nope to avoid strike action.

meeting of workers from the factory sodres continue working normally "until the disagreements matter is sorted out" A few days earlier manage- witch-hunting of the Cowley ment had reinstated him-at a 9, Socialist Press regards the meeting attended by

AUEW

attack on him as a part of the Midlands Executive Edwardes plan to gain control Council Terry Duffy-and of the Leyland placed him on destroy gains sus elsio with full pay. militant struggles in the past.

r Setback to T&G- witch-hunters charges against I he new this evel can no longer be kep TGWU convenors nine and secret and would be shop stewards from Leyland's once to Cowley layer of branches and Assembly Plant committees threatened with victimisation union from their John union have Power, floundered. Oxford Trades Council, who has fully supported Dancey's charges, reconvened Regional Anne 118, at Wast Bromwich the her ring was not held Tuesday April Heart. The Cowley 9 Defence Cam.

had to off after •called i paign hours because status of the evidence was called into question.

Suborers paign is stepped up charges under i ne ation centred the alleged the TGWU bureaucracy has hit a behaviour of delegates the • ТТОП setback with 5/293 at the Oxford Branch inquiry, the Trades Council. But Regional Still has before it the findings of Officials were the previous inquiry reluctantly forced to accept the and may well act on that.

point made repeatedly by the Cowley themselves-that only evidence presentee to this Affiliate official TGWU. Inquiry individual opinions of one individ.

It goes member anotner unton- campaign to be stepped deal death blow six pages charges signed by Oxford Trades Council Get your secretary Keith Dancey had never stewards committee to been placed before Council, discussed or voted on!

to the campaian. 2. Sond resolutions calling for Although Regional Secretary the dropping of the Brian Mathers and Regional Chair the recognition of Alan Thornett Arthur pressed wavier deputy convenor; gamely ahead with the hearing for Nue hereal Secret condit 1½ hours, appears have dawned General Secretary gradually them that General Executive were getting into deeper, (Copies to murkier and very difficult water.

the The hearing adjpurned from Peporter of the campaign Personal without date whilst the status of Dancey's evidence is investigated A now date for the are urgently needec Invite one of the nine to then be notified speak at your branch or stewards committee. Success All correspondence, for spoakers doubt Mathers sent to the organising committee, conscious that the success of the Cowley Perry Detence Campaign Overmead Green, Blackbird Lays, meant that bureaucratic abuses on Oxford."

IF, FOR EXAMPLE, WE TAKE THE WHOLE 13,000

KEEP ON 5,000: CUT THE HOURS OF ALL THOSE

REMAINING BY THIS PERCENTAGE, DIVIDE UP

THE LOST MONEY..

(NOW ACT REASONABLY BROTHERS....

I LET'S NOT HAVE ANY TALK OF OCCUPATION

IT'S ONLY 6,000 JOBS AFTER ALL-

A SPLENDID VICTORY FOR COMMON SENSE.

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-INDUSTRIAL NEWS-

John Power still victimised For this suspended reason John until Friday 28 April when a Power must be defended further meeting will be held error to at which the management will allow him to remain outside present the results of further the plant, suspended on full they This is the device used The very timing of the time and again by employers Bank to strip victimised workers Holiday, and on a qualifying of support. for holiday pay-shows If Power is not reinstated on Friday Duffy must not be proceed with the sacking, and allowed to argue for a further period of suspension The call must be made for Although having profound an all out strike in the spares division until Power is back in will Jonn Power, in particular over his the factory. Moves and to black made by Garners suppliers Since last week's conference of major labour movement bodies in London,

TGWU

officials have been forced to make a number of moves to meet the pledges brought at they made. the attention of a broa stawards' officer George Caterin throughout the Abrahams issued a letter during the week • calling a conterence 01 President of the shop stewards to discuss increased support for the the attendance Wednesday the AnO las union's Drink and Tobacco sub. has issued a statement to committee met with strikers After this meeting a letter was urging that the cam- circulated to branch so state. asking for maximum ore cure to pont out that although black tho: delveries panies that continue to trade with last week's abortive Garners • Regional Committee moves vindicare i nese the fight the strikers we have in February demanded secondary black ing and in opposition to Abraham's policies have effectively isolated strike from the strength of the ToWU.

But there must be no complac call for the illusions ency. that Reaion 1 up now officials can left to run this strike, as can be seen from events at the Talk of the Town night branch club …wince their successful recog nition strike in 1975, the Talk of the Town ha quated as oper charges, anc organisation moce 01 TGWU officials. But after by complaints TGWU officials leading steward George Kyriakides was sacked three months ago. Counti • Since then +wr organising com. more stewards have been sacked and two resigned under manage donations ment pressure But officials have diverted action into tribunals Ino ustria which have destroyed the chance of strike action to detena inese requests Garners strikers beware! Your and donations to be struggle must in spite of • OC WOn the efforts of these officials! Press Cullen, ahead with the fight for blacking, mass pickets and a Regional levy to finance this crucial strike.

AND THEN RE EMPLOY ANOTHER 2 THOUSAND AND

Shekt the Houks OUT OF COURSE, WE COULY

COMPREHENSIVELY RESTRUCTURE WITH, SAY,

11,500 MANAGERS-WHADDYA SAY 1

(OF COURSE!

NOW THERE'S AN INTELLIGENT

\FELLOW...I KNEW YOU'D SEE SENSE!

WELL AT LEAST

I A LOAF IS BETTER

THAN NONE!

Fascist rising in Turkey

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Phase Four door opened Remember the Great Wage assisted bv a renewal of the 12 month rule. Control Fraud last year? Remember all those speeches, 12-month rule led by Jack that declared Jones, that a rigid Phase Three ot pay Let no-one policy was not on? fight against wage Remember the calm assur- crucial now as ever. Lib-Lab government ance must take up ministers, convinced that all these tion of the 12-month rule, rejec strong words were simply a cover tion of the present arbitrary 10% and that a new pay straightjacket action to defeat would be torncoming aver trie 4. and action to break the anti- 'left' talk at the union confer- socialist Lib-Lab ences were over? even now is plotting further cuts Carefully phrased in living standards. The only starting again, Well it's all workers Wate only this time Jack Jones place a rejection or all torms of wag has filled by new General been control and the fight for catching Secretary Moss Evans intreas in a series of carefuliy phrased causes statements Evans has declared for elected the gullible that there must be no prices committees. curb on tree conective Dargang.

has been assisted Mick Stalinist miners' McGahey, a touch added of colour by declaring that: would those that tour- talk onase couple another of years it 24-1 say, that phase should tell Them stuffed". But behind this rhetoric is a conscious purpose. place last week Neither Macaney nol bureaucrat has city of other union declared that they will fight the Eastern Turkey, after the Lib-Lab government's murder of a right Phase They will impose again sit with folded arms while Kurdish clan the government yet again imposes three of his relatives by a have done limits-as letter bomb. that he is determined to enforce a right wingers control- of wage Turnervedr city for two days, setting tire to houses. shops and offices Phase 2, settlements decision to launch a Special Fund with a target of £2,000 to be raised by the end of July.

programme of the Workers Socialist League in coming months.

"Theory of Structural Assimilation".

essay. variety of material from youth pamphlet on the fight against racismeand fascism.

was pledged to be paid by the end of July.

much as they can spare. Donations should be sent to: A clear mandate against wage

TGWU

control-ine

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conference. be fooled. The control Is . Every worker the fight tor rejec any Phase coalition that defence sure packets is through linked to based on figures labour movement oi lett wing organisations and A fascist uprising took the liberal bourgeois Repub- the lican People's Party. in Mulatya young left wingers killed the mob were wing shouted slogans calling of the Ecevit and the overtnow chief government and the establish- religious-fascist ment Start Thousands of fascists and 10.000 troops moved in while jets flew over the city occupied ine as Armed battles broke out the fascists moved into left- WSL school launches £2,000 appeal At a school held in Oxford at the weekend, the Workers Socialist League took the Members and supporters attending the school were told of plans to develop the publishing This will include publication of a book on post-war Stalinism, including Tim Wolforth's Besides this the Workers Socialist League would be able to republish in pamphlet form a the pages of Socialist Press as well as new material, including a A collection at the weekend school raised £712.77 and at the same time a further f800 We urge all readers and supporters to help us raise this important fund by donating as Workers Socialist League Special Fund 31, Dartmouth Park Hill London NW5 1HR Strike to defend occupation ! Most important Now is the time for defence is the trade union and those branch, Labour Party leaders who Caretakels. occupation dinner staff, support the Millar, of South Oxford Nursery secretary, mouthing the possibility of Class to turn words into strike action and defend the action Coincidental from Nursery closure, the caretaker occupation of the South Oxford Middle eviction. School is to be given three The County Council has months •notice-c applied for a lossession order the Council which flies in the April and the Thursda! of instructed lace dancy agreement. with the order to comply immediately it is granted.

Emergency meeting The Occupation Commit- tee is calling on trade union- branch and gency students, parents Wednesday to demon must seriously discuss strike strate outside the court Thursday and then action as the only meals le 10am on to march back to the nursery the whole question of jobs to provide a show of strength when the bailiffs arrive.

against the cuts. The arrest of a few token fascists does not mean the Ecevit regime can fight fascism wing dominated parts of the tascists cily. In order to maintain the tension, the fascists poisoned reformist ine city s water supplies. As union movement spread to other fighting towns and villages a nearby full-scale curtew was introduced. Meanwhile Though Ecevit's RPP has claimed that this is a last drive to desperate attempt by fascists to survive', the reality strength that their increasing-ted of The working class leadership and the acute or anywhere else. within economic CrISIS force that Turkey itself. fascists Bourgeois party class squads. inability Ecevit's combat fascism flows from bourgeois nature of the Turkish RPP itself-which has set out to "solve" Turkey's economic crisis at the expense of the working class. -to break from When the left-wing trade

DISK

union contederallon 2-hour token strike called a Ecevit's against the fascists. ensured that government dent hundreds of strikers -most of working class.

RPP

members this supporters-were arrested.

As the loyal servant of the International Monetary Fund, lascist be must Ecevit is obliged to combat of working class such demonstration any independence by Turkish the workers-and in this way also point in mobilisation the prevent of capitalism in Turkey. to defeat necessaly The Oxford and Distric Trades Council, also rebuffed by the County Council which Trades renused Council delegation to discuss the Nursery

HICC

urgently to discuss the next in this and must step, local NUPE Thursday's for support representing school from the demonstration and cleaners Oxford trade whose branch has been Plans for a rally to bring against the fights together cuts, particularly occupations with the are going ahead for Saturda!

May Oxford. Details In and tickes strete Fame East Street, Osne! move ov Oxtord NutEs no icaun Drivers Millar has called an emer- strike to meeting evening. which reinstate defend both the nursery and convenor transporter 350 car drivers from each of the which companies SiX handle all car production Cowley and from the plants struck Abingdon this morning in defence of Brian Preston, Senior Steward at Cartransport who has remained Ltd, sacked and victimised for the past 11 months. The drivers will bring the Cowley complex to a stand and still within a few dav will cost Leyland £250,000 a day under the lay off agree ment for external disputes.

The action of the drivers who meet al c Friday, has been precipitatec a letter from the Thames by Valley saving inal ne charges are to be laid agains!

Preston. Trumped-up charges He was sacked 11 month following trumped uf ago that he had over charges booked expenses negotiation meetings A two week strike in in defence at the time ende when management placed th the hands of th poice Since then, the 'invest And in these reactionary has dragged on policies he is supported by gation" Stalinist used by

TGW

and been has bureaucrats within the trade District Secretary Dat Buckle to block support : Preston each time a move h.

Disillusioned come from the drivers. Now the way is clear fascists the achieve full reinstatement press ruthlessly forward in a If the action in Cowley their enough to change not influence among disillusioned mine carraspoll mallag and bankrupt petty bourgeois strike should ment. the forces and backward workers.

extended throughout the c will bourgeois stale delivery industry. not crush fascism in Turkey The only the can stop the independent Hotel mobilisation of the working detence armed This policy is now literally pamphlet a question of life or death for The fight workers. must be taken up for every workers organisation - parties, trade unions and associations cevit and fight for armed self-detence.

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The demand must be for a workers and peasants govern- "The Hotel Strikes- ment based on the indepen- Lessons for unionisation" organisations of tne Price 35p plus 10p p&p struggle From the Hotel and Cater workers united front against ing National Action Com Trotskyist party ittee, 21, Scala St., Londo built within

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