Socialist Press no. 118

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 118 * 27 September 1978 * 15p

STRIKE

NOW

WITH

FORDS!

Break Phase 4! yet". The walkout by But within hours of his Fords thousands of statement 2,500 workers at workers that greeted the and 500 Halewood company's 5% Phase 4 Southampton had registered pay offer last week has a very different view of the matter by walking out. vividly demonstrated the explosive hostility Regain control within the working class Faring that they could further round of to a aside by this up- be swept wage controls. of shop floor resent- surge and-after Duffy's the ment, also indicates failure at SU Carburettors- strength that all workers wary of taking the usual felt after the defeat nave of instructing of the

AUEW

COuLsC moves bureaucracy to expel the 32 members back to work, the had SU striking toolmakers at ollicials in a bid to regain quickly Carburettors. The strike movement in control. decided They Fords began with 100 tool- makers in Halewood. But it recognise the invitable, and for immediate, rapidly through declare swept official, strike action production workers and other plants-to the force Fords to increase their

ILLO

point of complete closure 5%-ever oLIel aDove by Monday though the existing agree- ment does not exprre lor Disrupted another month! power of it has Widespread action une completely disrupted the And, the carefully plans seeing and imminent prospect of wide-

TGWU

other union stall spread action against the bureaucrats on weeks of pay limits, action during and honing to force a quick settlement at futile talks. TGWU National Organi- Fords,

TGWU

General Todd, the new Secretary Evans went one Ron set chairman of the union nego- and offered full Turuner tiators, em erged from union backing to 'any group AHLe first meeting with manage- standing out of members' ment declaring that the 5% against Phase 4. offer was "only the start of rover ment.es® mere tiore weeks tot at that ponse has been to threaten there were tne employer witn sancuons • <46

PROFIT

BACKS - ROB

Ford workers lobbying last week's pay negotiations

1246 MILLION

PROFIT OFF OUR

BACKS = ROBBERY

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PHOTO: Laurence Sparham, IFL ban on govern- such as ment departments purchasing Ford cars. They hope to strengthen Ford's resolve to sit out the strike, and are counting on other TUC leaders to repeat their of the sabotage firemen's strike, by ensuring that the Ford workers stay isolated. Looks fragile But with claims now local under way

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autority ritiskers Leyland lorry British drivers, workers and many others, this strategy

BOOK

increasingly fragile. It can destroyed be All those completely. with claims now workers aue must press lor a stralgit from management als W ot whether or not they will on offer in excess of 5%. Where the em ployer refuses to break the Phas be limit there m usu immediate strike action alongside the Ford workers.

The mass of vapss Hows workers on wages from three years of cuts in living standards inflicted pay through government limits. Thousands of workers in declaring are now practice that they are deter- defend their mined to independent interests, and that they reject the spurious arguments about the interest' peddled 'national by Callaghan and Healey The danger remains tha Evans, with his talk bargaining" "responsible and emphasis on basing claims on what the can afford, will employer in to move attack pay struggles supposedly "bankrupt" sections of capi- talism-such British Leyland. Only week AUEW last leaders forced the strikers at Leyland's ( Bathgate plant back to work using the argument that the company could not afford to concede to clear demands. Workers must challenge any such move. Leyland workers, with their review due for settle- November ment on should be fighting alongside Fords. If the employer argues he is too bankrupt to pay a living wage to his workforce the immediate demand must be for his accounts and Stalinism in Action - p4 STEEL: The Case for Workers' Pages 6-7 Management Page 5 Labour Party Conference Interview with Polisario Front leader Page 3 Page 8 IRELAND (Part Two) March supports Iranian struggle

MAKE

SWE EADHED

FORD FAY

500 mainly Iranian, workers and students attended a rally and demon- through stration Central London last Friday night in protest against the latest wave of barbaric repression in Iran, in which thousands of demonstrators have been gunned down by troops. But if they hoped for any political guidance in the struggle for the revolutionary overthrow of the Shah, they received non from the platform of the rally included Broad Left Party, Socialist Communist Party, and Inter- those of his suppliers and Workers national Marxist Group bankers to be opened up to speakers. unio! elected broad Lett sookesman bor committees. meaning If he proves in fact to be calls "solida- genera this bankrupt rity and the broadest allianc argument not for dropping "progressive" forces against demand for. a living the Shah. the but for adding to it Popular frontist wage, demand for Meanwhile, the real mening nationalisation, without shown CuCh Dolicie! WaS compensation, of the firm outside the meeting when, leflet produced by the Iranian concerned, along with the whole string of banks and Stalinist uden rarty. retlecting the Kremlin's tacit support for component firms that feed the Shah's regime, called openly off it. тог a popular-trontist national Ford workers have coalition" government, spoken for the working class Yet "Trotskyist as a whole. Now is the time Tariq Ali, clearly deciding to take action to regain lost subordinate politica carin living standards and defend the non-political 'unity' of the made no criticism them through cost-of-living

BOG LITS

clauses based figures • DOSITIOn ant virtuall confined himself to a historical worked out by elected trade survey of the relations between union/housewives Britain and iran committees. Leading SWP member Steve Jeffries did at least refer to the "left" MP Should any timidly pose as a supporter role of the Labour scandaious government in propping up the this struggle break dictatorship-though in Phase 4, he or she must be place of polices for the Labour called upon to put their talk movement he could only offer practice and call for the cancellation of into Queen's state visit immediately begin the throughout the The willinaness of the audi campaign ence to respond to a clear labour movement foi

-TOG

political lead was indicated on removal of the wage-cutting Ine march. nowever. where aral Callaghan/Healey leadership numbers demonstrators and for alternative, socialist readily took up policies. slogans In this way the gap bet- HK trade with. var and Callaghan "left" ond "Kick out the shah: for ween words and the and of these reformist actions workers' government in Iran' leaders can be rapidly ex- posed. WSL continent on the Friday night demonstration

Imperialist stooges rush to patch up African shambles

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Prime Minister Callaghan and Foreign Secretary Owen are not often seen rushing off together at short notice to meet African Presidents.

over the ine revelations sanctions busting Zimbabwe Creariy under some pressure Zambian President Kaunda who has always argued for faith to be •laceo in te sanctions sudlecy summoned his imperialist friends to meet him in Nigeria.

ine outcome or te meeting was a statement to the errec that Callaghan and "no differences on the tuture ot soutnern ATrica and Owen's trip Callaghan XxI+ comes at a time when, to all appearances, Nkomo and Mugabe - rival candidates for imperialist and Stalinist favours The im verlas plans both Namibia and This means that elections for 'Aktur' and the Zimbabwe are in shreds. grouping to be a National Assembly collaborationist Democratic South African Namioa Premier Vorster's resignation ne o detore te ene ot te vedi ¡ urnnare Arance nave acreed health to take part in the elections.

through Both

SWAPO

and the same time nounced Namibia National Front had the for a UN south Atrican government made it clear that it intends to are rejected o Comer ne cere "internal This settlement, but had agreed with serotement with is dèspite the fact that •roceed ErIC the United Nations plan. only ine 'Socialist' conspiracy to prop up Shah The European The Shah's army had, it Westerr Callaghan, Owen and CPs, however, did make an seemed. valiantiv put down Mulley are not the only "demonstrations supported effort to hold an emergency "Socialists" European debate the fraudulent foreign financiers anc parliament planned abroad. who are now backing up Even this timid gesture The 'crimes' of the the murderous dictator- sabotaged by the demonstrators for the was social-demo- ship of the Shah of Iran.

Chinese bureaucracy Socialist and was cratic parties. Chairman Hua Kuo Feng that they: visited his friend the Shah a "carried anti-constitu- Favoured debate declare his to tional banners, caused prob- month ago lems for the daily life of the : support pro-im- •The French SP claimed anti-Soviet people and created intoler- perialist and later that unlike the rest of able terror for every Iranian policies. Socialist the European The recent wave of rebel- patriot. Parties, it had favoured lion the Shah was The explained agency agallisl that debate. already martial law nad beer Under way the fact remains bull that, in spite of an etfort to AL cover their tracks by issuing against the SLaLCICILL Shah's dictator- 'bloody ship", the French Socialists neither put down a motion debate emergency al. voted for that of the nor CPs. Callaghan, Owen and Mulley, therefore, are TaT «oppo- from being alone in repression" and sing "supporting human rights with one face while aiding massacres, and re torture pression with the other. the The world over, treacherous bureaucrats that Iranian troops - supplied from outside pose leaders the OI Hua's visit. imposed because of the working class have revealed Since then, several "dangers. the their true positions in rela- tion to the Iranian butcher thousands of demonstrators individual and social rights have been shot down in cold of honest citizens." Shah. blood. The Soviet bureaucracy, Thousands of others have which also has close econo-

DONG'S DIPLOMACY

been arrested and tortured.

ties with the Shah, mic The press has been more decided that the best way to

BUREAUCRATIC

thoroughly censored than with the embarrass- struggle between China and and the repression of ment was to say nothing. Vietnam, the Chinese bureau. all basic democratic rights do not have the monop has been intensified. No news oly of oportunism. "Communist" Ine few months after the A bureaucracy in Peking has Pravda did not carry any Foreign Minister Chinese kept a close watch on the news of the events in Iran premier vietnamese rudi problems of their tyrannical until September 19. Van Dong has pald a visit to friend then the reactionary mentioned woo the 'neighbouring And hard on the heels of riots, and attacked Tine •ictatorsnio Callaghan imperialists for whom "Iran Thailand. and last Carter a press conference Pham week they, too, sent some plays exclusively a strategic Van Dona publicly assured his of raw words of support. role supplier hosts that Vietnam nad with the Teheran After materials. New massacre China But T.ne breathe a word of criticism news agency told its readers the ore-ninese Taliar what had happened. of the Shah's repression.

Communist Party. Now that the lano ine front-line states have succeeded in forcing SWAPO into a negoti settement

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African government clearly nothing to lose by feels it has steooine ud the port Bay ignoring the UN settlement for Mengistu's rallies Mass rallies to celebrate of the fourth anniversary Emperor Haile Selassie's organised were overtntow Ethiopian by the vicious military dictatorship last week. left-talking Stalinists ana bourgeois nationalists gathered Ababa Addis national which brought and Front Patriotic course ridel Castro The leader's atten- Cuban delegation dance, and the high-ranking Soviet Dureductals signalled the 'solidarity Inal g these pledged brethren-a revolutionary unity against the workers •anc peasants they- consistently mislead and betray. The dictatorsh ip the strongest now whole of armed forces in the black Africa and Mengistu, leader of the Derg, proclaimed that these would be sent to alongside the exploi- "rally ted and progressive peoples of time and at the world I at any any place". practice these troops used (with have been support, Soviet arms and Soviet advisors) to crush the rising in the and as the con. took place they were in Terence action to suppress any popula mobilisation within Ethiopia of to attack the struggles and self- the eritrean determination. Undoubted social gains have been made in the TOUl workers and years *peasants of Ethiopia, but thell revolution has been decapitated Mengistu the time being • Walvis bay Is a strategically important port in Namibia over Africa wishes which control KeeD «атте inoeben - dence It was the main point difference which remained to be settled atter the UN plan wa: accepted both Vorster and in zim daowe. lan omita na. followed up his imposition of selective martial law with a four- ralo into mozamooue ana conscription of blacks into the aillly. Desperate move ne atter is a desoerati hardly designed to make move, friends in the African him forced fight anyway, the chances be : increased that must will take up arms with the tuev guerrilla forces Meanwhile important moves appear to be taking place within Ine Hoeration forces At the recent celebrations of by the military dictatorship.

There way forward the detend and extenc masse: these advances without genuinely revolutionary leadership to over- fnrow the vero ano reouise ut attack of its Stalinist sponsors.

Somoza claims victory week of indiscrimi- nate massacres and atroci- ties by the National Guard allowed Dictator have Anastasio Somoza to regain control of Nicaragua's main from the Sandinist cities National Liberation Front

(FSLN).

Despite thousands of civilian ceains ano inuries ana a nua amount of destruction, nearly all reports that the ability of say the FSLN to fight again has not been significantly damaged And despite the victory is the National Guard more hated eve ano substantially demoralised held up for being through of youth davs by small bands armed with more than revolvers. It looks as it one of the the wook of consequences full-scale civil war has been that the Carter administration cooler towards even Somoza and is now looking hard tor a less provocative alternative before new wave mass rebellion breaks out. Even the Congress has now voted send the Nicaraguan gov- monev ernment because-like Tine after the earthquake ago- it all tends to get into the personal bank accounts of the Somoza family. And that zombie-like organi- sation, the national" called for Somoza to de cacosec One components, Its Britain's "Labour" government, last week s atrocitres , Dy senoing Somoza an extra £50,000 the anniversary of the Ethiopian , Nkomo was heavily snubbed ov ricel Castro, wno did not even meet him preferred Castro with

ZANU

severa nour. leader Robert Mugabe

ZANU

has traditionally looked to Peking rather But the celebrations in Addis Ababa a key theme was hostility to the Chinese that seem s very Castro's courting of Mugabe is connected with this It is reported that for somi time a section of the ZANU leadership has been under "pro.

tective cetention bique. possible that these IS people are Inost mos committed to Peking and that what is taking place is a definit

ZANU

reanionmen away from *endershit Chin towards Moscow. This also what is may benina LAru leader Nkomo: petulant rejection of recent any new corret cul Zimbabwe. He may well be attempting to restore his position with the Soviet ano evoan oureauracie and perhaps within his own party after the revelations about Smith with secreT meetina six weeks ago But Nkomo's protestations been have stel enouan to convince castro ane Moscow , that he can maintain credibility as a nationalist redact And from the boint of vien Cuban sponsorsio vil to Mugabe, newly-found to Taken

MOTE

sentoust by the imperialists who have so far tried to do a separate dea with Nkomo Castro would be quite aware of this. So these latest manoevres of and realignments are a part the increasinart comoex ane important interplay between the and Stalinist imperialists the oureducracie states over the sharinc

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control of the unstable African Contienel Kaunda British oil companies face ThA oleak £3,000 million worth of assets in Africa seized following publi Zambian president, Kaunda, and Shell Zambian couras over the dam age InE cambian economi through trying impose the British that and busy -rench im beria ists ware driving thousands of gallons of oil a day through Naderia Is norte to nave volunteered enforce any ruling through the Zambiar the courts by seizing some of £6,000M to £7,000M worth of oil assets in the country was one of the his threat =-= =omproc to fly last Nigeria Lamala and week

Exclusive interview with Polisario leader

- INTERNATIONAL

SAHARA

PART TWO

Is France still intervening directly in the struggle?

very towards tude the danaroul people, given that it was one of the the principle of self determina- tion tor the sanarov beoole We see not only the negative attitude of France towards our- selves, but we can characterise ¡is whole boley in arrica as an aggressive policy recoloni- of Africa. That is very sation cancerous. We don't want to dictate to France what policy should in Atrica follow any were else, but we want to tell them to behave with respect to ourselves. Heorettaniv its position un to arresten to stimulate aggression against InTer - vene directiv this attort at physical extermination people. 1 nanks to ine determination of our people these plans have failed. France's links with IVIOroCCO and vauritania are plain for everyone to see. It has important influence with Doin regimes Up to now, since the Mauri- coup d'etat, France has tanian not intervened again multarly or upset the cease-tire In case Morocco, France has contracts for the sale or arms ano inese are stillin force. France is a country which could help to maintain peace, could oTTel co-operation and contribute understanding between countries the region and France What countries have recognised the Sahara Republic? inere are areat pressures from Mauritania and Morocco and imperialism from behind Inem nO1 recoonise republic. In spite of this up to now, there are about fifteen countries -weve AsIa and one in Latin America. They Mozambique, Ancold. Guine Bissau, Togo, Congo- Benin Brazzaville, Algeria, Seychelles, Ruanda and Burundi. Also Korea, NOrIN Democratic Republic of South Yemen, and finally Panama. now more vve noOP that Latin American countries will recognise the republic, given the struggle ot the sanaroul people and the fact that the aggression against us has been condemned Throuonout ine world. And the position of the Soviet Union and its allies, and China? ime socialist doc ano unina have supported always self-determination of he oanaroul poleste nave always supported the UN reso.

lutions. If up to now they haven't taken a clear position ot recog- nising the republic, that perhaps for tactical reasons; but not noW tney nave recognised us. Could you say something about The social composition ot the Saharoui people? the Saharoui people been nomadic people, poor people,

THE BITTER

WAR IN THE

oppressed people robbed of its These discuss ali problems 01 life, both national questions and rights. And it has never had privi- dav to cav orobems ano elect leged classes. There was their representatives. This is one never of the most significant experi of any ine _economic deverod ment which have pro- COuid ments or ine rront in unis meld duced with This experience is not only layers competing at the theoretical but also at the interests In Sahara we have had what the of the the non existence of we Given call supplies, the people, depending composed Ine on its own resources, provides trbal chiefs and notables This democratically was own needs such as hospital construction, elected assembly which directed study building the policy ot the whole sanara In the old times before the of furniture and many items artisan arrival of colonialism the tribal traditional production. were ChIeTS cemo is a very great change cratically. i nere organi- As a result of this heritage, ThIs

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sational and administrative field a svstem which democratic and egalitarian is nothing new in also the Sahara. The role of Saharoui womer was important in struggle the This council led the various against Spanish colonialism which tried wars against tribes gone on expan- This role has Sahara invade Ine ana Lne aine to ine boint or ared participation armed sharing out ot grazing land and of the agricultural when struggle and complete manage- there was rain. where it's ment of the camps ins institution was broken the women woo car out up by colonialism, because of its administration, manage teaching popular and just character. And the and hosulldis peopies militias. Inat is to say based on tribal divi- vanguard role in the staying of now playing system sions which benefitted some and disarvantaced oiners. Polisario Front Revolutionary Council When What the present struggle situation cities? Deaan Ine canaroui peoole nad the no difficulty regaining •OnT national unity and regaining the enemy lurks escapes the atten.

tion of our combatants. But •emocratic mode which existed in Saharoui history. enemy sEll

MUSL

What has happened is a very important cities, but attack there on anties There are also great evolution thIS aspect that our and we can now say people today is longer the contro ot the rolsario rront And the phosphate mines? peppie or nomdas ano tribes or the people which was subjected the have mdut ¡stalle and colonialism which was tions ot the mines ot bokra not conscious of its own reality completely unusable, destroyed.

our total num ber will people is between 750,000 and you arter noeration nationalise the mines? The only people who can How liberated areas The organised? cecice what with ine national wealth of the Using are the Saharoui people. This democratic Ine heritage ot the Saharoui people.

true what ever aid comes trom outside. we apply even during wartime policy basic peoples' the future, congresses in which the whole the fundamental task moment peopie particioate. for us is nationa peration and afterwards the policies will be decided which start trom the realitor ther veed ence. we now know exactly what this policy will be except general terms the demand that everyone respect the national sovereianty of our people over its territory and its territorial waters the question of Aside Trom national liberation, what 17 gree We have printed this interview because of the importance the armed struggle for national libera- tion being conducted by the Saharoui people under the leadership of the Polisario Front. difficult struggle began against the Spanish.

Then, after nation had in 1975 literally been sold to the highest bidder, the war continued against the of reactionary regime Morocco and Mauritania. The struggle deserves the unconditional of support the movement …a DOll Britain and elsewhere. It will be obvious to our For programme of Incuced in the apocations the Polisario Front? Saudi instance countries like Arris or Morocco caim s be that there should be We say centres such a cemocratic rebuoican torm o government, the policy of non.

countries there is a reactionar membership feudal layer which alignment, the •socia oppresses the people and which une tire worlo ane me Aircar , the Islamic character of Isidn protect people and interests is a twisting That of what which meet the Islam really and economic needs of Teresents Saharoui with social system. people Real Islam totally of freedom dr antees defends the speech, right of political exile the policy of free and universal interest

SUODOTT.

education, the guarantee of the equality; it's against slavery against al nantenable ever citizen and the material satis- faction the needs of What message would you give to workers in Europe? the our brooramme toucher VV ( especial want on all aspects of national life.

support of organisations in the situation Do you define the Front as a visations socialist oraanisation? because our people nave always Our people has always lived been and continue to practical form socialism where Inose who nad more inar We are a people who have others gave it away voluntarily deprived of our most been This and not because cementary Hone nas been linked to a just appll- Our recuest to the workers cation of Islam. Great Britain is that they How do explain that so and carr manv ot ine realmes calmino to tine ine strucole or the sanarou adhere to Islam are extrmemly people, above all morally, , and that they should support us not reactionary? has unink Deer momentaril every enormously mystified. It's been opportunity. mortified. If we look at some of And I would like to send the militant and Ine reactionar recimes revolutionary practise isiam, it may look like greetings or ine sanarou! people and the certainty that through retrograde social system - struggle we will gain inde avumatic dna so or I think everything depends pendence and sovereignty.

We comment: readers that while we call can based on for support for complete traditional social systems.

the liberation struggle, Only world party far being al t committed the political agreement with the programme of permanent Polisario front revolution can finally We that its believe liberate the Saharoui people apparent faith in resolutions of and other victims of the United Nations or the imperialism. Organisation of African * Military victory to the Unitv is mispiaced and car Polisario Front! only create illusions. Independence for the There are many parts of Saharoui people! their programme with which For immediate British we not only disagree but government recognition of which regard W C the Democratic Arab Re. dangerous for the future of public of the Sahara! me sanatoul peopie For the building of a For instance, the Front's revolutionary based committment "pro- party the gressive" Islam and programme its permanent revolution! Narodnik idea that socialism

'Communist stewards' praised by Edwardes Robinson's record: Stalinism in action Three years of consistent CP betrayals CP covers its tracks According to Leyland boss Michael Edwardes, Communist Party members are 110 problem at all to nis plans for speed up, redundancies and wage controls. In an interview last week with the Daily Mirror, refuted the argu- nowardes CP ment that the responsible for strikes oI defence agreements in Leyland: "Does he spy Reds under the Company's bed? 'No, no.. I don't sub- scribe any conspiracy theory,' he 'Not at says. Robinson 1976: ano forcer accept 40% Mini. 3-1 endorse cocument clauses and joint union disciplinary committees.

February 1977: overwhelmingly Leyland workers valls tor ine convenors who endorsed it.

February 1977: 32 hand- september 19/5 Leyland: sicked convenors chosen happen Committee' meet with manage workers to think they ment at the blush Allesiev Hote in Coventry to finalise proposals God-given for workers' participation in line actIon

WIEN

une hyde mesort final "vote" includes those from representatives of foremen and any other strike' speaks on the platform Deotem oar Kobinson Chairman of the

BMC

Liaison Committee for Defence Committee rules Trade Union. or order a motion to relect Ine mention Ryder plan, declaring that the calling for decision gaining "after August". His calls 'had already been laken. rase April 1976: Moves begin mass demonstration through the towards national-leve! corporate Longbridge plant. wargaining in Leyland, stamping March Lobinson, with to discussin on.

floor control. fellow Stalinist Peter chon co-sign a Combine, declares numsely letter on the toolroom strike. June 1976: Joint management/ March 'Ad-hoc' Committee set attends his first-ever meetina of establish basis Leyland toolroom committee to COr propose complete porate bargaining. Summer 1976: Robinson management. moves resolution on Longbridge April 3 1977:

JSSC

'Rank and File TUC' called by prevent anv section "impeding until

BMC

Combine, production procedure exhausted don't wall August 1976: Robinson joins movements" and attacking tool- mandeements Quality makers May campaign in a statement indis- 27 1977: managing lineuisnabie TrOM convenors director Whittacker. move to corporate bargaining.

HOTO: John Sturrock. Repor Scargill speaking at the 'Rank and File TUC all. If anything, I would say that the Shop Communist Stewards Leyland are the most efficient, among concerned and reliable." Edwardes is not the first Leyland boss to single out the CP for such enthusiastic predecessor, Sir Richard Dobson, made some extremely complimen- statements about • lary Stalinist Derek Robinson his ill-fated "leaked' last secret speech year by Socialist Challenge: "I happen to know the I ching. chief convenor Long He is an avowed Communist. I must say I rather like Robinson August 1977: New manage. carries vote on Lonabridae JSSC plans for reform of pay ment through ballot to bargaining, with parity linked to speed up speed-up Harrowy relecteo oi convenors

JUT

meeting Management decide to January 19//: Robinson chair: over convenors' meeting which votes convenors and

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'fringe plans to ballot vote. DoneTit including no-strike Under pressure management/ from shop floor Longbridge stewards submit 20% pay claim anis document -when incides acceptance thrown out by speed-up and penalty refuses separate meetings and stewards meetings.

pay talks. Workers demonstrate resignation of the negotiations, with aemanoine sectional votes for strike action.

Robinson, with Mobinsor mas. declares opposition to strikers in meeting, calls strike for August "The worst thing that to British Leviand and the country is for groups of have right take their own conditions.. We can't toolroom strike Robinson leadership of the Communist Party on their role in the the Garners Strike. Below we reprint their reply, and raise some of the questions it fails to answer.

Talling Leyland strikes, and Communist Party of Great collective Britain Executive Committee, encourage 16 King Street, London WCZE BHY. Dear Comrades, Robinson and Nicholas In response to your letter of 20th August. Leyland management The position of In urging workers to scat Communist Party in regard to Robinson workers in The strike of the Garners Steak Houses is well known. We completely support the demands of the strikers for surrender recognition of their Union.

This struggle Robinson chairs is part of the improve the swutcle • to radically declaring "We and conditions of all wades workers in the catering industry breakawal that has been going on for many and in which our Party and its members have made an 200 Levianc outstanding contribution.

adopt. proposals for accordance with this position our members and Party organisations nave participated actively in the just struggle of the Garners House the picket line demonstrations and every other way open to us.

Our members have also actively fought organisatio for massi Union mum solidarity with workers А шлоите то our actions ir this regard was paid to our Party Strike Con mhe le one leaders of

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Bramand the our Fast at organised Party Alexandra Palace in June At that Festival a collection was taken in support of the strike. The Morning Star has also played effective extremely role in putting clearly the issues is fairly him he because good getting people

IASH

working" Robinson is an Executive of the Communist * GI Party. Yet is also co- he Chairman of Leyland's reac- tionary 'participation'

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designed up, to suck stewards into management Since Robinson is yet again forefront

IFI

OI moves to head off Leyland carworkers-this time on the

OCIAL

wages Iront-socialist tres.

has produced potted Robinson's history record over the last three

SOCIAT

years to indicate to car- workers the real meaning of Stalinist class collaboration.

29 and declares "50-1" support.

that participation Then seizes on right wing march to call Robinson pretext отеи action axeing TOr desorte z-i maority tor strike tivity' October 1977: Dobson praises Robinson. 1,800 jobs at Longbridae 1977: Fraudulent management ballot "endorses" Apri! 1978: pay proposals. Robinson begins Robinson oras corporate prepare TO! diverting Speke bargaining in 1978. February 1978: 400 managers May 1978 and at Kenilworth

VOTE

with only tive against to back Edwardes' plan for speed- workers and 12,500 redundancies. (Trom Robinson declares full support.

April 1978: The news breaks redundancy. On August 20 the WSL sent an Open Letter to the of the strike, in advocating the strikers' case and in mobilising assistance for them. We will continue to give militant these support workers in the days ahead. The foregoing brief resume of our position and actions or

IGWU.

this question totally refutes the Your insulting charge made in your etter. that communis Party is in some way implicated in treachery to these workers.

your Party Yours fraternally Gordon McLennan (General area, notably Secretary). of

WSL

Staden is Secretary.

REPLY :

meeting of the Region Our primary aim in with in taking up the role of the where support Communist Party in this pickets was discussed strike is to create the Regional best conditions for its eventual victory. It is because we see the picketing cient winning of the strike as the mem ders to most important thing that covered concentrated criticisms on your attitude "So far as the strike committee's were concerned. policies of agreed with them that there and secondary blacking, regular and mass picketting and a union levy throughout the at any one time. TGWU Region 1. In other words, In particular, we chal- supporting lenged you to provide evi- policies, you are the main dence of where your mem- instrument bers and supporters had their implementation.

SOCIALIST FRESS.

Edwardes

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NTRACT

CONTRACT

Longbridge workers march against the Social Contract sub-committee of the June 1978: Joint management/ set-up chaired bi disciplinary inquiry unior launched the plans Longbridge InTO the 'low by stewares ViCtImIsed Speke plant and cutting management for striking defence Ballot vote rejects Robinson argues against suppor management incentive scheme.

'Left' September 1978: Plant claims soceen trom role his fight secret plans by Robins £27 from Cowley kev factorie mass meeting away from vote for occupation.

and Combine Committee SOn Robinson right ensures wing introduce that second Speke mass meeting corporate bargaining veal hears that right-wing led Canley agreed, by submit- eaner unan accept ting back-door "commor Speke. This helps secure vote to accept voluntary Edwardes deotem bet praises "Communist stewards" on Garners strike fought for them within the And quite apart from the effects on the outcome of silence this the Garners strike, by question is significant, since collaborating with the state we emphasised the influence the imposition of 1n an many arbitrary limit on the num- parts of the union's London ber of pickets (which the within the Strike Committee has Regional Committee itself neither sanctioned nor been which CP member Sid officially informed of), you are instrumental in striking You did not refer, for a blow against democratic instance, to the most recent rights in general, which can be used against future strug committee in August, where gles the Garner's strike was dealt Under conditions where some detail, and the pickets have been forced for the endure continuous violence scabs and tom The minutes read: "The and numerous maliassment Secretary in- the police we arrests Dy formed the Committee that regard these actions alone we were not talking about sufficient indictment of but suffi- your organisation's practice.

There is, on October 7th that all establishments were a Day of Support for the Garners strike. where the the police largest possible turnout is we had being called for Should decide you on should be a maximum of six this to mobilise pickets at an establishment more than token forces for this demonstration, you will far from have the the strikers' confirm publicly what you attitude is to the sunkers sabotaging call for mass support on the pickets.

The stage is set for one of the most irrelevant and evasive Labour Party conferences ever held. The the 77th agenda for Annual Conterance not. only socialist conerent Callaghan's aternative reactionarv Dolicies Out _ aso has with the manifesto to be put forward in tne nex enera cecon wo one- ne motions on ine Party Manifesto vainly implore imple- ment soc dist porciesna ils ''1974 election manifesto".

Face of Toryism But there is no demandina that the Conference should decide the Manifesto.

And no Labour Party body has made any move to drive out the open face of Toryism within the Party's ranks-the :Callaghan- Healey leadership, who are pre.

run •arna r Into ine next election in a convulsive series with confrontations the wor kine class over wades a fitting Itset Is of ashe of t alkers w te aric talkers who will Trooo to the rostrum to sound off during the week. Only resolutions-one

LVVU

from Liverpool. Wavertree and one in the form of an amend- ment from Bristol West-even take a stand opposing wage con- trois. The Bristol West motion does however call on the NEC "organise a campaign in the wider trade union and Labour movement dodinst control wages, an improvement tor class living standards and for safeguards rolett improvements against sUCh inflation." While the passing of such a resolution woud orove a tem- em barrassment vUl dl Callaghan, there is no likelihood wiar l would Ine siontest degree deflect the cabinet from its rigid 5% pay limits. Pencils licked wnlle most CLis nave shiec away from challenging wage controls, the topic of unemploy- ment nas orouont manv a ake left to lick the end of his pencil draft a total and of 14 largely innocuous resolutions,' in waich there is much empty †aik o' 'planning agreements' North Sea oil ano reve nues'. The reality of course is that Chancellor Healev has already established a working agreement with British tion in mass speed-up ana sack• ings. And this will continue until Healev is booted out severa. motions do neude calls for 'work sharing without Pay programmes or public works Pleas to Healey But since they couched in the form of pleas to the Callaghan-Healey Healey This Conference will not stop Callaghan! Agenda dodges all key questions declaration of outright support for those sections health wor kers wno nave carrieo oui to occupations and STrIKeC •etend acanst Ine cuts "nere is no motion among

HUTO

the 34 condemning the scandal ous smasnina ot ine Housnsow hospital occupation, , the contin. ued attacks on the EGA hospi.

Marre Tal. an v Ine oractical actions taken da our minister Ennals Callaghan cabinet to destroy ine Health Service. Report evade the brazen, InO. anti-working-class Callaghan carried out by Labour's ment to take action, rather than eaders in government over the as policies to be acted upon by oast tour vears There is not a single resolu- ine trade union movemert. even these formally correct policies calling for the withdrawal tion lack any teeth. British troops m peral!st of motions on from Northern Ireland, and a Ine numer unemployment is however one lengthy motion from Hackney gauge unease within the lamely and stoKe vewinoton Labour Party relation concludes calling for by current dovernment dolicies support for the And the 34 motions challen- International t rouna Service suet cosi eten more britain s presence in reland One stell ever more only-a one- from clearv the nostlity Cot anour line submission Oxford activists to their own leaders' CLP-calls for the Conference attacks on essential services won renèwal the ••oost repressive Prevention of Terror- Inrougn years ot sacritice by tne workers' movement. Act. ism A whole range of formally Desoite Ine storms ot tierv red 'left' retoric that will Coreci oemanos forward in these motions, with occur, the Callaghan inevitably the conspicuous absence of any cabinet wil rest easv in inelr

STAN ORME

DREAMS OF

SOCIALISM

"Our long-term rationalisation in every key objective is a socialist industry. Nor does he offer Britain. The real argu- ally to how the dils wel ments on how 18-month Lib-Lab coalition achieve this are only advanced the any way just beginning. cause of socialism. Last Orme's year "left' Labour so writes wretched record on Ireland minister Stan Orme, whose proved an acute em barrass- vision of 'socialism' ment to the Tribune plat- UWIl long that term torm at their pre-conterence allowed him to act as one of meeting Callaghan's ministers for Tribune article this torture in Northern Ireland, year is clearly a half-baked and even now permits him advanced attempt to ward of the off similar criticism. But all Tcl ala a pall reactionary Labour it does is reveal the pathetic Cabinet. confusion and opportunism Indeed the yawning gulf of the Labour 'left'. between Orme's professed 'socialist' principles and his squalid role in practice is sc wide that at times his articie in tne current issue of Tribune smacks of out- right schizophrenia. PHOTO: Andrew Wiard. Report "I nail my colours to the mast of public expendi- ture " he declares without word so mucn as a planation he has oI WIly voted for evers successive cut made by Healey. e anour movemeni concentrate must on expanding jobs rather than reducing the Labour force," he without proclallls, bothering exame government strategy of job- cutting, speed-up and Orme

LABOUR

Delegates at last year's Labour Party conference beds in Blackpool next week- must be urgently undertaken.

untroubled by developed A step towards this can be any taken by socialis oostion l witnin Ine Labour activists miont. Labour Party. ing for resolutions through CLPs The of constructing a demanding a Special Conference principled leadership within the oc recrea to cecide me party s manifesto and workers movement. caoabe oT election exposing both right and 'left undertake the essential task of the wings Labour bureau- removing the Callaghan leader and Shi Those cracy pointing clean socialist road ahead is one that 'lefts' that makt

PRESS GANG

MARSH GAS

For Fleet Street, class warfare is never just a plans for new technology in question of telling other Fleet Street. managements what to long-estab-

ATTACKS

on lished do. agreements have become weekly events. managements of In reply, chapel militan- national newspapers all t cy has led to millions of second to none for their ot news-

CODICS

nauol dr own aggressive allacks or papers being lost. working class militancy and Times and Sunday Times organisations. production has been among In America, Rupert the most affected and last Murdoch-owner of the year machine-room chapel News of the World and the leaders were expelled from Sun-is in the forefront of NATSOPA in a bid to break the New York proprietors the chapel. bid to break the journalists' They were restored to and print unions. membership the threat In Britain, the Times emerged of a Fleet Street- wide strike in their support.

management lc wooaber threatening to stop produc- In the face of the new threat, officials of all print tion ano shut down from November 30 if the union been unani- unions nave leadership has not re-estab- mous in calling for an end lished control over the mili- to industrial action at the tant chapels of production Times Newspapes. workers. Wade (NGA) vnly Jot demurred This threat of an indefi- has sitting al nite lockout is not aimed at down to sign management's any particular agrrement and he has been Cul CI struggle. feebly prolesling anOlI Rather it is a promise to 'negotiating' under duress.

close Since Times down unless the the ann- chapels stop fighting on any nounced its lockout threat, issue the capitalist press has been This situation has been carrying numerous reports coming lo nead ever sinc threatening speeches the union leadership accept- from management figures. Richard Marsh, ca anq tne union mem ber- ex ship rejected management Labour oil supplier

PARTY

glowing speeches next week ir Backboo must De • canea uooт workers TIOnt witnir movement put their words into by practice arving

OUT

callaanan In this way a number of pompous wind-bags Lal embarrassinaiy punctureo in Ini aftermath to an utterly predict- able conference. Rhodesia, and now head of the Fleet Street employers reported in the Daily Mail as saying: "a British institution was in danger because manage- ment had • rightly decided that they could not contin- ue to publish in the anarchic jungle which Fleet Street had become." The report-clearly published for its special message to print workers rather than its 'interest' for readers-continued "Sir Richard said that he had doubt that the Times management was not threatening and had every of intention closing both their unless newspapers employees work normally."

Denis Hamilton, charman Times Newspapers-speaking appropriately enough to the notorious scab organisation the Institute of Journalists- said he was confident 'his' papers would soon be "sparkin protal foor". "But the H dOELI allow the minorily continue the insanity tha goes on virtually every night, the verdict the court and coroner must be one of suicide." if it is Sir Denis Even who will be pulling the

FOR WORKERS

MANAGEMENT

Most steelworkers in Britain today face the future with confusion and growing alarm. The state-owned British Steel Corporation which 90% produces of over crude steel output, and which employs over two thirds of the total lab- our force in the industry, lost over £500 million last year alone. The response of the steel union leaders has been to 'participate' in the state's for blans lanonalisanon. Rationalisation is a polle word to disguise plans for plant closures, speed up, de- and productivity manning 60,000 jobs 60,000 jobs are to go in

B.S.C.

alone according the latest B.S.C. proposals.

This cutback culled

ULL

THE STEEL

INDUSTRY:

THE CASE

PHOTO. John Smack Renom

PART 1

of In fact, they * Pose this position to take advantage top the 100,000 jobs 1967 whole question what is of the economic already lost since general boom which was first taking when 14 'private companies' 'nationalisation' as practised off at that time by the Labour leaders. were nationalised with the How can such 'national- Right from the word 'go' payment of enormous sums isation' be turned from its and Steel of compensation the tne IrOn instru- Federation (the employers' shareholders. present role ment to protect the bosses' trade organisation) set out Rationalisation to deliberately sabotage the

OTORES LO

the created Iron and to serve workers and newly These latest proposals, planning? develop socialist Steel Corporation however, form only a small refusing it assistance of any The steel industry part of the Labour govern.

first 'nationalised' in 1951 kind, even advice of ment's plans to impose as one of a series of reforms purely technical nature new ronna or dracks on une implemented by the Labour This brazen policy of whole working-class, government pushed into 'non-cooperation with ar combining wage control the Act of Parliament disturbed power after war on with massive 'rationalisa- wave of working class mili- only naive those relormis tion' and the speed-up 1n politicians who believed and public sector. calicy, believe to this day that the At the centre of this are Compensation law is "above" class interest.

the heavy industries, British Before the year was out, Leyland, British Rail, Over 90 private Tory the newly elected British Shipbuilders and the companies were involved quickly set National Coal Board. These although massive about reversing the Act, and cutbacks-involving some of compensation was planned, set up a holding company to biggest was never- Lne stee users sell back shares Britain-will directly lead to Ineless seen as an attack on 'bargain' prices problems for B.S.C. capitalist profitability, , since Turtner The period of stable the British steel industry and threaten destroy to growth the seemed the very existence of this them, quite economy lasted little more 'nationalised' industry. wrongly, to be in a good than six years, from 1951 to 1957, before the changing balance of world market began to erode and zorces undermine the prospects of the British economy. Steel production vividly reflects this. Between 1951 and 1957 steel oroduchon from 15.64 rose steadily million tons to 21.7 million After 1957, however, erratic, became and trom that year onwards there was and pattern of slump, each one becoming more severe than the last. The figures demonstrate this: Steel production: 1958-9 20 m tons 1960 24m tons 1962 10m tons 26m tons 1967 21.7m tons 1970 25m tons 1971 24.2m tons Falling 20m mid tons 1970s. Sheffield's skyline: private steel firms side-by-side with the state sector In other words, since 1960 output has shown no tendency rise perma- nently above the 20-21m ton mark. This erratic behaviour of reflects the stagnation the which economi serves. It was this tendency stagnation, therefore, that the prompted Labour government to "nationalise" 14 big steel firms in 1967 to form B.S.C firm had by then become a lame duck in its own right and was of no use to its private owners.

SAY NO

SACKINGS

Ei.A

OFFICIAL

LETITE

NO!

TO CLOSUREA

Sheffield steel workers march against wholesale sackings in 193 This was connected with the fact that throughout the boom period of the '50s little useful investment had taken place. This can be seen in the • fact that although British Steel Companies invested the same amount of capita the Japanese between as 1951 and 1962, , output in only 13m Britain rose 'ot Japan tons, while that rose by 28.5m tons The private steel owners saw this eventuallv but did little except produce the Benson Report in 1965. This pointed out that the

GREEDY

AVARICIOUS

BOSSES

WEED

HAVARIE

180 industry was technologically that the private steelowners outdated much could implement its ver •ЛО| overmanned, suggesting that proposals. capitalists' the number of plants be The shalegy drastically reduced and theretore became to use the become much vast economic resources of larger affording state along with the size-lnus economies of scale. 'participation' of the trade union bureaucracy through Reduced the

TUC

Steel

HUVISOV

Committee to force through It recommended these attacks on steel- dISO that labour force workers. Lue reduced from over 300,000 The obvious resemblance to less than 200,000. Social to the more recent This employers' report Contract, the Ryder of then became basis Proposals for Leyland is by no means accidental. Labour's nationalisation These attacks have met Dials.

AMALGAMATEDUNON OF ENGINES

with almost complete success to date with the state-appointed school COla tie' B.S.C. Board doing the government's dirty work almost to the letter Trade union involvement in this-notably that of the

I.S.T.C.

has been deepened right down to shop floor level with the setting up of 'works councils' at plant draw unwary sevel stewards right into the web of collaboration. Works Councils At councils, management pretend take the stewards into their confidence, explaining the plight of the and the nIm need for rationalisation short space of witnin a time, stewards are converted into seeing themselves part of mallacement putting interest first. Add to this system the constant reminders from the of press need to be 'competitive" keep and wages under control, and it not surprising that workers themselves starved of principled leader- ship or perspective when they tace threat of The redundancy. Redundancy Payments Act which makes it easier for union Dureau crals to sell ineir members jobs, 'voluntary redun- dancies, wastage, and the

HOLOROUS

Book have all contributed easing the burden towards of management in creating redundancies. The payment

SUIN

25% above those laid down in the Act to men over 63, together with the seniority system which allows younger men to move into jobs, 'voluntary' redun- dancies, Latuld waslage and the Green notorious Book have contributed towards easing the burden redundancies. The of SunS system higher paid are also used to down The Book introduced work-study, method and job week gudlaniecu and better ments. The 5 day first sight. been working ding labour rather than work 21 or 18 shifts at 80% Indeed, men have been sacked like this and over- time introduced few later, in most weeks PHOTO: John Sturrock, Report ISTC General Secretary, Bill Sirs Fig with the unions involved to provide the cash neces- not having lifted a finger to sary to run the entire steel prevent this! industry under workers' The guaranteed week in socialisments part di fact has diverted from the socialist produc plan necessary fight for work- tion tailored to need and sharing on full not profit. defend all jobs in the steel What is striking about plants. the history of trade unio. The Iron and Steel Act nism in British is. the steel 1967 left in private owner- of any tradition of BaCK ship over 100 companies struggle. and their subsiularies. covering some 160 workers.

Sharp contrast Although terms OI production of This sharply tonnage contrasts with crude steel the share of the the steel unions Germany and the

U.S.A

relatively private sector largest small-about 10% of The union in the British steel is the Iron and total-it neverthe- less ¼ Steel Trades Confederation accounts for about (formerly

BISAKTA)

of Britain's deliveries of 1919 finished steel products and created of amalgam of some 14 craft over one-third the industry's unions and organising some of the value 60% of the steel workforce.

turnover. The leaders of the steel Prosperity unions. the particulall)

I.S.T.C.

always been have This testifies their proud of their history. relative Their unions were dominarad and unaffected by the rise of the therefore the for shop stewards movemen continued during • the first world war ship and after and the Minority These pre- Movement was almost dominate mainly in the totally devoid of steel- specialized and workers. foundry sections the reason for this was industry in the the leadership's open class although they have poill oration, intingd ith important in the pride method production alloy settling disputes in steel, the stainless, high speed tool 'independent' conciliation and magnet steels with some arbitration machinery and interests forging also. has operated for However, in spite of their nearly a century the position, the custoned industry-the grandfather of private companies are workers' participation beginning to suffer badly It has been held up by under the effects of capi- governments and employers talism's international excellent example of as dll recession. 'good' industrial relations Abroad, companies in 'Good' industrial relations, Italy, France and the United of course, means no strikes.

States lost even more size than Inter union B.S.C.'s £500m deficit last year. Indeed the only major strike in steel occurred as the owned U.S far back as 1909 and this Company Steel was an inter-union dispute over negotiating rights! any other enter- There have, however, 'disturbances' been the then, in generalised by losses struggles after the First French World War have and more recently at Shotton, River and Sheffield on

LILLCIVIL

tion. at Port several occasions Back F.H. home Talbot where dissenting Lloyds, Midland

I.S.T.C

branches were foundry Brown's threatened with expulsion Dunford and other unions involved Lonrho), and Edgar lacked the experience develop any fight in their defence foundries The last official strike the I.S.T.C. corp. involving was the 1926 General Strike- short. time declaring and then only reluctantly. redundancies. The crucial factor lacking has remained the construc- the to these the experienced

LION

leadership necessary to take on the bureaucrats, fight for a break from the class coll of these aboration of 'participation' specialised firms and assert the independent together their hefty class interests of steel- financial the workers banks Continued next week

Troops prop up capitalism North and South of forces in The balance living standards. * The right to a house and social Ireland now is a striking confirmation of Trotsky's services * Equal rights for all. An end to 1916 analysis that "the his- discrimination torical basis for the national revolution has disappeared divorce, even in Ireland". abortion Neither the Irish bourgeoisie * Down with colonial exoloita.

North South-itself depen- dent on „inance caotal trom Britain and elsewhere-nor the Ene malor bourgeois petty nationalist forces are capable or initiating action that could nreak reano * Down with the bosses' govern free from the grip of imperial- workers'

ISTE

nationa lIneration ment in a united Ireland.

Trotsky's view, had y 1916 in practice become

TROOPS OUT

Question otan vorisino or the Agitation on workers", and it is in this direc- ano broadanga or tem would tion that Trotskyists must lead stress from the outset that none develooment are achievable while gramme for struggle. imperialist army cirect Programme for action propping up bankrupt The Transitional Programme while enaoiina Itset. as a brooramme tor ine and action of the masses is designed exploit prepare vva yi pool of cheap labour workers uorisino. is demanos approach and its must of the economy of Ireland, and applied of the context an entorcind the oppressed ano ovideo reiano the betweer order show to the industrial North and the largely between partition and the con- donculturabou imperialsm effectively ensures and small farmers workers states must North and South Aaltation •oin sides or ine large pools of unemployed and border should therefore centre 'ow paid workers. the following principle on affect demanas. which worker: + The right to a job and decent

PERSPECTIVES

FOR THE IRISH

REVOLUTION

Part Two of the Perspectives document adopted at a recent National Meeting of the Workers Socialist League leading role that must be played by the retarial national struggle. We insist at each point on the religious transitiona need combine democratic arounes. repressive edisation demand! with and all church restrictions on demands the fight against and imperialism. contraception ouch a stance woule become even more crucial were the tion. Withdraw from the EEC attempt Expropriate all foreign capital, tactic unlikely incustries and the ceruse ine strucole throvan the banks. Imperialist troops out establishment of a united capita ist reland Progressive ment, green and orange. ror a and farmers' govern. ouen a deverooment. tor al its contradictions, would represent a historically progressive change, these demands enabiine ine carnoc wor kind class movement, which has been gagged and duped for a the as i tish petty bourgeois nationalist inu Ine real sions. to recoonise that tne British rule enemy is not simply British decaying and imperialism or foreign exploiters the bourgeoisie but also their reactionarv irish britisn hangers-on. industrialists Workers would be forced to Northern Ireland as a falling Unlal standards, mass unemployment, In preventing the unification dwindling or non-existent social services separation women and religious minorities traditionally the fruits not of 'foreign' but of the capitalist Caullalism system itself. that noth remain economically

MATERIAL

NEEDS AND

For the call an irish

TOF

workers' -eous : Hon L ASSANALIAn

SARA MOR

BACK I

NORTHI

IREL

REMEMBER

BLOODY

SUNDAY

DERRY

Sinn Fein demonstration commemorating Bloody Sunday intelligentsia. eared, even in backward Ireland.

the omnipotent English landlord.

proletariat, giving up entering the camp of imperialism.

olutionary consciousness.

ponderance of the green flag over the red.

masses in Ireland both sides of the present border. Key SuCh deltation ano Imperialst propaganda must be the growing 'Irish' capitalists. the Catholic both sides of the population on works border now comoined with ine in nis increasing numbers counterpose Protestant jobless in the North Around deman him national ront or ever worker to a loo the slogan of work sharing on this directly full pay to protect existing jobs threatened in Ireland rationalisation must be combined with the call tackling for a planned programme of use- question of jobs, we ful public works to provide new phasise also jobs. In arguing for these policies it into continuously hecessary reland utilises Ireland foreign the high ployment as a means of ensuring low wages. 'Better off The argument that Protestant workers 'better off than varnoles must De countered a every point by taking up agita tior the chronically living standara. even inis privileged section workers; the imposition through ot the 5% pay Hilary rule limite ano the suoerio tions enjoyed by their counter- parts in Britain itself. Ath dana

SOCIALIST PRESS.

" =

REMEMBER

BLOODY

SUNDAY

DERRY

BLOODY

SUNDAY 9

1972

DERRY

1972 'The general national movement, however it was expressed in the heads of the nationalist dreamers, did not materialise at all.

The Irish countryside did not rise up. The Irish bourgeoisie, as also the upper, more influential, layer of the Irish intelligentsia, remained on the sidelines. The urban workers fought and died, together with revolutionary enthusiasm from the petty bourgeois The historical basis for the national revolution had disapp Inasmuch as the Irish movements in the last century had assumed a popular character, they had invariably fed on the social hostility of the deprived and exhausted pauper-farmer towards • the independent Irish commercial and industrial bourg- eoisie, in so far as it has formed over the past decades, immed- iately adopted an antagonistic position towards the young Irish the national revolutionary struggle and The young Irish working class, taking shape in an atmosphere saturated with the heroic recollections of national rebellions, and clashing with the egotistic, narrow-minded imperial arrogance of British trade unionism, naturally swing between nationalism and syndicalism, ever ready to unite these two concepts in their rev.

It attracts the young intelligentsia and individual nationalist enthusiasts who, in their turn, supply the movement with a pre- In this way, the 'national revolution', even in Ireland, in practice has become an uprising of the workers.

Leon Trotsky Writings on Britain Vol III, pp 168-9 (emphasis added).

by foreign bankers and capital.

must intensify the cutbacks in ists, and the links between these cheering and textile indus and the tries in the North. noldings Protestant workers' Ine nunt tor toreian invest illuson that the link with Britain ment under such conditions not favour, we must only working practical action conditions but also intensifies • eco- une weaknes. oT Ine Erisn british ano inter. nomy and its dependence on the capital, and show him international capitalists linked The desire these ore involvement of the british army dators ana parasites ine lowest possible rates or central super-profits the stands asa : must em- crucial barrier to the establish the that ment of a programme of public Chronic depression in world trade, lurch- works to end unemployment.

open trade war Because of the way imperialist

role of social work Daily harassment of Irish workers exploitation has warped the eco- nomic deve ooment ot reand neither of the existing states has the necessary resources to imp- tement sucn a olan. An all-Ireland socialist plan for expanded ( production based on une exprooration ot toreian and domestic capital essential. In spelling out the need for expropraton. we must comoat and expose not only the pro- imperialist illusions the rrotestant workers.

OUT

ENE

petty bourgeois nationalists and the reformists. But Camyarer exo oo Țon oz coba no programmes of public works on Catholic youth challenge armoured car an all-Ireland basis musi not be dove• signee way or. involvement in and support for actions by Irish workers in defence of jobs or ¡vine standaros. While insisting, that fully-planned ducuudle programme soniy acnlevame Ihrouar exprooria. tion of major indusiay ss parti ot planned socialist Cunony. We uc notexcuoe possibility of fighting for The job-creating public works fi- nanced by taxes levied on bid the ousiness ano run under control of elected workers' com-

ILCES.

Requirements Such demand, though itself partial and inadequate, never ine ess

CONTICTS

WIth TAP requirements Irish foreign capital in the current economic CrISIS and colonia dependency of Ireland North or South, and can thus assist in aemonstrating torcibly to work- ers the necessity of proceeding to expropriate the major capita• ISts.

THE FARMERS

A nother biow adainst ine lin..

tations of nationalism can be struck by spelling vul ucdos cesioned to moollise exoloited sections of small farmers both sides of the border in conflict win une banks and monobov suppliers that profit from their labour. Central to such a oroaramme must be expropriation of major landowners. " The rights of tenant tarmers must be satequarded.

Farmers must be mobilised in cheap credit, Ine Struggle tor joining with workers in banks anu bulane societies to nignt for nationalisation. Working class Thev must be shown that in such a fight the working class is their only ally-the only force capable of challenaino the plun.

dering mignt ot the banks and foreign-owned trusts. While these planks of policy provide an immediate means of exposing the imperialist oppres- ot ireiand. we musu ПО Т day-to-day nealec1 more struggles in which the working class-particularly in its militant the liade unior struddles strengthened south-must with the fight for asliding scale of wages. Agents of imperialism The spotlight, as in Britain, must be focussed on the treach- erous roie or ine trace union leaders, which through class collaboration act in Ireland the agents ot not simoy 'native' capitalist class but agents also of imperialist oppres- The working class-in particu- lar in the South of Ireland-has repeatedly shown its willingness to nignt for Its living standards.

The crucial question ensure that in these struggles a OrincioeroTsKvist egersno is constructed capable of mobi- lising the full strength and assertina une comelete boltica independence of the workers' movement

CONCLUDED

NEXT WEEK

Pru Chamberlayne reviews Social Work Under Capital- ism - A Marxist Approach by Paul Corrigan and Peter Leonard (Macmillan, 1978).

Corrigan and Leonard's Social Work Practice Under Capitalism is a poisonous book. As a 'Marxist' aoproach to it will be seized social work upon by thousands of students and social workers straining aginanism in the treid of sociat dominance adainst policy Ine aeartn ot Marxist texts in the field will give it undue is mailer-me Its Stalinist politics lamur made petrv-oour- geois layers looking for an easy road to socialism. Illusions It w coniime usions those who like to nurse hopeless dreams of the possibi- Hes ord marası o acace social work. It epitorises Stalinism. Para- sitic revolutiondr movement without being com- mitted to it, it uses the of Marxism white and phrases oterino oniv treacnerousv taise solutions. number of 'cases' illustratina the workers, cilemmas social situations involving claimants families overburdened witt truantie. viten!

SOCIA

rebellious kids, isolated pension- ers, and a community project in a stut newt ustd Each one is followed by a

WORKER

the authors on commentary widl raa car soclal workel should have done. Ihe last few chapters dea

DEMAN

with more general points such as reproduction, class, the family, the state. ine soluton doseo to everv

REGRADIN

problem is firstly to help clients to understand their prob- suruculal Tatner Inan terms, and secondly inarviqual

NOW

to turn to the organised labour movement and other progress. ive portical rorces There are no warnings on the dangers of all-class alliances insistence on the need for the independent mobilisation of the quelling the revolutionary after- working class. Tatn or war There is virtually no mention Instead of using the huge ot the momentur behind these role •t socia camoeracy in creating reformist illusions in demands to fight for socialist wel fare services, and no mention revolution to realv answer the fight within the organisa- of needs workers, social movement democrat and Stalinist leaders-

LUTTS

oT une labour against the reformist and treach- anx ous to uonoia ine imits o erous leadership. bourgeois rule-welcomed them uncritically. Workers Blamed Politt the CP pamphle The "problem' for social Answers to Questions in 1945 these said that victory w keis accoroino over that the working fascism gave autnors. "the promise class fails to see the class impli- securing lasting peace, impor- tant social progress and further caluns o wetare This is because the labour new development on the road to movement has not been 'interes- socialism' ted' in welfare issues This prospect, he said The 'eaders' are specifically "depends for its success on the not be blamed-because unity and strengtn ot the labour "There movement and the very hitte evidence of the working of the employers to cooperate.'

Tat Ene mass class has at any stage seen itself as leading society to socialism or Collaboration to anvthino else."' This travesty of history is a Thirtv vears later and not.

lie which serves to cover up the withstanding their left turns in Cold crimes not Just ot social demo the War penod. Ine cratic but also Stalinist leader- advocating olanIStS are STIll ship. class collaborationist policies in campaigns dualisl Tacisin. Pensions, health and unem- nospitai joint consuitative com mitees and in worker participa.

ployment insurance at the turr the and housing in World War 1, poor re T-s. mem e Duble assistance = 9 90= = == -ave a! in tre 33 39=:: arove <e major a ass car: es C-C. - o ec. -.-=- - - "... policy Dy diverting it into snort ment interest in weitare issups that 'homes fit for heroes' lived protest actions. 1918 and 'the welfare state' in corriaan • anddenzre can 1945 were the main devices fo to hold Marxist positions on the Page 9

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Social workers fight low pay: No class perspective from Corrigan and Leonard but their proposals for ›lale. The stigmatisation of the practical action are completely poor, of which social worker TerormIst are inevitably a part, serves to Supplementary benefit tribu- goad others into greater efforts nals are not seen as organs of towards self-reliance rule on which workers clas. questions meretical should not but bodie are glossed over utterly simplis- where trade unionists should be tically. In i the section on class, urged act more class con only two classes are mentioned SCIOUsIV Ine bourgeoisie and the prole• The need is not to fight with tariat. There is no mention of the a protetaran perspective againsi petty the bourgeois state and pouraeoisie ano conse quently not of centrism-a par- egstation, out to engage in tre ticularly apt term dealing policy making process' such sections It is aslander against the as s daical sollal workers. bitter dally struggles of worker!

offices, aoainst sociat security housing departments (and not Similarly left-sonding least social workers) to say they noises made art [ne _eco hack class consciousness nomic ano idealogical tunctior Many workers hate social of the family: yet at the same including the 'radical' workers, time 'progressive aspects They cer lalni ancutionee vitnoul separate socia workers trom tne specitied ana there is no revo repressive apparatus the lutionary perspective put for police, courts etc. the replacement of the family The wav in which these in througr al avidi Lenin stitutions stand directly behind For Marx and and over social workers, in their correct understanoino

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orders, tell state was crucial and they spent supervision and Court work great deal of time refuting sectioning of the mentally ill retormis revisionis, ssldrkiy ciper bosțonc cnnn The Boisheviks, 3es0 = := limitations 'NarG eco-s- . •• = •Humane = :-= = à- --= T=".= sui à .tork-norever Tris book is a travesty of humane that tradition. s aractilioners mar Ery lo •e—s •arr ot a svstem o welfare designed to discipline the working class as a whole

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Vauxhall convenor fights craft claim For the past 18 months, Joint vauxnall the 1,000 skilled craftsmen Committee have been at the forefront september This has of the fight for in any fight on pay. Local District Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant. secretary Keech the aid of the But as a minority convenor 5,000-strong

AUEW

member- ted the skilled men to use only ship, inel demands nave beer the conventional shop stewards repeatedly blocked Convenor Turnbull Jonn And production stewards. wades movement A Tanure last winter to get hel the massmeting, cling har the craftsmen, agreement on a common claim with production workers led the skilied men to witharaw trom percentage offer, the AUEW stewards committee.

They have held spcalalt meelines ever since. Snortiv arterwards week strike took place demand. skilled grade and ing a separate restoraton or diverentials.

Committee This ended lamely Christmas with a pathetic offer trom management ana agreement to set up a "relativi. ties" committee to "look into" citterentiais. This committee recently pro- and the craft duced its report, • is demand- comoine commitee ing it be implemented. This combine commit- tee has also met with represen- tatives cratismer TrOI Delco Liverpool and Southampton, forming a new Craft Combine General Motors Committee (CMLL.. its first meeting this new com- September 18. mittee passed resolution threatening strike action if there the offer by

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£5.50 £10.00 Socialist League. Name. Address. Send to: WSL, London NW5 1HR Big step forward in Bethnal Green struggle The campaign to save Bethnal Hospital both Green send emergency received a major boost last conversion is becun week when two East End hospitals voted to take taken action section of the S.E Inaustria aly start was made in converting all supplies and the hospital into a small contractor geriatric unit. The London Hospital, 'lump' labour. at a mass Wednesday meeting and progressive change drence ov ou workers. voted to begin a 'go-slow' from the direction moment the Area Health paign The Autori carry ouT Ine Inreai non-union labour to League, begin the conversion of empty and in all meetings wards ences about (including sureica wards) into geriatric wards.

consistentiv A similar meeting at Mile fight must be End, another neighbouring hos- labour The 30 workers on strike since September urgently needed. House of 13th at the Holland warehouse near Banbury were last week company's sent dismissal notices. operation wide area of the country.

The dispute over union recognition began following moves over the previous few months by a majority of the workforce join the

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Mass meeting 'no' to closure

OXFORD

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About 80 people who attended public last Tuesday meeting to oppose the proposed of Longworth closure Hospital, geriatric Oxfordshire, told by COHSE steward Vi Fear of the workers' policy to occupy the

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hospital. She called for supporting strike action from other health ser- vice unions in the area. This was backed by

COHSE

official who was praised for his support of nave the Hounslow Occupation "Fightback speaker by from nopes will be a nude turnout on She spoke of the success the occupation,

WITH

widespread backing, summoned to a s-nour meeting before the raid by the AHA, but omitted to mention the lack of strike action which anal could have saved the hospi- tal. Lay of Acton. The Witney Trades Council chairman who from the platform SOOKe stressed the importance of ettorts publicity in the call Dale! to keep Longworth open.

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support Supporting action yales But

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mem Del Twiger to win the strike- Gwu from the South Oxford Campaign, which Nursery had led a seven-week occu- pation, stressed that without full supporting publicity alone was action, ineffective. A steward from British Health service Leyland's Cowley factories stewards in pointed the massive and North profits made by the drug have successfully begun companies and building firms at a time when the the battle to

AHA

was pleading lack run-down and closure of of funds. St. Mary's Hospital He called for an investi- Harrow Road. gation bv Following workers into those com- shop panies, and endorsed the COHSE call for supporting TGWU and ASTMS, a mass industrial action, receiving meeting at the 12th September response from the meeting. unanimously and The fight for labour closure Hospital action to keep Longworth and Cowley mittee. Road Hospitals open is now As a result being taken to the Oxford conference held Union Trades meeting, Committee and the Oxford Illass press has given Trades Council. coverage Of coall

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The last Garners support conference.

Region 1 retreats bureaucrats have become increa- determined force of cancellation LIGi Lay Action. Visits from Shorter to the ceased factory olanned

VISITS

and financial aid was contin. •t Action itsert. On Monday September 11, appeared Strike Shorter committee meet ne and next day Regional Secretary Staden threatened to withdraw TrOM Udy Action. But Strike Committee „Tne held firm ano went Into last Wednesday's meeting with the majority arguing to press ahead wow the dy without official backing The resulting climbdown by Regional officials highlights the bureaucracy, weakness and the necessity to press for- with ward the Strike Commi- conterence-where trees delicies or mass pickete blacking Garners' suppliers and a Regional levy to increase rerusa strike £36 pay shop stewards' campaign. Paddington Shop stewards also attended Kensington Commu a recent Health Council public meeting, motion wallere stop the carried opposing any management scheme that would mean the closure of in local hospital clinic. Despite a direct challenge speeches by a member of the WSL, however. mem bers present refused to commit hospital on themselves on the question voted of the Or to fight the in health cuts service elected general. Defence Com- Shop stewards of a press Following up their initia- after the tive shop stewards Joe the local Beckles (TGWU) and Colin extensive Kenny,

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Fisher's Fiasco 'LEFT' TALKING NUPE Gen- eral secretary left with virtually no-one to talk when last Sunday. stewards the Loncon demonstration on low Pay turned out to be a 40 strong has ordered 'chiefs' Amona Ene otner inquiry into who turned up without Indians membership were SE Region TUC Secretary Packing sack vromer ano lett Labour. Banbury, Oxon. ite Arthur Latham Despite Fisher's embarassed bluster that this flop was 'only tne start or the campaign, loca authority workers must keep a Phase 1l1 of the careful watch on this leadership, ment's wage at the height of the dav cair iremen's strik and kangaroo At a later point NUPE lead- ers coul• well be coing out oi nig ues used their way to ensure a repetition leading of Sunday's miserable display in Plant. oroer to out une sea on a sell- out deal with management.

Camden builders fight the lump 20 building workers, members of TGWU and

UCATT,

have been on the Direct unofficial strike for over 3 They have weeks in North London support from however protesting at the sacking of their senior steward and the were ThAV use of lump labour by their official who employer Malvern Construc- bosses luxury tion Ltd. to return to work! The This advice has been firm operate in the kentish own area of London Imousi conducting strikers are calling work, and is thus closely linked ting messages and finance with sent to strike HO Labour controller Council. Road, London NW1. Paddington Labour Party General Council on Tuesday real needs of 19th Septem Area workers for Although Health chairman, John Authority force the Dunwoody (an ex-Labour unions minister) junior took action against most of the available time, shop stewards put forward of a programme candidates to opposition the cuts.

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Whole strategy economic strategy ASTMS shop steward ment, he said Colin Kenny, said that what was needed from Labour Party activists was a fight silent against the whole strategy sion of the Labour government, which was Crected * Defence making workers pay for the crisis of capitalism. He date argued that they support from should demand a Labour Labour

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Yet another Region 5 frame - up- held on the site with full In another major move to victimise militant shop facilities granted by bureaucracy manarencil of the TGWU Region No. 5 No charges or allegations Regional are being made, but any the

TGWU

against the who have a gripe stewards con- Export at Services near encouraged cerned will be to attend-the charges will Aimed at stewards who, be drawn up afterwards.

TGWU

branches should as leaders or the site, lea a principled struggle against immediately submit resolu- Govern- tions condemning this latest witchhunting move by the controls last year, the methods employed notorious Region 5 bureau cracy, which has established follow exactly the frame-ur court techn- a record second to none in willingness nine split stewards at British and victimise Drenches Leyland's Cowley Assembly even seek expel any worker who challenges the two-day inquiry (3rd dictatorial rule of the and 4th October) is to be TGWU leadership.

IN BRIEF

A £40 FINE was the pen. alty inflicted last week on Leeds Trades Council Sec. retary Beryl Huffingley for The strikers have called for organising "illegal dem- onstration' Labour on May Day local councillors and from workers in this year. Labour department. She and another Trades Council member WerE union officials, cleared of obstructing the police. Indeed, according to strikers, The march had been confronted by one the banned by Labour Home arrived in Rees Secretarv the "mousine climbed out, and called on them Public Order Act.

NEARLY

THOUSAND

unan- a no engineering workers for suppor. Transmission Manufactur- to ers Renold Ltd have been strike since September 18 for a 10% pay_claim exceeds the govern. ment's Phase 4 pay limits.

The firm not only sticking firmly the 5% limit, but is also attempting to include within that sum movement inquiry into the shift an increase in OrCH Paddington iums - which means in eff.

health vale. ect a rise of only 32%. They should also fight to health service effective take A VICIOUS ATTACK has the Labour been launched on the work.

leadership's policies; and for force of two major firms in all prospective Labour Party Winsford, Cheshire, with be mandated the against the a management blacklist op of Calla- Winsford Engin- erated by ghan and Healey in Parlia- eering. The blacklist, which app- Local "left" MP. Arthur lies to workers who have silent through pre discus- predictably previously employed been at International Computers or Metal Box, has beer The St. Mary's Hospital given favourable publicity Committe by press and television. calling for a public meeting Socialist Press next week in early October to consoli- will examine some of the local background to this witch- bodies. hunt.

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Reject Bingham cover up The Bingham report on workers' inquiry linking the knowledge sanction busting London, Paris, New. York and of Rhodesia is a whitewash job tne back Atricar workers whe small paint very have seen arrive Witn the will bring out the full truth.

brush. Smith 1905 when declared that his racist Govern Already there is more than would it alone, the enough evidence to kick Wilson, go government was Rhodesian canadnan. Healev ano ine rest about 4.000 tonnes out of the Labour Party. Imbortine of oil products a year. them their Let join former 1978 it imports about terow Minister hicnare varsi in the Tory Party. The pathetic bleatings of the Never once in the is years of UDI has a garden gate in the 'lefts' are not enough Salisbury Callaghan and Healey musT replaced with a leadership much as squeaked tor the lack be of oil. repared

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minority interests Dr ana Shell and open the books of the companies Carnival demonstrators last Sunday of black and white Inouiry workers. Show trial's cover blown Wilson of the i ne stze mar kel, compared to the entire African operations is not large. Ireland the possibility of the The trial of Aubrey, The decision by BP and Shell trial rebounding caused the state and other multi-national Berry and Campbell under to cancel it and start again.

together with the companies, the Official Secrets Act was determined efforto prevent the This time there South African aovernment, to because stopped of not keep the oil supplies flowing question journalistic prosecution evidence trom being was only secondly 'gratuitous made to look quite so ludicrous.

as the judge, Mr. ot maintaining protes on on to gossip, charge 'collecting Rhodesia: Justice Willis, claimed. information against Duncan Primarily it has been It was stopped dropped- maintain political decision because Ene Camboel to extent of clumsy state inter- which will reduce the number of the waite racists in dower occasions on which the prosecu vention It is in that context that the choosal y Government's decision conviction had been bubbling to tion will have to insist that the Wilson the surface throughout the trial, Post Office Tower is referred to to give a nod and a wink to the which was rapidly turning into a only by a number. sanction busting should be seen.

The has public platform for the defence.

jury Understatement The since been revealed, volunteerec revelation In e beginning of the trial that the for the job of chairing the would not stop talking odd potential and names of all 80 As Bingham put it in the case, even jurors nad been nanded to tne aboute understatement of the year: prosecution for security vetting breaks. "It induced among some 01 Of Berry, the former soldier had underlined in heavy ink the those most directly concerned.

he had declared that he "should political frame up was That belief that compliance with taking place. have had miltary Trial- the Sanctions Orders was to be straight fourteen years, when it also became DUl regarded as a matter •T TOrM known that the toreman or Ine rather than of substance, that it must Of Camobell. that he letter which mattered, the served imperialism have intended to pass his infor- was not ne solell. mation onto someone. Malava. Cyprus and Nortern He also says the policy was "at all

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the Fund is coming in far toc The Labour were leo to misunderstand or Last week saw

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Mark tusner, IrL One uror told the New Statesman: "He never stopped talking about it, even in the corridors and in the canteen during lunch breaks, on and on, , trying. convince the other members.

The Press agreed to suppress history the foreman's past the that even had court knew Christopher Hitchens not spoken of it in the Russel Harty would have погостами. been publicised after The Tria ABC supporters by Now after the convenient ill- ness which smole Judge Willis, a new judge will preside over the trial the becomes the ABC Committre more urgent for and the NUJ to call a Labour movement Conference to agitate be dropped Tor the case to It must focus on The need for strike action throughout the should any Labour movemen ot tne detendents be Jarred

WSL MEETINGS

ISLINGTON

Tuesday October 10, 7.30 North Library, Manor Gdns, N7. (opp Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway Rd) Strike to break Phase 4

PAST

BRICK LANE

• 50,000 workers and youth joined the Anti-Nazi massive League 'Carnival 2' last •week in another vivid display of working-class hostility to racism and fascism. But, in calculated to anti-lascists provocation and to the immigrant community, 1,000 National thugs flanked Front 5,000 police staged a simul- taneous march into the old Mosley stronghold Hoxton.

ANL

including leaders, the ever-talkative Peter no real Hain, had made effort to oppose this mobi- lisation, and the Front were challenged by more than 1,500 anti-fascists they marched through the Brick Lane area from which paper sellers had beer driven out a few weeks ago.

Immigrant While the forces rallied to the ANL danced to the music of Elvis Costello, on the other side Scargill - his base is Mason's British imperialist violence will continue be meted out to those Irish men and women that dare to struggle for the right of self-determination. at was tne clear announce

OXFORD

Wed, October 4, 8.00 OCCR, Princes St, (off Cowley Rd) Strike action needed to stop hospital closures

FASCISTS

MARCH

of London immigrant youth and workers were attacked SPG thugs, who by police energetically cleared a path friends. for their fascist out of Brockwell Park led And as coaches Carnival, the anti-fascists travelling by tube from savagely were attacked by NF supporters- and then searched by police Nothing could more clearly show that the buil- ding "mass", largely non-political movement such as the ANL, based on enhappy ontonary compromise an betweet and bourgeois groupings, the no the struggle mobilise workers' movement in the building of genuine workers defence squads to drive the fascists off the streets wher- ever they show their heads.

It was conspicuous that Brick lane and u Brockwell Park it was the League Workers Socialist Youth the Socialist alle League who, almost alone this essentia lor

TOURIL

policy.

ARMY STAYS

SAYS MASON

ment by Labour's torture minis- ter Roy Mason last week, reponse to a growing-if motley -pressure for the withdrawal o prominent advo The latest leading withdrawal • CaTE John Pardoe Liberal politiciar though the motives behind this statement are far from clear his Mason's latest statement follows on his earlier declaration that The •trained assassinatior the British SAS will squads remain operating in Ireland His statement ceany soared out the class collaboration that of Labour's support slavish imperialism "Business confidence is non Coeine reove ment being made the province", delightedly de Cared t The Labour leaders' clearly invest hope that the massive army of ment in sustaining the occupation in Ireland is begin British bear truits tol nine capital in the snape or intensi fied exploitation of the chronic and low paic ally unemployed frish working class The scandal sanat mason the front man for the reaction. cabinet, rests Callaghar dry Ine staunch Nuv subbort in ne home constituency in Barnsley.

march through Barnsley been caller on octobe the Troops Unite

OUT

Movement to highlight the role and demand of Butcher Mason the witherawal or trodos essential that this with a fight initiative is linked ThrouGnout and trade union movement to drive Mason and the out leadership Callan rede whose hands the repression of the Irish working class.