Socialist Press no. 119

STRIKE WITH FORDS

Even while the wilting 'lefts' strike nothing to press ahead with official pay the fight. against the Ford motor It is the company's 5% Phase 4 reflecting offer tightens its grip, hostility the Labour Party throughout has, class, conference under the usually pressure of the mass conference into a humiliat- movement of the work- ing battleground on which ing class, decisively the Party leadership has met thrown out the govern- the biggest challenge so far to its wage-cutting policies.

ment's pay policy. 2-1, By over Labour delegates cast their votes for free collective bargaining, in defiance of the pleas and blackmailing threats trom Chancellor Healey, Prime Callaghan Minister and former left' Michael Foot.

But within the Labour Party there is no alternative leadership prepared to draw out the consequences of this vote and campaign for the Callaghan- remova leadership Healey and socialist manifesto. Arrogant As a result, immediately after the vote Healey was to heard arrogantly were the block votes of the declaring the government's determination to proceed TGWU and AUEW 4 limits— with the Phase confident Labour's Ford factories

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CLEAR OUT

CALLAGHAN

would do failure of AUEW leaders to discipline tool- sulking makers convinced have Ford strike, these top TUC bureaucrats the seething them holdingpro pector to the 5% limit them holding ment's 5% pay limit in the working way they upheld Phases 1, that has transformed docile Labour 2 and 3. could be Fearing they unofficial left behind by movements against Phase 4 the union leaders concerned have chosen to declare strike. Fords, but workers in the colossal power of has remained untapped three years of sabotage pay. Grinding halt Official calls for solidarity and blacking action have brought Ford's whole British operation to a grinding halt, and action by Gormley dockers and has seamen Crucial to this overturn stopped both the regular and imports of Hord cars also the Ford export components. The massive walk-outs in The International Metal- and the workers Federation has called Dall throughout Ford's plants producing BUTOOCal supplies for the British a bid to In produce this settlement of TapIa dispute and pressure the Labour government to climb down on its 5% limit,

TGWU

General Secretary Moss Evans has gone further and talked of similar action against Phase 4 in other key sectors of British capitalism, such as British Oxygen and road haulage. But these and

ACTORS

words nave an impact lar wide-reaching than more recognise.

LOTTICIA

They can unleash a move- Evans ment that will disrupt their PHOTO: Chris Davies. Report Callaghan

ALL PRODUCTIVITY

Fraud PHOTO: Laurence Sparham, IFL Ford strikers picketing a shop stewards meeting last week efforts limit workers' to struggles and even possibly bankrupt firms. topple the Callaghan govern- But of the particular, has movement attempted

SOLS

of action to highly threats struggles now profitable sections of capitalist industry, focussing their ability pay.

ULL

Negotiators in Vauxhall, ing for instance, where declared aside. •routs are amower udu have pulled back

OTOS

from any attempt to follow the Ford strike. This is despite the fact that with Fords, they have been offered no more such a development than a 5% increase on the take place and that basic rate. there is no doubt And their own old Jack Jones that them. argument that claims Nor should pay preserve the viability of the employer will be their leaders wheeled by out

UNLO

officials in British Leyland interests GenT Garners Feature inside See page 4

DEALS ARE A

O WE SAY

TUFF THE 5°

and other supposedly near- working class. Ford workers, particular- strike committe sh to stand their workers must own increasingly see the strength organised labour firm until their demands are and see them- met. selves as part of the growing Whether it be Evans' call for 'responsible' bargaining.

on the agenda not only in Fords but also Gormley's plea to Callaghan "trust the among bublic sector manua workers, this type of reason-

TUC

these leaders could well be thrown have upheld three years of wage controls fear above all the growing militancy Fight alongside within the working class. They will attempt every way ham per the If the Ford workers are .TO struggle in defence of living to succeed it is vital that standards-through negotia- does ug joo-culing proaucuvits other deals, through arguing that sections are brought out on special case, rola 1s a claims alongside through suggesting that increases could bring wage. workers mistake the left' phrases of The answer to such pleas for • a willing- Continued back page ness to clena me maepen- of the

New danger of coup Page 2 in Spain The death of fascist dictator Franco three found his years ago headless panic-stricken followers trying to run in two directions simul- taneously. One section which came to be led by the slick and cunning Suarez moved, with the help of the treacherous leaders of the parties and workers more recently Fidel Castro towards and others, exceptionally instituting an controlled and limited form parliamentary democracy. 18 After months this democracy still maintains exact v the same powel band criminals whom Franco appointed LIUStCCS But the other section of •the headless Francoists have not disappeared. Hard line They remain in nearly all positions Crucial power in local government where there have stil been most elections) and important in the police and Clay. These hard-line "rancoists have been ready 1975 at any moment since to seize power if the Suarez controlled project The announcement that US President Carter Cairo will travel to to attend the signing of an Israel-Egypt peace reveals agreement clearly the imperialist behind the strategy Camp David summit. all Looking above safeguard the Zionist settler state, bul also to establish US base influence within the Arab world, Carter had set out from the beginning, obtain to bilateral deal between israe and Egypt, at the expense of the oppressed Palestinian people. Such a deal, it is hoped, will effectively neutralso Egypt as the major Arab military power, and secure one of the borders of the Zionist state. 1here was never any red. that deal prospect any acceptable to Begin wollo also be endorsed Dy lne other Arab states-even those most hostile to the struggles of the Palestinians.

Only the puppet sultar Qabus of Oman-installed British by government forces in 1967—has COMe forward out of the entire Arab world to support the deal. And even King Hussein of Jordan, whose army first attempiea lo Palestinian. forces fighting Zionism from within Jordanian borders, has been forced to stand apart from Sadat's deal- treacherous recognising that is com-

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democratisation looked like failing to keep the masses in order. Undoubtedly sections of the police and army officer corps have already on three or tour occasions in the last two years been on the point ol making an attempt at a coup. Shot dead And another such now be Illay approaching. week in the Basque Sebastian two city of San policemen the Civil Guard were shot dead in the street. This brings to nearly 20 the number of police killed unis yeal alone. July these The leaders of the early Spanish equivalent of the shootings and the assassina- leading General Police Federation were of were used by the police and calling interiol Tne Martin Villa, Minister army as pretexts tor a series because he was too of murderous attacks on the resign illasses Detachments of armed police amok the Skin deep ran of Renteria, border indiscriminately attacking the time the the inhabitants. army Chief of Staff, Liniers, Argentina flattering 'Too soft' was General Videla and publicly In the same week police Spanish saying attacked demon- would act brutally military 1t and San Sebastian when they had to. 1n Defence Minister killing The and Pampiona, member of the Revolution- was obliged to make a state- Communist League ment saving that the armi al y did not plan to seize power

(LCR).

Camp David plot exposed pletely unacceptable to the Arab and Palestinian masses.

Irish This last noint has been by underlined the PLO attacks on the Zionists, union foiled the last Zionist forces. moment by And a meeting of West Bank mayors has also unan- rebels imously declared the Camp David settlement unaccept- able IN THE Irish Republic the The Palestinians must construction industry faces a continue the war against the period and near Zionists it thev are to regain paralysis as leaders of the Auto their stolen homeland and motive, General. cectrical and the racist state of Mechanical Operators' Union destroy (AGEMOU) voted Israel. last week But in doing so they will dery an rISh ultimatum conflict proceed with a strike by find themselves in employed with of their many "friends" the HoRostone supposed 1n Roadstone is the country's Arab nationalist various building biggest supplier wallis defied ICTU rules by indepen- dently placing pickets on com- Money not paid the depots country in pursuit of their wage The most recent conter- ence of rejectionist states-

AGEMOU

has been The Libya and Algeria including threatened with exoulsion from

PLO

leader Arafat the

ICTU

for breaching the -saw National complaining Agreement wages financial lilat aid at an earlier the bureau Che el breaching cratic code of conduct, on meeting has not been yel picketing. received. Libyan leader Gaddafi on the next National Agreement replied that he seem likely to be thrown further was not a banker, and offered instead dem agogic speech of The Irish TGWU is holding two delegate meetings to decide solidarity. The struggle var lie salt 110W further National Agreement urgently the con. seems likely that this struction of Trotskyist could lead to the withdrawal of Party to assert ine pontica single biggest Irelane s independence of the Pales- and an effective collapse of the tinian masses. CP and SP leaders Carrillo and Gonzales paying homage to the Francoist flag Stalinists at that moment. TInA nonetneies like CP, Shortly after this immed- main iate crisis had passed, hard- conscious political role is to show the capitalist class and line Francoist Manuel Fraga, Francoist police and of the Popular Tende army Alliance, began a new, more wien stanas benine it) that Socialist and Com- vigorous political campaign.

again it had been munist leaders can keep the Once best shown how skin-deep working class on 1ts Spanish "democracy" behaviour without the need for Francoist bullets. Now the further police killings (by a section of the CPs 'no nationalist organis- Basaut ation ETA) have brought all strike' plan • pressures to the Tne surface once again. Pretext THE EXECUTIVES of the three main union organ.

These reactionary in Italy-including threats ov one section the Communist Party led the Francoists are used by CGIL-are drafting a plan the leaders une that whereby they agree munist Party as a pretext there will be no strikes a for strengthening their certain times public alliance with Suarez and the industries "democratic" Francoists. This is because public With last year's Moncloa service workers have under- point the Daci standablv been pickıng thi and the capitalist expiring, most stratetically effective class desperate to maintain wage control, the CP 1s/now But leaders, union preparing the ground for a including the Stalinists, have new phase of wage control decided that this must stop.

Conscious role They have set to vuL improve the Dublic image The Stalinists plan to use of the unions by taking their bureaucratic control of away their power to cause the Workers Commissions in industrial stoppages. efforts to wage If the deal is agreed there unel controls down the throats public servic would be no of the working class strikes at Christmas Although the Socialist strike publicly Party is when are most used Coolel they towards another pact than le.g. during the rush hour

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Pickets last week outside Ben Stret: Magistrates Court demanding no extradition of alleged Red Army Face:" were Astrid Proll SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday + Ocrober 1978 Brazil: socialist prisoners still in jail A large international campaign has helped to the release of secure some of the socialists imprisoned in August by the Brazilian dicta- torship. On September 18 the two arrested leaders of th Argentinian Socialist Workers Party

(PST).

Nahuel Moreno and Rita Strasberg, were released and deported to Colombia A few days earlier the

PRT

leader Portugues Antonio Sa Leal and some arrested of the Socialist members Convergence had been set free. those who Among demand for supported the of the freedom these socialists the Spanish and Communisi Parties, the Portuguese Parties, the French Socialist Party and the CP-dominated trade union federation, the

CGT

Many other trade union and political leaders signed the petition In Britain it was signed by among MP Dennis Skinner and ex- deputy General Secretary of the AUEW, Ernie Roberts. A picket took place out. side the Braziian embassi in London on September 18 release of the prisoners was handed to a representative of the Brazilian regime. According latest eight members Socialist Convergence are still jailed. The campaign for their release must continue.

militant No socialisi worker in Brazil, however will be safe until the Geisel dictatorship is overthrown Freedom for the socialist prisoners in Brazil! Down with the Geisel dictatorship!

Movement of Indian Iraqi backing for butcher SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 October 1978

-INTERNATIONAL

masses highlights leadership crisis of Indira plans the bourgeois state, the Desai liver ment has shown tocratie Gandhi to return to parlia- of ment leader the programme. official opposition party are For now maturing rapidly. fumblings economic two and half year Since general election the Janata policy, ago, which intended to act in the interests of capitalism.

WB•T

TrOn Workers demanding power land overturned the mammoth majority in her own increases and poasants Gandhi has fre- quently. and passionately sharp and often violent conflict declared that she renounces with this government. for high office Gandhi worked ambition and exploit those movements and to Serve no lan people' humble vane and me danger or the stations. Congress (Indira) those millions resounding claims have always sounded cavernous- ly hollow. Now an MP of the Congress ¡indira) nas agreea to resign nis safe seat in the southern state of Karnataka utal daughter can resume her career in style. Gandhi's election would deal the buffeted Janata coalition.

Brought to government on a ticket Heroe the has dared Janata never nor fundamentally desired TO orie account for those Canont The generous credit from the Indian 'demo- mates cratic' force has long since been exhausted. •reserving massive central machinery of cracy and the capitalist class.

Ruhollah Ayatollah But Khomeini's espousal of Khomeini the exiled •emocratic Chanee leader of Iran's Shi'ite opportunistic and hypocritical muslims. as it may be-nas meant that in the eyes of a large section of the At present he is calling for this aged oppressed the overthrow of the dictator- Tasse: religious leader has Shit shan and tor the restoration of the democratic rebresent a nope or rener Trom contained in the Persian the cruel and hated dictatorship rights of the Shah. constitution of 1906 This is not altered by the Limited таст unar at the some time orner Shi'ite leaders and even •very limited Khomeini, whose pronounce- was democratic constitu. bourgeois ments are seldom unambiguous tion. its impiementaton dr tie ane wile represents Ine religious hierarchy, have also •resent time woul• not sove the material mobilised and masses people problems of the Persian masses.

the very onlan the over- reactionary demands. inat woule recutre throw of the semi-feudal aristo- Until the movement mass 'Communists' Against 166 pages £1.75 plus 20p p&p Revolution Essential reading for anyone attempting to reach a scientific under- standing of the contradictory role of post-war Stalinism. Contains Tim Wohlforth's little- known 'Theory of Structural Assim- ¡lation', suppressed since 1964.

Available from WSL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 of the unemployed starving in the towns and the countryside.

More supporters her dictatorship the pro-Soviet Communist Party of india. have come forward the mass agitation of the 'Untouchables'.

No authority Desai and his coalition that danuel. mey have not the authority restrain Gandhi provoking enormous and threat-

OTOLESS

nationa Poverty alongside new technology in Indian crisis can produce a leadership which independent reoresents The interests the classes, then religious ano betty dourdeois neera inte.

lectuals will continue to play an role in the opposition to the Shah. •uc a earersolo is an ever.

present danger to the masses because it will always be ready Comoromise tell Interests with the enemy. For anyone who claims to be such a leadership ¡lusions In would be a grave crime. Direct collaboration cut there is even worse crime: direct collaboration with the Shah's bloody dictatorship any bart The mass movement, including its preser: leadership. ==: But The neighbouring Irac the past week In response to requests from Much though they hate and Gandhi, they find fear worker strueste peasants a far more intolerable prospect. But the Janata's problems do mor eno win canones resur- gence and the bitter fighting within its own ranks. deedenimo economi crisis of capitalism ravages under developed countries such with

HALBISITY

profitability, assault has to be made on the organised and economic political strengun or tne working class. An Industrial Relations Bill has prepared purpose. anata aadam their wages treeze, this bill proposes wide-ranging government powers of imposing compulsory disputes. armation ana strikes • In eccential is of course ¡'essential' defined broadly). Unior bureaucrat have been closely involved in the discussions towards the final the democratic restrictions on rights of workers have already met with fierce opposition from Ine mos mit ne sectons or tae class At the same time, Desai's Tace. problems asserting the authority of the central govern- meNT over The cowe tul governments, only half of which the tyrant himself these treacherous 'socialists' have put Khomeini, and reportedly other hersianegoers exteo ov The Shah, under house arrest and have refused them any oppor- communicate WITh their followers. The iradi regime which is a coalition et tne saałh socialisi Party and some members of the Communist Party who survived the recent bloody purges, now lines up with the Moscow and Peking bureaucracies, the British LaDouT government and the Carter administration lin deeds, friends not only in

OUT NOW!

WRP JUNKS

THE OLD

TROTSKYISM

Page 3 are now controlled by the ments of other states. Janata. Last week, Kanail Bhattach.

These problems have reached arjee, Minister of Industry, even their highest and most complex demandee tual form in West Bengal, where the government ease its restrictions Party so that multinationals and major Communisi iMarkist holds an absolute majority Indian capitalists could invest seats leads a popular front more in tue state. governme Extend exploitation pretensions and mass the CP(M) has dragged support, Far from acting to expro- out all the old arauments ani priate such sections of imperial some new ones, to justify its for a socialist lined on bay and establish some basis treacherous activity and failure to moot une demand oT workers the CP(M) working and peasants. the ir exploitation of extend workers! romises ot tang retorm have materialised in a But the development of the petty and bureaucratically hidebound was struggle in vest bengal s reaching well beyond the •rooramme that nas cone t*s to alter the distribution artificial strangling agricultural property. which the limitations : has the CP(M) по•із то imdo! Chief Minister Jyoti Basu sought mobilise the revol strength of the now talks of introducing legis working class to carry through lation land reform. lane and seize massive holdings of multi But or word the nationals and other major bour clas election and geois comoanies do yvest cereal Shown The On the contrary, they have of the

CP(M)

sought to bring pressure on the and frustrated lining weakness and vacillation of that Janar: coalition alongside the bourgeois govern- CP(M) leadership, thousands of landless labourers 'all seized land them. STATe have selves for cultivation. The workers and peasants of West experiencing Benea the bitter betrayals of an inade- quate leadership that has neither determinatior Tite ability to lead them to victory.

Shan Toss aside Huge social forces are moving • Torward in India with the power to toss aside the coalition, throzaism inindia. threaten survival words) of one of the most But the CP(I) and CP(M) can repressive tyrannies masses only The inoian

WOTI

remind readers of workers in struggles Socialist Press that this band of criminal enemies of the working India will be spent uselessly, it they are not firmly directed by class nace We arte a leadership fighting for a revol week given uncritical adulation by the Newsline, : ot utionary programme to mobilis paper Workers the Revolutionar against its enemias, and Party, organisation which unite behind those forces makes the grotesque claim of prepared to battle for socialism being Trotskyist against the oppression of imper- We ask these "Trotskyists" ialisin, against political exploit- of the WRP leadership yet again thes Iraqi —00 Ine populists, and against government's *the dieatorship of measures counter-revolutionary agents of of Stalinism. the Shah of Iran? WRP leaders!" junk the old Trotskyism

GADDAF

SPEAKS

: 70 1 1 05

GARNERS: STOP THE

SABOTAGE: MOBILISE

Page 4 TGWU officials Abrahams (left) and Shorter (standing) TUC 'left' Jack Dromey 'Socialist Press interviews strike committee members Manuel Blanco and Mohamed Maboob. What is the importance of the October 7 Day of Action?

MB: The 7th could be the turning point of the strike. We have not onese or us from the Regional Committee to call this day of action off But the strike committee

STOOG

TIrm. nave Deen threatened that the Region would call off the day of action.

tried break us by threatening Whene rawer but the strike com- stood firm and they were mittee vorce to give orticia Dacking.

There was way they could evade their responsibility. of. Action important because if we get a big turn out can challenge we te conce ane scaes It is very important that at end the demo people the don't drift away this hope wve provide with enough publicity show all trade to are still that we to get their support strike ano to help us win But importantiy will strengthen our position to force the Region to implement our policies. During the long hotel strikes against 1 rust nouss rorta the strike for union recognition into its fifth month went strikers discovered that TGWU officials were negotiating return behind conditions backs. Have you any such fear in this strike? MM: We have no fear of any- body because we are determined TO SUCK o our policies-nich we have stuck. for eight • ta months. These policies are-no return to work without union recog- nition and reinstatement on 26 January. MB: We didn't have to wait five see similar months moves. After few weeks our officials went behind our backs Her•mare

LATOUCH

HUMO

without the strikers' knowledge.

The first we heard of it was

THE TGWU!

Manuel Blanco Telegraph where George Abrahams was reported as offering a complete return to work narchance T01 Marcos agreeing to an ACAS inquiry.

second actually report. was TGWU paper Record itself!

We stand by our policies-no to work without union return ment of everyone of us. we have made it of clear to the officials in charge

SITIKE

That tne strike committee should take part in every negotiation with manage- Well. How has the increased violence of the scabs over the past three wooks affected the strikers? MM: Not all, encouraged them more. The company is really weak and it is the latest tactics they ust frighten us MB: don't think Marboob CoffeeL. coct attect some strikers, It doesn affect the very strong have attacked us with Sticks ano meat axes, tney rave abused us thrown water over NF have beaten us, Asian brothers-it is bound to affect us. The only way to defend our- selves is very strong picketing on every branch, every day of the week. For example on Wednesday night we haug recular doeed from

UCAT

building workers. When they are picketing the scabs Whitcome Street (the any most veene neve make attempt to attack anybody.

The moment get big

OFFICIAL

STRHE

Picketing outside Garners with SE Region The policies passed by the Strike Committee and the TGWU 1640 Branch last spring: 1) No return to work without recognition and reinstate- ment. 2) Secondary blacking of supplies and suppliers.

3) TGWU must organise regular daily picketing of all restaurants with a mass picket every Saturday.

4) To pay strikers a living wage of f36 per week, if necessary to be raised by a Regional levy.

delegations on the picket lines

UCATT.

and financial support from the We have had six times more financial from outside help mentor Kees us going our morale will be lifted. I Ne General Executive of the CPSA alone gave us £250 If the company is weak and I think it is easy for trade the morale or tne strikers strong Union To suboot omel why do you think it has taken struggles but they are afraid of eight months so far to win this of supporting the implications Tner own After six months on strike MM: Because we believe that started going several we Grunwick ha: one une way and shop for the small employer to fight meetines stewards meetings. back against trade union The majority of meetings we Hovelicie went to didn't know anything Margolis believes that if he about Garners at all. holds out we will get fed up at So how can they mobilise picketing and leave they the membership when much We also haven't got as don't know what is doina on?

expected from ou nel • About five months ago own trade union asked the so-called lefts' in the But we getting help from Nicholson the rank bureaucracy to circulate all branches Mane main reason is lack publicising our policies.

They of support our union. I refused-and after completely could go on and on about that question. letter still hasn't been circulated At beginning of the The relied on the unior strike we we learned that we have TG incerencent union officials and put our own policies forward. 5(293 61 we found out that out Inen the same

COVLEY

union OTTICIAlS wine had promised everything before blocked every policy put the strike Torward

UNIT

They said at some points secondary blacking was 'illegal"

IS STREN

To organise any levy on the membership was "against the rules" was "out of Mass picketing the question" They say it mobilise very difficult the mem dershi• oUT we Toune out that everywhere we went we got from the rank a good esponse and file of the union IT tney say it is very nara to mobilise the other it- the unions the last Day of Action than the whole of TGWU Region 1.

becauseave SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 Ocrober 1978 Ford shutdown shows scale of Garners sabotage Within a matter of days but in a much smaller. and simpler dispute, where wage the TGWU's official pay even directly in control is dispute against the giant not question, the TGWU's record is Ford motor company had very different brought its British operation After eight bitter months of and a substantial part of its on struggle Dicken tnEs strikers at Garners Steak Houses •European production grind- London are still denied the ing to a halt. active support oT une unen Blacking had been called for the form of effective blacking and obtained on the docks and and refused the action, even And Trom te stamens unton. Technes international talks on solidarity circulate the policies action had been set up: strike committee to the London Region's 500,000 members.

this pag interview or bears testimony to the courage and determination Garners sunker. This vicious tin-pot employer clearly faces financia But the fact that this strike has entered its ninthe Gu indictment of the leadership. Not alone Of course the TGIVU leader- ship are not alone in seeking to inectendent moolis: tion of the class defend their living standards

TIS SUKI

through branches that the

TUC

supported by every 'left' in the unions, con- How do you think the strike spired to isolate and defeat the is going to be won? firemen's struggle against Phase MB: We have to force the It has spanned the whole Region implement our policies. period since-until the striker!

themselves see their own TGWU very im oortant leadership dragged by the remember the role of the trade their Fords of the Uner of the baite a the forefront Grunwick betrayal-it was only battle against Phase through sell-out that the of the Garners despite the le lessors Wd. • struggre are again a contirmation mobilisation Tine that 'left' babblers- like the class. open right wing-will do nothing All take employers now betray advantage of that defeat salutaye struggles Incependent Spain, my ssimilal working class. country, in the 1930s reading "Homage Harrassed Catalonia bv George Orwell.

When the peasants and Whilst pickets have been took over land workers and fascists beaten by scabs Front leaders told then roould narrassee them to hand it back. Region with 500,000 members did not do this in a refused to lift a finger in have and straightforward obvious mobilising the necessary force assalt as Wrwer says to close Margolis down mas don policy or in their own members protect small policy pin moves a from racist and scab violence somebody called it-

TIONS.

instede inev nave and on the whole very cleverly agreement with the police to The workers could always limit the picket line to six be brought to I by an argu- This has implications beyon ment that is almost too obvious "verbal. ThIS strike-even such to need stating. or independer recipie this, that and the other we shall independent working class the war. actions to win struggles It's like those in this strike It is vital that • The var Action turns the •Garners strike with the union leaders because into a national issue, giving a * you don t tney wai witnaran new impetus to mme bossiolv support and we will lose the of the strike committee's strike policies being realised. But it is the oooosite. The only way to move forwards is The strike is a microcosm o fight for policies that the class struggle, showing how when you the fight to defend basic rights strike fight anyone this period is the whe ••pose. inese including union bureaucrats or new •UlC revotioner leadership in the labour move whoever. have have the ment.

TOU

The only force fighting con- policies and the correct leader ship to carry them through. You sistently perspective TO: this throughout the strike has been can't ignore the present leader the Workers Socialist League.

ship.

I PRESSED STEE

5/60 BRANCH

AGITATE ORGANISE,

EDUCATE

Contingents movilised by WSL members and supporters brought more IGWU banners on

HAYWARD DEFENDS THE

LABOUR CONFERENCE

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 October 1978 Weekly, the Labour house organ of the Labour Party, engaged in a desp- publicity campaign erate last week to promote tale view that the stage-managed banalities to be heard in the Blackpool conference are really important. Ron icieneral Hayward penned major feature declaring: "'It's no mere seaside jaunt as the pad te doper setorial paper's editorial comment proclaimed the Black- pool binge "the most important conference for years"- pointing politica

NUL

issues, but to ine organisationa debate over reselection of MPs the Party and the election leader "'Party conference the to thrash out differ- right place down party policy" , it concludes. This of course should be true, but, as every Labour Party Labour the mem dar conforte polis parted by- the policias pursued by the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Leadership In this way the policies that conference, are adopted undoubted weaknesses, are subordinate the entirely problem of the leadership of the Labour Party itself. this year's As it happens, agenda does not conference offer any real choice aven nere b no rao ton dicai fighting wage controls, social service cuts. There is no challenge to the leaders' slavish support Labour Tor BrITSI ancaransm ITor Is Victor Matthews pass himself trying • TO off as a Communist? It is true that he looks like a capitalist strong-arm Ial. He owns shipping lines, he com- property panies. He owns newspapers. He workers-shuffling them in and out of jobs as he wishes. But his plans for a new newspaper Manchester brought a bizarre law lave suit from the Communist Party of Great Britain. The Morning Star has issued a High Court against Express Newspapers to stop them calling the new paper The Daily Star. Afficianados of the Morning Star refer to the as the Star' simply paper and-despite the many local papers around the country which include 'Star' in their title-the Morning Star fears co-operative confusion. not just confusion that they claim.

• OLOHd land, Africa and throughout the world. There is not even the peren- nial Militant group motion calling tor parlamentary nationalise the heights" or the "commanding "'top monopolies' Britain. Every shade of the Labour

"ATT

800A8TS

to nave ai

OUT

evaporated in the course of the Lib-Lab coalition deal. Yet Hayward unashamedly claims that: ''Labour's annual conference controversial, sometimes noisy. oTten alwdyt interesting [!] and never dull' No effect He tries to contrast it with сOnТА ВЛО8, self-confessedly "has no effect whatever policy". on party "Our annual conterence is

PRESS GANG

Good morning star shine The writ seeks an injunc- tion preventing the Express national "passing off any daily, paper as the Morning Star. What kind of animal then will this new newspaper be?

It has been launched to compete with the Sun and Mirror. Express Politicav editor Jameson Derek claims, which presumably centre means in favour of hanging strikers but with Callaghan, Thatcher working the gallows. Jameson, defending the seriousness of the exoress told Time Out: "We ran two weeks of articles the Common Market, ten days on unem- ployment, cone housing, done the conimy We ve The dummy issue of the Daily Star had just two stories on its front page.

One about the was important. It is the only occa- ision at nationa level when each year the trinity of our move. decidas: meats, debates and ment Ana me bureaucratic rignt Labour leaders listen; wing the decisions, and proceed their reaction- course of attacks on the ary working class! behind closed do ora." dealing claims Hayward. But what about the publiciv revealed moves muzzle TGWU General Secretary Moss Evans in Wednesday's economic •e•ate. est ne unleasn a tacess attack on Phase 4? Piling cliche on cliche Hay. mastiging the ward wided AnAC squalid record of four years of Labour batinaisy minorit covaramente legacy of Tory mismanagement.

couple shot while making love in a field. The other Roddy was about Lewellyn. there vas a full Inside page nude. Is it with this new gutter rag that the Morning Star fears confusion? Is it in those clothes that a capitalist venture dresses up as a Communist Of exercise course the could be passed as

OII

clever publicity by the Stalinists. Desperate to increase flagging circulation , the Star Morning Star-was reduced educo full me ricas appealing of the trade union bureau- cracy to each buy their own instead of reading the office copy! Star had really wanted avoid confusion with the capitalist press the answer was always in its own hands.

could have kept the name which a real commun- ist paper would never have to-The objected Daily Worker. Page 5

CABOUB

PARTY

AUBREY BERRY

CAMPBELL

DEFENCE

COMMITTEE

Wiara, перо •GO My Delegates at last year's Labour Party conference : world-wide recession and unpleasant-but vital-decisions. ABC Defence Campaign does not owe us a living and we ABC show taking each cartol The mounting heap of dirty built by the Call- laundry up • jeadershio cannot be wished away by a few plat- from the podium trial: unions lodge protest Leaders of journalists who, as a corporal, had been unions in 11 countries, the secret Signals Intelligence unit including

USA,

the known as SIGINT. France and West Aubrey Campbell and Germany added have then working for Time Out Ron Hayward their voice to the cam- met him magazine Those anaT

CRIM

to discuss matters request stand opposed to the right wing by the National paign be caller arising from the deportation Labour leaders must Union of Journalists to of ex-CIA agent Philip Agee.

ane union oral force the Labour ches to take up the long overdue The content of their Healay and to fight for Callaghan- campaign government to drop the discussion has been socialist Official disclosed Secrets Act The NUJ together with charges against Aubrey, controls, import controls, immi- the ABC Defence Campaign controls, and in favour gration Berry and Campbell. have called for they nationalisa wnal The original case, the describe as 'fun' picket tion, without compensation, major industry, under workers hearing which was outside the court broken up in disarray when 1ucsuay Labour left' Insofar as any it became known that the But and urgent serious takes such a fight, he or she if these jury foreman was an ex-sAs action needed should be supported and pressad soldier, this face jail reopens to to go turtner. nose that retuse Tuesday, October 3 at the the of sentences still stand revealed as accom- _llanus Old Bailey. plices of Callaghan. Though one of the most A labour movement dele- of such a fight in tua courod ridiculous workers can test out overt v gate conference Cader supposedly 'left' leaders in prac Duncan Campbell quickly against convened as tice and learn through their own been dropped, all three possible to further this experience still face the possibility The im possibilit) fight. transforming the Labour Party • up to 14 years jail for the And Labour Party revolutionary socialist into the 'crime' of having had a con- branches must take up the party which is necessary if the together early in fighting for the versation issue, independent of interests the 1977. dropping of the charges, the be working dr8 Berry is a former soldier, removal of reactionary defended. Home Secretary Merlyn and the repeal of the Trotskyism Official Secrets Act. Today Theoretical Journal of the Workers Socialist League Containing 'The Poisoned Well' - the WSL document which dissects the rotten bloc of factions which has now come together to form the majority leadership of the 'United' Secretariat of the Fourth International.

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FOR WORKERS

MANAGEMENT

Page 6 Steelworkers have proved temselves ready to struggle in defence of jobs and conditions. But their experiences have provided further proof of the treachery and misleadership provided by reformist union leaders and the Stalinists of the Communist Party. example of the A cleal role of Stalinism in con- fusing and diverting the fight for jobs was given the River Don "work-on" in Sheffield in 1972. CP control The -whose of

AUEW

the

HST1C

Committee was the key to this influence Tin etr struggle-were fought on the occasion by grouping based around "The Torch paper rank and file produced by the Rotherham Steelworkers Committee. Solidly based At its height in 1972 this publication sold nearly 500 copies month, several steelworks. was solidly based SpOnSOT. ship from local

WHOT

birces. But Committee une leadership were temselves forced out by management and, the International Socialists (now

SWP)

and IMG fought for control of it, comparatively clear socialist policies were aban- doned and it quickly col- lapsed into warring factions.

Despite its lack of such important transitional demands as the call for the opening of the books of the Torch employers, was able to present a shrewd insight into the inadequacies of the Stalinist leadership at River Don: "The news that River

THE STEEL

INDUSTRY :

THE CASE

Don was to be reprieved came as surprise Torch Our predic- readers. tion was not based on our talents for clairvoyance; the facts spoke for temselves "On June 28th (1971) Davis, Tory Secretary John for Trade and andles yr announced the lI ansi ci profitable sections of BSC River Don plus the torging order book and goodwill to the private Brown

HTTTO

for works, exchange Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills Firth Vickers flat and products-both lame ducks.

The unprofitable sections of River Don, including the heavy forge and casting be department were closed down 4,500 redundancies." 'In response, the shop stewards committee [Stali- River nist-dominated] Don brought out proposals for project "Silver "Silver" Project pointed out that with, an investment of £3½million the melting shop, and the 1C" arrangement of the melting procedures, the heavy forge casting department a10 could be made "viable". To their faith in cnnw "Silver" project and to resist s proposed es worke stewards proposed a on" similar to UCS. This meant that workers who had been made redun- dant woud be kent on ov the shop steward committee carry • messages, arrange flag days, and similar duties.

Their wages were to be paid Pand. "out of narasile "By doing this the had stewards made an im- mistake-they had borlurl acented right to sack people' 'The more the proposals for viability were put forward, the more

BSC

were resolute in their deter mination... Torch went on to show

BSC

. that intended never 4,500 redundant make at River Don at once, but instead planned come tc back with a reduced figure alter makıme cun esewuere

BSC

announced 4,500 redundancies so when the real intentions were known they would be greeted with sighs of relief.

Now it has been declared 'only' 400 jobs would that be lost-through 'natural wastage'. These job cuts must be fought; they are the jobs of your children at school. "Ome of the most contro. aspects of the River versial Don affair been the PHOTO: John Sturrock. Report SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 October 1978

SAVE

SHOTTON

STEELWORKS

PHOTO. Andrew Wioed Ranaut work-on. sit-ins and for guerrilla that there is a strong lobby strikes" "It is not the job of trade in Parliament against "It should be noted that, further injection of Govern- unionists to show how efficient they ment while some technical altera- ment money. No doubt this is intended should be, the results could tions must take place in the steel industry, they should as a thinly-veiled threat be very embarrassing! We must realize that the any account those attempting to fight 10l most precious possession of accompanied by speed-up or the closures. any employer,

BSC

productivity deals... There are also • attacks otherwise, is his capital. It is underway BSC's The article concluded by considered sacred. construction section RDL arguing for work sharing on Media talk of £15-20,000 days pay and for the This manage- IIve 1s wnere redundancy payments seems development of new leader- ments are vulnerable; provoke ship through the setting up occupational strikes mended for joint stampede voluntary involving the stopping of shor stewards bodies which should fight redundancy amongst machinery being the local union bureaucrats.

technical staff. This, on top the removed and of an already acute staff accompanying loss to Selling jobs shortage would within RDL could hdta encu

SUUR

give BSC an excuse to close produce changes in heart.

During 1978 however, most of it, hiving off its it the steel industry the

ISTC

has once again profitable would also be important to secuoa, selling engaged their private enterprise mack thi up with ympathy members' jobs, not through The National Craftsmens the Payments Redundancy Committee Co-ordinating Act or the Green Book this which organizes the Confed time, . return for the but in unions within BSC is rather miserablè 10% Phase 3 wage more independent than the allowed trom

ISTC

daltualy dominated steel 1978 by the Lib-Lab committee since coalition government. level craitsmen the

10ULS

This has taken place with and staff technicians have a the full backing of the TUC more independent and mili- through its Steel Committee .tant organisation than the

(ISTC

dominated) and ISTC production workers. which will soon be moving in attempt to force Port Talbot through BCS's current reor- ganisation proposals. Electricians are notable These measures centre on in this-as their fight against 50 - 60,000 redundancies to Phase Port Talbot at alleviate "over- showed. manning' furnacemen have But also included is the also established a militant closure Beswick plants record. from these almost at once, and closures that the initial

DOCLIOME

Clydeiron (with resistance to the new round extra redundancy

MORLI

of sackings seems, likely to pay to sweeten the pill).

come. Unfortunately they Investment programme are faced with right tenne national officials and The wing government have trequently treacherous 'left' stated that they have shop-iloor leaders. £2,000 million programme in bsc and that The majority, investment will organised Con ve but and projects in the AUEW (all sections) amounts were not specified to the have for a long period been • the Stalinists Right wing electricians leader Frank Chapple Ministers have also stated of the so-called 'Broad left'.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 October 1978 UnEL

SHOTTON

STEELWORKS

The Stalinists have only two really clear policies in fight for and living steel: the call to extend the standards. NEB and the call for import for controls. policies represent Bulletin

BOLI

Kent no more than a vain attempt last to protest to manage British capitalism against the of the Bar Mill through defending its 'viability' February economic against by

BSC

24 "foreign" competition. with the 100 The demand for import jobs. controls tact 1s lIOL all new in the steel industry demoralised group

ISTC

argued stewards 'National' government. quite closure policy in the '30s. cannot and De It did not save a single steel job then, and it won't workers the Temple- Manage- Import controls They Steel union militants must realise that it achieves any nothing to shout for import the law. louder than ISTC controls This leader Bill Sirs, since this policy designed 1S not to pay defend jobs but to defend British capitalism by trying to export unemployment. This gives the ordinary steelworker nothing to fight for at plant level, directing him from

COCAISI

policies, strikes and occupa- tions, and even if successful Bar Mill would only lead to vicious action this TAKe cycl trade war and intensified Because cutbacks. Certain layers of militants, particularly workers to among the electricians, look and the on Workers Socialist Party an "alternative" lead.

payments. Opposition much attention But the SWP's policy of tailending behind the their life's the existing narrow trade union industry. consciousness of the 'rank file, and outright the opposition February to transitional plant as 'open the as they books', work sharing on full pay and the sliding scale of they wages means that cannot offer workers any political strategy the fight

SOLULOI

Torch in 1972 gives some Alongside go idea of the current crisis of shop floor leadership in the withdraw 'participa- steel industry. Class collaboration in the and indepen- has gone on dence union sicer inaustry far too long without serious

11UII

resistance. management. However, BSC's latest be made round of cuts are so severe solely the that there will membership Wald eleci certainly backlash be the worst affected plants.

Participation Militants must take the demand that its bureau- and launch national make way the those who will. Workers Socialist League The fight must be taken starts from the independent plant level action to defend class interests steel- workers. jobs and conditions and to No sackings take the lead We say there must be no sections must in setting up joint stewards redundancies in steel committees uniting the whether in the state sector entire labour force in private firms, voluntary call works. or compulsory.

FURT TALBOT

E.C

AGAINST OUR

ANO

EETPU

PORT TALBOT

END.TNE

SOCIAL

ONTRAC

SHOTTON

STEELNORKS OTTON

elected COl- the the to give in bent should anu being moved Oul At the time the strike must plans of industry. This would exposing the ways in which private suppliers. bankers, manufacturers and bankers exploit the 'nationalised' steel industry, and the ways in which the private sector continues reap profits TO the backs of steel- from workers. this basis huge scale supporting industrial action could be built up in steel

EETPU

B.S.C.

MEmBERS Port Talbot electricians in 1977 Page

SAVE

Shotton steelworkers march against closure to force the nationalisation of the orivate pro- to integrated ducers, with the sector, and стате under direct men workers management using the figures revealed as the basis for a socialist plan. Parasitic The and industrial mus also provide the cash to develop and for all. And the capitalist of BSC management must be removed and replaced by a system of elected workers committees local and national level, of policies Inest could not be sustained in an individual factory or a single industry. and develop To sustain them they must be spread rapidly to other sections of the economy to prevent capitalist sabotage In particular the questions and be government cannot ignored. Socialist eate Workers Socialist does not just argue for new leadership in the unions but also for the struggle against the reformist Labour leaders -'left' and right alike. demands that the "left' Labourites actively support struggles on pay and jobs by fighting to remove Callaghan/Healey are designed to expose their complicity with the right wing In this way steelworkers and others can begin to break with reformist thinking and play their part in the fight for a workers' government proposed to carry out socialist policies.

CONCLUDED

Page 8 Final part of a recently adopted WSL document In taking up the struggle against imperialist oppres- sion of Ireland it is impor- tant to show how the mass of so-called "anti-terrorist" repressive legislation on both sides of the border is more than institution- no alised repression of anti- imperialist forces and poli- tical movements. efforts to cut ln •oI down camnoie rastranco also to obscure the real motiva- of these messures have led the imprisonment North of some Loyalist as well as Republican forces. thrust of the • TI Te moH state offensive remains to crush on both the 30B• ful struggle would inflict on imperialism in Britain and inter- Nouod• Imperialist dictator of the Irish section working class can be protected by such imperialis-dictatoo Io• islation. It is simply a part of usad perpe- ¿sardo tuate AXeOT:TON the hand the both nationalist state against oHi •stn ocbo. Together with the. cAlTo immediate roopis, we mtht diemand withdrawl the British Tne Tue s cctartan

RUC

and the repressive police-military in the South, along with the abolition all repressive legislation, North and South. This demanding an Moalla to the Emeraancy Powers Act, the Offences Against The State Act, the Spocial Criminal Courts. all anti-union legislation and the whole battery of restric- the press and broad- casti!. of these piecos of aver one repressive machinery is aimed to weaken and contain the national and socialist militants. Swu: IB kor ne Amo roaon e mkn demand the release of all polit.

ical North and South prisoners,

SU OOTL

canu al ud directed towards this objective.

Incompatible We must show Th8t demands are incom- continued imperia- cacie wit C RO An•waio lni1• the capitalist regimo in the out that the outh and spell

TE•T TO!

Bibadu democratic rights must lead into fight for all-Ireland and workers' farmers' govern- ment. Sectarian attacks on Catholic be resolved by cannot a ocs ••as to me олып чoos or the Westminster government. Nor they be satistactorily can handled by the

BAPL!

armea organisations-based as they are the petty bourgoois nationa.

on movomeNT we must maintain our stand the need • haad in ngl for load in class take including the datana working elass communitios at carried by the •roal Repubiican Torces This means fighting for the

PERSPECTIVES

FOR THE IRISH

REVOLUTION

of the Workers Socialist League Free speech on

OUT

Ireland establishment SuUIne workers' defence organisations. We must insist that, while that attack the Catholic those •A:TTeN ut e

IV•TL

directly as agents of British the imbariaict cominatom wihol ot le and,y thurgamis those petty bourgeois nationalists that seek to nursue the national struggle by unprov- oked attacks Protestant workers-whatever their motive!

-objectively serve only the cause of sectarian division, strengthening the hand of the Loyalist thugs and their imper- ialist masters. Strategic objective desnite the For this reason, initial that such uchoid policy we must Croaloo, of jointly mobilising anti-imperialist forces trom Catholic and workers' workers in defence organisations designed to combat pro-imperialist Loya.

list woll as British «ut ol and Irish state forces. Only through the develop- such independent clas! HtG IL organisations can sectarian assas and attacks be effec. and the task of outlawed LIVdIy Catholic commu •rendito ure nity taken from TA 1 DreCAnT cclusive grip of the republican the hands of the forces into working class. For a Workers and Farmers Government of The formulation and •amane woTkbrs farmers' government and elaboration our programme make it absolutely cleai thaorehate the pote is r ho of the Protestant the pre.

WINOTTY

superstitions of a HUeCA. Catholic majority We must spell out the call tor squality gious populations and between the sexes.

MOVEMENT

WEMBER

RE In particular our propaganda educational system. and whole structure of sect- dOlOLEeT

ANUSI

CoUTE strongly on the way in wnich arian raloious •visions anq •is.

Church prejudices crimination must be exposed as the of which perpetuate enslavement means by imperia. the denvinc them women.

HSH

cont nue. To BxoIOI bow elementary democratic rights of sections of the Irish population.

divorco, abortion and contracep- What do by and far mors tion workers' govern- The rigid enforcement of the nent o ecneen nare s values of the bourgeois family North existing political party, both North and South South that puts means intense repression of gar vonvae du dobouote orosrommd rights. for the working class? In clearly demanding the By the demand we stress two abolition such essential points. Firstly the lack end to ay legislation and an end of such a political party means to forms of sexual discrimination, that one must be built-a Trot add other skyist party, based on the prir those MuS cinles demands and method o demands that point towards the the woman from the Transitional Programme.

the home- of Such -the state provision a party repre- the only and contraceptior wee aoorton SeNT on demand, free nursery facili- workine cas Anewer tosrinS' socialisad etc.- and to rhe - pat imperialism for and the linking the petty them bourgeois programme nationalism represented bv the Job-creating public works. republican movement. The fight for equal rights And secondly those Irish with must workers that at present see one ••nelicd

UUB

fight for an end to all religious or other of the existing poli- education schools-cont- tical parties or groupings providing CaxanSIVe

T8R OU.

indoctrination Irish youth be mobilised in struggle in such with the completely inadequate a way as they can learn the utter British army violence in Northern Ireland SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 October 1978

H, ACH

H.

MRIGSFERS

AID COMMITTEE

END SILENCE

IN TORTUIRE

DF IRISH POWS

PAC march demanding pounical stalu. status. Lirbour lead the ert and righe directly role dikemmn tne garoxrgo rebremor of the Irish workers movement.

It the Labour was govern. Jant ulat buar dr

1 E• O•U•

CIcan ork onars or oolicalrar two years ago, as part of a long term attempt isolate anti-

TOTCB

Caatld impression they aro tne tat common criminals. And, particularly under butcher Rov Mason, the Laboul government has been respon sible for a massively incraasoc the TiTO ••iriion republican movement-involving SÁS murder squads and a dram killings It is vital that in every wa possible our members fight to raise thi the labour movement Issue in gand spread about Labour leaders. bloodstainea The mobilisations called for ampaigns upport of the 300 'musi •lonen oeneoanki be fully supported by trade union and Labour Party contin gents. Centre of fight bankris is pot icularly dersh iot The whole issue of British This is particularly true imperialism in Ireland must be DOUrran ano varous brought far the centre W e l 'left' Labour groupings in the the DONTICA TonY South from which workers must workers movement • urged to demand not simpli In one or two areas Labour AoeAK TrOMRS Onenisoryo Parties have been pressed into coalition politics but also action caring conterences on ireland il the demands spelled out which we have intervened. We here. should for actively campaign orga

SUCI

ColuBrencas Start from needs nised on possible the widest basis-by Labour Parties or from Councils. -and set out to uese demanos start Trades Irish workers' present problems that conference! anaure adopt resolutions spelling out beyond the narrow bounds that demandrfop could hope reformists

TOO•!

ouT oT urBani in the straitjacket now! Blacking of supplies to the ontadd economy, imperialis force! in Ireland. the irigr

CAN

powerfully to expose the inade Ropea of all repressive of the Labour Party and quacy C8-Terrona its leaders and the necessity foi Rela Self determinati prion ersl a revolutionary programme.

The Transitional Programme Irish people makes this clear, when it points " raca unon commara H Britain and Ireland to open the

OUT TIAT

"Each of the transitional books of British employers with demands should, therefore lead conclusion: the workers need to absolutely :with all traditional partie: for such demands means a fiahı remove all those elements Tine Cue cobse the farmers, jointly with within the Labour .and trade establish their power." own leadershir that Unton

CONDON

the trish liberation struggle Our tasks in Britain Mason Une wav ican 0e mlo Socialist The more concrete is through focus.

workers League has since its formation sing on the Yorks NUM's cont for correctly supported the nuing suppor Roy Masor demands immediate as Labour MP for Barnsley ar for the demand that Scargill witnetawa TrODO! others act him from freland and self-determina-

TENOVI

tion for the Irish people.

Such conferences must focu on these questions of leadership, ve nave tondat The introduo showing in this way the connec tion and implementation of repressive legislation such as the • Ton oorween тле nego ro oV active support in struggles Prevention Terrorism Ireland and the fight in Britail and the frame-up and living standards. republican militants both

CO DS

They must directed entain ano in treano towards continuin And we have given promin- campaigns with the trade unions ence and support to the valiant ano ine Labour carv o oreoar Republican StrUO IO • AMe the basis for implementing the socialist prisoners in demands demand

CONCLUDED

Calus prisonel

RESTRORAC

oolatea

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 October 1978 International struggles in the print By Jason Pirbright On both sides of the the workers will be handed over for slaughter to the employers.

Atlantic major attacks New York and London the union strength in the land Manchester, where the newspaper industry are Express launch coming to a head. Star) attacks new the management are not .In New York. workers. or everyday attacks on the working the city's big three papers have been on strike since August 9 class. atter newspaper owners made a Defeats to smash •etermineo attemot the press room union by axing its workforce in half. They represent attempts to inflict major defeats on workers rederal negotiatiors are attempt. who have proved ready to fight deadiocked in an reach each they hope minorial compromise formula defend Calis over several generations. To underline will uv tose to meir members.

the inter. In Britain the offensive by national nature of the capitalist Fleet Street press barons con- employers onsiquent. Tae New York have been gathered ine banner Times management shut the under Rupert down completely and Murdoch, a proprietor who has earned the undying hatred of management to launch a new newspaper tabloid with drastically paper continents. roduced manning levers. He owns papers in the USA, Conscious leadership Australia and Britain: where his the best selling soft tities are porn-hard Tory politics Sun and The real crisis on both sides Vews of the World of the Atlantic is that unless a had oressmen's union and politically been trying. to negotiate princio ed conscious leadership is forged contracts with the New York inside papers since the end or March.

New York press strikers Managements of the New York Times, the Daily News and Murdoch's New York Post refused to come to terms.

Audust manacement the posted schedules in the press room.

were seeking a reduc the press tion operators-and out conflict with the union. i ne notice. were poster even while the union negotiators waiting a meeting begin with management. ine press room walked out on all three papers Partly because Journalist. The vall News had been won after scenes of intense fighting on the picket ines, other unions on the papers came out in solidarity with the pressmen. Scabbing When management attempts to induce scabbing from anyone a very few of the most failed, Tournast the papers ground to a halt.

Federal e thiators to guare the Since then attempts Curie nove Toe. But major indications that the union leadership will sell out this strike have become clear At listication Tine the have been switched symbolic move botn the union leadership removes pressure of pie m riber ship, and picket lines and the take ground overst onto the home ground their 1975 victory at the Washington Post Helicopters There, they broke the press union by operating under a state of siege, using helicopters to fly in the scabs The move is the symbol of union officials indepen- dence of the membership. No Moffeti wonder called "fresh and positive setting".

the strike the union leaderships have cooper ate in the oroouction papers launched to profit from the vacuum of newsprint in New York. inese nion brotit raos nas out of town rates and have close financial links with the strike hit papers' owners. Murdoch loaned a New York Times The cash start the New York Metro and 150,000 guaranteed copies daily. He also had first refusal on buying the paper-keeping closing Post permanently. When staff on the found out about the deal they walked out The part time newspaper only persuaded them to return by saying he had torn up nis contract with murcoco ang repaid the loan One of the scab papers, the New York arass: is even ublished by two brothers whi lave made a business of movin round the starting papers up wherever there is strike! "Traditional" These scab papers are des- cribed as "traditional" in time strikes. They must stopped. paper under the Only control of the strikers and inde.

pendent interests should be permitted to business move in New York-a workers paper which is responsible committees strikers ane which proclaims the interests of the working class. The union forced to fight for blacking.

The New York Times News Service tapes are kept running Dy. executives turned reborters The New York Times radio station must be shut down.

This blacking must be inter- Britain the Post data. British and engineers must black this copy. International does to solidarity action and finance should go out to Australia and Fleet Street to Murdoch's othe papers. unrelated technology which remain. Britain, and in every country Murdoch any case been recruiting journalists Austrand то take to New york York strike has ine New highlighted again the crying Page 9

DET BERLINGSKE HUS

Danish print workers battle with police in fight against speed-up last year Ded for a Labor Party in the major conflagration to come All union officials have now started talks with managements August 16-before the joined the Wade, ome Joe

NGA

genera Pressmen's Union who said he would :wecretary Mayor • Carey negotiate under duress is Democratic launched an attack on the union ¡ now doing just that. saying: this lies the deter. benine "We mination of the officials to help wag Now economy York. management in introduce labor unions would be well despite slashing technology advised take ta rejection of such plans by thei members. ation the neeos •ot the peopl who want the city of New York No programme the continue road recovery. The members' militancy has The next day the New York Central Labor Council endorsed any programme against the technol.

Carey's nomination Tor re elec ogy. tion as Mayor of New York!

They must fight for a policy If this underlines the need lof work sharing on full pay for a party of labour the threat before photo-type. down the Times and To cose setting or other technology.

Sunday Times in Britain shows •he only porcy capable o what kind of party mat must combatting the all-out attack or jobs which is coming The statement issued by Mu demand to Hussey, chief • open all the secret executive and olans to electe• chase commit directo Times Hianacin tees fight for Newspapers Ltd on September nationalisation under workers 19, which threatened to cease control publication, quoted in support When under attack workers the mancements stand must be prepared to occupy the Labour Prime Minister James presses Callaghan. The plan: the news Callaghan had told the TUC

(TOI

Express paper The Star, show at Brighton: what is in store. "For the trade unionist the this truth is that there is no way ir •asce Manchester, Victor Matthews owned paper which low productivity and high is planned compete can in the real wages real length of time. together for tight tabloid market ally certainly either fold aimes not husser itself, or collapse one or other could express the think of its competitors. position than better did the Prime Minister." in print jobs, increase Sack workers starTed Jess (against between Journalists 200-300 Times the Newsonver are on Sun and threatening stop publica- (Mirror). tion of the Times on November opposition has Unior 30 and sack workers from evert virtually crumbled altogether, which it has not union with and the launch is planned fo reached agreement by that date.

October lu A fight to turn on the offen-

TOT

manade ment is not to agree no strike sive against the emplovers must clauses with union officials-the Britain and America in a new leadership to bureaucracy are pleaseo to sier such agreements. class which The fact is that most Fleet au towaras wresune conto o Street print chapels are in open newspaper empires out Ine the hang in th v05. Only Last

NATSOPA

can the yedt. way officials sacked chape officers of iob and anarchy stashing from the union to get them vicious attacks on the working class be ended. back to work. The alternative was spelled 125 million copies of national pro employer trade daily and Sunday papers lost to paper The UK Press Gazette. Its lead editorial Sep- been through • sol ter nave unofficial action. tember 18 called for the naming of Fleet Street militants, cam- The only exception has been paigns against them the strike on the

UNTE

Daily Mirror. national news•. ders 8nc to them to be hounded out of their In all composing and press jobs. rooms managements are break- The future •ot trade unior strength in Fleet Street ing agreements and sparkina dis.

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The mass meeting called and his at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant to report back on the 4.8% pay offer voted not to room the door wide take immediate action against the Phase 4 5% wage

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committee meeting the previous day at which a move to calt all.

native resolution out immediate strike action was of the squashed by right wing TGWU

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nanaeotate convenor John Farrel. against the At the mass meeting Farrel, the Ford workers. much left' sounding caste demagogy, drew the dosure conclusion that the 5% Phase 4 policy could not be breached in This the foreseeable future. Therefore, the tive elements was to carry on The chairman, only answer negotiating productivity deal as a way around the 5% guidelines The massive Fords strike against the 5% taking were not place away TeW miles Halewood was barely given a ended calling for be allowed "if the company forced to no further offer maut stand Torced next meeting' Farrel declared But the claim for an unspeci- resolutions would be

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Few movements can iously against ever have trodden on so jobs at Speke, many toes in so short a elsewhere by the TUC bur- time the Workers eaucracy, and fraudulent Socialist League. fighting unemployment Our movement has been at the forefront of agitation and for action to break Labour's speeches by wage controls brushing who aside the posturing speeches the cuts but make of the TUC bureaucracy to for strikes or occupations; reveal their real collaborat- as a result we have been in ion with Phases 1,2 and 3.

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fied "substantial wage increase" from the floor. Farrel went on to attack the positon the need to smash the 5% policy speaker's proposal, stating that is designed to give the maximum he would not lead any figh for manoeuvre and leave 59nd other because dobinst Then Moss Evans the • open tor a sell- nationa officials ought to be Coolne it had finished of course, deliberately inis one member from the ignored the fact that Moss E: had actually stated earlier in the unsuccessfully propose an •alter- week that he would support any group of members fighting meeting calling for all- against wage control strike action went on to say that 5% limit alongside they had managed to last vear get a pay increase : without all- strike action, Noisy opposition and lecte didn't believe losing money "could be when done by noisy negotiations." with opposition from more conserva.

meeting ended with the meeting. vote on the stewards' resolution which was carried. attempted to snatch the micro- phone away from him before he Alongside Ford ad finished speaking, claiming Vauxhall workers must ask that resolutions from the floor acceptable themse ves whether their arbitrarily ruled it out of order.

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Now, as struggles break out on growing against Phase 4 of wage con- this struggle. by opening up to the Financial According Times the trade union negotia- company's

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for Vauxhalls financia orate the company's oerTeve That financial position will not allow the subsidiaries it to offer much Motors at home and abroad.

more man the government's 5% limits". For this reason they "do not industrial oresent Torecas sation without action over the claim similar to under workers' management.

that which closed down Fords But on

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company is claiming to be unable to pay its workers alleded a living wage due to bankruptc then they easily prove can trols, and public sector workers increasingly rebel at low wages and the impact of savage Labour spending cuts the need to carry this fight for revolutionary leadership to new sections of workers is greater than ever. The fighting perspective of the Trotskyist ramme offers every militant a weapon in the dual fight against the employers and against the treachery of Labour and

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HOSPITAL Lobby challenges AHA VICTORY over closure plan SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 4 October 1978 St. strike at strongest advocates of slave Andrews Yospital, Bow, labour wages and conditions End of the East in (as 101 ended and London as beneath for the workers victory dignity') the after only two days. seems to against The strike was supporter of random police of the hospital the actions raids their U11 security officer, wno called flats! to raid four nurses flats on the suspicion tant evidence in support of that they may • have been 1r unionisation amongst nurses of hospital possession is the news given to Socialist Press by Steve Seegar, property. Ôn hearing of this vicious

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branch unprecedented action the hospital, that during the and response of the immediate short dispute almost 50 new the nursing staff was to call members-mainly a mass meeting where they recruited for overwhelmingly voted. strike action. Over 90% of the nurses they were walked out and given complete backing by workers.- ancillary and domestics porters, kitchen staff. Faced with such locked weeks remarkable show of strength their and solidarity and with ine indefinite prospect of down of the hospital of J.H.

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(including the casualty dep- nearer of the because artment) actions of his security were a fortnight ago. officer, the district adminis- trator had little choice but the strikers accept out by included demands- -which submitting apologies to the four nurses, and government's 5% guideline.

recriminations guarantee of no future raids.

union Cutbacks The strike at St. Andrews September an offer 27 outcome-has -and its made several implications. included First the raids must be which deal. the not looked rejected by the workers.

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isolated act of one fanatical It called on security officer but as part to reach ments of a series of cutbacks and degredations the health service, cutbacks which have frequent become In mOTe of high unemploy- times public and cuts 11 cal spending. the strike Secondly shows the vital importance belonging to the only trade union of protecting and im proving their working and living conditions. College of The Royal staff nursing Nursing, the association, which attempts to divide nurses from other hospital workers by appeal- their 'professional ing actually issued a standards', St. the leaflet during strike an Andrews urging immediate return to work, and RCN members crossed the picket line.

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public After a strong So along with being the in their village meeting against the proposed closure of their geriatric hospital, industrial at Long- bargaining

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workers 'professional worth decided to lobby the

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now meeting of the September an enthusiastic Area Health Authority, at which, they had been told, members their hospital's fate would be decided. Perhaps the most impor it meant Though Strikine to attend the lobby, ten workers did so, having provided for the necessary patient cover. the were accompanied by They secretary at of COHSE, by to ow memoers health service and other trade unionists and by local residents.

Longworth KnowIno Uncl voted into the workers had occupy their hospital to prevent closure Phase 4 lock-out would be payment After more than two given. of department one the failing to reach the set level factory meant that workers of the Hull firm oi produchon no payment would be made Fenner are no to any of the other depart- solution to ments. their dispute than they The locked out workers 24 hour mounted a have picket but it was decided at The workers were locked the meeting between management GWU and the AUEW shop claim wage stewards that vital supplies that would have broken the keep the needed engineering division working meeting between hundreds (where some representatives and engineers and maintenance management on Wednesday men are still at work) could was cross the picket line. by management that Although the workers productivity have been locked out since was totally the GMWU 14 September, all depart- did not make the dispute Friday, official last unti 29 September. level of productivity before PHOTO:Andrew wiara, Repor An indication of the scope of the wages movement: protest meeting of London traffic wardens

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FURIOUS TO SEE YEARS OF WORK PUT INTO JEOPARDY!

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questions for supporting and ask fellow profiteering!) from action industria Then a

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trade Area unIons, Authority chairman, sion" on Health disposal of beds at geriatric member-took mall unprecedented step of slipping Cowley completely had met with door, slat avoiding the lobbyers. the lobby worker - urinermore. Khan decision discovered, the

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fate was Road Longwor Lowiev private meeting where the final decision session mact absolutely was to be made. CIosCu workers, contrary promises. Challenged "Keep Longworth open - No the secret discussions! came the AHA's disregard of The lobbyers filed into the and opposition, meeting public part of the by Lady McCarthy, the lobbyers the Budget heard challenged her during the lunch overspending on account. break to hold the AHA's dis- drugs no almost entirely Strike challenges Last week members further action NATSOPA at the of sidered, largely printing Usher Walker on the results of a union- East factory in management inks to take London began action over a number of issues. included manage- These of ment's breaking manning agreement and an meet factory safety represen- suggest health and to tatives. On Thursday the workers launched decided to call dit action on the transfer of labour, but against 'militants' a partial over. to increase full one is Cheshire, time ban The management of the planned factory knew the best place offensive. help-and com- seek to the NATSOPA Richard plained Dulcducialy. Strike Ricky Kranch secclary. ally Sambridge, said that the overtime ban broke a union Metal oCal movements trade rule national the (!) and threatened factories. with committee chapel workers But disciplinary action by their branch committee. systen this was announced on Friday even- the chapel voted unan- ing, imously for a strike on the confirms their view. to show following Monday would not be that they either intimidated by union management engineering bureaucracy.

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Page 11 cussion on Longworth in public all with documents session available to the workers After private debate InIS was conceded-the discussion to be held next month. The Lonaworth workers will there again to see this on drug companies' challenge through-and they nave already decided lar. 25-minute "discus- defend their health service and neither they, nor the local trade closure

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movement, win stop al hospital discussion, which plan huge puoic not single mobilised beer leadership lobby this Disgusted by the cynicism of public and led exoressed NUPE official Anderson print union chiefs reaction of The vicious to press, the NATSOPA bureaucracy is being con- to a simple overtime ban is depending clear evidence of their inten- crush any struggle tion meeting

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by their members. Bosses' plot Winsford, as management- Evidence is mounting including the manacement that Metal Box and ICL-engage major press witch-hunt concerted drive in a recently speed-up. alleged Only days before Prest's workers in Winsford, outburst four Bauras were sacked for not part of a reaching management-dicta- management ted levels of productivity the Suspiciously sackings took place a mere Prest, manager four hours after

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of Bauras Ltd., hit the head- official Alf Waddington had lines and prime TV time by leaving Prest's been seen his declaration that he was office in the plant. operating a blacklist against On the same day as these worker who had been sackings management at the previously employed at the Paper Box or Inter- International Company attempted to sack Computers a night shift shop steward Ăn immediate strike in, have long secured his support suspected that a blacklisting reinstatement the following against operates morning. known militants in the town Winsford workers will be and that for Prest to reveal watching closely to see how his position openly merely far local employers' support for Prest's stand is carried The witch-hunt however into attacks on their own seems an important part of and shop floor layed on these a crackdown throughout the the role played industry attacks by union officials.

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Owen Works staff fight 5% Small mention has been This has made in the capitalist media despite of the effects of industrial NALGO at the action by Area and Dis- wage Control. trict NHS works staff, many cracy is now faced with a small of whom are members of section objectively fighting the

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5% with emergency committee approval! But the dispute has tained within it a challenge union watt to sell out the action. callagnan and Healey. Works staff are not main- TaSH taining sterile laundry or disin- action This together with departments beyond an Vecau real fight

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massive cutbacks id This already causing all sections of NALGO. admissions

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operations. And the staff are also taking owner acon claire the non- maintenance of health centres, ambulance stations and admin- the dispute I Ne taken has some Dararleis WItN Tooiroom Workers

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in that the workers are them. selves fighting over differentials the craftsmen they selves and supervise. But a demand for recently achieved by electriolans has been relected by Ennals who "un- Worneo f woulo fortunate" staff works became the first victims of pav policy.

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Labour Foreign Secretary David Owen last week surprised millions of workers and trade unionists by declaring at the United Nations that he was ard, Report prepared to put British on standby troops to intervene in Africa. Though his proposal was for UN "peacekeeping" force, there is doubt whatever that the

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of such an inter- purpose vention would be to prevent liberation armed • Ine struggles raging flowing Atrica over into revolution social which would overthrow capitalist exploitation. He offered to airlift an battalion infantry commando group with full equipment and to "conside sympathetically" requests further military assistance This desperate move by put the NALGO Owen is the outcome of the growing weakness of TUC still called Smith's racist regime the bureau- Zimbabwe the of face warfare. conuca guerrila Even while pledging this aid, Owen was clearly cross- that tingers

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i here is no question that the action would not have to be must move LaKel But the British labour now is to movement must also declare stepped up a campaign for a in no uncertain terms that it will act to prevent any such coverd ment's wages policy throughout intervention.

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1LGO section: striking social workers in a rally at Friends Meeting House, Euston

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51% Britain should be Irish people work out their own fate.

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These revealed opinion study centre

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tionary sock majority for Carelulls Owen, along with ganda campaign whole pro-imperialist Labour leadership must be yals the thrown out of office and occupation. union branches must pledge themselves to blacking action and strikes to prevent this naked attempt reim pose direct imperialist British people rule in Africa. If Owen himself is of so keen to assist Smith, he has

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the solution to hand: he can and activities which terror resign from the government from rule fly to Zimbabwe and enrol Dar darc role with the of Smith's racist goon squads in their up internationally. doomed struggle to repress the black African masses.

sailed into San In goodwill bullet or visit Inıs way two from Patriotic Front were oreeter rifles could speedy OuL and appropriate end to this reland ante the British excrescence

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labour movement. Britist Patriotic Front guerrillas in Zimbabwe

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Continued from front page from the union leaders or not restricted to loss making the trom for companies. bossed workers the policy of pay restraint to be to demand the firm enforced

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concerned, its suppliers, and working class its bankers, be opened to tenacity shown in the bitter elected trade firemen's strike last winter.

com- mittees. While the If the firm is making a ference vote is a major set- loss, investigation back for this such an will show which section of not broken Phase 4, nor has capitalism is reaping profits removed from the exploitation of its from the Labour leadership.

and confirm the Workers necessity for nationalisation all-out ac Hol of the whole set-up without Fords to break Phase 4 with compensation under a political offensive to force workers' management. the removal But Callaghan's insis- Callaghan-Healey leadership.

tence on the 5% pay limit is Union

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

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SAY 51%

of the people in home" proclaimed placards, and think that the army prizes were offered fo rany IRA supporter who withdrawn from could success tully paint a naval rating green.

the North of Ireland and the allowed to Boycott But And, in a separate question more potentiall 49% favoured a united Ireland.

damaging to British imperialism last week's surprising statistics threat by leader Lonesnoremen s (Union study of dozens of polls by the Teddy Gleason to call for an University of Strathclyde public international boycott of British orisoner! Northern Ireland "continued to athouon within thesi figures would be included reac tortured denied their that would our

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army, the clear withdrawal for ps is a maior slap in the face orchest cred government and media propa- over récent justitving the brute terro British Torture While increasing numbers of plainly are concerned at the continuation Diplock torture sheer military backs up direct Westminster British the Mason government is now being taken Such a policy would provide powerful lever against navy warshio currently Francisco on à torture per on. being pursued Labour's last week they and workers

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The british demonstrators protesting at the must be left movement imperialism behind such solidarity supporting the death fleet Cut supplies The fight must be steppec up within the Labour Party and the trade unions for action to drive the Callaghan leadership and to cut supplies to the army of occupa tion in the North Troops Out I ne United Movement march this coming Saturday in Mason's constituen- Barnsles orovided important focus for such a fight must be fully supported must Corine … to the tore demand that 'left' Tront to talking NUM bureaucrat Arthur Scargill withdraw NUM sponsor take TrOM va sor Cano immediate steps to oust this butcher his own home constituency. CLPs must raise the demand that those Labour MPs who rigid claim to oppose the 5% pay limit head a national cam- against the whole paign to remove Callaghan with from office. Already it seems likely Conference that the vote Labour has undermined chances of ad-hoc Parliamentary dI. poncy ll nas with the Callon nationalist parties. defenders its that the demanding in self-styled 'socialists' in the combine Labour Party-who have plaved no role wnatever this latest conference defeat of Callagnan-spen of the alternative manifesto for the Election Genera

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branches and will be able to see worKer: in practice the real political positions of their treacherous left-talking In doing so, and fighting against the betrayals the 'lefts" counterparts in the union many workers will begin to see the necessity of constructing a party on programme action independent deleno

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