Socialist Press no. 13

LEFTS MUST FIGHT NOW

SACK WILSON

TO DEFEND JOBS!

SOCIALIST

PRESS *

union leader and the vast majority of the Labour 'left' argue that the only way to avoid mass unemployment is to accept the state pay laws of the Labour Government. Deter- mined to defend capitalism at all costs they push this line deliberately in order to sow confusion in the ranks of the working class. a year, resulting in a drop in the An essential part of Wilson's use of thi service has lead to the platform in this fight is former centralisation of exchanges at off- left' Michael Foot, now leading peak times and lay-offs among g defender of the pay laws on plat- operating staff. All this in the forms with Wilson. Wedgwood 'cutting costs". Benn, too, has dropped the left' name of This example shows that it facade and called on workers to is not a question of wage increases "sustain and maintain" the Gov= pushing up prices (what post office ernment. Both 'left' and right worker's wages have trebled ina then unite in support of the pay year?) but of cute in government laws. They go on treacherously to subsidies deliberately driving up prices, and services being cut in argue that the pay laws are a volun- orderito cut the labour force.

tary accepted scheme with legal backing. In other words, the law The creation of unemployment is being used to enforce the wage- in this way is a central part of the Labour Government's offensive cutting policy adopted by the against the working class - and TUC leaders. this from a starting point of 1 These people know that the only way workers can defend million unemployed. This exposes the lie of their living standards against present-day inflation is by coming Healey's threat to workers - They made, ironically, at a Tolpuddle will go to any lengths to prevent Martyrs memorial rally - that if the pay laws did not work and UNs. The WSL warns, contrary to reduce living standards it would the lies of Wilson and his backers: mean "two or three million on to accept the £6 pay limit is pre- the dole for years". This is pre- cisely to accept high levels of per- cisely the fate in store for wor- manent unemployment. kers if they do accept the pay The reasons for this are clear.

laws. A cut in the spending power of the working class, imposed by the pay

DEMANNING

laws, creates unemployment by cutting their ability to buy con- Spending cuts and demanning sullah 80v4s. are laking place l every sector.

In Birmingham eleven new schools In the Health

SPENDING CUTS

Where calcu. Service cash shortages have slashed the building programme But today there is more at and are forcing the closure of stake: the acceptance of the pay On the railways, ser- laws would be the decisive step vices are to be reduced and the towards the acceptance of the labour force cut, while in the other side of the Labour Govern- British Steel Corporation the cuts in government ment's attack - threat of 20,000 redundancies spending. has been revived to railroad These cuts, which began in through speed-up and demanning Healey's last budget are continuing and pave the way for a cut in today. Despite Wilson's assurances steel production. they are about to be massively We say that the fight to defend stepped up, creating huge numbers the right to work under these of unemployed. conditions is a political fight.

implications of these The full The starting point of the struggle measures must be understood in against unemployment is to s the workers movement. oppose the pay laws of the Labour In the Post Office alone, for Government, and mobilise to example, it is proposed that ser- defeat them. vices, such as the second post in The demand must be fought rural areas and Sunday collections, for to remove Wilson and the right be abolished, along with cuts in Post Office opening wing, and replace them with Saturday people who will defend the living hours. This will go along with a standards of the working class.

reduced volume of work caused At a time when this stand is by the staggering increase in needed, the decision of the NUM charges, and lead to immediate Executive (built on Scargill's An expected 50% redundancies. retreat from the £100 demand at redundancy among postmen in the Scarborough Conference) not rural areas gives an idea of the only to accept the pay laws, but scale of this attack. At the same time the trebling to ballot the membershio on 1t.

is a straight betraval. It cynically no taranhono shorter in lacc than wage struggles, won by the deter- mination of the rank and file, to win a 'yes' vote, as a conscious move to protect Wilson and the right wing. A main point of government propaganda used by right and 'left' is that inflation is the main enemy, and must be "beaten" We say that our programme the protection of wages by a sliding scale keeping pace with inflation; the protection of jobs through work-sharing on full pay; the opening of the books of the employers to establish the case for nationalisation under workers management of firms unable to sustain their work- force, and a programme of public works for such firms to keep production going - is an inflatio nary programme. But it is the only way to defend jobs and living standards. It is not inflation which is the main enemy, but capitalism The capitalist system itself causes inflation, and we cannot accept that the working class are respon- sible for inflation. Nor do we accept workers should pay for it Inflation can only be ended by the ending of capitalism itself The forces which gathered behind the Portuguese Soc- ialist Party's campaign for "democracy" during last week represented virtually every element of reaction which still dares to show its face at this stage in the dev- elopment of the Revolution.

Since the overthrow of fascism in April 1974 the revolutionary offensive of the working class has driven out many of these who associated with the were openly Salazar and Caetano dictatorship.

Reaction theretore must ralli its forces behind tendencies of the labour movement. While Socialist Party leader Soares called large rallies for "democratic rights" in Oporto and Lisbon, anti-communist hooligans carried out beatings and lynchings of Communist breaking down Party members, and burning their offices in the North. The church hierarchy gave its active blessing to priests as they led a massive witch-hunt against the Communist Party in the Northern towns and Villages.

FORTNIGHTLY PAPER OF THE

WORKERS SOCIALIST LEAGUE

NO 13 * 24th JULY 1975 * 10p Selling state pay laws: Foot and Williams on platform with Wilson and Heal and the establishment of a soc- ialist economy under nationalised property relations. But to achieve this, the working class must defend the living stan- dards it has won in years of struggle. In carrying out the job for the employers, Wilson gets of course the enthusiastic support of every

DEFEND PORTUGUESE

REVOLUTION !

The witch-hunt was aimed not only against the CP, but at all those advanced workers who have been in the lead of the struggle to clear out the fascists ttees which rebuffed Spinola's attempted coup of March Ilth.

Hand in hand with the vio lence in Portugal went the hys- terical sunoort of every spokes man of bourgeois "public opinion" in Western Europe. Adding his voice to the "silent majority" was British Labour Party General secretary, Ron Hayward, who returned from Lisbon at the weekend in full support of Soares reaction- ary campaign. The Stalinists of the Commu- nist Party and their allies in the Armed Forces Movement have prepared a rod for their own backs in this situation by break- ing suikes, asbandlig worker: committees and actively opposing any initiative by the mass of the working class. They have acted to contain the only force that can defend the Portuguese revo- lution. In this situation the Socialist Party majority in the • "constituent a body elected as one sector of the capitalist press. The defence of extreme right-winger, Prentice, and the unprecedented witch-hunting of those who have correctly moved his removal in Newham is a part of this.

The defenders of capitalism know that if Prentice is removed it will be a blow against the rul continued on back page, col.5 with out powers from the begin- ning - have come to serve as the front for the whole spectrum of reaction. It is only the development of the independent power of the working class, through the occu- pation committees and through joint committees of workers and rank and file soldiers that can defend the revolution at this time. The Armed Forces Movement will not for much longer be able to perform their delicate balancing act between the ooposed social forces. The release of some of the imprisoned Maoists at the weeken shows however that some of the AFM are being forced to make concessions to the left. But it is only by the political defeat of the AFM and their Stalinist allies that the gains so far made by the Portuguese wor- king class can be defended and carried forward. This must be the task of the democratically elected committee of the mass movement, united on Only such a Socialist programme. a body - not the moribund "constituent assembly" - can protect the democratic rights of the Portuguese working class

Right Wing By their deeds shall you ow them! The class inclin- tions Portuguese of the Forces Movement's mmed apreme Revolutionary Coun- thrown into relief were ith Foreign Minister Melo to the capital Luanda ngolan st week. Angola, the largest and richest ¿ Portugal's African colonies, has ill not yet received formal indep- dence. tortuguese ent, reflecting the wish of capital- interests world-wide to keep a ¿evolutionary soldiers demonstrating against the Constituent Assembly lake in the colony's wealth, have layed off the divided nationalist The rces one against the other. most. decisive, intervention ne as the left-wing liberation ces of the MLPA began to gain he upper hand in Luanda in fierce eet fighting with the right-wing

INLA.

Hard on Melo Antunes' heels plane-loads of fresh

LWO

ortuguese troops to reinforce the ore than 20,000 already in the Diony. Other aircraft were arranged ferry white Portuguese civilians at of the colony, while the Lisbon overnment hinted at a settlement be imposed by a UN 'peace- eping force.

"PRESERVE"

Behind the AFM's policy on Legola lies a determination to pres- the territory ther 'nationalist' political form for the future benefit of capitalism.

for the MLPA to assume the pre- ominant power would jeopardise s and thereiore. as in the Congo.

ction is played off against faction, bal: and cultural differences are aploited, and a situation is created oner an excuse or mtervenaon These reactionary policies give lie claims by the

AFM

adership - closeted in continuous sion in the early part of last ek as they attempted to resolve created by the political crisis ignation of Socialist Party leader pares and his fellow ministers from government - that they intend place power in the hands of the orking people through a system popular democracy. the

PORTUGAL

AFM Supports in Angola ship, backed by the ultra-Stalinist Portuguese Communist Party, are calling demonstrations on the slog- ans "Dissolve the provisional gov- ernment" "Dissolve the Constituent Assembly* "For workers' and peoples' power" These demonstrations are demagogic and reactionary fraud. The AFM and the Communist Party done everything possible to have straightjacket and suppress the real- ly democratic committees - of wor- kers, soldiers and tenants - except where these are closely tied to their own policies. What they are not propose other type soviets of ally democratic bodies to represent the class strength of the working class formed but committees to from above, in the indefinite future, transmission belt ana lo act as d for Stalinist and AFM policies.

are trying to In effect they impose - in the here and now - a joint dictatorship of the AFM and Communist Party chiets. It is for this reason that they had to suppress lett wing have the workers within Tendences the Maoist movement - such as MRPP. The leadership of the "secur- ity' command within the armed forces, COPCON, last week denoun- ced 'infiltration' by the MRPP and other 'leftists' among rank-and-file soldiers. It is the reactionary policies of the AFM and Stalinist leaders - dressed up in revolutionary phrase- ology - which created some of the greatest dangers and confusion for the working class in Portugal.

They create the conditions in which Soares and other Socialist Party leaders can launch anti-com- appeals in the name munisl and in which priests 'democracy north encourage the witch-hunting of Commourist Party members and the burning of Com- munist literature.

COMMITTEES

The struggle for workers' dem in Portugal through the AFM and the Stalinist nor through the right- bureaucrats, wing Social Democracy of Soares, but through the building of unity- ing of the rank-and-file committees, and recallable those elected, who elect them.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

CUBA

CASTRO TALKS

WITH

REACTIONARIES

member of the of Organisation Prime Minister Michael American States (OAS) since 1969, Manley of Jamaica gave decided to establish relations with clenched fist salute to cheering Cuba, despite the OAS sanctions landed crowds when he at against the Castro government.

Since Castro's lauding of Hayana earlier this month for Manley's • Jamaica the infamous his first official visit to Cuba.

"Gun Law" has been passed which The Jamaican premier is the can be widely used against political third head of government from a opponents. Thugs hired by Manley's Caribbean country to visit Cuba party have attacked Trevor Munroe, - following the steps of this year a university lecturer, as he held a Forbes-Burnham of Guyana and Kingston dock- meeting Eric Williams of Trinidad-Tobago.

workers. The viciousness of this the 5-day Talks during visit assault necessitated 300 stitches in centred on bilateral relations, and hospital treatment. regional problems such as the setting But Cuba's other welcomed up of the newly-created Caribbean also well-known for visitors Shipping Company. Also discussed carrying on the traditions of their proposed meeting of the was the predecessors Colon Economic Commission for Latin 1970, only the intervention In of British gunboats prevented Eric Relations Cuba and Williams from falling to the general between Jamaica have developed since Fidel strike in Trinidad-Tobago. This Castro first described Jamaica as a has the first unity in year "friendly and progressive country", struggle of East Indian rural workers with the black proletariat some three years ago. Shortly afterwards, Jamaica, a severely repressed.

ARGENTINA

Rega The dismissal of Lopez And though considerable money Rega, the reactionary power behind the pressure of the general strike, these Argen- scenes are being eaten away almost before tinian President Mrs Isabel Among the they have been paid. Peron, did nothing to stem the price increases announced last week political and economic crisis were a doubling in the cost of many there. goods, including the government- controlled tobacco, postal and tele- Lopez Rega's removal repres- ented no fundamental concession by the government, though he went following a 48 hour general strike, Trade reluctany une Union leaders, against government allempts lo coke wage nises below inflation and enforce an 'incomes policy. Anti-Communist Lopez Rega himself was heavily wing and anti-communist elements.

Immediately after his fall, Mrs Peron faced demands for a 'thoroughgoing carried out hundreds of of left-wingers and liberals in the Last week Lopez Rega himself Isabel Peron with Rega was reported to be making hurried preparations for an extended 'vac- phone services. Some prices have in fact teebled the government reshuffle which followed the general strike in the last month, and even the largest wage increases conceded - of left most of the key cabinet posts 130% - scarcely enable intact - in particular that of Econ- wornels lo Celestino Rodrigo, keep up with the cost of living.

OIly forecast Official also

SOLICCS

demanded along with that of Lopez a further devaluation of the Argen-

ITALY

COMMUNIST PARTY

BOOSTS CAPITALISM-

for the responsibility" the shown by Stalinist leaders. Communist Unemployment leaders in the Italian union movement have taken the lead in a campaign Lama's attack on wage claims "prune" wage claims and help comes in a situation where loss of the employers reduce the unit unemolovment anc

WOIK

cost of labour. short time in industry has increased over seven times between the first As the "centre-left" coalition half of 1974 and the same period government - based or an alliance this year. between Christian Democrats The Stalinists thus pick up the and the Socialist Party - last week classic cudgel with which capitalism prepared an economic package to attempts to make the working class to counteract the deepening try crisis economic recession, Luciano Lama, National the "take wage cuts or you'll lose your of the main Communist Secretary jobs". And they do so at a time edit, isced a call for luntary trade union federation, least 40 national at coming for agreements up "The objective wage negotiation in the late summer and struggle said. Is to These include early autumn. against unemployment, rather than important sections of workers, such for wage increases.' SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday July 24th 1975 speciality is Burnham, willose the rigging of Guyana's elections, is not averse to intimidating oppo beating them up and offices. This wrecking their happened to a Maoist group in the last elections. Since that point introduced legislation to he has Castro a crude import newsprint but effective method of preventing opposition papers from functioning.

PERON

CLINGS ON

tinian the of currency peso around 25%. This would drastically increase the cost of imported goods to workers, and follows on a 50% devaluation the beginning June triggered the present stage of the crisis Though the Peronist leaders of the trade union movement have returned -to a shaky alliance with the government, the of campaign terror by the right-wing continued.

Last week the Mayor of La Plata, a major south Buenos Aires was riddled by machine gun fire while being driven.

from his office. The mayor, Rod- olfo Cartier, was a leading Peronist in the labour movement, with close connections with the leaders of the trade union federation, the CGT.

Break All these developments confirm the importance of a break for the workers movement from the bour- geois politics of the Peronist move- order to fight for in a thorkingies of themie to meet working struggle sliding scale of wages can be seen as indis pensable in Argentina to maintain uncontrolled living standards This has to be combined inflation. with the nationalisation of key sectors of industry in order to reg ulate prices. At the same time the workers movement must be protect establishment of armed ed by the workers defence squads to defeat right wing provocations. the right in to Stalinist trade union policy is part of their continuing and parcel behind-the-scenes campaign to get agreement for coalition with the Christian Democrats. labyrinthine struggle within the top echelons of the Christian Democrats to remove the thorough- secretary ly anti-communist party Amintore Fantani, since the Communist Party scored significant gains against the right in the June regional elections.

Coalition But far from putting up any defend the rights programme to of workers in the crisis and break coalition, the Communist Party chiefs prepare to sacrifice pay packets as the price of their entry into a popular front

GERMANY: "Participation"

WHAT IS THE WORKERS SOCIALIST LEAGUE ?

SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday July 24th, 1975 Gloomy forecasts for the The worker West German economy cont- Germany is an With inue. unemployment the now at 4½ per cent of the labour force, The the announce- miracle' 14th by ment on July the respected highly

IFO

econ- omic research institute that unemployment will continue to rise at least until November Nazi has added another touch of downwards. gloom. But unemployment is simply anisation possible. German

SPD

the result ot Ene 'Labour' government pursuing the Healey same policies that and industry Wilson attempting dI C 11OW inflict on the British working class - seeking to bring down the rate of with inflation through credit massive unem- finance ployment and cuts in workers' living standards. In the midst of lengthening wilt dole Chancellor Schmidt growth. cucues. proudly boasts that he has brought down the rate of inflation from government 7% in February 6% May. immediately in dismantled the same time Schmidt At using the mercasca terrorst acavity West Germany as a pretext for of extending the apparatus of police participation repression and surveillance in prep- aration for mounting working class attempt resistance to unemployment.

is in this context of rising the tying unemployment and a Labour gov- The ernment moving continually to the right, that the question of workers' control raises itself in West Germany. seen in pennes 'Joint' Decision entatives. aspect of "joint Systems decision making' abound throughout West to the both at the level of the firm itself and at the plant strike action. level where joint participation' Because works councils comprising unions shop and management exist. Experience evolved West Germany, therefore, exposes the schemes for worker participation such as those embodied in Wilson's In Industry Bill in Britain.

industries The Workers Socialist League was formed on December 22nd 1974 as part of the fight to carry forward the method and principles of Trotsky's Transitional Programme, The WSL now represents the continuity of the struggle for these ional. principles in the workers' movement. the formation of the members from the Workers Revolutionary Party, the WRP leadership in order to prevent discussion of their ically by abandonment of the Programme both in mass expulsions showed that there could be no hope of correcting the

WRP

- an independent organisation had to be founded to maintain the fight for Trotskyism. Such a split came out of particular conditions. The rapid development of the economic crisis of capitalism and the forward movement of the world working class, which has now overthrown imperialism in Vietnam began to produce the conditions to build revolutionary and Cambodia, parties internationally. At such a point the importance of a fight for the method and principles of the Transitional Programme, against both sectarianism and opportunism is paramount in the preparation of revolutionary leadership.

period of isolation from the mass movement, important gains in trade union work and opening up completely new areas the working class in the taking of power The defence of jobs through the fight for work sharing on full pay, run by fight for all wage agreements to include a sliding scale to increases in the cost of Living in Unemployment of representation widespread. existence participation in West extend this expression not of

CLO

strength but is defeated by the senate. weaknes of the German working class.

Right-wing 'economic bill rapid of rate economic growth in West Germany was based directly on the political thirty years defeats inflicted on the German growing resistance working class by Fascism.

unemployment. Throughout the period of the same way the driven regime wages were 'Industrial Democracy' The total destruction Wilson's Industry Bill. of independent working class org by the Nazis made this Atter the war. however the massive destruction of German through bombing coupled with the historic defeats of the German working class together of the the extension massive

DGB

reconstruction world capitalism Hamburg in laid the basis for a restoration of capitalism high

TALC

conomi ation. allied This whole Although the military in West Germany facing after the waI complete participation' working class endently committees floor only as campaign small savers) programme loyment. ent of the schemes of leading task opposition to West German unemployed Control the of the trappings Fascist state apparatus and restored Workers free trade unions, the development councils works and . joint collion task of the schemes was by the bourgeoisie to continue a vital aspect of Fascism - management, Lic remove the of the working class to atives and the state and the ruling class.

management after nationalisation.

fundamentally anti- Along with working class nature of the worker participation systems can be clearly must be the existence of severe the revelation "business secrets' by worker repres ic plan for German industry.

(This important 1s an Wilson's Bill This programme of Industry comes proposals in Britain). Clearer still with the is the fact that workers elected on local works councils are prohibited by law from calling for German West participation. of this a system of It is around the stewards' has committees such level totally a programme at tactory leadership separate from and independent of carrying the works councils and the trade Transitional union bureaucracy. the coal, and steel the Iron there exists Germany. parity nationalisation under workers' the founding document of the Fourth Internat- cnese demands, level of political consciousness class to take the power. League followed the expulsion of over 200 method carried out bureaucrat- theory and in practice. These party. After a hard Already Trotskyism now emerges compensate for hammer out and adopt as determined by trade union prices Australia's continued its ominous simmer- ing last week, of main parliamentary workers and treating the network of scan- management. Last autumn a bill to al industry alleged dals, resignations and opposition to the with extreme caution. was based not on employer opposition to the system as such - Labour Premier Gough Whitlam they have supported it for the last opposed a demand from opposition but fear of members of the Senate (the upper of workers to house of the Australian parliament) that a dozen senior officials of the In exactly the

CBI

the civil service should be Icsisica aspects of answer questions ment's conduct in seeking to raise overseas loans. Side-Track

TUC)

attempted to discussion Woom worker trom action against trade union to shop- nationalisation (except the only viable unemp- participation Whitlam and his daughter the fight for workers' control of production in The present round of scandals workers' participa- started after a series of exposures tion in speed-up and redundancy.

gave Whitlam sutticient reasons to chop' his Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Treasurer, Jim Cairns • also a 'left' within the Australian Labour Party and one of Whitlam's long-standing rivals. accused of giving Cairns was have no interests in people with whom he had personal The with the emnlovers. connections - including his stepson unions is to assert - authority to negotiate for massive working class interests and control government loans in the in prepartion to East and London. employers represent- involved of the introduce full workers' Sulls 2,000,000,000 dollars they have meant 'commissions' of several nationalisation millions for those involved with programme of useful public works them. established ensure continuity of work and enable the

REVELATIONS

development of a socialist econom course, into direct confrontation A series of 'revelations' in the protection of business press, hased on letters and docu ments from civil service files, went secrets and prohibition of advocacy of strikes embedded in the current hand-in-hand with a carefully orch- estrated Parliamentary campaign to system of worker bring this to the public eye. To add to the struggle for fragrance ours also connected Cairns' private that new secretary, Miss Juni Morosi, forward the go-between in the loan negotiations.

Programme of the Whitlam first demoted Cairns, Fourth International must be built working class in West then removed him altogether.

Parliamentary week the management: all these policies are now called for in this situation. As they are fought for and workers are mobilised they begin to form a bridge between the present of workers and the need for the working Yet the WRP refused to take up a fight for this For this reason the most important developments in our work have centred on a break from WRP sectarianism and propagandism, trade union committees; the defence of living standards thr We are beginning to recruit and train from the new forces thrown into struggles in this period - not only trade unionists, but also professional workers, housewives, students and youth - in the fight to construct the record shows that we continue to fight uncompromisingly expose all those who attack and revise Marxism - not only the WRP but also the 'rank and file' policies of the IS group who refuse to defend the Soviet Union as a workers' state, and the IMG, who liquidate the revolut- ionary movement into unprincipled blocs and liaisons with anti-revolution- ary tendencies, as well as against Stalinism and reformism.

world the movement of the it is clear that throughout the working class poses similar questions for those groups calling themselves Trotskyist, particularly sections of the International Committee of th Fourth International, producing similar splits and offering a rich movement based on the Trotskyist of developing a truly international programme. For this reason the WSL is now engaged in a process of inter.

nal discussion prior to a full founding conference, a vita part of which is t for the building of the Ispect Page 3 AUSTRALIAN Reformists' 'Watergate' 'Watergate' Party attempted to put a stop to the scandal and restore some stab Whitlam's government by ility to with all the voting in Frank Crean to replace parties of the deputy leader Party and deputy Prime Minister.

'backhanders', But further rumours began to Whitlam's surround Rex Connor dismissals nationalistic Minister for Minerak •Connors has been heac and Energy. ing a campaign against the foreign companies who control the exploit ation of about 60% of Australia's vast resourceS, trying mineral give a bigger share to Australian made to capital. To do so he attempted to raise the govern a 4 billion dollar, loan in the Middle East, through London financier Tirath Khemlani. According to gor ernment cables published in the Melbourne press Khemlani stood in line for millions of dollars in con missions had the deal gone through

HESITANT

But the opposition in Canberr - Malcolm Fraser's capitalist Libera Country Party seem hesitant to exploit the matter to the hilt. Fo one thing, details on Connor's loan dealings allegedly provided Were through Australian merchant bank offended at not being in on the floatation themselves And the opposition contain many spokesmen for foreign capit wong to get a suce ol une vas profits potentially offered by th country's natural resources.

Thus they accepted - with onl cries of 'Shame!' - • Whitlam's refus to allow civil servants to be quest ioned and his claim that to fora this would be a breach of 'executiv essentially privilege' the defence as Nixon offered at the beginning of the Watergate affair!

CORRUPTION

The corruption exposed in Australian reformist party scandals common cause with German social democracy, the revelations in Britain of corrup of leading Labour Party members. This has included the involve Middle

NEC

ment Labour membe Since the loans T. Dan Smith with architect Johr of order Poulson and N.E. Labourite Andres could Cunningham in a network of back handers and development contract Nolvinast, our well as ilson Wilson' North well being tied in wit private secretary prophe surrenttion current adventures Walsall MP Stonehouse are part of the same crisis whick flows from the class-collaborationis policies of reformism. Thus during the boom perio reformist leaders grew attached t bourgeoisie, their lifestyle and th and now affair some rum- their corruption break up of the boom is dryin up the gravy train. Meanwhile as a the capitalist *at mess, finger with such information tips bides its time, waiting only Labour use it for best political effect

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FIRST OF AN OCCASIONAL SERIES OF ARTICLES TRACING THE CAREERS OF 'LEFT' MPS.

rxists have always been elled to struggle against pportunist and reformist class of the working nent. In August 1914 a occured when split -formists went over with- alification to 'their own' supporting classes by st Imperialist War. since then, the policy of fight to been to aside all those and push of the working class who in the way of its emancipation.

the modern epoch . of wars the working class evolutions, o longer defend or improve defeating conditions without its struggle of the leaders who hold back and every effort at its improve- and act thus as direct agents employers in the workers ment.

SCIENTIFIC

Our struggle for a new leader- class involves in the working rious and scientific assessment he forces ranged against. us. We the immediate re- fight for ment of those such as Prentice who openly ally with Healey Tory and use

HANS

laws, including state pay he working class. must not be de- However, we left reputations by the those who sometimes by like these policies, against or Bidwell, or Heffer, even if do gain the support of militant workers. These left-moving pe are, as Trotsky said of their 1920's, but the ivalents rieties of the same basic Fabian Their policies can do nothing erve the interests of the working simply period, but this d off the struggles of workers by the legalistic them to fining anels dictated by the bourgeoisie.

Such a conclusion is not always ious when we hear the militant Heffer about the of Eric building workers, ewsbury. capitalist press view of edgewood Benn as some kind of eat to the bosses and their system.

any under mificant conflict, where the basic crests of the working class are at *ke, these people always break for and run. An essential role of a revolution: paper is to expose in advance traitorous role of the fake letts, to attack their hesitations and They should of course cillations. supported on those rare occas when they do take a principled id, as Heffer did when he leit government over the Common ket, and as Scanlon did when he ed against postal ballots in trade ion elections.

DECEPTIVE

However, it would be wrong to I to point out that such steps. as only the serve ena eive workers and head off the egle for the revolutionary over- ow of capitalism. "lefts' the that Labour and the the unions defence of stand in Take a interests of the working class, must constantly point out that, they fight for a programme ich brings the workers indepen- conflict their atly into

WALLIN

pitalist masters, unless they come side unequivocally to the Marxism, then they for simply provide a cover openly pro-capitalist leaders of Prentice-Jenkins variety.

We cannot talk of a 'good side' "bad side' in the policies these lefts, selecting which parts The de- of support. worthy be ands we put on inem must All of this proved of consider- in general will be ever more trea- able political benefit to MacDonald • cherous, ever more liable to deceive He gained a great reputation as a hold back the masses and accused. of principle falsely struggles for their interests.

written about book was even The purpose of this article and title The Man of him with the others which will follow is to show left- Tomorrow. militant and that however sounding leaders of the working they take class be,

ELECTION

flay of revolutionary cause Marxism, inevitably the they obstacle the to end all interests of workers. of him played an This view workers are However his election important part in handouts by the deceived capitalists in the Industry Bill, they the position of Parliamentary leader 1922, in preference to Clynes, unable to defend their in will be support for the war had jobs unless they fight for factory whose well and who had occupations, for opening the books been a member of the wartime of their employers to • committees Coalition Government. and for work of trade unionists, by means Nor was this sharing without loss of pay.

end of the campaign in the However much they are deceived the MacDonald. by left rhetoric in favour of such capitalist press against policies as selective import controls, Election cam- During the General 1923 and 1924 posters only by a sliding scale of wages paigns Conservative under trade union control linked to were issued by the a campaign for socialist nationalisa- workers management will tion and their and they safeguard. wants working conditions in this period.

It is only the working class under leadership who will revolutionary and not the be able to do this, Benns and manoeuvring of the Heffers. much that Benn, Of course others can at say Scanlon and militant and times sound revolutionary'. Besides analysing show their their statements lo we can also treacherous essence, where such policies end, by SnoW careers of others examining the whose promises have been just as golden, and whose road has always been that of betrayal.

TRAITOR

This series must begin with a career of few remarks about MacDonald, first James Secretary of the Labour Party, and Minister. Labour Prime first of now MacDonald course remembered in the working class as the turncoat movement chiefly who joined the Tories and traitor, so-called and Liberals to form the 'National' Government of 1931.

He then presided over a govern ment which obediently carried out policies of mass unemployment and behest of the wage cutting at the and со- Dankels r operated with the appeasement of Italian and German fascism, helping MacDonald, Samuel, Sankey.

prepare for a new imperialist Party claiming that MacDonald was wal. It should be emphasised that sympathetic way

TOIC

whatever hatred now surrounds the DUllle because he favoured 'Union. Soviet memory of MacDonald in the wor- recognition of the new Government king class, he was not always seen and the establishment of trade links.

a time that way. Was Press attacks were again whipped MacDonald commanded the up when MacDonald decided, acting fiercest loyalty in the working class prosecute legal advice, not on those who when and editor of the •movemenl, Campbell, warned that he would betray Workers Weekly, Communist Party were treated with derision.

for an article that called on soldiers It is also important for workers not to shoot at strikers.

This was the issue of confidence that there a long period in MacDonald's political life on which the first Labour Govern- left, considered a of office by when ne was was voted out ment opponent supported combined votes of Tories and to the capitalism and imperialist war. of In the election campaign Liberals. War, World During the First of secret followed, sections that as leader of resigned MacDonald in league with the Daily Labour Party, Parliamentary Mail, used a fabricated letter from spoke up on behalf of conscientious Soviet leader Zinovier in a further objectors in Parliament, attempt to smear MacDonald.

attended the 1917 Leeds Convention by the charges of which greeted the February Revolu- press, personal attacks, etc., reboun tion in Russia. ded against their authors by building up the prestige of MacDonald within the working class movement. How-

VICIOUS

was another important ever, point about all the statements on Ma Dos suppositior to to Viat MacDonald was Furthermore, and his sympathy for Soviet subject to a vigious and dirty press Union. They were quite being accusing him campaign of MacDonald to The attitude a 'pacifist', an agent of Germany' the War had nothing whatsoever in Horatio besides. and much more revolutionary the with Bottomley, the patriot and swindler, opposition of Karl Liebenecht who £78,000 profit of who made declared that 'the enemy is at home, of persuading men to out young called for the who his or of Lenin published in join the army, imperialist war to be turned in every John Bull сору OI country into a civil war of workers

MACCAS

certificate, MacDonald's birth 1n "own capitalist class. against their order to prove his illegitimate origin.

MacDonald wrole So great was the campaigr the immediate the moment, settle He claimed that issue of victory'. separate the possible • was for 'peace' from serious struggle opposition to the slaughter on be that was taking half of capitalism place on the battlefield.

was how he managed to This come into alliance with the disillu- ex-Liberals and pacifists of sioned the Union of Democratic Control who provided an important element in developing concepts of class com- the leading ranks of promisers in the labour movement. of rumours Nor sympathy with MacDonald's than anything

HOIC

Сонниши on MacDonald and on communism. was the most consistent and continuous opponent Independent within Party of affiliation to the Commu- left International, nist wing favoured. For a time he was Secretary of the Second International, trying National Cabinet 1931: (back) Cunliffe-Lister, Thomas, Reading, Chamberlain, Hoare, (front) Snowden, Baldwin, breathe some without success to life into that 'rotten corpse.

and supported the proscription, eventually the expulsion of Commu nists from the Labour Party, and of defended the puppet regimes Georgia and other areas set up by the imperialists and Mensheviks to challenge Soviet power during the Civil War. Although, as one recent writer on his life has put it, 'most of the other Labour leaders of his gene ideas and rein- shared his ration was the only one forced them', he tried to give them who seriously a "theoretical" gloss. and Some of his pamphlets reproduced speeches have recently with learned introductions and explanatory notes, but they do little to allay his reputation for crass and formidable philistineism obscurity. He defended reformism, on the grounds that for the working class politics should consist of laboratory experiment, not disposed to bio particularly Was presenting his logical analogy in arguments for gradual revolution.

TROTSKY

The fifth chapter of Trotsky's Where Is Britain Going? provides critique particularly of the world, which of this view exposes MacDonald's hypocritical nonifiniam not to mention his ino- SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday July 241h, 19-5 class are shown in such working 'in of class statements as place evoke we want to

CONCUSSO

social soli- consciousness of the darity. With such conceptions as these the second Labour Government of of the leadership 1929-31 under policies at all MacDonald, had no dealing with the devastating for that soon engulfed capitalist crisis The relative weakness of British capitalism made her particularly vulnerable in the period between the the Wall Street stock collapse of market in 1929 and of the Austrian Credit-Anstalt Bank in 1931.

Throughout these years the only 'Labour the policies discussed b including by many who Cabinet, opponents of claimed to be later MacDonald, were swingeing attacks cuts and on public spending, Wast MacDonald told unemployment. delegation about one such a TUC series of proposals: abandoning of "There is no Prise leverine inside fest Everyone responsible for a Trade Unionist department a Socialist, both, and the meeting can trust us."

INEFFECTIVE

Even the leaders of the TUC found it impossible to wear this.

could never defend in front They policies which of their members cut the pay of were proposed to those working in the public service, and the massive increase in unem- which eventually ployment, 25% or close on nearly 3 million, of those registering for How- ever there opponents the "left' from MacDonald's policies in the labour independent movement, of the working class mobilisation in defence of jobs and wages, for a socialist programme to solve the crisis. mobilisation, such a Without the proposals from 'left' MPs for increases in taxation and program- mes of public works were utterly ineffective. Although union leaders like Bevin and time spont 'revenue tariffs' and other "radical' had no proposals solutions, they for carrying out even these limited measures. Leaders of the Independ- ent Labour Party spoke of "Social and even expelled ism in Our Time' MacDonald in anticipation of his had no prog but they betrayals

SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday July 24th, 1975 HT the ultimate betrayal by road for MacDonald and some of his coll- eagues when they joined the Tories and Liberals in a so-called 'National' Government to carry out a whole range of attacks on the working cut in the class, incluang a large dole paid to the increasing army of of the unemployed. However, Mac- Donald left many behind In the labour movement such as Morrison and Dalton, who were able to carry out a similar role in later generat- ions.

SOCIALISM

as for all ref- For MacDonald, ormists from that day to this, the struggle for socialism had nothing whatever to do with day to day politics. One of his former support- ers wrote of him soon after his death that he considered socialism to be: "that far-off Never-Never-Land born of vague aspirations and described by him in picturesque generalities.

It is a Turner landscape of beautiful colours and glorious indefiniteness.

He saw it, not with a telescope, but with a kaleidoscope. MacDonald himself apparently remained unaware of the level of his hypocrisy as perhaps his equivalents do today. Thus when delegation of unemployed workers from Jarrow went to see him, while "National' Prime was already Minister and responsible for much said to their of their plight. Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson, "Ellen, why don't you go out and preach socialism, which is the only remedy for all this?" of the a perverted view world will never be dead as long as we continue to hear 'left' Cabinet ministers like Barbara Castle speak of workers who fight to improve "endan- their wages and conditions the future of socialism in gering Britain"

SUPPORT

It is easy to see in retrospect the patent and sickening hypocrisy MacDonald and where it led. Yet MacDonald's oratorical flights of fancy and his lett reputation gained him the of firm support large sections of workers during 1920's. the sympathy for Soviet Union him gave lead the it possible for to At the the tion MacDonald fascist, did Yet Icpulanon. MacDonald had to be but also every out the "bad challenge and every step understanding we reputations are being given them is an something of articles treacherous road. by John Docherty The lead article of the latest edition of "Red Weekly", the International paper Marxist Group, is a hysterical response to the incomes policy put forward measures by Wilson and Healey. It marks a new stage of political con- fusion

IMG,

in the and a continuation of their revisions of Trotskyism. Wilson's imposition of state of wages, control and the prepar- ation for it in the form of the acceptance by the TUC bureaucracy of Jack Jones' "flat rate" £6 scheme reg unes serious study and analysıs by Trotskyists. Contained in these moves are vital lessons for the political education of whole layers of workers who seek to defend rights and living standards, T neit but who still retain some faith. in "leaders" who have all played role in this unprecedented betrayal.

The 'left' MPs, who caved in on every question to Wilson and have challenge retused

SINCE LO

lead the Labour Party share a heavy responsibility for the state pay laws, 'left' union leaders along with the who refused to out and the reactionary essence of Jones' f6 plan.

STALINISTS

At the centre of the betrayal was of course the so-called "Marx- ist" Arthur Scargill, who collapsed before the right wing even attacked at the

NUM

conference, and got up to move a right wing composite motion, rather than fight for £100 pay demand for miners. But Scargill did not act alone: right alongside him providing the alibis "compromise" urging a and leading Communist Party member Mick McGahey, and behind him were the other Stalinists also.

There can be no clarity and no soundly-based fight against Wilson's pay laws which ignores these polit- ical facts. Stalinists, centrists and reformists among the factors relied on by Wilson and Jones as their IMG however does not attémpt but responds in desperation, with strength of the working class move- Instead they search anxiously for any kind of allies with of the "left" against Wilson.

visage would include a motley array of forces and groupings, which the IMG refuse to differentiate politic- Their attitude to these groups is the very opposite of that posed in a Communist united front.

AS Trotsky wrote: "The party can achieve this [majority support of workers] only by remaining an absolutely indépen- with a clear pro- dent organisation gramme and strict internal discipline.

This is the reason why the party break ideologically bound to was and organisationally with the refor- mists and the centrists who do not strive for the proletarian revolution, who neither the capacity possess nor the desire to prepare the masses revolution, and who by their entire conduct thwart ThIs WOIk. "Any members of the Commu- nist Party who bemoan the split with the name of Classine "unity of. forces" "unity of front' thereby demonstrate that they do not understand the ABC of Communism and that they them- selves happen Lo be in tne commu nist Party only by accident."

Five Communist International, Vol. 2, p. 911 Thus the IMG call for action is undefined) from (what the Stalinist-run liaison Committe

I.M.G:

CALLING ALL

CENTRISTS

outset attempted to divert workers' political discontent and determin- blind struggle down the to alley of Stalinist protest campaigns.

Most noted recently has been their refusal to fight the TUC bureaucracy in its abandonment of the Shrews- The LCDTU has always burv wo. acted simply as a safety valve to protect the bureaucrats.

FRAUDULENT

Along with the LCDTU, lump in the reactionary and fraud- "Institute of. Work- ulently-named comprising academics and spokesman exercise degree of social, political and economic reformist means teaching workers Planning and what ing, finance, exchange, import controls, This bogus etc. "part- Wilson's NEB the Tribune of this

IMG,

to arouse for including in their list the IS front "Rank and File Muvement" a body which has always restricted itself to the lowest levels of non- But the IMG shopping list of left and radical groupings does not stop here - on Page 3 they go on to include such political Uncle Tom Against Private Practice, and that organisation with the task of re- habilitating Stalinism after the Chile Campaign. Conspicuously absent of get this carnival of opportunists or the road that they forget to men- tion themselves - or do they only IMG as a coalition of members these groupings? Certainly the program mou to fight against the the Labour government's imposit- ion of state control of wages, put forward on page seems to set out to provide something for every.

call for a one. misses wages (deliberately sliding scale of omitted to enable an alliance with the IS and the CP who oppose the demand), but includes the demand for "free abortion and contraception demand", to provide a lure for middle class women uncon- *ett Page 5 right itself! (emphasis added)..

what such a circus should actually We base ourselves upon the objective forces in the world, and to incoherence: we feel sure that these objectiv forces will in the long run remedy to the could play an subjective defects". (International Secretariat documents 1951-54 [SWP/ Vol 2 p81) and-file. religious This passive, almost conception minimises the import Rank the revolutionary the party ance (the "subjective" factor), and rele gates Trotskyism to merely deciding which "objective force to sub merge into. and file, At first the Pabloites saw these "objective forces" arising in the Stalinist Communist Parties inter- and therefore against the are or two established country. The Way Forward for measures Workers Contro only the disillusion Indeed and the "left' ence IWC: boosted by IMG 'Some trade leaders have nationally, Trotskyist opposed Healey. and some parties, following Pablo's directions dissolved into their national Comm- unist Parties. The onset of colonial struggles Readers of produced the concept in the then "epicentre revol US that the for several the paper was in the so-called "Third ution has also World" peasant and liberation mov 'lefts' of the ments. Uncritical support was giver Tribune Group. to these, to the extent of terming

IMG

COVe anti that notorious 'lefts' cont- Trotskyist, a "natural Marxist" Then the radicalisation of the betrayals the student and middle class in in the late Tribune comes anti-war movements 1960's produced the Pablo-ite con out the removal clearly cept of the "student vanguard" thes "obiective forces organisation for mass th loites dissolved • they were orlane main organised working class move lime

IMG

continues really have ment. calls for united *ety and relationships with the in the working with the left MPs. emphasis added). This is light years away from clear statement Trotsky's in Transitional Programme that "The of the 'lefts' concealed, and world political situation as a whol is chiefly characterised by a histor belly. This the meaning ical crisis of the leadership of the proletariat". (emphasis added).

IMG con- also specifically diss talk of close Trotsky with ference, ociates from the IMG conception with "left political

IMG

that the 'smallness' of a revolution For the social it organisation must "relationships" "unity" ary are itself with others in order merge to act. He wrote: of opportunism "There are epochs when the revol utionary tendency is reduced to a small minority in the labour move But these epochs demand ment. not arrangements between the smal international the groups with mutual hiding of sin but, on the contrary [NB, IMG!] US split from inal implacable struggle for doubly correct perspective and an educatio of the cadres in the spirit of genuin Marxism. possible only way". in (emphasis added: way Ints Communism and Syndicalism, 1929

UNITY

This does not mean, and neither does Socialist Press at all suggest, that there is no need to unite the working class on the widest possible basis to fight all attacks such as th state pay laws, and in the struggle for power. It goes without saying along with all that revolutionaries, class-conscious workers must and will lead the struggle to support an Troops Out Movement: summoned to action against the pay laws along with section of trade unionists that takes National Abortion Campaign on the government and fights these laws "solidarity" Trotskyism in 1953 But within that precisely on the question of the need to develop movement must develop the sharp independent revolutionary parties fight for the Trotskyist programme in each country to lead the struggle and principle, which cannot procee Their main spokesman, if the Trotskyist party is tied to a for Dower Michel Pablo, developed the alter- coalition bankrupt nances there that the objective native of revolution would spon- and radical groups. That is not a united front but sheer opportunism taneously throw forward the van- guard forces of leadership. This was "linking up single issues in order to duck the fight for leadership.

perhaps clearest expressed in the The internal opportunism passage from Pablo-supporter Harry Frankel, quoted in our previous IMG has already been exposed in article on the IMG (Socialist Press, Socialist Press - with its "peaceful no. 6,17.4.75): coexistence" of opposed tendencies "We have confidence in our analysis but Red Weekly re inis latesu That analysis and affirms that Pabloite revisionsim an of our enoch the confidence which flows from opportunism, and not the defence

EXPLOITED IMMIGRANT

WORKERS

The role played by immigrant labour in the expansion of ast war capitalism is well known.

The rapid rate of capital the European labour market ring the sucked into war the Carribean, the Near East ousands of workers from Asia, d the underdeveloped parts of Europe itself.

but more crucially of the leadership Generally, immigrants were ught into the lowest paid, most akly trade unionised 'dirty jobs ch as refuse collection, portering, ering releasing native akers for the expanding manu- through Labour's own Acts of 1965 cturing industries. and 1968 to the disgusting failure However, technical advance has of the to repeal the Tory 1971 Immigration the simplification our process even in the advanced enabling ctors of the economy He suggests that the presence be brought in here micrants to and Thus in West Germany immi- ants are 30 per cent of assembly workers in the motor industry.

which migrants themselves were not Besides solving capitalism's roblem of labour supply, immi- nt workers have other advantages because it has found spokesmen within the ruling class initial the ютадсе of trade union rights d organising methods; and greater the fringe to the lingness to work long hours and exible shifts to pay back loans hastbeen able to feed its policies home quickly

ICLULL

to politicians eager for new vote sible). winning ideas." (p. 29) factors especially These portant in the current depression ment completely begs the question sectors like the textile and light gineering and the catering indus- of the historical origin of racialist conceptions first of all in the labour where many ilms but ior the the high intensity aristocracy in the nineteenth cen- ploitation The privile workers was labour ants would collapse. financed by the brutal exploitation of the colonies by British imperia-

BENEFITS

illusion that British workers had a common class in Finally, the capitalist interest with the capitalists in main- * receiving country benefits from taining such relations. to pay the education child-rearing costs its the bureaucratic leaders of the wor- grants and furthermore where, cultivated by the Europe, migrants can be sent Kers movement. employers as a buffer between the if no work exists, unemploy- benefit payments rise at a of rate than rate Tine large v ployment as migrant workers

CLU

cot back Ill these facts are noted by the 'vote Berger and Mohr using combination of text and photo aph, describe graphically the sub- cave side or uns process

ABSTRACT

rant leaves his village and follows road to the industrial metro- olis and the dehumanising Berger and Mohr are, however, xperiences that await him there.

this matter rest at content to let However, the task is not simply the level of fairly abstract psycho- the "the indigenous but to change logical generalities: understand orld is here that both another group less workers privileged than they are who differ The ooks reveal ten weaknesses.

has to would question that from them. A Marxist ackled is racism; of the employers immediately point out that their WRP: Bans and Distortions of the tunist nature of IS. The leadership But Jack Gale, representing the orkers Revolutionary Party Editorial Board of Workers Press, sunk levels of to new From his on this article.

UNLOS

tortion in their attacks on ivory, he completely Workers Socialist League.

distorts the article (and on the way Wight and a defends. both Jock Workers Press ((24.6.75) In Cowley IMG member who also took ck Gale willes an artice suppo voluntary redundancy). In horror adly in taking a feature "No. at our attack on them, Gale com- ialist Press 10 entitled leading Exposed", pares these hein revolutionary

DOLE

Opportunists members of their ich we dealt with the opportun- organisations, to simply any other of the IS group (as is pretty brious from the title). He writes: "Thornett only wants these men Our article showed how, where- expelled from their political to be all the public statements of IS organisations, expelled from their against voluntary redundancy, ad in Speke a National Committee union and permanently deprived oi the right to work. ember of IS was on the committee "The fate of the WSL member proposed a policy for its for voluntary redun- who applies factories that workers dancy at Cowley does not beat • had accepted voluntary redun- thinking about.' should not be employed mcy article was not just But IS had given clearance for Givin about "members" but an NC mem- other one of their NC members- ber of IS. Can we suppose that the ack Wight - to accept voluntary fate of a Central Committee mem- edundancy from the BLMC Body ber of the WRP who took voluntary lant at Cowley. sedunde mould be to be pule on the the middle We stated clearly that for a reaunaancy ading militant to take voluntary Editorial Board of Workers Press?

.the edundancy when. in the Body Plant Bare Faced SL members fighting against stabbed It, of bare- differences are secondary and that they share the same class interest.

• the indigenous worker But in migrant an 'inferior' and position Wildlit the migrant hears emphasises how Different to the point . the migrant comes to be seen as being beneath understanding as being intrinsically unpredictable, disorganised, feckless, devious.

widespread in the certain circumstances lead to overt (pp. 139-40) and violent racism We have quoted Berger at length spread view especially among middle racism in the working class.

BASIS

"mis-understanding" based on lack rather than having a of contact. material basis in the development of capitalist production and in the methods of reformist trade unionism too clue as fact that immigrants the the immigrants themselves and we the Black Militant organisations are the become the revolu- vanguard of the final chapter 'Fighting His deals exclusively with the struggles of immigrant workers over the last few years especially in the East Midlands such as the well known strike at Mansfield Hosiery in which Asian workers fought against the collusion of racist management with local area union officials and racist white workers. ends his book with a Moore discussion of the over strategy between the various black talking of militant groups. thing tithe ent. aridepurporting different. He says: to deal with redundancy [!], there is not a single mention of the trade union leadership. Nor is there a mention of the Labour Government deliberately creating wnien unemployment." (Emphasis added) On the contrary, the article is about the opportunism of IS, and does not even mention redundancy.

Indeed half the article is on the record of Jock Wight in the BLMC Body Plant. IS opportunism exposed on the question of volun- tary redundancy, and, as we do say in the article "gives credibility to the right wing who are accepting it all over the country in order to 'avoid confrontation'.' • If that does not mention the trade union leader- ship, we don't know what does.

Gale accuses us of covering up nature of the IS group, the real saying that

OUT

"counter- poses 'un principled' IS leaders like Wight to the 'principled' IS leaders Thornett about who agree with driving workers out of the unions".

This is easy to say only if your aware that the Teners ne boldly headed original attack 1S "IS Opportunists Exposed". This

WRP

facilitated the by members not to buy instructing Press. Gale's distortions

SOCIALI

rest on such suppression of facts.

Likewise, when the

WSL

accused of not dealing with the crisis or the IS anti- A Review of: Robert Moore - Racism and Black Resistance in Britain (Pluto Press, 1975, 75p) John Berger and Jean Mohr - A Seventh Man (Penguin, 1975, f1.) a separate world and. a different class struggle altogether from that contronted by all cludesrs, whites black and white, he concludes: can be drawn into this if they are willing to listen and argue their point of view with sympathy and commitment".

PROGRAMME

Any sustained discussion as to that will in struggle racist ideas among white workers is te have somanting to learn trom that immigrants are interesting: trying to understand true that immigrant workers have fought hard to defend union officials in manipulating white workers, together with harrassment from police and facist thugs Furthermore, as Berger says "A migrant's experience of capitalism, aware of it at all, a very unitied position is highly vulnerable because they can always be deported within Apart from this the lack of : and sustained struggle which is the

UNIONISATION

Furthermore, the ruling class intend as far as possible to maintain this and any weaknes Collie developments in the direction developed trade unionism among The attempted use of section 42 of the 1971 Immigration Act against the young Italian trade unioncorganiser Franco Caprino has to be seen in this context.

therefore There are no short cuts to the building of a revolutio- nary leadership in the working class based on its strongest as a sections, and uniting these strong of Socialist Press have editions extensively tackled these questions (Editions 5 and 7) From these techniques he draws the conclusion that our policy is "to the right of the right wing Even they are not union leaders. selecting which workers should be unemployed." Here the height of Gale's ivory tower obscures his view. He cannot see that in the Cowley BLMC Body committee has Plant the stewards actually demanded the management speed up the process of voluntary redundancy. Workers Press article riddled with misquotes and dis- Gale writes, for instance: tortions. "Thornett merely calls on the IS leadership to dismiss one or two 'unprincipled' individuals".

The Socialist Press article did not use the word "unprincipled" once, and ended up tocussing on the oppor tunism the whole leadership, "We wait to see if anythin saves is done about Jock Wight inside IS and those who cleared his voluntary redundancy. since WRP members are Again, banned from reading Socialist Press, Gale feels he can get away them the

WSL

has telling that arrived at a "position of regarding nationalisation 'maximum demand, beyond the comprehension Anyone reading our of workers. paper will find the nationalisation demand in nearly all our articles.

For us, opposition to voluntary a principle and redundancy is voluntary redundancy schemes are material factor in the class - not an abstraction. We struggle hold that it is not simply a question Gale says, that "it as must unions fought against within the SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday July 24th, 1975 sections in a struggle with their brothers. This weaker question neither the authors have any- thing tossay about. European workers not are innately racist, nor is the racism that does based simply the exist 'difference' of immigrant workers It is the i : political method of reformism based on the appearance of capitalism as a 'bargain' between capitalist offering jobs and workers seeking them, that gives rise to such sentiments. Obviously, in times of increasing unemployment the reformist sees the presence of 'immigrants from outside his own 'nation state which in two world wars. the reformist leaderships have defended as weakening the bar gaining position of labour in the face of a declining supply ot jobs. Rather than challenge capitalism and its right to impose unemployment the reformists allow racist concepts to weaken and divide the working class. This is in line with increasing reformist talk of "import controls and other nationalist Therefore to fight racism, reformism has to be fought.

CAPITALISM

fight Revolutionaries have to for the view that the working class - productive workers resource and that the real question is why capitalism cannot now allow such resources to be used.

only be This perspective Call fought for, not simply as propa but as part of the struggle ganda, for a programme against unemploy including work sharing on full nationalisation pay, and a programme tened of useful public works to eliminate unemployment. "These demands li present epoch pose the abolition of the capitalist system itself.

Such a programme besides coun tering the proposition that immi- grants' are responsible for unemploy- enables revolutionaries ment, make clear the point that all workers whatever their have the origins right and the capacity to add to the productive forces. The demand for a programme of public works to bring this about directly up now comes need cut public capitalism's to expenditure and throw thousands on the dole queue in a desperate salvage an historically attempt to outmoded social system. that those who take voluntary red- undancy should go to the end of the queue for jobs is correct as a weapon to threaten those who mig ht otherwise accept it. Of course, it could only be enforced

TOUCH

workers' control both of manning and the hiring of labour.

This of course can only be part of a programme of transitional dem- ands on the defence of jobs, which around work-sharing on full pay, functioned by trade un- it a demand, 1on committees can only be fought through by the development of revolutionary lead- ership: outburst against Gale's latest Socialist Press, • however, comes, as a contrast to the previous position of Workers Press. Only once before, in this daily paper, have we seen any call to fight vuiuntary redundancy.

This was in an article on the Speke Defence Committee, Trade Union

"FACTORY

ESTATE

headlined

COMMITTEE

WILL FIGHT FOR

JOBS",

published on April 8th. The article, after quoting Tom Healey, I.S. National Committee he member without mentioning was in Í.S., went on without com ment. "Sunday's meeting carried a resol ution, Dunlop's steward shop from urge shop stewards committees to their oppose the employmen w factory of any worker who had acc- epted voluntary redundancy.

McCoy said it was against trade union principles for any man to sell his iob and then take another while there were other workers on the dole." Who was the author of this article - which never mentioned the trade crisis or the

DEFEND TYNDALE TEACHERS! MIDLAND

"ACTION COMMITTEE" HEADED OFF

NALGO PAY AND JOB CUTS

SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday July 24th 1975 The recent refusal by the staff to allow managers into the building of William Tyndale Junior School appears to be unprecedented in this country. Since present headmaster une took over the school, in Islington, Noth London, in January 1974,

NUT

and employed member …a previously witch-hunted from job to job, relations with the politic- ally-appointed managers deteriorated.

PARENTS

Parents have been canvassed told children's and that ing subverted" education was being by long-haired left wing teachers whose aim was to smash capitalism

SOCIALIST

preparing to slash education spending by a further £600m and limit wage increases to f6 per week, 165 members of the the EIS (Scottish Socialist Teachers' Conference in London on July 12th. The conference called was of failure of the IS- the because dominated Rank and File group to pose a socialist alternalive lo right wing and Stalinist leadership of the NUT. Discussion centred round the The second meeting of the East London Action Commit- Against the Cuts, held on 17th July at Bethnal Green Hospital, side-tracked was away from political questions by members of the IS. The committee was formed from conference unionists from

NALGO,

NUPE,

NUT,

T&GWU

and

ASTMS,

originally convened by NUPE on May 10th.

Its aim discuss defence was to of the Health Service, particularly the defence of ten hospitals, including Poplar, which have been threatened with closure. resolution passed with enthusiastic support at that first conference called for independent action by the working class as the to tight A Only way

CUIS.

committee was to be established to The recent pay settlement between Local Government workers and the employers, giving 25% increase (only 4.3% above the original offer), cut is tantamount to a pay when viewed against the eros- of ion wages rampant inflation. Inevitably the lower paid grades will be hardest hit. The leadership of NALGO succeeded in intimidat- ing the Group meeting of June 27th into an acceptance of the pay offer with the threat of the coming freeze. This enabled them to pay avoid pushing ahead with the orig inal claim of £10 plus 15%, which itself was only limited attempt to protect wages.

NO POLICIES

This same leadership refuses to Put forward any policest defend members against the cuts public expenditure which the Labour Government has been con- sistenly aurecung Local Autoniues to carry out for the past year.

According to Government pol- icy (recently made public in a series similar by not teaching working class being subjected to children. pressure from its managers, and the • Pois kicthe an out local NUT branch is supporting the At one action of the Tyndale staff to resist the slogan this political attack of Tyndale" was used. The membership of the NOT must be mobilised to defend the

PETITION

right of William Tyndale staff to teach in the fine most way wey It was after the circulation of effective, without McCarthyite secret petition among witch-hunts. that : staff councillors banned managers during school hours.

MOTIONS

Repeated requests from the teachers the education auth- the A defeat for the teachers at to investigate managers Only Tyndale have been side-stepped, despite the would open the to way wide-ranging attacks fact that the managers have tried more on usurp the role of the profess- 'education in this period of crisis.

ional inspectorate in examining the Motions of support must be work of the teachers. passed at all NUT branch meetings.

The London Evening News has Further information is available the school

NUT

from represent- got in on the act and are now being sued for libel by the NUT. Already ative, Jackie McWhirter, 24 Palace Road, London N.8. another Islington primary school

TEACHERS CONFERENCE

questions of education "maximum unity" at all costs salaries, The majority of those present cuts, affiliation of the NUT to the the demand for supported Conspicuous sliding scale of wages, together with the WRP, IS and CP, absence were scale of need for sliding although all other lett wing groups public expenditure with trade with members in union committees in each Local as well as individuals with Education Authority to open the no political affiliation were present.

books to determine the needs and the allocation of resources as a first step towards workers' control.

MAXIMUM "UNITY"

seen if remains to anything this agreement is more than verbal, and if they will now One immediate weakness in the adopt this programme in the fight IMG-dominated gathering was that in the union branches. This will be group's refusal to criticise the CP Shown in practice by the time o 'Lefts' the the scheduled for the autumn.

next such conference - OI

LA DOWI

Party for their role in the trade the basis of fight for the resolution which de- manded the opening of the books waiting lists of the Area: and the Health Authority, the completion hospitals before old ones of new closed, and a were allowed to be sliding scale of Health Service ex keep with penditure to pace inflation.

WORKERS CONTROL

Discussion on: these demands did not figure on the agenda for this meeting, and the first speaker, an IS member, got up to say that Castle closure Poplar as ne OI the Hospital was concerned "the matter which is posed fight for access to the books and Secretary now rests with the of State" administration of the AHAs other workers was should put their trust in the tender missed by the IS. For them, mercies of Barbara Castle!

another member put WOIKers is merely a "theoretical The whole concept of workers control instead of the 3% originally planned.

such as environment, health, recre- Over the same period, capital ex- ation and community facilities will penditure will actually be reduced with manst toro to the wall, along by 10% lilally ol une social service facities,

PROJECTS

position of council tenants will suffer further by reduction of

SHELVED

facilities for repair, and management of council dwellings. Local Authorities are This means that all new projects advised to search for than *inescapable ways which they can increase the degree ments' will be shelved, and worse iesponsibility repair and could follow if the government of rented accomoda- maintenance tion on to-the tenants themselves.

VACANCIES

UNFILLED

It is also made clear in the circular on manpower that it is the Government's intention to ensure that staff vacancies in Local Gov- ernment remain unfilled.

NALGO

estimates that at present there are 40,000 such unfilled This is surely the first major step towards the of redundancies. In fact the Govern- ment has set up a joint watch committee with the local author- Crosland: in charge of cuts ities aimed at reducing the 'rate of manpower, further reduces Local Government Increase by finance in its 'fight against inflation?

scrutinising staff numbers.

the cuts take In contrast these drastic ine actual Iorm LU

JOBLESS

in every four is employed in 1930s which depressed the rest of the country, unemployment is now a sure indication of the industries, the Midlands must now crisis as the car industry cuts back of the past, no lead or perspective is being given to workers who have jobs or who face the threat of redundancy in the near The Workers Socialist League • to begin Birmingham Trades Council or one call a of the major unions must demonstration in defence of jobs followed by a meeting to adopt of programme We call this crisis. on all workers to campaign for this in their union branches. concept", while the important "getting question people involved". But involved in what? Other speakers proposed that to carry out the original programme of demands that they should not oniv be tought ior in every unior branch by speakers from the Action Committee, but they that

LIUS

also be taken in to the Hackney and Tower Hamlets Trades Councils with the demand for supporting action to carry them through.

harm re interminable negated tio headed off This proposal from who clearly see the whole campaign as a single issue protest and not a central part of jobs and con ditions in the NHS as a whole The vital question not "involvement" in rationalisation and, closures, but the mobilisation of working class action to oppose the NHS spending cuts. to the TUC General Council have correctly voted reject the Labour Government's proposal to increases down to a Catate to uvi case.

WICI

mobilising the union in defence of wages and jobs the leadership have absolutely no proposals NALGO members can defend their living standards only by fighting for: sliding expenditure in line with the level scale of inflation as decided by comm- ittees of trades unionists.

*The of trade up setting committees to maintain staffing levels and to ensure that vacancies in local government are not allowed to remain unfilled.

*A sliding of wages keep up with the rate of intation determined by committees: of trades unionists.

CAMPAIGN

At the same time all trades unionists must demand that those "left' Labour MPs who have been Government's criticising the intended cuts in public spending their words into action Leasele campaign of for toe remova wing in the Cabinet led the nght Ради

EMPLOYERS'

VIEW OF

"PARTICIPATION

Blast Furnace The developing crisis, f ing employers onto the of brings out increasin sive, clearly the reactionary esse of the call for "workers p icipation". Enshrined in son's Industry Bill and Ryder report, it is also sou after . by key employ Chrysler have offered worl a £100 bonus if they accep scheme. In this context it is interes to see how the emplovers set question of participation In "Execu in ne con World" the Financial Ti in (25.6.75) James Ensor showed way a form of "participation forcibly introduced into ICI: "At the start there was resentn that the agreement had been ne iated nationally without invol local shop stewards. AEU stewi especially, saw lt as a threat ic status of the craftsman. The : Billi Warne and Wilton in the North East the local union leaders determined to protect their bers' immediate interests "the preservation as] of jobs procedural distinctions

BELIN

marcations, and any other struct defence fluid against la the site". It was situation on old-fashioned atter two

CORT

the dismissal of the A senior steward and the defeat.

T&GWU strike - that managen regained some initiative".

(emphasis added) Here are no 'left' illusion class compromise - rather parti ation is forced on a weakened leaderless workforce. Ensor is c on this: cannot expect officials, national or local, sudde to abandon their traditional r that of defending the livelihoo their members, in favour of ai one, that of assisting the comr as a whole to become more eff and more profitable."

RESTORE "VIABILITY

The employers know "viability' assist in bankrupt capitalism means speed and redundancies - and is the opt ite of trade unionism. Indeed unemployment tops the mil and goes on rising in recession it threatens many unic Again the Financial Times has eyes wider open than the TUC: "The most national trade uni ists can be expected to do... i acauiesce to certain proposals. cave in without a fight]. Som the unions, after all, face a dras decline in their How can the National Union expected Blastiumacemen be programme entnuse over a could have the effect of halving membership by the early 1980'%?

ation" is showin "obe merety again "worker parti silence move to and compton local and national union bureauc prevent opposition alle speed up. It is no coincidence that discussion here includes the industry, where threats of 20,0 redundancies have been revi order to ralroad through point speed-up charter «hic

SHOWS THE WAY

Pege 8

NEWHAM

Prime Minister Harold Wilson has added his voice to the vitch-hunt of Labour Party members in Newham N.E.

Along with 14 Labour ministers, 160 Labour MPs, the whole of the capitalist press and the whole employing class, Wilson rants to prevent the constituency removing extreme right ing cabinet Minister Reg Prentice from his position as eir candidate in the next election.

This is because all of these created 1 million unemployed.

fonces are aware of the political Like most of the leading mem- velopment that would take bers of Wilson's cabinet, Prentice lace in the workers movement campaigned jointly with the Tory right wingers could be removed leadership in favour of the capita- hen they attack the working .

list Common Market in the referen- dum, and then called for that The Newham campaign, aSS. coalition of forces to continue.

hether or not immediately accessful, points the way forward To conceal how extreme are or class conscious Labour Party these positions and how savage embers and trade unionists.

Prentice's attacks on trade union The moves against Prentice ligats nave been, the fory press has coined the term "moderate", egan within the trade unions, as response to his vicious anti- and all opposition to him has been branded 'extremist" and "unrepre vorking class position - as ex- sentative". ssed in his support for the siling of the Five Pentonville ckers by the Tory government

HEALEY

191 4, ana tne omewsoury 1 WO wilders pickets (kept in jail by Denis Healey, for those who Wilson government). could stomach the sight at a But while reserving special Tolpuddle Martyrs rally on Sunday enom for trade uniohists and of a Labour minister, while legis- orkers like the Clay Cross lating state pay laws, adressing a uncillors who challenged the meeting commemorating those ght of the employers to cut who fought against men like Healy vorkers living standards, Prentice to build the trade unions and de*...

lies with the Tories on almost fend the working class, spoke very issue. strongly in defence of Prentice.

The Daily Mirror gave up its front

WAGECUTS

page to ram home his words. He Solle He has fought tooth and nail "It is important that a life- or the wage cutting social contract, long trade unionist [!] like Reg d is now a pillar of Wilson's Prentice should be allowed to make his contribution to our cause."

sht for state imposed wage cuts, It is important to the employers • ry Cuoreca. He leads the call for cuts in and their servants in the cabinet ducation spending and stands that Prentice should not be dis- quarely by Chancellor Healey's placed by the rank and file of the casures which have already Labour Party.

CARGILL'S COLLAPSE

AIDS

HEALEY

Confident of TUC backing, d hypocritically addressing • Tolpuddle Martyrs Mem- rial Rally in Dorset, Denis kaley claimed a "massive roundswell of support roughout the land" for his ate pay laws. went on to praise the NUM h particular for backing his pol- "both on the left and y, saying right of politics there is a owing determination to drop actrinaire nit-picking and to centrate on the big issues cing the nation". Farlier, at the Durham Miners' la, Wilson was given the plat- a arrogantly to attack any ming Num resistance le e pay laws with the direct reat of unemploy ment, when Advocates of Wilson's pay laws: McGahey, Gormley and Daley id: "The Yorkshire miners' increase could be the Dur- miners' pit closure". o main turning pointsi prep- "demand" to the vague term "seek". cargill, posed with a ground for the pay laws. first was Jack Jones' achieve- fight, collapsed and accepted their at in swinging the T&GWU position ference behind his fraudulent He excused his position even it rate increase" plan. The though he had to fight to get it bond was Arthur Scargill's accepted by the other Yorkshire reat at the NUM conference.

delegates - by saying that it seemed the vote would go against him.

STRENGTH

cantate nis coverno wes idi McGahey, President of the Scott ish area NUM and a leading The miners could break Wilson's Communist Party member. McGahey passed Scargill a note es just as they twice defeated urging him to drop the claim, ith's Tory government - the saying "it is better to appear resp- d time forcing them from Scargill Scargill held the key to ononte na deneeos obviously accepted this opportunist normous strength. He was formula. ged with fighting for a York- question, for the working area resolution demanding the key class was for the £100 demand to NUM proceed with a claim be fought for - even if lost - to £100 a week. At present rates provide a focal point of resistance inflation, nothing less than to Wilson's pay laws. Given a fight 100 could re-establish miners' and the left forces present at the *g standards. conference, the resolution could cargill did not retreat publicly conference - he still made even nave oechl passcu. The weakness was cargill's itant speech, though not politics. Like all lett talkers he oning the pay laws. But, defended capitalism at the point many union conferences,

INE WHAN:

TEACHERSAN

This is the reason for the hys- terical and nauseating gutter witch- hunt of those opposing Prentice in Newham. 'he Dailv Mail. the paper that backed Mosely in the 1930s and which played a key role in the witch-hunt of Alan Thornett in the BLMC victimisation at Cowley last year, has lead the pack leaping in with whole page ratures making personal allegations against Tony Kelly, Assistant Secretary of the Newham N.E. CLP in an attempt to divert from the political issues, and suggesting some sinister or undercover 'plot' is involved. This is the line Wilson has taken up with his talk of 'unrepresenta- tive minorities. 1964 This is the first time that Wilson has had to do battle to save a right winger. But Trotskyists will remember how in 1964 the whole right wing Labour Party leader- ship witch hunted and expelled the majority of the Young Social- opened the door to the pay laws, and that in reality it was a choice between £100 a week demand or a £6 limit. The depth of this betrayal can now be seen. On the strength of this conference resolution - moved by Scargill - the right wing were able to get not only an executive decision to support the pay laws but intend to ballot the member- ship on it. Their recommendation, carrying the authority won by the NUM leaders in two successtul pay struggles, may well be accepted.

If it is, it will become the main political prop of Wilson, who will claim it shows "mass support" for his policy in the strongest section ot workers. It exposes all too clearly any illusions that the NUM leadership is in any sense separate from the TUC treachery of recent weeks The last period has seen miners galas consistently used by Labour's right wing as platforms for the most Only the reactionary speeches. class collaboration of the NUM right wing and the opportunism of the A demonstration of teachers: part of the movement against Reg Prentice ists who had just adopted a prog ramme of socialist policies In 1964, there was no talk of the expelled being allowed to "make a contribution to our cause" merely the bureaucracy baying for blood. Then, as now, the mobilisation of the right wing prepared the way for Wilson to introduce anti-working class pol- icies - pay laws and unemployment.

The Tories, the press and the right wing uniteto defend their man from the workers movement, and attempt by any means to sway the vote. Their line is con- sistent: Reg Prentice is a "moderate" with a right to attack the trade union movement, and Labour Party members have no right to mandate their MPs. But possibly more significant for workers is the move inside the Parliamentary Labour Party itself.

Not only the obvious right wing has mobilised in order to protect Prentice from the working class - over half the PLP has signed a letter attempting to sway the vote The sit-in at Imperial Type- writers' factory in Hull ended on Wednesday July 16th , when workers were led out of the plant by T&GWU Regional Secretary David Cairns, who had spent the last 47 months preventing the action being carried into the labour move- ment. The occupation indicated two things: the determination of work- ers to struggle to defend jobs; and the determination of the trade union bureaucracy to head them away from the main political issues.

Every stunt in the book had been tried by the local T&GWU leader- ship to avoid the struggle to make Labour nationalise Imperials under workers management, and for a programme of state contracts.

In the end, sooner than direct al une goverlall s conscio us policy of creating unemployment and refusing to nationalise industry.

HULL VICTIMISATION

Strengthened by the collab- oration of the trade union leaders, employers in the footwear industry have gone onto the attack. On Monday evening a militant worker was sacked from Holmes Halls Ltd of Hull at a minute's notice.

Manage ment gave as an excuse for this action the ludicrous com- plaint that Jeff Fowler had attended a TUC course on héalth and safety aL WOK -medeHuusu motoRouk for infringements of basic health and satety standards. When he returned from the course, he was sacked and ordered off the prem- ises. The National Union of Footwear Leather and Allied Trades must ensure Jeff Fowler's reinstatement.

If this is not done this victimisation union movement throughout the Hull area.

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in his favour, including some so- called 'left' wingers from the Tribune Group. And why has no prominent "left' in the cabinet or in the PLP begun a mobilisation in favour of the anti-Prentice forces?

Every class conscious worker can see that Wilson's policies can only spell disaster for the Labour An election fought on this Party. platform would almost wipe out all but their safest possible seats in Parliament. Wilson does not He works with Prentice act alone. and with the 160 who back him.

To defend the Labour Party means there must be hundreds of Newhams - 160 and any others who will not answer to the Labour movement, who carry out the employers policies, who sponge off the strength of the unions and the party built to defend them, and who seek only a career of class- collaboration. Imperial Workers Defeated Cairns blamed the campaign's failure on himself for "failing to find a viable alternative". He ann- ounced to the press that he "neari cried" when the decision was taken to end the sit-in. This hypocritical breast-beating shows only the reactionary role of the bureaucracy. Cairns says not a word about the hundreds of jobs lost through his refusal to mobilise the regional resources of the T&GWU and other unions behind the occupation. or to call iol national assistance from the work- ing class • The workers defeated by their own leadership at Imperials join a growing dole queue in Hull at a time of recession. They, together with others threatened with redun- dancies, must learn the political lessons of the sit-in and begin the fight in the unions to remove those like Cains who oppose "politics" in the unions. They must replace them with leaders who will mobilise the working class in defence of jobs.

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