Socialist Press no. 130

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Pay sanctions scrapped

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parliamentary The defeat which has forced Minister Prime Callaghan to abandon sanctions firms on conceding pay increases in excess of 5% has substantial given impetus the wages •to struggle. The threat of sanctions has been one of the main of of defence beleagured private sector employers in resisting wage demands. 9,000 provincial

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currently on journalists £20 strike for and demand;

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tanker drivers and Scottish lining up for lorry drivers strike action in January, the collapse of heighten confidence. It must also spur on the huge public struggle in the sector, where millon have claims out-

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standing. of course this was But not the intention of the they Tory leaders when Skinner moved their amendment to government economic Callaghan-Healey leadership.

the But only motion. "lefts'-Roy Shift to right Thomas, Eddie to this challenge in any way Rather the orv mOVe reflected a shift to the right at all. by a capitals! class, which, though it wel- than take comes the efforts by Labour Tne step and TUC leaders to cut the against the government real wages of their members, iently trekked back into the foot unwilling bills government additional where, such register their vote of confid- measures fail. ence in the Callaghan leader- Despite this reactionary that has element in the amendment, ship dedication to limits throughout the public however, was the clear obligation of those Labour to MrS wno claim to oppose to ment, and to public spend- wage controls vote against the government on me cuts. this issue. Conspicuously even from the abstentionists To defeat main plank of the 5% pay policy was "Bolsover in this way would have laid Dennis Skinner. a firm basis for an all-out Labour's NEC this summer throughout the campaign as for the 76 supposed supporters of 2DOlT movement Parliamentary removal of the right wing the

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NOW SCRAP

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Group. Far from offering any real alternative to Callaghan, Tribunites run for unese cover at the slightest sign of Labour

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basic chow-down Hughes, Ron issues. Loyden-responded But the upheavals of the last week Parliament has driven Callaghan and Healey Even they did no more deeper into the arms of the to abstain-refusing reactionary Ulster Unionists of voting who, along with the "lefts", voted ConnecicE And next day they obed- government on Thursday. the These defenders lobbies Orange ascendancy are giving tactical support to Callaghan for reason pledged its prospect of only-the an the 5% increased number of MPs following Loyalıst mass unemploy- absent Bolshevik" elected to "left', and the other Tribune Every commentator in the world knows at least one thing about the open- ing of full diplomatic rela- tions between the USA and the Chinese People's Repub- lic-there is much more involved than a mere matter oT protocol. Chinese Stalinists For the this step represents nothing new, but an extension of their world around the allances opposition to the soviet Union states. and For the Americans, however, The abanconment

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puppets in Taiwan, represents a change the global Strate or morans. Since the united states arter the Second World War took over the role of the chief imperialist power, one of the main aspects Step up wages offensive! Labour's "reform" of the Labour Party. While gerrymandered constituen- cies in the British occupied to come six counties of Ireland. Through this unholy alliance, therefore, are sabotaging and the Labour struggle in the public sector.

Callaghan cabinet propping up are their wage control policies

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only at the expense of sub- 700,000 stantially increasing the pro- the next Parliament. No mandate "guerrilla" January! This They have no mandate is in from the labour movement these which for policies, survive only on the basis of the complete absence of 1 November! leadership alterallye the the authority either or Carter drops Taiwan in deal with China government. ot their policy nas been to set With this up chains of client states around the workers' states. Turtner The therefore. the since too glad to oblige. United States ran the economies and foreign of a series Determined to policies rivalry China, realmes surround. the Chinese incudina malaneoum viet South Korea and Taiwan, nam, in which the Chinese national- ine wow te gertalsts real Ists were installed * Their by the Red Army in Chinese 1949. clear. However, the victory of anti- However imperialist forces in Vietnam and Cambodia and the world- wide consequences of deepening they imperialist crisis have necessitat- eged bureaucracy hell-bent at a new dolley Tor te UDA.

those of socialism. This policy, initiated by the The ultra-reactionary Nixon and continued by 'human that lie behind rights advocate carter, nas been Stalinists oron the hinte favour with

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Callaghan draw strength from the collapse of pay sanctions in the private sector-and demand all-out strike action to win their claim in full the 5% sinashling down barrier in the public sector.

The Callaghan govern- ment has already admitted to making preparations for military scabbing public sector strike-yet the union leaders have not even mauc preparations to Cal one. 'left' MPs refuse forward any Thrown into crisis challenge to Callaghan, TUC leaders such as Alan Fisher Callaghan's wage control the policy-the central plank of government economic policy-has now been thrown into crisis. representing for the 5% limit to public sector But workers is planning no more be fully defeated, the right wing Callaghan cabinet must than endless talks, one-day token protests and half-cock be thrown out. actions-in mid In demanding the Labour 'lefts' take this ele- pursuit of mentary step forward and claim for a £60 per week offering

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should they which Watc should have been settled on branches and Constituency Labour Parties will be able Health service and local to test out in practice these workers must fake "socialists' new effort etors or imoerial- ism, the Chinese have been only their oursue with the soviet union. leaders have never shown any compunction in ally- Carter meaning •The the Indo-Chinese victories and latest turn in the policies of the the Chinese Revolution itself.

thus bureaucracy the most appalling or all doomsday spectres", according much the masses of the reactionaries participate in the political life of Sunday Telegraph would be an China uncer the oresent realme alliance between Soviet remain subject to a privil- and China. This would UnIon threaten the whole imperialist serving its own interests above but Stalinist system, who now the oureducrats run workers' colomatic exchance. states are

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con with the USA and the policies with their them endanger own skins to wish to unleash the all the cains or Ine word work- Torces Inat ing class since 1917, including could bring.

BREAK SILENCE ON ERITREA!

Portugal: bosses take reins Page 2 Officials at the Soviet embassy in London last Saturday arrogantly refused to a accept protesting about letter the role of Soviet troops in Eritrea. The attempt to deliver the letter was made .by delegates from a 200-strong organised. march by Eritrean Association of Students and Workers in the UK and supported by the Workers Socialist League.

Apart from the strong

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"contingent this march, there was scandalous absence of any contingent from the other British labour movement. Nearly all the supposed opponents of Stalinism and defenders of the right national self-determination evaporated when called on to support a protest against one of the greatest crimes being perpetrated by Stalin- ism today-the participation of Soviet and Cuban troops the Ethiopian military Derg's war of extermination against the long-oppressed people of Eritrea Eritrean speakers, repres- enting the organisers of the stressed the demonstration, need for international solid- arity with .the Eritrean struggle, especially after the recent mariary seroacks. They called for aid from working class and progres- sive forces. 'Socialist Press' issues a challenge other groups „LO which claim to adhere to Trotskyism to say why they do not support the Eritrean struggle. call particular upon the IMG, British sec- of the USFI, publicly tion itself dissociate from TO in the recent 'Intercontin- USFI journal Press' leading by enla members of the American Workers Party, Socialist claiming in effect that the military presence in Ethiopia evidence of Castro's prolelanan 'Intercon- nationalism The Social Democrats of West Germany seem to have got the some-

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where that their party has become alienated from its traditional supporters. congress last a speciat week unev took stees to correct this unfortunate impression.

Perhaps these reformists sus- become disillusioned with the SPD after experiencing years of union-dashine ana one attacks on the working-class.

Certainly prominent trade Teatured stronary their list of candidates for the elections to the European parlia- A were ot course leacino bureaucrats, who will now be able to their practice of wally class collaboration nevv. international level along with in treachery from the «tatac. ot thA cEl. Lucrative candidates, One of these now guaranteed a lucrative seat Lo direr, pride not i Mean.

Eugen when oreanises the steel-workers currently strike in the Ruhr. evidence of its further sympathy TeNe Struceles the working class; the

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tinental Press' October self-determination ane role of the and comment in criticising our

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'Socialist Press' of October 18). Of course, this is not a Even the French and sudden conversion to prolet- Italian Stalinists week internationalism by last statements showing these Stalinists but more an Issued half-hearted) (belated adaptation to the anti-com

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support for Eritrea's right to munism of the bourgeoisie.

motion "The most The CP conserva- was rejected by 109 votes to 45 tive government team 97 with (Socialist) which Portugal has abstentions. known since the revol- The rodricementhe first ution of April 1974". has produced the That was the judgement confirmed government Portugal had which has on the regime former since July 27 when military Salazar Mota technocrat President Eanes dismissed Pinto expressed last week Mario Soares Socialist by Socialist Party leader Mario Soares. premier. But the vote has in no Yet it was Soares and the Socialists in parliament who solved the crisis of way treacherously brought Mota •ot the Portuguese Pinto's reactionary govern- bourgeoisie. ment into office. It now once more has a The Socialist MPs stood constitutional government aside as the two bourgeois by of party courtesy which, while it remains the parties voted down a Com- munist Party motion reject- largest in parliament, discredited ing the new government. исерту SPD backs strike! conference passed resolutions a settlement or the alspute.

suoportino ine eemane for te 35-hour working week and No illusions of lock- condemning use The strikers outs must have no KUt move InstruCt illusions that Loderel and stand out Will The r lock- legislation banning demands this time, rather than dish outs was relected _a larce the usual compromise majority. ane selt out They must demand an end to secret negotiations with the Powerless bosses. che can to me cecil of negotiators mandated by, and Among their other argu- the directly accountable ments, the moderates polnted

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out that the SPD is powerless to Pressure must be renewed on make such moves, locked as It Is the SPD to break its coalition thorouchy reactionary. with me dovesose ane ioost the bourgeois the bant on lockouts. liberals of the Free Democratic the same time the strike Party. has to be extended to the whole Helmut Schmidt and nis steel industry will •emanes colleagues put on a brave show trade • unionists for best made the and in coloone blacking they could

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OT tatters of moth-eaten, hand-me- down principles which were the Same problems only costume Tney

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borrow for the occasion. steelworkers of West The audience of striking but ine the same facing and locked-out Germanv SUPe workers albi problems as all other workers in was not noticeably moved.

industry internation- two weeks the steel After more than ot ine struggle negotations al t alvi under way between the Their struggles will be employers and union officials.

aborted if they do not take up the fight to build a new leader- Despite fervent declarations from both Thal They SnIO with Donces da a revolu cannot forsake the principles tionary programme opposi at stake, is clear the attacks of Schmidt which are and the betrayals of Loderer.

inat inev moving which the workers' move- must defend against metu imperialism, but against the bureaucratic who rulers usurp power in Moscow and Havana But imperialism, as well Brezhnev as the Stalinist bureaucracy; is also the merciless enemy of the democratic rights of the Eritrean people The demonstration was aimed at the Soviet embassy But, as the WSL speaker partly because the immed- demonstration iate enemies of the Eritrean stressed, there was no place are workers and peasants the Derg and its Soviet and Tor anu-comsm aru o comfort for imperialism Cuban backers and partly Saturday's demonstration because that Soviet bureau- be permanent It had to seen as a demonstration not against obstacle to the struggle the Soviet Union and Cuba, against imperialism The masses in Portugal have been showing increasing hostility in recent months to the anti-working Class dusteilty all Portuguese governments since November 1975 and to more recent attempts to undo the land reform and 1974 other of the revolution. Not reliable As a result, neither the Socialist Party the nor CP Stalinists of the are reliable props for the bour- geoisie. Socialist leaders have lost all appear to credibility with the working class. And the Stalinists gain from this oniv ov maintain ing an "opposition" to the Eanes present bourgeois govern- they the workers who once ment which know supported it. not in immediate danger of being the test This was only too appar- put the recent local For all the Stalinists' ent in elections in Alenteio where against new n01Se the Socialists' all but government they refuse vote CP disappeared while take any measures to mobil- vote grew significantly. ise the preaching SUCIALISI PREss, weanesday ZU December 19/0 The

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speaker also said that the rights of workers and Datede peasants could only be fully won through socialism And that . required the building of a revolutionary Trotskyist party in Eritrea and in Ethiopia, Cuba and the Soviet Union) as part of reconstructed Fourth International. In demonstration which made up in voice for what it lacked in numbers many of the slogans shouted by the WSL were also taken up by the rest of the march: Troops out of Eritrea! Independence now! Mengistu dictatorship- out! Workers and peasants government-in! the Defend Soviet Union! Out with the Krem- lin traitors! Arms to the EPLF! For an Eritrean Trotsky- ist Party! After this demonstration it remains an urgent task to redouble the campaign for concrete international solid arity with Eritrean workers and peasants who are being so cruelly exposed to the treachery of Stalinism. and instead a reactionary increasingly dangerous "democracy". reliance on But the Portuguese day that bourgeoisie is rapidly aban- doning democracy. has installed a non- of elected government tested reactionaries; sections the of it have encouraged growing mobilisa. recent tions of fascists; and last week the so-called Council of the Revolution declared the electoral law unconsti Lutional until This that, resolved this ISSUf parliament, elections cannot constitutionally be held.

Desires That at the present time coincides with the desires of both the bourgeoisie and the reformist and Stalinist leaders Aside from their own political rivalries, these wish above all to leaders prevent the working masses from once again taking the centre of the political stage.

Portuguese demonstration, 1975

BOYCOTT THE EEC

A heavy blow against Smith Noel Murray in prison protest Revolution SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 December 1978

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Over the last few In this letter his only weeks, trade union and argument against a boycott is that "there is insufficient Labour Party branches agreement on it among the have been bombarded Anti-Market movement for with literature from a but anything motley army of bureau- counter-productive." crats, careerists, left No agreement talkers and geriatrics wishing to be We could have told Mr nominated for the Euro- Hunt long ago that the pean Parliament. "anti-Market movement" Until recently many con- will never agree about any- stituencies had a bolicv of thing of importance. boycotting these elections, This is because it is an but most of this resistance unholly alliance of national has now collapsed. chauvinists and lett takers Central to this has been with different class roles (if absence of any the lead not class interests). from the left MPs and other Hunt says that we must "lefts" within the Party.

have candidates who "are Terry For instance, absolutely genuine in their Hunt, Vice Chairman of the motives and politics", Campaign for Labour Party describe goes Democracy has recently himself as "Party circulated a letter requesting and not an opportunist is unfortunate for Mr nomadon

IRELAND

#TROOPS OUT

NOW!

We have just received visits were being allowed.

Only later did dis- news that Noel Murray she why-when asked to and twenty-four others attend a press conterence of (the entire prison) have the Prisoners' Rights Organ- been 'on the blanket' at isation. the Curragh Military One prisoner recently released has given a horrify- Detention Camp since ing account of conditions November 27, protest- since the appointment of a ing about conditions. Governor. He reports Details of their protest brutality from the Military sketchy at this stage. Police and banging of doors are Mrs. Murrav arrived for her and other noise during the usual monthly meeting with night. At the Press Conference her son to be told that no Hunt that being genuine is no protection against being an opportunist. 'Socialist Press' has always argued that the Com- mon market Is an altempi to solve European capital- In a spectacular attack on a fuel storage depot in Salisbury liber- ation forces have shown their capacity to reach right to the heart of the country and deal important blows to the Smith regime. So and successful was the operation that both wings the Patriotic Front, Joshua Nkomo's ZAPU and Robert Mugabe's ZANU are claim- ing responsibility The fire at the depot Armagh march in solidarity with 'H' Block prisoners the "Punishment Cell" was Black described "The Hole? where the prisoner's hands are manacled and he has to eat off his plate like a There is no mattress dog. and no light. Suspended Privileges at the prison have been suspended until 27. 'Socialist Press' •January will publish further details as and when thev become available. ism's problems at workers' expense and that it should broken up as a precon- dition for the building of a United Socialist of States Europe. In Britain we know that continued base foreseetal days badly depleted stocks of oil. Smith will depend on supplies from South Africa which itself has been inves- tigating alternative since the struggles of the began (lasses threaten shortages. African The South government present depends on Iran for more 90% than its

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imports. Within the country the South African government has been stockpiling Meanwhile the courage- ous men Block continue their campaign for political prisoner status. We salute their intransigence in the face of the brutality of British imperialism and urge the British labour ment to begin serious campaign in support of their demands.

LABOUR

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Parliament has only limited position must be a boycott Mr Hunt's letter suggests control over capitalism. The institutions of the Common that he personally agrees with this analysis. have been specially MarKel devised to minimise interference by national Boycott "Euro- parliaments or the Parliament" over But where has he fought decisions by the for a position of boycott to Commission and Council of accepted on wider Ministers. scale? Even if this fight had Advisory only been fought and lost, surely there is only one word to It is openly declared that describe those who actively the European Parliament take campaien to will have only an advisory what they know is a farce role. designed oniv to fool the In other words the whole European working class an elaborate and thing is Hunt is an opportunist- expensive farce. The only principled even it a genuine one! supplies and has a reserve been intro- usage have not 40m and 60m duced there have been o1 between tonnes. regular appeals the Mr Chris Huennis general public to conserve Economic Minister for Affairs has made clear Rhodesian oil consump that these reserves will not tion …sacuona comoe! be used. with South Africa's 320,000 Although restrictions on barrels a day and it is likely that South Africa will be .to increase. supplies aDit without much difficulty. Also, months the oil companies have built heavier up commercial reserves before the expected DHOTO. Ardrew Wiard Repor price rise. This could well ease the immediate crisis.

The the importance attack is that it shows the of continued vulnerability the reactionary Smith which could easily be swept away with a con- the certed ettort by Patroitic Front. Instead Nkomo and Mugabe hold out for a deal with imperialism-man- Owen oeuvring between each other for positions in future Zimbabwe 'Communists' Against The key book for post-war understanding Stalinism. 166pр, £1.75 20p plus post and packing from WSL, 31 Dartmouth Park Hill, London NWS 1HR

THE BIRTH OF

The Communist League of Struggle was led by Weisbord who had organised important working class struggles such as at Passaic in 1926. That particular fight had been CP leadership by the sabotaced of which Cannon was a part.

in The First Ten Years of Communism, American cannon CP's betraval acknow ecces TiNe but is careful not into about his own role detail left Weisbord very critical or Cannon. Sceptical with vwner T00 oroke Stalinism and established Communist League of Struggle, 1e was. .. Lo Say tue least sceonical of Cannon's ability to build the Left Opposition in the USA.

Weisbord corresoon•ence claimed that the WIth trotsky CLA share resenteres to the to resentatives Lett Upposition in the USA.

Trotsky replied as follows: "You deride the publishing work you oppose to it 'mass action'.

"Have any mass action behind you? Before we

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principled basis. We begin with a and develop propagandist group your international connections, sympathies and half.

Tell me with whom you go and !

will tell you what you are" 10-31). In their reply, the CLS refuted Trotsky's charge that they derid- ed the publishing activities of thi LA ano agreed witn tne neea to start as a propaganda group.

They went on to charge that the group remain with "the quiet of the office desk". They went on: "Attempting Communist Party they get mere college and high school students from wue bary cour dorsd "Even when' they were in the the Cannon leadership Party has absolutely no record of mas Work AAr tney became commu- nists. Does a group deserve called bo anything better than a years of its existence it issued not agitational leaflet lising the workers in an indepen. CalL Manner The CLS considered Trotsky's main work to be wrongly posed.

velsbora pointea to nis own record in the CP and argued that o est ey were now tempng mass work. The reply Trotsky lists build shop commits attempts to Tees. invo vement various defence campaigns for class war direction of comrades prisoners, InTO • larder ractories ano involve- ment in demonstrations. Negro struggle The Cannon group is charged ignoring programmatic Witn questions on American issues-in particular the negro struggle charges the having doubtful allies in Europe, the CLS claimed that while they one, they With were talking to some groups Europe. further claimed that inev this they were Torced position by the refusal of the Left Opposition secretariat to answer mel letters they went to call tor an international conference open who claimed adherence to the views internationa LeTT Rejecting Trotsky's claim that they had but recently split with Lovestone, they ended by arguing that it was Cannon not they who preventing a fusion ot the two arous Weisbord alleged that Cannon discussion suppressed within cance

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bring together the two organisa- tions for discussion: (Letter Trotsky 3-11-31 quoted in Class Struggle 1-12-31).

Exchange Following Inis, weisbord hac discussions with Trotsky and further exchange of letters took place. In his letter dated May 22nd 1932 Trotsky taker Weisbord to task for his view that the CP, Lovestone and Cannon were much the same He also argues against the CLS the Party positions which he thinks places them in a com• win covestone. ano relects their call for a conference of all

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United States. The Socialist Workers Party which today claims to represent that tradition offers no more than a hollow mockery of the fighting spirit of that early movement. This article is SWP, the party so central in the 1930s to the launching of the Fourth International. - those claiming adherence to the Left Opposition. "The Left Opposition is not a mechanical sum vacillating groups but erected on the granite basis of the principles of Marxism.

" was glad to hear from you that your group have nothing with Landau and "Precisely for this reason, it is necessary renounce of transfor- the thoughts

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marnetona Opposition into a Noah's Ark.

necessary to choose another road less precipitate bui more serious and certain.".

He has this to say, in the same letter work all d possible rapprochement between the CLS and the CLA: •"You Socia the nocossity of active the of part the Left Opposition su comera la The struggle working masses. "Although at the present stage the Left une majority of countries, a propagan- dist organisation, puts forth propaganda not in a sectarian but manner say upon the basis of participa- tion in all the life of the prole am not able to admit that anyone of leaders of the or members or tne American League denies this principle. "The question reduces itself to . lity, to which pertains also natural and initia. Poverty in 1930's USA

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1978 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the emergence of the Trotskyist movement in the Part 4 of a series in Socialist Press which will examine the early history of the Lenin and Zinovier greet delegates to 2nd Congress of the Communist International tive. "Let us • admit, for a minute, that the Americar League lacks this or that possibility in mass 1 am ready to admit that you group would in respect to complete the work of the American League "But mass work must be on the basis of definite principles and methods. «Until the time that ques. oT run amenta will attained 'mass lies Wi!! work "'... I have called the position of your group I do not wish at all to express any condemnation as a whole : which bars possibility of a futur "You must openly, clearly and attentively revise your baggage so as to take care to uncover by that not only your manifest politica but also the historical principled roots of these faults.

with such • have • reacted Soon race to ren thesis of the Conference American League on the Labor Party because in this thesis there taken not only correct in the JOSItIOn essence or open and courageous criticism of its own past lutionary tandency seriously against a relapse."

Trotsky considered the Labor Party question as "the most im. portant" So that much so wrote a separate letter to the CL on it sUALsI IRED, weanesaay 2u December 1978

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US Gastonia textile workers strik This is printed in Trotsky's Writings 1932 and is in sharp positior the Curt as dale caveloced himsel (and resisted by Cannon) was of the 1932 Trotsky that tr dat bureaucrats would only turn towards of Labor Party under tenters pressure of the class struggle: "The bureaucracy must blow skull receive on such a raulcat To prepare for that initiative. situation by calling for a Labor Party would be to ease the patt oT the bureaucrats "It was impossible to say in advance whether the ment of such a party would be a sten forward without being abl to study the concrete circum. stances and balance of forces uncer SUCh .a. develop ment would take place. reformist Labor Party would form barrie to thi development of a revolutionary party and Communists had no business preparing such a noos for themseives." attacking Weisbord's conception of the Labor Parti as an intestates senes or uniter fronts Trotsky says: "(this) signifies a misunder.

Stancino of the notions bon o the united front and the party The united front is determined concrete circumstances for concrete aims. "The party is permanent. I • Unite• Tront wa lev hands free to break with temporary allies. "In a common party with these allies are bound by discipline and even by the fact of the party itself" He does, , however, grant that a Labor Partv created .. as barrier to communism could be an arena for successful struggle: ... but only under the con dition that we consider Labor Party "our not as party Sharp battles In the CLS stuck to their view sharp battles that approaching in which the working class contict with Ineir oureaucratk misleaders maintained that this would be reflected in a political development Towares a lane Party initially takin amorphous form, developing around concrete class issues.

They acknowledged Trotsky's warning about straitiacket nature of a parti which included bureaucrats anc admitted that in thinking amorphous stage of the orepar azon tor he labor rary to be one of an extended time scale they had indeed made an error.

A special reference supplement What we mean when we say: ... -Why do we use Marxist terminology? Socialist Press is a news.

the pages of our press in a articles.

which presents specific way, which may paper But to help even more Marxist analysis of the well appear to bear little or have we ine events and topics that it no relation to everyday lan- this opportunity covers. Christmas holiday issue to Clant. Within the limited space The reason for this is present a pull-out supple- available to us we present simple. Marxism is a science.

ment offering brief explan- the most detailed possible Like any science, it needs a ations of some of the terms examination of the class vocabulary to describe the won't find which you struggle both in Britain and forces, the processes and the explained in a dictionary.

on a world scale. changes it is analysing. The brevity of some of We attempt to bring into like And, again any today's struggles science, only avoid our explanations will mean It can from the historical that certain aspects of the using such a vocabulary and experiences of the working terms defined will be left everyday out. But the length of them movement words or the onrases long struggle for revolution- compared to the term being expense of brevity and ary politics. defined will show why the precision. But in doing so we are We do not make a virtue use of a certain degree of often obliged to use termin- out of using such termin- scientific "jargon ology which might strike necessary if we are to offer ology-which we know must the present itself as a problem analysis of the reader as unnecessarily any serious complex and daunting. international class struggle!

many readers-and we Many words are used in keep it to a minimum in our Trotskyism Lenin, co-leader of the October 1917 revolution in Russia, and prominent in me touncine ane the first four congresses of the Communist International. ••DosiTIon growing bureaucratic power of the Stalinist clique in the Soviet UnIon ano nis outsooken of their policies both criticism Russia Trotsky, along with his support- ers. was slandered driven from leading positions in government and the Party Trotsky eventudily ana driven into exile.

LENINISM

But his consistent struggle for the principles of Marxism ane ine continuity or lenin s fight for international revolu- continued to attract the tion Dest ane MosT tenacious fighters, and laid the basis for the long struggles prior to the Lenin's achieve- the Fourth October Revolution. of ment was in taking the theoreti- International in 1938 Lenin's basic positions or cal positions or marx and engels and wedding them the party spelled out in the key … rotskvism is theretore the general term for the system of particular form of the Bolshevik 1902 book What is To Be Done?

ideas and the wealth of practical party organisea are summed u• in une retro spective account presented exoerience unar loday torms une sona! centralised basis, and continuity revolutionary capable of the analysis and the Left Wing Communism, Marxism and the October Infantile Disorder (1920) sharp tactical turns necessary in Revolution. Dialectical materialisme forces and laws of motion that The Marxist theory of know- drive it forward. ledge anc worio-view which understands the universe Trolsky points out. composed of matter in motion.

"The fundamental flaw of the fact vulgar thought lies in the redilly nroduct continuing move. unat it wisnes • to content Itse t ment and change brought about with motionless reith votion es sints of strat imprints conflict and inter through action-te carecc-o oooos- motion... ite forces. "Dialectical thinking is related to vulgar thinking in the People's ideas too, produced same way mal a motion dicture the material of by processes Theatedion pitil photos not their materidi ordills. dre only motion picture does one of the infinite forms of the outlaw tne still photograpn, Dut of changing matter, combines series of shot reflecting historical the social, according the laws and economical the an Marx Once the world is grasped as Defence Marxism, a process opposed material p.65-6) the tools for probing beneath Torces in connict ano in move.

See also Engels Ludwig the surface ment, dialectical materialism appearance Feuerbach and une offers to revolutionary Marxists class struggle and analysing the Classical German Philosophy.

Dictatorship of the proletariat I he dictatorship of the prol etariat a transitional period between Capitalist alfu sucidi- commencing Ism, with the seizure of power by the armed also extended and Lenır developed Marx's analysis of the capitalist state, Caullalls economic crisis and tne struggle of nations for self-determina- tion. internationalism was demon- fight for the strated by Joundation or me are wom munist) International in 1919 But his death 1924 make une conse •aon or taf power of the Stalinist bureau- which usurped Lenin's name nine sul or ta reactionary nationalist positions.

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CENTRALISM

The method of organisation fought Lenin 101

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Bolshevik Party, maximising discussion in democratic decisions, and ther makingol ensuring full, centralised disci- pline of the party in carrying out decisions. Ine orain st bureau. cracy democratic centralism was perverted bureaucratic Centransm. became simply the tool of the Lenin working class led by the revol- utionary party. period Durina inIs necessary for the working class establish authority of the exorooridtion employers and lay the founda.

for a planned economy ana ine social transtormation oi socie ly While this social transfor- mation is takine diace. classes do not automatically disappear but continue to exist. But whereas captialism represents the bosses its bourgeois democratic or totalit- arian torm-over oiner classes ir society. the dictatorship of the proletariat represents the dictat- OrSnID class the vast majority ofsociety- over the capitalists through its control of central government military force and workers' control of industry. leading bureaucrats. The Fourth International ir 1938 restored Lenin's form of without inner democracy. revolutionary Without discipline-no „tionarv action in nei the Fourth Inter- national is based on eemocratc centransm. Tull freedom in discussion, complete unity in action."

COMMUNISM

A communist societv is oni in which class antagonisms have disappeared after the overthrow class. Communism will be reached after the dictatorship ot the nroletariat where ine bourceois unit has been replaced, and the wages system, the state machinery and the distinction and countryside town nave witnere dvdy Scientifically then communism would be a society where social relations are based

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exciotion out on

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principles progress that conditions of human nature." Lenir Theor In( Communists may be summed up the single sentence. ot private this l property meant not the personal property of the wage labourer or even the petty artisan and peasantry, but private property bouroeois which exploits the many by the few." Communist Manifesto

PERMANENT

REVOLUTION

The theory developed by Trotsky after 1905 and subse quently adopted Lenin stressing the leading role of the WorKine class revolutiondr struggles in backward, colonial and underdeveloped countries.

Trotsky showed in his book Permanent Revolutior that these countries even democratic • national inde demanus suct pendence and lane retorm could omy oe carried out wy d revolu the working class at tion led une nedu In accomplishing these tasks, the would then beyond the limits of F bourgeois orivate property ano result the completion of the socialist revolution. Revolutionary defeatism The coutoreaK ot tne rirs World War in 1914 brought a protound spiit in the ranks of the Second International, as the social democratic party in each imperials Count declaret itself for the defence of its "own fatherland" against Torean dooression Lenin Trotsky, Luxemburg and a tiny of the minority Second International stood out against this position, which they pointed out amounted to these trom class. place of defence of the tatherland, the internationalists arque tor a line ot revolution.

ary defeatism" This stated that the primary question tor ine workino class tr any country is the revolutionary overthrow own bour-

ITS

geolsie, and inal such a struggle should be maintained even at the expense of a defeat in war by That bourgeoisie "foreign" rival Such a defeat, they argued woto be aar asser evil to le working class than the forma tion of a political bloc betweer une workers movement ano te capitalist class.

STALINISM Popul Quite 'revisionism' simply. is a general term the revisine. ano (neretore une adan' donment of basic propositions, and concepts developed by the revolutionarv movement. Under general heading inIs Opportunism Within the bureaucratic leaderships of workers' political ano trade union oreanisalions opportunism means exploiting the strength of the working class not lo secure ts demanus, Dut the position and secure privilege of the leaders them- seives Such leaders effectively balance between the two main classes or socierv. out reman.

the last analysis, committed "peaceful preserving a lence welween Ilit

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class and the capitalists.

But certain would-be 'revol- taking the occasion- lett wing ot such sucehiit leaders тасе value. seek through political compromises with to find a short cut them to une mass memoersm or trei organisations. Such behaviour, dropping both principles and programme in the hopes of easy pickings, is also opportunism. State capitalism One the currents that OT argues Tha: pse Stalinist bureaucracy the Soviet Union in the mid 1920s amounted to a reversar oT tne the October 1917 gains establish- and revolutos inle ment of the bureaucracy as a ruling class what was now a "state capitalist This superficial anaysis- which sees the Kremlin bureau- cracy in a one-sided, a-historical WaV-s now

MOSI

Uriel encountered The BrITISN Socialist Workers Party (former- ly the International Socialists).

Tony Ine tounder ot is, Cliff, was correcuy exportu from the Fourth Intenational 1950 for his refusal sundort either China or North Korea against military attack by US imperialism. examination of the ror alas natane es tie stie "state capitalist answer position Trotsky's honks nevouton Betrayed and In Defence Marxicm Stalinism is the term to des- cribe the politics of the bureau cratie caste neaded by Josel Stalin, which rose to political ower in une acule economic disiocation of the Soviet Union in the 1920s, and which remains were lo unis udy Ine soviet union emerged from the October Revolution as a workers state. State ownership •T mne neans

OT GUCION

necessary prerequisite to social.

Possiety on rapid ged uph the possibility rapid growth the broductive torces apparatus of the workers' state underwent a com comelete deceneration Ine same time: it was transformed from a weapon of the working casc ^ nzo à ven q n cratic violence against the work- ing class and more and more a wegoon tor the sabotage ot the The bureaucratisation of backward and isolated workers state transformation the of the bureaucracy into an all- powertul privileged caste consti- tute the most convincing retu tation-not only theoretically. but this time practically-of the Revisionism Poud n tor ing o undersand, Lenin respond intervene Engels, _rOtsKV. many WAlCA are tooav s strudetes. Iu s necessary explained in more detail below.

to start from and to defend the and methods principles wnen we attack ravsonIsm estad s nec n tne ast o revol it does not mean that we regard utionaries who have drawn on wealth practical and their Marxism nang ng. wooden dogma. Ineoretcal experence Empiricism Perhaps motion. It cannot see the wood ine most common failing ot would-be revolution- vor mne trees aries, empiricism is an approach Utopian and Scien- roocialism, to the class struggle based not tific). Empiricism therefore on any deoth of analvsis but on the superficial appearances produces in those groups which follow method, this repeated, events druml de dreny dralan shifts of policy with each turn The empiricist sees history as the political situation, since 'tacIs suchessur dilu single exceptional events, anc Tor Inem. Doicies are Dasea not not in the Marxist manner as a on the fundamental processes of process unfolding as a result of the class struggle but on surface micelid laws u mUlron dupca arces diure up the consistently anaels summed z ne empiricisi empiric iste coachi claims to recognise "reality' fact contemplation but consistently individual things it forgets the surprised bi events. ana leTT them; chasing after them. connection netwAen the contemplation of their exis.

state capitalism torgets beginning LolICe ana rank ano mueism are amone the most obvious empirical ten- an• eno ot that existence of their repose, forgets their dencies. Workerism A vague, comparatively new - Workingentas Since waraks ahe orientated towards term, coined and generally used oetty boureeois revisionisl strus calent, une lerm is nol groups, the pages of Socialist to cascribe movements use• in that are thought to be obsessive- Press. theory of socialism in one Coty. USSR thus embodie: terrific contradictions. But it degenerated still remains workers state." (Trotsky, Transitona Programme). This bureaucratisation of the Communist Party of the Sovie Union led directly to the trans- Cery mue it Internationa and ever Urle The natona commun si rate from instruments world and revolution into the tools moumoleces tne olalas! bureaucracy The Stalinists' privileges and positIon rester ncreasinov balancing between the national- the ised property relations Soviet Union on the one hanc and delas with imperialism on -rationalised through other •lalin s isz4 Ineor ot dula ing "socialism in single country" Conscious opposition This drove the bureaucracı or honiols tosi posi ion conscious opposition revolutionarv movements witnir the international working class which might disrupt this Pabloism Michel Pabio was secretarv the post-war Trotskyist Fourth International. Under the pressure of acute isolation and the continued survival of the Kremlin bureau- clacy. r doru vas laken i wy une appearances trom Stalinism Yugoslavian Pablo developed the theory that the YCP had ceased to be a Conte evoldl y wal ly ana nad evorved under oressure of its mass membership, into a centrist revolutionary even partv. If this were true in Yugo slavia, why not the mass Western CPs? Seeing this as a short cut to the building revo utionary Pablo insisted on throughout I rotskyist turope turning towaras entry into the mass Communist Parties, in the hope that wol rion Fed their towaros revolution ary politics This policy led in 1953 to a solt in tne rourin internaton- al. Of course no CP did evolve ano everv one o Pablo's impressions was proven false Nothing dauntea, and still seeking a short cut to the build- ing of a mass movement, Pablo Tnen turneo towaros compro mises with the various national- ist forces leading colonial revol- Ultra-leftism amounts to a refusal to use bourgeois parlia- tactics ments, elections or any mandeuvres in . ine struCUFt for socialism. In particular (Third Period Wrone ism) on tne mignt against tne reformist leaders. the Third and Fourth Congresses of the Third Inter the task of breaking workers social democracy could from tions. The the United tactic of Front was .•ФoTeO calls on the social democratic joint leaders engage struggles alongside Communists, so that the of the social demo. ur cachely could crats excec practice. Ultra-leftism rejects such tactics. ano altemots to subsli tute shrill denunciations of the delicate balance of forces.

When in 1933 the crushing 'In the wake of the 1933 of the German working class by defeat : of the German working the Nazis failed to raise a flicker class Hitler the Stalinist by interest ТГОЛ movemen. rejuctant avan Communist International,. doned its catastrophic ultra-left Trotsky declared it completely policy, and in 1934 adopted the pur eduer aliscu anu dedu lor litt suraled inle ari-inciusivt "People's Front" against purposes ot revolution He called for the building of fascism. the Fourth Intenational Stalinism lives or . nowever various national Com- the munist Parties reflecting politics ot the parasitic Kremlin bureaucracy In the post war period this nureaucracy nas ansured …thal even the collapse of imperialist Eastern control over Europe, paris ot asia ano tuba nas no led to independent proletarian revolutions. In fightina Stalinism. we rotskyists start out trom the defence and extension of the Octobe gains the revolu- n ne sat donoser property relations in the USSR and degenerated workers Th e state. kyr for tihs inditg ese Trotskyist parties

EPIGONISM:

Epigones are countries tor ine pontica oven throw of the Stalinist bureau- corrupt the teachings of their le cracy and for world revolution.

for the Stalinist bureaucracy, w utons His method of approach to building the party was copied manv Terow ledders or une Fourth International. the eternal search for a readv-made revoluticnar party, and the avoidance of the Trotskyist thus lives C On today ine oopor tunist politics the various grouping carna ibea eles this Internaliond caroon-cobieo ov tne DoltIcs •.

the present day leadership of 'United" Secretariat of the rOUTII Internatondl under Ernest Mandel. Hence Mandelism equals Pabloism Abstentionism A conscious refusal by a self- styled "revolutionary group to involve itselt in the strugales o1

HEAL

the working class Brand with revisionism Healy associated Gerry Electoralism currentlv a leader of the Britisi Workers Revolutionary Party and the "International Commit Preoccupation with involve- ment in elections, creating the which he founder musion indi member tnemseives otter a way torward for the working class. Healy's politics combine sec

ULTRA-LEFTISM

see Lenin, Left Wing leaders, cociai hemocrats Cana even The building alternative "red" Communism, An Infantile strugale Ulull. ballem. wisoreer among the mass of the working class.

SECTARIANISM

The mos catastroonic The substitution fixed of example of such a policy was in abstract formulas and the period 1928-34 defined by Stalin as the Third Period-the ore•gana cor d conslant studt objective conditions and period Tina Callasm active intervention and particip- heralding its collapse and its ation in the class strugale replacement by soviets. •ectarian Ism spearates int gration orne elte oro this forecast line with gramme from the need Stalin arecteo ine corminis International on a course rim ct workine class lo acceot il, dnu cEm= sees solitical discussion, not as a : soc a involved branaıra instrument, but as a cratc baries a parties ara •==: : ¿o~=÷:g of :na .-e== -=-morar expressions *° sec:arianısm can be seen ir spit in ine so.serful Ge-man •oocoȚor Tne TaCTIC labour movement, which even voting for Labour in elections Sectarianism is often accom- Tualy Tach laled Hitier's rise to power • •aneo ov d à zvn For the Marxist position or gant manner and a pronouncec intrigue, tendency bourgeo s elections use o • LI It Lovar e Parlament, ano tne retormis cossio ano nvsterld

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 December 1978 ar Frontism These "fronts" included not oniv The order mass workers parties-the social democrats hitherto branded 'social fascists -ouT dise so-called "Progressive sections the bourgeoisie" who were suppos edly allies of the workine class in the struggle for democracy followers who falsify and ader. Trotsky used the term 1o posed as "Leninists".

VISM

abstention • baran Ine struggles of the working class with an ultra-left refusal to fight tor transitional demands, ana an opportunist adaptation to petty leaders nationalist Yassir suCh Ararat. Liovan Gaddafi and the Iraqi dictator well as the Vietnamese Stalinist regime in Hanor. Such positions reflect failure Healy carry by break from aulitical The methods Trom whom he split organisationally in 1953. Healy Centrism REFORMISM deneral farm tor a narty political current or an individua against fascism. The develoned view valhalllie welvveer Bernstein and others the In order not to alienate such in and revolutionary politics.

parties, the Popular Fronts were German Social Democratic Aș Trotsky points out, the built centrist hates all precise charac- rarty eno internationdi, al lit turn exciuced socials! Doncies tne century that the tersations unable nationalisation or any indepen- ultimate goal of socialism could understand that principles are the "gradual" achieved by not dead ballast, but a lifeline to working class. result the "democratic' and peacetul paved reform of the capitalist system ropular Front the for way The material basis on which Ine victory Franco in 1939. the ideas of reformism came to dominate the European labour policy OTsUDor dinating the workers' movement

MENSHEVISM

the movement-leading to bourgeois parties re-emerged Seconc deceneration International-was the increas Dost-wal beriod. and Is now the predominant policy of European prosperity the Communist Parties The opportunist wing of the capitalism as a result or the nuge Western Europe and internation drive to colonise the world Kussian socia bemocratic rarty ally which split with Lenin in 1903 the half of second nine. the over the issue of party rules teenin century Lenin wanted a stronav cen The crumbs from the super tralised party discipline profits made available over its membership: the Men particular organised The policy has been raised to "theory' in the sneviks wantee a party skiied sections or workers Inu: the level would accept "any striker" strengthening view that as a the

WOTK

Itallan. •oanisn and to gradual reform could lead French Stalinist leaders and towards socialism. 'theory of Eurocommun- del unatt me party a contro reformist Menshevik really Ine In won verdi criticIsm: reflected their that the leaders, for and the Too, the the degenerated workers' Labour Party and the class should combine states is combined with support ot fighting witaune noera boureeoise intellen bourgeois covernments dna overthrow Tsarism and establish socialism and are only blocs with bourgeois political "democratic republic with preventing concerned parties. the stage prot to socia revo unon. October 1917 revolutios. opposed the class and the capitalists through their "skills" at negotiating Liquidationism Economism,spontaneity •The term liquidationist now applied political Lenuencies seen dissolve the independence of the revolutionary party of the work.

Trade have their working conditions and unIons built ionship with another, broader, nistoricallv weer livine slanadas often politically hostile or non- As such, therefore, trade workers who lack any depth of reformist organisa political awareness. unions are rule laran tomation Thus Pabloism in the 1950s fiahting i nev drise mom une soonian- concession: liquidate eous desires of the working class within the framework of capital- threatened fight back against the attacks iS These struggles are for this Trotskvism IntO Stalinist parties, and, later, into or une emplover, and to morove petty bourgeois the Syndicalism countries Liquidationism not Ques result necessarily in the organ

IOSS

membersaiD but it does, invariably mean an Here, trade unions are seen politics. indepen- This is basing itself on the sumicient ends tniem dent programme of Marxism.

selves. syndicalist argues backward consciousness of that politics should be kept out sections the working class Propagandism •i ine tade unions ane in Tont and attemouine tne ing for this opposes revolution- development revolutionary politics leadership in the working class al y While ally revolutionary can leac militant Revolton movement must argue tne case workers completely away from trade unions alone, socialism for ant usel come through doctorary weldust only through distribution the plays on hostility their development ot a revolutionary materia earles. party that tiants withIn ine newspapers, pamphlets, books- and this unions but also all away capitalist oppres Teeling, TUrns workers spheres where from only source theIr place SIon sovie li development, i.e. revolutionary utionary leadersnip in tae work type organs power that ing class. include all the oppressed sectors Trotskyist Transitional Subjectivism ot society Programme 1938 arge unions are detensve clear V states that the task ot organisations that are not Individualism the Fourth International is to designed for state power.

Call y

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within them the torces can "agitation, propaganda and The objective processes of developed that take state organisation" in the fight to class struggle and TO f and they should be the power build parties in each country necessary response by the revol- educational training ground agitation as Lenin detined for the working class. movernent car conveying few ideas to many individual understood it The But the working class needs prepared to subordinate his/her rod- develop new organs for its personal feelings, work which consists in moods, dictatorship over the capitalist conveying a whole complex ideas few Cidss analysing the al alively the task The syndicalist wants people. confi this is not sane, then limit the working class to Propagandists those this is not are done, the defensive groups which immersed get so subjective Teenino. Ine within ine trade unions, out une can the Lne wouuction or dostiac GICTOr class to amant theorise propaganda that they are unable analysis or cut across the neces- within class those to relate to the working class.

sary intervention by the revolu struggles or the necessity to lake party the given tionary state power and so he struggles Guerrillaism situation. for a communist perspective in Subjectivism, this failure those struggles. dispassionately Seeking to substitute armed enoace political analysis, is particularly guerrilla struggle small hard to overcome in the case arous caseo in rural areas tor people with a protessional the bourgeois background both wedsall ls entire dna around a broaramme ot trans social training nas taught them itional and democratic demands.

to value themselves Guerrillaism uals and their personal prestige Latin America became expression majority trend within the subjectivism, arises when 'United' Secretariat the individual members of the revol- interational Ine Oar tv seek шо acI l 1960s, in the aftermath of the under the discipline the Cuban revolution its strength party. drawing verv document on ana assisune its worK

COUT ON

which the 1963 'reunification' their own personal whims and took place talked of inserting decisions, inus cuttin InET 'strategy' of guerrilla war- ThA selves off the party's trom into the Trotskyist experience and often sabotaging its actions he nolley enshrinen in the which Bourgeois 1969 9th World Congress, led everyone portrays to wholesale confusion and uals and tails to recognise the Tracic losses among the or class divisions or society, rein forces in Latin America, but has forces this tendency, and only recently been formally ensures that is a continuing Trots! - the USFI leader- ascaraceov problem to be fought within the ship. revolutionarv movement Healey and better higher wages conditions for the working class.

As cao tas enters a crisis the objective needs and require working class InTO incredsine with the needs and requirements of the bosses win further retorms from crisis ridden canit.

alism, the reformist leaders are turn to a defence o torced to systen their own members and suppor- inevitably Such actics. provoke conflicts between the cratic reformist leaders and the reason in general not political, wut economic. stake is seen not as the owner- ship of a particular factory muusurv. out me wades ano con ditions meted out by the owners to the workforce. Such abroach leaves in the portical controi tirmly hands of the bourgeoisie and the labour bureaucracy. What is to Lenin Done? pointed to the need for revolutionaries i to a fight wage consciousness ot ine working class, if a leadership is to be capable of leading the revolutionary overthrow capitalism. Those who took the oppos- were ing view «termed 'Economists'-since they belleved that the task of revol ADVENTURISM: Willingness to enter into major struggles without political preparation or adequate forces to protect those involved. Ill-conceived actions in response to provo.

cations by the forces of the state.

FEMINISM

Militant advocacy and struggle ( TO women s ronts Bourgeois feminist movements seek such rights within the Tramework or cao talism. where as socialists recognise the tull equality achievable withouth the socialist of society and the eliminatior Tne family unit. = ==-= Page 7 retormist ideas that inev oeecte conflict brings . with it the possibility complete break ov wore sections or tit working class from reformisn such I a point the role of the left retormists is to try anc head ott such a movement witr their left wing rhetoric But these spineless talkers fe.o Ine unites are com pletely unwilling and indeed unable to lead a consistent fight against the rignt wing are just as wedded to They reformism die-

MUS!

hard right wing reformist.

Maoism The brand Stalinist politics linked Mar • se-tung leave Chinese Communist Party, which had ridden • power the wake of the collapse of the imperialist-backed Chiang Kai-shek regime in 1949. diehard remained defender Stalin and "socialism in a single country",

OUT

TroN ever weake material base than the Kremli the Kremlin bureaucracy Russia ot tre lyzUs utionaries was to sup merely the spon port and link uni •taneous, trade union struggles of Cidss dile them political character' Lenin referred to these daily trade struggle: UnOn 'spontaneity" working class a: and stressed need for the within such Touant TOt struggles anti-political approach Economists ana mel pandering to the most elemen- tary levels of trade union con. sciousness are todav aped by the British Socialist Workers Party.

Their political method- somelimes reterreo to as rana and fileism-avoids any fight within the working class for the metnoos substituting in their ivarxism. place trade union demands. politics and single-issue campaigning put forward by the bourgeois feminists. This leads them into the swamd aUTonomous women's groups excluding men.

laken to excitinct wings teminism

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BONAPARTISM

"The decline capitalist (Tunisia), military juntas (Pakis- societv places Bonapartism-side Tan or rascist partles or emer- and ging from within

SIGE

with fascism coupled with it-again on the process under order way nor Lankdr sub•resses cv! war. or orecedar or does not allow it to rekindle." (Trotsky) his writings on Germany ne scientric understancing of Bonapartism was developed 1932, Trotsky by Marx and later Trotsky when such conditions they andysea une dictatorsnios recimes are created and me his of the emperors Napoleon Bona- task they are required and Napoleon parte to perform. mighty rrance camas Bonapartist locked in irreconcilable conflict.

regimes appear in various guises-headed by parlia Neither side can cliques mentary means. bureaucrate Neither would

ZIONISM

doctrine Conservative-Liberal coalition published the 'Balfour Declara invented in 1895 by a Hungar ian-born Jewish journalist called tion supporting a Jewish state- I heodor Herze Inouen not it snowe be noted the expense of the local Herze, who was an admirer of Cecil Rhodes and other nine- inhabitants teent century colonialsts i ne LIOnISTS Hater Turned wrote his pamphlet The against the British and won the Jewish State that anti-semitism support of Stalin's Russia and of imperialists the Ine TOr ing those responsible for it or by setting up the racially changing and exclusive state of Israel in 1948.

sucid conuitions inal oroueal il about but by setting up a state for Jews, from which all other nationalities would be excluded.

This state has never occupied Ine conIs! movement nas obtaining always operated by merely the territory set out tor support from the chief imperial- by the United in 1948, expanded antone est lids available. series Tronners predatory wars in 1948, 1956 early period, it in the and 1967, carried out in alliance convincee Ine Dillisi covern- ment that it would be in their WiTh various sections interests to imperialism. set up The development new Ulster in the Middle East against the development of Arab militant movement ot the dis- liberation movements possessed Palestinians since the So the August 196Us and the setback of the

CHAUVINISM

of the This term is derived from the Dureduci alic ledueis legendary Nicolas Chauvin, workers' movement for the war Napoleonic soldier of obsessive ettorts bv imperialism. or tor patriotism and devotion to his nationalist economic policies pursued by a section of capital general. Marxists use the word to des- ists at the expense of foreign" particularly by support, competition (e.g. import cribe controls. Sexism Male chauvinism In the sense of "support for chauvinism the oppressor has Insistence maintaining of rigid views the diso been extended lo ine drela the women's „TO: rights, where discrimina- society-leading anti-gay inequality, descrives

SUDDUL TOT

Lne con- tinued oppressive role of men in oronadaned he sexist attitude towards in the hands women brands them as inevit- unrortunately of the women's liberation move- 'wife', 'mother', the been term 'home-maker' and a sex-object, whereas men are pressured to tly, used that its real content is the bourgeois

COROTTE

often obscured. notions ot masculinity - acores siveness, dominance, virility and unquestioned heterosexuality.

such rarticular views-which are promoted on side the by educa the arts and meuld, system as well tion as•v existing social system-are women and gay men. Next an me cave A historically-evolved mode are particularly rife within the leadership bureauc dlic means of production (factories, Labour and trade union move- materials, etc) Lus, lavv Early capitalism willingly accept decision The interests ot the whole bu in socierb lo to shadows a split the effects of social in society foreshadows a cannot be so easily determiner war: The Thost threat of civil war mechanics. creates a need in the ruling class The government itself for made of flesh ano bone. tor a Caesar That preciselv up with certain classes Bound and their interests. the tunction of bonabartism a Bonaparte is by In peaceful times a democra- means indispensible for Bona- lic partiament seems to be tne best instrument for reconciling barrism. i existence or two irreconcilable camps is enough. conflicting forces. when the all-powerful fundamental forces veer off at The role of arbiter can be filled by, a clique 180-degree angles, pulling in instead of a person.. then opposite directions, the 'Every claims opening for a Bonapartist dicta recite stand above classes, safeguarding torship appears." 21073 war have fores in the 1973 have brought concentrate establishing friendly relations with those sections of the Arab bourgeoisie notab v Egypt who have little chance of masses in their own countries.

The Zionists have won the firm support of a number British leaders-from retormIsu hamsey ivacoonala to haroid Wilson and Tribunite 'lefts' today. Fascist dictator Franco Imperialism Marx showed how all class when the retrogressive. stage two

COCIATIAC

nasser Throllan class relations became a tetter first, in which they on further development. Were send prut essive dill "Imoerialism' the term cevelope• numanitv s torces production; and the second, which Lenin gave to this second 'Imperialism' a mural by Diego Rivera Capitalism, bourgeois privately owned by a minority Both the urban petty bour- geoisie Cabilalisl cidss-une wourueoisie.

anotne

•COT

which uses them to accumulate and must be won to the side of profit, through surplus the working class in revolution- struggles, the expullalon o a orooerly• over less working class-the proletar- leadership and a correct combin- which owns nothing but its ation of democratic and trans dull ly

• LO. WOTK

itiona demanes. It Is an anarchic system in which each individual capitalist competes against each If this is not done, then this other concern for a share of the unstable social stratum market in which the supreme the accumulation of issue reduersnio providing the caoital, not numan need material for reactionary even fascist movements designed working class smash une movement. Bourgeois ideology is the Between vies an ill defined mai. main term used to refer to the system of ideas classes, customs, philosophy elaborated by pourecoise which randes trom Lute professional and managerial •oureeoise in gatence

COTT

through intellectuals, class interests-its private owner- workers, self-emploved and small farmers ship of the means of productior and businessmen. property, and ano The petty bourgeoisie "right" to exploit the working capitalist backward economies class. Also within the overldes

VILN

peasantry small holders the land. bourgeois ideology are those Desperate 'last card' of crisis- ridden capitalism wherebv the most prosperous section of the capitalist class mobilises a rabble backward layers of workers, and other around nationalist and uses ant union agitation them as a battering ram to attack and destroy the organis ations and democratic rignts o the working class. Against fascism, Trotsky ! argued tor a united front of al retrogressive stage of capitalism which began around 1900. His book, Imperialism, the Highest Stage Capitalism characteristics analysed the monopoly. stace dominance of over the industrial capital; growing advanced (imperialist) countries; the division of the world the warmel alone cabilalls monopolies along with the of territorial division or ine world Lenin's Imperial- Politicaily ism was the theoretical founda- tion of the Third Communist, Inte natona First showed how the World War which most tne barles or me decono intel national had supported bourgeoisie) was the result of the destructive rivalries the avancee canals nations. Imperialism was, therefore, Ine ace cabilalism s • oecav the age in which capitalism had achieved all it was capable of fo Imperialism to revolutionary Marxists, therefore, ace ot a new social revolution the socialist revolution.

political currents within the workers movement unal seek le liberate the working class SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 December 1978

FASCISM

workers organisations, the estab- lishment workers defence programme soudo s and a socialist demands designed both to detend past gains and to leac The soCialIst revolution which alone could put an end to the tascist menace

NATIONALISM

as Marx and Engels said no countv It is an international class, the first in world history : class society Cadet Create without class or national antag Revolutionary Marxism, therefore, is hostile to national- general it is an obstacle to world socialism.

Lenin nowever. pointed out its imperialist epoch 1h21 capitalism the great liberator of nations had become the great oppressor of nations" So although the nationalism the imperialist nations unamonuous v reactionary . une struggle of oppressed nations for national liberation Car a temporarily revol- utionary role. Marxists always oppose nationa oooression and suoport the right of the people of all nations to self-determination.

pne objective o proletariar internationalism is the voluntary United nations Socialist States of the World Internationalism is rejected only nationalist bourgeoisie even reformism le.g the ett Tribune group's cherished import by

CURLUIS

dile Stalinism its pursuit of alliances with , the bourgeoisie in

LITE

Cadilalsi Counties ane "socialism one country" the degenerated workers' states.

Fascism-a last resort for imperialism without changing the fundamen of the capitalist system-

TAIS

reformism.

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However, aiso argued strongly that they never saw it as the role of Communists To one a ceros occa de saw it as their task to stress the limitations and dangers of such a party. "Rather we have constantly stressed that only by a relent- tess Tont acainst tne ism embodied in a Labor Party workers be able to would. the cross over ine oricce the Labol Party offered them, and move to the Proletarian Labor rowever, rarty was not actually Tormec were able to show in different how entirely Concerton dual action was from that of the right wing". (Lovestoneites).

Trotsky had by the turn to a Labor Party bureaucrats woule de orimary to head off the development of a Communist Party view the force wrecommant behind a Labor Party develop. ment would oe not une real or communist rarty massive movement the working class. even if such a move. were ment have capitalist elements primarily concerned in utilising une Party Communism and even if those conscious anti-communist elements were comminant ine Labor Party movement itself would be unleashing those very anti-Communist plans." Trotsky with Natalia in exile in 1932 Bolshevik-led factory committee Opposition This stress on the dynamic in further example Left to the Com- the situation was Cannon's nattered to the this ques- munist International It is claimed that much time the late 30s, Trotsky himslef

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was was to aroue. Imoortant " rotsKv. Is that soent debating wit He changed his position- his book The History Weisbord. while maintaining the view that American Trotskyism The CLS letters to Trotsky does earler DOSITIOn been not see nt even to mention te are tul or chardes mat cannor correct for the times but that Theses on the Labor Party so refused to organise joint work the times had changed. warmly received by Trotsky. and serious discussions towards that the As a matter of tact Cannon recognistu fusion, that Cannon refused upsurge not even mention the American GOes come workers in the mid 30s had not Second Congress the CLA when was the subject was held in September attack by the state and so on Mass evo tenan muCh vituperation both sides went on that it is not the Most important possible any serious dangers mis- • bureaucratic assesse eacers using the Labor However irrelevant the rest clear movement were as true in the Weisbord did or ns cerberations miont nave win section ol late 30s as they were a few years been, we would have thought the CLA and that Cannon that "the important" forced admit him eater. forera LA debate. to In our opinion Trotsky gives question ment nave merited d no convincing arguments brief comment. in November 1943 Cannor the The History of American writes as follows: correctness . Ine Labor Party demand at one stage and out of the Trotskvism Cannon devotes two of that his previous rejection pages the debate with nine vears of the CP | was a first class factional hoodlum. If not Weisbord. cemane. how would 1 ever have survived?

in such a short seace as inis he is not able to deal with any- All I клей wher somebodv thing than Weisbord's. Started a fight, let them have other the mass work perspective (The SWP in World War Two, the It is claimed that Weisbord p.374). American: class able do any alw was It is not inconceivable that with one or work because he didn't have any this factiona attitude yva. Guilt demand for Labor orrected weisoore and manifestly false. Party is in group our -or his part Weisbord made Jump over cer recaraed Cannon leadership as rotten to class perspective. It is claimed that he wished the care and vowed to remove it The fruits Cannon's Cp., Jump over the head of th and form a new party- Tall snould te who and CLA Tuse seri something which Weisbord "The sole value of the the is that has Cannon group reject slanoer.cana the Cls nit forward ano That the the question. demand for readmission of the Trotsky in this country."

Despite Trotsky's partial attempts to smooth the wav to a rapprochement, himself must have known that a fusion would Ical Tactiona battle Not orders He suggested the documents of the

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could usefully International printed Bulletin but went on "Naturally the question will be decided by the American League" Here he displays an impor tant example of how a national , is built with inter alona alc orders but invests gie dionat does direct organisation with responsionity Tor fis own area. This alongside sharp political, programmatic discus- oint aroune ine issues international how centra construct an tendency. From reading of the our letters exchanged between Trotsky and Weisbord it is clear that there were important mis- over differences On the main political ques- tion-the Labor Party-Trotsky nas, in our view, wrong of JOSItIOns Weisbord group (e.g. on China) appear to have been cont debated. It seems to us that Cannon aid not wish tor a rapproche.

ment (but it is not : possible to sav) and that Weisbord Wal simply prevented from entering the ranks of the Left Opposi tion Certainly Weisbord's attitude to the Cannon leadership was have cricout duel Tactional Then test of hist Westin against Weisbord. Cannon The CLS was never a significan TOrCE • Ine building Fourth International, or in the building of anything for that The CLA went on to olav a central role in the history of the world Trotskyist movement.

the rrecisery „лой CLS's failure resulted from its isolation from the international movement we sian never know know But considering the of times Cannor stresse: centralITy IntArnaciona leadership in the building of his group we can say that that isola tion must nave played a grea part. We are frankly Mass was •ossiole agree around Trotsky's view a refiection o flict vas that is to participation oroletar iat' the mass seen need cadres in a Cannon's vunle

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necessarily in on itself and did not, like the present day •partacists. choose to turn in or itself, we should also point to some of the effects of this Cannot generally of the problems posed the CLA'S isolation-of the tencency on te bart ot some to wish for endless discussions the squabbles factionalism and existea trom ine earites years No detail Interestingly aoes faction fights and deal tesa omits On the situation Trotsky's letter Amenear • Legue Marci 1933) which outlined a solutior factionalism centred around the expansion of mass work (which had incidentiy Even Weisbord's charge that the

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failed CF win workers is partially borne out Cannon's description of the doubtfut human materia attracted to the CLA during the period or its isolation trom ine class. 1 1932-33 the CLA moved out proacanda perior mass work-primarily ane into work around the unemployed As the situationt snardeneo ine LA was abe to attract larger •to its public meetings where Trotsky's analysis and programme Tor the German working class was put forward debate with Weisbord snowed that the CLA nad weak esses but on balance these were outweighed by its strengths ¡ne carce cenerals witou laid sound army had political basis for the growth the Trotskyist movement in the

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NUS Conference at Blackpool No challenge to the Broad Left reported in last Rights. week's 'Socialist Press', The forward Broad Left have the President retained their bureau- Thatcher would have found over NUS, hold cratic it hard to disagree. and mounting despite freedom of speech, freedom militant increasingly from slavery, etc., it offered from opposition no class analysis of the state students who are attem- and no perspective of mobil- defend their pting to ising the working defend and extend its hard- and fight the unions won democratic. gains. education cuts. problem which The Above politics militant students now have to confront. is the task of Furthermore, building a principled alter- the to that of native leadership stick with which to beat the Stalinists and Union

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system. workers' alternative. Speaker from the Broad Left stood IMG-dominated The debate was clare e politicis declare Socialist Students Alliance, Socialist Worker and the and one on Organisation Student sides" (student wing of the SWP) ment could be united. • have both showed that, des- "far left" pite their postur- posed by the incapable they ing, fight'

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leading principled the Broad Left. Capitulated Their pollical was most ciearv revealed in the debate "Human Rights" which the of Soviet workers' other Broad Leit nad declaea ic to celebrate the 30th ideological stage UN the attack anniversary Human of states? becaraulon we're Quite frankly, in the rignt by unique! against We're the only movement UnIoniSatIOn and relent. that fights patiently the fight against lessly dictatorship within the unions.

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Trotskyist party the working class mobilising power and! the struggle for state reiectina any descent to the establishment of a socialist society. the WSL alone In doing so, counter-revolutionary does not shrink. from head-on battles with the existing leaders of the working class - whether not only these be left talking Labourites Class internationally. or Stalinists In taking of the Communist Party.

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work. He was censured over his handling: of union autonomy for the Broad Left's failure adequately current government attacks actual Over taken fused objection to a letter which Phillips to a delegate from Dorset, claimed he WilU insulted by the President.

of this vote goes beyond a personal few points dissatisfaction Broad Left. context in the The proposals on a new system mobilising the working class and its allies in the struggle of negotiation over Student Union fees were eventually for socialism! Did they call for the dis accepted of the of the •anullicill Dack bourgeoisie's police, or the Phillips and the law attack at the previous week's emer- army, of courts as instruments gency comicience class repression? Did they hell! a . aisastious Marxist None ot these national positions were to be found in the SSA resolution. Instead it was a series of the demands authorities, and the DES.

with an uncritical quotation The council from the UN Declaration of and ending human Kights, call support to Will Amnesty International. The SWSO, on the other hand, at least offered a class of analysis or the nature capitalism repression under - pointing out inal repics sion of democratic rights is integral and necessar part of capitalism. However, they capitula- ted to right wing attacks on Dear Comrades, workers' the Slalco methods Stalinists have Right their political line at

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despite une sec of However, few people censure were prepared to take a step their been which would have calling tantamount Iol the resignation of the whole committed policy of Executive. The task for the student over negotiations movement now is to make general fee levels through a that possible by building the council composed of NUS, revolutionary education Ichessar. Broad to ine will operate Lett. Threat of violence against opponents- Trevor Phillips they President moved the caucus to another As a delegate to NUS confer- room. When the NOLS delegates and a reader of Socialist Press I thought it important that concerned approacned Ine door, Broad, and a number one functionaries Left Broad blocked the door and physically resorted their attempts to restrict discus refused us entry. sion within the left of the NUS We lobbied the •elecale. going in and out of the caucus and to intimicate case asserting our right to take • part The Broad Left is ostensibly and calling upon delegates to condemn thi threats of physical violence Party and non-aligned socialists Some were disturbed by the stand for the incident and some wer 'the willisi embarassed. Fiona some like howevel this sham unity MacTaggart, NUS Vice President what it wa our request of her reply first night to condemn the threat to push of the members members through National Organisation of Labour windows said barrec TrON 'You deserve it"! Broad Left deepening they the basis that discontent amongst file with • Broad Left beer i critica and of the Broad Left positions on leadershis s • Racism. coucatiol and Constitutional Review Broad Left Stalinists Retore the caucus bedan a from Thames use the'

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Margolis "ballots" his scabs SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 December 1978 Tin-pot employers cock a snook at TGWU

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The continuing defiance involved, of the Transport and partly, but the employers tactics Union by General Workers are seen to be almost identical.

and scabs at the bosses example, Forklift plant "demonstration' Sandersons near Skegness is a challenge wanderson precisely the same method used of prime importance to the Night labour movement. factory long months owner Roy Sanderson has stood when the company was resisting official strikes both there and a demands tur hotels in Sheffield and Oxtord.

organising the union and takino strike of Phil Gillet, their victimised shop steward. It was „those ended in Wednesday, having Last the union's given ten days oreviously ton

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National Tirm wideo oul, Todd that he starkly the from the union leadership would concede boln Testate and union recognition, Like Sanderson publicly snubbed the ity blacking action was the only by weapon going bis kas thate enert make victory possibie under yet this policy, scab guise workforce, who had Deen Ine involved an anti-union taken in protest 'strike' in company time supplies the previous WeeK and Trom rorle S voted against a settlement in a station near Birmingham. management-run factory ballot.

took a typical 'left' Those who nave TOllOWeU other unionisation struggles over determination past few bringing to notice more wan similarity between tne sander-

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developments and what branch for sons battles strength on happened the picket on Saturday evenings adainst Trust Houses isrunwick Forte and the still-running Garners strike in London Garners: "Gradually, has happened elsewhere, the Garners Steak Houses. picketing is drifting out of the hands of the more res- ponsible union officials into the hands of the gaggle of political extremists. "We will believe this has that alarmed the TGWU, but of resolution and that employees, course they are now so com- mitted they do not seem to Contalle the TGWỦ." know how to disengage: This was Margolis's demoralised, the the (realer Association Councils. employees. "political

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desperaley Margolis SunKe. Socialist Press looks at two recognition disputes Sandersons: re-run of Grunwicks brought a storm of abuse from Not only was the TGWU the the media It also resulted in the union national leadership bringing Law heel and getting him to call it the recent organised off. That capitulation put paid to was any chance of victory. Not the least significant link Out club concerns the involvement of the during that for 1977, National strike -reecom A major factor in the failure to implement blacking was the court union ledgers Defeat orders and injunctions from the

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who had publicly cham- cause actions which oloned the both in the hotel strikes and at outright defeat with membership in the Grunwick, revealed further connection

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solidar- common theme of the strikers at Sandersons, infringe Threatenine that could 'rights' of the 'loyal' scabs.

pounds in a medit campaign of

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spent thousands which had that effect. been the strikers' demand from George Ward at Grunwick was only made it a main plank of with arec resistance, and like his successor of petrol being cut off motorway service Franco-style referendums to Regional Officer Alan Law, back it up. stance and Ward had, of course, refused the outcome of the his accidicu ACAS ballot which declared in vin drivers ever 200 or more the union s now broken-up WS 35 Sanderson ignored the result of pro-union vote in the shows a similar period leading up to the strike.

Out ThAN Though limited, the blacking This new-found concern for workers' "democratic rights' had an immediate entect winter So it will continue Margolis broke his silence with statements to the press to be business as usual at which appeared in the Tele- Express on the "We hope that somebody graph and day of picketing on the other side will have against trade • am not the authority and common- unions at all" said Margolis sense to terminate activities pliable Express break never Toporer. of our but will bring Pathetic discredit upon Even the vicous 'manager Whitcombe Street the at

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branch his cast the message was staff pathetic role of someone worried who wanted be left 'stake- 8 December out' of Garners organised by intention to and an allots Margolis announced of of the scabs to see if they wanted a union. the Line Surprise, results announced this week show a 120-34 vote against But clearly his statement the TGWU. beyond his own week's strike com- mittee bulletin points out In his tired old line about most scabs extremists" that the hostile the strike have out his nana to ine TGWU bureaucracy who are stated willingness to have union recognition and 101 way to end the 11-month are- very sceptical about the ballot result. lin every case discovered only after the employers had carried has also out

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emerged, coincidentally, Garners. Theré, almost on the same day as at sandersons, empioye Cyril Margolis was reassured hundred more the people he ano taken replace the sacked workers, did not after all favour joining the union they had spent int las! ten months trying to break like Claim: by employers sanderson that scabs have to be consulted before a settlement made are nothing less can ut than ridiculous. In the one hotel strike last • victory was achieved year Oxford's Linton TGWU members won reinstate there are 57,000 of his members ment and recognition after six on all-out months on the picket without any such phoney consultation.

better. Yet the most important link of all between these common TGWU's be the weakness struggles must of the TGWU leadership. mouse derso on toad in much Sanderson the same way as Ward did with August 8 mass picket. Roy Grantham of APEX He held the same These employers are very the spinelessness well aware of for the first three monts of tit Garners dispute of such reformist leaders They reject the collabora tion and double dealing which is tor mass picketing and alegen al financial levy the staple diet of these bureau- And it was crats and teea instead online raw meat of confrontation.

from rank and file shop Todd Though unlike 'left which brought face Grantnam nas (particularly when as at Fords It seems incredible that only a couple of months ago the case the Region 1 leadership was trying to get the strike com- mittee to agree to a ballot as Secretary the conditions of Organiser Les Shorter. of calling off the strike TGWU Regional officials see in number of other Regional have things to answer for in this in the summer. strike. For example, although Out last week's lime London said that the The arbi- "police enforced this week limit of six people trary a national delegate conference PHOTO: Mark Rusner, strike. defence and Ceremo Todd

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Garners' December 8 Day of Action Mass pickets of the factory strike) his record in have received con!v токе! mobilisation from the union's defence of union rights is no national and regional officials Skegness was Todd who led the harry cooper. Secretary London District powerful now region throughout the Grunwick bring 3,000 threatened pickets to the plant if Sanderson strike and personally instructed failed to settle. his members not to support the He must be instructed to get making that pledge ousy wItn position good as soon as ine strike com mittee sets the date Calis must made for again resisting General Secretary Moss Evans to calls from the strike committee issue a personal statement to the membership whole organise blacking initiated action to use the power of the union in support of Sandersons hards, not the national leadership and against all those who deny Sanderson workers ine ront to organise on a picket line", this is not of of their one number, Tom Durkin. The "arbitrary limit" was Support must be agreed to by the Region 1 now for the first anniversary strike when Stader and strike committee has called This is written for all to 27 action day on January, minutes of the which must Committee held used to build for picketing to win the strike Rescind strike committee called lor the rescinding of this agreement and for Region 1 to organise

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national provincial strike over wages showed the leadership of the union and of the TUC running for cover. of the NEC called off the Diacke emergency Association ing Ine Larry CroreSS WIthin High Court injunc- hours of a being won by Beaverbrook Newspapers. desianed to a move take the dispute over pay to a and vivid the UPW witt becaus in 19/b to call oft their black- South Africa after an injunction was served When the injunction was granted,

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president Denis wacondne and acc cenerdi secretary Charles Harkness were immediately summonsed to the thev were told that on "nere no account must they stand up to the court ruling. leadership of the union is leavine to ine exores decide whether As Times Newspapers finally blacking, sacked its printers last week the continue with wille thev cover the reeat ov rinancial mandeement so in her the appeal all red threatened to sack printers over appeal the claim. to finance

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treat neerinee that The blacking of PA is a vital the drive towards job stripping the action strike being spearheaded by ally provincial papers penno croser Tonowee ov all Fleet Street papers. management have The pay dispute move print be sent to some offices and not directly UVCl othil is therefore essential that pages rrankrord yvest Germany. PA çopy is stopped every time a recional caper is in disoute But even after being instruc- conditions under tea to strike

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where every member in provincial journalism PA chapel has continued to vote against strike action. Blacking therefore the only leadership must The the blacking to allow the ul ror direct strike action the union thestate from seizing Five weeks after they out with were called It the blacking of PA can be by a court injunction notice by stopped. virtually piece of secondary their leaders, bakery blacking workers last week found NAFF or the employer through the courts. carpet pulled from the The defeat govern- от Ine under them. ment sanctions in the House Commons, followed After succession of Callaghan's removal of sanctions unparallelled 'left' almost 18T1 ine emolovers- i ne speeches, apparently Newspaper Society-naked and determined from action exposed. their officials who led Newspaper Society S Ve correct move to expel scabs immediately mace unconditional and from the union, the action the for agreed meet brought an abrupt IC talks it the strike is called oft halt with sell-out settle- ment only 3% But tournalists nave taken u higher than sears orch the must of this that offered before the there strike must cuestion any return to work until the strike is won and the No recommendation full €20 is paid. Steps must be taken to build #miter solery snown The of the decision print workers in Kent and drivers union's National Executive and Vari to put the offer forward in a More have been ballot with no recommenda- Do Told stopped, and one employer- Whole affair into the hands effectively Belfast Telegraph-has the Newspaper Society to settle • Тогу of the press, which almost in fuil. waged a conscious campaign Journalists must stay out till of distortion. they win. Iranian workers need new leaders After gigantic demonstrations weekend, the crisis in Iran has entered into a new phase. The millions of workers,

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nassed in the streets of Tehrar and the major expressed their opposition Ene onan s octatorsa. larger scale than ever before.

largely peaceful protests were impressive in their discipline. But the power of this unity remained chained by the authority religious Crowds in Tehran As the tanks and troops of dictatorship circled hints that he would ban the the Iranian Communist Party if he came to tenran •emonstators office occupied the heart of the city For the fate of the Iranian with their numbers. workers ano peastants, 'by inel action they snowed irrelevant whether Khomeini is a how Iran has come to a sincere fanatic or a hypocritical state of and the dual demogogue and opportunist.

orovems that dual power from develop- ing. The avatollah offers no ber As they marched through spective beyond the overthrow Tehran, the crowds declared yet of the Shah but loose generalis: again their loyalty ayatollah Khomeini-a camocratic loyalty Islamic republic. that can brind them oniv defeal The lures popular Khomeini has never wavered in his of opposition religion are once again laid out statements before the oppressed masses-a to me ona s recle society of equality. where Since the mobilisations the week, transcends clas struggle and all strife has been cars or mercasco surine

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abolished and a campaign of civil disobed- iencut these are not the acts of But these ooium dreams will soares of realito live as reality. mares mass a revolutoney ledd the masses of Iran to win their movement Is not breen mom from oppression and the domination of superstition and idealism. material want. Khomeini's last week leadership offers _ven been dropping Khomeini has Iranian worKers One Bakers leaders rail road sell out work with scabs, cut manning levels and readmit expelled strikebreakers Lie unor The method of voting on the not itself membership was travesty of democracy with bakeries effectively getting only the same voice as chal bakenes The now over. SunKe But bakers will have to live with this betrayal for a long time to come. Left talk from General Secretary Maddox is no sub- for principled Maddox that is prepared leadership Every capitalist paper set offensive • go une out to convey the impres against TUC sabotage of the sion that the vote was going.

struggle, and develop the heavily in favour of a return independent strength of the at least rank and file in the struggle one to work-and branch clearly based their for jobs and living stanards.

decision on their belief that the strike was all but over.

We would like to thank Yet this was not the case Ann Ward and Carol Turner at all. 36 branches voted to of Rye Express without reject the deal and 28 whose this cooperation abstain, with only 40 voting accept the deal, which edition would not have been possible. includes a commitment to prospect-a step into an abyss cano creat The military government of General Azhari has been unable to restore impertaist stablitty If Iran The army leaders showed their weakness when they were Torceo to allow ine mess demon strations to proceed They have made little impact their latest threat: more erective reoression o strikes and protests Bụt • the generals grow objec- tively with se workine tied to the religious opposition and held back from taking the revolutionary Heroe sale struggles against imperialism. in Irall. Talks between Shah, the military leaders and the bour geois OT The Nationa Front are clearly reaching new levels of agreement whạt • laken to restore capitalist order in Iran.

Health and social service managements throughout the country are waging an offensive Cornst NUPE stewards and branch officers. They clearly hope that a pre amotive strike Cadalnsi union members will stifle the threat of by growing action • support 01 manda their much delayed £60/35 hour wook claim, and resistance and closures attacks mandine leve gamnering pace as a result of spending cuts, Recent weeks have therefore string of victimisations seen a In the West London Hospit- chairman management sacked and secretary, of the loft-wing led NUPE branch. This has been followed by sacking of militant the two stewards at Hammersmith Hos pital In Birmingham, too, a NUPE has been sacked. And in Oxford the NUPE the Radcliffe Intirmary, Jimmy koudoua, na.

also been sacked Khomeini The strenathening of thi alliance has been a major factor in providing the latest militancy , who wish to re one means assert their claim to power by showing what forces they can Ca to sun The imperialists and their agents know very well that they 'satis cannot as vet moose d factory' solution on the crisis But they also see the for our tunities proletariat Then Ine bound political strengt The strike wave has renewed forced oi field its corne roduction nice dedir Workers in other sectors are holding firm in their action , and politica stil! their demands But

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movemen Tuit be coordina do a ot this movement. Independent militias need to formed be immediately orolect strikes. occupations ane demonstrations against attacks from reactionary forces built to represent the political needs of the working class and oppressed classes OThe including the rank and file soldiers. bodies could extend bucr and develop the struggles of the Iranian masses to a higher leve leadership the where The class offer socialist alternative the •ooression prutality imperialist rule. NUPE militants under attack! Last week also saw the sack- ing of NUPE members and with drawal of union recognition by at the Liverpool management unesture rome While. North-West Divisional Colin Oraaniser Barnett made statements Mrand veron. about defeating this reactionary emplover. NUPE members mus take warning pathetic taken by line outclais BIsawnerd Than mooirsing tu membership all out strik action to officials victimised stewards have insiseo on oclavite actior and diverting the struggles into the diversionary and dangerous industrial aue 'independent and triounas inquiries". Without defence ot thell representatives own Alasted NUPE members stand no chanc of defeating the government and the employers on cuts or on the 5% pay limit. They must take up the fight now: *No victimisations! * Immediate reinstatément!

*Action the £60 35 hour week claim!