Socialist Press no. 143

KICK OUT CALLAGHAN

FIGHT FOR A SOCIALIST

ALTERNATIVE.

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 143 * March 28, 1979 * 15p As we go to press there seems a slim chance that the Callaghan-Healey govern- ment might scrape through Wednesday's vote of confid.

by the skin of its Were thie to Reppen and the Election be postponed it would little the working class. While no worker misties to see tre ories come to wretched Labour power, Ins cabinet, comprising • Shas and condoorators careersts torture-chief Mason, is good for nothing. Tive-year record ot wage controls, mass unemployment and cuts in the social service: have antagonised thousands 01 the working class that put Labour into nobing tor sociaist Dollcies atter miners had brought down the Heath's hated Tory government.

Sickened present Parlia- Callaghan's mentary minority itself the product of successive by-elec. Tion deteats in which sickened Labour voters, seeing Callaghan offer nothing but plunging living crumbling social standaras services and growing queues, stayed at home or even other CosT •rOTeSt VOTeS TOr parties. As minority government the Callaghan •clique continued to rule only by the most reactionary deals and alliances. The Liberal Partv's decision last year to break up the anti- socialist Lib-Lab coalition deal wa. Tortowed Dy a succession of squalid back-stage Sectio

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HAFIDS du Control Sontion Sur 150,000 French workers march on Paris-see back page manoeuvres with the 'tartan Scottish Tories' the Nationalist Party. Then more shameful still, deals Ulster Tine Union to Bailere tornals.

idation imperialist rule in the occupied six counties santa provident. Having pulled back from an October electon alone wr forced to pursue this wheeling and dealing while working might manete nome fourth phase of wage controls- the 5% limit. Yawning gulf But a massive wave of work- ing class resistance-bccinnie with the fordered in through present service pay struggles-exposec more ever betori theocaptain pit bies on the pro-capitalist policies Callachan covernment ane int mood of the working class.

The result is that even while the diversionary charade collapsed around their the of the ears, Callaghan cabinet the cavitatist crass a mechanism for controlling the working class dwindled to vanishing point.

Now get her analous hands directly on the windpipe of the working class, Thatches moved

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KIll confident that Callaghan has driven away sufficient Labour voters to ensure a Tory victory £700m cuts A sample of the policies to pressed home by Dovealed Tory government was noteners soeech on the week end, where she looked forward to cutting at least £700 million off exoenolture-even while boosting spending on the armed forces and the police would no doubt be kept busy Thatcher also proposes to attack Liaot union rigns on picketing and the closed shop. Tax cuts manage- ment will be coupled with new on and taxes unemoovment sickness benefits. Thatcher's will government make evol Callaghan look like santa Claus.

It is of course Callaghan and the right wing Labour leadership wno nave opened the door to the Tories. But they have been allowed Lo do so ey Ene wretched oooor. tunism Tribunite 'left'

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wing that ha time and again refused to lift a tinger to fight for the removal of the Callaghan cabinet, or even to vote against

MARCH FOR

ABORTION

RIGHTS!

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

ON ABORTION RIGHTS

Assemble at 1.30 p.m. Saturday 31 March at Hyde Park rock ohn Callaghan-opened door to Tories their reactionary policies and lead a campaign for the Parliament. removal of present leader- the As a result of their spineless- socialist internationalist policy.

ness, the Labour Party taces the prospect of a 1979 election with There is question that manifesto the contain. oes er ements whatever for the working class will respond working class any serious campaign to keep Callaghan's election the Tories out of office Bout these perspective to will focus on ovacand reactionary TUC/government offered be perspective "Concordat", which itself ousting the Tories in their own proposes attacks on trade union ranks. permanent wage Those lefts' that refuse to anG control. mount such a fight reveal their Labour offers not a smell of to struggle for owr inability nationalisation; nor a breath of socialist policies. anti-imperialism; not even a hint of even the most puny Revolutionary party bankruptcy the Tories' greatest weapon. Indeed, whatever the precise developments, next few Remove them! months will be crucial month construction of

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This crisis cannot be resolver ship working class while the Callaghan The Socialist remains in the leadership of the League, fighting to build such a leadership, will continue to cam- Labour carty. The task of removing them wait for the organise workine must be confronted The now. class to take up the struggle for precise timing of the election is a side issue to the massive crisis "End controls! Defend living standards through of leadership facing the working class wage claims with cost of livin Socialist Press has repeatedly protect Gaud urged socialists in the movement to campaign for a re "End unemployment. Conerence Defend existing jobs through to provide the platform to kick amanaing Work• out the existing leadership and charin programmer De a struggle socialist ТО Г crash programmi policies: public works to create new jobs *Open books election that employers refuse and Labour each union branch demands or threaten Party must demand that their Prove the case for the nationalis.

CLP

draw up its : own election ation of major industry without manifesto based on the socialisi policies necessary to defend the management. interests of the working class.

"Strike to stop the cuts ir public services! Fight for Withdrawn sliding scale of public spendin protected against inflation. Enc Labour candidates in each private health area should be forced to declare Nationalise

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suppliers! support tor such policies or nave Party backing withdrawn in *An end to national I oppros favour of a candidate who will.

8 no any British from Ireland Al samne Time racist Immigra- Labour 'léfts' who still profess now! Scrap oppose Callaghan must be No import ‚called upon to come out clearly controls!

General strike-but Irish bureaucrats try to head off Blanket protest victory Page 2

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fight on pay Staged in complete Only repeated complaints by actabishment ot a covernmen!

of workers' parties which must doorstep defiance of the bureaucratic leaders on the the compelled leaders of the Irish Congress ot Government suoinos even- tually succeeded in persuading carry through a movement of Trade Unions, last week's.

letters programme of nationalisation of accept NOT LOSe major industry and the banks colossal demonstrations in demanding aooresseo to Lynen and the a change in the PAYE system.

without compensation, Ireland were bigger than any the divisions on policy But estao ishment mobilisations over socialist economy. une last trade union Witn Ine. 50 years. bureaucracy are more apparent Trotskyist Party downed real. The way in which 250,000 workers than union the sections struggle the crucial through Dublin, Cork and leadership have Tocussed in tnis Galway in protest at the effects conscious diversion from an all.

issue issue the building taxation Trotskyist party capable of lead.

of inflated levels of PAYE tax out struggle to raise wages after working on workers' pay packets. Ing The studie V01 Dublin march alone, the callapse of the National class independence against The wings of the trade union bureau- oroanised bv the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, was estimated cracy. Limited impact 200,000- police over total city's one moor While it is true that the Irish similar would bring 3½ working cass bears portionate burden of taxation million onto the streets.

in relation to farmers and small, and big business. trade Backing union action can only have an extremely limited impact on the was accomoanied ov virtually complete general strike Lax system There is no way officially backed by In wnich in the citewu the Amaldam Lynch's. pro imperialist govern- the Irish "pressured" ated TGWU, and the Busmen's ment is come to we into imposing tax burdens unofficially backed In SP 130 we reported a union. imperialist Irish-owned or •v thousanes or omner workers protest by Noel Murray and electoral and by thousands of house- on their mo ustry. OI. prisoners supporters among wives. relane s other workers flooded the farmers. Curragh Military Detention streets of the capital one group.

Advance Centre. of people was still hard at work on behalf of Jack We have now Lynch's reac- received But there is little doubt that information as to the cause of tionary • ramnara covernment concerted trade union action to A working party The •rotest bureaucrats the very day achieve substantial Wast nave eported the Curragh containe meet 202 SE orotec lou Was: inflation and through less than half a dozen long term taxation Economic Minister O'Donaghue at Government Buildings. prisoners. cost-ot-iving clauses, combinitu demand the To Keep temprit filed the work of with AnO wille Lynch govern. filled government class collaboration-aimed removal of the kind of "social prison devising some do vance With Chlo rapists, drug addicts and inmates working struggles contract to head off any con- of the local mental hospital.

frontation over this year's round Cass The onlv wav falling jiving increases-went The political prisoners were standards, mass unemployment objecting to this and to the fact aovernment officials gave a very oppression of small farmers and Governor that different response instructed the inmates to paint demonstrators headed ot the tion imperialis comination economy can the prison.

ITGWU

Michael ended once and for all is through, the Mullen. - Muslims Italy- fight elections Taraki seem The revolution in Iran brought new hope to has the oppressed masses throughout the Middle East.

certain But neighbouring Agnanistan, ts main innuence so far has been to strengthen reactionary forces. the example 01 insoired Khomeini's religious leadership The new Italian govern- backward Muslim treacherous berlinquer's class establish collaborationist policies ment which was sworn in risen In an attemaol te 'Islamic republic' by over- have kept reactionary Christian last week is a government bourgeois throwing the Democratic governments set up to fall. Nur 1974, Stalinist office since nationalist recime Under the Premiership again Mohammed Taraki. a ostention is now most unkery Fighting Giulio the Further blows easter • Christian Democidi have now regions of Paktia and Kunar ha Andreotti, also Premier contains been from the Republican died and a grown ministers La Malfa has steadily more serlous. Ugo drawn verbal fire and Social Democratic Parties.

malor Turore nas erupice uvei sponsors--the Sovie Taraki's the manager Goes ЛОЕ commano top majority in Parliament and of the Bank of Italy. oureaucracy. only chance of survival was if, In its first breath of criticism since reaching an accommoda.

A whole group of his leading when it faces a vote ot contid- Khomeini ence in about three weeks time, colleagues have now threatened

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WiLl Party and to resign en bloc unless proceed- the Kremlin Socialist the Dardi galt, claimed : unconvincingly decided Communist ings against that 6,000 troops of the Iranian general Mario Sarcinelli lover abstain to keep it in office.

army been the irregular loans) are dropped.

have sent

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days Afghanistan to assist the certain to announcement the new ine. Desult stern confirm the intractability government ane depth of that crisis. Thev have cone on to cite decided that their 57 MPs would the Peking bureaucracy and they will happen none- vote against it in the confidence as majorctatorshters of the dictatorship military debate. Ine ess-because ar oresent me Italian bourgeoisie have run out with growing sections

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would this threat to their latest client- which ot The Communist raro in Tull revolt against leader Enrico This done by outside been contractors using union labour.

The politica do the to scab on the workers wanting

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this act class solidarity all privileges finclud- mail and visits) were ing over for the weeks removed Christmas. We are pleased to report that the protest succeeded. Privileges have been restored and the painting will be done by union labour treatment of coolitica the Republic the mirrors the treatmen north. Refusal by the authorities of Inter- permissior The hopes of the Iranian for freedom -are masses coming into deeper conflict every day with the 'revolu- tionary' government Khomeini and Bazargan. women continue organise against the fetters with Islamic leaders and which the Tne bourgeol: conspiring I to bind them once again in oppression. oppressed nationalities within the borders of Iran are straining to step forward demands InTO Trecoon, WILl that the Tehran-Qom govern- recognise their right to ment in the revolutionary Terment of the last year, it has been the been in the Kuros forefront of these struggles.

Independence The Kurds live mostly within and the borders or lian, ha Syria with smaller number Union and Soviet nside the Syria. For decades they nave for national indepen- fought dence and a Kurdish state.

Iran, phase o latest this liberation struggle opened 1975, when the Shah signed with coreement fossive comathis sires o the complete suppression of their and political organisations. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 March 1979 Fergus Whelan of Dublin Trades Council addresses part of the huge crowd national investigate contions torture and harrassment has led Rights Organisa- tion hold a public inquiry into such allegation. The meeting planned April, last two days early will be chaired by Sean Macorice prominent Dutch and judge various prominent Tigures trom une legal proression and labour movement. Exposure It is hoped that the recent the exposure north of torture will imperialism developments similar South. Coming at a time of mount- Kurdish revolt This phase reache a peak week in an armed uprising last of the Kurds centring on the city of Samandaj western Iran The garrison was : besieged as fiontina continued severd days as the Kurds set up their Provisional Revolutionary CounCIl Disarray With the state army disarray and still not re-ronnec central government was position to smash the rising by force. And as one Kurdis to mistan wish to disarm they

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us, they will TIrST Have massacre us." were sent post. Messengers with the heste negotiatt Kurds In the end it was none other Ayatollah Taleghari- inal second suchority hammered outa dedl In seven oint ment, major concessions are demands the made Kurds, work of a centralised bourgeois Not satisfied Such compromises will not of SaLISTV tne cemane. Kurds But such a partial victory ing class struggles in the south, a thoroughgoing exposure of the real nature ou would help to deepen the crisis facing the irish capitalist class Socialist Pros congratulate : in thi successful defence Their workers' rights. call • on the Dublin fo the workers calm digu release of Noel and the others whose only crime has been to and stand im serialisi up for the rights the oppressed. very least Irish workers

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could demand would be trial by these and people the eno Trial. Special Criminal Court presided over by judges alone. Bazargan will encourage them to continue Ineir struggles Turtner will also The agreement encourage Baluchis, SAvier Turkomenis and Arabs baijanis, actively for their demands from Khomeini-Bazargan govern.

the ment. But its erect wii not contained within Iran-the Kurds have long been a piercing thorn in the side of ine lurkis and Iraqi governments example of the achieve The ments in iran wil certainty arve the Kurds to renewed activity in countries, and that other these old thorn will strike newer anc far deeper wounds.

Elections threaten Francoist SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 March 1979

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bastions On April 3, only a month Up to today these municipal: after the general election, ¡ties and their otticial powers remain intact. That has been an Spain will again go to the integral part of the strategy of polls-this time in the first the present "reforming"' govern- municipat elections since 1933. The municipal elections have been ce berate v heid back twas anotner or dav. until after two general parlia. two years before the elections and the municipal elections, which of a relerenoun ushered in eight years of revolu new undemocratic constitution.

tionarv struace in soain On'. April 1931, the Expectations decisive victory of the Socialist Republican and candidates The that knew the municipal elections, which municipal elections today marked the end of seven years because of the large workers' of dictatorship' in Spain. led to the cities, maturity maoT massive popular demonstrations' two and raising expectations flight permanent exile of

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workers in their own leaders the King, Alfonso XIII. Although the retormist and Stalinist leaders Precedent numerous formal complaints at Ine delay Ine municioa elections, they have in practice It is almost certain that on shown themselves quite ready Carlos King Juan will still be drone win suarez plans the palace and anaesthetise the DOTICalV working class. Adolfo friend Suarez will Nonetheless, the prospect of STil oe in ine Monc oa calace (seat of Spanish govern- Tine weakenin• or the bastion o Une Francoism, which the municip- ment). alities represent, is still a threat- But the Drecedent•of 1931 has been persistent night- enine orosoect tor the seanish "reforming" bourgeoisie. mare for the Francosts The government well the Avoid majorities reformists and Stalinists.

And it will be much harder masses oT spanish workers and peasants it is the for the main workers' parties to municipal administrations {the avoid certino matorities councils and mayoral elections Ay untamientos/ alone than it was for them to avoid wIth the de ce no ov Guard have more than anything vane general elections o1 represented the real presence of March J For this rranco s innuman dictatorsnio.

yeason me ruine New Jewels' plan 'mixed economy' dictator Bowing to the inevitable, who used his "Mongoose Gang" Caribbean Prime Ministers, crush regime. He are one by one recognising forged close links with the the Chilean junta new government in which supplied Grenada headed by Maurice mim with arms. The obvious concern of the Bishop, leader of the New Caribbean Prime Ministers Jewel Movement. arcom contres on the The coup which overthrew that such an upheaval poses to Sir Eric Gairy has the their own unstable governments.

undoubted

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ino ications however, that they have little to Grenacans both at nome and abroad. Khaki clad fear from the including 80% of the island's 'left'

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is Jamaicas talking Prime Minister Malcolm nastasi -guns in hand-or riding around Manley of the new in jeeps giving the clenched-fist regime but the first statements salute. от Maurice bishop clearly show the direction his government is grenadans in britain demon strated in London in support of heading. the new regime and demanded vesolte The act that kne New Jewel Movement (Joint estaolishment or a workers and peasants' government.

Endeavour Welfare, for Gairy was a pro-imperialist Education Liberation) class is today busy working out di kinas or electoral wregular ities (known in Spain as casi- quismo-undue influence-and pucherazo-ballot rigging) which much more are certain to be widespread than in the general erections Also a good deal of evidence is coming to light in the press of the Franco-appointec councils using up ineir last ten days life diverting municipal passing regulations which will tionary •e clinical tor ine new councils and appointing Unde Francoists to powerful full-time states in its 1973 manifesto that IT suoDorIs nationalisation the banks and insurance and companies system the covernment base Tanzanian model, Bishop is now against the nationalisa banks tion toreign-ownec providing of their capital part used for local development He is also needs Leo tea d saying: plan will but it will be economy, development-oriented." of Although the overthrow Gairy be welcomed Ine workers and peasants this impoverished island will only тace d secure vuture as bart federation of the Caribbean in which them selves control thi area. Bishop separate lists of candidates Spain's 8,000 government

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suarez municipal will the

UCD

(Democratic councils party, elected on April 3. This means Union) will be 70,000 councillors up candidates in about 7,000 of nearly which there will be over the municipalities, 8,000 200,000 candidates

PSOE

(Socialist Party) in about in about system isa and the eleclold

SOUL

1600. limited. torm ot broportiona representation which Both the PSOE and the CP discriminates however, have candidates in all with I more than 10,000 smater minorit) parties ludwilails Under the electoral law many • The smaller mavors will be elected bv the • towns in rural areas there will elected.councillors. be dependents either of municipalities In the (who Will electors will face 10 or more most cases de lova erancoists, or of the hard-line Francoist Democratic Coalition (from Jamaica which une tormer aer manue Fraga has now resigned). In the working class areas ¿nere are also lists •resented ov the left wing parties which , strike stood candidates in the elections - Inest include Ene centris Communist Movement (MC) the Maoist parties (ORT two and PTE) wave are IRis time presenting joint candidates lin 1250 municipalities) and have declared tenserves spreads- point unitication, and the stion of the Crited Secre "Trotskyist" Spanish the Fourth Inter- Tarial national. The strike wave in oppos- The LCR's campaign is dis- ition Prime Minister figured Manley's 15% wage. ceiling WITh sami confusions which characterised unabated in their general election campaign.

Contines Jamaica. Thev seem happv to describe the main. parties The strikes have soread from

(PSOE

and CP) : part of the factories and ports to banking and The pay limit orobosed united can didacies lists with them on the was imposed last year as part o vaguest possible reformist ine cost the working ciass would political basis have to pay for a $240 millior

IMF

loan to shore up the ailing Noneneess an the latest issue of their paper Jamaican economy Combate argues that vote austerity measures Othe included Jamassive devaluation tor which the PSOE and CP. are asking remains 'completely use- Jamaicar Gullar ano less' in beating the

UCD

in the price increases on swinge no basic items municipal elections. Power and sugar workers are insotar a , This remark reters to the electoral division between also threatenina strike action in the PSOE and CP which divides pursuit their own claims ot while class waterfront workers Ene working principled basis and helps the walked out atter Ine emolovers UCD to . it contains an failed to pay a $10 a week travel awarded element ot truEn Industrial Disputes Tribunal.

Soldiers Jamaican Defence Førce soldiers were sent in to unload flour ana local currency Trest from the mint from two ships at Port Bustamante in Kingston.

The use of troops as a scat can tarnish still torce only further the 'left' posturing of Manley's PNP government need tor airotskylst party with programme Jamaican mobilise the working blas. „TO sociaiism _now urgently posed the imperialist Jamaica Labour rarly is not to capitalise on ine betrayals of Manley at the next PSOE leader Gonzalez election. Page 3 Suarez, with friends, on the campaign trail Bụt the Combate editorial makes the •call tor a suc CP vote conditional those rivalries. The LCR apparently remains unaware o me use or tae esta lished Leninist tactics of voting for • the workers' parties in order lo orce mem into d situatior where they must expose them- selves. The confusion of the LCR's campaign is now compounded, nowever tnelf oresentatior of joint lists with other parties Basque Euskadi provinces) the Will TeTt nationalist candidates o the two parties linked to th different wings of

ETA

(Euskadiko Eskerra and Herri Batasuna) In some circumstances it can certainly be correct to call for critical support to such candida.

LCR's involvement But ine with them joint list and limited joint programme neces sarily blunts the impact of the clear propaganda revolutionary which it is the duty any authentic revolutionary party to bourgeois

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Torward election campaign, might be the voting tactics it do vocates It is in Euskadi that, as in Constitutional the referendum the las wecemoe ano general elections earlier this between the month, the enmity govern- masses ment is already showing itself most sharply The UCD after its electora setback in the region on March 1, has been able to put up candi- dates in onlv 5% of the munici.

palities in Biscay province (one of the four Basque provinces).

No candidate And in the most militantly nationalist of the Basque pro vinces, Guipuzcoa, the UCD has ween unable to oroduce a sinalt candidate! This is already a warning that the government can expect that after these elections the of self-determination question the cuskadi tand Otne nationalities of Spain) is likely to become even more explosive Also • after elections, these workers parties tor ine time tol 40 years will in some towns and cities forced or responsionit TO ao ministra tion. Despite all the electoral traud and all the efforts of thi reformists and Francoists Stalinists national political importance of elections InaT Will- ol significant development in the to expose and remove the present working class leader snip which is betraying spanist workers to a new, "democratic more variety rancorsin

IRWIN: GET BRITISH

TROOPS OUT NOW!!

Page 4 The allegations of Royal at -tirst granted by te lores Ulster Constabulary torture and only of suspected republican asiron tist ot part prisoners in the notorious.

Mason's and Gough the Castlereagh crush war centres 1 огу interrogation made it plain that he would not received further support last now sanction week. concession. Members the Forensic Medical Officers Association of Ireland voted in sup- port of the stano While former Castlereagh police sociaiIst Milants doctor, Dr. 'Robert Irwin, who criticise has stated that ne has evidence within at least 150-160 cases UnIOn movement brutality. imperialist police surgeon Ireland, there is no future what- Ano Denis hot. trom The eVel Gough interrogation centre, has "oressurina" publicly requested to be trans.

working class Thatcher govern- ferred since he no longer teels ment. able to comply with a obliging convention Tokyo British working class needs to be doctors focussed the expose casts the Torture. Calladhan Heaev-Mason Set back These continuing ripples among Protestant

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hitherto silent on police ano are another set- brutality army hack to the efforts of Labour's 'Minister for Torture',

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the clear Mason to evade brutality of police evidence contained in the wnitewasting Bennett Report. And if next week's vote of 180 con tidence goes government, the ninor stalned Labour cabinet will be forced line whip into an earl election with their them reactionary role in Ireland forefront of dis- topic at the cussion. the "Prevention No illusions However there should be no Only 124 lillusion that a Thatcher govern- of them ment offers any ray of hope for most ministers The irish careers-went least of all tor the sou repub rican prisoners who continue lobbies to with their heroic struggle in lock ot the cone cesn concen- with the camp, demanding Ine Tories, war restoration of prisoner status. 180 delegates mere sent for credentials for the Solidarity Trade Chile Royce, East conference at the Union aero engines NUR Hall, Euston Road on blacked for four vears. Saturday 24 March-a clear General union sign of way ignored the leaders the blacking. struggle in Chile. The morning was spent • sobaker

TUC

Chilean pointer out Amov WitH tion to the spentams or Cost and a speaker bureaucrats union of CPSA and a speaker talking about the from NALGO was no rare phenomenon. adoption of refugees. After lunch in the discussion on the boycott of Chilean goods with the the

UPW

questions that reveal what trade A trican week ot can do in solidarity unionists

TGWU

the with Orlando widow were ler's concuriBa spoke and asked for "concrete limiting pickets to six. As action" rather than words.

bureaucracy, David was largely behind the demand for

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Liverpool blacking despite to limit in the labour movement.

DOCTORS BACK

Though political status was soaks and acts solely in ine interests of British imperialism.

scandalously with- Same traitors Butcher attempt to that this Labour The tact hiberation. spokesman Whitelaw has peacersmis Super vis military occupation of the six and the savage repres- counties any suCH all opponents of British SiOn ol rule is the same leadersnip inal uses the Special Patrol Group No future to smash picket lines, the army break strikes. and republican collaborates hand-in-glove with correctly capitalism, must be stressed at the sketchy resistance each point. and trade While we continue British and defend the support Irish oooression entimate workers the In counties of perspective against imperialism must spare no effort in mobilising the viciousiy BriTiSh working ends-and force Ene Rather the attention of the immediate withdrawal of British troops, alono with the granting necessity PoW status political reactionary to preparatory prisoners edoet- amnesty. ship of the Labour Party which PTA: Labour MPs abstain "MPs and Ulster Unionist votes.

Labour 33 Labour lefts'-a abstained despite a two larger number than instructing previously-went so far as to to vote in favour vote against over 3,000 3,000 of a further renewal of which over "suspects" have been held notorious so-called without charge for up to 7 of Terror- only a handful of days, ism" Act last Thursday. subsequently whom have been charged with terrorist Labourites- offences. government Home Secretary Merlyn clinging on to Rees had earlier scornfully the

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rejected the puny cosmetic the support the Act in renewal, which was carried Cildles proposed by the Shackleton of the support Liberals, nationalist report.

STEP UP CHILE-

BLACKING FIGHT

He should be kicked out for •ho nuacion to merely dackint his anti-working class policies, perishables-such as citrus fruit.

Rolls whe said. from Speakers from the IMG and Kilbride, where took up then Action for the junta were Workers referred the point about the anti-work- ing class policies of the Labour to the scandalous role of AUEW government whether in Britain Secretary Boyd or Chile. instructing the members to drop The conference passed declaration on blacking calling This point was picked up by

WSL

who vaguely: from the 't0 initiate new that the capitula the, boycott of all trade achieve courts by Chile, including in limiting With imports of food, and to coordin- and preventing solidarity actions ate with trade unionists in other call for and and It had occurred in Grunwick respond to calls for Cricklewood postmen; the appropriate international South over the trade union bodies. the Garners picket line, where struggle against the side officials eaders of the trade bureaucratic police in the union who have blocked previous such the Labour Party moves, it will amount only to a Owen, the and lover of the The task is to ensure that Shah and Pinochet had no place such a fight does take place.

25 YEARS

15 YEARS

Sinn Fein march in Derry last October takes up defence of 'H' Block prisoners SYL to join 'SUS' law demonstration

DEMONSTRATE AGAINST SUS

Saturday April 7 at 1.00 p.m.

Assemble Camberwell Grove, London SE5 Ireland war is no. diversion! Letter Dear Editor, Patriotic Front, The article in Socialist Press (14.2.79) reporting the Libera- The 'horror' Iran TIOn Converence remarked that an RCG membe here s linked the of the oppose Iranian people to the anti-imper- imperialism ialist war waged by tne

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against British rule in people Ireland in a somewhat diver- sionary manner' Laboul diversion was a paige attempt Republican working class.

that there

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Was Iranian student contincent or January's Bloody Sunday of the Labour and called Provisional by MarC Sinn Fein? for 'support They showed Their whilst Seattast understanding of the link British British fighting which is shaking imperialism in relane and tm revolutionary struggle in Iran.

dations, Under Is it diversionary state British working class. when That. British imperialism Times itser from the under grave lran revoltonar Southern Africa and gretane the urgent task of the most remark in working class is to build a move- •ment resolutely opposed to the sub-editing. role of British imperialism in subscribe those countries? of Such a basis is the only one approach capable of consistently tions. (Ed]. the struggles of SWAPO, the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 March 1979

IRELAND

*TROOPS OUT

NOW!

DeporTero;

NOEL

CHAINTIE YEARS

CAIRNS

10 YEARS

SEAMUS SOAL

12 YEARS

JOHN BURKE

LIFE

The National Committee Youth of the Socialist League meeting last weekend decided to support the demonstration against the SUS law called by the Young Party Socialists for April 7. SUS, which enables police to arrest people suspected of being offence under 1824, • a lan recently been extensively. used Patrol Group Special against black youth in London Not the least of the crimes of the Callaghan-Healey Labour government has been the attack on workers' basic rights carried out over me last lew yeals.

The ot ine ora as d vicious strikebreaking force and the ANC and and black against demonstrators conspiracy youth; Tne use of Stan Newens laws against trade unionists and appears when his most sensitive youth; claims to Diden exposed-he Terrorism Act Prevention the interesis or oritis against Irish workers and the use Iran whilst the Criminal Trespass Law denouncing the Irish liberation clearly against occupations movement as fascist and contin.

the way which the uing to give full support to the leaders have overseen Labour its • Ir the equipping of the capitalist "ver vices the SHOUTeS state the class • ConTronta tions which lie ahead. Newens and Kerr are typical Trade unio Not single issue would proclaim distant struggles The fight to defend demo. SU DOOrEH must not jus imperialism weakest point-a war in Ireland limited to the question of the foun SUS law its very The SYL will be marching the nose of the with the torowing solaris Your fraternally, *Repeal the sus law-end Tony Sheridan police harrassment of youth!

SPG--the * Disband bosses' strikebreaking • terror squad! WE REPLY: Point taken! The *Repeal the Prevention of question was unfor- Act! Britain out oi ferrorism tunate and slipped through our Ireland now! also Would workers' demo- "Detend RCG's charac- cratic riahts-repeal the conspir.

Newens' selective acy and Criminal Trespass laws.

*Kick Callaghan Healev riant witte

EEC: a £5 billion dustbin SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 March 1979 Nearly 80% of last year's Common Market budget of agricultural £6,500 million was squandered on storing, dumping and destroying "surplus' food while ludicrously preserving high market prices. This is simply the latest of a string of disclosures in relation to EEC agricultural industrial and economic policies that point unmis- takeably the total anarchy of capitalism-even

EEC,

where, the 1n governments exert every muscle 'plan' allu 'control' its development. Market prices for food are kept high because this is the only way in which capit- alism can placate sections of smail farmers crucial to the electoral support of govern- Camden deal Dear Comrades As shop stewards centrally involved sector •Wdy Cameen Which secured almost the full £60/35 hour week claim; feel vve deliberately lying accounts the settlement published in both Socialist Worker cane socialist chariende. Both papers claim that there was no political _ oooosition to acceptance Camden The Council's offer in the week of Februarv 19. Worker Socialist states outright that: "Certainly in Camden no- for one TeTT araved Camden NUPE to stay out. The argument should have been

NUT

tere Is muci strength [sic!] in the argument that not signing a seftiement in Camden so near the claim will opp.rition sirenatnen The NUPE to the sell out" (SW 17.3.79) Socialist Challenge (March 1) takes a more roundabout way of distorting the truth. arucie writter Sikorski Varnes, and and (unusually) endorsed by no less than the Political Bureau of the Challenge lIVI Socialst publicly disowns the actions of

ING

member Camden

NUPE

Branch Secretarv John Paid

UPE

says: 1:60 oW ments on the continent. Yet such inflated prices only not require, but also to create huge nelp surpluses unsold food- StuTIs. Guaranteed are prices therefore paid out each year by the EEC Commission for agricultural produce destined only for waste and destruction-while workers throughout Europe find wage packets insufficient to meet the

COSL

living: Meanwhile new designed drain the Common Market's milk lake is being dreamed up by EEC set the clock back point benefit will once again to the complete senders the least efficient inability capitalism casalit OT farmers owning less than ten crisis to develop the means cows-and fall with greatest of production in the efficient severity on large, of the Inleless vasl 51 herds over majority of the population.

OT LoWs. affecting nearly every milk A Socialist United States producing farm in Britain.

of Europe, besides crazy attempts to improving workers' living

OUCH

Stop the lies on the We reprint below an open letter also sent to Socialist Worker and Socialist Challenge. Suddaby. described the opposition that But it goes on to report the among existed the otter steps leading to the acceptance while pointing of the offer as follows: Suddaby's role in pressing for a assuming that

QUICK

settementin case Ene the strike would crumble. thev council withdrew their offer. (the strike committee] voted-to recommend acceptance to the Seymour argued then, and mass meeting. continued to aroue tor camder in presi her to sin thenain nerner committee the strike sections did the branch meeting and to strenathen the national struggle. the argue CASe TOr Camden continue to play It was Suddaby who from 19 to their leading role by staying out rebruary onwaras oressee ine case for acceptance-and it was vor the uw natona cam. The Socialist Challenge

SWP

members who actually dodges any mention proposed the February 22 the on owposition tnere was within i nurscav rebruary the Negotiating Committee and the other hand saw no less than within the Strike Committee to six strike committee members- accepting the offer. including

WSL

members-vote recommending accep- instead min im ises the adainst opportunism IMG member tance. ot Suddaby by palming off respon- stewards sibility onto "the strike from sections of dustmen home com- mittee" branch leader- helps (whom Suddaby wanted "The ship" and later "the call leering sewers, bathing be exempted from the strike even Camden leadership" These terms are desianed to cemetr workers give the impression that not It is a total fraud for the only Suddaby (since

SWP

and IMG opposition is mentioned) all the portical opposition, led by the stewards involved

WSL

within the strike com- key decisions making mittee-especially when they do backed down. only to cóver up the oppor- not true. tunist actions of their simov own Indeed in 'an interview with members. Socialist Press (published 28 Yours fraternaliv rebruarv). Cressy John Seymour, Camden NUPE noce

OUST

men's steward John Seymour C. Creasly, Camden NUPE n.U.P

CAMDEN

Low Paid Warkers

NEED

a Minimum Wage John Suddaby (left) on platform during Camden strike standards, and thus food increasing consump- tiọn, would of couse need adopt policies designed to assist in the special problems of the peasant farmers. This providing means cheap credit, transport and supplies through nationalised banks, haulage firms and manufacturing industry. The nationalisation of the food processing industry and distribution monopolies 'would also ensure the peasant farmer received a fair price for his foodstuffs.

But at the same time a socialst system would every way possible encourage peasant farmers come together in more efficient, collective units where mechanisation and technology could

PRESS

Papers in Britain gloom- ily reported early last week that the morale of the RÜC in Northern Ireland had sunk to rock bottom follow- ing the publication of the Bennett report. ts not inat Kuc otticers are unduly thin skinned or sensi- tive criticism. But knowing, they

KNOW

Inal Ine hand out torture thev under interrogation is part of the British policy for Ireland, they no doubt telt le1 down friends who made tutt-tutting excessive centnusiasm

TOI

the job Perhaps these fine upstand- mic examples or ine britisa was of colonial rule will be feeling a little better this week. Certainly Dillall beer doing its bit to cheer them up.

The Daily Mail has surely itself a ringside seat in the

RUC

when contro room plans to start televising interro- gations are introduced. Tribute Reporter lan Smith (no blood, but sympa relation LnCLIC

OOHITICS,

pala tribute to the forces of law and Northern Ireland in a order tear ierking centre page piece "Pressures from the job are . An 80- working weck average a gruelling 120 hour seven day week unexceptional. Page 5 European heads of state at the recent summit meeting ease the burden of labour elections. to • the toothless - and draw them European into the Assembly are development of fully designed to mask this capit- planned, socialist economy, alist alliance under a facade under workers' of "democracy"-since manage- there is, in HelL any event, no Any "surpluses" accruing way at all in which the EEC under such would planned "reformed into pay kind peacefully economy elen stored possible of progressive body. against future shortages, or exported in exchange deals underdeveloped The fight for a concerted Wild economies elsewhere in the boycott of these elections world. must be linked with strugg e for the policy of breaking the

EEC

up forcing. through the with-

EEC

present drawal of Britain and the structure, however, is not other member countries. not but The task is not the hope- only socialist, bulwark designed less one of seeking to nego- against socialist revolution - improve- hale or legislate attempting to buttress up Common ments in the the various crisis-ridden Market, but the revolution- capitalist governments in ary one of the overthrow of capitalism in each mutual economic, pontical and European eventually military and the embrace establishment of a Socialist This year's scheduled United States of Europe. "The chain smoking, soft within separate • murders voiced detective had three hour eight day period", is not a bit sleep the previous night and was frightened. wearing the pin striped suit for a …is no time consuming scared. Besides why should' you Linne frightened of 10.00 am court appearance.

be cowaras vite (That the trouble with hide while they are shooting al these always run after • apoearances us and time consuming. they have planted a bomb?"

Frustratinal Perhaps it would be possible to Medals dispense with LIlals everyone is complainine inat the And there are consolations.

Diplock courts are little more than a rubber stamp for con- The RUC receives , more medals fessions from the Queen than any other extracted under police force she commands torture.l vust d lew days ao lome Pin-striped martyr flew from Aldergrove airport to Buckingham Palace to collect six George Medals, five Queen's but you must not contine Gallantry and five your sympathy for just this one Queen's commendations... an individual pin striped martyr. unprecedented There are more accolade in history of any police force."

in vorthern freland where When thing look bleak, Royal Ulster Constabulary The when lily-livered do gooders and are trying to maintain law and order wreckers seekino to neermint fabric of their society as the war, nothing civil they knocking know exceptional, just one the them enthusiasm 6,460 daily

TOI

men subjected to cantosve with une truncheons.. TisEs and uncaraie, unrelentino strain boots these gallant band "Targets of Provisional IRA

RUC

gunmen, men never relax, warting for mem loadeo ur never go to the pud tor a drink with medals. never open the door without a gun hidden behind their backs- Mutilated and alway check their car in has , been booby casi Or as one RUC man summed trapped." the esprit de corps in the up Don't mistake this nerview trom nis nospital bea gun-toting teetotal life for one of where he lay terribly mutilated: insecurity: : Our pinstriped detec "If I could lay hands on tive who. "grins as he throws out the man who did it l'd put my mind boggling statistics gun behind his ear and pull the charging eleven men with seven trigger".

Hansen: his life reflected crisis International * Page 6 After 45 years of struggle -often in the midest of the heated most Controversy leader the well dil American Socialist Workers Party Joseph Hansen died on January 18 1979. Hansen had up to his final the SWP and had been the established Intercontinental tress weekly international reflecting the politics mayacilit ot the we ano tne "united Secretariat of the Fourth Inter- national. lifetime

HIS

within the SWP spans a whole range of political upheavals and developments it becan with nim decioing as a student in 1934 to join the young, struggling US Trotskyist the Communist movernent League of America: but its turn ing points have reflected not the strengths but only some of also man or ine weaknesses the Fourth International, partic- ularly in the post war period.

His iournalistic skills quickiy brought Hansen the tront of US Trotskyists, ranks. who at that time were engaged in important work in the organ- ised workers' movement By 1936 he had established nimselt as active e the maritime union, and was helping to edit the union journal of the Fourth Voice of the Federation. succeed went on Cannon as editor of James ri Labour Action, the paper produced in California by the the factior • roTsKyis Socialist Party. initial ott attachment the unhealthy to opposition DeTTV poureeois clique around Martın A bern Hansen sufficiently trusted was in 1937 to be selected to act a: secretary exted Leon Trotsky, then in Mexico. Assassin As such, Hansen duty Stalinist guard when: assassin mamon vercader-nav• ing won the confidence of the household in preceding weeks- building Cannel and dealt Ine death

DIOW

Trotsky with a concealed ice- pick. This major setback inflicted stalinism formed and still small Fourth took shape at the International Time Within party a group of petty bourgeois forces launching very were allack revolutionary Marxism professor Burnham journalist Max achacntman. _a touncer member of the US Trotskyist movement -had begun to formulate views windenced not onry tne Marxist analysis of the Soviet Union and necessity detend it against imperiasm.

but also rejected the organisa TIona centralism, and the very method A hard-fought factional fight to a major split ensued leaolne in the SWP. on the eve ot us World War as a trusted Mansen emerald ally of James P cannon. sioed firmly with the majority in the for defence of pro- arammate ane ineoreticar Toun- dations of the party. Following the split Hansen centraily into was crawil more the readershio the serving both as journalist and as a member of the National Com mittee the confused period following the end of the war he Was • oldy Important Told in the discussion on the chances Eastern zone' European controlled by the Red Army Downfall of Stalinism The political problem was a real one tor the rourth inter national Trotsky and every other leader of the international hac anticioted that the wal would bring the downfall of the Stalinist the Krem in-eltner through the upsurge of political the revolution unleashing nationalised •roberty relation: established in the 1917 over- turn; or, conceivably, 'through a SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 March 1979

ANIE

Hansen with Leon Trotsky in Mexico January I 1959: Cuban newspape takeover of the state machinery Carried away with the super- Stalinist parties ficially by monolithic Tito populist gestures bf the under me watchru eve in most places of the Red Army and the Dureaucracy ine wake or Te Stalinist secreț police 1948 Stalin-Tito split, Pablo that the : Yugoslav CP 1949 therefore-though By development was uneven-it was Hiao Ceasel no longer general correct to party-and had evolved into a '"mass regard these countries as capital centrist party under pressure' • come determed workers' states-states in which devised dreams and had never in schemas of the YCP as a whole the working class being won to Trotksyism; ot a way own hands, but in which a whole patterr simila developments within mass CPs East and Western Europe; and had driven the

OUT

ole capitalist cids. and emerging instalted itselt at the nead of a bureaucracy bureaucratised state machine the Soviet CP itself December 1949 Such a position offered only abject confusion aroued

• STONE

TO

SUCT

une caure analysis of the Buffer countries ot Ine r but its startino point against those who of peddling illusions in Stalinism view clung rigidly the masses tromine otalinist bureau they remained capitalist states.

cracy, and an independent pro- gramme of class action to estab.

lish genuine workers' power.

YeT ros positions wert There were strengths not challenged the Fl. Hansen's approach-which in no Rather they endorsed at Third Worl • ir congress arv • Droaressive role to Int Stalinist bureaucracy, and which Only 1953, his looked back policies had developed analysi: ore warevent threaten the. verv political inde Finland and Poland. established But there was also one basic cadres, Trotskyist were which was to have weaKness. the eventually resisted profound repurcussions. leadership of the SWP. focussed That Hansen 'fact' that these simply the Open Letter defended staTes oecome cetormed workers' states-paying insufficient attention the Hansen, correctly siding with historic defeat if imperialism defended the

SWP

majority, were able intervene and to detals or the orocess whereo!

that 'fact' had come about.

Open Litter. in reverse these gains, restoring their uni aterai actior How was it that a counter- publishing capitalism. November 1953 Neither of these eventual- revolutionary national oureau "The open letter, which this Rather Stalinis appeared, t cracy carried through the histor progressive step of [Pabloite] ically Tiat reters to as name stalinism dopedrea •'split appeal'-although it was capitalists anything, to be ot the stronaer inar nothing of the kind-did three power now • extended and land oros casterr Eastern Europe? things: areas Into what way if at all, were (i) On the political evel. it curobe with crisis ridden called the attention of Trotsky the masses mobilised to accom.

imperialism impotent to resist.

• to the tact thai plish sucn a change! Did they at

SUS

everywnert point reach level of flagrant the any violation Plundered programme of the Fourth Inter- action —or was independent national the Pablo faction had and evervinine orchestrated for Yet Stalin at first had no controlled from above? covered up and ones Hansen the Stalinist betrayal of the consolidating concerned rather French general strike in August; with the change soviet control over tne bure Zone': uses at the scorce iss mechanism that c coroduced cal or the witn leaves this question only drawal of Soviet troops from source were useu partially answered. East Germany when they wer o uncerer noustria lan ane and as bargaining used any event. WIth Ine crust The June a new possible exception Yugo. uprising against the negotiating In Conte! slavia, there was little that even Stalinist gauleiters; had påinted counter-revolutionary ded

TOT

'peaceful coexistence' with ThE moST em oilica ooserve TN€ • •Treacherou temporar imperialism. could seize upon as : "revolution- concessions granted by these ary" about leaderships of beseiged had similarly 1946 the Fourth super ne • Eastern European stalınist internationa was cuite correct Ine concession. to characterise the deceptively the Kutter parties-so Ene issue must nave promisec countries as still being capitalist seemed of little importance.

Malenkov regime to allay mass unrest in the Soviet Union; anc countries-rured in eacn case dy Independence coalition bourgeois govern- , nad projected ine possibility o1 the Stalinist bureaucracy and even the Soviet workers sharing with the onset of the But the way that Fl leader Cold War in 1947 this state of analysed Yugoslavia pano cower with It. affairs changed rapidly. should have provided clear (Trotskyism v. Revisionism, Vol. 2, p.116) seeking to protect the essential in point such struggles to call at all times borders of the Usoh, launched hansen wen On • 10 Pablo's drive throughout the Buffer the mobilisation of out correctly that political line Zone for the elimination of the working independently lasses "is to liquidate the Fourth remnants or private ioustry •т ine •tallnist oureaucrac. ane suppression of bourgeois Tro tikist Parties. fight for the building of organisation. To dissolve the FI and peasant parties, and

SOCIALIST FRESS. h==

SWITTIV

the USSR and taken over bureaucracy China. The for had reasons furthering alliance WIth And Castro Pigs' invasion was eas if! Tance CaStrO And socialist

SWP

events-the Hansen at the readershio ship, and conveniently independent towaras ot stalinism the leadership-one had Inal healthy •CATOrmed. workers' state The 'fact' fibr this "healthy" workers state. and the true his worst: TA "The Communist trom this ferment. Party Guban between Cuba occur It can be report Batista's flight to exile ties of not the politically it is necessary first to Commers! expelling them, them reducina silence if not acquiescence".

(p.121) elocuents

SUCH

outcome." But, keeping witn remainder of the swP leader made no serious Manper since Tney ettort to work back unrouen int Castroites essential political, programmatic envisaged and ana ine and theoretical ditterences under "mass InTO problems that Ine witn

SWP,

revolutionary Pablo uncovered. led by Hansen, dropped any call as a sympathising instead. for the building of a Trotskyist section-prevented by reaction- ary US legislation from affilia- party in Cuba. Introducing the Theses, and the new-formed Inter- tion to demonstrating that illusions national Committee-the began 1956 onwards to from Castro were the starting Doint'oT political the SWP's view of the "facts', drift towards a similar Hansen pointed that method to that of the Pabloites As a result, the issue of the reason why thev had held back of before political independence deccrining Cuba workers' state was: working class, which nad al Tiest appeared of comparatively little "the absence of a manifest significance in 1949, and then socialist consciousness TinE of the leadership of that part emeroed as a maor cueston tr revolution. We simply could not the 1953 struggle against Pablo, give them emerged once a blank political cheque when they came Hone witn Ine buball revorulul power and say "Well, obviously of 1959. The petty bourgeois nation mentality because have, 26 Movement headed your programme, list July voUl consciousness, you're going to Gastro successtufly over- workers Cuba into threw Batista the totterina make coators ideal wito remaining " It remained ta state l seen in the struggle itself what with remaining coalition course would be in the final elements of the bourgeoisie But as the Castroites carried waited. only of land until late 1960 before extending Hansen through programme retorm ano exorooriation American capital the regime _castro the blank political encountered mounting cheque that the Havana regime is still cashing in on to this day.

pressure from economic imperialism-culminating in the nis metnod off of the US agree- Hansen proclaimed that: breaking "Our characterisations the to buy Cuban sugar. ment that the The TaCTS capitalists been exoro combint ically been planned property started there. qualitatively otner to programme working clas 'facts' Starting cracy and ratnel than develop inceven dence of working class

BOTH

construct "acid test" Trotskyist Marxism the hall mark from Pablo drew "'facts' wooden these same Ine conclusion the Cuban pattern for • the Tuture tion: 'What Revolu- in relation to tionary pass from appreciation world. of the the peasantry l oft the vo and peasants apparently and 'carrying tol a were period the analysis, and semi- world. class revolutionary struggle subordination peasantry.' He joined by the view. In

SWP,

formerly who, i Ke cherisnea Lastroite follow the UtOR WOUld "Cuban Way". 10 years. And 1962 in paris articles for Stalinist writing a illusions the Today. grossest 'socialist" of Ber 1959 rally Algeria--a bela propping DOSITIOn that regime in to crusn the union

UGTA

holding back French consolicate witn How reactionary remaining fought sections internationd Committee? British leader Gerry tooting-insist the ary". 119 V Hansen events for a conscious carrying this view basec approach hunting The from process the Cuba but on Committee, for Hansen's centred on tion" "facts', With 1963 wrongheaded -ron between the nasec document. "Trotskyism : 'Cuba: Acid cation and fully

(SWP)

Yet the whether or Cuba was •workers state way the was about there any iat. Its precise imperialist dllack. The acid really was whether move- tho grasping ment was whereby bourgeois in the regime inrouch the capitalism permitting soo kesman emergence independent orcanisations Ine workinc parties class. orocess i were hand nationalised the forward a clea independent action for the failed this i-but from the the 'facts' to change the rest for a interna. Castro of the served the Castro reactionary the Kremlin Cubar the merger Stalinists- saw Castro and the Cuban sabotage of the em Dirical hits Mass mo • hour Angold ettort revolution 'left' witch. recent tract on Cuba Pabloites reunifi

WAICH

care entirely the 5. the from far even for compara. revolutionary Americd- Pise -

SEED

though adopted to preserve positions false of Tne •Dasically Pablo UD Iraq. point declaration bourgeois oublic tactions producing of countries of the late ran competing these eui ooles newsoapers device • than and, cynically hand-to-hand came . neal and with have rooser while the taniec behind the anti-communist Workers League have run by Socialist Party witch-nunting with Hansen, leadership the way which The the internationa Majority • however tor there were urgency whatever n political Hansen's SWP's the Latin revolutionary • was Nahuel and remains supporters formed revolution- Morend ThaT ary poiltics All too ot the repelled the and self pressures oratiticatio Joseph For many the of the issues inat ever startine was.toogreat. majority TrON There is wealth to be had 29th resolution unanimously modest style devoted him. two "reunifica new Secondly tion' WIth consistenti national auestions-ni sation called by Castroites in struggle seeing the a particularly context contend internationa developments of the class struggle Party Workers into Variousty mansen with • 01 capable leading are political positions and of regime and called •Kev The interna Wolforth removal US the Workers Ine historical WHOn into a full- charged aiding and illicit with the However, still no substitute for a struggle Yet of course tor a correct. programme and perspective ano such a struggit FBI, which is necessary not only against the lavvsult Healyite revisionism but also has. so tar of Joe hitherto against the

FE VISIONISITS

Hansen and the SWP state Hansen's life's work in Joe now snort retlects all ot the initia blocked *strengths subsequent the and disorientation of General une coure internatolar court order available

HIS

uncounted Journalst and talents could , agents Tile: full reached their potentia in a mont to return to the principles and the method of the Trotskyist programme.

[lal Course 1963, Hansen himset became capitalist that willy nilly a component in the the Joe facing age nt' •ostacie-oul continuine crisi Hansen! Trotskyist movement. that That 'fact' one neither he nor the USFI leaders or Healy have ever properly Meanwhile, understood. ing

SWP

and

USFI.

, has fact himself

Strange bedfellows defend Vietnamese Page 8 Fourth The national was founded in long struggle the Marxists against betrayals and crimes of world Stalinism. Trotsky and the forces of International Left the Opposition fought to build international as revolutionary leadership for the historic struggles of the working class along the road TO SoCialsm the forty years But in since its founding, the has International rourth by splits. torn apart been 'reunited' fusions and no longer exists in a concrete form Stalinism The task for revolution- aries today is to reconstruct

POLICI

from sections of the group- ings tnal remam and dron.

any other elements that can be won to the living struggle of tor

COLLILUELY

Bolshevism. of the In every crisis it post-war International, has been the and HaluIc ot Stalinism which have been at issue. Nowhere was that more clearly the case than in the major split of 1953. forces of the Janen Enle International Secretariat (led by Pablo) were publicly those forces attacked by which were to International Committee (led by Cannon, Healy and they Lambert) because pursued policies that would have liquidated the Trotsky- belief

ISI

sections •of Stalinism ThaT would begin abandon their counter-revolutionary history and move towards revolution. Heirs of split of The principal nels that split in Britain today the International are Marxist Group (section ol the now 'United' Secretariat of the Fourth International) Workers Revolu- and the Party (principal tionary section of the crisis-ridden International Committee).

but in ten posinions on the recent wars in south-east Asia, these two groups have yet again how they shown still wandering about, are lost in the fog of confusion Well NOW OUTI The WSL tor submie. document adopte USFI XIth Warld dion to the 100 from WSL, 31, Do ark Hill, London Nho THR.

= Stalinists the lack of created 1953 split. clarity in the Indeed Inel paths have converged, and is even the nowadays International formerly the rigid bastion of 'orthodoxy'-which made the bigger accommo dation with Stalinism. "Differences" The and the sectarians opportunists are united their emphasis the "differences supposed the Vietnamese between invasion of Kampuchea (Cambodia) and the Chinese invasion of Vietnam In Socialist Challenge, no than "authority" less lario All put ns name following of the piece analysis. "There no equation between what happened in Kampuchea and the Chinese invasion: the overthrow of undoubtedly a Pol Pot was step forward for the masses of that country. 'The regime over which he presided had become a international blot on the There workers movement. serious danger of was imperialism to Phnom Penh. been would have • IT better the much people them- Kampuchean been able to selves had Pol Pot and his remove cohorts. In the event they could not do so without Vietnamese help. "The latter should now begin the task of withdraw- from Kampuchea. Toops Usurped Undoubtedly the Pol Pot regime. was a blot on the international workers move- ment'. It was the dictatorship of a Stalinist bureaucracy that had usurped the leadership of the anti-imperialist the struggles Kampuchean workers and peasants. That dictatorship of the bureaucracy had to be over- thrown by a political revol- establish the ution of unfettered dictatorship the proletariat, based on the independent class organs of By John Parker true soviet power. proletarian independent The methods of Pol Pot's • alternative, was very dictatorship-reflecting closely allied and the dire economic partly the Vietnamese with and acute contradictions bureaucracy-a backwardness . bit as counter-revolutionary Cambodian state-were as its Kampuchean counter- almost certainly more part. vicious than those employed Imposed by any other ruling Stalinist bureaucracv todav. Nor did this new leader- But it was not an isolated ship come to power through 'blot'. political - revolution. all essentials, it was Instead it was imposed trom Soviet identical with the above as a new dictatorship Union and the deformed by the arms of the invading workers states of eastern Cuba, and Vietnamese army. Europe, China, For workers and the Asia-including Vietnam. peasants of Kampuchea, it did a ' step forward but a step sideways.

In tnese new conditions, their for socialism struggle will be directed against different bureaucratic caste, one with different methods dictator- 'preserving Shilet the central task of political revolution to over- throw the parasitic bureau- cracy remains. of The arrival Vietnamese troops has not brought only not realisation nearer by a day, but, by creating the of possibility the struggle taking a purely nationalistic well have form, may Tarią Ali retarded it further. The overthrow of Pol Pot No evidence was not, in itself, necessarily an advance lor une masses or But in passing Ali throws Kampuchea. The essential in a different argument to question is how that regime defend Vietnames! Tne overthrown and what their was bureaucracy. replaced it. exploits in Kampuchea- that in suggests that the distorted gains of Kampuchea there was some the Vietnamese revolution form of popular uprising, were "threatened" by devel- supported by or spurred on 'Vietnamese help. There - Opments under the Pol Pot by can be little doubt that the Unfortunately, like every Kampuchean masses wished other supporter of this to rid themselves of Pol Pot.

he produces Whether they wanted the evidence to back his "help?' the Vietnamese oI extravagant claim that there is aurener matter altogether.

that existed "a serious danger of imperialism returning Phnom Penh". Bureaucrats "Wordlos Revoli- The 'anti- "Kampuchean The Pabloite' Workers however, United Front for National tionary Party Salvation" was formed by a far' from combating such followed has within notions, o1 stallnists the ruling bureaucracy who similar line of argument were hostile to specific with more enthusiasm. After first ridiculing any • policies being followed by the the Pol Pot leadership. suggestion Vietnamese army. was play- Far from representing an SOCIALIST PRESS, W'ednesday 28 March 1979 Vietnamese soldier with Chinese prisoners complexities of what took place in Georgia in 1920-21 and assuming that the Red Army intervention was carried through in a straight- forwardly correct manner, the IC's analogy raises more questions than it answers.

In the struggle within the SWP against the American state capitalist positions of the Burnham-Schachtman faction, Trotsky took the example of Georgia in Red relationship the Army's moves into Poland and Finland. Central to his argument differ- the 'profound was ence' betweer tionary Soviet Republic of 1921 and the bureaucratised USSR of 1939 Chinese artillery in use against Vietnamese forces Profound difference ing any substantial part in overthrow of the for was impossible Pol Pot, the Newsline. was Burnham and . Schachtman forced to make some understand the Polish concessions to reality. and Finnish events because February 24, Then, on were unable to grasi the source of that profound Newsline published a state- difference'-that is, of the ment from the International "the history and character saluting Committee heroic resistance of the Stalinism The 1953 split within the people and Vietnames government" (our emphasis) International showed on both sides, a similar failure to' tne Unnese mvasion The International Com- to understand the post-war developments within world mittee critically supports Vietnamese invasion of Stalinism. the Today, both • the IMG Cambodia. It ended the pro- adapt their

WRP

and the imperialist provocallons Peking and Phnom Penh "Trotskyism to Red "Like the Soviet supposedly. "progressive Stalinist intervention in ot the Georgia 1920-21 the bureaucracy. week's article will invasion vernamest

LUSI

NeXT the look further at the issues at be seen the overall of the stake in S.E Asla, and int political positions of other of the conquests Vietnamese revolution." international tendencies This argument opens up the American series of major issues.

SWP.

aside the Ever

TROTSKYISM

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Abortion fight needs a socialist leadership CPSA's nursery sell-out SOCIALIST PRESS, W'ednesday 28 March 1979 PHOTO: Mark Rusher. IRI The now. being waged on abortion rights in Britain are different in form from previous attacks. They are not actually embodied in reactionary rrivate Members Bills Parliament aimed at turning back the clock The 1971 Report on "Employment of the Women in the Civil Service" recommended the setting up "for of a day nursery an period" experimental for the children of civil servants. first The ever Civil Service workplace nursery was opened in 1973 at the Inland Revenue site, Llanishen, (Cardiff). second was Croydon to be planned al Open governments public public government's spending cuts the Civil Department cancelled the opening of the croyaon nursery ana cosea " the Llanishen nursery April 1978. As alternative, the all decided to look for a

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cheaper form of child care and this report is the result: The report outlines proposals for a "self-financ- ing "Family Day-Care Scheme" to be set up by the Civil Service. Social service and NHS cuts intensify oppression of women the days ot hack strepi rather exploitation and misery: all- Inev are em oooled in ine round programme of cutbacks spending on the Health being carried through service by the Callaghan-Healey govern- ment. For many women abortion is would be The Scheme by joint union- employer committee. would The committee employ a paid organiser and a team of childminders to servants' care for civil children in their homes. The childminders would look after the under fives and would also have school- in the school age children holidays. The minders would be trained and have access to libraries and safety toy equipment. be They would also local encouraged use • to playgroups. It is obvious that Care" "Family Day merely a glorified form of childminding which depends on the continuing exploita- tion of women-both childminders and as parents.

childminders, The euphemistically called "care parents" in the report are to be paid only £10 a week for each child. The organisers' job would only be part time and already harder to obtain and a than greater physical ordeal Detore because insutticient Nmo facilities are available for the use of modern day care techniques.

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is linked le asoects ot the crisis withın the

NHS:

the growing waiting lists the closure of hospitals and By Marie Campbell the report proposes that it be phased out eventually.

The self-help principle also means that apart from the initial setting up of the scheme the full cost of the childminers' organiser and wages are to be met by the val Culls. The Civil Service Depart- ment are also anxious to evade all responsibility for the workers employed by the scheme. "Care must be taken not to provide conditions which would lead position whereby the Committee and hence the department could regarded the care- as De which parents' employer, would bring many conse- quences to the detriment of the scheme's viability. let-out There is even a enables the clause which "phase out" committee to the it is not financially viable The leaders of the Civil Service unions have cooperated fully with the CSD in the preparation of the report. Page 9 kind Parliamentary to specialist departments; the lack the providino provide communal catering and laundry and other ot kionev machines facilities that could relieve the sufficient abortion facilities in life-saving equipment. of individual domestic ourcen evely alca In fighting for the extension labour in the home. We insist that the fight fo women of abortion needs to preserve abortion rights is an integral Capitalism must therefore ioin the tight to part of the struggle against the the oppressive family unit-both halt and reverse this systematic as a captive market for its sale cuts and acanst existine destruction of deliberate goods, , and as the reactionary trade union alic of consumer Canc level of care in the Health Labour leaders. who collaborate the which most economic Service as a whole. cheaply supplies and reproduce.

day in, day out, with capitalism not only of the This Is the workforce needed to run our view such TIOn abortion fiaht but also of other requires not once maste struggles involving issues" women s "single And it needs to preserve the basic rights. family's oppressive policie role but the construction or a revoru upholder of bourgeois tionary party to unite working All-out fight and women in th youth-not Class duinortLy The adequate strucale nothing coes every reactiondry Struccle ine overturovv child care facilities at a time of "law and order" capitalism and the establishment proponent of a planned socialist economy.

when the Labour government is • National Front to the TrOm Ent and Labour right cring down on Cuts! Fol axing education soending, cal

STOO

Ine forcing the closure of even exist- "parents" to crack abortion on demand the on facilities means and "hooli-

NHS

"vandals' young the Books of the squarely gans' who rebel against *Open the Contronting Thel necessity for an all out fight to living conditions in capitalist AHAs-expose the planned cut the education system, backs and the profits made from detend society and Only an uncompromising to remove most ouredu The no overvate contractor: cratic "leaders" struggle on every level and suppliers! In The political unions and Labour Party *Fight for a planned, nation- who and against exolate allow social oppression inherent in the capit- are •repared to auseo nearn service! services to go to the wall in alist system can lay the basis for *For workers inquiries into boost the profits need for nurseries, the ot Ine emanciation communal catering and other private industry. from the oppression when . a time home, and offer them instead need tacilities in eacn area. Demand d Callaghan is preparing to launch programme of public works to economic inde right to ine a desperate election campaign under workers provide them, pendence, in which a central plank will be the right to control their own mangoement stressing Labour's commitment *Kick out the Callaghan. Doales to the values of "the family" leadership! Demand critically Healey This Is why in the struggle for reforms which supporting this week's National • Labour's 'eft' wina either take a will liberate "stand or reveal themselves to be women TrOM Abortion Campaign demonstra- oppression domestic and empty windbags tion the worker Socials becomes even more * Build a revolutionary lead- League stresses the complete obviously an all round political ership! For a planned, socialist demonstra- the task. • economy! tion's central demand-a call fo "the family" Callaghan By S,01 means the individual social unit which comestic cooking, clothing, and caring for children, elderly relations male workers • alike-contes to fall onto the shoulders of confined to individual women

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the nome ano denied economi

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independence. Intensify oppression Callaghan's policies of • levels, massive unemployment combined with closures and nurseries. social services.

and actually situation, intensity [ne oppression women in the home. Labour leaders; dedicated to preserving and strengthening the capitalist system, also reject out of hand any socialist perspective In the case of the CPSA, the have bureaucrats blatantly ignored union which is opposed to policy, Family Day Care. Motion 889 passed at the 1978

CPSA

Conference called for the CPSA to with- draw from Family Day Care and instead to fight through National Staff Side and Ellis, CPSA full time officer, take the child home over the the same long journey."

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the force says: government to provide full enis emotive claptrap 1: "Many many women Ellis's personal opinion and who decide to work for the local aulnonly Civil Service, or anyone else, has no basis in CPSA policy.

provision. for the Within the CPSA and the also called simply do not want to have assist all other Civil Service unions a to actively to drag their young children CPSA branches fighting for in all weathers every day of fight must be made to get unions to immediately the the creches ar une workolde week OvC. CPSA's support often miserable journey withdraw from the Family make Day Care Scheme. for Family Day Care they alsu nave goes completely against the selves to get to work. "Nor are they convinced Implement report recommendations whilst 'recognising the bene-

TUC

working party report Demands should be made "The Under Fives" which is fits of having their children the Civil Service union highly critical of childmind- on close at hand in the case of that this form leaders that they take ing. emergencies, clear stand against the cuts.

day care

CPSA

bureaucrats of in the best fight for the defence of interests of their children.

cynically provision, their treachery in own "It is in any case invar- existIng campaign actively for and selling out the campaign for iablv better tor the mothe to go home to a child that the implementation workplace nurseries

TUC

"The Under blaming the membership become an accident than to have to Fives" In a recent circular John

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INDUSTRIAL

Solidarity with Garners strike After months potentia Custo strike Garners workers coecial 'Cheat battling for union recogni- issued by the employer in a bid to break the picket lines.

supported last tion were Saturday by 800 who Garners, the crowa chantea tor marched through London in pickets mass solidarity with their fight.

necessary to win the strike.

Delegations included shop Arrests and stewards Trom Jarrow group from Liverpool Trades couple Council and it was not made The lone Communist Party to actually hold a mass picket contingent numbered outside directly certain self-styled while rotsKyist croups-Jarlicuial" presence. ly the IMG and the WRP-were However, conspicuous by their absence.

the 'scabs well pre- 4 ne ponct wert overcome. pared. vanioads or cops guarded The main the key Garners restaurants and strike comes route that march but from within the union.

St. Oxtord passed oUsV and meandered round Park the Mayfair plush bourgeois

TGWU

march al ca. Organiser …kon that mass Back to picket lines, nero ine surike again the demon- But once union stration ended Multane respond" to Garners. Rather than wander down note. towards the pleasant scenery on ludicrous notion the banks ot ine River i Tallics the mass of the march followed the 150-strong Workers Socialist cover all warner. hours a day-no contingent back to the League failure that picket lines.

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impossible targets would create turned dvd y sporting further demoralisation and tnus bring the end of the striKe medi vouchels Closer. with jeers from Ine crowd Todd claimed that "those Whitcomb St. don't shouting people and the action structure know the union". The situation was not helped when Habib Rahman-chairman of the Strike Committee-failed were of put forward a single demand possible of the Strike Committee which he purports to represent.

restaurant warned merely instead police heavy against "confrontation with the the blue could could be cancer • TO not from them, During the speeches in Hyde beginning of the National Todd claimed pickets "wouldn't He attacked the membership tor "Talling forward the

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600- Lon low pay strong picketing rota that could restaurants 24 these meet The NUPE bureaucracy under intense now pressure from the or what, kill what ment to of the low pay remains quickly as campaign possible. of early The threat general election makes important crucially the struggle Callaahan to enc against wage restraint public sector. now obvious that the have been

NUPE

leadersnip instructed or 9% and a com- force through • acceptance Health parability oeal amonest workers and ambulance drivers- the two groups who voted over- whelmingly to reiect the ottet continue fighting for the full claim of £60/35 hour week.

These oressure. apparent at a rally of London held drivers amoulance House on Friend's Meetine Friday evening, March 23.

For a Intensify action clear the fact that Despite ambulance drivers voted by 7 to 1 to reject the 9%, and the rally lead in the called to discuss ways. was

NUPE

the action, national officer Bob Jones spent almost an hour spilling out a series of ridiculous promises and • downright lies about the virtues of the comparability scheme.

repeatedly that He stressed there was no chance whatso ever of winning a higher claim, comparability the TBaT account would. take

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special needs amoulance and, most important, : there was no guarantee that That would hondur any premises made by a Tory covertene Labour administration. From this he declared that the package should be accepted as soon as possibie, in order le Labour's electora chances. approach was Jones obviously part steamroller through acceptance of the 9% within the next tew days, possibly Delore the no one neednesday 28 Wednesday Commons police" bemoaned the and the correct "failure" of the rank and file of mass support. the unions to respond. Sid Racist Tribunite greeted with Bidwell was it clear by and hostility derision crowd and was unable to finish Parliamentary to call off the strike. speech. had The Day Richardson colleague hardly be called a failure, nothing to say at all. of support" Central problem ring the bureaucracy The central problem for the remains the strikers Garner: the treacherous leadership which is Garners. the main barrier to carrying out ot a Frantic bid for sell-out March. The fact that the NUPE EC recommended rejection ot tne Islamic offer and the Health and ambul- by sections to lowed revolutiol by voting to capitalist repression recommendation seemed to for all. continue be completely ignored by Jones.

He announced that an emer.

taking was gency place the tollowing mortig. Transitional and that a series meetings during and acain national counci the week reverse these decisions. Failed miserably whether Of course this If Jones was to ambulance intimidate drivers into ending their action-which is obviously embarrassment to the NUPE bureaucracy, then in each he failed miserably in his objec- theory tive. leaderstus Speaker after speaker from starting from the floor spoke against the 9% the the that socialist revolution package, • no arquea answer was mantal and spread the action that was against already taking place. the speakers

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division, movement. who brought a strong of about 60 workers contingent stressed that Ine alty there would be of course quarantee Tory government from honour the comparability study WSL stresses as Jones had stressed, then The list was more reason to reject the offer and step up the action.

reconstruction of the asked Jones Other soeakers was that the EC had why escalate the action aoreca following for rejec vote and then had soent their time trying to get ambul- to normal ance orivers back local branch, who

WORKIN

Not answered Neither Jones nor the full.

present could timers answel these questions forward for ambul- ance drivers is to begin a strong all-out, indefinite Name camaral strike action for the full claim.

Address Their militancy ano peter put them once mination has again at the centre of the fight or note preach rous or als Send to Workers public sector UnloI leadership in the low pay cam- paign. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 March 1979

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NOw WSL supporters on the March 24 demonstration NAC supporters on sit-down protest urgent than er the demano. more deals with the strike committee and mabilising police! For mass pickets on the Days of Action and regular dele- gations from The union leaders/ had made all sections to le Set the date for the picket lines they would use a failure next Day of Action now of the Day of Action to attempt *No to starvation striker Y • a realistic wage after Action could For but months *Full blacking now! An end the words of Todd about "lack to the scandalous deliveries by had an ominous TGWU-organised firms. TGWU dele- is clearly • national gate conference to organise the excuse strike! The call heroic fighters victory of the to the whole TGWU must go membership." Under these conditions the

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dis- tributed last saturddy are wore WSL: we offer a lead Whichever way you look at the struggles and prob.

lems now facing the working class throughout the world, one thing stands, out above all: the necessity for a prin.

cipled leadership capable of leading the struggle for state power and the establishment of a socialist society.

The massive revolutionary upheaval that has now toppled the seemingly impregnable might of the Shah of Iran and which is now already coming into conflict with the restrictions placed upon i ""leaders" serves as a vivid reminder that socialis essential if the apparatus of is not only possible, but and exploitation is to be destroyed once and But such a revolution requires a conscious Marxist leadership.

And the fight to construct such a leadership is inseparable from the fight in the day-to-day struggles of the working class internat ionally for the principles. method and demands of the Trotskyist has time League Programme. , The workers socials! proved to be the only movement in Britain that fights patiently and relentlessly on such a perspective.

that does not shrink from alorie are the even head-on battles with the existing leaders of the working class movemen open right wingers, 'left' talking leaders' Tnest Labourites or Stalinists of the Communist Party friends in the trade policy has made us no union and Labour bureaucracy, or amongst the opportunists and centrists of the British left'. But it has meant that the WSL has consistently offered the most powerful lead to workers in struggle.

out to prove to workers both in struggle we I for a programmes trait a demands worry revolutionary necessity and in practice the and today's problems and today's consciousness within working class, lead workers in struggle to grasp the need for the WSL has featured at the forefront of pay struggles in British Leyland and the public sector, in the fight against the cuts, in struggles redundancies and democracy in the labou unionisation fights, and the fight for - rejecting any descent to simple This method of approach trade union militancy or concession to the labour bureaucracy - is essentiah not only in Britain but internationally.

In taking up international issues in the labour movement the not only the obligation of British workers to support struggle and revolutionary struggles such a liberation the those in Iran and Southern Africa, but also the necessity for International as Trotskyist organising centre of the world party of socialist revolution.

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NGA must fight court SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 28 March 1979 attack Within hours of the High a temporary Court issuing injunction against the NGA for blacking advertisers who use the Nottingham Evening Post, the NGA general secre- tary, Joe Wade, was sending desperate telegrammes his members throughout the country instructing them to call off their action. The injunction cleariy a prelude a permanent ban on 'secondary called •lacking and Tne latest example in a series of decisions from the High Court and Court ot Aboes almed •rastically curbing the right to take indus- Skilled workers to meet The new Leyland Craft Committee, with delegates from 15 factories is holding meeting for all further Leyland skilled stewards on in Saturday March 31 Birmingham. According Roy Fraser, the

AUEW

convenor cowiev booy riant Ine resolu tion the committee will put to action April 6 trom has finally agreed to pay the negotiated nationally premium TaLES. out yel alain CoNe with productivity strings before parity payments are made.

skilled men, who know which will be on-the grade they top orace-ano tererore now now much a week they are losing. In Cowley, for example, it is £10 a week The company nas oTtered to the parity if either Dyland achieves the production tine Wants four consecutive weeks or if an individual plant achieves them ТОГ Consecutive weeks Even the right wing domin- ated National Joint Negotiating Committee out this back to the company. The other for conditions makina the parity payments is agreement by everybody on the new five grade structure which that contentious phe sommisties to ent each slot each This into its grade. bound to produce disputes.

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trial action in support of other workers. It is therefore vital that this action is challenged-by keeping the lackine on Recognition Blacking was ordered as part an NGA/SLADE campaign of for rights at UnIOr recognition the Nottingham evenine Post The was also being sacking there linked 28 iournalists for taking part in the provincial tournalists seven week pay strike blacking first took place on national newspapers and the Newspaper Punishers AssocIa tion immediately reached for. its lawyers. Then the provincial news papers-which •the logical also action -were

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affected as NGA chapels obeyed their executive's instruction.

applied to all blacking was those firms reTused To withdraw their advertising from Nottingham Evening Poste une Trust Houses Forte and Boots.

A delegation of union leaders, workers hospital and doctors from the EGA heard Health Minister David Ennals last week express his.

determination ciose down the hospital, which closure has been resisting since 1975. Over recent weeks the deter- Labour leaders minaton or tne to push through the cash limits the health service has Garners fines A good initial response our. appeal for cash help those fined on The (Garne picket line has brought in

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£149.95. But members who have been at rae toretroni of this struggle have been fined sums-one a total of £200 JaT! c needed. Donations should Garners Fines Appeal, sent to Park Hill, Warmout London NW5 1HR.

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Provincial newspaper owners against oined us court delion the NGA. Without blacking such action, backed up by NUJ strike the 10 0! Tne journalists Nottingham are of union sunk, and the chances recoonition tor an or me orel unions are non-existent. For the print union y cal- hencersnios nave ne back rom taking any action against the T Bailey Foreman management.

Now their Tirst Shots. save hardly been fired when they are battle field from retreating the orders a cao talis judge. this ruling not union trade Chalenced Ine movement by Ine oniy metnoo that counts-defying the court- to black strike in then rights workers will suDOon quickly be removed. Strike sequester Any attem ol co funds or imprison officers must be met with an the union uphold the aoul rights of workers to take action.

NGA

take must matters into their own hands by refusing to call oft the blacking and by calling on journalists and other printers tor support.

EGA-Ennals moves in for the kill not simply their shown ettons to keeo down ine water of health workers, but also in rounds of cuts of this is recent victim Columba's Hampstead Heath, where a fight continues against the latest planned cuts in North London. Go-ahead On 14 March St. Pancras North Labour MP Jock Stallard initiated a Parliamentary debate on the cuA only health minister Rowland Moyle determination to go express ahead with the EGA closure.

The delegation ine tonowing week heard usual stalling to the in relation trom Ennais famous working party ne up last year discuss 'other sites' for the EGA. This oroposal is of course rejected by the Unions, and also by the doctors. Broken lift Ennals tried to cloud the by TUrTAPr Talking providing private finance for the lift, broken down hospital's proposal compietery opposed dy the unions and against all the principles of the NHS.

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Page 11 Poly sit-in PHOTO: Laurie Sparham, IFL snubs unions - The vote at last week's student union meeting at North East London Poly- the technic to continue

SPEE SAYS

occupation in protest KEER YOUR Dr students against overseas quotas is an indication of

REDUNDANC

IKE HOUSE WINES SAY.

strength feeling

DUNLOP

MANEy amongst students on that issue. But the way the occupation

SPEKE

and the fought fo beer hostility it has provoked among

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TIne unions pledged to oppose quotas, which are intended to reduce numbers student: oversed. 1975/6 levels. Last year when a student occupation produced a violent backlash among other Dunlop-the chips unionists, agjoint union trade procedure for occupations was agreed on. This said that students must give 24 hours notice of an occu- are down nation and consult orner union on its organisation This would mean strategic parts

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a ministration minimum disruption to NA LETh would occupied wit As the countdown to ¿losure ticks relentlessly on, members and UNal cleaning up would be organised Dunlop's convenors avoid an extra workload for Speke factory remain deter- amw members This year, the mined to give no lead what- Student Society, the Worker ever to the fight against the driving force behind occu- massacre of jobs on Mersey.

pation, completely flouted the joint union agreement. NALGO side. that Last wook saw yet another members were they asked the Director to close

WOOLL

the whole precinct. the plant in which Se cantr the 24 say of a policy of occupy- question SIVr hour agreement was intended by NALGO as a means evaded. of destroying any occupation.

the sincerity. 01 i ney Two weeks the NALGO secretary's aSSur ances in the Joint Union Liaison agreement for that Committe an occupation of, for Council chairman Stan assistant directors offices" would spoke optimistically possible, that about a Finance and General nave ocCu Purposes Committee meeting could have reached oper much less than 24 hours and weeks whet he noses.

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that the management need not time, will discuss the Spoke have been given forewarning closure. which offices were to Workers in the meeting were Ennals occupied. concerned with more reDOrT He also that op orant heat hilled This arbitrarv decision came up With even more bizarre proposal that allowed ignore an agreed plant the EGA might in some way be the refusal procedure Ford: and orders TrOM of Royal the level diverted there instead of Spoke combined with Tont the issues al Homeopathic Hospital blacklegging or the union leadership. -thus ordei Queens Square small their betore it Strucale eVaT members' eyes is typical of the with threatened seriously underway. nose tanew closure.

SWP

promising of in any way It has resulted in an inter- No concessions which plays with dispute hands directly into authorities ov ciscussino moves and 'alternatives' came out very weak's talks with management and in which the And last The unions issue of quotas gets lost from this. trom management revealed no conces sions whatever. will need to sustain their inde vieW pendent occupation and win For Speke workers, the chip: important cooperation from other hospital s extremely are down. They must dety tnell that the campaigns continue and workers, including strike action, convenors and vote at once to that they expose the in way to keep their campaign going the plant, demanding politicians Laboul planned lunch-time willel all-out support trom the union: i ne using outright racist policies to demonstration on 28 March will involved In Dunlop effect cuts in higher education.

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The "March on Paris" calfed the Stalinist-led by CGT on March 23, revealed of deepening more the contradiction in France between the intentions of the labour movement leaders to hold back-struggle and the determination of hundreds of thousands workers to carry it forward.

The occasion for the march was ne ter tient in tne steel.

making areas of northern and France against the crisis-

LOTTE

sree comoanies ettorts to sack thousands of workers.

Workers and in • local demonstrations have been savagely attacked by the CRS- the heavily armed riot police.

Provocations The CRS orovocations have em bittered workers Jed insistent become* increasingly that their Lidot CGT and the •articuar CFDT-take. action the proposed against

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anti-working 808 m …the class policies of the Giscard- Barre government. Cantonal LaST weeKs (county) elections revealed that decisive matory French people wish to see the end of the present reactionary leaders, however, strengthened but threatened by the rising tide of working class anger against the regime.

Hold back Unwilling to move a step outside wise narrow contines ot bourgeois parliamentarism, they know that they must hold back this tide while at the same time appearing to give a lead to the mass movement Both the CGT's noisy spon- last Friday's march sorshto or and the CFDT's equally noisy refusal to have anything were tactics wit DoTO rinted by Anvil Printers Ltd., London. Registered as a news

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designed to allow the rival bureaucracies fulfil THer difficult and contradictory role.

The division between them allowed both attack "'left". each otner trom the of the CGT Georges Seguy said

CFDT

the was inactive the CFDT camond Marre ot said the

CGT

was organising diversions without paying atten- LIOn Ene concrete neets ot the shortly-to-be-sacked workers. Ot course. both are riaht and their twin betrayals combine to form a joint strategy to head off and workers' conTuse IMe struggle. None of the tactics designed to defuse the ants anti-bureaucratic covernment. content. the demonstration succeeded. could not stop the I ney march Becoming vast demon- stration of 150.000 workers students and vouth They could not stop the shouting of slogans against the Giscard-Barre reaime not stop They could national. teachers' union,

FEN,

from mobilising for "their own' march at the same time anc place. Youth They could not stop the the demonstration presence on or workers ano volto trombar enormous range industries and struggles who arrived merely solidarity with The but also link shee workers those of steelworkers who, Lousanes prey helmered works arge safety helmets large industrial vehicles, The vast maren. Among many other groups of workers, , I spoke to several off teachers-and to •rOUeS group of British Leyland's distribution Paris, TesTeUt: nea struggles at present concern the unionisation of the blant (onh a minority of the members are and Vet unionisedl wage demand which the Leyland ublished by Folrose Ltd. for the Workers Socialist League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1 HF -Gir

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correspondent Henry Phillips.

management has rejected out of hand. The bureaucrats of the CFDT also could not stop tens of thousands of their members from joining march their own leader- deniance oT shipA CFDT member told me: We do not understand the leadership the in calling for non-participation conconn ThIS There are many mem- attitude. bers in the rank and file of the

CFDT

who have today could desone order L also spoke to one of the CGT steelworkers from Denain who describec ottery The pickets and • demonstrations which had been attacked by the

CRS.

Not confined matter tom He, that

CFDT

region had ome with the CGT members to the because they saw clearly that the struggle was not confined to lads in the their leaders steel ine USIN Even a small delegation policemen, members CGT, also joined the demonstra- tion with a banner and leaflets supporting the fight of the steel- workers and putting forward the slogan: "Too many police outside the factories; senty duties carry out enouon Both during the march and especially at the dispersal point, the • Place • l'Opera, however, their colleagues of the CRS were carrying on a new series provocations, dispersing demon. strators with baton charass and volleys of tear gas grenades.

Bloody clash had tried to disg bise the Howeve the bureau. crats political content of the demon- stration they failed to prevent what they plannec bloody clash of capitalist oppression. Office Crowds run from CRS tear gas attack Healey The LCR-French section of the 'United Secretariat of the scorns Fourt International. was Lutte Ouvriere , present on the demonstration in some force.

week unti recenty civil daily) newspaper. Rouge offered some criticism of both the CGT for limiting the action and, the CFDT for boycotting it. Rouge was however service • unable to divine the overall diversion.

ary counter-revolutionary and strategy behind the line of both but caucaties claim Correct demands Nonetheless their leaflet for Even the demonstration did what seems make a series of relevant certain to be its dying last acmane including occupations gasps in office, the against closures and redundan- Callaghan-Healey govern. cies, work sharing with no los ment has continued to show of pay, a general strike to brin!

down the Giscard-Barre govern- its hatred and contempt for ment and the setting up of a SP.

the organised working class CP government. that put it in office. At least on • paper the LCR Then, with only two days to presenting some alternative Wds go before the crucial to the Stalinist CGT leadership in Parliament, Prices confidence even if it completely failed Decretary matters ey ano Lore The cannanos Privy went out seal Peart presented implied An on-the-spot report by Socialist Press their way to insult leaders of the death and nine civil service unions-repres destroy that leadership entire ove on tue omer nano toe doncr servants-with a derisory 7% pay towards the demonstration offer. pursued the

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by which Even the government's own claimec largest Tine civil service Pay Research Unit Trotskyist organisation The bureaucrats want mass proposed rises of between world, was nothing less than a action to end here and to go off 26-36% scandalous one of abstention.

orat TEStOrE drawing comparability with private bout ser rooms to sell out some jobs, get industry a syre a victory. symbolic Abstain rescued And the militant record of civil servants has been militancy and graphically demonstrated Neither in | their weekly repression the march which 250,000 nov Ouvrieres babe weeN OVe makes this nor in their semi internal thrice been involved in selective mote •ITTCUlT TOl nad weekly they tell strikes and protests over the Them • to do But the future of the mass issue and 39 militants

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struggle against the on the march or Contals whetner to victimised comedcue. not, or whether to support their Scottish Office suspended for Class ano cavitase covernment in France depends refusing to scab on compute union sections the ever on the building of a staff. march or not Trotskvist leadershio Members were told to Only such a propose against the party can Stalinists a confront the bureaucracies and different march and to abstain on the Stalinist proposals!

out vorwar sorces wacadve an answer leading beyond the event TinA existing needs of the working workers and youth marched class

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through Paris, were subjected to socialist revolution, the first the propaganda or the stalinists step towards which requires the Pabloites, Maoists and every overtorow other left tendency imaginable- reactionary Giscard-Barre government and its replacement which just let them get on with Socialist munist Party government. Threes thet treachery of ly It is therefore important for reinforces treachery us to evaluate the record of the ano retormoist peacer main France ships when the only "leader- claiming the ship" itself offer gonere to Trotskyist Transitional Consist and Programme abstention.

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