Socialist Press no. 161

LAMBETH: STRIKE TO

TROOPS OUT OF IRELAND NOW! MARCH LONDON AUGUST 12

Cuts kill people, young and old! waffle Desorte ine ana about the tort give ins government's about the si encenammer allacks health service, fact this blunt emerged loud and clear last WeeK The vishal hara Southwark and Lewisham Health Authority finally declared that enouen was. enouen vieolcar experts declared that to impose the €5.5 in their budget would kill off cozens or batients. refused to do it. With the total support of every coctor present it voted overwhelmingly against the sweeping cutbacks which would be required to achieve the Tory target. Among the deparments that wauld be hit are radiotherapy patients), crucial cancer (including surgery fitting. life-saving ot pace makers gynaecology, orino paedic surgery and renal dialysis (which provides vital life-sup- port tor kianey batients.

Closed down On top of this, 300 acute beds, entire wards and whole would have to be hospitals closed cowa to make up trie immediate saving demanded by Tory minister Patrick Jenkin.

Prime targets for closure are Sydenham Children s Hospital St. Giles' Hospital Camberwell and St. John's in Lewisham. Opponents of the cuts on the AHA have stated that they could ana addresses ot at least ua known patients whose lives would be placed at risk by immediately tne curs in unis one area dione.

But desoite the soecial case arguments peddled by the AHA, these kinds of cutbacks are not exclusive to Ine concon ared The Lambeth AHA's problems certainly made al C more oramatic ov ITs neeo to finance three world-class teach- (Guy's, King's and ing hospitals nomas s.. and meaica opposition to the cuts has gained strength from, top consul- tants wnose departments are immediately at risk. Ruthless But the Tory axe is crashing ruthlessly into National health service ever town and region in the country And in most cases the NHS nas been already reeling trom the savage cuts and cash limits Callaghan's imposca reactionary Labour government.

The of the very National Health service for the working nistoric cain class, is now at stake. Thousands of working class men. women and chuaren stand suffer possibly irreparable

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 161 * 8 August 1979 * 15p injury and illness and hundreds Thatcher's more Will ole IT government allowed proceed with policy its wanton vandalsin ana destruc LIOn. For the Tories the only criterion is boosting the profits ot private industry ana CutlIne the taxes paid by top managers.

They have no interest in the health and welfare of the work- ing class. Local authorities This is why not only the health service out ever aspect of public spending is under the most ruthless attack. Local authority will Cuts slash Dasic social services the young, the sick

STOP TORY

MURDERERS.

Nursing care provided during the Hounslow Hospital occupation problem of how to stop the cuts.

old; council housing has been and existina council ana stem une or ortensive housing sold off-producing a Embarassed and angered at toll of homeless; and the fact that the AHA-itself a

9IUVVHY

totally unrepresentative, ecucation. too, laces daevaslal ing attack. No section of the population Tory Minister Sir Keith Joseph the illusion of 'demo- is safe from this all-embracing to the NHS-refused to I ory атаск Tormer traitor Reg Prentice, now Tory act on this rare occasion as ar Minister for the Disabled obedient puppet, Jenkin has simply replaced them with the most woolly snockea ever headed liberals recently equally unreoresentative bluntly the nominees from the Regional warning Health Authority. National institute tor Ine bine that the handicapped will have No call the full brunt of the suffer

CUTS

But if the Lambeth defiance Labour lefts' such Ted has focussed attention on the Lambeth council leader Knight the continue -еттеси

CULS

solutter cuts on the

AHAS

conscience salvinc resistina the gesture offers no solution to the RHA; but there has been no

LOBBY

THE TUC!

FIGHT TORY ANTI-UNION LAWS

Called by the Campaign for Demo- cracy in the Labour Movement Wednesday 5 September Winter Gardens, Blackpool Prentice-no aid for the blind clear call from Labour or trade service. union leaders in the area for And in every other area of action by the workers' move- the country, where essential ment to resist ine cuts. services are ecualv on the oon collapse, public Mass meetings workers must demand local and national OTTiCIaIS таке While trade similar policy. unionists Public and hospitals the other neignoouring unions at local level must estab- been westminster •AHA have holding series -isn the closest workina relations and seek to unite the broadest meetings to organise action to possible fight by united ore vent une cuts and tormina hospital defence committees Taboul movement dealist unit (see pages 10-11), there CUTS Inrouch the estao ishmeni of councils of action comprising until - been

SUCH

delegates from all public initiative from Labour or union leaders in Lambeth. ori vate

SECTOI

unions _oca Labour Parties, claimants' Only since Jenkin's move to organisations and other working override the AHA have COHSE stewards in the area come for- class Dooles. ward and declared a policy or Keverse cuts non cooperation with the new appointees and opposition to With such bodies the fight can be taken up for the spread

LIC CULS

NUPE

spokesman ing of specific struggles against CAne Bernard Dix has simply the cuts and for the adoption of the AHA's stand combat bolicies desioned lead for NUPE union officials collaboration oTtenne members in this key struggle. with the cuts. The task is now to make policy inoees Ene only Lambeth the national focus for capable of preserving the public a full scale struggle against the reversal of the cuts services-a Tory cuts. a sliding ane • scale or state spending to compensate fully for inflation-clashes with the Strike action recuirements or britisn cabitar ism and is clearly unachievable Branch meetinas and mass under either ory govern- meetings of health unions must ment or under callaanan be called in every hospital to It requires a mass struggle adopt a firm policy of strike to bring down Thatcher • the occupation actIon and gang, and a determined political prevent the tack or con fight throughout the existing and Labour movernent provision in une area. Tor the exposure ane remova Trade union committees OT une existing right wing and must be elected to demand left" leadership, fake and access to the accounts and plans construction of a revolutionary oT The AnAs to reveal The tull party committee to the tiant tor a planned socialist economy.

colossal profits being Join us in this fight. made from the NHS by drud monopolies, banks other and *Strike and occupy to stop suppliers. the cuts! The seemano must do out *Open the books of the that union officials who have AHAs and local authorities to never at any point led action to elected trade union committees!

•orevent ine cuts, call an all *For a sliding scale of public London meeting of health spending! stewards service to prepare a bulla councis or action. oroaramme For a united struggle to defeat industrial action to prevent the the Tories! dismemberment of the health

PORTUGAL: A CHALLENGE

BASQUE STRUGGLE REFUSES TO LIE DOWN

Page 2 of Europe's some capitalist regarded-especially the bourgeoisie and petty- bourgeoisie-as a rare and splendid privilege, an ulti- mate mark of success, to be asked to be Prime Minister.

But not in Italy. There, to become Prime Minister is to be almost certain ot talure ano to De in meed or another job very soor. Italy has without covernment witn vantdnienlary sanctions for six months.

Failed After the June election, Guilio Waristan emocal Andreotti tried form government and failed. The President then took the unvsua steo ot as kine socialist Party leader Bettino Craxi to form a government. Christian I nE soldering Democrats refused to support . So he, too, failed. Democrat So dic billstidi rinance ivinister randol, wno tried next. Three down-how many до?

MOST

bouroeois •ont car commentators are now saying that if the next effort is a failure President

LITE

flidy aternativo out to amit Inar toe parliamentary and «try Connolele Hwassk buy time by calling yet anotne!

general election. Berlinguer

-INTERNATIONAL-

Cobbling together a government Some reports suggest that itv ane restanee unheard and Pertini nimset unreatened gesture vnorececente• resign. bourgeois political "principle" Majority Cossiga respected by leaders dovar CTLI So the next Prime Minister, the other parliamentary who has now formed a govern- addition, Cossiga has the 100 KS furvvaru lu Parliamentary maioritv oT4u merit ot not deino considered appears to bear a heavy respon- to be a leader of either of the behalf of the Italian Christian factions. siwily wolt alle capitalst class Relative His Francesco Hollie Cossiga. And what is more he is a main claim to political His fame is failure. close relative of the CP leade But Enrico Berlinguer, who is still policy Italiar ieaomy Dourotors commincu politician. 'onnosition' the Cr anes. special that given seats in a N oroao clas. collaborationist cabinet of Cossiga-having been "historic compromise". vilmister @urine last vedi Cossiga has not been selected mounting waves of uncontrolled violence and the kidnapping and to bring his cousin or any other Cabinet Democrat Stalinist into the Christian Italian leader aco Moro ov ine neo

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Brigades-admitted bourgeoisie's last hope for now responsiol

TO PARLIAMENT

When military officers solution to the crisis-Eanes has publicly attack parliaments apponted new caretakel government under Maria for passing laws which Pintassilgo which LufUCS trespass on military author- éscncd to nod on v eny ity, then democratic rights elections take place, probably in October. are in danger. This is the situation which That Ene situaton the and Socialist ComMEn S Portuga! where the officers of Parties have tried avoid. Revolutionary Council have Consequences oro lesleu duallis 2IrC VUlO passed by a socialist and com munist granting hev tear ine consecuenees of having to give an account of amnesty to anyone accused of a themselves to their worker and cov ceren since Ine 'evoru- tion of April 1974. peasant supporters. Military President Stalinist • Cunhal even Eanes looked last week as if he might ninase T als0 midoe veiled threats recently try to persuade to re canes nOU establish military dissolve parliament after all and rule parties could not keeo the new bourgeois govern- wandmentary form majority government. ment in office. Eventually, in the continued Premier Pintassilgo is her- self close to the Catholic hier- austrce dity antalal y The immediate aftermath of the parliamentary agree- ment on the new Statute of the Basque Autonomy for region was a week of high political confusion. began when bombs exole n ne acor ce ce main railway station in Madrid killing four and injuring 113 that 1 TC

TIS1

TEVOr lS the work of ETA hamhs were (political military) were at first hearing incredible. They seemer like the work ot provocateurs No section of ETA has ever before carried out indiscrimin- ate nomoino ot civilans (military) attacks only military and right wing political Dolict targets. ÊTA (political-military) after carried out no terrorism 1977 until thie Ine elections campaign bombs in the in the last tourist resorts the Statute Week. UC IUl C VVad long noreen case warnings were also given.

reports, however, The first Turneg out to de true After the deaths,

ETA

ruefully Suarez (political-military) Andreotti ot calming the party disputes and rescuing the rapidly waning paramentary CreatuLy Gem ocracy ane oreventine being plunged country tor thi second time in six months into a futile general election. would Suen elector almost certainly solve nothing would further but lead • Stalinist leader: exposure oit as unable to offer any way meet the demands of the Italian working class archy, though on account o1 her work on aid to the thirc world" and in building a (bour geois) Catholic women's move ment she has been invested with eTT credentas ev mne salnisı and reformist bureaucrats.

Cunhal last week said of this onar ot ine courceos camnollt order, now acting as a smiling more cover moves t ucrome mmwlary ruie choice Mme. Pintassilgo has been accepted by the vast mass of the Portuguese population, espec auv women." Minister, This Prime acceptable Stalinis1 leaders, is herself an old frined of Salazar's successor, former arctator caetano wno was over thrown in April 1974. Of the former rutnies. pointed out that they had given a long warning to ine autorite.

but was not acted This seems to be true. It may otel c lillestlolld attempt by the- DolCe discredit the • Basque nationalist but it is so easy to verify that ThIs narolv seems kelv It is quite possibie that the warnings regarded were hoaxes because ETA (political welcomed the Statute. The tew next days saw hoaxe. TROUSdROS

COOTE

and a wave of police vigilence which nearly paralysed trans- in larde ot spain Condemned Meanwhile, virtualiy every political force in Spain condemned the bombs. One of Ine most venement _contemni tions came from ETA (military) said it will which has I continue fTs terronst camparen acdinst tnt forces of the Spanish state until Euskadi has national liberation not the statute (military)'s

CIA

oo tica wing HASI-part of the Herri SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 August 1979

BEHIND BP

TAKEOVER

The nationalisation of authorities themselves have been BP's exploration and pro- at pans to point out-inere l: no anti-capitalist element in this duction operation in Nigeria take over, for which Nigeria wil has been hailed by British pay to the Tul compensator capitalists as the beginning oil multi-national Nigeria is of a major offensive against a military state in foreign capital. ine moole oi s own economi big crisis which has seen the Nigerian decline in the level I of produc Tacl-a.

BRITSN

• comoortes nave mort than €2,000 million invested in the country and trade which has Tanel TAroUOl economi Sidi nation from 21,000 milion a to £600 million this year. year covere the General Obasanjo-and civilian government . due both year-will replace maintain 'Nigeria as a capitalis state which exploits its workers and peasantry. Invest Foreign capitalists from the United States and fron Germant are stut cueuelnos ur to invest there The oil , of which operation BP was a part, was itself a tri Obasanjo partite arrangement betwee BP the government is the stake and Shell, whost samp hs uTnest interests have not been inter- fered with we wunse ste os expropriate imperialist holdings the semi-colonial countries, therefore, this particular nation alisation has no measure 'socialisation' about it It is an opportunist move by noerian covert menl boost popularity at nome by a 'tough over one taking Rhodesian sanctions buste fact many The operating freely companies Nigeria have strong links with South • Africa and Zimbabwe. Support Foreign capitalists were Nigeriar tavoured Ine government partly because the enthusiastic support given to anem overnment

SUCH

Britain during the annihilation of Biafrans The Nigerian government adopts a TouGn . roware. South Africa and white Rhodesia to appease its own •o ack masses Eanes Yet government they established in dictator she said last week wish see Zimbabwe is a capitalist govern ave ude oreatest resocci for him "ss a politicat leader, and ment, run by black businessmen as a man dependent like Nigeria links with i nave criticisco nim tor mislach VIsetT.

STOTC

of firm ness."! . overseas capital. Batasuna Unity) already runs high. (Popular In Euskadi itself the bombs coalition-said that the bombs were "counter-revorutionary wit much more ukel dovance and incoherent". Terrorist comest ndin gt the

ETA

same time the terrorist campaigr thr politica pary generally consio mutav anicı alms ered to be the political mouth- targets representing the author- piece of ETA (political-military) ity of the Spanish state.

Esel, CIA aiso condennco ent Enhanced nomines anc carpo tor a oudli self-criticism by its armed wing.

ETA (M) will emerge from

ETA

(political-military) the last week with its reputatior succumbed to all this finally Dollid DrNCiOI oressure ane ssuce a nullitd tactical coherence enhanced in ting statement regretting the

ETA

(P-M)'s and saying they had obvious internal disarrav been a mistake. disarray certainly will knaT resut ot al Teis resulted from the recognition by almost certainly be the political :01 ETÁ (P-M) and its some of its torces that in wel eclipse coming the "autonomy" take polit cal aflies granted by Madrid it would lose Suarez and the Francoists in Madrid, along with his allies the

ITCSS

SUppOr organisa tions still appearing to fight for in the right wing Basque Nation real autonomy alst rarv will Vew ihe gerace politica and military with some satisfaction in the debacle of ETA (P-M) therefore, will discredit all hope that indirectly contirms the tact that sections oicA the Statute will nv0 28 Suarez and

PNV

Prejudice lke: make mne exolosive Issue o That will be true, however, Basque national rights go away.

only in sections of the popula.

Ton where oreluoict •a0 nsi militant Basque nationalism

Behind Cabinet reshuffles SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 August 1979

- INTERNATIONAL:

Has the President flipped his lid? This logical question "political the based on Jonestown" of Carter's recent Cabinet reshuffle, has explicitly raised by been and leading US politicians last commentators in few weeks. Of course, just as President the electorate

NIXON

answertu that "your Presicent nOt d crook", White House aides and staff have public relations anxiously denied that Carter has taken leave of his senses.

with succession But ot including numulatina setbalks Iran and Nicaragua spelling out the weakness of US imperialism, intiation now al ant alludi lal of 13.2%, a weak collar. deficit, trade mountai spiralling oil prices and gather- storm clouds of recession both at home and on a world scale carter nas ood reasuLu feel far from bright, breezy and confident. Violent The great unanswered ques- tion yet which nas re ved! itself to the full is exactly how violentiv the powertul American working class will react to the required by US capital- policies the present ISm weatner But the US capitalists them- so ves n cou or le lu lilals parties are completely civiced what line to put forward on ine Dresent crisis Carter's trantic resnuttline ou ministers-exchanging a and indus- set of bankers trialists tor some nIS lESS successful initial nominees- the scale Inuicates problem Tace. firm and united government policy. is the crisis of leadership facing US capitalism the purge went white evel the House Carter's personal popularity sank below the nadir of even time, ViXor watercatt Democratic rivator une Hidin 1980 election-Senator Edward ostentatiously kennedy-was putting torward an ale ali ve 558 billion energy plan Carter's $143 bilion scheme. Indeed major spokesmen from Carter's own party publicly ever he makes his most deter- the effort restore mined authority Presidency to through his order Torce enerov policy. Democratic partv senators brazenly ignored image-building recent val let s television news conterence-if favour of attending a plush Washington dinner party. Posturing McGovern, Senator George a leading liberal Democrat, has advocated that Kennedy be the party's candidate in 1980, and accused Carter With some justice) of. "moral posturing public manipulation political ineptitude:' Democratic And another oninion maker. scoop Jacksol, predicted that Carter does 1980 he will be driven In FUll and Kennedy would take the nomin- He tring doe soften the blow by adding, want to oush him out as of now!'

Why then, Carter widely regarded as doomed to more Than a one leri President, while Kennedy the the answer to problems of US capitalism?

Clearly complete inability of Carter or his energy plan to the working class is a major lactor. Figurehead US capitalism needs a figure- head President who can balance more between demands of the working class the real of the anto monopolies. Kennedy in this sense offers the only hope in either party of a populist, nationalist approach

US BOSSES FACE

POLITICAL CRISIS

their own profits. the capable of pressing home Another survey in California policies requirea by capitalisin of respond to showed appearing that The neart "free enterprise" America only 56% those asked Carter's name and image or hand is now irrevoc- opposed to nationalising the oil the other firms. Jinked tr dullialil spectacle the petrol queues This why and spiralling prices thoroughly capitalist "solution" US workers like a bolt from to the Us energie get in in ed the blue, and raised new populist gesture awareness of the played in will "windfall profits tax' on the or the firms. monopolies. But this will be of little satis- According to opinion polls, Americans believe faction to workers who will tace 75% a steep rise in prices TOr Ene the ol monodores deroerately petrol they need to get to work created the shortages to bolster Brazilian workers revolt The dictatorship of This decision had been taken Figueiredo against the advice of the union General . Joao which after nine further shaken last was hours street fighting, one death week by a 'revolt' of some and 50 injuries, was obliged to the rank and file 20,000 construction support Horizante ¡position. workers in Belo National leaders union capital of the state of Minas Luis Macio de Silva: including Gerais. were

TOWN

The riots started after the control the strike and negotiate were locked out of workers Louis, construction stadium where Thev were ratify the mass decision taken workers in Belo Horizante are well beneath the bread line' •and call ady lo immediate strike in support of a on v 44% in the last nave sen 110% wage demand. year whilst the living cost ot Energy Carter's o anned Corporation Security Is little

THANK YOU

than straight mort

SEN KENNEDY

subsidy tor the research driu

FOR TH

development programmes of the

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oil firms. and otters them guar anteed loans, guaranteed prices

INTRODUCTION...

and guaranteed markets for Eneir outpul "Energy Mobilisa- tion Board" will supervise the railroading of plans for nuclear power plants, mining operations through existing fitsy entires synthetic Colant. mental protection laws Needless to say Ine energy monopolies are well pleased The whole plan.

WITT

response of US workers to the on their living wholésale attack standards. however, is yet to bi fully revealed the all party line- Certainly interests up in defence of the of the oil monopolies must confirm the necessity for again union movement to break its links with botn the Democratic and the Republican the fight for bartle dril formation Parti committed to the independent each day tor the oil they need interests of the working class.

for central heating. Nor does the rest of Carter's This require any hope to workers. within the unions for •an outer demands, The freezing of oil Imoort. •roaramint below the record 1977 level of including the opening day will books of the oil monopolies to easy under conditions of i electee trade union commucces recession-but that same that show that the answer to the world problems of inflation, shortages means unemployment recession and speed-up. and unem •lovment the of a 4.5 today's crisis requires a workers' And target in The nationalisation or capital through cut government per day mition barrels imports by 1990 will take place only if the oil monopolies can without comoensation unde achieve suitably high prices and workers' management the planned, socialist profit margins to make domestic tol production worthwhile. economy 'Lula' addressing a Sao Paulo mass meeting when the police rapidly moved index has risen by 55%. mobilisation. repress any Local journalists call winds City" This and Lane nave Gerai *Starvation been manifestly reluctant the desperation ot the urean intervene and some were seer masses has reached such a point that the government has deliber- I out of areas taken ove movie by rioters. ately desisted from reacting The upturn in working class for fear with combativity by initiated unleashing a city wide revolt.

workers has shown no sign of and has compelled 'slackening Ten unions in Minas Gerai: issued a communique of have plans for 'democracy in order with struggle soldaril to hold the bourgeoisie together the

EDO THOU

Constructior workers which follow that of period increasing advances by the masses. teachers rage s Bolivia election heralds new struggles The elections in Bolivia have ended in deadlock and put the whole proposition of "constitutionalising" the country in doubt. results give the UDP Final coalition of Siles Suazo an over.

all majority with 35.97 of Lit vote and 45 seats in parliament.

Siles was closely followed by Victor Paz's right wing AMNR with .8%—yet Paz alliance gained 59 seats in the congres sional poll. Ex-dictator Banzer 13.5% and 24 seats Outside of the bouraeois the small Partido parties, Socialista of Marcelo Santa Cruz won six seats and 4.070 o: lne national vote Padilla Santa Cruz received the belated support or trotskyists the faction of the 'United' Fourth internationa Vanguardia Obrera Comunista Communist Vanguard led by 11001 one per cent of the poll and gained a seat electoral stalemate has predictably deepend political crisis in Bolivia.

proclaimed that widespread fraud had taker Then he and Siles sat place down to discuss coalition whilt the new assembly attempts 'elect' a president President, current General Padilla, has hinted at a 'run off' between the two MNR mandarins Block roads Meanwhile Siles' peasant have threatened Supporter. anc olock rodos Inte raz blima or citi sa declared B

TUC

declared a (Bolivian general strike One 'pressurize the electoral court to announce Siles as the victol This action has been stead by the pro. fastly opposed pathetic manoeuvres within and alliances bourgeois parties have credibility amongst the working class evident the Bolivian capitalist class cannot but equally it manage elections other wel 'solution' involving the army trenchantly resisted by will be the masses. Put on trial commander Indeed the Army has been sufficiently cowed to suggest that Banzer be put on trial for the crimes of his dictatorship the There is no doubt that crisis will deepen for even if a finally selected in an hetero- orderly manner, the very geneity party allances. the critical state of the economy and the continued mobilisation the masses unreatel ture wholesale collapse of the electoral manoeuvre

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LAHAR, RATION

DRE TA EST

Summer School marks step forward in fight for Fl The third annual Inter- British Labour Party School, national Summer context held by, the Workers Social- political and material conditions ist League in the last week facing Trotskyists at that time of July, marked a new step with a view forward in the struggle for weaknesses of the Healy leader- the reconstruction of the snio waiea or course ds since Fourth International. degenerated to addition strong attendance memoers supporters of the WSL itself, Iraqi Ba'athist hangmen. drew international tne Adaptation delegations Trom Ine

UDA

Greece, Denmark: Turkey Zionist-occupied Spain and sion palestine as wen as memoers or method and the newly formed Workers Party

OCI,

-the latest grouping to emerge British degenerated TrOm The neconstucuon Workers Revolutionary Party.

Fourth Method characteristic blend of sectarian discussion ism and opportunist adaptation first dav's centred on what was to become much theme nationarist Cutters out, and its entirely opportunist throuch ine schooline 5: concept sity for a grasp of the Marxist method of dialectical material- detalied in Was On the Friday ism revorutionaries art tives understand and intervene USFI 'Bolshevik Faction' and the inviter to contrioute in a mao contradictory discussion international ciass struggie The second lecture, on the tric economic international rourin inter nationdt general •rouonT Analysis examination The warxist Sois eint amitic main some of ariaryols extensive teatures or tne bost-war Doult period and the way In wnich USFI's main contained the contradic- these TIons wn'Cr congress. seeds the present Crisis The The discussion made it clear documents contribution ints anaisis on sever and the questions it raised mark important starting point for further detailed analysis of the wa constes development of the crisis.

Vietnam and Assessment defeat of imperialism in ana videa's mutary the arencont assessent Argentina; the various currents that navt Spain; emerged from the post-war crisis International- the Fourth beginning Healyite however WIth Ine International Committee.

IMG

ledolno A report based on new work the origins and early work of the British section of the I€ nis contribution the contradic- revealed clearly Divert tions present winnin Ine

DOS.

International as a whole, and highlighted the damage and Instead he divert the onsortentation orouent aboul o adoption revisionist exercise Stalinism class lines" positions According Secretariat the curovcall Fourth Internationa Toowine Tito's break with Stalin 1948. The entry work carried out by the Healy group inside the be regarded as revolutionary.

Through this crude sleight of the Grogan oniective hand accounting political evaot any for the positions of the LOrI and substitute an , organisational assessino Ent strengths and or not the WSL and its co-thinkers snoure be a faction within the USFI.

point the His problem in doing so acting today as the most servile the ot course comoounde• oy political crisis now reallullaty growing emerging within the ranks of the us- tset isee centre dages) Saturday saw more detailed astrongiot the political examination The fourth day saw a discus- for political history, analysis ane programme in •relano ano in Iran. the dominant And on the final day of the grouping in the Organisation for under discus school une issue sion was the construction or an International (OCRFI). international tendency to carry The OCl's long-standing and for fight Torwara continuity and development or Trotsky's Transitional to world social democratic and Programme in opposition to the drawn vvas opportunism sectariamsil displayed by the main tenden- international work world Trotskyist the the discussion. Cies movement. reoresenta , which had tabled

IMG

and the as the initial basis for that dis- were programmatic CUSSIOn oral statement, proposed to take the the positions of initiative with the launching of Secretariat of the discussion internationa bulletin, and suggested that the debates and amend- programmatic the Vicites international The main report centred on o attorim analysis the tendency should oroceel with the perspective of rapidly, inadecuacies a conference to adopt a finalised documents its forthcoming eleventh world platform by the end of 1979.

This perspective was warmly endorsed by international dele taifure ot the present and points calluls. firmly forward to the broaden.

major for fight the political turns and de velopments • I00 Ine to have occurred since their last reconstruction OT The International in the months (Portugal h. the deteat ormoertaism ir Cambodia; Angola the role of Cuba in Africa; Coue upheavals Soweto events South Africa: and the threat o fascism in Turkey) was matched failure of Brian Grogan to discuss any of those questions in the 45 minutes of attempted discussion into an "drawing simoly Grogan, matter how confused, wang or incocouate une positions or lne USFI in major class struggles, so OCI leader Lambert actually had not crossec class ines unen luna le

MOBILISE LABOUR

MOVEMENT FOR

TROOPS OUT!

For the group of cynical within the workers movement, US bourgeois politicians in a committee including delegates Congressional trom a number or trade unio!

the ad-hoc bodies in the Oxford area has Committee on Irish affairs, commenced led by Congressman Mario Ireland. Biaggi, the ban on arms sales Entitled War! the Royal Ulster to the first issue features a tran Constabulary was a handy SCriO1 mal or electioneering manoeuvre.

Ireland given Gallagher at the highly success has been hut mne ourcomme once again to point the finger at the conference on Ireland in May.

of international opinion The committee systematic torture ana laltreal ment of republican prisoners by conoucle• a oublicity candardl the RUC in Britain's most long- to mobilise forces on the 'troops out' contingent on the 'running •anC (corolla war the US decision no longer to demonstration anti-imperialist supolv the RUC with additional supplies of the within Ireland itself is piainly or etha Harry" Magnum pistols and high the rise, rifles they have oowered of course be cir. (orgereo can tr aut cumvented by placing orders for that the fight equipment elsewhere. But the renewed blow to the international : standing and the 'impartial" carefully cultivated • image of the sectarian RUC is not so easily undone. Duty The irony is that this attack come not from the British nas labour movement, whose duty is unmistakeably possible alongside the ever was Irish people to torce the witn. • drawal of the British occupation forces from the six counties, but trom ca est bocan en ce USA who stand fundamentally opposed working class In Britain both* Labour and lory polticians nave maintain their reactionary "bipar- tisan" line endorsing every aspect ot bruis military terror in Ireland a bid to challenge this and to raise the issue of Ireland The eviction of the Huntley St. squatters any trade Following the evic- students involved tion of the Huntley St. tions. squatters last August, Piers Corbyn was sentenced on June 13 to 28 days in prison under police thugs the 'Criminal Trespass up the Huntley St. squat.

Law'. As the leaflet says: 160 At present he is out on 'The children bail pending his appeal and which will be heard Tuesday August 14. Now a leaflet issued by police the Huntley Street Defence Committee has called for a demonstration outside the (for

SPG

that day COUt details see below). shields leaflet out truncheons. points - ne has "This took that this conviction important implications for SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 August 1979 .

force the immediate withdrawa of British troops from Ireland i taker In rouctou workers' movement. publication of What War? speect by krencan has also August ¡reland Under conditions where the movement The Oxford bulletin- • are laken D copies available from unionists elsewhere, and Socialist Press

*TROOPS OUT

NOW!

IRELAND

Defend Piers Corbyn the had gained unionists, squatters agreement that they would community all be rehoused." It is clear that Corbyn is being made an example of The 28-day sentence was handed down in response to in order to deter others tactic of- choose the corbyn s Inrowing a buckel of water over the rampaging occupation to defend their who smashed living standards and COll ditions. Socialist Press calls on trade and Labour living in the Party branches to pass resol- block in London WC1 were evicted by a force of 650 utions demanding the dropping of the case against "The attack was led by 5 Corbyn and to support the JCB bulldozers which broke demonstration on August down the barricades and the 14 *Demonstration starts at police who carried riot Knights- 10 outside and bridge Crown Court, 1 Hans Knightsbridge, place even Crescent, (beside Harrods). though on the previous day

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 August 1979 In the midst of a gather- ing recession, world has Tory government embarked on policies that will devastating create the British slump

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And while certain sections of British canitalism-in barricular the and certain big monopolies-teel contident that they actually strencinen their position, boost profits and grow tatter despite this threat.

ening sumo other. weaker. sections are far less enthusiastic.

lIcy cuts in public expenditure and the consequent wholesale unemployment the increase in of prosoect Tamine mar Kels falling profits and eventual ruin.

Threat to profits Other sections of capitalists, dependent for their profits see the i ory Har Kels. policy or keeping ine value ol the pound artificially high in the markets as a

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ex late threat to their profitability.

The higher the value of the more British exports pound, the Cos Ine worle market This not only makes them the less competitive o1 intertational con- petitors, out aiso because orInis makes much harder for employers to pass on the effects of British inflation in increased onces-inus turther soveezino profit exported goods. ins. soueeze is not merer affecting small producers.

Top of both ICI managers ano courtauies nave lake news conferences recently Oct 28 march against Corrie The

TUC

General Council has called 28 'on October a national demon- anti- the Private Members abortion Bill currently being moved by Tory James Corrie. This major step the forward struggle Hoose une

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labour movement in opposition this of legislation piece which. if enacted. would dram.

atically cut the number of legal abortions performed below even present a couce mone. But as previous occasions have shown, TUC support does itself suricent turn out on the cav: it is now up to trade unionists and Labour Party members •ranches an banners in a massive show of strength.

That strength must also be directed against those redcuon ary Labour MPs who abstained voted in favour of Corrie's its Second Reading if Parliament. The demand from trade

GMC

Labour alike must be that the Labour Party lays down 3-line whip MPs

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oppress and enslave working women. crass the policy spelled Instedd out to fight for the must be right free demand-the only policy that can otter women the Dasic right to control their own bodies and protect their own health.

Pound soars: business slumps fight new attacks Currency traders warn of the damaging impact of 'strong their pound export laue.

•OINT

OUT

ThaT they stand to gain £2½ million from every one cent ycal ase ne varue or le boune- since their imported raw materials become cheaper-they Mona osu sales as a result of their prices being pushed up in the highly comertive chem cas market.

Increasingly top employers are possible modern German and Japanese industries Compele electively their high valued currencies, Tol British is ustry like altitude period high Trainine tor alneles. in amed doses it can aid fitness; but if carried on for too long it results in collaosel Yet the Tories show no sign of seeking alter the present Situation I ne гесого leve interest rates that have acted as magnet for Trom cur over tne worla ano unus driven up the value the pound to be maintained- and some bankers are even spec.

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Inev ruse further. Not deterred Nor does the impact this is having on sections of industry Workers must deter the Tories from their high Hee policy we cy see as part of tneir strategy to curb inflation They plainly regard the exoosure to the full brunt of international competition as a necessary form 'cold turkey' withdrawal of heroin from a long-time addict.

Rationalisation The Tories look the to 'strong pound' spur employers in each industry to new and urgent steps to increase ane through rationalisation speed up-and thus drive up the rate or bront ts no coincidence that Courtaulds and CBI spokesmen nave a concue ten moans and about the 'strong Groans pound firm with statements That efficiency" the point production. The Tories in other words are using the strength of sterling speed up the process 'natural selection in industry, weaker least efficient, most antiquated seich will inevitably go British capitalism,

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wal-at une cost ot thousands of jobs. 952 Mixed feelings in the Stock Exchange Page 5 But the paradox is that they consciously doing this die present з1 The expense of ne balance payments-since modern attractive, relatively cool. are Nade cheaper by ine strengin or toe pound. Imported cars last month Took over on or aritisn sales. other imported goods are out selling their British competitors oom on orite ano duality.

The Tories' purge in other be and words ruthless to Thoroun--ano one trom woe all but the most determined to pull inclined employers A new aevastaring stump at a time o1 The only way forward under BP, British Airways BrITIS world-wide recession. Aerospace, chunks of NEB hold- such concitions is tor workers This accounts for the gather- to wage the most tenacious fight British an rope ne -through strikes, occupations owns care tUST some industrialists as reneceon une plum offerings being sold off by ane mass class action-to detec CB!'s latest quarterly survey. the Tories existing jobs, public services anc predicts further drop which living standards, and to prepare No such options are available erun on cabildi to the working class. The future for the (to around 3%), a decline in for workers if the Tories are sary to bring down the Thatcher industrial activity and a drop in gang of bankers and profiteers.

Inesire lovesument over unt is absolutely frightening next year. Unemploymo will Socialism soon inflation Frighteningly bad Tedcl continues to soar unabated. On This requires the construc- the shop floor, savage and des- Sir tion Chancellor, aven tne employers will be waging capable advancing clear Geoffrey Howe has been berate relentless struggle take to exposes the country proclaim tha stalkino hard-won working for that sh capitalists is outtoos cola•oration or toe unon one conditions. British Labour leaders with the and directs workers employers Tentendy Dad. Signals attack the necessity for Certain toward. employers run into crisis with planned economy they are means of defendin their own companies A strong pound under the and improving the working clas Tories as the "sterling being onered Compells the tion by the Tories-the chance ' under the Labour govern- ravaces crisis into lucrative sections of capitalist class. to buy ment equally signais an attach on the working class.

PRESS

GANG

These measures turn out to recognising Muzorewa and The Commonwealth preserving the Commonwealth be an old story. The reintroduc Conference has produced a then the Commonwealth should the tior internment and state of hysteria among the be ditched physical blockading the Ireland This was a historic point for border between north news editors leader and ers we have away and Eme measures writers of the capitalist regarded the Commonwealth as which the Telegraph advocates.

press. faded reminder imperial The Observer -under Conor Britain Cruise • 'Brien

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only nave they nao lo endure the insult' of the Queen But if the bitterest pills were militantly reactionary on being swallowed in Africa the Northern Ireland as the Tele being lectured on politics by town mayor Zambia,

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anoriest ourbursts were reserved grapn-cared Ine arms dan sig they have actually received for the United States and nearer nificant and disquieting".

as the US State Depart- which clearly show acture. The oress likes the rules to Nkomo sitting in tne same room Thatcher-without apparent num revolvers and other be simple. Murderers are those weapons

RUC

in who oppose British imperialism rufflement on either part.

the Northern Ireland. such as Nkomo and the press beneath these Telegraph have different Candidly, death. that labels attached. was said: itseff , clear example in Britain the IRA sittina down with Tory "Ulster has mroved in mans ministers. They muttered about respects to be a training ground the complete •icture murderers being invited to share inestimable winter while the public value: military sector workers taking were When Botanish nily high, probably Nigeria action Day consula BP's oil production and refining because had only to hint at a decline in the only place standards for the press to indict howls where a British soldier can now the hospital workers for murder expect to hear a gun fired in • reacher a crescanco. It seemed that the Lion of anger." Joseph and winer Jenkins launch an attack Britain had travelled to darkest out it gointed to the ceclint Africa only to have its nose army recruitment, the through the the lives CUts pulled. of the IRA and and health of the working class resilience the those same have Lastly it became clear that waverine section. Tne Mrs suddenly become worldly wise British bourgeoisie as major natcher realise that the Owen Plan to danger signals. sell out the black of The Telegraph summed this masses "The only feasible atterna. up: Zimbabwe attractve "It does not need to be said features which she ought to tsued is a deliberate tive to being pursued is propaganda adopt That the hoolgan about the cuts being likely to For the Express and Mail it intensification security 200 deaths, cause take Both campaign plus politica measure

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much. off kidney reached the same conclusion on designed to emphasise Ulster's machines same day status as an integral part of the and so on is pure agitprop for the choice lay between so unwary.

The "United' Secretariat Indo-China war Page 6 This is the first of a series of articles about the maior political and theoretical crisis in the USFI promoted by the recent wars in South East Asia.

The main sources on the dispute, which will be referred to in the articles are the following: political resolutions which counterposed appeared Intercontinental Press/Inprecor of June "The Sino-Indochinese crisis" (Statement of the "New Advances in the Indo- rourth International and revolution and Imperialism's Response" (United cannese Secretariat Minority resolutions).

2. The main theoretical articles to date are: Fred Feldman. Fall of Pol Pot Regime", Mili- "Behind Part One Last December's full- scale invasion of Vietnam, Kampuchea and China's subsequent partial invasion of Vietnam, events of profound dre significance for the working class of the world, and therefore for the Trotskyist hovelicil Although bitter conflict between deducts claiming States communist is nothing new- and has led isolated of to conflict-the armed new South East Asia conflicts are the first examples of all- out between such wals Stalls. "Freedom" On many occasions workers one OI county sent to kill and have been wound workers of another both sides only. the name of "freedom" and "democracy". On a shame- fully high number of occasions "socialist" leaders nave ecnoed anese independently dispatched their followers kill „LU workers in the interests of "socialism" while their "comrades" in other the countries same. 010 Now in South East Asia, for the first time this scale- anything like times foreshadowed-the "communist" leaders of two states have called on thei own workers to kill "enemy the name "communism". world scale. The Fourth International The wars therefore mark, was in this way the contin- if not a state of the degeneration Stalinism, then шнo orne and the Third Bolshevism alemic new exoresson ol that degeneration, International its early and one years, of the principled fight raises appalling possibility of to create new workers states more through socialist revolution destructive events the to lay the hasis for a world same kind the future. In Sale based on planned Leadership a world economy and thus found a Such prospects underline historical epoch

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the fact that the building of which wars would be eliminated revolutionarv and Cass leadership the exploitation definitively working class the most vital ended. is ne task of our epoch. Trotsky and hiscomradesof the Left Phyiscal defence Oppposition founded unle Fourth to As part of the fight for menalola objective Trotskyists, oronGe suca which the one reflected utterly hostile to pacifism, independence of the have supported the physical working class, both from cent or ven generalea the bourgeoisie from and deformed workers the Stalinist bureaucracy, states, against imperialism. which therefore But and also Have believed that represented the struggle tne •DicCuve unity of that class for socialist property licw 19 1979 reprinted in Intercontinental Press/ lanı Jan Inprecor, Jan. 22 1979. "Socialist Revolution in Vietnam", Inter- Fred Feldman. April 1979, national Socialist Review.

reprinted in Inter- continental Press/Inprecor, April 9, 1979: Steve Clark, "Imperialism Workers of the World" VS. Militant March 23'1979, also reprinted in Intercontinental Press/ Inprecor, April 9, 1979; Ernest Mandel, "Behind Differences on Military Conflicts in Southeast Asia" Intercontinental Press/ Inprecor, April 9 1979. Steve Clark, Fred Feldman, Gus Horowitz and Mary- Alice Waters, "War and Kevolution in indochina- Wha Policy for Revolutionists?". Intercontinental Press/Inprecor July 16 1979. Khmer Rouge troops welcomed as liberators in Phnom Penh after defeat of Lon Nol puppet regime forms would take the form advocated by Lenin and the Bolsheviks in relation to the a vasiols capitalist states by workers' intercapitalist war of states; such a perspective of building the revolution was explicitly repudiated by Class nature Lenin even in the case ofa The problem which was workers state that had not posed for the world working become Dureaucraticall degenerated. It applies with class, and hence for Trotskyists, the redoubled force to Stalinist-ruled state. and perhaps continuing wars We believe that it is also were 1n several: to understand how implicity in the tradition the Bolshevik Party and the claiming be stales socialist in nature could go Left Opposition that, in a to war with each other; to struggle between ouredu- cratic rules of two workers understand the class true ot thoses states: to states, ll is lne lask or ine flat ult workers on each side not to understand the and Tole interests of the rulers of the kill each other in the name and in the of "communism states involved and the interest of parasitic contradictions between

LWO

these interests and those of but rather to Castes find the road to the unity of class working oppressed and workers

DOLHI

countries Masses and the destruction of the find a clear political road bureaucracies. which expressed the policy independence and unity of reques the working class to make analogous the revolutionary defeatism concrete the struggle against By Henry Phillips Mandel both bureaucratic rule and against imperialism In other words, the task to apply new situation the . world the lessons obtained from the theoretical struggle of Trotsky and the founders of Fouth International the counter- revolutionary historical role of the Stalinist bureaucracy, about class nature ruled by that Slales bureaucracy, and about the necessity for a strategy and political tactics of revolution. History Since its foundation the Workers Socialist League has struggled to understanc these apply them in today's conditions As part of that struggle we have examined the history of the Fourth International since Trotsky's death SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 August 1979 Continually faced with new Stalinism developments in and world revolution since World War Two, those who claim to be Trotskyists have had to face such questions over and over especially in the immediate post war period in relation the of developmeni Stalinist in Eastern Europe, and then again in Chinese relation to the revolution of 1949 and the later. Significant All these events provoked major discussions and disagreements in the Trotskyist and movemenI led to the most significant of the Trotskyist movement's many splits and fewer fusions. We have been forced to conclude that the basic political problems to which these developments gave rise remained unresolved have in the Trotskyist movement And it is that fact which stands at the root disintegration of the Fourth International organisational autonlalve centre of world revolution In the treatment of these major events by the leaders of movements claiming adherence to Trotskyism characteristic have emerged: tenuencies on the one hand a tendency to adapt and in some to. cases to give revolutionary credentials to, the Stalinist bureaucracy (and sometimes non-proletarian to other forces as well); and on the other hand a tendency to adhere rigid which can see today's events only repeats of yesterday's Adaptationist There are occasions when we have argued (as in 1953 Pablo threatened to WIel liquidate the programme of the Trotskyist movement in Stalinist into the parties) that the organisa- tional consequences of the adaptationist position were in their implica- tions that the resistance to them by the Committee should be defended, even though the theoretical basis of that was woefully resistance inadequate and failed to be further developed And we have always seen as a landmark lone of theoretical unsalm ament Trotskyist movement the "reunification document of 1963 basis of on the which the 'United' Secretariat of the Fourth International estantsned Liquidation It is a document and an ag cell waich we regard as Pabloite, , in the sense that the opens way to the liquidation revolutionary programme by recognition of the petty bourgeois Castro leadership in Cuba 'unconscious Trotskyist' leadership.

USFI,

According to the the Cuban revolution "logic" the of Into ced permanent revolution, and the task of Trotskyists was carry through the 80 I fight for Trotskyist parties on the Marxist programme

splits wide open over SOCIALIST PRESS. Wednesday 8 August 1979 but to "combine with" the the leaders' subjective need forces of Castroism than any 10T This of many resolution of the theoretical one examples argument

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Over Trotskyists', not only of the allowed questions, SWP.s "orthodoxy" USFI, have under-estimated the to historical the role of the triumph and the guerrillaist role the strategy to be abandoned in revolutionaly bureaucracy, Lam Ammencd. Reunification' world some spontaneous "logic" A new reunification' of the warring actions took USFI in 1977 the place the inadequate and partial sett basis (prevented Amentall criticism of their guerrillaist by leationary Fourth by the former the DolleT International Majority (We flavt analysed this in our docu- "The Poisoned Well"). consequences the pro- ment Castro The leaders of the of the two USFI- the factions seem also to have turn 9th World the agite not lo go over again the which had issues

SWP

But, the sharply divided them Portugal in 1975. party This agreement, under express independent which the

SWP

and the interests of working Majority International class in America. dissolved their factions, was Grande north the cemented togetner di the forthcoming 11th World petty Congress of the USFI. But, bourgeois The SWP's the theoretical emptiness orthodoxy the documents for that selecive Congress demonstrate. the with adapta- leading groups of urge the world Trotskyist move- establish organisa- ment to tional has been allowed to take precedence In fact over the real need for con- tinuous theoretical rearma- ot the revolutionary mell movement. occasions. inevitably more in 1963 and 1977. the two aulu leading groups in the leader- of the USFI (the SWP ship aid to the the one side and ine Mandel, the section around comprehension Frank and others. the processes other) have tried to get their marriage to coincide with a objective world. To the world funeral, or perhaps a less of the burial, merely words that froze profound theoretical issues had previously ludicrous make divided them. assumption had these Theoretical problems have continued to assess the But whether these world the leaders face up to it or not, sallle Leillls they did when they were in the fact is that the building part of it and fighting of a Trotskyist leadership in TaCL world still to change it. Ene today In the USFI it was the depends on real steps being disasters of experience, and taken to resolve those theor- words opposite the subject four leading

SWP

acknow- 'Two Yes. theorenca ln walle in the world the first the since opening of War of such untal magnitude arisen national." 16.7.79, p.701) that from the have tell their kill followers The Cuban revolution other Ine section in name of etical problems. The tragic events of South East Asia in stark months where worker kills "democrats", the leadership of that ot "com "socialists" "commun- munists shows how urgeni that need is the have not The USFI today is by far the largest of the organisa the world today claiming he Trotskyist. of this The diametrically opposed positions emanating from inside the of Iorce vamous sectons South organisation the discussion theoretical East Asian wars shows how far it is from having resolved The now any of the major theoretical problems facing trotskyists and therefore how far it is which the the to offer the trom beino able Workers League Sociall lead which has been attempting to raise revolutionary could provide way for the last four years and forward based on the inde- begin to answer as part of pendence unity of the the theoretical rearmament dilu working class. necessary to the reconstruc- of the Fourth Inter- national Workers state Among the issues which have already entered this dispute (though some im plicit cases in all distorted form) are: What is a workers' state? How is a workers state created? Is the creation deformed OI workers' states fundamen- tally different from the creation of healthy workers™ states? Does Stalinist the bureaucracy play a partly progressive or totally tionary historical role? What conflicts accounts for between the bureaucratic leaderships workers 01 Castro states? What are the conse- quences of these conflicts?

The Indo-Chinese events Does the Stalinist bureau- have hit the

USFI

like cracy preserve or endanger socialised property forms?

basis of 'unity' provided by These are the same ques- American the Latin self- tions which arose in the criticism and the agreement theoretical and political to forget about Portugal.

debates in the Trotskyist movement after World War The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia Il and in the lead-up to the provoked 1953 split. sharper counterposition They are the same ques- between

SECLOS

USFI

leaders than tions which ever were Taised before. alter ine cuban revolution The SWP 1959 supports and Tne whin Vietnamese invasion; the dominated the discussions

USFI

of the majority advance SWP's around the European leadership oppose return to the Pabloite fold in 1963. it, and call lor Vietnamese

USFI

drawal of In the they troops from Kampuchea emerged again Latin America, Portugal and more The two sides in other recently ism" "Trotskyist" To questions. "reunifica- The

USFI,

tion" for such not menI are, we have always mental for must and in to changing the historical socialist movement War II, give satisfac tions. of the WSL, is one of the main reasons why they have contributed to the destruc of the Fourth Inter- tion national as an authoritative centre of world revolution- ary leadership. We must therefore accept certain sense 1t as positive that the discussion of these fundamental theor- etical questions is being re- opened within an organisa- which since its forma- tion tion has been more respon- sible for suppressing their discussion SWP leader Barnes But the USFI leaders have not been converted in a positive way to the virtue: of this theoretical debate. It has been forced upon them by the evident concilability of the post- tions which have been taken up on the question of the Indo-Chinese wars. In his main contribution to the discussion far, SO Ernes uses vance revealing word Referring to the disagree- ments in the USFI over the Vietnamese of says that: Kampuchead he "their political implica- tion with regard to further developments in relation to armed conflict ruling bureaucracies workers states are not clear This is potentially dange. especialv because

COT

the possibility of armed struggle between the Soviet Union the Peoples and Republic of China. the underlying Moreover. theoretical questions are of importance (and, one case, of such novelty) that a thorough discussion them become Page 7

UNAVOIDABLE."

(ICP 9.4.79, p. 335, our emphasis) But the theoretical dis- which this jagged CUSSIOn rip in the political fabric of USFI has the allowed show through, demonstrates the vast distance between ceasing to avoid the ques- beginning tions and to resolve them From the contributions so far clear that the 1S long theoretical disarma- ment of the Trotskyist movement has left the USFI with no agreed positions on the basic theoretical which have • emerged in the period since World War Il We illustrate this cal. point in concluding this ini- summarising some of the present dispute, raising points, all of which we intend to discuss more systematically In the late articles in this series We find the two sections of the USFI leadership in disagreement what took place in Kam- puchea after the defeat of the Lon Nol regime and the departure of the imperialists in 1975. The discord is not much about tacts as to how interpreted they are to be Hrnest Mandel and thi USFI majority says that a workers' state was estab- The SWP leaders say lished. that Pol Pot set up a reac- tionary capitalist state which came to agency of imperialism the ditterence between the interpretation events Kampuchea takes us at once to a more fundamental difference- about wilal a workers state is, and what is the nature of process which workers state is established under Stalinist Deficiency A dispute exists between the two sides as to whether i what defines a workers state the not the overtArOw state previous apparatus even advance of any transformation taking place in property forms (Mandel's position), whether workers state is only estab- Calls! class has been expropriated (the SWP's position). This dispute in itself is not the fundamental one; our ll reveals a aencienc both sides are in the way attempting resolve the to dictio. question-through nary definitions rather than understand dia- complex lectical processes. Another question raised by the discussion what is the signifi- helen deformed cance corkers state? or, to prut it there another way, is fundamental qualitative difference between the healthy formation …oI workers state and the form- ation of a detormed workers state? argue emphatically But on this that there Is. crucial question both sides in the USFI dispute seem to 'be saying clearly implying that such a qualita- tive difference either doesn't exist, or else it is of incidental importance Continued next week

WAR AND THE

INTERNATIONAL

To mark the centenary of the birth of Leon Trotsky, Socialist Press is publishing a series of 16 articles to review and present the importance of many of Trotsky's major writings.

Writing in 1933 The Trotsky argued: against. the "The basic historic merely fact that crime of the parties of millions workers the Second Internation- marched their deaths, with al their consists in fostering and strength- ening the slavish habits that they marched and of traditions the oppressed in neutraliz- agreement ing their revolutionary indignation and falsify- ing their class conscious- ness with the aid of 1914 the patriotic ideas. German Democratio "If European the (Parliament) favour proletariat did not over- granting war credits throw the bourgeoisie at for German necessar the the end of great if war, humanity Democratic writhes now in the agonies of the crisis; if the of danger will we leave a new war threatens to transform cities and villages into heaps of vote the war ruins-the chief respon- credits." sibility for these crimes parallel by the and calumnies falls on the Second Internation- parties, SuDOOSCUEV al." "Marxist" In his work, War and the internanonal, written in the Autumn of 1914, Trotsky fundamental analysed the circumstances and likely consequences of Communist this gross, barbaric betrayal.

Manifesto "The The pamphlet is, course, 110 austracl analysis. only: the national of Trotsky's struggles is full of fire, writings it counties, rage, invective and emotion.

Speaking the the front common aDOUT- war question in the pages of Vorwaerts, the paper of the German Social nationality. Democratic Party, he writes: "This is simply a case of ulcer of slavish senti. all bursting open ments and foul pus that: This split the Second crawling over the pages of the working men's International into press. ilalona cables "It This capitulation clear that the to 1S oppressed which not got. imperialist pressures drew a class slowly between and Ine, a class line. proceeds inertly on its toward political the Second International way must and Marxism. freedom must the final hour drag all its hopes and Trotsky promises through mire and Lenin, Luxem- and blood before there arises in bourg, Kollontai And its with its soul the only a handful of supporters pure, unim- peachable stood side on one oi that by of revolutionary honour. line facing and fighting the traitors. "Trotskv however never when stops at the level of rage and proclaims: however scorn. "Let the classes condemn the enough betrayal: it tremble at was important Communis to understand it, to under- have stand its material roots.

lose but He utilises them for their This was the task under- chains. They have political his world to win. taken by Trotsky in War purposes-and Working political purpose as early the of all and International. Autumn 1914 was to fight Trotsky argued that the for the resurrection of the betrayal did proletarian internationalism.

not lie in the mistakes and Second how- This basic ever wickedness and 10102 the Marxist movement was faults of the leaders of the indeed dragged mire Second International, but in and blood, im paled against fundamental the proletariat the conditions of DarDed wire struggle the entire battlefields and drowned in epoch. the trenches of the first ism. It was rooted in the very Karl Marx material factors that had led to the war itself. The war was a result of the economic rivalry produced by the crisis of capitalism. This epoch, the epoch of, as Lenin puts it, "wars and revolutions" saw the capitalist search for world markets turn into the fight between HAHO SLALe for economic for markets dominance in the aog-eat- dog' world of inter-imperial- ist rivalry. The war, Trotsky "economic stressed, was rivalry under the banner of militarism. Imperialism is not how- ever a phenomenon whose impact is restricted to the ruling class. Trotsky's contribution in this pamphlet is to explain: "the dependence of the proletarian class movement, particularly in its economic conflicts, upon the scope and the imperialistic policy of the state." The proletariat, seeking to becomes a national epoch national ground, tion, ariat, ditions other failures policies of ments." English SOlSC COME which iat, waters The movement evolved under the ane movement openly Di Parkin reviews Trotsky's pamphlet The War and the International. medium of the Liberal Party. The leadership of the German workers mOve however, which had ment, initially mide pen- was pushed by dent party, logic of its identical the material dependenc on imperialism into an identical Comanoe "The political struggle of the German proletariat in this entire period the had same opportunist characte limited by historical conditions as did that of the English proletariat. This had taken the form earlier of the emergence of Bernstein's revisionist con- ceptions-vigorously in What opposed by Lenin Is To Be Done? Bernstein denied the revolutionar content of Marxism, and in substituted its conditions particulal vision of gradual reforms for the the need and ta Delet destroy the old capitalist At first this state machine. took place on Tied to legality, to the but the nation state, the parties of the Second International, "Marxist" their passed owever rhetoric, in practice aban- doned the road of revolu- imperialistic tion and abandoned the produc working class imperial- into direct market However Trotsky's pamphlet no depressing chronicle of betrayal: "We revolutionary fundamental Marxists have no cause for proletariat despair The into epoch which we are now entering will be our epoch. Marxism is not defeated. proved The lesson Trotsky draws firmly trom , the of the foreign experience is that: "Socialist reformism has govern- actually turned into socialist imperialism." aristocracy The booklet goes on to advocate demands for inter- nationalists to fight on: *Immediate cessation of the war. *No reparations. long *The right every nation to self determina considerably tion *The lot of the Socialist United States Europe-without monarchies, without stand- ing armies, without ruling feudal castes, without secret diplomacy. On that basis-posing the alternative between permanent war or perman- revolution-Trotsky ent labour maintained that the banner had however of Marxism could and unstained. This pamphlet written marched three years before the Bol- banner sheviks, guided by an inter- nationalist policy, seized power in Russia, is of great importance. Trotsky's work is part of the process where- Com- new. munist International was to but the be built in 1919. with the workers' the

LET TURKEY BECOME

ANOTHER CHILE!

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 August 1979

CAMPAIGN:

In view of the seriousness of the political crisis now facing the Turkish working class, the Workers Socialist League Summer School res- olved to launch an internat- ional the campaign workers' movement. The object of this cam- highlight the paign Is lo danger of a fascist catast- Turkey. rophe in 'and to bring maximum internat- ional pressure to bear on the Turkish CP, Labour Party and trade unions to break from their Popular Front with Ecevit and initiate united front offensive against the fascists. The campaign was launched on the following resolution:

FROM

ECEVIT

AND HIS GENERALS!

*FOR

WORKERS

AND

PEASANTS GOVERNMENT IN

TURKEY!

The deepening world econ- OmiC

CTISIS

гетестес with special intensity in Turkey The Turkish bourgeoisie and the imperialists increasinery forced to abandon the perspec- tive of class rule based upon the ana metnoas bourgeois democracy. • They turn instead towards solutions of the military-tascist type timid impotence finds As The widesoread and oitter struggle of the proletariat is met its most rotten expression in the and bullets of uncritical to une lascisl LeTTOr. une replacement •ouroeois are ot ecevit bourgeois democratic forms Ecevit came to ano by the naked armed dictatorship holds today, due lal yely capital placed treacnerous 'progressive democracy' 'demo. The perfidious cowardice of peaceful co. of the Turkish misleaders Ene Stalinists workers takes on two Dasic Chat• acteristics in the face of this life The

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has proven itself and death struggle. On the one convictely in une tace on demands from the and nand Ine reTornists Stalinists sabotage all indepen- imperialist of the finance Labild the other they on the basic rights and masses. and attacks cling on to the wagon of bour- conditions of the toilers. As the geois democracy as it plunges terror wiccased. sc into the abyss. nave Ine allacks or the demo Iran: free socialist Resolution adopted

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Summer School, July 29, 1979. The

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International Summer School: 1) protests against the con- tinued ot mem - and Ders Hanz-k aroaran -e peasants rank Sosialist (Socialist soldiers to defend the indepen- Iran dent political interests of and demands muba tate and masses. •a or the strudale workers and peasants «tona release TOr 2) demands also the ending and the overthrow of Khomeini and the mullahs.

of numerous repressive wacourts now beme taken « T condemns Tae arorary Iranian government against and reactionary actions of the The so-called revolutionary tribunals participated in the overthrow of murder and violent intimidation une rantavi dictatorship, such as the Fedayin Khala, of homosexuals and prostitutes, against movements the as part of the regime's reaction- Islamic campaign against national autonomy ano Set: determination, well as the 'vice" ending widespread 5) These repressive actions form part of the Khomeini- allacks cele made on tne ronts of women; Bazargan regime's determined 3) declares its support for •reservato or ca•tast exolo.

the tation Iran. This school continued strucole or tee Iranian workers, peasants and for every democratic independent struggle the

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• it cans vor une estdousa ano o poressed ment of a constituent assembly masses against this regime and alected by universal suffrage.

against capitalism Iran. The At the same time we support morests or tre can be secured only through the une building or democratically elected of workers fight to replace present Turkish state repression-aimed mainly at the left darlings of the Stalinists.

Ecevit and his generals have cratic While 1800 workers and left- stepped up attacks on the work.

ists been killed have Cras. recent vermin, devaluation of the Turkish lira nand the including the 120 slaughtered in and the voice beer silenced through the banning o the workers' press duction martial Yet Stalinists of and Kurdish cities, mostly reformists still preach in the renance Ecevit's 'democracy' to the Town tie cat workers. Thus the proletariat- Arrested

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TOrCe T081 social power and weight to place On May Day 1979-the itself the head international day of the working oooresser masses resistance workers, to fascism-is left disorientated class-thousands including leaders of DISK and and open to demoralisation by the Turkish Labour Party, were

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Crimila DonCies leadership. arrested by the army The attacks of the bourgeois- passed without serious le have oroletarian resistance. Cut Ine working class has not yet been defeated On contrary still has the capacity and will to crush ine tascist Threat. anoin doing so, , smash the assaults prisoners! 'democratic" the bourgeoisie. Leadership struggie against tascist catastrophe Turkey to the question reduced workers and reelme WIth revolutionary leaoersni• peasants bankruptcy construction driver despair by the policies of Ecevit soclalist economy HoW Turn Their backs or The empty promises and of bourgeois parliamentary demo- Can seek adole alternolve course. When they do not find this from the proletariat, they look to the fascists The downfall of the dictator- ship of the Shah in Iran and the upsurge of the Kurdish masses has given a new impetus to, and crealee new concitions tor. toe confidence and readiness of the working class fight. This applies especially oppressed Kurdish nationals in Turkey. The Turkish Governmen now consoires with the reaction.

ary regimes in Iran and Iraq to repress the Kurds The Turkish question todav workers' Khomeini movement.

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imperialists seek the tasCIsi Turkish than ever betore miasses more because • ot the neeo to create a new stable base for their police role in the Middle East follow revolutionary CrisIs in Iran. Their success in these plans debene. neaviv UDOr The wretched reformist and pacifist illusions sown by the Stalinist Trators. Not too late The undersioned oreanisa- say to the international tons become another The danger is great but it is too to mount the not struggle. The first step must b the independent mobilisation of mighty ane •rolerarial united front. The demand must addressed Communis Party and other workers' parties, as well as to the mass break trace unions. 'democracy'. of Ecevit and the generals which the has opened arter loar together in fighting detachments of the armed militia workers' against the fascists. Only when the oppresser see the proletariat pre masses pared to fight for victory.

• WIll they join in struggle under its leadershir The fascis monster must be and the austee through the militant united front of the workers, for the estabusament or a workers ane poor peasants government which will end the rotten capit thi aust system inar oroouces crisis and fascism, once and for all. Deadly blow fascist victory in Turkey would dear a deadly blow to the international working class especially downtrodden masses in the Middle East. struggle for defence and solidar- ity with the workers today is a vital part of the world struggle against imperialism. The Page 9 Victims of the Kahramanmaras slaughter undersigned orean sations launch an appeal: not become

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another Chile! Workers and youth inter- nationally, fight in vour organ. solidarity Isations tor concrete and warn of the fascist dangers in Turkey. fascist-military repression in Turkey. For militía in worker. Turkey. Arms and aid to the Turkish workers organisations--black military supplies to the Turkish Down with Ecevit, Ba'athis and Khomeini oppression of the Kurdish nation-for self-deter. mination and independent Kurdish state Break from Ecevit and his generals. For a workers and peasants govern a Turn Trotskyist For Turkish party, section of a reconstructed Fourth International! Workers Socialist League (Britain. Socialist League (DC

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Communist Internationalist League (Greece) Trotskyist Workers League ivenmark, Ecevit

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INDUSTRIAL

LEARN LESSON

OF EGA SET-

BACK!

On Monday and Tuesday of last week the remaining in-patients removed were from the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London. This sa carous biow to the involvement wIth une occupa longest running hospital occupa- standing egret and their to no.

agreement national tion and aiso to the standing remove tight against cuts in the nearin patients TrOm service, to which the EGA has hospital that is under threat of and focus leading veel example tor over two years Alinouan the But despite this major set- branch leadership were put in a back, the occupation is by no difficult position-where very means tina cereated remove trie tell. The out-patients department would have left them without is still patients, the medical treatment-they, and treating remaining wards every driver are That STaTIOn equipped and the staff and local be criticised for not keep- must are determined to Clust Collari

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carry on fighting. occupation committees when the instruction for the removals Campaign came touun nearby st. Panca Hospital the An immelte campaion must be launched for the of the accepted patients, and for admission patients desorte TaC! Indi inci The reobenine or all ene waras fr COHSE branch has given strong the hospital. support to the occupation in the There are several reasons for Dast veds-al one side pitugnig The removal unit waliciels. indefinite strike action The occupation

ITSAIT

nas attempt was made to close the divided and confused for been

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several UUt skillful and devious tactics of Mistakes the health authorities. attempts ATel many close the hospital over the past

EGA

staff, ambulance two years, the AHA's final ploy drivers and St. Pancras workers must recognise that tney nave to reese to in or or le made the events refuse to renew or replace week's last individual doctors' contracts surrounone removals. when they expired. But if the EGA wards are to This finally resulted be reopened and if a repetition being left on wards patients • ine removais is to be avoiate with no medical cover, and the other occupied and staff could not reach agreement hospitals, then one threatened to this com- how oppose verv important lesson must De pretery carlous lackie learnt. Ambulance drivers the policies of the AHA and the Torv aovernment which removed patients— Secondly, it was ambulance not the lack of commitment ot or vers trom ne ocarcamacTI NUPE branch who carried the solidarity by health workers in despite their close Camden. Datienils.

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It is oniy Campaign change these policies that will save the EGA, a campaign tha the Will programme of cuts planned by the Thatcher government the i ne readersmy London public sector tract unions are in the best position campaign spearmedd

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But the record the ot on fighting London leadership the Tories have the cuts since office has been allukluus Despite resolutions from al least three large NUPE branches demanding that NUPE al-Londor conference discuss action against the cuts, they have not makining gee mobilising towards sley hospital against membership closures. The EGA is still in a strong position to resist closure, with a well organised occupation, active support from local hos pitals, orives the community. last Monday and But Tuesday's event! Snov Inal occupation and support from local trade unionists-no matter how wel •rean seo-is

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Tory sufficient to fight the Cuts The Torv government and health authorities will continue try to pick off isolated hos- pital and ward occupations with ease, using every devious tactic at their disposal. The onlv way to fight the cuts is to link local organisation • a massive cam- to building for OT all allion amongst health and nubild in defence workers threatened and occubted hospitals.

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Name. Address Send to Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR. The picketing of Selected Toys Ltd. at Didcot was abandoned last Friday after five solid weeks, the management carried out the closing the charade out A mass meeting of workers at the Talbot (formerly Chrysler) plant at Stoke, engine voted last Coventry Friday to continue their 3-week all-out pay strike. They have rejected derisory 5%% pay offer and incentive scheme offered by and are management, an increase of demanding around 20%. The conspicuous silence of the press and TV on this battle indicates major pay Workers Socialist League

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£1.50 £5.00 £9.00 £6.50 . £8.00 Didcot unionisation fight sold out factory under the guise of management imposed a lock-out "voluntary liquidation". on June 26. absence istrict Official Together with the branch I ne from

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District Eynan had • ensured secretary, Phil Eynan in this unionisation that virtually no meetings were tight spurred on the process o held, and that only a selected demoralisation that began when handful of strikers were kept "in the know" Off his hands It is no secret that he is now Talbot stay this trouble- well pleased that some dispute is and that the task of unionising the workers at similar firms in Diacot area nas been set Dacr by this defeat. But as soon as STL employer Young attempts to start that there is little weaken- once more TGWU production action which ing in that member. ensure began meeting with mass Eynan and the Reading District votes of upwards of 90% in are forced full-scale to mount tavour of a strike •lackine of ine plant and or ent is in spite This strength finished dartboards it produces The end marked tor se at of recent

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marked some defeats and redundancies in wa. reason by … a cance waich ln Chrysler plants and local leadership had been more right politically bankrupt and organise viliti wing leadership that has Eynan readily agreed to attend always beer reluctaul mobilise full-scale Survival Blacking " Will Survive" The ately Even now there is little courageous strikers from STL the Ryton sign that will indeed survive so long as convenors have established they remain ready to fight fo blacking of port the their rights against reactionary imported Alpine and other and mis- employers the Chrysler cars from ledaers The survival of types such a continent. Eynan, however, rests on their But the workforce ability dupe, divide and plainly remains solid in its members they betray CEnt determination. And this is supposedly represent. why the employers and the The task of the working class bated is to ensure that this survival is media wait WiTh breath for the outcome of as short as possible. this crucial strike.

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to office after five years of Labour Returned betrayals, the Tory government has immediately begun wielding a sharpened axe on jobs, conditions and social services. Trade Union rights face imminent legal' attack.

Prices are already beginning to rocket upwards.

Plum sectors of state industry will be handed to the Tories protiteering big business backers; and the pay nises to ponce dna armed forces mark only the prelude to increased state violence against pickets and anti-fascists, and an intensified army crack.

down in the accupied North of Ireland.

The Callaghan-Healey leadership has made it clear that it will opppose any perspective other than settling down and meek- And, though they have once more dusted off their near "socialist" speeches, MPs have forgotten Callaghan: continue to duck away wet any dent ledenyl TUC leaders, too, have set out to estaolish a oasis to with Thatcher and the Tory cabinet, parallelling collaboration their anti-working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan but the working class nas experienced and overcome such 194, as d smash through Calan readinary erase 4 it Phase 4 of Callaghan's reactionary wage controls in a series of monumental pay battles last winter.

These experiences are not dead. They point to the way that jobs, social services and hard won union rights can be defended against renewed Tory attacks ur traitors, iple tuc culiaborators deshieis hangersit the revolutionary leadership is needed if the Labour traitors, the communist rarty are to pe exposea and pusned aside, ano the mass struggles mobilised that can defeat. and remove the Tory government Such a leadership must fight day in and day out for a pro- gramme of transitional demands which, , starting trom today: conditions and today's consciousness within the working class, lead workers to grasp the necessity for socialist revolutior And in taking up democratic demands-such as an end to racial and sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role that must be olaved by the workino class as the only consistent ly revolutionary class capable of leading the struggle for the emancipation of mankind an internationa/ basis-mobilising Hont. on solidarity for anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles- Southern Africa or elsewhere through.

whether in Ireland, out the world, and drawing strengin, and portical lessons Iron revolutionary upheavals such as that which ousted the hated Shah in Iran This means fighting for the reconstruction of the Trotsky.

ist Fourth International trade union militancy. or concersions to any wing of thi bureaucracy, is the method fought for by the Workers Socialist League The next period will see major class struggles in Britain. A principled, Marxist leadership is essential. Our movement though programme rerhains small in numbers JOIN US and take forward the struggle for socialism!

HEALTH WORKERS PREPARE

SOCIALIST PRESS, H'ednesday 8 August 1979 Despite Terry Duffy and the of the rest, of Ship- Confederation Engineer- building and leadership's ing Union the lack of work for ban and the overtime on-day strikes in three support of the Confed the first of claim, pay the strikes was almost total success. Duffy, who lost the vote

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National the Committee when he tried to the unions' claim get claims the Towered, now success so far as his. Full claim "In excess of 6u tirms now agreed to meet have full. claim Tne dil that gratified to know also already thousands of our a 39 will be on HuC UCID hour from next wetk week." He went on to say that an all-out strike could not be ruled out, but it looks as the Confed calling only looking selective strikes. is for an £80 The claim wage for skilled with increases for HuCIE well as a 35 hour ounco as and days extra week

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holiday. The have unions indicated that they would accept a 39 hour week as a to achieving 35 hours step by 1982. The strike action is the first called by the Confed together since ban with overtime Tne means huge decrease production in many plants.

Leadership The employers are claim- ing that there is very little for the action. DUDUUlL The reality is different. Where the strike call has not been supported this has been only because of a lack.

leadership from officials and convenors who have workers back for the held last four years and now fight for an wont coll Staff at

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London hospitals have taken steps resist the to of vicious series cuts planned by the Kensington, Westminster and Chelsea Area Health Authority. At a mass meetina held or Thursday at St. Stephen's Hos- 300 pital in Chelsea, workers pledged resist tik olanied closure of six wards at the hos- pital. They voted unanimously to continue working at the hospital and to refuse to remove patients and equipment from the threat- eneo wares Earlier in the week, similar passed at resolutions were Mary's at st. wecLa! Hospital, Paddington, ana bott hospitals have elected Hospital Detence ordinate resistance to the cut- backs. Pay strike halts engineering plants official strike. Wherever a lead has been once given workers again shown their strength -repeating again the lessons of the winter's pay strikes.

Blacked Rolls Royce in Coventry, shop stewards have issued letters to

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contra tois ay blacked it blacked will goods they don't strike. In Leyland all the major factories Longoridge, Cowley, Rovers, Llanelli, Castle Lane and Drews Bromwich were out. PHOTO: John Sturrock. Repor Fraser-no call for action

TO COMBAT CUTBACKS

Despite these moves, which of reniect une arowine mutancy health workers in the area, the

AHA

begun of the iberierl auTS «ecre• au mnelr la mecl ing. On the day before the meet- tor tho emoti of plian os tom which took place on 26 instructions were issued ward 3 at St. Mary's, Harrow Road. The patients were removed oy unsuspecting nospita porter and only afterwards was announced that the ward was to De Gosca A mass meeting was called the following Monday. for staff hospital where angry aureed unanlmousiy remove a single patient from a ward, no matter what the reason given for the removal, until they were assured tulal wala would not be closed. It is obvious that the author.

ities will sink to the lowest level Rovers in jobs Shop stewards at the Solihull Rover plant have voted to meet the threat of 1,400 redun- dancies with a policy of full work sharing on pay. The shop stewards' com- the plant voted mittee at unanimously to recommenc this policy to a mass meet- ing of the plant worktorce later this week The decision was response an announiee ment by BL that they are of the production to cut SD1 (the 3.5 litre) Rover Saloon car by one third on Cowley Assembly Plant convenor Bob Fryer with pickets on the gates September 3 this year. has never done anything for But Oxford the The strong response from us". They would not even and employers, the the Rover stewards comes as press stewards' the right wing put on a big call meeting. BL faces the dual problems wing's The right cam- effort to break the strike.

of the effect of rising oil paign was backed up by the The important the sales of big prices on

WOSI

of this was the local press, whose campaign cars and the effects of the component small right wing leadership in BL's resulted SOlEC rising. pound on the export Body Plant. stoppages in the Assembly uduc against the Confed's Plant AUEW stewards in depp sine Fraser the Management want to call. offset their losses by driving One of these stoppages that stre 1 Gw t leadershis the grounds exploitation of the three days was reported through Rover workers. Daily had condoned scabbing on running linking the programme cuts Telegraph as a sign of the men's strike. the to speed-up. for support lack the are proposing that 1 hey Opposed strike. the 30% production cuts are In the last of these coupled with a 40% cut in The

TGWU

leadership reports it was given greater opposed the strike on the than the fact prominence "The Confed grounds that thát the 18,000 Longbridge workers were coming out. But as a result of deter- the mined leadership Assembly Plant pickets on Monday only had to turn a handful of workers away. But over the road the -fraud exposed vast majority of the neigh- bouring Body Plant were working threugh an official strike. The support for this ill- prepared, limited action The findings of the Clegg called by the Confed shows Commission on comparabil- that with determined public ity of earnings for national leadership and all- sector workers should have out indefinite strike action would workforce come as no surprise to Lae bringing public sector workers. respond, possibility break- Body Plant convenor Roche: Following the massive wave on the 35 hour in the year in through opposed strike call. oT strikes edre week. pues ogg Commision Beas Clegg Commission as a means of tricking devised ouoiie SeCIO Wor KeTs allu enabling their leaders to force them back to work. Strike action obvious from the was that only start however strike acton mał nao orce lne government to increase its offer 5% Phase 4 limit beyond the the full claim Coulo secure of lies and deceit in order to policies and as the example o1 But instead workers were Lewisham and South- implement the cuts. L'ambeth if

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shown even workers to laeared luan follow the example they voted not to make cuts SnoUla Mary's treating any Tory government St. by urbas frott a regional levese sack them and patients would instruction to

LOTOSE

trom wards with suspicion-even imeasu de scor reda ramion ry "redecoration Prepare wiecoule The ward. Although preparations for As well as continuing to pre- wards and defence pare

TOI

occuoduon aula hospitals are going ahead, it is defensive action, health workers that

AHA

will must link this to building obvious ( cutbacks campagn of strike action by al continue шака using all the underhand methods London health and public sector at their disposal. defence every WorKos Thev have the monopoly o1 health facilitv in the Westmin information ster area. and reso urces hand which enable them to be will be particularly save important one step ahead of in the fight to awdys resistance ot nosoitai workers Atalone

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recovery UnIl and they already have plans to hospital bocolot and Columba's terminal doctors which are due stop junior sohowily Contraris-tne • tacLIc wnicu Tor com oele ciosure u ino vor near future. to the removal of patients from the EGA.

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will • ge StOg Clegg nothing to carry through their struggle the workforce. Bl have given no hope 0] of the 1,400 saving most although jobs Involvea,' will be few workers redeployed Kange Rover and 300 will be given the chance to switch to the Trimph plant in Standard Coventry Management are to resist the siewards' com- mittee's work sharing policy which stewards say could be by implemented either reducing track speeds levels illalll. they are or by working four days for five days pay. Open the books This correct policy must be linked to the fight BL force management to open their books and details future plans speed-up and rationalisation to an elected committee of Rover stewards The figures discovered in such an investigation would the fight by strengthen revealing the further attacks that are in the offing and the massive profits being extracted trom bl workers by privately-owned component firms and BL's bankers and dealers. 'Comparability' fobbed off with a miserable 9% increase plus £1 on account in findings Clegg advance ot the Ut course cieco nas laken no Despite Alan risner s rantind dnie ravind about the plight of the low paid, the lowest grades receive parability awards of oniy 3% wnie ditterentas are to oe increased Clegg the vast by public 01 sector Hułajus ly workers wil sull oe carnine lea than f50 a week. The treachery of Alan Fisher anel tne seulul

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bureaucracy is at the centre of this betrayal. It was Fisher and Conie 'comparability and drew Clegg's terms of reference.

sent Fishe Wa. thousands of workers back with 9% and only And i1 OTomIsE oT more Wd. Fisher who persuaded the NUPE not to formulate a conference "prejudice" the Clegg findings. Miserable As a result workers tace noi only miserable wages Du further cuts in public services to winance awaro: tilal lavt been made Management will no doubt also use opportunit rail road in speed-up and produc- tivity schemes on every grade of public sector workers :The lesson is clear: a specific claim improve odn dd now vn dné dưd sector unions. ano ali our siriki action i through until the conceded in full. demands branches ane snoe • steware committees must begin this task at once if Fisher is not to catch trem napomne onee dodin

Are the Zionists getting Nicaragua: new regime shuns

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retugees paid by imperialists Bazargan trom the southern area Khomeini attack from supporters. cracks •ince their main invasion, they puppet TasCIST down Haddat who has proclaimed independent wilose MaIn terrorise and Israeli-supplied on Kurds Lewdriest the outsIde controls. UN forces A column of tanks from Khomeini's army rolled into This racist, of the Sanandaj, centre wine ally . for titting Kurdish people in Iran, to the preparations for Israeli represenidlives Khomeini's 'Constituent anot harasses Assembly" UN reached their wrelevant forces in line with final stage. mutuary The As each day entire •opulation marched out the town of Zionists themselves protest increasine the inhabitants autor larian rue ano nationa imposed by central goression They send in government and its agents in the wave armed torces Palestinian revolution agars l camps, ary committees They were joined by 7,000 UN duallis! Kurds from military encampments. before of 5.000 Such content Marivan marcnee back begun Wednesday demanding 'Death to the Government" correspondent of Israel's major Capitulators however, the present leaders of this movement seem to have capitulated to the tank: of Khomeini and ano Threats Bazargan. negotiations, they have all and aareed That border security is to be left to shortages central But of will vert ente supplies, *homeint п0 l

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from autacks until the Kurdish move.

tance ment along with those of Arab and other national minor- real threat of invasion from finally ires nave Deer suppressed. Honduras, the Such violent repression and Government intimidation Reconstruction' expose real character of the elections called to implement policies which Khomeini Bazargan. reveal its Next week's Socialist Press will carry a full report of these confidence elections. against deepening the anti- imperialist struggle.

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Amid all the imperialist crocodile tears about the from Vietnam, scarcely any notice has been the leaders of the daily exodus of tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese 01 Lebanon, under vicous daily Zionist forces in the area and their fascist the Israelis withdrew forces after their have retted Saad leaders the Israels killed four people in an 'Free a seaside resort that their policy Lebanon from retaliation TUnCtIOn bombard with duainst ralestinian querrilas attack Sunny pla vocaponry duly Sunday 29 the •i ralestinians tound Zionists bombed large groups of few villages he holidaymakers Lebanese travelling cars on well- known holiday for 16 were ultra-right wing weekenDi ine sea. killed and 65 injured orovides On Thursday night, Auyust the Zionists Zionists sent two groups press only with commandes oast the. IN oresen forces to raid two camps alleged the pathetically to include Palestinian guerrillas.

"peace-keeping One leaders The raid unte general boasted: "We wiped everybody Zionists. aims ot ine goes take Killed terrorising role In of the area PLO sources said three ni arter usually their members were killed and bombers many civilians were hit in heavy though now sometimes oft-shore bombardment. Syrian these have even actions as driven mild mannered New Statesman of 3. August into have tense. tus creamy accurate viewi In April Zeef Schiff militarv Israelis in fact seem have the same attitude daily paper Ha'aretz wrote after towards Arabs of South the In the face: of severe They have shown a certain food and amount of flair in this. First, millionaire industrial- continued resis- Alfonso Robelo, a member of groups of Ine Junta, was packed ott to National Guardsmen and a where, with Castro's cuba beaming approval, he deciared that not Nicaraguan Nicaragua would Cuba" but become anothe of National "another Nicaragua". has begun Loan growing He then flew on to Caracas in moving where he negotiated' a loan of $20 % interest paid tax interest within months. Robelo completed his week's work by declaring the national.

domestically-owned banks. this measure is AS In ran solely intended to relieve the burden of sustaining a thorough- system crioused Tinancia. the shoulders of Trom capitalists who have welcomed the move Foreign banks, of course, remain in private hands Robelo the reiterated inat regime offers "full guarantees for he private seror activities and property US Embassy Al tne same time the new Minister of the Interior, Toma Borge, a founder of the

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and now leader of the Guerra tendency ropular Prolondad. confused those who considered nis appointment to be an indica- • Folrose Ltd. for the Workers Socialist League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR.

ready to take S. Lebanon? Woman casualty of Zionist bombing raid Lebanon that the Zionists are • hopalong Cassidy did towards the Indians-namely put pressure on thad the only good because • art weakness In seeking to vet what is the reason toi the development of a Zionist- oi! states tne led and inspired holocaust South Lebanon? direction One reason being offered is national rights socialism Castro-approval for Popular Frontist course of FSLN tion Minister for or a varxist orientation regime visiting Jaime Wheelock within the the US Ambassador and Proletario tenoenc only better relations •Car accounted to out also tor arms. All the members of the new sympathies. government have now Decl

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Whatsoes Of eighteen 'Marxist', of Hance Ine members, only. Borge and the geois press is so fond, Zionist bomb damage in South Lebanon Palestinians This is clearly part of the explanation However, just as the capit- alist system develoos accumulation capita Enf which intensifies its crisis, so the Zionists Cal maintait themselves by the accumulation of territory. Having neutralised the Egyptians, they hope to weaken the Syrians also by 'taking over effective control South Levanon. broodov ov a lurinei and certainly by invasion attempting to establish further the power of their fascist allies The puppet strings that extend from Washington Aviv and are somewnat twisted now The have lost some of their strength, and have for direct contro less cabacity over the action of their agents.

The Zionist regime reacting to its galloping inflation and economic crisis at home Dy method knows- Ine using their enormous firepower terrorise drive dill •rue new ceneratons ot ine population of the area AraL Though the Zionists can be relied upon flakt MOrE minute the enemies tne struggle for the destruction of rule must be accus ico he interests of ine Jewist workers of Palestine are in no way served lavalous worldlist comfist recime .campaign in the Middle must stepped up both East and internationally for the trying to troops ine Americans their growing from areas inhabited all Palestinians and other Arabs as a step to the destruction of the US Zionist army and its state.

• impertaliste are taking tentative steps in the *Next week Socialist Press recognising will be carrying intervien with a Palestinian Trotskyist TEne It certainly doesn't indicate that these men are committed accelerating mass tion and the independent organ.

isation of the working class for overthrow of capitalism in Nicaraqua The regime they have joined with manoeuvring coster able off these

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possibilities the name of 'national reconstruc tion 'and peace This is a direct result of the frontist popular politics of the FSuN which has based itself on workers and "progressive' capitalists line beyond the now extenced Tercerista group to the leaders of the more radical currents of the FSLN No lessons These have current undoubtedly stemmed the tide towards integrating old Somocistas into Ine same time they have Tne clearly failed draw to political lessons trom the nirst weeks or ine Junta s rule Revolutionary Marxists do serve in bourgeois govern- Agrarian Reform

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(a leader of the Revolutionaries in Nicaragua the should be struggling against this any way be regime Counteres ne have 'Marxist' its soclalls measure capitalist policies and by work- this tag of ing impose such which bour through the building of workers and peasants soviets. mean t