Socialist Press no. 163

DEFEND DEMOCRATIC

RIGHTS AGAINST

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League. * No. 163 * 22 August 1979

ISLAMIC

REACTION!

The full and Khomeini violence of Khomeini's Islamic Republic being hurled against every force of open opposition in Iran. threat to ire armed torces the revoi- guards and organised utionary mobs of Islamic fanatics are all engaged in a nationa attensive 1 neir

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crush Ine widespread and growing move- Iranian that seeks to develop the revolutionary structies overthrew the Shah's dictator- ship. Working class But this camoaian of repres.

revolution sion being directed with gathering intensity against the orcanisations claim to stand for socialism and to represent the working class and other oppressee masses ot Iran. Last week's mass demonstra- had their offices ransacked and Far from securely legitimis- destroyed. They were subjected ing his rule, the elections to the tion against press Censorship to further they Constituent Assembly actually ranted Tens thousands marched in protest to bourgeois defence democratic rights provoke new criticism, protest against the drive and opposition. Arab militants renewed crime ivinister bazardan The HKS (Socialist Workers have continued dictatorship. their campaign

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the demonstra ur savolave in une ol-cios ol tion ranged most tne south-west. Defying the betrayals of rarly nave suttered simiar treat- ment. their leaders, the Kurdish people Khomeini's evolutionary Even the Mujaheddin have Council'; the extreme wave once an risen to sale had to repel attacks from danas the repression of the Pasderan, wingers of the . Towhid and the and Pasderan and come into battle with the the •nezoultanis franty although 'Marxist-Lenin- these and armed thugs drawn from artlly the Their siege of Paveh has now enormous lumpen-proletar-

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Claim slamicane their criticisms have been broken by heavy reinforce- fol which

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• enran s vast remained firm of shanty towns. ments, but tightina continues in Khomeini. Kurdistan. Full violence The mob's cries of 'God is Economic crisis great' 'Death atheist to The violent fighting of that communists' have found a shrill Sunday Behind all these develop- continued inrobonout echo in Anomein's speeches.

with the Pasderan The vehement ments looms the growth of the the week, ('revolutionary guards') increas- munism of this fanatical bigot economic CrISIS valle Bazargan's cabinet makes its Enrowine thetr reached a new ditco ot hysteria the week, with talk trade deals and contracts with against .ine o•position torcer over and in support of the full at every street corner imperialism, section violence Islamic and extermination of enemies to plan, however regime nas any National Democratic useless, for tackling the econ- ¡ne The revolution' Front (liberal party of the But Khomeini has been viny bourgeois intellectuals, which tryino (successfully) to whin un Food supplies are disrupted, originally reactionary violence precisely industrial capr the cemon. production stagnant stration) has been driven under- because of his fear that powe In liany areas ano as initiation ground nears a rate of 30%, 'unemploy- and concen or be conn revo ution were already slipping from ment dominates probably i ne seit-stvleo marxists. one Leninists of the Fedayeen have his hands. Ine whole * 15p force. And. still the working class

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occupd tion: ana has ending shown no signs of strikes just to please 'God' anc Avatollah Khomeini situation Khomeini with the a diversion from these breatht materia oroolems while of the proletariat before Troved over struggle against his regime.

The anti-communist hysteria violence of the last week and has titted both parts. ane lale the basis for future pogroms if Khomeini did not confident- select these tactics-despera.

tion forced them him. onto The limited democratic gains ot the Iranian revolution will be destroyed utterly by Khomeini USFI crisis. Ireland.' unless they detender resolutely by the working class, the only consistently revolution- ary class in Iran. But the fight against Islamic democratic reaction and • tor rights in Iran cannot be won within the perspective of bour- geois democracy held out by the Stalinists and bourgeois radicals. can it be won by ant

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accommodation with kund Khomeini as the Fedayeen and Mujaheddin are finding •ne democratic_rights of tne Iranian masses can be secured through only the fight for vetonary Drooramme establish a workers and peasants government in Iran *An censorship! For full freedom of the press!

*Lift the bar on demon strations! For full freedom organisation and The fraud of "fair pay" Page 9 • centre pages ...pp.4-5 demonstrations right to strike and FOr LIE form free trade unions. *For free elections with universal surfall vanden ane equality homosexual men "For the right of self-dete mination and separation for the Kurdish people and all other national minorities workers.com " DeTend Ene mittees! For the building of elected soviets. worker. mintia! against Islamic reaction and threats of imperialist restora tion. *Release all those political not linked with the prisoners nar s octatorshio For the building of a revolu.

tionary party, Iranian section of Fourth reconstructed International!

GUYANA FACES SHOWDOWN

Page 2 The crisis in political Bolivia after last month's elections has been 'resolved' according to the new Presi- dent Walter Guevara Arze.

Guevara was 'elected' to the presidency by the new Congress ahter stalemate between une two leading candidates-Hernan Siles Suazo

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Victor Estenssoro of the Paz MiNh-HistoriCo. Neither har absolute majority, but Siles claimed that been fraudulently 53,000 over on voTes ane began to mobilise his supporters for and blockades to demand his inauguration his drew tears ot a riantist and after several days of coup bickering dealing Congress and • came oreer appointed Guevara take until fresh office for erections can de nerd Clearlv the crisis is far. from over-it shows every sign becoming permanent Guevara's record even worse than that of Paz and Siles He was the leading figure of the MR even night wing the before the 1952 Revolution the He was also major attacks-political instigator ano Ene class resistance the 1956 Acute political crisis has gripped the South American state of Guyana. The 'revolutionary' govern- ment of the People's National Congress (led Forbes Burnham) now faces a serious threat to its existence, and nas begun a new wave of repression i ne PNG government inotor- for its ballot-rigging and ious other corrupt election practices) has peen resoonsiole or insit menting the 'austerity' measures by the International demanded Monetary Fund the wage treeze dominant public sector has in explosion tufn militancy wages which nas been most violent in the bauxite ioustry had After at one plant, all 5,000 begun Guyana Mine of the menuels workers union were Calcu out on July 23. management arques New President Guevara (right) with outgoing President Padilla No solution to Bolivian crisis Stabilisation Plan that heralded the reimposition of full imper- alist control in bolvid So great was Guevara's derision for even Siles' form of opulism inat ne sort trom une MNR at the end of the 1950s to form the Partido Revolucionario

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aided the fall of the MNR and the establishment of the bloody Barrientos dictatorship in 1964' Now bauevara nas announcer 'apolitical' cabinet that of the UDP members and the MNR-Historico Unpopular new vinister Economy is the very far from Guido apoliticat Hinojosa, Tormer president or ine banco de La Paz, who now plans to controls, tax hit vault Increases cevaluation anoise f domestic fuel prices the behest of the IMF. i nese moves dre so univowu serines have that the

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previous gone to consider- avoid imposing able lengths to inem. desote une tact inat uney were fully supported by the army. Drastic remedies Guevara and Hinojosa presu- believe that by allowing mably the Senate charges DrESS against former dictator Banzer that to meet the claim would break the freeze, union leadership is insisting that it has Intention Denavnne irresponsibly, and has found a round the problem. still Talks dre deadlocked and on Friday the union bureau- government and cracy SuTTered a martel blow when workers in the sugar and the industry public sector struck in support The auxile workers against the wage freeze has brought situation the Stalinist ATTe COnTO I LO 'Marxists' of Jagan's chedel People's Progressive Party.

Discredited The PPP can see its call for a 'national' government to include the PNC being discredited more day by day, wolle Its own posi tion party is chalenged by the roun major opposition workine reope s Ananice Formed five years ago from 'Tomas Borge, the new Minister of the Interior and leader of the 'Proletario' faction of the Sandinistas (FSLN) last week chastised his deputy Eden Pastora (Commandante Cevo who led the attack and occupa- tion of the legislative palace last year) for suggesting that Nicaragua might seek arms from the 'socialist bloc'.

Why? Because this might "pretext to feelings that we give are aligning, ourselves with them politically. Arms will not be brought from Israel or Chile either moral reasons'. Instead Borge , the 'Marxist', dominant to the coes imperialist Dowe becausi are serious indications that the US wants to change its attitude.' Useless militants up. to itor denverno Pinochet for summary It surely the execu does since tion) they will buy off trouble.

battle cruisers off Nicaragua's coastline and Marines with

VODOOV

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aruut AmantIC the against Banzer, shipped to Northern Costa Ric charges they could be from Panama proved to be use- except that extended to 99% of the High Command, not to mention the

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the will do Charact nothing alleviate the crisi Bolivian economy and political apparatus.

DOUFOCUS

with elections once more or the horizon, with dozens and disgruntled ambitious with of work, •OUt revenues from tin and oil fallin and the working awakened, class angry take increasinov oregarcu action, Guevara and his lackeys will be required to take drastic remedies These remedies will have to the most be administered in South class America, a working class unal the last three decades has decisive political leader- establishment o shio InE socialism in Bolivia. It is therefore critical that alone Trotskyists, can fight all provide such a lead nationalist and popular frontist deviations to build a mass party based moorousy Class flut pendence, the Transitional Pro call for. workers government. a group of left-wing intellectuals raids, seizure of equipment and and paris reason to tee blocking of newsprint supplies from various PPP and P.NC, the WPA has now Such acts have succeeded ir emerged provoking a major porton TO a for militants, espec. new level of violent determina- attraction all and above tion Within this crisis, one factor students. which alarm both Showdown the and Jagar burnnan annarent success or tre working has sworn to People's Alliance breaking The Alliance the - sectarian divisions the TorCe snowown vilT government before the year is nave Chal alter sel out. politics in Guyana. Traditionally, the PNC has Already the based itself on the communities grouping of even less political clarity, whicr et Atrican ancestrv ano Ine rrr aims . on the communities of Asian civil and ancestry: resstalle needience. bring down ine Support PNC administration. Burnham has responded with But the WPA seems to draw employing threats Ine National Security Act for the its support from both Sectors long into dangerous round up and imprisonment of antagonism by their leaders.

opposition militants Already steps have aven it moe wra succeeos i major coming to power through. the been. taken silence downfall of the PNC and the opposition oress will SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 August 1979 Sandinistas turn away from socialist path Now, when the US ships in 150 (having a measly tonnes, Town in su dianes a day ourin -the 1972 earthquake in the full knowledge that these supplies go directly National Guard), Alfonso less in buoying up the Somoza Robelo, millionaire member of cowing tie sunta. announces te nuper • ialists to be "the greatest source roL tne state Degartmenl has adopted another course. of help" point needs be Mass uprising laboured. wiln weeks or une overthrow Somoza the AT It is a coursè forced upon it of the by events, by the mass uprising the plaything within which country wasninoton proved uncontainable, but it is also course that is greatly Impossible facilitated by political develop. This sad fact has as much to ments since the overthrow Somoza do with noilties as nunder. in The popular frontism of the which was never capabl

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anything else, and th ruling anc leadershio teeds oft the strenotr leadersal! nave turner ther of the masses and their heads resolutely away from a socialist path for Nicaragua.

extended struggle against dicta- 'social Capitalis That struggle cost tens democrats orocaim me cemo thousands dead and hundreds of cratic revolution in a country thousands hungry, homeless and democracy palpably where impossible destitute 400,000 now close Vargar, the President of thi are starvation. 300 tonnes of food is Nicaraguan Communist Party Stalinists announced that the needed kees unest people alive will now fuse the

MANITH

Sandinista fighters hold guns aloft: but socialist programme now necessary Sandinistas because "we believe Indi permitted the establishment of a pluralistic ment which is all we want at the moment.'i Meanwhile the Simon established Boliva brigade the Colombian PST of the USFI is recruiting tar and wide leven in Britain) so that it can "join in formation of a new coalition, • reconstruction-Ir

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new

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coverse! lask. could offer no way forward for The interests of the workers and the masses of Guyana to achieve people* according Socialist Challenge unel needs asulations reconstructior ouCh •Car Temporary break only be socialist reconstruction; it can only be achieved by build- Alien to the incependent oroan proletarian internationalism and working class and challenging the in a capitulation imperialism the WPA best Could bordeois junta ano une FSLN leaders institute a remoorary oreak wit the dictates of imperialism. *As we go to press, news is Such an interlude can serve Managua coming

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as toe tate can an setbacks and defeats if it is not the expulsion ot members of the with struggles to Simon Brigade from Nicaragua. social revolution reports that 500 are Reuter throudhout Latin america and internationally. Franci involved Presse puts the number at 60 Without the revolutionary The Brigade is charged with Transitional Programme developed by Trotsky and the agitation against covere organising workers' left ment Fourth Inte halleld. and organising rhetoric and socialist ideals will Tillid the pressure of The Seizure or orober It is not yet clear how the national isolation and turn into of Brigade will the their opposite. respond to the expulsions.

Fraser's attacks trigger off SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 August 1979 workers' resistance After his spectacular per- international economic crisis of formance at Lusaka cabitarism. While struggling to attack conference, Malcolm Fraser the strength of the working class has returned from these coalition bourgeois trIe heady delights and diplo- pressed ahead witn tree market policies those akin * Tories se matic triumphs to hard and proclaimed by the dreary reality as prime Kritain minister of Australa. Recently these have included a decision to sell off state hold- craser s strenuous ettorts to hog the limelight at Lusaka have Inos The uranium Minine not halted the growing hostility and draft proposals to revise the measures designed to ne coalton or ine Luderdr and National country parties •rotect me texties maustry still less reversed his own even Aimed increasing "efficiency" and greater personal unpopularity.

measures-like ness" these i le foot or unis oooosilion those of Thatcher in Britain- Hes in the deepening and totalv predictable failure to resolve the would not only accelerate the drive to speed-up and generate manifestation in Australia of the Riots hit at Numeiri Jaafar Numeiri, president of the Sudanese Socialist Unior of the Sudan, is one of the (created by Numeir as the sole legal party the army coup world's most skillful which brought him to power in political operators. At present he needs every ounce of that skill to rescue him Into nis bace Gen. Abdul Magid Khalil, the ole a udicerous Dullica crisk Defence Minister-a move that in the can and man d place as head of the largest Gear V nolcater country in Africa. intentions of more heavily on the army to bolster umeirs latest zorovems have stemmed from the IMF's vo nis realme ane crusa me demands for 'strengthening' the mass protests. Although caoitalisi economy Ene they have scarcely Sudan. summer ast ThIs treated him with consideration produced a devaluation of the cenerosit Numeri pound which boosted inflation.

always been a faithful friend to the imperialists-even to Numer! CUl subsidies on several essential their and brought commodities armeo invasion catre lasT year. about creases or one no n the price of sugar. and two- As the strikes spread, and thirds in the price of petrol.

the •emonstrations ano пот These moves ted to wide. Khartoum and continue spread rioting and loud demands Omdurman, Numeirt tor the brescents SeC soubt bending his thoughts to Forced to retreat slighty or se remational sponsors and price of petrol, Numeri = a-3: assistance they www chancer in nis covernment. alve nim Gasim are not Malor

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was Such ret ections removed from his posts as Vice- likely to increase his optimism President and Secretary-General and confidence. new unemployment. but also Torce sections or me maustry out of business altogether.

Moves weaken the class {by bans or demonstrations, anc orastic penalties strikers in the sector. Have ПО t succeeded in blocking the resur militancy of Australian gent WorKers With unemployment already over 6% and rising, the wages in particu movement on nas … reached a threatens overturn the government. The tailure of the coalition to smash the strike wave nas dis illusioned many its supporters in the petty bour Bishop opts out ANXIOUS to dispel the anxieties of the imperialists, Maurice Grenada's Bishop, minister, has new prime firmiv dec ared that the new "will not left government assist in any way to topple any to crackl Bishop is leader of the Movement, New Jewel which came to power after organising mass moblisa- tions against the dictatorial of Sir Eric Gairy, and then requestec military assistance from • Stalinists the Cuban the danger of a prevent reBishop y coy have offered Bishop may some consolation the imperialists but his chauvin- treachery the to of the exploited masses Caribbean has not dispelled their fully justified fears of the following the down- region reactionary Three regimés in as many months.

geoisie. the same time,

SOGONE

exploit situation and present itself as the only force economiC and social ills Australia. The social democrats course offer no solution to the working class; reformist to the they will simply rotten core, dilemol capitasill with different (but scarcely less than the pernicious) ConstructIon genuinely party of section prison of bourgeois democracy and establish the basis for social- routin internationar, lo une onry road which can lead Australian ism with the dictatorship of the workers to break through the proletariat. Bank unions - in battle the Greek economy!) With vicious court But the attempt of the Kara- judgement, the Greek state manus cover ne week extended its last this bright idea arbitrarilv or attack on the political rights came at of workers state of workers. OPOSItION LU wage controls. The courts ordered the bank Not only did the bank workers and ruled that the call off its obey, and employees refuse • TO : union StrIKe Take actIon financially was resoonsible cause became a Tocus ooooos the losses of the banks and sc ition to the government's each banking group policies and ruthless defence of £12,000 for every day that the catalist interests strike continued As fellow trade unionists working class decision the out- this blatant anti- trom the public utilities, wth students and the

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•enied any ГОЛи (led by Papandreou), gave their Forced resignation SU•DOri demonstrations called by bank workers, the While the union bureaucracy government imposed bans on hastened to comply with this such activity. of bourgeois justice, the 32,000 memoer. continued Police attack their strike action and so forced of the entire resignation Hundreds of police savagely executive attacked a marc AInen ne immediate orion or ine university two weeks ago.!

strike lay in a government order content such alter work of the times repressive measures, Karamanlis Dank employees. " nis medsure moved to oroanise scaooine on was designed as an economy- the strike and decreed that the to reduce city rush-hour traffic would bank employees congestion, ano so cut down or fuel consumption and lessen the 'discipline effects of the oil price rise on

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Page 3 Free Annette Bahner!- International Camoaiar Against Repression 1 Maberley Crescent, London SE19 Dear Comrades, ns letter so araw your the forthcoming attention picket and lobby of the East planned to german cmoassy September 5. This is part of a campaign International Campaign Against Repression ir secure the freedom of order to SPD member Cologne -Annette banner wne wa. arrested East Berlir enquiries „tor her into the infringement of demo.

cratic rights in that area Campaign This was part of her work TOr Ine committer TOr Defence of Democratic Liberties in the whole of Germany, East ane west work which nas ase involved her in the recent cam paign for the release of Robert ravemann If found guilty of gathering information, the she which arrested, wa could tace a sentence or ao lo 12 years imprisonment. I am sure that as internation.

alists the aval soninicance a sucCessTu campaign for the release of Ms.

Bahner could achieve The issues raised by such ar incident relate not only to the of democratic rights in the Germany

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ultimately problems which can only be solved by the unific Germany socialist banner ane Ene. Imoor tance of that step in the struggle for a United Socialist States of Europe Consent The fact that the

SPD

bureaucracy has shown extreme reluctance Toning tol release of Annette Bahner is just pieces tacit evicence • DoInting consent which bureaucracies both East and West give to the •vision Germany the world into two • oppressive political systems " us stress the moortance of rallying as many members and labour supporters the movement as possible arounc Enis cause Further details of the cam- paign can be obtained by trade branche. are Parties from the above address.

Yours fraternally, (for Committee the tor the Release of Annette Bahner).

FREE ANNETTE

BAHNER!

Lobby and Demon stration at East German Embassy, Wednesday 5 September 11am-1pm. Organised by the Inter- national Campaign Against Repression Meanwhile in Czechoslovakia plans concal tol Show tria ol • Ten oissients ™ all members of the "Charter 77" democratic rights movement i ne TrOM гете avowed revolutionary an Marxist, clergyman Vaclav Maly. Socialist Press will carry an extensive interview with a lead.

Lech • exe nexi week, in which the background to the show trials is examined.

the meantime, union branches and Parties should take up the fight for the of all ten victims of this releas latest Stalinist frame-up.

US imperialists press for capitalist 'solution' in Ireland Page 4 Father Sean McManus director of the US Irish National Caucus told a press conference held in London last week that "Until becomes Ireland an to be no breakthrough." McManus announced that Tne Laucus, claims responsibility for Carter's decision to cease the supply of Royal American arms ine Ulster is urging 30 million Irish-Americans subDort prescentia canol- dates with the strongest line on the North. Cut off arms Bourgeois spokesman- "Tip" O 'Neil The Caucus, which in

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witholdwat supposedly designed to explore British troops plans to deepen avenues for 'solution to the attempting to campaign wortnern ireland oroblem end the export ot arms to both The Irish has the UDR and the british Army.

government At the press conference the expressed with agreement Caucus indicated its support for such a converence oroviorne It Is the recent proposal from supported by House of Repres- Governor Carey of New Speaker Tip O'Neill entatives a conterence in the USA

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and dentalors ditu always something particular- Anniversary time: loathsome about liberals but not the usual glossy who their discover that "look back" with which interests and those of the will greet newspapers bourgeoisie are identical.

anniversary, any Critical however trivial. The Guardian has Ten years of the British often the of complained over lack of army on steels Belfast and Derry. Ten years civil and the last decade they said couldn't happen.

polnts over Ten of temporary has even taken in its news years Ten of columns a critical approach solutions. years ringing editorials, lies, and propaganda. years len 1TS relations for British over the same period been a imperialism. model of good Orange was little wonder that the 10th birthday celebra- And in looking back over the troops

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muted. Like grey hair it had the decade, the Guardian crept up on the press when was at pains to support the it wasn't looking. two main myths of the age- The Guardian is a good that British troops were sent There "protect" to the stail. LU announced attend a private meeting in New york to explain lory covern but would not agree to any meeting necollate Tuture Northern Ireland. government is dis- British response. Desperate To De seen as to do something to 'solve •eruse une natal strugere the six counties it ThaT attendance such useful would be converence nack-ho to inose in ine uo wne trying fight the wide- spread enthusiasm the American Do •uation

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the war of liberation the North This problem is one recog nisee ov ine britiso rulino cas which has loudly applauded the Kennedy. anti-republican Carey claimed that he had

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received initia acceotance orode his invitation from Northern President Trevor Philips.

Ireland, Secretary of State The Tory government has itself said that intends humonrev Tew days later the Northern Ireland make a trip soon to campaigr Office issued a statement deny- against support for "terrorism ina this. in the USA The British government has The British government is in

PRESS GANG

Bolting the lid on the Irish war and The boys Catholics and that by apprentice it march through the Catholic large "do themselves" quarter of Derry brings the "you Their Washington corres- memory that could smell the violence pondent, who was in the streets" "blame" Northern Ireland in 1969. and the his look back for that violence erupting is begar by lingering in put middle-aged over Catholic scene on a family Catholic with a catapult: worked to "He stood in the jeering produce quick petrol crowd of Catholics locked behind the police barricade bomb to use on the Derry loosed off stone enter stone the and barricades. centre, While massive at the Orange- marching onslaught against men." Catholic population by the Such triviality the specials and the Orange stock in trade of apologists must was takemoplace the The Guardian tor the armv. Guardian memory also recalls Terence O'Neil on its head by turns this someone wine describing: "the whole city "humane and sincere efforts Talentlo right the grievances of petrol bombs, bricks and the minority" bottles cascading around the A gloomy piece from men of the RUC" John Hooper in Belfast, finds however, army no longer claims many breakthroughs getting

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information about attacks, and that the feeling impotence "which has army's characterised the mood the past ten years? has been heightened rather than diminished. Hooper's Predictably, is that: "some only policy form of political initiative is if urgently needed the security situation is not to into SloW but sure decline' The Daily Telegraph ran a half-hearted look back from Colin Brady in Derry, which was eclipsed by the the ee one in sallic duct the IRA's August 12th show of strength "Most of today's troops were still at school a decade Although no wat anu. and officially no exIsIs battle honours can be won.

301 regular soldiers have been killed by bombers and gunners..: warm, sunny Un evening in 1969 when men of the Prince of Wales Own a desperate position in Northern ireland The impact of support for a conference lines Lovarists would be a cancerous one for a government seeking to prove against all the evidence to collary survocle against the Provisionals is meet- ing with success The only force in Northern supports the reland which Carey initiative widely discredited gang of touts in th

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The only policy the Tories . can produce the cont nued repression Republican forces. week's display of force by the Provisional IRA has beer Tollowed by a series ot arrests and the threat from the UDA to launch violent against the terrorists" Thugs Were the Tories to show any sympathv with carev's conter.

ence would undoubtedly prompt these lovalist thugs into new provocations for fear of Regiment dismounted from lorries Waterloo Place. Londonderry, with steel helmets, fixed bayonets and rolls of barbed wire, any forecast that a grisly decade lay ahead would have been treated with derision." At that his rhetoric runs The rest of the article out. compendium of the Telegraph's favourite phrases: military "sinister para steadily ground down the terrorists. public and wenner disgusted by the excesses o Even the Telegraph does not pretend that the army's popularity has improved: "The soldiers of 1969 would find Londonderry and Belfast unrecognisable today. There are no cups of tea or free beer in 1979, only the risk of a booby- trap or a sniper's bullet" The leader writer does not share any complacency "wearing down" about ' the IRA. It celebrated the tenth anotler call for the reintre- anmiversary duction of internment. The only maverick in Fleet Street is the Daily Mirror. Last year it announced its conversion to a policy of withdrawing the troops. It used the anniversary to repeat the call "Bring home troops" the its front on and a centre page Dart. spread headed "Diary Despair" It echoes broadly the slogans around which the Liberals mobilised for the August 12 demonstration The Mirror mourns the dead soldiers and

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"those who tried, thugs as in vain, to keep the peace."

The Mirror's position is staunchly pacifist on Ireland. Beneath SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 August 1979 being 'sold out" by their toerlalist backers While the moves within the American ruling class obviously neco. EnE US elections, they the mounting sup port Irish national ThaT penetrates not only the Congress also the trade union movement. • nere is also a teeling tha Britain policy on brute retress present policy brutal repres- sion by boot and bullet indefin- itely. Labour movement the the pressure to find a bourgeois SOlUTIOn the working mounts Kritish class must the aid of the anti-imperialist forces in the

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A massive movement must be built in the and the unions Labour Party to force the with drawal of British troops from occupied six counties and Irish endole The cocodie determine their own future. helmeted and shield-carry- ing RUC men wading into a demonstration, they put

DOETOWILLY.

"Police with riot shields face fellow the hate of citizens". This stance is, of course a chink in the unanimity of the press The Mirror refers to the failure of Northern Ireland to rate a mention in the It even election campaign. mentions history: "Ulster remained part of the UK when the rest was given its inde Ireland the pendence because of cowardice of the politicians Today's of the 1920s. politicians have a chance to eliminate that legacy instead of once again passing it on".

the whether, like

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Mirror, the press expresses horrore the ten tear war, wiellet. Telegraph, it is generally encouraged by the efficient fighting machine it has made the British army there is not one glimmer of understanding of the causes of or responsibility for the war Oxford labour movement bulletin on Ireland - issue 1 in- speech by Brendan Copies are available Gallagher. (25p incl postage) from Socialisi press

SOUTHALL: huge fines SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 August 1979

STROOPS OUT

NOW!

IRELAND

The heavy price of Loyalism While it is the oppressed tion of imperialist rule in the Catholic minority in the six North and sectarian six- county statelet itself. counties of Ireland that The working class movement suffers the full brunt •ot in the south has vall military and police repres- time and shown Itse the worst unemploy. and willing to sion, against ment and the worst housing Lynch's pro-imperialist regime in detence ot jobs, living conditions, the • economic standards and basic rights-but crisis is also taking its toll of found itself blocked by bureau- the "privileged" Protestant cratic union leaders. of any credible working class. political "solution" that means The latest spending cuts British capitalism sees military announce ov me rory cover ano exacereation axing ment Inciuce the sectarian divisions in the North 2,000 jobs at the key Harland the for only strategy Woolf shipyards-virtually and •i or rinom will De rrotestant they fear could otherwise lead workers. into a fight for a united Irish And while masquerading the Workers eac ales Tne only when the yet Loyalist population, the Tories Protestant workers in the North will be seeing to it that the begin occupiedorovince also sutters which Ine ovatto british wu snare or socia service imperialism is producing a rod education cuts.- and for their own backs in the form throwing thousands more onto of cuts. unemployment and low the dole queues. Profitable the necessary mem making political break from the politics of Paisleyite reaction. i he nighly protitable tace oT unemployment and repression ouch a develooment recuires in the six counties was revealed continued political The strengthening of the anti-imper- lOST week by a report or ine Low Pay Unit. lalist struggle in the North and This showed that: emergence of struggles in

TAP

confront both the South "jaso Tur time workers In the six counties are on a wage Lynch's Caullalist recime ano below the "poverty line" the stranglehold of the Roman *44% of the workina popula Catholic Church. tion-140,000 people-earn less Shake off than £60 per week. *The proportion of families on benefits is four times that in A clear political perspective, Britaininimum through which the Irish working small farmers class wage levels are to £15-f20 below anytning up strucole TO Their comparable rates in Britain.

interests and shake off the While Protestant hold workers of imperialism North South," Tee themselves Vitally privileged in relation needed. to their unemployed and Such a movement cannot be built Catholic brothers ale sisters. that sectarian the Provisionals, clear The divisions perpetuated by British despite their courageous struggle imperialism and the mass unem. avalist une dullisa Any. A conscious Trotskyist pro- North combine to depress wages gramme and leadership far below even the low standard Hiccuca But it would certainly draw or vinetace mons ot workers in Britain. the advanced militants iNho IS no presettl are or awr way unat iese-oostacles can De Towaras the Provisionals as the overcome without . removing cily forces seen to be leading the struggle against imperialism.

Harland and Woolf shipyard

CALLAGHAN CABOUR

READY TO

SPLIT

LABOUR PARTY

If Labour's National Executive succeeded in getting conference support for its proposal to take over the drafting of the Party's "it would manifesto be major threat to the unity of party", declared the Callaghan last week. "If we have to fight, fight we WIll, echoed right wing leader of the Blast- furnacemen's union. not •remared finance a party that is ideologic.

ally split" chimed in steel union leader Bill Sirs Unanimity There was in other words ToTal unanimity last Tuesday's gathering of extreme and union leaders that rank ane nite cacour rare members determine their Party's election platform the level simply or it! policie will be mel expression or opinion with the most tenacious bureau- alent to the impotence of the , Party conference. cratic obstruction. to declare But he went on calaman soence our unmis takeably his absolute refusal to that: Jim be accos Pale to anyone: mating the de thi not Parliamentary Party underestimating depth cannot be out in tre dosition o1 teering or tartner democratising having to act upon the instruc- the Party." tions of the NEG or any other body Guns blazing but waile the rignt wing draw their daggers for the fight Callaghan, on the at dry form witch- - ІГ is correctiv quaina that this the 'inquiry' confrontation in which his. nuntine InTO Labour Party long advocated by only chance is to go in with all

GMWU

leader Bassnett-the guns blazing against a left wing 'left' wina is confinina itself to a has time and again Thai timid whimper collapsed when posed with a Party chairman Frank Allaun the 'lefts' prattle allackee allanan s artemot to ; vunile downgrade the Party conference 'democratis- Innocenti 342 defendants are being ity. processed through Blair Peach was murdered by sequence of political trials notorious Group and hundreds injured, in Southall following the many seriously. events of April 23 this year.

19 vear old bov had to Urie On that dav: 5.000 have his testicles removed, such defended and assisted 58 fascists were the injuries inflicted, while in staging a deliberately provoc- two others . alive meeting Centid ine critica st Many of the 710 Not content with this, they arrested that night were held at Southall also turned Beaconstield Police Station unti

HILU

the early hours and left to walk state went back.

VICIOUS

all page Southall's 64 protesting commun- the actually Defend abortion rights! Fight the Corrie Bill! Demonstration called by the TUC Sunday 28 October Assemble at Speakers Corner at 11.30 a.m.

March begins at 12.30 p.m. to Trafalgar Square for a Rally The better way Callaghan party. Ino the Cancer conducting an open and behind the to secure Suches the union voTes accountability of MPs or the Party leadership He is utilising the press and will shrink from splitting the Party sooner than bound ov a sinole vote And he hopes that conference. with Bassnett's, this togethe nour wil fay tre Dass lot c crackdown against the left wing.

But the 'lefts' have waged no Dal arel calmudies ousting of cadhan right wing leadership: they have spelled out no socialist alterna tive to the Labour government's reactionary programme cuts and wage charged have far been referred to Barnet Magistrate Court (well known for the stiff sentences passed on those airesitu Grunwick ocke lines and Notting Hill Carnival).

There has been a conviction rate of 89% of these cases hearc people have been Tar" fined to a total of £2,500.

Jail terms Ine highest single tine wa: one of £525 and two convicted youths have been sent to prison Many of those appearing in September face than one charge of a serious • Tatue. 1,g grievous harm and offensive vacatul wo ot tanse convicted have served a part of their sentences but are on bail pending appeals • against conviction being harassed by ¡ney are being forced Southall Police Station every The Southall Defence Com mittee has called picket Barnet Magistrates Court at 9.30 am on September 10. London labour move- these oppose ment must political trials by turning out in torce on this occasion with their banners. Page 5

PARTY

Controls And while Callaghan talks "the main task"-opposing the Tory government-none of

ETES

lave ComE challenge his outright opposi- action bring any down the Tories Catachan nas ooserveo int closely closer humiliating clarine ot calculating yet the lers at enis year s conter ence The agenda features a resolu- PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report East

CLP

tion Thanet Calino correctv tora vote one confidence in and the resigna- tion of Callaghan stating that He is not competent to leac this movement to • socialist programme and should be asked to resion. l By where they stand on this it is possible motion to guage Ine Fontine capacity Labour's self-styled ""letts activists should watch rEs late win Keen merest Wherever they •Dossib e should mandate conference delegates to vote in tavour of l -ano in reoort backs demand full details of the forces that are prepared declare themselves openly oraclic • 101 removal of Callaghan and the right wing leadership. PHOTO: John Sturrock, Report Allaun Also a public meeting will be nela at ine AuEw hall, i vood lands Road, Southall from 11 am to 4 pm New police victim registered disabled man from Southall was murdered by local ponce ust live weeks aco Arrested at 10.30pm on July 13, Swaran Singt Grewal tound to be dead by 1.30 tha night doctor were denied the right to Both his family see us Doov tor yodys atter n death, after which the doctor found "definite signs of assault" dilnouetl ne ponice claimea ne had choked on his own vomit.

This police follows murder those of Liddle Towers in New castle and more recently Jimmy Kelly and Blair Liverpool, reach in go unchallenged.

PITFALLS OF SWP'S

CAPITALIST' VIEW

Pore 5 In arguing that the process after the defeat of imperialism in Kam- puchea led to the estab- lishment of a new form of capitalist state, the American Socialist Workers Party falls into contradic- numerous tions. In some cases its "theoreticians" show some awareness of this by falsi- fying the evidence with which they support their casen this week's article we will look at these inconsis- tencies and falsitications well Ernest Mandel's as critique of them. But we will then go on to what much more theoretical important-the positions which lie behind the inconsistencies and falsi- fications. In these the SWP fails, in our view, to any distinction qualitative between the creation OI deformed healthy and workers states. Apologist And in failing to do this as an apologist for it acts the Stalinist bureaucracy. As we shall explain, its position that the Kampu- chean Stalinist bureaucracy is a part of imperialism is a vital part wholesale theoretical SWP revision of Trotskyism which effective- ly denies the counter-revolu- tionary of the nature Stalinist Dulcaucracy general. The Kam- SWP define under Pol Pot as a puchea capitalist state. Before looking at the arguments they use to sup- port this we must reject one argument: that if subsidiary the Pol Pot regime in Kam.

puchea had been a capital.

ist regime this would have given any justification to the Vietnamese invasion. producing this argu- ment the SWP abandons all consideration of the ques- of national self-deter-

LON

mination. Though revolutionaries have correctly established the principle that the work- He Class deformed degenerated workers states against imperialism, they have never adopted the that position should une revolution spread to capitalist states by armea even by a healthy workers let Sadle. done une actions of parasitic Durcaucracy Ukraine When Stalin invaded bourgeois Poland di sullie that he was going to unify Polish-ruled Ukraine with Soviet Ukraine, Trotsky

CAMBODIA

Trotsky declared that if the invasion achieved its the Ukrainian objective people find itself not in national freedom but under bureau- cratic Slaverv What was involved, he alguca, was not une eman- of cipation oppressed an people but the extension of rule oppression and parasitism.

The SWP's support of the invasion of Kampuchea is, of course, inseparable from that Pol Pot its view W ds alliance with acting Peking as a tool of imperial- ism. This "fact" is one of their arguments that Kam- puchea was a capitalist, and bureaucratically deformed workers' state. On this point the SWP is,: to put it generously, loose its use of evidence. bourgeois puppet regime in 1978.

This is the third of a series of articles by HENRY PHILLIPS about the major political and theoretical crisis in the USFI, promoted by the recent wars in S.E. Asia In this article the contradictions of the US Socialist Workers Party's analysis of Kampuchea are analysed.

capitalist- states would be

USSR

including the and Vietnam. For at more or less the same time that the Kampu- Minister Foreign villal made a tour of the ASEAN Stales, did the Foreign Minister of Vietnam! But the SWP's final "proof" of Kampuchea's supposed collaboration with • the imperialists concerns the role of China. World analysis The

SWP

utterly false and misleading world analysis that portrays une Dasic pollica. today being between Imperansm ana Is allies-including China-on the one side, , and the revol- Vietnam, Cuba of and their backers on the OLne This is a superficial and dangerous conception which will go we on analyse Pol Pot critically in a later article.

Meanwhile we must turn The

SWP

for two years prior to this the other set never makes

SWE

clear, for example, that the which the And as we showed in the Pot previous article, to prove that Kam- attempt by the

SOCKS

between develop friendly relations the viet. under Poi Pot nostilly . Wan Kampuchean namese and a capitalist state-the 'argu- with imperialist forces was not a permanent feature of bureaucracies had very deep ments relating to Pol Pot's and material historical internal policies. his policy Rather it was the result The recent articles by

1OULS.

SWP members in no be of a sudden turn in 1978, can way four leading Clark Feldman, Horowitz the Kam- exclusively . or even Sary, ween leng Waters (to Foreign Minister, primarily laid at the door of and be referred puchean the Kampucheans. to as CFHW), is toured the countries of the • the most The date of the conflict, and pro-imperialist developed comotele 1chiullal

ASEAN,

alliance, seeking therefore does not support statement on the subject so SWP's the opinion that far. allances Vietnam, by invading Reply to Mandel Diplomacy simply Kampuchea, was defending itself against ali For this reason we will This exercise in oppor- imperialist-backed attack.

develop the criticisms of the tunist diplomacy was in fact Nor does the attempt by

SWP

leaders position the Pol Pot bureaucracy to mirror image largely article on the basis of this identical moves by the Viet- find pro-imperialist allies go namese Stalinists. any wav The article itself is While it is true that the Kampuchean state as capit- reply to Ernest Mandel's Kampuchea's alist. on critique of the same SWP If that argument were border with Vietnam inten- writers. sified after this point, it had valid, then all the degener- Coming to the end of a been ongoing problem ated and deformed workers of the nefarious summary produced by the policies Pol Pot regime, Mandel had concludedi is one thing to say that inhuman despot an barbaric methods which we course condemn fully and without reservation, and which unable to further the build- of a classless socialist ing society-in order to suppress private property. It is some thing else again to present this despot as a "counter. revolutionary capitalist.

April 9 1979, p.336 We agree. with Mandel' point here He is pointing to the fact that the class nalure ol a regime or state *Steve Clark, Fred Feld- man, Gus Horowitz, Mary- Alice Waters "War and Revolution in Indochina- What Policy for Revolution- ists?" Intercontinental Setting the pace in opportunist diplómacy, Vietnamese Stalinist leaders were feted by Thai Press/Inprecor, July 10 1979 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 August 1979 cannot be decided, as the SWP leaders are in effect partly doing, by moralistic references to the methods which its rulers use The however. not only one of the implicit

SWP

molausle leaders' arguments. Mandel correctly to draw attention to the fact that the policies pursued by the Pol Pot regime are obstacle to the pursuit of a socialist society But he fails to draw out the argument sufficiently.

The point thal Kampuchea, an extreme the Stalinis way. cracy policies pursued masse held back the socialist revol- the very act of

ULOT

overturning property relations. Hold back In were l so thev behaving in accordance with bureaucracies which pursue policies which politically hold back both within their own : countries and on a world •scale the In other the words Stalinist bureaucracy reactionary force-but one which feeds parasitically on non-capitalist, prop r forms. erty how CFHW Let see us react to this. Referring • to Mandel's of Pol sullillal y Pot's policies they say: "Contrary Comrade to Mandel none these policies are the tasks of the Proletarian revolution is not a revolutionary policy to "physically elim- participants in the bourgeois state apparatus...

It is not a step towards a workers state to eliminate classes • The wAY middle Wholesale slaughter has never accompanied so cialist • revon no even when the revolution was dominated by Stalinist parties . ... it is not a task of the proletarian revolution to force peasants Comrade Mandel delicatel Thailand Refugee camps Aranyaprathet Battambang Khmer • Rouge 'stronghold

PHNO

PENH

Gulf of Siam

OF calls "rigid collective farm- ing" It is certainly not a task or the socialist revolution to suppress "all forms of trade and money" socialist revolution does not aim to suppress all private property... Nor is it a revolutionary act disperse the urban popula- tion danienta families... revolution institu- meals tions and to human so cial working The of Policies regime, on contrary, constituted political omic, so clat Kam- and puchean peasants."

(ICP,

July 16 1979, pp.716-7, in orginal To CFHW's must be "No state has consolidated the of these the tasks active toiling LaSSOS

(ICP,

out il "The nationalisation of itself property not bv sufficient to establish workers state. vention of the workers-the modern only force in society capable of establish- maintaining a pro- Ing and gressive economic structure -is needed". February 26 1979,

(ICP,

p.183). This collection of argu-

CFHW

so …trom 1S extremely and evidently in- consistent that it is hard to escape from the conclusion that the whole of their position on Indochina and the is put workers' states forward spirit in. cynicisil. But it is still necessary to demolish the errors of the argument step. step. First of all, its historical Laos • Stung Treng

IMBODIA

ompong Cham Vietnam SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 August 1979

§ 'STATE

inconsistencies. These basic- ally concern two points. Firstly, there are plenty examples historical

CFHW

which recognise appear bureaucratic in regimes powel degenerated deformed that have workers pursued wich there are of the plenty formation states "intervention without the the in mass correctly Pol Pot's tion: "The parallel He might have added of many other instances Stalin's policies terror OI and the workers against peasants the Soviet Union-which the SWP still defines a degenerated as workers' state. Certainly there were parallels in periods of the Chinese history of 1949 of revolution policies. similar being pur- sued. For example when the Peoples Communes were suddenly established Chinese 1958-59, the bureaucracy, like Pol Pot, went so tar as to suppress for a time all private agri- cultural introduce producion, and compulsory communal dining halls. Yet the SWP still accept that China is a deformed worker out racket it bracket with imperialism in their Mandel rightly goes on to argue against the SWP that: "A case could be stated in favour of the thesis that Kampuchea there were mobil-

CHOC

isations against the capital- in than Ists ano. lanaioras most of the East European countries." (ibid, pp.39-40). of Mandel's demolition the internal inconsistencies falsifications of the and

SWP

argument is generally speaking successful. Less specific that

CFHW

up against can an even less specific and concrete Deng Xiao-Ping said they capitalist property forms in a deformed way under the, explicit theoretical leadership parasitic, OI political counter-revolutionary lie behind Stalinist under the of. the military Of Kam puchea- able to these in Those, we outlined previous ing in Te anon to bureau- namese eomic cracy. That, course, of the war history Pandora's which the

USFI

dispute has Cracies.

SWP

leaders to reexamine positions and to they them most all claims to as article in this of the whereas in Mandel's resis- world line-up of forces. out under of • of 'common paralle. for the slaughter positions how CFHW bureaucracy only away with obvious for Stalin's point DUl But Hoxha's 1n has make now rejecting Even no CFHW's denial of basis difficulty the have also qualify reactionary the his- which they can one More to the Bulgaria, Poland

SWP

the leaders 10 T That involves Pol Pot's exist of the idea be the ations policies. and pursued (a the qualitative difference

SWP

between Castro controlled workers state by and bureaucratic

NOT

deformed leadership). expro- For the April 9 1979, p.339 of the

(ICP

dation detormed 1960s emphasis in original). workers states is qualitative- in the and the distribution goods by parallels Such with other workers surprise. we dI e qualitative, dealing phenomena: be Stalinist degeneration that followed the one revolution which took place under a truly revolutionary leadership, (namely the

USSR),

or the subsequent processes or abonton Page 7 ly the same kind of process as the formation of the state in nealtny worKerS 1917 in Russia. It is always in their view the the masses who are active. determinant change. would of course be "better" if they did not have a bureaucratic leader- But essentially in the SWiP's views capitalist prope erty is expropriated because bureaucratic leaderships are pushed to go further than they intended the SWP Even though continues formally to argue that the bureaucratic leaders must be overthrown, they beneve that the actions of these leaders nonetheless can (as in the case Vietnamese of invasion Kampuchea) be progressive: 'Regardless Hanoi's intentions-which were not revolutionary-did its action lead Kampuchea strengthening the workers' Vietnam; Did it stalk pave the way for advances of the workers and peasants in and else- Kampuch ea where in Southeast Asia? • is yes." Our answer (ICP, July 16 1979, p.710) The conclusion. same from the negative emerges arguments as to why Kam- puchea was not a workers' state. We are told by CFHW that because of the reaction- policies. of Pol Pot, ary Kampuchea did not to "the tasks of conform the proletarian revolution" The (see above). only possible implication to draw is that in other cases, where workers' states were formed, the policies of the bureaucratic leaderships did conform to the tasks of the proletarian revolution! For CFHW, all workers? states, however they origin- ated, lie along a continuous spectrum from healthy to very deformed. Bureaucratic deformation is a question simply of quantity. All workers' states are in their view formed onlv br mobilisation of the the masses, even i somellme the bureaucracy stands as a partial obstacle to this.

For CFHW, all workers' however states, they are tormed. represent an unam- biguous step forward for the working class on the road to socialism. formation of workers howeve Slait aerormed on- sib- For ultimately, the Stalinist 10| ad society or What point "stages" ere first the bureau- the struggle cracy hen opens the way for the complete the proletarial to of the proletarian tasks This is a position which that reverse for by Trotsky struggled and the founders of the Fourth International as the of the revolu- continuation tionary socialist tradition of the Bolsheviks. It a position which, by denying the courier' role of the revoluaonerv bureaucracy, calls into ques.

the need for tion very revolutionary Trotskyist parties and a revolutionary international. It is a new version, but in our opinion even more of th ever Pabloite poison which has often and long SO which intected the lOTCes claim adherence to Trotsky- ism. Continued next week

Sexism crucial to boosting 'family' Page 8.

TREE OF

WOODEN

CLOGS

McIntyre "Tree shown, for all their poverty of Wooden two of the younger children Clogs" is one of those and exploitation, to be full to a nunnery, 'solution' of a kind indomitable treated by the family with films which by pains- spirit which complete hostility. prevents tnem takingly avoiding overt from wallowing in their own political statements, Prayers Inisery. This joy through nature manages to charge itself Almost is everything has more material basis in in every pore with class preceded by some kind of.

Olmi's psyche the than in positions. incantation But or prayer. realities of the lower peasan- Olmi shows that the line Elmondo Olmi's 1t15 try. between this brilliantly moving spectacle Invitable religion and all other forms of Italian peasantry in the closing decade of the nine- superstition very this an almost unclear one for the teenth century, a film which invitable concession-and it peasants. demonstrates the material is the only one that Olmi When one of the old men wenness of the peasantry makes. is thought to have fallen ill in its abity to contront its The church is represen- (in fact he is apoplectic with exploiters; the stranglehold ted, not evil, but rage because he has just lost oi the Catholic church and, benign genial priest who like a distant scent of gun- a gold coin he had hidden) bring .comfort. the local witch doctor. is 1cduy powucl, we newiy emerging The skill of the film is brought strength of the proletariat.

with equal that it uses this method yet amounts of religious chants Lombardy still manages to show how and pagan rites. the church exploits the The film follows the lives 'Holy water' peasants and keeps them in of four peasant families- backward ignorance. It is only the power and living stage Inld way Even this takes a contra- authority of the church between extended families dictory form. It is the priest which gives Catholicism the and single units-in a single who insists that one family edge other supersti- farm complex through a six over send their child to the local

AAS N

month period school (twelve miles away) This scene of the woman The film Land Olmi makes because his intelligence is a with her 'holy water? is Lombardy, 'gift from god'. followed immediately by full use of the lush country- Pair of hands one which the newly side and the stark contrast schooled child explains weather between The family thus loses an his dum bounded family summer and winter to. extra pair of hands to help that the water they drink is produce a strikingly photo- bring in enough food. full of living organisms.

graphed backdrop. Another of the families, The film left undoubtedly without father, In the background hovers romanticises the peasantry.

struggles to survive. the image of the landlord.

The four families are The priest offers to take Taking two thirds of every- If EEC "surveys" were to hysteria attained by Irish reported 38%! nac reached a be believed, 50% of women Professor Louis Smith. beware! who nas

SFISI

womer „ snould developed a theory that spells Of course Prof Smith did not in the Common Market are out beyond all doubt. the inter- the USSR, refer happy to stay at home as WitTe oc tween • Deoo no even none • number ot working housewives, and 60% regard bourgeois runs alongside official une Vales ot the wives family unit and the housework not as a chore, repression figures which "Oroyp" of homosexuality. but as "very pleasurable."

of any homosexuality aosence at all! More important than those Lesbianism But lest anyone should miss ausuO stalislics. nowever. the politica sion ticance of nis the hard-boiled capitalist According Professor single arguments, Prof Smith spilled leaders of the EEC saw Smith, only spend good drinking money on should be allowed to work Ills nafoiv wortn workino.

A married woman's place, he commissioning such a survey women who work earn oecause The reason is clear As the says, is in the home. on average only 60% male capitalist economic crisis forces Indeed it women are allowed earnings, stressed. Ana clipoyers onto •te oveve c any torm ot economic indepen• case o ee w væes dew becomes increasingly important dence of their husbands, there is can afford adequate child care.

for them to split and divide the reat danger Sullie luld develop lesbian tendencies."

Stay at home wor kine class to minoise fTs resistance. Professor Racialism, nationalism and smith-who has six children- His message is clear: women should for adequate sexud acrundton are crucidi the growing tendency ot wives means to this end. in Ireland out to work wages, but tamelv stav at home social services could have serious consequences rearing children and shouldering female sexuality, breaking of domestic labour crumoie, coucation ane nurser facilities are axed and hundreds down the total contente marriage that inemseives WItn the tact find forced themseives His evidence? Well, of course they are helping to uphold what

VUL E

"case" composed as it is "normal sexual emoovment tArouon closures such a sees and cuts, the most conscious and relatoroos betveen men ano sections of capitalist ideologists sheer bigoted ignorance doesn't women. Our message is equally clear: close LITt Heless ly reas v neeo eveence. bolster up the flagging argument But Prof. Smith has decked those Smith • camunlarit: that "a woman's place is in the out his pronouncement with a ana •mers wao seek to reores.

home". homosexuals and dulmerLicty referring to San Francisco.

domestic t lits reacuonar HIne was oppression of women taken up during the 1979 Elec- Irish women beware musi oe exose.e truf tion in the emphasis placed by colours-and the echoes of their challenged HOrY ano la dou! teaters arguments must the importance the That city, he said, has one of wherevel tnev surtace WithIn individual family unit: the highest incidences of work- the ranks of the labour move- But not ever the most rabid wives world. „AnO ment. Tory homosexuality lobviously sexist in' tre _anour party has yet reached assessed by the same EEC team) thing the peasants grow, he Is leaving more and more of the to. his work bailiff. Slowness Again Olmi uses a few simple images to portray the- changing face of the Italian landowning class-more interested in listening to his phonograph than checking in the crops. apparent Despite slowness of the film it never becomes boring. Incidents such as the ritual killing of have pig same stunning im pact as they would if the blood was splashing onto the audience's shoes. The real 'event' in one the film is the visit UIl honeymoon by a young couple to Milan They travel on a swiftly barge moving along narrow river and they approach city anle pèasants rising smoke from the nearby towns. Someone remarks that it the military firing on demonstrators. Immediately one of the women whispers vasall. her sympathy Ior proletal ian cousins, while the priest next to her tutts impatient- ly about those who longer have respect for other people's property. When they arrive Milan the couple are almost mown down in the street by the galloping horses of the army and stand in silence as demonstrators are vroudut mom caans Nunnery Again the church brought in in the shape of a nunnery where they stay bridal makes wilch up suite in the middle OI a deserted children's ward.

But again its real material face is to force the newly- married couple to take oné SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 August 1979 Catholicism-has the edge over other superstitions of thé foundling children back home with them, which they do, accom pan- book of lea bv a COStUC- țions as to little the now church will help out with its upkeep. The climax of the film is the eviction of one of the families for having chopped down one of the landlord's trees make a pair of shoes. Averted eyes As the bailiff comes to remove two-thirds of every- thing the family (oossesses and as the father packs their few belongings the back of the cart, the other families urge their children stare out not of the LO window at them Unable offer material help, the peasantry is reduced avertng ils eyes. Prof. Smith's ideal family unit?

"COMPARABILITY' AND

THE FRAUD OF

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 August 1979 Whilst the public expen- the diture cuts dominate headlines present throughout the media, there can be little doubt that for trade unionists the question of wages looming ever larger. With inflation already and spiralling running at 16% rapidly upwards, Class face the immediate of massively reduced threat livina standards with the much vaunted Tory 'tax cuts' swallowed by price rises before Iney arrive this situation to draw up a balance important in order to prepare the way action pay in the coming over months. Buried crucial achievement last winter's was wages Callaghan's reac- tionarv 5% limit. The determined strikes Ford's, transport amongst overs. ano later in me budic sector, buried the last remains

CONSES

Fontan low pa of the social contract and the continued actions and Civil Service ensured that its heir apparent, the concordat. was sullioorn This was the response of the organised labour movement to 3 years or wage freezing This considerable victory attributable, way in nc to anv chanae in the nowever, thinking of the leadership.

largest single strike wave The since which saw areas like the North West almost of constant, opposinith froth constant oposition hoth union leaders ano otticia to make the any actions ettective ins was particuary clear t the case of the transport drivers' where the

TGWU

picketing, attempted to impose a code conduct, claims where the leader- and sector refused to call so solary all out, united action.

"FAIR PAY"

LOW

Throughout winter, the fact, the Trade Union Cracy, nolawly set out to detuse ine mountine anger amongst rank and Ttle members by dabbling the realms of economic mythology.

centia

UNIS

Wa. the miserable "comparabili bosses Trojan Horse minimum ano its telow exue rom the knacker's yard, "fair pay".

Thus the National Union of wages leacners camoalon TOr example, was fought around the meaningless slogan, 'Fair Pay for i eacners Although the idea of 'com- parability had been used before Tiao wavine in ine sector, it only becamę a smoke- tangible claims when Callaghan's nobeless v comorom seo ront- wing Labour government plucked the Comparability Commissior collective political conjuror's hat. Final swipe It was their final swipe at the labour movement. this new innovation the justice' of individual çlaims would weighed unt Commission s experts-who were appointed by the government! The SeCTOf leaders immediately rushed to form queue door Here means "settlino" wage disputes outside of the realms of confrontation with government, and completery away TrOM prying eyes of the membership.

Nor would the strength and combativity that memoet- represents the key ship, which threat to their positions leaders, be the single Crucid determining factor in the fight for the claims. with tide militancy over wades inreatened to sweep them aside the public sector union leaders gratetutly took wages vul us Ine and the class strucole Into academic realms of a debate on 'natural justice' • Commission ine WaS from its beginning nothing more than a new means of selling out each aispute by leaving the tinal say with paid servants

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anti-working-class government.

inat is wny the lories were only too pleased to allow the Page 9 combativitiv of the worktorce.

And, returning to last winter, Ford workers smashed the 5% limit not with a sensible and just claim OUTi tenacious strike action in wanted support of what they it is all this worth repeating that it hardly only in Camden, where the 'was took local council action, that the full £60/ 35 hour week claim was all but elsewhere conceded selective actions met a wall of silence. Reject Thus, in preparing for the Clegg comino strucores. depress wages across the board important that the lessons • 01 by them thable ot an last winter are learned and taken 'who arbitrary league of each Tortnuialion claim deserves what wale iationl let but we Fundamental to this must be also have further lever for playing off one the rejection of all talk both of "comparability" pay section dodinst doliel Cano In practice, which is what awards which are 'self financing counts, there is no such thing as cuts "Fair There is only what manning or services, or through you have got, what you want, schemes which productivity and what you are prepared to extract more work as a price for fight for workers hoping to compensate worker not paid for inflation. according to the value of what "comparisons" are to it any his actual produceds made TAPy between what was earned last our cater te mum needed to ensure he turns up and what is needed this week for production -his each vear to make u• ol current inflation and to keep pace with labour bower rising prices Surplus value Nor should wage claims be arguments based or spurious The difference between what about the 'viability' he is paid and the actual wealth employer he produces is appropriated by While Plessev workers over his employer as surplus value, the past two years have faced the which reaches the continous redundancies, company Public sector bureaucrats-ducking fight _patance sweeT. Donce nave beer caleo in investigate profits massive financial teachers to follow the council irregularities the company Wages received are, there- workers into this spiders's lair.

fore, no That is 'viabilitv' in a nutshel more that The The immediate, rapid hiking may with paying me car et the task of trade unions is up of inflation since Thatcher's order to look after its members, not with paying avvay the employers election commo as it oot lne convince me worktorce to come company of Massive tax and back and do it all again next What is vital now is not the transfer concessions week. differentials maintenance between boilermakers and

TOT

Ine rich. ano coupled witt The amount of slashing attacks on wate all public fitting out trades • the ship setermineo not ov what is tall spending exposed the Clat by haw much the working varos between semi-skilled reality of comparability and skilled ince of ALL extract but ALL wage aken literav it is the riant maintenance emplovers bv usina its industria to end up in the same boat as strength. ieves in me race or ine attacks else, putting This becomes upon living standards. every ult crystal clear anotner was to be comparably

WORSE OFF!

when we consider me miners Basic rates strike of 1974. Council workers and The miners restored teachers cannot ciaim compara- top of the Alongside this the lowest themselves to the bility with the Royal Family paid 'wages so caller layers must orudhist though they are all paid even through generosity of the fight for the improvement of from the public purse, because basic rates. National Coal Board, nor by any comparab tv is no more tar To this, nonest recoonitor I of one exploited the comparison "justice' of their claim in high demand must now be for basic section of the labour movement but rather as the result riding are of ages tied to he increases linked places, - with another. of prolonged, massive industrial The 3% to awarael Litt actor which Heath s real rate intation council manual workers by government and eventually Inherent in such a claim is • the need for a labour movement wiegg speaks Tor itseit-since int brought it down 'comparison' involved was with their willingness to was maex or orices comone one the most downtrodden fight for the claim using all-out local tevel by elected commit- of workgrs in the private sector action which extracted of trade strike tees unionists and There is, however, more te more monev. nousewives lake. comparability than thạt. Not Similarly, the high account of the real rise in the wages does the only concept cost of living facing workers and achieved in the car industry in comparability take wages out 01 • The owed nothing Their tamilies the harsh world of economic metaphysical concepts like realities like inflation and cuts, Tory offensive 'justice, but a great deal to the can ouT i aiso suomy controutes lo shop

TOO!

oraanisation an o acreated the sectionalisation of the wages struggle. Increasingly, the emphasis is upon cutterentias uoon nighe rewards for special skills (as de Prof. Clegg) and termined by uDon the or oniosoon rewarding "talent" and "initiative" Rifts The divisive nature of this

NUPF

ENA

emphasis on ditterentials is well illustrated in the opposition to says:

CAPE

by the Confed one-day strikes Hov raser. eater or une skie toolroom workers in British

NUPE

Leyland. 560

NUPE

Tories hope to widen and bulld on every division tha exists now, and create new rifts order wherever possible in

OFFICIAL NE

OFFICIAL

smash the capacity for united action of the working, class. awards ranged from 3% to2k% Thus

STRIKE

STRIKE

And this was, in the words of the Tory economic textbook, "fair pay'. you only got 3%, . then 'deserved'. Not that was all you only, ineretore, ao we wave in NUPE workers fighting for a £60 minimum wage comparability scheme

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INDUSTRIAL

HULL CUTS IN

Hull trade unionists have slashed obtained copies of a confid- white une ental memo trom ine city s Director of Education that lays out a strategy for slashing expenditure in the some £385,000! current year by £2,469,000.

Al risk are the equivalent of 565 full time jobs-but cuts that The practice affect 1,000 part-time workers. clear warning that similar plans for savate Exclude from meals other council. The pian would cut shool cleaning staff by 5% with the recenty committee with a reduction of the fighting the cuts. number children taking school It Is liçdis "either voluntary committee which system of exclusion", and a 3% coordinate action cut in staff. gives the lead in A 3% cut is also planned for trade senior ancillary statt, and non- area teaching college staff, while the and the next, Education devastating,

TOTAL

service is to be clobbered by aemolish 10% cut, on top of a 35% cut in that have previously been taken for granted. teaching TOUrS and 35% Youth Leader With

CUT

sessions. the dole in the Humberside area

JOIN OUR FIGHT-

AGAINST TORIES!

Returned office after five years 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' profiteering big business backers; and the pay rises to police and armed forces mark only the prelude to increased state violence against pickets and anti-fascists, and an intensified army crack.

down in the occupied North of Ireland.

•he wallaghan-nedley leadership has made it clear that it will opppose any perspective other than settling down and meek- ly accepting five years of Tory devastation And. though they nave once more dusted off their near.

forgotten Labour's socialist speeches, continued to duck away from any fight to remove Callaghan

TUC

too. have stu oUT to establish a basis tor collaboration with Thatcher and the Tory cabinet, parallelling their anti working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan.

But the working class has experienced and overcome such 197a, as sore rope Calan reason erase or Callaghan's reactionary wage controls in a series of monumental i 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 canst renewed i ory attacks But a price tu revolutionary leadership is needed if the Labour traitors, collaborators and their hangers-on in the Communist Party are to be exposed and pushed aside, and 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.

starting gramme or transitional demands which, conditions and today's consciousness within the working class, lead workers to grasp the necessity for socialist revolution.

And in taking up democratic demands-such as an end to recial and sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role that must be played by the working class as the only consistent- ly capable of leading the wow wondry cas. emancipation of mankind And it must fight on international basis-mobilising solidarity for anti-imperialist whether in treland in Southern Africa or elsewhere through- out the world, and drawing strength and political lessons from revolutionary upheavals such _ousted Shah in Iran This means fighting for the reconstruction of the Trotsky- ist Fourth International.

This method of approach, rejecting any descent to simple trade union militancy, or concessions to any wing of the labour 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 Son uS and ta emierd the struggle For socialism!

programme remains small in numbers.

NEWS

LEAKED PLANS

School teaching staff is to be Hull trade unionists cannot aft- by 185 fult time posts ord to stand idly by while union nursery building pro- officials collaborate in the axing gramme will be abandoned: yet of hundreds more public sectoi all these and many others still oos fall short of the cuts target by Public sector unions must unite in action alonaside trade unionists in the private sector to Similar plans halt this attack. revelation ot the col cation Committee document is a cuts are being drawn sections the The Hull Trades Council has formed a special sub. the TaSk essential that this sub is well placed in the city spelling out to inrougnout the the scale to which these, The scale and scope even TOrE

TOUTO OTTON CUTS

of the Tory govern- services ment's offensive against the working class has thousands already made that clear traditional forms of non-political trade union militancy are inadequate to offer any forward way in the coming struggles. Workers need a political programme of demands that not only correspond to the problems of the present period, but which point to of Labour the necessary socialist solu- tion to the crisis. Head off And at the same time the utter failure of TUC and Labour bureaucrats to offer any perspective for a fight

WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE

"left-wing" MPs have struggle for the Get the answers in struggles- the hated

PRESS

policies to defend jobs, wages and social services Talbot: fight for blacking Workers at Talbot's Management Ryton Whitley. plant last week Some voted with only 10 hundred joined against to continue their which ended strike, already in its picket. seventh week, until the that company offered worth- Malalcul Linwood and while talks on pay. cussions could take place.

At the mass meeting Since

TGWU

Convenor Pat Fox and meeting described the company offer as We wiltley won't go back for 5½%" he said The management had personal letters to all

SCHL

the workforce, arguing that tax the 52% was all that could to strikers this week. be offered that any • Management's increase would need to be to the based on an incentive bonus extension of scheme. mass meeting was jobs. followed on Talbot's Research and assemble the

CDLM CONFERENCE TO

DEFEND UNION RIGHTS

against the employers and mass struggles the Tory government already breaking out against combined with their bureau- the Thatcher cratic attempts to head off The militant resistance from the held in Birmingham rank and file. November The fundamental 5 pm) will discuss the fight problem confronting the in the workers working class is one for the following policies: ot an absence of principled leader.

*No talks ship capable of analysing Tories, and the com batting them out. of Labour and union and Labour leaders.

leaders who *No Tory laws on Social contract trade unions! Prepare mass With strike action! this in view the steering committee of the Campaign for Democracy in defend sharing on full pay! Labour Movement- which *Defend wages! championed the living political struggle against the clauses in TUC-imposed wage controls ments, under Labour's "Social workers' Contract"-has called a con- figures. ference to draw out the *Unite strikes and occu- political implications of the pations as a step towards

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government. Union branches and conference, be labour movement organisa-

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 22 August 1979 As the strike against

ITV

companies was this week stepped up the management threatened to lock out remaining technicians. Three major branches of NATTKE, the biggest union in TV, struck from Monday after threats that they would be locked

OUL.

They joined picket lines manned by ACTT members out since who have been after they were August with lor

JOCKOUL

taking action over their pay claim. Electricians belonging to the

EETPU

also faced this Jock-out I101 Wednesday. Ditched claim The been action has willingly by of members at each stage management threats. But the union leadership has already ditched the full 25% claim. Times sell-out -rejected

NATSOPA

chapel members on The Times have thrown out the between agreement their officials and management: And the corner they are now demonstrates why an occupation of the Times was essential. month During management have

JOCK-ON

installed and programmed which they

NATSOPA

demanding work-with job mem Ders loss built into the program- ming The Clerical chapel, faced with this has rejected the proposal Machine room workers also rejected the formula.

NATSOPA

chapels have an agreement that none of them-there are 20 chapels involved-will back unless all are satistied.

The need for NATSOPA members is now to follow through rejection of the sell out accepted by their otticial leaders with a cam- paign for a new leadership to represent their interests.

UNION DUES

ITV unions forced into action While rejecting 15% offer,

ACTT

official Jack O'Connor has been pressing for the go Calm arbitration. Arbitration

ACTT

Both he and General Secretary, Alan Sapper, been have for arbitration on a pressing cost of living index linked claim lodged last year and frozen the Labour government's DV pay policy. 5% The the dispute. intervened in sympathy strike by ACTT members at Molinare recording studio Soho In was declared illegal by the High Court last week. No challenge has been lade by lie umon agalis! the injunction. Officialdom The dispute has also highlighted the character of union offialdom. Glasgow pay fight Roanoid Plastics is a small firm the op industrial Hillingdon Glasgow, estate in around 300 employing people, three-quarters of whom belong to the

TGWU.

On Monday 13 August workers these unionised strike (tot valle 20% claim to offset WaLt the of Tory ravages intlation Speed-up The claim had been in negotiation since the begin- ning of July. The manage- offered a miser- ment had 10% plus 8% able an productivity deal which would mean speed-up and rationalisation by 'natural wastage'.

AT THE TOP...

Sapper Southern TV is not only dispute its with nicians but has also locked out its journalists. Lock-out Southern TV's personnel who took action aganast the journalists against for WOrK the locked out technicians, is none other than Tim Fell, who this time last year was 'Brother' Tim Fell, NUJ's full time organiser for broadcasting! The is firm claiming, much conviction that if it paid the 20% it would make a loss. The only answer to such a claim is for the workers to demand an elected commit- tee be given access to the financial books of the firm.

Picketing The current totally successful picketing must be kept and links estab- up lished with other workers in Prestcold's next door and the Glasgow workers in that are shipyards threatened with closure. In this wav if manage- ment threaten sackings policy occupation can be carried out under organisation of a council of representatives from each struggle.

WHY HELLO - YOU MUST BE JACK

OUR NEW APPOINTEE ...TOU'D DETTER

sHow Too Ine norto.

JUST AN IRRESPONSIBLE

HOT-HEADED MINORITY -

WAICH OUT!!

Page 11 - BL grading sell-out- A massive betrayal has to the call from the Confed for a vance been perpetrated against the appeals procedure which can be ' one day strikes ano overtime used after the new grading has ban support of the wage BL car workers who have claim fight been preparing I he appeals committee is to Un he sane a sentemoe against the iniquitous new be managem of alTars they are being asked to step this trade five grade wage structure to two davs in addition to manta chel shortly be forcibly unions the overtime ban This of course gives manage.

But now it is clear that only imposed by management. substantial built-in ment a few days before that they will The betrayal came from the maora SInce Tone skiller he raced with the need to strike F&GP of the Confed, who have sections' convenors consistently against the Confed on the intervened in with vote against grading structure. management ultimatum-due to une vast maorty or product! Straightjacket executed workers weeks is unlikely that workers Nevertheless the grading plar Last Friday the Confed won will fall for this ploy. • that threatens - stander their The new aradina is hiahly to Tredererous restrict tor all time the pay exercise from the trade union contentious. means, for levels that can be won by each of Leyland Cars example, production workers section-must be resisted by BL National Joint Negotiating Com- seing down-graded from grade workers mittee. In developing their indepen one to grade three The Confederation in faer 3 There is hardly a section of this issue, dent struggles Confederation-after workers prepared of the to accept the carworkers can lay the basis foi members of the committee who grade into which they are to be winning the major pay increases could have been expected forced. contained the Confed pay against But workers are placed in a grading and for pressing home

VOLE

Une own structure had lett the meeting verv anticult Dosition Then demands in BL'S The Confederation Nearly all British Leyland annual review had November, that they made big plants are currently responding

ALL OUT TO WIN

CONFED CLAIM

The Embarassed where handfuls of scabs have mood of the meeting and began frightened by the massive сетірс те опе-cav oramaticav they have been with standing ovations and for official Confed growing speakers while slowpage. of each their one-day •rotests ov workers wa suose LIOSt

VVOL

• menders ane national strikes, the Confed refused to work with supporters heckled who them. all-out strikes were leadership has attempted to in a smail minority Bradford demand wear down the militancy of But speakers from the floor engineering workers by The ready pages will all out action began calling for calling not an all-out strike, now many wner Alal i nornett deputy convenor of BL's Cow.

but simply for endless problem. ot redderso bosed by an indefinite stoppage-but ley Assembly Plant called for a series of two day stoppages.

impact. without the While this strategy is unlike- the Confed call an ail-out strike arowine MO0O 10l all ly intransigent was mood rapidly Dreak the out action retlected in a of the vicious Engineer- recent meeting of 300 Confed favour of the militants. Federation, in Bradford, where stewards however ref. orattorm used to accept such a proposal • comete ack ot persective to •emano tor ine conted to cai a serious fight holds dangers as all-out strike on the claim all clostu media attempts ¿was carried with only one vote without putting it the meeting to a vote scabino back to work moves acainst are growing in intensity.

And Birmingham Engineering on Mon union branches day committees must and stewards 2 million stration meeting sleD

TION

• turn Ine The realitv of course is that Diabet! give token two day actions into all- strikers not only did nearly two million massive support to those out to workers follow Monday's strike attempting to carry a resolution win the full £80/35 hour week Call. •DUt many instance. Tor all-out action claim The Birmingham mass meeting

KMAIT WA AMARIA

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• ON • T

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I WASAT RUSKIN I LEARNED

SENSE... IF YOU CANT BEAT

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WORKERS READY TO

Coventry cuts 'stand'

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Police computer rigs jury Special Branch officers are vetting jurors who might be called to sit on a trial of alleged anarchists

SIX

next month. left wing Anyone connections will be barred from sitting on the case and The all announcement by have been Halle

TUT

Shipbuilders through a police computer.

British of no information programme of 6,000 redun- • eA 18 whether the police as lo dancies was met by a vir- preference •nave shown tually immediate mass meet- those linked to right wIng ing decision for an overtime political activity. ban and a protest strike by vetting wnote 5,000 workers at Scotstoun indicates procedure, which Marine and Govan. kind of information The mass meeting called on stored on police files about other shipyard workers-to call a ordinary citizens, was first Matonal can balon resist ance" to management plans for Berry, Campbell trial and is closures and redundancies, the stoutly defended all ou k or which are concentrated "demo. kinds of bourgeois in Scotland. crats"! Three yards-including that demonstrates Scotstour Mannere scheduled to close, and a fourth those who prate most about to be "democracy' are the first to on a care and maintenance basis abandon of Redundancies are planned at democratic rights. other shipyards in Scotland and England. hese include the loss

RIP

shipbuilding North Sands Sunderland, and the slashing of • vuv obs at cammen Lara or Merseyside. 10,000 jobs lost Lfor TPI?+ These cutbacks come on toc of redundancies and closures earlier announced the year,

THE

AS Tories launched and bring tae told loss of jobs Tineir a teary oiscredited to 10,000 and Pipes to entic reas And with the tacit collabora- openly sceptical liva tion union icaoers coverate ano nosue trade union nation ser . corooration responses, government spokes- already the workforce and

CBI

leaders merchant trom rushed to urge workers not to 38,000 in 1977 to 28,000 prior base to these announcements. TPI or the Retail Price Index- Now, mounting ow showing annuat intation o pressure from the shop floor .070 combat These sackings-all most extravagant even the which come in areas cooking of books could not new TI lower than 13% unemployment-the leaders the conteceration or oniooulo- but whalis the red rate otınta- tion as it affects workers?

called a delegate conference in Neither the Newcaste for nursedy answer. But the conference is not Only election of com. Ene i likely to be offered much in the mittees of trade unionists anc way be see to bured nousewives comorle have now crats Who untI workers' price index can show slavishly accepted every manage the real impact of Tory inflation 'viability" and HICH OVe on the workIne class. an only rationalisation. cost of living clauses can protect And while Govan and Scots- against it.

FUND

After a good start to the month there has been a slowing up this week which means that the total to date stands at only £340.66 towards a target of £600.

The impact of inflation has forced us to raise the target for our monthly fund from next month to £750 so it is important that we not only raise the fund this month but go well over the top as we begin to seek out new sources of income for the fund in preparation for the higher fund target in September. In the meantime, donations to the August Fund should be sent to: Socialist Press Monthly Fund 31, Dartmouth Park. Hill London NW5 1HR Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, 31 Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR rica by duvu sembers 1 v wondon. desisterce as a Newspaper ab but sos vllice

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toun workers vivic v demonstra- ted their willingness to fight in defence of their jobs, it VVd: ago oniv a tew months Thai their convenors were railroading through vicious no-strike agree- ments-ano even oettine workers their holidays-to cacritice an order for ships to Poland. UCS lessons Convenors and officials alike have drawn lessons from the voder vee onlooulders work in' under the Heath government, which turned, recoersnie Ine • Communisi Party away from the necessary the Tories, direct challenge into a union sumorserters that turned out finished ships for liquidator sell off.

UCS

Jimmy Airlie (now an Auc otticial, and Coventry's. Councillors burst into the national headlines last week with the statement that they would lead a national fight against the Tory cuts.

The reality of the stand of these people, however, is very the way it has •herent from been painted: The cuts Coventry which Council are proposing to fight are to molemented next That cut 5% of the Council However Councillor Arthur Waugh senior (the leader of the council) has _Dointed oUt. That cut in rea terms is 20%. Unavoidable The annual budget totals £96 million of which €73 'unavoid. able expenditure includes staff wages and charges paid to banks.

CUT

would meretore thing it 4% million hi £96 million-some-

WORKERS SOCIALIST

LEAGUE

COVENTRY

Public meeting The fight against the cuts Elastic Inn Near Pool Meadow Thursday August 2: 7.30 p.m. Sammy still on the barr are scene, and behind a thin facade of 'left rhetoric prepared head OncE audin

OTT

necessary policies: of the threatened yards; *struggling open. the books of British Shipbuilders to elected trade union committees; "the taures revealed woutt show the real profits made from this "loss mak ing" industry, anc

JOI

austral programme of public works that would then taken from Ine to millon lett over afte the of the 'unavoid. able expenditure Iwo points should be made about the Council's so-called "'stand" Sacrosanct Firstly, Councillor Waugh and the others assume that the interest cayments to bank.

• are sacrosanct. They have made it absolute- Iv clear that thev have no inten tion of taking real stand They carefully want controned oroodcanda exercise.

far removed from class action.

Secondly, the the Council are about next dance smokescreen year's cuts to cover their deter- this mination implement veals cuLs On September 11 a Council Meetino where this vears cut will be announced will be met with a mass picket against the organised

CUTS.

the . races Council. Trades Council deleaates

WORKERS SOCIALIST

LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETING

THE FIGHT AGAINSI

THE CUTS

7.30pm Thursday 30 August Belgrave Neighbour- hood Centre

LEICESTER

LOBBY THE

TUC.

FIGHT THE ANTI-UNION LAWS

Called by the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement Wednesday 5 September, Winter Gns, Blackpool could utilise *linking this to the struggle forces otherwise to be junked in for action of the trade the doomed shipyards. union movement *spelling job-slashing govern- out une necessit The I ory for the nationalisation of British ment. private suppliers On the basis of such a pro and the banks without compen demands shipyard sation and under workers' workers could rapidly management for the

SECOTLINC

WOrKInG cross throughout strike the struggle to defend jobs. action engineering industry the public sector unions where Tory

CULS

thredten anousanos more jobs. • have been circulated with details of this conference must be the of the proposed cuts which need to take up a struggle for million off include educa- action Int •£1½ and the formation of a Council

LIOT

'off salaries) and £¼ of Action to unify. the struggle million off social services.

Despite the real nature Public Liaison Committee Trades diversion the dangerous Council has proposed a their campaign against the cuts campaign to force the Labour is designed to be, stated ine opposition to the cuts can be counch to retuse to imolemen these cuts. used. Demand! Centralise Councillors must centre on the demands that no cuts be made This was taken up by the full services the • Instero massive interest payments Trades Council should be cancelled. local bulletin Sinn centalst intormatiot cuts and decided to issue a call the Labour Party and local Conica

JUI

conterenc oisCus, tiont-back Fein The plan for a conference is a major step forward the deliberations ventral to raided

LONDON

POLICE BACKED by British forces raided the occupation Sinn DelTast

WORKERS SOCIALIST

Fein on Friday, the day after British the army

LEAGUE

Public Meeting in a surprise 'friendly visit' Chief butcher Lieut. General Timothy clad •strolled into the

DON'T LET TURKEY

combat dear shoot hard toyed stage an

BECOME ANOTHER

Thursday staged a

CHILE

Chal

ETH

subsequent enragement Loyalist and SDLP politicians Conway Hall the next day police

KEIT

Tuesday September 4 raids inflicted serious damage or offices, with 7.30 p.m. alou other Sinn Fein offices Belfast.