Socialist Press no. 190

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Coachloads British Leyland

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travelled from South Yorkshire have added their ane corov and were omneu by weight to the TUC betrayal stee workers trom birm menam.

of the steel workers and the in response to on ape om representatives working class. committee Al a convenors conterence strike committee. Coventry last Friday they refused by a 4-1 majority-to deputy WOIKES OuL OH SULIKe Cowiev against Edwardes' 5% pay offer.

been given the opportunity pages of which comes with 102 address a meeting of steel workers and This decision comes at a make a direct appeal for support when the steel workers time on the Friday lobby. have been out on strike for ten weeks and are clearly under "Impossibility" increasine oressure. And it comes despite a clear 2-1 ballot vote by BL shopfloor But the response reject the offer, workers to quickly showed that Edwardes givine union leaders a cicar lan- tactic of declaring lay-olts date to call strike action.

(ironically soon as ne nearo ine resul or meeting in the social club of the the ballot, had been effective.

Many talked of the doomed Canev Assembly Plant) had been strongly lobbied on

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their way in to the conference "with 30,000 people laid off".

Cowley by BL workers from show them that only 14,000 out Coventrv and Birmingham. and by over 100 steelworkers, in a intervention organised by and most of them for only two the Leyland Action Committee.

BL and BSC workers are tion not the only state sector ditions. industrial workers to suffer delegate conference had voted at the hands of their union reject an leaders. deal, and it was also thrown out salovara WOrKerS at a i, luv-strong mass meeting have just had at Sunderland Shipbuilders.

deal signed and strings pay officials sealed by full time anons une aca was con cruaca completely over their heads.

and signed by The deal involves acceptance union leader John redundancies, of 3,000 more WILl measures to increase exploita-

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STEEL STRIKE

convenors' minds of steel strikers were already set against action.

Jack Adams. une communisu Partv member wno nas rep acea the victimised Derek Robinson convenor of the Longbridge visited their plant. loppy els placards of my ou ve Ine vote: now call a strike" with the In Sheffield, Alan Thornett, at BL's chane words "You've got no convenor had Assembly Plant. So determinea were the con 2,000-strong venors to close their eyes and ears to the steel strike and the action -chance or common aainst a common attack ov une Tories, that they refused even to powered delegation hear a high of ISTC full time officials who of BL nad travelled down in the nopes of addressing the meeting.

the lobbyers convenors' decision. end cor the meeting could the nara v nave been worse. No action "impos- or calling strike action They decided to take no Yet simple arithmetic would action now alongside the steel workers and to leave them to fight alone. But at the same time they decided that: *We are of the opinion that

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signed" now, the deal has been and allack working con- A post-mortem will be held Only days earlier a GMWU Tor delegates trom al snoound- ing unions on March 24. But almost identical Ken Baker Confed adamantly defends the decision to sign: "It had to be signed. Any But with only marginal alter- delay and £12.5 million would been Have

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package" Borermakers Chalmers And, of rejection course. have brought ship- the arrogant statement builders out alongside the steel- "There is no going back

GENERAL STRIKE! TORIES OUT!

strikers-using the tenacity strike col. workers the time or a lull return to engage the cit, pany and pine, work will, at that time, government cute our Clail nas areav been seized 1 Grenville Havion Automotive subsequently official Communist talked deferring action on last Novembers pay against the review until "late spring or early summer"! Recession Of course with the growing recession in ine Brilish -and world economy biting home in car industry, there Edwardes will not be able to use foreseeable which the threat of closures. redun- dancies or lay-offs to intimidate BL's convenors is no fight there offer with straightjacket of strings, workers face not only a ruinous fall in living standards but alsc the loss of almost every signifi- cant shop floor agreement won since the wai he stee workers nave now been on strike for 11 weeks against the same two-pronged nev now lace an adquona propaganda ased on the outcome of the ballot, which 44 or ine striking work O force voted in line with BSC's recommendation for a 'yes' Tenacity Alter weeks • WiTnOUT pay in an isolated and up- hill struggle, the fact that the yes vote in a postar Danot is so low is a resounding statement of the But the media can be relied upon exploit GouOts

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.pp.6-7 Marcuse.. .. p.2 Zimbabwe. Gift wrapping Tories • p9 Lobbyer seve vien ville Hawley It is vital that throughout weaknesses in the ranks of the ballot figures the BE unions, and in particula in those that have membership turned coulu in the steel industry, resolutions into victory if the steelworkers were strengthened by simultan- passed an e from Regional and District Commit- action organised demanding that the fight redoubled for an all-out Genera convenors aral Strike to bring down the wage- reverse inis cecision ane cal a job-slashing all-out strike. Steel unions, too, must pile pressure-through their This is why the BE conven- BL ors' decision to take no action strike committees—101 endorsed by the workers to come out on their the claim common struggle Party's paper own Morning Star-was a bitter blov to defeat the lories steel STrIKe 3 00. against the whole working class.

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The petty bourgeois leadership of ZANU(PF) has into swept parlament on the back of the mass deter- mination of the workers and rural poor of Zimbabwe for fundamental change. But they have spent their sin cr ever representatives of all sections of bourgeoisie oroduti Chel Illu government or natonal unity.

For the restless and expec- crisis of tant working class, the

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confronting them is ever more starkly posed. Throughout the seventies, une workine cass ana rural Door borne nave Tner orunt international capitalist recession and the vicious sion exacerbated by the intensi canon or une war The already pitiful standard living of Zimbabwean has Hilasses sustane ana concerted аштаск from every conceivable angle.

"Protected" In the rural areas, with over food 70% Zimbabwe's Teo urements oenne orouuccu Uy large capitalist farms, the subsis- barely operates at all. The mass of the rural DOOr. constantiv narrasseu anu intimidated by the K nodesian ; were herded into dotted villages' protecica around ine country side What paltry crops and cattle access to they might have 'battle starve out guerrillas. With the steady elimination wha social ali administration that had existed, subjected the and hands the and tacing Donce anu imminent sorvaton may bere forced to the cities in a desper- ate bid to : material con- 1 ne ditions of the workers have been equally severe. Unemployment has risen so in une bast live. years that the black labour force has shrunk fifth • of its over à Tormer size. At the neignt or tae war over a hun meade relusa da, were made while our nunuicu peusic auay wor search of a livelihood that capit- alism could not provide. Squatter camps The already acute housing acentuated shortage was Sorawie squatter camps with no amen- whatsoever sprang the outskirts of the main indus- trial centres. inflation and the the effects of sent sanchills most basic Drices even commodities rocketing. At the same time real wage reduced to the were black workers inco mes have fallen by years more than 40%. the areas the rural educational limited health and Tachues were rabialy croucu When the workers voted for Muzorewa arising from the "internal settle ment ther were voting for jobs, for higher for controls over infla- prices, housing, iol

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education for their children and for real articipation the affecting their day-to- uccisiols dav nves Only option same total com- It was the mittment workers these demands that led them to Muzorewa leadership crisis decisively and give an ovel- victory to Mugabe In last week's elections. In placing a cross against the

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Limbabwear Hasses Mugabe voung or

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neltner viuzorewa Mugabe, nor anyone presiding the capitalist over , will be capable oi meering inese elem- ental aspirations. The maintenance of a system based on profit not need, under and crisis oi poluical control which would be a threat Lind Centrat capitalist Africa 1s contingen boo no the intensification of the oppression and exploitation of the workers and landless masses but ultimately on their physical defeat. The threat of the working cass movime into open surucaic control of commanders loyal to Lancaster House agreement.

beginning of the the strategy apitalis state. the potential armed struggle, constituted the wariare was almed a largely been guerrillas speeding up the process of polit- inside Zimbabwe removeu threatening It is now in the towns and without ever cities where the greatest expec social relations oi tundamenta. tations, needs and demands have capitalism itself. workers, amongst the vul Nationalisation Toraeo ov accades oi al micreas ingly bitter struggle for survival that Mugabe and General Walls The interests of the petty necessity bourgeois leadership highligh- oi pontical must ou seek estaonisn ted in recent months because or repressive capacity the shedaine Inel capitalist state socialist rhetoric, , have unwaver- same time Mugabe guided their actions ingly posture genuine masses a e o da sol nack leader black point of view o …*rom the imperialism, the participation of symbolically the guerrilla leaders in the elec- Line secure raonca achon W d sulliticil ter meta Defence organisational disarming anc of the guerrilla In this critical phase of the and the establishment • Decuve conaltions Trotskyists. militant tacing extend the social base and guerrillas workers incoming regime class The demobilisation and con from the partic- against ine manoeuvres fusion resultins treacherous alliance of imperial- ination o ANu ano kArU m and bourgeois elections, has allowed the 1si11 leadership of ZANU leadership to be drawn into the and ZAPU ao ministramon ol de Cabllalisl This the means arming state with its repressive appara- substantially workers practically of malte ing to build workers militias ir Walls to leac retaining General the towns and rural areas unde the incorporation guerrilla forces into one army independent under his command. organicatos workers. and arming them programmatic- Unresolved ally by calling for: *The nationalisation of While Mugabe balances land, factories, mines and banks netween the rea power or unt capitalist state and the assertive- without compensation. ness. of the Zimbabwean prolet- *For workers management of industry and large scale agri- Unemployed blacks in Salisbury amal dae valance oi class Iorce.

remains completely unresolved Culture alongside the guerrillas The crisis of political control "ror a silaing scaic or wage posed •such a determined elected price threat to imperialism's political and workers committees tne contro in the region. class remains still to be fought no usewives. With South Africa's approval and by arming them political o'' The front line of the struggle the collusion of by fighting : for the creation of: and witt Front Line states (enforced by *Independent committees of untolone in cimoaowe nas now dependence on imperial- and rural moved from The

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Thatcher government where the principal actors were guerrillas. and the *A constituent assembly of rebresellalive the liberation engineered the Lancaster House aline democratically elected delegates objective conference. of workers and peasants, linked was The process of organisation- of a promote the emergence ally and in some cases physically to the disso tot or tre cabital ist stat reparatus capitalst regime with sumicien disarming the guerriilas is to a stability to contain the develop- part or a relonstructed Fouras revolutionary party aroe exteni comorete ing crisis of political control in vulnerable the assembly camps, under the International. um babwe At the came time Lancaster House gave the opportunity Giscard's petty-bourge the leadership of ZANU and ZAPI regaining Inicialive dilu the political direction de on the. struggle of secret and triumph the rank mass oppressed: Mugabe's Nkomo's betrayal of the working class did not begin today wit of 'national unity, government nor even with the signing of the President Giscard. imperialist of commonoiace diplomacy-but d'Estaing's tour of the thev came toc late to forestall the manoeuvre.

East Middle has so tar Giscard was able to tuck into spectacular proved his suave pocket a promise Trom triumph the grand sheiks of the • United Arab supply all France's tradition established by = mirates recognition ol Charles de Gaulle. crude ur liceus its support for 'Arab rights'.

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mateniess nybocrisy, Giscard has vaunted the ince. iscaro s and Tinesse pendence of French imperialist stood out in dazzling contrast policy from the against foreign supe of Carter's diplomatic bungling.

the o owers. aTic reward of substantial advantage.

ranic dreas mnar tne uo volt for French capitalism over its the Council security o ther imperialist competitors.

condemning on the West Bank was an error nevel seems to Tal much communications of bourgeoisie did nothing ease West the and a great deal Zionist anger, Britain, the opportunism o1

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expose US diplomacy This time round. the winning played by the French itself-like votE president joint Giscard's tour-was certainly lo ue Ine leudd concertea KuwaIt callino

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sell- the moerialists • towaros a new determination of the Palestinian policy in the Middle East, which people not centred exclusively on the firm Rapid declarations suport from London and Bonn antances will

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israel came-amid the Arab states of the region.

irritater onserva that :Giscard had in reality needs Not pleased: South African premier Botha tions said little more than the current include some 'solution' to the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 12 March 1980 No end- to hostages impasse The bewildering negotia tions on the fate of the US em bassy hostages in Tehran have still reached no firm conclusion fail, agreements orGer tatter and descines pass. une us Revol nonary Counci nas been unabl ho stages be impose demands handed over to its and the UN's Inter- aullulily national Commission of inquir has been interview unable to , of 'them as yet. Of little importance in them- selves, •these wranges menca the problems which Bani-Sadr is struggling to overcome : in creat- powerful central state O1l1 authority. With the first round of the assembly elections nearly upon him, the president's situation is an ironic paralel of Carter's: hi needs to prove the credibility of •This means reaching a solu assert presidential power ver 'alternative government' without 'revolution the compromisins ary credentials of the Islamic Republic For all its prominence the affair is far from Bani Sadr's only headache. The regime's proposals or land reform have reached the stage of definition on paper and electon toom on flegat, 1ath. delegation from Kurdish Democratic Presi ran recentiv dent to demand the lifting of the ban on their organisation so that it could stand candidates.

The continued opression of the national minorities brought more dramatic developments in the Azerbaijan city of Tabriz.

tou Tn e Turkmeni militants in Gonbad- Kabus, the ised a demonstration of protest wiere Ildyt already been many outbreaks of fighting left wing and the reactionary bod Pasderan. On this ocasion, the 20,000 demonstrator the Pasderan паске aran 0 in a fresh example of the bloody zeal with which the Islamic their "revolution' against

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exploited masses of Iran.

Giscard Palestinian problem if it is to Nave d nobe ol succes. BUt • short-term o nf US imperialists forging ahead feverishly to strengthen iner fortes Sadat's regime is to be supplied military resources of the most sophisticated type the and ceve ooec Shah's dictatorship as the chief the imperialist policeman ospects: the Shan long-term prospects: the had to vacate the post in a hurry and there is no reason to believe That the workers ano deasants f Egypt will find their new relationship with imperialism attractive than ther sisters and brothers in iran ald

VIETNAM STALINISTS

FACE WORSENING

Italy: the same old song SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 12 March 1980

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One result of the Soviet radio and in the Valty news invasion of Afghanistan paper Nhan Dan show that the bureaucracy appears to be a reduction in jumpy. the USSR's economic aid to Vietnam. Bearing fruit According to the Far Eastern Beijing (Peking) radio has Economic Review the Moscow been advantage of the Dallist vurcaulialy llas loid 1E.

situation launch counterpart HanO1 T021 a lassly! 1980 it can no longer count on picasalud allack quantities Bureau member Hoan who roodgrains (mainly wheat) it has defected China last year been getting up to now. true, this will create Hanol that for campaign "psychological more serious situation war" in which China is spread- the Vietnamese CP leaders who lies ing about dire economic are areadv and political trouble. goos, mmment changes In ne Who'd be a Vietnamese CP currency and so on. member? You've got to tell the The malicious intențions of Purges people what is true but not, lt the Chinese appears, too mucn or 1t: inflation, evident bearing some truit-a Them ist bious just hoof Goods are scarce. fact which the top Vietnamese black market and corrup disagreement about how leaders. blaming their tion low are agricultural much the people deserve to be inferiors. productivity lids 22 Nhan Dan t01u. January They are signe and being bated by drought, and thev have complained of a "lack of vivac- to feed an army of occupation told little and militancy" the part Kampuchea progress army of occu- of "some party 200,000) is twice the size of the pation in Kampuchea ume to tne rumours. Soviet forces in Afghanistan were failing to. tell Inev political difficulties sion, it still has not subdued the the people what is true and created by these economic and tiny country-despite what is false". military ones became appallill One soldier for every 15 or so people top leadership the Disagreement in the country! the and evidence Vietnamese Some of Kampuchea walls hundreds of thousands But it isn't quite so simple the controlted "indifferent Khmer Rouge government-now Vatly members nave Deer since come have left the CP irresponsible led by Premier Khieu Samphan the last few years. been "revealing State and party Recent statements on Hanoi down last year. So conversations Last grand week the of opera Italian politics looked as if it was about to enter a new act. The story so far is that, sincr last June's election the minorit Christian Democratic govern- (headed Francisco 'ossiga) has survived against the oposalon Ene second parlamentary party. The Communist Party, , thanks to the abstention the Socialist Party. The Socialists are always on point changing The minds and going into opposi- ton-because support CP, by Hose taking all blame for the existence the Christian Democrats. The Socialists, like the Com- Berlinguer there is general agreement that unwillingness of the singing they would accept a centre-left Socialist began it turned out to coalition and between leaders different: Party themselves - ommunis

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mobilise the working class mean anu une cristan pemocrats as taly Deltno rax sao that the long as a Socialist is the Prime have to be change to opposition would not

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ine tunes made Minister. basically the same. be alternative In the last few weeks several the Christian But Demo government nad been arranged.

of the The second apparent change Cas want to noiaon To nain SIncer seemed government and drawing breath ready for a new of tune came from the election Premiership. theme. of a secretary wental ol • Socialist Party leaders, there is DICe possIble tilt insulan Democratic Party resolution of this plot which can under severe pressure from their He is Flaminio Piccoli, leader the Italian bourgeoisie wing and from their of known working base with a happy announced ending-the stable centre faction of the partv was going end its parla- voted covernment desperate y recent v needs-Italian politicians have a almost entirely with the "right" divullary abstention arosemen very difficult life. faction Amintore ana co nto opposition. ramani if carried out, each This threat and Donat-Cattin. act of the tragi- would the mean that govern- What thes distinguishes "left" singing music ment would almost certainly fall and "right" among the Christian which different from Démocrats Intough insulticient parlamen whether the previous act. tary support. should the But So that weakness of the looked like a real the principle governmen Christian change of tune. because ideology (the Kampuchean refugees flee from hunger: now a new threat to food supplies The Samphan regime has conunded as a-out orive to get imperialist aid for its war against Hanoi. week leng Sary ‹Samphan's denutv) lola Jour nalists from capitalist grateful that he was for helping his regime to keep Aam puenta s Ur seal interests and coincide", he said communist" Khmer Rouge leaders also declared: "Our principal duty is not to make the socialist revolution o socialism build but to push the Vietnames our hampuchea detent nation, our and our people race. that, lo do these peonle whose policies were responsible for the deaths of millions of "left" leaders, former Secretary General Zaccagnini and former Premier now appeal lo ve cole Rejected by a 58% majority at the party's recent Congress they ma] Gallaneu by further 102 1 supporters of . Andreotti were deeply implicated in one of the wave of financial scandals which nave broken over me aristan Democrats in the past few days.

brothers, The Caltagirone rich building contractors got richer through a fraudulent bankruptcy, are alleged to have given billions of lire to assist the party One government minister has already been forced to resign hours I'wenty-four lalci forty prommen Democrats were arrested for misappropriation public funds via the national savings banks of Le y were The eyes of the audience now turn to the Communist wICa STOOd awkward silence as the others do the singing. Criminals Now that the Christian Democrats have firmly the door in the face and themselve once again to be notning more tha a bunch of criminals. the CP now decide change its political line from its present lassience on Deme ad compromise»* mitted grand "historic government with the Christian Democrats. Kampucheans, now want treatnerous, Jead remaining followers into a milit- ary imperialism and to "unite all Cambodians ir and natonal, patnotic democratic front". of Indo- Chinese workers and wwasailli contiue ace ne terror bloody repression, a deter- ioriating standard of life and in many starvation, there i thing cer tally various Stalinist netween bureaucrats: whether they be Moscow, Hanol. Peking or corner of Kampuchea, north-east noted • they are unanimously opposed to ine socialist revolution in Indo-China prospect, now InIS definitely ruled out the Christian Democrats, which the CP held has

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increasingly impatient followers as a reason not to mobilise resis- tance to the government's reac tionary all working cass Doncies. Previously forced to walk a.

bureaucracy tightrope is now obliged to walk on air Applecart At so long as the or sal. financial scandals don't upset the present extremely unstable political applecart, all the party leaderships seem to have agreed that noone will do anything decisive before the May and regional elections Meanwhile Italian aper theirto sing encores of principal performers long as Luck 0I0 allas •possible. It cannot be long, however, before the audience. begin throw something Inar lowers Zaccagnini Page 3 -Polish economy in dire straits Economic growth Poland seems to be slowly grinding The a halt. increase in GNP hovered at around 9.5% in the 1971- 1975 period, but since then it has fallen to reach a nadir of -2.8% last year. Government plans expect the rate to ack uo in the du publica out various tions inside the country gloom.

predict zero hagative we tale. Whichever source is believed both mention that serious diffi culties tace the country

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The most important of these these shetor. Uniquay songs comet Poland's con countries. ovo or use tarms are in private hands Small (on average 20 acres) holdings predominate tend primitive farming relying greatly on metnoos horses to carry out the heavy work. Much of the available fodde the horses and eaten growth in livestock herds is thus seriously held up especially meat r000 ane shortages are a very common experience for the Polish con sumers nen the bad weather con ditions exacerbate the problem they did 1975-76 for distance. il Unusual te have no meat at all in any shops for days and days on end Polist government realises that maustral develo o reativ held back by the poor agricultural sector.

Polish leader Gierek It consequently spends a lot of money on buying out private farmers and gives preferential treatment in terms of credit anc farm orants socialised activity. But this is a long term policy and not likely solve short term even problems Meanwhile, food shortages and consumer Continue near an extense queues for these products are common and living standards standard of the living has risen by 8.5% betweer 1971-1980, but this is criticised unofficial sources serious falls claim real wages have occured recently. They advocate that workers should right tor higher wages and better working conditions either through trade unions of in independent groups They also inform them how to find out whether real wages are rising or talling and advisi on wnal can be legally done if the management takes disciplin.

action against their demands Overall, the bureaucratically controlled economy the Stalinist confines of "socialism to be finding , it: harder seems and harder to provide the Polish i standards of people with rising living as time continues In this contlict of interest.

lies the key to the struggle for political revolution over throw Stalinist ruling bureaucracy.

IRELAND REPRESSION:

WHERE DO CP REALLY

Page 4 A major feature article revealing details of the intensive military surveill- ance of the Catholic ghetto areas of Belfast appeared in the Morning Star of March 1. Reporter David Whitfield vIvialy sketcneo ine Diciure or army spy posts based in high rise flats, which every malvlaual resident in a selected " patch" is monitored and recorded by trained observers through signis or man velocky armante rifles. The scale of the surveillance operation is stressed Ine extent so clers and briefing using mock-ups the area they Civil rights same time the Ana al ine article shows the inability of ever unese Immense v thorough and painstaking oper- repub- ations suppress licall moveniell. Unc senior commander as savine.

"another battalions would not stop the killings and But the Morning Star's pre- throughout occupation the article is not so much with the national oppression of the Irish willl aulse ngnis vortnern _re- land'. This is clear from the con- clusion which oi the al licit ing on and repression of anti- imperialist for the forces, nor ot British troops winulawal but simply for the troops to be confined to baLands Land-Rover the and •arros were stav the likes of the Girdwood fort.

of New people elsewhere would shut their coors-ana cer on wan oulains a better life out of the literal ruins of Belfast's ghettoes.

slaltiel sulis un the utter utilitv of the " better Life for All" by

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the British Parliament) to trans- Orange The "IX-ColniV sectarian statelet into a viable unit-in chronic allu devastanon can de overcome-1s consciously peddled a delusion by the Stalinists. As such it+ is completely in Ine with their parliamentary road to socialism in Britain. Stark reality It refuses to confront the stark reality of imperialist which produces unemployment on the bior border, Drollls alt reaoca multinationals and imperialist British army-whether falassina workers on the streets or ine six counties, spying on them from the rooftops, or even wait- remains the guarantee for imper- that such profitable exploitation will continue repression the republican movement North and South is seen as the key to revolutary workers montati and small farmers could lead struggles that over into the tight tor nationalisation industries Das ano and the establishment workers' republic. Stalinists, however, tor the it is simply the overt evidence ot this repression which unacceptable. "Smash the IRA" is the slogan for a National Front march planned in Glasgow for March 15. Finding impossible secure a base for a fascist move- ment in Scotland on the basis of Is Toutine raciasm te Ne nac set out to exploit the divisions Glasgow's protestant and Catholic workers. OCOTEISn oroaniser Raymond Skinner has appealed to "march. "Loyalist patriots" to attend wie une rascists their Orange stable-mates organ- the Glasgow labour michl das peen reluclant to lake a stand in opposition. Turned to police Like ine Ladour council Ir which refused ameside nobilise the workers movement against a fascist march that was or cak a olanned arades Council conterence Ireland, Scottish labour bureau- crats have first to the turned SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 12 March 1980 Indeed they themselves are orcoarca o o nensnare witch-hunting and attacking the republican movement. Evaded In January Communist Party members in , Oxford joined with extreme right wingers in a bid to socialists who had supported a Provincial Sinn Fein demonstration leaflet written by cr Many TGWU members hav died or been maimed or made homeless or jobless because of activity

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working people laye ocen carried our ne wal totally opposes such violence."

Since then embarassed CP members have evaded questions reported on Thursday that: Students "The

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still on une mater but the cance- being lation-under threat of disaffili- defied Tameside Trades ation from the TUC-of a March Ireland counei over corinern 1 labour movement conterenc policy and import controls".

members Communist Party Trades Council raises once agair n everv trace union oranca and the question where the CH labour movement body should stands on Ireland. called say openly upon given they their anu rarl No stand stand on tne witch-nunting ol republican movement on the attempts by the On March 4, Tameside Trades Council correctly voted supores urscusson on une risa war of liberation. defy the instruction General Secretari Irom hound opponents Len Murray, and to reconvene imperialist - no lead the banned conference. DIllIsIl wolley Yet the Morning Star-des- reano Stalinists stop short of similar pite its professed concern bureaucratic measures to repress rights democratic in counties-took no stand againsı sullallsl blackmail,

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capitalism at home? and Despite torrential rain, Fascists play 6,000 students gathered at London's Malet Street last Friday 7 March. This was in support of the London NUS-called protest to the veDarimen Science coucation and London's 10 soulnoank Orange card dets, and for dece t gradus.

educatior Popular frontist Although the mood of the students was angry and deter- no further policies of police to ban the NF demon- defending the forces opposed to lother British imperialism in Ireland.

voosition Culs tilan The demonstration ¡tse Twere reluctance or scottiss vle me workers socialisi forthcoming from the

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labour leaders to stand in League has profound political leadership differences with the programme, united front with anti-imperial- the "Broad •retrects tighters strucule persoecuve ano melos oitae Lett dominance • ot the. exec. republican movement, the Nr-sworn enemies or trade we ut esta ponta romane unionism and socialism-opens Stalinists, reformists Marche 15 and for te future.

severe dangers both for ment action to defend republic- liberals 101 WIOm orotest ans ana soclalists adamst attack end demonstration Can right wing • counter Trom

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•anc itself. demonstration is mobilised with forces or from the British capit- For • such a militant demon- the aim of stopping the NF and alist state. stration • to be more of a conse Leicester 'troops a revolutionary leadership must be built within the NUS to fight tor ine moorisation or student linking in where possible with out call labour behind the demands of uccuDations against educe tions cuts! Defend all jobs and

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70 trade unionists services! endorse four demands and Labour activists attended *Trops out now *Open the books of the successiul day school on Ireland *Repeal the local education authorities!

Prevention oi Terrorism Act! sponsored increase "rOI 30% South Leicester and *Self determination for the grants and the linking of grants Leicester Trades Council.

Trish political status for Irish and spending keep After discussions tele- of inflation, pace with the Valt PoWs! vision coverare of the Irish wa determineo ov eecteo com and the "troops mittees of students, trade union

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From our Foreign Correspondent what you can Amazing There used to be this bloke called Mugabe who was evil as He was a Marxist and terrorist -a man wild Mau rejected the ballot box and used bullets against our kith and kin.

called Ilau Nkomo who was nearlv as bad He shot down airliners-but at least he was said to be flirting Maybe WILl would stop shooting down all- liners one day. •There was this other bloke- they loved him most and he made them a bishop. Hooked a bit uke tee Mugabe and Nkomo (he the white bosses war black, for all that he Prime Minister-at was a good guy. lace Being a Bishon he could see that what was needed was co- Americans-just to show what a with altruistic idea and businessmen White deciden to let une backs have d second election. wno nad savea tne poor savages from sinking into tyranny.

was Being a Bishop and - under- unpicasall Malaise white guy obviously SU lU neen whole villages and measures had speak, ne nad obviously got the support the to be taken against him. overwhelming of his majority bisnop-despite epidemic He useo to ave mem wise advice like be patient'. among Except for a few terrorists Call pallicis - Calle

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Two million unemploy- increases on the last pay round for are nothing like that amount.

ed: recession' least inflation two years: in anarchy double figures for the fore- unemployed workers and unmet seeable future: more sucla closures, more redundancies waiting schools and -and higher profits for the massive world banks. Louist capitalist system itself.

nas is tne grim brospect lor British workers if action is not Profit Thatcher government and imple- of an eventual "planned" create a pianned socialisi economy. alist Socialist not simply Press that holds this view it 1s tailored to social need through now a consensus or severae appropriate forecasting and advisory boricies. odies who are monitoring production solely the cowa croeress or une dausa capitalist system accumulation of profit. include the National Institute Economic cation of the world market, the the Social Kesearch. Ent Business School, interna- the instability of every tional Organisation currency ana a protoune econ- Economic Cooperation and Fall in output report Or satest predicts that 2a 24% actually half une secone 1979 and the second half of 1980- -and that even this figure increase in production of North Sea Oil. On the same basis the OECD that calculales to 7%—meaning 2 million on the dole by next winter. "good intlation is on v over ine vear- small consolation for the millions of workers whose wage Thatcher with Muzorewa Mugabe the bad walked it.

Of course I could tell there good because called him touch of the statesman was a least to his about Mugabe I alwavs said hou Madn't But then the British and the little that support puppe Muzorewa had? It democracy Mutant always commanded mass support. His pronouncements on the difficult because the the-police. force stock exchange Mugabe had and. General Walls confirm th brainwashing blossogress had tot lome. This Progress can go forward in final Hallull But disaster struck. The poor unty unanks to us prilish world wonderl lot these guerri writers cramp chappies. Marxist, schmarxist! I anti-Mugabe just hope they can deal with the now nere terrorists. By John Lister omic crisis wracking the under- developed nauons. une prospects of achieving adequate profits to unis mounting unused factories. from expanded dwindle sustalled production by the day. cucuts. inadequate The London Business School social whose Professor Terry Burns is poverty-lies nO W morelailsi at the very heart of the advisor Tory inancelot Howe, forecasts that Ума рату и British industry North Sea Ull tall by staggering 60% in 1980 For all the Labourite dreams the ke calculates that int pre-tax rate of return on invest- ment in non-North Sea compan- which produc- commo tes come De les last vea was a melt 3/c -allu predicts a drop to 2% in 1980.

Business government School is right, that tne capitalst mout oi in reality functions come wind up as to. extraction and Further rod And with the growing dislo- credit system Are workers therefore Join the lory/CBI clamour tot measures boost company profits? Are they to join *Defend living standards! Fight for cost-of-living clauses to keep inflation, as monitored by elected com- mittees of trade unions ane house. wives. *Defend all jobs! Occupy threatened and public plants service facilities closure Fight prevent

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strike action. No redundancies: fiaht for work sharing on full pay under workers' control! Howe *Defend all. services! For a sliding ironically In article an entitled "The canker at the heart of the Labour Party" extreme right wing Electric- Frank leader ians union Chapple last week used the pages of Sir James Gold- reactionary Now! smith's • to attack the Party's NEC. Chapple of course rose to his present position in the EETPU through Cl.. Ene the old Communist Party leader- ship wake of a ballot- higging scandal. Dictatorship His union model now a of right wing bureaucratic. dic tatorship envied Wide V delor as by Calaghan and no brought "considerable as ne gravoies lo lilt workers anu youll growing militancy of the Labour Party rank and file inkling the Party methods utilised in the EETPU Chapple goes can he gained Trom unaboes article. On the one hand against the left' make a point selling Socialist criticises the Party Treasurer •Ent Da bet Norman Atkinson raisins under rule. subscriptions from £1.20 to £3 other, year: yet the to OI his anti-Marxist hunt he claims that Militant diverts from Labour supporters Workers Socialist unal mIen OOUs Transport flagging HOuSe S income evluence In reality of course, as super- But loyal Labour activists, Militant clearly been given The only success-North Sea Oil growing appeals from increas provide a bankrupt secTions industry such as textiles and The profitability British Leyland for a govern- industry policy of import controls une ousnes climate for British employers?

tion the Such policies would merely through further

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pace with inflation. "rul su•dort to une seeiworkers.

pace with No surrender on pay: no loss of jobs!

For a General Strike to bring down the Tory government *Build councils of action in every draw area, rank and file delegates all labour movement organisations into the fight to extend i mass picketing, SUP Or LIC

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castilla supples • ana countel police violence *Open the books the (Lloyds • profits up 90% this year) Reveal the was ma or mouses unemployment, falling living standards Page 5 Chapple issues rallying call Heslin by • Oxford right - wingers-•russes suCh technicality: such evidence "might be found if looked for, He goes on to assert-agal scrap of proof-that: withome

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now instruc , have ted all of their manus . to join The LADIE No doubt the extra recruitment which this will provide, will be Havward as evidenc that the electorate (. . .) ar flocking to Labour's banner."

such wild asser- allegations is the real • TIONS anC felt Chapple villast Labour's right wing: as the Tory hallas thousands or workers m many areas are turning to the Laboul Party, expecting and demanding Chapple a lead in the fight back have. obviously new layers ot not all Marxists: but certainiy want a real alternative acan to they otherwise nave turned to revolu tionary polities, into the Labour won to the ment for socialis.

Chapple knows full well that this threatens to bring them into on to cite the conflict with the case or ex persed Uxtora socialls sed He Sociest expelled ion -though This is why Chapple is now issuing anxious rallying 110| to as relow unon ourtaucrals They must, he argues "stop pretending Their meht Lack of evidence ot theirs Conceil Subsequent right wing claims wrest control tae dare unrepresentative extrem that Heslin was a member of the , and generally ism , batten dowr League have foundered for lack of à scrap of the mallas worrie l suit the cass struggle sweeps ten off the deck. Chapple-who has a briefing to cut back the orogrammes least profitable sections of capit- alism, through relentless speed- u• on ene snoo ioor anu a wal hard-won working condi- tions. And while certain sections of the allu readership nave readily endorsec the call for import controls clear that this polic already 110l Cicall. nanonal aysons in ne inter national working class, but also provides a further pretext for a . between UNO DUCAl crats and the employers, in the so-called "national interests" In reality, the threat to jobs flows not from "Toreign" capit alists as such, but from the ines- capable anarchy of the capitalis system as a whole, scale daily world inability to develop and utilis the productive forces science and technology in the interests vast population. Sooner than seeking to palm uff factory closures and sackings from Britain Germany or Japan further rod for the shrports out of the British mar measures keep through back of the labour movement of private can only be driven up kels, workers need lo

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policies to confront and over- throw the British capitalist class mercase In tne rate or exploita for profits is at the working class - whose drive rationalisation root or tne tory onslaught.

and public service cuts are used to boost the case for of industry withoüt compensation to make • Dance soda r economy under workers' management.

*Kick Callaghan-Healer Labour leadership and any othér leader- ship war ooposes ine necessary socials olcies to detend the interests ot thi working class in Britain and internation banks ally! For a workers government!

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6. Herbert Marcuse Page 6 Herbert Marcuse probably best known From the 1920s to the present day, major con- today as the intellectual high priest of the Amer- Marxist theory have been made by tributions to ican hippies, the white- thinkers indifferent or implacably opposed to the revolutionary heritage of Trotskyism.

haired who guru gave From George Lukacs Louis Althusser, theoretical respectabil- to Antonio Gramsci to Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Korsch ity io the pot-and-sex to Herbert Marcuse, a powerful body of Western 'liberation' of the late Marxist' theory has been developed, which has yet 1960s student move- to receive full critical assessment by Trotskyists ment. themselves. But Marcuse had been an Stalinist or revisionist politics of important Marxist theore- How are the tician long before the media these writers to be weighed against their theoretical shot him to fame in his later contributions to Marxist theory?

y cals In this series, Terry Eagleton examines the work As a leading member of of the theorists named above, as an introduction to the Frankfurt so-Calcu School in the Germany of a full evaluation of their work: 1930s-the

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philosophers grouped around the Institute Social Research Frank- furt-Marcuse had made some significant contribu- (1.941), is one of the most the 'the obviousness tions to the School's work subtle accounts of Hegel's facts' and grasps instead the culture and philosophy. philosophy available; but complex, When the Nazis came to though it criticises Hegel for processes at work beneath power, the Institute trans- his later stand- Icalliulidl y Them. ferred itself to New York: point, remarkably Few Marxist modern and Marcuse was to remain uncritical about the Hegel- pruosopriets the USA as a professor ian philosophy itself. effective as Marcuse in their of philosophy for the rest of shares non-dia- Marcuse onslaught against his life. 'Young lectical thinking; he sees ine poston or lne Hegelians'-the left-wing precisely how bourgeois Defects Hegel disciples of who, consecrating Marx argued, had failed to 'that which exists', tries to Politically isolated, break • decisively with the tend off the revolutionary theoretically elitist and doc- master's idealism. impact of negative, critical the Throughout Marcuse's thought. tinally Frankfurt School graphical- work At the same time, how.

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of the illustrates most the which theme: COllIasi ever essence defects of 'Hegelian between the actual and the Marcuse opposes the Marxism' discussed essential. actual' is often utopian and articles this idealist.

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Utopian Like the early Marx, he Their strong reaction 'Man' and his speaks. mechanical the 'actual' The means the essential needs and сарас- materialism of Stalinism led ities, in an unhistorical way; facts as they present them- them straight to a form of selves; the 'essential' means like the early Marx too, he Marxism which was at times sometimes conceives of his- the underlying truth of such more facts. no more than the as Lory disguised version of Hegel's Such a distinction is, of unfolding this gradual ot philosophical idealism. central to Marxism: abstraction 'Man' which has course, Marcuse's book, stood in for Hegel's 'Idea'.

early thought dialectical and Reason precisely that which refuses Marcuse's writings Radical French str on the streets in 1968 culture are perhaps the best illustration of this. Unlike a long, philistine tradition of revolutionaries, Marcuse takes culture seriously: he recognises, as did Marx and Engels them- selves, that culture Is nol only an important feature of class society, but that it powerful provide call opposition to that society's- Traditional culture, • Marcuse argues, has played a role: compensatory provided har- beauty, into mony and fantasy, men and women could escape as an alterna- tive to the harshness of real life. Subversive As such, its function is reactionary, and essentially Marcuse calls for new art- forms which will be critica.

and subversive of the exist- ing social order But time of his by the The book Dimension (1977), Marcuse pure nas reTreater InTO Platonic idealism, arguing that the verv torm of an art.

regardless of its WOrk content, expresses an ideal essence, over and . above history, to which men and women should aspire. Art which explicitly engages with political issues is in his view automatically inferior; the genuine art- kind work of pure silent form which 'negates reality without actual actually criticising it. If this were all that there were lo Marcuses cultura theory, would hardly be worth taking issue with it.

Sensitivity But Marcuse, almost unquely among model Marxist theorists, has a deep sensitivity impor- tance art culture and wnien allows nim lo make trenchant analyses of some cultural barrenness exhaustion and triviality of monopoly capitalist society.

He sees that in such society two major new developments have both of which occurred offer a with the • contrast liberal capitalism of On the one hand, the has venetialcu more deeply into the social.

rather than Shalt simply securing the general for conditions cantas reproduction, as it did in an earlier epoch, now actively, massively intervenes in the sphere of social labour and commodity exchange 'On the other hand, the social has new assumed political functions. Certain social forces such 'culture' have mainly through the mass closely bound up with political repression such a society, it is SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 12 March 1980 impossible releg to culture to a purely margu the bourgeoi themselves have tradition ly done. not. only is cult •гОГ a huge apparatus of ide ogical manipulation; also, in 'consumer societ inseparable from econon life itself Society is converted ir a kind of degraded artis spectacle-into vast o1 of consumption whi glitteringly packaged co imitati like -modes works of art, offer the 'aesthet seven taste. third-rate flashy images where by alluringly

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 12 March 1980 common Marxist dismissal fragmented passive, suitable of Freud as no more than a acience. symbol of monopoly capit- decadent petty Leon Trotsky did not share anst consumersu Marcuse's with that view (he seems to have concern been of few one tnen, extenus "Trotskyists' beyond 'high art' to the C10m . does Herbert of and neither very feel ana qually social existence under capit- Marcuse. his suggestive work alism. Eros and Civilisation (1955) If this has been an issue with Freud aired Marcuse insufficiently by that all societies demand Marxism, , so is another topic but broaches: instinctual which Marcuse Teress ul. claims that capitalism sexuality. demands a surplus-repres A well known European thinker once wrote: motive of human society the last an . recor ™ Not Karl one'. ConomiC Marx, in fact, but Sigmund Freud, in his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis.

For Freud, who thoroughly materialist thinker, the need to labour involves a repression of the human erotic and aggressive drives, which are channelled by the crucial mechanism of the family socially ulLU acceptable routes. Such 1s lor Trotsky Freud at the very basis of the tragedy of The brutal repression of human existence, as Freud human instincts under capit- and is that alism, with its vicious work sees. Il, mICH • only women Colla disciplines sexual Julitail' material security at the cos ism and cultural degradation of a massive crippling sacri- is a surplus over and above fice of their instinctual the repression necessary for needs. any society to survive; and Marcuse envisages revolu- Suppression tionary socialism as a libera- tion not only of the produc- Freud not forces, But does but the oI believe that all societies are instincts them- repressed selves. equal in las respect argues, a society is such that capitalist society, instinct is. either 'sublima- tion of it depends upon the 'ted' into soiritual matters.

another, or hemmed into a narrow SHOOTeSSOR then: of permissable it is understandable that sexually. the suppressed people should formation, Marcuse claims, hostility toward a culture such drives woula whose existence they make released from that enclave but possible by their work, and generalised over society in whose wealth they have as a whole. 'Libido' (sexual It goes instinct) would not be res- too small a sulare ... that a without saying tricted to 'genital' sexuality; which leaves so it would infuse and invigor- large a number of its partici- ate al human relationships pants unsatistied and drives So that even work would them into revolt neither has become 'eroticised'. nor deserves the prospect oi It is easy to dismiss this a lasting existence." vision utopian, or as loll (The Future of an Illusion).

as a simple plea for •per- So much for the missiveness'. But that is not

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what Marcuse means. There are plenty of signs in Marx's own writings that ne envisaged ine quality of all human relationships in socialist society, including work as "aesthetic'-to have something of the concrete, enjoyable quality sensuous. which can now be found oniv in a lew isolated activ ities such as art. Prudish closely intertwined, Marcuse's by

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ulcalls merely sneered to be at. Much of has. been notoriously course, prudish sexually merely of is part Marcuse's that he and politics, the two. and Civilisation raise severe problems. Freud, the 101 • SOCIdI calls the (what the individuals merely ¡veness (Such of a course oftends manv earnest 'socialist' believers the 1n natural goodness and frater- of mankind, nity oftended the Viennese bour- geoisie of Freud's own day their angelic hedl children described creatures of egoism: repres sed and destructive- ness). Gloomy So Marcuse needs explain - wnch ne coesn l al all adequately-the mechan- 1sms • Dy Welch Derater instincts would be socially productive ratner tian anal- chistic. That there is much of the anarchist Romantic Marcuse 1S does not merely cancel what is suggestive in his work, whom capitalism has been fully any more than the Hegelian unable integrate, LO idealist in the Marx ana wno are orlerea to as as vanguard of the shining means he Call written off. socialist blacks, the Third students, • t tos and civilisation is a utopian work, Marcuse's World peasantry, lumpenproletariat. next and mos book, One Dimensional Man As for the working class, (1964), is exactly the can. reverse. 'In gloomy page 'vision' for three comments. definite between and Hegelian- peen Genuscul •all revolt safely of triumphant march 'contained'. Reason. capitaisin with monstrous absorb neutralise tọ see working class ted order with which the willing politically 'essence' their administering 'false utionary the class their ives vast array tures. material ideological fatally ignored. the message: the

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Soviet is remarkably untainted by Philosphy of the tip itself the class. do you cialised with are oppressive: Marcuse mournfully, partially 'incorporated' Ilaluly. the ideal Secondly, Marcuse's closely con- ruling of Nazism. things, first, like Herbert who are The School, do C social "totalitanan' uney ulously free. liberal one an Page 7 Mass anti-Vietnam war demonstration, 1967 'administered' and

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'manipulative' than they had expected Accordingly, they fatally distinction blurred the between fascism and the capitalism; Americar which Marcuse system depicts is essentially 'totalit- black, one-sided arian', of vadiaectical American capitalism whole. Thirdly, it is important to record that Marcuse's view that American capital- ism had 'contained' its con- ot course trauctions was rapidly proved grotesquely Much as Lyndon John- doubt have would SOl loved to believe in the 'one- dimensional' nature the society Alicilal. blazing ghettos, battlefields and campuses of the 1960s made such a thought rather difficult to entertain. Marcuse to do him justice, took the point: One Dimensional was followed by Essay's in Liber- ation (1969), a central text the American student 'New Left' Fatal betrayal Marcuse never revised his fatal betrayal of the Marxist tenet that only an indepen- working class dent provide revolutionary leadership. But it can be said of him, at least, that whereas most of the other members of the Frankfurt School proved outright traitors to socialist revolution-one of them even ended up running Voice of America-Marcuse continued to support revol- ution his own utopian and idealist way. That, however, is not his His primary importance lies importance those Marxist areas theory : however ambiguous. which, ly, he enriched and renewed. Trotskyism has still tr take up the challenge posec by much of that work

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Page 8 turmoil Struggles Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America are continuing the cause imperialists grave concern.

Ine state Department grand s monary announced a week that barracks in Ft Salvador to fore.

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agains present junta-which has The failed either the inde- pendent actions of the army to emer canna elon nationalisation of the banks. Military aid The imperialists are beginn- pump and military aid into the weakling relurst unla vul li will 0e 01 The level political EI Salvados worsened since actualy Komero overtow or dillalul last October. over Since then 500 pepole have been killed and more disappcared. Inally major guerrilla toree groups-National Resistance, The man who among the 40 odd films he has directed include Coll such masterpieces as The Maltese Falcon, The African Key Largo, Queen and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre obviously occupies special place in the history of the cinema. These were the achieve- of •John Huston's early years as a Hollywood director from 1941 to 1952.

For the next twenty despite an astonish- years, Ingly in career do unrector, and screen-writer actor, Huston was unable to match this early achievement. Epics Moby Dick luke The Bible proved too and big for him, even though they contain some brillant moments. Even a very minor film The List of Adrian Messenger few Culllaill images (like the peeling off of a rubber mask from the face of the main character) which are as memorable as a recurring nightmare. Genius But in the 50s and 60s Huston was no more than a verv good Hollywood direc tor; in the 40s he had been great geniuses. Not many directors have been able to make a come- back but Huston is one in his career (he is Late now 74) he has shown that the he displayed brilliance his early career never left him. Long after most critics him on the scrap heap put he has started making of films which must series make him one of the great directors of not only the 40s and 50s but also of the 70s and perhaps, hopefully, the 80s too. The two best, of these Central America in By Don Flint Demonstration by left wingers in San Salvador Pinochet's declaration of 11 Liberation September 1973 is broadcast the ronuar Forces (FPL) and the People' lault stations contronta Revolutionary

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Army the ruling clique, and the level reached class Have low ariccu on a straitric such 80 ac ca allance wit Communist Party, but lack the the Panamania means lor an all-out assault on regime. Ine us governmen discussing with Central Siate Dower. The army, meanwhile, American states the possibilities pushing for a total pogrom in ot reversing its policy and back.

right wing the ine manner or its I93 slaugnter The of 30,000 peasants. military as the only way left to

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PHILLIPS reviews John Huston's film "Wise Blood" (now showing in London).

'The Blind Don't See And The Lame Don't Walk, And What's Dead Stays That Way' Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes Motes, a Fat. City (1975) films are scrawny young and Wise Blood (now show- Southerner returned from haunted ing London at the the army who, by Camden Plaza). the image: of his hell-fire Wise Blood is the story preacher grandfather (though that's almost too (wonderfully overacted by Huston word) of Hazel himself) cynically avoid a much teared repetition of Nicaragua. fears must have with the news that in licitastu Guatemala un e weeks there have been strikes in 60 sugar plantation east t stream worker-peasant aemons allons. GesDile increased repression in which twenty people over a hundred been woulda its ambassador and further weaken support for the regime.

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was executea by the vuerrilla Army of the Poor There has also been renewed spate of land occupa tions by cotton workers lea by the ORPA (Organisation of th People in Arms) guerrillas Honduras been hit flas disu mis ace on risine manancy A week ago the the mayor forced occupy major industrial of San Sula following riots in protest at petrol price rises. founds the Church of Truth Without Jesus Christ The film is based on the novel written in the 1950s by Flannery O'Connor, the Southern writer who died tragically of generic disease at the height of her writing career: from Wise judge Blood she had in much common in her humour and unsentimental realism with ner ca more brode con. the tem porary great novelist William Faulkner.

The form Hazel Motes' Wise preaching Blood is the same apparent- ly possessed hysteria as the fundamentalist Christians.

No sin Only the content is, coin- cidentallurthe opposite th Church Truth without Christ anything goes-there no sin to prove it, Motes with a huge engulfing pros- titute and nonchalantly murders a rival "prophet"") "I'm a preacher' Hazel "of Church hoasts the where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and the dead stay that way" And compared with the hell-fire terrors of his grand- father and his rivals that The narrative of this film is not so important for itselt as for the way it introduces series of vivid eccentrid fascinating and for the most part repulsive Characters Asa Hawks, "blind" the preacher whose fraud Hazel "daughter his who becomes possessed with lust for Hazel; Hoover Shoates, the confidence trickster who forms the rival Church of Christ without Christ; inoch imery. the youth who becomes Hazel's disciple but who gets it all wrong "god arom shrunken from the local museum and whose devotion Hazel treats with SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 12 March 1980

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long attached to the CIA Junior officers are reported ¿ever or me econonic cras is a great that any attempt at a coup to be planne to ore enor us mass movement by overthrow. fuel the radicalisation dictatorship of of the masses Gèn. Policarpo Paz and setting the Was coup surinar • once butch passed financial aid Guyana) where the attempts by to Nicaragua through Congress.

the government of Henck Arron despite a plethora of embarrass- O SUDDIeSS En • umonisaLo! ing amendments tabled by righ he 800-strong army and jail th wing Republicans the to a revolt by OI ringleaders Somoza ton has been faced the Carter NCOs administration ine poutical content or tne coup is not yet clear, , but the will • Less acute

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disturbance in this 'secure back- water' has worried the mandar.

Elections ins of Washington-not least because it promises to fuel the The first was the calling of destabilisation of th regime of elecuons Michae vantev lores burniam m neizabour- inability foot ing Guyana implement the IMF stabilisation There the challenge of the plan Jamaica particularly the willul unleasning case violence industries vauxitt dill suca. type last seen in the 1938 riots has been contane only • a rid seriously jeopardising deployment of troops and already weak imperialist hold on increasing repression and Mrs Flood, contempt; car. landlady the after who Huston's and O'Connor's Hazel blinds himself, clings world is a grim and deeply to him in pathetic depen- dence. There no love, no science, honesty-only 110 Extraordinary desperate dependence, lust lies, fraud, and And through it all goes sloth extraordinary character the Huston managed to maki Motes himsell-a such a bleak dismal world fraud who passionately both convinced of the justice of chillingly And conting his own fraudulent cause he does it without a trace of and dedicated to exposing sentimentality or cheapness.

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others. barbarism in super-develo. While Asa Hawks had ped capitalist America does pretended, for publicity, to not pretend to offer any blind himself, Hazel does it hope of change or escape. It inexorable really and he commits shows only suicide by tying himself journey to perdition. tight with . barbed wire and But artistic then finally going out into a triumph. Go and see it, it is and torrential rainstorm of the best tims ever dying of exposure. made by John Huston. And His only faith is in his means it is one of the unaL best films ever made old and inefficient motor The Battle for Trotskyism Second edition of the opposition documents presented inside the WRP by the present leader- ship of the Workers Socialist League With a new introduction Price £2.50 plus 20p postage and package from Workers Socialist League BM Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX

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can for the growing hostility to not amongst but increasingly sections the une recent bombare- ment of Sir Keith Joseph with donated generously steelworkers reemphasised the Sharp words there have been Sir Keith and Angus since then: but little to rectify A few steps have been taken.

Maude has successfully obtained TV and radio in which they can face with Keith Joseph to revisit South Wales.

lates hoped that Keep Britain out of the red: wall support the Conservatives.

Thatcher advertising DUl SuCh gimmicks the reviving memories of the Saatchi and Conservalive army Saatchi campaign the last General Election. whic local small mercilessly the in front housing and queues, unemployment inflation aile lal nau arisen rom une caoit of the Labour alist Do cies government. every one of these problems has vect Thatcher, the intenstied under And a new Tory poster cam- Tories plainly have launched by people • ot theu Lord Thorney- conuence tricks But embarassments continue Maude has vainly "national interest" warned about the impact wiussa mcreases In pronts Inal Big profits from dangerous drugs fact has D-P are similar to those of the pill-headacnes nausea. a ne decision weight gain. Ine In addition it is known to cause irregular bleeding, possible long term loss of sex-drive and even per.

injection, Depo manent interta But, because D-P is effective for produced nu months, cannot be recalled once iniected if worry.

in the USA because of ing side effects appear in addition, D-P has been However, restrictions on its linked to cancer of the cervix, lifted, ded one conce coa "patients receiving large doses of D-P continuously and for snort-term erects long periods should be closely Ouserved. side effects are well i nese evidenced, since sed on Third for some time been used on World' women as a cheap forn population controlling increase. Only just lifted Moreover, although the ban just been lifted nas oniy In DP has in fact been Britain, ustu on women nere tor atleast years-most of these were two working class or from the ethnic

STRIKEL

minorities-some of whom were know- in ected without their ledge or prior consent. Upjohn do not think any of these harmful side ettects are any reason to stop oroouCtion orD-r There is a large market in

NHS

be the won, and bic protits to be made. Capitalist drug producers are Scientists have finally perfected this new suit to enable Sir being recorded by the embarassment, leading National clearne Danks-amos tarist entirely the outcome of Tory Economic policies. nad Such profits far from naived Chance other ins. populal workers ane professional industrial firms and public services which of them closures and redundancies up with the same figures!

under guis make them to "viability" Maude tensions within the Grant halved themselves-iron But Mr Jullan Critchley can what nato - ine into the Observer Tories do minimise or channel such profits? The maunted roebetween problem is insoluble Economic institutes, too, continue to present their analy- the sis of gathering

CISI

and une alre Prior, a vulture Tory policies: particular Parama rebuked by implicit threat to resign only worried about side effects insofar adverse publicity restricts sales. As lone contraceouve. ana oner medical preparations continue be produced by capitalist concerns, where the Tirst not It health of their consumers, work- ing people must suffer Insufficient time and money dre soent on research. ano at the same time, the monopoly that companies have over the this country ensures that they can bleed the NHs dry white th camar milo Provera Depo case proves once again tric necessity or tue openine or ine books oi companies and their The orio Within the NHS management. committees of elected workers ano consumers must de estab lished to run the service in the interests of the long-term health ot working men and women.

IN NEXT WEEK'S

SOCIALIST PRESS:

BEHIND CORRIE

BILL COLLAPSE

Page 9 By John Lister How can you make this appealing to the public? Tory 'Chairman Lord Thorneycroft the anti-mone- line is overturned All this has Institute - despite Maude's efforts-found and Social Research, ls way grant Party's 'house is government even the organ', the Daily Telegraph!

an irate Tory : other institutions-some all thi one • sarra y loren -kee bright spot for Angus Maude ir otherwise thankless matters worse doomed Lask

LAC

Ena had to face up while aspects of the Tory leader- Tory ranks ship crisis Tory press, the full fire Icrecace lor of the who went lllas. to launch an witch-hunt and lenca upon attack oppose socialist much ing within the labour movemen Ene Cabinet Tine and vultures over the Thatcher government. content of Prior's Employment when the victory forces in the unions and of such was public- As assured na Thatcher workers can allord to laugh Maude's vain efforts to bale with the leaky Tory showboat with a seive "Excuse me, is this the housing queue?"

"No mate, it's a march against the Tories" Coming soon

THE GENERAL

STRIKE!

STEEL STRIKE

CHALLENGES

BUREAUCRATS

Page 10.

JOIN THE

the With workers by the thousand Taking Tory to oppose policies there is plainly no the lack of militancy organised working class. Yet the existing trade union burether right or our enter -have to offer perspective workers prepared to defence living dards, social services and demo cratic rents These can only be defended through policies which start the independent interests of the working class, class international nothing to gain and everything to lose from attempts to restore the profitability of their "owin in a bettoo wnere ine contra dictions ot the anarchic capit- alist system force the wholesale of destruction

LOCICLY

only sociartsi Diannet economy on a world scale offers away chard. achieve such bedoershue which, in today's struggles fights.

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5277, London WC1V 6XX. Bill Keys, leader of the print

SOGAT,

has been one of the few union General Secretaries openly to call for strike action on the TUC's "day of action" on May 14. While

TUC

leader Len Murray sticks to nis ludicrou: call for "lunch time meetings"?' The 11-week old steel strike continues to shake up some of the most apparent- ly entrenched and conserva- tive layers of the bureau- cracy. Within a fortnight ot the strike beginning, strike com- Stockbridge and cleared off al •cuntnoroe nao but one of the tull time Distric who had obstructed effective picketing. the ISTC, new have emerded to elbon forces aside the old timer servers and militant voice of the bring the rank ano ne In TO Ent unions committees including the nego- tiating committee. "Cool it" Calis tor general strike actor as the struggle has giant Metal Box combine to the have grown isolated by • TUC sabotage. appealing for been • committee, old DUt tach slayt quaro has attemote• to restrai resoonst was the fight. Bill Sirs warned the iate: Wednesday the com Joint Strike Com mittee sent many Stocksbridge 'cool it" pickets! atter they mittee le taken the initiative or had Blockade fund-raising trip in france delegates and to trade unions in Meanwhile other steel over £3,000. pickets Nadi Chosen really Despite Sirs' sensitive spot for their atten- warnings, tions-Transport House. They have since successTul appedis the been addressed to engineers Fleet stret rad cash that Tv necolarters woere cni finance General Executive Council was has picketing at docks in but session. extended meeting with Moss Evans Poole and boston Tuesday saw eventuaiv their determined telephone call from obstruction of the removal anguished of the office equipment and furniture director Lilt managhly

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- KEYS CALLS FOR ACTION-

and for "true-born Britishers" response to an insulting £7.70 "take pay offer from the British Print- Lo catcase ta tal time oll sooner than strike ing Industries rederation Keys has declared that: In this context Keys' unusu- should a day of ally i stance on the issue strike my of 14 May appears to bi activil all personal view and the advice | divert growing shall give to my members" and file militancy away from SOGAT and No onenders are Tens thousands the sharp issue of confrontation and with the print employers.

into a generalised one-day token ahead comme to recognise unt need for strike action to the TGWU District Official implement the union's instruction not to cross picket lines and to observe the reovests on stee bickers Boston A mass meeting o cockers was then carteo at 1u.su which vote unload the scab steel from the to load it onto ships, , but not forties Friday saw a turn-out of 130 steelworkers from Scunthorpe, Corby and Birmingham hom more e Leyland Action I00D Litt meeting called to decide action on the pay review. But that lobby took place in spite ot the trantic errors ou Longbridge

TGWU

convenor Jack Adams, a Communist Party Stocksbridge strikers not to par- there would be no vote at the meetin to the lanour rary s new nead immediate strike delion office-combined with a threat the event, Adams arove fire angrily through the lobbyers yelling "You've got no chance!" and it need be tace arrest on it: steps-Torcec evans comt and pressured him into oriver watson fresh and explicit Be over the sacing Doree producing a sacking

ISTC

nistoriC Instruction Molyneux members not to cross • Briar convenol picket lines. pointed out: "The only way forward for Thursday brought mass strike class the working •icket on nree aales a dostor to stop steel shipments. tooetner ano torce Ine out of office." The have Connivance last few weeks showr that it SuCH Yet laden 30-ton lorries were ctrucole goes not take dace being allowed out over a 5-ton will not be for want of trying by steel strikers, but the weight-restricted bridge through and sabo ot the nivance of local police Taoe Tine

MONT

wine Can( Pickets promptly appealed Stalinist union bureaucracy

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THE FIGHT BLINDFOLD!!

OCIALIST

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 12 March 1980 Maintenance workers at 24 hours each dav. seven days a Esso-Fawley oil week), and partially replacing it the huge with refinery near Southampton, system that requires workers to last week threatened strike travel from action against management event of ally plans to axe jobs and reduce psalil. safety standards Safety cover complex. The emolover has proposed cutbacks are 25 members of the withdrawing full-time night an wuva safety cover system, in existence industrial process that operates been followed As we go to press, the since more Merseyside workers-this expected move by bailiffs time in the threatened Massey to implement a possession Ferguson assembly order and end the 100-day AHowsicy. occupation of the Meccano Ine Gates niorkader with odder-odders.

plant on Merseyside still has and this firm stand has already not yet taken place. The High court ası week granted the order to Meccano's owners-the giant Airfix com- declared it will give bine, suppport Which пате last attempted to sack Merseyside against sackings-and The entire workforce at 40 pledged 940 support strike action to prevent Despite a total refusal of the reclindancies involved-particu- Preston docks. unions larly the GMWU-to make their struggle otter ever course only financial support, a hard core of without the 250 workers have maintained a sider Tants organised Mersey: plants-including oe terme nant in a fiaht which stands out

ITU OTI

in stark contrast to the previous bunioo s speke ractory. where run of closures on Merseyside.

TGWU national chairman Stan Pemberton ensure that no occupation took Appeal place. The news of the High Court order was met an appedi Supporting action from the occupation for a mass gates or the plant, keror the Over gates от ne of official support tion trade unionists-including postal fight goatest cosures dockers and seamen- we nose and Thursday Turned

OUL

Fridav in response to their call, struggle against the and the GMits ta oedcial Mike

GMWU

official ment; stressed has repeatedly Egar that the occubiers Wo UId nO L resist an attempt to evict them from the factory, and that they intention of breaking nave "the law". seek the "law"-based on defending the private property in order to step up rights or the capitalist class- precisely the means used ov centres of production. firms like Airfix to close plants like Meccano at the expense of the workforce, such a statement and other renouncing consistely to defend future struggle aly ment any serIous 100S! port of the occupation. Blockaded threatened derenced not Egan, after Whether dole: weeks of active involvement strike action from the disoute broceeos to ledo unt tamely out ottne Meccano plant, the example set hit the employers. Massey itself has occupation Of hall

AT THE TOP...

¡ UNION DUES

Esso strike threat refinery started since the production. One electrician revealed that "call-out" major accidents

OCCI

averted in the past only because tner nomes l t in a few "in situ disaster at tne WOrKeRS WEIC minutes while another claimed could turned into a potential fireball of 'Flix- Dorous duncasions union officials At the centre of the planned Mennwale. still with te employer over the exact form of the new. more hazardous work TGWU pledged to back jobs fights 400 by plant have been official support from Indeed the TGWU has now official struct itself to London Such a stand takes place of closure shontest

TIONT OF

BL's and Speke

TGWU,

must demand that personally helped

AUEW

and other unions involved mount a full-scale cam- and other balon solidarity action to their occupation. Nevertheless such a declara must can on late sur for port of the Merseyside workers must be workers everywhere in recessionary policies of the Thatcher govern- In particular, as the Meccano struggle has shown, it is vital the full national strength of the unies is ate agains of pick smaller and less profitable plants the rate of their main Despite the valiant efforts of the Meccano workforce, GWU union leaders have imple refused 01 Airfix goods and services in sup jobs cannot organisations affiliated unaided attoric of the workers lacing trit supporting blacking and More details available from: the broader trace union movere Is Vital lv workers

LENS WEEK OF UNRELENTING STRUGGLE"

MOSS

'M AFRAD

I WAT I nan

BAGGERS NOW-A TUC INITIATNE!

OUT

COMRADES AND FRIENDS-

MAND H2R2H:

THO TRAINE ANNALION

LEADER & ORGANISER

IS TO SHOW OUR

-BROTHER LEN!!!

TUNTELDINT HOSTILIT-

ing conations One of the largest in Westerr Europe, Fawley the of 458,000 barrels per day of crude oil What makes dangerous to the working class area is that adjacent to in the large теплету chemical complexes. mao explosion Fawley would make Flixborough a damp squib in comparison. observers took part in a one- day. conference last Satur- day organised Oxfordshire Against unite the whole range of public service spending cuts. The platform led was striker who between the and steel jobs attacks on public service.

on to attack the whole working class" , he argued. Other

CPSA

included orne

WIK

impact of Civil Service cuts on payment and other benefits; Helen Flack trom tenceste dundamies Oxford workers' Dunlop Action Committee-no action to save jobs geriatric care movement to mobilise in mass occupied defend •IcKers lo higher plant against the call for the formation of a Council of Action to draw dele- gates from all labour movement wages and bodies into extenoing ine ligh British in defence of jobs, living stan- Oxiord 'S plants. dards and trade union rights.

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[HELLO!.... LOOK TAKE IT FROM ME

LADDIE, THERE'S NO QUESTION OF

GEMERAL STRIKE ACTION ON MAY 14 To

-TO THE GOVERNMENT'S ECONOMIC MEASURES

- MASSIVE REDUNDANCIES - ANTI UNION LAWS-

IT CANT GO ON-SS FINI

Page 11 Fighting policies against the cuts The afternoon saw particu- Nearly 100 delegates and the workshop on where will in Right come • by wingers strongly -and with some Campaign impossible-to • maintain jobs and Cuts in a bid to the present within services the struggles against system. Defeatist Their conclusion was not SocaKei: however, system was Sheffield steel and should be done away link Will sures to c Tory and workers living standards wages and the had to be cut back in line with requirements of capitalism.

Ine they'll go bring GoWn 1 one would be "democratic" they argued • A similar defeatist view was Redundancies also put forward in action against the public sector speakers cuts by

NEC

member Weak examined the was claimed that thes of social security unions were so weak and exer- little authority that a cised so

NUI

call would be a genera surike lined their struggle against 1,800 disaster. education; and Against this it was pointed from out that steelworkers had who

MPU/ASTMS

100% their first locke ones undired the I coulucu ramona strike cal lor du yealk inquiry -after having previously appear ed weak : in ę redundan- were also taken the from campaigns against the cuts war is necca rouse um nursery education action is firm leadership the a whole The conference as service, and the NHS, as well as went on to pass a succession of on the struggle to defend jobs, resolutions calling for policies in conditions Party, the trade the Leyland car Groups unions and communit directed towaros mass delion-u occupations action -against closures strike services, job loss and otner attacks It called for the TUC to use the May Day of Action as preparation for a General Strike 'to bring down ine tory govert ment and for any future Labour be committali • government icialist policies. Open the books And a comprenensive resolu tion-on NHS cuts tabled by th branch was also Oxford COHS passed. local and

1L ODOOSCO

national •cuts closures called for adequate funding and _ and cuts; restoration ol al the opening of the demanded to workers' committees compensation under workers management.

(1T1 TELLING YOU, WE'LL HAVE NO

LOUDENTIENICD.

..MRS THATCHER TO START TALKING WITH

THE COUNTRY BACK ON ITS FEET -

- OUCH!

MUGABE BUILDS

FUND MARCH 9: TUC PLEA

PRESS

YORKSHEE

STEELMEN

20% 20% NO®

SURRENDER

THE 80s

SILENNIES

0150 eSTE At last we have got some the Special movemen Fund. Largely thanks West London supporters who organised a jumble sale and raised f60! Mounting working This clearly anger at the policies of the example to be emulated in Tory areas so that we can other willingness to ensure that we raise the first was shown once again half of our £3,000 fund by weekend Easter as planned. trade unionists in England and Scotland joined massive We have £887.65 in so TUC demonstrations. far, leaving us f612.35 to до. the trade union leaders to give In the meantime see if militancy was you can afford to donate two speeches by something towards the both who fund. London Issue paleli picas lo.

Our address is: "discuss" with the TUC Socialist Press Fund Murray's BM Box 5277 recent weeks have been devoted London WC1V 6XX lo oureducialic moves to Isolale and weaken the li-week steel strike, and to

SOCIALIST

The overwhelming victory of Robert Mugabe in the Rhodesian elections and the crushing humiliation of chief stooge Muzorewa represents a substantial set- back for Anglo-American imperialism and for the South African racist regime.

complete isolation Muzorewa any credible base of support, and the rallying of 90k of the black electorate banner the

TWO

guerrilla leaders Mugabe and even • manipula- Haut

LION

Ine eleclon

ICSUILS

completely impractical for the imperialists, had done their power cry colle witch-hunt and isolate Mugabe Rampage But Muzorewa's hired thugs went on a rampage against suDDOrICIs. imperialists quickly took heart from Mugabe's first steps as

TO TORIES

class generalised action on the related issue of steel jobs. The two TUC token actions government, and the Tories-last against fight them demonstration embay rot Action"-are last 60,000 intended to let off the head of over anti-Tory steam in the working while nothing class. doms remove us vcous ann-unoa government. But the stubborn refusal of Shaken Murray,

TUC

typified in • Ike other the Len Murray leaders; has been profoundly Glasgow shaken by the the right wing and enders D-willed come under massive pressure at efforts and forced into the forefront of con- Irontamon arte] •years or doled. collaboration with management.

head off more The union leaders all recog Pubisted as olospaper at the der Sociated age too beatone vis Pined be so an one

AFTER LANDSLIDE WIN

NEW BOSSES'

GOVERNMENT

Prime Minister elect. announced that General Walls, "Marxist' countless

ZANLA

guerrillas and architect operations, would remain head of the armed forces, and preside of guerrilla forces into the army.

ine ponce lorce ne insisica would remain intact. restated rest stock markets or the world satisfaction tat ne na no dans lor swee- : nationalisations of industry or land. the time Mugabe began the searca for bourgeois politicians and white racists to planned ,,govern- decorate Anti-Mugabe- ment of national unity It is by these actions that th the imperialists recognise Mugabe's true calibre. As one commen- Gradually nel shrewdly pointed out the Lalul Mugabe's idea of socialism "is ot Knodes a the same type as that of Hugh Gaitskell or Roy Jenkins."

Some superficial concessions will ot course have to be made by Mugabe if he is to contain the state 'way, losing the rehearsed speeches experience May 14 "Day of Action" nise that further such develop- Murray SulT opposed strike action …tace anc are a threat bureaucratic power and privil- Tic Genders, General have therefore re- Milne extorts to ЛО10 back mass struggles, while the making vacuous anti-Tory speeches our workers ae beco through this facade. The Trafalgar Square of trade union- but lories

CW U

Ists lom in seekine Moss evans ("Stop the lorries!"), public for an all-out sector and other leaders, calling for General Strike action Pal against the lones Murray's plea for talks with Thatcher produced a crescendo of heckling that nearly drowned right And speech sevelai . bureaucrats into nanderer attempts to answer the hecklers, leadership. Nkomo in disarray: it would be course hard for Mugabe call General Walls to repress mass movements of black workers ensure that a healed t ar counter-insureenev are vasser on to the future black defenders of exploitation in Zimbabwe And this instability, togethe with colossa obtained by guerrilla leaders in disco tho must profoundly Leto the South African apar uncla-capitals, state Demands In this dynamic situation it vital Zimbabwe that masses oress orward their mae - Soames pendent demands, which have fuelled a major development ir one DiaCk struggles masses who swept him to office.

the key white person- Such demands will bring 1alls shal them quickly into conflict with Mugabe and his bosses' govern- blacks-dedicated to the preser- vation of a fundamentally capit- ment-ing pose ine neca lot d genuine Marxist leadership through the fight for a While this process is under- forces are of sollaist emmuaowe

TGWU

of their tub-thumping

STOP TOM

Having survived the March 9 the full attention of ПОИ turned towards controlling the

CUS

vociferously on that appears that some such as Scottish Secretary

SOGAT

General pre- pared to call for a one-day stop- We have made no secret of our view that one-day strikes are our members sumoorers will be Bonus in their unions and workplaces strike on May demand for indetinite General Strike action to bring down tois ory govern.

ment and create conditions fol traitors Party and trade union