Socialist Press no. 196

PRESS

the Trotsiyist International Liaison Committee

DRAFT

WAR Sw Anti-war demonstrators in the USA "Do not scoff at solemn President. Carter's chief security advisor Zbigniew Brezezinski in the wakę of last week's catastrophic imperialist military debacle should not be seen as mere bluster. While warmongers the Us Call swagger in a bid to restore their been struck azallisi mutary creamty is one walco could drive the Carter administration to the most des- perate relanatory measures The rescue raid itself was clearly wild desperate and gamble, and one that has shown devono douot that the ves ot the 53 US hostages are only of incidental interest to. Carter struggle political and military over

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The region in the wake of the Shah's Indeed the first reaction; of military experts was to viciously •allack carte Tor aDoring the apparently futile rescue bid.

He should have allowed the adven-

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run Is course. argue: would certainly have been let off the hook-either by rescue of them being hostages OI by in on the ltne raid embassy! No doubt in the course of time the full details of one 0l disastrous limited

MOST

operations ever will staged is. obvious for instance that Carter's evasive government was carefully framed to avoid Bani-Sadr the cround lorces within Iran itself that müst have had been lined up to assist the hand.

scale civil ful of marines in their assault on n2110n2! fighters have artillery and Bút his speech did pinpoint moves, personally led by à can one on no reson far Sadr, aimed at brutally crushing drove him to give the go-ahead for the mad mission: The crow. LuC ing crisis of the Iranian central Fedayeen. guerrilla

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HELL

ND Millant Lou nowor words from their power bases in the univer- under President sities were proving ineffective The early days of last week inability the eruption of full- impose central government authority on the Iranian masses war mn nuruistan. liberation and has T0130TiT1e0 meant also thạt, despite declared intention resolve helicopter the hostages he has beer

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the Impoten to influence At the same time right wing students as Jimmy Carter.

Bani- With his hopes of a negotia- ted settlement tatters. 'Marxist' economic sanctions ineffective; his European "allies" in disarray forces and

CARTER'S

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HEIGHTENS

WAR

DANGER

and refusing to act for another month; and with the prospect of SaCos ove into the open arms of the Soviet bureaucracy and the European Stalinist Stales. deduced that the situation was worsening all the time. Gulf could of the warships antagonise other Meanwnie in the o itsel media racist campaign has been preparing the ground lor *A US military an imperialist onslaught on Iran Iran in election year wole carter question. Under present arrange needs above all to divert voters from attention ments lt lullaway army a week to put even a single intlation, slump, and growing division of troops into Iran unemployment. So the mission-reputedly iranian planned months ago and • prac- Taked OT tised up 30 times in desert areas of the USA-was given the go-ahead, and the chapter of DOrueTs. accidents began. within hours Having gamned na lost Carter is now before. Orse plight than ever hostages are now uispersea so Soviet invo vement cannot be rescued. widey unev knows that The anti-imperialist would bring a long, ment and self-confidence of the unwillavit wal azanist a unica lasses anu mber aist movement new beak ana new anni-imner ialist pressures have surfaced, Pentagon secret with demonstrations in Bahrain and denunciations of the raid bi the reactionary Kuwaiti regime.

enable Carter, ir It is now plain that any more extensive oliens vt a parking lot" trigger upheaval of wolo struggles throughout the Gulf DU such conrontator Arab world would be minimal.

Carter's Carter has therefore exposed however is by no means a guar to the world the limited options antee That e wil not incle f he now has available. The most another military powerful imperialist nation the army over Any at puntive action to restore pres tige must have risen dramatic.

allemor to lay mines around the main Iranian oil ally port of Abadan The Wolle TSk

MAY DAY

GREETINGS

The Socialist Press Editorial Board sends May Day greetings to the international trade union and labour movement, and to the oppressed in every country in their struggle against imperialist exploitation and against Stalinism. Reconstruct the Fourth International!

Forward to the world socialist revolution!

US fighters prepáre for action renewed imperialist offensive *Moves for a naval blockade the int rat is one that falls to I create a con- international • worKine Cass In me us and every imper ialist country the demand must force lurking close behind the And and clear: Hands off go Iran! Not pely to the war entort. No to any sanctions against Iran!

invasion of out the In the US these events in election vear point to the unan.

would take the us imity between the two capitalist parties supporting Carter's leaders have already imperialist

DOLLICS

invoking sover party must be bullt, based on an invasion: the USSR the unions, to defend has 14 divisions on the Northern independent interests of the US wace couo be mran workme cass Revolutionaries must fight within such a party for a full Doname or eemands in overthrow of US capitalism and Even without the danger of the establishment of a workers Carter invasion move the EEC, capitalist governments contine to back themes met *Recognising this situation a SMas . acton has report defeat the war moves force a use of tactica withdrawal from the anti-com- nuclear weapons which would munist NATO alliance and the the words of

EEC,

and lignt for the over throw of capitalism and Socialist United States hopes of limiting Europe •or avoiding Ana in iran and the Gull states, the workers movement with entire and oppressed desperate weakness while repel any offensive must Im Der1a1cl mobilise in revoluționary adventure: struggle to topple pro-capitalist for pressure islamic and semi-feudal regimes and replace them with workers and peasants' governments com- struggle for a THEred task of opposing a planned, socialist economy.

Brazil strikes shake loose 'liberal' strategy

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The month-long strike bý arrested food supplies for the over 100,000 metalworkers intercepted, assembly in the Sao Bernardo and denied and military operation Santo: Andre industrial sub- ial-scail of Sao Paulò has auneneo to oreak Ine sioopazu

ATDS

The union ldaders have been reduced the Figueiredo charged under article 36 of the regime's strategy for 'liberal- law. national secunly isation' (abertura) to tatters, incremen Colecirvl obedience of the law". reinforced the growing The penalty can be up to 12 confidence and strength of yeai morisolnche Brazilian industrial the the arrests were apparently President and forced the carried proielartal Figueiredo's knowledge. military to revert to its renect In( CrOWIY mucocl- "hard line". and impatiènce InC hardliners" in the armed forces The strike began late March in demand of a ln wage imperialist will a lHa rise against the employers' offer 5'% - quarter of 1980 was running at The employers-the most important which are thi automobile multinationals VW. General Motors. lord and Flat. retused to make an orrer abovo limits imposed by the inest are pansoareauy designed to make the working.

class pay for Brazil's deepening economil Crist WIHlii resuited In antalon over the tast twelve months, one of the nignest ness in the world and unemploy- ment or over dr This strike the metal- follows those of 1978 and 1979 as a direct challenge n0 1 SmOry • InC economic but- also ottensive Inc political attack on the organisa- working (on: In 1979 tc mclarwolncs strike was decarec meg Dul nothing was done to arrest Luis Inacio da Silva (Lula). the union tender A week ago Lula, along with "trouble makers" Was Xi other Lula addressing Sao Paolo mass meeting Red faces at Stalinist rally which has since April 1974 held The rally held by the back the devclopments of the Communist Party in and celebrate the revo utonary London to fought all the time to contine it of the Portu- anniversary within the bounds of so-called to the extent of guese revolution turned into "democracy" à bitter rout of CP. General organising demonstrantons defence the tovcRa! Secretary Gordon Government of General McLennan. Goncalves political divisions with The Portuguese Stalinist

BOCI

Alvaro Cunhal was lauded his hosts in the London meet- leader entirely CP ing came over the question of almost the Afghanistan. audience reorescntma tried Male nan communist ot course Tine-wnue Cunnil shouted down Posiyely opap doverehees cks differences defend tried to wren quite acceptable. British CP's line of opposing the invasion of Afghanistan! centred his contri- Attacked LUllllal bution on the same unes as lie Portuguese military President Eanes in his recent presidential ine ancience nowever. was in no mood for compromise.

aocress. They attacked McLennan for survival and consolida- Paris tion of Portuguese democracy is felusing aliena now at stake, he declared, with conterence caled o Don-curo partiest o de divistons nistan.

the right wing the moves of around thelr presidentiai Canul date General Antonio Soares more apparent than real. Carneiro. Cannas. ponucs

DOTN

Portugal and internationally Cunhal said the CP is all for reflect a firm adherence to the democratic government and for parliamentary elections. poncy regurrements or real thing is the Kremlin bureaucracy. to reduce 1 lC Moscow's strategy of "peace- ine T190I willd Dally with capitalism minimum and increase tul coexistence' number of CP MPs. in curope was periecuy mpie- mented by Cunhal's efforts to Portuguese opposed tide of revolution in stem entry the EEC into grounds that it would ruin 'our rollusal. And its bureaucratic/military industry. mo So de dn onde sor Eanes takes essentially the the right same mem war nns invasion of Afghanistan finds an generals about wing des- troyin the oi s made ind mil.

equaliy obedient response trom Cunhal deal wih the role of the cof Cunhal anol ornet

" DIO-VOS®

wouise cow" CP leaders. capital with the regime's polics ('pelego') as has occurred "liberalisation several other unions in the last weeks romeiredo Cholee but to acquiesce Since Brazilian labour laws in ine action doübt, herald a modelled on those wort aurellly offensive against the renewed ol mussonm ana nave remamca almost totally unaltered for over WOrKCTS. 40 will prove no years Strengthened problem -on papei personified a nowever. cula Lula's Broa d0 bae 'pelegos" that • Hawever arrest nas challenge sinue the strike wholh, in any has backing amongst strike which, and taken

WOIKCTS

all orgasa tional form Oposicao case. nae ocen supoorica lo ue in tne degrec that had prover Sindical' (trade union to post picket lines tion), a rank and file movement unnecessary will be made to LyCry CloTl centrec mn dao bernardo relieve This movement is strongest . 'UnIon DosI and replace him with a stooge and metal amongst the McLennan and the British CP however, along their Italian and Spanish with co-thinkers, have taken the line of "peaceful cocxistence" with capitalism i one step ren chair The US State Depart- much consolidating mindful of the ment, TemUOnSLEC Wit cncl dangers of precipitate action national bourgeoisie. Salvador, has again warned the local oli- Split loyalties garchy not to engage independent terrorist action This leaves them equally det- ermined to head off and betray that threatens the imperial- the independent struggles of the "pacifica ist strateg. working class. tion" But does mean that in "own' Ambassador Robert White where their instanes embarrassed by the publicity capitalist class. emerges ly con- by the assassination gained flict with the Kremlin bureau- the cracy, the CP leaders' loyalties Romero

ATCRDISOOT

• anlu frictions ine (and even parties) are severely continuul. imperialis apparatus ('hawks split. over how to retain In the case of Afghanistan and "doves') therefore, contro ol tus uny devastalca country, recently openly CP communist nas swulie the San Salvador support of the Soviet invasion of Commerce Chamber a major anti-communist right while Italian witch-hunt, TUnO S aloe orcansnc wing terar a ads and Britisit CPs have lined move but was risky with their own. capitalists if the veil of denouncing the invasion. , clearly necessary any Neither pro-Moscow nor retormicm was credibility in masking expandin Eurocommunist partes one US interventio any independent lead the to class internationally: working movt duocals confirm the decision the cast such onliy Mold Et Salvaat in order struggle inrough IO hold Salvador Trotskyist parties which set out it is necessary consistentlý to defend the inde- Hu serialsl orolt pendent interests of the working oligarchy and deepen the cass revolunonary alliance between the military struggle for power. sector of the bourgeois- and the …e uraL Gs OnTeCEy шukeu will multinational capital. This certainly the SOCIALIST PRESS. Naimesg gudpriinso workers but it is beginning to expana one lacior m tms Delle The mitanev or workers wind are fired once they have worked becom e a5 a result eligibte for three the top wage rates. Dock strike A further indication oi ine spread militancy last of the strike by week's victory workers in the docks or santos Politically , the Oposicao Sin- social demo- dical is manifestly crauc ana synoicanst has increasingly drawn 'Hold your fire' warns US envoy- gained by the impression affronted capitalists they troopea out ol lne meeling will White: "Next the USA will just send in the marines to kill anyone in a-pece g remakeu ort Another was slightly more perspicacious "Like many others, I paid to nave my workers propagandised against the lies of the left, and !

gave money I suspected would go for guns. And yes, I think a few of u: paid to have evil men killed. The blame us for alphabet, but not for the whol , Such touching candour does of course contain an element oi trith nut the imperiansts not in the business of shoulder ing moral responsibilities revolution- une terest aries in this lies only in assessing the shift in class forces and the capital, which has stalcey ul slaughtered 2.000 Salvadorean.

in the first three months of the yea White's action has not put maid to the oiner tacaes unge to eradicate the left The growing link between Guate the Salvadorean and ma21 coordinated strategy for inter- vention was confirmed last week WIiC1 vualvilalal. o ane crasned. on antal flight and several members of support from the liberal churci and hierarchy links with the Brazilian Labour partv atnover in tae wua anc confused political climate result- weakening of the from allegiances are con- arctaorsll What, above all else, is clea that the vanguard of the Brazilian proletariat has through tour massive strikes in success vi years broken a decade of retreat and qulescence It is growing in militancy but lacks political leadership and remains vulnerable to the forces which dictatorship must destroy. the Salvadorean general staff were found amongst the dead , Honduran role couany. in this "Hov Allance orrowers has become clearer, with the confession 'Somocista' guerrillas captured in Nicaragua that they nao oce.

trained the Hondurans of an extensive plan ball estabast ToRT-WIn

LOTIU

groups in "trouble spots' Salvador itself the 20 continue-another KHlSeS peasants wert kiled agrarian reform' last week-and the apparent lull in events after the cenera strike toat nonowed Romero's assassination is clearly one that precedes the e storm leitist guerillas. partio ularly the FPL, have resumed operations in countryside, caccuen- sevelal

WH KAOWI

right-wing : mem pers OT " Ine

ORDEN,

and launching successful attack on an army unlt whien apparenty snook tn US Embassy because it involved thea ons and evidenced malliar heavy were

SKIT

w.uc. previously thought incapable.

declaration ofeper, war-tor the This, however, still lacks the capacitv fo JelT the tlmy and wil collenge to so until it recil es aid tr te aho som will continue LUDa workers states which have so far failed in this elementary inter- national task.

INDIAN MASSES UP AGAINST

CRISIS OF LEADERSHIP

Algerian minority fights for SOXIALIST PRESS. writer

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In the face of mounting world economic recession and soaring prices, the dyn- amics of the class struggle throw more and more layers of the Indian masses into open struggle. This 'shown by Has ocen targe scale demonstrations the blind, the seizure of land by the Harijans Bihar; Wallonial assamese Gandhi steadily takes rigid political steps to enforce control are state subcontinent, the incian work. expressed strength through Countiess struggles over the past year.

Counter attack Workers in ship- lute. ceit servant and the, textiles and oute ine. alongside lance the bourges see to prepare continue Jus counter attack: The escalation and polarisa. tion of the class struggle takes place under new conartions and wlane

WITH

The bourgeoisie led by its traditional party-the Congress (1). And it is the outcome of the January elections glaringly highlights the acute crisis leadership hat confronts the Indian labour incat and evil ecos tie. political chaos Stalinist CPM eme The janata Party during its Nat proved

: TOTAL

incapable of arriving at a united, cohesive strategy forward movement of working class. Which nad or to solve the basic problems of The main workers party , the the crisis-ridden economy. extended its base overall In the face of an organised in three traditional, strongholds working class, a starving peasan- -West and. beneat. try and profit stricken industria- Tripuia lists, the Janata Party was driven Its strength in these states Itselt emergency no doubt reflects that the work.

attemot measures-introducing preven- ing class and peasantry voted for tive

CPM

massive scale,, drawn Industrial Relations Bill.

West Bengal, especialv measures that enabling it to was such pose as the main facilitated opposition party today. which Congress ruwve ver Ine central toruci Party could consolidate itself as of the

CPM

Ine politics OT representa- of reading Do litical "people's tive of the ruling class.

democratic front". rights Algeria the Kabyle part of The northern area the Berber region-was reported last week to be in a state of open rebellion against the central govern- rights must be deeniv disturh.

ment. ing to the bureaucratic military new President regime of the • Correspondents of foreign Chadli.. he ispers he region and dee Berber people from Kabyle

1 CHI01

played major role in the party (FLN) news- nationalist paper, El Mujadia, has only aramnst made brief mention of "agita- French and nave provided many leading members oy loreaners to de of the FLN. Despite this and the heavy But several reports speak of the towns of sochaine The Kabyle, the Vuzou and Azazza bi StudIEs. government, facing first workers ano peasants Irom the major political since the test neighbouring death of General Boumedienne, involving demonstrations, appears have lost factory occupatrols. oaricades support in a key area of the the streets, assaults on FLN country. offices, buildings and hotels and the burning of public Repression buses and conce venices The university students of Tizi-Ouzou, who appear to have Chadli's only, means of res- led the protests so far, ponse to mass opposition so far "cultural repres bloody repression-several plaining about sion, farced Arabisation and deaths of demonstrators in Tizi- crass ignorance of rights of Ouzou been all Azarza save Berber culture and language.' attempt reported -ano also label the agitation "foreign- have demonstrated in Algiers itself.

This agitation on national As in Tehran the government Gandhi nato broades posite mad gamation capitalist stalinist parties is enthusiastic incorporated ally

SOUGAT

and within a popular front. ing pursued this has faithfully pursued strategy, forming electoral blocs "against the forces of authorit- arianism". recent alliance with big landlord capitalist party the Lok Dal led by Charan • Sing of a noteworthy demonstration the CPM's willianess alf\ most viciously reac- with ine forced students out of the uni- versity at bayonet point While there can be : no doubt- ing the mass hostility une contal government. easy explain why Berber nationalism have surfaced at this point berber 1s misleading. since embraces subcultures several who share little other than the fact tha spoken dialect is derived Lnel from the same root. The ant milence authe *number and influence Kabyles 3 million strong -some -in Algerian population the mimon-wno live mountainous areas East of Algiers. The second largest are the Shawiyas-around million; there are also other groupings, generally little national pontics Kabyles-many Sane whom have emigrated to France in search of employment-are in more Westernised and general cosmopolitan in outlook than the other Berber groupings, sufter from apocal economic or political discrmin- ation at the' hands of the central government. tionary bourgeois forces The extent of its class collab- oration was exposed particularly sharply in Uttar Pradesh, where lne LoK vai stood lo candioate: and the Cri one candidate ir an electoral bloc that accrued benefit solely for the Lok Dal i nis took Diace in a contex' its forward movement whe in the working actively searching tor a political alterna live to represent its independent class interests. It significant that when Gandhi o•positional state assembles before the by elections in order secure the majority that the Stalinist and states were lent reassured intact. Charan Singh Administration geoisie and the Indian Stalinists) For the time being, Gandhi necessar is content to leave groundwork upon which to con Ene aemin. istration of capitalism in West front working class and Bengal, and Tripiura in peasantry.

CPM,

hands of the itself Tosancine Front has been between the organised move. cratio Which for managing of the working class and capitalist state economies in a CriC assaults ou ine congress it will no doubt repeat their per.

comparatively stable tasnion.

She is not yet ready to deal formance the base Gandhi's Emergency and CPM-for all its betrayals- and furthe continue seer support other brougeois parties los cultivated Indeed under the present cir- within the decrepit framework

CPM

serves of parliamentarianism cumstances as a stabilising force in the •rotskyises nave • consistenty class mustant. • Tha parliamenzari conscious labour movement democracy is only desirable for As such it poses no threat to the bourgeoisie the ruling class. so Tar as it guarantees stabilit ever more however Gandhi ano serves Ther proceeds to confront the tasks desperate search profit- of the crisis of bour- ability resolving inevitable that she will combine her populism increasingly repressive undefeated workina class Already she astutely dissolved the assemblies totally discredited right wing parties in order to central authority and assert ner direct control. over the weaker states She is being forced to aban don the skeleton farce of Indian democracy (which remains the pride of the imperialist bour- For years large tins label- "herring" led have been exported capitalist Europe, where they are opened and their real contents-best Soviet caviar —repacked and sold at astro- nomical prices. The difference between the Trotskyists however give full and unconditional herrina received by the orice SUDOOrI Soviet state and the caviar price demand for national rights Ene the and the rights of all peoples world market to self-determination. oCCl snared between TO f capitalist dealers and the Soviet At the time they mus sallit officials they were point out that the problems of league with oppressed minorities cannot b and deposited in a Swiss resolved in the imperialist epoch bank account. even political indepen- dence Cracked They can only be resolved by social revolution-one of th lis cracked the racket aine political conditions of which i finally cracked an alliance in struggle with the lacket ano within the one of the worst oppressor nations, and the con- called economic crimes the history Marxist leader- struction 101 a of the

• USSR

based firmly Trotskyist strategy of perman- in tact. of course. the cavial ent revolution. ramatic male of partied гаскет crime which goes on all the time anu which the soviet system 0l

DONT LET TURKEY

planning oureaucratic any democratic workers control

BECOME ANOTHER

encourages

CHILE

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CPM,

wn bertocicalv despai with the cry that "democracy is in peril" we to Sow illusions bourgeois астостасу

OUT

DOIN

crucial need for workers to for- mulate demands express their own independent interests Fabric not Gandhi's anti democratic moves alone that are the enemy of the working class but the entire fabric of capitalist class relations or production The crucial task that faces workers and militants is to buil a united front of the indepen organisation Int working class and the peasants withstand capitalist onslaught. Une InE mos vita demands to arise from such a united front should be to mobil- Unt • alinists criminal counter. oreak revolutionary with the parties of the bourgeoisie!

It is onty tne indian working class which can smash through barriers of the caste system ano renaious superstition thai have fettered the peasantry and the rural oppressed It is the historical • Task o , malan workers to lead the peas antry in an alliance that will end the domination finance capital and will build in its place a sociery were numan need. not capitalist profitability deter planning producton

CAVIAR?-

OR KIPPERS?

Indeed, as far as the planned socialist economy is concerned, the rulers oralinis always insist in their propaganda that what. they are selling to the working class is authentic caviar worse than herring! econstruct the fourth Intern No. 1 Nor. 1979

INTERNATIONAL

DISCUSSION

BULLETIN

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THE TRANSITIONAL

PROGRAMME IN

TODAY'S CLASS

STRUGGLE

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Report slams police violence Page + The policeman whose truncheon blow to the head Killed Blair Peach already knows he is to get away scot Friends of free: but the Blair Peach who have fought to expose the murder face possible legal action at the over une Friends Blair of the Director of hands poster describing the six-strong Public Prosecutions!

SPG

su uau considering The

DPP

Murder whether to take court action Times for publicising the names Police escort fascists through Corby The Stalinist dominated march. Corby Trades Council set the SWP contingent allowed the out on April 26 to prevent stewards Stalls! any confrontation with the • With •the

DO 1CC

whole thing back to the Civic fascists. Centre After militant speeches Under pressure, the Stalinists earlier in the week about keep- then agreed to open up the plat- ing the fascists off the streets of form to all speakers and take a they transformed LOWIl what

VOLO

sterile Thison The day required round of speeches and liberal marching sloganising. When a march was finally changed organised move by unc made it clear that noone wilk Stalinists to defuse the mount- wanted to drive the fascists off militancy of the 1,000 plus the streets would get near the antifascists (many of them loca microphone youth who had gatnered al tne Civic Centre) this turned out to then than a circular tour borrowed of the une case lot . HU

WOR

resounding demand the vened match straight for the area where lead assembling were

LASCISES.

Bigwigs able the . and were support of many of the youth.

a brief moment, with few police about, it was possible found themselves alone in the to make breaking asp the decisive towards NF

PRESS

GANG

the ho a fee at number of ther The Daily Mail was une. behind a quivocal. 'We are with you own way' it declared to all the the Embassy President Carter on behalf same of Mrs. Thatcher. applaud. The Mail was premature. Its of an support Cal armed raid on T.ne Americal lentan bul Embassy in Tehran came area of eastern Iran. the raid took . before official carra granted doubt br place, and would we true one. she had the chance the hearts of the Warmongering popular of imperialistic sport with newspaper owners.

his tale of bungling deatl It fits easiv with their belll- hounds or Fleet cose and instinctive attacks on thatred for anything oreign and workforces; their gnashing of teeth? anything Thel

UVE.

that might possibly be tinged The Daily with Bolshevism. plaintively that the of Iran, racism vase US was has been the dominant method of attack since the Shah overthrown. References to Mad Mullans inkes about Arabs and a willu determination Ting taking its cue from moods and motivations of the masses incomprehensible has set echoing the scene loyal backbenchers. back a military invasion or any- short of that Annance marines reached Had the US had they massacred "Whatever everyone in at Southall of the policemen-one of whom puducation: by Ine Peach of a Kuce Teach Meanwhile the indepenaen on last year's Southall commissioned by events been published. NULL nas off they came into immediate But the dithering of some of controntation WIth group of fascists parading on the opposite side of the road of the number to divert arrests as vouth tried to break through and get at them. anti-fascists then went for the assembly area, breaking 1'101l through the police lines on the action way leaded-off by police rein fascists tne forcements they returned to But the same stewards swift- town to block the route of the minds and NF march. The anger of the local youth Was Cial tall are through shopping area. the NF When the 400 rabid finally did march, under an Anti-racists from Leicester they using police escort or loud-hailer, to argue arrived chanting STISh JOD and for British Workers' controls to king platform', to keep import vote the talinists themse ves use le Knife the more or ste jobs!

anti- " were The Trades Council bigwigs fasciste arrested larcel victims of the frustration caused eactionary manoeuvrings of the CP. the anti-fascists moved European Governments have of the American action, the first dead on the doorsteps of priority must be to maintain the com pound. mance macl newspaper owners The Guardian (which rejec have found it in their hearts to ted "easy smirks at the fiasco somewhere in the iranian But the US attack foundered lands") said: several not in the drama-filled streets of in a remote desert That alliance lessons flow sultation and loyalty -amid sucl the evident danger-is a story is not the That White House there is little to stir and pitifully needs counsel far more than it most jingois- Driding iran pelmet and need simple obedience

DICOTS

Soviet Unior makes no sense the for arms Street bụt th In that last sentence lies the Key the press knows that there is Plaintive a time for criticism and a time Express wailed for silence the real Issue knows that Carter and allies (i.e. MIs Thatcher card tide the had heard about the togetner only credible raid on BBC radio. and had not around play against the been taken into Carter's confid- Soviet Union the growing aggres But while the press had been sion of frustrated imperialism, Ent and the tub thumping moves in front bench it now found itself of military direction opinions of the the controntanon capilatis First nrese tinde its own doubts art comes buried beneath the overwhelm- was the message in the Financia to state desire criticism mey are un condemns the council for allow- ing the Nanona. Front to stage

WORKERS

moeting PlUvUkalIve Southall Town Hall: the

SOCIALIST

for their biased handling of cases of those arrested: the DPP

LEAGUE

the media; the police for their brutal methods and racist abuse; and the Coroner's court hearing The mouest on bar reach. It "called for an official public inquiry into the Southal SHe and ise clarinto the officers whose confirmed to have been found to possess a wide array of illegal including metal weapons, . their weighley lockers. is plain that the inquiry much illuminate has done the savage reality of the police rot in soutnall, but ll comes a no surprise that it can offer no answer to the problems serious It reveals In reality such violence from nutes a poet, br state machinery protest, to brin actor down the Tories. drive Labour's right wing leaders, and workers government Ills tail with wil set about arsoaname the police and standing army establishing the abou movement right wingers the long-running dents, producing While saga over right wing moves Labour leadership MC expel Oxford socialist • Ted Hesin from the Labour When the Party drags on into yet Une necessar another inquiry, an angry expulsion. letter to Labour Weekly shows from Northampton the problems a constituency faces if it wishes to expel extreme right wingers. The Northampton South CLP refused reselect

IWO

wing Labour discipline paigns Group. In a typical display of right organisation We contempt for democratic wing Cal the two councillors decisions shown had the indepen- proceeded to run as Roy's Tory recently political field recently. catch During tion campaign when lord Yorkshire for unscrupuloll. like many other and ruling class thi -packed Franco in War. Graine eatn Inal guest landed a 5½ Ib trout of this Rt. than the Labour chief in Ireland on wilal Is licall u Mason SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesar, April 30, 1980

COPS PROTECT

1 FASCISTS-

BUILD WORKERS

FENCE

DADS

Labour's 'independent' material that dutacked the loca candidacy been one based on socialist policies. National Meanwnie. Agent David Hughes intransi discussed disciplinary action against them gently defends protection of the Northampton two-thirds majority was obtained for their local GMC renegades. thi voted to uphold its expulsion declenged the Pary, decision, publicly explain Overturned whv it has been denied its righ dates and to sy me lobers agho members who Yet that expulsion decision dates against 'independents NEC Tom hose vertit is by the TUll - in whose view it is appar the district party should not al ently quite legitimate for right! be treated alike.

socia democrase of answer course about carry members k independent election cam clear: the defiance of the the Labour leadership are neither socialists nor democrats.

those o no policies be certain that

LICI

such tolerance would have been "reforms' seeking piecemea "independent" bankrupt and crisis ridden capitalism -and therefore them sup consistently tr read porting attacks on the working Lord St Oswald invited one of his of And the internal regime the the party reflects above all acquaintances to need ~ fish his well-stocked lake at one a cere preserve its con Norstell Priory, near Wake- of 'Jeftward trol in rank and file member- moving ship hile European elec- must une nobit the Labour taker within unsuccessfully made a bic West, Partv on policy and on accoun tability past was revealed and bart cemocracy revolutionary socialist leader ship must be constructed As a toreign Journalist ne sections of the the Daily Mail fascist DarDalou. the Spanish Our readers will be delighted Oswald's obviously talented and sporting They may also be more than interested to learn ine laenul.

individual-none other Hon. Roy Mason Labour MP for Barnsley and the government's torture This should aid clarification "extremist Callaghan elements in me Labour rall!

The political crisis facing the British working class has been sharpened by return of the Thatcher and covernmen • response of the trade union Party leader- and Labour ship. The final year of the Labour life marked government's was pay series tenacious which the political strikes in became increasingly public appar cult.

I NC

sector StriKes. thougn lea to deteat by the cowardice and perfidy of leaderships, were a damaging biow to a government one cam to govern-that it was : capable of reducing class conflict. The lorry drivers' strike took a: nigh

YOEFT

• Class structie. ricket lines ano strike commit. tees brought the supplies under their control, #i many cases Droke urce or ene the bureaucracy. Chains brought fury the class and the forces of the state see emolovers lining front of strike committees and asking for permission to move supplies. nese strikes uneerineo The the WSL perspective truth ot against a variety of political forces. This Inat Ine • workIng class Will fight courageously when it sees and tral these struddles can rapiaiy take a high level of struggle.

Yet these • to shift the labout The. riont. Callaghan/Healey government grew increasingly intransigent as Is Clal to De better piaceo tc ram cuts in i avina standards down the throats of the working increasingly hollow. grew The fells vocierous ine Tive per cent limit shunned action which threaten Steel Rickets at Port Talbot on the first day of the strike

PREPARE

TO BRING

DOWN THE

TORIES!

1. Behind the bosses' attack This week we are publishing the first of two parts of the document on British Perspectives that was adopted at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Workers on April 4-6 1980. For reasons of space, some sections have been Socialist League slightly abbreviated. The second part, The Crisis of Working Class Leadership, will appear in next week's Sacialist Press.

them Callaghan bluntly told picketing gave the ruling class ward but was fuelled mainly by they should either challenge his Although some almost every concessior They required. Although workers leadersnio snut up chose the latter. Whatcher victory was he mass the reason Although the code, trade union gave strength leadership shrill vel wally Court: anu ana detection Trom abou Party of its petty bourgeois ano issued oark ano cire ward. minea solidarity ings. they. too. were pushed to The election took place with support which found what right the the working class angry pressure saw as a retresnine radicalism fused. It saw The

TUC

in the Thatcher programme.

coot Thatcher power with a clear mandate from the ruline class Chand the midolf classes to smash up the organisa- tions working class. This truth has become such common rhetoric among labour bureaucrats and every shade of left that its meaning has beer t is not a ohrase nu reality It must also be clearly under- stood that the Thatcher government is not ad return

SUS

vision of the 80s. needs no suct historical apology. ITS aim nOT sees but to from terming class bút and by string so leave destroy struggle, working class, in a worse

STEEL

positiosthan the 30 the Labour Those cynics in

WORKERS

party that argued Thatche return •Was

POWER

different from the right wing Labour government were wrong. Those who argued that least the working class would were actually Tign arguing that the Labour bureau- cracy Thatcher. would TOnT They were wrong too The working class has showr that orebared whichever government The number of days lost (which admittedly lo surine. adequate nOT guide to tne temperature of the class struggle) shows 29 that the Odys lost fast were, vea oroportionate v speaking. evenly divided the four months Labour and the eight months of Torv rule The bureaucracy, on other nana further from confrontation. Not the

TUC

continued talk the Tories anc continued parade Concordat (which it periodically buries, only to resurrect), but it na. increased ettorts struggles Isolate

TOE

the working class which do break out The first three months 01 1980 have shown the massive strength of the working class and level of betrayal by Its leadershio wnien constantiv out strips all previous experience It is in this sense that there is a cuditative direrence betweer the struggles of the class against the decaying Labour govern. ment, and the struggles against ine tories The need for a break with syndicalism has acute. The struggle for more polica leadersni The working class has become even sharper The opportunities are creater. une benaities tor tanure more severe International Economic Crisis All present evidence points

NUPE

NUPE

says: Public sector workers on the January 22 Day of Action 1979 to a worsening economic situa tion world Capitalism Within a whole period of very slow crowlr new sharp downturn, expected 1914075 has begun ever like in least as severe articularl aculi Britain Virtually all the indicators of capitalist profits show continued downwaro trend. A. world inflation once again pushed furthe escalations orice Inere are contmaca sign: ot the precarious instability o the world and exchange system-evidenced by intense Tuctuations in ine brict of precious metals (reflecting waves of defensive and pessimis- tic soeculation, ano in snarder ing inter-capitalist rivalries (the upward auction of interest rates devaluation anu mounting pressure for trade war while we avoid a perspective of imminent trophe . and struggle towards al capitalism's understanoing still considerable armoury defensive measures overal! recoonIs economic situation of the capi.

talist -the problem of producing and , realising surplu value under staole conditions- has been acute for a decade and continues to worsen circumstances we canno sudden economi much more severe downturns than we have seen up to monetary crises, waves of pro tectionismn and so on The round of price increases imposed by OPEC over the last 12 months has become a majo component (economi crisis confronting the capitalist 5.

Page 6 increasingly world prices even for wrote polic North Sea oil, while the inflated trating to the economies or tne deformed and degenerated value of sterling drives export reciorocal prices sky high. whole series workers sidles dollar has fallen in As the value against other major capi- Have Locit currencies-in Carter talist Underdeveloped Economies fi.e. the Deutsch Mark and the Yen- Iranian ail price so the purchasing -Dower BUT iT last yedt s vast pool of 5800 billion dollars held outside the USA has fallen.

countries Inemiserves billion against the anti- mortals. a staggering declared in mood and mounting demands of increase in the •i ors or Ine peasants ine amounts banks. ineir own countries. Ine rulers total of the oil-producing states need more tnan of the their oil. revenues and such the far in real terms signals round failing too cular attacks revolution increasingly Ano Ine iranian and mili proved to be the trigger will. repudiate development in 1979 of a new

UDOL

policy pricing internationd dearessive the semi-colo- amonst ine or oroducers vict for has restricted supplies to the nial countries world market and raised average slashing back world the . suosistence prices to 32b per barrel.

desperate threaten to Every Torecastel now agreed that this will nave impact on. the ailing dramatic countries- -driving up whose World economy Intation. unempioyment. and world market. balance 24 payment recits.

will increase 24-nation Organisation million in 1980 "areate me very for Economic Development and Cooperation prcurels ever an overall growth gross national product of its member increased countries at no more than 0.3% exploitation. • the fact that an original forecast of 1%, and a growth possibility one more rantan last year of 3%. underdeveloped countries into default- government imperialist trophic chain of fore- tries Within this average increase collapses monumental closures Britain and the US are expected im possible actually tries themselves. the deciine 2% respectively. and put onidely time growth, detault must of when hold means Ine destructor the one existing forces of production, and a further rise in already high unemployment lup can what increasingly levels Int from 17 million to 20 million in question.

OECD

countries The the picture too, US Khomeini Elsewhere, the or insignifi. one ot stagnation cant growth-at a time • wien needs continue human increase Yet far from steering clear of such a slump, ranitalist pacers are forced to head relentlessly in that direction in their efforts to out Ine leasi orotilabic rice st oil through of noid the price of down demand, and back through attemol. policies, curtal unawa inflation. The impact of the oil crisis is from TelL powerful Jabanest economy- from huge balance into deficit payments surpluse and the rise oil price rising value ven-to the oT . Tne strong West German economy- revising downwards its forecasts growth in the light of pros- pects for oil supplies ano brices. the crisis-ridden economy-facing the traumas of programme Garter s energy a do-or-die attempt to cut back on its huge oil import oils. chronically sick British the manufactur- economy-in which ing industry is still forced to pay

STEWARDS

capital divide world mort which fundamental rec aiming srving the become assets banks; already world. of imposed in have countrie the Trat world billion nation. Monopoly with to a such moves thus TorCed each other where avalable ledos fight iner $500 billion fallen tion of actually competitive is fallen into CoUn- Leytand debts and Inem The growing. And, of oi orice official Bank te nonest. cannot repay, You can't

JINI SHUF

capitalist sharoly

INLO

imperialists in and pre. debts credit month by in the living ane Int of recession to throw

INTEC

stay manufacturers and plant with compete Coraltions Thel

OWI

must • Ine and British the and reflects capitalist trimmed) SOCIALIST PRESS, diedresis: ADri 30. 1

MRDS COM.

WHOS NEXT

FOR A

CUT

stimulate cuts tax Britain; the rate SAne

ITH

of the tar contradic • ourcen TrON through health as part o charges, oroTits Tne clas an overals from ary sell But slashing mates. wat and rationalisa public sel vile. live Production pursuit of in pursuit govern- • OT only. takes major explos ist class res pite in the onslaught fronta necessar slau dards, increase is basic rights armaments "detence decades struggle. Britain, for instance allocated where for s in new and maritar money Termos . in terms oi every orospect The 3% growth per oerenc spending terms. Protectionism Desperate and chauvinist class supposedly in a Meanwhile capitalis! the credit, interes raised-in rates have nationa controls to markets and interest major Crisi alre the slump, men while this

CBI

massively overneads US steel demand, and helping to drive industry and employers proeucers forcing such ities Carter As seems prepared and social out controls" a er services with it protectionism Far trom the Into tum capitalist world increases 'trade would inade- whic belated ane canel caly quate rivalries could out ilke othe hand, military in fäct Latter! casnes In consistently for standards of a sliding protectionism, In scale of revolutionaries argue , but a Ant those of the their anarchic capitalist: system. The is not a of workers' 'foreign' 1 of f capitalism, howeve cheap expropriation work. home, who takes TorCe. arit decision owi interests-his profits through speed-up, ment Qt •т currencie. cres of ciosures

SOCLALIST PRESS, k'ednesday April 30, 1980.

Challenge to over the brink-by some new Imperialist exchange Rule unexpected suclay exoense chaos, is particularly important Cents-ito Coso UTe collapse or world war. concept '''the tat. tAIS dedine th ar can be prepicted for national interest" and every ten- scope of the • sink or swim dency towards national chauvin- ine Tuture is moderated chietiy sitt is careneco ar azime wnen by the extent of the slump that mperialism is increasingly under is alreadysupon us from ny thé rising of oniy or ruggles of the workie class une Hassco forward is through solonial and semi-colonial world Arinci od stre cle italins ever- national libera- struone tor aspect ion and an end to exploitation.

capitalist trom 1979 has seen such struggles sive, and the construction of ar revolutionary international a lcW Ucak Unacu Ene ieadership capable of mobilising oleseue meleacersoiD under the homeini in ran Ww Ine

OUT

petty bourgeois FSLN in Nicara- Britain and under the treacherous and megers. algor ront reddersno. ot this This imbabwe. oresent. But elsewhere, Central in, .the America, nd Latin Asia, accumulation africa and sharpened "Inf Miccie . cact here exist struggles, 'ar the since Tne The and for struggles, which conservatism totạl ould inflict colai setoacks or mperialism, against which the all too TAaT nac mperialists will be tempted to which back to. the . preserve has been Such steps ul o ord :system dONUY: enelr. xploitation. competitors, Indeed it is in this political worle antiquated economy that ontext we which "rust undel cemerate .reneweo anti-soviet sesources „ Tor ine old moves the wiar and wholesa.e perialists in the wake of the it needs to the ignan invasion. ana in nis adressive internationa.

abrupt fall cance Carter's most enthusiastic apporter has turned out to be British class in recenu reactional) t natoner and 'ment vernment: the Tories have led has struggle to win acceptance fallen US missiles in Europe; they gerly took up the call for a bycott of the Olympics and hençe I closure plans face political and economic sanc: for for BL and against the Soviet Union; British nd thev have , o ace• Yet ever TaiS • sorution aperialism firmly at the centre the drive against revolution.

decreased which ane natona iceration that Hicalls IS BOrCCO ruggles. ability. andl The orsened by ment to emoark inflation, action at a It is in this context that we ust insist that. in Britain; and only the most pressures Ternationa Sunne ano solute internationalist struggle towards neofl natonally lay basis further vesist wal whiie toe ride out oves anoto modlise the work Culudck The opposition: to class in enemy: seek, bourgeoisie pruning, produce Inis context ine rote o' revolutionaries must be struggle for tion to their strugale for the feat of their own imperialist.

ers in Ireland. policies Despite in many respects, therefore, problems Thatcher anes economic ects of the crisis of imperial- aydınısı Ine which Tory overlap and pose GrITIS FelaLed the o boleras

TOT I

Interes. "ates prop arking class.

SECEOTS

coming increased period offers other sectors italists orotitaoility forced ano vorKers alke Ine prospect .ot chronic event. tability the eversal progress in the destruc- ner di nefree "non- stagnation

TRE

ane muustl les. •ucLive Tortes. une shackling interventior and technology • science As ty proft-seking and military and protective bank

OTOUILS

and ever-present larger Toe runaway Inat ConToIs will finally ride high the foreign, • ge benefit Ine exports, britisi And Tories sell off left firms to bankers stand by ready to seize the more tekey of workers manufacturing industry is fiouid. policy indus- and wcdlu atec unde Tinanci trial forced are into controntation: up unerotiaoe TO GrIME pick than the capital or elsewhere. Hids o fitalr Tory the point where strategy therefore which benefits anodaced above alt finance capitalist 78 of Larouon industry. What the for Unt and for major industries, Already the December can aocli

STOW G

the organised out The Tory budget yidil. recorded female stayla cinl 62% over last four years from to 412,000. include

LTIC

numbers both the ca•ttalists ane wa non class "invisible" army unleashing government

VAT,

such snake out capital and the will not only force those amongst explortation remainiag, to act as increases workers on ihe press-ganged cole have the bankers. of from the rising 20% stepping

TTON

the The take low-paid, firms: At -hand Ine DeneTit. families. aydole. NH$ paring anc potential and gathers pace, • ac s s #ned of money pay or jobs, smaller firms Alongside anem oymenl. with the the

NHS

culudck. edacation services pressure from council yuces hat Under such conditions stress, racial will be democrater nev l ory. . Which propaganda problems and at the dosence • OT Labour leaders maintain capinte tri is and. the response Hicart. and Laboür and tation with working class, the mova том strengthen forces of the class Davunereases the armed which out worked avoid further tract UniOnISTS more • nas beel carrieo

OUT

White aw't murder of Blair enquiry absolute Torced Tory backing for the most . interlinked the laws with clased Ine powe OT EnE picket thA occIsIon. the TAt workers to mecla union leaders Page 7 AUEW and elsehere Of NUJ's legal victorv in the McShane "black ing" case sharpened (with the moves • oT Ine alur anti-union forced the tecis ation. Tories extensive owi bili militancy and faci that , creates conditions to why Is the Thatcher has been forced the I to vicious CB! CicIsI

.TOM

Ine and oTaer into new law: une stee strike the coming will be danger rights conflict with Instead action action issues-cuts jabs, way. very resistance Will Relations Act) only vesistance pici/cilid of the events simple course legislation, conviction that like the Industrial: Relations Act, it can oe eectivev kuleo oniv.ov tne defeat of the Tory government itself. Other Tory attacks on the workino ciass aso aim to civide and weaken it. The latest Immi- Bill, effect gration whose actual Immigration will De negl gible, has a double impact.

in pandering to the most extreme element: laciarisi orawr larouno Ine . lory rarty from the National Front during the ba79 of ioa cher s ia basis of i nlatcher.. Tacis statements it wir nei tue s new wave of racialist ganda and thus help divide the working class establishing beyond Ana in doubt a "second class citizen" care ory for mondin s mer creates Concon increase• deportation ot ımmı.

grants and, in the future, for the

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ABORTION

aman's rightti PHOTO: Laurie Sparham, IFL Loung women march agains/ Corri undertake and other immierant Tegiste or pre state are on coisy restrictions ane discriminatory demanded by of the InE there is also ine desire on une labidists Tories-shared by the right wing The factor working against of the Labour Party-to wage an this Tory strategy is ine grownig ideological offensive to militancy and combativity up the old constrictive values of the working class, which breaks the bourgeois family unit.

down racial barriers in united struggle. pressure nome plays d with Needless to say, isolating them from the cras.

struggle and transforming them nearly every orner ory allaus the groundwork for into the victims of the individ- the new Immigration Bill has been laid ualistic, conservative by years of Labour betrayals, in religious propaganda poured out which Tory immigration laws oy ine medid effectively navt strengthened by the Wilson and Callaghan governments 15. the women s Tories bid the rents inadequate the eliminate even ing to the individual worker and abortion rights embodied in the unit family 1967 Act amounts to a major interests of the working class as working offensive Combined with Prior's a whole can diso De seen " women. use of postal ballots to detuse attacks on maternity rights are consiousness class women's rights at work, it can be seen as part of a determined the militancy surrounding Howe's package of the gains Torv. move to reverse made by women in the last ter ment of government policy on and to force them back years; of the home the confines housing and private titutelle into and the menial tasks of child- building and Heseltine's "sale of care and domestic labour impossible to • the century ascrIof one particular conscious motive property at knockdown prices are designed long-term to effec- in part, for this ory oftensive. tively abolish they act trom the need to el inate thousands of workers from state sector economy in represent payroll of tneretore tne recession; in part, from the fact attack on the working class as a whole. that the withdrawal and health care from servile the cutbacks carried throuan ine eraerty, ganda aimed education and vourn achils the axing of nurseries and child designed Lenants. care, require-in the Tories' view them to secure iner own hiter home -that the women in "Sale of the Century." man Heseltine TUC say

ABORTION

KEEPIT

LEGAL

KEEP IT

SAFE

OPPOSE THE

CORRIE BILL

OPPO

CORR

"bargain" The offer net these burdens inal by be carried financia loss to state in selling oTt tnest houses is regarded by the Tories in the same way as large sums paid out in voluntary redundan- bolster the harre annesh private future, which private can look forward to lanctoras of women the higher rents and eventually buying chunks role up

COTI

OrIm crucial and private estates, council house can drive ceve overs prices even higher as the inevit- able shortages arise gives involvin the last hear by anoever Private meaical involving power workers unions-are another way in which the Tories aim to the metie class to ers middle seek The Tory strategy of appeal individual and thus TacIng against the reduce the opposition to further drastic cuts. There has been an increase private actual state facilities are meaicine as and run down. propaganda particular the hopes OT profitable excursion into private and the develop practice, the Tories can hope, to emove their influence and pres the struggle against lict the destruction of the NHS The axing or council noust struggle already muted by the of existing council continual sabotage of public sector union leaders. the role of the housing. They Hidu These moves towards utilis- ing the individual and the family The attack, however, is being unit as a bulwark against class WItn consciousness run hand-in-hand no victa series of ory persuade WItn tagel press witch-hunts on socidilsts and communists that oppose ests by taking advantage of a

KEEP

LEI

point to the common interest of fight such positions ana resistance within workers agains rule in Ireland. but the task o labour movement. the Ireland ise the class Such witch-hunts have also be glibly posed. extended to attempts to with against those between violence unity with workers identified Protestant worker. struggle against British imperial- achieved against their common ist oppression in Ireland.

class enemy, the Orange leaders largely successfully have followed the reactionary Labour Papist Threat privileges of Protestant workers strategy on the Irish war.

re-establish conference on The Atkins the future of the province was a divide. predictable failure. The Tories im the some form attempt likely seCT devolution the on the norin. Dankinu ult SDLP confining itself to verba and at the same time Trotskyists : to 'Ulster- haughty to step up attempts are not ise' "the security vve

RUC

putting strencinened into the front line, while Catholic minority in the norti cosmetic with. and do makHiy support their drawals of British troops.

Such steps will do nothing to hand, against the British army resolve the crisis for the British the growing by workers whereby slalt the RCG) who see the Provision- increased polarisation and the military strength • reou als as the only legitimate leader movement puts a mititary ship the lican diplomatic solution out of struggle, we oppose them.

the question. wve ooin Irish workers, Provisional movement is a petty norin and face growing attacks on bourgeois nationalist movement, south, and living standards. which (as is so clearly Inet oos now Surveys predict 17% unemployment, th bases itself on defence and inde pendence of the working class bulk of which is borne by the Catholic population by the Provisionals to the Pope's Tens of thousands of work.

visit; its failure to even try. to (and class ing men workers all Catholic women) virtually ranks of the the are guerrilla movement; and its dis trade union movement. dainful attitude The trade unions care British working class. dominated by many case. Orangeism and fail to provide a forum where northern Catholics can fight their double oppres sion. dominated Those not such #usions in Orange forces have adopted th are 99 others who Stalinist/Official republican line of the Better Life for All Cam.

pai this is a jumble of utopian terrorists and murderers which abstractions • recoonisec • state both the sectarian Orange Britist the riaht of and the We britain government eoisiate this policy without condemn Republican reservation imperialism. Failure to do so movement any aiding struggle When Trotskyists While within the north must agitate recognise that trade unions supporters take up the issue official labour movement takes on added importance such workers have in une sol Irish Workers shown over and over • again their readiness struggle The withdrawal of troops. economic We which must Haughey cover nicil Lynch, nas merer tnat stepped up attacks on the forward this savagely class press The increased taxes. but cau -cracy has attempted to channel Irish militancy a reunification a peaceful cam- workers IntO paign on the tax system There automatic link Protestant the economic struggle Catholic-dominated betweet an o Protestant workers in the grip of north have Loyalism major essential that capable struggles on the economic front Such struggles objectively SOCIALIST PRESS. heiresto: Arr. 39. 1990.

British with workers conscious pro-imperialist, stanc imperialist taken i by their bureaucrati eader trade union and Labour Trotskyist party-to organ.

as a class-cannot necatu arrogant ecture. national chauvinism, but patient At each point where limited propaganda and agitational . Catholic and counter has been work designed to censored lies and provocation.

of the mass media, to expost the reality of the Irish war and used Ine the material to mobilise workers-in contlic with their • retormisi and Stalinist leaders-to oppose the the sectarian capitalist role of their own class struggle Britain the against press censorship, against the so-called ot rrevention Terrorism' Act, and in solidarity Faced with such a division with the long and bitter struggle not even-handed attitude. от Ine re buelican 'indifferent to the • Long Kesh and Armagn Jalt 10 of the restoration politica manda tenta prisoner status demands not nesitate cemocratic raised by our comrades in every , arms in labour movement body This is not just a propaganda In Britain, when confrontec task is to build a for left groups like campaign. Our rea mass anti-imperialist move will break the ment which stranglehold of the trade union anti-imperialist and Labour Party bureaucracres that illustrated We also demand selt-deter mination for the Irish people as a whole. This demand which ha We point to the capitulation revolutionary transitiona content against both the British and Irish bourgeoisie, cannot.be evaded by 'defending' the rights anything of the Protéstant workers in the more than individuals within a north. towards That would be not to defend but their their real interests, and reactionar conscIousness their allegiance to raisier ano extreme reactionary other

TOICES

But for every worker with call for self deter

NOT

Britain there mination for the Irish people as must mean to nave Decl and the bater sade she res right to 'self deter fact for the leadership, Protestan for the mination condemning the Provisionals as minority which was createa ar artificial majority by imperial- That is why the majority of While stressing the obligation.

our propaganda and agitation in ot the British workers move ment to assist its Irish brothers towards detenone uncondition must not shrink Torces agains. anu sistes from exposing the way in which condemns schooling •ot the armed forces in urban guerrilla as ob eclively imperialism against that warfare and mass repression !!

to the Bripose dring treati take British working class question of Ireland in the trade of the which faces now unions, and when Socialist Press and most battle-hardened brutalised armies all the the Labour Party, we clearly do advanced capitalist countries not pose as a precondition. that Labour bureaucracy, with assis The Tory. press bodies adopt a policy of ar Republic before tance from the right wing and they can demand the immediate state forces, have shown them- selves determined to witch-hunt 'however and even provoke volene put consistently against those …the struggle for solidarity with the cemane OUl and that when speakin Irish people on Ireland in the organisation o The answer to such witch- the working class we must makt hunts must be to turn into the it clear that we do not support deter- novelicit of Ireland based mined fiaht to broaden the bas of a a double exploitation of-support for the demands o "troop out noW" "self minority for the Irish determination In campaigning on Ireland in movemen Continued next week revolutionarie avoid the temptation to identify the backwardness of sections of

Why Communist Party backs Evans' betrayal

THE FIRST MAY DAY-

SOCLALIST PRESS, Wedresdai Apr. 31. 1759.

By Jack Davies At the very point when he has become most des- pised and hated by British Leyland workers for of their cynical sell-out Edwardes' struggle pay-and-strings package, Moss Evans has fallen back on the support of his most devoted friends-the Stalin- Communist ists of the Party. itself played a The CP has role crucial In tne betraval BL •the tace ot tne offensive. Party mem- bosses' in positions OOlS

NOIC

SC11UI

several BL plants-most notably the convenorship une cant Longbridge complex. Stalinis e oi tar with more Evans stereos than propaganda importance.

And emerged into tne the brazen most OnCTl TasAion. The day after Evans' capitu- BL negotiator lation cock-a-ksop. Triel iDaily Mail cock-: -noo• Lalry headlined Sureid r.*) " comolete The Sun waxed about "Mighty calatis cowardes The only contrary was поте daily stoming ae Stalinist As workers cursed the avone• a tne war cole ark the CP astoundingly proclaimed Evans deal to be a victory!

the headline "Climb- Under down General Leviand SaCN the Stalinist of Sheetmetal Secretary Workers union George Guy was quoted as saying: "This trade union for restoration victory the mutual Tr80e union

•. TIOIULS

agreement." Morning Star by attempting this up tollowec ot explaining the Thankies. away the fact that Ine whole capitalist was exultant Edwardes' victory. headline nder Lne stopped!", Sta

CAN

Ene declared: "How the esta• isnment each new period of the struggle of the working class movement it becomes to remind the necessary of the rising generation sacrifices™ which have been needed to set up our organ- and establish isations our rights. It came as a surprise to one his union of our members other week discover that nobody seemed to brated as international Workees why May cele- un e general oBulUl Was that it might have something to đo with fertility rites, Morris the beginning. of Baneun alu Spring, pence

COOO

explain that its origins really lie in a particular struggle norove workas conuluols and to express solidarity

WHEA

those who have .suffered • to maintain them. In 1884 'an obscure Amer- ican workers organisation by the Federation name and Organised Trade Anions issued a call tor a lega eight hour day. and for a general strike if this was not obtained

SOLIDARITY

Evans (right) with CP leader Gordon McLennan behind his shoulder The Star proclaims that, des- "hates to admit when its beat."!

pite the reports in the capitalist Descrinino Michae cowardes riding into town as in a Western pressLeyland the article goes on was STO0Ded that action-something night he united Thursday could bring Street not quietly, leet C00eG OUT

VOSSE

frightened off by the firm stand Tse T to admit. l of the trade unions." HOW ICtneV •escaoe Inese "facts"? The Star claims that would be

DUCI

following ignored the the an amusing of fiction if oiece subject matter were not kev Words a valts serious-the deal: deadly 'Subject to such resumption tion of union leaders in the dis- working mantling ot normal naro -won agree ments throughout BL nanv undertakes not to orocee‹ By John Docherty attempt to pay off a personal within two years. Many actions were initiated However, any careful consid- this call in the Iolo wing throughout the United eration of the case was imposs.

period individual ible at the time in States, though an atmos forced emoovers welc onert witch luli concede shorter hours, there hysteria built up by the press was no general legal change.

and exploited by the perioc the two-yea1 W 1cl SyStel came to an end on 1 May 188 ATTeT numerou talonand workers every part arrests eight men were found Preparia eo dn sti ko or were guilty so to obtain because they could have playec the eight hour day Dart In lie mclac Dul because they advocatea poncie.

which according to the policei Shot dead might have led to it. committed these ORlE In Chicago cucde ane

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omners wert least four . With the rope hanged in 1887 workers were shot dead as they his neck, on of them, around tried the entry of prevent August spits, uccrareu scaos uto alacloy evening of 4 May nere will ne a ime wen On the Lol aie the ores yor oaneit about 3,000 people gathered in the Haymarket Square in the centre ou towa to DroLest they were dispersing, the police, suddenly into the Not forgotten bomb went off and a cowu. kauina ceven boneemen of the To this day it is uncertain Sune stepping who let off the bomb, but the struggle for the eight hour day explanation is that the Haymarket most lkely martyrs were not forgotten.

The the exposon was tne woIk agent provocateur American reacrauon o1 sabout: But why has the CP engaged desperate each in such case a Tront odot to cover up tor evans sell-out!

The fact that on the Monday BL Senior following several •tewares inciudle prominent Stanists. were and decide what position Evans' sell-out: take wemner zo recomiena arelurn work. a OUE TONI against the company. Not mentioned The Morning Star significant- the vooes nor ever mention latter possibility. wrnae intention of fighting for such action. BL workers had stayed out it woulo. nave buled oressuri on CP convenors in plants not and Evans strike, exposed still further in the eyes of the workforce. By the fight 55 extending defence of trade unisel they

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Create con• ditions to bring out other anls CP has consistently T er tne oooser suen a persoective convenors meeting on April Robinson's Derek Jack Stalinist icolace ment at Longbridge, announee that he was telling his members to Edwardes' ulti- comply April and

TICLUTT

•-no matter What plant was doing! This was music to the ears o Evans TGWU leader andint ship. They wanted to posture as standing to the left of Duffy right the action announced in and the extreme wing WItn the statement to all emoovee.

Acersai-wne ar tre of BL Cars dated 16 April 1980 same time avoiding any .real to restoré all entitlements."

fight! and from DUL IIs Cualige Limited *he é cerl statement-wnicu hrea ontar ed thed to ching only applied those leaving the decision on whether or not to take a stand workers Wild f esunie normal working by April 23.

acalnst co waroe individual upport for tho se that simply and The clause quoted by the hoped out on strike ,they Morning star proves only that Cartic the company did not withdraw inal ine action wowle de wwter this threat: they only reworded and peter out. with those throughout the to • unions which most were ate aaed for hertier acin ut world who have lost : their live and livelihoods in the struggle call for further avtlvl emancipation of their There were no concessions Dv May 1890. cass 1889 when the Socialist (Second) iernauona was sel up, one of the first motions it passed called for action in every that Countly Ua. dlllle recuce • Ine working day Dy law to eight hours'. Stoppages Thus May Day work there stoppages were throughout are demonstrauons Europe and North A merica on this demand. gains the were reported from France, United States esewnert Only in Britain did the con: union leaders servative action on Icl ls lo mitiale all May Day ITSe lI instead for demonstrations over the following shame-faced This rather doubt oracuice partty responsible. for Tine TaCT few British workers now seem Karl Marx - put forward call know that May Day began in and solidarity for legal 8-hr day: Huilalll ablul Keeping Longbridge at work was vital in creating this hoped for demoralisation. But plan mistired Isolated action at Jaguar and at Common Plant at Ent onerDd Lane spread to rover ana. otne Soon 18,000 were out, a mass meeting planned for with Cowlev Assembly plant or the Monday Most of these strikes broke the out wner steps entorci veaad document of strings. The only plant where this document was withoul • StrIKE acliul was Longbridge-where workers on the Mini were laid off with.

out pdy In reality there was a grow- ing mood for action throughout which enormously sacking following made on the Wednesday what was tne resoons to this actual "unity in action" in Leyland? news o a nev re eoated the developing strikes •to small without comment, in the Morning Sta. for all-out AnG cals grew Longbridge, action Adams put the same position as leadership TIOnt another vital plant, une cowie. Body Plant. Mass meetings They argued mas and meetings, I its peak on the Wednes.

reacnec and i nursday sections who wanted to strike Moss hold their fire-since evans wa a•ovt o cal us dl out anyway" From that point on leading Stalinists Georgi

GUY

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began to argue in tavour ot in!

sell-out, since they recognised that the only alternative was an all-out battle with BL , Wanddt ment. Like Evans, the Stalinists the company is on the realise orink oi eanktuotcy And, like Evans, the reform- DolItIC. ot tne communis Party's British Road to Social offers 'only one way out of ism such a dilemma-concessions or the part of the working class enable the capitalist class to "viable" and profit- make BL able. This, garnished with a little left' about rhetoric closures, and under a barrage o demanos tol Imoort. contiols to protect BL against foreign com- essentially • Molltiuil, vva. put forward by Derek Robinson anotne OTa inist- ec .COmoit Committee in the ill-fated book.

let that provided the pretext fo nis victimisation lns came bankruot strateds has now led the CP to emerge as a crucial prop for Moss Evans at a. oolnt wnere nis oettayal a been widely recognised by shop floor workers. Offensive the current cantas crisis there is no way in which be a Llfcie lal istence" between employers anc workforce-as Con nucl offensive of BL management confirms. continuto existence o • n8 capitalism can be ensured only at the expense of the working clas: This Trotskvists reject the policy and perspec reformist leaders tives the and Communist Party, and tighi mobilises programme wnich working class defend struggle

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Wates ano wor Kine condition and the building of organisa tions that the ground for the overthrow of the ories ano capitalls , rule the taking of power.

In a sharp rebuff for both the employers and Genéral Secretary Sid Weighell, the national exec- utive of the National Union Railwaymen last week voted 21-6 to reject a staged 20%-with-strings pay deal.

package strings amounțs to a medium-size book 92-pagc document orouent forwara Dumanacement Its initial provisions include in manning and : extensive chance. CondutORs in freight, parcels and admini- stration. Weighell had emerged from the pay talks having agreed to of these proposals and assuring thal BR "will get their changes" But the

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Six months (25 issues). One year (50 issues) . NUJ pulls out of Press Council The NUJ conference, a ignore the decision to withdraw report of which 'appeared have consistently ignored the last week, took an impor- decision to refuse to use police tant decision to withdraw immediately from the Press LAST WEEK'S report of the Council.

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oppose repres During provincial news- sion wherever was found it strike 11 upheld a com The overall thrust the plaint against press ornicers wnc conference seriou! had refused supply copy to

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Central Branch, Tameside Trades Counch for " organising conference , but Ireland. NEC to were acreateo ILLy. proceed sith the NUs conteo instructed The union is now committed by October reporting on ence on censorship regardless oi proposals Ior alternative bodies the attitude of the TUC. to manole comoaints This • break with (which employers": body press passes) and to seek thei own representation on the Pres: of its leading Incudes as one Council lofficers Ken Morgan former General Secretary of the NUJ) Inton alco voter to strike action on May 14, and to Is an important one but repres defy legislation eroding ents only a halfway house The Union should establish Lanc a workers complaints procedure that it will accept no restrictions Coletive batermi otherwise on free 101 alls "impartial" between the owners A motion for the election of and the workers but which sets officials of clearly itself the target • was passed

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wa men neavyv amender tonezy ex vonne me cas roe o Lany and editor o ine aumen three capitalist press secretary, deputy Central London Branch officers (who are forever com- 10] cecnon-oy. posta balloffice holders over the age férence is "'undemocratic') have already warned that they may oi do are to de exemptea.

Abortion defended and fights against the culs backed The union also declared itself opposed to attempts to use the Olympic Games as anti Soviet propaganda the NUJ to A motion for PHOTO. Andrew Wiard. Report affiliate to the Labour Party was heavily defeated AS ition from advocates of a political' union the resolution opposed full time official Bob Norris who spoke as member of the lie long Labour Party" but : said that to put it out to ballot would be to weaken the union's credibility if it were lost. Not one of the Labour would-be. coun- counciors cillors and MFs present spoke in

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SOCIALIST PRESS. Heinesud: 30 Apri 1980 Chapple launches new witch-hunt

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PHOTO: John Sturrock, Repor Lobbyers oppose an earlier bureaucratic move-in 1977 That extreme right wing out consuration or te memocr Electricians union leader ship. another Frank Chapple has finally labour deal dispensed with even the last EnC vestige of union democracy hult 1s designea to nold is clearly demonstrated by the classic bureaucratic of the 2000- contracting "sparks' where wage shutdown levels cobbled strong Cardiff branch. again over the heads of workers.

Chapple's dictate atest It is through this Board thai flagrant contravention militants are of union rule 10) follows closely full knowledge the suspension Birmingham officials. Midland branch bers) earlier this year. surge defend their Hazard

WOIKCIS

Chappie lears a loosening oi the shackles in the EETPU and this Of course, the liquidation of struggle has been given militants into right wing-domin- ated branches and the albeit inadequately, in both the Cardiff and sion of ballot results, particular- branches. reject when thev cnaooe has always been an the Cardiff branch as "support- for union occupational the SWP" ing activists in the LEIPU. happle has always been tl be resisted by LEPIU members first UC leader to sacrifice h part ol members' living standards in the alternative within this hard-pressed union.

The "Concordat", inspired by Chapple and Basnett (GMWU) the last Labour govern- ment included: *Limitations on picketing rightAcceptance

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of secret

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ballots before strike action Public meeting *Pledges not to strike before

.LEICESTER

wage avais expir *Rejection of the principle "New leaders needed to of the 'closed shop'. defeat the Tories" At the very sharpest point in Wednesday May 7 at 7.30 last was Chapple Queen Victoria Hotel attire: it WiG threatened ballot

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Southampton Street effectively sabotaging _Leltester une sururgie dulu ulc ay clalll Again,/in negotiating private medical cover farthest Chapple has gone undermining the NHS.

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In the power industry, with- 'American type Report been mpo until Sturrock together, blacklistea, of union Undoubtedly, with the up- workers Drebarea to interests (steel- etc) Chapple ignore Chapple's latest union May demonstration, and voice, demonstation. instes et nora monier Birmingham but TIrSt STeD Towards Hence the witch-hunting, of general strike to bring down the Tory government. This attack must struggle, for leadership

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Co-sponsored by Leicester, Nottingham and Oxford Nursery Campaigns Saturday May 17 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Portland Building, Nottingham University Further details from Save Our Nurseries Campaign c/o 135a Mansfield Road, Nottingham.

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the fight grows of over 700. Nearly 300 parents and At that children demonstrated in urged the audience to march to Ealing on Saturday against taling Town Hall oI the Tories' decision to end to loin with the the provision of education The for the under-5s surenginened Over 3,000 children will be involvement of all trade unions affected, the number of nursery trades places will be halved (at •present the orough and 1,400 200 full-time and Parthe only councillor to speak vall time), teachers and ancillary workers will be made redundant af the rally was and classes will be larger ex-Tory turned where At the beginning of the vear parents affected formed a group councillors? called the Ealing Education The Labour verbally (E3-5AG) and at

LACTOR UTOUD

their first public meeting cus li ano wnen tney regalr March 6 they drew an audience control of the council. Leicester At Leicester on Tuesday Leicestershire April 22 meeting Dalen. called to form a Nursery Campaign against the pro- action par cille posed redundancies women's sub-committee of the council, nursery nurses, freezing of ancillary nursery places and closure serv ce : ana of some nurserias. and branch officers of NALGO Also the Speakers included Gill Black- well, from the Oxford Nursery Campae Save Carole support Ralph from nursery Nurseries Campaion in Notting.

the ham, Nick Butler from the NUT and West would take place. The Nightingale Lane has itself had Day Nursery is now in its centres closed down seventh week occupa tion, despite some setbacks 'Not fair' in having gas services turned off a few weeks ago. Last week the occupiers the occupiers soncito scored off Wands- point playing fair', worth Borough Council in of al Daces the Hien court—not cally arena renowned for sympathetic and quoting hearings for the working class to the prior decision was Act. round a legal technicality since The Judge the Council's legal advisors had solicitor that any fáiled to carry out the proper law procedure for securing an this ruling. eviction. . brief won The Council been highly •unlikely has ordered by the juage to relurt next Friday with the proper sion order. procedure carried out. the Tronicallv the Nursery occu occupation. piers were represented by the cave Wandsworth Resource Legal

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The Campaign : PTA meet- meeting the group parents to organise ings in ine week of May 14 preparation for an all-day vigil March 11 outside the Town Hall on May NU1 In thell While Campaign needs to be petitions and lobbies the parents musi are important active of wha terms start thinking in councils the take it al local Action must be taken now 1 it is not be too late to stop redundancies the 182 proposed ot teaeners mo tne bolouzn Pressure from the Campaign applied to

NUT

needs be Lalous know acmaname Group has! what they, together with other pledged to restore the public unions intend sector their sateguard aols members' jobs and services.

the

NALGO

contrast Cam- Nursery representatives were still seekin consultauons wil une coulu in the audience of over 70 on the proposed redundancies!

preople representing it was said, was not the group, instructing its members to sup be "unlikely to come out"!

teaching and staff from both social There be must many education nurserie. NALGO members wishing thei could decide on such questions NUT Division in instead of having it decided for Leicéstér had decided that day unem.

SUTIKE

TurIne Wa. form the Nurser May 14 and would be making planned to provision a major focus after hearing eNha Campaign that areas have managed considiol do Round one goes to Wandsworth sit-in Project-which because of cuts the same day 'was not legally a number of law represented and has not taken demonstra tions and events-nke gate crasil ing the Easter Parade at Batter- behalt of Wandsworth accused acting At the High Court on Friday their campaign (comprising and led by vicars) kept failing inform him that the legal techni and nuiser demonstallon dressed up as Wombles. woula ve usea in court previous Criminal Tre case case High Court • however statec The nursery occupation aware of the their calling for support on would have knowledge of demonstration Coordock on Siday 2 mayo Strand around Although the occupation has reprieve that the Judge Letters of support and dona tions should be sent to: •wil lai to glane tae reposses Nightingale Lane Day Occupation c/o Nursery contrast to the nursery London Nignenal Lant SW 12. Winstanler Library which was occupied on

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victimised On Tuesday afternoon classes of more thar staff were suspended for refus- while Eileen Crosbie, the ing to work nursery teacher in Notting- ham was facing a five hour the NUT which must be met by disciplinary hearing for action if refusing to teach an over- maintain even sized class, over 2,000 Tignung the cuts and detending teachers staged a half-day standards. The . and well over obviously willing to fight. Ove attended rally at the 40U scools voted tor action in Albert Hali in the City

SUNDOIL OF

Centre: been called lave The Chairman the oy one oy ine so-called said that he didn't want the "bogged questions concer nina _action - which could asked and answered at branch meetings!

Reinstatement After four months the NUT canine int member - ShIt OUt on al-out strike until Eileen Crosbie reinstated along with adequate Pulsely nurses was underlined when only three hours after the rally, the decision of Eileen Crosbie's nearing was unal sne was l0 De sacked Now the NUT is changing its strategy and calling for no-cover action in rimary aneseconcary schools if their classes go over a al tall dice. a yuestion on other teachers being suspended, NGA leader Wade Peter Kennedy stated that the rest of the staff in the school in such a situation would be asked to "retire to the staff room".

Weakness The tact that manadement are more than ready to cash in on such a show of weakness was

CUICKIY

Unti headmaster suspension OT tne and the whole staff of Brinsley Primary School. The head was suspended for retusing to warn statt ot disci- action if they implemen. out deal has been drawn up ted the for policy which could end the strikes at Browns Radford which have been the most solid focus of opposition to BL management's new pay PHOTO: Chris Davies, Report and conditions package. to sack ine strikers, has remained solid over the week BL pulled threat SaCK and extended the Monday, bureaucracy UHUl the problem for them. National Strike The prospect of a national strike defence who would have to was obviously NUT leader Jarvis management and union officials

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Notts teacher "action' committee. 30. The The refusal of the NUT to without the head- lead this struggle in Nottingham is an echo their refusal ¡ nis is a tronta challence to determined fight the union is to were as in Avon and otattoro the where the membership is plain.

pretence • ly ready to take action.

Resolutions should be passed membership in 'loca oranenes and sent to demanding national Grosbie's sacking but against all Eileen Crosbie-but out only one cuts ama new erects on education. print About 45,000

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printers have been locked out since Monday in frontal assault on their union rights. provincial , 1 he orinters-m newspapers, publishers

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and general nominally locked out for • and limited action over this year's pay claim. sacking threat As we go to press a sell- wished to prepare for whether reaucing ine num pers on strike or by pressuring a return with no Work and Jaguar weekend, talks Plante 'ove the were held involving all the stew prepared or able to turn up to tael. Throughout Saturday and listened to Jaguar Sunday ther Despite management threats management repeating the same the dispute last previously -an "independent the new grading back Ine uly Into from their system wednesday In the face of management deadline pressure, union officials hoping that the trade accept- eventuals able to get couldsolve ance of a statement, the crucial of which read paragraphs as follows: result of these dis cussions and the progress made, the trade unions have agreed to hundreds cal or eliter Tuesday April all sackta emboyees back report in sometning DoTh endeavour to secure a return to Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, BM Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX. Printed by Anvil Printers, London Registered as a newspaper with the Post Office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist League can get. Lock-out in the working class. JOCK OUt • W1T7 offensive in steel, in the cuts:

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minimum basic wage of £75 a Industries Federation and week with a minimum earnings level of £80 a week. Ivewspaper Dociely are launch ing a major challenge to demar- and addition traditional grip on employment demanding ine alsoute nas ne borenua • to develop quickly into an all- April 1981. out attack on the NGA closed shop. It is therefore critical which management are demand- importance to every print union and whole oraliseu Dy lie luA leadership work. one hand. In the light of the above, the prepared company who oppose the sell-out formula for. and who will be fighting agaihsi acuval betters those employees in dispute who a return to work at Tuesday's do not report for work day/Tuesday April 28/29° The events dispute 1 s or sons coar coere

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commitment to a direct local level have posed centrally 1S no the question of leadership to return, seeing that statement Klanarchil over the ouagea not one inch trom wha was previously offered. more the need for new leaders and new policies throughout Return against the sive. That said, it is clear that the *As we go to case tor a relun to work wil of forcefully argued at Tuesday's shop workers mass meeting Body By Monday morning how. sunke over manacement s imoos ition of the 92-page document ever i was cear that ne mass hich officials "back work" working deprives them of their sogging were predicting had failed to materialise money and They have not fixed to meet I nose attempting to through the again prolonged would halt been counted on the fingers of production. FUND-step up fight Both the monthly fund and the special fund continue to come in at a very slow rate. This is particularly worrying in the case of the monthly fund as there are only a few days to go to the end of the month.

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from have already been conceded outside if the NGA had not done so within a month. The employers are now demanding that the union take *As part general have been sacl sacked following strike in support of a vage clain The journalists work fo Magazines witnin the group and for Butterworth and Hamlyn book publishing subsidiaries the issue This will help those stewards leadership has stood them in the although face lock Out

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confid- Call have ence in their leadership The should call throughout the immediate strike of the Whole natona and the 1o ding employers quickly to their knees. drawn The lock longer the weekend snows once Ine greater • Wine tre for workers incentive management offer full protection to scabs to Tory-backed offen total cowork in an attempt lo break the NGA closed shop: NGA members will have press, paint struggle of the break BL's Cowley bureaucrauc noo orine union Plant have walked out or leadership to turn the struggle onto the offensive Picket lines must be made which effective and aemana support from other workers. lock-out com- mittee must be sei stoppag oramate CIne Maxi and Princess strings must be removed from the agreement.