Socialist Press no. 197

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Affiliated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee

STRIKE!

The strike action by thousands of workers that will take place on May 14 will be a blow in the eye for Len Murray and his fellow TUC bureaucrats. Murray argued from the start that the only "action" the TUC wanted on May 14 was a few lunch-time meetings. Indeed these leaders do not want to defeat the Tories; they simply are aiming to pressurise the government into a change of policy. Their most ambitious demand is for Thatcher to "open the door of Number Ten" to a suitably obsequious delegation of TUC bureaucrats!

The reality is that these same union leaders who time and again argued in favour of wage controls and against strikes to prevent cuts and closures under Callaghan-supposedly in order to "save the Labour government" -are equally dedicated to saving the Tories from the anger of the working class.

The ranks of the through their pickets. In other National Graphical Associa- increasingly shocked tion have been back into

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action 21 years produced by managements as a after the last national stop- page in the provinces. The national lockout declar-

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The printers have ed by managements trom the stripped away Printing Industries British Federation and the Newspaper membersnio sumo as inousands of jobs have gone Society Ilas uncasnea a mut. largely without a struggle.

ancy that they had not expec ted from the rank and file of the membership Isolated Carlisle Wolver- From hampton brianton brinters have been struggling to prevent been have scab newspapers taken struggles

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 197 * 7 May 1980 * 20p

ALL OUT MAY 14!

FORCE A

GENERAL

Throughout the 14-week steel strike, TUC leaders brushed aside appeals from the Welsh TUC and steel strike commit- tees and actively fought to prevent the spread of strike action to other sections, which could have led to a full-scale general strike against the Tories.

Union leaders have blocked struggles in defence of jobs and conditions in British Leyland: and they have sat back tamely as the Tory hatchet men demolish services, health, housing and education. With Prior's anti-union Employment Bill now cruising through Parliament, the TUC's verbal opposition to the legislation has been shown up as a fraud by decision of the AUEW to take Tory che to run postal ballots. The TUC leaders are not alone in opposing working class action to bring down the Thatcher government: this is provinces. But the effect of 21 years peaceru coexistence nave taken their toll and in many centres astriounon Tact sneets pickets have gone up, other propaganda weapon against the secuons or workers nave ocen told to continue reporting for work and chapels have failed to past years link up their struggles seen their skills The managements have beer They have seen meeting divisions within them own ranks. Some senior officers to the wall- of the BPIF have not locked out their own orme snoos. тле еттестс от тле interim settlements that rival managements have signed ine battles or meet street he toughest stand has been reflected taken by the Newspaper Society which has long been among the *

ME BUTS

also the position of James Callaghan and the Labour leadership, have consistently argued for workers on reelecting simply a Labour government in five years' time!

At the same time Callaghan and his shadow cabinet-right and "left' wing alike-have refused to pledge themselves to reverse the Tory cuts in public spend- ing. This is because they can see all too clearly that the Tory attacks are driven on by a mounting

CISS

engulting capitalism at home and abroad.

The last Labour government responded to this same crisis with a succession of Tory pod ass empire wage controls mass unemployment-the very policies that opened the door for a Thatcher election victory last May.

know they would do just the Iney They would do the same same again. because they face the same stark choice: either attempt to manage and reform' a bankrupt and decaying anarchic capitalist economy, or take steps to mobilise the working class in action to overthrow capitalism and establish a planned socialist economy. vanguard of emplovers federa Shropshire Star. tions committed to a decisive Newbury, blow against trade union organ- refused isation. Dabel Dul suspended. Suspended The lockout was expected to reveal a deep division between nad on its own account the union leadership, which had

DUT

called a programme of selective against the employers, from within the and the membership-which the ranks. employers calculated was ready Minorities of NUJ chapels

NGA

and either suspended members to settle refusing to cross picket lines in Carlisle, Wolverhampton Inside: The crisis of working class leadership

PAGES 5, 6, 7, 8

FIGHT THE CUTS

As a reformist leadership, tied hand and foot to capitalism, there is no doubt as to the choice of the Labour and TUC bureaucracy: this is why they are sacrificing the interests of the working class to the interests of private employers.

The Tories could be defeated.

The working class, given leadership, has the power to bring production to a halt and drive Thatcher from office.

What scares Callaghan and Murray is that feeling this same power would give workers the confidence to drive out their present right wing leaders, test out those who posture as "socialists", and move forward to the establishment of a genuine workers government prepared to implement socialist policies.

That is why Murray wanted only lunchtime stoppages. And that is why even while fighting each area develop action against the Tory attack, we raise the demand on the TUC leaders to call a General Strike to bring down the Tories. Only the exposure of the existing treacherous leaders of the working class, linked to the construction of a principled revolutionary leadership, can offer a way forward to the working class.

and Oxford. At

NUJ

members have work ally scal not been nave Slade has given support and now nas more mempers suspen ded for refusing to cooperate with scabbing than it has ever the biggest blow against the NGA membership has come trade union NGA leader Joe Wade NATSOPA and SOGAT both £80 minimum earnings submitted joint claims with the claim SOGAT will immediately then advised their submit a differential claim and NoW DI neys nas Issuea: Continued p.11, col.6 statement that if the NGA win

Bolivian TUC leader signs deal with army chiefs Students fight Chilean unions

-INTERNATIONAL

In what must surely be one of the most explicit acts of rank treason in the post- war history of the workers' Juan Lechin, movement. general of secretary the Bolivian COB (TUC), has made a written pledge to the armed forces

COB

"will not seek socialist government." In return for this the armed forces have agreed not to stage a coup oust bourgeois regime of Lidia Gueiler. 1his infamous pact far sur- other betrayals passes ally forged by wretched Lechin his 3j-year Cartel as a caul bureauc a one i most militant proletarian forces of the world established a record that makes his European appear mere novices The decision to capitulate on the central programmatic issue of the since its loun 1952, Was Taken any reference whatso- ever to the rank and file and yet another Lechin's from the working class, a process that has favour been accelerating since the democratic attempted

LOUD

colone Alberto Natusch last November.

the rebel soldiers. French racist laws During the last week uni- most of them from versity are staging campuses in france around been have turned into the Bonnet and Imbert laws' battle ground against the racist laws recently intro. duced Giscard students at Grenoble. by the Coinciding, government. In mid-January, changes to job tants existing immigration laws. drawn 4 0y (nusuan bonnet vasilies Concenacu (the Minister of the Interior) were enacted, giving effect that the above anyone considered to constitute a bical to pupac oroer could turner entry French renused Projet territory and that anyone tenement ted in France who was consid majority ered a public threat or whose ilve. papers were lor any or a number of reasons "irregular' could be Racist wardens deported. state in the form to the Projet gone this is now tightening. up site of struggle, Dole. organisationally on immigration unis, piganisea into tneir own Residence replacing the residents' Work r ermis ano Permits by a single card.

conditions This card will have to be tenure against. the large renewed every year and renewal panies that own the tenements, and their racist wardens.

call oc cruse• on a number ot including insufficient grounds Urnanc or irregular income, ill health, suerstaen more six than tenement owners, through legis- lation, ployment, and Inreat to public against the order. committees. What has particularly I me sparked off the revolt on the Communist campuses is another law how bureaucrats of the Decrete Imbert of unions of course offer no lead ever. February which imposes wnatsoever in these struggles stringent criteria Tne anu cannot study in rrance.

wist and turn they do all the can to derail the Hunger strike placus Inemselves urmiy on the side of immigration controls.

In its effects it is similar to The vital the Tory increases in fees for these struggles overseas students in Britain.

through joint action committees Universities and for the fight for supporting utenobie Caen. strike action to kennes, Lyon, Nice and rans legen confrontation with the bureau- students, Inen Lechin was forced to However, the miners union call a general strike but managed

(FSTMB)

relused to heed the to call it off after eleven days in call work, • ol negotiations condemned the between sectors' (i.e. the and continuca bourgeois political parties) and their wich resuited removal of Natusch five Ine Open Letter from CODES (Chilean Committee for Trade Union Rights). The CODES wishes to draw bout fierce nepreen in the • overseas hunger strike demand Chilean universities The students of the State Technical University

(UTE)

a move to cooronate inese been holding actions has now been made by mcclues ana crectme tner dele • democratic way over as they do, with gates in a a considerable period. ovec urers accid these Intimidation actions have paralysed the uni- authorities On top of the three laws The university spring session of the appointed by the dictatorship French parliament has before it have refused Droposed measures. Ene stunt eduels or the student Ornano, relating to the Centres the From start these of migrant students have been the target of workers all kinds of intimidation by the "security services' of the above university. *Towards the end October the student centres For years these have been a decided to organise a 'cultural where the resi week', The authorities forbade the holding of these committees, have denied the fighting for decent living university and threatened with students Will com- attended them. *Despite these threats and intimidation, attendanc seeking figure was close to of the The hand thing which Ene indomitable will of the students to seize their rights. Ivolucies *The authorities reacted by the suspending Lia Kola: Party nicaruo campos liwo studeni the main trad Centre leaders), for six months despite themselves in favour of discus pamphlets threatening another two student leaders have also been circula- UDOUS LIOn ted. *This thing for general senic and student orel ations and De demo- to solidarise with the struggle of taken up in rights and for thed that the rights debtee or Nolember 19 vich demand colleagues open tions for a takeover Soldiers fire on crowds in La Paz days later. then the weakling, Since late tast unelected Gueiler launch has lived in daily crisis and con- survivous unc another 'hard- stall IrOm line' coup Christmas Natusch's mander Garcia's because reinforcing pact Inal kepi power for most of the 1960 This was call for help rowing peasantry Last Monday uration Lollowing before taking power. Rank and Ions or ne extensive and taken the form the tees in throughout the countrv set up to tional democrac a real threat to imperialism they are organised of strike action, alive baysicar resistance Accordingly, Garcia ambassador Marvin Weissman, Pinochet arbitrarily two students should also be alert to question of the safety o Ine student leaders. CODES-France Write Senor Eugenio Reyes Tastest Rector de Universidad del Estado Tecnica President (UTE), Santiago, Chile. ministerial Tunisia of ment minister have relaxed

DONT LET TURKEY

the threat of

BECOME ANOTHER

resulting

CHILE

vacuum created A Workers Socialist League sudden ousting Pamphlet Nouira-prime minister for the last Price 30p including p&p From WSL, BM Box 5277, tated by a stroke. London WCIV 6XX These new the conditional trade umol eaters since the general strike have been hailed observers as signs of an impend- seei way back to seato pred had barged By taking this step Lechin has not only suDDressed staging prepara- essence of the COB programme he has also shown the military Chich, General Cuis Garca Meza Commander that the Bolivian working class IS led by people ready to eo to a close any or Natusch, was salc week to be tion-the tharacks coud hot Mave : "a real pinochetazo and flores hoped for better encouragement the November to take to their tanks coup when he was army. com- Garcia made this absolutely clear clique watche went onto state nelo back blandly that 'civilians are incap- lack of 'inter- able of ruling Bolivia'. Of course US dill •Gueiler for was unex pected bonus army in only a few weeks ago that the biggest demonstration considered an Seen lution Pade ince the 952 Paz since the 1952 absolute necessity in view of the radicalsation ol the at the murder of Luis Espinal.

the editor of the left-wing paper the senior Aqui, by Garcia's death squad.

best The strength of this mobilis- strategy would be to wait until ation had impressed the army 6 August, the date of the inaug and frightened the bourgeon. president politicos.

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elections, June It should also have served a warning to Lechin that file organisation working suffer class will not aganst lic coup mene DIstIou traitors. year has been aulnot capitulation, as a time-servin 'Commit- ally of bourgeoisic and Defence of Democracy collaborator in the imperialis designs for consulutiona These committees have been Lechin must the constitu- purged from the : COB and the

FSTMB

along with all lackeys The interests of the prolet- the basis directly opposed allal of bourgeois democracy • DIOCKaUCS anO the class must allt WOTKing same the build its offensive against dare se Caving the calendar for and his cronies forces of the right on the basi of programme US ast assador tike the naz, pourer sat proposit capit had a privat. popular front which, in whatever guise, is meeting with Lechin to trv and the quickest and surest road to a tind an acceptable compromise massive and bloody defeat.

There is no doubt that he got Tunisia gets new PM Bourguiba's ing 'liberalisation' of the regime reshuffle in anu Has malnly served to clear and the appoint- up Bourguiba's image abroad.

new Facade prime Mohamed Mzali But the liberal' facade is less than momentarily deep The recen

SKIN

execution of 14. "mercenaries' instability who took apart in the from the power backed Gafsa has by the brought about several condem- Medi of nations humanists and liberals western extremely embarr- decade-incapaci- anu proved •assing for Bourguiba's apolog appointments and His face can осте ver only be preserved in the absence imprisoned serious particle opposition. of 1978 The scope such public rela- by Westerr tions work is therefore extreme- Iv Emited.

EMPLOYERS BALE OUT OF

NICARAGUAN JUNTA

Letter: Don't get us wrong.

• SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 May 1980

INTERNATIONAL'

Renewed imperialist threats and the upsurge in political mobilisation throughout Central America as well as in Nicaragua itself have obliged the petty bour- geois FSLN rapidly to con- solidate its political control in Nicaragua. This has led to first the FSLN's MaIOT

SCOTSH

alliance with the bourgeoisie. week the millionaire member of the ruling Junga resignco ms post, rapidly following in the foot- conservative Steprehead Violet Chamor steps Chamorro Hert house Panama; but Robelo intends to continue the political defence of the domestic vavildi cratic Movement (MDN) which practically its leader's Gullall miraculous conversion 'sandinismo" in the early months of the revolution. exasperation with Robelo's the youthiul guerrilas reacnea peak when the MDN was 47 given only one seat on the Nicaragua's new unelected legis- nominees from the Sandinista "came into being' lature which Defence Committees (CDS's).

on 4 May 1cic Call The FSLN has taken only six that the counci wit tow the seats for itself-but has packed line of Sandinista leaders Ramirez, the new parliament with Borge, Hassan,

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cheap mead will be provided at lunch time and there will be drower rare ananament creche racines Robelo and Chamorro with FSLN's Ramirez and Panamanian President Royo Wheelock and others. Ped selling who has recently his extensive become capital holdings and voluelodi "enterprise" defence 180,000 ors in of us in the Italy Call altil throughout propaganda countryside. There no doubt that, following the example of Cub: (which has heavily supported the campaign), the FSLN leader- literacy Trader as a major weapon both to strengthen its and the disparate presence sun arcely uncontioncu antry (which continue to derive leadership principally from there is the priesthood since vast slotlant 1ud and trators) and to aiscipine militarise the youths who have gone to teach them to read and But Robelo's departure was not spurred by mere individual It comes at a time when domestic bourgeoisie encouraged by US imperialism increasingly coming into con- will apparatus. Dear Comrade Editor, As authors of the document on the rebullding or the rourtn International referred to in the the WSL report on conference 194. we Tee Enal number of impressions talca of the report and brevity Const quenty mistedoing presentation of our positions. we should point that since the docu ment was not vote o nor was intention of the authors It tne that it should be, then there was no test as to whether it only had the support or a smari minority ot comraes' Our purpose was to direct the movement towards a consid- eraton or tre alriculties in oul which 0acT we have ourselves been directly responsible for formulating.

impression * ne secono talse which could be taken from the SP is that our purpose was to precipitate an immediate and orocess forces of the TUSIOn with the Parity trust that those outside our ranks will not be deceived into the notion Barricada, the FSLN paper, has been publishing large bers of stories about sabotage and export of capital by entre- and exhorting the CDS's and the CST (the FSLI controlled trade union they nave information or inis A wave of factory occupa- 's takt is reace-edy place-and tions maustral up by 20%. No sowing But ine cotton and conee growers have deliberately held ack from sowing in March and

HOIL.

alu LICe lave eggs great shortages of. beans.

with many traders indulging in speculation industrial dispute maol has developed in La Prensa, the liberal do yamily owned by the Chamorro who have pro-FSLN

DUSICS.

manager with the result that the workers came out in demand of his reinstatement. dispute politically important in an is or se is making it an issue of dom of expression" and COSEP, that there is a section of the WSL which completely ignores ine weaknesses ano errors or ine positions the

• OCRFI,

the

LTT

and the Bolshevik Faction!

What we were aiming at was to provoke a long hard look at world

ILS

history. We consider unar we must look at the consequences of the overt degeneration of many oi fragments the ot the Tormer International Committee. It for us to draw some necessary from the way in which the WRP is now by the forces and/or the Stale

CAL CITIC

riaht in its attacks on the revolu.

tionary movement, from ow the Spartacists have trans- verted WOrKETS dangerous activities rhetr provo is no longer possible for

US ITE

LIC you kind of 'linear таке •any view of the development the world Trotskyist Pabloite positions today are taken by Page 3 In response to this the FSLN capitalists' Nicaraguan the plans organisation, pushing 18 Lilt

SUCCULI

the Press impose controls take up the case unions, using the CST to isolate Association to independent bodies. and banana support from Washington. Dockers. susal Sandinistas are not, recentl workers

CST

however, only exerting pressure integrated into the and agreement has been made on the bourgeoisic integrate further confederations escalating been their attacks on independent tnose previously allachel to lile working class organisations. to Christian Democrats and and imperialist

ORIT

form equal - degree, single body-Unidad Sindical manner typical or a petty bout bonapartist The FSLN has adopted geois regime attempting to hold foreign Sorrors it domestic oscillatises that closely desperately check capital Inseas whie at the came time mobilisation for full social financial aid ing I01 has entailed simultan- economy eous missions to imperialist ano Closed down workers states Fraternal relations' with Cuba Cuba ree or marian by have matched At first the attacks on independent organisation were directed largely against the Maoist Frente (FO), oil concessions. This pragmatism very the paper of which, much in the Same vein as that was closed down and members

FSLN

the arrested for being 'counter- practised bi • In It$ revolutionary sparen for ales perore tre over throw of Somoza The first phase of repression But while the leadership may came last Uctober, the secon March when of be al necessary one over tas FO were accused of being CIA pluralism it 1s coming considerable pressure from the hacked itself to

FSLN

rank and Now similar charges • are being made against members of provide патенна anu imperialist struggles in Central and its the Communist Party particularly union front-Central de

(CAUS)-

Unidad Sindical Dalvauvl than a score of arrests Borge has been obliged more reprimand members have been made and concerted 1 for leaving the Sandinista arms ettorts are neing made to unsi the fight alongside off CAUS for good. There doubt that the no aa covernmen to con demn major 'international CIA are alive and overworked in communist and Managua relations between endeavouring divide the further soul workers' movement. Mange no waston Yet Borge has restricted him- charge of aiding Lint self to the US about "warning imperialism becoming little 1S more than a formal gesture to interventon clearly insufficient action even suppression of the for his own troops working class. It is clear that the course of The Stalinists in Nicaragua record better events in Nicaragua is closel have a than no bound up with the struggles in of their thal counter alls Salvador and Guatemala in but TA e of CAUS-led strike 2,000 particular factory workers for a pay cold mined milies as imperialism Carter's war last month reflects the very rea searches ressure on the recue hom tat working class. desperately for means to main- The FO itself, although small tain its offensive constant threat from The departure of Vance may and under well the hawks of sugar workers' strike and even rotaton more Sal 101 bile the Sandinista-sponsored recions in entral America. bu will force the bonapartist

(ATC)

held FSLN regime into an increasing maior demonstration to cema formal expropriation of land will be incapable of extracting 'intervened' after the overthrow itself. who the past Spartacists. those opposed them , in the WRP, the Only by beginning a discus- and the American sion

SWP.

wider implications of the facts Our attitude towards the the development of world world Trotskyist movement will it possible Trotskyisn or the wor to avole une sectar ian pitfalls to which we have to ot carping criticism so beloved some extent succumbed • in the of with acknowledgement We surenetn or organisations remai entirel convinced that the enormous with which we may nevertheless strengths of the

•WSL

and Thus we must frankly unparalleled and assert I proven ability of the arcal acmievemen

TOT

leadershi. nobody working will and else chas best building an international developed such Trotskyist movement. We must discussion. Only in this way can accest ine mal cuestions or ame The oreat coins nowine trom the development the Fourth setting of the Trotskyist International, including the Commit- International s times,, canal lakes tee be develoco mo a mao and step in the resolution of the TRIs time between the Parity Commission of the world Trotskyist and the USFI. mowere Yours fraternally Unly by discussing the impli William Booth cations of these incontrovertible facts can begin we John Mahon to understand, tor example, the ente oncole oenavour o comrade Pat Hickey and other

ING

members current Layland struceit and conscious wrecking antics of the

... put Labour on the spot Special Conference: Callaghar's Page 4 Voters reject Tory cuts

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GANG

A tough week for figure- dignitaries with endless supply of nodding 'The Dutch sweaty hands royal outstretched and over dressed family handed over the wives at the for propul ready baton from mother into the Royal Dresence DUll daughter as police fought a "Wisely she has brought the pitcherd battle with some of Duke who is somehow able to and Amsterdam's thousands of

ELLEICSI

mountains home less outside. German and obviously Meanwhile Queen Elizabeth delighted to be in country -who to Switzerland which he would probably des- "because she has not been here as paving Its lngen 'Wel and truly out. lt une words Press Officer-was whisked past "The last strike was 35 years the obedient masses with seems permanent lectry bonce escort como anne that she was being driven too training for a Duke Edin- frist burght ward, or war," receive her proper safe ruper

STICKS

ground being more cutting I his nas not been good copy for Fleet Street. Monarchs about the Swiss than their para- supposed to safe sitic visitors. Telegraph published a pages of turgid homage-a proot picture of a British Army out Inal tne masses sull nave proper respect for authority. Ireland' being The Daily Mirror in a fit of unfurled in front of the Queen daring turned John Pilger loose 2100 complained That OVe. zealous police and circling heli- or me weens our or switzer land. Complete with copters had "added intensity to Jokey captions ("Swiss picture role: what pleasant Ulliciwise d 'he Vueen inspects the ever visit to a nice country".

ready Army piece by Colin ot switzerland'i personal Pilger poked fun at the spec- Welch in the Telegraph took up tac The Swiss have made her the cudgels on behal of Oueen Beatrix of Holland. feel at home. There are dogs and expressed horror at the riots and puttit horses here, too, and a seeming- put it Under from pressule Labour and trade union activists to step up the fight against the Tories, Labour's NEC has instead decided to stage a one-day rally on 31 May the misleading valve "Special Confer- title ence of a "Conference" will be

ARTES

contronted with 2170 largely meaningless resolution drawn

NEC

clearly and eagerly endorsed by expansion of the reform and capitalism. No amendments or counter- llve years of mass resolutions will be allowed.

unemployment under Wilson/ the Weekly has governments, Callaghan admitted, the resolution,

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puffs of anti- claims that "the restoration and capitalist rhetoric: maint highest priority no new policies. the Contains though areas are the next Labour govern- toughened. some

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ment" * After essential unanimity the 1IC collapse berween WIll Curitius Callaghan leadership introcuced under supposed left' wing opponents pledges once again to introduce on the NEC has been exposed in a comprehensive powerful system of price controls' statement 10 U gamely of upon socialist policies but upon lalking Widespread Labour gains and the council syn Labour even Labour in last week's local author- Bradford saw ity elections amount to take control. instances the vote clear evidence of the anti- an explicit rejec- Tory mood in the working non or lie rory boncy diessa class, and the widespread Heseltine Environment Secretary cutting spending to the Thatcher opposition in order to hold down rates government's cuts in public : Tory counci n reston une spending. had actually cut the rates-only The to thrown out of office to Labour pared with last May's General and other areas even recton was some so ona 4u c Tale mcreases even announced during the campaign this would enough return Labour to deter solid Labour government in a general election

WILIE

bit its cute car unlal l predominant vote was for social priament Major setbacks for the Tories and education services Labour of rather included loss the Tory aralis wuld showpiece than COnITO endorsemen and rents paid by the city of swingeing Tory cuts- Labour's policy of jacking Birmingham, Glasgow and Aber- the rates Worcester acen. worke Class Labour for the first time ever: The next few months will be Un what basis vou cal paigning in the local elections in Leeds? I seconded the resolution moved by Neil Taggart calling upon the Labour Group on the council to in oppose all cuts. I made clear my secon•ine soeech Enal i also down to the folly of monarchs, opposed rate rises. From this abdicating at all. came the campaign in resolution District Labour against ine cuts mourned the fact that: What have the cuts been like in Allsterudi was Leeds? extent handed over dangerous scruffy, dirty rabble, C1S- affected youth, to a not exactly TacHutes worse retiring gentle police services and the lowest eouca tion expenditure per head of the once mu to lema major local authorities, Lord His carried out old fashioned and orange.

Bellwin has already fashioned and Orange) the bolicies which oiner oca authorities are beginning to the Telegraph's carry out. leader writer who described the response to both royal events a Now the Labour Party social olecoed "Who are these DINk services and education. purple haired monsters with In particular pledged have Apache hair cuts who education oroviet sprung zoness, of •laces on cemano ano a massive There appears to expansion of day care facilities Yobintern which assembles are at the moment only and then moves various nasties available to the most deprived the chara' load, to the them. by Tamries. we aso niene to dou point of attack. more money to help the inner sive is no response at all. Tould *The response should city areas and the elderly.

Where is the money going to the least deprived people in the Come Tome world." Leeds has received rather all central The Telegraph closes, as •more money from good Carces monared. should, appeals for more has a very low level of services authority. Anti-royalism sounds George Mudie, the leader of the like a death knell to its tender ears. safety "international agreement" stake-and a degree of control' over various industrial sectors. This amounts to little more than ColourS Callaghan/Wilson-style nationalist trade war and class collaboration with government cash handouts pledge private employers manufactured allow a section headed imports to continue to destroy [!] industries and jobs "Poliev for Peace the resolu calls tion, tongue in cheek, condemns for extending the Soviet invasion of Afghanis and planning public ownership the economy' the while-with lan will a meme and Hypocrl- Dived orse Dande 1095 Фес aon он respect the rights of all sections peo in endle determinicho -studiously avoiding any réspect which of Teense major industries or the banks. course success ve Labour leader Instead restricts itself to ships and governments have "significant to extend to the Irish public refused

SCALLE

a test of the willingness of the newly elected Labour cillors then anti culs woras into practice with a Tory government hell carryli demolition of social services.

Battle plans Despite Tory press reports of Labour "drawing up battle the basic line of resis Plaits • Tance to

CUTS

law will remain unchanged-and it is a line avoids the neces- full-scale confrontation sal with the i natcher government rarty members must not cast u The demand

NO CUEST

increases" "Bring down the Tories" must be struggled for as araulsi LauUu. Socialist elected in Leeds victory Socialist Press supporter GARTH FRANKLAND has just been elected Labour councillor for Chapel Allerton ward in Leeds Cedric along with Clarke and Neil Taggart. He spoke to us just before the elections. Labour Group expects to be able to carry out his pledges without too much conflict with the But think tha results or Clegg and the rapidly rising inflation it will be impos- the most sible to achieve even modest excausion vito chor mous clashes with central Tory government. The new laws the Tories are bringing in to restrict local cover nment willot usce against us. Central therefore local defence must be a struggle Tory government the and tor its removal What is the position of the other candidates to your above POSItIONS Both Neil and Cedric have said that they are determined that position the present Leed Peersec and means a fight for the removal o the Tory government so be it people in their ongoing struggle for national liberation. As an exercise in tub-thump- ing, and anti Do wille Toryism the Special Conference will undoubtedly the Labour leader- success

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sens winose document Will inevitably be endorsed But, as the NEC has already decided, as a basis for hammer- socials policy for full-scale mobilisation to bring down the Tory goverr ment it is a non-starter Far "Peace, offering 1101 Jobs • 2300 working class, the conference SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 May 1980 Thatcher if left to their councils which, will undoubtedly devices

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quiet by simply placing the bill for maintaining even existing inadequate services working class What Tories in Leedsposition of the • the They have gone wild because they are due • to se bower They have issued Labour Parey leafler the accusing being Tull or marxists ana com- May Sexton, a former coun cillor and a former supporter o Anglo-Rhodesian Society the has called for the expansion of Chapletown Police Station 10 area especialv in the lower enc of the ward which is a heavily mixed area What is the position ot othe "lett organisations! • The Communist Party have stood a candidate against us but orward ally oro gramme for expansion or how to deal with the Tories called Resistanc has put up some candidates other areas of Leeds fighting against the cuts and for a slidin scale of public expenditure-bu nev too tall to present a porc against central government.

The political division came out clearly recent Leeds called by and

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rade Council. The Marxist International Group defended a formulation main called for 'occupations to stop and delay closures'. The and defeat nece i LO amendment which I supported to delete the words 'and delay' resolution expresses * the desn of leadership preserve their own peaceful co- existen ca own well-heeled and influential freedom jobs and their own interests of their rank and file in The absence of the slightest challenge to such policies from Tine NEC confirms that a constit alternative Callaghar be developed in the wal ship in the workers' movement.

The Working Class and its Leadership. 1: Wages For all the Tory attacks and plans, the most powertul Tacto and the working class is the treachery of 1s own tae unon a Lawoul leaders. Initially under the guise of "saving the Labour govern- masked by a ment ano now smokescreen of anti-Tory dema gogy, these leaders have worked back hold unceasingly lu isolate struggles InaT nave erupted. Their success in this has been greater in some respects than in otners. on wades.

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the Thatcher government came office during a comparative "lull on pay after the winter's serve er no ero co "going rate" for settle- ments. It was not until the autumn of 1979, therefore, issue of wages came to the tore bearing all the hallmarks or last year's confrontation. Those employers able to pay seT ouT to those bitter strikes ov overine increases before strike Thus in Fords a 28% settle-

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ment was reacned members received recore• breaking 14.5%; miners achieved a 22% and settled for manual workers rave WIThOUT Vauxhall, only the Ellesmere Port plant resisted a 13%-with- strinos oTTer and. Isolatea. were eventually forced back to work.

Meanwhile the stand by the Federa- Employers Engineering tion against a conted including the demand for a 35- week , to crumble in hour the face of the solid response to Ine Inaceane and partial action that was caller ov the of the Confederation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Unons. Though the eventual settle- far what short Ot was coule mave been won unrouen the breakthrough extra days hours, nonady ane ine icrease it Dasic rates mark a significant step for- ward by which has deepened the crisis of employers tne Doin in britain and internationally. Elsewhere, however, emoloyers nave laker pugnacious stand. Peugeot, , the new owners of the Talbot/Chrysler concern, sat out Donate

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workers at Ryton, stoke union leaders sabotaged The result was a blacking action suestantal Chrysler workers, who eventually returned for offer 5%- orional offensive on union rights and conditions. BL,

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ber more than 5% pleading nas refused to offer more workers manual

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LABOUR'S GOOD FOR BRITAIN

Andrew Wiard 2. The crisis of leadership This is the second and final section of the document on British Perspectives that was adopted at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Workers Socialist League on April 4-6 1980. For reasons of space a number of the final sections of the document relating to the tasks of the WSL in the next year have been omitted from this published version. skilled men)-tied to a 92-page more than provocation trace union bureaucracy. tor it package of strings. designed to test out the position is on the jobs front that they This "offer" which could of the righ wing steel leaders have so far been most successful have been thrown out at once While Bill Sirs, Hector Smith mass • meetinos anc nave consistentIy the corporation has been the accepted BSC's calls to restore three policies delays and collaboration TonE wine Union necorators Class

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The reason is clear: it is in cannot decide whether the rank and file they are more afraid of a strike Tory/BSC combined general possible through simple assault trade struggle on jobs Would provoke by accepting the deal.

caros nas. orovokeo a surat concessions on wades. but wher to call a ballot to scape the control tens an employer insists that he must axe jobs in order escape to survive, on the ofter under management- dictated are terms e a oorate oureaucracy. and wat n we d covernmen saes oos means of passing the buck for public sector, the con- Tighting to develop towaras the The back a general strike to bring frontation takes a much sharper betrayal form. floor, and down the Tory government.

workers on une snor challenge isolating striking steel 2. Jobs an ernolovers "right"' to sack workers is effec.

workers. Indeed it is the spillover tively to challenge lenge of ride. And of the course in the steel steer from Ene wades Issue own 2% pay jobs which is the most embarras- industry ton, to can ror tne retendon or and for the frightening

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is little sing tabled by the full labour force by a crisis- firm efectively ridden fight Tor the sleine scale of nous in which the work available the whole divided between workrorce Such a struggle is outside the scope reformist union leaders, demand which provides a means ot briaging the gap trom today: consciousness the working class required for socialist revolution, of transitional demands fought for by artists conscious policy of work-sharing on full Pion bared at ned panto pianic service facilities and the threatened plants opening ot their books to elec ted trade union committees challenge "rionts ot ine embovers turn this struggle towards sup bankers pliers, wu call du The cases have sacrificed thousands their members' jobs rather than walk any the caoita ist cass or ine covern Civil service union leaders have • sat back and isolated ever the spontaneous struggles have opposed cuts in manpower shipyards, services. in the operated with sackings and closures, arguing that they offer tne only way or attenaig dif se come were evel campaigned along- furthe and side Michael Edwardes, the Tory eagers ano ine dress tor a ves vote 25,000 sackings and g the shop floor speed-up industry ISTO in the steel Free 5 and Blastfurnacemen's leaders nave beer agreements for cuts and closures present strike. right up • the willingnes: ot worker! at Lordy and snotton to wigni for their jobs is indicated by their militant role in the strike.

Nor nas it been oniy ouricial that have cone the dirty work at Dunlop (Speke) TGWU chair- and man Stan Acuon Committe key role in sabotaging the job: fight, and instead circus of gimmicks and protests alone une nes or tue ITy bolties oTtne KOoAL com paign at Corby. Throughout public sectol ano especially in

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union leaders have com. bined verbal opposition to the opposition witH Dracula and stop the cuts. Only from the and of their anger of leaders • Have

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: nominal ple de pation against hoolic against hospital occupation . They have yet to wage ciosures an orticiany-lea struggle of an sort in resistance to the cuts tak The occupations that have ken

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Hounslow and St • Reneoictss- have begun from the rank and file and in no way from union Elsewhere limited defence localised actions in taken place-signific- Jows nave Robb Ine shipyard, several Which TO weeks took unilateral sanctions to the opposition Shipbuilders' closure plans; only by Isolated STainis leaders the other shipyards inder threat; at the Corby steel WOrKS rerusal union leaders to fight handed the jobs fight over to the bizarre

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campaign, while thousands i of workers through- showed their

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LIFt soloarity. ano ar ine meccano plant on • Merseyside, occupied to prevent its sudden closure.

3. Viability In arguing for struggles to defend jobs. the main stumblina block remains overcoming the "viability" through argument, which retormists insist tha one to sve loosat a bant it is necessary for • that plant to be made profitable period of world-wide recession • whole areas ot capit• alist industry cease to be profit- able and all sections face a dras.

ores workers T start not from the problems confronting bankrupt employer but trom their owr

Pare 6 independent class interests.

'opening The demand tor the TinP

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vau ticuidl firm, along with its suooiiers and creditors is thus not nèces- sarilv designed to prove that tne company can pay up, or keeo We do not peddle the SWP line that "they can attord it!' Indeed in the next period we expect increasing numbers can produce figures to ot bosses to bankrupı Show macl Iney d/c capitalist intereporei the workforce must terms living sacrifice jobs standaros The onen the books demand key to exposing the anarchic way in which the capit- alist system works as d vulc- way in which the losses in one sector are the profits in and the haphazard way anolne . in whien •rooucuon takes piace solely for private profit and in no way to satisfy social needs.

The opening of the books of supplier companies shows the exploitation of workers in every In fighting field of industry. the uncove such Invordlium demand must be raisea tor occu- pation of the factory and office concerned: thus buildings everv wav the 'open the books demand links in to the fight for control over particular workers of the brants full industry as amne e-wita access to all the necessary facts and figures. This links in to our strategic cemane TOr nationansdtton without compensation under workers' management, as part of a planned socialist economy.

perspective we stress the such Ine Troll need sections struggle sections of with other link up workers in concis or. acton. to generalise and extend strikes "and fight for occupations, removai or ine ores ana dress forward the fight. against The reformist Labour leaders and for d workers soverrci. public the sector.

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"viability" argument makes itself s Ted Knight and others Labour "lefts" sucll ds adé vavor dr cdc ccrr an alternatie spending cuts uch rate increases will aot but will also only orovioe Ene Dosis a monu- mental right wing backlash from infuriated torced nolacls. of massive in creaseo ouroen At the same time the raising avoid seeks rales controntation government: confrontation hat must take place if the cuts are really to be halted. 4. Cuts Our demand is Tor Labour councils to refuse to make cuts, to refuse to raise tatto, lu vva spend as necessary and demand the necessary finance from the fight government, supporting moDist government that The only cuts feuilsdis. cuts, spend- service we also in toe stand taken are-to tollon cuts. But .we faith withstand the sUCH DOCTes fight defend manning seve s CondItiOtis throuon strike and necessary. SUBDU LUTr yve

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leaders to Similariy the suldl consistentv and services. airli huld mittees, Li dut unionists, groups pal Cutle community other to announce- outs STaine political aoainst areal developing InTe into

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ai cat continue strubgie. 01 suC in order edge of our sharpen demands and ceveo• the for cuts each area labo ul we fight for incune. sector cuts, to profits made by suppliers . lOCal (most the . •FUe Com- and

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The the protest marches Tant i despite to the for exists wide- etentia Ulla! The dropping of the charges seek to expose state prepara- unions to advance this SECLOr tions for class war. one • DI11 T NEi fiaht is shown equaliv clearlv bv ual. Cowley 9 created conditions fo The muzzling of the Director the response-" Cowley from the ot Public Prosecutions-torbia- Initial/vt Plant den to speak to the Parliamen- 4 scam oiv ccoe sit artef deaths defence of Colin Carty. into Lal y I uit y was a personal inter outcome themselves cover c oolice custov-ano int who an attempi up in the Blair Peach case run vention from Moss Evan: strengthening of 5 Com alongside overruled the Region tiah the police and its special detach- to vindicate : Carty and the from steel restore his credentials. Shortly workers' on pay and ments. and jobs The fight ceTeno atterwaros Ine Charges • ayalisu extend democratic rights, the lorry drivers were must be set the C anc against all forms of racist and quietly dropped call Trade: General But elsewhere victimisations sexta onscrimnalor Fellanl d the very much at sacking in Ine • догеттопт roccalng E. the tasks to be undertaken Southampton shioyara eady the months militant 'Ginger" Pearse, revolutionaries •outn vvaies had successfully campaigned for anead rejection of a new productivity and for more 6. Victimisations deal, WAs carried

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Even workplaces where aelIUrl management with the assistance unionisation is well-established, officials the need ores- EnroUCn hold back inTe aTel attacks on working conditions, action in his defence the evident coupled with And • BL course, the • Combine Committee ness and sacking of conaooration or taut union officials, have persuaded d any nairmar werek nooinson wa: employers to ahead with coupled with moves hetter o veston of leading trade AUEW Executive to sabotage defending rights the necessary all-out strike in his unionists to chat leaders Tory leaders amicably decilc began , a succes Amo the ironic soeciace oi ward. the TGWU bureaucracy having the Cowley ino a1 failed to victimise LOnCO on the closed otterino to car owicla detrot Robinson's support, the AUEW snob Ene yeaT lias yet again intervened to their defence that use the they : struggle and set up call ott ine defeat power ot the tortuous Time-wastine "Inourv. waic nas eurec the tively damned Robinson even anel-union while formally declaring in his The a succes- nion- . sIon innicicu TavOUT Desoutters, IsaTion l here is no doubt inat tnt Grunwick atmosphere of witch-hunt and " rust •HOUse Forte hotels ad brys victimisation 1979 • next perioc Unit TAion. InENt ot Tory government, as manage ment sector look ways o democratic have growing Charing Cross Ano aE militancy Hospital, upsurge of anti-Tory getermined been in some ano breakmno ene

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working class. instances oer tunctor protest there any doubt that Corrie on tit the key press role comolec such cast. question with strikebreaking odr uicuid! such attacks will continue to di played the trade union tre anol TOmOTC the attack. censorship who of the oppos wur caucaky news of the war in Ireland, ; and notoino more anti-imperial- development of the independent The TeoressiUn ists under the "lA is compie which strength working cassied bonth trelandinbot dis kind ane an v consistel from the ranks of revolutionarv oboosition In short, there is not a single oureauche UnIOT struggle the abol anc the role ring tie introducit carr contusior wrouen militants-not labour bureaucracy coer successiull polens ve The ign or e rt oniv fight for the most calls in today's clas Export services Dasic biuts Banbury; and • lorry struccle tor Ene constructon 5/35 a new, revolutionary leadership Branct The will set "rOT in the labour moverent further ist long. We must understand that the rights. establisned working group cass Is tacne massive The exte problems without the develop ots, Taty Alar of such a leadership ment reports exposed in have , will metnoo. Strudeit Defence become inadequate hone ecs v be stepped up, a aom to today's conditions rolling back "Cold *witch-hunt •roved The effect betrayals a ahist which we leader suu asts or every sort. demon- have cataloquee also . nave dr New support from 200 leading accumulative effect. n snort. l strations oerno despite the • failure planned: readiness of workers to struggle convened successful Caly Bill will conference Cowles and There can •e maor seldacks dne TeCTOr created condition defeats for the workIng not deter Trom taki'a We do not say that this out- nsidiou carry leg EnE We do come is invitable. through to o annec •ex•u and banning from office That a revo tona cæeen! clo ns SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 May 1980 steeled against such must bi events ane mn ust cory patient in the light of them.

Historically, major outbreaks ot clas: strugale have otten beer precepced ov periods wnere Ent working class appeared on the Tabi car understand tha rallure sucre period istan pos ite.

the government will dota SuCC s cemora ise our comrades in tt way it can also demoralise layers of militant worke st this dange A clear grasp will ensure Lal nc lovelll remains strong, unotsmaveo ane ready to lead to the offensive when the invitable explosions reemerge. Crisis in the Labour Party The Crisis of the Right Wing. The rejection by both the workina class and the capitalist: of Callaghan's reformist strategy fo the precipitated the 1979 and paved May election ot the the water return Tories. Callaghan had staked all on a government-subsidised revival of capitalism Tne expense working living standards Wage controls, rationalisation i of spending _Ino Ust'y ano bubulc vain hope vate Inousury Tais woule oroviet an xand- economy" ing WITnI Woldr eventually a few reforms could concedec working class nis aboroach rele• neav on the ability of the trade union police bureaucracy memoers. wnte empoyers. wert to government be anticed o so-called "planning grants and new forms of agreements" cast co amorat on SuCH "worker participation" TUC enfored wage curs and the ologes Tall WoKIng class purchasing. power for a century anger exploded at the announce ment of a 5% limit for r Phase 4 militancy

.SNOD-II00

threateneo to escade une contro the bureaucracy Callaghan Tuc and dereee anae isolated by conterence CUne perately on to his pay limits in the face of impossible of Callaghan's useressness erment to the canta st case clear: the Tories began , prepare the all-out offensive ground tor an erection The 1979 election campaigr Callaghar and thi saw wing still nailing their colours to tne mast or wade contlols.y a vanitesto thai ottereo noenin to ahe potere abar r ot entire Labour campaig sustained only by Wa. retoric, which connected with man) Thatche fears of a wuor iloil

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 May 1980 minister William Rodgers, activists against all right wing The Tories. on the other mounted hand, shrewdly Labour s extreme witch-nunts, •ano adainst Dans In a and proscriptions on socialists.

could simpiy proceed to

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the party and attempt to estab- Instead must be the cuts, the unemployment and along with Liberals and directed the crypto-Tory the inflation they 'eft' increase, and wooed the middle

DOSSIDIV

• i orles. rignt wing that stanas opposed new 'centre" party free from any down Crass ane backware workers links with embarrassing Thatcher and unashamedly with anti-union and racist class socialist propaganda, backed with up commutes 1o a roland class compromise and betrayal.

The result retoric. promises of tax cuts. And in demanding that they Tory parliamentary Was the wage serious struggle for majority of 43. Only after the defeat, crawi- herever of te want wine. possible ing from the wreckage, came the expose to workers the empty demagogy of many Labour jews. wno i tne oeriod This, too, is a major gamble, Labour 'lefts' up to the election had refused which would • nana te it for to gian for the Party contre the let in and control Labour Callaghan removal could well throw •aci opose mis manifesto its advocates Detecting the shift of mood mo-denied in the Party's rank and file that votes from both working class 2. The Lefts' Balancing Act had the and Labour supporters from The onset of mass struggles conference and nine wintere nare ne sortes. pay _battles Benn deserted the against toe lorv dovernment-in This is plainly what concerns cabinet and paris bar in the winter in thes inking Callaghan David right wing of brought a change Joined une Crowine chorus Owen tis sentie belated 'left' critics. benevol or and calling on the right to fight Callaghan 'lefts'. They have begun it out inside the Party. on picket lines and,

NEC

defeats from appear re emergence the OT some cases, to call on strikers to october tired old Labour's ence inflicted a further major dery court ruines vantona hee defeat on the right wing-this Heffer at the recent Young (now Lord) Underhill is another time on Party democracy. Socialists unemployment rally called upon anti-socialist Labour right local

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the would-be-witch-hun- Tacing Parties increasine unoe water. ledve Labou ters. pressure from a militant work- Party. And, in a very significant "'Militant" obvious ing seeking means move, , the most left of the 'lefts' target for the extreme Arthur Scargill, appears to have Tory wing because of its considerable ciosures ano anti-union laws. une enace mis lone term ence sitt

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problem that faces the right exercise and to have begun the Labour's youth movement, and wing to reassert their serious if belated preparation of how its socialist and moves through the Labour Party dulniorily. even i rotskyist rhetoric to oust butcher Mason from his successor For veteran anti-Communists NUM-sponsored Barnsley Underhill, the fact that

HAKA

constituency. capitalist press Militant's outward political face wing is that Such developments should LawOUl Visite combined in practice with a elt winder conne sun orise suv•oon rerusao corvouror they feel will be susceptible to members who have followed our support any serious struggle and file. pressure from the rank the within the Labour Party for the that Labour forces dilemma is how removal of the Callaghan-Healey The ent witnout emere at times when une work ¡cauti snio is seen not as a reason since the danger that ino cass moves forware ano tha

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WitCh. they will wind up simply cs that right wingers fear is that seek that forward hunt, but as evidence of Militant within •Parliamen- movement supporters' perfidious 'om iner nose to seite toeir race.

lary, rerormist Channels Devious laces This is because in combatt- It is conspicuous that, even ing elements within the Labour after the lessons of the defeat of Heath, 'lefts' Party that for Labour such a cosin Party socialist •policies TOr de crac oft for rentin to The refusal by Militant even ior the Tories to be "brought reactionary down' not by industrial action, to loboy tne January Ner meet.

ing where Underhill's report was our oy mass protests. ano benr right wing only has a choice of be raised once more affirmed chose middle of the steel •The unsatisfactory options. strike to get up and deliver their retusal to struggle against eight-point speech spelling out une cool oureaucracy. It echoes their stance in the entirely persoed 1950s and when Grant tive Yet the changed mood in and Co. endorsed the rank and file Labour's means Healy

I TOLSK VISTS

The group, and the Young Socialists couo bunch a TUli- Tee oonieed scale witch-hunt take a number of stands against against any socialist the wing-creating But for the fake lefts of the impression ongoing Tribune arouo the opportunist plainly search the Militant for are looking TnIS unwitty option, despite its evident dis- group of MPs improving conditions to support their the can fight for advantages. wus lions within une dory oness clear programme and The results of this would be an alluring prospect of a left' unpredictable: some areas cover. tive Why are the lefts-apparent- Party would organisation Benn, Heffer and others, 1y. so respond shell along with flimsy clucca. to Ene mass movement of the Time worn careerists and NUrE leader Alan Fisher have wingers, incapable of mobilising repeatedly used the Militant in Class-so reructant to repolish their Do tica charence to caraonan.

The answer is that they know tarnished image I dO CO full well that have no real witen hunters menserve

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socialists. of the •a •eterteo. and the boston o •he political crisis

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Labour militants could be con- Labour bureaucracy offers Torwaro. solidated. chance for Themselves reformists tied socialists to the illusory notion of legis Or, line with the idea principled oro curocial gramme within the party. But a latinte soclalisi Roy Jenkins and given precondition for such a struggle through they can bariament. shadow cautious fight only more oTTer workerc 'radical versions of soundini Callaghan's own class collabora LIOnISE oolIcies Where Callaghan proposes controis linked to cash wage handouts through industry the the l ribunite ett propose no wage controls, but even cash handouts to mousty. Intoven Ine Nco Where opposes Callahan nationalisation, of basic indus- tries, the also oppose Confidele rationailsation, advocate state snarenolaings In major industries. where Callaghan calls living for sacrifice of workers standares ine national inter- est', the "letts idea tne 'national interest leads them to propose a nationalist policy imporl attempt export unemploy- ment overseas. It is necessary to expose the political bankruptcy 'lefts' to the growing number of working class militants who in the next will look Benn, skinner alternative to Callaghan Such exposure requires both propaganda transitional demands, and the placing of demands the 'lefts' limits can reveal the ot their political Callaghan and show workers the necessity for a new, revolu- tionary. leadershio. At a time when thousands of members are joining the Labour Party looking for a lead the struggle against the Tories, we can expect that the conditions such political intervention will remain good in tne monins anead.

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Low pay strikes in 1979 Not, the outcome of Callaghan's inner-party inquiry -and possibly not even then- Ine ront wine make any definitive move against socialists within They party. must orepare the ground carefully for any splits or witch-nunts it they are not to risk losing crucial block votes and affilia- Stalinism The Communist fact that Party members played the leading role in setting up and running the right wing witch hunt against Fryer and Thornet while at the same time heading off any serious fight in defence Derek Robinson, spells out un- mistakeao v the wav the • riont ward evolution of the CP has continued • its "Eurocom munist" leadership since our last conter ence We noted in our 1979 Perspectives the way in which at Garners the Stalinists had been every one

MOTTE

bureaucratic manoeuvres designed to hold back mobilis ation of the torces of the trade unions and to collaborate with the police'. And our document drew attention the crucial role olaved by Derek Robinson occupation the threatened or plant at socke Since then finally sold ours Garners the strike has been CP's and the long •etrays on roos nas extended

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led stewards at BL's Park Royal plant to Edwardes . closure plan ano tne . Tarure OT THE Stalinists in the shipbuilding industry to support and sprea the struggle against closure by Ene worktorce Ene Tool Caledon yard rightward movement of the C has also been noticeable Stalinist votes were cast favour of Clive Jenkins' increas ingly right wing policies, and in

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ine where Éxecutive ett'- er otter little lead against the cuts as any other union bureaucracy But the reactionary role o1 the Stalinists could scarcely be more clearly demonstrated thar in the AUEW in the wake of the victimisation of leading Stalinist Derek Robinson With 350 branches readily • joining and file condemnation o the treachery of Duffy and the Executive Council question is clearly to press home the political offensive Yet the CP oniy in the terms took vaguest up

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correct campaign by thi for a ballot under rulf remove the entire Executive And instead of pin-pointing betrayal carrice and the El Hobinson toured the country giving the impres sion that official his action support even while the EC post hints that it intended to nedv do nothing. Meanwhile the 'Broad in the AUEW ha

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even te aodea r at ranies As soon called to support Robinson.

Small ment will be picture of demands on forced further fight with ine decline responsible to in continuite •CrISIS strident nationalism of working class. ano tne emoty rhetoric and Insofar to take these demand •tudent ineras Party unlike v interests

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that the Stress BL trade com- the the working • etine terraral Robinson. which lett crisis • facing Stalinists Afghan and on the collaboration, Delayal workers covernment hardline towards disu needs anc Kremlir The NCP has ver far to develop tricted took that

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perspective way ces tnal Ine dital. aric of Cout about. and not allowed nedity This we call in and workers put. dowr UnION ord none. The to campaign struggle ano TOl We make such The 4 10 -actually nowevel leTT can implement in crass practice time

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defer ice and wales bring services

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str ike price com Limited open-the-books defence fact forced General for ernerge Ine Outof come state develop- combine make tnich councis , ane working s critica same these task from and another uncel and tor consistent real only bring that steel of the General TUC-to Ine General prolonged however, strike. dolla inadequate indicat

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- bureaucracy —mmiaran' workers con fronted by new Tory racist legis- leaders' res- file lation; -the unemployed-condem- forced to admit that steel unions ned recessionary at best, to a job scrapheap with Ine Cover litt warned on rock bottom wages worker There not a would be a frightening' good cause Britain

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rally penin determica General Strike to bring down this government. not couse it is possible to look to such a devel- opment to a a General Strike at The right conditions any line have to be present. Times "he was And a defeat for the steel under pressure could workers, create a setback for the struggle, associated railway Which

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aenerd South demand would become quite where Wales, inappropriate. union action rISK. The General Strike is for us in a sense a strategic objective not enough to be prepared Tor in our agila- Situation. 1926 plans, tional work, , and to be brougnt the a demand offers ts noti right wing materially opportunity advance the struggles • the occasil OT pursuit working class to a new level of formal and propa. nas yve reeci Sirs and scared gandist cals that simply call fo the idea a general strike without regard that fight to develop such a the actual

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struggles.

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CoUrsE which union general truth that the Will LIte hard policies will be defeated woute of BSC's sackings plan shown cleariy by the doomed workers strike call. as a means or waging a baltie closure and striking a hated Tory major blow of workers pressing their leaders take action alongside the steelworkers in defence of jobs, •DoortunIty aruse throughout ine labour movement for a General Strike clear objective with simply of delaying the BSC clos reactionary Tor. so gamen: 30-790 1= aci O Wales miners as 5te= 20€ whelming Umne would have to spread industries workers -2 million service rise wot Kels of living who face a sector whose attack from more nee legislation; SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 May 1980 Mass rally in Cardiff on day of action called during steel strike: WSL fought to turn Welsh TUC general strike call into action to bring down the Tory governmen mobilisatior councils of action and the fight ot a to construct the revolutionary (conaral trike to orind cow party, the outcome of the stee the government But as Marxists fighting to strike will decide whether th class ir mobilist General strike car remals a revolutionary action, we must the forefront or becomes a less main efforts not component of • agitativilal vuln developing The most dangerous develop- ment would be one in whic incependent strudoes ane torm of organisation of the proletar- and branches iat-in particular councils the vital cast aside errective agitational struggle fo aCTION TranS itional and democratic demands In this we must develop a conscious political leadership in

SLL

instead substituting with the around General Strike demand and a elements or ine retormist ano Stalinist bureaucracy, and create packar of real orientein ds material conditions to accomous our suralegit allis relation to tne government wir therefore remain that •Prepare bring the The next period of struggle- whatever the outcome ot te The adoption of the General steel strike-will require a flexib demand central Strike and a readiness tables

TOCUS H

Ine coulst malntal consisten tional work in combination with strike in january commit the specific demands related to the retaining it as an particular any way from now immediate demand turn clas on, regardless of events.

Tropest care in our view, While we of course continue capable of consciously grasping that perspective for the struggle от ine tull-scale mobilisation 01 and carrving out thi inis need the working class in a General necessary fight. and the struggle movement such assert the political independence ot the proletariat in the form of

G. M. W.U.

LAMBETH

PEOPLE

SAY NO

TO THE

CUTS

WHY WE CALL FOR

WSL programme for the CPSA SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 May 1980

CPSA

A BROAD LEFT

LVOTE

To an even greater extent full-time official and Militant going gets tough-and there is supporter, engineered a back-to- no doubt that the year ahead is than most other unions, the CPSA is split into 'left' and LOULD Or US i ne NEC voted 12-10 UNA rank and Ille unless the right' factions. favour of the deal with no con- current leadership crisis The Broad Left has proved sultation with the Glasgow resolved and a principled fight- important organisational ing programme is adopted.

opposing Finally the settlement was

JOE

Thatcherite policies of the presented the 3,500 to strong Broad Left's Moderate/Daylight grouping led branch as a lall accompa and

ДАРІ МОЇ INO РУСТОЛ АРТЕ КО

10e lul-timers were brougnt in to knife the struggles at Kening- ine elts stood up to the tests of the last 12 months? Nuneaton and Finsbury When Tories came to Park. power the first attack on the Tatters the 3-month ban on recruitment record (a 242% cut in staff). In this and Since then the sanctions about valous viles rumbules campaign cure one cene o second or tatters and the management anc the civil service to the private cenave en ve camer the National Exécutive sector, confidence pressure ot the CPSA came up with a further attacks on civil service system sanctions lovertime

WULACID

mansion and on bans on temporary pro- There is a long history and Howe sumatcher etc). casuals, announced plans to cut nearly of factional struggles in the

CPSA

100,000 jobs, with more in the

CPSA.

The right wing had lougnt lor a poncy of strike arguing that sanctions absolute control of the Uver inis years pay clalm and were divisive simply gave fifties the NEC lefts again crumbled union in the and tic millative to malaccucult.

sixties and the left only hanged the review date by five started to Suspensions 1970. This meant that the bureau-

DHSS

was able to sew up the NET Broad Left started as Management in the cracy and deal before seeing auly

LOOK

vaukus were willing to stick out for the controled bv the Stalinists and began suspending members, Is!

of all at Breckfield in Liverpool full claim. Tribune supporters. and then at Kenington, Nunea- Revolutionaries functioned and solely as an of militants the

CPSA

election The first Department must laville. National Savings in Glasgow.

ensuTe broad Leit conterence, held With sections the increases its on the forced she left to Manchester 1977, majority showing their national leadership; and there is membership doubt that a more open and democratic willingness to support sus ucil VICtORY ded colleagues, the

NEC.

Losinska and her cronies in this way. caught between growing milit- year's ballot would be a major national committee was and the hand set-back. elected, a newspaper Broadside ancy

CPSA

regional mans ence DU the other. also look critically the Broad Left groups were with this, rogramme and practice of the up. on the

NEC

of many eft-talkers-it particular the The Redder began to crumble. dominant coalition of Militant.

by

SWP

started Party and supporters and others on the with membersuspen Communit ded in Glasgow, union vice- Tribunites. Coltman (a Such president line can only produced reter es paper

CPSA

Stalinist and Terrv Adams. a back are we se cannaces Union democracy: For the elec- Employement Bill-keep up pav! The 35 hour week demand PaymEnts wrik Pay Research is important but is not an end in officials! What right has Ken Thomas got Break itself. Only a true sliding-scale with up public launch of hours Unit now! For a sliding-scale of can soak up the unem speak against inflation wages in Ted allu PrOTECE In conal policy! Elected or sil seyce trade minniess tions of CPSA members. conterence branch officers must have the civil service trade unionists.

right to take part in all negotia- Inquiry Ins must be coupied to a big tions between full timers and in basic pay bringing management. scale up to at least £80 Immigration: No to immigration controls! Set up a maior inquiry No fraud officers! not members involve-

CUTS

treate more loos InTO fewer! 4 seriatch provided is Thatcher's implementing such •ment bite, the Black aws. dIty such

WUIK

DHSS: No more fraud officers!

CPSA members are black racist instructions urgently needed. Defend lake on calla sali to cambalen more claimants to take up the jobs and the interests of claim- Fascism:

TOT

branches must £340 million of benefits which ants and users of the civil service lake a lead in setting up worker unclaimed each year. Step with aramnst mne aerence squads drive oll cuts. Fight closures with occup- fascists leafleting dole offices.

mvestration o tax evacon Ireland: Campaign in the labour prot-swindling by private supporting strikes. Open books of Build links with local campaigns Movement de ca a nacona levels to raise the demands for * : I = full troops out, for self-determina- As a minimal starting point Broad must kick out the all those who an and сестота refuse to fight for its existing policies or even Annual Confer- cret polis its national elections though to organise the tall alli was rank and file in the branches.

Though attempts have been have made an active campaigning Broad Leit never anything but neen election machine. The major campaign the Broad Left has waged since 1TS incebron was une cann Daley in 1977 against the victimisatior of a full time officer, Militant supper Tresent arro Left NEC's record over fighting the cuts in the auts at beth the complete secon the complete sell

OUI

• suspendcu membels In DHSS Kenington and Nuneaton and DNS Glasgow. No lead They have given no lead on the Call bal recommended acceptance of a staged settlement. annual Broad Left conference Ilas nun occolnt image union ton ana lor poltical status lor the H-block prisoners. Women's rights: Fight for free abortion demand and commit the CPSA to oppose al state nursery cuts and join cam- paigns for of state nurseries as opposed to workplace creches. The majority of CPSA members are women.

they part the working class not an autonomous sectio society with their own special "problems" and issues". Reaffiliate Labour Party: Reaffiliate to the Labour Party! Use our political kick out Callagnat ContIol Lo and Healey as one part.of the battle to destroy reformism conference where militant resol- utions are passed then nothing is done about them for • alonel yeal Tribunites tanist. and atte on the conference solely to Broad Left election list for the NEC and take littie part in policy making. • bed a resolution from ence passed from resolution Oxford group which called for a policy of all out strike action against the cuts and for occupa tions of offices threatened with closure. The Broad Left NEC have implement this done nothing to resolution suce me correrence The Merseyside group put forward resolution ardinisl immigration controls which called

CPSA

members to all connection with immigration controls supporters against resolution saying •The that it was : "too the impossible membership They Holement succeecca in voting down this resolution une working cas Links with other unions: For a with the other civil especially to a mercer witn " the SCPS. CPSA members have shown a growing willingness to

ON NANAR DUP HAT

within the union can only sap this strength Workers control: Only a civil run by workers serVice themselves can meet the needs of those workers and the rest of society employees As government this also for means. a workers our or councis or acuon throwr up in mass struggles against both Tory attacks and Labour sell- vuLs Page 9 Losinska CPSA General Secretary Ken Thomas as well as another calling for the election of full time officers.

Redder Tape consider them- selves a principled rank and bureaucracy. have organised cam- and produced a regular paigns When Gibraltal papel dispute was sold but in they organised an occupation of the union headquarters. held a cuts vear they Last conference and they did campaign against this year's pas leafleting selliculen branches. However the organisa tion is dominated by the SWP policy of rank and fileism which necessity to expose emotes tre the left union leadership They fetishise unofficial strikes and are reluctant to fight Ior leadership positions in the union. Al tne last kedder lape con ference, which was poorly atten- ded, there much confusion • between SWi election strategy delegate _„ne said: 'We have : credibility bs standing' while all til "The important thing about elections is to take part campaign and no necessarly will. stand Redier Tape candidates to was made decision 1980 election asanis Broad Left, and a list was drawn up. However of the best

LWU

known Redder Tape supporters McGrath (who was on th NRC for a year in 1976-77) an‹ McLean didnt feel they declined stand as they had strong enough base men workolaces Over the last three years their many origina. supporters nave cone over to to and one of their founder members is now a full time officer In this year's elections CPSA members must vote for Broad Left list, as it is essential lilal anu umon tal wing "moderates" do not get in But if the Broad Left elected, a renewed fight will be them necessary ge organise all-out strike action against Tory cuts and Employment Bil

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NUR climbdown on pay strings Railwaymen's leader Sid •Parcels and Weighell breathed again last sectors. British Rail week as the NUR Executive stood firm on the strings, voted 25-3 to accept marginally rejigged sell-out pay-with-strings deal. on the £220 million deal!

A few days earlier Weighell This concession nád ée cæ decree vn an attempt to win support for the cash settlement, he nad ready per, cly two-stage 20% offer, for swing the which VOLt 101 beusee cceownce vote for acceptance. The agreement Installments existing "vacancies" be filled if the Al Issue was une lacı una the new money was to be paid manicu WillC

LWO

#stantnis-ok ana Stedes WOlET 14%- -and tied to a savage series of changes in working railway which wipe out threaten in working practices-so readil Lo usanus oi oos m une reent of nationalised chiefs, MacGregor

HOUSLEV

benna nm is to be "transferred" from steel unions. ms present vo JoD al Lazaro Freres for nearly £2 million.

He will return to British indich en ding commod ed how best commuted doyen of all hatchet-men- welch from New York Sir Michael Edwardes. assist BL Edwardes in Board meetings. Appointed will be to press Labour home BSC's programme of Edwardes has closures and redundancies.

As he put it: "It is a question of how the and many can survive the holocaust, how divide many jobs can be saved." BL workforce, There is no doubt that after taking these of policies that could never unprecedented have been achieved by more

SLEUS

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 May 1980 administration management but readily agreed to pay the whole increase in one stage-at a total increased cost of only f120,000 linked to mne reanvev mon ever or une , was enough to 21-6 NUR Executive 25-3 Ie con o LIc excludes compulsory redundancies. But it Weighell mounos ol will never deal is imple- Manas ellicl accepted their leaders- awar numbers of jobs available on the itselt fel shop Illakes pay deal

HOO1

WOrKTOTCE will go down as a major land- As the impact of the changes mark of betrayal. Tories will stand four-square How much • 1s such inevit- vicious piece of work worth inte able confronations with the the British capitalist class? Meanwhile discussion has present Edwardes grown among top Tories as receives miserable oniy Yet reward £57.200 l a figure £100,000 being floated as a reasonable rate for the job. Such an increase in pay by the last would doubt no anger government proved Edwardes fellow national- model of Tory management ised industry bosses-who ideals. Utterly inflexible and are paid from £40,000- £50,000. skilfully utilising the media it But would be in trade keeping with Tory bureaucracy to confuse and notion of "incentives" - and demoralise the he has rail- perhaps • encouragug olners roaded through a succession to the nettle and grasp on the wast in the of unions hopes NHA eWarS

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Duffy ducks pay claim, no fight on Tory law SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 7 May 1980 In a display of dragooned block-voting which makes a step forward with the parody of any concept of democracy within the labour movement, the -foundry take AUEW's policy-making TASS-a National Conference has package including adopted package of of officials by postal ballot.

policies bearing all the hall- marks of the extreme right wing Duffy leadership.

LASS.

Resolutions committing the General union to £120 or £115 per week es to 23 tostead out 29 te clecton or olicials. Dutty Instead-by clearly hopes that the body to 2ed to unbe a vaine matum body voted vuke alu 101 all "substantial" call 10T The to it increase. do And the AUEW became the nothing first major union to break ranks Dutty's stated preterence IS IOI on the forthcoming anti à merger with the union laws-flouting TUC policy declaring which none of willing itself other take Tory cash ballots. Justar tary are elected! This plainly decision stomachs two of Duffy's stalwart ship's contempt for democracy votes, since it was carried bv the was also illustrated by the reac- reduced margin of 27-24, tionary package of BL workers fight on against strings Despite Edwardes victory intent "negotiated engineered for him by the last of the AUEW and leaders lead further strike the TGWU, in imposing the Castle

DIORIWIC

5%o-with-strings pay package two when runs out for the elimination of on BL workers, matters are not settled in British alowance Leyland. L workers were betrayed Persuaded but not defeated. They are in a mutant but frustrated mood strikes Dunce ine betrayed the paint nave days on played a tactical gallic around mie murodacon of the yz-page une Laste document of strings. had accepted In some plants where they terms and were their have felt leadership to sale iney nave gone work and dress up in produc- alledu tion time. Meanwhile strike action has Notice broken Assembly Plant over the secon- plants they have dary issue of bonus back pay.

held back, while One of Edwardes m omers such have imposing Lastie bromwich they used the two notice vue a divo bonus payment tc Challe

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Duffy's consuming anti-com munist crusade took a further ing through by 29 votes to 23 of amalgamanon offering the three other sections nolo. Laurence and leave it une secon Stalinist-led Secretary Ken Salinas Stalinist sparnam, If 1 stood our urals will drive TASS away certainly has with the iple of electing officials: indeed Duffy.

EETPU,

in submitted to the Labour Party's the officials inquiry -endorsed Internal General Secre votes to 23-and consequent une Indeed the AUEW leader- amons stana in support of the reforms carried by астостатіс last year's Labour Party confer- ence. Moss clocked in by any one wao on o and accepted the may yet be no action la turnea out than €60 to £70 week more weeks' notice workers struck allot y mood. paint sprayers' "togging up' The strike mav well continue this week, with the issue broad- embrace the package ening as a whole must fight to workers manage- resist every of In the Cowley Body Plant ment to impose any aspect of sprayers, after three une sumes. strike, were told that Bromwich Unacceptable the company's persuaded by They must say at every point go back to that Edwardes package remains unacceptable. All exist- arreement.

MUST

Strikes which break cowley acence. out must be spread to the other plants where similar conditions tactics in ultimatum . was To

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B.S.C.

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But even Duffy and Boyd Michael Edwardes' feel 1100 once a walle permit a harmiess spot of letti cosures posturing: and tary John Boyd tried in line with Callaghan's own "anti catting

IO T

without com- renamona lation pensation of state firms sold off by the Tories were unanimously carried! And a resolution calling for industry-wide ballots ¡allular ware acreements witn Shipbuilders

OTITISH

members Harold Robson and defeated.

Tory Setback also течата Len The only significant setback an extension of management pursuit for witch-hunting LIlt was the humiliating leadership defeat of its attempt win mandate for June the struggle to le in Ine angineers and Managers Association Confederation Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. dent, Clearly wanting to welcome the working clas. some more kindred spirits to the fold of the Confed-which last campaigned in Javour of APEX jobs fight The union which back and allowed the Grun- wick strike go to isolation and defeat has taken a firm stand in defence of jobs!

But of course things aren't exactly what they seem are certainly some tub-thumping the unlikely vocal cords of Ray Grantham, General Secretary the white collar union,

APEX.

But the iobs he is detendins are not in industry or the public Jobs of. tul-time officials in the civil service union the CPSA all of whom are APEX members!

What has rattled the cage of both to the CPSA officials and to Grantham, who Grantham and his bureaucratic foremost membership? Party. Re-election But there complacency They When up in arms at the al t Durcaucials fact that than less motions on the agenda defend our

CPSA

call for method time officials to be subjected t necessary" it is time to Any hint of such accounta- looking the for bility course anathema sell-out!

... BLOODY TYPICAL:

WON'T USE BRITISH MADE MANAGERS.

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C'MON COMRADES, I NEED YOUR SUPPORT IN LEYLAND

YOU LOT! THEY SAY MACGREGOR

WILL SALVAGE STEEL JOBS...

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Page 11 Print lock-out Front front page call strike action over it with against management

NGA

while buying off oppos- ition union. witn CowI and

SOGAT

NAIDUPA

members have told their they 25.000 redundancies and plan to get involved in any BL-General Secre- vain to : NGA leadership, secure the defeat of a resolution 1 ne talking tough, is permitting local executive not to settlements hopelessly support the EMA application. It was carried by 51 votes to one.

inadequate basis the strings still attached. Moreover Management despite sporadic hitting one Fleet Street paper after another The fact remains that AUEW Wade : NGA execu- the thei • Struggit tive Have lunce men backs on celena loos and wades contron obvious and badly

MOST

not only the employers backed needed action the complete close down of Fleet Street leadership «that The canoyer. wome as essentially „Tole stand to this action for than profitabilits Fleet Street industry at the expense of their be called out to bring this lock- vul lo is knees answer to this can only A national lockout commit- tee must be elected to control a revolutionary leadership in the the officials but AUEW based on a programme area. Is wil st mean establisning for the defence of the indepen committees independent international interests of union of the bureaucrats who are doing win lie espute NUJ and Members of the print unions JIuS backing long Marill ul scabbing between print unions-most

NGA

the strike -has chance Tner employers to launch this attack employers defeated decisively closed thi shop itself is at All prin

TUSK

unions must unite in a deter mined and physical confronta- tion with scab publications.

THE UNCERTAINTY of the employers can be seen from the the Birmingham Pos fact that and Mail Maemen-one toughest in the Newspaper Ene Society -cancelled lockour within five days after fears that Wolverhampton scab paper wou mit its caculation Wolverhampton has seen the clashes picket line: against pickets and determined charging scab drivers through the lines. NGA officials been among those arrested some area police- Grantham including special also turned out in strength and is one of the the level of violence by police is ot demc alring the toul higher than during Labour Tune journalists strike in the winter of 1978 should be no

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hired scab papers through the pickets extreme winger declares "We shall This echo of the • allack on prui what • by unions in the USA is a symbolic challenge the

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the wake of the disastrous pointed at the Iranian masses "rescue" are at present mounted on US mission in which eight bombers and nana-picked butchers were Callicks. killed. - used sto being nattle most actually Press campaign effect of the are and Lanlali US "hawks" mean hile military Washington are direction of President Bani-Sadr and spearneadine orchestialcu chauvinist press campaign The continues . Iranian designed create bloody Drosecute Wai for Carter to unleash an outright against the oppressea nurals. minority western Iran, with millar y assaull Islamic regime which has cocked the bombardment of the capital a snook at American imperialist Sanandaj-leaving at least 200 •en moves are nor without Repression resistance at home. An anti-war underway movement in the US, fuelled by memories Bani-Sadr has threatened to call on *36 million people one nor van var and this country present to which stand to and defend the one from forcible ness and unity of the country gain most Icsolatiol Liteals Bani-Sadr Fund: urgent help needed With the April Fund closing over £300 below our target of £750 and only £150 received towards the second half of our £3,000 Special Fund in the past month the situation is now extreme v serious.

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ery to restore stabilly ana low- ards with US nas anti-government demonstrations Khomeini imperialism Bani-Sadr proclaiming Lo cADiuit tile lioslare lose as d diversion the WOrSe wan the shall Irom mazerla With economic chaos facing the Iranian devastation growing daily in Lasses way the Iranian Iran-oll exports are now at a workers and peasants Kharg Island terminal-the future of violent repression and regime is clearly divided on how hands of exploitation best to handle the crisis.

Iranian and loreign capital NUT no action on victimisation With one member sacked brought in to run schools in the and over 50 members having aosence locked-out members; while Eileen Crosbie been sent home without pay sacked; and while for refusing to teach over- teachers having voted for action sized classes, the National are lorce to witness une wnore Union of Teachers is still debacle from the sidelines, NUT national and divisional leaders steadfastly refusing to call continue to bleat that they art defeat all-out action willing to negotiate! Nottingham's Tory council.

In a ballot in February over Determination 200 schools aeclarea willingness to take force the reinstatement 01 Tory Nottingham's council sueen crosole unuci sus pension for refusing to teach a retlects the determination of the nursery class of 40 children with governmen home its attacks on education only one nursery nurse Crosbie But the NU1 leaders had no quite right to point out that: intention i cang them a r Instead they called for a succes sion stoppages that have only served manage ment that union bureau- cracy is utterly spineless.

"No cover" At Easter even these actions Getence. were off. Instead the "no cover" action was policy of autnority restoneco Eileen Crosbie's sack- promptly. ing was announced, and teachers action were immediately victimised! Eileen Crosbie Yet while labour 1s West Bank struggles flare Last week was not good crisis- one .tor the ridden Zionist occupied Palestine. Carter way forward through a turn to the strength- of the factory and neigh- since the overthrow the Shah construc tion of a evolutionaly lcducl ship on a socialist programme of demandas to mobilise the missed and oooressed minores 1a un fight for a workers and peasants government in Iran. It is not just important for me bilal the union wills tils, but lo.

every teacher in the country.

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leaders, their own way recognise the national Nottingham importance of the 11007. give a lead to teachers for all- to defeat the Tory action altar throughout • members country will demand similarly resolute action to detend ineu jobs and conditions This would disrupt the NUT of bureaucracy's course and coma boration cocasione management:

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a ne prompt wider struggles, embrac- other public suctu anuns. azallis Tories. Leadership Yet without such a fight there is no way the attacks can If the NUT leaders be lalteu refuse struggle, a end the leadership must be con structed that will do so

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strike to stol the cuts! Demand supporting action from other reinstatement of solde lit Eileen Crosbie! education

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dards; sliding scale of spending with keep pace inflation! *Bring down the Tories! right wing Begin he litra government has only kept of defec power aiter a semes by ministers the need preserve unity in the face of the "common enemy ralestillal May Dav demonstrations in Tel Aviv saw 150,000 workers chanting 'Begin go home' organised 1 ney. were mostly pro-Zionist Labour Party by the and the state organised so-called Laut landell Histradrut. The demonstration was des- the largest anti- cribed the govertel histor or une stale. It reflected the growing feel- ing against the 100% inflation rate and the desperate inabilits The only answer of Begin and his supporters has been to attacks the Palestinians At the end of last month a of ultra-Zionist despera group does well on a lalivase divul town of Ramallah in the the West Bank Begin On May Day an Israeli army officer shot dead a 17 year ol Palestinian Antaba, also on the West Bant demon- Atter r series strations and riots in the area Israeli was discuss the cabinet Ing a nev measures including deporta- without trial and, tions, prison Gone. 1urtlti lucasules yo to be revealed. Israeli West Bank military Eliezen declared governor Ben Enat DeTe was a gredle Ivaul ness to provoke and the Zionist forces by West Bank Palestinians followed by the attack guerrillas on a group of settlers Bank Zionists neuroll. have particulat been making a effort to take over the Pales- tinian town killed two and injured i ne 40, without loss to themselves This was followed by the Mayors of deportation Hebron and Halhoul. have These deportations added another twist to the protest movement, with demon- strations of Palestinian youth It Biren, Hanov kamalan Nablus, Jenin and Jericho doubt that the Zionist leaders prepared to use ine

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TeSTeSSIVe IOTC against such resistance: but the movement of the dis forward people possessed Palestiniat their struggle against ine racis settler state has plainly gained strength from the weakening fall of the Shah. Hence the greet for gin with lugalile Egyptian -ackeys scneme i off the bourgeois and petty bourgeois Palestinian leader with a measure of autolully wes bank under the thumb of the Zionist Egyptian stooge Sadat