Socialist Press no. 203

CAPITALISM MEANS

BRITAIN OUT OF NATO!

PRESS

ted to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee

DETERMINATION?

AFGHANISTAN YES

IRELAND NO!

of a world remain the hostage of the As part . Ilassive multi-national military build-up, President poles and the IMP. has proposed siting Carter As workers 570 Cruise missiles in the throughout NATO countries of Europe.

struggle to liberate The decision of the Labour crush their resistance. Party to call a march in oppos these war moves is an ition Major problems undoubted step torward. But the Party offers workers no answer to the basic questions dictatontal ne the stigue, cent that arise in this situation.

point contall is it that a intervention or history when science ama teen- occupation by the first time offer nology powers are the stock response- chance to live mankind of worplenty, a madority a mean coc peace ane the six counties of Ireland.

the population starving and the threat of war Yet the hangs over the heads of us all?

problems major and global pursuit of pronts women and children suffer and lack of the most a world scale from and everyday recessionary crisis DANIC FOOd *Defeats sities, the tEl spends Dillons mountains imperialism in Vietnam, Angola, lestroying and the foodstuffs plus. lall.

NATO

powers have encouraged the spend tens billions on nuclear weapons and disrupted sophisticated of means

HUIC

posts. mintarv destruction! The answer lies in toe very essence of the capitalist system.

unplannable system imperialism It 1s profit itself produchon playale oppressed which rests on the ora exool masses tation of the international work- have been driven to the Soviet ing class by those that own the Union leaders cynically expion collall Hostage advantage maximise such exploita- preserving a balance 10 seeks to drive with imperialism- non. une cabitalst ment down wages and to ensure that underdeveloped neo-colonial

THEODOORI

SOCIALIST

* Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 203 * 18 June 1980 * 20p

NUCLEAR

WEAPONS-

NOW

CRUISE

banks, peasants the world take up them- Where the power of native the struggle. open the imperialist HiltUld. Ul This why the foreign imperialists face Reagan and policy Carter, in this. vicious aimed anarche wille containing the struggles *The capitalist economy on international working class is in a severe now dominated by the fostering oi a cola war nysterla agains!

the Soviet Union and the deformed workers' states.

Nicaragua and Zimbabwe masses anu Historic gains former military out- weakened sts thind themse the dae- capitalism's ability to police its themselves drawn ialists investments in the neo-colonial ToWares onstant has found possible reconquest of the lost markets and exploitable labour force of these Stalinist-led states

SURE C

i watca une mcars deformed workers' tion remain nationalised.

states for assistance. While these These historic gains achieved the October the of these struggles for their own evolution m kussa musi context of be defended against all forms of of forces imperialist attack. Such a principled opposition -this involve. Stalinist bureau- to imperialism requires an inter- cracies has made it more diffi national, revolutionary perspec- Party is a cult tor the imperauss orectly

LABOUR PARTY SAYS

NUCLEAR ARMS-NO

PEACE-YES

WAR!

And, far from uni atera nucear disarmtamerl.

Callaghan presided itself expansion of the British nuclear Callaghan gave principie to tne sing or blurs missiles in Britain! Now-despite paper resolunon accialig Mal the Labour Party permit" the missiles _ Callaghan missiles oniy y The Callaghan leadership has missiles from Eastern Europe!

no real basis on which to oppose the Cated, these Loves. Labour successive is bankrupt who governments despite the savage lessons of two world wars have shown and again their time to preserving the capitalist system water sodwils wars and perpetuates exploita- They have refused to nation- alise the banks and monopolies, lust for profit are the whose police/military repression in Britam and miel nationally They have themselves sent to Ireland and backed imperialist wars all

OVOI

world. Agreement halt the batbad sm of US bomto lifted not They ing Vietnam. They support the Zionist state of Israel against the demands of the Palestinian Callaghan

NO CRUISE

MISSILES!

Demonstration

SUNDAY 22 JUNE

Assemble 12 noon Belverdere Road, South Bank,

LONDON

Called by the Labour Party

LABOUR PARTY

PEACE MARCH

PEACE

away from standing for Tint necessar struggle unilateral nuclear and disarmament, leadership has withdrawal from the anti-Soviet NATO alliance. Labour left's Indeed nationalistic economic policy of and Rodgers import save agreement "British". jobs from "foreign" up entirely competition lines Party's the with the come cobrac Thatcher and the peddled retuses 101y deployment of Thev fai to grasp that the Britain working class is an international class and must unite internation.

calling ally against the common enemy Thatcher's Cold War cabinet to each to accept the new Cruis capitalist -ine clas f the Soviet Unior country. its willulaw radical sounding phrases MPs and But it is not only Callaghan neace trom bureaucrats and protest marches Some 'left' detached from practical action MPs-such as Eric Heffer-shy the struggle against the imperial ist war drive must be linked to the fight to bring down the government and drive out Labour's pro-imperialist leadership a general strike to *Prepare bring down the Tories Callaghan/ *Kick out a Healey leadership! For workers' government! NATO: fo of international action to break ul imperio Callie mest Cruise missiles: no US troops in Britain! For unilatera nuclear ancarmament imperialist countries. *British out of Ireland. *Defend the USSR! For a political revolution to over- throw the Stalinist bureaucrac deformed forkers states? Soviet Union and

Caribbean cauldron of Page 2

USA

week week See if the President is senile It was Hollywood 'nice guy' Gary Cooper who once said "From what I hear about communism I don't like it because it isn't on the level" What is frightening today ity that someone with Cooper's political 'sophistication' now every President of the United States.

It is testimony to the depths of degeneration to which the US ruling cla cass nas sunk That some- one Ronald Reagan can office in the white House.

seriously contending for The

B2ST

week cereal - who be the oldest person ember if he wins in November, President promised have himsel watched carefully for signs of and assured senility, people that he would American give up the Presidency as soon such signs appeared! as any It this was not enough to sap confidence in someone be the appears solid candidate with the most popular base, i emerged later un the week that 'Ronnie's' cam- advisers also US paign a te the interests ENe тестовав enclave of Taiwan. Great dangers himself Kendan SuDOOTES recognition of Taiwan, even if it threatens USA's relations the China WIll Have developed centrepiece to imperialism's world policy.

clearly represents Reagan yenicant conservativewyers US society, and as such would e useful to the US ruling class which needs a President who has widesorena respect Some of his policies, how together with his obvious ever, and his suggest ignorance age would be dangers to tne ruling cass having such a person in the White House. Unfortunatelv for Americar capitalism the disastrous record and image of Jimmy Carter took batterme

LIES

when the President scene of the Miami riots and his had speed In a Cal away Tanne followed by a hail of rocks and bottles. The ruling class in the USA have a real crisis on tnelr nana: socially they can't find a candidate who their Call alIswel problems. Reagan Begin bitter at EEC bid for Arab rulers The timid opportunist of Major Haddad are notorious.

South African The fact that Begin went on moves last week by Euro- to give a vigorous defence of the pean heads of state towards supposed divine right of Zionist a limited recognition of the •oores ors to sente any we i Palestinian Liberation the 'Biblical land of Israel' how- « me - struggles grow- spells out once led ever Organisation have insurmountable almost quickly to an attack from problems faced by US imperial all sides ism securing a compromise based on the Camp From the increasingly David agreement June 11 marked the 16th beleagured Zionist regime itself -internally riven by political anniversary of the jailing of Overture splits and facing mounting resis South Africa's best-known Tance

LTON

The European initiative was political prisoner, Nelson Palestinians on the West Bank- designed both as an alternative Mandela, came an angry rebuke leader of the towards a compro- propos- African National Congress.

mise courtsey towards Munich" were secont

PLO

He is one of 21 prisoners claimed Prime Minister Begin was menace branding the PLO as diplomatic overture to the bour-

SCHILCHCES HIOSLEY

like Mandela, on Robben Island.

geois leaders • of Saudi Arabia SS" dedicated supposculy Arab states for whom Hundreds al crimes an it and other destruction Jewist jail for political "crimes".

nation. the Palestinian issue is a maio last weeks, embarrassment. Notorious But it has been quickly rejec- students worKers the

PLO,

which launched new boycott and ted by has strike more Of course the forces actually Domica to us laure to accora militants have been arrested.

any with fascism are the recognition to in league Palestinian leadership or their Sultan DIcKer looK place Hones mense ves • WHOse mk right to self determination.

outside South Africa House on with the fascist Lebanese militia June 11. class struggle The size of the Caribbean islands which stretch over the 2,000 miles of sea in the crook of Central and South America belie their strategic importance. This is due not only to their international significance for shipping. but because

SUT

prisingly provide two- and refine thirds of the 25% of the ou required by the US. High inflation Most of the newly indepen- dent islands particular old ' plantation

ICES OI

omies with scarce resources and ns between 3o and sh%. Bishop with Castro and 50%. between

1 UILS

revol station and see a the Bishop evidently enjoys wide DarL radio station but the contributed to the cec ine

SUDDUIL

agriculture and high inflation in problems barracks materia repressive regime of Eric Gairy.

introducing a planned economy unese countries island which produces an and Tobagd

UNV

Mercenary force and Barbados, with the help of allusi Hulls hefty have Gairy was granted refuge in exacerbated by an inadequate achieved relatively high per Us where he immediately political leadership Canita icomes Can set recruiting a mercenary to The Cuban answer to their regarded as politically stable force ing uban exiles con the force from Mafia imperialist lackeys. oWI comestic unempoymenl and inflation is simply to empty There has been a longstand- Group. surplus population, ing French, Us. The pleas of the new Prime while Bishop himself Dutch military presence in the Maurice Bishop for Minister about 200 Peace 1010 ncratic maure co maroo international military and econ alises concerns according to his Corps workers. omic aid were ignored by the personal whims. But since the contrived imperialists, foolishly driving However the Grenadan revol- Soviet alarm over troops him into the arms of the Cuban ution did not have the instant by domino effect feared by the the cold Carter and refusing. to extradite Gairy.

American State Department increased US navy patrols and military manoeuvres in the people were eventually area •i vincent. orry newly moe arrested in November after the pendent, is controlled by Milton "task an a comone services cracking involving Cato's extremely conservative force" plot hendelatters

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Labour Party and Antiga and Caribbean operations has been three US boats and 100 mercer set up in Florida Cuba iecognised the the right than beer further to Much of this is also due to almost immediately and right than before US regime paranola over communs Lucia Alan Lowsy's on their doorstep after the coup granted sy.2 million in cash anc 290 Ceban expe new. airport, Labour Party defeated the right Cuban experts and ship- popula fly on that on the armed members poory ments of arms and ammunition.

the 3.000 strong People

"THE

STRUGGLE

IS MY

LIFE

NELSON

* MANDELA

IMPOSNED BY

APARTED 16 YUAR

The London picket organised by Anti t was supported by Apartheid and representatives of the Com-

IMG,

the Party, the the RCG and the RCI

WOL

as well as individual opponents of apartheid. fourth From June 16 (the anniversary The soweto uprising) there will be two anti-apartheid of activities These will culminate in march in solidarity with South African and Namibian political prisoners ahol delanees. Saturday June 28 setting out at 2.00 p.m. from Temple Place, (Embankment), London. led by George Valum but tne right wing the powersharing deals it had agreed and the government is in severe crisis. left' In Dominica new government exere two 0i il ministers for holding 'commun- lown by the Ust is ation laid as a conditior lot une massive the ravages of needed atten hurricane David. The Dominican Republic considered and Haiti are clearly sale by the imperansts and It 1s worth that in 1965 there were more American Santo dro ullu Domingo than in Vietnam Nowadays power is exercised just as crudely through feeding a0 lo te on o oy Gulf nationals such as and Western-recently hauled in up UN for buying the services Ine ot thousands or iterae gave workers from their cronies in Haiti, a flourishing trade : despite the officially closed borders In Jamaica. Michae Manlev's People's National Party faces a strong challenge from the righ wing Jamaica Labour Party lec by Edward Seaga Indictment The possibility of a Seaga Kingston is stat a ILl cabine •victory -a standing would be one of Chamber of Commerce-is itsel: an indictment of Manley, whose left talk boiled down to severe spending high public cuts, and an economy in the strangle- hold of the IMF . collapse of the The sugal market and. recent floods nave also contributed to an eight year period of 'austerity' SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 18 June 1980 Guyana leader killed The brutal murder of the Walter Rodney of Guyanese Working Peoples Alliance in the early hours of Saturday 14 June another indication of just the thuggery which charac- terises the regime of Forbes Burnham's PNC. its or latin or bana peoples bott consists African and Asian origins and it: politics have been bedevilled by ethnic rivalry. main parties are Cheddi Jagan's PPP which rep- resents the Asians and the PNC representing the Africans.

clerical and Dauxile. mining workers are African a the urban police and the are and rice while sugar alll y. workers are asan ana Were Is « rising class of petit-bourgeois Asians training technocre tomorrow's replacing the role traditionall played by the European bour- geoisie. The WPA was formed last year from four organisations of nOtI build attempting • JInK: the two communities vetween to challenge the government Last year saw a general strike which brought tremendou recruitment to the WPA but it organisation- unprepared, allv and politically to overthrow the PNC regime. Unemployment is high-35% the Caribbean and ver a omne economy and the mass media -are in the hands question or state pater in the state lately anses • in any tion the Messages condemning of Walter Rodney should be sent to the Guyana High Commission.

1 ANGUILLA

ST MAARTE,

•BARBUDA

ST. KITT:

•ANTIGUA

MONTSERRAT

AAGUADELOUPE

} DOMINICA

→ MARTINIQUE

Caribbean

ST WENT THEA

GRENADA

•TRINIDAD

The ousting of prominent lefts from their positions in the

PNP

the strengthene Stalinist Jamaica Workers Parts led by Dr Trevor Munroe, which unsuccessfully sought Manley elected allance will for 1981 Seaga favours 'Puerto model of industrialisa Rican' invitation which failed TIOn dismally the late 50s and early 60s Foreign investment was lured in by generous incentives provided a tiny fraction of the jobs promised and saw 160,000 to. Britair. emigrate Jamaicans The Caribbean itself reflects the crisis of leadership for th clas poor peasantry internationally and the specific economic features of backward capitalist countries where the

MOS

Dack ward of production coexist the most highly sophisti with Care ol because their economies are deformed by their depedency imperialism . and therefore respona to its neeas alone.

Yet from this situation it is only Trotty tor aho point to : necessity leadershin directed towards the overthrow of capitalism

'MARXISTS' RETREAT

IN MOZAMBIQUE

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 18 June 1980 By Jim Farnham "The word "proletariat' has been degraded to a mere phrase. To make this phrase effective it was necessary to describe the petty bourgeoisie as proletarians so that in practice it was the petty bourgeoisie and not the proletar- ians who were represented. The actual revolutionary process had to be replaced by revolutionary catchwords".

MARX

did not In a speech to the nation Soutnern

ALTICA

hesitate to "crown" Machel recently Mozambique's so-called President Samora No sooner had British imper- Marxist Machel said: ialism's Lord Soames-with "On September 25, 1964 we comsance OI VaCIe - declared war on foreign succeeded in installing

ZANU

colonialism. (PF's) Mugabe at the head of enemy -Portuguese 1980 we the capitaist state in Zimbabwe.

erema Naren declare war on the internal than he turned his attention to We are to flush bordering, Zimbabwe, enemy. going countries out by the end of the 11 varcud, Mobamor uc. year" Mozamone nas temamed according to Machel are her "internal enemy", in the five years of neo-colonial indeperdence, a vassal of imper- petty primarly of South

ODDO LISES

allu lamn ad bourgeois African imperialism. neve imperialist non ind uhr adert to band Big effort to been reluctant to powers have CiVI

CALC

exen licE ule Cos u confusion and harm the revolu- Mozambique as long as the war tion". com pleela desta bhis the dhote Zimbabwe threatened In reformism binds its e nesson in he pette

ICHI01.

Dolrgeoi national liberation movements, Reliable Mozambique's Machel at substi- bast labiC tuting revolutionary catchwords for the actual revolutionary breathing up by Limbabwean

OTOLESS

pressure Machel no eT the 2100 davine but gent helping force only who through the House Maniner CaDila confuse the Platalt revolutionary to mainly crisis 1 1C The regimes wiacking throughout have tighten their repeatedly having bourgeoisie incapable of The capital It for 'to surender it the ettects of the wullclacl stil more foreign and exerting of IaW onces 2100 tries. Machel's ruling bureaucracy demonstrated, have The t most recent mustes hat hey wlo it In whilst will do all and workers was ten power lo turtner imperta- looked ist interests in the region.

party as Following Soames' wcaDol asalisu lour days of secret negotlations imperialism, with Tne Mozamdiquan tencer- which Machel's ship in Maputo, Machel has, in state as a weapon major speeches.

TO &1&CK

combined declarations of war on working class militants with for imperialism overtures strengthen its hold over Mozam- uRLOL. bique and her people. process unfolded in part of the process of wrote: flushing worker out and extending control over the workng cass. Macner cecrarea with sword in in March that the bureaucratic the upon egime, through which with it handing controlled

HES CVOIL

CHus workers are over bourgeoisie, the be made more rigid and author- through its chiefs, the itarian. travelling power it hac Ene TO2O End egalitarianism socialism waLly He demanded an end to palnousn "the principle "informality of egalitarianism" "the and an0 prantade» of practice calling everyone revising DaVeTiy "sudde niy" vaunted would Frelimo's Ine muCI concept of "People's Power" knees ment on The establishraent of the betore the big

DUU -CUBBEC WEL

authority and of the

HOWI.

VSLERe him." «тесог Teoresen ave People's Power so that it is not the that The im perialists, anxious to takes decisions but the director stem buTceone maasi strajgles in ane area deresitica ly wio dedes'. their In April, shortly after the interests

LSMARDOIS

be a beautiful bottle, but I'm afraid it's all that will pull Samora Nachel: "Well it may not you through" Down with capitalism' sign at their Portuguese owners tlen Frelimo came removed, a to Maputo airport was considerable would, along with cecenon o su coss non 23 multi-national firms arrived e naneee back for a four-day meting with the their previous owners if they returned or fledgling bour- given to aspirant Mozambiauan geoisie. petty capitalists. decisions taken At the same time, in a have further to imperialism, he remained but after SevICi.i dele- meeting heao or une sackea LIce camne gation and former agricultural ministers most sym patnetic ic Oralle Kennedy the Kremlin Stalinists and, , in a secretary cabinet brought reshuffle, Freeman, Cabirl white ministers to sumac• vo mic lorc or mc os cussion: bolster his policy of increased We told them bluntly that foreign investment and capital- they must understand that we ist initiative in Mozambique.

are imanl neresed w nen sergio vicra, presiden making profits. We told them of the Bank of Mozambique, that we want to be able to take cabinét minister and leading Frelimo ideologue, bring OU

DOLLES

rolunce exnerts and did not want to bi Western Europe

ITOT

stifled by restrictive red tape" month with pledges of over The $200 million of investment, he bourgeois authorities in Mozam biguf the Gesencd SOle DNaTI meeting as "very successful" "You must not look at the and made a point of allaying the present offensive as a turning imperialists' the but merely for us. 1 Cals JUrIlE as a repatriation of profits. new phase in our revolutionary process." In reality the 'offensive' is Handed back a new phase in the of course mecrais soonsorcc Costick As if to prove their capabili- revolutionary process imme diat ly anilinced ta chel imperialism Machel Mozambique Under conditions of rotting shops and small camilalisu menatonaly. businesses, nationalised after extension of capitalist develop- Frelimo forces: armed struggle not enough to secure socialism Machel ment in Mozambique is the per- petuation of capitalist decay For profitable investment finance capital : requires massive technological investment (which can only exacerbate the already chronic unemployment cheape". Mozambique) and ing of the labour power of the Mozamnolcual worker. already struggle to survive on starvation wages Thus imperialism must botl develop the backwardness of Page 3 social relations (by capitalist driving labour power even same time as it develops T.te most advanced forms of capit- téch (latest als prouuClul nology imported

ITOI

advanced capitalist countries).

where trade in a countr. unions are illegal and strikes are outlawed, the material con- ditions facing the working class ana poor peasantry are barbark Out oi a population ol 1.

million, • in rural areas production subsistence

WICTE

non c ce cn cc the import: детістита production is less than it was at independence five years ago.

Reservoir ion bist vete ite of the that the poor situation overwhelming pasaliliy majority of the rural popula constitute a, vast reservoir ton, for the labour-primarıly Suth Atrican gold-mides wanc employ 30% of Mozambique's commodity, export biggest labouT bower The crisis in agricultural pro- duction has led to thousands of cople flooding to the cities in capital was 500.000 under Portuguest rule. Production down But industrial production 1s still lower than at the time of independence With a balance of payment deficit of £ 100 million, amount the country's ine lo more laı total exports in 1978. the econ ay is propad up by toreign The Mozambiquan masses in the cities, face no prospect of virtual tota mploymer and bsence of housi socia ser vices, a conc 1000 (which has to hugely inflated prices for the basic commodities) and a repres- ove orenere ceamre waci spent 26% of the total budget on defence in 1979 bound to into struggle to erene the very lives as the crisis sharpens.

"Socialism" While the Mozambiquan regime continues to perpetuate "socialism will ie mova toa be constructed on the basis of the development of agricultural producuon. VarX SIs boll the fact that the only material for socialism can be the industrial acameli production capable of reorganis- ing agriculture along mechanised lines For this to be done productive forces have to be released from stranglehold camitans sodal renauon created perpetuated by ant imperialism. "For Marxists, the absence of an economic basis tor the inde pendent construction socialism Mozambique does that the socialist 1U1 ucal revolution is impossible.

means that the workers' struggle is international; that th deveooment or ene stugae i Mozambique and the building o government able worker CalIy llo ugr maSSLV programme of socialist develop ment will require not only the e na prodiation in der complete Ilmall DrOUUCUON management but also torkers the practical solidarity and aid working class. The socialist revolution in MozamDoul link in the finally only as a world revolution.

Growing voices for Page 4 The bitter lessons ot . betrayals and

TOCOH!

on mclau: political preparation for the tials struggles to come will be the

TGWU,

keynote of the conference oureI Lauc called by the Campaign for considerably Democracy in the Labour CDLM's Movement on July 5. Octo Derasi ved. The agenda wil include dis.

cussion on three major topics: steel and strikes; cemanes struggle against the cuts; and the 119 01

JOT

socialist policies in the Labour Party. gathering Disaffiliated towards Among the speakers will be abour Party clear witch-hunted Ted leading workers SocaISt itsill, mitante TrOM Line steel BL anti-cuts campaigns Union and Hallsworth, Dave Council- mesicc which was disaffiliated by the of delegates Hundreds hall packed the main Conway Hall for last week- in Northern "forum end's Ireland" entitled "Voices for Withdrawal". Though the conterence nac been convened via the Youth National Liberal Office oi the Club, Tne VaST

DULK

audience were labour movement and aito-imperialist from delegates TalLe organisations commelice

LO LEC

fight for a withdrawal of British troops trom Irelana. United fight Chairman Mick Martin (Hammersmith Trades Council) pointed out the TUC's ban. on debate on Ireland, and called for labour fight VuLCa movement on tne Issue. they stood Platform speakers included Greaves (editor of the Irish war of liberation. Desmond Anthony rich emocial. Coughlan (Trinity conece Dublin), playwright John Arden Tirmv drawal of troops. Marie Mulholland, aito Sinn oi rovNoral Press Fein, speaking on behalf of the

SUD DOILCI

there were any loung "Armagh 11" In the neriod tor questions raised a Socialist Press supporter drew by upon applause natl. platform speakers to say where

OOPS!

"expropriation omrace sonor. I write to draw the attention compensation) of Socialist Press readers to CorTol unfortunate printing error thet occurred in week s paper (SP202, 11.6.80) in the centre. cultural 5. article on Tanzania peasants." Dasc setting out the elements of the revolutionary. programme

TOT

agriculture thạt the working and CllUl. class must advance to secure the

SUDDOTT

ol lne

DOOI

peasalltly: the article wrongly calls for: "expropriation under peasant plots! workers' control of agricultural workers and bool beasallls Of course, this should read: Mobilise for CDLM conference July 5 TUC for convening a conterence With applications for creden- coming from

ASTMS

AUEW

and union branches, it is clear inaт tne conrerene wilDe bigger than the conference The CDLM has a long record of campaigning for independent •cIcle

WOIK Y

class living standards and jobs against Labour and Tory cuts, closures and wage controls.

wite tne aeer oreve pace and moves 10% pay Ted Heslin throughout the public sector it held at Digbeth Hall, Birming- 1c cerv vta to ammer oul a offers a forum ham, programme around which It is open to weachery of theit existing trade suci a borane. potn delegates ana to mmanaua visitors from labour movement ane Labour enders. ana organisations, mobilise mass action to bring unem ployed down the Tory government.

allu and housewives. The CDLM conference to be British withdrawal address from CT.ne Club to one connectod with the labour movement. afternoon solicitor Allstalr Logan to the ways in which the lav and the powers of the state have been used to reinforce imperial.

ist control In 1923, for instance, no less 20% of the male than of the SIA Coultics policemen, drawn from Protes- tants! went on to list the LUzulI battery mensure. recent years against the nation- population-internment ülIS Diplock Courts, the Emergency Provisions Act, and the "Preven- Terrorism", Act. inteligence gathering which inter

ONIY

detainees are charged. The conference applauded a message from Peter Hain WrIghi Maireareta 800-year on the currently im prisoned months after refusing to pay Marie Arden and fine following her arrest outside Mulholland declared themselves Armagh Gaol. for an immediate with Former army Michael Biggs underliner But when the same Socialist tact that tne brusn Arm) asked whether the sial counties a"at that the counties and LIUci dis present there were neither hands meci reDorts ure censorcu lo any sound from the suppress the real situation.

organising committee to switch It is necessary trade Trades Councils. ana lo press

LADOU

Letter policy of withdrawal, adopt a he argued. Hain, ,calling on dele- r eter gates to "build a momentum for withdrawal", emphasised (WITTOUl Drilan s ol lcd under workers actually, enterced divisions: but he went capitalist the 019 oppose the demand for immed- tarms, and nationalsanon or tne under the control of agri- tate wit must fot demand poor "We must workers anel Now, Troops We need a Hopefully, readers of SP202 support it. realised that there was a printing credible campaign" former Young Liberal-failing to the absence of non grasp WILC would never cal ior tne abour movement contingents at enslavement of farmworkers and confiscation small comerence August's Young Liberals demon- stration prove that there is no Fraternally uncommitted "middle SP supporter to be won to a 'broad campaign' After Steel and BL strikes: to debate workers bera on the queston or Irelano As if to underline the point Ruth Addison, former chair YOung Liberals session • 1110 presented ollie DamonI

SOCCCI

which warned that repression in brought the of "our country Teoression too! So long as the organisers . popula- in insist ucallls with the liberals. they will pull back from the necessarily sharp the policy of immed British w.uuldwal ustu troops. Workers Power leaflet the conference osuDuLcu the correctly challenged Socialist Workers Party, , with its alleged 4,500 members, struggle aloe {c mOUl! ally 1% whatever in , aDou ment for its avowed intention loudly last year of building: play- movement inside a genume D'Arcy the British working. cass willa for real muscles into the can put British struggie tor a compiete . withorawa pontica economic military' in harness captain Instead the SWP, the has now with young boerals. thrown its weight nealte urt general 'human rights' demands campaign of the the for D0 21C8 slalu. 101 republican prisoners in ine Blocks-introducer the to fight in pacifist by unions

ATTOWSIIU

MPs 80 should be winkle nane! supported by socialcs must be taken up in the context of a tenacious fight to mobilise the strength of the labour move- that ment action to force the Ireland immediate withdrawal of British sectarian troops irom the six counties o!

on Ireland This is the importance of the campaign by Tameside oncolng Trades Council against its dis- although the TUC and for broad, polices ination out owe tne argued the se li cete amanol Irish people, repeal of the PTA and political status to Irish PoWs. details be r vrtoe Call obtained from. 186, Kings Road, Ashton-under ground", Lyne. Lalasill" SOCIALIST PRESS, W'ednesday 13 June 1980

SAVE

THE CUTS T1

TOVE

JOBS

SAVE VE

SAVEBS

JOBS BS

JOBS

CAMPAIGN FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE

LABOUR MOVEMENT

Conference

NEW LEADERS NEEDED TO DEFEAT TORIES

DIGBETH HALL BIRMINGHAM

Saturday JULY 5, 11am-5pm Details and credentials (£1) available from G. Webster, 169, Barclay Road, Warley, West Midlands

STROOPS OUT

NOW!

IRELAND

JENKINS LAUNCHES

'DINNER' PARTY

By John Lister The story so far: One thing Roy Jenkins, food William Wodgers and Shirley Woy Jenkins and the wight mountameer exuaoramaly, can Williams are vigowously thweat- wing are disgwuntled. Weds and do vd now a conch ening to wesign if things get out Party His gastronomic reputation, wadicals in the of hand. Britains elations othere already, scandal pwoblem for the I ne

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The occupation of the Third Feather Youth Club at Earls Court reported in last week's Socialist Press continues. The club has been occupied by youth and staff in protest at the sucking because ne is say of yourn leaaer kicne Mcmulan

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The television cameras the goalkeeper was blinded by workers from different nations (which TV interviews stayed obstinately the tear gas over a football match is just a managed reflection of the national sight of England and Hau oran balt thrown by the fans). divisions which the press Belgium puffing after the What scuffle deliberately whips up in every started as. ball while in the background which would have seemed tame mele Italian police baton charged any Once the police had charged ended with manic violence on however the press made a quali the crowd and fired tear gas the part of the police an Lalive

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in all directions. divisions to class alliance. Unan- almosonere o revere wooded The commentator tried his was stabied as he lent tan imously, they were on the side best to make some connection stabbed as he of the helmeted baton wielding between the pedestrian events ground. thugs in uniform. the field and the frenetic activity on the terraces.

charge down the terraces when Boasted 5. tones of somber condem- Belgium scored, the press might nation he set the scene for the who had helped like to consider They praised the Communist allack on une lans unal was lo to wno unem mo unal state oi reverberate around the pages of frenzy. mayor of lurin who boasted of press has long the press. The gutter number of extra police he This would call in and who threat. can be summed up by ened to stop the match between saying the a sport. It has become a svmbol Enlal fans were thugs and of national pride and, reflecting Diglana and Italy. animals-in the words of the fact that all big sport is big The headlines (Soccer's Shame... England on Trial) England Ron Green- business. a life or death matter.

lilallarcl simply translated part of the wooey some out a cae tans hooligans in a ship, take it to the hyperbole of the sports pacify the outraged sensibilities the middle ; of the Italian bourgeoisie anc of the pages into action. their CP allies. sink it". Of this not Course In short the fans received the confined to the British press or the ians pour through the treatment from the, press usually to British fans. fork out Ivanstles and reserved extortionațe amounts of before the game, money days balancs Г OI for travel and for the matche England teams that have lost been breaking out It is not the first time and it between. English fans and they should realise that they do wont be the last or hono Italians and camping sites were : have any united interests with the business machine they filled with tans who had made have come to cheer on. It is ever terraces the lournev arom sriram onv It must, however, be the first to huddle together for protec- that ready Dure the nand feeds it. time that European Cup tion. match has been stopped because That ability to divide young of well-oiled ready platoon parliamentary journalists to hear off a reel sennicant after-lunch speech attacking the Labour Party But Jenkins had nothing to ne all me general witn army made wel noises about his dis- with existing comanmen British nartv politics. while care fully avoiding any definite state- that might frighten off ment potentlal wine Labou supporters or the second-string capitalists of the Liberal Party.

line that came The through was his fear of redun- dancy after four years of tax- high free jet setting -and his hopes that his bourgeois iriend.

slashe allies-such job Arnold Weinstock-wil come forward with big cheque: Am i he ge to wich he construct accustomea Meanwhile one accurate by potentia tatemen "Centre Party' recruit Williams that, floated in the press, presently The twice yearly spec. tacle of the British ruling class rewarding its favourite •sons and daughters has thrown up couple OI particularly choice items.

Amongst the birthday honours can found two public relations officers for th Thatcher governmen Elevated to House Lords-where he can bring his wisdom 9. bear on the closec shop legislation-is Victo owner the Mathews-ine

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No. 2 Articles on Nicaragua, Parity Commission, and TILC Declaration Price 40p plus 15p p&p from WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIV 6XX PHOTO: Chris Davies, Report me new party would nave no principles and no values But there can be little doubt that CrYDLO"LOr right wing lose the battle against Party democracy at the October of then Honours for press barons Victor Matthews press office in dressing up the Tory policies and presenting them in borrowed rags. wallnews case. menas put his theory into practice by becoming and ruthless employer in Fleet Union invites top cop In tune with their deeply and reactionary education social policies the National Association of School- of master/Union Women Teachers last week gave a platform to Britain's young- est Chief Constable, Alan Oliver (aged 40) who heads the Central Scotland Police Force. At held in conference Birmingham i to launch an appea pay for an 10.

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Outward Bound centre, Oliver argued that a central cause of violence was of Communist Inanence teachers. These teachers are apparent- ity and encouraging the defiance Page 3 Jenkins will look increasingly towards Jenkins to lead the defence of "principles" of self interes and the capitalist "values" they hold so dear. Street Their champagne were slightly punctured by the (whose editor did not Guardian get anything). Political hacks It quoted from the Express (February 1977): "What the point of honouring an outstanding , if in the end he is to be put on the same list as a lot of time-serving political hacks Healed Prime and Minister retinue of and • The human appetite acluls... for honours is a sad and embar- rassing fact." And the Sun (May 1101l 1978): *This paper has never had much time for the boring farce bows and knightly garter: nonentities" Until now that is.. of authority "We must weed out the so and so's who are spreading dis content", he said disgraceful that a trade union should give a platform to the capitalist state launch its witch-hunt: but surprising be the NAS/NWT that does it Faced with social crisis whịch capitalism, the forces of the state recognise that if the youth revolt lanc dimension then capitalism really is in trouble. The trade union movement appearance flus officers on Or ending no 1ce trade union platforms and assert right of teachers ponticai • vews they

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Interval" "Decent is a gripping inside account of one of the greatest events of post-war history: the defeat of US imperialism in Vietnam. Frank Seepig o a CIA analyst US 0g ne a cov one writes as dis- gruntled because he not socialist occaust imperial- angered ov way ism's agents and supporters Vietnam were let down by the US ruling class story describes the

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defeat of the most modern and sophisticated weaponr intelligence network in the Des world. It shows that for all the soyle. une busemg. the torture and brutality available to obtain the imperialists, wilal Is core wiln unal norma tion is a political decision.

Too late American Martin, for example, as supreme Vietnam, believing North Vietnamese Stalinists necolated brushed aside intelligence reports and refused to allow US evaluatiuli 1UrCS lixed wing aircralt until lt was too late. Indeed he refused to allow amll ne personally had been down and impossibility of using instructed Snepp He ever and other analysts to gear their intelligence reports along certain lines! show the indifference to injustice at home •neD Is aoe to decisions political that and abroad Is impossible. Now. predominate the ever, HOre Carry The intelligence material: but he is extremes of poverty and wealth demonstrate the irreconcilable Zaso une economic reality that underlies the class conflicts that only socialist political decisions. Now revolutIon Car resolve. Crisis than ever, each of us is forced make conscious June very act that a number choice whether LO SUDDOrE Ine of dissident ex-CIA agents have stige with all is seruind emerged reveals the crisis of US privilege with security Done

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apparatus Snepp, remain committed to the struggle for real capitalist system while seeking equality of not tenery and "rectify' the CIA; but others, distribution benefits for show that it 1s all of society, in the domestic a: possible for even sections of the wel as ine international order most corrupt agencies of imper- It's harder now not realise ialism that there sides, harder ana are two reach our towares sociate not anuersland each. ana Agee is thus able to fill the Harder not to recognise that like account it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one CIA. even the removal of the side or to the other" President from office, cannot Inside the Company, p.597 the problem. remove US imperialist had leaders Cantant based as it is on taken they Ene decision unat with not afford to allow any cold fundamental motivation kind of political independence De sona creed. sinov canno South East Asia. They were survive without force-without determed taeretore to detent not Viet the liberation stride Donce lorce. argument is with capitalism and bourgeois Vietnam Path is ca, ma capitalism that Hawonanst recame or opposed Sihanouk in Cambodia other The mastes of Vietnam and acences under stood as logical, necessary mani- Cambodia refused to festations of ruling such repression: but imperialism determination to retain power had one vital ally -the Stalinist and privilege. bureaucracies of Moscow, Hanoi Now, more than and Peking. These leaders recognised the profound impact that a defeat US imperialism would have on the balance of class forces both in S.E. Asia and on a world And, as a parasitic bureau- balancing between strength of the masses in the degenerated aerormed ano workers' states on the one hand and the strength of imperialism on a word scale on une owner the Stalinists fear above all any aisanged peace th coexistence their carefully arranged wan me apesanses. Upsurge This could be seen to be true post war immediate period, when the Vietnamese Communist Party headed off: one vorce no veer comed the arrival of occupying imperialist troops; it was shown lo be true une treacherous Conference agreement Veneva which per or ed Vietnam wake French imperialism at Dien Bien Phu in 1953. Though Vietnamese the Stalinists could nave cartea intolen the beration o1 the whole of Vietnam • instead agreed to the installation of US imperialism in the South.

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heavily on material from a book GIs load US bombers at Gulf of Tonkin led the final North Vietnamese olensive. cleaniv saows the con. tinuity of Stalinist sabotage of the liberation struggle after the 1954 Geneva agreement he describes lor instance the situation 1968 when Americans had just restarted the bombing of North Vietnam «carrot exploded on the nation like a bombshell, setting off a wave of the indignation did not seem to extend the Soviets selves summit Moscon Wal Unl scueuare. during sessions Tina Kissinger took advantage of the cordial atmosphere Will d Vietnam. Deale The United States, he told the Soviets was now pre- to halt the pared of • bombing the North, even before the release of all prisoners, Thieu plank. As Kissinger had hoped, the Soviets impressed allu ollere lo conver Ene message to Hanoi. On I5 June, Soviet President Podgorny flew to the North Vietnamese • capital wiTh new proposal hand Almost simultaneous!! Com munist troops in South Viet Halli receive briefings on the prospect for a settlement. Since the

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had plugged deep a villa SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 18 June 1930 Tony Richardson reviews "Decent Inter- val-The American Debacle in Vietnam and the Fall of Saigon" by Frank Snepp, published Penguin by Books in paperback at f2.95. Communist high command, our intelligence quickly registered this development of a change in Hanoi's policies had reached seismic propor- tions. According to agent reports.

Communist troons were alreadi discussing plans for an imminent cessation of hostilities-possibly without lhieu's prior removal CIA circuiting also revealed that the Chinese had just advised Hanoi soften facilitate an cemand accomodation." (p.35) In the Paris 'peace talks' North delegation vietnamese dropped the call for the removal of puppet President :Thieu Soviet. Chinese and

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forces This was not simply a matter in the South-thus perpetuating of niceties Soviet support for Lon Nol was tae civil war The other more effort was the token Hanoi leadership was far from involving financial backing and contident that after a negotiatec even, according to Sihanouk borders "medical and surgical equip compromise imperialist-backe ale remain to patch up from would an the troops of Lon Nol whom we have put out counter- attack of action, so they can attack us For the Soviet and Peking again." (p.34 course-well bureaucracies In this overall context it i away from the battleground - problems pressed for a see bunt ran ollE con- pressed for a settlement inTerest. tinued to press for a deal at all short for the area oi victory costow far they were prepared liberation forces They used the supply of to stop anti-imperialist arms to the North Vietnamese struggles in the region as a cynical bargaining counte revealed starkly in the book on lo lorce them into ine the Cambodian war Communist Parties through Norodom Sihanouk entitled My out world were mobilised War with the CIA. to combat those who argued for He points out that his regime was actually overthrown and the CIA-sponsored Lon Nol installed while Sihanouk himselt was in Russa Kosygin assured him: "You can have absolute con fidence in the Soviet Union's backing of your struggle. WI will support

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ine end You will see how it will be with the Chinese. They while you were in Phnom Penh you are no longer in pol do. ill see what they • (p. 27) Sihanouk went on to unima then Moscow anne asked recognise his government-in The Soviet bureaucracy replied that since was China it up to the wasno Chinese to do so first. Peking duly did recognise Sihanouk's regime, soceches made by Chou En Lai in North Korea The Soviet Charge d'Affaires then blandiy denied that this was recogntion, since the statements "were not made on Chinese soil". In the event only two East European states (Yugoslavia and Roumania) recognised Sihanouk's government-in-exile 1 he Soviet bureaucrac recognise retused Sihanouk but maintainer embassy in Phnom Penh the very trom the Khmer Rouge libera- tion forces began falling

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"Victory the and to the call for press "'Peace in Vietnam" The Peking bureaucracy held position-throwing its behind Sihanouk only as a counter to tne influence tne Soviet Union had acquired over Vietnamese Stalinists. Yet efforts of acsoile EnC both imperialism and Stalinism 'compromise' roved impossible. However clone an acceleratcu social system of the workers' based nationalised states, on relations. is incompat- roberty ible with that of imperialism.

Repression sapi lien markets addi to new markets and allu repression in its existing orbit. It annot risk of the su per-exploited masses of Asia.

in resporise lo such move- ments the leaders of imperialism forced take political of global importance

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this context that the 1t 1s 1n politics of individuals (Johnson, Nixon, Thatcher, cartel. shape the lives Kaan can countless millions. Snepp's book ably illustrates the way in which the actions of mas woo bade very elected by anyone-such Kissinger and Ambassador Martin-can central the deve ooment or worle mstory At the same time individuals decisions each take material DOlL allu political pressures. Within

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for instance, the anti-war movement emergea defeats on battlefield and Viet- the determination of the mandest agalist imperialism. The anti-war enforced eventually not only Vo wilulawal, vul cicalcu li Vietnamese retugees Liberation forces ride in triumph into Saigon in 1975 material conditions for the Watergate revelations Bv. 1973 the US imperialists desperately wanted to negotiate a face-saving "peace" that pre- Surve Ene pupper legune m the South. individuat But this • hint presther made pissell let rresdent neu was deter- mined to hang on to as much as possible. As Snepp points out: "As the Summer came to an end, he therefore launched several ambitious military opera- ostensibly to clear NVA (North Vietnamese) units out of base the delta and camps Cambodian along border the norin ol saigon, but in lact to eliminate doubys blint ing American about capabilities. With the pressure mounting Hanoi's military leaders, Giap of staff allu 1l1b began cind. But their for a response kind. But r arguments foun- dered manor's chier patrons. Neither the Soviets nor the would Chinese military masave new 21c te summer and fall of 1973, and both agreed to though increase econonk

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allu conservatively The battle field. Instead striking Thieu's it die died the ahead spot, weakes pocketbook, launching a series of hit and run attacks- 'strategic •Ent frighten off ano foreign In the next month, as Snepp snows. each move made by

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forces to strengthen their nego- DosIuon easy victories. As a result the North Viet- namese were carving themselves "butfer" area

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persisted in his refusal to com- went from one victory to the next. With the ease or the vic tories, General Dung proposed a the Hanoi leadership change to tue ucsons re was ukil Butcher Nixon signs com nique in Moscow, 1973 leadership pointed on the towards a monumental clearly shit on tates bore ad shift strategy. what amited focused on the highlands arefully calibrated not to ove the Unitec . States provoke home, was now being expande the tensive! 'general multi-front the ncertainties an WIll hazards that implied.' (p. 146) It was this general offensive spurred hv collapse puppet forces collapse of the eventually brought the the decision to forward was not simply depen dent on the balance of military The Hanoi bureaucracy lorces. had also recognised the contin uing threat they would face as long Thieu similat ree old power in the South. So cos book so incles what could "history of evacuations"-chart ing the spread of panic in town North Vietnam army as for seats in the est trit desperate fights last planes, the US took to pul out: and tens of thousands that were left behind. where only 140,000 were evacuated, active supporters or collaborators with puppet estim gim were total (with families some one million. In the light of such figures the numbers subscrucill Vietnamese "Hoat neonle" car be seen more in proportion.

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The station Vietnam is quoted as saying tha the problem "niggardly hal Was measures" bv the US adminis tration. Ronald Reagan, with open talk of using nuclear weapons to entorce , us control on a world scale, echoes these views. Cartel shows offensive realit Marse wann woned imperal it pose and pay to "Ping the tat and posses-

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confident imperialism the OI 1950s and 1960s. The answer such vILY Inteats revowtoner! the working as to action bye working class to overthrow capitalst property relations. an remove parasitic the bureaucracies and degenerated wonk de tates the deformed im serianste stand together in opposition to such movements: only Trotsky. • part oi a recor Fourth structed internatonal can lead the necessary revolu- tionary struggles Bitter legacy of US saturation bombing

Page 8 Painters of man and nature If they did not both have exhibitions of their paintings in London at the there would be same time, little _reason to compare Andrew Wyeth and Zoran Music. fact that they are ot the that lavl born ir silen are weld was 1917, and Music neither of them can be placed in "school 'of con- recognised ally temporary paintings. Both have created extremely paintings individual kind. And their paint- ings express and reflect their very different lives. Ancestry Andrew Wyeth has lived all iTWO Ford Pennsylvania and Cushing, Maine on the coast of England Though clearly proud of his German and Swiss ancestry, he has scarcely travelled. has seldom

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stayed still. Born in Gorizia in Northern Italy, he has constant- But the rest of his output ly travelled throughout Europe, Canno l a rected without relating to the except wnen lorcibly prevented from between 1943 Dachau paintings. imprisoned as an anti fascist is This is true personally since Music's new surge Creative The be concernor cr activity in 190y and 19/u also In the thirties he was to and the outbreak of the Spain develop his landscape painting.

Wal Yugoslavia and then to Venice, Tragic beauty where arrested by the Nazis and where he still spends ut it is equall true artis- much or nis time caly. no muse descrioes u.

It was in the Venice Biennale Dachau paintings as expressing of 1956 that Music first won the "the tragic beauty whole landscapes of They Grand Prix which brought him corpses to international fame in Europe,.

said. if not so much in Britain.

everything down to the not essential' Ens his even the illuminates nainter nimselkey ПОТО of the effect which his two recent paintings Dachau had had on example Is on sey in thi years major series Music's mind and art. entitled In Dachau he had secretly watercolour. „Land' made 200 drawings of the scape with rocks" saw around him. Superficially similar, they horrors he of these still exist, Only 35 are in fact constant variations of mostly colour, light and arrangement.

in tne pamters posses sio After his release he resumed Together they have obsessive quality-like the

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career. Damille especidily Dacnau paintings. dry, rocky landscapes in Umbria And on a closer look their (Italy) and in Dalmatia (Yugo- similar. The structure too slavia). Some of the results can rocks and the skulls seem almos seen in the present exhibi interchangeable. tion. When 1960 Music describes his native area of the Evocative KarSt a real seemea connection with Dachau which terrors They are strong and evoca- become much Flave talel uve danes our oy enemselves more obvious in dis palillig present only a limited aspect of manne great plain and mind of Music stones relieved by little In the mid-1960s he sudden round hillocks. area, a poor youre museus unaoe to con- without ary anu monotonOus tinue painting such pictures-a Trees most never rams of artistic paralysis plateau. is habit- and the whole which lasted five vears racked the ually bora, It was suddeniy broken in horrible willu as 1crocious 1969 when, of Dachad, Muhe the tuch an obsession with the Mistral the place nas Dachau, began to ball a series or terr know longel fying images of mass death woetner 'm describine une lana unwell was extremely. scape or my paintings of it."

"and the unnaboy ne ras salu. corpses started to come out".

Obsession None of these horrifying and intensely moving paintings and It is clear that he could urawines on SHOW

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today desay of present exhibition ¡thouon the gallery has a few and will show combined Them to interested visitors) obsession which makes both parts of Music's work, and the The gallery intends to hold a Turiner exalomon in une tore devoted to the Dachau paintings so powerful.- And this gives a fascinating and drawings. Henry Phillips reviews two current exhibitions of painting in London by Andrew Wyeth at the Royal Academy of Arts, Picadilly until August 31 and by Zoran Muzic at the 12 Duke St Gallery, St James's SW1 until the end of June.

Zoran Music: 'A Landscape with Rocks' example of the total interpene- and could crippled by polio only by hauling herself tration of art and experience in InOYC a great painter. alo The story or Christmas.

Though different appears in story "Christina's World", with extremely way, that paintings, is mter enemanon Is aiso a central feature of the work of the storv of a whole bie Christina Olsen Andrew Wyeth To Wyeth, represented an ideal of patient, Wyeth also above all seli-sacriticing struggle oame —out nol a of painter of landscapes. a constant theme That is to say, he is a painter his paintings and one which has Way taken the USA been taken up of his own rural surroundings in •rore and Mane-out as lopics not as "scenery" but as the enting some sort of in which people ideal' individualism and environment sacrifice. Ive And the people concerned The fact that his paintings particular largely can be used in this way is one Weeth s ones, reason why Wyeth has become in his est Auerner ramiy in nadas rora such a a and the Olsens in Maine.

artist country. They themsleves, their But Wyeth is not a reaction- typical eastern seaboard old ary painter. individualist he and is, but his theme wooden oul • no uses Wyeth's own strugere agast nature or aaver surroundings are the subjects of sity can also have a progressive most of Wyeth's paintings.

content. it mav seem as a result. tha For instance, in 1971 the My fact, worker, it i chich fact, much striking workers of the Museum however, of Modern Art in New York more universal than the subjec matter would suggest. Interrelation Wveth's theme is DO! much the trees or grass or faces wooden houses or animals which he paints with such pains- taking care and igurative detal His theme the of interrela universal one tion between man and nature His landscapes. even wher typically, there are no human figures in them, invariably carry evidence • Hunall sometimes in the form of build- semi-ruined ones ings, at times by Caweuvack Halul c sometimes the Torm

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story which the painting is an episode. Probably best-know Ils World unfoltunately called World not the present exhibition-shows a Olser woman Wyeth's neighbour in Maine, hill, proFily herself up half-sitting, on an apparently deformed arm the gal, to wish her house over which her house can be seen Christina Olsen was in fact their propagain as the symbol "Christina's World" ol uner own struggit their posters a balloon came out of Christina's mouth "Strike! saying simply In another respect Wveth is sometimes accused being eactionary because he is als those who asinolay allists see his paintings as symbolisins a back to nature perspective But this also misunderstanding complete Wveth's view of nature His landscapes and interiors are not cosy or idealised.

• They menacing as the titles or some of thies in the exhibition Hour", "Distant Thunder' Nature to him is both beau- tiful and awesome Wyeth also criticised as his reactuar becaust "old- detailed, figurative fashioned" style. It is an absurdly formalistic allegation routative represen amona painting is not a single style. In different forms it has appeared

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influence of Durer and the 19th Century leading German painte Caspar David Friedrich, Wyeth's style is copied trom no-one individual style developed order express particular combination of the beauty, power and emociona content" in his own which he be the wants content of his paintings 1 lina many or lne pamlig this fine exhibition have emotions content Phis true.

beauty, enormous only seascapes create for the viewer the illusion of feeling the wind I and tasting Le SaL out is also ruc or like portraits. that or of Chades port ais is One of his best bour Karl Kuerner wearing the helmet which wore when fighting in the : German army in the First World Wa It combines Wveth's unsenti mental friendship with Kuerner and (anothe also curious Parate ito rous his hauntine the horrors of the First SOCIALIST PRESS, ¡nearesia: is Jare 193% world war, which ne nad no himself experienced. the excellent television him on w vera wuca was showi on the South Bank Show June Wyeth revealed him The King Big Parade" which shows and horror degradation warfare from the point American soldier an "ordinary Wyeth has not expressed this influence openiv but hints at il through allusive references . to the evidence of militarism in the Kuerner household The same helmet that Karl his which wears look more like a U words "severe boat captain than a larmer also in another ing Baron I Al an a lucy. which Kuerner's wite collects pine cones. Thin is typical of the subate portray the interaction man aile things nature-smal often bearing echoes or grea but distant historical events. Another, almost obsessive, reature Wyeth's use of windows which appear in virtually all his paint- ings. Windows mediate for him between the interior man-made world and the exterior natural world His landscapes are often seen through windows from houses his interiors sometimes seen from outside Window. one directior other longing for or fear of what lies outside Wyeth has become famous and fashionable in the the wrong frequently ¡casulls excenent exmidition a the Royal Academy is the first opportunity to see a large selec this his painting. country where up to now they have been little known Both thi and the Zora Music exhibitior offer OpporTunites Dona to see man fine paintings and to gain ar exciting insight into the creative and emotional lite of two great contemporary painters. Andrew Wyeth: 'The German' (1975)

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Germany at the end of the first imperialist world war, was reduced to econ- omic and political ruins.

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internal class struggles which posed sharply the question of class the

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power. Workers councils The Kaiser was thrown out republic declared; sprang up. On the streets, groups the workers occal struggle to overthrow the last vestiges of bourgeois rule.

une socia democrats. pushed into power on the wave.

insurrectionary stood between the working class a a deran revoluton. reformists clung these at every leto to video ye find new ways every turn of restoring OICe continuing framework capitalism. Fought against They not only shrank from the tasks of revolution, they actively fought against it.

By December Berlin was in the hands of workers, "You have always Chancellor, called the demobilised soldiers the remnants of the old imperialist said that if such an event took crush the spontaneous y created cove s army command brace vou would come 10 ou Naval Division. armed workers. assistance. Now is the time to The Social Democrats, recog- act." nising that control was slipping Time to act This open lining up with the last vestiges of the old imperial

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smash the revolution. "The government is made state machine in fact failed.

On December 23 Ebert, the he told Major von The army was routed not by prisoner.., Relics of Vichy France In June 1940 after Marchais, Museum near the Elephant and being campaign the discred- accused of brief Castle in London volunteering ited Third French Republic government Une set Laval s scheme was in ane tirsi posters concerns 'The Relief" occupation toler veal surrendered Hitler's project of (the ated by since they armies. Premier) under which supported the Hitler Stalin pact.

he aoreed with the Nazis that for every invasion of the In count was to se now• inally ruled by a new collabor- three French

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Marshall Petain (First World War prisoner and French Germany, one rrencn

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•The hero) based in Vichy. of war would be released.

nationalist forces in the and the Vichy regime. But the northeastern area of tance German The posters are addressed to occupation was occupied by courty Potema vounteers. ""Ву working sador of exhibition contains ine German army. a ne The new regime abolished you will be the ambassador some gooded mots ofter this of change slogan French quality.' alter 'Freedom, and Equality have the kev of the

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extremely reactionary camps. French you nature of the Gaullist-led resis- a no replaced i "Work, Family and Father- free risoners by working WIth land". Germany 1943 resistance poster small but interesting scheme failed and was The •Toucenters accuses the exhibition of replaced by forced Vichy regime of losing parts of oosters and eventually political leaflets produced in labour: the French empire. Vichy Franch is on show until The CP French (whose 'Indo-China is missing from June 30) General Secretary today. Georae the at the Imperial War Empire-Frenchmen think moe patien or the local prat.

mass arial. wno corvinced une oren- ary soldiers not to fight.

But what did the reformists conclude from this: that they shoute on wine une workers.

Not life! They your looked for more reliable forces about this". But thouch the Cr even indeed contri- and buted to the reactionary charac ter of the politics of the resis lance une oresence or the cr allowed the Vichy regime to convert its anti-resistance ФРН ЗАНЕШ РОЇ РОРКРІ| anti-communism which there are interesting examples the exhibition Despite a Gaullist-nationalisi exhibition orientation. …the worth a visit in order to gain, no vichy France bit some se complete political picture ful direct first hand insiaht o the political struggle in France in these all-important years-at ot

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DallAST prevented. the betraya possibility of social revolution.

By Enrique Alvarez who would not shrink from

CANOM TO SS AT AUTSCAIGCNC

Gustave Noske a right wing social democrat, was brought in as defence minister and charged with the task of defeating the "Someone must become the bloodhound" commented Noske. "I won't shirk the task' counter-revolutionary policies of Noske Ebert appear almost inconceivable

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remember that it was a Labour government troops Ireland introduced the reventon scrapped political status Ireland and used the

SPG

the army to break strikes from Grunwicks to the Firemen Reformism is still reformism For the leaders, just as for Noske and #bert. WIld acceptable determined by what is necessary for the preser- vation of capitalist society In January 1919, Noske and Ebert last desperate lined themselves with th private annes or wermao caoit the Freikorps, to smash the leadership of the revolution- movement and hold bac al tne working class. In days 8-15 Januady. bloody nine suppression from sat back while the Freikorps' the brutalized shock . capitalism - oi German engaged in an orgy of murder Page 9 Scheidermann By Colin Morrow Noske with Freikorps thugs and violence against the German workme Class The leaders of the young Lurem Communist Party, Rar Luxembourg and Liebnecht. Jacking as vet the necessary mass proletarian organisation to actually smash the bourgeois state power, were up, and rounded beaten murdered Ebert, like a good democrat, was suitably upset by excesses: i have proceerin the proceed troops caution", informed government. This service to capitalism did not, , however, nantors any grantude trom ter masters. As General van Lustendorff, one imperialist W d ledatis, was to comment on as return from exile Sweden three weeks later: "It would be the greatest stupidity for the revolutionaries allow. us alive. remain Why, if ever I come to powe there will be no pardon. again with Then conscience, I would have Ebert and Scheidermann and company hange watch them dangle" The spokesmen of capital are by no means lacking clas consciousness and class hatred Ior even the most wretched an spokesmen of the workers' movement.

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INDUSTRIAL NEWS

St Mary's: unions fight on The strong opposition to health facilities the rundown and closure of wanted. St Mary's Hospital, Harrow Road, London was shown at a public meeting called by the defence committee Wednesday June Paddington School. wake of

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meeting. The main platform speaker of the fight,

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Cx-MP for Paddington, defeated rundown narrowly General until heeded His contribution offered no

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forward-apart way TrOM cmphasising how much harder to dangerous cuts with and Tory covernment and Tory MP; he said very little that whole area. was constructive or even encour- From the His onlv oractical suggestion that local referendum the community. was should be hield

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Returned to office after five years of Labour betrayals, the Tory government has immediately begun wielding a sharpened axe on jobs, conditions and social services. Trade union rights face imminent legal attack. Prices are already rocketing upwards. sectors of state industry will be handed to the Tories' Plum profiteering big business backers; and the pay rises to armed forces mark only the prelude to increased state in the occupies North of arcians and an intensified army crackdown occupied North of Ircland.

Callaghan-Healey eadership has made it clear that it will oppose any perspective other than settling down and meekly accept Continue to suck way Tom a at to eat ali an.

forgotten Labour's TUC leaders, too, have set out to establish a basis for working class alliance with Wilson and then Callaghan.

working class has experienced and overcome such Heath's union-bashing topple betravals belore-to and smash through Callaghan's reactionary Phase 4 of 194 in a series of monumental pay battles in the winter of 'hese experiences are not dead. They ocial services and hard-won union rights can renewed Tory attacks. principled revolutionarv leadership is needed ii the Labour the TUC collaborators and their hangers-on in the exposed and Communist Party are to be struggles mobilised that can defeat and remove the Tory govern- ment. Such a leadership must fight day in and day out for a programme of transitional demands which, starting from today's conditions and class, working Toody s consco ustics. grasp the necessity for. socianst revoration And in taking up democratic demands-such as an end to racial and sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role that must be as the only class capable of leading struggle une 101 Inc mankind. And it must fight on an international basis--mobilising solidarity anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles- for world, Africa elsewhere throughout strat hich outed i hated Shan in loan. This ousted the hated Shah in Iran.

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the people need that threatened aware stressed strike preciscly such a rererendum nac thal actor been organised by the Commun- amongst hospital trade unionists ity Health Council only a year policy to defend Well ago oc Beckles, secretary of the are tomo service The meeting showed clearly lospital defence committee an ne strengin or ine oppositon a GWU Branch chairman emph St. Mary's, Harrow Road The day task of resisting the resistance day begun under hospital of the administration and he comoined wit mounts a would continuc no matter what general of action against Tory health cuts.

He outlined the current stage St mall Cancel saying that recent Mary's lies in its isolation from anti-cuts struggles in the assurances ov mamasement cal would take place London arca. next spring must not sector trade unionists and activists must work has attack isolation with the brought manning at the hosptial the he said, leadersne anil have an Labour Party. lobby of the AHA has for 4.30. p.m. been called floor speakers

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to scrap 5 (i.e. proposes 45%!) of its resident orches- be a scanadous betrayal is also put 172 (about tras and other unions 35%!) of their musicians on the dole. BBC musicians have been on all out strike since June l. 1he reaction (nas been con temptuous and arrogant, epito- mised in a letter the cuts sent to the Financial Times Singer and distributed to all BBC employees. The BBC is filling its sient hours by violating agreements limiting "needle (using Samoonone allu repeating recorded programme The strike is strong and soli success acends crucially on support from other unions. Association of Broad- port. But the test for this will the

BBC

come when

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(whose members are also severely affec- IAN BURGE, ASTMS mem- ber at the London Hospital, and supporter (died retenty ait ant the Militant tendency. early age due to an lness contributed fight against strongly The or tole hospital closures in the Londor Lessons area and nationally over the last and his death is a sad loss.

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: up 'left, right' march SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 18 June 1980 face BL tactics Frank Waller big the Waller 29911091 business. After Lew Grade, started working to rule paid he's the highest going your way director in the land. a well-known trade unionist.

He's on the board of over 50 Six owns a Rolls Royce Kaufman,

AUEW

Awest was manager's office, yacht and lives in a mansion in Reading. It's big but no bigger than Blenheim Palace.

SPOU

Frank waller likes football up the day before. so he bought himself a football club: Reading F.C. They're Danny Broderick is a striker: but not the kind Reading FC want to buy. Robinson, He's the IGWU convenor at Adwest Engineering, Reading, who along with 50 (including all but effect: diverting attention away shop steward) have been locked holding a our ane

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unto persolarly. mass meeting. campaign Kaufman had already been pared and Personal friend The man behind the lock-out typical TGWU convenor. wauer, chairman Adwest. Waller has friends in impor tougher, and lives in a room tant places: Peter resign

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Ine could join Thatcher's vampires' for a cup of tea after hours on in the Tory cabinet, but still keeps in touch. the pickét outside Adwest Ray Horrocks. managing director of British Leyland Cars victimie hando acted. and hit-man for King Edwardes a personal men or rai they water before Frank Waller admires and Tuesday Edwardes Michael so much he force Adwest should be encouraged to participate in the Shop Stewards Edwardes-style Deeds economic strategy. called mass Accordingly, the Adwest GWU and AUEW workforce of some 200 IGWU a10 Aunw members were told this, tney that would their had prepared: they refused per- interests accept offer mission for the all a l5% CUl ICal accepte grading wages. a new told all the workers that anvone structure, subject attending The complete mobility and sign would be sacked. ity agreements. response of the work- wasn t I called it outside the told Weller where to put his with about half Undismayed, Adwest took of losing their jobs. second leaf of the Tne out Edwardes organise an strike féar and smear Kaufman's victimisation. propaganda out a secret accompanied or damn well message from the boss saying something along the lines sacking you've blown it. ¡ you don t vote ves to uni offer you'll have to lose your job". an enquiry you may as well have a whip round, shake hands and say cheerio. Lost the vote was carried and ity of us set This is what Adwest did, up a picket outside Adwest with and despite the. Brother Kaufman on that picket campaign, nke Edwardes, they lost the vote.

LAen 80% the workers voted we'd all dismissed ourselves and West Midlands bus cuts West Midlands Passenger ment and more importantly the Transport is making a 10% West

(WMCC).

cut in services and increasing bus fares by 15% WMCC covered 25% of costs. In in August. 1980/81 it covered only 14%.

With a figure of 10 hours a week reduction in each driver's New buses purchased with a subsidy woin week ll is cical tnat Jobs will be going. government. This certainly the case the subsidy was 50%, this year it with 170 white Cula

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330. which are being phased out over nothing at all. the next period which means a attacks on cut of 15% the jobs of And craft workers are being cm ce du a umne wnen toe asked to make a 15% improve- government's Transport Bill will ment in productivity. open the way for The background to the cuts panies to 1s a services-leading to further cuts subsidies from central govern- and job losses. Adwest strikers plan and it became a lock-out" "But fighting back. Next lesson: if things aren't JUSt ike revano workers wil fight back. move dealist know "We we're Martin ago, fighting Frank Waller or Michael militant fighting cowardes. wett government determined sumemoner..to the informed that smash the living standards of the was drunk and sacked on the "As trade unionists it's our His monev had been made duty to and improv our standard of living and

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uncrease sorkplace and Put into action The systems create control. Kaufman is a militant; Derek "We see this strike as a strike convenor for the working class against the capitalist system. This is why we wash l. DUl strategy is the same and so is the must win it and will win it some workers' Dul we need sunDone dod from pay and official backing, we nee

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aid. Every picke thing helps.

volunteer financia discredit some or us can t allora to was now put into eat anymore but we are fight- because we're going to Danny Broderick isn't a very Wit. twenties, looks a bit like David Essex but

ADWEST

DAY OF ACTION

House it or rented rooms m Reading which is where we went MONDAY 23 JUNE at 7.00 a.m. taken after Martin Kaufman was Adwest Engineering, Headley Road East, act fast because Woodley Bank Holiday Monday,

READING

would have given

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dirt As chairperson of the Joint Committee meeting of all members. "When management heard of made me move «nev Leylands did-and foremen mass meeting Strike action gates the workforce year's This "I recommended immediate Conference was once again OveI largely composed of Branch Secretaries and other paid "Any trade unionist knows- should know by officials, who appeared to thrive on the Annual on a witch-hunt Holiday Binge atmosphere, and the lavishly expensive "If you sit back and wait for social events at which they appeared with their partners and relatives dressed in "As it is, that strike motion expensive suits and evening gowns. areas, some branches management said did not even hold meetings to elect delegates: Ene and had little were selected'. interest the conference proceedings. It Was not surprising under conditions that the NEC These and the right wing dominated the conference, ably supported by a very large con Party Communist Stalinists and the Militant group. The first 3½ days were taken Midlands County Council proposed changes in the rule bo pro Many of them In 1977/8 revenue from the

WCIC

nature, out allowea some leading, long-standing delegates once again to mono polse the microphones are at present resut. the from important policy and political resolutions were crammed into wast yud. liv last lwo cavs. wild me me • Will be factor severely limiting discus- sion total of 33 motions were services dancemen Standing Orders petween tne Committee, the NEC and several private com- particularly the • Drancnes, largest branch (London Central) will foca with its Stalinist leadership, into led in by a general resolution The sixth rules revision conference of the TGWU Weymouth takes place in from June 24-26. The conference, which takes place years, is the only body which can change the rules of the union. full time officials and the intro- luction of elections. Almost 50 motions call for this in various wavs-including a call for deletion of the infamous rule that the General Secretary hold office pleasure of the union". important motions moved by Cowley 5/293 branch ballot concern and discipline measures first the motions calls for reform of the balloting notorious procedures of for Committees, General Executive would be Council and the General Secre- for democracy in the TGWU tary. I ne The current practice or sena ing bulk of ballot against without numbers papers lucialon lo orance taries who have simply to fill in a return form and send it back BL's Cowley itself Kegion -lends corruption. elected neer Last year saw the case of positions by Law, a branch Alan secretary were subjected and Regional. Official the series of trumped up charges.

who in Milanes tilled whole of the 13,000 ballot They were papers for his branch himself, including never sad ume union-sentence. to get them to the members!

only eventually who publicly through PIssale announced that he "would do membership. During the une same wan was not aione Many such scandals have hit the defendants TGWU over recent years. The 5/293 motion proposes the "evidence" SOGAT NEC keeps the request of the NEC. deplored the Tories' An Oxford and economic monetarist calling 10| policies, the destruction of Wages producuve maustry and tne wel fare state, the increasing unem- ployment rising inflation and anu aelcated cuts in public expenditure defeated resolution calling for the future Shopping list election 'every full time officials. was it called for measures' to

NEC.

stop the cuts, repeal of anti- union laws, "change the conference to reject a move course" the cove ment against the wording measures to re-nationalise with- papers which over has recommended acceptance of tion hour pay settlements, combat loss or loos amsine trom new technology and withdrawa employers. from the EEC shopping list also included the diversionary call to notes, conference resolutions in opposition to any fight redundancies in industry through selective import 1orm ol mcomes Dolcy. and tor consolidation of supplementary controls as well as demanding

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oI retiremeni at 60 years for both men and valic women. implementation sick pay During the debate was mausty. difficult distinguish Stalinists and the Militant from more rigorous the right wing DaV

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abortion, after Lic olansts were centiou in their praise of the Genera interesting debate with a "Life Secretary and the

NEC

the agreement reached with the woman's right to choose' was negotiation sess carried by TONe which were sold along with a for the £80 rights of leave for men. united claim with the NGA and NATSOPA One union There was no mention at al of Bill Keys involvement in the

SOGAT

steel strike sell out. committed to a speedy tation to achieve A motion calling lor pursul one was carried, but industry another asking for a fifth week's annual holiday was remitted at for British Page 11

TGWU RULES

CONFERENCE

TGWU leader Evans new procedures to ensure such against elementar right in anything other than a Prachces would be eliminatea.

kangaroo court The adoption of the motion major forward step The amendment calls for the Ight or any member chargea to : 5/293 Whole set throughout the secone or une motions arises from the struggle of the proceedings and witch-hunting near an une eveence oresented attacks on the Cowley 9' during An group of for full motions provision call Then, 9 TGWU members at lo orcamuse unem Assembly Plant, ployed workers within the union many or wrom ma on us! into leading Other motions call for : rule shop floor ballot, changes to allow the GEC to to disciplinary call a strike of the whole union, and the deletion the nearings witnin kegion s on a behind this which given sentences wueneve demands are placed on them for ITOm which were all out strike withdrawn But TGWU members s should from excited. On orm. is nonv bureaucrater hearings the conference only 150 delegates were denied unlikely the to adopt many of the 566 motions on the right even to be present to heal being given agenda.

NATO

and the banning of branch motion nuciar meter was are bossed sliding as van call tosta cam and aaron attracted some pith with within union labour the dis- Nute and defeate opposed by the bandment of the Special Patrol Group. SOGAT 10 featirm its commit- was a Stalinist motion for five years' of al NortneIn Irelana to This motior adopt the TUC's reactionary criticised at length by the Better Life for All campaign was alst • cartea The platform also persuaded total domination nation and SOGAT by the : right on ballot the Tribunites, tailed in i every many years thing by the fake revolutionaries of Party the degree of success against the regardless Militant group classes un any substantial absence Trotskyist presence within the brighter union able signtly : to wage a principled did tne aerence interests of the working class.

MINERS... from p.12 rates payments 10. interest to British miners where national the capitalist class goes shopping scheme I01 There le ste at LIle Iot Its coal stake is the defence There was a demand for a interests of the working class.

campaign ine scottish Num went to unanimously endorse a . 35% women. lively and claim, seeking £100 pay minimum wage-a figure likel carried at the national conference next month. large The threat to miners' jobs is call for paternity not new: but the strength and self confidence of the NUM has grown by leaps bounds 1974. the struggles of 1972 and In fighting for a leadership now capable of defending their inter orien- ests, miners are urged to join the the objective for the print

WEIONISES

• 5 conference of the Cam- further resolution calling paign for Democracy the Labour Movement (details p.4).

from

PRESS

SCREW ON

manual workers, too, have been Plans to impose a 10% forced to settle for far less than wage limit on workers in the une rate or mualon public sector are just the latest indicators of an inten- debating whether to take action sifying Tory attack on to improve their pay public services and national- онет

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ministers are proposing to inflict ised industries. cut The Tories are plainly deter- stallalus. minero are mie ousic sectoi Medrwnie. ah their cease to da de de by Secretary down tine has ruling class local authorities midst of a real wares rising tide of inflation.

their spending by £700 Last winter saw steelworkers —and stressing the need for this be reflected and BL singied out carworker for attack: public service Dower. acursilly direct council spending will not until take ellect government is using of moratorium games m order to ouaccon councils into spending and axing their work- Backers has only pulled back from steps because they would harm her far

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But for all their qualms the employers continue to support aven now nurses nons are as offering a determined lead m tna struce to crive uo unc insulting rate of exploitation of workers arcady the vicious to this in their living productivity • socca-ur anu proposals being rammed Environ- through in the Post Office, Michaenesel British Rail out a blunt order brush savourders. Lie DrusE cut back Sosed Corporate national Cal National posed Doard cuts in man- Even Civil Servants now face the prospect of their annual pay that their being sy stell whizz-kid Sir Marks creamed 2220 Spencer Derek

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year. Unle Rayner. the threat wholesale cancellation or For workers employed building public une sector. and countless millions that depend cutting services, answer other on allack. prepare for a confrontation with the Thatcher government. It seems likely that Thatcher

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registered as a newspaper at the rost vrnce. Signed articies do not necessarty tellect tne views or te workers socialist League The Togliatti and Gorky dismayed have Kremlin the imperialists. strikes-beginning factory bus apparently class willing living about by Vill isolated dissidents This means strike action and jobs, occupations deteno services and working conditions, fighting for supporting strike from. othe action. WOrKCIS the private and public sectors means extending ad-hoc and single issue struggles vul. and bay ballies mio une rorma Among tion of councus oj action, draw.

of ing together delegates from sponsors Star's trade unions, working lass 50th oute labour movement bodies, and fighting to prepare for general -general acuon to one down une Thatcher government and wage the • struggle for the removal of

AUEW.

onv a worker governmeni committed to the construction publicised ride well of a planned socialist economy ful of scabs through nationalisalion picket line at the without compensaton or banks power station basic industry, and The Morning offer protection to Prival nausur or me ac hope of employment sector or to the growing army of workers on the dole. Miners face renewed In the month's

NUM

attacks and living also a growing their jobs. The Tory demanded that stringenu new by 19834. the NCB will need to axe up to seek thousands of redundancies.

been launched requndancy payments wnich, 1 is claimed handouts assist the war conditions -Tymawr Colliery wilt inquiry investigates means of making it the Gormley, hold hope on Call Wane Ble bit vidult Wales and every viable and making a profit".

Strikes halt Russian car plants news that strike action had halted the two giant Soviet car plants at must both, the numbers of socialists who have bureaucracy and fought for free trade unions in

USSR

For the Stalinist leaders, the Europe among Imperialist leaders who drivers but 'human unus Lilt spreading into rights' . espouse ready 370.000 worktorce in the tw( Catsao opiatio eas in tel plants-indicate tnat ine soviel oppositionists increasingly Union unlikel DovIel to resist the attacks on argue strongly in defence of the right to strike stanualus The very last thing the bour- mismanaged nationalised econ- wish to ation of the toiling masses in the These are preciselv the kind Union in of class movements which the could bring about the political bureaucracy has hoped to fore.

Kremlin overtorou bureaucracy and the resurgence stalwars vicious coressor bourgeois based and ty governmen the small WOIKEIS CoUnCE Star blackleg of Perhaps this is also because the list Stalinist George Guv. leader the Morning the sheet metal workers on the Anniversary i his memorin the same has scabbing festival at Alexandra Palace

GMWU

was one John Baldwin OBE Lulle laggers. secretary of the Embarrassing construction section of the perhaps alst Baldwin's most recent claim beause grin site come s of course his on the site continue bus with a cross the picket line each day to the GMWU

COCK IN IOT WOTKI

Isle of Grain While the Communist Party Stalinist time-honoured Star has of fashion, to suppress such em Dartassne macis. are conune any condemnation of this black- plunging sales of the Morning legging by one of its esteemed suggest that they are fool ing less people than ever before run-up to next While Gormley, a part-time conference company director clearly iden tifies with the capitalist class in in Eastbourne it is clear that miners face not only the wisile le the labour of his members, the need to defend their wages defence degenes a fundamentally diates but standards, threat to ent do broade

NUM

Yorkshir President Arthur Scargill in ge tir for challenge i one NCB meet ward his the meet Icades wret . targets Gormley retires, has nailed his colours to the mast of defending. It is clear that to achieve this all lobs. the light ior a tour dar week for miners ("promised as 50 of the less profitable pits and long onual vage of 110,00. 1919" and Already a press campaign has

OLOMOL

Standing ovation will offer a miner of Such over 55 €20,000 and substantial STanC clear! , and Scargill's announce correct younge ment that will "stick by his he on working priceles of the media won him a stand- NU conterence last we Sc And the first threatened pit ovation from the Scottish Lewis Merthyr Pontypridd -has But in a situation of mount- internationally been only temporarily reprieved ing war Scargill must also state where he ways and demands stands on profitable ban imports of coking othe "solution" Joe coal a word. negotiated this pits. tomas one ear that that wone ne to see som are .other area Cont'd p. 11, col. 6