Socialist Press no. 205

2 July 1980 · 12 scanned pages · about 14,502 words of machine-read text

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TORY POLICIES MEAN

PRESS

ADULT UNEMPLOYMENT

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1979 Financial Times lethal combination of the worldwide economic crisis and the Thatcher government's hell-for-leather drive to restore profitability has sent unemployment rocketing to record levels.

The mid-June total regis- tered UK unemployment of 1.65 million is larger than any figure since World War Two. And excluded from these figures are hundreds of thousands of unemployed married women who are not registered they hecause are not eligible for benefit.

the 150,000 Among additional workers on the cole queue are some of this summer's More leave school leavers. next monu irey ad tcas ol ulous' ands more young people going to remain unemployed for to come, as nott- maly moels Tet vacanees nave asen or ane twelfth month running. figures are Even these doctored. 189,000 youth r and adult workers are kept Iezistel

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assistance measures. The dramatiç rise in unem- ployment course not a British specuicaly onenomen on. Europe the six months has seen 500,000 more workers thrown the dole

UJILU

Joseph queues or tne bee countres.

In Britain the Tors Conscious policies ment its mOSim And in the USA 1.6 milion inflation and drive up the rate workers have been made jobless of profit through rigid monetary in the last two months. policies not mean that DuL lEs coes unemployment is like some kind test major which has mployer they plagus possible control. with case it is conscious measur stenne onu caca strong rises deganed To restore ano , onvate bronts mnai Dricia

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cocures ano WOrd markets.

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arcav private Britain. The policy

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U NEMPLOYMENT

INDUSTRIAL

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to accelerate rationalisation and speed-up, in order to compete. Those that fail are forced to wall-increasing the profits TNe of the survivors. *High interesi Tates. maintain a strong pound on the weak and declining basis onca dase aer ser it, to "squeeze inflation out of Tories have the economy" imposed a record 17% Minimum Lenoing Kate will help They hope this hold wages But 11 Vall wile lt nils Dotnl unt weaKes. Tirms-wno seer loans simn vtc those might borrow VEllve Wisc Hr Onev IO cumace Rew nVest ment. *Huge public spending cuts: govern- gone further swingeing llial. Cutvalks l

HU USIL.

attem DIs • CuTD nealtn, ecucation an0 impact on the construction and olne suboly mausules an Despite growing cries of pro- unemployment. Even the further {l billion package of cuts.

have. forged *Rationalisation the vachase public sector: wholesale closure Dound. wnle and sakings nave IOICeO exports our Enrougn oy lory casn . ImItS InES makes smeounalrie ano DIlIsA Now the new boss Cuead Lev Rind. is designed British Steel Corporation the British manufacturers orders further cut pran

INFLATION

10,000 jobs and close still more and the will survive in the short term above ove. 50,000 saukiligs alicau y wical wilic planned outcome is plain to all: ,no hesitation snow industrial output is at its lowest lever 101 C0 devel since woro wat y cemanos In Birmingham alone manu- facturing output has slumped by set a cracking pace by 25% in the last 3 months.

unemoovmen Machine tool orders and even arc a cut down by And retail sales too have established union rates fallen, car sales down a "Just WIEn catastrophic 30%. them selves out can price themselves into jobs 1984 It b u DeoDe slightly figure". comoc nicure miall ana Joseph, unemployment at over 2 million with 1982. key

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1984 As it becomes clear that all cut in real wages. of the major capitalist econom- For the ате sm u taneousiy neaded into recession and even highly iu siemep :ajundancies Britain, wuineis llo iow par aci ana MOrt DusmIesSHNj alt DU the in thrn the tong tom snarme Callaghan I know JONg Maner macrers cone ut right thing; but I am worried Thatcherite slogan of Fighting Labour's anti-union laws

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10 20 30 409t. Financial Times narene] about whether British industry ing out inflation" Now they back with folded LIEt Colovers waltne

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use the Thatcher to serve her five-year unemployment with occasional calls for the Torie. UUWIi waze ment au-iura' Indeed Sir Keith Joseph has mean tney blamin. the imposition of wage control high wages Labour strategy of ano ine olo demanding workers subsidising bankrupt private industry through in wages to below vcstlel casil nanuouts people can price of jobs. they Protect profits the interests of the The Labour 'left' and TUC out of work to offer a leaders add to this a nationalist call COnTIOIs lower profits of British witil Cusi OToTeCt employers at the expense of the jobs of workers overseas characteristic bluntness, spells out one of the 1 cl ne laci s enat tse mos profitable British employers are ou celives -boostmng among those shedding jobs and profitability through imposing a wasil war on SHoD LOI WOTK ing conditions. Ford UK, salllt Ivason instance, has Ihatcher government is tighten.

ing the screws on dole paymes.

theders ghespectful wilal is une response icaaers 1 Ne employers profit coverament. have waged not one course, also drove up unemploy.

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coup in the making?

ZIONIST REGIME

Page 2 BOLIVIA: another As the two-million strong Bolivian electorate goes to the polls for the third time in as many years the inter- national correspondents of the bourgeois press are once again gleefully serving up arithmetic of political Tune instability: three elections, six presidents, two general strikes, three coups and (Socialist Press' own contri- bution, this no less than seven attempted military putsches. Gradually the message bourgeois nome that has impossible to translate the con- sututional and jundical appara- tus nurtured over centuries in imperialist metropolis to a neo-colonial when the national state bourgeoisie be only in hundreds and the only military and the proletariat.

Since early the American State Department has Soldiers in action during the last military coup the acute sought mealate class conflict between forces by pushing lor a walla" man' meleo of Pers Gen. mentary in wen und Garcia (nephew President ground can find its Lydia Gueiler) Illant But the workings of early bones about the act inat wants an end to parliament and bourgeois civilian rule. only anachronistic;

HO CISSLY

This has led the military into they lack any historical roots of condict with the emnassy country

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and the remarkable situation of where 65% of the labour force are agricultural workers; where the generals assalling the ambas Hall l existed one of her pearl tod existed on £30 where imperialist Cabilal small but highly aevero dee a militant and superexploited proletariat. The months of May and June have seen an important for the new stage two regimes in the Israeli state and the territories occupied since 1967. There have been importani developments in the scale Palestinian resistance, the political aims the Begin government amo in ine extorts or Natusch the imperialist powers to defuse The two year political crisis conflicts in the area in Bolivia manifests this essen- The train of events Iccolle tial contradiction but also incor- can be traced back to the Pales.

secondary Group of loyalls tinian attack on order: the temporary divergence loyalist settlers in the of interests local between the lown or hebron on the west Bank on 2 May. poly capital: the 'internal' com- This has been the most well petition natural Dunesee our ov no means taf to bourgeois party politics; and only example of increasingly intense Palestinian resistance in alliance with the trade union activity in the occupied areas.

bureaucracy, has served were Israel army patrols divert the of the combativity shot in East Jerusalem on workers from the overthrow of June and in Bethlehem on 22 state the June. The cantally defence of its liberal form.

All these elements have Bomb attacks come to the tore in

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recent period since the removal of the 16-day Natusch dicta- On 25 June an agent of the Israeli security i see or olice was killed torship last November. the Palestinian Their combination makes it not the of Sunday's Popular Front in circumstances that remain unclear. elections but the very real threat Daily bomb attacks occur or a pinocnel-style coup inat 1s the principal concern of revolu- throughout une occupied tern. tionary Marxists. tories and other forms of resis- include the toning Setback military vehickes and Moos ana sn001 Although they suffered upsurge in resistance? In part at major come from the crisis setback with tne maN opposition and overthrow of the vhich is going through its mos Natusch military time $in= testing idated November 'strong By Don Flint sador as 'an imperialist viceroy' and denouncing which her cacon Mav effectively suppressed a planned coup. Survived Gueiler to appears scampered through and survived her term through deit maninu-

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in the fortunes of Israel's once mvee army quent election of the ultra-right Begin government brought new problems for the Zionist state same level of support Tune from abroad could not be relied the economy upon to prop up anu keeo tae mary suponed.

Amongst other manifesta- the tions economic crisis, inflation has to the cope up rate 01 1s per annum recent months. Disillusionment with the "ideals' 01 Linism i goa The regime to ne been Matar lation and the support 01 Washington has been however forced delay implementing major

IMF

austerity plans and with the economy on the of collapse her successor, if able to avoid removal by the generals will be faced with a working class that remains militant, is

IN CRISIS

I WEST BANK

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Donald's

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lishment of new Jewish settle- the more recently occupied the West al vas Dank There are now said to be 92 settlements in this area with 20,000 inhabitants. Many or the peoe in taest settlements come directly from the Son ontain and have lose collor including Jews who have lived in the area for generations.

The Gush Emunin move- •ment of settlers takes its ideolo- -Tate se SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 2 July, 1980 Gueiler takes office . Dauperised and vet to hold increasey

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• Continer demonstrably tiring the important constituency in the parliamentary pantomime. capital Santa Cruz), the indication the crisis important chanenge of cavitalism in Bolivia is giver is Lechin, General Secretary of so mist dominated fact that the

COB

His PRIN alliance has wor the acmanaca Dacking OI Bolivars

OST

MONti while 60% of the labour force is (Morenists) and paid less than Bs 3,000. tion from the POR (Lora) With the national debt 100% Most these Trotskyist' higher in 1979 than in 1978 have switched their there considerable scope Socialist from the 1s no allegiance Party of Marcelo Quiroga, which lot concoung anything neat the demand. now stands alone. The likely man most to No illusions succeed to this problem is Siles Zuazo, leader of the 'left' MNR.

The number one priority for He is allied to the pro-Moscow • revolutionary Marxists the left social democratic

MIR,

COOLIUCA

and a variety of smalle working class. This by no mean socianst partle. abstentio requires Siles the critical sup- from elections but the Trotskyist' It certainl port Vanguardia Obrera entans a corous «еаано! of class alliance or the slightest opposing a stenssore s illusion in bourgeois democracy rightist coalition has lost groun fulfillment since 1979 with his ill-designer proletariat. This is always the case, but and the loss of the Christian in Bolivia it is the most immed Democrats. date dall tsunden regale ment. Military backing Support for Lechin who though head of COB, has no But Paz maintains a hold mnass barry and. want is more: important peasant groups 30-year history betraya over and although former dictator cannot be defended in these General Hugo Banzer is stand- terms. While the . Moscow aine discreet aid from the Peking Stalinists long ago threw some military. in the towel (with Siles and Paz In all some 13 slates, the com- respectively) Has Lisals prising 72 parties, Pabloism entered the conume to be uncer shifting from one left tain certain to confuse the voters talker to another tottering on and perpetuate indecision the cliff-edge of popular front- However. aside from Banzer Ism blame cannot escape terrorist attacks on the West Bank. The attempted murder of West Bank mayors on 2 Jun

TREACHER

BAGEL LOX

and the actual mutilation of two not have been of them could

CHIPS

out without help carried fron establish- mulitary ment. hand seatacksong hind

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long measures of 'official' repression

BANK

ranging from the closure newspapers to the blowing up o houses and blocking up door and windows with concrete.

One particularly macabre action of the Israeli forces was group. to forcib v close Closed in Hebrew on the paint word _outside Euphrates Such measures can only be whose enders com to the cus these a i what Nazis detained authorities. eamter ceneranon leaders As Mayor Shaka of Nablus •ome

COTI

tner Perh erence hermont notorious said after were blow! Jewish off, this Israeli expose policy of racialism against us".

united •lares and. were amost certainly behind the large cach of explosives recently found

CORRECTION

theological college probably Jerusaen intended to blow up a Mosque week's Sovulist The have settlers South s2:ed 300-31: ==: 2-: re so the army involving around 8,000 workers) with the the mine strik! • (Involvin di the Gush Emunir and probably with place near Johannesburg.

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French workers fight to defend social security US labour bureaucrats talk of 'coalition against Reagan' SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 2 July, 1980

-INTENATIONAL

"Berger" The law to strength of the Gaullist Tive regime, the bourgeoisic tried to reform Social Security and destroy this basic gain of the the 'Barrot' changes in the workuis class. medical have system lnis was the signilicance last few awoken in these the laws which de Gaulle initi- ated in 1967. profound discon- weeks al Ihese decrees and the resis- tent inside the French work- tance engendered whieh inev ing class. the working class no doubt These things which proposals of the designed to carry out attacks of rise lo tne exeio- sion of May 1968. unpreceaentea seriousness against the system of social insurance in France. Delicate Such attacks carred out tne bourgeoisie snow tnat tne cannot hope for Today, given the deepening lasting improvement from any of the economic crisis. the bour- geoisie is trying. is posiLon lul a capilallsl systeill _to mnicr new the system of in decine workoro nier contain the social protection. movement the French operation is made

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Lills bourgeoisie tumultuous DartICuRTV cencate oecaust oi the considerable attachment

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JOLOWIE

une SeCond World War, had to concede one that workers nave of advanced systems the most Jusulallce oi social protection. In the soace of one month four national days of "action have taken place (24 April, 13 Impediment and 23 May and 5 june). Compared with the days of Far from proving the ability action which unfolded on other preceding months, bourgeoisie Occasiulis incorporate the interests of the Ene Damce I Workos class, this concession strikes and demonstrations working formed a heavy impediment to these last weeks has been alto- the competitivity French geel suronpel The demonstration of the 13 caritallsll. is why, in the middle May was the most important 11021 of the 60s, because of the rela- since the elections in May 1978.

USA week by week On june • over two hundred trade from throughout California met in Los Angeles discuss political crisis the within labour and the relationship between the "micrat" Party or thin the unions and the Democratic Democratic now but Party. bulla e new party cowe une conterence was cater His statement fell far short by the 1.7 million member state of the labour

AFL-CIO

and was chaired by its vally resoralol passea by tne carpenters state secrewar Jor nemme. Conference calling for a labour Henning began the confer- party movement now. by declaring the ence Delegates the floor IIoI Democratic lalLy TUlE were wica mowe amaní 200 mOonaires wietne Unons the immediate necessity of start- being allowed no special repres- ing quickly. entation at the upcoming Démo- worker reported aulu bialil from the UAW convention that sansas City. : Democrats had provided no tne He also noted that there is legislation to defend against lay- little discussion within the trade otis, yet there was no presiden unions of independent vote for. tall canonoate because oi tne basic Icaeraton finished by noting that Real choice Local 535 of the SEIU had a meeting on the labour party and the United Steelworkers District He called for a coalition 38 had passed a Reagan but that the against motion lor a needed Iaooul Darty trell western laDoul movenenl conference in Phoenix. party 200U have a rea Throughout the choice. conference, delegates complained about the Support for a labur party also came trom carpenters. CWA VOum aDR auk II SlASDoC that prevented the «tructure menoers

DUS

orIveTS. steel- unions from developing an inde- workers and SEIU members.

The and the party was headed by Alexander necessity of building that party.

secretary kamos. parkan natna cccormcoe the California State Conference Committee on Political Educa- of Carpenters, called for a new tion (COPE).

CFDT

could only muster Undoubtedlv. the united-it somewhat limited -character of 1,000). call of the CGT, CFDT and Following the May the the FEN raised among workers

CGT

leadership called for the noDe woul oreansanor 01allul possible fight effectively higher the 13th level tnan on the politics of the and had insisted on the need to against engage in a polemic against the coveruuneul

CFDT.

vn ure evening oi May 15 the declared prodect; seemed represent an retreat on the 'Berger' intransigent stand in defence of workers' interests. un escoraoly. Sze o1 LIc mobilisation had caused them to However, they did nothing. reconsider their tactics.

Under of "making had by no means noise" But the nh oy, went TO1 repetition the preceeding given up iner objectives, as was ty bt sho sin see al ecks ater, days of action, which were signing oI ine CeTnaos speca cukr Dul medical regulations. theless inadequate and therefore unsuccessful •HoWever, .tne day tollowing May 13 the union leaders begar The 5 June was, despite al shout of victory and refused he eftorts oi the CGI to inflai the • peow Ene numbers on 13 May struggle. and the bosses' organis- this the CGT could

CNPF

the ation appear as the only organisation medical regulations. The reform- which went against of the opinion'. The ISLUrI scrupulously carrying out Frenea Com minist Party CGT and the deçision of their last French • used explicitly any these days of action as a means ov caic of put ing s presure the cnt or namna cccn On the other hand it is un- leaders Socialist Party doubtedly four true that thesé and the CFDT. We are, therefore, a long way tays were mocno y politics of the from a consistent fight for the matked nv The CGT union confed. defence interests

WULKGIS

which was the main if asnst the attacks of the ruling Cialuli. not ue omy oransng lorce.

(50,000 people took part in the Such would necesitate the pritin forward struggle CGT demo on 5 June while the = Build a Labour Party! Barkan Dick Groulx, secretary tarncil, made no sccict or the national AFL-CIO's contin- the Labor Hiallicud uea support or tae vemocials.

canea or aoour to care tne "Our real enemy is Ronald hell out of the candidates the Reagan, and we will endorse support" unions was President Carter. that labour

IU W

1orcCa seems certain, he is nominated supported candidates in the at the eas sapiood by ack recent election spent thousands supported of was uton donatel iwno. Crowlev. secretarv o1 tae saf advertise on AKUN-IV, a struck and station in San Francisco.

HranCIsco aD01 counel even Henning who, while taiking that race, United about a labour party, proposed Farm Workers gave $30.000 to "wait until January Democral santana only to see search out labour candidates" their money spent on scab station where the office workers are still on strike. Henning closed the meeting by calling for more discussion with another and December two or three ir o elo rm obosa war made to call a congress of all the unions to begin the construction ui a lavour balty. race lnonie ne socie must demand that their union move forward the act. now struze lor d labour barty Waiting and

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Heming Barkan will not create a mass movement in the labour for a labour vally t Pae union with co artine a n- must be consurucica more and dithering opportunists Carter of clear perspectives and a real Dn ol aor o union leaders. In the face of the lies about the deficit of social security we demand the immediate must payment of unpaid benefits, the remova oi bosses represenla tives , on the administration of and social security, the drugs •o•IO OI HaUSta and To cate dinics carry out such measures mean coming into con- Wold flict with tne government and the ruling class. Workers iscissioni onn mune discussion ston the O1 national interest": it is impos- sible to reconcile the interests of bosses and of workers.

organisations WOrKOL must abandon the tactic of rota- ting strikes and of isolated days ul activi. Demoralise This tactic which has been popular with the Stalinists for decades chiefly many acts the class and

OCL USC

Sul sEC demoralise workers number of unemployed and the rise in prises only increase is a clear Hecessary perspective whi ers ai sec tions of the working class take part in the struggle; the prepar- (reprinted from Labor News) Let'sMat- america Puge 3 from a special Socialist Press correspondent in Paris of a general strike, led aton workers' democratic councis Workiy oa to rend ust say clearly to defend gains of the working class. they pull back will not

ITOM

TOnt. ing to remove the Giscard which is unable to government guarantee the health of workers must I ney snow that tnes are ready take the power by breaking all ties with the bour geost We have laid out here, brief- ly and partially lines main of what must be for us a system atic plan to answer the projects of the ruling class. No illusions We don't have any illusions that the •resent caders or ue workers' movement can serious- ly fight to put such a plan into Placile millions today,

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workers have confidence in organise these must workers as much as our forces •allow almand of their leadershi that that they Ther unite on toe bass ol tok plan. It is only this practical struggle that it will be DossIolt To trel masses irom thel illusions and to forge a real revolutionary party.

REAGAN

Reagan: can only be fought through workers' party.

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Labour NEC takes up Page 4 tions which exist in the prisons Labour's right wing Northern Ireland" Shadow Cabinet was thrown newsoabor into paroxysms last week.

ing women Armagh by The Party's NEC voted-des- being olte Callagnan "

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endorse an the condemning 'H' Blocks of Long Kesh repub- Irish republican in the concentration prisonces Long Kesh and wear prison clothing or prison Armash jall. The resolution

WOCA

"deplores the appalling condi- political status- a blanket. Police writing materials, and subjected attack Gay

CAMBODIA

March Last year's Gay Pride

SKORFA

London march was memorable for its large size.

This year's, at only a third of the size will not be. What it will be memorable a good numourca ambie InTO angry and militant demon- stration against police repres- wnen ne maren amyca al Parliament Square one partici- pant was arrested by the police sive and provocative from the beginning) for carrying an offen- sve weaon-a faloul: when omner marchers Drotes- ted at this atrocity, they too were arrested. At the ond of the march a now angrv crowd retused to dis- perse and were Descisee hundreds of police in Malet St.

Eventually the police were the TOrCCO thal march re torm ane co lo bowo where the demonstration con- tinued until those arrested were Te Casca These events not only show example of the up and repressive benaviour on virtually all demonstrations they also demonstrate the readi- ness of hundreds oi gay people to give militant resistance to the oppression which they suffer in numerous respects from bigotry and the repressive forces of state. 1980 For this renson the Gay Pride March can mark an point in the important turning campaign to aerena ine victims of such repression now necessity becomes an gay

WOIKCIS

ments. When

TROTSK YIST

should Daily Mail reporters

INTERNATIONAL

be beaten up is the question

LIAISON

on everyone's lips.

COMMITTEE

ine surprise has taken WOrKeI surugait felt like doing. Joli rassalule. ground with the

DISCUSSION

oroken grasses.

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of his breed in the Mail.

No. 2 happenstance that wherever Articles on Nicaragua, there behind; that Parity Commission, and sense ol tentais TILC Declaration lad persuaded him to follow up the marriage; and Price 40p plus 15p p&p cowering from WSL, BM Box crowa Nastase struck. 5277, London WCIV Of 6XX Illa y nOL ambitions of his fellow reporters 'H' Block appeal to humiliating body searches.

points to TeSOlULIOl conclus reports of the beat. lameley party's 1ha1 the prisoners Northern Ireland study male warders and should thons of the prisoners, and con investigate denied sanitary and restoration of the right saer And it points out that in the Clothes and have acc th to them wear their own TV, books and writing materials. their But the Party leading body has -arc Jockee Uo respondca une lour-yedl 24 hours a day, clad only in struggle for the restoration political status is a blow Callaghan-Mason right nev are dcnico reading anc wing, whose attempt

IROSHIMA

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Callaghan wants expulsion of socialists-not Militant!

ILEA AGAINST TORY Labour's right- SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 2 July, 1980 The case of extreme right winger Douglas Eden served last week as a guide to the way Callaghan and the Labour right wing are now hoping to carry through the expulsion of socialists. member of • crypto-Tory Social Demo- the crypto-Tory canc Amance-nao Deen correctly expelled by Hornsey Labour Party. He had appealed to the NEC hoping as ll une case or nis ova coleague.

Stephen Haseler and Roger Fox, the expulsion would be set aside Tony lowarus Benn's "broad church" view of the Labour Party Benn indeed did diguc arams encorsne une exouson.

The same position was argued Neil Kinnock: draws the line at socialism

FIGHT TO DEFEND

CUTS!

Inner London has wit- nessed an impressive series of meetings called under the banner of the South East Region TUC to develop a campaign against Tory pro- reorganisation would give them scale authorities cannot afford dismantle posals the to back control over London to provide, and wnien contrib They were unpleasantly ute considerably to the welfare Inner London Education when took surprised Labour of London as a whole. Authority (ILEA). succeed in Greater Control Ine ( 1 ones splitting Massive attendances by trade up and London Counci ana proceeded unionists and parents have testi- to build council housing in the forcing the Inner London middle fied to the determination of the of the Tory suburban boroughs to operate the educa cass

LONGON

heartidlus service defend the education service them pay for the privilege.

individual boroughs, there is no loubt that there will be a savage which must be seen as a historic- Under Labour control, ILEA was built up into one of the best reduction quality ai gain Ior the labour ment. education authorities the schooling in London The significance of the ILEA country, with much lower pupil- There will also inevitably to the workers of London increases as the tcacher ramos man cory autnot De real CosT that ites, large number of present central anu allu money across special facilities which smaller DOWer is reconstructed in each of the borough boundaries, and therefore force the Tory boroughs Ike Westminster who receive enormous rates income from West End office blocks, to caucanon Ine DOOreT working class boroughs such as Tower Hamlets. Break up Ever since Labour establish- hold ed a LORdon counel Ene Tories have struggled to break up the unified municipality of avolu lils redistribution economic favour of working cass divas. 1960s thev hoped that local government Tory GLC leader Horace Cutler Trotskyist International Liaison Committee Public meeting Wednesday 23 July at 7. 30 *For a full discussion on the crisis of the world Trotskyist movement.

*Reconstruct the Fourth International!

Speakers from the WSL and TILC sections Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, WC1 Tickets £1 _committee ana Ils chatrian Eric Heffer. But it was Callaghan-echo- 118 statements shadow minister el knnock who insisted that the expulsion of this right winger should go Lines shoulo between acceptable and forms of opposi- unacceptable con withm une barty. ne arguca.

People who were "so disrup- tive that would tear the they should not be in party apart The ' NEC voted 13-10 for Callaghan's position. Challenged as to whether he meant the Militant include trus Callaghan insisted that he did inner boroughs. But main aim of the Tories in breaking up ILEA is to force cuts in London's educa- The ILEA raises tion spending. by mone Vassill: demand (technically called precept) to GLC and the must which they boroughs Taise These powers make

ILEA

independent of Heseltine's controls over individual local councus. anu this is what most irks them The campaign defend

ILEA

supporteu

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NUS/AWT,

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TGWU, GMWU, and the

GLC

and Association, coordinated the

SERTUC.

Long serving bureaucrats and wheeler dealers are rushing to get onto the platforms of the defence campaign The notorious Jack Dromey has been appointed by SERTUC to run the whole campaign.

It well may that the deadening hand of the bureau cracy will find itself incapable of holding the campaign back confrontation with the Irom Few of those present at the first round of mass have take been prepared to seriously DrOmeY SorODOSal seek allies among 'progressive' Tories. Most of the applause was reservea lor speakers trom the floor correctly demanding industrial оссира- facilities prevent the break-up. 4101 Heseltine said that Militants expered and I would be grateful if you would put words mn mouth" lead …K Innock nowever -a ing Tribunite-does not seem so convinced that even the tooth Militant

ICSS

And he like Callaghan, openly committed to the expul- left Wilcus" incluaing supporters ol socialsi Press-who the Militant 'left' MPs strategy of tail-ending ana bureaucral. ana fighting for principled socialist policies of nationalisation with- compensaliol workers' management removal of Labour's right wing leadership. the right wing is in an DUl extremely uncomfortable to launch a. root and branch purge of socialists This was revealed by the fact That ne Na was torced to nov to rank and file militancy on the CULs Issue Labour whip to leil wing cillors in Bristol and Manchester who voted against spending cuts proposca Dy Ight willg Labou fascists The Rashtriya Swayem- sevak Sangh

(RSS)

vicious fascist organisation in India. The threat it poses to the Indian working class is growing.

light of capitalist the tne lach mi and polinaly teaded revolutionary leader- su ol lae macdo workie cass Acting as a spearhead smash the of the organisations Clas. caste and medium oi religion chavinism, the

RSS

the the called "cultural" front parliamentary Ene Jar Sangh) practices a fascist programme. support from Drawing

IT.S

high caste landlords and urban petty-bourgeoisie (espec- ially the trading castes). the RSS has been responsible for count- less incidents of communal viol- ence agitation agalils

TENTONEV

the workers' parties Whipping up propaganda against other religious minoritie!

and the lower castes it ultimate- ly seeks to combine the perser- vation of the exploitative Lasti systen wien Is by the bourgeoisie the land- lords and the state impose their own class rule with national chauvinism A clear class resnonse hased on the strength of the indepen- dent organisations of the Indian Hasses aru willa Domes to une need tor workers cet detence to crush the fascist menace remains an urgent task in India This alons allel struggle by militants the Brent Labour Party, clear evid- emerged ence nas to show the penetration ol the hindu sway emsevak Sangh

(HSS),

the fraternal organisation the RSS in Britain. into the British labour movement. quiry into the activitie set up by concerned militants. reveals that the HS.

the same constitution as snale. the RSS. It also provided an audience two leading fascists to the Indian pariament. Nanaii Desh.

mukh and Bhandari, Page 5 councils. And was underlined by the NEC's by Oxford CLP for the reopen- ing of of Ted Heslin .case the Socialist Press suppulles wnose expusion Irom une rart has been finally overruled after 18 months of appeals. Callaghan appears to be shifting his tactics come of the party inquiry trade anton bureaucral local and national level draft force. acallona will! onto week he stressed that it was up › to con "safeguard sulucie (Parlies they ake sadio to institupe "disrup- consider to tors" If this had been the case in expulsil winger Douglas taen can inus be seen as a sprat to catch a mackerel: 1t 1S aisplay or even-nanaca Justice by a Callaghan leadership aching get its hands on the windpipe UI bie ici shield Indian upholds identical aims to the

RSS

the struggle to oppose suca an organisation. multants were obstructed at every step right wing social demo- crats of the Labour Party Bren 1 Пt Calman South CLP, Len Snow has not and defended the HSS but also snarov condemneo multants to highlighting the issue. Recently, the face of a such an organisation as the HSS, Len Snow has somewha retreatea to adopt a "neutral stana be thary bour Party we should wary getting involved in Indian politics,

JUDI

we sroue ao West nea affairs, Isracli politics or those of any other foreign I country The MP Labour 10] DIen South, Laurie Pavitt, has stated: "I refuse to divide my com rades (!) into "left wing right wineor any ouer labe —soca ism means unity in diversity."!

In their refusal pursue politics that are in the interests of the immigrant working class in Britain, these class collabora tionist Hisicauel. Insical the surrouna inemselves with reactionary elements

HEIUS

the immigrant petty bourgeois Meanwhile, the leadership of the Brent Labour Partv is shield ing Sharma one of leaders of the Wembley

HSS

who 1s also a member of the Labour party Militants Brent labour movement must confront such TanK OoDorEuRIsEs as •now anc Pavitt and the left talkers in the Labour Party enlist the aid of organisations of Indian ine workers and the trade union movement in this task. ine ngnt must de taken ur for the expulsion of HSS scum from the labour movement But as this case makes clea that light is inextricablv bound with the struggle to expose and misleaders present labour Hoverci refuse to take up a fight in the interests of the working class.

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FIGHTING LABOUR

ANTI UNION LAWS

Alan Thornett looks at the struggle Page 6 The second half of the 1960s saw the end of the boom and the post-war reassertion of the reality of the general crisis of capital- From 1966 onwards the of Harold Labour responded attacking the old age pensioners.

devaluing the pound and intro- wage policy tortil Prices and Incomes unact Board instructions the the IMF. At 1968, end of the Minister Emplovment Productivitv Barbara began formulating a nasty little piece of anti-union legislation.

She presented it to Partia ment as White Paper January 1969 ander tho leading title "In Place of Strife" Hbective. Phe workine cris its objective. working class had responded militant to. resolve wiison tne crisis ot capitalism said, W de control strikes it "Britain i to survive and prosper Strikes were increasingly inflicting 'disproporti harm on the rest of socicty She singled out car assembli components, and docks anc

ONLY A SLAVE

shipbuilding as examples.

CANNOT

Donovan

VITHORAW HIS

The White Paper was based

LABOUR

heavily Koval Commisston rdes Unions and Employers Associ- ations. This Commission had sat for three vears under ine manship of Lord Donovan and produced its 350 page report early in 1968. i carea tor incomes ponc.

-the 'icform' of payments systems-particularly hrough use or loo evaluacon mechoas demanded more control over shop stewards, disci- pline procedures and the reform of the trade structure. union The report also called for the bodies to be set up to necessary ce tuse claras Castes mal provision was of the Industrial the setting up Board-a kind industrial

COUIL.

UnIS Docv nave powers to order strikers back to work for a "cooling off period" of 28 days adaition it coula order a ballot of strikers to be conducted by the union. orders were detied. it could impose financial sanctions which Cast by Imes woud collecied attachment of wages. Castle argued SOGAT workers join the protest that her not provisions lead A Castle's reluctance to revert But

WUIKCIS

DEISON,

there is little doubt that a per.

pre-1906 legislation becarse was not sistent refusal pay fines would in some cases have led to Was of principle to letting the capitalist court courts loose Impo the White the her view the Paper she Insult would explained her tactics. simoiy not work because. great majority be poypasedo tod probably not Immunity prepared unofficial strike leaders!! She explained, for example, Similarly she held back from why she did not propose simoiv simpli Dallols removing immunity from trade compulsory perore unions and allowing the strikes because she feared that this may not be efective.

employers strikers for damases in tne courts happened in unis hac the Secret Ballots case of Taff Vale railway strike 1901, where fined £55,000 for The use of the secret ballot, damages. 1n1T12Ted she argued, nad to be very serec- struggle which led to immunity tive and tactical if it was under the 1906 Trade Disputes benefit genuinely the against 'In Place of Strife'

TOF

_PrRESSIVE

EOVERNMENT

ACTION

AGRINST

/ RADE UNIONS

employers. other If you were not careful, she senteing the resolve of the could Secretary State way! workers! Another of the White part the establish- "In Paper major disputes. union proposec members are often more ment Conmission Industrial Relations (CIR).

militant than their leaders of would are ukel en close y be to promote touch with the progress and ects of negotiations. anel proccuula off the ments, introduce forms wele 'participation', worker directors always obliged to hold a ballot and new wage structures-partic- when using the strike threat in negotiations might well waniv ona corporatt dasis.

find their hands tied by a vote to strike.. Extension "The will used the Secre Secretary State where believes that the proposed strike Paper The White explans that it would be similar to the wona De public interest, and there doubt Board for Prices and commands In comes but would do a support of those concerned".

emil oo. Il explans tnal work would be a "novel exten- sion of public (i.e. industrial rela- • CoulILE y this, Castle acalton new Registrar proposed rade Unions Employers and Associations Unions would be required oy law to register-ana to do so they would be required to have a rule book which met discipline, elections strike important) ballots and the and function a polital elle of shob steward‹ Castle claimed that the White Paper did not amount to on the an attack closed shop, was nol unc cast had provisions to exempt those who objected on conscientious grounds removed from those in James Prior's "Emplov.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 2 July, 1980 The lobby outside Fairfield Ha ment" Bill today. So the sum total of Castle's White Paper and the Industria Relations Bill which came was a full blooded • attacl ot 11 unol ELES HOUs. the direct strengthening of the capitalist state. Agents the capitalist class. through its agents in the Labou government was responding to its needs as a class to make th working class pay trade union movement certainly was not responding needs o. thi working class to rights. aerend 1TS naro WOn Quite the contrary Although almost every unio formally opposed the Bill, nor mobilised official action agains the

TUC

Worse and the leaders of the main unions all acuve oooosea me unonca action which did take place • The actions were unofficial • ano were the Communist invo ved Inal ume by lar ine biggest oi Trotskyist organisations.

Revolu- tionary Party

(WRP)

will ll wnolesale adaptation to petty bourgeois nationalism slander cam paigns against opponents polucaly

HTS

aostention from serious work in the unions mere shadow of its fore runner-the SLL of that period

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 2 July, 1980 The Newsletter

ALL OUT MAY1

WEEK

END

NO ANTI-UNION LAWS!

WILSON MUST GO!

The Stalinists Budget play down anti-union struggle Bankers worried on Euro-dollar crisis

FIGHT ANTI-UNION LAWS

MAY DAY

Front page of SLL Newsletter Croydon Although of roots General Strike. present 1. We wil leaders could have been more clear considerable any may weight among of come from to class: of a action later possibilly hack more selec- Tory against legis- ation, erusine munist Party. The towards Labour Wilson action The CP, equivocated and Castle. after unior The throughout, belatedly

SLL.

called for a later the TUC ¿ney before three February forces out. conceded one the Stalinist udys

TUC

demands were to meet allu off unle Cal split Ierence Com- Llalson their own action. They The for Defence Fo miTTee something had Trade April weeks in mind as was outu emerge. the SLL added

SLL

sup- vesote Ens a Sunday) They Party The struck and 3,000 even dangerous language: must UDOn Liverpool action the Despite readersniD the T whole May 1 strike was very big for should unofficial action-mobilising

TUC

recall the Am pled unity almost a quarter or a mon workers. 100,000 workers stopped was May = * after the Febru- issue work in London. Building sites, and action the Bill. ma bancipied

COCKS

ano national newsoaoers action, the were hit. 15,000 marched to the 8) made the

TUC

ry Vic actine lich 1, General not to Secretary agreed to •T22 Committee of car see de eganon mites that the next workers struck in Oxford.

ight against the 40,000 workers struck in Wilson Docks, major Construct on out. port and the tions effective- mass rally strike It further The

SLL

was responsible for this 2020 turn mobilisation platform for a cam out of the Bill. They ition to and called the field Hall.

SLL

mobilisa- tion was the ; big

SLL

better As the between and The sial reached the attack : by the CP on socanel vall outlining his There good in the he said "bad" pella. causes. and this accept police leaders membership make it conference the General Council had worked proposals he thought proposals the controlling and class action. "avoiding settling dis disciplining who refused the demo ship of officials insisted their He would 'deal and that would seT defied these committees, unions, them selves dek their action own rules. sao tear interests above those their fellow members, accept the colleagues"

TUC

Then came left cover: of what we are attempting TO cannot itself with Scanlon The positions of Scanlon and Feather spell out the division of laboli retormism means the class scanion, representing the et wing of reformism seeks ways and means of diverting the mass and ille ODOOSILOn had emerged on May 1. Yet both the right and 'left' TUC agreed must obliged to shoulder the cost of the capital- ist crisis agreed that it was And they for this attack to be petter carried through by trade union and labour vul caulials Page 7 than by the open intervention of the capitalist state hall a battle outside being fought Whilst Feather was saying that there Wan ano the Certies saying outsid that ad in Feather's -al least ning the

SLL

join them in a town and a such the lobby against the SLI half lobby and 1 Sno stra tion held

SLL

said that when Wilson said the slope leading slipper expulsion' confirmed doubt up capitalism Parliamentary democracy dearly social to ground was they 1970 legislation set and they could quickly model Then Relations Act the founda- tions begun Labour "left' Daludid Lastic Next week: Why Castle's plan was dropped - and how it lives on today.

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-contraception Page 8 against the JOHN LISTER reviews Gordon DeMarco (Germinal, $ 8.50 hardback).

In socialist-written detective thriller in which drama. Contred there are plenty of (dead) bodies, it is not a little Hialli unfortunate that the first body to be described is that of the mysterious but very much alive Lana Birdwell: Creven union-busting "The door opened and hundred-and-five- the slickest gift- wage nition wrapped trail my coastwide agrement. cyes nad scon since rector was She was a tall job with plenty of fahrenheit" With this brief passage hero/

KHICV

Kovachs betrays himself as a run General Strike of 1919. of the mill 1934 sexist. Coming at tho Obsessed truck Within a few more pages it the has become plain that he fancies himself Philip Marlowe, this blow be obsessed with expressing the underlined most mundane statements in the most American lurluvus contavea Ine such стоюу, and that-to make matters worse-he keen on that most indecipherable chooyers American institutions. the •ball zame Yet for all these considerable attack alil intriguing ists. persevere. attempt at combining fact and And Carl Djerassi, as one of the scientists who developed of the "the Pill", has to cualily tion primary purpose writing this book the Pill has He tees that with oewlaering been denounced and abused dictory information about birth unfairly because of public ignor- control would this book. "politics of tornam Tner contraception" means the way China which media, politicians, and 1emlnists "public opinion" have attacked contraception distribution particularty the Pill. general and throughout the world - including in lact. pess inan na tne a very aclanca chapter devoted book specifically deals with the to birth control in China.

When he contracéption -or the software' as he calls it. follow- ine software" ing computer terminology.

allalysis 1s imitea by a shallow conception of what Detailed against Pill. The other aspect, the "hard- lumps CHe ware" wing politicians who oppose the ana ngures covered in a much more detailed Pill because of the independence Wa Djerassi it brings women, scientist, is a as a who Teminists member of an elite with access worries about its safety-partic- Private eye up union-busters 'October Heat', a novel by fiction, politics and detectivo provided the basis for a populist wing • Democratic Party in California its forward as the

OUT

action takes place in the after- representative of the American great San Francisco longshoremen's strike While President Franklin D in which 100,000 dockers newly Roosevelt tried to please both organised into the ILA battied capital and labour by promising weeks against a vicious do pression resolve the problems of employers" New and their own bureau- ', others went even further in their efforts to win the elec- to secure recog increascs and a toral. working Class off

LOUS

wall political break from capitalist General Strike politics. Contral October Heat is the 1934 guber tnc strike was the biggest ir since the natorial election in California in "progressive' Condeato same ume a

UOLOI

incair - class war rotskvict-ied alcastu releast unionisation battles of Teamster prisoner Tom Mooney from Minneapolis, jail-challenges the openly reac- breakthrough ionary governor who has stood the benine in the Toledo Auto Lite strikes, employers' union-busting drive on the docks. employers the crowils Desperate militancy and self confidence of working still prompted right wing extreme more desperate measures by the fears grow that Sinclair might -with the fostering of win, desperate to a extreme right wing and fascist plot him. assisolale physically longshore rumoied militant-who is murdered.

ITOC

union organisers and commun- Kovachs framed for the As he al ine same tine 11 Hilo lme case ne lurches trom The politics of ш madon and converge ularly with long-term use.

not easily obtained by the mass ne ls so ousy delending the Pill (devoting population. But he has a whole chapter "The Fear of Cancer") that scientists-unt he doesn't get round to looking fascinating much tne question how al tanta politicians seek ano contra- and thus control COnEOL be interested in women. and abuse of birth use control in underdeveloped coun- tres is another major aspect of "politics of contraception the which Djerassi touches on Djerassi also looks at the contraception do this lanares without mentioning the role of multi-national dangerous dumping particularly comes to talk about raleoulves mn ine name of "population control'.

Derassi's In fact, Djerassi completely accepts the bourgeois argument * constituites that popaton control is a pre all detfactors of viusaut condition to economic develop- ment. right This together becomes particularly clear when he goes on to talk about "Strategies for the Future" in which he seriously together with have legitimate discusses ,(but discards impractical) proposal for 1210- the violence of extreme patriot. ( busters to the violence of the War 2 Bridges polo. He increasing- • committed to the struggle of union militants and thus- implicitly-to their support for members. Sinclair. Yet the novel's restricted TerIns ol reterence render it a blunt instrument for revealing We could real political insight into the -private alll WoreV 1934 around. subsequent The described to life, but offers only the eyes incomplete Tarouons Kovachs-whose class instincts, richer and while generally al y picture means adequate to compre- hend the nature of result much politics. valistakie Work TO And for the same reason we atmosphere of the period.

have onlv a hopelesslv idealised picture of longshoremen's leader that the only Bridges, Harry who under the altalis an! Stalinism. the evasive Riley Kovachs.

the late 1930s to become an But

ROSEMARY

(Norton, £6.50).

NOW

The politics of no contraception: protest march in Dublin.

developing a contraceptive that safety standards that Djerassi's added to • the •Can De perspective becomes completely supply! The question of choice for safer, simpler women (ana men) involved 1: entirely secondary traceptives bol down to advo "need" to down numbers keep ilan -although he does concede that people "opt drugs could come to the market snoula be able to this scheme-e.g. by quicker.

OUT

boiling the water the Zoecon Corporation he clearly it's wien we come to the drug companies has an interest in this argument TOle and governmental of -and even more control SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 2 July, 1980 During World tunate that the first of what argued the for promises to be a new wave become novas rom a crono or sociais West Coast writers on the of socer U0 anc imposed no-strike clauses on his the USA should be • heavily derivative fron naymone Marlowe chanaler s Incomplete novels. Nevertheless, October Heat not of makes : a good read. It is noi rather vel you near a private inves investigator tigator tell you that Bridges "It brought back memories political of the days when I was a part of degenera The book thus rings true the drive lo umonise tre ruboe 'a ver! part of When one does, it is worth much taking notice combex October Heat is clearly the and research 'October Heat can evoke the Germina from obtained It is unfortunate, therefore, Press 209 Prospect St character who San Francisco 94110, USA IOrIN or sondity l then it is also untor.

HARDWICK

'The reviews Politics of Contraception' by Carl Djerassi,

ALMERICK

REE LEGAL CONTRACEPTION

proposal that companies should more or less immune Deade lawsuits resulting from His proposal for developing dangerous side-effects to their and effective the foremost scientist governmental.con- in research into contraception eased should think : this way is hardly for wollen wao art completely effec- waltie saler President of ways to their TIVe fertility. in nis second

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Fighting Heseltine's cuts

LAMBETH LEFT

OPPOSES KNIGHT

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 2 July, 1980 called by meeting Lambeth Labour Left at Lambeth Town Hall Friday 27 June brought 50 Labour together some from Party activists the left wing of constituencies all London, on the basis of the No cuts, no rent or rate rises' position.

Lambeth Labour Left is a group of party members cover- the four constituencies une borousIl COnt by Councillor Neal vened Turner. Rate increases Its origins were in the oppos- ition to Ted Knight's Council's decision to and increase rates the DUIUURIl allu ëde crenda d monete Tory government's attacks o mama bar services nant's nudeet tor thie vent included a 49% increase in the rates and £1.50 on Council rents well as sullie Cola soenong Dans. in order to maintain as far as possible the present level of services.

The LLL opposed this policy and argued for mass mobilisa.

tion against the Government's Support reductions Rate Grant. on the lines of continu- the campaign commenced by the Lambeth march against the cuts last LДНЮСі*4 vent Thus far

LLL

have won support for their position from

AGAINST

une

IOUT

constituencies. and Lambeth have a growing number of sup-

THE

of the other three constituencies

CUTS

"Left' AS result

OI IES

reputation, Lambeth is in different position from other Labour Boroughs in

LONGOS

Paula Moore from South- wark Council described how the right "Matia' held Wile

OHIO

and implemented Control Heseltine's instructions with alacrity, having 46% increase. 17% rent increase laic and 5% cuts. Sell off They planning are now sell off their land holdings • to private developers in quick Make capital brollE before the Local Government Planning and Land Bill No. into effect which

COINCHS

sell under very disadvantageous conditions. TAL Gelar described from NIKe Lambeth how Knight had support of the unions with of promIses no rcaunaancies that position had and this blocked the involvement of the public sector unions any Tories which was developing the are Nevertheless conflicts were deverooing nevitadtv. Tne question of vacancies in posts in Town Hall, and also i on the Lambeth anti-cuts demonstration last November introduction of new technology position where unionists in the comparability claim earlier this buone sector wouo ank uo with had shown

NALGO

the tenants and the clients of year the publie services in a common that real had tney The Council had to make turned Discussion special with the keep 1 malco section working at a level suffic- enu The London ana now unese coura De emergency that linked into unified and Council had arranged with City strengthened campaign. money lenders. John Archer, Haringey CLP. a future lookee to suresseo une lact That tne

LGO

WANDSWORTH

NALGO

SOCIAL SERVICES

DEPT

live under the personal threat of Culs No rate rent incresse ne necessarily implies a challenge surcharge: or imprisonment to the Thatcher government S they acted in isolation from a right to rule mass cam paign part of any such inere shold ne A centrar Clay Crosses, he said, cam Calen yould be the mover Callaghan joint action across the whole of other leaders who obstruct the fight- action particu- •ostructive Dack. larly by the public sector unions would crucial Newham play part developing the cal para and John from Newham would gave contidence to the Councillors who would have to Council, described some of the problems no retir for the cuts, rent/rate rises' line in a right wing dominated council. He had spent half of his time as a councillor under suspension Group for LIEt various offences' of voting and speaking against the majority line in Council Tribune subporters in the Com- _LOCal Government mittee had headed the conflicts away from the sharp edge of the Page 9 Ted Knight rates question and

ORLO

general point about democracy in the Labour Group. Nevertheless had been

POSSIDIC

DOSITOR

Newham Council for a fight against propaganda the development of local cuts campaigns Ihe main question at thi: point was how these campaigns could be turned back into the Labour Party to give them a political dimension Clarity John Ford, Deptford

CLP

and a supporter of the Socialist New sletter argued thạt a fight against the cuts and against thi would covernment also mean a fight against leaders Knight, would and mean Cama!

DOOC

need much accuser the Lambeth Campaign providing left cover : for what he called Knight's betrayals.

This Contava! greetea with a wave ol groan: and jeers. In attempting to assess the first thing sala is tnat it is a big step lor ward for it to have happened at It is : notoriousv difticult ti extend Labour Party campaigns the constituencies without which they commence backing

OTI

OTTICIa leadership. Welcome Secondly it is necessary to welcome the tact that there are individuals in many orouss and parts of London who are : con- cerned to turn the fight against cals in mumicipal services into a mass campaign which will challenge ,government and the present Labour leadership.

ignore and weaknesses oi the movement a majority those present were ess closely with one or other of Party, and rank and membership was not present as component lilafu. meerme Nor were there significant numbers of trade union repres- aclegates irom tenants movements. Activists The organisational discussion which took place was to a large

OCLWECI

This in itself is no bad thing stage in the campaign alunis but obviously tilal une campaign Turn. OUt- wards towards the mass membership Labour the Party and the unions as quickly as poss bie Before this step can achieved there will have to

OSCUSSO

COI

detailed tactics of the campaign, in Knight/Living- leaders oi the stone vanety. will in probability be forced to fight Heseltine on Heseltine's initia- tive if not their own.

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Ford-£386m profit Page 10

INDUSTRIAL NEWS

The US Ford motor cor- last announced plans. poration week embarked on a of spree down borrowing from its UK and reachiney rings™ ana inev West German subsidiaries to tide over its expected $2.5 billion losses in the Amer- to this year's pay review

• L'OTO S

ican market. apparent boom-time lore UK ast vear mado g taxable profit of €386 million out the -£135 million which Wall inat in tnis period of worldwide avianas lo Ine us capitalist crisis parent company. bosses nell-tor-cather drive to Deep slump But the world with forthcoming the markct now in deep slump and Ford even the highly struggle to force the opening of operaton naro nr ov saoanesd inte workers through- Combetition bankers and out the world being called clected trade union upon bail the employers out toide sirl my Layons in the USA already lo bay or une Crisis. total tens of thousands. Britain short-time working and Nationalisation layoffs have been restricted onli in Ford's import of foreign-built models underline into the British market. multonensanon

JOIN THE

WSL!-

Retured 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. Plum sectors of state industry will be handed to the Tories proteering dig business backers; and the pay nses to police and only the prelude to increased state violence and an intensified army crackdown leadership has made it clear ing tive years of lory devastation.

ANd.

. INOURU

Incy na ve once mOre Morrotten

SOCALIST

speeches. et wang continued to duck away ftom any fight to remove Callaghan.

TUC leaders, too, set out to establish a basis for collabora- tion with ance with Witson and then Callaghan.

the working class capciseicu betrayals belore-to topple and smash through Callaghan's reactionary Phase 4 of wage 1214. controls in a series of monumental pay battles in the winter of 1978. These experiences are not dead. They point to the way that jobs and hard-won union rights can be defended against principled, revolutionary Jeadership Labour traitors, the TUC collaborators and their hangers-on in the comm unist rarty are to de exposca ano busneo asce ano cne mas.

and remove the Tory govern- struggies mobuised inat 'can deicat ment. Such a leadership must fight day in and day out for a programme of transitional demands which, starting frown today's conditions and today's flasp ine necessity for soclaust revolation and sexual discrimination, it must show the crucial role that must be played by the working of leading the for the struggle mankind And it must fight on an international basis-mobilising solidarity for anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles-whether in Ireland.

Africa world. strength and political lessons from revolutionary upheavals such, as that reconstruction of thorkets hated Shah the i League is arriated to Trotskyist International Liaison Committee which fights to reaffirm ana aevero• int memoa Programme. and tor run discassou m une wora trotskyist move ment The next period will see major class struggtes in Britain.

orin cipled Marxist leadership is essential. Our siro Banda formald humbegele for socialism: 2,300 sackings • with other But last week management British car manu- for 2,300 facturers and supply firms, redundancies to slim planned. part worktorce economy have. revealed far The demand must at the plans for speed-up anc same time raised for sharing on full pay to defend emoover s expense under conditions of a urch tron security declining market. short time and sackings spells Where plants occupied .-with sno ula no firm, no job

BID FOR NEW

the redundan- must books or lis giant hırm suppliers management's world- Scared rigid by the experience of last year's The figures revealed would one-day of strikes senes acy for lo which cracked the vicious along Engineering Employers Federation, Confed leaders last week attempted to ensure would never happen again. AUEW and EETPU delegates blocked together to carry a right Conted union o consul her calling members perore caning inaus- action-wolle the luwu politely abstained. The 1,105,999 to 774,000-does not specify ballots maustral alton, bur Is parentl.

designed to impede any national call and offer mass media best chance of whipping up Meanwhile Conted President

DON'T GO INTO

that it will near-

THE FIGHT BLINDFOLD!

MPs have such is needed if the

SOCIALIST

emancipation of

GET

and drawing

PRESS

fighting for the

TO ELECTIONS

The workings of nature will continue to have more the influence on the choice of membership. officials the National

NGA

conierence. which they Gerenced

TRIS

officials could strike action sup porting throughout the combineto en force this demand the One thing is certain: every concesson now mace ov unor leaders. Ford management will be seized upon as a sign of weakness and a green light for lurtnc altacks.

"CONTRACT"

1930s. Trotskyist •struggle a ne Ken Baker has gone still further Lessons in his efforts to France and the USA the last social contract and hint-

OPPRESSION.

ing that leading bureaucrats are ready to sign another one.

The wage CUTTIn! social contract under the last Labour

MOVEMENTS

Baker's government was, bid ol VIeW. sallly cooperation in our affairs' But for all the glee that this.

will

DIOVOKE

camp, sign that there is little other himself and The school tenow ligat wing amon burcal- crats. Indeed the Confed pay claim this though vaguely y vall the WSL and the TILC. defined likely to be broadly in line with BM Box 5277 increase in the Retail Price maex-a lar cry trom the wage cuts required under each rounc of the Social Contract!

CAPTAL

Trial sub (UK): Six issues.. Six months One year.. Europe: Six months. Rest of the World: Six months ... For a * clear Name. lead in the Address. struggle against wage control, cuts and redundancies 6XX SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 2 July, 1980

NGA SAYS 'NO'

Graphical Association than the union's National Council and the membership! wishes of the union's Democratise That was the decision of the out calls for the re-election of At least Wade acknowledges officials every five years in order that the National Council and the mem bership at odds are are appointed for with eachother scarcely be nere could clearer case for democratisation General Secretary Joe Wade rigidly mOs arguing unions in bureauctaused not serve both labour movement.

TROTSKYIST INTERNATIONAL LIAISON

COMMITTEE

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

TROTSKYISM

AND THE MASS

MOVEMENT

JULY 20-27

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 2 July, 1980 Tory policies mean collapse controls! official struggle against closure *No to the have donussede s. Instead they focussed on whil general strike to force them ou „cuunuallcy Waylibills colaborating culbacks alu *Unite speed-up. while they engage forming councils of action.

ritual handwringing abou!

*Remove busily worsening trade union leaders who generation by selling fight. For a off jobs in all directions ment! the Tory the 'Open TaCu Inal and the emnlovers who threaten redun strategy

WOTO

wiee slump both the product of dances o teris sappineses, are a crisis-ridden capitalist system bankers! Prove the case for their In which me tate O1 PIone Hai slumped to an all-time low.

nationalisation, compensation Destruction Every effort to restore capit- to work! alist profitability state nursery provision! For free abortion on further destruction of the jobs, standards and basic rights international working on maternity rights! cass While the crisis of capitalism brings only the wanton ane destruction the anarchic material Поствас locas basis exists for a socialist solu- tion. For workers that reject Joseph's. "Work foI Less?" ultimatum and the pros- pect of permanent mass unem- ployment, the way forward les break from the timid reformist politics of the TUC and Labour leaders and a fight *Defend all jobs! For occupa- strikes and blacking tions, of work action to force a policy sharing on full pay! No to the nationalistic policy of import Edwardes viability' of the solely due to the trade union leadership. all levels Ine have their members. When they Leylallu. actually supportea tne company ship can ight to defendo unied ong risad have sabotaged any real uing page document. At present Some union leaders are now Longbridge saying they are against the new proposals. because 01 a But all the top in reality at the olliciais are atready negollaung 1115 directly with breaks. in line with the y2-page Ley lanu document. ignoring their members victely This ana even tne semior stewaras.

The company also want the DOLl new negotiating body to step in union leadership. Recently against strikers. Obviously the company confident the union leaders will agreement, completely over the agree to this-having seen Ene bureaucrats nave refusing to go along with this done in BL. With their help the company

ASSOLDIY

has just forced through à 5% made to deveat their week when deal with 92 of Day strings. Now iney are looking lo the November review and quite imposed obviously have a similar figure grading. the 11 mne. The union leaders' attitude stems from their defence of the

AT THE TOP...

UNION DUES

From front page *Defend living standards! Fight for anti-union laws! cost of living clauses to give a 1% rise in take home for every 1% rise in the cost pay calculated and elected committees strikes tade unionists and housewives.

, a step towards Labour and *Stop all cuts! won't threatened facilities, fight for workers' govern Set uj subporting strike action workers inquiries into nealt of the books and social services to expose private profiteering and *Demand a restoration with automatic public spending with keep meredes Dact under workers' inflation. Labou Councils repudiate debts and *Fight for a woman's right refuse and interest charges Defend and extend moemen culs or ras and childcare and rents. Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement

AFTER THE STEEL AND BL STRIKES-NEW LEADERS

NEEDED!

Saturday S July at Digbeth Civic Hall, Birmingham 11.00 a.m.-5.00 p.m. Credentials £1 Write to: G. Webster, 169, Barclay Rd., Warley, West Midlands From back page time over their grading. expense of the mapilly of company, bodies been The attitude of the member- regularly affecting Solihull.

be-seen by the contin- A walkout for an afternoon by 80 of these workers over the 92 demand for the withdrawal of a written warning given

TO TICI

down steward four months previously closed a mass meeting was followed by shop workers. They are protest- which onlv voted down indelin- shortening of their ite strike action by the narrow margin of 170-135. is a major challenge to Militancy and the collvany the All these actions show the union leaders build-up of militancy signed a new grading procedure which is bound to explode not company heads of their members. But in onLy aralist leader- of workers are against ine ship "In this context the fight for forklift Plant a democratic means of drawing drivers went on strike for a day was camos ana pressine ricculla tions at national level is a vital overtime part of the fight for a principled against une revolutionary leadershp in BL to Body Plant, 700 workers against the ever-increas- Maxi/Princess/Rover production ing management onslaught.

workers are also banning over-

AT LAST, I CAN LOCK

UP THE FILE ON

STEEL STRIKE...

NOW LET'S NOT GET

HASTY LAD... WE

MUST ALL

College strikers scent victory quickly break ranks after a few After, week's strike days on the action for union recognition Pembroke Bursal in pay and improvements to evict stati and conditions, workers Bill Greybanks Oxford Pembroke College, But this certain to achieve a seem workers' determination to stick complete victory. it out. and Though not signed confidence false sealed, apreement reached between NUPE and the college em bovers last Friday was proportion of married women authorities and old age by accepted unanimously strikers as surncient quaranic. into umor to work run-up to the dispute. from wanting Monday. agree a they being forced to the new minimum rate of £1.40 an (and suporters. hour the rise by OTeVIOUSI several proving weeks) together with assessici Chlege's Corren Body made im provem ents Deamn ana coverage and even a lurid 'Life from their below staircase the News of the World, looming earller hara line atttude on the horizon, not to mention Clearly anticipating that the the first of the college's highly would forty-seven strikers Evans promises to act on Adwest of four delegation a victimised worker. strikers from the Adwest Engineering plant at Reading last week lobbied step the TGWU Rules Revision tage members to conference at Weymouth in managment search of official support.

They were avuncular welcome On the spot Evans and pro- Decretan

VOS.

mised a iull investigation CnTO the handling of their struggle by the Rules local officials. So far the TGWU has refused however has the make the strike ollicial- tenessa resul of the TU Incut s sackus struggle for official backing convenor and all TGWU stew- along with other the that workers from plant after

...AND FORGET THE HORRORS OF THE

CONFED PAY STRUGGLE-WHO'S THAT?

THE

AFTER ALL, WELL ALL HAVE

WORK

LABOUR GOVERNMENT IN SOON,

TOGETHER

AND THEN...

_FOR

VIABILITY!

Page 11 conferences lucrative vacalon set to begin this week, a climb- picket une. made threats down was their only way out The Pembroke breakthrough College living is now the talk. of the Univer super thousands

SILY

only hardened the exploited servants cries out for a campaign by the recruitment NUPE branch to extend Another factor which sowed loca the limited that have been won. mind was the nigh Right wingers pensioners drawn membership in the That wil not be easy. since that branch is presently in the to hands of right wingers and time local strike's strongest Cer ver Dacke Dy NUPE full timers. The only other strike in the management's centuries-old University's badly history was a similar victory at threat St. Annes college in 1972 This latest success must be expose opportunity usea 1 organisation la was missed then.

CONTE

Police in action during last week's mass picket they took action in defence of with the TGWU district office Meetings of Adwest AUEV stewards and with scab leader- the officials present are also due to ship of the AUEW has gone one further-and taken advan take bace as we zo lo viess

TGWU

Meanwhile strike by branches and committees should with sign a giving them sole demand that the strike is made negotiating rights in the plant!

official and the full resources the union thrown into the this vicious fight defeat amack ov manazement Messages support and donations to the strike fund The Adwest delegation to Danny should be sent Revision conference 46 Berkley Avenue, placed

TGWU

Broderick, Many Reading seeking Strikers are conference delegates expressed a also for their support their

SUDOU!

next Day of Action, scneouler for July 14 outside the Adwest Meanwhile there are rumours Colllac Vlalll

WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT ALL THESE CLOSURES.

RUNT?

WAG

...WE CAN RETURN TO AN

ORDERLY STATE CONTROL

"INCOMES REDISTRIBUTION"

AS WE NOW CALL IT!

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PRESS RALLIES

PRESS

A common cry has gone up in the last ten days; it is on the lips of right wing union leaders and on the pages of the gutter press. The message is "stop the bickering in the Labour Party". But its real content is that socialists should abandon any struggle for democratisation socialist policies and settle. back or for Callaghan and union Como ably bureaucrats slip on the straightjacket of a rigged "electoral college" to ensure the continuity of right wing leadership.

experience of live years oi the bitter last Labour onvernment nas undermed or millions of workers the harsh fact that serious leadership a ternative broeramme to resore we clull omic crisis-and that it always turns to and wage Tory-style closures to controls as a means to prop up the decay- ing capitalist system. Edwardes issues new document British Leyland has and the commany The issued national union nobody mean that officials with a document works in Levland would repres proposals that containing ent the unions! would would bring to fruition two Leyland would have years of changes in negotia- only

TWO

ycars ting procedures. negotiations plant negotiating committees, in separate The new document, which centralised bureaucratic control.

only Union pureaucrats This management the Tory press have seen, pro- Continued page 11 conducted by national officials TGWU negotiator Hawley: centralised control on pay Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, BM Box 5277, London WC1V 6X*.

SOCIALIST

BEHIND 'JIM'

Unless these leaders and their policies hold fat futhprombe of resolving can problems of unemployment, isolation and promise resolving devastated socia services.

Base of support rank and file Labour Recognising this and driven into Party workers have politics Ine

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licisive proved as ca base of support for the wing's for democratic campaign reforms in the Party. , on the other hand, Callaghan's base consists of the right wing rump of the Party Parliamentary Labour and-more important-the bureaucratic leaders oi the trade unions. They cast their block votes against leaders who they feel policies or trigger a wave of struggles which could Edwardes at nobody pha actually mean that moved blall South Africa's "Freedom carried by Day". June 26, was cele- brated by a large rally in lolal Camden organised by the coup Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Stalinist-dominated African National Congress of South Africa. The keynote acoress to dr audience of several hundred was Alfred General Secretary given N2O. Ene of the

ANC

the absence of the Presiden Olivier Tambol ¡ne tone or tne speeco ‹as o the rally as a whole) was one of self-congratulation by the ANC workers mobilisations of the last course he was unable to claim that the ANC was at the associate 'the name of the ANC only with a month ago against the impor tant SASO , coal-to-oil plants. But far from honestly recog- Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist League develop beyond the control of the union deferential rela- leaders and disrupt thei tionship with the employers and the lors government. So from the mood of the rank and file in the unions and the rarty unal incy have beer make some concessions reforms which have outraged democrațic the most diehard right wing MPS precisely reinforce the right wing grip on the leader- ship. The plan is for no less than 50% of the votes to be monopolised by the PLP back- woodsmen; the Union bureau cracy; and a mere 20% to be cast by con- who might tellect ine mood or the memocis.

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nising the limited role which the motons ANC, with its guerrillaist orien- tation, playing Nzo upsurge of mass struggle, argu- up a fraudulent struggle. cooKel ment which gave lull crcall Io Nzo's it to the ANC Sabotage actions which the the

ANU

ANC has carried out over recent and develop "instill conven tarmy, horities, and years, argued, consciousness latent hostility into open opposition" These armed actions, he said, "create the • appropriate psycho- logical and political climate" for ANt Twent -live vears ago The open mass struggle. dom Nzo was not however referr- ing to the undoubted effective- honowing cemands ness of armed struggle carried *All out as an integral element have equal rights. the struggle against the mass *The capitalist apartheid state.

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Callaghan representative to vote with them to secure the election of their chosen leader!

Left wingers have rejected this scheme as unacceptable and announced they are ready to lee one seo le have lon abandoned the necessary i the regular election of the demand for ender at comeric. Viable leadership Hence the growing campaign against "bickering" With • Thatcher govern Tory crisis, the press wants a viable Ment Wine abou leadership ready if necessary to take over The problem for the working class is not the squabbies but the retusal oi any o.

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