Socialist Press no. 210

TUC DISARMS WORKERS:

TORY LAWS ARM

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filiated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee PHOTO: Laurence Sparham, IFL A few days after this year's TUC Congress winds the Thatcher govern- ment's anti-union Employ Act" ment comes into force. It is a savage blow against hard-won trace -anon t attacks ine rant to strike. tne closed shop; picketing rights; working conditions and trade union cemocracy. top the formal On OT provisions of the Act, the Tories 'Codes are impose Practice" which still further restrict unide right Prior's new On picketing, Code aims to: Kestrict pickets to six in *Restrict their activity to explain their case' "seeking to would-be blacklegs. "Ensure that each picket line official with the take of policing presided nis own mempers. *Prevent unions taking disci- against scabs who plinary. cross picket lines. Ballot vote On the closed shop, the Tories plan not only to make the establishment of new closed Shoos non on requiring secret ballot vote 80% before favour of showing shop such CrOSCU agreement is conceded out also to destroy existing closed shops by calling for a fresh ballot or une issue every lew years.

Before long, thousands of strength of the working class at they workers-whether are a time when Jobs and living standards encacine in strucoles curing unis winter's pay round; contemplat- dented attack ing strike action or occupations and leaders done against

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anti-union laws? STrucc ina tor the unionisation of resist the sticks in order handful the attacks stickers nave beer come face to Sunday on March Tace with this orv legis ation It is a major weapon in the speeches have been hands of the employers-a scabs' vidy reluctantly charter designca to sao tne mass nelo

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leaders alongside the tought orv oress to restrict tne scope of strike action and dissipate the anti-Tory growing militancy within une working class The Tories were not fooled for one moment by the empty rhetoric of Len Murray and the leaders. Afraid of members They recognised at once that bureaucrats are much These afraid the strength and independence neir members than tney are ol Prior Tory attacks union any on rights. sooner than it a tinger te under unprece- defeat Thatcher, the bureau- are prepared to see the but wnat nave une union most Fundamental union nont.

to oppose these stripped away. This

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why the of leaflets and Congress agenda contains no call Issued. Tor an out trace union action to demonstration was Employ- dery and dereat the few ment Act and its reactionary made provisions. 14 the TUC instead unere are meary- its mouthed statements of Day

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wow even nint at action against the new laws. For other unions it is to be accepted as "the law Ene • lane next Labour dovernmentl But it is not only on trade that union rights the leaders nave unrown in • The towel. As the Thatcher government the social waste services, nicalin ana caucation. une buolic sector unions otter not one tan gible proposal for action to hal the cuts And the entire agenda sports Labour Party Constitution."

oniv one resolution adainst the Tory government. The Bakers' Union calls vaguely for the TUC "bring 'give a lead to all affiliate government" this motion and their members by done. cambalen the Labour Party against With the ants union ingending necessary anti-union legislation. This campaion snoule cleary aim to set Its tace bring down govern- and bring to it called on May 14 Labour government pledged to In a letter socialist policies contained 4—of the Clause 4-part New threat to BL workers Centre pages Prior's Bill. .. p.8 Bolivia... .. p.2 NF ban : Back page

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Socialist Press (5 September 1979) predicted last year's TUC Police in action against pickets at Adwest that: "The General Council Yet despite the correct call recenty consulted atlated down. the Tory unions and I must tell you there little for gives support no clue as to how this is to be repeat of the Day of Action in the near Tuture Far from calling for the Nor is the TUC content with general strike blocking action any national level to defeat Thatcher, the TUC has action: Murray also went out of way veto a regional ad ain st even ShIs extension of the protest action demonstration planned by the

NW TUC

to Colin Barnett Laughably arguing that he secretary of the NW Regional Continued page 11 TUC, Murray last week declared

Kremlin backing for Begin grabs Jerusalem Page 2

INTERNATIONAL

Iran rulers in new split Iran's "revolutionary Islamic" parliament has selected Prime new Minister. And has doing wound: deepened gaping which now disfigure the face of The leadershin emer. ged in Iran since the overthrow of the Shah selected oremier Mohammed Ali Rajaie, a funda- mentalist close Islamic Republicat been elected ov resent dan Sadr who is himself increasingly denounced by the clergy as a 'Westerniser" Khomeini The "guardian of the nation" Ayatollah Khomeini, called different sections the ot the regime's leadershio But there is little doubt that, though he has not attacked Bani some oT ne other religious strong new runoamentals. barbarism of The hysterical this Islamic crusade continues to Evervday the islamic courts carrry out executions, several attacks are of many different kinds Everyday some of thern are people "moral chargeo with oftences - DrOSULULOT

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sexuality and drug trafficking.

Executions Others directly are more political 400 executions are expected of those alleged to be with month's associated last coup tric regime. It is hard to tell how many other political enemies mulans are disoosine or in this convenient category; but they have begun to single out some On July 24 laght Chanran, leader of Marxist-Leninist called Peykar was judicially murdered. Vet Degaie in murder the murder beaters the o acer tell ving groups the Islamic. Moja- edin and the Fedayin threats against them 0l C beconuno. more common wom leading clergy regime of indiscrimin- essential aspect ale 1s al Iran's new religious ship. Embarrassment But at the same time they are an embarrassment to rrest dent Bani-Sadr and other members of the existing govern- ment like 'roreon ivinister Gotzabeh, who are attempting regime construct bit less barbaric and 100KS theocratic. Gotzabeh, like his predeces- Yazdi and former Prime sor already IVInISECU being denounced the more extreme mullahs.

Bani-Sadr, himself, who has said that some or tne execution: are unnecessary, cannot be far behind. The new Prime Minister has already said trial Cannot work with the elected President And Bani-Sadr has said in his turn that he over head. Prime Minister and Parliament.

The seems to nOT whethe now sool this conflict will erupt into full the rival scale open Tactions or irans new rulers Not ever the undouotec desire of both group to main- and tain exploita- LIon lanidn now seems steadfastness and peasant. able Ine avert this fight heroism of Bolivia's 50,000 Increasingly marginalised by families, miners and their the theocracy. Bani-Sadr who have entered the fourth likel Trienos are turn imperialism and the remnants of week of their strike to bring Shah's for the dead regime down the bloody regime of Garcia General and his Only the pursuit the thrown the the cohorts, have oppressed and exploited and the military into crisis and made Tant to break inem TrON reac considerable headway in tionary religious leadership can destroying the dictatorship.

hopes aroused by permit Last week a British journalist Tarted to de red establishment the lalt workers' and peasants' govern. was expellec aole to visit the mine of San Jose isolated from ment in Iran of Siglo XX, the workforce had retreated down Ine smaTts Lo the stoppage while the press had reported a bourgeois i to work. 'Death to the fascists, long live miners who, resoonst with the loca have stockpiled food for a siege of months if neces- sary he third week of the dicta torship saw a significant increase with the cutting communicationis the outside woria on August in an attempt to forestall press Bani-Sadr coverage of the carnage. The desperate crisis from the extreme right. The reluctance the facing the Begin government Labour opposition to force the Israel has Turner inten pace against Begin, whom they sified in recent weeks. could probably into A government which cannot number of major even name d incicative or une Tact That Thes have no way of dealing with the Ministers and would de nare out 1 esse pariore of has ne the get a majority of one in the ultra-Zionists running the and carrying settlements, attacks on Pales uncless Superice 'settlements' tinian leaders. Ine west Bank and the take-over of Jeru- It is this same pressure which 'the eternal capital of saltill seems to me denio tne article f the Washington Star of 7 August israel The Jerusalem measure was claiming that head of moved by wing an 'Shin secret police-the ist del the Knesset who Beth'-was resigning because of reluctance to proceed does not several st right at all to live there, or on bombed and against those who the West Bank. maimed the Palestinian mayors carried with the in June. ,The author of the Washing- desperate for any measure to Star David Halevy, ton support, and whip up 'popular in fact holds a leading position leaders of the "Labour army, or tne number of other correspondents opposition, unwilling as usual To resist way the most Israel, such as Michael Elkins manifestations aggressive of the BBC. It seems inconceivable there.

const colonialisin In this situation in Israeli fore that Halevy's report did not politics, the pressure on origins in the highest main have its ine retime commues to corrie Teaches ol isidol s ruitis Bolivian junta? The last two dispatches to be statements By ite Ministe oo stances as vaniste the Interior, Colonel Luis Arce Gomez The first said all was "peace- tul and back to secono threateneo union leaders with "military justice" if they did not order a return to work.

Tone si weet nearly foreign journalists have been two jailed and expelled, almost total censorship imposed -only the rightist El Diario is allowed to publish This is principally because of which enormous cost Chile-style melemente dictatorship-or 'pinochetazo'.

The military commander • of of Cochabamba, the key city Lor varias oatinas. winiscor Labour under Banzer, has with from the drawn his suppart. Junta A few days later he was followed General Hugo by commander of the clevellid. motorized ciVisIon Cruz, Bolivia's second city and Banzer's stronghold pulled his .ccneverma nas tanks off the streets and refuses to resign, while the powerful La Halevy managed west Bank ments the failed assassins came a judgement not denied Begin's that cental blocked the arrest the and the terrorists ing over ThIS mav navE Deer convince ordinary Zionist supporters. Skillful here can be no cover inal israeli secret police the that could find the bombers struck the ves Dank indeed their membership does not include those involved However the task of finding suen peooe is not mn on luc list of priorities. Probably of greater impor- them is pursue lance lu • kind of faction fight indicated by the Halevy article, Wita Int possible aim • of establishing an right wing more ment under the control of the military. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 August 1980 Natusch and now inquisitor general wretched oat Garcia. the last four davs Arce has brought in more help from intelligence Argentine military purge the army itselt, Tiush ou the oppostion and refine torture methods. It has been widely rumoured openly reported and does • ПО seem unlikely that Juan Lechin of the сОв

(TUC)

president was kicked to death by soldiers after call as resumptionke a normal work four says aiter the call coup. Arce would clearly reioice ir Lechin's death but prefers the efficacy political i cale! Argentine methods to those o1 Chile Videla himself announced extensive aid for the bankrupt boliviar econom cutting of US aid alone will lose $250 blacking the junta as well as the loss of income from tin sales will dictatorship require trit massive nections of cast a it d.

to survive for more than a few weeks When questioned about this, the new president or tne bance Nacional, Fernando Bedoya, a friend of Garcia's stated "Everyone with us-brazil The new Junta Uruguay, , Paraguay and Chile- and they will help us" Paz aarrison has forbidden any arms and aid of its officers to take part in the • lilal government. = Ssista Africa and that economic may be that Banzer, assistance harness with the American State proferred by the Soviet Union: Department waich stated ina believed 'more moderate "cen. •Carcia too us or tI officers may soon take over'), is accept it, but also not to refuse it because if the Carter adminis Argentine colleagues WIth Tratior doesn t changi remodelled dictatorship in a des- Bastion We all ery York Times, perate effort to provide an alter- native

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chooed 'democratic' opposition and the If this statement is true, the proved incompetent imitator r who of Stalinism has present butchers treachery I actively reached new depths in nis 19/1-ro dictatorsnip so sterine counter- evolutonary A the such at dictat tos murder at the very moment that reno Banzer dictatorship the proletariat is fighting for its vate when the life and massive popular opposition, but death struggle adainst imperial.

it may still be chanced ism is at its peak. Meues to imprison and kil CP members contmue. relentlessly. Conservative esti- mates put the number of those before It was several Vear held the football Paz Moscow began to sell T-54 tanks to Pinochet or enter into arms «tacuum anome concentratior camp at Viacha at over 2,000 Videla; but with the The prime architect of this Bolivia Inere 'state of internal war" is Interior prospect that the counter-revol- utionary scum of the He was responsible for many aid and of the •tene no. oresent ano future the army on the even of their own supporters in Night of sar honest worces have team 1967, have already is a drug trafficker, workers, died in the struggle mantary Intendence sUch Treason also mentary marri but elementary international worker soldarly s wen witn the capacity of the Kremlin was last week by a visi

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Stalinist bureaucrat, Yuri Fokin Fokin made no Bolivia at concern over Videas refusal to Carescu the nuclear non-prolifera- sign tion treaty, and ther went or to state that the Soviet Union was only interested in human violations detainee e case violations" detailing cases Ulster. Palestine but making no mention of the 20,000 deaths Argentina since 1976 is also remarkable. a least in the short term, about the Kremlin's move is apparent that Hernan Siles UP alliance of which the Muscovite CP is a part, declared itself Bolivian 'government in clandes nition by foreign states democratic revival still stands to capture the workers. des antec ance or many nIte the tact nat it clo So mie disarm them in the face of to door This development makes the struadle tol rotsKvISt bosition. and the call for a workers' and peasants' government in against the midst of the battli dictatorship more T ne Begin critical

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 August 1980

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Giscard "makes poverty extinct" With the elections for the been busy making alternative tne misery of the poor. To this enu he has French Presidency looming, plans. It has been revealcu tilal.

announced plans appoint a despite special Minister of Poppy protestations Tne current tenant of the Elysee Madame d'Estaing- Palace, Giscard D'Estaing those Anne-Aymone-has Unfortunatel loa forn series of deal- has been busily covering all who might afar by such talk, his choice for ings French

STOCK

his options. the post is none other than the exchange, the Bourse Using intermediaries through no de des about his interest in the welfare ment whose recore was to see Lazara s Dank sne Nas Decl of those members of the French unemployment rise by 250%!

involved in over population Having thus played such an the Phe one Pole see

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title or play the stock exchange, creation of Khone-roulen‹ Tole tit Giscard has launched a notional poverty, the honorable Minister Current v in a maor e o !

campaign is obviously an ideal choice oil giants Elf and BP Шако extinct French satirical Of course, no one is suggest- Lilt In a heart rending statement week v Carra enchume ing ta gerasde knowicere ol announced, July commented in its report 'The policy has guided such dealings.

have really But, clearly, this with the fee s scored thai he hat ded to intrude from January time" for Giscard and family JOYCELy. charity begins at home. Meanwhile, back Elysee, Giscard and family have measures useau lo wise vul French Stalinists rethink over Afghanistan gripping the The break of the French internal entorceo astriDion or -

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without any deeds or titles-by country. Communist Party from its sections of the Afghan army.

Karmal tactfully avoided Euro-Communist parties is the explaining how such unity could captallls. beginning to have internal elect not only ol antagonising de never the Mullahs and feudal land- But his Minister of Foreign repercussions. alienating lords, but also Affairs did have one piece Despite the fact that journal- Secuons Will 101

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ists of the CP's paper L 'Human- French CP tonne themseves moved ral ite have been constantly present gunpoint. While welcoming the French in Kabul it was decided by the Kabul itself unemploy- Stalinists' support, secretanat ScHu succial ment is rite with most shops and Dost was carelul to stress that representative on a fact finding' crartsmen being forcea to close irom ineir poin on view. mission the Afghan down. the point of view of Stalinism as Party leadership. whole, it was essențial that the Herein lies the source of the French The results of this can hardly CF maintained good unrest In lue. cabilal. report in tral Commitia In a contidentia social laenuying inen report interests with the Kabul party's Western European Crs-ali Claude Gotignon failed support the throws a nuth bet or canners Gatignon, Soviet invasion. ACCoreing into the bureaucratic works of Leader, was horred to admit try Karmal, Afghan ne messee was cer! the party machine "Unity" on a platform of class collaboration is the name reforms implemented agrarian. ted and are stand concer or lie canne. the Stalinist-sponsored by Back to the Eurocommunist and united i stand Taraki and Amin regimes were drawing boards, comrades!

the warring tactions could otte essentially ale any nope or a solution to tne military, taking the form of the Fight for solidarity with Bolivian masses NUM leaders must translate blacking campaign. The resistance of the words into material supporl 11) participating in building a workers and of and Transport national campaign of solidarity; WorKers Bolivia against the Junta is dockers in the TGWU must take the call for blacking of all ensure referred to in a separate trade with Bolivia in defence of aid are with-held from the Junta report in this issue of the working class against imper- ov ine britist covernmen Socialist Press.

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The export he import of Kevo utionaries 1121n the This (Labour Party) deplores must for buiday aption to Junta fight solidarity Bolivian tin in particular must coup action Bolivia and calls on the NEC to detence of democratic rights in

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all trade union action in support solidarity The evel be co of this

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Dila u WIll will covered 1) This (trade union branch" miners. other deplores the recent military workers their Socialist Press 40119 Bolivia overthrow the the C to first step the follow. As al calls the its solidarity with the struggle of on ing proposed Junta. are raising trade union all necessary mean. peasants and ollet Branch and out the m workers of Bolivia against the are used orevenu new Junta government recognition of unions aid to the Bolivian Junta, and It calls on the union to give present and potential links with calls on the NEC to give further material sumport to boman workers NUM leaders recently visited This strappe ce Bolivia and had a return delega- i) blacking of all trade with campaign of solidarity in Britain Bolivian miners' Junta and calling on the with the Bolivian working class.

tion from the

TUC

full-scale union. the FSTMB For the third time in recent months workers strategically crucial the

SASOL

plants-site of South Africa's massive oil- from-coal energy project- have come out on strike. These strikers are part of an unfolding of mass workers and youth moving forward and asserting their inde.

pendent strength struggle throughout the country 18,000 black construction workers

SASOL

plant were laid off strike to alter demonstrate their hatred for the oppressive material conditions under which they are forced to Live all woIk Te bombine I plant in June by the SASOL guerrillas reformist African National Congress, state sent in une army to dorste the already substantial in repressive apparatus operation at the Drailli bludgeon the workers into disci plined submission

SASOL

plants, one alone of which reouired capital investments of over £1,000 million and top secret cury concens. Besides the normal apparatus electronic security fencing patrolled armed guates WITn „ Goes ano strict surveillance over everyone South African miners

. BLACK WORKERS

DEFY S. AFRICAN

REPRESSION

Botha entering or leaving the complex the plants have their own special police force The live on site workers barrack- together Ther 11Ke ComOund subject to dusk-to-dawn curfew, repeated and Here en Which parol the comporat armed guards and troops night. Though the repressive might of the apartheid state is enor- mous. Lilt strength of the working class is mightier by far When worker, Patrick dead by Mtetwa. was sho1 security July 13, workers at SASOL 3 went rampage burning buildings and buses anc wantes 18,000 construction workers came out on strike Last week, following a night of violent struggle in which fou security guards were attacked while police ally wolve 250 construction orkses at the, attempt to disperse them, Drant acmanacc higher wages. The workers, who are not unionised, added their indepen- management With taking strike action. Within had won day they a pay. rise, which the bosses will not reveal.

MaloT othe workers resumed work 80 who the increase unaccept- Page 3 "My wife has extended the house for our old age" sympto- Wlall South Africa and testimony the growing strength and confid- schools and com- munities, workers demonstrated •voutn. practice determination, their combativity and willingness the the end against system oppresses and exploits them. Obstacle In period, the coming more workers move more and sonancou,

SLIUBLIC

defence of their living standards, the biggest obstacle they face is revolutionary gendersio. petit-bourgeois reform- of the Stalinist-dominated ism ANC is a noose around the neck of the revolutionary working class In an interview in this week's rewsweer, Viver lamoo, Int leader-in exile the

ANC

path underlined the betraval would take should the!

come to power on tne backs and blood of the working class.

Commenting on the counter- evolullullal.

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motion by Mugabe in Zimbabwe Tambo said: (Zanu-PF) Before they had leaders power. certain theories of what they would do when in • power. But when they did take power, they had face to realities. This 11 would be in South Africa".

Intervene basing themselves irreconcilably on the independent : interests of and drawing Lu worki Class Ther strene or me colace and initiative of the spontan struggles of the class, can eous provide the political leadershir capable of breaking the strangle hold of petit-bourgeois national- ism on the independent strivings oi tne workers And it is only by intervenin in the day to day struggles o workers on the basis of a revolutionary programme which turns thei spontaneous struggles against the bosses into whole casi Trotskyists will demonstrate the for the building of an necessity macronacil revolutonary Dall.

in south Alrica tas a secton o.

the reconstructed Fourth Inter- national) to lead the struggle for communism.

cut to finance more Page 4 if they had As not suffered enough from sixty years of Tory government, workers in the six counties of Northern Ireland for been singicu special round of cuts by the Thatcher government. In a package of proposals designed to give generous hand- Tories outs to employers, £44 million nave siashitu TrOm publIc, serVICe soenome while awarding additional million to their big busi- £50 ness iriends The budget of the Depart- ment of the Environment is cut to take the form of cuts in the desperately inadequate housing programme 4.ll millon is to de axea from health and social security region where even official mass coverly alu an average of 12.1% unem ploy- ment. Heseltine's limits Arrogant, rich, reaction- ary and anti-socialist though he may be, Michael Hesel- the Environment tine, Secretary, is not the darling of the Tory Party at the HOtelli. the Cabinet He is ministel responsible the public sevill. house-bullding programme, over the last 15 and for a crisis in which general housing 10 V forecasts a shortfall of 500,000 houses by 1985.. Flog; off He is also the man respon- the Tories' sible to flog ofi anton council and lla growing numbers private workers orto market to pa y ruinous prices for houses or be screwea by lack renting Tory landlords. week Heseltine only Dul last scraped Commons with the collabora Minister Roy Shadow oi LJ01 Hattersey. of an-albeit small-concession of old people's accommo(latol. Fiasco The Tories would weather en barrassment better this Heseltin e was not also presiding Lice authe of no instruir of his instructions 200 out of 456. local council. Toki Heseltine to cut by Housing, hospitals repression £10 million is to be cut from And educatior socialg lue assistance grant pala will Councils bust spending by a further 2% their or £700 million on their actual 1978-79 spending, only around councils appear to have And 75% of those outside the limits are orv-controlca earlier savage had left with little Cuta Certainly most of the ZI biggest overspenders are Labour controlled London boroughs.

a estul 1chauls 145 Tory councils ате stanale firm against latest all

CULS.

WIl councils taking a similar stand!

The movement- trade and Willis force Labour councillors to defy the Tory cuts, maintain existing reject sol viles, the InCreases ailu LAll defeat of the Thatcher Heseltine

STROOPS OUT

IRELAND

in November. nett even ova e Paisley who denounced the saved by these Casil "little or nothing savage cutbacks is to be paid out plan as doing or another the six In reality capitalist holdings, the impact of the cuts will be to create still more counties. the £30 million is to be handed which to the electricity board to sub- contiene mell will once again fall largely industry supples tc soust the backs of the Catholic work- which presen though increasingly expensive than in the UK.

alfecing the Loyalist workers as lass. the recession gathers pace.

Sports cars Within the confines of the Orange scolar lall £14 million is to be given to upon the statelet. dependent che America De Lorea military might and economic waning British fortunes of imperialism, there is no hope of million, is one of the most ludi- crously expensive job creation securing the rigni lo a Jod dreamed decent living standards for the ventures Britain, and is in financial crisis Irish working class. Loyallst 01 before a car is even produced!

nationalist. to • go to tne Harland and Wolff shipyard.

Stranglehold All in all, £80 million out of Tory package the £98 million cok trom in the context of takes the form of cash ald to break the stranglehold of supplementary benefit to enable employers. working families to pay to help contain the electricity bills is to be scrapped these the fight for a planned socialist further anger inevitable in united Irish the measure Will Spark republic could oppressed nationalist

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tion, the Tories have generously necessary programme or padik £10 works be undertaken that would alocalcu jobs for the new millon TIne Lival North and services", unemploved. beth the £10 million boost South. But and in this context that of occupation tor the armay though at present the national the thugs of the RUC and UDK was not enough to win the sup.

struggle excusvel

PRESS

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Preparing for the 'boom' This did not prevent the hand are 'acts of God'-la good that the govern- News description that savage /elegrapn trom naving a littie ment intends to spend f45 fun with the hurricane, ridicul and rain that vortex wind of million on civil defence was hurricanes blunders blindly in all directions greeted with some ridicule killing indiscriminately) with mart •ane of Central The the pages of the news- called Hurricane sorething America coes EnereTore whitewash its windows but flees brian divided. building The London evening papers The amount was some seeking lisicau. all has have hey a se rea The government atte capable of withstanding gusts o disaster 130 mph. ac viceo me ouolc to wutoasl insides of windows to ward More than 100 people hav being that of those poor Britist off the ; of nuclear war. of Hurrican died in the wake nolicavmaker. who nac their holidays ruined £45 would not States, The horror they stories even be possible to buy enough Mexico Jamaica ano cuba recounted were of early flight whitewash. Tens of thousands have had compared their homes destroyed. Britain was nome ane SUl America (and to tansuch insular carlousness is a favourably to the Soviet has Unioni long known trait of the British been building nuclear shelters press in the Time. homes since the war. in the case basements coitomised over a one paragraph "Small earthquake of the Soviet Union this infor- story evidense previl intente. supposed Chile: Few dead' mation There is however no level of human misery from which capit- of It was not pointed out that the £45m will be alism is too squeamish to make course spent neither on whitewash nor •money. As the constructors and centes lenders wait the money public. so they can Instead it will be «useo lo nutricale Mas. build the skeleton lif that is the оттег Tneil ucrative service towards rebuilding, in do the right word) of a paraliel admin two-bit Britain companies •stration which will witid up-even baton bourgeois rule after art holocaust. taster than couse olazino con the sultancies-to offer you ffor the holocausts are 'acts Ivucical price of two Carribean holidays) ot war in tne language or lisur ance companies. vou ve own mucicar anou other Hurricanes on

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of the under the leadership renublican movement. the work- class. in the six counties mobilised to take the must be lead in the struggle to drive out the British imperialist troops and assert the right of the Irish determine their own polticai ruture Thastiles forthi et res tangible support the British workers movement the tang no me dema lol immediate withdrawal of British troops from Ireland. Lobby the

TUC.

lobby of the TUC Congress at Brighton will be Wednesday held on September 3 by supporters of Tameside Trades Council.

Tameside was by the TUC earlier this year for "crime' convening anour moverten concei vi Ireland Since then over 46 Trades Councils have passed resolutions condemning this decision. Ove a third of the delegates at the of Trades annual conference Tameside Councis supported against the TUC of support that can provide the developing basis for a fight to overturn the Turcade comed b leaders committed role of Britist derence imperialism in Irelana, Labour's "bi-partisan" policy o collaboration with the Tories or the Irish war. "This is also relectea in la Labour Party with the growing Com- the Labour and mittee Tendi increased number of resolutions on Ireland tabled for this year's will lobby assemble at 12 a.m. at Brighton and march to the TUC Congress andoble _be a Tameside Fight Ahead to be held on th 7.30 p.m. at evening a came Resources Centre, North the Road, Brighton Socialist Press are upport this loboy : part of the fight against imper ialist oppression in Ireland.

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Jimmy Reid welcomes Tory SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 August 1980 Last week was an out- standing one for two of the most opportunist figures in the Scottish labour move- ment. Remember James Keid *92, darig "hero" the UCS work-in of then of the Com-

MEIES!

LaDO u. Party left, ex-rector of Glasgow University and fervent expound- er of the Sermon on the Mount!

Keaders may wen ask wnere he well and report that ne is alive.

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welcome tic estabusi ment of an "enterprise zone" in Clydebank. In an article in the Glasgow Herald last week. Remorased the government's decision site of Singer factory into a acuunualil miniature Hong Kong of super Having betrayed the struggle Clydeside shipyard

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As he enters what promises to be the death- throes of his miserable Presi- dency, Jimmy Carter has further made

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the extreme reac- appease forces who have tionary thrown their weight behind Ronald Reagan's Cold War candidacy. Not only has Carter taken the first steps towards reintro- ducing for youth; massively 'Enterprise Zone' biggest teachers' union 1972 with the

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Bloomer went on record last farcical "work-in" poncy (aist being in favour of the week as advocated his fellow James and members closure ol

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teacher training colleges, Bo The Reid them Damn y Callender Park Falkirk and in 1um perinto Int Labour Party. Hamilton in Lanarkshire After himself in standing unsuccesstul- Here ni ne nes total agreement with George Parliament the last Younger, the Tory Secretary General rection (Talling Gordon Wilson Dale •colidiu. Will up his announced the closures Dundee) he in a then gave written statement last week.

shipyard 100 Craigie his time heres my. for the arch-Tory College, which was also column threat, has been reprieved; this Herald which now expounds his reactionary may have something to do with 1t bene wal younger s own The point being reached constituency be imagined that where he advocate might vall Bloomer all, the Tory Wits allel have been rejected by even the umon's cue! necolalon most timid reformists, the salaries and conditions, in cal be ing those of many college lectur- where does must would interested James Reid go next? opposing No doubt in the same airec Closure Keir leading tion as the EIS, thought! Mr Perish the in Making nuclear war "thinkable" and openly threatened to use is opened up of a future attempt military force to preserve imper- agalnsi and other strategic areas; he has stopping short of the traditional now signed Directive 59, which Mutually concept changes Destruction which has been the fundamentall! military perspectives. basis or strategy on DoLe des achieved i vite 190s. since virtual balance was As a result of this, the fire US With trigger-happy Cold War Dower. Lne tude marsh greate be tented for and in the rent to put thing an oppo dunity to put their much greater

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military worl command nuclear hardware to destructive em placements. shift policy by troop concentrations Junkers, up a far greater and mansport connes In other worlds the prospect hats. Ir Boomer weans many one capacity he may be a union negotiator, but in another he 1 a leading figure on une dencial Teaching Council which adjudi- suitability cates that Scottish teachers, and capacity, advocated college closures.

Fewer colleges Falling school rolls, Call meal teachers Cand tneretore In this he is certainly consistent for he also fiercely at to make reduction class sizes a priority in union negotiations It was a bad week for the Scottish clas. mounting unemployment, rising prices and further cuts in their social services. But it was a good week for the opportunists. Carter and imperialist chiefs who stand Carily a cue soul. тестовау Konald Reagan, the most likely next US President. An insight into the way such right wingers 'their disposal is offered by the revela tion of secret papers of Harrv S.

Truman US President during the height of the Korean War.

inflicted on the imperialist UN ground forces-in particular the by Chinese • troops ol Devastation in Hiroshima, 1945 Page 5 colour Reid "SMak- america Gre Reagan General MacArthur's attempted of the Yalu workers' states of Europe, Asia crossing river and Cuba. 1950-Truman looked to Meanwhile the immense cost growing US nuclear arsenal to compensate oi such programmes for the American missile note his 15952 her system; £10 for the ourial • Januar "Trident" British submarine wrote: seems to …me mussnes-is bene proper approach now would be the working class in the form of with 10-day social services, health ultimatum military limit Informing allu Moscow that we intend budgets soar upwards blockade the China coast In countering such aggressive from moves, the Soviet bureaucracy is border Tune noredi China, and that we intend to not engaging destroy military base in "arms race' (as the pacifists every would believe). It is Manchuria, including submarine have uS defend by means Vita control-and if there is further workers' states against eliminate material threat posed by imper- interference we ialism. anv ports or cities necessary why the Labour accomplish our peaceful purposes Party's call for multilatera mutual disarmament" is both a rade, v directock, St. Peters reactionary that Mcalls Mukden, from Duke Peking, Port Arthur defeating the imperialist offen- Dairen, Odessa, and sive, which requires the struggle plant unilateral disarmamen Lilt the Soviet Union will be elim.

of the imperialist powers, and the unconditional defence of inated This is the final chance for the Soviet Union from attack.

Government an e whether decide desires Opposed struggles it survive or not. Truman of course had beer Yet such defence cannot rest man ine wind simply modern weaponry on dropping of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and vast armies. Threat To Ine

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many times over already defeated Japanese the politics of th reactionary imperialism, as toth eaten the Kremlin with oureaucials. seeking to strike a

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new dectructive with imperialism, have the hands of American capital.

consistently opposed struggles Attack workers in Ene

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period to overthrow imperialist governments The frenzied military the politics Neither build with Truman's Cold up railed peera conni War period was clearly seen bi peddled Communist the imperialists as a means Parties, nor the utopian schemas ren eved drive for the waging a 01 Ele Eastern liberation can oller a way lorwara for the buffer working class the struggle auro Dedi state. trOll Kremlin control and an attack against on the nationalised leadership is relations of the USSR itself pendent struggle of the working here s tH that in class to overthrow its imperialist both US and British imperialists the Stalinist bureau ruleis anu seeking secure cracies in the deformed workers' superority states.

TGWU funds pay for new

EVANS & DUFFY GANG

AGAINST BL WORKERS

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BL workers march in defence of Derek Robinson and devoid A reformist trade union ballot capitalist problem, the secret socialist solution, Evans jointly with leader, as the management. every They recommended the 90,000 turner ror davice lo tre cavilai scious worker knows, is one 25,000 ists themselves. workloICe He decided to commission a who accepts that capitalism threatened people out of a job.

capitalists surprisingly this Parıs-based group is necessary (in many cases collusion, and the confusion it -Euro Finance Ltd-to produce thinks it is desirable) and created resulted in a 7-l vote In sees his her job

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what favour of the plan. attempting to obtain a few should be. Accordingly on the basis of concessions within the Robinson substantial fee paid to the very system-providing the by anem system itself is not threat- This vote was quickly turned Finance Ltd produced a lengthy ened and his or her report. said that the major manace UWIl Robinson with the hep of the sacked which BL the privileged position within it problems the to give is maintained. Telusa right wing of the AUEW and the wholehearted suppon lo ue This. political position lies Edwardes plan! communist rally - Lilis way further intimidate The report of course did not henino the numerous berravas which the leadership foist on and the BL work- discipline in terms as nut lis Conclusons the working class, particularly in clear that. They were

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The "left wing" of the trade couched in a mask of objectivity severe crisis. movement represented union behind this was their clea DUt Nowhere are such betrayais by the TGWU at the time, took class position. British mOTE cedi Lial an outwardly more mutant ine.

Leyland where reformist leaders loudly the PartnershipR Edwardes plan. But at the same face the issue most difficult for them-the crisis of profitability time Terusca lo ao any• various repons pesto Bl, and The report 'assessed' thing about it, preferring to hide ol tne company. the of the which Cor bu ed tha be a bast option Acquiesce they were BL would be a partnership minority ratoer weight their majority It is of course not new for membership P positiose, Ba trade union leaers to acoulesce had ment costs-probably Honda.

no to closures or redundancies. It is They, Edwardes pian bucritic goston criticises not new for to do behind- aterrarie conces to olei ally way other than their standard the-scenes deais and to sell out to the government for appeals struggles. even discussing various options What was new in BL when more vesmell anu Edwardes plan unless BI reactionary, nationalist policy the plan was Edwardes of import controls -and it wil 15 20e 10 SurVIVe announced last September was only on that tune raweroe that the leadership of the Con- plan supported or manage Profitability Shipbuilding and federation of by of force ment persuaded Engineering Unions (the CSEU) argument to change it! su planes and casure Rut Moss Evans stil had a In any event the main point and 25,000 problem. Management were the plants support saying they were bankrupt recmnuancie The report puts it in this way profitability They actively argued that 11 Alter all. 11 the the necessary, and railroaded was "At BL Cars in particular, share was still falling, the plan through the shop stew- 1980-83 will the how could you force BL to con- tinue to employ 25,000 workers critical. responsible forensuring that the were atense ves force, short term shocks to BI could 1980-83 during plan was accepted by organising Faced with Cassica Grenville Hawley trigger collapse of the business, although more probable would be further sharp reductions in base, ; i.e. plant the fixer CUst closures, invermen manpower reductions". Later on it explains: "Support measures to limit BL's exposure to short- term shocks tantamount (The Edwardes plan.) Advice by rebom conclude. giving its advice to the TGW: confusion of the From it seems to us current situaliol. the questions of limiting BL's short term shocks exposute to LC10 programme. (.This is not meant to imply that everything be surrendered to short-term exigencies and the LC10 it may programme. mean having to face both ways at once !. hard This because The questions BL Cars future under the 1980 plan will not go away, however much short term support the Company and however smoothly the LCIO programme is kept rolling. But there will not any about BL Car hard questions future i LC1( fails to meet plan targets" necessary for furo Well, certainly not Finance to explain to the leadersmp or lis

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how to face both ways al vila They are past masters at the exercise But what this conclusion to is that Moss the report means Evans has expended a large sum oi union lunas simply to told what BL management have ceased say nevel BL Wi don't knuckie unatl close down and throw you ali out of a job It didn't need thousands of pounds ТАЯТ anower Edwardes would have told them as he has done for nothing thousanas or times in the past.

The prect on the Talu : on the TGWU very effect At the June meeting of the General Executive Council Edwardes plan itor until stewards have an oppor- tunity to assess the contents of the report" In other words they will end stewards met shortly аттетмотом were handed a document which Euro Finance that the clameu report suostanliany SuDOOTLS the views of the TGWU on the Edwardes plan This is rather bizarre, since report Tne aovocalca tnal une Edwardes plan be supported ir the absence alternative acceptable to the Company!

Working group The document proposed that a smal working group De sel sketched in the it explained "a small working could the flesh on put these bones and return within a month wilh ment ederich would engage ose those confidence involved is needed, argues the consensus on SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 August 1980 Eva forward" and a "declaration o intent" by the TGWU, by BI and by the government. "participation' under the Labou Ryder, whic much damagi trade union movement withi BL, + arearation be replaced by intent Tory with ment, designed to keep the far tories running at all costs.

"Three years peace" Any doubt about

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support will get from increasingly bureaucratis convenors. was dispelled by ti Grenville Hawley, Group National Sec tary, when he emerged from th convenors' meeting "three years peace at BL wan declared. He thought this wol bE : accepted because "there ha not been a militant voice rais at the meeting". The TGWU report that h accepts heen procuced Euro Finance report in almo its entirety exception is on impo controls. Euro Finance ma case for import controls but also point out the cont intention to become the spe head of Honda penetration ir European market throu L11t the Bounty. I report simply ignor In fact the TGWU report i scissors and paste job clippings from Euro Fina produced by alle TGWU research department

bosses' report on Leyland SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 August 1980 UP Bill Peters 40 pages of It amounts to comment about the crass cover up a industry designed to tail. very Like Euro Finance it calls for a partnership with another company ment into BL. But whereas Euro Finance call for three years of peace and ay that any sharp shock would inish the company, the TGWU makes it much more actually specific. In the key section they call 81520 milent funding for million by 1985. return for this they make the following proposals: the height of "It would be embark the folly resources on this committal of scale unless other measures were to ensure at least some taken guarantee of success. being five we major inter-related areas have to be envisaged: but selective controls over imports declared movener towards a full scale partnership substantial revitalisation physical continuity output 5. adequate investment have to be All five

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taken together as they embrace the short term" objective of the establishing the viability Cars division and erm objective of forming part two million unit/annum 01 4 combine. that time scale, 1995-2000, the issues are rather speculatimened in some detailare All the points The key to it all, of course, continuity of physical out- ut". This is as near as you can get to a no-strike clause.

Every month's @Mirror quality month in th A message from Jack Jones and Hugh Scanion 120,000

KEEPI

WORKING!

The notorious issue of Leyland Mirror verbally far away from Terry It is the logic of the Ryder Duffy. report-that He took different positions survival) of the Company comes Party reform He first-put down in writing in a Labour Duffy in macumunton in me car industry.

compiled seemed far away from council lorry the rora strike and tie strike-both issues this is exactly ine argument where the question of capitalist used time and time again by profitability did not appear to Terry Duffy. be so clearly posed. It was the reason Duffy and accepted Confed Edwardes plan in the first place Involved (and collaborated in the sacking of Robinson). Evans But once became In the words of Alex Ferry personally involved in BL things Duffy's man in the leadership vere quickly different of the Conted: spect the college last strike in the during look over the precipice and we Aprl saw". Midlands plants over the impos- didn't like what we ition of the 5% wage offer and Exactly the same argument pages of strings was the key Duffy when was usea by turning point. urged acceptance …The No doubt Edwardes gave offer and 92 pages of strings. the And it was exactly the argu- over Alex perry ve to six months never ment used by Jack jones and Hugh Scanlon to force in the Ryder plan and the collabora- earlier. commit- When the chips were downl 'participation' came left and the right the tees which did so much damage together in defence of capital- to the shop floor movement in ism. Evans' problem At that time we had Jones will be his document getting on the Leoland thiror sat pase accepted by the management- Leyland Mirror saying-

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despite the inaucement or a no- strike clause Jones/Scanlon Ine the government, night bine is laced by has additional finance called for will Evans/Duffy axi of 1980. replaced now not make the document any less The logic reformism 1s inexorable. Moss Evans seemed

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drawing up the document and Whether or not the docu- the right to away formally ment "declaration of nommune cas been done to leel accepted, stitute the JNC in order to clear spells out the attitude of intent" way for wage negotiations GWU leadership. the clearly the that completely They management nave oi the ignored the campaign waged the most in moral cal rel representative PC to be set tic democratic plants most basic trade union prin- sUll ciples. based on The point will not be lost on _a representat ve con ference of BL workers. Edwardes or the government.

Assembly Secondly the document In the damaging the workers signed immediately Plant a mas review. lines and these • the wage to every leve provokes copies were aIscussIon viability inf then mn attention. of the TGWU inside and outside when attention response BL-but should the low alls heen tomacom meanwhile the Nationer wage revie tor Edwardes Ila. November wage review. far been But the document is not the has called tor permanently replaced by a com- only problem the workers face- although it the most far- mittee comprised 1S and has sent national officials, reaching. proposals on these lines to When the bargaining struc general secretaries of the unions hire in seis taken mto accoull it can be seen that BL workers concerned. in a very difficult position withdrawing ma ecu The fact is that since cor BL from Employers Federation from 1 porate was intro months ago BL duced August 1980 workers have had no means of The implications of this are expressing their collective view farreaching for BL workers except through a highly bureau- August all agree cratised Joint Negotiating Com- the with ments negotiated mittee-which had no powers to Federation covering mummun. strike action even premium payments rates, decisions could have been influ holidays and hours of work wil enced by the shop noot cease to exis Yet not a word has reached Last April even is body was virtually disbanded after it the shop floor from the unions.

They have been too busy the strike in supporter Midlands plant. *Since this article was com- Not influenced information nieted MOre become available on the recon stitution' of the JNC. It appear comprised of committee has met and the Confed national officials who could not proposals-one the two be influenced in any way by ron woe ed from the TGWU calling for pro with powers to override the JNC.

shopfloor was portional 'representation, Michael Edwardes from It quickly used these powers orie nationa highly controversial calling 70, ston officers and fewer convenors.

procedural agreem torer The JNC met last Friday but workforce Wends effectively resolved nothing crushed any towards murmer moves opposition ther new stitution' will now structure forced in by grade 27. until August meanwalle

JNC

and therefore there Is no TGWU officials and no means of negotiating wages.

leading convenors nave ocon Page 7 Demonstration against the Edwardes plan solve the company's profitability probiem. expense of their members another obvious major attack on BL workers is the offing. the crisis will use haware. the industry drawal from the Federation to vicious package another against BL workers in reply tr the review The Combine Committee has Derek Robinson since not me meeting was first since that time is scheduled to Wednesday of this week that the com- Crucia takes reject all capitalist on blons to the problems of BL workers.

• tackle the questiol at must of democratic representation of reconstituted workers 1 U. Assembly Cowley

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sune this Plant has the placed it is crucial it is agenda and supported. There is no reformist answe to this attack. The problems o BL are the problems of capital ism which is in acute economic crisis on a world scale Workers are not the cause of crisis They have influence over it and no respon sibility towards it Their only answer can be to independent defend their interests against the interests of capitalism *That means not selling right to strike but exercising it using the strength ot the trade umon movement le stop the closures and redundan- cies Work sharing on full pay!

*Open the books of BL and its suppliers and distributors t elected committee of rank and file trade unionists!

"ror a nationansco, migra automotive and compon- ted, democratic, fully representative, negotiating com mittee elected at a delegate con тететсе. claim to re wage "FOr a workers and a sliding protect the of wages new rates against inflation.

Prior's anti-union law:

ATTACK ON WORKING

Page 8 Part three of a series by Jack Burnett While the main thrust of Prior's anti-union Employ- ment Bill is to weaken the labour movement in future battles with capital, he has also taken a little time off deliver a few blows against the condi- tions of the working class.

James Prior's right hand man the House of Lords the Earl ol vowrie explained the ration- ale for these criticised Parliament past legislation

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passed that had "accustomed the electorate accree or mena and prysica comiort than our national situation allows" state affairs that the cencally reversing! Keverse Here the attack is to reverse the most paltry anu madcouate o cans mace l recent vers Only there statutory protection of was no Pregnant women s oDs. perore 1976, depended individual allu Int well-organised sections the thought of women's rights is well expressed agreement The engineering that covers 400,000 workers and had absol- on lalet. The Employment Protection (Consolidation) 1978 Act collecucu illal a wollar will

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vears continuous employ within we did ter dad "the job in which she was employed under original terms and conditions not less favourable than those which scen avolcabe lo she had not been her absent". parliamentary legis- lation even wien passco unde DODUlar pressure tne …Torm granted while the such social reform is limited.

Exclude The restrictions like the two year qualifying period will effec- tively exclue many women "enjoying" this legislation Irom many women will bearing flave therefore won't qualify and others will gone from one employer to and conseouenl.v de barred themsleves from the Act's provisions. the But while neutral civil survants ocal governments frame legislation in such a way as to exclude

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the Tories come along beneilt, to clobber the remainder tha managed to jump through the restnictive noops. Prior's law will now demand who of meet the above •unal Ther still forfeit their rights unless they rigidly comply with whole new set of bureaucratic Oustuculs. 1) a letter to her un top ol the normal notill cations she would give her wntien intee weeks beore sne leaves indicating her intention employers, are now added:

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to Tenn to work 2) if her employers write for confirmation of her return she Prior three letter date of return. her legal right to The employer tion

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these conditions And having still has give her employment States musi she was doing before doubt plete nessman to Prior has simplified tions have any! verandliul a business" Centra less do not have if it able to do so" PHOTO: John Sturrock, Report On indy the aist extended with unfair dismissal. One of the government dismissal from The new against unfair dismissal than 20 workers a se mus wile a good before any against write a third

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 August 1980 weeks before her And for those workers who do Failure to fulfi Ahe die have ben Wish unfair dismissal • legally sulpulations could lead to the woman losing entitled to been work. further loaded by Prior against obliga- has her any of Firstly the 'onus' that formally least was on met them all, she he believed reasonably al reversed. Instead her employer is free to dismissing a "suitable alternative Now an employee is assumed guilty Which Prior's lav ano nas to prove insteac not "substan that the employer acted unreas tially" less favourable than what onably Clause 8 of the Act which "compensation" The word substantial and the , deals with the word suitable can cover a great paid in proven case of deal of ground and there's little dismissal abolishes the minimum intends award of two weeks pay employers to exploit it to the overwhelmingly normal pittance paid out in such cases For those working for small This clause would also allow capitalists Prior's attack is com reduce its Not wanting the small busi- dismissal Malariall e as frustrated over coma bring lorwara evidence o the employee's "misconduct" intends to make the employee, even if totally unrelated his obliga- actual case for dismissal made He doesn't by the employer! And again refusal of an unfairly dismisse person Divert Wild To quote Prior's Minister of pleased to call reasonable State for Employment (sic!) the instatement' could lead inimitable Earl of Gowrie, a pre further reductions the with Tribunal's award subsequent will

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from the central task of running deal in greater detail with th role of industrial tribunals And to assist them with this Here 11 states that the Thatcher concervf that employers of six workers or assault Val ros re-instate a state incorporation ot th Wal not wolllal who wallls to recure t her job after having had a baby positive side for the working not reasonably practic Tribunals short uncer. floor 'apartheid'-like shop organisation intro provide legal behind which union bureaucrats can hide their treachery.

limiter maternit rights or none at all, dependin accidental fac Pitiful the size of the workforce, into The pitiful hand-outs thei clause 7 of his law which deals grant a few workers is a smal price the bosses pav for the corrosive erect ine!

TSI Times this did -without wait- have of working class consicous- ing for a new Employment Bill- ness The blind hatred that a shop qualifying period of protection from unfair keeper's daughter feels towards : 26 to 52 weeks the working class obscures for Employment Act Thatcher what powerful doubles yet again in less than a mstrument or une capitalist clas.

year the period of no protection she is busily dismantling and dis- creditin, In this employer with less contradictory years it can be said that Prior's assaul

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employment has to be worked legal protection most piece dismissal is given the legislation that this government

The Case of the Unknown Novelist SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 August 1980 BOB SUTCLIFFE reviews The Man Who Was B.

Traven by Will Wyatt, published by Jonathan Cape, £8.50. about the written B. Traven was a great heen question. and anti- anti-capitalist "Theories" been have imperialist writer. offered to show that Traven was the illegitimate son of the last Not his only novels. pseudonym written in the 1920s and 1930s German Kaser. for Jack the lives of atne exploed and a nuD writers and many other SoYCIal possibilities. struggles: surrounding set out The mystery Traven writing consciously to transiate political identity has regrett- Traven's ably come to eclipse any serious ideas and theories into the form interest in his remarkable works.

o COR Two y care Bo p. odune with which gives along with Traven's fiction a very special Wyatt of the mader se ter Robe comersonl ondallly doesn't which relatively compeleli At times, when once andi for al he m totery oe claimed his ork is a bic tod did his aim, Solve work is a bit too didactic.

fully does Traven's identity. where

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They argued that Traven the novel succeed-as in his famous mye sinus ashot Marutd Sierra The Treasure

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responsible tor a sahile uni que Teasire of tine sierra German anarchist aclol Brick layer, uro fled porsecutioe revolutionary journal ireusur t Madre is an exciting adventure after the counter-revolution and story, a profound description of who turned up briefly in Britain human deprivation and exploit- 1923 where he was held in ation and their ettects. a very before deporta- prison convincing nular

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characters and their interaction, tion. The theory that Marut then and a fictional demonstration of resurfaced as the novelist Traven the Marxist theory of value-all Mexico has long been held 11 OnC supports it without anc wal about T.ne probicls Short stories associated with it of these "The main of short stories, Some how only a matter the which along with the after nOves disappearing republished political scene Marut/ being 10 W after being Traven was able to write books and Busby

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-have long and of print- verts oul whlct

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profound knowledge of Mexican something of the sane tltan combination of levels. peasant life. novel The Death literary not, alas, caliy Dul is another brilliant evoca- questions which Wyatt Ship bother tion of the exploitation of sea- and Robinson. iner

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and their struggle against with the historical only cerned whodunit aspects of the story.

it. Others like March to Caoba- A scene from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Their unquestioning Land Hang ant Rebellion aluvy tance of Marut as the author of the ferment relate Traven's novels is part of their among Mexican forest when his Wienecke (later acceptance the to the otner the years escine born feature of the Traven parents married) aliu was Mexican revolution of February 1882 The storv-that he was a man known then in Germany. CullI Schwiebus, Jungle variously Bridge as oran aas rial research it toretto. Wyatt's who lived stories „Mexico and many or the saolt certainiy between the early 1920s and his seems r'est under standde or Trapen tor the show sympatny became Marut. It is possible that death in 1969. Torsvan Marut poor oppressed life became une Tarsvan No proof peasaot oh se co. Croves. those who appreciate But whether this person or sympathetic yet Traven sucl fair was retains Wyatt pro cec committed and militant writing DISOnS circumstantial much had It vslery -and for socialists in particular diluwil proof that before Wyatt claimed - Traven's works should hold though no evden ce Torsvan/Croves was sallic special interest. the best literary person as Marut. His books have been burned himself evidence for Wyatt's theory Torsvan by Hitler, censored both by US Useu Traven's obsession in own name. And his MoCarthy era "Traven' as a lust with the question of Dussuc li taa Croves tiltned up durm WEitI: and its elusiv ana hy tne dramlalsl vurvauuials of the great 1947 Der n Hacac of Eastern Europe. : of the Sierra nature, the oppressive ano 1 IC nature of a fixed identity.

Madre as script advisor. Identity Rebellion of the Rut none of wvatt's circum- Hanged remarks: stantial evidence Tor a sunge "The first thing we must :do person who was Marut, ,Torsvan his wider The for rencon and Croves amounts to a proof is attack tne registy anu fame, however, has always been the papers all the papers different from the content ine autnot. or the tat ne tas signatures-deeds, very and Traven novels. of the hooks-it has been tax It not insignificant that hirth and death Celaln special mystery of Traven's real artist as John records, everything Thei sucta sonsicily will know who he is, Jucillily. nobody despite his of the film of This is because, Huston (cireciol had his father The Treasure he went The yerra ane maal want with birth literary success convinced What do Madre) never we incredible almost lenatns certificates?" identity from real whom he came to his Inat Toyes Contal well, was public, Kno Ene wIile the general Oppressive numerous readers, TrOM produ es somon hing Wyatt journalists and WI LeTS w ilu detection ven trom his pabisheos. sought coup saw Traven the or his esners. tracing the identity of his char.

-and even Irom expressed in official documents identity acter back one further stage on as part of the ane mystery before Marut. inende aid su has for decades pecl perpetuation Basing himself on the British

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topic of investigation intriguing ( and state which as an Home Ottice Illes MarUl Sy sEcill anarchist socialist he passionate- or specuiation Wyatt does convincingly prove and articles, Many

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ly loathed. originally Otto learned and not so learned, have Was It is not improbable that such a man, like some of the his s books, slipped characters. in from one official public identity to another. token, Traven alo uld have farne ironically by the same dismissive critic of the

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Wyatt's book. Dismissed Wyatt himself dismissed a from Traven his letter nothing „ucers as homily: ule te o state vera biography clearly: absolutely ereniye

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recognisable in his workg he is worth nothing One cenkiyer voth othu creanve DeTSUI therefore have no Oner DO graphy than his works" Wyatt mistakenly attributes ail thıs to a eues‹ lor oryaly whereas Traven's attitude to hi wn identity was surely a par 0I nIS chealve conceras as varere h that becauve discovered he nothing about has kimme• traven s willuss looking only for the odd quota- tion which will illuminate his biographical reconstruction blind to Traven's ideas and oterary achievements. For instance, he grotesque- ly describes The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as a "'morality greed and riches in tale about an ironic fable about the corrup- tion brought by wealth' Such remarks are one of the infutmting spe o br th are ok.

others are pretentious tendency to go into laughable demal abo ul making of the TV film. denying that no here Is the even given Ils ilitalions.

subject Wyatt's nook interesting to anyone interested in Traven. all But the book" frequently lets what is tedious and boring get in the way.

In the end the book's obses- the with writing biography of a man and not that of a creative writer. Mundane But is the mystery • solved. is, in the mundane The answer of it, wvatt sense CUlLe "perhaps but by no means com pletely convincingly" creative side of the When the Traven

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mystery changes its form.

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Page 10 stall Tory The impact of the econ- omic crisis on the ship- building industry has been grave that it has forced even the most pig-headed of Tories-Thatcher, Joseph Heseltine-to abandon their plans to sell off the profitable naval shipyards.

British Shipbuilders made a massive £109 million loss in the 1979/80-double y cal the pre loss was was E10 million the cash by over set Joseph-and would nave worse Il the nationalised tirm had not been able to include a £40 million total profit from yards-Vosper, cuc ullet Haval Yarrow and Vickers. Government cash BS auditors pointed out that without adequate cash support from the government, the opera- Lom ls lol a vlabie conceln.

outright closure merchant shipbuilcling is a step wide-reaching suppliers and that contractols government a naterer nasneld back from it. the retreat from the resait ol unt navar yarus.

But the owners Vosper, Yarrow Vickers still further enraged Havo Uccl retreat Tn e Ene . OT*teS from their commitment to alter the Cull sala lo pyhr: vllt system estan sner wnen Tne yards were nationalised in 19/77.

But shipyard workers 'have little to celebrate. Resign The management BS neadeu ov new caatmde r ober Atkinson had threaten ed the naval yard:s were hived off. thre atening

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Trey are the workforce with "pl ans and productivity improvement learing tr› reduc- tions in unit cost" In words mo re speed UD. teamnaancie anu tion-no the eger doubt with nem ber-cum-union-chies men like board Jonn ¿namels • une borle- makers Union. PHOTO: Chris Davies, Report Chalmers:

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cratic rights. These can only be defended policies through which start von vé œnn on the teratog als whic as international nothing to gain and everything to lose trom attempts to restore "own" The oronte r nen employing class In a period where the contra dictions anarchic capit- alist system force the wholesalt cosure ano cesuucuon от lae productive forces of society only socialist plannec SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 August 1980 Howe moves on wage controls front and force settlements down to 10% or below. Policy paper Last Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe week orescnl a boncy baser on ware to the TUC at a meeting of the National Develop- ment Council. The document stressed that ine government intenos to usi cash limits to , hold down rises in the public sector, and accused rises oi retard- leaders refused to dis cuss the have document-but coene• our dooley o

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bat the Tory strategy and show intention of fighting any of no liit luly dltauks. 3 day week at Rovers redundant in a maior cutback Falling sales in the exec- in production utive car market are produc- 6,000 ing mass lay-offs and short laid off in June. In Audi, BMW time working in Europe. ane vokswacen workers alt 0l short-time working 6,000 German Ford workers And now 2,500 workers at involved in Granada Solihull producing the Rover •roqucuo! Haut rover ano uxi cars are io co ol a three day week and a two day woman worker week-and face the prospect of solt ume utu cuisulas

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TUC disarms workers SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 13 August 1980 London cuts fighter victimised central feature of the fight to In ta major attack on the stop throughout the the cuts workforce St. Mary's health W9, Hospital, London al va management have this week mass meeting of TG WU members at the ho

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depleted staffing levels and thus defend jobs a light to imple sending the services must de my detended struggle St. Mary's workers has become a

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mobilise to win this vital strike! resulted in a compromise-that 120 strikers and supppor- ten strikers would be allowed to the Adwest picketed

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picket and ioooy tne scaos colne Engineering factory in into the plant. Reading last Monday. This resulted some vigorous picketing-but failed to It was the third mass picket called by stop any of the scabs going in.

the strike committed of the 58 strikers support were sacked after striking No official support support one worker during a pay dispute.

success in that i ocussed moial picket partial In a press comerence allet- wards Danny Broderick placed the main blame for their failure attention The strike ano because it partially reestablished to shift the position of Adwest management squarely the democratic right to picket.

• The door of the TGWU, who after At orevious mass bickers lne weeks of the strike right to picket had been totally 14 nearly the police denied by still retuse to make it orticial.

He showed copies of the The TGWU convenor Danny from the TGWU Reading letter Krocerick was arrested when ne attempted, single handed, DISEnCI secretar picket the gate. the strike a tew days arter started and calling on all TGWU At the previous mass picket members not to cross the picket in June 26 pickets were arrested when the attemoteo to dery tre He explained how the inght police and exercise the right to shift was called out on strike by picket. the District. Secretary the On Monday things were very ditterent Necotiations win te UnIon and

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from front page councils launch realonal initiatives which, in effect, are a call for a stoppage of work.!! must ask you not to proceed .

Instead the lut Is talking of "national month campaign" focussing on unem- •loyment No leadership benter nationa leadership from the TUC; with public sector union meekry assisuing ne tation of Tory cuts and closures; and with the sacrificing their orivald members loos and wades in valr attempts to restore profitability to the employers, workers face a maor crisis or leadershio in une "co-ordin- wanted to ensure a fight against the Tory offensive ated campaign , he told Barnett Disarmed by the of the TUC and diverted that a regional march could not be held without General Council amamentary musion. approval: Labour leaders, workers must "We certainly do not expect turn to the building of a new, He told how the

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had then used the leadership ba• oook keeome or lne oranc secretary to avoid giving official support. strike said, had me an member of the AUEW. Larry how explainec Executive officer of the union, He last week. District committee na eartie. Smith had given them held an inquiry into the dispute and and had come out in its support. at Thursday's Since been Falstu Unc • tallel Iner and done to put that support into raur InE weneral Lecided to instruct the Region y Executive Council. practice. For these reasons the strikers had *aro meet ere suike com- decided to make atne mittee and sort out the facts about the actions of the problem of the books. union officials public and stop Danny Broderick STrIKerS naturall what "diplomatic thought this was a step in the described and contacted game" with them the Region 2 office to find out The strike committee are through when fne meetme was to lake the TGWU and the AUEW They phoned John Ashman demand that the leadership ac the strike official the Regional Secretary and were immediately. for at least a month-after they ane next mass picket. mey had been 14 weeks on strike!

said, is likely to take place out- told Transport House in A simiar story vas Martin Kaufman sacker London

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and LaDOUl trade union leaders who won't fight. For a workers' govern- ment! *Open the hooks ot thi employers who threaten redun- aancies or relus wage cases and supo lers and national stone the case to her without nationalisation, under workers' bensatiol management. This correct. real But must be mass

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restoratiol increases ning the matic pace with Demand Labour Inmation. Councils repudiate

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Ortisi workers" was obviously menace, the month ban blatant provocation-with on demonstrations in Sand- route chosen well imposed by W. areas of high unemployment and high concentrations Midlands Chief: Constable Sir Philip Knight represents immedit workers a blow against the workers' Public Order Act movement. the pretext Uneer But it not this which Was National Front banning the prompted Sandwell's Labour Council march senecureo lor. vvest brom- wich next Knight has the Public Order Act of sunday. invoke defuse the 1936 and impose a three-month mobilisation of anti-fascists ban on demonstrations. against the NF. and at the same Rather Knight recognised time to ban important demon- scale of the that the by the local strations could protect labour moveGE TInE march-to be held fascists from angry workers and ine Nr vouln. NF will be free to march un- Release announced elsewhere West Midlands, and the chances ot an ettective counter-mobilis ation have been drastically reduced. Iranian many Labour Party

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mem oers will leader Arder Jehaul and Knight's ban is a demonstration the Nazi through Tipton on Paul Holborrow West planned by students! Bromwich Labour Party. cec ared Ine Dan important "victory" and stated much meeting of 90 Obviously the local labour movement should defy the ban people in Smethwick last week Communist insist upon the right rarty and described ban as a Iranian students also "victory" for the anti-fascists.

must be understood that Britain ended their hunger what they TinG strike as some of them were celebrate is the fact that the ban agitation will be defeated not by being transferred to prison prevents a march planned bans state 'democratic Birmid hospitals. worKers

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No. scale mobilisation of the labour students vere released from jail movement to drive them from embarrassed government as an of Ano anotner casually ine streets strucica Charts holding their own nostages.

both countries the Iranians responded to the arrests jail. Newspapers, from the most most liberal, reactionary to the TOr deportations from both countries and accused the Iranians of an inter- national consonady The demonstrations sparkec ott unoricied. racialism Incuo- ing in America, a stone-throwing mob. The demonstrators had come suDoor Knomeini From their comments in court it is clear selves as anti-imperialists The demonstrations must, to then nave carreo ecnoes or tne capitals against the Shan.

demonstrations ¡ne oncina cemonstrations were reactionary to the extent that they identified the demon- sualors win anoe. Thousands Hut the attack The The nationalist popula- marched by the police and or rest at the ninth anniversary the racialiors tion SiX racialist outbursts sectarian introduction Grahal county statelet of Northern Edward are roducts or oiseasco ment nationalism. Ireland mounted a massive Heath s government Th or dam stustate they 1971. show of resistance to the Republican forces mounted right dennonstrate. British army occupation last and raids on police shouie oe recaned. antwustice Oppose their deportation!

and army patrols. weake no newspaper at the Post Office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist League.

Police protect fascists in Bolton, 1978 The Public Order Act, now as in 1936, serves as an obstacle mobilisation-and such even while banning their Thus. march, has weCT kromwich assisted the work of the Front Socialist Press supporters are Darticialt mobilisations on August 17 des diverted igned to counter the march. the fight must be intensified to: *Defeat fascist violence! *Unite the workers' move- ment in struggles to bring mass down the Tories And the British army struck back with customary savagery; a social was killed ov a blastic ourtet mired a point blank range. A 15 year old girl was in intensive care after being hit by a plastic bullet And soldiers in an armoured car gunned down a 20-year old youth. become Such violence Nas the trade mark of the Britist repression that the State Orange dallis! unbroken resistance • the nationalist minority. Army terror While the Torism Tory press demns the the rebuolican movement applauds the institutionalised of the

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terro of the UDR, and their back up Torture, remane witnour mar.

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The fascist outrage that killed 76 people in Bologna rail station on August 2 has once again brought to light the collaboration of sections of the Italian state with the extreme right wing and the relationship of the fascist terror campaign to the needs of the Italian ruling class. •The bombings started 1969 as a response to the wave striker •ano occupations launched by Italian workers.

Their was the aim to lay foi ronT • Terro coup, possible military frighten the Italian Communist Party

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open collabor- into Christian Demo. ation • win ca crats to forestall such a coup The first bomb which killer 16 people in Milan in 1969 was at tirst damed on anarchists.

Smuggled out Only when the evidence unearthed by the press became impossible to deny was the guilt or une tascists domitted, and o that time Italian secret service had smuggled those res ponsible out of the country The involvement of NATO has since become open secret. The campaign was a success

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extent entered into what was in effect , alliance Christian Democrat working class. They supported not only a whole austerity measures ou attack on democratic rights.

Indiscriminate phone

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arrests became a normal part of The renewed series of bomb ing recently seem to suggest that ruling sections

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Italiar class are not satisfied with those smase une mass orcanisations o the working class. bombing shows the contempt with wei triest sections and their fascist agents view just orescer the courts to send thret members of the NAR, a smal fascist group, for trial accused Drovind LItt • italian express in 19/b By the latest bombings the NAR and its backers are declar no-jury courts and the horror of the. "H' Blocks at the old inter- ment camp of Long Kesh Solidarity The weekend demonstra tions demanding the restoration of political status to the repub in the 'H' lican prisoners 150 were oinee Tols wear by from the roops Uui small but signific Movement-a solidarity . with gesture o ant the Irish struggle. The fight for the withdrawal of British from troops a foremost task of the remains Kritici Labour movement step forward would be major if the TOM (which has a taken record 01 Sul tune is owl actions for a strucie to mool ise the working class would direct its fight centrally into the trade unions and the Labour Party. ing their readiness to dispense WItH parlamentary democrac) itself. As in 1969 the role of the Italian state forces glimmers Inroton the news resorts The member of the NAR arrested in Nice last week suspected of taking part in the bombing, had knowingly been allowed to live unmolested in France, although he had already years been. sentenced

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jail in Italy for the 'reconstruc tion of a fascist party' Rumour A careful rumour had even been • had been spread that Kulleo in a plane crasit The bombing must also be intended to illustrate the impo. The choice of tence of the PCI workine cass victims from Bologna, could not be more stronghold, srovocative Yet the response of the PCI They issued was calls for strengthening of

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the apparatus- StaTe ~ ne which is itself impli cated in the fascist bombings.

growing disillusion. , Ene ment with the russ policies fact that the families of the vast majority of une victim. rescue take dal. In tne Tuneral arrander by the PCI hotionary left also also of the cemonstrate. PCI's class funeral against the collaboration. but ine strenoth or ine ned fascists and their backers lies precisely in the absence of any conerent or bary of the revolutionary left.

They that •the PCI with policy nistork Comeronist Challending the bourdeois state with tendency during thi period crisis develop towards outright police repres sion. Protest strike But the Italian rulind clas still has to actually smash the mass organisations of the work- Ine class to over come is oresen crisis-organisations which res- ponded once again with a solid strike the _boloona comoine And that is a more difficult matter just exposing the impotence of its present leaders

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