Socialist Press no. 211

Polish strikers demand

END BUREAUCRATS'

For Political Revolution!

A new stage has been reached in the Polish strike wave, as the 50,000 workers of Gdansk have raised demands that strike at the very roots of the ruling Stalinist bureaucracy. They nave demanded unt closure of the "commercial" "privilege" which shops, have supplies of meat and other only commoonues au a price bureaucrats can afford, or which are only used by selected Com- munist Party members And, on top of their demand for wage increases, the Gdansk strikers have called for pensions ana lany alowances ecual to those paid to the police, armed forces and party officials Alongside these demands are calls for: *release all political prisoners. *reinstatement of all victim- ised workers "access to the mass medla and freedom of the press.

*publication of full informa- ton on the soca ane economic situation-effectively 'opening the books' of the bureaucracy.

And. as well as demandine independent unions, trace workers already in the are process of building them on a local and nationa eve In Lublin for instance, the railway were who among the first to strike on wages are now in me process or electing a new Workers' Council.

But it is in the shipyards that the advanced. Necorations derween unofficial leaders and the broadcast were over Jouuspcakers lo une assell- pied worktorce i workers townspeople supplied them with food. Concessions In attempts to head off the StriKe wave. une ronso bureau- cracy has given concessions on wages. But the more the work ing class power, the more it seeks to make its gains permanent. Compromises on wages will not end the pent up hostility that lows irom years ol stalln ist bureaucratic repression. this militancy to the surlace. Ene movement or the working class can only be defeated by the bureaucracy adopting a policy oi contront- ation. As we go to press, there are reports that phones of militants Cul

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oppositionists placed under house arrest. Polish workers are reported COnSCIOUSLy avold a soviet intervention, and fraining from the kind of riot f 1956 and 1970-i which Toods were nanced ov worker and CP offices burned-whicl might prompt military inter- But the more advanced the

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 211 Affiliated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee movement becomes, the more determined the bureaucracy will De to break it. Despite workers' attempts to the fact avoid seeking permanent that they are a clash inevit- changes Illakes able et Polish workers know their long history from against their Stalinist struggles every Canoe taken away demands are limited reforms that stop short of the political overthrow ol the bureaucracy. In the aftermath of earlier concessions struggles, even establish- arreach: as une ment of Workers Councils in * August 1980 * 20p

PRIVILEGES!

INDEPENDE

UNIONS

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1956 have been subsequently of the promised ago: none destroyed by the bureaucracy.

changes have occured. At the end of their strike in January 1971, the Gdansk Gierek also pledged that he forced Party would elected workers even bodies. But the leader Edward.Gierek to address concessions on which he a mass meeting, uns score were so in sienitican that the official trade unions in made a number of promises.

strikers and played no No change part in negotiations is no accident theretore He assured those workers that the shipyard workers of complained that Party Gdansk now the who are most politically developed, leaders ike himselt were irre- had only 2-3 movable that he greatest threat to the bureau- and that the Party cracy. Their record of struggle years to go, would consider imposing a limit- and experience of fighting the anion on terms or ounce bureaucracy is a starting point But that was nearly ten years for today's battles. Age of mass unemployment Centre pages Freud strikes back! p.9 Beyond the fragments p.8 Leyland: new Edwardes Plan?

•p.11 A fresh upsurge of the revolution in the USSR will undoubtedly begin under the banner of the political Down with the privileges of the oppression. with Stakhanovism! Down bureaucracy! Down with the Soviet aristocracy and its ranks and ladeus! Greater equality of wages for all forms of Leon Trotsky, Transitional Programme 11 The formation of such a mass, unofficial body is a bigger Chance • bureaucracy number of one-off than any Aswe go to press report. indicate that the strike action is escalating throughout the Baltic and the ioint committee 1CE0lL the MKS has already announced Once the strike has ended the MKS will not dissolve itsel but continue the realisation of the demands and organise free trade unions The fact is that the bureau- cracy cannot co-exist wun suci an independent body-especially establishes itself as a national movement. The choice for the Stalinists is not easy. One option is to play along for a while with the new commutee m une nobe taking it over by corrupting its eadership In 1956, Gomulka, represen ting the Polish national bureau- cracy, came to power on the back ‹ of such a mass movemen of workers-only snatch workers gains back trom mem the It was lett Gormulka who ended collective farms and handed the land over to the present 3 million peasant farmers-a force for conservat- And it was comuka wad began drawing the massive loans from Western bankers that have the now saddled economy with £8,500 million in debts, as well as making agree The shipyard workers struck ments with tne catnonc church By 1970 Gomulka had ast nursday not over wage: but against the victimisation of dropped the 'left' facade-and a militant who had been a leade repress the

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1970 strike movement CrOanSK SunKers. but the ress tance became more widespread or mier demanes walco they have won) was the rein- of the -and section statement of Anna Walentyno- relused to move Al this point ulerek stepped Gomulka was ousted- -and declared that he had Defiance always opposed his policies "left' But as soon as the The decision now by the 200 talking Gierek had got the Strong sunke committee to derv the

SUIKCIS

Uack

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bureaucratic attempts to isolate promised concessions were with- the strikes forming an inde- drawn. Poland "ALl • Irade Union Congress" also comes out Continued p.2 of those experiences of 1970-

falters in Sri Lanka Page 2

INTERNATIONAL

POLAND

Continued Each of these moves, how- ever, took place in a much more suddenly, the bureaucracy itself. -in Pond. existing capitalist that any anstrusica take ovell wing require a further peasalilly tive is the use ot brute lorce to the repress the strikes. This would involve the inter- The vention of the Kremlin bureau- the workers struggles intervention. party coula De sup. Gierek all. While nortetne Soviet nave odds present intervention Soviet internationalist Not only itsell hostile class InCoroolatll- Russian peasantry. problem of food shortages reported Istall incy could, they invade masses-which political their The work me class. Trade would not.be Observer has vulcauviany tion, workers haps very around self-defence neçu 101 committee nor working class sciously trying leadership struggles to state power ine ourcauliavy overthrow. building focus of support • Illass paper opposition towards soviets. help but lead the trap for lett azalllsl the bureaucracy, Poland capitalist depend

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forces privileges and

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their existence a alastic off dollar within tourists taking of foreign trade. dictatorial Without the political which its m excer provel lucy police the special workers' order to

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protect the but Open end bureau- will Clanged of production by bureaucrats regime only take soviets. Publish the ised property political against the and Trotskyist ution revolullay the long out the world. Dally. tion of the political exper- and ience of the a allist struggle for Stalinist from Defend in the Soviet

HISE

It danger "left' MaINSI TOIl the struggles manoeuvre After more than a month of general strike action, the militant and courageous working class in Sri Lanka has seen its leadership sound the retreat. past five weeks, tver despite massive state repression any the strike, more and break 110 U come out - "Poland's More i of a right United with

LIES

(UNP) govern- Party Nanon succeed tem ber independent worst the been - this general Ilas the clash between vastly strength-

UNP

class since Callin workers greatest was inevitable. Its coming programme, to the Jayawar and Cas. 1s200s under the 'investment' programme, annered only Prior to points extensive Towards systems and estab- of Poland b workine clas Sama "Trotskyist' Lanka (the then Samaja Party the

USFI

ankan come-ocr Freedom with to the bureau- through Imperialism Tine transform competi- another trade tive centre. the subsidy system WorkerS slashed, while councils. armed a disci provide cents to for plined cut and have been made stop the workers prices redundant, and expendi- have risen by control over with 65% public imper and ialist falling secrel with payments current speech

LICWS

wast y wad. of the people, workers' plan 'subsist on less factory 300 (£8) per and than month. diplomacy! The only has between capitalist plotting brought to Lanka is the government When sub- large

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, the Joint states against worKelS party affiliated to line dom General strike 300 Kms 300 Miles

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Pres Bay sof Bengal

JAFFNA

TRINCOMALEE

COLOMBO

Sri Lanka

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With the July. Nava declaring workers and the most bask the democratic shied away strikes were Virtually and rural prepara- use

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were services, Genic. will dismissal Fearing this naked by strength intimidation, display stalk on 18 July elements Action Com- support of where the for mittee's their restoration food subsidie and rupees role of the every in the cost ol retaliated dismissing Lankal. 40,000 immediately of the strike when and wave upon out -not of wave Divate ednéss"! demonstrated repres- Althoug local , striking enting sacked unions up tO WIls detamed spread the isane trade union qualters

NSSP

(the and centres public worker troops to numerous ot private protests and taking" were ceclol strike action. general strike Stalinist nicIous (Freedom bartles taneous strike The have striking able the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 August 1980 intervene in this struggle on the basis of a programme of transi- tional demands which make the workers conscious of the revolu the implications unfolding in objective process paralyse strike -which Sri Lanka today general production not only but also, …tor the morteni government-brings

UNP

struggle for workers power to the top of the agenda. J.R. Jayawardene Leadership The Sri Lankan revolution rests above all on now massive the struggle in progress-a leadership which at the moment rests most firmly in the hands of the NSSP, class party mass vasterd Nauayakkara Labour united

NSSP)

leader and TuTe unemployment. • should have Trotskyists programme answered working TAne exception of : "from a Party samall general and council) convent workers council; out have form Las revolutional. (quotec committees whom the

NSSP

Lankan NSSP in programme independent deepen fighting to: work no cas the Build develop and solid vacillating class bi quick countryside workers ror the defend the working section, the strike to struggle this workers of a pendent oi the they are part of the Class revolutionary could struggle loI the dictator- Bring Silly of leading ment! and of the Government natonal Full strike), sent in sit-down trade union. nevertheless • crush the multi- the Sri Lankan shown • by thei under out For trade.

Militants attacked by Sadat's stooge regime SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 August 1980

KREMLIN TROOPS

REINFORCED

The last month has seen main reason behind the mutiny major changes the of the whole 14th tank division of Kabul) in Ghaza sonth position of the Soviet Union the last week of July. in Afghanistan. The mutiny was reportedly There has been a renewal of suppressea by the nea Army.

Karmal, meanwhile, unable the massive soviet build-up and thousands arved t reinforcements to rely on his own army, has have along with new oro- arcuatu "volunteer force" whose main Cristo shoov mnem. This amounts to an admis- function is as a kind of anti- sion of the failure of the Red Khalq death squad. Army's tactics of indiscriminate COnFRO Simir der th fee hek terror •moine villades a means of subduing imperialist- under power backed rebels. Amin DETONe Josi

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the bombing has led coup. Fl tak to o vast rux or rerucees

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Kabul, thus threatening Soviet Isolated control of the city The new troop build-up also vonc c vné vv dn v The intensification of such idea that any significant sections gangsterism is partly a response population for its own late the isolated regime to subco t lute ooviel occupaliv!i.

aven ineir puppet resident vnn a vev rs dóv ve Barbak Karmal was impelled to Minister and Deputy Minister of demand some elbow room from Education have been assassin- nis tralis barons. areo. Last month Karmal recon- It was the Minister who gave structed his government remov- orders (which Afghan vistuaty they disobeyed) fire memers ot the kaad freooe student demonstrations in April faction and replacing them with of his Parcham With the paranoia character- Hfc or s of the Afghanis- istic of isolated dictators Karmal ir lac TaCtiel Peoples Democratic Party all rosDonucO Costig (CP). sonoos ano corcoes as a olasa.

ment. Arrested And he fumes constantly the bureaucrats lesser aranse doing noning tor the good of the country" Some of the replaced Khal It has also been widely ilisters wilt reportealy (though later denied arrested. resorted The reshuffle turned out to ov tae kremlinı that a comin.

be the prelude to a renewal of ent Soviet General also assassinated. anonie custersm wach has always characterised the At least it is certain that il internal life of Afghani Stalin- he was killed he would have found few mourners in Afghan- Unfortunately for Karmal istan. As well as the querrilla war ano nis Moscow backers. a larde section in the hills, signs of mass resis- The ATonanistan army, already much reduced in tance Soviet presence desertions, through •onuue in ene towns suDers mne anole. innich the. atest call tor a support for strike of shopkeepers nat-and not right-wing the islamic oppos- and was widely ition-appears to have been the Torowe•. Iunike une Corenous The one February), this

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• because of a massive

• TOGOS

increase the troops Sovet Presene in the tre on scal With a resounding and stark that characteristic cock-up contrast to une statemen iseg two weeks ago after the Third ably characterised his four Plenum of the Afghan CP: miserable years of Presiden- ot consolidation ot al orocess Carter chose a cy, Jimmy patriotic and democratic forces and key point in his Demo- single national front is develop- cratic convention speech to ing successtuny in the county tribute to "Hubert pay The Soviet leadership is now further Horatio Hornblower . mean Humphrey" its objectives in Afghanistan and zhe cortico multary ano econ. „vne monr. wonder way omic costs are proving much man who cannot even read out higher than predicted speech to a hall packed with Democratic This takes on now Party double significance as a result of sup llore should currently be President o1 zne crowlne worK ne Class the most powerful imperialist upsurge Poland, not nation on earth mention growing signs Carter's candid- cortan! discontent ano antiour educatie all eleates: mis delintan mooistion amon• The workina delegates: triumphant of the speech was even booed when itself Dear Comrades We have recently received a told us about thi letter, which of o obduit assassilalull comrade Monammet A Wal Chamis La leadin dispeare dt member the RÓL who in Cairo- the Torra prison Helvan. The

RCL,

in earlier times sympathising section of being a Tae UNr RaS because of different reasons one of the most important of which laer venton NIlO lut mass moverent. of peace' Sadat has established a repressive dict- atorship. in Egvpt. under which any oppositional work is cruelly persecuted: all political of Sadat's will ar e voroiooen. workers® organisations especially unions, there is to demonstratt Or biuTit hola meetings, and participatior penalised by 25 years of prison Enest con•tos [nt USec told the RCL to stop any mass work and to keep quiet survive unis oeroe oi reoression Agitation The RCL refused and broke trom the usti, and continued their agitation in the factories no-choice - election he referred to conscription and Afghanistan and special Ligniew Lold Wal au vise Brzezinski was jeered as he came onto the platform. But 'liberal' capitalist strategy by Edward Dresset Kennedy out of line with America's big capitalists who call inle silors ul party ponucs Thatcherite tough Tunet wank Thatcherite line against the :US working class look either Carter Reagar pro nd with US And

VULCA

faced with choice of :thre Capitals cancuates. neer build a Labour Party based unions is more obvious than ever before.

CTON..

Page 3 and the universities, thus being able to a basis in the most get tactories ir Alexan wwor lall ane winnIne illegal union elections there and leading the strikes at the turn of LIus yoak, Suppression In reaction the dictatorship aswere wit massive subores imprisoning many of the RCL's m and assassinat- ing one of its leaders . ne assassination •r comraot Mohamed takes place in a time the Sadat finds regime itselt more and more • IsOlae e casis ou tns isolation. ts mainly failure so-called "Infitah" policy, the opening Is, Ini com oete of the country to foreign capit- Along with this oro ec promised GecIsive improvement of the economic situation especially mater ar situation oi une bool masses this way Sadat tried to appease after • the January them riots ot 1977 fin which the RCL •aver aecisive short time, in connection with illegalisation renewed ot the lett opposition. he wa successTu: The stepwise rise of the basic food prices and increased unem- salut clearly expressed the failure of The consequence of this wa: an ncreasine willinoness in dar ticular of the workers to resume the struggle against the regime: cune eno or vecemoe strikes took place in important factories Alexandria Tercena , Bata) and Cairo (Iror ano steel Tollowed by strike: the univerty Cairo January and • a factory E Mahala el Kobra in Februar were

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walch ourectec against the economic policy the regime and against the dicta- tolsma Strikes Since these the struggles have not been stopped: ócon cocons beginning of opposition in the army-this shows the inner crisi of the Sadat regime in a signifi Calll way TaCT • that tne negotia tions with Israel on the Pales- tinian problem have failed facto, aggravates the position of ine romne. loo The regime reacted-as it had done often before-by massive suppression of the rising oppos.

Strikes were the the army university Cairo Was CO:oor a snor time and a lot of oppositionists were t heems ato if seems LIFt plans finally: to smasn une ier December 1979 Zak Mouraol chairman of the Com- Part) munist Egyp Wod. • •rutany klico in ene street -•ent secret police with four cars had run him over. The assassination Mohamed is a TUrTne . ste• ir this direction, particular because of the faci that the

RCL

of . OnE Ene vente organisations which continued the resistance also in the period after the SuP reSsOr We call on all the C oon 00 against the repression protes the left especial Tinl assassination ot monamed Awac Chamis by the Egyptian regime.

Palestine Committee, Vienn For more details write to: Wolfgang Stoger, 31130 A-1150 Vienna, Austria

'Militant' backing for Page 4 TUC Tameside gag The opening of a debate He argued that it was more a Ireland taken into the on ouesuon waellc. 1 allesiue should recognise the TUC than last meeting of Southamp- the other way round ton Trades Council met He also contrasted Tine with censorship of a differ- comsstent relusa or ooutrallld- ton Trades Council to identify ent kind than that recently with Irish experienced by Tameside. working class, with their present Firstly, the EETPU campaigns

INSULU"

co gearta wilt workers South Africa and •ton that haa sparked oli the debate turned Chile. the rades Council agenda witt content contra ted Reaffiliation sharply with the motion actually passed by the branch.

moLon. c ulle Tameside's specific terms, had called for: must be forced through by re-affiliation of Tame- themselves, con- side and active

WUIKEIS

support for the ciuded. Tameside initiative in its debate At this point, with one other on the continuing suppression

EETPU

Socialis Press supportere and delegate (and of Irish workers by the British Government .. ing un and readv to expand the Left out support tor the Tameside Conference ine a minutes cano inere- chairman Berrow EUlED fore the agenda) omitted alto- vened Trades counci fules uy. gether that clause relating to the refusing to lay the discussion open to the floor. strugge lace vy disu wurkeis Meanwhile, chairman (a Militant supporter) protest at this bureau- Berrow In informed council delegates that delegate manoeuvie the Claril uness any new DONtS arose remmeed une counci unat ne discussion then the was entitled to speak on a resol- the passed, ution passed by an affiliated motion, be pursued any turther This was overruled, and the

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r earse. bournamo- ton

EETPU.

moving the inexoncab t became center then when Chairman Berrow immed- resolution, iately presented an EC counter- Tameside must point out why recommendation that specilicai- detencer acans! Ine undemocratic ruling of the TUC ly opposeu any support lo1 le Tameside conference. leadership.

PHONE TAPPING

OK-WHITELAW

The telephones of polit- ical organisations, trade unions and strike leaders, militants and socialists will be ›brazenly continue to tapped by a vast state sur- system, veillance Home Whitelaw made Secretary clear last week. He declared that he found a tapping drawn up by the Post the extent ot phone- report on Union ingineering (POEU) 'very ' interesting' But, since whitelaw aiready all- -and far more knew before he began reading, it made very ilttle impression, and.

"It does not lead that full change view kind inquiry of you ale seeking would not justi- fied". The

POEU

rather naives comameu uat onone tapping was "out of political control'. niceties of bourgeois democracy Not covered when he claims review phone Lord Lappul: Diplock consulules particular .pointed pendent check" on the state's does that the To offial Pone eavesdropping. not phone Diplock is of course

LOTO

Ireland the man who devised the vicou: or ine ollicial tapping the warrant formalities no-ury courts system iot the sIx is widely practised by Northern Ireland that with specific Government Com- Kolonol: PulSE munications Headquarters.

through the Tammine sumitar, while conviction of republican forces sult moves are outside the the basis extracted under torture, oi Parlament. or Or they aTe verv beamy poletaly controlled by the real apparatus uidentified police officers.

With Diplock and Whitelaw sourgeois the "saf guarding" liberties, police/military machinery which Socialist tress readers can draw cand oc dąe bævne dn co alist control over the working own conclusions Them whether their own phones are class. tapped Whitelaw shows his utter Meanwhile, even as POEU contempt for the trappings and This was supported by the majority of delegates, bolstere( by the strong Midlant grouping orcscal The resolution read: "That Trades Council should decision Tame- side Trades Council and that the Secretary • 1 6

TUC

supporting the right of any 'Trades Council to oranise Cull ferences; moreover TUC should organise a series of Regional conferences on Ireland make us boston clea. dulc where minority viewpoints could also be represented. This decision does not imply support Tor tre amenoe comtererce This does at least make it crystal clear where the Militant stallus. in arreclng away nom lut developing around campaign towards calling Tameside on union vulvauviar initiate conferences on ireland.

une ce itotsk yiss proviae cover for continuing TUC class with™ the Tory collaboration . its imperialisi covernment war. Endorsed of Meanwhile the duty to press home the sociatsts 1s fight Tor t ne Tameside-already endorsed .by part of 46 Trades Councils, as break the trade union movement from the "bi- Whitelaw Bryan Stanley belatedly leader raises this issue, former Labour who themselves must mums ens. know the huge extent of state remain conspicu- ousiy silent Having themselves failed to Aubrey- Berry-Campbell Iv vins trial,

SEVICLS

they now sit back and allow tnt Tories to escalate Socialists must demand that these Laboutites spell out they know about secret files and with other phone tapping mons. assIst tilt valll pain to evea ide e facts, however a Tory-run should not be uonC enoury. -Dul iol a lull scale workers inquiry into the sinister workings of the state Dollcal volce. partisan" policy adopted by its *Troops out of Ireland now!

oen «etermmaon

TOT INE

Irish people! *Restore political status to Irish prioners of war The recruitment army offices have been having a whale of a time. They have been sate essiv cashing in on the mass unem- ployment-particularly youth-created by Tory policies.

Denter anv prospeCL oi use ful employment declining industries axed thousands of

SUTVICES

workers are beig turco mo tne armed forces-where their job is killed dilu have thrown them onto the dole Cunns Armed forces recruitment in the three monins to June 19ou is a staggering 22% up on the and record for the last l yar s.

quarter Dalle Hired gunmen This that means Icall workers 13,000 have yUulle them enstea -man unwittingly-as hired gunmen for a ruthless imperialist ruling class. As the political and econ crisis deepens they could omic forced to go Army exploits Glasgow unemployment SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 August 1980

STROOPS OUT

NOW!

IRELAND

Boom in army recruitment well over 1,000 against fellow em ployers at into action have moi ted to Ireland, Britain yet the TUC leaders workers in serious official vv01 _o ozz dracc . government and the struggle to halt the tide oi cut: •wal fanatics of US imperialism into and redundancies. new imperialist And despite verbal platitude adventures. and ASTMS leaders and even a T'hird World War nu íw! the Defence Secretary rights to etanci dooui umor predictably ent husiastic unemployed, resources Рут, no recruitment figures, being allocated to the recruit- at the new unemployed workers auted at tn wick lc callck for stilhe sustainoi upi youth to a10 tne approprlal build-up of unions. Soviet military power over the nast ten vears is tar in excess of Initiative what we and our NATO allies have achieved. preponderance of Trades Councils in each area 1 Ilt strength on their side is danger.

must be called upon to take the .to world stability and we meReve ard orsanis local sul must be especially vigilant until committees with a mandate to a better balance is secured all-out campaign government is making labout, workers to the possible endeavour organised every build our own forces as up and workers movement quickly as possible" warn them against en istme l While Pym, Thatcher and the the bosses' army of oppression Tory warmongers beat the drum Don't join the army, join a for anti-communism and militar union! s the slogan to be take countless billions with renewed urgency -spenalg on defence while axing schools, the labour throughout hospitals and social welfare-the unemplovment cimb. menl a does leadership well over the 2 million mark.

traut notning to combat eltner unem ployment or army recruitment Jobs are being destroyed by

ARMY CAREERS INFOR

Рут

Labour "left' fight for democracy-but what SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 August 1980 American Toruise meptiles and ing the Tory acceptance policies? statements spokesman whia win d beter Defence Labour's in reso uLions vall. various permutations, for a clos ing down of all nuclear bases Withdraan fom iATo ant While the bulk of the witnerawa ilull his energies single mindealy to paciis Gemanus derailing the democratic reforms vallous this such comment on press calis lor the aid oi reactionary demands to be linked to a fight year's Labour Party confer- union hure neras

WDO

Suare for the removal of the lories ence has locussed on the Callaghan's fear and loathing of struggle of the left to demo- the rank and tile membership But while this extension of cratise the Party constitu- the politics of the freed in this task by the pain- tion, little attention has fully evident political weakness been focussed on the resol- ted at May's Special Conference or inee we oooositd is nis likelyt beica ind here utions tabled for discussion.

of course no less the little point han 130 resolutions condemn Clearly Callaghan is devoting Fringe meeting of Campaign for Labour Party Democracy at May Special Conference

PRESS

GANG

From Daily Torygraph corespondent in Britain latent were anti-communism onlitay de claring steel workers une Secret documents which desire of mankind for a socialist for bringing •Deny keeps breaking through have just come into our society down the government. the official ideological wall built hands show that the wave of Badges were worn by many declaring for by the state. of the strikers strikes against the Thatcher South The ruling class has just of Soc12 1s4 nepuoue last year legislation severely government enacted Yorkshire. unprecedented limiting the right to strike anc reached Despite every effort of the government and police to crush picket and trying to limit the levels. right of one worker to help and the strike-which Politburo .The natcner provoked through ment suDDorL alu lue. preparing further for a stand-the heroic econo of shariech blesen the monetaris to meet savage resistance thi freedom fighters stood firm for winter from the worker economy. walCh Lilealcl strip away the official line of strikes have Awneduy

LWU

suport for capitalikes challenged the imitatons O1 in major strikes came Compromise the pickets. At an engineering on steele nere here th tusonds near Reading, Ade st, tablui y people were being inrown office Just as the strike tAreat- ane covertell out of work. ened to spread into the auto Brixton, London, several arrests same time as the works, a move which could have have been made. Hl lue government jacked up prices by both sacked strikes generaiseo mne Sutureacallsl more than steel reinstate- the government, a compromise workers ae sck lig workers were being told to take was cobbled together which the ment. In free' England sackings of a no wate facles strike The resulting strikes brought union militants are frequent and .accepted. clashes between the are accompanied by blacklists, major Nevertheless the government heroic workers and the savage and state interference to stop that the workers aw alt attacked them getting welfare benefits.

Кr111SA ponce etil otter ane wcu their picket lines, despite the organised and it fears that this there ome oro diel states much vaunted Tight to winter could see its claims to be which the workers of this small face it is SuTKe but significant countr managing the economy reduced Although SUTIKe was to tatters. nat une leaueis ul laca ca.

based economic demands, Already unions and the Labour Party are in this naven ol and led by people compromised capitalist rule unemployment is determined rock not to une with the approaching the 2 million mark whose survival they nonil ail boat, on privileges of the ruling elite, depend for their privileges.

and inflation is stili at 17% des.

did take some concrete political will be pite the severest slump in post •The

DICSS

forms. war history. watching developments

WILD

Northern Britain famous eo Yorkshire, Despite a century of official interest. for its forward to workers in struggle Demands-whether on the EEC (ten calls for withdrawal) on the T OE ow Dave witelılt inti-union Employmen the National Health Service into utopian day lapse simply policies creams ON tilt ought to be ZODie b next Labour government socialist policies of Calls for suvil Labour government nace toe on the implemen- entire focus tation of such a policy through parliament-offering to how the resistance of the on tis power and elh stoalk such class be overcome, or precistly wild role should be played In mne by mass of the labour movement words the entire In other policies presentca shows the yawning gulf between eternal democracy's suclal promises of "socialism' -at some point in the indefinite future- its practical offer of and minimal It any. retorms witnir capitalism in the present period.

As Trotsky points out, the leaders of social democracy have no need for a bridge between Tory politicians week analysts last news tried to make the best of they the recession, gleefully at the pointed drop in the inflation figures from an annual rate of 21% to 16.9%. apparently large drop

SUSUS

so tho tac That t B non .

year

SUCC

deliberately added 370 TO Int cost of living by raising VAT Though we continue paying these inflated prices Ene longer show up in the inflation figures! When this is left out, the rate _ot• merence montuly fractionally fallen- has from around 1½% to just unde 1%.

SAINSBURY

these two positions, since they talk of socialism only in occas- ional holiday speeches stand- this is not

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point or Ene growıe e current in the Party's ranks.

• fight for democracy in the Labour Party is to bring any real thi po litical gavanci consciousnes: 'SuCr rarlv begin to be militants i for fight with a JOKeU different type : of programme- one that connects today's vital struggles to halt the Tory offen- down sive DruiLE Thatcher government naționalisation struggle for industries and basic Dank. • without compensation allu lala of planned socialist economy. We cannot of course expect 'left' Parliamentarians like lony rare bt thc neci tor sut Benn even programme. But we might have expected that the Trotskyist forces active the Socialist Campaign for a Labour

VICTOTV

have begun to raise these issues Yet while the Rank and File Mobilising comnmaiilce 1U1 Slump holds off inflation But "success" is even this simply the fruits of recession So severe is the slump in 1 sales of goods-trom consumer durables to clothes; nousero lu goods to beer-that retailers and manufacturers have temporarily B k dl ll mvicasos Some relanel: na vt embarked on desperate price- cutting measures and prolonged sumont er sales-wich lave dl lale cially lowered the retail • price index. Bills up Petrol prices too have been faced y won ing clas families bills forced down many continue to SOaI. Electricity, rail and of deliberate Tory policies.

Rates and rents, too, Page 5 Callaghan Labour Democracy gains rapidly support-reflecting the shift the left in the ranks of the

SCLV

zaDou movelnt-lic contribution to the Committee's bulletin echoes the organisational calls for

IOUELI

and lalls to parly aemnocial criticise the political

SAOIL'

comings of the leading 'lefts' For the Labour Party to be simply thi Tecuceu lo ucDalil- possible policy _ot tne next Labour government, while shirk- mobilise mass mne lne lclc l is-ion tobrie dow left tes matter "left" -tacitly adopted

• IO LI011.

accept five years of Thatcher fight unate against the right wing is linked the struggle for each step to socialist pro acal dilcldtill gramme, in opposition not only to the Callaghan Gang, but also nationalist, class-collab- foI- orationist mish-mash ward by Benn and other leading 'lefts". In the weeks up the Socialis Conference

_LADOU

Press will examine in detail the ondi the policies ky "left key questions, argue snoula take tneir place rising as a by-product of the Culs The month's inflation figures may chee the statisticians, but they Wi noi tllail. WOIKeIS. Nor please many • ao they retailers and manufacturers Their inability to raise • prices as 10| marKeL means that their : profit margins are being drastically squeezed The £16 million plunge in Woolworth's indicator some of OI problems caused by high interest rates, the sales slump.

and heavy stocks of goods.

Woolworth, like other store Chain s ie utrent is cutting back on staff-

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or even redundancies. Exports manufactured coas lave iaca a suilai sul as the pouna nas nit its nignest ionelion t hus easy one ale Tory talk inflation" poucie. la vt embraced: they are also squeez ing out the weakest firms out lobs by the ten: of thousand And, of course, should there the next by any chance •be in nerioo anv sign or uplurl the retail market the price increases held back at present wiemercem a cw sulce u. uncontrolled inflation. these conditions workers ignore all of the should by thr nC kaluuuver government whethe ndex ories they Retail Price inflation figures or the ill-fated "tax and price : index wheh " a exr o lc ılcc last year now shows inflation 17.5 to having gone up 18.5% in the last month Instead trade union bodie should urgently set up elected drawing in house

COHLLLCCS

wives and help, tọ formulate a working class prices index that will take tur accouat ol lory purcico us workers' living standards.

And should demand that agreements include cost of living clauses to protec against inflation DV automatic 1% rise in take home 1% rise in workers price maes

THE NEW AGE OF MASS

UNEMPLOYMENT

Page 6 In a few days time the of the less and less appropriately named Department of Employment will print out a figure very close to 2,000,000. It will be the official total registered unemployed Britain 1980 July It is a Toure means That Ine TUC's slogan of the last year has already been speed of development of the crisis of ine It looks a bit forlorn to cry for 'No 1930s' tne when in terms of the numbers workers on the now of Thatcher's scrapheap capi- talisim. are airedov The figures for the absolute numbers of unemployed today somewhat larcel Total the same worktorce; as the very those of mid-1930 worst period of the great slump ano acain in 1935 as the very slow recovery began. Snatched away ine de or mass anemoloy ment, which self-confident capi- Talist economists ano Doticians complacent trade union said was over, bureaucrats DaCK As capitalism again once snatches mitches of worter si the livelihood of and has no rote mitions more who have never been employed, the conditions being created spread de moralisation aru despait, for Lit growth divisiveness and conflict within the working class the reemergence on a scale ot reactionar mass and barbarıc laeologies like tascism The task of avoiding such hideous consequences one falls which revolutionary socialists. Only by following footsteps metnocoroccal Marx can it be understood that capitalism unable solve the problem it has created, also that the solutions ottereo ov ine import controls reformists like and more government spending ist economv on v results from the émployment workers. and that the ot Ully The capitalist profit •rooramme which can tackle ne problem unemployment is that are able ot Lavilalisis based on the our chase tne of the workers (labour power) Cass Trun for wages demands contam noon These articles are designed to Source of profit controute to a oiscussion or te reasons for the new growth of and the unemployment Ihe use to the capitalist 01 this labour power is that, unique socialists must fight for to conquer all commodities It. create more value contains. This surplus value Contradictions one and only source profit. of mass Unemployment existence unemployment, at a time when the centra contradictions or ine capitalist economy in their most capitalists naked form failure their make In the first place, it exposes adel uate •roduces mystery: now capitalist •roouction takes It protit comes only place not because of the useful- employment of wage ness of the goods and services labour, why capitalists which it produces not because emoiov unemoove of the social need for them-but workers to make profit? because they Part of is that profit nevet resuils automatic employment tor tne caortal ists aliv trom the Unemployed workers reveal Many wage fulfilled: the produc- that the economy has the power have to be tv one labour must be on enough, tnings thant are being produced Its wades low enouon The reason that the surplus the market demand for the used, sufficient to allow the the pressing nature of so many profit to be made social necios. s unal

IS NOL

All nose cono lions must oe profitable for the capitalists to simultaneously for profits to be made. And when the same time we they are not simultaneously ful.

general Know. as • resur or e work or Trilto

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coitarists Marx, that profit in the capita- then the system finds itself. in crisis-as it is today For capitalists, the conditions for making profits re established

MUST

oncE again. And that means that labour during the crisis becomes not just source surplus for blood-sucking LItt capitalist class- but also a liabi- establish the order to profitability again, labour, the source of all profit employed; it is sacked TrOm process. Mad all ted than aphat he needed time what calico a reserve driny l labour -TIrSt. to orovide ine •Doortu nite read the most oin areas production causing toc problems to existing activities; and second, in order to regulate force workers and wages work employment to fear of losing their jobs to the unemployed. Reserve army Marx also aroveo inar cabita.

lism had a continuous tendency adopting new mare productive techniques and throwing redun- cant workers

OUT

Work. this process did not believed, then the system would happen cuss ane or a time a new mass reserve army Unemployment, 1938 would be suddeniy created post-tax rate of return through a slump. has gone down from over percent the 1960s to Marx's view still has extreme early above 3 a little reevance today even inouch Only per cen some ways the working of the last year. nis year it is pred capitalist economy has changed.

icted to be a good deal less than this. Diagram 2 shows profits in Long boom Britain as a total of the national income (GDP-Gross Domestic During the long boom of the Product). Quite a large propor are just paper oost war perioo a vertoo or nev tion thece expansion productive resulting forces of the economy after the revaluation stocks during ravages of slump and world war.

intiation unis dart is known a!

"stock appreciation") ine main cavitalist l economie experienced near full employ- Of the a rising propor- period, tion of total profits Tor British almost for the very first time ir TrOM NOTTI Sea oil operations. The rest has Their history As Marx predicted, this state of affairs was incompatible with What evidence capitalism. amouns to is a cearce o industry and commerce run emoovment leo to Ene build up of new contradictions making • barely average any in the capitalist economy which protits at all. and with no sign: of improvement. have been exoressino memse ves through falling profitability, astronomical Bank borrowing derails. crowing macotcaness inflation now the rapid and growth of mass unemployment.

This in fust hincrease in bank evidence the enormous increase in ability SUlE cordosinc Dollowin maustria ana britain coule hard v be cearer commercia companies-trom In Diagram 1 the two lines virtually nothing in 1975, when rate of serious came return on the (non-financial) lcd assels ino usEr al ano commercia past vear companies. The thick line refers Much ot kritich inductry i to the rate of return before tax therefore teetering on the brint been paid, and the thinner of bankruptcy. one to une care or returo are In. britain today unis talling tax. profitability is leading to mass SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 August 1980 A two-part article by Bob

INDUSTRIAL &

Rate of return 13% 12% 11% 10% 9%- 8% 7%- Post- rea 5%- 4% 3% 1963

MCLUDING N.SEA A

Diagram 1

UK COMPI

15% TRAING E

10%- 5% 1977 78 Diagram 2 unemployment in four way some capitalists First investine more brook tive labour toes which requi less labour operate them provis or their companies The development mechnogy micro electronic just an especially dramatic ne examole ou a orocess wnici inherent capitalism In Second the firms whic old technoloav stra

SUCK TO

desperately to keep it profitab by forcing workers work possible intensit • greatest and sacking any who are no

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 August 1980 utcliffe

COMMERCIAL CO

I trading assets* Pre-tax real ax 1971 1979

IVITAES

IY SECTOR GROSS

DFITS AS% OF GDP

* TOTAL

tock Appreciation North Sea Oil

LONDON BUSINESS.

ISCHOOL FORECASTS

'80 "81 82 '83 'necessary'. This ruthless process goes under titles like 'rationalisa- tion" "reducina overman- ning." But some of the firms-an be sasi in Diagram 3-as cat in Diagram seen make it. They are forced to close down aitocerner ano co InTO liquidation or at least to shed a serations and ter Tas 5 à to irE moa of talling profits on unempsy.

ment. Diagram 4 shows that annou- nced redundancies have doubled

TABLE 1

The Decline in Employment Percentage change in jobs between 1970 and 1979 The whole economy plus 12 Production industries minus 14 Manufacturing industries minus Mining 17 Metal manufacture 24 Mechanical and electrical 14 engineering minus Vehicles 11 minus Gas, electricity and water Thousand Company Liquidations 3 .2 Source: DEPARTMENT OF TRADE 1965 1980 1975 1960 Diagram 3 30000

MONTHLY

AVERAGES

20- 10- Redundancies 0 '72 '74 "76 '78 80 1970 co: DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT Diagram 4 to curb the growth of credit.

since last veal ano are now running at ovel 1000 a day. inese aso nave a crioole The fourth is more indirect.

financial effect on those sectors It is the result of Thatcher's capitalist industry which are only able to survive on loans savare spenono curs. lustrutea partly order to allow the Trom tAe oanks government to ease the financial High interest hastens the death of such firms and redun- siludliott icas

LIC

dancies for their workers.

STronceri sectons or cota ane so help British capital back to govern-

ASO

Ine natcner profitability. ment's policy of keeping up the international value of the pound foartlv the result of hiah rate All these :developments are interest) means that the ralable toro a groming „pacino weaker British capitalists are growing iobsur tarie in Tablet grising available finding it increasingly hard to be seen in more detail. compete wt one cers markets or with This shows that for a decade overceas imports into Britain. lano indeed betore that as well policies 'hatcher's thus there has been a dramatic fall in industry, especially demonstrate a ruthless willing.

jobs in industries which ness •estrov weake manulacturmo sections the class she nave seen Ene nistorical represents in order to improve begetters of the British working the survival power of the rest of class Until , recently this Brisa cota And, 50. othes boi Course. dec ine was oiiset ov an increase product process in the number of jobs in service industries, especially in the state restructurino oT arTsa cota!s the heartless destruction of the SeCTOr. livelihood of hundreds of thou- Now the Tory government is reducing these jobs too. sanas or workers For the Tories mass unem- So. the decline of industria no mere by- ployment jobs continues without any . They also hope that it employment else compensating proouet. main the Wilt one Thelr and the result Is

WIJCIC I

weapons in taming the working present upsurge of mass unem- class. ployment. But the growth of mas There are other aspects of unemployment in Britain is not an isolated matter, even though of the Tory government's Eronc strategy which its causes are special SUiTe ul national ones. aurs = sorg effect. One is the high

COT T-

Continued next week level of interest rates, designed Presidency left to chance! A review of the film 'Being There' by Elizabeth Crighton happen be with its pompous superficiality you to and American then part way

STUCIO US

ineoualty 'Being There' the book through Being There' you which paints Kosinski's picture might feel the chilly paws of ot imperialism most clearly recent history creeping up of tht ne copenino scener film show Peter Sellars your spine as the discussion Chance gardener-a part focus the begins which he is able to play to great problems of the presidency.

pttect cince it cemands no mort caracature; walking Faced with the current the only world he choice between a geriatric cow Isolaliul boy and peanut • a remedia knows. Ine small caroen deninc Farmer even feel tthe house he has lived in all his you film's inclined to opt for the He has never been beyond contencer. an alterate cardene. obsessed with television.

inest was „onance mas riveo Particularly since- -unlike the quarantinec fro Social ial' - and the dynamics of real life contestants-he has no change crisis 'past" to tarnisn any lingerin cononc mere to y ing heree han muc But there is muc It is almost as if Kosinski ha: transtormeo cealism as a mod is based on a nove of thought into a material form world Jerzy Kosinski, head trans lated name Joseph inevitably, world Novak. peace and solitude invades the ticulasky Steps leek ores early noves particularly of the garden. Stalinism and the hatred The old man, his patron, dies double standards of the Easterr and 'Chance forced 950 confront reality of But his move to the West has the in the epoch not oimme• nis chca tace im oeralsm crisis and decay as was the race WIth re loiou demagogues : like Solzhenitsyn. When Chance emerges from Kosinski's work the house, we are at once struck exudes auiet contempt tor imperialisı •v lrs savace contrast witn unt The most powerful gardener in the world Page 7 smashed landscape Cars gangs, garbage, street grattit and crumbling ghettos which are the outside of the neatly oraerca caroen Marel e me rere need to underpin thi: we are that Chance's oniy experiences

OT IRIS

rearwore are tatoun the cosmetic images of the US television networks. He knows onlv what the TV has taught him, WhIch practice nothing. Chance is literally a stranger in a toreigr ane. No real name He has no home, no idea of how

TOO(

containedi anonc rea toane. But more important- firetul t no know ledge structured relationships ruler

' WITOI

capie list arocies of with their deference rooted above all in tear of los of status. Chance has no status The obsessiv fears deception of the bourgeoisie ar

THP

contreoiec: s sere inro deseora y i seeking desperately solutions to problems it cannot begin to comprehend Chance is given a name by the wife of a wealthy industrial . She Ist WnOS Tuns into nir Tears a legal action tor milions , Rand, spends , transfusions his

KCC-

decaying body going from day to day Meantime in the absence of Geat e continues țo avıce țof President-terrified by impending economic catas Troone •ano Tne neeo To

•CUT

spending. It is to this mad circus that 'Chance' illiterate cones. anc unaware ne way foe cecen aristocracy of US society anc the medi ahee nis cia eally deta lei in the onto : ignor filmChance' is a straw at which they clutch The metaphor obvious OOICOTTned encounters CiA scurry in eea medit as the information and media him, HOnSt

OTOMOL

Chancey • Gardiner as the next vice-president It is an apt indictment of thi crisis or leadersnip tacing tne us bourgeoisie. But Kosinski's penetrating eye still breaks through at the ener or tne dm, maiculing tre idealism Fiasco In the final fiasco, as the President rends a tunera ora tion to Rand the industrialist, taken from his own

• VUVLES.

which begins "l have no tim for the welfare of scroungers" - as Chance begins the we watch waik WnIC • eallst dictathance us inir final hope, is seen walking sio fiy 'Chance" •final • step by step on water, and all arounc lie the deeps. As we all know, those who such things attemp world have a habit of drown ing. As Kosinski correctly points out in the opening chapters of the novel "'And yet, with all its life even at of its bloom the mne carden was ls

, OWNI

trave yard. Under every tree and bush rotten trunks and disintegra ted and decomposing

TOOLS,

know which was was hard to more important "gravey ard deom the surface from the which it grew and into which it was constantv laosino Kosinski may not be a social.

of American ist, but his

VISION

society can narev oe cooo new for Hollywood or for the White House But, there again, if Reagan dops win ten mavoe mne x will be amalgamated anyway!

BEYOND THE FRAGMENTS

Health care-American Page 8 man's righttus This is one of those books which is described as 'important'. ts not a sinate entity out consists three separate written three accounts by women ot their political exper.

tences ano ine lessons thev nave learned from them. It appeared at a time when the right oresent Tory from government, Is tar fragmented its defence in style Barbara Gordon TV in successful producer the USA, her work has-won a clutch her of 'Emmy' awards, she is at the peak of and has a wide her career, circle of friends and a kind, intelligent lover. vertection. we it would be.

but for the fact that over the previous ten Valium we corne wokeu vul Mer analyst baroads miked out with art ad naked than analyst to whom she went to ease passage the throwon her break-up, been prescribing it for her in increas- ingly stronger doses This harrowing aUTo DIO. graphical story Barbara has just completed cocumentary death from cancer of a woman her own age and the shaken by the impact woman's death has made on her.

she ceciced sinole-nanoee kick the Valium cold-turkey style. She is plunged trom here on into a series ot nightmares. her boyfriend* pull her utes

.. TO WHATP

ABORTION

crisis while the capitalism forces ranged against it are deep- oN i ••ectives ano tactics. unity of It is some sort o1 means and ends that the these authors of this book are seeking.

Along with this the that the means Convictio ends …ano Toe Cannot separated political struggle The importance of methods of oraanisation and the proces.

consciousness raising ano by Harper and Row. through the inevitable with- drawai symptoms-only to act out a macabre version of 'Gas. light his owr neuroses •v persuaoino ner enan she is evil and mad, and impris- oning her her apartment. rrom nere sne enoures Eve senatov stavs in mentar nosoitas then perfede out of miel patient more kooked-out alidlysts. Anxieties Slowly is taken back painfully, Barbara through her childhoo• anxieties high-achieving middle class have Jewish family which anecte ner be ever see ane career Wild •ischardeo menta patient Is not a total liability as an employee.

they fying insights her olves on to me American way ou Barbara admits that without her family's resources to pay for nel Treatmenu SInt would probably be dead if left to the in Leeds "to go

ABORTION

KEEP IT

LEGAL

KEEP IT

TUC says

ABORTION

SAFE

OPPOSE THE

KEEP IT

CORRIE BILL

LEGAL

KEEP IT

SAFE

OPPOSE THI

CORRIE BIL

Anti-Corrie demonstrators defend right to abortion revolutionary themselves activity necessary; discussed by socialists and have been involved three authors •all has different altnolon each wen ne women movere It is from this common base perspective based on her indiv idual experience whether as a that each explores the relation.

of feminism socialist community and to socialism. As Sheila Rowbotham writes women s struceles ' Want to begin tinyplore the challenge think the women's movement is makin Revolutionary to lue orevalue assumptious o revolutionary SoCIAlIST However, accept should organise. These involve three how theory is conceived, how that transfor- revolutondry mation of capitalist society is the colt car ordanisation sees Ir Wendy French reviews I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can', by Barbara Gordon, published state medical care. shows how health system mercy oi based on the ability to pay des During ner ursi nosoita star she learns from a seasoned cam.

troys not only those who can't of afford the fees, but destroys paigner about workings equally those who can, when for schemes …a cocor to lose a oaten means losing the income as well.

our insurance will pay for a thirty hospital - Udy sldy that either vou make sure . you're well enough to leave, or you go onto state and if that, one gets the Il comes lu Makers of im oression. vou l oroodory not be seen or heard of again.

And the of her • Modern of self-discovery voyage baroaras coctor nas to Marxism that the bill is ticking up like a cab meter in a traffic jam ane coule she

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bill to be met if she wants to be again? well interdepen-

NOW AVAILABLE

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SLOT

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 August 1980 On Saturday August 30, there is te be a one-day conference Beyond the Fragments". In advance of this, Socialist Press is publishing two reviews of the book which has sold nearly 10,000 copies, and formed a major topic of disc- ussion on the left. The first, shorter review is by Socialist Press supporter Diane Palmer. The second, more extended analysis by Mary Wilson will be published in next week's Socialist Press.

relationship move- she says or claims she believes othel consciousness impression remains the result her extremely loose use of assumed change, how the score or sorties Is denne. now

LOTTS

socialists see them. At times she uses the term selves and their relationships 'Leninism' Trotskyism and 'Stalinism' artert mablisms (In and in thi past". there arent many It is difficult not to be glib she doesn't use!) and respond by Segal here pointing states that thi out tnar is easier to ask oues issue. ordanisation art them tions than to answer and describes local brosem However the problems raised and here real sand should be struggles in Islington in the late dooresseo ov ali socialists

IOUS

In particular the experiences It is in this section that the women's problems of bringing the 'frag together be can seen most clearly. or inese questions These issues involved are des- As with any call for 'unity cribed succinctly by Lynne 'united front • the cipled political basis for such a Segal as: stand unmistakeably. The authors fail the same as individualism, but to do this. means taking control over your own life. Personal relations: - What basis? should reflect or 'prefigure' the socia recons want It is not at all clear from the create after the revolution.

contents of this book what the 3) Organise your basis for common unified own oppression: -oppression practice and struggle should be seen as tne cower or one derson maece mer amost make dominate and control the widely clinging virtue • OT life of another and could be a different political positions.

much a part of personal socia It is stated men relations as of economic social oppressior relations. The (like black oppression) is no 4) and any hierarchy of rejection simply just another aspect vanguards class All men do exploitation view «anentton it. ov navine dowe that the stabilisation of capital- over at least some women, how.

ist relations takes place not just exploited they themselves ever through economic measures bui might be". inrouen ine nedemony of state At the same time Leninism ideology and ideas expressed at and Trotskyism are describe every level. Organised around these ques- Cass Class women's movement tions the does and pialistic : social rela affected many the lives tions bourgeois state women in a profound way. In taking their distance from tnis mont. ine avenors are re ec Uncomradely ting the necessary road to the emancipation of women. While the women's move 'Sisterhood' was experienced.

as a supportive nurturing force ment nas snown itsel capable o which contrasts powerfully with organising successfully to attack of the bourgeois the ideology compete y unsuo cortive uncomradely behaviour exper- Certail struggles against that state, it is ienced many men and by organised to smash that women in some socialist croues There is as resus the Nor has it shown any desire tendency eulogise to 'take power' movement, although Worner fere he sit of these cia there is also an honesty about differences might the limitations of that move- found the answers-itself "Feminist politics different forms become oreoccupie, wito vind organisation a liberated life style rather thar this-and the for the becoming movement howeve liberation of women between feminist and socialist Groups on ine lett nave further dis- organisation merits responsibility to respond to the of personal relations. cussion and daysis Guests revolution' атте Tige CrOU Responsibility ments are quite rightly seen as bankrupt by members ••oressco crous Trotskyists cannot afford to "We have no clear alternative be smug and must examine their of how to politicai an er sonal tactic Lanes closely ments wite Ine strenatus o Men in the have a more general combination. But responsibility to be rigorous feminist prin- their practice of problem not know' the croies unel relation. does other comrades. answer merely identification ideal transcendance. of appropriate political struggles There remains then no effec tive guarantee within Leninism as 'diversionary' or 'reformist That the crous: • are ! struggles without an immediate.

dominant position in capitalism won't bring their advantage into base. The party should account teaching Impossible taken of human creativity coopera Although the authors recog tive social values as well as the value of labour power. nise that a complete Chance impossible The women who wrote this cocial relatons under book may have failed to show what lies beyond the fragments should attempt not to oppress they describe 'exper each outer feelings and Ot man) Untortunate v ints aroumeni is weakened by the impression socialists ane orm : or i by one the debate which must be continued given authors, within the Trotskyist Sheila Rowbotham LidE LeFT Ism • Ine major posace to revolution Although this is not what

FREUD STRIKES

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 August 1980 One of the jobs of myth is to translate social contra- dictions into ethical absolutes Good and Evil. this of those contradie- complexity tions can be simplified. masked and 'resolved". "Starwars', which know slice oT = blaanee multi -bart Mvtn oey which will take us beyond the 2000, a kind of ongoing y col MEnO OeTsA set -mec taton by monopoly capitalism, does exactly this. the left corner we have barn vader dark foro ot the universe, like bronchitic Crusader sIlIC throuah the built-in life-support system of his sinisterly gleaming helmet. Astmatic From the right corner leaps snub-nosed Luke Skvwalker.

cross between cowboy and cos- monaut, ready to do battle with black-cloaked astntac imperia ist. So far so good. But the latest chunk of the tale, The Empire Strikes Back, holds spine- sur orise store fans, which I shall Teetering the brink sume Chormous womo-Ike funnel in empty space, locked life-and-death combat with he wheezing Vader., Skywalker hears from the hollow depths of the dark lord's helmet a freezing message which all but unmans him. Vader is his father! It's not a con either, a cowardly. Vader dodge to escape implement on Luke's fasel wediu somerow deep down, who somewnere, how, sparkling-toothed

BACK!

Luke knew it all along. sized heels, cheated of his prey.

George Lucay beet reading wold berore oenverine nis unwer.

come Vader, in actually news, seem, unfatherly gesture has just cut the Oedipus on compler (Don't worry off Luke's hand. octween trios to Ene oank it's repaired by robot surgery at For the Vader/Luke the end). confrontation re-runs the classic conflict Freud outlined betweer Womb-like fathers and sons Vader's cutting off his son's hand is darkly symbolic of Struck all of a heap, as they rather more unpleasant mutila freckled-faced say, Luke ton, ana tue tensions ne sols ue vacillates Luke-guilt, fear, aggression OI aT Instant. Ther into the womb-like •undes abyss at his feet, , hurtling down- oedipal symptoms. wards through intinite space in a c sewnere in ine tim we are moment gra vad ars hor fory meri ted delnous dentant self-abandonment, leaving his horribly mutilated Vader's old dad up top to cool his out- veined and bulbous ius neao before his cosmetic helmet decently lowered upon it

LOU,

Ine though rreuolan text-DoOK. tse hil b the fathe a nede shat ild both envies and desires LU SpY What heady coes Inis intellectual stuff mean, and why are they poisoning our children with this Freudian • nonsensc or Saturday afternoons? Yoda Tousled-haired that in the skies of Vietnam top heavy rationalism keels over into mysticism; one can be sure My own six-year-old, a con uncy Cal MiCOO 1O0O aNG vinced Jungian, was disgustec practice yoga the multi- Is Lucas Georg Lukacs! million dollar sets of the 'Star- Nor cure, l ucdns lar tnt old vals outright mythical oppos- one woma Inen, ition between Good Evil available exit from history quite do late longer Images of women in these epics Tousled- Cas talst leave a little to be desired: the narred skywalker Is oramaticay only charact Princed taoec exposed as the child of evil.

glamour-girl Thirties Th eh!! Anis on a oprup, Leila keeps suitable company loins from ColuL with

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robots and a shaggy perverted hIstory CoWel struggles and exterminations, an That, we take it, is about her Empire which all the The Empire Strikes Back way Alpha trom Centuri Nas ureal , Maci Lam cola patetic, love-lorn Leila the The innocent of his biot- swaggering, hard-to- concealed his blood- WTOaC ovócc væv d càn starneo tatner ano

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That But there's another alterna. terrible knowledge which tive to Vader beside the womb tempts him into guilty complic- you don't care for your rea Ity t SySLeT. father land who'd cuddle up to fights. Vader? can always yOU Skywalker the snub-nosed fantasise about spiritual recycled version of liberal replacement vd e cdd séd vær à Alec Guinness, for example ist, and the worst thing was that •If the actual capitalist Americ: he sureal s or ose i the ca is a nasty mess of weaponry.

all is not lost. imperialist paranoia and scary tather stałk‹ tt dll ao0 e vol wr calme. Enere : dway below you yawns the welcoming ideal America lurking behind it Wou to fal endesty into it.

womb inviting If only you would let your- self murmurs the 90, seductive 'Starwars

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Counct your stiff self will and surrender welthe Force, all may yet be 'Starwars' _recoonises corecte within he system : salvation just that it calls the implacable opposes willer rather than system the rorce the revolutionary working class Infantile father Torn between and mother, a mutilating octaeet capitalist technology and infantile regression to maternal epic dependency plump: tulk T mav Tor Toe aTTer What more grotesque indict- technology could there be, by a film dripping with Чино, по une momenT loose-limbed Wher planet souped-up sudle traut Tineer some-eease jacks in his complicated naviga- tional guides at the last moment and trusts to the Force? Vader It's a pity they didn't try Page 9 The Empire Strikes shape of the in ine transcen dental wisdom of Obi Ben Kenobi. having earned • (GuInness enough money in 'Starwars' to finance the whole US sudl oroorane sino e-nanoed modestly reluctant to appear fo seconds in the but voTry place : as d

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appropriately delegated to a six inch warty gnome, , named after Carter's press secretary.)

T s a wise man woo know who his father is Shakespeare wrote somewhere and American ourecol. Hoeralism certainly seems confused The further the "Starwars' epics push out progressively int they regress Soare Tn e o eper into primitive myth Fou decades ago, Europe witnessed the logical extreme o coupling of technologica This fetishism and mythical magic: it was known as fascism But of course we're bevon all that now as te capitalici film industry pushes out bravely towards 2000 actually thinks it will get ther Luke

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- Duffy accepts- Prior's Act The effort put in by the open statement or Ine posinor by most TUC adopted Tory press and mass media securing the election of to This vear's IUC Congress Terry Duffy and the right genda sees few motions on th

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and none calling for Executive rior Act, wing its through postal ballots has defeat. amply been repaid by Yet unless the law succession of sell-outs. the power of challenged, then But the Thatcher detend the lobs. govern- une _utons lo conditions and existing agret- Wints dontical or or rese tea to near vully last becoming week cap the lot by would therefore union leader to publicly

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much happier if they accept James Prior's anti-union that, "law or the grovelling before the amnlovment Act land", Duffy While making routine noises of "opposition' the Act's actually representea une views of his members rather than the proDosas ana lo lne unwork self-defence of reactionary able' code Duffy declared that picketing or veget ave would bureaucrats.

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not advise Such leaders must members to break the new law.

defeated Though one or two union chanenced anu have hinted that they workers are to defeat the Tory leaders offensive. Duffy's stance

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branch chairman Joe ing that puts her on probation beckies organised a meeting o six months at work for the next all domestics to be held on the disciplinary Sister onence day the had been to actively oppose the At the and closure of rundown domestics sent the following nospital. ultimatum to management "We the undersigned mem Manning levels bership of the TGWU, GMWU NUPE domestic staff of Mary's Hospital, Harrow Since September 1979 the and West- Kensington, 'Chelsea •Maxim against Area Health Authority master ano oca management nave manning levels been reducing COUl Laut at the hospital part of their Sister Maxim is fighting against strategy to shut down St. Mary's the plan to run down this hospital: competely. The brunt or this attack na attempt to dismiss ter Maxim been borne by the domestic Sister • will be They workers. have been preted as an equivalent attack increasing on all of us and we shall take all narasca vy super visors and hospital management to work at an almost impossible for the severe late

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Campaign chore on an Lead by Rita Maxim the members the We will conduct a campaign domestics, disciplinary IGWU, GWU and NUPE, are to reverse any action taken against Rita Maxim putting up a strong resistance.

Siste Maxin already for preserve the standards and resist verbal warning received a the rundown of this hospital another relusine cove department and last week part of the instructed demand the enong or narass ment against the domestic staff move from her own ward to the

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With workers by the economy on a world scale offers thousand taking the to annieve such a persoec streets to oppose Tory tive leadership needed policies there is plainiy no which, in today's struggles fights lack of militancy in the workers trade union . organised working class.

militancy coroTes politics and illusions that capit Yet the existing trade union can be abolished througt alism bureaucrats and leaders Car Hate —weetnel

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ICTI -nave Workers Socialist perspective those to oTTer League Trotskyist move- . Is a workers prepared to fight fighting day and day ment defence stan- out to build such a principlec social services and demo •aros. leadership in the working clas.

cratic rights. in Britain. These can only be defended through policies which slart Trom ine incerencent interest of the working class, which, an Internationally to gain and everything affiliated newly-formed nothing Trotskyist International Liaison to lose from attempts to restore The oro v or then down! committee. • wich vients for tue employing class reconstruction 'The eriod where the contra International and the building the parties in every dictions anarchic capit lead the aust System crosure ano •estruction or in and does productive forces society the parasitic Stalinist bureau- 01 only socialist planne cracies the deformed and New plunge in as a whole". strength of support for Maxin forced manage including one of gross misconduct. It ls obvious that it is the domestics resistance hospital Maxim is at the centre of this resistance. The hospital unions will be taking action to force manage- ment to withdraw the formal warning. They are also paring to mount a campaigi in local trade union branches that management will knowing the near future. Action Leaders of the London trade union movement such as Jack Dromey acknowledged the campaign to save St. that Mary sis one ortne most aDor tant battles against health cuts in the London area They mus now begin to Turn these wores into acon an build broad campaign defence of Rita Maxim other defending St. Mary's Hospital.

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to 5277, London WC1V 6XX. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 August 1980 Manufacturing output in British industry continues to fall, as a result of Tory economic policies This means that while work- class families struggle their • heads and the basic necessities of life, an( WOnd workers and poor peasants face starvation and a chronic lack o elementary productive plant capacity developed by capitalism is grind- ing increasingly to a halt

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110 1 duced -not nobody because needs them, but because their does offer not suncient pront to une capitans class! As a result, industrial output i Dritam was z. o aown in thi three months April-June pared • to the first three months period of the oi the steel strike. Manufacturing output in the half of 1980 is down 4½% first on the average figure for 1979.

Some industries have fared particularly badly: leather and clothing have seen a 10½% drop in output compared Los vear Production of chemicals coal petroleum products and 7% April-June down compared to the first quarter o.

1980. win capitalist restro puls down shutters-throwing workers into short time working or redundancy and refusing to use potential productive forces have increasingly begged the Tory government for assistance.

Mad monk They have received short the 'mad monk shrift from Minister for de-industrialisatior •Ken Josenn the want shake- * of Britist Intent shake-out of Britist Joseph has turned a deaf ear to

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appeals for state aid the CBI has asked him te bring forward £145 million ir development grants regional which delayed-with full CBI support- part of the Tory spending cuts. Now that the cuts are really drawing blood among • were capitalists as well as in the work ing. class, the bosses are seekin come relen But the Tory strateg) remains inflexible among thei ability will be some of the very employers whose financia support helped lie thei wa for the working class, year! InTO appeals Joseph course, are futile "better nature' • of 10b: ane terence not government COn and survival of capitalist but on determined l'actior urms, resist closures and redundan cies nrenon strike and the fight to bring down this bosses' govern ment. Only under socialist planned can the economy closed down dy capitalism be utilised to thi benefit of the working class This requires the defeat o Labour's right wing leadership and the development Leadership in the revolutionary govern. Tient Tor a worker ment Joseph

Leyland workers to face new Edwardes plan? SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 20 August 1980 from the Plante The British Leyland Reports the results the revealed Shop Stewards •Combine Cine o la car llalkot. met last Wednesday. They showed extensive short to shop stewards time working throughout BL, a According force, attended there were rapidly declining labour wilu the shop stewards and convenors in an0. plant GosuIes attendance-by far the smallest Edwardes plan going ahead on meeting the Committee has ever schedule. cuts have taken setu r u le like There somelning place on the kover sut, Will 150,000 manual workers in BL; extensive short time working at stewards and 5,000 shop Dollul. Allegro scheduled convenors. lacloy ine delegates to the Combine Com- Longbridge been based membership 50%; and most significantly th mittee the oro eelcu This collapse of attendance new mini MetTo.

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launched. has already been cut from 6,500 per week : to 3,300- was was the first held sinc 3.500 per week Ital Derek Robinson was victimised cowey LAe Ie Wi last November. (Marina face-lift) has been cut the Combine has from 5520 week after Since per been totalv detunct: not even a onlv two months of production.

letter to the plants has been sent The Princess Is Cull back in October. out. The closure of MG Abingdon next montn In ane absence Ui Adams elected trade union resistance to it cubacks in three will result in Presumably, the Communist

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producing componellts Party, who dominate the Com- Three quarters of the labour no thing bine. COnSUCE Lildl Body force worth time n BL during the past year OI1 SlUit allu meeting redundancies Wednesday's expecteu. Last Llanelli Pressings have been on called because WaS short time im North orrori tr the AuM was aue ane tne coll mittee would have gone out of Naulaluls new officers were existence on aou-ay weck the L aner A asemD y nor calcu. Plant and the Castle Bromwich Jack Adams, have

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convenor of the Long- Plant the closures bridge and a leading been accepted long ago by the complex, unions and the rundown is well elected as chair- Stanst. The AUEW man. du valceu The Castle Bromwich labour B.M. Chambers, is down from 7,000 to was elected secretary.

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1350. i nev are probosme to rcvicv The plant has been split in it in October. trn ere l half ready for closure since the withdraw it, this Jaguar body will be built in the would transform the situation in remaining fragment until 1984.

nASOnODIN BIP ASOS HEC prompt management Worst crisis declare mass redundancies underlines this simply Leyland the real depth of the convenors

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facing Vehicles (heavy trucks) reported British capitalism They general and BL particular situation. CYCil

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is a desperate situation and it IS ene fe e neonve v Ee wols crisis ever in the history of the developing fast. UK heavy vehicle industry. The likelihood facing BL workers in thirds of the short term is an nco lanu. Motors' 2.700 workers Edwardes Pan Mark 2. Dropos Anion on short time, and shortly no fither drastic culb k will creațe BL's manufacturing base the Edwardes plan Tecuaances

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Nothing to say moved out. Bathgate working are and one week off. The week on dide the Con bine So how shrunk from sa DOUi

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lla Committee face 5,500 through problem? According to stewards redundancies. had absolutely there, five 92% workers in the doaging ou the reactiona ry Cp apart nothing shorl and bad situation at time, line of selective import controls.

Wolverhampton Guys proposed to campaign for They getting rapidly worse plant,

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All workers of SIol petition lay -off are receiving full time or Then came the crucial issue This is not from BI

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of the BL annual wage review InoCt

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neon oe Time Working losey.

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have begun on August duced by Labour govern- settlement by November 1 ment. With wages This means in effect that if the last plummeted workers are unaoe lo work d Pg o pono, v E3 0 pat leve. full week due to factors such as the government wage to a position of €30.00 MaKes Inel mones with week Denno anu maximum of six months. Edwardes having successfully There are now hun- imposed a miserable 5% deal last dreds of thousands of workers yeat, waoes are a massive Issue throughout receiving InClI V with BL workers this subsidy and the Tories are situation the that it is far too lo meet Coll clinc CP presented to the committee expensive. ahe opos or ine don and sub.

stan taty less than ohe Com sibe inflation Committee claim last ycar.

proposed 20% "single item ito alp lied board' five across the grades. This would mean £17.25t It was, he saic on each grade. "realistic" and necessary to be

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he recognised that this was a "survival claim" the Committee Hiluuugl will claim. 11 aco stel automatically become the figure claimed by the unions. The Committee comouit recoomsd callic illalla. mento trade uniont

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National has Official Grenville Hawley very ditterent hoeds AS man of the trade union side, he all (as unions Ilan WIILLCl opposed to membership) in BL and asked them for comments as to what the claim should be reporting - the will be results at tne eno or tne montl This led onto the final item • the agenda - the crucial issue of the reconstitution hont Negota commer Adams reported that the last meeting of the JNC broke down the mainly ISSue question of how many delegates each union would have. It had the old JNC decided that one was formed. In front of the meeting was Cowley OroDosdi Assembly Plant calling for delegate conference whick oi event: COnTO. Co uIs during wage the TeVeW alle would elect a negotiating com- mittee The nego tating committee would be responsible to the tull conference and through that to the membership as a whole The motion had been circul- ated in the Cowley Plant •an( had been signed by 1500 TGWL members in the plant who had discussed it. Opposed stop Adams • This did not from opposing from immediately putting his own proposals to the meeting These simply ior a JNC responsible to a convenors conference-a body which few

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the workforce Cowley delegates argued for insisting their policy, crucial Doin takt

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shop floor and involve workers in it. Thev pointed to the process which started with the introduc- tion of Measured Day Work and took a great leap forward with the introduction of corporate bargaining-where only convenors were invorved. Now workers face the Dolic!

of Edwardes where only full officers-who don't even time work in BL-will be involved in negotiations. They pointed to the com. mittee nationa officials which had met on May 15 an signea a contro verstal agrecel menor, ot rea i ered convenors. They pointed to the recent replacement by the TGWU of Bromwich convenor Lastlt on the JNl (wno voluntary redundancy) with a full

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Regiona Official, Bill Lapworth. Cowley Despite t ne was heavily defeated motion and Adams motion, designed situation where was accepted by the Com- mittee. means that BL workers enter the pay fight with severe handicaps They have a JNC with little aion ray Combine aue ( 10] Iconsulu tion; coonmitted Committee preser ving and up; unheisontalive of the canistot TGWU to the Edwardes plar n official leadership of each o

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willet. committed to putting ine viad ility of BL before the wages and conditions of their membership But. for al this. BL worker 'remain strong dee or the past yea have been forced betrayals of them by the the leaders-not Enen strength of management of the weakness of the workers to fight WoK were icaly last year and they will be ready o fight again this yeat It may well be that despit the betweer anemael Evans and Duffy, prove unsuccessful in stopping wages struggle in BL in 1980 ince inis aruce was waute British Leyland have launched ano ther : attack on the Combine , Delegates in several Committee. DAnIS wino a meneer Neces day's meeting were called in of front management

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Apart from the role of the police and the Tories Employment, Act the most of significant aspect last Wednesday's mass picket at Brixton Unemployment Benefit Office has been the silence from deatening CPSA headquarters. Under conditions where two branch officers at Brixton have been conay COSA sacKed

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branch and national where union members weeks; and where Wednesday alone 18 arrests on the picket line were made the CPSA leadership has turned the fight to defend its back on elementary principles ¿ nC

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or te trace unon movement Prominent Wednesday's picket were 'left' MPs Stuart Holland and Reg Race.

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public before and afterwards correctly pointed to the need to to defy The their own the Employment Act, but une police, on his protests was the com- aumission. lave tanel and diversionary argu- pletely arbitrary

WEAN

limit the Brixton picket to two ment inat the ponce, ing the pickets six, at each of the three entrances to something which implementing the cole ounce is not yet law Earlier in the strike they All Prior's laws and recom- of the two sacked arrested one mendations because they are at die t attacd must opposed Richard branch Cleverley, after he was physic- ally assaulted by a scab.

The WOTKeRS mo vernett whether legal, semi-legal or arbi- The scab has gone scot free trarily inposed by the police.

worst everey Is Dare 10l halt-a-mile or the picket line.

Pledged support On Wednesday, police who arrested anyone Maximum attempted the pressure

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now be on Holland, Race road dividing the six picKets lefts Dennis from the supporting demonstra- and ot her ane Nicharuson, First to be arrested was Jim who have pledged support TOr the Brixton fight Departm dading moon the Employment Department tor consistent mass support lor the picket line, retreat from this activists arrested prominent then the working Stuart MacLennan of struggle now the Scottish DHSS. draw class U WIl CUll The union's national leader

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ane anterence their words and their ship, however, were needless to say, nowhere in sight.

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We must not lose a moment in responding to this serious situation. Readers and supporters are urged to send in a donation and help us ensure that we raise this much needed The high level of inflation continues to affect our money. costs dramatically and we cannot afford to fall short on our monthly fund. Send a donation to: Socialist Press Monthly Fund BM Box 5277, London WCIV 6XX Registered as a newspaper at the post office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist League "Move on there are more than two-you're causing an obstruction" strikers and the whole campaign Having authorised a one-day national strike on June 13 and -knowing full well that

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official action the Brixton odd days pay oI National dependent on Executive has backpeddled to a donations from the rank and file of total faith in branches up and down the position Civil Service manacemenitun woullely. Thus Brixton has provided Appeals Board (whose findings will be published next week) an instant focus for the battle against the newly elected amal- doing So, gam of Tories and right wing Annual Conference decision retormists Who gamed control upport Corddell and Cleverles of thornion, Me left forces in o union tave not to te with massive industrial action.

Witch-hunt conerel

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challenge eitner. But Ken Thomas (General which is directly involved, has Secretary) Cane stea wing argued against a strategy have not just been strike SupportIn action in other sections, and the contrary, they have Militant Group (dominant nane all CPSA issued a circular to displayed the Broad Left has witch-hunting the notable letnalgy mn mobusi Jail threat to socialists A total of twenty two Crosbie have been charged of the RCG's Section of the Preven supporters tion of Terrorism Act. Hands Off Ireland campaign They are accused of solicit- have now been arrested in a the ing financial support IO] savage police attack on the IKA-a charge wnien carries a possible 5-year jail sentence forces fighting British attack on democratic imperialism. widely

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nas been Two more were arrested demned-even by the Commun- copies of the paper and ist Party in the Morning Star selme badges Glasco w is to The question now football ground a week ago the light for action to deten But 1 ar worse than the usua these

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comradesto and ill-treatment manuallull Glasgow Trades particulat previous arrests, these CouncI. Duffield and Kirsting Police protect fascist march any kind of tangible support.

further issue which is cleariv linked to Brixton is the Adwest strike, the where Employment Act is also biting hard-earned

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Hus democrane rents or wolKers I dispute. delegation from Adwest went to Brixton last Wednesday ana that must de seen asle basis linking two the stre test against Prior tod Prior and fight There is now a mass picket at Brixton every day from weekday. Build each support for the national mass pickets now and try to attend the daily picket as regularly as possible! Support Ther London Area CPSA CoOrdinating Committer 13 September Natuluay st. Brides roundation Insultute Sloman ralkland Nyenue 1-636-542 x235) Support the lobby of th CPSA National Executive on 2 August. LA members ins day to butt e anis lony to build a mass lobby official, The strike also needs funds especially in view of urgently, numbers escalalill! afrests. Send donations to the Brixton Camp en for Trade Rights, Knowlton Union House. Cowley Estate. SW9 (01-582 Road, London 1645). *Donations to the Adwest fund should be made out strike to . Dhoot and sent to: Dann Broderick, 46 Berkley Road, Reading. Adwest picket Far from wanting to "ban" the fascists, the counter demonstration by and concer Several hundred the On Sunday morning, anti-fascists hundred severa Teamington So: were told that the Front would holding their march in be possible towns: police, however were deter- mined to prevent large capable counter demonstration, physically fascists and police. Roadblocks out of Leaming- on were doome dul Lail for those who got inrough were further roadblocks the outskirts of Nuneator and Coventry, which prevented at least five march "neutrality also pensioners who were obviously on a Sunday outing). Outnumbered Despite the police efforts the fascists, with about 150 o their march, were outnumbered by about 4-1. anti-fascists were But the enough nor break organised enough through the police cordon.

Had the extra coaches not been stoped and without the inevitable confusion that results from chasin dodaro around the countryside fascists would the

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have been lucky to march 100 yards. their coaches Was. scurrying out of the town wer met with a hail of rocks that sent the fascists onto the floo to avoid showers of shattere The anti-fascist rally afte the NF had left Nuneaton say local Labour MP Les Huckfield forces congratm assembled for standing up to the racist menace neglected to He tactfully mento Is unemployment: import controls of course, another -which are «British the demand form jobs for British workers".

Prevented The rally also had a report on events in Bromwich Martin was prevented from making his sold march to lay a wreath at the Jol ibs a strong demonstra Centre tion. His wreath was destroyed and ne was sent packing Several arrests were made in - including

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Nuneaton- leader Paul Holborrow, and youth arrested for laughing at a policeman! lessons of the day's State events …are ban! don't stop the fascists: only mobilisations of the working cass can do unlal A secondary point is that the polland ared buses unionised A fight must be taken up in for the paneser position of refusing to ferry the police around enabling them to arbitraril protect fascists and mobilise to stop them.