Socialist Press no. 214

FOR WAGE CONTROL..

PRESS

TUC '80:

The reactionary Tory government since the 1920s will have smiled warmly last week at the antics of the most servile

TUC

Congress in recent lichery. But any worker looking for leadershi the defend and union rights, halt tire ats in public services, and protoct livi standards, will looked o as une iself committed to the "four Cs: * Capitulution to the Tors antrucion lo s Collaboration with British enD overs import controls and a change of course by the Thatcher govern- ment. * ce or the mion rand and : of the union rank contract under the next Labour govertment. tigue as the had or the Labour Party. clique leadershir in a week oi evasion, man oeuvie and compromise, a mer 40 minutes allocated discussion 10w to to Prior's so-called Employment Act, which came into full force on Monday of this week. Frontal Attack The Act encompasses a fron- tal attack on the closed shop. picketing

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ine right strike, and rights at work: and it seeks to increase still further the

LONY

Dress influence Melta union elections, by promoting postal ballots: Yet no union had called for the necessary policy of defiance of the Act and all-out action to defeat Thatcher ment. Small therefore, wonder that the resulting composite passed by the

TUC,

varu lake a vener and vigorous campaign of non with the Act, was that wing AUEW and EEPTU leaders felt able to vote for it.

Tory Cash The fact is that AUEW Pres- ident Terry Duffy has already clear that his union officials will cooperate with the Act, and even intend to take lory vast to run tael posta. Meanwhile, as bosses' government steps up its offen Murray

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agalist une Dasic organisa tions of the labour movement, corner and the union leaders looking s are quences for its That her and diving her from of the government policies, and ways us in getting but for ways of forcing ment to think again." her into a "U-turn'

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To do this they have turned not the hard way" cies meant cuts millions of workers already suff- ering the effects of Tory poli- but disillusioned IvEuilay sections of employers, who may Import Controls be angry that their cash hand- outs to the Tories have brought not instant profits but mounting And to concern for the race Called Sentery n capitalists is far interest. in the per Murray called upon, bodies, the Confederation of the unemployed workers racing "come out of its political result of the capitalist

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the

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also pledged itself even more stridently Lild before to policy ol import controls to British Boreten compactions. against wipetition workers believed for one moment that the

TUC

while throwing towel union rights and jobs • would 0f willing to fight or ine wages front, the Brighton Congress proved them three times wrong: standing ovation given by the platform and the bulk of delegates to Callaghan's explicit for social contract

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and five years of wage controls under a new Labour government was backed • up by a resolution face the that carried by 5.3 votes to • 3.6 million. own million Hell DoE Len Murray's speech reiterated eraude that, while opposed the govern- (undisguised) restraint, the TUC delegation to members had "learned visit Thatcher in the next few that Tory poli- 1 discuss pav polici along with "anything with any- piulits and investment. whined anytime' other

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words, would offer souldi contract to the Tories as well as a Labour government. And while the TGWU cast its show that million their Lne : plight of British contract proposals, TGWU leader Moss Evans decl ared that he would attend the those TUC talks with Callaghan.

In other words, their crisis, members battle to defend their Callaghan living standards against runaway Concordat drawn the TUC inflation, leadership Colevan to prepare a new sull TUC to even now lining up with • Testa strikes during five-year package of 1978-79 controls "What under the guis within a planned economy". will you (the unions Propaganda tive? particular Such reactionary moves can suggested that powers to drive designed persuade the contro workers "excessive pay Iank and demands" cause mass unemployment, and under- ween top-level Labour and TUC line the fact that workers will leaders. lead Irom elit bureaucracy pay battles that such mn tne this winter. But while they refused to unions or the Labour Party were fight Tories- with able to express their feelings in single lead for action in a whole a democratic way week of hot air and This arm-waving wh union gang threw their lace bid to restore the domi- reforms to the Party nance of Labour's right proposed by wing. Callaghan's lengthy spelling out his unabashed adhe- by a growing self-same worried trade tionary 21919 licies that ost Labour the election, drew More Afraid applause from the platform and large majority of delegates- while others sat in angry silence.

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UMOR

Pulling punches, Calla- far more afraid of the shed not on at uptol but.

dwelt at length on the and militancy of their than tighten government. They Lilt

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(also Back page & page 2) Congress Background Page 5 El Salvador ...... Page 3 Community Councils? Page 8 Berger book reviewed . Page 8 • up between mined not to lose their control the Labour government and the of the rank and file on which picketing and their power privilege allu the pay battles The standing ovation for Callaghan makes it clear that th we mus know what code of discipline and unlo vock voter neino cao 1 fave elotion of the are yvut blake le elled on election leadership Callaghar and unions shouk are minal. "special bodies" actions United the reactionary deals struck bet In their capitulation to That- cher and their search for a new course there is no way social contract, the TUC leaders deals could be main- Labour's right wing stand united tained if the membership of the against the interests and indep- endent struggles their members on the shop • floor oi public sector the Callaghan In ane and on the growing dole queues its The fight stop the democratic The offensive requires above all the constitu- the left wing struggle for a principled Crew revolutionary leadership in the why he has been supportec workie class body of Brighton Congress union which itself • has done nothing to advance the class struggle, ha at least served to underline thi harsh fact seeking a bureaucrats are way forward against the Tories strength to join with Socialist Press supp- orters and the Workers Socialist

1 CHICA

Tory •League in the struggle to build are deter- such a leadership.

GAINS IN GDANSK

Stalinists back Gierek Crackdown on Corsican militants Page 2

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of the unions will have The publication full agreement as signed by . pubncations But both Central Strike the struggles Committee in Gdansk and

UVCI

Polish the government ane ever bureaucracy to possible much makes closer analysis. workers in their new organisa- tions. It is at once clear that wille gains have been made by major strikers. the bureaucracy Gone Beyond seeking means to manoeuvre in limit these gains and order eradicate them aler well beyond gone yet the continuce mulane.

tions by having displaced Gierek sections of Polish many other have already

WULKCIS

fighting the one Jine allack chancer bureaucrats-which was government, and by restrict the new attempt specific unions the release around the Juice geographical al cas prisoners by mass surine action Baltic ports. The agreement the interests of the bureaucracy Conceded declares specifically The agreement state" concedes right to form independs cousidere OnlY useful to is considered graphs conceding access to the establish new sell-govertung media are trade unions to be an authentic Church. the working representative kut anotner cause that the matter These, it is conceded, will be means rest there, established by the Central Strike ceues lal. important This committee. because of full respect for the freedom in urierek s- ilst urici the elections would have been of organised by the state-run offi- public and -as in the case of the chi unons elections that followed the 19.70 mittee shows strikes. strength in Now the strike committees become can choose to benent tne "the founding commitees the as workers coun cils or committees. sants are included. The right to strike is guaran- teed-as it was for a short period 1956. Alliance But the chief restriction on new unions is the subject the matter they are to be allowed to danger unar ren agreement The movement specifically stater unal "will not play the role of unions

OYCELULEI

a political party". trade unions new seek to should have real possibilities for publicly giving their opinion on will peasants, offering determining kev living conditions people burcaucialy. The principles of distribu- MIen for ting consumption and accumulation, the social economic fund Sull DIC Che purposes steall pledge, education, culture), Iu1 Mistan principles of remuneration and adequate and particularly will be policies, WatC the orinciple of automatic correction in conditions of infla- working women' tion, long term economic plans; investment and prices policies.'

improved working week topics the The arrest of a Corsican owners launched a nationalist, Leonelli, and his subsequent confessions have real aim is two-told. led to the imprisonment of scores of nationalist mili- Rucca Serra tants in the island itself and acting in Marseilles. every bombing to operation, This masterminded by the tench French" elements. intelligence services, has created severe turmoil amongst the diff- erent opposition forces in the economic sland. no lowers dou bourgeoisie, Reactionary owners-whose clans mierests arc lewspapers-mos prominent he Nice-based Nice Matin -hav witchhunt vicious triggered demands nationalists, against Corsican calling tor remiorcements lo be to an island already satur- sent island. police squads, ated with units branch and specta brigades. press has branded those nationalists who have confessed their involvement been limited of which bombings-none "terrorists which they Kaneti allyulle ruling class and At the same time, the same time. "clans"-the traditionally growing opposition. powerful class of Corsican land- day Shite 'OWs the Tory press general supports the settlement •Cent that Tuture take place both and the extension of new loans tureau ap prop up the tottering Polish such questions, the capitalists have tilt lim it pointed out that the only wa the poll the economic concessions cal in productivit golution" paid for is through increases tacitly oucH accepts the continuation control and mis- management in Poland, and the Indeed workers have already continued and the deformed and degene- these •rated workers states from the do vanced Capildist economies But this is also the starting and Gdansk agreement. The having 101 committee Colludi first time in a Stalinist state, ironica v ons wee bureau.

in a final plea for greater the by working MKS [Central Strike Com- mittee] appeals to workers affi- that liated to it to proceed after the end of the strike with actions to and specifically increase producuvity, conserve "economic secrets". And materials energy, and paid of discipline every co-operating to this workonce in relation effect with the managements of enterprises, ments and institutions establish work will by since it con- was stressed bic sid professional one professional DUKe the demands it has incorporated into the agreement The British Communist poorer peasalls. Clauses relating to access to Party, equipment and ensuring profit- party, iously with the Polish Stali- nist bureaucracy against the independent struggles of the working class. While there is of course a The caution is the result of peasants could CPGB's ostensibly. "indep the emerge as the basis of a restora- endent" Eurocommunist posi seeking well •Tons and lls deske lo noc- nationalised ate danged poulty pro in with the liberal petty bour goo is friends Britain who far greater if the workers do not dictatorial oppose the establish a firm alliance measure of the stallist 1ogunc layers This is why the Communist Party daily Morning Star a Way the Stalinist that while in pace led orrkers back agreement practice workers back focusses on economic demands, towards the Gierek bureaucracy.

some of which, as in the case of pensions, go much further than Back to Work concessions strikers have extracted a At each turn by the bureau- easy back to terk with ory places back to work with only provided al creches alle limited gains, the Morning Sta "for children of supported une SLeDS Gierek demands relate to support for dietas shorter no usune. support Gierek's declared and more Don- bourgeoisie in alliance with local arro- reacted campaign "protes- capitalists ilas ting against violence" but whose gantly, dismissing every deltal however minimal, formulated by the reformists. Hirstv une two man cidns pressure from and Giaccobbi, Even uncl the their own pase mose reoriess exploit Stalinists will mobilise the fastly refusing overthrow and and the "anti- working class French domination. And secondiv thev wil trv and minimise the impact of the Instead they have their in their rhet- recessión semantic changes first time, OT1( and, 101

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shopkeepers, even dared use words rote illusions in the "autonomy" "indepen- protectors words like stil ravluly uccicasul dence Will Dallie from their speeches and resol- SP and CPU (legal autonomists) utions. the past Their allies, the CPU, profess decade have posed no real threat allegiance openly France and August were congress the daily le Mondeut their cobe congratulated Reforms ageous stand'. group to pose a The only threat to French domination in Their demands have merely reforms puny the island is ine Natonal ront for the Liberation of Corsica hoped the rrench

(FLNC).

mainly among down any rural nationalists (1 paesan) lil Front enjoys support from the On the contrary the French Women shipyard workers in Gdansk call for through solution Concescons The Star with this aec- pape Industrial organiser ello extolling OnV wOre Unions Under Socialism" ot comrade Clerek s No Support The Star also-forgetting about the huge new bank a no on Soviet Union: way-complamed tha the •Polish accore idence the people" had received no support the British establishment

COWORKY CASS

government and The next Stay udy ¡Polist Gierek's printed speecn -in which he confined his offers to difficulties economic concessions and this context." alew "It _call to change. He also attacked background the role "anti-socialist tive alleged groups' But a week later Gierek wa with The make much more forced The substantial obediently star General Strike Torowed August .24 speech as "momen- Costello's tous". But Gierek was still offering onlv new elections in the ottl- pendent trade cial unions, as well as economic working class and the peasantry.

And it is for this reason that ramme ano tasks the French ruling class had beer They See cule forces of repression, precisely sever that link between the and the population Corsican by Despite well-nlanned campaign of bombing and sabo- …ne the Front has achieved Lace. very little. Their acts of violence against commercial targets military left have unscathed They have become mere don't operations and even nelp the ront SCOTt political gains. Apparently their to the press Front enters to lne populaton in nationalists bother don" explain the political significance victims of French but without organising a of their acts. •Ul course their main obiec tive is the overthrow of French But far they grouping domination. any political line. Rouge, weekly paper of the The orsoners Communist Revolutionary Stalinists League (Luk) recenuy came Fronts papi have received a copy of the Ribellu, where SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 10th, 1980 they come at a time when there • had no complaints , General Strike Indeed August in Poland based on CP just such a demand. Cost- MICk the role of "Trade Confidence Costello welcomed "the ton speech", British CP had If the had Both for de dared in it their way, Polish workers would official unions in • have simn v cone Dack to woE.

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without the Gdansk deal, welco Cere's spene Comrade ming must express our conf- ability of the in their Stalinist

HIS

bureaucratic rulers this the British overcome the full support to CP gave it: • that have arisen il nlanned TUC visit to the oil!

cial" Polish unions against this have shown Polish workers that it is impera for practice tel for our trade union move- such bureaucratic monstrosities supporting lEs really posing as unions workers • unions in the socialis Strungies. • 80010 political conclusions about seli- styled "Communists" who pref- quo under alcu statu Gierek. were Slalelicils written well before the Polish government had conceded inde unions: indeed denying the existence of a class the front outlined their prog- struggle • time it neve correctly demand the • the same expropriation of all land belon- uses the world socialism cla ging to French colonialists; but ming that "the people are not ready yet". • LU weakness the agrarian reform to the lanc Finall remains its determination to act • local clan chiefs and underground organisation the need ti It does not stresses the see need to build a society where al operate openly forms of exploitation would b reach the organised and in Corsica and Roveli This will remain an abstrac France itself formula without a full political It does not see the need to of transitional political structure give in order to dulla a revolatnaly par Without these basic rent to No Campaign ments the Liberation of Corsica canno also regularly create conditions for noelatwi brothers in from French domination prison Making a break from dead and eno Lonelinico tical campaign for their release armed with a fuli, political prog The solidarity organisations ramme of transitional demands should take the struggle into tam illes have limited objectives and car the only provide moral support for Only in this way can Cor- sican militants bring : to an end 200 years of exploitation and and reformists, oppression. nda terous

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 10th, 1980

INTERNATIONAL

El Salvador

STALINISTS

SEEK 'UNITY'

WITH BOSSES

The principal forces of the left EI Salvador, In unlike those in Nicaragua, Second in a series of background articles by Don Flint developed around and out the left on wing groupings currently engaged in the of Stalinism. struggles in El Salvador.

Important eements were Last week's article looked at the general lines of policy radicalised the crisis Democracy Christian in the of the Mass Revolutionary Coordination (CRM) formed on late 60s and early 70s-but February 28, and its parallels with the Nicaraguan FLN This week attention is focussed on the Communist Party.

unese were acer concentrated the peasantry and student mo The it leading cadres of the guerilla torces and mass organi- were primarily dissidents from nationalist example' of his resulted from the party's open the Communist Party of EI decision to join Sandino, rather support for the military invasion Salvador (PCS). in his criticism and subsequent from as the 'Football War' 1930 the PCS has remained an Sandino's narrow nationalism.

fact stemmed from the unremarkable and stoically pro- Thus one of the few positive overspill ot large numbers of Moscow Stalinist organisation.

lessons yielded by the years has workers and nationalistic rivalry Denny salvadorean communice illegality have prevented it from been cast aside and Marti's the Central American exploiting full its memory and myth utilised Common Market in projected with the much the same manner as is the loss of man nowever. of its most experienced cadre national bourgeorge' in order "develop the forces of pro- 1969 the pro formed did not deter from duction', institute bourgeois the Democratic National Union its front pursuing popular democracy and ease the

(UDN)

and joined with the of tmy, seeking slidely allances super exploited

MNR R

with the capitalist class.

neo-colonial and Christian Democrats formin Union (UNO) in a National stale into socialism on the back of 'industrialisation'. Opposition fruitiess enort to contest the Enriched Nationalistic been traditionally rigged by the army since it came to power in 1931.

As late as the Spring of of the PCS, The founder The platiorm of UNO wa: the tenth Vy celebrated Marti, for minimal reforms and 'greater anniversary of the founding of Haran no today celebrated democracy; it posed no threat UNO as for enriching the populat ampaigning alongside Sandino to the ruling oligarchy and had movement with its programme in Nicaragua • that omer ne masses rarely, bar abject confusion, monstrous "voiced the ever, democratic mentioned that Marti broke illusions, and cul-de-sac absten- aspirations and suluciurai with Sandino over the 'merely tionism from all polls except changes required by the great non- majority of the people, grouper nature' of his By the time UNO had self- behind it, orced struggle against the US marines.

righteously and ndignantl electoral Marti executed the rithdrawn from the 1977 pres following was Celebro Su y cal ate Ine conta Dol. Ine already a dead duck and May 1979 p.3) 193z insurrec- tion, and the

FPL

guerillas PCS in tatters as a result of a in case Ine essons or This have adopted. his name in their strategy were lost on its suppor- full ters the Central Committee spelt "inter- The first of these, in 1969, evoking After a recent street riot El Salvador poor: no common interest with bosses them out explicit! democratic path solving poli can The crisis has today substantial inseparable part of soci-econom ic (ibid) The practical consequence of such call for positions was "anti-tascist ullly 101 remov or Ene accisis rom the government' (ie 'fascist from government itself) (PCS leaflet 18 June 1979 p.4) This required the "steadfas struggle of the workers, the DeODIt general, democratic sectors, led calmly mento) and will Ly or adventurism, or st then tie fascists. pabs fascists.

(PCS

stopping leaflet, 1 May 1978 P4.) perfectly was theretore, logical for the CP to enter the colonels junta in October 1979 five Lande cabine (ministries of labour, education, economy and the presidency) totally experience was disastrous, even in the PCS' own terms. Its pontical Credible. crumbled as government troops slaughtered hundreds of workers ana peasails wIll une moleh stamp of approval of the of world proletarian revolution' the and caust greater democracy'. and held horser ey sing hostage striking workers. and in the face oi tota arsintegration, Ine ro scurried government along with out ot the social democrats early 1n January, 1980 By the end of the month still operating under the name of

UDN

the party Mass Revolutionary the "announcing its entry with the ominous headline: "unstoppable advance Unity.' ropular Marriage Broker The CRM was described as the "first step in the construc tion broad front popular against the military dictatorship .. maturity demonstrates The attained by the revolutionary organisations and popular movement i general (Voz Popular, 122 21 January 1980 p. 1) The role of the CP as marriage broker for the popular front in itself unsurprising but its principal achievement overcome the been distrust and outright opposition of the revolutionary lett.

1121 the CRM the CP is still treated 'rightist despite the fact leading has light, that gained place the Unified Revolu on Leadership (DRU) -the centralised ostensbly the radical arm of thi alliance (ie roughly analogous to the Nicaraguan

FSLN

high command compared produ boltical IronE The right wing orientation is borne out in the PCS desperate international allies watch

OUTSITIDS

Lne bourgeois effort in this quarter, declaring friendship to gain the Venezuelan ol ine rignt wing regime (which actively supports and arms the junta) an tralisms of the costa Rient benevoren neutral government despite anti communist President Carazo." for leane undated, Spring 1980). Victim of right-wing violence Page 3 Sitting on the DRI! with Shafik Salvador. Cayetana Carpio who the Commande Liberation Front (FPL). and a leading , member of the Popular Revolutionary Block (BPR), and one or the principal ligureneads of the Democratic Revolutio- nary Front (FDR). Veteran Cayetano, a man in his 60s, is a veteran militant, a union leader of many vears standing 1970, secretary ang. Inti general of the PCS It was Cayetano who led the split in 1971 and the BPR The critiques

PCS

oI the Maut ov une forces oxenso t go beyond • mere and therefore deserve some scrutiny. In next week's Socialist Press will examine them in some detail.

-NUJ delegates duck

BACK INTO FRAGMENTS

Page 4 Last week's

TUC

Congress debate on military disarmament highlighted the of reformism attempts to defend British imperialism, through politically disarming the working class.

Congress The on peace and disarmament called o on une genera counch to take d new initiative to alert the trade and the public union movement Lilt nuclear weapons and for redu- cing arms spending general. call tor a Around 100 trade union- ists and socialists joined a vociferous lobby of the TUC on Wednesday, deman- ding the reinstatement of the disaffiliated Tameside Trades Council. "Troops Out, Shouting. Tameside In", they marched on Congress The

ITOM

Ene station and harangued delegates during the lunch break. Tameside was struck off the Councils for the convening a labour comicrence Will republican speakers. Bu4 the los by took place a full the

NUJ

hours after ceresanon nau Tallea mandate to demand a reference.

back of the section of the which General Counci Keport endorse ne liation. The NUI Annual Delegate had Meeting AprIl con- the aem nea move union's delegation to the TUC had designated left' talking full Mike Bower move tie dac vack But as ine crucial clause oo of the TUC Report was reached 1 ursudy. bower and nis telow delegates raised not a whisper. Conference President Terry Parry moveu on-anu the disaffiliation of Tameside went by later by angry vacationed obovers

NUJ

dererates professed that the Luvalle section of the Report had been Was for crearv schecuted unat morning. course me nkernood ol this being *mistake a sim pie gets healer tO DOC elected as a delegate to the TUC without being well-versed following

LOUCH

in union conferences. fact • that the delega- tion clearly had no wish to raise Ine Issue avoided doing so-in defiance of their own mandate. TUC has set As a result the ling labour movement debate on Ireland-and hung a threateover Trades Council for next bowu has won to upon 0 0e has won the support of over union branches. continue must press for the endine oi labour move- ment censorship The rIsh war and to oppose bureaucratic 'Tameside moves to "reorganise' 1rdacs council, The reformist dream of "peace" tuture Labour government to be cancel the 65billion Trident missic orati. Cruise missiles remove us from Britain, and to use savings from a cut in detence spending unem ploy- 10T Televisua ment. this and vague mo vig toothless

TGWU

motion, tie bary a bree cal ine campaign armament

(CND)

"revita- liased" NUM President Joe Gormley seconoto. contine to moves ny the NUM leadership to organise an international conterence unions on peace mineworkers Tameside fight Despite the fact that about 1,500 people turned up to the Beyond the Frag- ments conference in Leeds 30th August, a large WEll majority felt that the left if not more was as much fragmented by the end of the day. Most of these 1,500 seemed graduated from the era of the 1968 1auivalisa ton now costy paced In DrOI- posts, with time essional patronisingly reflect on the fate of the working class, 1nc sucture or une conrer- ence, such as it was, consisted of initial and concluding sessions interspersed with

SIU DS

number abstract topics. characterised the But workshops above all, was their complete ack ol concern over the present economic and polit- and disarmament, Gormley What they do offer is the declared that the unions "should willing be to give militarism be destroyed convince the people of without a socialist the world that only peace JuST

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guarantee the luture of man. dream is to be fulfilled is not kind' spelled out. The working masses of the But the reformist calls for world, including British disarmament and peace do not need working no only five practical Cull necessitv way forward. fact

TOT

are They need fighting attack on political the that shows the way of the the torward

•IUI

class They seek the turn The reformists of the labour working class away from its movement, both left and right, historic ot overthrowins tasK Stalinists, the decaying capitalist system of wIll offer no such programme. oppression and exploitation.

REINSTATE

TAMESIDE

UNCIL

seemed to be inte- No one working class manages to cotton rested in tighting the lories or on to the fact that it is getting opposing sackings and cuts in a rough deal from the Tories, Instead these "socia- the Fragment-ers Lne Devonu lists" slipped gently into satisfied with mulling Lito will be and the pol conor alicatio utomaR conscion or race alternatives to existing institu- of communication' tions Naturall une communisi A workshop of the Welfare Party 'peaceful roaders fitted comments in perfectly with this scheme- state produced the effect that the working class their positions indistinguishable prepared defend was mom unose or une comerence because organisers. unreatenco Hospitals they were 'alienated from them' This was nonk would rather go sotist" conference's refusal to discuss Another ally Dractical suluesit arabist ult strikes were ar Tories accompanied was of struggle deep hostility to Leninist and were now outmoded. Pres- groups. workers ought umably to take

WSL

comrade One Was • seer create lse actually barred trom speaking, The emphasis was all on and more tellingly perhaps, the need to get Right to Work Campaign, which class soent moe enure ca buckets to collect money for The me ae that canan s not in their that their came up. with a and march, socialism 1s a possible allella plenary Live cession Until such time which appeared to be arranged as the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 10th, 1980

CUT

ARMS

not educolion international must

COE

be armed and led in ar working class solidarity insurrection against statt imperialism Alls wa The working class will have Havillie

TCLONNOISTS

armed to protect tion defence dictatorship

¡TOI

interests. counter-revolution and so pave the way for planning and orga nising the Militarism economy to meet the the Hiccus people profits of the bourgeoisie Militarism and wars are just Only the unfolding of asm as thempooyment, starva- workers revolution on a world scale - including unemployment the overthror • starva Stalinist bureaucracies

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ilitary-nonce •I line dictatorships. To call on the deformhed degenerated and bourgeoisie lay down its workers stales- Car asking lay the basis for world disarma utopial to hand over ment and peace on the basis Tne Canal. their plunder to the exploited material possible under planned world economy. masses production for private profit Obstacle The • main productive forces are held To multinationals) achieve the workers' chaues Capitalist states are pliant tools revolution, a revolutionary prog hands of these leadership : cliques. The first built marlales or monoDoly cial organs state slogan of disarma this is the ment peddled by the reformists (government, armed

LOUILD

and Stalinists forces), from their commanding heights revoluuonaner mIRST 1100 in the economy. for a programme of transitional demands around the question of opportunist labour bureaucrats scully around une capitanst millarsin lo oe laken up in the working class. Iotstoo ol state power for it within the condition for support successful fight by the advanced working class workers against the grip of thi 1 It powers and teeth in order to meet the amka ras the armament. ove teeth order protect working is that they power and profits of monopoly armament . cabilal. The growth of class struggle programme! No cuts in publi and the sharpening of massive job- services between capitalist nations under creating programme useful • 01 public works and services ill Dall driving forces are in the uncer workers control current military build-up.

*Nationalise the arms and industries and thei workers' Revolution control. *Build workers defence Without working class squads against police, army and revolution that tears state power and domination of the economy *Disband the capitalis armed forces 110l ine nanas CoI mononoil wars capita armed forces Calling without linking it to *No secret diplomacy *Build independent revolution is not musi working pian. In the hands of reformists class action of mass Stalinists sir, end indence or tae aimed at blocking the necessary and lism, defence degenerated deformed calation 10] ene working class revolution, paralysing British troops workers states. the revolutionary will of the out of Ireland. working class and demoralising *Prepare a general strike to bring down the bosses govern- il m ne lace or a supposedly all-powerful bourgeoisie.

ment Thatcher. For a order disarm the workers government. bourgeoisie, the working class having been discussed so as to cut out any contribu- tions from the floor, did include The only proposal from the report organisers was to have more of on the situation anne-ver anothe COmI The conference organisers, halt or prise presely erence. abusing the about half after revolutionary those present lett for its allegediv authorita showed any interest in anothe rian and rigid organisation, day oi not air and bull-shil bureaucratically produced If the conference achieved anything, it must have been to statement on Poland, to which the demoralisation no arenomrents were amitted mer cast While listing a number of people there who some ot ine oppressed groups in Poland, th were interested in fighting the cuts and the Tories Dualvili will all The "Socialists" from whom of gay oppression menon the anger of the gay mich to one mignt nave expected some groups the cons ence. ideas about revolutionary seemed Feminists were equally struggle have conceded the fight already, and outraged at Lne lack or of patriarchy at the cloud cuckoo anscussion centreets conference inde land instead Parents Fortunately were the working irate about the lack of suitable creche class does not have to rev or test orgas in ders abut Tacter So the conference ended, organise with most people feeling frustr- movement with those who art ale or ame about come aspect willing to jight the lories ratner of it, and with no constructive than spin dreams and practical policies for the future nothing

Keeping them sweet- SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 10th, 1980 Congress background by John Lister Parade of the poseurs The farcical nature of "debates" the the at TUC Congress was epit- omised in Wednesday's discussion on economic policy. An almost uninterrupted stream of General Secretar- ies and full-time vied with each other in their efforts to louse up the del- of ivery Steads drafted for them by earch departments, while lay delegates sat impotent, mandated only to stay silent and their hands politely as instructed. Cock-up of the day must be Terry Duffy's demand - in the midst of a boring and reactionary speech which confirmed beyond doubt that he is no more than the creature of the Tory press - that: "We must offer these young people unemploy- ment. In fairness to Duffy, of course, it is quite true that the policies of Callaghan which he so eagerly applauded the day before would certainly ensure that a returned Labour govern- ment would offer youth and workers still more unem- ployment. But this is not what he meant to say. ISTC General Secretary Bill Sirs also let the cat out of the bag. Professing concern about democracy, he leapt to his feet to sec- ond an amendment by the

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the Common Market, which deleted statement of opposition to the EEC, and called simply for a referendum. "My union has no policy on this" confessed Sirs, who, nothing daunted, went on to put his own personal view instead! Perhaps the lack of an ISTC policy is linked with the decision of Sirs and the ISTC bureaucracy to cancel the union's conference this year in order to dodge the hostility of the members to the wholesale sell-out of jobs after marathon Tine strike last Spring?

TUC 1980

TRADES UNON CONGRESS BRIGHTON 1980

HE UNEMPLOYED

delegation - and had selec- and food. Many delegates Watching this bizarre ted which delegates receive were also £50 display of TV rhetoric, empowered to speak on any pocket money on top of all synthetic breast-beating issue. Chairman Terry Parry this. and theatrical arm-wav- knew he should not call ing was a mixed bag of anyone else. Employers delegates So from ranging that point on- from the wards, the role of a lay del- In case union funds were expected egate in the TUC was simply of full-time not sufficient to keep all pla ons delegates officials to spectate, while officials the style to to angry In make their rehearsed accuse me over the years which have handful of unsuspecting become speeches and bureaucrats lay members getting cast the card votes. major employers such their first nauseating Rank Hovis McDougall, ICI To help delegates while glimpse of how

TUC

away the week, the bureau- and others laid on addit- Congresses are fixed. cracy had in many instances ional receptions for those While some delegates sat offered them lavish accomo- unprincipled enough to smugly through the pro- dation and expenses. attend. ceedings watching their Such high-living begins to fellow bureaucrats or their explain how So heroes at work, others were £30 per night delegates could sit with more busy in the bars and serene smiles and a feeling the nearby putting Hotel rooms at £30 or of well-being through Others held greens. court utterly Congress more per night were not bankrupt with the leading right and top of that they were powerless to uncommon: but on 'left' wing Labourites influence in any way. this, sumptuous lunches and hawking for support in the were provided or For the old regulars, the suppers Labour Party conference. paid for by the unions; and mainstay of each year's But there was, in most those delegates TUC Congress, such "perks" who cases little else that deleg- there are the main reason to come could manage more, could do. Meetings was seemingly endless back year after year. And prior to the Congress had round of union functions, they want at all costs to generally mandated every with unlimited free drinks avoid any conflict with the Sid. Weighell(NUR), Scenes from TUC (clockwise):

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Boya, Laird and Duffy Callaghan; Ron Todd (TGWU); Frank Chappell (EEPTU); Len Murray and Moss Evans union bureaucrats who look after them so well - at the expense of tens of of thousands pounds in members' subscriptions. It is obviously with these gluttonous time-servers in mind that the TUC leaders scorned the by request Brighton Trades Council that they should reject the civic reception laid on by the town's Tory council - which is cutting spending on everything except entertain- ing such conferences. Meanwhile any newcomers who might object to the corruption and extravagance can expected to attend only one TUC Congress - and, hope- fully be replaced by a more obliging nominee. The embarrassment that this beanfeast has caused the local Trades Council was referred to in the welcoming by its secretary to speech the TUC. Indeed the matter is compounded by the fact that many trade union delegations book into high Page 5 priced, anti-union hotels.

Grand Hotel Even the next door to the conference centre (£30 per night bed and breakfast) has sacked GMWU steward the and crushed the moves towards unionisation. Elite Of course for the arro- gant bureaucratic elite in the leadership of the TUC it is of no significance that the who serve their four, five, six and seven course meals are low paid and denied even the right to join a union. But is it not time that in every union

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began to insist that national level labour movement comerences use only union ised hotels and boarding houses? And is it not high time that the profligate spending of the bureaucrats and their hangers-on was brought under the control of the members, whose subscrip tions are being squandered?

POLISH WORKERS' LON

STRUGGLE AGAINST STA

Page 6 For the Polish Spring in October" as it had beer dubbed, hopefully turned rapidly into long, grey winter. The economy was in a mess.

and emerged

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coloni tegy, workers and poor peasants were paying for it. The central agreement advocated a between those who the economy and those wind hold back was that there could some ando living standares, atmer ure reverse Gomulka From 1969 Gomulka swung behind the economic reformists.

the established of shifting intensive inveı 2100 wages, was added a new system incentives achievement to the This producion senerales inevitably meant lowering workers dote ough. The and, case, only way Was the bureaucracy could 101 obtaining more capital investment was by cutting home especialis consult olivil food. leaving more avalable for export to finance the purchase of technology machinery from imperialism Increases On 12 1970 becerroel increases were announced on a essential items, mainly range beef (19%), tood; eg. four (16%). bricks (37%). By a logic which …the nurezueracy could scarcely have believed these rises were by reductions in the prices of washing television sets. Workers did not.

unsurprisingly, accept this as a understood it as a further attack unelr living standaras anu responded by rising as a class against the bureaucracy Gomulka might perhaps have felt secure trom such a response 2 won from Germany castern of Poland which line border the appealed ic llave secondly, Decause working class had largely failed the student respond which demonsuraton lau spread across. Poland in March the with Dubcek's 'progressive' ment in Czechoslovakia, and the thwart ing Poland,

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ignited by the hannne or allegedly. Soviet play and of two 'dissident the expulsion students in Warsav universil 4 -curone student demonstration was brutally the militia broken by 10,000 students fought the militia on the streets. For about a week students cemonstrateo in waraw. . L002 Poznan, Katowice, Wroclaw and Extreme physical Cracow the reDresSIOn was increased when workers-'hooligans young began to participate. In its campaign agaist the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 10th, 1980 0-8230' movement the bureaucracy also Polish workers as a class stayed buldings were attackea and ine the When the crude anti- on December importing asureal proletal lal 1US opponents-listing reintorcements to swell the stati studen aereno us own Dasl with Jewish interests the intellectuals were Torcer veatn inuite to ese pentation of leed largely silent arrests followed. A curfew was imposed in the linked recently industria- Gdansk, the pre-1956 lised coasi WOIKeIS When the The tiny of Gdynia and Sopot. police remnant Jews left in Poland after Hitler's forces of repression won standards dock- shipyard made seen une el me le vil. •suiceis dile malignant force to the announcement of occupied price workers claims of a Isolated strikes factories, surrounded by tank: soviety; once again, increases. occurred as they did in other and militia. conspiracy served th

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forces

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amones principled methods order' was In Gdansk. workers in the wage rises, but the occupying restored shipyard struck. An strikers pressed their dema general naval elected delegation was arrester Livi casos ott to. party • wnen tney intorovemen nousu neadquarters to protest al in concions cance lation orini Working Class The viole recin toro voten s Insurrection i broke out price rises. recognition of the elected workers committees following The struggie of the students crushel March 1968 did not rouse week. Central Demand the working class. When workers On Monday 14. December several thousand Gdansk LoCalle Central henever Polish walkay.

city This last demand always they did workers marched on the roland an0 1956 is always sing ing war hymns ano the Hungary Internationale Fighting :broke mobilise around thet cas interests. There is an immediate militia and police strength oro erana aside of the elaborate sometimes appears tried to prevent . Ine demonsita sweedine empirically-as in Hungary-that tors from reaching Party head- system The nex and party organisations designe das Ine workers move llu Guailuis cine torke Work i control behind dock-workers loined the street „ The movemen intelligent sia. But in 1968 the fighting. •them. rarty alk

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 10th, 1980 G Part two

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spontaneously the Lulll oulolng amoebenaent sunke committees responsible to them- selves and under their control.

The demand for the

NITION

or: unese workers' struggle and for direct meeting between them and high Party ofticials occurs whenever the class mobilises. Gdansk street fighting broke again and strikes oul conv n dvdccdn triumphed and by the 18th beginning return to their lobs •Gayna the events Gdansk were repeated. The strike committee from the 'Paris shipyards on the commune 17th. but the announcement of this was made ambiguously as it also demanded norman return to une motame une 1 Ln. workers arrived at the shipyards -whether to work or to occupy - they were confronted The Cio seu cates anu guns. and the army killed m 1 1{19 scores of workers in a day of relentlessly savage repression.

17th, nr sav une Warski the Ship- workers in in Szczecin Scenes from the 1970 riots of an article by Geoff Harris. strike: a workers' assembly and lts erecteo communtee oresenica their demands; for strike pay withdrawal wage increases, price

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independen Unions accurale reporting of the strike by press and radio, for no victimization,

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ena our caucralil privileges. for the withdrawal of for with meeting roops, Parlamentary members. Lnel when we obtain satistaction we will resume work properly and honestly The workers marched on the city with banners, flags rer words the Inter- were joined by nationale, and a lalee Dart of ne CILys oou lation. They arrived in front of the Party building which was surrounded by Fighting police. Droke oul, Darty oullumes anu d bureaucrat's villa were set on fire. Fraternisation workers lought the multla with chains and Molotov There was reportedly cocktails. a lalee with the army. AHune cuvs workers in the fire of 1956.

workers. Workers correctiv strategy, which was consciously and rigorously pursued in early Jaruary. a n dilack alu lilis the month come. was a prompting factor in the declared new wave of f strikes. I uzusiay In Szczecin shipyard repair , ThAT fne CIty ocolut workers went on sit-down strike and were joined 12,000 all Warski ship workers trom the snke communied Negotiations yard, transport WItn anel and railway workers. The ship- authorities surrounded by yards were city. For troops, reintorcements the

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WeLt to work mobilised in readiness around appeal from water and supplies country Isouls would The ruling bureaucracy wa: their leaders that they spilt on whether to attempt a crushing military defeat on . the recognised by workers. lt wa. perlod olunem trial wert threatened by a repeat

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December insurrections. Gierek had refused recognise the The revolt spreading wolkers Poland. Warsaw's obliged negotiat not factories that Hlaul Enev WOld Our However opposed the with a faced immediate of movement action

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allu lil lilal. Intentenmng. wnea NEl V ndos -and : secondlast himself by terment anc Gomulka the ane with le to Gierek the Party Szczecin, by leading and what 18% workers that was He onerino concessots. Although the increases would Poland. Gierek remain, ytais -ull wages. WOlC —lee erecuon workers' discontinua- tion of the oZeLeCn some wase wages in rice Ine lowest to be There increases force. situation of promises that housing very real With leadership growth the popula- partial victory acceptlig

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LU WOrK The of dalll from Prime Gierek and new the es in Innistel wd. udy induce the return Gdansk . then to With the subsidence that bureaucral Szczecin and Gdansk the main go verned rebellion InFUN Gierek WillCssul oroken ust from large and the police became of inel speecne. most and Gierek and Ta0 tO strike

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mu ustly Jaroszewicz to all for the Der

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higher Mini. a willing ne anuten •was withtne element. cities roles-catnoi alil HU11 this is where LatRo le-To so unat une more as the country bread The showed thickened in Church by alaliluue

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concllsa liul • of its delegation Some women tOrtAr es tern Poland. announce- how they 14th nation of ment on could with • make recognised necessty which present time floor. M muster society Prime Minister. towards Will help us?'

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workers. 'No' 'help us united in first". JOulIU the campaign Home' which with workers posed firing of wuine. in Polish women workers) country people. December. Gierek later succeeded temporarily meeting were ready resume factory and councils thel the fundamental stressed the lactory importance astuille demanding rises gaining the price Calcaialiul increases Wert tnt strikes, and substantial the street Dallies in une been reminded angi 22ein, though, of the taking up interests. norms and the trade 1976 formation. committeer was to prompted councils adopting reduce Tne technocratic Decembe which the being 'improved' clolll factory Gierek arguing for. came seeking Page 7 and June. broad strike guowith the DrICCS novem ent living CULtilA the enolni forced quota health highly a rural sullenly opposition production for internal and export- CuCuon. &110 seller planning threat of ers workers' was i g able food supplies power and standards, an0 also for export struggle had been in Technological calcuulye-ald Dutilaly less

FOISI

Wolt vital, as was increasing production down products immediately, Vtlvi that catel and 'consul- tation' He result of the uprisings centres of proletarian impossibility opposition by growth Radom; need of wila

EO TEC

woKer effecting and real marched to Party head- in standard .of increase quarters of Polish masses. After the

EVITO

LUll had little the defying choice but turn to inter- attacks, allelolcu made • but source credit be the Capital 1971-76 rose massive 125% hours after total billion 'socialist of these comars). debts were arrested of Polish export amounts Ursus: consequent calllss fifteen-man payments aoltsi tractor plant Poland made mule members. Worker.

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economy: UraCk S built barriers and held the of the with- drawal ruses • an0 they won a victory. Ther i the police Six hundrec - Sever O. them later years for sabo- workers were tage) an‹ three months oil presented refinery 1500 sene singing ters and atrested • nunuleus cacked nev reduced later wages. Gierek "The credits were to be used been earlier vicury fllal oI meds painec sultations the people' which days later Jaroszewicz the price increases export Lle n Icuooscu its thus previous level. generar! sustained Institutional be econom ic to the most dynamic and export-oriented sectors of the history of bureaucracy's Polish economy tancy, had nroved real were to puppet orga gradually tied in the facto musatull oroaucivt utals the workers. bonuters (MacDonald Critiaue l remained

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obvious certainly These have again clashed Ine w nel BalT10 ports Enel bureaucracy's and Tne HACaI Mosule its privileges billion wo save nor -almost half T.ne LOlal 100U

SUDSUY

whith, is about hall increases spontaneously Ihe nisation announcer on were also build Lnev 39% including They as a at tot Ul ltcal revolutionary uneureenc as a par class. it • by blow at of Eastern AlVIne all the Europe presentation the feeds on its represses recognise accept the Workers other-

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wise. devera

Build Community Councils?

Looking through Berger's eyes Page 8 by Donald McVicar Anyone living in Scot- land with an iota of know- concerning the ledge workings of government and politics is well aware that councils are community officially recognised orga- of local nisations ment-established by the Local Government Act of 1973. the existence community councils but do not give a damn There are over 90 of these in Glasgow alone slogan: lilat Incu concerned with such socially sical

SCOTTISH

context. local If the tien is to cat then useful tasks as promoting must gaas tallia about the state or disea of bands leadership of the WRe 1s imbucd come amle with an arrogance and contempt Scottish working the pavements. class that is insufferable pra quartty. of local lite-bue Councils of Action sense the central not in any facing questions But why do they call for working class today. councils all? When these councils were commully activists the What has happened to the tried established, well int testand it cour so cla- were 120011 demand councils aware that they were recaracu soviets) put forward by the authorities as substitutes strongly and class correctv ov

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Win bl Socialist Labour Leaguc in the organisation on cuen question. jobs, social housing, Is this only a difference of puzzlement of ine No, there is more to it that worn they are laced with the they faced with the Political Communit coul Call cils" Workers we are told, wouo reD Committee till resent all the people affected by Revolutionary slump policies, irres confusion pective or tel race, longion o about? There past affiliations" (emphasis are nave added). Either Gerry two possibilities long Healy and the WRP leadership that UnIs i Call scrving recently Clapham 2011 the Scottish members of the National Front ignolallt welcomed on to these political scene (which is under- will t standable considering, the total councils! This is no joking matter. The the Healyites in that decline of WRP specifically invite reaction- area; or they are well aware of In terms of his political activity-the only significant criterion-John Berger is not a revolutionary. trained however, himself to see through the eyes bartcularly Marxist-a way of seeing that is unique to him among almost writers on the visual arts His work nest-knowi the television series and date, Ways of Seeing, was

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evidence of his ability to dispe the mystifying and which smoke obscures the social nature of art Nottnat

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what the professors and auction- eers call art; in this book his eye newspaper photographs, as well as the clothes people wear and animals they stare

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Photography and photo- obviously fascinate graphs Berger-perhaps because they are the most universal and ines- capable source of visual repres- perhaps because bourgeois dear: world today; ogy has taken over instrument the machine which lie'; perhaps because some photographers have none- Theless Used Call it d reveal, conscious y nOt of the reality which aspects ideology shapes, disguises whole-which entines berger s ano wares writing to be called Marxist Walter Benjamin wrote, in an Lackino in nis whene is Ine Berger knows well, that 'marxist' phrase-marking essdy AnO whether about which the •erate jargon photography art or onlv proletarian teature ot self.

fundamentally mis- was styled Marxist writing op the real thing to conceived; arts. photo- understand was nOW And, fortunately, also lack- radically affected all visual and- actually graphy ing tor MOsT Berger's non-fiction that forms. and self-con. pretentiousness It is the same sort of think- which usually SCIoUS sincerity seeing things as part of a ing, characterises his and complex whole-a social, human WRP scraps call for councils of action ary "ratepayers associations" to that they must refuse to imple- join their campaign. This slip- ment either social service culs ol serious rates increases but instead let shod attitude towards déficit and extended the budget go into po luca • cuestiums even further when send the bill back to the lories we conslat. councils. to these But tne wrr addresses demands to the Labour such Councillors. In fact they offer Wait for it! "Borough councis must int perspective tiate the campaign build militants Community Councils: "° eitner Witne tne Party the trade unions. We take it that these are the lost confidence same borough councus wo hospitals, schools. In the people's homes etc. throughout class to transcend the limita- democracy social the country. the But the WRP leadership have will. a special I concern for the Labour established organisations of the labour they search movement, Partv They are in "a special dilemma kind of organisation, outside of they have the "best intentions"; the movement itself. are trying to make ends ency of the course meet" the cass actons now unaerway Budget Slashed it is not inconceivable that some labour councillors and councils- - under Our hearts bleed for them pressure or ine mass movellent the Glasgow will go so far as to support th children's establishment councils of hudoet

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Inel education slashed by f9million through Call in the current with school year, struggle against the Tory govern- to 4l a day ment. meals Delice have tougher political skins than the hearted bour- petty Possibilities now rule the roost at They will tell the rate kit to restrictone soersped clyde Regional Councillors that tive to that avenue alone is to blind to the poss be politically they were elected on a mandate ibilities now opening up within ot derending the social services.

Tom Sellars reviews "About Looking", by John Berger (Writers and Readers, £2.95) better illustrated books-an novels Most of the objects Berger effort that would generally b this worthwhile. looks at The essays on photography are paintings-by shon essays adequately illu- however, Turner, Magritte Courbet, this be Lowry and others. may chrated ane which makes them possibly the of the While some essay: are fairly understandable if you nost interestin ack of illustration is have even a vague idea of the great pity, because .to see triest question many will etc. with Berger as a • pictures, leave readers at a loss unless guide is often profoundly reveal- they already have a knowledge and recollection of the painting ing He shows them not he discusses, unless they refer SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 10th, 1980 WSL Rally campaigns for Councils of Action the workers' movement. councils 1 10 of action wowe mak une rist power. • O1 a qual • situation the independent struggle of the Cass tael conditions through class action.

that such ot action must receive the stamt approval

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councils reveals the bureaucratic caste of the archi- lets on lie senielle are the WRP's A 170 community councils going to do anyway? The Community Councils wow necome a moon these [mortgage being

SLO!

thrown on streets We trust that the gentlemen the Woolwich and the who run ADDev yanonal wI suv SUll able understanding such negotiations. readers may have

WRP IS

concluded inal unis sales tical more than political gibbe stunt purchase objects : or of absurd mystical reverence allarysis numan broducts-unus as socia products which find their only they consumed life when understood and approp (seen riated) as such. And because Berger sees their as they exist complex connexions with other aspects he is very aware that of society. onlv the destruction ot capital 1 But there is a more serious side to it. To create such a diver sion rom ine action. , and occupations against the cuts at this time when poli- 10] norkers short oftenstrensible into struggle is nothing Talking Shops WRP's "Community • The Councils". as they are conceived more than nothing talking shops dominated by petty politicos sounding out their nostrums for They sound remarkably like replicas Political local Workers nevotunionary rarty ism and the creation of a society which would bring forth humanity development o relationship between people and their products. can be done tor the visual arts 1: limited He writes of photography: Pressional practice if one tipro "Today alternative Int proTession san ac in possible. The system accommodate photo. Yet it may possible graph. use onotootaon according practice alternative addressed to an This futur hopi which we need now, if we are t maintain a struggle, a resistance against the societies and culture «Photographs have often been used as a radical weapon in newspapers, pamphlets and •SO on. belittle the value of such agita tional publishing. Yet the current systematic public use ot need challenged, not simply by turn ing round like a cannon anc it at different targets out ov chancine is oractice l But this passage suggests that 'hope' and 'resistance is really all that is possible in the large struggle. Elsewhere book this Berger 0' his despair To lowing Tint OT revolutionary struggles of 1968 despair his, and his perilously sometimes close to finding in art a uniqu source or numan vales protest inhumaning against brutal and society, is the non-revolutionary Berger though. i Hevolutionaries take the trouble to read they patiently and these essays will come enriched, and better able to see some of the things which bour geois ideology leaves veiled, or castortinov o iscon necteo. merely blandly unquestioned

POLITICAL REALITY

BROUGHT TO LIFE

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 10th, 1980 Marxist political analysis imperialism-fought in Vietnam, is well equipped to dissect and rose is the colonial administration, the material explain and before participating in the 1968 contradictions that give rise

COUD

to petty bourgeois military monarch, and eventually becoming President 1969. in the under- dictatorships to both Professing allegiance developed nations of Africa.

siam ano to wildl strength JOnA be Marxism, cretiou treaos Updike's latest novel The Coup a delicate path between internal making tnal-ville and external opponents. Marxist pretence critique-it synthesises many of American Aid contradictions and these with living, selits breathing And the other events of his dictator in the flesh. life are sketched in by extended Hakin Felix He is Colonel which Tasnoack not, of course relates how helon. he does tne acmin istrators of his regime, courted any more than the stale of Kush, liberated from the offers of lavish American actually imperialism rrench while Int economy nedis exists. collapse 5-year drought, _ in a begin him four totally diffe- Ellellou's Distinctive the seal wive curious contradictions Within And vet many of the most economy and society distinctive testures Kush. do form the bare bones upon his tribal wife African which himself as living testimony states oberate woody. the old and 912, 180 hectares. The popula- there is Candy-the middle class comes to 0.03 per tion density white American woman his days in exile as a two niles of railroad and on the USA; there student In hundred and paved seven woman wh an Arca Among the natural Elleltou loves tor "ner vacancy day resources she drifts through each

KUSH

bernat. should be listed our diseases- with music and drugs. And there treasury which ample Westernised Tne includes, besides. famine and its Atrican woman with whom ne goes into exile in malaria, typhus, yellow Tever France loprosy. thic o cante soccer unit bilharziasis, onchocerciasis, woman whom he meets meases. anayaws • TH average life expectancy in Kush among a party the per product capita national to a career among the admin.

. The 979. the literacy rate 6%..

istrators of the regime, and an form of that government is a con with those stitutional with tuary oust sierou tom orrice.

constitution suspended and the monarch cebosso. Sardonic Ellellou -who narrates

TOE

third person- story his beliefs The novel reflects in his lite ane nis rectonsoles tre cunous witten. orierine blend of ancient past and exp- poetic prose 8no caro onic of would-be comment on the plight of and would be nation seeking indep national independence the imperia. Create chuenct

JOLT

the basic for tne contused oetty ano the soviet Union bourgeois regimes black (whose secret rocket bases give Africa. Stalinists interest From a tribal background he sympathetic sought a career in ine armed forces of French The clums and arrogant Poverty and disease-a fact of life in Central Africa efforts of external aid' prog rammes exposed, the Ellellou points out to a angry baffled US cattle vaccination helped wipe OUt scaret forage and water supplies pted.

wells nomadic allu thus created new deserts ana that the "foodstuff' handed out a neighbouring state In. gives TaCT commit e humans diarrhoea. John Lister reviews "THE COUP", the novel by John Updike (Penguin, £1.25)

TECOUP

yet irv as ne min-rouer the execution of the old king or burning of the US foodstuffs, acnyardle Ellellou can not escapt ine economic stranglehold of imp. Minister As Interior czand points oul present loans, "Interest on good President, plus salaries civil service OT and iccount for a hundred National budget of Kush percent Looking on the bright side, Ezana goes on debits are in fact credits, TOr persuade te capital holding countries to hold us upright" is echoed later

#SILTIE

after Ellellou's downfall by the US government Klipspringer: thing about indebted- "The ness. is its tne best insurance policy you can buy. The deeper the debtor gets, more the creditor will invest to keen TroM going unde You Coredigues were taking an risk, thing aile shy not owing us a Tentacles But while imperialism reaches out with its tentacles to the petty chart sourceois emers or une uncer.

developed countries the very backwardness that possibilities means limited, alternative are al Dest As Ellellou points out: "A state such as Kush is too thin to be except administered the Revolution we discovered a gestures. When we ettecter so neo thing, There was nothing revolutionise. Our Minister of industrv looked for factories to nationalise , and there were none... There was poverty be oppression; how could this Page 9 The distinctiv losing verture.

cost of the armies, the admin- istrators, the flags, the forts, the oules. me rocas, une • ШИНІС the imported knives, TOrKS and spoons, quite the materials grudging haul trom unprincipled, evasive chiets and stubbornly inefficient popu. lace." In the end it is the discovery ot oin kush-a new source o wealth, which heralds the palace Elleliou and that ousts coup sees the instaliation of a pro imperialist regime. Insight The Coup is a novel. not i tract. vivid Rut and often amusing Updike offers the lanuaut. reader an insent into ine oroo the realities neo- Americar author through the acludily succocus mecium ot ine _novel n beco ming a convincing petty bour- geois African dictator • Coup-despite its covel HaustratIon-"

NOT

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Journalists vote for strike action Provincial journalists officials from the NUJ hatching have opened another chapter in their impressive with the NGA. record of militant struggle unions told NGA members over wages. cross nickel A mass mecting of members members Provincial papers London Ull them! week overture in scen tics in their leadership by voting complex and incaningless set of 160-98 for an all-out strike over guidelines of living payment): nothing at all. At best ine tow The vote brought in copy was slowed. shitt quick succession

NUA

cade shu lowatrus were locke out we monours limited support condon stayed and already locked members were told not trom new talks them! the emplovers body, the News- To attempt to VUl's emergency drive towards a strike the NGA promptly delayed the strike for a weck our auth- orised it to go ahcad from next Monday. September members •Meanw nic a series of disruptive sanctions-including with to work dirty poones or imperect type- writers insaly a (virtually all of them). Society under review rates gor a Londor allowance But in response o me union s claim for £1000 for all provin- newspapers within 12 miles cial ol manne cross me coyers offered only an extra f4 a week would be absorbed into wage packets «ready over ine oasic manurn Members set up an elected which does action committee control 310 U Hive

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LIll dispute but which has succeeded blocking moves in the union's structure.

Mersey health

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cuts In a new wave of health cuts planned for Liverpool, the Area Health Authority has voted by a l vote majo- Trial sub (UK): axe 115 geriatric rity to Six issues... hospital beds and 30 derma- Newsham beds tology Six months hospital, and a total of 300 One year. beds in the area as a whole.

The Area Medical Officer, in Europe: a predictably puny protest, la.

retire carly if the Six months.. cuts are forced through. Divisional Officer Colin Barnett has nothing more positive to offer Six months .. He has proposed not strike stOD Culo occupation tne Inreatened facilities, but set jo int to vorking union/management hospital- parties caca Name.. investigate alternative savings cutting jobs without Address saves Insolar as this medus dily- must point towards ancillary workers speed and laborativl unions manage- and 6XX basis for destroying working class action to stop the cuts. immediately stop no wever leauer ship members at Croydon instructed and at Walthamstow (where a assistan challel lock out aiso took place) to stop prepared by both work on the The NGA's determination to

NUJ

control the tap flow of support to try stop the fact that to Kilburn Times the printers at return, the NGA offered a been in progress for two weeks) blacking are a picket daily, and copy. crossing even drove the vans out through i large picker in lne cary nour: of Friday morning employers do at Croydon weck Nur heraners mist substantial shit make a m em Ders to stop go into battle and tcar up ne charter, agreed by their members The strike voto changed that.

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Send to: WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIV The struggle to defend backing. decent safety standards at can actually the oil platform building threat to yard of Ayrshire Marine Constructors at Hunterston, or such an acRon n Decemoe 1976, Ayrshire, has erupted into concrete an allout battle with the Ardyne management. •oposite S10 f Estuary, and Since the yard opened there Norway for completion But this the American management Chicago poli problems of moving the national. a partner in ine yard with rames retrolent Now Phillips have declared intention remove the their Lakme suca acuon Even so. section of the rig that has been crude form of constructed if ine men lelas the 900 accept the conditions dictated to them by the manage- courage and Meeting and the gates established in Irvine. The maxi This made mum malentio was clear atte emercenc meeting at Brighton on the eve movement of the TUC conference between Phillips and the national officers official nt the no unions involved the GMWU Boilermakers and The present dispute arose over a management refusal once again to aanere to ine mendations of the safety repres- entatives on the site then manners for see time that hey volved would not work in an unsafe situation nave tough line and are determined change allow present workme arcelet, lu dreadful terms of which nave previous The chon stewards and their Ronnie Munro, have their determinațion expresser blackmailed into be NO1 giving in meeting on Thursday At a Centre, Magnum ast Irvine, the workforce reaffirmed their to fight despite the lack of official union With by the thousand taking to the a way forward. Tory achieve such oppose tive leadershin policies there is plainly no lack of militancy in the advance organised working class. trace union mutancy Yet the existing trade union bureaucrats and Labour leaders parliament Ten perspective those to otter workers or pared. fight ment fighting day defence jobs, living shall

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•ares. socia services ano cemo- cratic rights. in Britain. These can only be defended policies which through start the independent interest or the working class, which international has internationalty nothing to gain and everything attiliated to to lose attempts to restore from employing class. In a period where the contra- International of anarchic capit- of revolutionary dictions alist system force une wolesalt cosure ano cestruction or tE against deransm productive forces of society the parasitic Stalinist only socialist cracies the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 10th, 1980 Oil rig builders face sack threat The stewards also al t far the management emergency carry out their meeting of the onshore liaison tow the rig awa which includes nepresentauves or stoo steward all six platform yards in Shell removed two large Scotland. production platforms are looking bevond i ne this to a delegate conference of shop stewards in the industry to took them to mobilis maximum support and Phillips WUrr the stewards especialiy that done at kishorn Finally, they ony sica plat- diate support and the address tomorad Intikely Pilips Will rush into large Committee (Hunterston Dis- this is the most pute), c/o Irvine Trade Union blackmail and Centre, Ardrossan Road, Irvine.

Ayrshire, Scotland worKers nave SnO WI determination confronting a ruthless manage- 250 Last over friday Pickets have now gone up a workers mas picker joined strike centre outside th site. held Dach now the Employment Act not trade union yet in force that the ensure Meanwhile workers the Boilermakers have been issued with dismissa and the GWU make the strike notices. Phillips drilling rig

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Hotpoint, Leyland BIRMETALS bosses crack whip LOBBY SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 10th, 1980 benefits for the 5,000 strong Workers Hotpoint's al workforce, Peterborough, plants i In productivity • Wildl and Llandudno Swinton must de increasea oy 3070.

banned from have been when the This is at a time smoking by management, working Peterborough who argue that it interferes Llandudno on a 3-day week,and with "new production tech- swinton on z days. niques". the

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Manageren subsidiary claim that Their will save package of cutbacks The attack comes alongside the axing of a number of fringe it 1S to per year, bac

O'FISHALL

O'Fishall is on holiday attempting to recover from the wild excesses of the Brighton TUC, where he was one of those with a private bar in his hotel suite!

Meanwhile his place has been taken in this issue by

COHSE,

Albert Spanswick, General Secretary offering a song on the lips of so many bureaucrats in Brighton last week. Oh I do like to be beside the seaside! clear that they intend to make tar „more InTONOn programme of speed-up for the already reduced workforce.

sım lar attack 1s underway workers Steel, Swindon, where have attempted to arve up producion by ten per cent for no extra money package measures Ilowing from Michael Edwardes notorious 92-page document has been rejecetd by a mass meeting ot 400 press shop workers mine hes a space, l press shop from a loreman perore unev can su Workers who work faster to work their in less than the allotted ments time now face an official warn- they are caught sitting ing down for a few minutes' rest!

une worker was even susoch ded for three days for having a cup of coffee withou permiss of being Others complain directed to sweep up if there is no other work to do standards have salely been thrown

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for-leather drive increase exploitation. and Hotpoint stand as a DL grim warning to all workers or the kind of regime the Tories wish to bring about. using the threat of mass unemployment the anti-union laws to and sub- into himageol mission. More Teeside closures The first week of Sept- ember saw the axing of yet another 150 jobs on Teeside at the BTP Tioxide factory in Billingham. : 585 workers at the Another short time working plant lace or lay-off by September 15.

Meanwhile Whessoes 40 make Darlington are collar staff redundant white and more workforce at the British United Shoe Machinery plant Skelton are now on short time these conting CutbaCKS of the rundown of on steelworks, the clos Southbank uTe the closure of Consett Hepworth's clothing works and unem- brought Lactor ployment in the North Fast to astronomical levels now current in Scotland. the unem- rarlepool. ployment rate is now over 1r7o.

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A delegation from the 12-week struggle at Birmetals in Birmingham lobbied the TUC last week demanding action to force their reinstatement. o recursed to fil the 700 workers after they jobs of strikers. But it has become clear the sackings were delib- that erately allanged by Hallagement to avoid making redundancy payments. Sooner than fight savage Tory cutbacks in the school service, leaders of meals.

NUPE

and other public sector unions in Dorset are looking to set up co-operat- ives, using the existing kitchen facilities. plan, kitchen Under the new staff would work for the same rates of pay and under the same conditions as before according to ane ditterence.

NUPE

official Paul Dunn, that: 'There will be none of the expensive administrate costs.

In other words the local authority clerical staff (NALGO mem des Wite finances of the existing school meals system would lose their the while new "co-op- eratives would presumably rely Bowater, the newsprint giant, donated £10,000 to Party funds in 1979- Tory 80. But when the firm asked the lory government to neip mee costs of running its ultra- mill in Ellesmere amne biunl message as so many other firms faced with the Joseph axe: "no Now management have ann- ounced the closure of the of its kind in plant-the largest and a lurther 3,400 mining and other related sectors High Pound Tory Dolces-men prices high value the

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high interest rates and a pound subsidise British indu- Jerusal lo stries-have howalle follow Reed in closing down productio rosine, 95int. of the British newsprint market will be filled by imports: and some of the logs earmarked for Bowaters Page 11

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plant Since then, the sacked work- social The struggle is an important force refused one in the fight against security Davment. ' 01 dancies and the. Tory offensive grounds that they are 'on strike" on union rignis. As one loboye told Socialist Press: Their picket of the plant "If the union let leaders demanding ladi Thatcher win this they strengthened neen TinG TGWU District Committee call may as well wrap up and g on drivers to respect the picket Donations and messages of lines. So. even though manage ment and office staff continue should be

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to do the work of sacked shop: Birmetals Action Committee 357 Adams Hill Berkles completed

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WOIKeS Green, Birmingham 32. work is being taken out of the NUPE co-ops duck cuts fight . "voluntary' labour to administer their own accounts.

is therefore seeking of

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"saving" the Job: herns ou its own members •TA! expense of conceding, indeed al the loss of advocating,

MUSI

Skating Round Such simply at arteles Ratino arounder tada Hon ing the Tory offensive on the public services opens dangers of dividin the labour movement and allowing "Ene main cuts to be carried through with no real resistance.

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memoer.

MUST

demand that their leaders break divisive from this policy and TUC words but no action all out ed a cam calcu on cuts: NUPE Official Ron strike action and occupations to halt the cuts. Keating.

OCCUPY TO STOP

BOWATERS CLOSURE!

will be sold off to Scandinavian occupation of the plants if all paper mills! else fails. confused It is vital that the campaign energies of ASTMS,

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and other "save Bowaters" is under way focussed at present exclusively manuas

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alt on protest action to change the now directer supporting government's mind. tion and strikes the print throughout and paper Occupy …runs atlack on loo. is to be defeated. But cAsT deletered week declared them selves willing to light lor Campaign for Democracy

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in the Labour Movement Public Meeting Stirling University Students Union

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POLAND: THE POLICE

CHIEF TAKES OVER

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The of Gdansk. replacement tous settlement in The Silesian strikes-taking Edward Gierek by police place Kania as powel nase chief Stanislaw put the final nails into Gierek's Communist Polish Party political coffin before his leader took place as strikes nearl

NOW

30 years a career bureaucrat in continued spread to the Polish Stalinist apparatus, country throughout the the difficul laces Lask demanding the extension of establishing control over a mill the gains by the tant workers' movement. Gdansk strikers and the Changes Heart ousting of local party chiefs and management. Polish i step to has this ted Most of the industrial plants Bialystok came to a halt deman- sudden change Col nearl ding changes of local leaders MPs who have now-after. the event-hastily begun to criticise Sulphur miners and sulphu The process workers mine. Une of Poland also struck, demand duly endorsed the concessions changes local made by a beleaguered regime. government. alongside the And new isolated

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out in North tastern towns as WOrdS scape well as Lodz, Kalisz, Sielice and roats. one was the Suckless Gierek Another is the Mini- Tarnow. of Information, removed and reportedly unde Farmworkers as week. investigation.

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no 10 me £400,000 in his personal in London Workers on a state farm account a Medi- LubacLow aleccul

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strike demanding indepen- terranean island, a private sheep animousines and ras no dent farmworkers' union. farm, The breadth and contin- Less than pornograpnic unty of the strike wave unaci- Vider casettes Sto wee lines exactly why the Stalinist office! regime has been obliged to give f even a part of this is true concessions. it is clear that. the remainder of Indeed it is now clear that the party leadership must have was within a hair's known about -presumably breacon try a General Strike: stacks 01 graphic lean mers walkeu oul on cassettes eacn tune tne the Friday before the momen- visited him!-and that many top

DEFEND

ADWEST

STRIKERS!

The Tory anti-union laws I Now it has become one of Now are now in full force: and in the first test cases or ine elev particular Prior's reactio- tiveness of the Tory anti-union nary restrictions on laws in deterring militants from it make picketing active workers in struggle. illegal to mount a mass picket. Left Groups It is under these conditions Engin- that strikers at Adwest Previous mass pickets have etring, keadig. now unel attracted 100 trade 18th week of strike action for mobilisation unionists. A larger for labour nition, have substanta gents from the larger organisa- solidarity movement of the left, mass Monday Sept- picket on Workers Party and International ember 22. Marxist vroup-ls vital this time Reinstatement to defend this strike and defeat the Tory anti-nion offensive. The strike- the reinstate- Donations fund for Lile the TGWU convenor. went i doe stake shop stewards and other been made official the for taking TGWU-should victim ised workers 46 Berkley Road, ipomt

SULKE

allul-las

D. DOUCLICK,

Cheques and ship to confront tinpot anti- hould be made out to J. Dhoot Negotiations in the Lenin Shipyard bureaucrats must live the clue way. But new man Kania has at made it clear that he uphold the political Lilcius to bureaucracy. positions or te He is no liberal, and no revolu- lilal y. He declares that: socialet oland's internat.

stable foreign policy of our PHOTO: Steven Willett 23 workers at King Henry's Bakery, Levens- Manchester, hulme, have been on strike for 2 months, demanding union recognit- the sacking of ion, after their convenor. Registered as a newspaper at the post office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist League parthis is of course the policy "consistent foreign one country and collaboration with capita- policy ot appeals and indebtedness to imperialist bankers, and opposition the struggles the mac venuci working class. bureaucratic privileges, Polish bureaucracy Ilas consistently opposed revolutio- Battle at King Henry's Management nave useo ccab labour against the strike. Mass held pickets have been every Fridas August 29. around 180 pickets clashed with

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Please send donations - however large or small - to: Socialist Press, BM Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX Poland avements bout urthin both within Workers Party (Polish CP) as their party. actively Such statement is instead scabbed on major strikes-inclu dam ning indictment of 33 years ding particularly shipments of Stalinist rule and burgeoning Polish during miners bureaucracy CO2 strikes in Britain and fascist Kania of course cannot and Spain. will change the nature o apparatus the state stalinist which is organised to Kania howeve face and perpetuate the privileges daunting task. He admits that he the oureaucrat deformed Polish workers' state.

workers welcomed by here has beer Polish speak Uniter

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chiet of the secre nolice ne well-known pe wisely becaus opportunity to heck the revo know • utionary movement and restore stability and authority of the state He will endeavour to do this in the fürst instance by drawing strike leaders into the bureau Lech Wales oI the Gdansk strike committee has announced that he will no longer the - shipyards- work his Cvel was one or tne major gams oi the strike. Instead he is moving Evernment up a his with cardina with Wyszinsky and the Central Committee of the official trade unions • But with the regime issuing . sombre warnings increasingly the thousands workers still Walesa strike to a West German ne spared ine to a West German newspaper still fears "my headie alread that have block. The that beer won struggles are ver historically Tea ano ceaentea. but it is ony intougn inist bureaucracy and the estab asameri government of workers council that Polish workers can protec towards the picket line these calls The crowd managed to liber.

require Tn10 там ev several pickets arrested by above all a revolutionary, Trot- all police. skyist party with a clear grasp The Bakers Union is calling of the nature historical develon ment and contradictions of Stal the mass pickets, from 6.30am- inism and the need for its poli- 9am on Tuesdays and Fridays