Socialist Press no. 215

COUP" PRELUDE

TO MASS REPRESSION

For a General Strike in Turkey!

ist International Liaison Committee

TURKEY'S

The impossibility of a Parliamentary solution Turkey's economic and has been political crisis brutally confirmed by last week's long expected military coup. Kenan Evren and Creneral the other military chiets who comprise the National Security displaced Have WIne Justice Party government and bourgeois democratic rights still intact after nearly two years oi escalating martial law. National The Grand whole period ASSeMODV. LOT virtually paraly sed been nas closed down, and with it all from the state- umons. aball run Turk-Is federation. The right to strike, already has now beer heavily restricted completely abolished and there Turgut Ozal, kept are moves the nunta military, impose ises substantially below the 100% plus inflation em tv-nancea bankers only rate. co Throughout Among the thousanos arrested MPs, trade union leaders, militants and political Turkev's trade deficit accelera- value tea: the doubled and exports dropped The junta has declared its by half. intention to put many of them those trial and execute scale of this problem in custoay wno forced both Lad had their death Republican People's Party sentence postponed. gressive leader now take on ne generais him to direct responsibility • Ior the faced by the rulin the military in the face of theit ravaged capitalist Class InCU suppress the militant struggles economv a bankruo victm ol of the working class, youth and the international crisis, has long since sustained by Kurdish people vast amounts of credit from the w nen ear le imperialist ana OLeI rescue programme money-lenders complemeng the IMF debts already owed direct- ly to western governments.

to sav inar to enorce u woule require a South American-style Turkey's ability to pay back dictatorship. even une interest on the stagger- With ing $16 billion total borrowed

SOCIALIST

PRESS *

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 215 * September 17 1980 * 20p

"BLOODLESS

Finance Minister class tied hand and Toot TO on by imperialism and finance capital, for anything turned away the material basis British aboroacume DOULECOIs days before the democracy simply does not has been the previous res tho the seventies resort to imports military takeovers in 1960 and 1971. But today conditions are different, which makes was the obsumacy ane which direct comparisons with those Demirel and short-term regimes limited Externally the present crisis and particularly Ecevit of imperialism. more and more rely on its weakened military authority Middle East means NATO partner Turkey is ookee to as a key magrealen for reasserting supremacy in a region of hostile or unstable governments. year Tn1S

NATO-

Demirel embarked on a savage

UNIST

imposed by organised manoeuvres including British troops are going ahead in even Ecevit was forced Turkey as normal. stability of the T em Dorary Turkish state is not enough. It is therefore to the potentially the native capitalist

TURKU

PRE

Tanks in Istanbul: (above) London demonstration against the coup last Sunday supported by WSL social force of other political more secure fool no-one. outside the country now become anu for a longer-term answer.

sion Ilas

SLOW I

Como calmo une malan gendarmerie and police the attacks a growing scale over latest developments. the last have been the Under these fascist Wolves Danas ol ue stormtroopers respect- Tne able' General turned politician Ilusions Alparslam leader of the Nationalist Action Partv Fascist terrorist provocation the the Cekeph press British been the source of most the war,

LICICE SUICCU

has brought 5,000 killings in the populist declarations. last two years. Directed at any organisation S1h111V

TOT

mio-anta, t, terrorism, Wa Vi Detal especially union and communist, reached stage at the end new Lanalica July with the assassination of and pledges DISK leader Kemal Turkler.

nationalist Attaturk. Fascists strengthened Made Man The fact that Turkes has now been detained along with

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URA

DÖKULEN

DARBEYE

KARŞI

wach s ceary determmea te hold power for a long time chieis from 1 nouenome The democratic and constitu tional' wing of the army such as Pino chet Videla have presideo over mass sauenter South America, like every other section of the state and society une armys polariseu. and unt openly pro-fascist faction preparing its moves. Confrontations The "bloodless' takeover and lack ol mass resistance at this point will not last Only confrontations major between the workers, unem-

NUTP CUIPSPAG IOOO DIP DALOIO

the milino class and its alles can decide the issues which are al stake workers' ability struggle remains intact, and the Kurdish continue leaders should tneu night against colontalism deployment of The fascists have unreliable soldiers, bolder as state being and nO W Sent Into Drevous no go" left-controlled areas, mumence n me amy ame Do uce big dangers for the can only be strengthened by the workers' organisations The conditions the must join torces in a uniter oulano or workers anu-lascist front for the tasks ahead, on militias takes on a new urgency.

policies expressing their inde- the junta Dendent class 'neutral are in line both with can rally the petty bourgeoisie the way it has been presented in behind them. merely alternative Sapped strength ano svren s care As well as the Presidency he Policies which strategically working class with ally the antiimperial- has taken upon himset respon fighting against democratic divisiveness 101 sections or une Tumme class ged behind the bourgeois done than enegalto disarm and sap have already lacologies. the tradition of the workers tinting capacithis Foremost pressing been the of the Week' by of the Com- Stalinist leaders the Financial Times it is never.

theless questionable whether he Cont'd p.2, col. 6 will last at the head of a regime

SWAPO LEADERSHIP PURGE

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-INTERNATIONAL

Guatemalan 'mole'- exposes CIA links The regime of General Garcia Romeo Lucas to Guatemala continues murder oppositionists at the rate of 30 each day, a toll whole which includes the trade union leadership. However the dictatorship has heavy Dows. une first of these was the successful strike gained 10.0%o wage lises.

The confidence of workers and peasants was given a further when government press secretary Elias called a press confer- Barahona holiday ence Panama to reveal lilal lie was a member of Ejercito the Guerrillero de : los Pobres (Guer- rilla Army of the Poor) and had been infiltrating the government for four years! job had main Barahona's propaganda neen •VIt

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killings claiming that the were caused by fighting between left and right wing groups.

broadcast the nas right wine Repression in Guatemala fact that the

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paramilitary organisations, Anti-communist Army Secret Squadron and peak under the direct command of President, the Interior à willing supplier in Israel.

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Minister and four others.

He also revealed direct links between CIA agents in Mexico sustain prominent oligarchy and and Guatemaia and court officials counter-in surgency" government and confirmed Somoza's former 2,000 National Guard have been incor- Chile and porated into the army. • provide chillingly termed that Guate- sells malan, Honduran and El Salva- dorean army otTicer. have plans for a military Ilas up offensive in El Salvador event of a guerrilla victory and Nicaragua long term. off US Carter rashly

CHEE

the The Namibian nationalist

SWAPO

last organisation the South African and week convened a conference governments. in Paris to "generate a solid- campaign" in Europe arity South isolating aimed at The Africa's puppet administra- Namibia and The in tion ship shake-up in SWAPO. pressing for sanctions on the SWAPO's South African government.

700 representatives of imper- July. ialist and African governments South African the UN, the World Council of bodies until

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attended.

SWAPD'S

SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma attacked the obstruction of the Socialist Press no. 206).

UN plan for independence by have a permanent military base military aid to Guatemala at the rights within frontiers allowing 'human to access phase: but the regime has tound Gudtvillald Caribbean. fourth congress of the • Israelis provide not only The Latin American Anti-communist the military hardware necessary Buenos thoroughly U10- but also Aires last week to denounce the 'pressures and threats of Carter- advisers, communism against the valiant their skills honed on Palestinian Argentina, government also Guatemala Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina what Chile and Bolivia. revolutionaries However, interrogation cannot afford to dismiss these as Barahona also revealed that insane ramblings wate reached shoddy perpetuate them oppress imperialist deal with Guatemala the masses of Central and South on the future of Belize, ceding a America with the approval and third of its territory-against the material support of our imper- return for an assurance that Britain can committee central At the South African government meeting, the leading and the secret collusion between expelled nine Nujoma Western aro unu top SWAPÓ officials-including Mishake® acting vice-president two oine Expelled central committee members and lour muntary commanues expulsions represented conference followed in wake of the, recent leader- the biggest ever upheaval in the SWAPO bureaucracy. A SWAPO statement accused commit- central "counter- tee met in Angola at the end of the • nine tenders on after cecessionisi of accepting military attack launched by the and activities African South regime InLO in which military intelligence. Angola, South African generals claimed accused Muyongo reconstitute

CANU

successes National guerrilla army. (See (Caprivi AuTCaI Union)-a regional organisation SWAPO demonstrators in Windhoek Peking leaders caught out on Polish strikes The Chinese bureaucracy caught with its has been its eager- trousers down in ness to attack the Soviet Union. They seized on ine struggles of workers. in Poland not for their revolutionary potential but to prove that the Soviet bureau- cracy is social impertals They even printed all the 21 demands of the Gdansk workers on the front page of the Peoples Daily. this apparent However. support for strikes and condon- trade unions has of free come as a surprise to Chinese workers wno nave experiencou exactly the same stranglehold organisations their OI. democracy, for workers in Poland! the power Chairman Hua Guofeng Party and forced to deal with this subject in his two hour contribution to marriace law the National People's Congress However Tine Wall in Peking which played an which has just ended. itions has been closed do op.

important He talked of giving unions a prominent role of reduc- 'liberalis ing bureaucracy and the economy isa ing ing' the economy. mean giving workers more rights The various on departments and , on over c Chinese workers recurrent their erders was exploitation by capitalism theme throughout the Congress Hua himself even talked of a "has by stelle reduces mainly of what was copied fron hampered all kinds of work and Union the Soviet much popular dis- aroused certai content' from the civil war period.

Warnings were given to those who COok mixed economy of state owned the people as a whole enterprises, ones and individual production.

The strength of feeling in ine country on this question even forced its way into the Congress more capitalists to operate in China where hostility to the leadership low was expressed for the first time offered to Objection to Denne prises to operate in special econ- policy included calls for greate formed in 1963 counter South African plans for setting Towards with imperialism. up stooge varustall The

SWAPO

ments in Namibia, merged with SWAPO in 1964.

Muyango retaliated by accus- the im perlalis ing the leadership of Ovamb nationalist and gangsterism. alls dealt heavy credibility was South looks official African press statement claiming that he had been in touch with a in the stooge Caprivi bantustan government. regime The South and the imperialist powers played part and poor clearly : split. fostering this latest Namibia the grounds for splits But their and antagonisms (often resulting within the armed conflicts) colonial SWAPO leadership have already exploitation, laid the reformis! been bourgeois of petty pontics nationalists. the trezenetous The SWAPO leadership is an popular frontism. embattled bureaucracy, weaken- The consequences of its own reformist policies. class Divisions manuculls Socialist Press has As the labour out (SP imperialist pointed

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exerted the pressure being to take eager the appeals to the ruling class bureaucracy l late u. South African immer calle stable capitalist control, class, for ing the internal sharpen Bout tu opportunist the divisions leadership the Namibian masses. massive South African The fight to attack on Angola in June-July by pendent (which has been followed support 01 ongoing smaller Tals struggle bomber naratroopers clearly dealt a heavy blow to the military capacity of SWAPO men the the pressure on the increased SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 17 1980 established South omic zones Province, Guangdong China, near Hong Kong. No restrictions on remitting profits were mentioned And according to the stand- ing commitce and other legitimate rights an interests" of businesses in the will be pro- economk tected under Chinese law Resignation formally The Congress approved the resignation of Hua Guofeng from his post as Prime Minister and of Deng Xiaoping as his deputy. men retain their party

SOLD

Deng Ziyang, an exper of the Communist supporter of Deng criticisms the Hua has been in a more and or the sle pose and ophe more the growing and open Dellullar. lace attacks on Mao and his policies oppos- Six other deputies also resigned some on grounds of age. When Hua talked of liberal- The occasion of the Congress … he con' was used to attack the sentences meted out during more Revolution and to announce th trial L of the show ПОПІДСОЛш: "Gang of Four' economic round of But shuffling consister bureaucracy will solve the the in the 1950s workers and peasants in China derived Nor does the further expansion blackily of capital ste potatoon It was necessary to retain a the development of struggle independent organs owned collectel and the political overthrow Chinese Mao's heirs re induced ento to ess were Stalinist bureaucracy can one foreign road to the planned expansion of China's national- rate of 15% is ised economy foreign enter- workers management. and negotiations to deals MPLA regime to push SWAPO to the workers opened compromises up movement No business secrets. Opel leadership the books of all firms involve the pressures of in Namibia. the , of *For immediate blacking Kremlin bureaucracy and bour- related supplies tr all arms and governments government because it is to these forces that the soull Audicall workers' *Nationalise Wice management all firms (including govern an independent Namibia banks) involved in Namibia.

control of workers "rOI Intrigues trade. While the workers, guerrilla TURKEY ... from p.1 peasants of time and again militant determination in munist Party of Turkey-who courageous struggle against will be looking for evel and imperialist ways to preserve il. the the swAPo tops Hope Ecevit and opportunist intrigues RPP have helped open the doos and offer the mass struggle only to ine present leaction Democratic rights and their positit. defence are inseparable from the solidarity campaign state

SWAPO

socialist revolution itself bureaucracy at the Paris confer- The building of a mass party ence is no more than a desperate which bases itself on the prin collaborationist of the programme today is continue Reformists and Stalinists in for the only by those fighting of of the Fourth

MOVIE CILI

will countries international up its toothless *Down with military dicta torship in Turkey! Only the international work- *For a general strike in through independent Turkey! materially and all political *Release consistently aid the struggle of prisoners! *United front of workers?

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Belfast dockers fight on Page 4

SCOTLAND

With the official govern- are ca ri no auts but put figures showing ment Doney rates" The 241,267 unemployed Dundee District, Stirling District Scotland (10.7%) pressure is and the Sitting on the sidelines are Labour maunting In Scottish Executive Party

COLLISA

Nanonal Jim Sillars and the 79 Group the Scottish Trades and within them Union Congress to give Group some leadership in the fight more nostive SNP interventor on Tory against the ment and the cuts. ment. The Labour Party are to Inability hold a conference on the cuts October 18 for delegates authority Labour I0ca Labour's inability to defend the Groups and tom caes Labour Party hold a

COLUSA

peopic large majority of the Parliamen- Tores and argue that ter erote controll- What is needed tary seats in. Scotland ing the main Kecionar councus HiClil in industrial Central Scotland.

The SNP board in the erce hut stil maintain a 20% They swept but Council elections. Discile share of the electorate. The question whlc.h smo ulu be posed on October 18 is how these forces solve their feader ship, unite campaign of CuLs. IN icill and no rates rises

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the Tory govern- bourgeois SNP party threaten to defiance make a comeback ment. However the The lory cholce pele val L posed between policies push forwara witn inel allacks than on the working slower cuts-albeit which governmen wallls rents must double over the next Strathclyde Kenonal «ouncu and Central Regional Council three years or they will cut local 340 deep sea dockers in Belfast now entering. are their fifth week on strike.

In Septembei 1978 members of the same workforce staged a strike against the Preven- lila v1 tion of lerrorism Act when The occured SUTKe three members of the

TW U

were detained under this reac- when travelling England on a loulue lalidig course. Cleared Their names had previously been cleared with the RUC by the union. Following the detention of the dockers the strikers marched Belfast centre Lul0 u2ls demanding their release. While two were released, the third, Kelly, an ex- internee, was still detained.

This inspired the dockers to more militant action -lot Iwo they laid seige

LU GIS

Castle-the former

STOTMOHI

home of the unionist. agency-The ment and now British imperial- Employers' the six headquarters (DEPO)-dockers faced

INIS

counties. system of casual labour. Iney bcked. une entrance the Belfast Harbour and sealed off roads to the city.

and strength 1 11C Hilallalcy •itne dockes is aram ıeecca in this current strike. This would The strike began at a time of militancy an upsurge ol youth stevedores WOrKIY class manifested in fierce rioting and on the British army and allalau work lat udy. ite rul. Irish major Demands •Illally millon pound turluyels The agency The two principal demands dockers, ot tne gockers are tota ł ve day basic wage and against the shipping companies. return to the of casual sy stem dock labour. a basic vc dvvccn n dIly August 11 of the bankruptcy tnis, alter DEE Ilac workers' employing its share, was the out; and the 'left" housing support authority up The Labour controlled local au volaleu only anotles Mave options: bow to the Tories and Lothian Regional Councits.

the carry out their policies or unite with and fight. rally General Council of the une STIIC have announced they wil an argue for a al costik conference on unemployment in ways the question of unemploy- pecemdel ulseuss disastrous "easing the sulud tion Going by past experience this probably means the broad- fronts with Tory controlled est authorities and the They want to campaign on

SNP

JOLdI beint thisepr the against this proves the case. unt

STUC

will mobilise The self govern- Scottish tradé union movement will against 1 OrIC after massive instead diffuse any opposition which bulding up into a still maintain lak he silde If the labour movement fall Wasted energy problems to tackle the then the Past conterences led delegates have natUIe energy bickering with the Tories and SNP rathe continue to : out a plan of tan Mallililel u class. acton lor the labour movement.

iney are There are some signs that the grass roots of the movement are wait for a lead not willing to jobs and wages

DOCK

STRIKE

Dockers' the dockers at times when there Pay Organisation was no work. the end Guaranteed wage guaranieca weekty wand and a return to the cattlemarket Ihrough ihis scheme ine. guaranteed a weekly wage Daily queue of £86 per week. of

DEPO

coldost occuried after had unDOSeS involve t.he been trying to push through 100 dock ers havin to gedue up ahe voluntary redundancies viewed redundancies if these a veli Cold inen are pushed through there is no choose who they would allow to She wore ore hill get edergh enough WIkIULLC DEPO was formed by seven weekly work sustaln grain importers basic wage. have multi- whom Before the strike the dockers employed the were reduced to two days work them week which if it were to be particular jobs and then charged continued after a return to work an0 duscuilo While the dockers were would dockers recuce Ene take home pay excess of €34.40. extracted the ret dock labour Ictu! which system aslac lo pay nulga

COUNCI

STGWU

STOP TON

ference on unemployment has which mignt not come on from been arranged in Falkirk.

of the Labour recent meetings Committee ooro matme me Tory essel streser ise Stirling and the Rank and F1 Mobilising ; Committee in Edin- signs of opposition are growing.

has been the Cuts and Conterenct ulassun against Cumbernauld Trades ounCI Sunday 12 called demonstration Ilave organised by the Central Region through the town against unem- Federation 20 ployment malulday the September In the Central Region a con-

OFFICIAL

DOCK

STRIKE

Scottish workers on a march against the cuts last November was abolished in 1972 threatens in the the made with solidarity action WoTKeTs Ihe deep sea dockers nave traditionally been a majority and if the extend blacking workforce, Cathollc not bosses were allowed to pıck anc aLIum. docks choose on a daily Dass.

OVO01

outncl tunities for discriminating against Catholic workers would the British ports. On Britain, ovusy meredsc threat of religious dis- The crimination is increased by the Liverpool current increases in lay offs and redundancies among Protestant beginning workers. British dockers strike by dockworkers Unemployment This is a very serious threat demands of the Irish deep with the current rate of unem- dockers. Catholic DyIncll auttu!l. workers being 23.3% as opposed to 9.35% among the Protestant force their union working class. dockers in Derry, Although support Larne Carricktergus and Warren- dockers in then point are n acki19 imperialist exploitation.

normally handled by the Belfast SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 17 1980

BRANCH

of the TGWU. The intention is to give the Labour and As of yet there has been no the Central : Region some perspectives for mounting government but the the rising tide ment and colle cu unemployment unem ployment conference being October has been arranged „ aTouna s of action which has the follow- ing headings request of the Grange- *Organise the unemployed mouth Area District Committee fight action * unitel redundancies *No cuts in local services *To defend living standards books when in trouble *Fightback against Ieull dancies *Work sharing, abolish over- time and alternative economic alteilally. programme for the labour move.

ment. Major union of the the support w1th

TGWU,

which „ malo union in the area, and with the Councils of Trades reatration attempting to

DUI

and the the Conference lays branches the basis in one area at least fos united action against the lorles However the real test will be whether a united fight can b and the factories organ l workplaces where redundancles are being announced and in the Labour-controlled local author Ites m ine neziul Trotsky study group dockers, only the Dublin docks responded south have If the strikers are not to be The first conference of iso lated it wil be necessary tc the Group for the Study of only the Leon Trotsky and the Revo- and will workers Movement lutionary fransnort workers. but also to take place on Saturday 20 September, starting at Il with the placing of 178 registered dockers on the a.m. It will be held at the Poly- emporal attached Register, the bosses are Central London similar attack on Marv ebone kodd, 319/320. With the proposed national Papers will be read on the 1932 disafiiation of the Inde threat of redundancies the pendent Labour Party from th British dockers must take up the Lubnt role of he ots te Labour Party the subse- the Revolutionarv Policv Com British workers can take up mittee on parliamentary and the fioht in their own unions to by-elections Aylesbury Groves edersto e 1938 where Reg was Naty in 1945 implement solidarity action and canondae and al the Irish deep sea Revolutionary Com- where the struggle against munist Party stood Jock Haston

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 17.1980 Block votes set against Labour democracy "It could be that this changes in the year major Party way: the Labour conducts its affairs may rest on the decisions of a small number of people" Characters call words Labour Weekly sums up the fact that this year, the bulk of the as every yeal, votes at the Labour Party con- ference are wielded by a hand- bureaucrats. 1UI millol votes to 6.46 milliat the conference block union

VOLES

few A nO while

UNIONS

a have a Specific conference have a specific conference manuale to support ons ricauc democratic reforms. Labour Party, most succeeded leaders nave policv decisions that obtaining enable them-in horse trading and deals with the leadership-to take the LaOU final decision. Callaghan at TUC Congress merely encourage Standing ovation Wolle workers to ple cambrain demands on the the standing mlensil y AS SHOWn O ovation for Callaghan's reaction- struggle alterna- IOI a socialist tive to Thatcher's attacks.

ary speech at the lUc Congress The union bureaucrats have the UnO! bureaucracy increasingly no such allelalive lo vilei. alu they know all too well that the towards "alternative against Labour Walke Benn and the the militant cemanes Deucieu

I OILY

and file membership for Labour could "lett' raniaiv be action to defeat the Tories.

exposed threadbare diver- as sion it the lories were to In the eyes or many leaders, "ert at the conference victory the winter 1018 and abou catapulted, willy nilly, into Labour Letters Sexism raises its head mined to limit these strengths in the working class As a member of the sex that majority Sexist language is insidious. actually torms tne the population I would just like Lal. point out to comrade Jack unnotice• so unar sexs nonors that-contrary like the average person being belief-the male become established average person is not male! This is in reference can only presume the final part of comrade Burnett holds these paragraph in assuts our the schikophrenie Prior's Anti-union though no sentes on assumptis laws si LI3) which "It might be thought by the the quote from satirist ends Michael Frayn which he uses to person" and avalane him self the he does 'ne ThinkS article. primary purpose of disrupting any way point out nOt must be... to disrupt Frayn's sexism the quote: supplies "Public opinion as far as I can supplies. right of a Specific attacks worker In alree sociery to with draw his labour". fundamental respon- is a Comrade Burnett has sibility of all Trotskyists to fight written one of his articles on the way Prior's Act specifically to destrov SexISt MotIons na that all workers, all women. and "average trade unionists sections curtailing maternity leave, etc. cepts play a fundamental part I think it is vital to

DETONS

the double of oppression that women are not only hit by those specific sections but that WOmen WOrKers seeking to end. as laue umorsis. licy lov wu

AMS

be nit by these attacks on the Oxford right to strike, to picket or to have a closed shop. In tact its rom une exper.

first point is well taken. But in ience that Prior has had from fairness it should be noted that many of the struggles actually Jack summer articie was on women Prior's Act, not media sexism.

Grunwicks) that he is deter- By John Lister Benn-victory receding? survey suggests that a change ir leadership could be by million votes, of anur brock, 00 ma city

"ST NEC

block votes cast against control of the manifesto. the ouicone manifesto issue could thus unusually the other- hinge on peripheral 700.000 vote: wist wielded by constituency the parties and socialist societies the Callaghan/ Meanwhile Basnett Commission of Inquiry seems likely to make a last-ditch something from bid to salvage

SESSIOIIS

lall through „recommen dation for the reinstatement of "three year rule" the This would outlaw further discussion on These consull tional changes for three years- that the probably ensuring method of erecumune bally leader would remain unchanged until the next election! outcome would

DECI

bureaucrats and "social demo tor whom democracy Crals is the last thing they wish to see office. But it would spell out once This explains the likely line- for Labour more up of votes the union the fight for party democracy 1s proposed democratisation of the

ITOM

throughout the labour move. election ship and against giving ment for an alternative political Party's

NEC

control over the leadership. With neither 'left' nor right election manitesto wing trade union or political Reselection leaders offering serious pro- for action against While many are unions natcher revo muionar obliged by mandate to vote leadership offers the only way forward. favour of the reselection 800,000 That is the way offered by up seems likely) a Labour Weekly Socialist Press. Tameside slogan Trotskyists have no illusions in the petit-bourgeois politics of bear omaes Recent issues of Socialist guerimalsin.

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last several Britain is to win workers to the Press mentioned nave independent • against British imperialism struggle Council for reaffiliation to the sunDom lor ine struggie or lot TUC, the WSL doesn't support Irish people against our common enemy the central demand raised Support for Tameside means Tameside which led to its expul- sion by the pro-imperialist TUC support 101 the suean Dr tIt bureaucrats-Bring the war to war

WSL

attaching the same Drilal. the

TUC

qualifications ine only Teen lol did they opposing this demand is that it wilch expelled Tameside. is 'ambiguous' Fraternally, the of DUl Wal Socialist Press supporter.

oppressed nation against imperialist oppressors there is

*WE REPLY

no ambiguity comrades In our coverage of Ireland a question of and active campaigns choosing sides-for or against movemen! British imperialism. Socialist Press and the

WSL

practice fight to nation muSt issue of the Irish war in Britain ditionally support the struggle war to Bream an bring Cane of the oppressed (Irish) nation is in our view rid themselves mierpreted by workers as adit mistaken that readily their Imperialst and determine their own future.

DONT DIN

The slogan *Bring the war to similar methods of struggle.

Britain' where Solidarity stand on the question of the Irish War. Such methods contribute We stand alongside the Irish neither to me deveonen o people against the British state- the necessary revolutionary con- the Irish guerrillas whether Irish amongst

SUUSIICOS

aueray coose lo ware war u fight Britain or not. international solidarity in the British labour movement. But more important than slogans that the siocan demonstrates the

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surest way in which revolution- that clearly oppose and fight for aries in Britain can support the the defeat of British imperialism repub- Irish struggle-by taking up the and its repression of the cass war dramast our own doul movemen Lilt geoisie. counties, means Dy School meals campaign As a result of the provis- ions of the 1980 Education Act, it has been estimated that about 600,000 school children (approx. 50%) eligible for free previously school meals, will no longer qualify. The requirements of the Act have been rigorously carried out by county councils, not many the least of which is the virtual wit noraw or tre senool nca service Serset, with a loss of o00 bles Tory-controlled that those by ine degrading dananga. or County packed lunches. The proposed cash-cafeteria €1 school dinner in Lincolnshire w be kely u sallual. is further evidence. County Council Lancashire government •are Carlyle cuts in school meals with equal vigour. Drastic reductions the meals have proved a massive incumbent upon revolutionaries to use formulations that foster the unnecessary confusion side slogan unfortunately does.

We defended tently the right Tameside Trades Counci to use this and any other anti-imperial- ist slogan struggle for with the solidarity Irish people ano sease dne chauvunst reac tionaries of tne il bureau cracy. Page 5 low-income burden on many with school meals charge of now faced lall diss weekly ramles anected increase in the I he 14.3%0 cost of a their nutritional content under me revised menus forcing more and more children taking packed into Bunches. Destruction Cabinet proposals for further tsu million cuts in the cauca budget are bound to result in the virtual destruction of the sy stell countries. But parents and workers in Lancashire are fighting back The recent v formed 'Schoo Meals Campaign' in the Hynd- burn/Rossendale area, involving teachers and trade unionists determined reten what is lend to elmited defend jobs fight school menis service The group are equally deter- mined to see in their struggle of the Tne restoratiol which has been eroded by Labour and Conser- valive coveriments duke. anos from its inception. The progressive nature of the campaign's positions are reflec the linked demands more

CUIS

extent school meals service and : 'free school meals for all' campaign is hoping to link with other "anti-cuts" cam paigns in the area and with struggles defend jobs, the there SChool living standards through- lore, out Lancashire Support is being sought from oca races ounce worker teachers and trade unionists and from and community Tameside lobby at Brighton TUC

CAR CRISIS: A

PROGRAMME FOR BLW

Page 6 One of the most dram- corporation atic aspects of the current Rut recent montas nave seen a rapid deterioration in the UK.

world slump has been the Vauxhall are Both Talbot and collapse of vehicle sales.

on short time coupled with The slump, From small cars through to closures in heavy manufacturing heavy trucks, sales have plunged such as steel, have also by anything tom zo lo 0u0. major US car resulted in the lay-up ot tens ot two of the three in the red thousands of lorries in the areas monopones de acce with losses totalling well over $2 attected. predicted billion Worst slump tinancial year The plunge in sales has pro- duced a crisis of overproduction manufacturers: This has createa Dyla il

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the history of vals

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Sulle have grown the heavy uncontrouadly, vencie mu usul y lay offs, closures. and have gone into liquida- spate cutbacks have been imposed on veile phans are op crating only some while a world scale

USA,

the one day a week. domestic Lul production down In cars, BL plants are operat- -3.8 million only fraction of its this ing at у сал 300.000 capacity with many plants on below the 1978 figure. workers are laid off, along short time Pullici with a further 500,000 in com- cuts are taking place at Jaguar, SD1 related Rover, the Rover Donen! Nalle i businesses Saloon where output is now a Fiat is facing In In e Lanser of 60,000 announced when the model was stock unsold production with osses amnene tour years agu The Cowley Assembly Plant last of 8120 milion: la y offs have been prevented so far which has a capacity of nearly union resist- also militant 10,000 cars down ance.

CULENZ

capacity. German sackings These BL cuts come despite the completion une nedi the In West Germany 12,000 car factory crosure: unue lost their jobs in Edwardes plan. Canley 1S nov workers have Bromwich Castle rord and Upel, while tens ot clo seu. MG next thousands more short clo sed and time working in the other firms.

month. best indication of the The h bIlall. lou. mini Metro saormame, lay ofts or redundan manufacturer is the new o per aline sales have slumped Before it is even in ine Cles showrooms its production target over 3ol this yeal been halved to 3,500 per And things are getting worse nas as the continues to week! recession. Similarly the new Morris Ital accooll. has been cut back after only 3 months on the market. tition between conditions can cut There are becomes tese as manufac- BL survive? is nato how turer‹ scramole lo laune un Certainly the near future is models to corner an in creasec share of a declining market.

least a further "Edwardes Plan, Droaule al have TOrO Listalice. complete launched their new world car' foreshadowing the (the break-up or the conipally.

an estimated Bleak in a bid to recapture lost sales.

And Ford's $4 billion invest- Under these conditions how includes the BL workers defend their ment vall establishment of automation tar jobs? : of its European rivals in advance On the face of it things look 500 impossibly - WIlli hleak. a ne operating in Europe in the next employers are getting away with three years. General Motors, too. Factories throughout indus- vast multi- embarked on try are closing daily. international investment understood

DITION

But it must that the biggest single reason for plants in Australia the success of the employers in Germany closing plants without resistance plants that the butoire workforce tile government a10 Austria. strength Laut Spain and Northern Ireland.

movement has never been used Overshadowing these massive to stop one investment programme. example, not a In steel Ior B0 1984 Japanese car exports finger is being lifted to stop the 1984 Redundancy pay losures. Was expected

USA

negotiated Talbot equal Ford's entire US produc- against the official policy of the tion! unions. Consett the Strikes "reluctantly recommended' acceptance of the closure- Throughout Europe, too, car while stirring speculies

WHIC

manufacturers are bleating long being made against the closure at the TUC! and loud about import penetra- The Confed actually backed blaming When productivity the Edwardes plan. for workers Colted enthoscd a lettr workforce the Ente and strikes urging of their economic cause

CHISIS

In Britain, Ford has emerged a yes vote. As a result, Derek Robinson as the most profitable car manu- was sacked and Edwardes won a facturer while the past yedt Ila. seen both Talbot and Vauxhail wonder with such claiming to make a loss. leaders that there are few tights only BL, Tolullai closures at the present against profits returned a £155 million loss for When workers make a stand, the first half of this year, indica- crisis point for the at Meccano, une ting a new them enough refuse to give backine to wil be closures are challenged there is only one programme to defend the iobs. direct action to imple the programme the full strength union movement lidut behind that action. But a programme and action of this kind is a directly political question. It requires a leadership that accept the "right" of refuses. make profits at une cloye the expense and redundancy of his work- force Overthrow Destie wards et pare ta prepared overthrow of i1ght tor ine anarchic and capitalist system of production. But the existing trade union leadership seek only to acheve within the capitalist Systill recognise that their They fat salaries, and depend positions thet balance between the class working strength the strength the employers employers. defeated union were bureaucracy itself could also be swept away. No reforms This is why the union leaders as and again the sye capitalists ma even capitalists make Wilc1. reforms on clear tnere are niu offer, the union outeaucals workers with illusions divert concessions if they make tual and on living standards, it will open the door. The Stalinists of the Com- munist Partv who dominate the stewards Their policy with coexistence' Deacelui capitalism peaceful coexistence with have They Edwardes! appalling record. They accepted both the Measured Day Work system and the Ryder Report. Derek Robin senior Darticipalon sult, as representative pledged cooperation" at the inception of The Stalinists supported the witch-hunt of Trotskyists. They helped to introduce the new five SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 17 1980 sharing on full dancies-work *20% wage increase now! *Restore the agreements lost pay! fast year *Stop all closures-occupy the plants to protect against inflation!

#Suppor occupations with an all out official strike.

*Open the books of BL, the *Defend jobs-stop redun- into. the British market in th grade structure and advocated past ten years corporate-level bargaining.

. Thes Duffy Im ports are gonsensible even refused to challenge it therefore not be when him sell W Qu cut nartindusty protect th and imports sacked in a major move designed British the trade union discipline competition didn t "Japanes Alteral mozement th destroy Now Jack the Huails motorcycle industry? Robinsor Derek successol It is this kind has circulated a bulletin around logic, coupled ove the Longbridge plant calling for whelming desire not to get int with the mini a confrontation with the mot days after Metro project-onty has led. mar he was ascipunea by malage unions like the TGWU to ba: : for attending a meeting of ment everything around the deman the BL Combine Committee!

impo the 1 orles Communist berweet Controls Party convenors and right wing union officials division The

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Page 8 The local authorities throughout the country are facing the threat of more cuts and restrictions on will their which powers force them to make further cuts themselves if they fail to mount a fight against the Thatcher government. Party Labour bureau- and careerists crats are dilemma caught in between the need to be seen be fighting the Tory Those of us who thought that the present leaders of the Council were capable of defending of the peoble Newham against the attacks of the Tories have been proved decisively wrong. It is now evident that none and seniot councilors, very few among the newer members, nave any wisn to see lne counci lake any part in tne to be borne in mind by Labour Party "to prepare a socialist fight ence back" against the Local Govern- ment Bill. The majority of councilors nave not only talled to lead any opposition to the cuts but have also not even attempted to do Anti-cuts lobbyers have been ignored and sometimes insulted Lne

VUICIOS

winu supposed to represent them.

Kensition within this that feels branch conference must up draw and a for Newham' 'socialist fight back' Cuts made The Local Government Bill

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Newham. Massive cuts have been made without the already will be made Bill, and more The sale of council houses will be imposed upon the Housing Act,

COUNCE DY

which also force vicious rent council increases tenants. this ale Tory policies economic collapse unemployment and price inflation. cope with the inevitable the Tories the rights of trade unions and army and the police. Why then .do the Labour Group and tne Committee wish only consider the Local Government when it becomes law, will take from the Council most of away

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man- They will not be permitted out of the by wriggle iner easing ume Tales ano unev will be told in some detail what to spend and on what to spend No hiding place Will political hiding place. They will either oppose the Tories lavo cu unal is break lne lawi. or vucy orders (that is make more cuts and sack employees). should this cause Whi would welcome the take the Thatcher? massive opposition to

ALICI

Ilas movement always been forced to in the open at every the Newham threat and the fact that action is in of London, whre the any realistic fight will very area Labour Group rapidly beyond their controlling go Council, control and become on and the the the Local Government Commit- challenge to govern- ment's right tee are calling a conference govern, thereby undermining the to discuss the way forward Parliamentary for the labour movement to system on which the Labour leaders oppose the Tories. for The Council itself has depend their career failed to lead any fight and prospects and privileges.

One example of the way has disciplined councillors that the Labour leaders are who have broken the Group's rule of silence on being forced into a show of

CAINST

THE

AGAINST CUTS

THE

CUTS

paign against the Tories.

stage trom ¡ olpuddie to tne Saltley Gates? they are afraid because ther The real problem is twofold.

think that there will be no res- They think there will be Firstly a number of the leading councillors, stallulle for election the Labour oI Newham wili not trust Inf socialists of any Councillors to lead them. And think this because of thei description. concern ls owı laure to give sucil a ladu mance own prestigiou: Inese are tne problems we.

positions by being able to allo- in Kensington branch begin up a strategy cate the Council's resources. In with drawing

LILS

way they need political stability and strategy and approach that a passive working class. does not limit the Labour move Council has the per son wishes to take but will force the always tried to creep into Pear. We perimeter the particularly since Council into taking positive War. socialist actions What this means is drawing Secondly, there are number councillors, good of demands that corresponds to active trade unionists and the com- the real threats whick afraid of trying to lead a cam- i oles represent these questions,

CUTS

and so tt cannot be expected to give any real lead. The Kensington Ward of Newham North East Labour Party will be proposing. a policy document, which we print below, designed bring forward the demands which are needed to break out of the limits imposed by the present leaderships and to attack against the Tories.

LAMBETH

AGAINST

THE CUTS

While that London have shown the way, recognising : Newham follow. could not let Newham on must assure ine 1 lic ment, Newham TRe , OI TIne of the growing forces opposing there will be NO MORE CUTS, eithe services jobs should cuts be be Neither intro Wall nothing less replace mic case. ment the Thatcher govern- rents. rates mortgage ment by a socialist government, repayments. i the Council will not Oh ule Oasis Ut the Party the workers problems and not give thes promISes. those of the capitalists.

musto nver their neggs an‹ give such a promise on behalf o!

this aim we the next council and then select suggest the following: Industrial action to can aer are wille encouraged on the fight. In that way the Party can taken and socialist fight back Wines despite the Council important can make contribl tions 4 lo take the tiant torward we need demands that make the suppor

WUIKELS

10 sali step from the risis present ine counch musi ust all or solution. To the resources of publicity and prop- so calls aganda to launch its rejection o employees CouncH

MUSI

say that we fill all the vacancies.

the Other boroughs Cule SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 17 1980

AGAINST

THE

CUTS

Lambeth march against the cuts the growing number of unemployed we say lnai we will start enormous of public works, , giving and trade tull ane at toe ame aime work ing solve the borough's problems TO the ethnic minorities the council and the Labour in their fight against movemen! lascist dna racist vience 6. To those who will say that this is impossible, we must reply 11021 Is absolutely • necessaly that no other socialist achieve is programme de l exists. answer work with oine

SOCIESTS

the trade unionists throughout the to local struggles an Into the Tories.

Trotskyists warned of Bolivian army coup SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 17 1980 Copies of the last five issues of Masas, the paper of the Partido Obrero Revolu-

(POR)

led by cionario Guillermo Lora have been smuggled out of Bolivia and sent to Socialist Press. The POR have clearly learnt from their apparent reluctance call for the arming of the •presscu masous pr 1971 Per Whic the PO 1971-for which the were much criticised. said Sno Ulu alst Tnose Wino nO W chucse laen from on high for intervening

CONADE

Defence of Democracy-a body •v mne cob rae unon federation and various centrist before the 1980 parties coup) did they Lilal argue for proletarian revolution -and that they refused to sign when they the this position. The

POR

Mas alone bourgeois understanding семостс сош co as poor and backward Bolivia, and the viole ce cct ol wall tlal even „ The electon actualy took place the results would not be allowed to stand. Indefinite strike were calling Bv Mav they for preparation for an indefinite general strike, road blockades and the worker peasant allance.

ne rus ommaon that the Coupists are on the takes march. the coup we Vll eXDUILCG organise and come Tee of esvembesh it. The Natuses November (the coup) must not be repeated. All Incro niser resistance ColO lead to a useless massacre.

neighbourhood area organise defence or block cominte TeNDO e directin the teet the tactics of resist- that your allv. cv c d vc dvc and that our efficient resistance can increase its fissures.

victory mission must be to win soldiers and officers to our positions. All our resistance tactics must have their reference point indefinite concretisation of the • venera sinke roco Dockades and armed pickets as laid down by the COB. The character of the projec- ted py up centres ofre sistance swiftly wil be оссиру order to later drown in blood and pollical Trace leaders. Our slogan is to paralyse the enemy and destroy its links.

we cl on neao me- iately form a political command direct the struggle nation- wide, Uniy armea insurrecnon can install the workers' and peasants' government. Unity exploited under LIle

WULKCIS

readersmo. ane-hapereisı revolution front (FRA). In face of the failures and inability of bourgeois demo- cracy: proletarian revolution and dictatorship!" Blank vote In the election, the POR's repudiation *parliam entary cretinism' which they were convinced was widespread. led them to wage a campaign for a political blaak vote

3= IZT

TATA TAC

stated: the fascist coup.

•POR:

We must explain exhaustive- that the fascist coup. talking *Against general strike and individual repore aes Ul road blockades. rather of a form of mass action * rises misery: and struggle". Wage sliding scale Housewives committees across the board. *Against bourgeois and pro- bourgeois fronts. The paper gives a moving exploited under tne account or nerole suuseres. bar- workers' leadership (FRA).

ticularly in the mining localities Only armed insurrection can miners, the housewives com- and inte WOrKerS mutees anu Deasanls peasants government. The various miners radi Proletarian dictatorship".

stations were focal points, able Socialist also Press several freely waaltl copies of Masas recerven Inree days, aenouncung wuD allt printed coup atter the informing the resistance which testifies at the least troop movements. to the high level of organisation These stations were ana Dravery o laese comtddes defended by Drimar fullan given the brutal character of the barricades of women and coup. children who also organised the astroulion 100U mining. communities and tne Unity of the left thousands of peasants who to these districts to thronged The first-printed on July 24 Jom In the lignig sae by side -calls for 'Death to Enity oi with the workers. Roads leading to the Siglo 'unity almnet structe na XX with proletarian The a lIu valdyl WalC straary idea s in the FleA ..around clear revolu- successfully controned armed .pickets although the tionary Huanuni mine and radio n đay an POR comrades are directed to work within trade union and fell early on sundas lalaly popular organisations, organis Jury, leaving a ural or bioou anlu morning. clandestine unions and com- ing . Santa Ana mining women mittees valiantly fought against a whole resistance cannot be limited to the general strike remmen ware tallol and road vital bureaucrat Lechin who had blockades been arrested out com- sent РОКОР ASHM ING AP KAlA must take the form of work-to- miniones an pe on dere rules, partial strikes, hostility to vision cheek by jowl with the butcher Arze. bosses UyLIllCl. "We talk e do ov denvn The rule must each problems and ambitions some be: each other day but now let us avoid house, each street, work pace Husi trenc úse e vc 1 ưcco d struggle and resistance against exhort all workers and peasants

SOLIDARITY

BONDS

The Bolivian POR have issued £1 bonds to raise money for the struggle they are waging to mobilise the masses against the military junta.

If you would like to buy some of these bonds,

WSL,

Box 5277, send your donation to London CIV 6.XX. He will forward your money MAL 270 I InIt5 Junta chief Garcia dod blople des and acto resis- blockades and civil resis- Entire regiments were disarray, soldiers retreat ing in were detecting and reusing to fire. Ten thousand peasants the Challapata surrounder and anther Jarrack mooilatior Uncia barracks provoking anther spurt of desertions anc the arrest of the consec ueni commanding officer. activity of the peasants is all the more remarkable given the long whiph thet pac ai leaders to pact in. Bolivia to sul ova stooges The military called for meeting 1 РАТО Р ПАЗААГ. АТОПОТРИМ stop broadcasting and return to work with the statement: "Even they manage enter and the radio, stence cassarin Wigtke shis we wili nol cease fight military thuggery" By the issue of August 8 the , multary nao succecaea in break ing the back of the resistance Lechin's exhortations broke the

SIMKA

CHes. miners were finally forced to lay their when arms Loovu dulc was bombed ton the alr and the other districts threatened with the same fate Sending was orovuw lo oe alsky oet arki ln a o cœ zo zn eetsto destroy opposition correct u beet Fis' - CLA.- Puge 9 The heroic resistance of the miners did not go unrewarded since iney remam iree irom tne Con traint oor t hn natry inter- and overt military inter- terence Stalinists and When

MIR

(radical petty bourgeois nation- alists) signed which contravened the mandate of the Siglo XX workers calling freedom for workers they were forced to alLIe mass meeting where they werf verbally and physically abused for their pains. Snatched away However, even the precari-

OUS

Ireeaom enjoyea by … Tre miners will be natched ce ay organised resistance ocan cis seedom senaanen (and even this accompanied by starvation) mode re dessain o pe resolution (see . T.N€ send d ta thei to the Boliva Bolivian miners send donations the usurped power to fall immed- Solidarity Campa London Terrace, Cambridge lately to a popular rising most important sectors of the

WWS.

and peasants) They will be forwarded to had exiled retreat for thi • miners in Peru who cal Hayt and smuggle it in Tonen ConCentre around their own organisations In case anyone still needs such asthe untongete convincing of the value of thei against support we Imish witn a lina military is directed quote: towards revolution salute with true feeling not The old ordesgee anc capitalist regime the democratising with conent word bourgeoise and imperialism".

against military thuggery which WC DUINZIN de Wadi! salute the solidarity w Masas argues for taking uj democratic demands but not th have received from the prolet slogan of Siles' so-called clandes ariat and the m rasse in general Thi ss portatie thee cause od ne co verner forward We must strengthen, unit cause DuNle and spread those pockets of world revolution. the military how t*, moil da vee thi too de Ico saald ever small they are... to mak this possible we need support of puppet government adequate clandestine leader. in this continent nor that of the imperialists has only one destination: that ol tution a need democratising bourgeoisie and those political sectors whici can no longer be post- serve capital and the Yankies" poned". -Pass these resolutions. Resolution for union branches. for Labour Resolution "This (trade union Parties. branch) deplores the recent "This (Labour Party) military coup in Bolivia and deplores the recent military expresses its solidarity with coup in Bolivia and calls on the struggle of the miners,

NEC

all the to support peasants and other workers trade union action in Britain of Bolivia against the new solidarity with the in Junta miners, peasants and other It calls on the union to workers of Bolivia in their give maximum material struggle to overthrow the support to this struggle in: new Junta. It calls on the 1) Blacking of all trade NEC to that all ensure with the Junta and calling necessary means are used to on the TUC to organise a prevent British government full-scale blacking campaign.

recognition of or aid to the 2) Participating in build- Bolivian Junta, and further ing a national campaign of calls on the NEC to give solidarity. active support to a national 3) Using all solidarity campaign means to ensure that recog Britain with the Bolivian nition and aid are withheld working class." from the Junta by British gorerament."

Fight against sackings Page 10

INDUSTRIAL NEWS

at Ayrshire Marine hey will close down the sit The struggle for basic ind tow the partially completer safety conditions at the Planot away. Construc- Ayrshire Marine Whether this is possible or tion Site at Hunterston has not is subordinate to the main escalated into a full scale issue which is the blackmailing battle between the workers tactics being used. involved and the vicious practices of multi-national Arrests capitalism. Ranged against the workers In all of this the big business Brithe TOne interesa, the weir interests involved have the back- Bridge International, capitalist state. On Phillips Petroleum, vous and weanesady HasI Ine A VISITe an unholy alliance of American, police arrested 70 pickets and British and Dutch big business.

charged 48 with breach of the 900, peace they have now declared that Yard convenor Ronnie

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Ronnie Munro paid tribute 1 it overalon Was carried out in a military fashion to the generous aid they have and as if they received from Irvine Trades were practicising Council helped the who have 101 we sced a nress statemen committee sel up neau- con ponice tee way in which quarters and sought support for police little the trade union and acted labour movement. attention was pard to it in the newspapers". There must now be the mos vital lesson that the cetermined ertori the kers involved are learning militants to rally support for the altitut on-shore liaison committee must omical trade union and labou leadership. convent ence of all stewards involved in oil rig construction to campaign Un tuesday tion from the _yard addressed for a Lola. shulaown or dil sile. the General Council men get unit lne Hunterston their jobs back and the manage- STUC in Glasgow where Jimmy and John ment statement which provoked Milne, Hugh Wyper Pollock, others, were among file usoute is witndrawn Messages moral and Discill financial support should be sent Having been given assurances to the Shop Stewards Commit support

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Ine veneral Hunterson isouter. cre Council, they read in the news- Trade Union Centre, Ardrossan papers next day a statement by Road, Irvine, Ayrshire.

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With workers by the economy on a world scale offers thousand taking to the • wdy foswaru. e a shave such as needed.

streets to oppose Tory tive leadership needed policies there is plainiy no which, in today's struggles fights lack of militancy in the advance beyond workers trade union militancy protest organised working class. olitics and illusions tha capit- Yet the existing trade union can be abolished through bureaucrats Labour leaders and parilament. et nave The Workers Socialist perspective those to otter League Trotskyist move workers fight in ment fighting day in and day defence jobs, living dards. social services and demo leadership in the working class cratic rights. in Britain. can only be defended through • policies stall

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Ine independent interests of the working class, which, nothing international class, Internationally are affiliated to the newly-formed to gain and everything Trotskyist. International Liaison 10 or ve attempts to restor the profitability of their "own" Committee, which fights for the employing clas the Fourth the building In a period where the contra dictions ot the ot revolutionary parties in every aust system vorce ine wrola.e

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closure and destruction of the against imperialism and against productive forces society the Stalinist bureau. socialist only the deformed and SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 17 1980 Stalinist attacks Nuneaton Trades Council was last week the scene of a witch-hunt against left-wingers-led by a Com- munist Party member. Nuneaton Committee and Fascism Against Racism (NCARF) had inst contirmed its plans for in ant tacist den stration town September The demonstration held just four days before the trial of sever anti-fascists who were arrested

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Front when the National marched in Nuneaton However campaign for the

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unexpected cetback Tine Nuneaton Trades Council when of the lead Mary Collyer-one ing members of the local CP- launched a vicious attack on the march and opposed Trades Council support resigned from the ha ving

NCARF

one hour before the Glasgow cuts fight A well attended anti-cuts conference organised by Glasgow Campaign Against the Cuts last Saturday heard Ronnie Munroe, convenor Marine Ayrshire denounce the General Council of the STUC for reneging on their agreement to support the 900 workers in struggle there. attemot to white the STUC wash was made by Bob Gillespie, who attacked thi torto drill industrial workers into the anti- cuts campaign. weakness of the conterence was eat ne onou willingness to fight by the 270 delegates not reflected in W di presented to the conference at 'the end of the day.

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BM TO 5277, London WC1V 6XX. attacked une marco a lefties from over Midlands through swaying a majority of the dele succeeder will nanme gates to oppose it locally and nation- ally

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clear. Does it support Collyer or does it support the antis acist demonstration on 28 call for September? The demonstration assembles at 11 a.m. at Pingle: Sports • centre rark. Dona tions for the Defence Fund can be Nuneaton Committee • sent to and Racisn Heals Lassil 111 Bulkington Lane , Bedworth Nuneaton, Warwick shire Duffy Confed rejects 6.2% Leaders of the Confeder- ation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Unions last week rejected a miserable offer from the 6.2% pay Employers Engineering made Federation-but clear that they had no inten- tion of fighting. Right wing AUEW Presiden Ty 9 De26% -himself better off by following some union officials declared that we are not in an aggressive mood".

The had «uttered the numme every other aspect of their 18.5% claim thrown out as well.

Anthony cannel that pay had gone up ten times as fast as productivity in the last me cals Japan, claimed, productivity was rising faster than pay These arguments seen taken seriously by have been Duffy and his fellow right wing Confed leaders, who were las year lorcea by ine pressure or their membership into ten weeks of partial strike action, which eventualv brought EEI concessions on pay, hours and holidays. It has been plain since then That the want note less tor another such confrontation with the employer Indeed that they accept firms should remair profitable-at expense of workers' living standards Duffy has said that whil of recogn une poor slatt they the engineering industry, are seeking "a good wage for a good day's '-implicitly pect of still further job-slashing productivity deals in exchange Do Collare points on the pay settlement.

Engineering workers must reject ore neaded sucI demand that Confed lead a lignt for a settlement IK less than 18.5% claim- match the tate or Toys d which itself insufficient inflation.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday September 17 1980 BL losses- on time for pay review BL made a staggering expected this week under-utilisation This £181 million loss in the first plant means that it is impossible six months of 1980, as in capitaust terms to relulu di against a f9.2 million profit adequate rate of profit. in the same period last year.

Derisory When "extraordinary items".

including the closure of plants taken (£23 million) are This intensifies turn management's determination to une olelax loss was £154.9 million. axe more iobs and drive down With BL sales down from still further the real wages of 414,000 last year workers on the shop floor.

vals loss ven. The announcement of huge amounts to the equivalent of what edwardes tosses

ESSE

£500 for every car sold! required in his moves to force dis- yet another derisory

DUE

110L pleased with these figures. While increase in this year's pay Day back its own profit margins in order to compete for At a meeting last week umon internation- in Britain and fixed flat rate sales claim of £17.20 for BL workers auly, the state-run or commue.

provide profits for mine November leview firms and distrib. But Edwardes will exploit to full the latest figures and the insist certainly will also Indebtedness government casa to support lit LC-10 model will only be And while even these profits union another single iigure have talen back recen swallow months, this drop is the result pay increase and force it home without resistance the Tory-stoked recession, and not the fault of BL. Now that the Mini Metro- once supposedly the

HOE

However BLis an even better proposi- of BL-is actually in production, tion. indebtedness is no longer cancelalion sky-high coupled interest this Tales. mean corporaton making"

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increasingly exploited and low- paid fact workforce source of steady profits for the Interest BL's mator factor in amounting 1o *4 mo m the first half of 1980, as against only £27.6 million in the same period of 1979. even sir Micnael tawardes, of the Tory government felt obliged to comment on th one-day conference "Bring down the entitled extortionate interest rates mas cost BL an extra £12 million- Tories this Winter!" is to be and substantial called convened in Birmingham on November 15. Plunge Called bv the Campaien lor ment it intera e- draw out the ment, But even were interest rates this y cal s reduced, the dramatic to be TUC Congress and Labour Party plunge point to worldwide acland cars must mean that BL will kind of leadership needed in the deep debt the remain batte to geledi lic lory olicl foreseeable future. Major plants sive. The campaign for the confer- such as Cowley ana sonnul are only 20% ence was launched last week at workers Jaguar of the well-attended meeting wapavily, Coventry, face Lane

DIOWIS

through from Ford and

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were weeks falling sales; targets for the new Metro have already been halved; cutbacks

AT THE TOP...

UNION DUES

LC-10 is now proclaimed as the model vital for the future of the firmith 30.000 jobs so far axed by Edwardes with the collabor- and a leaders, ›% pay deal rammea tmougit last year with a savage package it must be clear that

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101 WaLes Call defended without confrontation with Edwardes.

Balance sheet This also means a fight union convenors anet Edwardes arguments and and

ATTICS

regard the BL' problems valance sleet as hole lollal living tham the standards of their members.

BL: Programme for Action As we go press, news has come in of further cutbacks by BL at Cowley. 1,460 jobs are Plant in a in the "voluntary' redundancy Tne

COHDIC

together with the rest of BL is shut down end of this month, week at the and join the then virtuals whole of BL cars on short time working Anti-Tory conference among those that heard Cowley shop steward Alan Thornett.

Press all readers ant conference will be which held in Dibgeth Hall Birming- ham, 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. on Saturday November 15. It is open both to delegates from trade union and Labour party bodes. well as lIon anti-cuts campaigns and individ- ual observers. details and or 50n for un- creden c are obtainable from Campaign Secretary Godfres 169 Barclay Webster. koad, mernwick. west miciands THANK CHRIST THE T.U.C's OUT OF THE WAY

FOR ANOTHER YEAR!!

HE PRESENT :

LEADERSHIP IMPLEMENT

SOCIALIST POLICIES TO

LEND UNEMPLOYMENT, END

THE MANY OF THE

ARMS-RACE,

AND

RESTORE

STATE?

Metal Box plans Lclosures 1,700 jobs are under threat in Metal Box, includ- ing the proposed closure of Winsford, the plant at Cheshire, employing 500 workers. The Winsford plant is sched- uled to close by the end of the later the firm plans to close its Rochester plant, axing lou jobs. Short-time 8,000 of the firm's workers face short time working from the middle of this month again the Tory-stoked Unce recesson is to blame. back demand for cans and con and tainers, employers into a renewed attack on shoplioor workers The Winsford closure comes at the same time as redundan- cies at the local ICL plant and in the midst of a wave of closures in textiles and other industries in the North West. resisted by musI campaign based on occupation of the plant linked to a call for and blacking strike action inrough weld box and related industries. Support Adwest picket! Adwest strikers 19 weeks on unofficial strike against victimisation of TGWU Con- stewards and shop venor, other workers have called for maximum solidarity in their mass picket in Reading on Monday September 22 Assemble outside • a.m. Engineering, Adwest Woodley, Reading. Donations to the strike fund be should sent Broderick, 46 Berkley Reading Cheques Road, and Postal Orders should be made payable to J. Dhoot.

OF COURSE NOT! QUITE RIGHT BROTHER,

WHAT WE MUST DO...

Page 11 School meals W. Glamorgan follows Tory lead oppositest Ghem, West Glamorgan, NUPE West Glamorgan's Officer proudly Divisiona Labour council to the servicegainst the closure of announced his plan for consider whether to over- petition take even the cuts made by In Dorset, NUPE and GMWU Tory-run Dorset-by scrapp- their ing the school meals service energies not mobilising altogether. action to halt the closures, , but schoo A full meeting of the Educa the launching of Committee on Septembe tion menis cooperate. consider this proposal school kitchens but dispensing 23 is to with the NALGO administrative rom a soeckai which would lead to the axing workonde of 2,500 school meals jobs.

Hull, have actually gone so far as to the Tory council l1l DolseL. nas scrappea school mtais 1o.

children under 12 years of age union forms And in Solihull, Tory coun sooner than in defence of jobs and fight cillors are debating how much ol the meals service snould Di services. Only determined axed these with a fight for broad But each case attacks are proceeding the more labour movement support, detend school meals as a crucia complete refusal union part or tne nara-won caucation officials to mount any serious system. Dock strike From back page cies in Liverpool and elsewhere, failure of the Heath government and restoring the casualisation crush the dockers- of dock work. Jones-Aldington specifically against tne wole working class laid down that dockers surplus

TGWU

leaders appear the should be trans have bowed immens ally full this terren to orner emolovers. anu that they should only be placed dockers. but a spare or ilantic unattached behind-the-scenes manoeuvres be expected between now register for disciplinary reasons.

can the deadline and

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bureaucrats and employers seek Thousands of jobs multancy that offers a send to head explosion It is on this agreement that ever! section workers thousands of dock jobs through struggle against closures and out the country depend: and for redundancies *No retreat! Defend all dock dockers, but docks mass meet- jobs! Work sharing without loss Hull ings in Southampton, of pay! to strike i Waow lave vola *Support the dockers! For port mass strike action to bring down Liverpool. the Tories! such it is one of the few As struggles against redundancy to forced arena The employers are improved looking redundancy payments in a Di head off the threatened but the mass unem- SLObUde. ployment on Merseyside means that their does to sell thing dockers their Liverpool ly declared that they will not little there ntervene, their monetarist policies unat are Elle employers into this confronta- tion and that they long to see Jones-Aidingtor the usicas Jones Lace -wac colorseu

•CAN THE LABOUR PART

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WITH ITS PRESENT LEADERSHIF

BLACKPOOL

OFFER ANY GAINS TO

THE ISSUES

ARE CLEAR.

WORKING CLASS !..

AFTER ALL...

CAN IT BUILD A

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AHA gangsters raid hospital

ST BENEDICTS: FORCE

UNION CHIEFS TO ACT!

Pubised at Fol Pest od foe as a Wewspape Saline deal, not necessarily depresent the vi. is of the workers socialist tents It (TU) London

PRESS

Just what does it take to was threatened with closure last force the leaders of Britain's Novemnoer. Until public sector unions nearly halt the taking action receiving special care and treat- Tory cuts? This must be the question on wreckers of the Merton, Sutton the lips or every nearn worke and every unionist who and wandsworkal week's savage snatch impatient read of last weit their

AHA

heavies TatOs seized natients OW: Benedicts Hospital work-in minister tara vauzlla. Last luesday called The hospital has been occu- they and pied and run by staff since it hired a

DOCKS: CALL FOR

dockers docks delegate all-out Monday September 22. emplovers in Liverpool to six-year dockers in ports permanent employment. flowed trom ine stolly and struggles accepted a em moves cause reduction force-implemented programme Moss Evans payments to

SOCIALIST

ambulances with scab crews to pickets,

LEOUCH

nauding one ok so paron an luckless Dalients- intravenous drip-and haul them ot to borneoloke nusuilal.

On Friday, The operalions repeated, and as pickets was pelted the scab ambulances with bricks, olice moved in to arrest hree of then Many of the elderly patients ruthlessly who are neine rooted and shunted into new surroundings to satisfy the Tory and their AHA hire coverall lings long-Sta) baliculs some have lived there for 20-30 years, many for ten years.

them cue cen Lansie surroundings unfamiliar itself could cause them untold Fisher shock and problems of adjust- ment. these Nas bed has bere additionally, the loss of impli last week it still had elderly patients cations lot many in the South London And is a key / battle In al ca This was too much for the the light to save the NHS.

Done nothing who AnA to implement But what have the closure plan following the service preveni this vicious attack? Predictably

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detend nurses or thy the -opposed september Meet oof private

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private NHS-has done nothing.

STRIKE ON JOBS

their jobs. Following the unanimous But since that time the con- votes for strike action by a tinued drive towards container- mass meeting of Liverpool of isation and by a national circumventing traditional cargo alongside conference, the Executive of the TGWU slump in trade ana a new of profitability for the dock has endorsed a call for an employers from stoppage "Overmanning" At issue is a move by dock several years now the employers have been complain Aldington agryement which gave ing overmanne covered by v the docks. In London docks ther succeeded, through large National Docks Labour scheme payments, in secur- guarantee renunualicy ing a cutback in the worktorce agreement-which wthout a fight. move by Liverpool strikes But the 175 to put of

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temporary the e mee towe the dockers onto • The unattached register the is an towards mistakeable exchange conceded a major the terms of of the dock scrapping work. Aldington, imposing large severance Continued page 11 dockers wro solu Office as a newspaper. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist League But both NUPE and COHSE formally policy support hospitals against closure (though they have yet take the initiative and officially this year's Alan of the TUC General tendenl Council. A clear for mass action to defend St.

would every Dentuick union on the spot ana loice tile issue into the open. "Consequences" Yet neither union has lifted a finger mobilise the neces and mass strike action sal! Bene- detend the st. DicKers tO dicts work-in as the focal point of the struggle against NHS cuts 11 Lolluvil. official Nigel Beckett declared vaguely that be very sue rusty hos pressing ruthlessly 'home attack Scab with are returning ambulalces again ano Benedicts' patients. throughout the rest of London and cuts ano closures continue. There is no way that Fisher or COHSE leader Spanswick can this

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plane betrayal onto supposed Ine "apathy" of the union member ment against ship: the St. Benedicts work.

bureaucracy force have so will manifest itself. tike thousands of • They- thousands of other health than ready worKers-aft to iight to derend tne nospila There and the NHS. Lial affected by independent trade unions Immediate action writers, lecturers are But they cannot win alone.

the bureaucracy If the union bureaucracy con- tinues to refuse to mobilise full- scale local and hallonal support ensued. that on her victory will be action, there is no doub even some handed to the Tories on a plate.

Trade MuSI Contral Trade Union Council.

disaffiliating demand immediate action and a full scale fight against the Tory Benedicts! *Defend St. act these developments,

NUPE,

COHSE

all NHS call immediate hard-line supporting workers agamast lormle the London area! *Stop all NHS cuts! Оссиру strikes and led facilities: defend threatened every job and existing levels of service! threaten the Tories! benefits. down service *Bring Callaghan-Healey Kevi lic axemen! Restore NHS spending a number to pre-cuts levels! Party workers ol tnent. Party is a bureaucratise promises of a purge

FUND

Half way through the month and only £260.30 to show for it. That leaves us £589.70 to raise in two weeks if we are to complete our f850 target on time. This means a good response is needed now so that we are not left with an impossible task on I our hands at the end of the month.

Send a donation to help support the work of Socialist Press today. Our address is: Socialist Press, BM Box 5277, London WCIV 6XX Spanswick - Polish leaders- struggle for control It is an organised force to The depth of the move- defend privilege But also the Polish contains people who can be won continues to to the political revolution This has meant a problen organising the new for those Strikes are still taking place was a press : con- three months after the first one . There area ference, given last Thursday ll not been setting up demand union for the whole of Mazovia covering Warsaw and Lodz.

actors and that demanding peopl These members of the CP would ther own umons. It is cical lila!

excluded from union posts 301 granted concessions in the north Silesia. on the other nana, that a general strike would have members are participating leading positions and helping the new unions Their fear of the mass move "official" Tic cha led th to de are tent unions. such as the dockers, are chairman to declare that would call the 'official unions strikes "if necessary". The bureaucracy is trying a This 'union' leader Romuald number du mcasure lu wullel Jankowski said that parliament Mar would be passing laws allowing of which are proving ineffective threatening strikes "include clauses aim ed preventing wild-cat stikes".

has actually provoked a number Censorship of news on many , demands for the removal of the officials.

Another method has been to in Poland as do the attacks ir the dissidents as the press

IO SS

"false friends" The most contradic- This is in sharp dangerous is the reported entry tion to the way that the workers some of into the nave unions in a bid to take control • being on strike com descents mittees: and it reminds us that have still a lot This in itself represents Polish workers fight to problem: the Polish Communis • in the mue to co party overthrow power • the • parasitic of the Stalinist bureaucracy.

That cannot cance. ucsoile ulc