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SUAREZ SNUBBED ON

BASQUE COUNTRY TOUR

ITALIAN SCANDALS

Page 2 Over one hundred mem- bers of the security forces of the Spanish state have been gunned down by the Basque national liberation fighters of ETA in 1980. Minister Adolfo Prime Suarez has reacted hattering affront to the dignity aulu power or lie spanisn state launching political

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counterblast to militant Basque nationalists his Palace in Madrid Suarez had Unilat week visited Euskadi (the Basque Portugal: danger ahead The incumbent President Ramalho Eanes, supported the Socialist and Com- by munist Parties, the Portuguese presidential election. In very heavy poll he 56% receved lne votes. 40% Democratic îne the Alliance candidate General Soares Carneiro. former lett wing idol väś re 1.5% and the Trotskyist mere candidate Aires Rodriguez received oniv 12.000 (0.2%)-compared with a votes 140,000 votes won Trotskyist candidates in the recent paramentary elecuons.

Eanes' victory looks like a reversal the parliametary But on closer exam. ciecuons. ination not clear. th1s Though the ruling right-wing Democratic Alliance (Social vemocrats ane cmasan bemo.

crats) tried to brand Eanes as a "Communist' it was not so easy.

still remembered the united anti-communist can- didate (supported by the SP, the Social Dem ocrats and Christian Democrats) in the last election. Danao mmmseu Icouulaleu cne CP's support for him and during came closer and closer accepting

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Alliance pro- Jenocialc gramme. led a secioth e things which sowull öoc ư Soares) to withdraw support for Eanes. During the campaign Soares temporalny Isancd but-never (reneral естетати to stand on • principle-he one is now back again Soares' political impotence was illustrated by the failure of his Eanes' campaign. Soares' return has not

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ended the split in the Socialist Party. The party sent two separate funeral de eg tons „to the former Prime Minister Sa Carneiro, killed in an air crash Lwo adys oclore une aecuon.

the deputy a arno ane premier Christian Democratic eader Freitas do Amaral, said would they 10 L oce nds was rodccccc Do Amaral has carried this threat personally said will no he longer

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as a But the existine government will under new carry the Social Democrats, eader UL Pinto Balsemao. Balsemao, like Sa Carneiro of whom was a close associ- oi Caetano's ala was a ichtc 'ake

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"parlament resigned just in time have some anti-fascist credentials.

clearly aims to continue, with tanes support right wing Tne polcies including the dis- of the remaining gains mantling of the 1974 revolution. provinces) only twice since he pecame cime minister in rt -or th temal meciesa noo nis internal meetings Democratic Centre Jal Ly Lic UT101 Plunge Last week in the end. under huge pressure (Trom The nervol capitalists of Euskadi as well as their Spain 'leader' che rest took Dudlee lnaly tne plunige. designed mobilise support against the force of militant Basque nation- dusil. was ponuca catastrophe. First, Suarez was surrounded by a security net so tight that one even ww nimne indictated that he was afraid to walk the streets of part of the country Camus pave nursed into democracy. The disgrace of present and former leading Chris- tian Democratic politicians in Italy becoming almost weekly event. • the turn of BLAsi weekwa Antonio Bisaglia, Minister who into resignation the conclusions by oi a "court o1 Honoul sel ut ite presuen orne senne. financie who has for Bisaglia big Venice su biect ot pubile sus- Uceilukt Deon or nvovemerum wre ten million lire oil tax scandal which originated in Venice. Siphoned off This vast sum of money was siphoned off bi sevalls and an0 probably winnisters others the last ten years through the fiscal office respon- sible for CLAaUUl

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Intusiy the Christian Democrats cover up this scandal it is threat- enine Durst-crowning The reputations of several powerful leaders in the process. alleged evel DuOtCV "left" That The ender or the Christian Democrats, the former long time Premier Giulio some way Anomeon involved in the fraud. ful trenh or ai these liteat ohs seems likely, the Is never known ine camace the authority of the main ruling class political party is already being done. Earthquake Bisaglia's resignation comes mate on the neeso fre ofer o resignation from the Interior Minister after the monumental failure goreniell provide relief in the south after the earthquake was pushed Bisaglia himself eu o over oheer directly due the tax scandal but because bos inl ga. that as Minister of Industr was abusing position vene tru insurance business. path dece defence that was decisions on Second, there were strikes business protest against as a and demonstrations in Suarez' visit! oToTest against the visit throughout the far from asserting his Basque provinces. authority. Suarez was torceo to organised not Madrid politically 1lCsg return empty handed, snubbed and

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ine leit ana oy radica nationalists of ETA but also b humiliated. the conservative nationalists of, basoue Nagonasi rarty Impunity

(PNV).

The central government It was not what the Spanish unpopular among the people mulin francoist class-and in particular ot Euskadi that the PNV had to the generals-were organise protests despite itself in looking for credibility as a response to the as a nation assaulls secun ist organisation forces which ETA is still able to of the a ne Dresiaenl impose with virtual impunity pearv alTO One of the Carlos consequences of Garaicoechea, the VisIl, refused to organ- алететоте wil en increase in the already grave danger that the the historic Basque capital, army generals Guernica cise direct state power and stage in at least 104 municip- a coup d'etat alities the local councils them- The Spanish Civil War is not selves organised work stoppages and closing down of all council over yet. Crisis deepens as

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insurance be made by one of the neo-fascist Italian trom his deputy ministers. Social Movement (MSI). This fact frighteningv ilu AUtOLO aera s restena have the effect of which in suaeu ue way strengthening the Communist as in Spain, the crisis of Italy, 'arty's

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at molly esperabie Christian 'democratic" representatives

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Tne Democratic-dominated govern. the ruling class leading the ment, accusations far right to prepare to take over.

m came from UI aI sl- Turkish junta in balancing act After three of corruption and tax fraud months in been brougnt repeatedly berore the courts various brother of Justice power, the Turkish military acanse charges, one of which- Party leader Demirel. junta is still balanced uneas- This is designed ily conflicting between to show that the army alone ls against tne state —carres a le forces in Turkey and on a sentence. able to crust anarcoyrme Minister Ulusu has boasted that world scale. Other

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members political killings dropped have Its of an "even with financing armed handed serene charged 20 per day an average stance has meant that of 1-2. URues Charges against other The junta is holding public ils vicous altacks on le WoIK RPP and the National have run alongside from Justice cass politicians the Wcelulas ariuss coulitly. measures against the fascist r ally, ulc trying on inls basis to win sup- NAP. Fascist leader Turkes has port of desperate and bankrupt salvaton tarty inciude a cnaige

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midae cass da vers -wno nave bonomic and tax re forms wooed the junta's been Main victims these have been the workin policie The Turkish lira has been ucalucu twice une • OTICt commodities has risen by 100% The factories have been blaced UnOe! discipline, with the sack for any who arrives late three times in a month Not paid The promised 20% bonus for workers never been but independent banned and strikes awed. ner becie Ia savalt revolutionary Cackoown organisations, with thousands of Turkish troops on the streets militants jailed SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday December 17, 1980 : Suarez Andreotti (right): was he involved?

By Jack Johnson Un the internatonal level junta also continues balance uneasily. break i1 realion will Lionist state ol istael nas nelpec pave the way for talks on trade oil-rich Libyan and hay-regines And Turkish „tne have sought tọ improve relations with the Soviet bul valc dl new rae teas expecrer co e signed in Moscow in January Echoing this collaboration between the Moscow Stalinists and the junta chiefs, the illegal Party

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the junta to be a plucialllll compared to lascist government But of course the lunta itself completely linked the

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alliance and thus imperialist the sualc- by neOHe rasI Despite the defeatism and collaboration of Stalinists, alu cue dvd solvack mucie• d the September the Turkish working class is still not compeet lo ets sed. strugae Is tne revolutionary •ullein leadership oppres- sed masses on transitional and democratic demands in the fight bonapartist junta ons The and establish workers and peasants government.

MASSIVE EXPLOITATION

OF DATSUN WORKERS

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday December 17, 1980 Reprinted from Tokyo University's Annals of the Inst- mure oj sociai science, no ci.

Economic background: An daysN

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reralve share in value added. History of Nissan's Business Performance. Nissan's postwar business DEmone cer ns Tne company has been expanding of both very rapidly in terms its annual production and sales.

tocucton ana aes Nissan's production in the financial 1975 2.11 150 vehicles,

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larger than production In 193, 92 vehicles. and {4 ll times the level of 1955's 23,000 vehicles the 20-year period from 1955 to 1975. Nissan's produc- tion increased about 9 times as Japanese HulseLiCs WilUle WIlCIl expanaea orly adout Iu times This simple comparison elo- quently indicates the rapid post- wall crow tl Jabalicse automotive industri and of Nissan Motor, one of its giants the Nissan's growth rate 24-year ( DeNOO

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1975, measured in terms of sales in prices, was incredible 8500%. Four periods 12) Periodisation. Upon closer examination Nissan's rapid growth nowever. in producton ana sales was la from steady. Its growth can be divided distinctive Automated production line at Datsun ocroas wilch cuccuy

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business cycles of pond to the Japanese capitalism. What four years marked the Union established. What beginning of these four periods?

the causes of the 1953 The first period began in walt strike? which Korean War broke out. in an etiort to start produc- cars, Nissan time, Japanese bassempen Lla l concluded in December 1952 an

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vàc n „ưé on à technical tie-up serious depression due the to with British Austin conditions prevailed aftermath the OI hoped that knockdown Japan's defeat in World War III assembly of Austin's model 40 and also the deflationary would enable bolicies (Dodge Plan) enforced : their company necessary for US occupation author- Tedon passenger-car production.

IDeS In their however, one Even Toyota Motor vyvo serious man the lre. fa cap Japanese auto ODsaCI coltoed the labour manufacturer,

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Illnlte union was strikes too staging abe bankuoicy. frequentiy and was unwilling to Toyota was given a new lease mastres devised by emergency cooperae m oroacuon. the Nagoya Office of the 100-day strike bianch Dank ol US forces Japan ana by …tne Placed orders Management decided Toyota 3,329 military workers vehicles and

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tne union. in July August tried to protect their rights by im mediately following staging a 100-day strike.

In the the outbreak the war in Korea. cru uwereywee and the union ably dereated. Nissan. Which was in equalv was split. desperate straits, was also able second union the to resume full production only Ine after received present Nismi 1 WorKers Unior all

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which completely cooperates Ly1o venicles lor use by the Us with the company. Thus, it was military in August 1950. by cruslllil

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struggle that Nissan managed to Watershed lay the foundation for its pros perity en thes peegod begars third period began To both the automotive 1965, which industry of comciaed Jaball all icalam-term sana oI aten- vànàese cov zn à voé year cycle. The beginning of the the outbreak of the Korean War fourth 1950 represented the oil crisis of November 1973 watershed. each of the vears that Tne var endea tae benoo or beginning of the marked the post World War II confusion and four periods, Nissan was suffer- ushered in a period of reproduc- ing blagilalll oLouuCuor tion on an expanded scale alla safes. mm edet beroe dotn second period datec production and sales grew at from 1954, when Japan was in a Tapia, tate rates; from epression following the August 1955 until ce decen e annud TaLe The year 1954 was very signific- Even in the 1970s till the oi especially for Nissan, which production and sales experienced major continued to expand at a rate of 100-day long strike in 1953 more wlan 1u7o per yeat. me course or las suce. 3) Enormous profits. the labour union at Nissan split and the present Nissan Workers' Needless to say, the expan- production and sales ded enabled Nissan to earn tremen- dous profits Nissan's gross profits in 1952 yen (or 2.22 billion and 2.56 4.68 billion in y VIl Iso orces) fore yen 1n 193 prices), times helped Nissan our the In el o5 per worker Ud. index of 60.6 (01 2.1 in increased 1,190 (or 20- fold increase the 24 years the 20 Nissan As now labour CHys DrOOWCTVIY iges labour period

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productivity level vehicles produced y cdl 700 II labour although quickl approximately 37 DeroO vehicles. In period IV it leveled offices high of 40 rate Wage rate. rer us nexı into personnel cost 10OK worker, the average wage. Need less to say, in order to examine In period 1 (1952-4). gross costs over a long period we must value added worker was at a low of 1,110,000 yen (in 1975 use the real wages which are cal- curateo to negate mne errects oi prices, wnich are used nerein price fluctuations. after) but personnel cost 1952 Nissan paid its 280,000 yen much workers an average annual wage of 438,000 1,598,000 {OT should be lt „ volleu bul yen in 1975 prices) and in 1955 that this however i The 445,000 yen 1,446,000 in value added

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wolke rate was or beginning cy cene 1975 was 2,920,000, an to show sings of increase increase of about 1.8 times in personnel costs were delining.

23 years. All in all, however, period I can be characterised as a time when the able Twenty times workers were enioy a relatively large share due to mne aeı mał sao cotor Given the fact that in the operations were still moribund.

perioc the physical The picture changed drastic- same productivity of labour increased ally oCrod aDout co ames. une wage care "ross vaue ace er wołke not only failed to increase in contin ed to toas rap deat roportion t the productivity more than yeat, ike but its rate of increase was reaching aveldc 2,070,000 yen in the first hal

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one _ol lne productivity increase. of the period level in pessod l and (1955-59) To put it differently, the pie twice the each worker grew produced by 4,280,000 seconle 20 times in 23 four times OuL Li nairntb] slice of pie dished out to him the level of period I. less than doubled. stark contrast, payroll What is more, in the salle cost mer worker cecreasea ron period 780,000 to 770,000 yen in the paid in Japanese manufacturing first half: it increased again in industries whole latter half, but very slowly at Nissar *technologica. LulC Ical Wart Lalc SutTouaT innovation" -through the crede ncn vce than that the average proçess of acoumulation accom Japanese manufa tare. panied advancement added and or ane Compostion or caDila labour productivity IOse very personne cost per worker. vn quickly, and labour's relative Tne a {nere cocerąțon physical labour share decreased rapidly. tivity and real wages I shall now Picture changed «naryse vanue aude anu wersor.

nel cost per worker. Let us first look at the func- This is exactly what labour's tions which value relative share

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Vallit of labour ao0ed adaea at Nissan motor is wner and personnel cost per worker business is on the rise play in determining the level of period III (1965-1973) the un valle octue cam ciancco cas tically. Labour's relative share in acce• no in clo It to Tac tuate. The trends of the three the first of the Portoe variables, labour's relative increased. This was due to i.e. added that wherea: Slaly. Valut lal l ass valul worker and personnel cost per ào ed ver worke ce e ac à yorker, are summarised in Table slower rate than in period II, reaching 4.41 million yen in the Page 3 first half, personnel cost increased than y odll Icaculte million yen in the first half and 2.42 million in the second.

These can be attributed to • the sulol last "hase of eve long ee • tha1 ia boul the long cyclical uptrend business In fact, at the time when not Nissan Motor but spokes- men for Japanese capitalism as whole were eulogising the blessing of "numerical prosper ity", their growth potential was meado exio ed (1974 to the oesent. une Javanese economi has been in a depression follow refa the oütre has been leveling the oil crisis, and U11 Gross won leves been stagnating pta value added level with slight downward movement. Personne costs per worker have leveled off at a high level with a slight upward trend. situation Nevertheless. tne has drastically changed since the November crisis 1973

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are une cavs or exeire ment and enthusiasm that once characterised the period of higl economic growth when real Wart ucicaseu an e productivity still more a Dol rapidly capitalists were able earn and thi

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wokers cont ream oriorov ing their livelihood within a capitalist society it become self 10W evident to both the workers and the capitalists that insecurity, unpaid and wart runce DIOLL are an integra part of a capitalist society.

Conchus 20-year period of Nissan's operations from 1955 to 1975 can be viewed as a rapid process of expansion and capital accumulation for Nissan rapid Underlying

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the low rate accumuanon as of distribution to the workers (i.e. high rate of surplus value) lor the accumulation of canital is essentially a process by which surplus value is transformed into capital aer cav • Tne worker have been trying to earn their living by hard labour at the assem bly line's endless convevo!

belts. To be the sure, 20-yea seems to have been the brightest

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wnoie nistory ol sapanese capit• the sense that it alist in accompanied by expanded 1 jot opportunities and steady reasem ed waces Yet the production the workers have process, produced capital, which exploit- the subse- uner • ]n7 quent cycle of production at a rate several dozen times or even Hunacs oi nes laster their wages increased.

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BENN POINTS OUT

STATE SNOOPING

Page 4 lifted Tony has Benn edged, polling of another tantalising edge much at Benn as it does at the the veil that shrouds the state was first relationship between the state and the labour move- tormer neadmaster alter icaving mell. navy £1,000 a yea His revelations at the Labour salal y Partv conference of Calaghan's „ime coroe une Day on producer's election maniesto Job policies furious about to start. from the Labour bureaucracy. Now comes an introduction Review Security and to the 1980-compiled by Benn says he Line State Research, in wnich benn 2 moment. details some of the ways in then said that as he was on the Labour list of would-be udies lit surveillance. Playing the national on self in the and the opportunist Interests •esre lo arsassoci- HalyC canuilale ate themselves from Uncemo cratic' forces, the state the democratic state). the "Expecting that future leaders would end the the Liaut unions into police spies.

very surpriseu lo red ill sdy.

A dilemma now faces the selves personally Labour the counci ing amount! borough of London for Lambeth. its income Since it has failed to carry £11½ million throne many or lie dory cals.

and been penalised by Heseltine the its "overspending" rate on the licital y faces a defecit of £11½ council per week. millon by the end or tills onlalt cial year And the council's first resort to resolve this problem has been the stoodian in the east t Turn lo HaSsIve DUILUWIll- campaign based on income in the next few months. monuis against local government cuts.

But the district auditor has The labour now warned that this could well conference be illegal. were councilors support such i to coure this course action-and ally seek rate increases, by borrowing ved s money council in the next financial any year-they could render them- reviewers or This Makers of Terry Modern Marxism! Korsch, Benjamin, Althusser. from By Terry Eagleton You The introduction is double could do both jobs.' " finger tilt becoming Later, after an MP, Benn was approached again approached the same colonel Wild offered work for the Foreign an army colonel through his Office and "a named Labour MP who had served as a was offered that in the 1945-51 Labour winister government. of the BBC says "I thanked him Benn wich Was and dectined again." When Benn was invited to Amazed Socialist international the he address what International which helped send "thought for mals grates in 15r4) 10 the male youth uncl Labour candi- Civil Service private secretary expressed shock and horror, under the impres- appartitly (Benn's account casts him- the forerunners ot the w the International Socialists constantly to attack the Benn ueviuasiess on Northern Ireland stale s rult this reply Tacu

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interview, I was shows he does no such thing He describes the build-up of

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RATE RISE

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is surcharged for refusing to liable sucharge to cover the outstand.

temel culs that now seems clear Knight and his fellow council- Lambeth has already spent be among the first to this loTs will financial face up to such a test. They yeal. Its oly nope lo cover the must decide soon. needed would Will they cave in and impose therefore be to impose a supple week Lambeth workers! Or will they people Lambeth-averaging around £4 confront the Tory offensive?

Lambeth coun need full backing cillors will Yet Lambeth council, and in sector and "rom DubIk carticular its leader, tea knignt.

of unions. Already Inere has beel a call for by crineil direct last the last few council direct labour mobilise workers from February 2 movement Time for action convened by Lambeth counci called specific.

This stand must be actively for opposition to rent supported by other trade union- and for a policy and ists Doin oi all-out strike action as soon throughout the country. _councu lace time for action, if local govern- commissioners or ment services are to be defended is now. The Lambeth crisis under- importance of the lines the conference on the cuts scheduled tor January 31. Socialist Press Delegates are invited from all pam her contains articles labour movement organisations should Eagleton socials tress Icaucis Marxist theoreticians from press for the fullest possible support. the time of the Comintern to the present day-Lukacs, Marcuse Gramsci, Further details of the and Sartre campaign Lambeth recall conference, and requests Price 65p including post- the Steering speakers from

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01-274 7722 ext 2066. security measures as: erly used paratia resemble that would resemble that police state intelligence stretch back lik work in Britain. four emonasis Benn is not one to use words carelessly. He clearly that preDared sal apparatus is a police state in Northern Ireland. Own role over his …Kenn own role in the use of the army, in industrial disputes-mention- ing plans ODSCUTe V troops to break the tanker drivers' in 78-79 when -but was Energy secretary- remaining suenT on 11ls

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role He expresses amazement that the security services did not move tors in 19/6 and upnoids ine right of senior civil servants to 'private political hold their long as thev peters "incorporate their own political attitudes into the work they do as lilary ur civu servalllu Benn's article most glaringly fails Labout exposet thos Bin the expose nis arson. knows love spies. 'social occasion whees when a former Labour admitted spying Minister ikhich strike? The introduction shows the workers' LUi inquiry to weet oul lie stalo Piss to the laboess box could to the witness box could Benn-with a list of names and dates. *The Review of Security ana Researcha is pubished by state State State Friedman Books Ltd at £10.

PRESS

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A court case is taking netter aimeo elsewele How place in London in the High Court which has no heroes, story which could read only villains. Nevertheless it is running true to form as a whitewash job on the press.

Moonies-Unification Church-are suing the Daily Mail left home for libel for an article in 1978 Wine a building called a convent.

sinister' church which "breaks Her up families'. and her clothes description This may not cause for oftence to seem she was socialist tress readers wno wil have no love for the big business 'alternative machines Churlies. 2000 years ago. 13m dollars The Such churches seem to view a breakel their essential Doverly must be menses rank and file and something to be avoided at all costs by their leadership. Already the court has been Sun Yar told that the kev. who Moon is worth 13 million US dollars. luxury - But the charges which are regularly levelled at the Moonies Pope. He in the press (the Daily Mail has earthly representative chosen test case would at first sight seem to be made SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday December 17, 1980 Benn therest malib the about Church seized Last night "We said: my daughter' sobs father-over a reason with her • but she jus stared us wit eyes Heart broken parents las seemed drugged and aid sh night accused a mystical group had seen the truth revealed in of brainwashing and abducting Such a story has yet to be The lo-yeard old girl la about the Roman and is living under willie! Catholic Church but is common vow of silence' in a prison like currency over the Moonies Yet the Daily Mail certainl head has been shaved has the judge-if not the jury - replaced by a rough sack-like object. She told on its side So far the Moonies, even to her parents-berore asappearing their case, , must pay continue ride or crist going to be the new year into court bi total of £175,000 This is the "The religious sect observe British "justice"

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strict discipline and worship a court Fact med. man executed for treason nearly fact the case is quite likely to be struck out if the Moonie leadership is unwilling of families. to cough up insists mat cardren ormember If such things were written about Pope or Archbishop the controlled by a would probably court be a group of wealthy elderly drones and the sentence criminal one measurea In decauts land throughout the world and So long as the Moonies (who unimaginable considered to 'discredit are religion and challenge parental At their nead is a shadow authority are une taizol, lo.

Mafia Godfather known as the the courts as it is on des ly claims courts as being on the side of a deity of the angels. every Llll. -allu

1980: A YEAR OF

FRUSTRATION-

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday December 17, 1980.

By Terry Smith of A year plummeting living standards and rocket- ing unemployment; a year of victimisations and savage speed-up; a year of slashed social services and growing homelessness; 1980 was all those things for the of British working class. But above all 1980 was a massive anger, pent- y val militancy-and growing up frustration workers time leaders an e sd W LICu grovel to natcher ano saDo- age any prospect of a fight to halt the Tory offensive. Crushed stel strike, a d began with the yeal calls for an all- wales entral all condutas he teral esse hattle to resisi closures.

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crushed by Was and the closures accepted by the steel anith the And the year ended with announcement 20,000 of yet another redun- industry, Lance. tIle siCt while Welsh union bureaucrats welcomed the news! Twice 1980 leaders gave notice strike action in British Leviand -and twice workers were forced to miserable Michael sell-out to hawardes wilen sent manage ment cock-a-hoop into renewed attacks on the shop floor.

Derek 1980 WILl. Robinson victimised Long- bridge union leaders sabo- taging action in his defence; it to end Io0Ks. cortam more shop and stewards victimised Longbridge--while union leaders sit back in silence.

Tenacity The Tories forged ahead with a tenacity and a commit- ment never seen une leaders of the labour movement.

Ruthlessly they cut and away at health, education, social unemployment and servites. sick pay, civil service jobs and public sector industries house

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Halleu building. over. Labour councils. 6% for public workers for savage anti-union legislation.

Ind the dole fed on a diet of monet- Cucas. anst poncies, grew ana grew Dukes of York What did the union leaders labour movement the Like feeble old Dukes of York they chose ocasions march their top mem bers to ine une maren down again. On March 9 it was the TUC's demonstration. Tens of Sunday mousallus speeches

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stubborn college" dominated bv the richt oppositon by ste labour bureaucrats to ing um of te Parlamenton Tories Labour the might be defeated. bureaucrats are already backing GMCs with right wing placemen The October conference of the Labour Party-in sharp dis- selection prevenil tinction from the miserable dis- socialis candidates right wing Shadow play at the 1980 IUC Congress vaolnet nas beet - carried an emergency Lambeth electer ov resolution calling all-out Labour Party democracy has a defeat the cuts in the long way still to go public sector. Treachery The comerence over- ty For the Calousa mandatory It is indeed in the final few Manualory months of 1980 that the treach- reselection of MPs and demands democratic means of electing the Party leader.

ing action against the Tories has reached its peak. As autumn pay round the employers, Regroup enomeerm encouraged Terry Duffy's that the assurances But since that point the right WElC Hillllaill mooo. Iorce nome a miserane mobilise to overturn these 8.2% pay settlement for two Te min back vard alectoral million workers covered by the Confed This left BL workers in the

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Name. Address Tories "through Send to: WSL, BM Box 5277, London WC1N 3XX.

-in 1984! There have been signs during perhaps this Page 5 forefront of the fight-faced with a lurtner numwating pas offer from Edwardes after which 5% years in deals had been imposed nere was nuge which means a lurther Ical pay oi ovel 107o loI Di workers. •A strike at BL-the heart of the also a part of the public sector -would have offered a lead to millions of other workers facing pay reviews Union officials fought tooth and nail to avert the strike this the assisica communse rarty . une shast Longbridge convenor Adams, managed procure mass meeting voTe against strike action. The BI sel-out was followed at once by the Tory announce- ment of the 6% pay limit in the public sector Compromise Powerful and potentially embarrassing sections of public workers-the , thi water workers and une wener have been offered compromise deals to avert strike action.

Elsewhere Tories the have sector union leaders like Fisher, assessel Drain, Derder Banswick have no onte Basnett

COHSE

however low it may be. And the stage has been set for a new pay sell-out in steel Devas ta alas st the whin sha ne of the next few struggle Mass -despite the militancy of the mem bership likely to combatted in every case bi umon leaders wno prerer lo ser Thatcher remain in office than workers in action to oust the Tories. to defend livin to detena lons ant public services; to defend union rights; and to carry through the for

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sublailsi policies implicitly demanded by Labour delegates, demands the construction of a the working class. The lessons of 1980-and these and other kes our role in Susce the need tor socialets to lola de fight to build such a leader- ship

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Last winter's pa) Page 6 The year began with the first national strike by steel- workers The struggle since Day Thatcher government. the workers, water workers and took place as talks 1920%. others crucial stage. tha were The workers if the Tories were to layers e situation offered broad tunity to strike together against workers the common and extend the strike. underlined the need dition of settlement. rotat mont tor the we took practidal steps As the Weish TUC's call for Defending basic union rights fought in the the year Tory our government with even less Thatcher's was Heath's in 1980 But through which some legis- than sweeping anti-union 1971-rammed get trouble from the lesso Kill hie protestst prestaed d orchestrated Drawing 1970-71 lation. Lion prevent futile Industrial protests Workers the Pailed that the signally enacting of the Thatcher the insisteu Frior s soa alised mploynent

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Heath Relations League. only the defeat Socialist books. reaching the statute Ços so-called consistently :to be fought as part of the wholesale LaWS priot's the new anti-union argued on jobs, wages nene so dereat paioed We and social services.

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not come strike action The the woula attack pickets or break up the Laws closede wSi therefore focussed resistance mentation and defy the new on the necessity by carried bor the NUS, battles outset Socialist. the necessity an all-Wales General Strike from January 21 was crushed by Murray bureaucrats, Strike became common coin.

and Dational talk. leaders Len union a General General arter anxiously another, result Strike ward bet the unless union Tori s the The the League in this situation utilised Workers these bureaucrats betrayal empty General Socialist threats Derek down Strike underlined campaign the porters Tories. the capitulation court action for action by calling bring This the private against threat was out on the Welsh Day of Action on stee! its members the

: ISTC

strike January 28. of 250,000 "Гт. the Tow and by the main industrial plants. workers the union leaders had different ideas. They Aledged overtime fought ostop te pu oro pise tornes were prevent rolling throughout the engineer- unions print call their strike droppin 4 Day of Action, supporters car industry and and elsewhere for strike action.

not union rights were only under fire from the courts: impatient : throats of workers, :tooth and nail to employers, No sooner had the unionisa- at the strike at the Chix bubble- were battling crush the unions. 1 Slough been sold leadership, un by thi a t ve hip ,convenor and астоу їл

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workers Adwest Engineering in Reading gum refusal of union leaders to fight stewards spotlight even the most basic rights of shop WsL members worked lons- threw to build their mass pickets the workforce. Adwest strikers, Ind te expose Ahe ac chery of The strike faced harassment the side Por the the anti-union police rehearsing mass arrests in generalised Jul he-eventually unsuccessiul of enforcement from laws-bringing from

. TGWU

official occupation of Transport House imple- culminated of that legislation to supporters -struggle ended Tichu ee backing AleX strikers and which Kitson called in the police for unions to was ar cay warie sen iaa union laws and all anti-union court rulings determined A ocaist hiess ppporses the Do line ana prie of piance defy avoid any -actions to against Tory anti-union la light leaders stew press Annual Delegate too is the shop construction the victimisation of anti-union militants Meetin Sottalist Press Hunterston, the and Marine supporters Ayrshire ards

NGA

were locked out in their pay dis- доб сольемі put hile the courts attempted antion aid mobilise from printers strikers Fought movement Tory offensive. labour fighting for a General Strike any other with the steelworkers. struggle linking up .conceded ments While over-the-odds settle- workers and others, in BL union the bureaucrats were completing the water ig ind isy an t ie dieton t ae Tories workers, gas these pickets be respected.

the fight waged by WSL Robinson victimised covenor Such moves were unsuccess- ful. But, under massive pressure, BL sewing up a • an~ despite issued a call for strike action on To combat the growing isola- unior tion of the steel strike, Socialist their pay review. leaders the pay claim Press urged steel pickets to turn miserable sup. their attention towards stoppi The Tories' actions confirm- hay our analysis that what they of components to the feared united They The TGWU was nominally struggle apove together an immediately a 'compromise" offer to the agains+ to support the strike "inquiry" to make workers-which then through by ISTC leader Bill Sirs cobbled alongside up picket lines The prospect of a joint fight was thus destroyed. And shortly steel. keeping production afterwards a humiliating retreat stee forced by Moss Evans handed Michael Edwardes his biggest strings. : pages Solidarity with Irish struggle Members and supporters of the TGWU leadership the Workers Socialist

DEENY

League have fought consist- Assembly labour ently within the an choanede and Thornett movement for opposition to Frvel British imperialism in Ire.

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land-and as such have faced đem on Pronin Provisional and fought a succession of witch-hunts. Wie? nui 1980 degan witn a scurruous shop stewards' teemers to Cop maar attempt Communist Party unanimously 120-7 and the condemn it, where alongside March DY thet cxten sco rist against SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday December 17, 1980.

eventually on Ireland. They declared that i unty to telt wing cancidales I i ent ah ead, elections the conference dis- Cowle Counci Lev alus 1 ducs pant he ce chose attllater The Trades Council correctl rejected blackmail, wide stand has won

LICL

from other trade same taev mae lakenan qerence endorsemen Sinn Fein councils. members through supporters have played mobilising role LIl DUE CalE! support mistret "

SANSHT

meetings voted councils to convene night shift similar conferences. on the shift to issue of censorship and • Ua • thi ame ome amo hiaser •meul covente strengthened their war Ireland has. also been position in the shop floor ballot taken up by

WSL

members and witch-hunt supporters, the successiu

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ane isaie onference committing the NUJ with other bureaucrats moved in convene a national labour move on the

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Fighting for ACTION on cuts Labour Party in crisis SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday December 17, 1980.

From the time when a and Walch allowed the closure of the EGA

WSL

member working University College Hospital, examples of such treachery.

London first proposed to a une ten monto that oo sing, St. shocked meeting which Elizabeth workers at the national tocus tor resistance Garrett Anderson Hospital the ory orensive on ide who should occupy to prevent its smashed by closure, the WSL has consis- ces driven through lines-while NUPE and COHSE tently stood at the fore- bureaucrats front of the fight for this finger policy. sunike action. The EGA was in fact defen- ded tor over three years Dy vork-in-backed up by repeatec strike UnCaw Canicel Dalicill. the various aCTeN OlCelE „oluneas

AHA

moves made to end a work-in there. une close it. Against this our betrayal Sabotage su bones ove coc aca It was the sabotage of such the odds for action.

S#OBOTETU

acUOl officials left wAlCa Otlel hin sapand to alag ARY* savage sutte exooscu tu of democratic procedures while at the same time develop- socialist policies. fight sion Import controls in In particular our supporters Party 1980 has been dominated by the fight for democratic Labour , reforms to the constitution fought for imperialism as workers have sought the The means to prevent a repeti- have tion of the betrayals of the British govern- Wilson/Callaghan Indeed the debate hi tes the actual reinstatement advocated ments. thorough wingers who have emerged as the foremost advo- "'alternative" policies more questions far supporters Party have cats ot den ceoy. fought for the maximum exten.

Labour within Tories ! workers were struggle, The rapid worsening of bring crisis-with , unemployment racing over the economic con- the two million mark, the and inflation cuts clear more from the summer months certainty of tinuing it spending-made militancy the anti-Tory within With the autumn pay round grow takin ilacte in, hee onterkers that would working class. Workers the prospect of mass struggles on cim ond pay higed on the mittee drew No fight leaders had made would not fight the they could contain the growing but

TUC

laws: they on wages was far less certain.

anti-union cleas willingness of The attempts to mount a eventually fiaht adainst the closure of the brought further large Cowley

KOAC

geriatric hospital in Oxford determination defated the by occu sator Benedicts' Hospital noso tais

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COll had venor, NEC member Betty Ward become to avoid an occupation at all scab ambulan- But the long campaign to picket save the smaller angry anc more isolated hospital has led to the estab. refused Longworth to litt fight for supporting asament oTa •CoCO laCIC in which members and worked along. supporters defend side staff much A few weeks later manage- needed facilities. saatched er minal Elsewhere, WSL members Kosoe. natosucdo background of and members self in favour Heslin has made no secret of supports and only Has HO fact that he odemend ed the argue for such socialist policies right Socialist the sells simply consistent CLP is still refusing to comply that decision Heslin should be reinstated.

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Hostility opposition with in case has exp olied the Ireland, and challenged the nationalistic calls by 'left' wingers for import argue consistently th ri ite or nad ote party imn ot for socialist policies. nat he tig h tok Bring down the Oxford CLP member Ted Haslin continued throughout the And if one major group of to lead the way in ideal were , their conditions by out *ge with this in view, WSt mem- others for the Campaign in the Labour Movement to convene a Novem- ho Desed To ber Conference under the slogan This Tories Socialist Press campaign the Down title The 'confer- sarme ence was supported by over 25 Brine the Winter pamphlet under movement organisations was also produced. and heard speakers from virtual- struggle and ho res tonse major against every othet place all-out In BL members and sive: hard-won tooth and Trotskyists to: moud al have formd a fokas action for the fight to defeat Thatcher.

standards strike the with action whether unions, stre ple tic set tt strike workers to fight fight against the cuts. the the and supporters played an impor- the ir ine ore s role lalil Street Democracy nursery Movemen1 in coventry. where Labour-controlled council was Groaiise Tory conference busily carrying through Lambeth Labour

CUTS.

lessons trom the se strugles have ovember 1 more important asune been drawn out in more general Ters •v te vol They were incorporated into i in favour of dxpali no.

supporters out. possibly even kicking Socialist Press Militant" supporters as well!

apposed to the expulsion of the right wing Callah fighi tor socialism in the •Yet Kinnock is Labour Party must therefore be clique. fake bott open right wing and the against conducted left. 31, 1979 On December Trotskyist International Liaison Com- mittee was formed, compromising, in Socialist addition to the Workers groups from Italy, Denmark, League, Chile, a nucleus in France and Turkey, section in the a sympathising (barred from affiliation by reactionary US legislation). The TILC takes its stand on the Trotsky- ist Transitional Programme of 1938 and on *The Transitio n- beyond which development em bocea m une documen al Programme in Today's Class Struggle" The level of political agreement indicated marked step 1 Oo on t ie • a major the reconstructior TILC has Fourth International: been clear from the outset that it sees itself as only a transitional step towards such a reconstructon We have stressed repeatedly that we do seek to proclaim ourselves as Fourth International TILC's 'Declaration of stresses that out task

IS TO

Contonl le problem of the profound divisions movement-divisions world which result from 30 years of political crisis The TILC thus faces a dual task. Un the one hand in the practical work and the discussions within its sections in own tanks it is attempting-necessarly in a limited way-to offer leadership and develop programmatic agreement that will advance the class struggle internationally On this basis we intend to work toward‹ tas or ene secins an th el anen.

sections and the establishment centralist a democratic internanona. renaency. On the other hand the TILC has pressed for discussions both on a national and inter- Trotskyist forces level with other Haliundi on the tundamental polltical problems to be tackled if the Fourth International is to be reconstructed Page 7 months The past twelve have brought a significant strengthening in the political work of the Workers Socialist League, as workers increasingly recognise the need for firm action to combat the Tories. JOHN LISTER looks at some of important contributions most made by our movement during 1980.

attack became clear, these amendments moved jointly policies. which have often beel the Labour fiercely contested smaller Socialist local campaigns, , won the back- clear of ing of • majority t v la 700 delegates . who convenet atonaco council on range trom a widE

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trace union and labour movement bodies. scale of the Tory The steering committee set Trom Tha1 conterence includes WSL members and sup- porters: it has now convened a fetal conterence tor danudrys and called for national backing to a two-week strike called b!

sections of Lambeth council WOT KErS Ine tight tor such polices of all-out resistance to the Tory offensive the des- can expose role truc Uve

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oureaucracv ano orovce a vita focus for the fight for general- ised action defeat Thatcher government. The fight for the Fourth International We have sought-but failed to achieve- the discussions with the newly-formed Parity Commission. taken place SAO iKe LOWY. with the Fourth Internationalist Tendency whose sections include Politica •Obrera in Argentina and the POR in Bolivia as well as Ahe Morkers League in Palestine. FIT Trec-

USA

entatives attended successful summer school in July Withir the

TILC

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LONGBRIDGE 9:

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday December 17, 1980.

Hospital work-in wins more support On December 2 the staff of the 50-bed Longworth geriatric Hospital, the Oxfordshire countryside, appealed went into occupation- deciding to work-in to stop help. the Area Health Authority's efforts to close their hospit- their al. national level. Just two days later, the AHA Prepare was manne anons to miit the COSE staff off from the sup- port of the union officers.

These officers, for their part, will win this backing. were making it clear that, while were prepared the fight make about prepare for cuts, neit bin caus, they to fd now feather denis on game, use their weight to tip the scales Witney other way -to suspending the occupation! not de enonon. This, plan in earnest they said, was occupation. ture of faith to the AHA, who promised not to move patients is the whole five weeks and or a other trade 'consult' they alongside them all sor The occupation committee, achion to saleguare inis nospital Meanwhile knowing they could not retreat, and having come so far, and startin financial to realise their own strength and the responsibility this placed on

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and them to stand firm. unanimous of support to: Meanwhile the

AHA,

under chairman, McCarthy Lady Cottage, who sits also TOCa Longworth, Oxfordshire. Party Labour GMC!)-had just one cala to play. Not daring to risk her repu- tation by snatching the patients as other AHAs nave done, she resorted to blackmail! The Witney Hospital,

1ICW

due ant as long as shut as long would stay Longworth Hospital remained anugh moneys

BIC

were for both and she was not Parightened and co thusedatients members against redundan- Blatant lie cies in the Corporation's This last was a balant ne Division aroughout has been to protest last week when the chapel Litt ensurme con. occupied company premises tinued care. so that their life in response to a manage- continues absolutely as normal.

ment lock-out. The courage of the occupa- tion committee who remained Three weeks strong in the face of this black- pany sacked all 65 members. mail and the attempted sell- They had over disruptive action out. was well rewarded. Many staff inside the hos- chapel analls pital who had been wavering wave oi redundancies irom the were won round to supporting company this year. the occupation. Some months • A record number of relatives chapel had mixed visited the hospital an initial group of redundancies weekend and approved of the jobs some when it was through chapel pressure in cussed with them. form Support and offers of help mandatory meetings and selec- shall

AT THE TOP...

UNION DUES

After a similar Kangaroo Court' appeal to the original disciplinary hearing, eight of Long- the nine victimised bridge militants are still including sacked, all four shop stewards. came in from the surrounding workers had his Une of tie villages, starting with the staff's sacking changed to a two week

SUSDOLSION

Every union branch the staff None of the company's wit- apre ste ched to ge sto, of thed they some nesses were named or could be cross examined the area was ust a raree In contrast, the staff are still will now focus on All eyes waiting for official backing from

CAB I

Tuesday day- morning union-COHSE-at shift. Ihis is the area that the victimised workers came from.

this section takes ction then the Works Commit But with the determination let have promisca a Joint snop Stewards meeting. they have shown thus far, they It is to this meeting that must then be the time when the

HOSTEL SIT-IN

AHA fine that playingsa soit persuasion, blackmail 10 L nospital wil 16 homeless people and begin to to the break together with hostel manager Joe Costello, have time for which occupied the Bakehouse staff must prepare Chelsea, stand Hostel in by taking strike the Georges Community the occupation Trust. urgently need The Hostel has been run on other health (with so commercia trade charges upwards per Send donations and messages week) the Trust's main hostel. Suddenly Weybread the Trust's Farringdon Road, founder one Williams Austin

MBE,

JP, Journalists occupy against sackings tive strikes and pickets.

The struggle of 65 NUJ In the latest round of redun- dancies has so far British Printing saved two jobs out of nine.

Publishing Of the sever took a new turn five became difficult to defend when the individuals the company, opted to take redundancy. firmly The vuuutaly chapel remains committed to defending the ago the com- other two jobs. issued warnings resolve is that the redundancies taken by have been directed almost exclu- the sively at chapel members though uncy reoresent oniv be ot edit.

orial staff. Furthermore chapel back officers have been the amongst those named. success over were saved the same strategy as for the first round of redundancies but this disruptive time the company issued warn- altival.

MORE RUDDY SACKINGS! I SEEM TO MAVE SPENT THE

WHOLE YEAR BOGGED DOWN WITH OUR MEMBERS'

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THERE'LL SOON ONLY

BE 2 RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE

LEFT IN THIS UNION- YOU ANG ME...

THE CRUNCH

the plant-wide meeting TOr strike action will be put last week Works worker Rove. Committee refused to call a tul stewards' before the son-who failed to turn up.

Incelille "appeal' There despite the sacking was criticism of lour shop stewards. Thev thus managed to avoid any prepara- tion for a confrontation.

wages sell-out that led victimisation No confidence was the audience One of the victimised shop publicised meeting, stewards said at a public meet- see whether they ing last Sunday organised by th 11201 TEne Selly Oak Labour were present. appeal and that only industria action could save his and the other jobs. The initiative in support of the nine Selly Oak Labour meeting Party must be applauded pany are About 50 people attended a sacking of only will every bridge every eyland steward. the defended the betrayal wil declared the Bakehouse losing money -and gave ten days into the that it stewards 10 LiCE Costello would lose his job.

Williams is a Labour coun- cillor in Newham-and as chair. of the education commit- he is currently considering are Homes Tenants would offers support from the labour move Bake-

JOC

costelo. 47 Milmans St., nouse hostel London SW10. youth and ence closures convened in Wins- ford on Sunday December 14. varaners occupation, a full time sackings. from Labour Pa chapel responded

WSL

continuing to turn up for work 8 November, Last Monday Murony chapel members arriving for work found their way barred by Council of action security The chapel never hicl meless lound a way up to the sixth floor of the building where they promptly following resolution, calling fo decided the formation The chapel has also begun action to combat the tidal wave picketin polton House, closures other sites, in par unanimously carried Shepher dess Walk where production is continuing. Police from 2½ million and rising local Road police station tories closing and redundancies being announced each day; hos- have been heavy on the pickets —ilm tae number to tour being closed in every area; the from

NUJ

school meals book and magazine houses and ended; council house building a will obviously a standstil: rent increases on the become a man tocus for a conference the NUJ agenda; mortgage payments up is organising for January around and the homeless figure soaring; 15% inflation means plummet redundancies in the industry.

FIRST, TAEY WANTED A WAGE INCRRASE..

THEN THEY MOANED ABOUT REDUNDANCIES

REMEMBER THAT TALK OI

ELECTING OFFICIALS?!

(THAT SOUNDS UKE SHEER BLISS!

NO MORE

-RALLIES- MASS

PHONE CALLS - CONFERENCES-

BINGES AND LONG HOLIDAYS:

BUT THERE'S JUST

SMALL SNA...

Page 11 chaired The leadership at Longbridge by Tom must call action by the • whole Pat Hickey plant. The IGWU which caller "official' support for Robinson spoke in place of Derek Robin- must do the same immediately a great deal of for the "9: all four the of the shop stewards Longbridge CP leadership in the members. "This must spread to 'official' action throughout When Litterick asked if there Leyland. All IGWU members Party should demand this the well their and shop stewards meetings. , in order to were goig to victimisation none

NATIONAL CHILDCARE

CAMPAIGN

Every BL steward Constitutional Conference Saturday 24 January 1981 What was mat in ain come 10 am. to 5pm. Wolverhampton Poly successful with the ther Students Union not steward in Long- Stafford & Wulfruna Sts. be in danger but so wil Wolverhampton stewards not Conference fee £1.50 Longbridge ther (unwaged 75p) Creche*Food*Bar that of Derek Robinson. But the responsibility will go right down Pooled fares*Overnight accomodation. 'Council of action' call Over 100 trade unionists.

ing living standards while those at work face speed up and anti- unemployed workers attended a confer- This Tory government is a discuss factory class war government, most determined sec tions of the capitalist class.

It has come to office com. mitted to do a specitic job for Platform speakers included a employers, we bankers ators and landlords That job is

ION

Ine all-sided attack carry r out

AUEW/TASS,

working ciservices ang arty speaker, and Wins- standards, working conditions-all in the wave interest of profit. is the declared intention this call upon all workers, employed resist and unemployed, •5. After a lively discussion the factory . closures and to oppose cuts in public expenditure by whatever a counci possible and to support the was arca both morally and Inancially d worn orist to tacilitate this order lue unempo en nure o fast; fac [Mid-Cheshire] Trades Council should immediatelv area Council of Action whic all working will embrace class organisations-trade system virtually labour unemployed,

HOLDS

sections, communits action and tenants associations.'

YES-BUT THERE'S A

BRIGHTER SIDE TO IT ALL. If

•THE REDUNDANCIES KEEP ON

AT THIS PACE...

¡PAT OUR WAGES ?!!

MacGregor puts the Last year a miserable 2% pay offer from BSC manage- ment triggered a bitter week strike-and pay eventual 14% settlement. This year the new steel boss feels confident lan MacGregor union leaders arrogantly announce not only 20,000 more Icuunualicien ou l alsu lUtal pay reere tor see workers a least until July. In other words with inflation 15%, workers are being called upon to 15% cut in their livin bail BSC order colossdl conomic crisis. £10 million a week VI course lt: 1s obvious IC Be the erried the next workforce worked the next

MOTOS 0I

all, the money would scarcely make a dent in the £10 the corporation in the midst of Thatcher's slump. that "sacri- fice» bv workers will save une industry" is a transparent fraud.

Major factors in interest sodill Notonee

OH I

the sky-rocketing cost by Tory energy policies, allu cemen ol steel „actones close and whole industries grind to record low levels of output.

But steel leaders, umOn petited and entire he 198y petrified independent nave

NUEL

either the new redundancies or MacGregor's pay freeze. ISTC suggestion the Guardian

ISTC

leaders themselves actually planned suggest freeze-in for a 112. pay dances! Such leaders do not object Keep the money coming With Socialist Press tak- ing a break for two weeks column will not for your chivvying you money until 7 January. But that doesn't mean that we

NEXT ISSUE

Socialist Press taking a break for two issues. We will next Wed- appear on nesday 7 January. We hope all have pleasant holiday and return refreshed to the struggle in the New Year.

SOCIALIST

PRESS

boot in! to their members being made scapegoats capitalist the crisis: simply want to avert which

OWI.

amitatons are exposed MacGregor's tactics have been correctly likened by AUEW bureaucrat Gavin Laird as a parate to grose o michae Edwardes. Surrender The problem faced by steel- workers that the tactics of their union leaders are also the same nost leaders in British Leyland - protests followed empty abject surrender console them- deader. 390,000 alloselie. onto ine coe woud orne down the Thatcher government. Our task to speculate Is not what mient Loopie tie lulles- it is to mobise all-out action that will bring them down. public sector workers and orders must walte further set sacks terrace.

struggle-before still "perent

ODS.

occupa- tions and supporting strikes to closures and redundancies! the Ddy Demand wage increases to pro- inflation, living keep cost Dare will diss res *Unite public sector workers the Tories' offensive! azallls l Build councils of action!

Sirs do not need your financial We need them donations. than Steadily more ever. rising costs make the pro- Socialist Press duction of more expensive. And ever yet our paper is an essential part of our struggle to give fight leadership the Tory against govern- Be generous this Christ- mas. Send us a donation. Our address is: Socialist Press Fund, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX. Peelsered as a newspaper at the lost orise Salned erules do not neessarily tonesent the views of the Workers Socialis The growth and success of the Labour Committee on Ireland was apparent at a meeting of its supporters at Caxton Hall, Archway, last Saturday. 20,000 more sackings: no pay increase Steelworkers on March 9

CHURCH BID TO

REIN IN POLISH

WORKERS

"Church is Communists' This development brings no joy to the Catholic Church. For asset" most valuable So discover their own the paradoxical head- read line in Monday's Guardian.

question neco "spiritual" notions peddled by Why that a regime Wyszynski the Church. suoposedly based on scienull

-DEMONSTRATE-

socialism should require now Institutions the services of the world's entrenched bastion of mediaeval This Cardinal bigotry and supersunon. wily in support of The answer is of course that Wyszynski has now lent his the stony-faced Stalinist bureau unambiguous voice to that of Party leader Stanislaw Kania in Cats -will have ulawil own humbledrivinges from their urging rollsh workers to exer cise restraint" and preserve "the high-handed hunger strikers institutions of our State" in the administration of the 1se0 econom v-nave next venou win the mass support of Polish Catholic Church speaks workers. for world imperialism. US and European capitalists have Break hold and lil dil to prop up the Polish Stalinists.

It or fear above all a new likewise revolutionary struggles wave failed to break the hold of the

CONFERENCE

Europe. Hilu tilt "Ireland and the British" Cannone

LOUICI

OveR Kremla readers peasantry and the working class Capitalists and "Commun- A Labour conference Stalinist ists" will therefore be saying a organised by Battersea CLP regime compensated bi Common Playel Saturday 17 January 1981 police its own 'Oh Lord, keep the workers in rentession

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lack of popular support. their place of oppression and 11.30 am-5.00 pm. Polish But now workers, exploitation, and 177 Lavender Hill, London privilege." and Soured unle Daces wean, power SW11 food shortages and poverty line Workshops, plus speakers- that the Lord won't do its then there ahe illusions wages aris Jock Stallard MP; Alf Dubs bureaucratically distorted econ- MP, Geof Bell and others omy, have begun lo assert blea anno the rose independent strength as a class.

border ready to do the job.

Credentials from M. Tupper As a result they have begun 177 Lavender Hill, SWI1 challenge the very basis of state and of bureau- une ponce cratic privilege. Printers Ltd (TU), London.

Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the Call for Labour action on Ireland Since the inauguration the

LCI

last has expanded to many new import ant areas Despite last minute problems of venue, a small hall with packed capacity from as far afield as Edinburgh and Glasgow. The main item of the agenda submission of a concerned the

ICI

fron documen National Council to the Labour Party

NEC

Special Working existing policy rally to on Northern Ireland. a motion . overwhelmingly that was passed tied al LC1 - specifically in rela- and commit tion to policy meconditional withdrawal of all immediat menl British military and economic involvement in Ireland." Submission CLPs and trade unions were also encouraged to make sub the NEC on thi vital subject. The meeting displayed a high political understanding level of ol ouroose was contribution from an LCI organ.

iser in the Midlands whose has yielded tactical work much mult m lual area The main motion passed was moved Scottish supporters was the other one. It called for "a national campaign in sup.

port of the restoration of the political recognition politica Satell

STN

prisoners Such campaign should include the followng: special production o edition of 'labour and Ireland' b) national mailing to CLPs c) national I speaking tour • by the

MPS

and union Laut have witter articles/spoken for the LCL.

d) sponsoring and mobilising for national demonstrations in support or me prisoners. e) including a special sectio of the LCI submission to the working party Ur Ireland which underlines the political status of Irish political 1) production of LCI leaflets , and postinging pressure to bear

NEC

on the Labour Part support me orsoners demand.

a lobby of its January meet organise a national rally in the New Year. Conference resolves to elect "political sub-com. prisoners mittee to ensure the efficien and prompt implementation of the above the meeting made arrangements lor regiona organ isation and • convenors. , Labour Party members who yet been involved on Irish issues are encouraged to write to Dor Flynn. the Secretary Labour Committe Irelan‹ Saturday 20 December

GLASGOW

Assemble 10.00 am. Craigendmir Street Blackhill, Glasgow.

MANCHESTER

Assemble 1.30 p.m. All Saints, Manchester

BRADFORD

Assemble 1.00 p.m. Infirmary Field Westgate, Bradford Called by North of England Hunger Strike Committee