Socialist Press no. 238

SOCIALIST O

REAGAN'S

WAR-CRY

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 238 * 11 March 1981 * 20p sbi The lurch towards milit- arism and international aggression Ronald by Reagan's American admin- istration-with eager sup- port from Britain's Margaret Thatcher-has chilled the blood of workers through- out the world. His plan to raise the USA's war budget by a thumping $32 next year-buying up 0110n battleships, the transport racines

SAID

Deployment Force to wage war world -might appear to llow trom a position of strength. Shameless And his shameless political, military economic support for the bloody military dictator- sno mesavador is on a scale hopes is sufficiently Which he huge to intimidațe the left wing liberation forces in Salvador and Doing ferried to to salvador, nougnou can America Into ferried to malvador submission. additional US Togetner WitH $50 million worth of US military "advisors", ground staff guns, helicopters, military trans- and technicians to back up the Warmongers wave: Reagan and Thatcher, tionary junta and its right wing paramilitary murder squads.

And Reagan has called for ar exua pzz mulion to be given to the of a in con in aid could vc ulyerica lo mutary use.

Yet all this enormous flow and being cash focussed on bigger than Wales, with a po no- country no lation ol no more than s million people! High point Reagan's war moves not from strength an acute aware in the wake of the ness that defeats inflicted on imperialism Vietnam, Angola, Iran and Nicaragua, the left wing guerrilla war in El Salvador is simply the nigh point of wide tide of rebellion El Salvador has also AnO been picked as a battleground he the guerrilla forces issessed will obtain little or no military * SImE DEPI assistance bureaucracy. Despite propaganda peddled by US Reagar envoys. knows full well that little or no military eing upplied to the FMLN b Kremlin Castro bureaucracy in Cuba. The fact that Brezhnev sig.

nally failed even to mention th in Central America lengthy

ICPULL

last weeks CPSU Congress in Moscow was not lost on leaders. Nor was the fact that while fringe meetings were held ir Moscow for all insignificant figures, the delega- tion from Nicaragua's Sandinista regime was offered no chance to speak. "Coexistence" The Kremlin leaders have made it quite clear that they are not prepared to assist revolutionary Salvador or back the Nicaraguan

WOMAN

WORKER

SUPPLEMENT

Cuts struggles • Pages 4 & 7 Stalinist leaders into Salvador's new ruling junta were smashed by and armed action resistance. as the civil

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war nas grown in scope, the left wing political groupings have fallen into the trap of seeking a cross- class alliance with OI capitalists and polticians-whc are committed to preserving capitalist rule in E1 I Salvador. They have set up the Demo- Revolutionary Front Cта110 capitalist governments in Mexico and West Germany, and from the social democratic International" have appealed to the US imper lalists le settlement which would instal government to continue exploi- tation respectable form in El Salvador Full brunt As FDR statesmer tour European capitals the guerrill forces, unified in the FMLN possibly lace the full brunt of the blood.

more anxious man me mpera- American-backed onslaught.

ists to arrange a further meeting And they face attempts to redraw the lines of "peacefu (through with imperialism. cconomic ana mitary blackman almea partic ularly at Nicaragua and Cuba) to Battling cut off the already • inadequate supplies of arms and ammuni- Yet the working masses in Lon, The guerrilla forces remain the neo-colonial countries have shown that they accept no such militarily strong-some 10,000 part-time struggle. multa Lons units. But they remain politic- Faced with attacks on their already poverty-line living ally weak —paracularly dards and bridling under towns. And they need inter- the national support. In solidarity brutal repression of military dic- with their struggle we must find or baring to te tatorsnips regimes, every way possible to: means *Mobilise to halt the Thatcher/Reagan war drive!

rights. 1979 the Nicaraguan Black all arms and aid to SLN logged up the first majo the Salvador junta! Central America whe *Demand Soviet and Cuban victory in arms and aid to the FMLN the bloody regime of General Somoza. *Break from the FDR-fol Since then the struggle in E1 Socalist revolton in avador Salvador has gathered strength- *Build Trotskyist parties ir though by Salvador dogged Central acult problems of political leadership.

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WHY THE GENERALS ATTACK

TURKEY'S 'LEFT' UNION

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 March, 1981 By Jack Johnson The preparations by Turkey's September 12 military junta to put on trial several hundred leaders of the country's Confederation of Revolutionary Workers Unions (DISK) marks critical point in the regime's anti-working class strategy.

At the same time a martial law court is examining ways of tepping 10-al allacks declarea legal y the generals' coup For the Turkisl working class, the struggle to build and

SARM IN IT CRUTCO DIATON

typified its own economic and political evolution over the last 20 years. charges faced by the 1110 enters and 'attempting to establish a working dictatorship mirror the way in which DISK's nave repeatedly taken openly political form and reflected the consciousness and striving for independence by the working class. That this process has just as often been Justiale altu petrayea can only be explained • political terms; the mono- bour- zoo oldes or cac come drus Party Turkey

(TKP),

the Turkish Workers Party and the Republican Peoples Party vesolle inese forces, have continuously compromised and diverted the union's rank anu 1uc s revolutionary bolen Mass turnout at funeral of Kemal Turkler time and again it has been

DISK

been in the led to the effective repression of roreiront ot the tight against the

LIKESO

ruing

CASS

Stale state. similar to that under the former To bring out DISK's central Young Turk regime the Turkish importance Under conditions of a back- Class anu. not least. omy, new car tne obvious Con-

ATATEK C

Renewal fusion which exists the Tranquility • Law of 1925 out- present me about the el mane lawede La uni Con workers' Labour Code of 1936 and giving the under ine a vren banne al sunkes calls for a brief outline of its giving state virtually and history. complete control over the working class. the dev- General scare elopment of trade unionism in Junese measures Turkey has been systematic denial of basic rights, tradit has been it te Ataturk borrowed straight from Mussolini's fault wild Culoulate SLaLC changing and uneven economic fascist Italv though model n have politied coney gro whi as political which they were also consistent with the Kemalist *above classes of stance characteristic such a roule. Às wit democratic

MONTA

overall, the possibility of estab- General Evren sonicantl Lishing working dresses the same clothes Further evidence of the class organisations emerged only bosses' fear Turkisl of the connoaratively recenty. lonow- the demise of the former working bass was the passing ol one-party Kemal the Societies Law in 1938 which Ataturk's RPP in the immediate prohibited 'all organisations ased on class'. The ending of World War II Though Ataturk had not been above mobilising working brought enormous changes.

Externally, the Marshall consolidation of bergen mar national liberation Plan's western European recon 1211SL struction was complimented by

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And internally Turkey a dollar-led influx bringing finance capital, wake pressure tol poluca reform. Sections of the ruling class were into recognising the necessity to adapt the reven or me sociere: Act in 1946 allowed for the for- mation some opposition and Darles. meanwine. espec in Istanbul and Ismir, the 19 V class began forming trade unions. Yet the Unions Law passed in 1947 had nothing in common with freeing labour from still state; strikes were banned, une was no conccuve carsal Ing ane aroon courts remained compulsory ed itio, the politics were allowed

HOTO DAIMATT CRIT TATIA TOO

inently in subsequent years.

The fifties sixties the Turkish changed workers' movement mevocaoy. me nea situation created by rapid indus- trialisation, demanding wage Labour OC out on a new lotte lea to the Iormation

WSL!

Turkish Labour Union's Confed- eration (TURK-IS) in 1952.

i which Turkey entered NATO year this was also coincidence, since a with imperialism, especiauly the UsA; was to be d prominent feature the development of TURK-IS combination of Turkey's big interests and the busmess UŠA's Central Intelligence the newly Agency ensured rommed unlons were loyal lo dil needs of domestic and foreigr capital. Bureaucrats On hand, providing finance and advice. gangster were • Line bureaucrats of America's AFL/

CIO

played a key role in tutoring their fledglins : counter- tact unionism. Continuing political the overthrow upheavals led Minister and hangins oi Prime Menderes in the coup 0I 1901. Its aftermath brought limited and still heavily qualif reforms. most notably the 1e0 right to strike. Implementation was another

TURK-IS

matter and only after was force uito mass demonsua (100,000

TONS

alone) was it realised in practice.

This - the en in of period sustained intense economic and political struggl which working class was to emerge as a qualitatively new force. Union membership massively link heed on colecive bat.

national industry-wide gaining, deanes Ton right to negotiate at local plant level. this struck at the highly way in which the

TURK-IS

exercised control over membership was resisted as outtery capitalists. Out of this ferment of newly awakened consciousness the Turkish Workers Party in 1962 Leaders of two the most

TURK-IS

affiliates- powerful Page 3 *The Turkey Solidarity Campaign has just produced its fares which includes material

DISK

trials. Available from 178 Oxford Road,

ISC,

Manchester 14 900. Kemal Turkler Kemal Turkler the metal have received as much cash workers union and in alrect nancia. support on Riza Kahuws the rubber the USA as from the whole of membership union the depths o of intellectuals to But plumbing class 15 stil not estaonse une carly Culaborallul Though limited to a carsic synonymous with being part ally reformist Parliamentary per- corporate state-a view held spective, this move explain its contin. s potenti- . ued the presen ally or comms samance an localll broke historic munary reame anon bacua alliance between labour and the the appointment

TURK-IS

and bourgeois Sadik Side to a post bourgeois petty Presiden in the civilian cabinet parties alt outicians This political turmoil contin To make such an elementary ued and intensified , reaching a mistake requires analysis peak in the mid-60s. Big strikes based at best merely on . super- ficial appearances ignoring the ana creas never sharp clashes with the state forces development. Clearly, such tame imitations turning point came ine of 1966 which of genuine trade unions are DISK's forma- no use to th legoatect workme class. bu tion they are not the same month strike labour organisations which have in been incorporated into the state Istanbul glass factory, ostensibly histori over separate

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negotiations, factory posed all the questions had been However partial , there have illustrations of thes been many comme lo ancau wum 1urk IS over its independence from contact ons the bosses. Relations dyed-in-the-wool spokesman inside TURK-IS, already of during big bourgeolsle polarised. Dy orevIous "70s from time to time gave Present may cone redy were forced half-hearted support the bourgeois liberal' leade President openly petty Ecevit, the lengthy with disturbing the susuce rary government against strikers mamona rene verweer The most extreme class bour- and ther big ist boration holding

TURK-

geoisie's Justice Party More obviously being as recently together wa now TURK-79 des turned uti delegations bv

LION

working class action Many of its affiliated unions Day demonstration declared for solidarity with the Izmir. striking шоткет an0 were thrown out. From this came the Turkey's ruling class do have setting up of DISK as a separate "trade union' stands for which comeccanon cultulat Presenting itself as an accom.

nOW plished fact to a panic-stricken run the fascist

MICK

ruling class and pledged Nationalist Action Party formally to oppose class collab.

Though never strong enough oraton. marked maturity and confidence in the питрет от шогкеть. It was ever development the Turkish occasions used TURK-IS as well as DISK working class should also remind our- Class nature selves of how the lascists solve union leaders-not by tortur Examining the emergence of and feigned neutrality 01 nature

TURK-IS,

whose General Evren's show trials but of well one over by bloody murder, such as that Turkler, denot dead in istanbul a Maden-Is leader Kemal to remain consider. Inion was ably bigger than its rival.

TURKISH

origin confirm, month before the coup. Despite its perfidious came about as a res leaders.

DISK

symbolises ponse major gains made by the Turish capitalism particular stage of its develop- workers alter years of struggit and sacrifice. ment. It is the duty of the inter- Its cravenly yellow charac- national trade union and labour cons cent organisation which had been movement • to condemn unreser created from and run vecy the attemnis to these achievements which with not even a nominal indep- successful will •back set the entence ЗПOM kure imperialist ruling class (between 1960 and I it was reputed ation

LAMBETH AND THE

FIGHT TO DEFEAT

Page 4 Labour demonstration against the cuts, November 1979 KW: This rates Lambeth, could you say some thing about that and how signif- icant you think it is? What steps are you taking to fight it?

[K: Inevicably, because we ' supple- raise a were iorcea to mentary Tate-we were

1OICC

that instance, the Auditor was able to force that has been adverse reaction to it. People, don't want to pay don't always identify the services or une counca wil the need to money for them. And has than obvious in meetings other Tory those orchestrated •OY Party Central people tend identify the of the council with services experien- their own immediate people have said-oh, the them, they council, 100k at down some workers and SenT they hung a door upside down.

Alternatively was for twelve months, scatiold up why was that? In other words they • 10en- the and inevitable tify that happen stupid things their major oranslon experience oI lt, unlessi have experience social services other Tactors. And so there was a reac but I think that reaction tion, What we are can be combatted, trying to do at a local lever to use THe machinery council's maximum

TOT

maxmu propaganda that we can put out charges made against Labour that dilu this Party Bevel. certanny constituency (Norwood), in a fight with leaflets engaged propaganda, other of mernoos organsul UPPUsI tion to the Tories and the whole defence of the services of the council. I think it can be done-l don't Think

IT IS

neces any going to be a speedy because I think media the equated local government with waste. I think we have lost that battle ationalyat the or mont, danger losing are in that battle. because neither the Party

BOSILOI

the trade unions have fought publicly equation for related services needed by people.

algr

THE TORIES

In fact, the Labour govern- previously,

CUL-

back only bie expenditure fuelled frankly was identified as wasteful.

So t back tse bise dange being backlash oi that tor come beroe, but almIk we can combat it and there is not a need for great pessimism.

Of course the problem that we have with the right is that they now While mine to the lacl tulal having some difficulties in elec- tions at a local lever, certally say the GLC election, that they difficulties This certainly muel areas. true. in loca autoniues bilal we can point to in London-South- Islington, where they've wald, and and cutting cutting and virtually destroyec some of their in services-Labour elections. the can cutes There strong feeling dominating. fight we have Whereas the put forward has tended obvious- provokè a situation where easily understood. it isn't so The demands we are getting that we IrOM meetings should stop services but that we should cuts. that the powell l can't defeat them. well think we've got to fight it back, which I think we are trying to au. IS: ! get the impression from the local I press that on reading of the most one rald, ult vocal elements In tre borrow! the question peepes try on shopkeepers-they that it going become tradinthat would, if true.

• if the votes connue Ti seem contain dangers as that layer quite Chin

TOCKE

DECOLLC

extreme in a right wing way.

At the same time are you not alienat- running the risk of also Labour support within the ing borok On the question of the inevitable. shopkeeper. It is an easty identiadle ery. the rates. There is no evidence amongst shop of bankruptcy In fact we keepers in Lambeth 101 coming into Tine borough. there's no real identifiable but it's al IssuC. one

LUI

complaining about the commer- S

CUTS

ial rents that are going up, o heir electricity bills or their ga else. So it's an olls or anytlg identifiable political argument against us. Labour think the 1Cs. be affected- vote is going in the sense that they are going The inter- start questioning. Lambeth esting thing that you can't walk anywhere in Lambeth without some people about Heseltine aren't talking the rates, Ted Knight or what ever it may be. ner tore there's a great deal of politica necessarily -10t nolitical comment going on but a lot oi it 1s big oscussion, going on all over the place.

In every shop, every estate. evely discussions going on, levels, that in itself is not a bad thing oi right is tnere a danger wing reaction? Yes. of course is. The middle class there small shop keepers can be driver right very to that. If we had made the the right. we'd sate increases there renot had therefore services such cancers. follow one can that line argument. IS: Yes, I was outside the meet- did in the Hall ing you Listening to the relay and it was quite clear that the majority weren't the interested most services provided to the people Who noted theming that you can.

not suggesting that you can backlash that right-wing WOeS ise the necess be toot to necessary support counter that amongst the work. borough when ing in the they too have to find the money nounting rate bills to PiK: Tell I think it is. I thin it does require people to go our and organise it. Our problem at moment is that we've got people-basically Party members-spending ther debating what their best without actually tactics to test any of their going ou nat's our broDen Labour Party here locally the spend hours debatin: They vall council whether the Labour right or. wrong get SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 March, 1981

BRANCH

As Labour councils un and down the country decide on rate levels for the coming financial year the question of how to respond to Tory attacks on local government finance is sharply posed. Socialist Press has consistently argued for a policy of mobilising But some behind Labour councils in a confrontation with the Tories.

Tine workine Cas ot Labour councils nave argued tor ralsing rates in orde time movement against the Tories. Lambeth council leader TED KNIGHT is recognised as Socialist Press supporters KEITH WHITE and this view most consistently . The second part of that interview is printed IAN SWINDALE recently interviewed mim below. The final part will be published, together with a comment, next week.

of the defence the social how in practice it will work out frightened to death when they wage, out and actually test any- But i think ane services provided by the council Textole unime outside social other words movemen have are against the attacks workers-wherever actually stepped much maiority of the government, by the employ than the Labour Party locally. their point of work is And we have argued that it is The trade unions went out Une the basis the working generally, possible cass ana campaigned In une sureels whethe the loss of That's more than some of our social derence war whether it's the loss of services, comrades the bring other sections vocal workers into that struggle or whatever ™ may be an e have done, what- Labour rally various strands of that may well ever faction they are associated in a together movement with. Now 1 think tal whal you will will have in the building of a change of government movement is not just a straight- So I don't see us just march- forward march of one section o the hill at ing workers it warped • But I do KW: You the very tion of struggles that take place ally body In ulal sellse beginning about the over a period of time you thought it had to be recog actual confrontation and the speed up when, They lllay they ery much in nised that the Tories would not fact that are the miners move

TOT

stance into a situation of possible con- toretiont of the struggle de persuaded point of building this movement frontation can have making a major contribacon lo would be to bring them It's raising that consciousness jumps in that development.

we've just had a situation

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succulalt days

WACI

asted with the miners' • strike : Where a lot of enthusiasm for that struggle and the possib.

doing the job for hiv other the working class of bringing the you of this movement conceive of a taking confrontaion with the Tory order brin the progres de it down? flow local out of the councils and

WONT

necessary to would bring the sove rent out! Throughout the build- of fight against the government we have argued for a change or poncy Irom government. Certainly the argued for a of change the poncy; tney •ont as government fall. The to told change their policy. We nem exactly same and have done that has been the basis of our campaign 1 have What said is that I think there to be nition that the sarily going to take that position and that basically in the end we have think remoing working class Tems bringing them down don't see local always ment-in fact have we the local govern. of motels sufficient oppos mobilising sufficient oppos- government that would bring Its dowillal We've said it was very neces- us to link continuously sary for the union movement and Nave the argument Knight speaking at Lambeth Day of Action, February 4 the front line authorities are

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Camden Day of Action: fight SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 March, 1981 Camden Labour Council deeper into crisis plunged week their ast as budget proposals for 1981-2 were thrown out last Wednesday.

At the special rate fixing meeting called on 4 March. ter councillors abstained protest at the reactionary in jobs and wages, age and rate inbreanes 1011l WalcE proposed the Dena ma orie nonesa ser Cro Phe.

seeing possibility of forcing even more

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ol necoorr deoer ship voted against the budget.

This Camden Council in an unprece- bosuen. watre naiooens if Camden fails to set a rate by April 1 is not clear. There is a possibility

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LnaE 1na0 e borrow expenditure there .guarantee of income from rates coming in. Even if they do manage to raise interest paid on those would. be JUalis ColaCl expenaiture. Of course Labour laderstul is doubtful whether the will the auow cotncr to bankrupt, with receivers hand- ing to centdl government: will be Gesperate LIcTC attempts cobblę together a to with either the left ten wingers or the Tories in order lo remala ma orlice.

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the majority of the Labour Group have already 'attempted to the Tories buy by introducing cuts services of £2.2 million.

wasn't enough

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satisfy the Tories rumoured demanding are million 4% LIUl. 'Cucs anu (equal to •TO• Ine rate further £4 million in cuts) buy their vote. 10 ally with the Tories on these demands would be disas- trous for They wing. would face LurUeI istall

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TC DOT raTmeN In Ene borough GMCs already passed •have resolutions vulku cililllc Liicl acuons. Teachers banned

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leadership a miserable Reit eins ie Toled, willingly ducking any They reserving their are venom and for militants who ight for actio against the cuts. six Nu! mem- Lasl

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oers were suspended from the union and barred 18 months supporting strike the Lambeth alun Day ol acuon on rebruary 4 Among them was NEC mem- Dick ber North, and salliveull

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secretaty Vanessa Wiseman. This brazen victimisatior must be fought by every NUT associauon. Defence Secretary John Nott heads off to Washing- ton this week to discuss details of how British troops could join in a U$ Rapid Deployment Force'. And government now admitted that intends to press yang unemolovca voum into six-month military training starts here! Despite the weakness of the ш oe o e or a one-day strike on protest Camden Labour Left member Graham Shurety interviews March (see with John nterview John Seymour, NUPE shop at Camden'& Cressy steward seymour) the Camden labou Road refuse depot about the March 4 Day of Action.

been m ovemert defeated. only just beginning to mwt d campaigll. What actually happened on the was taken at a NUPE mass meet- l1 the Gl conngors "re TI role in that campaign was waCn 48

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Ine. I ne oV s strike • botraea, party Our union secretary estim- direct opposition ated that 50% council's policies in dealing witt and hold out against stayed out-with Heseltine's decision to cut the

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majority on

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Cel. Latl Scotors

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Uutt late su oort erdut Labour Group to garaens meais wheels Ine idea ot the strike was to the boilers, remaining absolutely combine

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and udge order to allow the rate fixing to

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together solid ulas. The decision to go on strike Council's piucccu. UrOLOST agallist Cuts Conference

POLICIES TO STOP THE CUTS

Called jointly by the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement and Socialist Organiser Saturday March 21 from 10.30 am. to 5:00 pm.

Islington Central Library, Holloway Road, London N7 Details and credentials from: SO/CDLM Cuts Conference, c/o 66 Brokesley Street, London E3 Glasgow cuts fight In Glasgow, Springburn Department want to 35 and 10r cut and fares increased. Committee Against the Cuts sizes up from and the 23 March Speakers rid 15,000 is organising a public meet- meeting will include representa.

LEdCiel ing on Monday 23 March in •coulano in tnd l he sole Tives r •T ine necona councin purpose these actions is to the teachers' and the Barmulloch Community cut the money oduca. Scottish Tenants Organisation. Centre at 7.30 pm. to high- the deterioration tIon-whatever light the impact of cuts ón!

in standars tusilmean. 400 Already 'dozens of teachers A. mass. walsatin last the local area, especially as Glasgow, including many in tenants in Walsall week the Springburn sudi, they affect education. voted withhold £3.2. 'the beer Navd The Committee has released requir mento are De wee Lebur cose ci Tee Trols and will Labour council. a camoada leariet along wilh a petition calling upon Strath- shifted elsewhere. meeting curiously was suppor- clyde Council Regional the only •ted by leader Education counci Brian Is nol "immediately state their willing.

service Powell, who said that the coun.

cocal under stieck.o the Tory Council cillors were behind the action, ness to negotiate smaier class sizes at this time of falling Springburr will lespite having voted far the school rolls". in" March ncrease by sicI cusc The Scottish Education this year, Bus services are Deing Pergamon: strike back at Maxwell •On Wednesday 4 March other liouses the NUJ organ- Labour and

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the NUJ Chapel at Robert member which Maxwell is other things the Maxwell's Pergamon Press Iuc cidoa na ucarco Chapel Was SCeKme areemenu antenton T19N1 Inta- (Oxford) were called out on the company to a con- members are reinstated. Support ITOm official strike by thẹ NUJ sultation procedure from the Irish Graphical Society National Executive after a new technology Maxwel already been declared Maxwell emphaticall meeting between •Lialt

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also being sought. tie his com- Was nok going to and

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negotiators 'the pany to any written agreement Oxford Trades Council has previous day failed to to consult. set up a support committee and produce any real progress has nusan uane uaon collece been supporting picket lines and on a house agreement claim, has supplied the strikers with a some aspects of which have The company's response to ucauclles been outstanding since the* the strike was turst to threaten Messages and Autumn of 1979, as well as donations to: Sack mes and last rrlday. sent to carry the threat out. Pergamon CI hapel Strike Fund. the issue of 1981 wages. This tyle) condu tiner vo UlUn DuCaLxOe Pergamon rates of and pay disputes reminiscent employ- ViCSL CuDlOyCIs ment are poor compared with arTay Deçomug Conscripting jobless youth part of their human" prometic oas the race through Thatcher's destruction of job cosmetic Opportunities opportunities long-term BOYOL SECO o neex

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holocaust. unemployed youth, there dilve scarcely be a clearer example of Only the defeat of Trades Councils and union inability Thatcher branches must at once take ur coverient drone utilise the productive forces or fight for socialist policies against me einooran to prevent uncu manpower available the existing Labour leadership ployed youth signing up for "inprofitable" Instead fac- can lay basis for the elimin- tories are closed down, ation oi unempioyment through Programme resources and energy channeuled economy army iecruitment planned

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Thatcher/Reagan war into the rather than the elimination of already booming as a result of itenuon co mwict cuts in wader and jobs on the working class The day after une wass moor-

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February membership rejected their executive's call for solid- arity STrike acton on, Marcn d This gave opponents of the strike within

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some lever- duc to argue dose coo cko But the most damaging blow to solidarity on March 4 was the

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leadership's reluctance to persuddo te moanoersno r loin The mcn out inec oy the Joint Shop Stewards Steer- ing Committee This despite the fact

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that memers are one target num ser

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the Councit, with 600 jobs going out of 1300 What form did that reluctance T.KAr The building shop workers stewards committet hac done ULLC . Ue resisting the cuts. on Maren mass was, called 3 with a ocTIon

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Inoetnt: strike action H ning eP played a very small part in joint unions' cam- wo ls l s tel Suw isin und (under wnen Tne 1e80 ersnlo Communist Party member Vic Heath) put the vote for indefin.

stnke acon was noavay сетеятес • fall back No position. was put to those workers. The resol.

ution was presented as an ulti- Courtauld fiasco The first mass meeting at the Courtaulds nylon plant at Aintree discuss the to closure of the plant involv- ing 1600 jobs was a fiasco.

In addition the poor cogan ato soth and ting small and

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ReNU otiea amo-tre and "-in the • form mo perspecuve Iot actioll membership were presented with an abstract -as al Tate and all other closures in Merseyside to Роог chaimay r backward which allowed a minority and cynical elements meetins to ridicule alecca contribu- The e kers Tuirther ted to the chaos

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leaflet put into the factory argued strongly for the following Occupy the threatened "1) plant to oft eguipmente and selling equipment and machinery

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Insist that Lamb, the district official,

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oi ai COranes transport and plant. Demand the opening of

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largely influenced by ceson t uobed calane for the waverers. How do you see the role of thos councillors who have Tought the right wing? V TO nON uneir recoro na been principled. They have fought the right wing openly example Councillors Neil riotcnd ante sowvmla pledged their support to NUPE workers at the mass meeting on, February they Calllc ano tney flavt the Labour TouOn1 Party against the right wing had the support have of NUPE in voune docnst tnt Labour majority's reactionary package of cuts in the Counci Chamber. appearances o1 weaknesses amono ouoic secto unions on the one-day strike it that the campaign is just beginning. It would be a mistake to se March 4 as the end of the fight.

cal the Labour • ta counciior. the working class to •etenee• 'continue their stand the company's books and those oI tren Iner ona (banker elected committee workers to see the profits being hived

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alil as prelude workers' manas eno to redundancies. For work-sharing on full pay the struggle with 5) Link up all plants in the textile industry threatened with 1 closure and also and Lyle rennery Love Lane to form a Council of Action. The leaflet also attacked the import Icacuoldry

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controis advocated by Lamb An

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leaflet while making : certain valid reference to the miners" " victory ana men ar introner. Jeans in passing, failed to spell unambiguously necessity the immediate factory, оселетон от та place any demands on the union bureaucracy Instead they called lamely "back the jor me memoers stewards' call today and get ready to fight". But stewards supported the ing. So what does all this add ur to? When do the SWP think we are to fight-and how? to Socialist Press

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Police ban on London marches William Whitelaw's The explosion decision to ban all marches in the London area until the end of March is a heavy blow at the labour move. and the ment black com- munity The intro- And ban—nowonally prevent aucea in order to fascists of National

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staging New Cross massacre. cemon. house in It is for suaLIon Ine where 13 black cross youth died in a racist attack- but all marches followed nard on the heels of a huge, angry demonstration b whole of this month. 10,000 black over people through the streets of London.

Webster Whitelaw knew full well that effectively these anti-fascist forces would have turned out to Sanor drive scum. off feminists, streets of New Cross. and anti-cuts groups Ladene munst raTV

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they lead black directing more Instead mobilise the labour fascists off the streets.

And that be developed Tory mate The Whitelaw unemployment the grist to the racist mill.

More strikes still are brewing in Poland as we go to press, as local branches of Solidarity threaten to take action to defend victimised militants. The stoppages, called Lodz, are scheduled to begin on Tuesdav aim The forcing the reinstatement of five sacked union members. This additionally signifi- cant m me ugnt or the renewed Sorre bureaucacy dished out by the Soviet Polish in THe aftermath of the CPSU Congress in Moscow. Kania was told to put his house in order. afterwards police arrested left wing dissident Jacek Kuron, prominent advisor : to the Solid- workers in the next period arity leadership. They must he was Crarted and means with verang une government But the uneasy balance against the forces battered Polish police state apparatus and military the powerful trade union move- the Kremlin leaders. ment that has emerged from last But summer's strike wave was under.

Solidarity lined by attempting to minimise conflict ш ecoment. Athid rumours that Kuron's with the government. close associate Adam might also be the arrested. arty placed Michnik under the reinstatement; on the strike protection of a This frontal challenge sought renewed talks authority of the political police coverner rubished by r'olrose Ltd for the Worke Rogistered as a newspaper at

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of • WEll Ho anger among the black youth- bitter at years of police harass ment, job discrimination and abuse-on last Monday's march made it clear that the virtually impossible to provide the usua protection for the fascists.

defuse the mass movement that has erupted in the wake of the this that he Icasol banned not only the NF march, in the Metro- olice for al vo that Martin gang of thugs blocking over a dozen demon trade unionists, campaigner: notiais ana com members have baulked at this blanket use of the law by the Tories.

mis- contrue and white workers by them towards police bans and prevent fascist demonstrations.

power the movement to arive ine power must bring down the and canyonet socialist policies that can elim- poverty provide Kania carpeted

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ane the state bure cor points Danish cartoon on Polish situation seek Our ways , to defend themselves allack. 'The policies vlamist regue in warsaw or a offensive ordered by that the leadership still Socialist Press pamphiet outlining programme of action against the Tory meeting L'odz call fo offensive. but remained Price action, and

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Historic strike by civil servants airports closed, the image of the civil servant as spy the impotent pen-pusher off But how will this power switched be mobilised by union leaders in NATO war garnes disrupted.

the next phase the struggle? These were among the high ite have talked oi points of a historic day of action to hit crucial and also 500,000 defence secret civil servants on Monday.

It was the day of days te Piecemeal through DOOLe customs The forthcoming selective danger that piece meal action bi / individual groups the civil servants ww been to drag social security others become demoralised -whereas mobilisation could quickly force the government to Power concede the 15% claim. Civil union activists It brought an 85% response must work to extend the strike from members of the nine civil and to focus power in the loca taken strike action stake us pay campaign-a the governmen! underlined the the 6% cash limit in the belly o untapped power of these unions own WONd very fabric the drive Gone for ever is overthrow Thatcher. Students fight Tories ' students joined in students joined local demonstra- tions Aberden Edinburgt vundet and against Tory protest plans to students at replace grants with loans And vlose are saeng Londor StudenT plans University College, Queen students Mary College and the London 90 *A level School of Economics continue sit-in action : member victuall the discriminatory fees increases tor overseas students. over 5,000

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