Socialist Press no. 240

Social democrats used to knife Labour Like grotesy ue Frankenstein monsIC, cobbled together from the left-overs of previous reac- tionary pressure groups and campaigns, the new social democratic party to be launched this week is an artificial creation. has been a borlousy pieced together with the aid of e free publicity enge media tha1 nas

SU DEV

shifted the Council for Social from image Democracy's unsavoury connotations of the "Gang Three" to the apparently respectable notion of "Centre le portect nex tre the responsible ponuclans ol of both left and right. Only TATOUgt nuCe Lalis" fusions of synthetic public inter- four defeated could

CSL

ostracised pro-capitaust aroD- from the Labour Party reconditioned and been Have as a new DUL DaCK Ito service party within the space of a mere two months. social course DUl Gem ocras Ene se ves arc nol taken in by their own propa- the reppeated, ganda, by ridiculous opinion poll forecasts their possible electoral support. That is why none of the Labour MPs or the renegade Tory Brocklebank-Fowler has their anv intention of putting supposed support to the test by standing for re-election as a soclal ucmoclal. Weakest full well that They knoW even the opinion polls have confirmed electoral standing is weakest in the con- stituencies they actually hold at the issues are present-wnere most oDeny Doseu They know that even the hundreds of cheques and letters they nave received trom middle class and capitalist

SPULISULS

around the country mean little in Terms ol actual pracucal mass support. Certainly uney nave as yer supporters with them TaKen Icw out the TaDOUT Trounced at the last three Party conferences and shunned by the Toucanes

C DORS

turning to the Labour Party as a way of fighting the Thatcher government, nev nac HexeL no support from the rank and file. Their only hope is to utilise the media to the full in a coor- dinated attempt to win a base of support nom comuseu lay eis or the middle class who oppose Thatcher and socialist both Donces. It ls in part the existence of such layers that has persuaded sections of the capitalist class to lend their material backing the new party-in the lom uncritical press coverage com- bined with an intensifier attacks supposea uta-ell policies of the Labour Party.

Unpopularity class is plainly The ruling concerned at the massive unpop- mariv or The natener coven- ment, which is now resulting in a growing crisis within both the Caminer ane mae ory raty m Parlament. Particularly in the wake of inflicted the the derea government by the miners, The capitalist class now sees a real

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TORY PRESS

LAUNCHES

NEW PARTY

could fatt in the face ov erorkint that the government for alternative policies-rejecting the wage controls, cuts and mass brought about class action. uneroroymcul In previous periods the capit- under Wilson and Callaghan.

alist response has been simply to Thevent kige asp hait set ut repetition Turn to mre noat wue Icauclsil-

DICYCILE

of. the Labour Party to manage another right wing …Ea DOuI government-and the economy for a period, while forced policies to make the Party Tory through first forces. party leadersmup 10]

LIC

Successive Labour accountable Boval shown themselves and ments have members, bring wing MPs to heel. The ferment willing and able •LO wage oul clas in tho namo of, reserving attacks on continues: the old order is being the working challenged-and in process the Williams Rodgers capitalist INOU SUrV wen. alla collaborate to the hilt in the have been roundly defeated.

of imperialist rule maintenace In particular we should note word on a scale -baruculals

NATÔ

through the that the last Labour Party amance con ference while rejecting a call to withdraw from NATO, carried a But recent developments within the Labour Party motion unilateral nuclear tOT disarmament. caused capitalists in Britain and Such a policy is seen as a Inтeтna110121) OTeSEO whether this remains the case.

crect chalense ov mne moer An increasingly ialist chiefs both in Britain and angry rank

USA.

The and file within the Labour Party the recen has begun to step up the fight Tanoraa progammes mulcalcc When this is combined with that the US imperialists would the electoral boundaries wing Labour regard

ILC W

government as so untrustworthy cue to be inTroduce-wack offer additi nal te seatozen toe Tories dozens That The suDo y or seciel monn ation would cease and NATO would be thrown capitalsts hope that tney •Cal split off enough supporters to mto cucsuon. Labour government And it has been revealed that make former Tory Ireland spokesman

SHIDOSSIOIC.

with Airey Neave plotted Coalition cerer sevice contuicuicy vlat or the ascarsnaton oron Benn were he to become Prime ALeuc uc cuc gence of the social 1 democratic

MILISLCL

The capitalist class in Britain party as an unelectea grouping and the USA is thus determined within Parlament immediately to do anything and everything weakens Labour's opposition to prevent the election of a left and offers the possibility, under certain conditions of propping wing Labour government will serve up a flagging Tory ue new

B CLILECL

their purpose in this task.

through arrange- CoaTon hand it will be able to me This would remoye from the utilise the mass media to create capitalists' minds the maximum confusion

MOL ONS

naunul: amongst workers but also, more significantly, among the sections the hands of the working class- and reinforce offensive whose of middle class electors crucial to a Labour votes are agamst Toos. services ana avu: election victory. standards. Missiles Conference

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And while even the Liberals Contal uniatcrdist. alla wl elements who can on occasion embarrass David Steel's leader- ship, the social democrats in a fusion with the Liberals would bring in a turm commitment to pro-NATO, pro- the hare. ine missiles policies advo- cated by William Rodgers.

ine new party tnus nus an important role for the imper- ialists in Britain and on a world scale. But while the bosses rub Their nanas in mee ane calte out reams and hours of syco- Dnanuc

LICWS

coyolast promote The1 new should look to their mass political party. For if the social democrats fit the needs of the capital, Healey/Foot leadership and the polucs or the Labour rarty way fit the needs of the working class. In fact it is increasingly clear that Healev. Foot. Shore and are acting Hatters ev • Tne Fifth Column left behind in the Labour Party to carry on the work of the Gang of Three They are fighting tooth and nail to reverse the democratic Blackpoo] TerOmS Webley; they are looking for the to witch-hunt means SoCausIs wno oDpose ulel rIgEl totaly poliosed to any. policies; and they are fight for Thatcher acuon to romove une government before the next election in 1984 As Frankenstein

LCW

ramy Croaks us mast reactona sentences and embarks on its attacks on the working class,

NC OCTS

BUE US U

step up the fight to secure control of their party. Key to this is the building of the strupies pled tadeg place struggles now taking place oh loos. waces. Tens ame soom spending cuts equipped with a programme of socialist policies sune gat must be lor mas.

action to bring down the Thatcher government, expose ana romove ue sabour waltors and establish a genuine workers' government committed to build- planned, socialist economy.

BRAZILIAN UNION LEADER

By Don Flint' The sentencing to three did not matter what was said by press-I mean the defence and a half years' jail of Luis and the prosecution. Ignacio da Silva (Lula), The whole organisation of of the Brazilian leader Trial' the was so transparently metalworkers' union and towarus bolaile 'guilty' verdict that even the Partido dos Trabal- Brazil's puppet sections hadores, and eleven other Congress and. allegediy. sectors trade unionists for inciting of the military, were opposed to collective disobedience The defendants' the law' promises to acceler- lawvers advised them not to attend- ate class conflict in Latin which they did not-for fear of America's largest state. LIeu SaltLy: Illullary cordons (comprising 2,000 men) According to the Judge in were set up around the court- the case, Nelson Guimaraes: nousc. dic pIcss was excluded. "I took part in the trial wit whole surrounding blocks were cleared of people and traffic and my mind already made up. do it Invasion threat from top Reagan aide The notion that workers international policy as brutal as Reagan's domestic economic in Europe might prefer the (unlikely) prospect of a to do to the Soviets what Soviet invasion to the (more have been doing to us in they likely) prospect of annihil- Afghanistar Algold, and elsewhere. ation in a Reagan-launched At a very low cost, without nuclear war is "contempt- a big investment on our part, we ible". can make it very nard tot tem in these places So says Mr Richard Allen, The USA "would not yield" National Security Advisor to the West Reagan government, in a public Dressure Bathe the German government for new talks on the limitation of the pace in Britain and the rest of Europe. nuclear arms bulld-up. he said "Right now second The Reagan administration Britain largest party has at first attempted suppless adopted as part or its orcial ripes name, ana ten nutritaly the renunciation of disavowed the statement itself We

NATO

nuclear weapons. grew alarm one commies contemptible "better red than But clear Lilalmas dead" slogan of a generation Reuters news agency pointed ago." out the tough line appears con- Allen's heavy-handed defence of Reagan's aggressive, sire reagan and secretary by Secretary wallulue poley Is vall Ol State Alexander Haig." a pattern or similar statements from White House And indeed Pipes' superior, aides in the last two months.

General Haig, had only just come eter testimony Soviet rhetoric Reagan's Congress in which he talked of closest political advisors the war in El Salvador in terms Has reached à pitch that has even the "domino revived ThaT embarrassed government theory" which was used as the US military inter- itselt. pretext iot Most outrageous of all was vention in Vietnam. speech last week by the Claiming that White House National Security stands behind the bureaucracy struggles of the liberation force Council's "Soviet affairs expert' a Mr Robert Pipes Salvador, Haig declared "Detente that this was the second stage of does not exist," he "Nothing a four-phase operation: is left decared detente." one or act as area The Soviet leaders face been completed-the seizure of their socia peacefully changing" Vicaragua. Next is El Salvado choice of system to line up • be lolowcu by moluuras all capitalist coun with that in the Guatemala. I wouldn't necessarily call it tries ur co war "There is no other alterna- a domino theory ... but a hit and it could go either list if you will." It was also revealed that the Pipes looked towards an vicious thugs of the US "Green

CAMPAIGN AGAINST RACIST LAWS

Demonstrate Against Immigration Laws Hyde, Park,

STOP THE

London 1 p.m. Sunday

NATIONALITY BILL

5 April days' only two notice of lifted from Mussolini's fascist proceedings were given. The result was a foregone The struggle marked a major conclusion. An appeal has beer step forward in the organisation Figuereido's dictatorship government appointed "pelegos' who guaranteed the yellow chance assess political verticalist control Dalance or orces berore instruc ting its judges. Similar strikes had been held in 1978 and 1979 in the Sao The workers' crime lies in industrial suburb of Sao their leading role in organising raulO the metalworkers' strike Bernardo laying the basis for Partido the dos Trabalhadores April 1980 in Sao Paulo which (Labour Party), a social demo.

weeks and gained Lastea IO the support of over 200,000 cratic organisation led by Lula.

The regime is clearly deter- mined to repress the PT and any The strike was illegal under or ndepender worke Brazil's Labour Law, organisation while at the same which contains whole sections time introducing spurious opening atter 17 years of military rule. Beret" commando units are being prepared for action in El Salvador But while Reagan's team pre- pares there ange on resen oppressed masses on a world scale in the name of "international opposing they are also extend- the hand of economic and military aid to the terror cam- waged by the Margils HUst barbaric regimes and right wing guerrillas. Dictatorships in El Salvador,

PRESS

Chile. Argentina, savage apartheid capitalist state of South Africa; and anti-commun- guerrillas Angola Afghanistan have all been the political sub1ec1 0I VYi lules and economic and military assis- tance in the last week Reagan is seeking to change arms to the reactionary UNITA

GANG

arms to the reactionary in and to the Argentinian dictatorship. devang possiblty openly increasing the supply of imperialist arms to the Afghan And there are rumours that The Sunday Times South Prime Minister quotes Sir Thomas Hether- Botha might be invited to make the first post-war state visit of a ington, the Director South African leader to the Public Prosecutions, in his USA-as a means oi consolidat evidence to the Royal Com- ing Reagan's alliance With as both a crucial mission on Criminal Proce- Iegime seen supplier of raw materlals and a dure. bastion of anti-communism.

He said But of course Reagan is not In deciding whether or not alone in his international orien- To one a broseculon we tation. move must have reguard to the effect warmiv greeted bv the Thatcher the prosecution government in Britain. British would have upon public morale workers must act to break this and order, and with any other alliance- considerations affecting public before turns, as in EI policy." Salvador, from warmongering in That policy certainly was words to warmongering in fact.

DPP

followed by the the Tom O 'Carroll, was campaigning paedophilia.

IOT

for two. years

TOT

conspiracy; while Sir Peter Hayman, former High Com- had his

DEMONSTRATION

mISSIONCI canada. name covered up in the cour proceedings. despite be child US Hands off El central figure Salvador! Clearly •morale i Saturday 4 April done no harm at all by launch- Assemble 2.00 pm. °Caroll and racing thim. a conspiracy trial against The Plain, Oxford But to pillory an establish- followed by Rally ment figure who 1s amongst his things chairman or Evening social local Tory constituency party might undermine public Called by Oxford JUSt Latin America aristocracy and therefore in the Committee state Geoffrey Dickens, a Tory MP who has not come to terms with the patrician wing of the Dan. dew une wusue. Up to this point the press

JAILED

Yet it wil be unable to complete its manoeuvre (forced on the government in the first by wace the rising modulsation of millions of Brazil's working class, peasantry and impoverish- ea masses) without running ine risk of wholesale class confron- tation. This is one reason why the 'ultra right of the military pushed for thi prosecution

WOIKCIS

and reversal of the 'abertura' The dictatorship faced had been wallowing along in the wake of events. When Dickens named Hayman in Parliament the story filled the front pages for two days-once on the leak and once attacking it. An ahis point the ess bee running maKe paedophile witch-hunt hac turned over a stone they had not meant to mum are round d scorpion that stung its keeper.

Even while inside pages wer still running profile the Knight they called Humpty Dumpty, the front pages the knives out for Dickens Mary Kenny wrote a piece in the Daily Mail saying that even Liberal opinion' was by pacaopna. our une pres.

was about to demonstrate that it does not discriminate betweer it has a target in its sights.

Dickens, half realising what was about marriage at a press conference- and then phoned home to tell Is wilt The break-up of his marriage was the lead story in every tabloid paper the next day.

His wife was interviewed almost as she heard the news. The skeleton in the cupboard was rattled as loudly as the bones would stand. for spoke redone. themselves: Confession of Porn Row MP (Sun), The Skeleton in My Cupboard (Mail); My Secret Row (Mirror); Porn inte Leaves Wife (Express); and Porn Case MP says T've left my wife yet' but blease cont leu ner SUCIALisI iRiss, Wednesday 25 March 1981 • For if with a critical dilemma. it gives way, the workers' move- apace: ment move exc whereas if it proceeds with i jail. Lula and the others ing • there will de, in tula s woras: "Ten Lula's tomorrow. If they arrest them. hundreds nOTe many that they •cannot all be arrested. Figuereido and his generals only a matter of time before it begins to rumble again. Lula addressing Sao Paulo mass meeting (Star). The following day the story was still the lead in the Mirro and Star. A third woman' was By now it was the haples Dickens who linked with was the child sex material! Hayman disappeared from the headlines whil Dickens was Porn Row MP had alst equated pictures children being sexually assaulted with "porn' in any other sense) . 230 by implication and sometimes more directly -accused I of hypo-

HUAV

lancy pomling tue huge. at Hayman while he had mistress' Passive role The woman of course wa cast in a passive • role through out. Dickens had' a wife and mistress (or two, or three depen- ding on which paper you were • within a few days we had arrived at a position where the same papers which had treated O Carroll as a monster were now the MP who exposed giving Hayman similar treatment.

This bigoted prudish and evangelical attacl not just flow on Dickens did mom Sad rurance It began rom a need eflect attention from Hayma and the establishment. The "morality' displayed b the proprietors of our great anc truth loving daily nas, as usual, a direct ana crude material base

leaders make no preparations Class collaboration in practice. The day after the coup. Left to right: Santiago Carrillo (Communist Party), Rodriguez Sahagun (UCD), Adolfo Suarez (UCD), King Juan Carlos, Felipe Gonzalez (Socialist Party), Manuel Fraga (Democratic Alliance).

The Defence Minister's of secret statement to timing leaked attempt. Suarez parliament last week about resigned the just-failed military coup pressure against on February 23 confirmed thougn reachonary, regale The plotters fears about the the worst (béfore moved fragility of Spain's post- ourcels were Franco 'democracy'. moment of Calvo Sotelo's instal- revealed Premier Oliart's report government not of verv wide

UCD

military and Civil Guard officers lease of life under a new leader.

had been carefully which planned over several months.

the He made it clear that many Darlament wild more senior officers were impli- recorded it on tape. cated in the plot than the four Though the who have so far been aested. undole and who are now held in luxur- inside and outside parliament to a liberal ious conditions under know regime in army barracks awalt ing trial by military judge against admitted refraining from anything which Oliart also might arouse military ire thing which was already widely And even though suspected-that the government itself knew of the plans at least 1st ana communist Icaucts in outline for several months.

willingly going along with this craven surrender to widepstead speculation that Adolfo Suarez resigned 1st army, the publication of ever from the Premiership because of the limited military pressure is thus demon- or less strated be more To contale will Coreol. Winsford vote "We for a massive need A plan rent/rate strike in Winsford tenants' need vorinue estate groups throughout and possibly mid-Cheshire has been to be at least adopted. hopefully and The audience at a rally held on Mondav night agreed almost Past unanimously that residents had increase in should not.pay was not strong enough next month. The rally was organised by a trade unionists, Labour Party to fight and others such increas Wear mal cuts in jobs and public spending.

Organisation people abstained. said He had From the Dave Damne Murphy tenants' warned groups people to join meeting at Grange Community Centre

LOCU

would have to be almost 100% supported or it would fail.

action, Spain: workers' government had hoped for.

This also explains something the Even before the leak coup government has been planning evidently which reduce military will curb his ineffective, the freedom or the and which will allow them press only down not therefore official Francoist daily El Alcazar but also the ready) •at Basque daily, Egin. In the Basque provinces the netore the got ETA-militar campaign the army has continued, regard- less of the coup attempt. Since Oliart's statement was leaked by members of February

ETA

nave succeeded in killing a group of secretly llau armed police and seriously injur- government was ing an army colonel. These remain circumstances the clamour in which the majority of people what happened, the leak- in Spain are counting the days the workers partits The main sualery nothing to prepare the political the and physical resistance to such a : Social- seemingly inevitable event.

are Thev have decided to leave it the Franco- to the Francoist 'democrats' and the 'constitutional' generals and King Juan government report will make it much more difficult Carlos to preserve democracy in of Spain. A recipe for disaster.

kind cover up of the plot which the for rate/rent strike muscle to the fight. an It was also hoped that the we on the Could ol forces with a similar organisa- tion in Runcorn. movement had Winsford-wide- Broader base throughout mid- Peter of the Halton Lawes, said Castle Rent Action Group. said Murphy his organisation was based on 3 revious movements estates in Runcorn. had failed because the support broader base we have Ine or two martyrs were left to take chance we've got success, he said Band together said that the problems workers were caused war govern Although the meeting voted by 57-1 in favour of the action blasted ment.

OUT

local Labour councillors. and about 40

TOLE

Party leaders. that residents now "Traitors" together into get other It had been planned to hold the movement rally at the Labour the Wait but the Labour Party withdrew would be encouraged to support its permission. LETTER New Fl has ated

TTOM

LONGO!

16 March 1981 pontics His dismissal of history Dear Comrades, only lead to that Socialist Press will be able to material Calury ships, and will on the newly proclaimed Fourth International (International traps that rIOM SOUl historic impasse since 1938 point of view the 28 February reported in issue 238 meeting than it Talscu

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answered, and cannot be seen a a definitive solution to the prob.

lems of the fragmentation of the Moreno's violent titious attacks. Trotskvist movement in Britair of Lora's history and the world. Although points will, these nO!| rejectión have to await a more however, but question detailed discussion, I would like to add to your report on the 28 decision made by the

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America 'Fusion' continuity It must have been apparent to even the most casual observer that the 'fusion' between aspirants to 'orthodoxy relation

SLG

and represented by the mouthpieces from the OCRFI. It would also Moreno, which steadfastly to record the dishonest of which Moreno Tenses period points raised une United Secretariat, has a very Vorkers Power speakers. before anything olen resembling a politically coherent world proletarian leadership can missed as emerge from it The most glaring example of own little enterprises. this, and one Which VOl account should have mentioned Debating tricks -given that it was juxtaposed to a piece on the FI(IC)'s defama Lora-was the striking tion of the two groups between John contaccor Archer's opening duu click for the

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stressing the debating importance of history, contin-

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Name Address. Send to: WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX.

Ken Unwin, a member of the branded action, council councillors McGrane and Percy and Josie "traitors" for not Rates Jim Needham, council of member, said Labour action ; asked not were speak at the rally Decense they would be "urging residents Trial sub (UK) Six issues. to break the law. Party member from the audience said he did Six months. councillor McGrane think One year. was a traitor, but had been put under pressure not to speak Europe: the rally. At a recent meeting of the Mid-Cheshire Trades Council a Rest of world: right wing motion to disaffiliate Six mionths.. Trom the colnel defeated a 2-1 majority. then emphasised tha It was the council should Box respond more oucky to unt 3XX. initiatives and requirements of the council of action! long way to go support their request to present the real work of material to the founding confer- ence of the Filic). He relusec › a refusal to evaluate to even consider The tional of the Trotskyist past errors, and Liaison Commit- in some cases crimes of leader materialiola inevitably lead Certainly the discussion the working class into the same have held must continue and joint sold in its arity work must be undertaken the SLG on of Attacks serious workers. should insist on honest these discussions approach « ane reve the whole and an end to sharp practice organisation Ernie Stubbins of historical analysis. every 'orthodox' Reconstruct the Fourth International!

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Statement submitted to the CDLM/SO Conference on the Cuts, Saturday March 21. (See page 8).

Apart from the massive determine what in public expenditure contract, cuts and the threat they repres- vma e regulations by ent to all local government contracts. workers, the Local Govern- ment and Land Act which whole Act method, which becomes law on April 1 is tendering and profit-making the comprehensive merye attack yet mounted against Department of the Environment specified Direct Labour. be

ACOLIELS

The Act is part of the Tories from other overall strategy towards the accounts: of local govern- •Ivalzallul a) General highways. ment services, opening public b) New services up to 'market forces' £50,000. •Labour AL orcscil

DECOL

New Organisations operate in such a €50,000. way that they provide-to some d) Maintenance exd cac duyall tages: decide exactly *Providing a service to the should and local community based on neea, included in any account. not profit. *Maintaining a high standard neither for convenience nor for of work. information. as a check on out-

TACHO

accounts to show profit or loss side contractors. *Providing good, safe work- the DoE is 5% on ing conditions. the rate achieved by *Supplying skilea labou] sector through apprentice schemes.

CBI

estimates Che a certain amount return for the private sector in of accountability to tenants.

1981 of 3%. Act will compel DLOs The Act

WONK

LUC

Collia accounts system, requiring them to make à profit, and eventually this will all the lead to the removal hard-won gains benell. guise which DLOs represent. A rigid However it bureaucratic standardisation aimed generally as the guide to the De murooscd СР пІ АПРАТПАС ВИКОНАН running of all types of work. It private contractors the standard of private con- its and success LaCiUlD. measurea by proll week the Not only will the decline of date. DLO under the cuts open up a massive new markel to fold. Firstly, will remove the only in practical demonstration that the contracting system not the ities to organise the build- This only way efficiency. ing mausuy. genera ack These are the main areas to be cut: working on Doro wil now des, Tendering. The Act submit realires me d ronc ou! tender in competition with departments least three other contractors for choose une lorowus work. General highways work what 1s mose necded over £100,000. b) New build over £50,000 the provisions of c) New build under £50,000 The dacn than val tosat v-athe sf sater Minister

DLÓS

that such LO Lai Valle work from the previous year.

'out d) Maintenance work over At £10,000. Iolau! ao a of State will The Secretary have the discretionary power to ted.

ON BOROUG CUD.

TOLU HOMIL FOC HE ORH

LICENA

constituter councils will be to get round tendering splitting up 2) Accounts. Central to the highlights With most diseases, it falls to the healthy to cure the sick The But in the Labour Party

SULCUSU

four different kept, distinct action against healthy Toca autoty the expulsion of socialists and supporters of the Militant tendency.

The disease is of course construction over me ake ore-ane fail construction under The DoE will have the power ITemS should not be These accounts are required They trading are The rate of return prescribed by capital. This last week In Coventry the about 2,500 NUPE workers two years ago. colleges rate of schools and attended a mass meeting This was in response to the that the requires Council's proposed package co. will be publicly avail- cuts which deals most viciously able. Disclosure of information.

with These VOTKe already the lowest paid. This has been dressed up in the The Council want to break oi pubic accountablty and local agree.

DOTA

clearly Tee pay educin the stainer discrediting during holidays. tendering This would reduce wages for strategies. It has been likened to full-time cleaners over the year publishing all DLO tender prices 17% and for part- by a massive closing une time workers Dy 1170. they want of lunch reduce the number The effect of the Act is two- the short term, it means a drive by local author- towards profitability and led to on direct labour redundancies,

ATTACK.

etc. And I now be looking to of the other Shortly after this paper or tne colmes contracts according out parents at Beal Culia what is most profitable, not Centre Street Day Leicester will make a last Secondly, in the longer term attempt to the Act, and stop it closing powers of the down. are so weighted against This 35-place day centre will without an all- close on Friday March 27 unless DLOs mne Daeras can oeverl lt best they WIll They have already Connied doing the Council and the Director of work iae conimuo lavcıcc Social Services. And they have written letters appealing councillors to keep it open-to 1o ayal. Iwo weeks ago they called meeting and formed: defence committee from parents and supporters members : Leicester Nursery Lall Dalei Unlikely At their first meeting it w2s decided that was most Socia unnker Tha1 entoe or the Council would stop the closure at this stage and the question of occupying the nursery was raised. that since The feeling was nor Social neither ne Connel the Services could see impor- tance of keeping the day centre the should appeal to oven community and the trade union

FOOT AND MOUTH

victim. it is the right wing leadership that is desperately seeking ways to infect the rank and file- with its own brandd t titt Toc failli then Dennis Healey, for one, is advocatins members-through a campaign culminating in with mose democrats endemic among the right wing leaders wingers-such as Neil Kinnock- It is up -who to take adequate disinfection precautions-have plainly fallen NUPE strike vote time supervisory assistants by that motion 200 carried left the ‹ emergea m ue ulscuss "CT101 ebenater Woed be ain allte that UP] has alrady made the council for suggestions to would ali cuts have eetve venkes £800,000, but if NUPE thought Of course this would the Council make round of cuts they were sadly go on strike. mistaken has clearly only Instead it whetted the Council's appetite summer term-leaving the demand a further £300,000 and Council plenty up anti-strike VuLs The most militant speeches Neverlaees which demanded immediate all- action got the best ponse of these out strike Tevorse al unc mcclue. Dul uy encoulacl- careful manoeuvring the branch Joe Little, ensured carrying out the Tories' cuts.

secretary, Leicester nursery fight and labour movement Wheatley June to prevent closure. support us The Within a few days a petition a thousand signatures and tion wil ne least 20 names of f parents with action needed from like Ss who woud unions to ensure its success use the day centre facilities.

Hardened Although the parents have never before been involved in any kind of action, they were heartened bv the support of the community and occupation was discussed as a serious possibility.

They ran through the "' wren and hor this would zie jiax. sier: 5.

MPE.

sai == go for support. the occupator aud te orobio of enlisting support to contine the nursery classes. As well as contacting sa unions it mas zeet iz: ] of important dolro fEa unemployed workers union.

been public meeting has cuts... organised, where a speaker fron So Coventry's Wheatle has Street booklet Campaign been Nursery invited. Determination Care Project, Readers may remember that Landon SE16. parents and supporters occupied SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 March 1981 Now the laughably misnamed 'Labour Solidarity' campaign has been set up to actively spread the contagion While Michael Foot has adopted a more temperate tone thar has declared Healey in nis juiminanons agaust ine sejt . ne oc himself a part of the fight to bring Labour Party policies back into the late and unlamented social advocated by • to healthy rank and file socialists to take up the fight to stamp out the disease within Labour's ranks

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which was date of strike varut The second mass meet- whether Tate and Lyle's all-out strike of ing at threatened Merseyside the implementa- 10 refinery Tuesday on tion of the reduced retainer fee March saw an adaptation

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allud victory of the struggle They centred on occupation, blacking, a shop stewards' con- ference for the whole of the sugar industry , and the opening of the books of Tate and Lyle.

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NURSERIES - HOW &

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WHY TO FIGHT FOR

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CHILDCARE: THE SERVICE

CAPITALISM WON'T OFFER-

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 March 1981 Part Two Nursery campaigner Ann McKinley explodes the myth that even the most "progressive' capit- alist societies provide adequate childcare facilities. Germany. In Germany maternity leave for the mother only is 30 weeks 1979 on tuu pay womcl Iepresented 36.7% of the work- force and there were 48.4% of WUlCI WOrkmR. Provision for under 6's is 41.3%-but reality German CHATeN attend school for only half a day Some of Hitler's policies- of keeping women at home in an attempt create the super and conceal the lavo cn •anasomev nga unempioy- ment figures remain in the minds of many today. official figure for unemployed Comen although the real figure thought to be nearer 66° Il s allazuig TT rees d late as the 1970s removed laws which that meant wife uave husband's permission to work!

As the economic recession bites in Germany, the Christian Democrats are attempting make motherhood more attrac- uve by prososug anl uoonngg wage so that women will stay at home. Holland. state. for the There 115 MaternitV eave are subsidised is 14 weeks full 5,914 MOLIC OIy Io1 Celled calemmy In 1977 women population vay chiater

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ted 25.3% of about 14 million. Ine workorce a*e there were 27% of women work- waiting list two-yva ing. Care provided for normal over between 8.45 anere tradition five married women working and 3.30 WILd

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Holland and this is hardly lunch and school meals.

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prising where "provided by the This would make a full time job provision very

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LETTER

workplace nurseries? prospects. And they try to find SO utions that while They conclude the only fully satisfactory solu- Dear Comrades, Tons sae acurer on demano to all parents wishing to make Ine recent woman worker article on nurseries use of them workplace nurser- confused on make seems to be very vali ConLnDuLOt the day care wa ddrcd dd nn towaras meeting The various horror stories needs of working parents pro- you relate about workplace nur- vided from removed al v unilateral employer control.

Sones sy serc cncy closed because the employers claimed they couldn't afford it) arguments seen against workplace nurseries in They Iecommend joint themselves. union/parent/employer control TriCy ae s des coac over the setting up and genera show that with the slump administration sull in coonemeny company women are being thrown out of nurseries; local authority

LIC

are under attack. possibly Waces a ocater Also, seems a bit ridicul- othet separe to me that it vauld area. argue that union leaders UuS lu must be made to fight closures HoTe corsacuve nurseries workplace Woman Worker were to fight for Woman Worker wouldn't management oVer support a campaign to open a that the workoace nuiscrcs- workplace nursery! nursery place couldn't be used to depress working conditions- rather an lO

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all Coltl- The TUC Under 5's Report paigns for workplace nurseries. take up briefly some of referred does To 10 L. claiea, take a positon against vonr omer aranarts. workplace nurseries. a) you say that trade union fact their In view seems to bureaucrats are using workplace UROKR aS alvORo orutt Woman Worker need to defend state provision.

They examine the problems But trade union leaders who to find for

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JUSCIICS-U

Walle GALusa that they provision parucular tne aangei acienamg suare may be used as a tied cottage nurseries can always find depress and I'm will women workers' excuses sure and wages prove no easier to make them CnbOICI difficult. Ireland seems to know how No one many working mothers there are in Ireland. Approximate figures the Departmen Internal Revenue have 330,000 120,000 o which have wife and.

couples paying husband both working Out of the 330,000 married Why not fight for workplace nurseries шла нот хате reseres I know of no current exam- where serious 1s a light to extel slate brovisol moment the workers' Tne movement mainly preoccu- pied defend public services thev have rather than to extend them. But circumstances may arise where Cold omune offensive and demand a work- Many place nursery. hospitals exàe ąe vớor co because they say they don't have enough nurses. this Colle dending it and ma foe mo stase needing and maybe mobilise workers „TOTnOl Tine for more nurseries who never seen any possibility for lakmu fulsCl

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parents meet the needs mention the high cost tn of emnlovees of some nese scnemes Whilst I think that work- place nurseries should he free

YOU

COCA

authority day nurseries are far from free. Coventry Council have scale of payment menn erted _but for most workine parents means the Civuil! child hardly chicken feed! per eweek You that manage- ment only provide nurseries for 200,000 navet no chidre aion liable taxation isn't known what the overlap is how many of the families have children where both parents work There are approximately 15,000 unmarried mothers.

Straying between These are unguessed numbers figures of children minded by unregis- lerea peopie witn no sel lega.

The going rate for private minding is £3 a half day, but since most childminders don't want the taxman to know, that £15 a week has to come out 01 the mothers taxable income.

If a mother wishes to declare for tax relief she will Dayuel nave •to de tesDonsiole IoI tne minder's PAYE forms. The Department of Health ae to conceloe is [næ themselves ther don't see substitute care fo providing children whos HULlE. work, want

DUE

Toe1 provide facilities for unmarried mothers oI women whose hus- sans nave fm cnc The 80 day care centres that lunded bv the Departmen' of Health are run by the eight Health Boards. A final report is venng preparca willen wilt advist "radical' changes in all aspects of child care. These radical 'changes Illay not oc al thal women in Ireland desire: "The board couldn't see itself as lunding care order that the mother could work, in fact they'd be

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that she wouldn"t work." COte There only 17 are nursery schools Dublin aroulu Dul gradually private facilities are being set up and coming out in the open. groups have been • varos to start creche facilities trying their wurkvlaces management have agreed principle to a creche and a com- pany in Athlone has already set one up after they found they We invite further discussion on this important issue. their convenience (e.g. reduction absentee rate).

TUC

Under The 5's Report shows that in the absence ails anon Dressue. most nur series were started on the employers' initiative most often because of staff shortages •uT does ls me occ oę unions shouldn't fight to control them, OI other set cucumstances, inem up? d) You mention that management al tne Cnix tactors provide scab workers with child care facilities. Is this really an argument against work- place nurseries? it is, then surely we should oppose work scab workers are Duser Dechise usually brought to work special buses! Finally, don't think we should be blind to the poten- advantages workplace 1191 As someone who has nurseries. child to nursery and the exact opposite way to go to work, I advantages Call

SCC

having a workplace nursery.

would also mean that parento coeld der chldren and see their children and maintain with some their activities Provided that we fight fo workers' and parents' over ment workplace nurseries li secus to mc we can olly cal from supporting these struggles.

Carol Jones Coventry Page of trained were losing a lot to enter the labour force.

people. can attord There's also a knitwear fac- to pick and choose generally tory Roscommon-whose choose not hire women managing director is • woman many women aner erore and feels she doesn t want tc forced to engage in home work- nich comptonies conraet ouk piecework She and saye it is cheaitr babies and is cheaper says at meagre pay to women who tasks perform Lo u a calo loc aa u the home train seven new machinists.

This decentrallsed. isolated The demand for adequate and unorganised labour force is childcare facilities is part of the easily manipulated and carrer camonen to implemenı exploited. thun Khed inby Women's Charter There are about 1½ million launched the Women's of whom 85% Advisorv Committee of the Irish women Congress of Trade Unions. provided

SCHOO!

PrOVISON However the ICTU's compre- Italy, 82% of nurseries are nensive poncy urges the govern- private. ment and its agencies to 'enter United States into immediate discussions with The USA is the only major lade unions on workplace nur• industrial nation sacities froma the stade itseid instead demanding

• WILTOUI

national health insurance plan.

Though the 1964 Civil Rights Italy Act did give women job security Maternity leave for mother little wen onion o pay 15 1A adequate childcare provision.

but there an option c In 1960 only 18.6% weeks at 30% for either pay mothers pre-school Dal cill 29.6% of nte ere endover enetas represent womer had only risen to 30.1% in the workforce and 37.1% of 1972. , were working. Women's wullcl In 1972 tax allowances for „noven child care costs were introduced compared with 4.9% for men whereby the American state sees high Italy's unemployment Is o ccm acc o o! Ceter cxene cu child care rather : than setting up conditions for women who wish adequate state provision.

National Child Care Campaign

AIMS AND ACTION CONFERENCE

Redefield School Blackbird Leys, Oxford Saturday 11 April from 11 am. to 5 pm.

Delegates from labour movement bodies- £2.50 Unwaged f1 Creche provided

LETTER

Ideology as a material factor Dear Editor, tions: it structures our thought, very much welcome the provides the concepis by wnict article in Socialist Press 236 on we perceive ourselves and others and hence guides "Man Made Language" as a con tinuation the discussion Thus sexist language itself plays about sexist language a determining role in the main- tenance of I women's oppression Towee une ece mmoe that writers like Spender who

MOICOVOL

SICC

sexIs raise : sexist language as an issue did not emerge with the "ideas, of capitalism, and is ideology co-extensive with capitalism, the as the primary issue scoraness to be confronted' while ignor- esaor manci the fight of itself, guatantee the ing other azaldi liberation of women, although avoec or come s oooresso1 This may be true of Spender.

it will obviousy secure the basis but it not true of all opponents for our liberation. Thus, while the fight against of sexist language. the This misunderstanding oppressior woner cannot be restricted to the derives from Lister's contention sphere consciousness and and ideology "Ideas flow ThaT from material conditions; that it Lucas. ll ccmms a ccogo is the material world of oppres- of the part language and ideol- ogy play women's oppres- sexist eRTeN and language and not vice versa".

struggle Stoll For Lister, the English language against that oppression must well as reflection waged over language relations of production and the coonen DOlCa domination of the bourgeoisie issues. Mary Wilkins 1 would argue that language Oxford is part of the material condi-

A unique forum for discussion on the cuts "Today's conference is very different from the end- less one day conferences on the cuts called by the union officials. 'apathy'- They blame and particularly the 'apathy' workers-for of women their own refusal to fight.

searching for Yet women, develop their means to struggles are leaving behind them the union bureaucrats in their swamp of pessimism and gloom. we are not going Today their for to hear exCUses We are going to inaction. hear experiences of struggles against the cuts. We have things to learn. It is not enough simply to Part of the 300-strong audience work out simple slogans. We must face the problems of did bring together a conerence unique wealth of experience in fighting for these policies. action to stem the struggle We can make a start on that jobs,

HOLY

here." conditions and services. A major discussion point was With these words Anne Marie Sweeney, a delegate from the fight for rate and rent stikes One ad ernoon session, of the to oppose the average being forced through Cuts Conference by Heseltine and in many cases Jomlly convened by the Tories bob for them. Labour councils doing the Campaign for in the Labour Move- ment and Socialist Organiser.

campaignet wate veteras And indeed the 300-strong Charlie Taylor brought in an Alisdair Jamison Rate-Rent Strikes new orm. which polltica. leadership is necessary to meet the growing awareness that jobs defended under planned socialist economy: And the reactionary role From the lively discussion The mont strikes most Labour Groups was rent and rate many speakers, exposed SKey elements emerged that are vital to build including event leader Bennet, who con- such actions. of 12 of the dem ned the expulsion

ATHSCRIT

Basingstoke Tenants Action Group underlined the their rate/rent increase' necessity Stallu form of bulletins, broadsheets, and frequent fight must be taken beyond the tenants' movements, into a fight to persuade 10L Leilalils anu accoull- make clear the limited powers at ability within the Labour Party the disposal of the councils.

if the necessary movement is to «We DC DuLL. to show that the meet struggle is a difficult one for the Council as well as the tenants.

Linked to this fight to build the confidence of the tenants is the necessity to prepare well in the against possible encons ano to seck out mous.

trial support from local unions local government and in local inaustry. The immediacy this struggle means, John Docherty from Paisley pointed that the tenants' Ult. Ray Davies ations occupations and cam- account of the struggles of St.

Pancras Labour councillors pae school meals service; of the 1957 Rent Act and school meals service; of the against the Direct problems defending other speakers from ment, tenants organisations in various the battle against the right wing Basingstoke of the teaching unions to defend _oi london. and Coventry, ined use night education contributions the Such by idealised means simply the fellallls against Thatcher. struggles laking place. l amos There case they attempted to were reports from every hospital the relative strengths, at Long. occupalluls assess worth and St. Benedicts; weaknesses ana polucal proo Charlie Taylor Linking the struggles the Tory attack on The necessity to link up the tance to struggles against the direct works. various ermia to one on the Tory service was union celerancon from bureaucracy Ine preventi

SUCH

cashire School Meals camp on links being forged and to isolate sections of workers that do fight emphasised the importance the cuts was brought by victim.

workers with parents and with ised

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militant Vanessa fellow trade unionists Wiseman local government supply Wiseman, President ah0l firms. Trades Council, has McKinley, from the been victimised along with five Milie Campaign, Lambeth

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other members . the the ith to deend.

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fight opment of i to defend

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officials withdraw branch support from the recen nursener on first occupation-at South Oxford nursery, three years ago against the Cuts. Five of the six have been She pointed to the develop- sentenced to six months suspen- ment of the overall Oxfordshire

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the Cuts as by an 18 months ban on repres-

A LOOSI

one way in which the nursery enting the fight had helped broaden the Lambeth Treasurer and NUT -and also to the initia- Executive member

DICK NOILE

tives which had led to the is suspended from the union for formation of the National Child banned from and 2s0 representing the union for 18 Colin Kenny spoke of the months. campaign save London's action by the NUT This medical schools from heavv cut- bureaucracy is part and parce.

backs or closure and empha of its betrayal of struggles on the sised necessity of linking pay and against the cuts.

campaigns But it has not dented Wise this fight to

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throughout the London NHS.

man's determination to fight And Mick O'Sullivan from "We are still against working spoke Mackne fight for joint shop stewards people's living standards being attacked by whatever means. We committees to coordinate resis- Neil Turner lems of these actions. Some not allow be properly answered. But the conference did vote to endorse the general line of a booklet submitted by the Urganising committee mcorpol ating proposals for action on strikes rate/rent nurseries, education and the NHS. Kate White will for affiliation of light the NUT to twill invite sty We hope will invite us you come and speak to meetings l your areas. Developing the

NUT

leadership role of ere Proposal it Action on Proposals Action on ence Education pointed to the neces sity to democratise the teachers' union: the NUT Execu- *Who are tive responsible they e must fight against restric- represent? tive rules, and fight for a pro- gramme of action. fight To defend educa- tion today is to light against the capitalist system. Vanessa Wiseman John Lister reports on the CDLM/SO Cuts Conference held on Saturday March 21 Health Service biggest ovation of the The was given to Longworth Hospital Occupation Committee speaker nate wnite, wno made d moving appeal for action the old and defend the young, cannot fight foi gane themselves, Condemning the inactivity of union leaders and the role of Labourite

AHA

chairpersor Lady McCarthy, Kate asked • happened to the top ones in the Labour Party!

They're all in with management the Tories themselves." Though Longworth occupation is at present suspen Ger. me hont there sar rom she stressed. Her about the Labour Party endersti amplified by L Dr orth Ken occupation supporter GP and a member of

MPU/ASTMS

Williamson has fight to defend not only Long worth, but other hospitals in the are yet for his pains hee Oxten barred from joining the Labour Party-ot Lily chairperson LadI McCarthy is a leading member Oxford Labour 1 all anya. ently welcome extera, thost who close nospitals-not to those who fight to keep them open! From the defeated occupa. tion at St. Benedicts Hospital main warning. for militants in the health service rely on the bureaucracy, whatever you do. They won't do anything. had hospital worker: who would have walked out ir they support.

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never called out. The only reason people are are fright weak because they to provide ened. It Is up to us them with eledeshlike Let's end the defeats St. at Long Anhi Andrea • Campbell and Geoff Williams, NUPE convenor in University College Hospital Cardiff, stressed the importance adopting policy of no cover for unfilled vacancies in the fight to run down of facilities an staffing levels Williams was able to relate

UNIC

VICION

over manacemen trom implementing inis poncy - and also underlined the danger of inroads into the service being made oy private pracuce.

LINWOOD: QUESTIONS

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 25 March 1981 Local Government "Do we want to fight the Tories now, or do we want to reave lan to someone else.

This was how John I Bloxam.

introduced the morning session the CrisIs of local ment. emphasised that the issue in the actions of Irrational axewoman", but the outcome of a system in crisis seeking to restore profitability: - Is on de versed *Piecemeal reforms are not on. Capitalism

COLETONS

not of the future but of the situate n hise find to to kick out must light must also fight for a government a radically different sort-a worKers government. not the of the perspective Labour leadership.' "Choice" Instead of arguing that the choicers one derween caorasm and socialism, Bloxam argued, Labour politicians pretend- ing to workers that the choice is between cuts or rate and rent increases! Pointing to the link between The cut cưcan The ning for accountability of Labour Councillors well MPs, real issue now facing Labour's right wing is not to reverse the year's conference-which they have ignored-but to reverse the democratic reforms which seek to make them answerable to the membership. Davies roup expelled from the Labour on Mid- Glamorgan Council for his opposition to the cuts. exposed Ine nolowness right wing claims that they both implement cuts protect trom wUIkeIS

WOISC

effects. "The cuts are like a rubber ball. If you dush it in in one place, it bulges out somewhere And if all Labour councillors can do is implement Tory cuts, what are we doing there? Why

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councillors?" Dave Spencer, a prospective Labour County Council candi- London-wide public meeting No Cuts! No rate or rent rises! No council house sales! Friday 3 April at 8 pm Lambeth Town Hall, Acre Lane, SW2 Organised by Lambeth Labour Left All Labour Party members welcome Bloxam date pointed to the expulsion of

COYONLY

10. opposing rate/rent increases.

councillor Phyl Turner sounded a rather differ- note. examine une conference the background to the decision he ana nine other counclors naa taken climb down, from a stand of opposing rate and rent increases.

my boni diner councils like Camden cannot continue to operate unless they There are a lot of frightened the Labour Group, people of Scared persona surenares and the threat of disqualifica tion." short term he had In the seen no alternative but to vote for 'compromise" rate/rent increases: but, he said: "he left musi See maybe count ilors lee tel.

maybe next year we will He was answered by Graham Shurety of the Camden Labour

LOLL.

WI10 uncance that: *We cannot answer the prob- lems ot the working class in the the Council contines Chamber. We have bring down this Tory government.

Phy urner focussed all the time on the debates within the Group. Labour That fight has OuT IEl SUDDOrE. But you must also look out- wards to the the movement of coming fILO struggle-the unions and tenants' associations." councillor Neil Turner showed how the latest cuts and rate increases had conference right-the supplementary had rate bought time but defused the struggle. Knight had helped lead the fight against cuts in 1976-but buit no mass base of suoport Now the local Party is domin- ated by the council elite-push-

HO TOO CHAS

We must learn the lessons f Lambeth-and copy the kin he camat Labour Left-linking with "Labour the community, local fight gets under way before the Parties and unions March against Cruise and Irident Saturday 18 April Assemble 11.00 am. Bulldog, Whitnash followed by rally. Organised by Leamington for European Nuclear Disarmament

UNANSWERED

By Duncan McVicar dedstion marks must be recor- lish an occupation. The decision of the Why that not workforce at Talbot (Lin- When the closure the supported? wood) to refuse to back a factory was announced by did not only Living- and Rigby call by the shop stewards Peugeot management five week: we seve initial reaction move against that but why also committee for an occupa- Jimmy Livingstone the factory did the policy receive tion at the factory marks backing of the Socialist Workers chief representa- bullyell. the end of the struggle to Party shop stewards? was express his "surprise" The argument advanced by prevent the closure of the that the management had acted Peter Bain and other supporters plant with the subsequent in this way loss of almost 5,000 jobs.

such a step point was at that No one can deny that this Endorsed premature. not hav received setback to adequate support the working class in the West of Irom tne workloIce He and other stewards then Scotland and the labour Better, they say, to allow the went to the workers who throughout Livingstone/Rigby movement line strongly endorsed a campaign of country. tactically judge proceea and to The crucial question is-how when the situation was ripe to Tessace o lac coste did this situation arise?

But howe could Livingstone move the motion to fellow occuud. and his stewards have tion nere cami throughout the sixties and Why, then, decide to move when it was clear from the out- seventies the workers the motion in the fith week? set that Peugeot had no' inten- Linwood proved their miitancy argue that Ine swe stewards and combativity. the mood of the workforce had Lion ol makme Luwoou a vlaDic and car producing plant, but had been shifted again, in conflict mort only acquired Chrysler (UK) in with first Kootes the support alla Lick osave stance ov order management, they they had received from Clyde- Sarule Calcusy displayed their determination to shop chain or renal outers' stewards Surely the duty of the stew- resist management attempts of scottish Conference ards was to forewarn workers of Labour Party in the preceeding Despite the inadequate, DIOSDeC vacillating leadership prepare them for occupation on class basis. The contrary was elements in the leadership suci the Dissipated as the erstwhile convenor John case Cartey: they became a byword The stewards then proceeded the well-worn militancy the West o to troop Scotland. This, they say, created the stewards committees conditions for a development of Dunlop (Speke), Prestcold consciousness among the Obviously a fuller analysis of workers, making the ensenere acceptance how that combativity meetings with MPs, councillors, oi occupation more likely undermined and dissipated over representatives, was opposite Buy willist management and so on the case? Was it not that the Deous send it cannot be attempted without As we warned at the outset initial enthusiasm for a struggle fuller consideration of all the of the dissipated Was elements involved procedure round of lobbying and negotia.

Has lival veland! What can and must be asked ing tions, which was carefully Ine membershp in a lutie right now is-was the campaign round of pleading nurtured by the

STUC

bureau• What was the alternative? A resist the closure conducted and Cals handful actively involve the workforce In such a way as to realise the Sewards full potential of the capacity of beginning of the campaien in the campaign? moved that there should be a workiorce to struggle: there were 1,500 the that score some big occupation

JEANS

NUPE attacks

ACTION

nursery pamphlet

SOLID

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have that the resultant increase in the

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workers WOOd. ation of the pamphlet member Eileen Crosbie to teach sitting in at the threatened Lee Nurseries: How and Why to Jeans factory in Greenock voted all over res Fight for Them, produced

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officials now 1694 to reject improved redun- demanding that the booklet" dancey dents by the National Child Care decided Campaign. tical and political guidance for continue their meets to Midlands • defend occupation indefinitely -and struggle Divisional Organiser John learned that their Hully will acoI McGuigan claims that he has been made official by the been libelled' by the pamphlet's Despite the witch-hunt

NUTGW.

account of his failure to defend generated by these bureaucrats Donations should be sent to 136 Nottingham nursery jobs.

the NCCC mutants are stancing b The pamphiet the pamphlet. Brougham Street, Greenock, Coolsoul Pergamon: Maxwell's plots fall flat Attempted 'dirty tricks' secure a decision of dispute benefit being paid to the NUJ's Emergencies by millionaire Labourite nine Journalst Wa mittee to call off the dispute, employer Robert Maxwell increased nom tao to too per week; Maxwell's wHen even more «astronat press state undermine the three- Maxwell had hinted to

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ment was referrec

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week old NUJ strike member Vincent Hanna that the at legal action as a toelous docu- Pergamon Press, Oxford, by and General Secretary Was an ment; and that there was large have Ken Ashton undertook to take seriously number of potential members at more urgent steps on the crucial unstuck. question of securing dergamon Just walling to Jol supporting the union-as soon as the exist- ikers and blacking action from the NGA inferring ing NUJ chapel leadership were strikers strikers' morale pickets had been responsidle oI removed strengthened by week's the assault Pergamon developments, it is on security guard was refuted by But at a meeting last Friday Than ever inat the blacking 1s of the Emergencies Committee achieved. Pergamon's journals Maxwell had attempts act on Maxwell's wrongly production halted, and Maxwell claimed that an identity parade proposals fell flat when confron- conceae the chapel's was to be held: and that a pay and conditions demands.

ucaned account of the background to Messages of Connected support-partic- strike incident was linked to the dispute ularly from Labour Parties and supporters. Neither was true.

discussion, a vote After of print unions-should be sent to confidence the committee, c/o 5, but a more yoke manoer- •net in through chapel leadership; vre, which Maxwell the . official Union Street, Oxford. Page 9 workers who the supported stewards' recommendation.

But were not these 1,500 votes there from the start of the campaion' And there not more votes which had drifted away as of a worthwil struggle receded? It will now be said in some that the

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fight Tensed! grabbed their redundancy money instead. however Illal money amounts only £4,000 _ per person at the maximum. There was no word. nor wil there be of larger payments such as we have seen in steel, the docks or cult AUre senious Heinratore that tod Linwood majority workers were seduced simply by such paltry sums of money?

More to the • point would be to ask whether they had confid- the capacity ence majority of the shop stewards committee all-out struggle to defend their jobs not engaged in factional political point-scoring indulging in a so" told you attitude commenting from the outside of the struggle. We Hame enous nain wood workers to consider the following Was questions. campaign correct? Should there have been determined struggle for an unmeatate occu pation from day one? Was for militant correct shop slow alls La ova of the Livingstone/Ribgy

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workers, and especially those who have supported the policies of the pages of Socialist Press to answer these questions Defeat for BL bosses BL has received a setback in its plans to break down protective agreements and increase the rate of exploit- ation of its workforce. Management at the Cowley Plant Assembly attempted use current broductor to abolish the plant's Movement Labour which gives workers the right to jobs on tae basis or senority the Ital was Production of slashed last week from 1680 to 1080 per week while the Maxi's programme is increased margin- 880 IIon per week. The move throws up 800 workers of which intend to keep half to staff the Honda Acclaim produc- when begins tion next month. • 110 4UU others to take voluntary redun- when the new programme management chine refused to reschedule the track on the basis of the More. ment of Labour Agreement.

Suspended They announced the agree.

ment would, be suspended until October which would Honda the Acclaim management selection. The hard line, however, was short lived. Management rapidly retreated following a mass meet ing of production which voted not to return to work until the agreement was re-established.

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