Socialist Press no. 241

POLISH BUREAUCRATS

PRESS

Attiliated to the

FIGHT

FOR

LIFE

Monday March 30. Warsaw bureaucrats depend for With 10,000 Warsaw Pact the troops conducting ostenta- political power privileges. tious moves in the south of Time the the country and retreated in the Baltic coast; with an increas- or threatened strike action. The ingly menacing barrage of results nave *Thousands Stalinist propaganda from bureaucrats have been in Moscow and regimes from well-paid Eastern Europe; and with a government. party and the state economic crisis machinerv_ otten as a Lullaway specific demands by strikers for them steadily driving their removal. further into debt, the Polish is being Stalinist regime have come under tight scrutiny forced into an all-out con- from workers angry heir luxurious holiday homes, frontation with the massed privileged strength of the working ane special snoos. class. the shipyard workers media and repression of political Since of Gdansk triggered a nation- opposition has wide unsurge of working Class militancy last summer an almost lorced to agree to the publica- continuous tide of struggle ha tion of eroded the very fabric Solidarity. of polic

WHICH

SOCIALIST

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 241 * April 1, 1981 * 20p their and material and again they have face of strikes oce acvastatule. -OT pureed posts TeSUlT OI *Those who retain their jobs Walesa in negotiations last August at their conditions, of political dissidents reLease police custody: a Solid from *The rigid censorship of the guard has been arILy acience • TO protect leading broken down: members of the reformist KOR

CYCL

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have и топишеп weekly paper by been erected to the victims ol previous police violence.

*Strikes have forced the *Strikes have forced the dis- missal of plant managers and even begun to challenge basic management decisions-such as the purchase of inferior Ruman- an oo cuttine machinerv Working hours have been directly cut back-runnin bureaucratic counte attempts to streamline the econ- of omy expense thousands of jobs. radicalisation sune em bodied in the emercence oi Solidarity as a 10-million-strong Polish Communist Party it third has flowed over into or wiose three milion mem ders are also in Solidarity. There are demands that the Communist Party reconvene its congress ana nola new leader ship elections-which could only result in the wholesale removal of diehard Stalinist bureaucrats.

respect the con In every cessions they have made in th last nine months have weakened the Polish regime while increas self-confidence and the militancy of the working class, raising its political conscious- Solidarity rally tentative moves towards * know workers' control of the hithert controlled bureaucraticall finally loses its cconomy So powerful and uninterrup- ted has been the forward move- beyona the rousn borders Te Cana regimens that Kania been crat. unable to uma any secure mean of drawing Lech Walesa and the Solidarity leadership into the bureaucratic machinery. Eruption At each point that Walesa has looked set urmiy agains Leading strike action there has been a charged; Polist fresh eruption of struggle that has forced him and other Solid- nave cone leaders back onto the demands; Crate strength of the unparallelled mped, and that bae the scale ol scale of oped, and therefore the challenge to the bureau The strike was total: th only exceptions wer judged to be essential by tes Solid the else stalinists do not soon take a stand they face buro went out of the endorse the police reversiole weakening fabric of bureaucratic dictatorship. the spot-and, breathing over their And for Friday. shoulders In TO Cruca Test ol determination are the Kremlin leaders and their fellow Stalinist Eastern charter of • ourcaucials Europe. Hunger striker stands for Parliament

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that l the Polin bo, then the only too well conceded late last summer in a ast citch nd to prevent ine then Gdansk strike wave becoming an tide of struggle will flow rapidly all-out general strike. are seeking the punish- challen every rainist bureail- the power and privil ment or me orcas Tesoonsol for the beating; an amnesty for political the recognition of an independent This message was spelt ou to Polish party chief Kania in no Tamers umon uncertain terms by Brezhnev at But instead of conceding even part of these demands the the recent Soviet party congres: Politburo and the Central Com And since that point Kania has shifted somewhat from his miTTee Tearmed

LOUSI

stance yesterday as the Tuesda previous conciliationist course.

strike deadline drew closer Kass dent acek Kuron has been arrested an Martial law party leaders OnLO DoNe cal It offensive against Solidarity and is rumoured that the ureaucracy nas crawn up ora ou1 a -0av rener: Strike, using martial law restric- Solidarity tions against mass mobilisations and peasant leaders were beaten being polited from a cancel

OIL LC SUCCES

evicted from a council Th Tood StocKs in roa portedly as low as 12 da could apply, thi ne warsaw burcaucrats are co Endorsed templating an attempt to liter- ally starve Solidarity back to work. this port silence the ins the Polit- This is the only way that of its they could hope to create the way to conditions reimpose action. The dictatorshin Soldaritv leadership was put on DOCe under mass pres. authority of the party bureau- alled the warning strike стасу. this Soviet

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he union's three demands troops already in roland could are far less wide-reaching than be used alongside Polish troops economic and Continued back page ponucal demands wmen were

US MINERS ANSWER

Gary Thornton: comrade Page 2

REAGAN

9: of thousands of miners and the Washington, March threat Reagan More than 10,000 miners programme forced United Mine Washington converged on Workers President to call a mass D.C. give Reagan to rallv in front of the UMWA hali and lead a march on the White message: "We will strike as long as necessary to protect nOUSC. rally, benefits, black lung from miners said one miner from Ohio, and Kentucky expressing the sentiment of addressed by Church along with West Virginia the thousands of miners and Rockefeller and workers from other union leaders. throughout the country. aunt The rally and two day strike was an insult Reagan's Cauled Rockefeller, since that 88% of the miners on black oi the really not presently supporting the major benefits budget cutting now going on in entite co cer. This slander against the tens Le culeiss More repression in Euskadi Spain still does not have dictatorship. But a military scarcely a murmur it was certainly the threat of implied support) leaders of another military coup-sup- so far: parties and ported this time by all the

ITOL

top generals which has masses or nationalist parties in prompted the feeble govern- Euskadi. of Leopoldo Calvo new ment Sotelo to take another step measures ana increasca mulla.

to the right. by ETA of After the killing officer

SETTO!

millary ine in Pamplona, acified the ine government was, seems, given an ultima- the military for a time. army chiefs of staff the tum by As a result Calvo Sotelo has Crisis immensely Increased military role in Euskadi (the Basque country) to He sent the navy atrol off the Basque coast. And le hâs sen se French borden to willingness to struggle against it.

the French border To Dato prevent the escape tance provoked terrorists. Basque mutants the beginning The military have also been which off the set given a gecer to will repressive apparatus of the state.

Francoism of political authority. have seized ana prison at least 50 leading radical nationalists the campaign members of the Herri Batasuna Unity) coalition who huge (Popular are counci elected ors. and class fighter On Thursday March 25, morning, 6.00 the al Comrade Gary Thornton, chairman of the Leicester Branch of the District Workers Socialist League, died. He was 19. His death, two days before The are Annual come cale u the socialist I oul League, Was a massive blow to all those who I in to and knew num those who had worked with him for a soy came e. into politics still school. From whilst involvement orththe strets of the fascists off the streets Leicester, he moved on to an Gary Thornton the need to understanding overthrow Tne through workers' together with system into revoluton, conzies. "demanded the difficult choice for any youth abandoning of National Unio che hard for and pubs world of Me. political without made that choice and committed him- hesitation for Trotskyist party. the Workers Socialist member of the Socialist Yoder becoming an Tounder member Also speaking at the Tally

AFL-CIO

Kırkland. Kirklana won cneel: from the miners by reporting from had support they Lual throughout menty our brothers and sisters of which brought away the AFLCIO are behind you al as lar Illinois, was the way. This is an important but there will be other would man who novemol Jal take benefits from miners would many trade stop at nothing however, failed to Church to* bI call by ally AFL-CIO to back up his words to every minei along with of support Úso attending the rally wer Democrats, • Washington workers from other the farers International Union, hos- There are still Basque nation- All this has been done with (except of alist prisoners and only a week coup attempt the before the recent main workers' Huskadi saw its biggest genera also very little strike and street demonstration ever in protest against the police working murder of Jose Arregui, an ETA suspect. repressive Social conflict Euskadi-and the hardly possible that down. the Madrids new attacks on Dasuur national rights can pacify Tegons-lay Lave even power-hunger of determined most highly from Cone or lik politically conscious working classes in Calvo Sotelo price of But the Basque people have government shown for years their hatred of handing over political power to the generals is to take action to their Tee Unanu even further the fires stoke outburst of resis of sand the net the trial of And next stage of thi by the declar can only be DulzUi the ation of a sTaTe the wave of and martial law in Euskadi projected hopeless which bourgeoisie the "democratic" criminal failure oi the ¡ and ine Throughout the 1970s it was CP and Socialist enders to oc tas que political phones shich but hide behind the King, democratic mobilisations against the repres simply leading to military coup by stages. Quiet and unassuming, he was loved and respected by all thos comrades who worked with him for his courage, honesty and delenaton, never flinched Gary from facing problems. He was always front line in the fight in the regardless of the dangers. Always there when th came to stand up and be time counicu. Above all he believed. that what was needed was revolutionar with the working class. unceasingly the need to turn out to new layers of youth, and all those brought into struggle against the bosses.

time of his death he At the was preparing to stand for elec- League in Leicester, building it friends and tion steward in the as a

SHOD

National Union of Railwaymen significant and was enthusiastic about lorce amongst youth. Al senour opportunities his work in organised the students into of School the unions gave him. His death is a blow that we strike organised in the movement will come to against the cuts and was elected only slowly. the NUSS National Commit:

WIL

Certainly he wil never be lor gotten. In October 1979 Gary joined to his memory tribute League, the Socialist Youth Leauge have A TeN months later. launched special Reprinted from Labor News, paper of the Socialist League (DC) USA.

pital workers and transit workers. their News interviewed LuOU many oi ine miers marched Received aid ville of that rallied striking were feelings. "We're country. Solidarity genetits Jack Justice, a miner in his affect workers problems. Mecklen from earl

RATUES

County, •West Virginia concen. injury tó all." other unions should join in Along with Miller, another miner cuts from Mecklen county, "I'm concerned about family when I Salvador, myself, but my die Mv mother gets a black luns cheque from the death of my El Salvador and would not be father she able to live without that cheque.

How does Reagan that 88% of the miners don't have aovernments black he's been ung: the atttack down a mine in his life.'

Big ion) Corder warned this Miller's mate. : to try une companes saying to scare the workers o that the black lung benefits will 1st Dares coal and raise the price miners out of work. Keagan nas trade union complete casterare 10. Lant workers and little people of this or milons in washington "Most Cecil said miners work till they die. They person will

KALA

Rates Recan and Fascin a trade produce ', a struggle that was deal Gary's heart. Trial sub (UK). Sympathy Six months. To his Alan and One year. Peggy; we in the extend sympathy in their our deepes Europe: Bethan loss. Lo his companion Six months offer not sincert Rest of world: sympathy but our support as a Six months... comrade and a class fighter.

• ded a rotskvist. We salute his-memory. *The memorial fund, Box launched at the SYL 3rd Annual 3XX. has far raised Conference £100, including donations from Barricade and Revolution Youth who were present at the confer- If any enco OUscircis socialsi tress Tenden like be strit te donations should SMIx 5251 London iN Thor ton em rial fune 3XX, marked Gary SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 1 April, 1981 the Reagan programme. Follow don't even have a chance to pick benefits but their ing on the lorced wage cuts onl families get it and Reagan woul Chrysler workers, thi government is now moving to workers railroad and rallying whose contract expires on Apri n Conral moph the loss ot doing This toi everybody that will be affecte down Conral with thi 10SS 26,000 railroad jobs unless the The black lung unions make major concessions would with asbestos on wades At the same time, in the air human Carter line the An injury to one is an Reagan government seeking placards and deregulation alc the banners against the black lun wage Torce dOWI throats of the airline workers.

banners

PSA

Both Continental and airlines scab labour use break the latest sunke the Continental recently workers voted to take a 10% wage cut. The US labour movement The fact that the Reagan the power to completely has Salvador now can be connected Reagar American ment mobilises resources. workers is extremely important The miners, koined ailine and points the way to a political the Reagan

WOIKEN

government and the two capital- workers, teachers and ledera. workers can do to Seagan what the Wel miners Inis tirst step by tne miner: should be matched by the entire recently accomonsie In Dallad with against Thatcher. It clear that the same national strike action and a rally decisive necessary aullul worker and yoe directly hit by Today keagan stopped. by Angry US miners

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TURKEY: THE SAVAGE

FACE OF MILITARY

DICTATORSHIP

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 1 April, 1981 characterise the

HOW.O

you present regime in Turkey?

necessary to out- line the pre-coup period.

In Turkev. untike bourgeo1s 'democratic" • TennD-es in ter highest body is Parliament, by the the state was overseen Nan onar Debunly ColunlilicC- consisting of the military chiefs.

and senior government ministers.

and legislative executive powers. the state Organs always been controlled by monopoly colae cane diSU by landowners but less effective- ly) and their bureaucrats these nalinle D Ted k racol vad, re was formally head ot the econ. omic affairs council, ordin ato tin Demirels gal co- govern ment «оне но & v arec" of the •Metal Industry Union Employers' of the merDer AssoV alun Turkish Industrialists and Busi- nessmen. he is head of the koudy tecioloscdi council' Evren's freneral junta and a state minister.

Tes i8 an alande or ine Casses analicc monopoly eA0 e 1 01 . T0e major semi-feudal and capitalist landowners. the monopoly MaLulary are group. The oligarchic character state is determined primar- the iv bv the nature of the blòc and its relations with the labouring and also Masors bourgeois class (middle the strata). The process which prepared September aton oup urkise arose the domination ol LUlL InO TSE DV шле топородсь anu finance capital. 1973 1980 the capitalists overcame monopoly through the crisis firstly aner Kr n en ne usute acy using martial law and prohibi- tion of strikes, forcing the work- General Evren Turkish troops Ine ase to work tor reatver the dedine in meal wage 9905 in real wages was almost 60%). 20ord through réformist .illusions the RPP government, especially its inconsistent policy towards fascism. Ecevit's of "We are line the left as well as th aralis rapid way Dave in expansion fascist terror oiganisations. While the

RPP

could. no overcome the crisis on behalf of .

bushness offer im provement in the aniy daily hi te to matses, the contrary the socia and crisis became ceononic more extensive This created a very pessim- hopes. od in te proses, probability the

I0DG.

persisted the TerORmAS Geso e incapacity of the RPP and the bloody attacks the fascis banus The rise in the social oppos tion began to slow down gradually stopped quit mas es ide suded Unt platform of reformism h ey houd eing radicalised. They gradually lost faith in their own capacity and surengun vư vąd the

RPP

1978 after fascist Karaman- genocide at

TURKEY SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN

produced its Movement'. BM Box 5965, London WCIN 3XX.

Page 3 We reprint below our summary of a lengthy inter- view with a member of the Turkish group KURTULUS (Liberation), on a recent visit to Britain. became a key factor for gaining with military al important the consent of the masses.

important belne mader junta's attitude towards institutions. This shows the terorists has to generals planning to stay for the fascist period. Turgot this context: they must prolonger Ozal, give impression •the .1121 junta is a supra-class institution expert, has introduced a five weakness of the socialist year programme. 11le develop 'strong relations the masses and the weakness of tradition What about the situation in the Ic oLuLodal factories? the one nana ano tne weakness of the fascist organisation_ an It is impossible to answer to handl and its immaturity accurately. Isolated accounts are state. make muitan not adequate in establishing the caree unt dictatorship the most appropri- exact situation. 'However ate solution. the socialists have beer In addition the stabilisation isolated in large numbers from dictatorshi]

OCLIOU

The acrone. The junta unss appy canes the coula create even more tardu in society and the workins cautiously economy. and makes repeated promises Consequently the new form General could only adressed workers in the military dictatorship. southern industrial towns of Adana and Mersin The junta is scared of the torkiup as . Immediately after we found out that in What form does the repression H ber ce wa es goon take? taneously introduced go-slows Che junta is careful abou as a class reaction. how it implements its policies The government censored all balances between

COCICIOI

news on this. When the action was over they moved against the shek, stewards member: arrested and tortured same time them. the bayonet under its coat.

They successfully separated the DISK leadership from the ine aboution ol paruamenı for holmale aris s a po aredr working class. of Republican Peoples HItDaNS Party 'and Justice Party rule This is true, but only from the standpoint of monopoly capital.

How political prisoners In contrast to this appear- treated? The method . used ance ol generas tolerance takes a very sharp, irreconcilable attitude to petty bourgeois left ideologically and lascist terorist who had been alienated from popular support maras shown This was by the make trends onth fastis int This was welcomed by the *¡unta's move reintroduce whose tactics had been fascists government haneines or bom en ae onı a posiuon wnere tney lose thel sulu. Despite this, , the atttack on self-respect declare martial law and then use left cannot equated g. Beatings and • the up tortures the army-in which ine lascIst.

fascist have successfully are extensively organised the ucamell socialists and party. against younge -against. ana its suppiementan • some 0] •Toe organisations; there is a qualit- prisoners but not those witl crats. ative difference frustration othe inab thy of The fascist movement has Four of our friends were put reformists' hopes, been taken under control and its into solitary confinement of the weak socialist movement.

ultra-right have been beaten up regularly every day concrete alternative pose clipped, but Iepression and hospitalised attacks created a and fascist left is aimed at its against the were fright- e autaor ter ened they would die and were physical annihilation and liquid- co voc xn à v Internationally following the forced to stop. The junta claims Iranian revolution and uprising best example of this. is yout dave ocen corublel the Kurdish people,

NATO

the pair of operation homs Nea+ „oн „ooo eś nc wanted anmed: at be re educated in Kemalism dependents the down and wiping out these there are continuous lecture MaST ana a stong goveruen! groups and classes this the in Turkey During curfews, bodies have ontons. The attitude, of the middle found rivers and beer course. torture has been of the most class was one wasteland. widespread in . Turkey for years solders шете important elements in the pre provided with lists of names by has introduced out the unta coup situation. fascist informers and the killings new methods. If the struggle of the labour- carTine ur iy traed lo. Ehem sesh an able a ree The _army tried organise with alternative One of them is for married of city general searche: areas be engaged couple crisis. they drawt Call but were lorcea to arop unis and counter-revolutionary Still thére are continuous benine SariD Ded Ate oraler ideologies , either fascism or the towns. and on trave! Comele to borad da d together both male and :searches in of the Turkish official ideology ocuween man bouthe sie (9. Kena ke). ordeal. this is more

K UTORAT

The who refuse vicious Machine gun towers Those prisoners Kemals ideology by the military leaders have built surrounding speak are tried in phone courts whete they are tried, The Kurdish Tave being to death and even villages are Terorer the brought scaffold where The junta makes big propa- . It the banda sagarset, org TV, etc., the organisations

KOOR

moment, Another new method is to and getting members of groups take such prisoners with others to make public confession: The Turkey Solidarity Campaign has just other of the who pretend to be in the sami practic lictatorship has been to attemp position to waste ground where Information Bulletin, on the false prisoner is 'shot' with liquidate trade :union for the Labour and Trade Union bullets the activities. For example prisoner made to talk under fea tive bargaining has been unkea of the same treatment. It is available free of charge from the TSC,

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Today elations from employers, technocrats, the state and representa- imprisoned is extremely weak tives from Turk-Is. and it is not possible to get th of society spatie be attempted to controlled, full picture

BACK DUNDEE COUNCIL STAND

AMNESTY SETS FACE

AGAINST WORKERS'

Bradford its history and intentions in the 25 March 1981 anale tast Dear Comrades, Such les nave taken nm Ioot Over . 988

LOLUIS

Deadee h as ca teslth of ress

F DOLI

result organisations such as Poale Lion headlines affiliated to struggle caried out by Labour Labour MP Ernie Ross, George Gallo- way, the Scottish Labour Party Labour

DOT CRII*

Harold chairman, and local trade union- have assisted the ists on bonal or te alspossess ed Palestinian people. cone tials to Iacist, Last November a decision the Dundee ™ movement. TaKC Labour Party Council to the town Nablus in the West Bank, a town Wilson TeMenDO renowned for being a centre of support ioı ine us govemnment Palestinian resistance to Zionist Tony Bean occupation. Mr Bassam Shaqa, the Arab of Nablus, who recently verbal support Mayor result of a Shis lees the regimes Zionist car bomb attack, sive

YNLCE

Pinochet junta in Chile Dundee and presented the City with the flag of the Palestinian win DeT OH tatalon, LIlc legitimate symbol of the oi the tinian people merT 10 cunning of their misrepresenta- Since the visit the Palestinian tions. flag has flownio initat Ce hais The chamber. roved a powerful focus for th ment from to raise the tion is charge movement The i aDUU. anti-Zionist is to be anti-semitic.

of the Palestinians plight taken Britain. ilic slall Israel, as a country, Party in Dundee has Iorced thi: te te totally upon imperialism for it argument onto the streets.

On Sunday Castele hundred supporters defensive capacity. Imoenialis financial and military aid puts the backbone into Zionism and Jews held a Dundee kceps anloal Colona Slalt despite over 130% inflation and of the Palestinian flag massive defence budgets They also semitic slogans painted on syna- Zionism, ron saiy cetalco gogue walls in Dundee upon the a world movement, - OR beet effective in spreading lies about twinning Council rejects Tory threat Dundee has become the not only the trade union move- focus of two major political ment throughout also the support. battles.

LLCI

One is the issue of support inrougnout scoland for the PLO (see above). the and district other the refusal of the local Labour Council to sell off clyde and Lothian. any oi the city s nousing stock AT The Coor haman or he daband Alone the major Galloway among authorities in Scotland, , Dundee defied the government and chairman Party in Scotland Touren го pococo wil te sac of council houses as demanded Galloway. under the terms of Tory legisla- the Labour Coordinating mittee epitomises Secretary George from the corrupt politics which of State Younger has now issued an ulti- disfigured Labourism in Dundee dragged until fairly recently. matum'-comply, through the courts. He has given lIsuldi them 14 days to surrender or comer ann face substantial fines imposed Party and the firm to their principles on these by the Court of Session: The principled sane .eten the Council obviously the wholehearted requires the fullest every socialist. backing ol A successful meeting to protest about cuts in the by Jar ama. social services was held last Monday in the Springburn ened with shutdown. Area of Glasgow, with over nen oltenic the uncaring 60 in attendance. meeting, organised by ine goakcr hom the TEs PV Committee

PANC.

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prevent the speakers teachers' union, 1120I6 •COLUsl theon and Gasgow Campaigs- Tenants' Organis local Labour and 1 10 Against the Cuts. NeMIOR• "opened his mouth, enthusiastic debate shut it and ensued as to how to pursue the main to defend social the struggle services. me or mne mosi encoutegn can be resisted aspects of the meeting was the

LICY

Participatios ca groaps en aled campaigns. Lon TdwU shop steward at tion, emphasised Stirling, Foresthall Home and Hospital although culs. which threatened with the determin- progressive HOSuIC. SUA v: of ioration „ o e okoc xcc

AGAINST ZIONISM!

the disgraceful charge that Pales- tinians responsible Soru aul salil. that Ihe real distrace organised British the demonstiation was led by through Greville Janner, a Labour MP dese- arguca, and active in the cration of the synagogue is con Leading Party. nected with this flying of

SACE

the flag) because when you twin Wilson and Tony Benn a city with an organisation Zionists by, in n its flag you terros and hang up creden- climate of ViCaLn colomailsu anti-semitic filth Clearly will members daubed walls his the work local been Sucl but politicians like and disowned by 4uacked have built left repu- launched

PLO,

who have basis the international campaign against the recent resurgenice of t verano and against repres- InGlrnO AlARA ANanAul? Europe. ine ability of tae caolusts to We challenge Janner to deny the more progressive wing Labour Party is a testa : consistent y toat the tai anti-semitism the sophistication and atest. it is of course ditficult to allYULe of fascist equate the interests most disgraceful argu- unti-semites with those of the of decep-

PLO.

One wishes to drive Jews to by the Labow Israel-whilst other TinE opposed increased Jewish immigration. oitea toand ina sti March of the Zion- ability Zionist camp The purpose of this letter is protest rally to demand the removal strongiy urge socialists calise shake te o hoteies the Pales anti- Bamee Labour Party TnRIR wards, trades councils, and trade union branches. Nabius-manue laysiat out • of the trade movement labour ODCCal Labour-controlled regional councils in Strath- centre of the tows is organiser Labour aerine oe l International Com- Amnesty has a reputation for ambi- guous but perceptible prog- ressiveness. and his Its international reports are Labour after all often the only detailed local Council remain factual accounts of who is being imprisoned or killed around the issues they deserve world. is support Because that work Step Forward in Glasgow Cuts Fight amounts of cash and his sentiments were echoed decreasing speaking on available for basic items such as books, pencils, etc henat ot ine aa nocnn need to Assessment Centre also threat- He emnhasised the safeguard standards which had been achieved and to allow no concerning erosion of these by central attituae A f e controlled Regional local autnorites Council was shared by a speaker Wilde, John LIiC C act teat Glasgow facilities in the Gorbals district when he vomted to the tact the services workers can draw NoI did she have much faith upon have been established ove!

MP Frank :and could struggle said, she by a united W10. only be defended COrOL u those fight by wished he had." campaign bodies now springing focus for the meeting was the impact of educ- ation cuts in the city and how

LPYS,

alongside speaking on trade unionists nenat ot the kk OCAROHP housewives added prosenl, how these strength meeting not always must be seen as the springboard dramatic were bringing about a active ampaignin 101 d Ce o OCL

NIS OMAL HRIC HG

the service, with The Zionist movement socialist policies. Rritain wil tur all its attention to Dundee an attempt out a focal point for the against imperialist stamp this aggression. Palestinian resistance Palestinian campaign led to the country. intervention of Alex AIsol annual Scottish Labour The principled- stand TAKeN Dundee Trade Union

TOFIRU

Fadr or ms e drened Palestine' resolution recognising Friends as the sole representatives of the and the gain extended. ralstulall poupie The labo as a y alt ut d •IIISon result Labour Party to the Israel shortly!! m0aaNe and grass roots de.ine o -Zionist military rule in the West Bank town of Nablus

STRUGGLES

valuable, and because it is done can be considered by by nobody else, gin oecauso 11 publicised along mlnneu ls wakc gratitude while some Trotskyist execution souads with ave vented criticism chastisement after all Amnesty

VOCS .JUE

International those eDItOmIse

STOLN

thousando i layers of the petty bourgeoisi letters who are capable of being pulle class? the working 20 The by Beyond the pale that the aiawe current temperature th21 petty bourgeois section is one of virulent antagonism to the inter- class working national working class Amnesty International there- beyond the pale. fore stands Add as an .open and avowed obstacle to genuine rule which sections to accuse Examples of this constantly government-and you nav break through the facade-the most flagrant being the refusal Biritsh of Amnesty to accept H Block Amnesty hunger strikers as 'prisoners of ahtmny conscience"! weeks ago Indeed only those who have Our policies Socialist Press pamphlet outlining programme of action against the Tory offensive. Price 45| sb box 5215. London WCIN 3XX SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 1 April, 1981

OPEN LETTER

drive take the Zionist iacism out of the labour This left turn must be reflec- and resolutions of domination

LOTON

Dundee's pro support should be sent to Ernie Ross MP at the House of Com- mons and to George Galloway, 1 Ratteray Street, Dundee conference of the Party calling the stand Son the Labour Party for Dundee Dundee of the Palestinian people • Tne Pu

TULES

to sell-determinanon Yours in solidarity Barry Turne leading (for the Bradford Labour delegation voyenent campanu for Palestinian Solidarity) In conclusion we urge you to By Peter Mclntyre not rused or advocated violence' the whole of the first day was consumed with internal politics.

Amnesty ne exeeuave ceculol Wor In El Salvador for example voted null and vOll. someone who greets the junta's conference narrowly upheld the mild sacking. of its director Cosmas Desmond. and a friendlv smile can have their name post Desmond-supposediy one enblazoned on the of the progressives and a former prisoner of conscience-declared aeral that he had felt more hostuit!

Amnesty supporters. 1 Amnesty's volunteers than in 14 years of harassment by the hyper-

SOUN ACAI

• DOLCE

bole that probably cost him the But anyone who tights for yogo sen of tig contoaray his/her life or who calls for th to be armed is to this the Amnesty suppressed hisses every time forbids speaker admitted being their own member of a trade union. the interRe duRiim Imports section International met i The leader of the two trade committee told union committee session that he per- Out of a two day conference suaded his union to back trade would make imports ning more expensive.! rights' Ted from deleted resolution because it is covered by humar rights. «Neutral" tial or outlt matte ed the smattered text oi every stateincat uke confetti not aford thi luxury and cannot afford this luxury Amnesty Internațional by adop- ting this stance can only offe increasing aid and comfort t its enemies.

1930s: UNEMPLOYMENT

FIGHT MARCHES DOWN

OCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 1 April, 1981 Part 2 By Colin Morrow of the The response the labour movement mass unemployment of the is probably known 1930s by most workers. While both the lue and Labour Party back the in anguish their hands Nationa The Workers Movement took to the streets, mobilising hundreds of thousands. Wall Hannington. one of 1ts jailed many leaders, TImeS militant organising of the his out many spelled unemployed, times the way in wiich unch- ployment used to smash solidarity oi the and class wages demoralise workers ari sing the For example, voluntary schemes and work camps or he time he pointed out: Húnger March *1. it distracts the That unemployed from organised against the government struggle for Swas a vol ditions; That it the encourages idea of work without wages, and thereby undermines the spirit of trade unionism 3. That it helps the govern- its responsibil. ment to ties for providing normal conditions for the unem- ployed; That it encourages the that unemployment is a idea subject for charity; and extent that it 5. That to the keeps the unemployed quiet and from militant leadership it assists government in carry. attacks upon ing their standards and rights."

‚far so good. Rut for member and the Hannington, a the Communist leadership of the remained confined to Hunger March of The 1932, which brough the was organised onto streets, present a petition parlia- the abolition of the means test. And it was followed by Marches, more Hunger designed to win concessions and reforms from a capitalist class who were prepared "(as they did in Germany) to plunge into the deepest barbarism to solve the crisis of their bankrupt system.

understanding of the capitalist Unemployed men on Waterloo Bridge crisis and the inability of capital to solve it except at the expense of working class Hannington to say: convinced that very much can he done. even whist capitalism remains, eneciver mitigate problem providing employment. Hannington CP member became an advocate of Like the modern trading estates. TUC, with its ludicrous Forward Into the and the Labour '80s' campaign left' with its Alternative Econ- sole Sons in Has on a bette "solutions' terms of a better Later, , he organised capitalism. would come socialism thought, In this way, the unemployed of of the 1930s was DressuIt Proud becoming, with in anarce

ELIC

a challenge tafe existence the whole bourgeois state and its parasitic ruling class. number of absolutely demands were raised by cOrreCt the NUWM: for made uno! rates for all work; for spending on a programme of useful the works to genuinely unemployed; for the abolition Page 5

BLIND ALLEY

That for fighting means barons of big business. of the work camps and the end- every the opb it to deniers Unemployed workers, ing of the means test unemployed commit es ning whether through But they were all made into the books. because workers' unions or through ther mere pleas for mercy those firms who "viabhity cream own trade union branches must they senarated were it means involved in every strugele to parallel struggle

IOI

workers banosis, suppliers and econ the exposing defend jobs management and control of contrac. In that way a real unit 50 muusuy the and unemployed tors. and it means endin employed industries like secrecy of the employers' deal.

struggle can be forged. Unem- steel and ship-building, the fight ings and exposing the bankrupt- ployed workers unions can play control was posed for workers rotten profit system cy of their à vital role in defeating schemes time and time again (notably at fighting closure for voluntary the the shipyard occupations prevent because they present in real Tyne which was closed by harsh terms the realities of the edict and barred government equipment, alternatives. from production for 30 years) samosand demanding the no campaigning Finally, if we are to learn the But the absence of a revolu- crucial lesson of the 1930s it is workers leadership- tionary support, for organise , sav here and now unite workers necessary u those in occupation. capitalism has nothine to offer behind cemane the working class There are no reforms left in

YOPS

workers-opened the those Capitalism the bag to nand out. 00 cat. crisis can onlv It was such defeated groups It means organising workers' working and capitalism is the worked when be ame control of supplies and distrib- veterans ragged ution the task in each inCore. Jarrow March. closures and rectingancies att strucks of the riving class the struegle DaCI threatened while fighting in the "oohy we nece to lean trol individual workplace for work- such experiences. prepare the way for the building first steps through can ser sharit toe same time, in order organs of workers "Manpower and or contine the same control and power. Services employed and to unite unpaid unorganised labour. begin ployed Carvelo And, as in the 1930s, the TUC State Power build the mass organisation of has collaborated with these first the the od and one attacks. Ike the Factory committees and ove the in car , in the union rights the same unite all sections of the labour YOPs and MSC schemes become the the basis have must be unionised strugele hundreds of thousands of jobs soarilal for a co-ordinated tight of al of the labour movement interests of the working class by full trade union rates challengine the rieht of the schemes coupled with the working class today such bosses to retain state Dower.

historic

TUC

immed- demand what unites defeat comparable to that of iately take up the eminioved and unemplover outlaw the rogue profiteers who is the fight for a workers govern as cheap The willingness of workers schemes based

USC

ment government to fight if given even a meagr sources of labour. directlv on the organisations of demonstrated the workine class. Public Works time and time again-the steel that need Drorramme not brotests. Item i strike being just one example Labour councils should be What required this time, programme protests but a called make however, is not the bringing down of this Tory against 'unemployment by programme which challenges the rights of the workers onto the dole. slash of useful standards and programmes living

DUDL

their works in defiance of the Tory increase exploitation

CHILDCARE: ONLY

TROTSKYISTS OFFER

NECESSARY POLICIES

Page 6 Final part of a series of articles by nursery cam- paigner Anne McKinley. Previous articles in this series have underlined the inadequacy of nursery proxision in capitalist count- ries of Europe. But the problem of adequate social securing facilities to lift the burden of childcare from the shoulders of women is also a major issue in the deformed workers' states and in the Soviet Union itself. The Soviet Union care for the under Setud the legida tor of quality between economic ana political issue..

Lenin stated in 1919: Verbally, bourgeois demo- promises equality fact republics however advanced- constitute hale of umanity, ho women before with law, not have they freed them from the yoke oppression of men. democracy of pompous phrases, of solemn words, of bombastic Deitas about liberty and equality.

but all of this hides the and inequality of women. the lack of freedon and inequality of workers and the exploited." Nursery in the USSR this only and in Stalinism Bolshevik Revolution 1917 reaffirm family basis for the emancipation repealing atendant oppression of women in the home. legislation, freedoms, faciitating divorce and attemot- Soviet legat day women ing to socialise a series of enslav- enjos complete equality. domestic tasks-from 85% of them co out to

WOLK

washing of clothes to the educa- and l equal opportunities tion and care of children.

education and jobs are far Nevertheless women suffered And advanced. women yet the same fate as the rest of the working class under the Stalinist counter revolution. In the 1935 domestic remain other oi laws the shoulders individual women /avourable to women disappear- Ine social poucy. in kussk Husince 1967 a "mother's wage" is not aimed at relieving women of this burden but at making it neavier-by •official statements it arose from 'concern' that illness was more to nave more corren. children Instead of providing Corno allone nurseries than among those full providing longer autseres and •leave, But in reality it was designed communal and laundries to To Doost a rumar outro. n halt is paid to women with children child rearing a joy, women with under 3-provided they stay at large families are simply given a medal about one eighth of the average SOUl monthly wage. destroying oppression they are There are three reasons for enduring! this allowance: 2. The fear of the growth of unemployment amongst women it they seek work out side the home; 3. The high costs of creating and maintaining state run child In current nursery provision there is only room for : 10% of Hungarian children under 3 aloteines those mothers who prefer or ar obliged to continue their work or their children in a child car centre force division of labour. most Cuban women were unemoloved illiterate. they had to work the open to primary occupations them. were those of domesti servant and prostitute. The only role expected of them was that 'of wife and mother thi In the zu years sinct revolution' the image and iole of women has to all intents and • purposos chalgeu raulcaly Retraining programmes were set up for women to learn skills such as child care, sewing and clerical work. The principle of equal pay for equal work became law. and education was compuIson established for all Cuban children more and more womer entered the workforce, a serious problem became glaringly appar- ent. Because of the strain of the "second shift' of childcare and housework, women began dropping out of work each year enacted into law which stipul- ates the "total equality" of me women in ll aspects of lif emphasis Tre OT responsibility within an individual inpression fameld o pregue family facilities

HOTE

Iemove the second shift from The Family Code does not

THIE

mto account one parent families. Trotskyist Programme The policies put forward by Trotskyists in nursery and child care campaigns based on a politica forward by frotsky in 1938 al the founding conference of the Fourth International enonen nowere simply offer women the of the Transitional demands We have to the particular needs women if we are to win them to struggle working HaSS The fight for the mainten- ance and e ensino of eis *. fight inseparabit Iron for the capitatsi Capitalism : from guaran will teeing democratic rights Curari aLLaCKE upon them ke the atacke on child care de mas po ou em preso demands for child care bro vision to the fight to defend what we already have occupying threatened sey oi services oI work- places-like zurseries-agains closure by the capitalist class i Goes uns. "shows workers and users of the service in practice the need both to defend nurseries and to assert Occupations pation nursery/hospital they think whether that the , worke things themselves and one would probably receive a nega- Live alswor When one has no other ened facility amazing how will much workers contributt ana conto. that tacity tne way it should be run. n the same wa e the policy t opening the bool Councils, Area Health Authorit- les ana any lactor plase it has to captaos clase has to there says cannot be a ware rise becaus there is no money challenges their right' to solve problems at our expense. the books in order to prove there is s money Some capitalists will orove. To without and not the saiules. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 1 April, 1981 Whereas the books show the need for nationalisation of the economy and for workers control. the open the books demand on county councils and AHAs is to point to where the money to-turm panies like La Roche who make huge profits and the for these firms to be Every serious demand now raised by women in the struggle against oppression must them the oficial labour bureaucracy into contlict with The demands and aspirations of womer always neglected by trade and

• GILUSE

Labour leaders, who have based themselves on the most conser vative and privileged layers of the workers' movement Now 'these demands are cas aside entirely by bureaucrats determined if necessary to sacri- fice the interests of the whole mobilise independent mass action for the overthrow of the crisis ridden capitalist system.

Ine struggle •_•erence o or conditions; the Jobs. struggle the Tory spend , stop the struggle Culo. lifting the burden of domestic labou from individual women in the home ing of a revolutionary socialist leadership in the working class- m wich women must bay. uci * Maile recognising that only „socialism will create the material means The reactionary ideolog that both justifies and intens fies women's oppression is mucl capitalism will on 41ne unless communists lead a con scious campaign to stamp it ou In a planned economy it will possible • provid communal facilities supercede the work done women's domestic labour with high cheap dining quanty compreensive triee childcare halls and laundries as

OLOYISIUN

the economy will be planner in this unless there are women and men communists ir ary party that believe that thest facilities are a priority to reliev the burden on women and gran purely formal equality.

NURSERIES - HOW &

WHY TO FIGHT FOR

THEM

"The sim is to force the state to run the service neod. Many unions - we

NUPE, NALGO, NUT,

social aduca. donal services, and thei union officiais must be forced to act in suppor adready the cuts..." So states this vite! booklet 60, plus 15p peep from NCCC c/o Surrey Dacks Child Care Project Dockland Settlement, Redriff Rd, London SÉ 16.

NEW ATTACK ON BL

STEWARDS MOVEMENT

Combine Committee revived SOCIALISI PRESS, Wednesdey 1 1pm. 1931 British Leyland manage- ment have launched what is effectively a new strategy to break up and neutralise the shop stewards movement in their plants. These proposals involve the establishment" National A meeting took place last Saturday the BL Combine Shop Stewards Committee. Workers Participation in Lif During used to meet in working hours anu crew convenors

ITOM

almost all plants throughout BL Cars and heavy vehicle divisions. a Saturday this time because Michael Edwardes threatened to sack any witt attends a combine committee

PERGAMON

STRIKE

The four-week strike by nine

NUJ

members Robert Maxwell's Pergamon Press headquarters Oxford continues solid. Last week saw the first issue on the gates to the large number of staff still working sosed open leer to the local sored open letter

DICSS.

all 10S- ponse. Staff came out at lunchtime to discuss with pickets and new APEX and NGA chapels hoth inside Pergamon The have also circul- ated an additional effort pressure to bear on i Maxwell, the Labourite who millionaire

HAYD

aces a coons a cone almost bottom of the league in the field of journals production.

Strikers also campaigning for broader NUJ support at the union's confer- ence in Norwich. of and messages support should be sent to the strike committee, c/o 5, Union Street. Oxford. struct the fourth Internotionai Nov. 1979 No. 1

INTERNATIONAL

DISCUSSION

BULLETIN

60р The Transitional Programme in Today's Class Struggle The founding programmatic document of the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee. Available, price 80p including postage; from WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX Joint Negotiating Committee new discipline procedure which comprising of 23 members-one gives BL the right of summary choose national Irom each ol aismissal lor wnat they misconducts the eleven unions in BL and 12 to define "gross industrial others appointed by ine execu politically the most tives of the various unions. most will be full time damaging aspect the Which officials. document is that it becomes a The document includes a part of BL workers' contract of meeting inside working hours.

and factory reaundancy Combine Committee chair- closures. man Jack Adams has been disci- Beans Industries, for plined-being given a final warn- example-a part of the BL com- ing from BL-for attending one bine producing components- of the two meetings the the workforce has been decim- held over active committee has ated by compulsory 1 vultuall Wic vast two years Hes • came our on a selectre basis. come discussIon, took the important mechillg Management selected most decision to reactivate the com- of the militants, nearly all of the and Hillect stewarus blus tie collyciu!

once every two naturedys IoI the sack, iney nave all gont months. This will provide a forum for Compulsory redundancies BL stewards not nas ance amongst. indirect workers was pushed through by the and without resistance Communist Party in 1976. Handcult redundancy compulsory Destruction amongst directs. SU Carburettors, Reports from the individual convenor was sacked lor attena plants more than confirmed the ing a trade union meeting and of the previous- reinstated shop floor movement strong nition as a trade union represen- Lour L clickaye "participation" followed up by In heavy vehicles it is ever ement offensive. Most plants are on one 57,000 jobs have gone in BL day and trading all since Edwarde. position " 15

LOOK

Over mostly through voluntary time. Dock strike spreads northwards The determined pay Even brazenly Docks Board officials strike by 1900 dockworkers announced plans to axe 250 dockers' jobs.

paralyse all contiues to regional secretary John Ashman ship movement in South-

(IGWU)

ampton. And the act of the Docks Im aks on Monday next. Board management in transfor- ne sake is now is moı crucial phase. The workforce hatshed bet must compromise any lockout nas not intimidatea tne between union leaders workforce one iota. Indeed the dock and biDs employers. stewards for wider labour move- Defend industry ment support is last gatnering momentum. Last week saw action from Further thev must demand five militant South Wales ports- that TGWU and NUR leaders Barry, Swansea aNd Port Cardiff, defend this nationalised and Port Talbot-as these industry against any rationalis workers backed their ation programme outlined the government's Transport Bill hour strikes. The transfer of BTDB assets All ships diverted to nearby into Portsmouth have also been Company offers workers no res- declared blacked' bv stevedore pite from attacks on their jobs transport union stewards or working agreements. while

NUR

members are refusing to offload at the con- profitable dry docks has merely Lane termines. been the prelude to further run down and selling out to private Pledged to act The only way, to guarantee Hull and Liverpool stewards even existing conditions is to are also pledged to action in the force this struggle • no evey event of TGWU leaders giving of BTD under the •SeCTion the strike official status while following programme: flying pickets canvassing were *No sackings or redundan- for support at ipswich and other eastern ports. closures-open

BTDB

However union bureaucrats books to elected únion com- national level already are mittees! Secree corre *Renationalise BTD under dispute workers' and гетото workers control! attempts to mobilise for an all- *Prepare general strike to with confrontation kick out the Tories! employment-a move which that Cultival legally binding. Since it contains a new dis- also putes procedure, ПРА АТЕ О В О І since worker went unofficial strike otherwise broke the disputes procedure The projected for lorries this year 51,000 units-a year's work for only one plant. Compulsory recuncance nas aken place at the biggest plan Lancashire, but at Leyland, the backea on arter a mass meeting voted to redundancy. the meeting discussed ine Victimisations in Longbridge in January. Victimised Jim Denham, one of the vic- timised stewards, spoke about the victimisations and proposed convene conference of BL stewards to discuss the increasing victimisa- them. Jack Adams, from the chair -who had been very reluctant Denham socaN- refused to any motions or proposals on the issue, rulin that they will have to be put on the agenda of the next meeting.

On Friday 27 March, parents and supporters of Beal Play Street Centre occupied the building. The parents and supporters timed their entry thn tay coincide centre finish of the children's farewell party at 3.55 p.m The play centre staff were given a notice that it was a legal occupation were and noticed posted on the doors and windows. immediately matron up County tati continued their usual duties until the last children had been collected and then left The cocai policeman popped by , read the notice, "That's fine, good luck. Name. Address. Send to: WSL, BM Box S277, London WCIN 3XX.

Page 9 By Bill Peters that worker would be in breach convenors. reaffirmed its hi nine meeting employment. existing policy •of a JNC com- Whilst the document of elected delegates from presented "Discussion the plants on the basis of one Document' deadle der wou workers management it was in fact the This is a policy which arose subject secret between and the national existing undemocratic of the major unions SuruCtur te sel out early in March oast vent's wage revien Almost certainly there had A meeting of the BL Shop been discussions earlier than Steward Combine Committee that held last Saturday Ken Cure, right wing Execu- convenors totally tive Councilman of the

AUEW

rejecting the document. responsible for BL met

AUEW

This does mean that 1l0 Edwardes will back off. If there Conten is tacit behind-the-scenes agree.

discuss the document. with the ment national officers he will exploit it to the full.

Denied involvemerft workers could He refused to take a vote on it, saying he , simply mendation lot Its acceptance Dy national officials-or both.

get the flavour of the meeting' way of saying

CAR INDUSTRY CRISIS

that he will decide what the meeting thought.

A POLICY

He admitted that there had been result of trade union involve-

FOR OBL

ment but denied trade union involvement in its drafting.

WORKERS

He said that BL had reques- ted that document be published as a loint document mat there had bach engests there had been enough agreement to make it a viable propositio: WhenAutomotiv national officer Hawler the IGWU convenors, however, there . was Available, price 42p including document was unanimously postage, from

WSL

BM Box relected alter pressure from the 5277, London WCIN 3XX Threatened nursery occupied On the Saturday two Al about •.1o tne Directo of Social Services, Brian Rice, councillors came 100° offer arrived Nearly support. people He was not allowed into the the first two days and support is bunding and nad to speak to the parents on the door step growing. He Parents and supporters are "damage the They are asking that the in the building at all times ir Council their County reverse case of vandalism! donor a cont both was reassured the play centre or, fails points. ask the city council take i …ther said that he would have to inform the pres: that the mentally group be unable t ing at the play centre on Thurs nOW use the building. 12 April at 7.00 p.m. and or an open day is plannec He informed that. this in ine alternoon to attract sup • Was would not be the case since all Please and end messages the groups that previously used support donations to Beal building would 11101C wan wacome to cortinue to o 1, Pegasus Close, Leicester.

JOIN

THE

WSL :

Please send me more details about the Workers Socialist League.

Hunger striker stands for Parliament

SOCIALIST

PRESS

who claim that the republican In a brilliant move to fighters are simply isolated highlight the five-week old individual criminals hunger strike at the Long This campaign offers Kesh concentration camp in further to break opportunity the North of Ireland, repub- silence the conspiracy of

• UI1 LIC

lican prisoner of war Bobby nancer sakes to are broce Sands is to stand as a candi- Irish mass media, and step по то на the struggle for 9 by- date in the April the demand. election in Fermanagh/ for republican South Tyrone. prisoners. While he continues his fast in : should be taken up as pa McAliskey the prison hospital of the In lie Dad LUll- Kesh, campaign will be and Irish labour movement for political and material solidarity waged his behalt by suppor- of the National H Block/ with the hunger strikers тетс Armagh Committee. Bernadette McAliskey told a Belfast radio interviewer that: emerges Withdrawn as a candidate in the by election 10L To promote that campaign, question immediately withdraw other natonaust vangluales consider it an honour as a voter witnarew Irom the lignt Ior the seat, left vacant by the death of Frank Maguire. tion form and I would work the His brother Noel withdrew back thát calling on at tne last moment, prisoner and the other prisoners Noel Maguire his supporters lend their he is representing." backing to Bobby Sands. achieved the rare feat of stand- Bernadette McAliskey Obligation' still recovering from a Loyalist West- Sands - and thus tronic to seems certain assassination attempt, also win the seat with- It is high time that socialists drew in tavour of Sands. who is running Fein the point of death in a military in Britain began equally to grasp MOTi candidate but specifically and limag prison hospital. their obligation devote Block Nothing political Smash could more clearly necessary solid-

ORDERSI

resources Despite the the style "democracy arity action with the republican

TACE

that the six have also lies of Firebomb attack: a stark warning The firebomb attack on the SWP's socialist and trade union bookshop in Digbeth, Birmingham underlines the of right upsurge wing violence in recent months.

The use of a car to block the exit to the building makes clear that the attack ally motivated. 1 he man immed- balieved to be a mem to be a member of the National Front Police linked the firebomb- ing

WILD

tne ol a cross- bow bolt in a racialist attack on Karamat Hussein broad day- light in Birmingham. NF youth in Brixton But lascist violence is on the The arson attack that led to mobilsed bv the fascists in this Britain, adopting a increase period of acute social and econ- the mascacre or s west noran the youth in New Cross is another omic crisis. activities of fascist groups in symptom of the growing tide of The labour movement must Europe. guard. et mence. workers That this has now been defence squads must be estab- Convictions lished as extended attempt where necessary and occupants of a leit murdere collect There been wing bookshop should be taken violence. has recent of British further stark warning by flurry of convictions a fight must be waged within the la the labour movement. bour movement tor Movement

CHES

• charges that range from murder, was Tory case

DONCIUS

i use to the possession bizarre: a woman's dead body Social servin b housing and through arson,! the services: was found oi an armoury of tirearms But this ditions homeless- the car aven

DON CE

TOTALS

Juveily. and forced to recognise the turn by oppres mere v underines the Isaby Iless. Isa anon fascists terrorist violence of the sion which provide the fertile owards recruited being and breeding ground for the fascists.

elements , BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX. Printed by Morning Litho Printers Ltd., London Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the While British media silent on consciously Ionalis the issue, and the Labour and unior Thei a110 bi-partisan policy with the Tories Irish on the chauenge to brish imperalism and th Thang the erement fighting attempts of them as i and Criminal demanding proper recognition prisoners of war. the repub- waging struggle which British workers must support. Defeat Tories Bobby Sands and the other H' Block hunger strikers have against Thatcher. They have insisted that they will not unless the lory govern ment nist concedes It is up to us in the British movement to do every- labour weaken defeat British imperialism. hunger strikers! Political status now! Vote Bobby Sands! "rooss our olegg now Self determination for the Irish people!

POLAND

street repress assist in the arrest of selected militants. Such measures would nom ceroerdon our me roaso bureaucrats have few other ort en to them. If they Solidarity will back now, gain stil further in strength and invitical and economic probense immense would Livivable! way militancy of the Polish masses.

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CAMPAIGN AGAINST RACISTLAWS

STOP THE

NATIONALITY BILL

Bobby Sands divided Though clearly between more moderate and militant elements, Solid- anty nas never set Its signis at anything other than more or less reforms within existing Solidarity has never attemp- ted to remove replace the though its commutees nave reveal edly acted effectively as a rival has neter bato form State, , this been formally recog never not this week whether develops into the decisive week Poland Dul uselC this political necessar Th21 is combatted in period next the tion of a leadershin in Solidar.

Special Fund why we nute cecked to ninen a £2,500 Special Fund to be during the four raiser next with month: Consen date of Sunday 19 July-the first day of the

WSL

Summer School. over our

BITT

ace immediate financial commit- have ments the first $750 of this fund in by Members and su Socialist League Worker League will be • pledging mone thi fund during the next few days.

Demonstrate Against Immigration Laws Hyde, Park, London 1 p.m. Sunday 5 April committed both the defenc the nationalised property relations in Poland and Stalinist bureaucracy that has plunged the economy into such Claus Challenge This means the development •ot the power class through the construction of workers' councils challenge the power of the Stalinists at factory, and national level; and it means pre- ations against state development armed workers detence squads.

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