Socialist Press no. 249

SOME ACTION!

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LET'S SEE

250 miles is a hell of need for "the TUC, Industry and Commerce and the polit- a ong wav to walk to parties hear a load of hot air. together' And that precisely were propaganda nere calls for Labour/TUC footsore Peoples Marchers at so-called "Alternative Econ- the culminating mass rally at Strategy' OmIC Trafalgar Square. repeated calls for withdrawal and pour leaders vied with each other as to from the Common Market: how often they could refer and numerous aemands 1or no nuclear missiles and cuts To neroic struggles past-from the Peasants' in defence spending. through Peterloo to levolt specenes the Tolpuddle Martyrs and summed UD Wright of the Welsh TUC oi course arrow Marchers.

All were agreed that this "We must go on and on and March would go down on me insisica. HIStOrV. not muen consola tion tor those unemployed Forged in struggle now. All served up more of the It was not the TUC or usual tedious nonsense about "winning hearts and minds" Labour leaders, but repres- of Thatcher entatives workers and forcing government "change nave actuary TOugnE defence of jobs who Communist Party leader the only down-to-earth state- Gordon MacLennan claimed

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une way forward it was "very important" that Tom Ine March the March had Tom McAfee, of Gardiners, where an occu- sections of the Church. succession pation securea a partial vic- Baptists, Methodists and tory against Anglicans got up to deliver pointed out that for all the talk of "unity" real unity is

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SOCIALIST

* Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 249 * 4 June 1981 * 20p After the speeches only forged in struggle: Tal "We will not beat them and redundancies. get by speeches, but by action, steel and other union leaders have hurriec he argued strike and must neconate occupy. It is not easy to get redundancies. To do so, you occupations the nave to expan Ene Dollies and then you will get them tv ccupy. Sne speaker on ut occupied Lee Jeans factory emphasised unal. were need whole Georue 1ra06 UnIOn movement behind us. Then we will be multi- strong any nauonal or covernment. struggles in defence of jobs meal of the like Gardiners and Lee Jeans -ane tne occupanons orot blown up Benedicts Longworth Hospitals have been deliber- Armagh. who Nobody ate versolated or like te made Ansells brewery struggle, sabotaged by union officials determined av010 frontal challenge the attacked convenor employers the Tory resistance movement. government Elsewhere-as in British Leyland-union leaders have Tormed a more or less open home. alance with management to Ireland... Lee Jeans.. through plant closures industries voluntary Throughout the public Cont'd back page Troops out now! The media made a But it is these funerals of apologists for the British the five British soldiers ruling class who insist that the must remain in strikers in South Ireland-and

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OUl confused and recruiting had anything unemployed youth into the against these soldiers person- forces. five ally: they were just members ine solders

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of an occupying army -and have been shouldn't by Ireland. They shouldn't have as such popular occa minatchers army. They had nothing to gain The British press was at from the -any once full of crocodile tears any other British or me sorcers ramires al worker. instead mey shoule have been in a union, fight- Page 3

POLISH OFFICIALS

PLAN TO KILL

SOLIDARITY

Centre pages .. p.5 . p.9 150,000 was the com- estimate 10O1 Sunday's turn-out-a magnificent response to struggle against the unemployment. all the But despite efforts of the TUC and the Communist Party to keep the campaign "broad", the class con- tent of the movement repeatedly bubbled to the surface For while Tony Benn was received with rap- turous applause, Healey was loudly booed. And Liberal Party chairman Richard Holme was ren- dered almost inaudible by boos and catcalls. Whether they march with green banners or red, the fact is that those prepared to fight unem- ployment are largely part of the organised workers movement, and com- fight mitted the against the Tories and Tory policies. ing for policies to defeat the Thatcher government. National Demonstration meanware. our hunger continue their struggle in the Long Kesh Support the Irish camp. They concentration prisoners' five are fighting in the and with the support of the demands! oppressed layers of Stop the deaths! society in the six counties. Their fight is our fight!

Saturday 13 June, 1.30 We have a common inter- Assemble Finsbury Park, est in defeating Thatcher and march to Hyde Park the armed repression of the Called by the H Block/ ortise State *Political status now! Armagh Committee *Troops out of Ireland!

Careerists, coalitionists and collaborators in Mitterand's Paran JA Page 2 The French new assembled government by Socialist Party Presi- dent Francois Mitterand consists of 5 Ministers of State, 25 Ministers and 12 Secretaries of State. It has been designed to of impression stabilitv and of having over• come all the problems of the period which attlic- ted the SP and threatened its unity. It has tried to include the prominent Jeauer. dill representatives of each of currents of opinion clic lilall in the or da to a dail fully balanced pattern the representation regions. also three incinees representatives of the MRG Radical de (Mouvement Gauche), a bourgeois radical Support Michel It also includes Jobert. a former Minister In the De Gaulle and Pompidou cabinets, and founder of the democrates des youvement which he set un in 1974 attempt seize the at least a major leadership. ot the disorganised vaulist movement His presence the Mitterand/Mauroy Minister of Overseas Com- merce is the clearest inaica- tion yet of Mitterand's inten- tion to seek a growth in his support among

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particular geoisie, the relics of the left' of the Gaullist movement. The new Prime Minister, O1 Lutor believer in 'day to day social- ism', he is the very model of the gradual reformist Hets on record as emonia- sising thạt will Socialists not change one hundred days the ideology, the social rela- and mental tionships attitudes produced by a hun- dred years of capitalism".

In his view, therefore, the socialst orozrarillic concern itself

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exploration what and change can oniv come about dee cele illusion of revolu- ing tion'. He corresponds to a very important French socialist movement as shown by his history. Leader He joined the Young Soc- of the SP's forerunner ialists the SFIO at the age of and rose become national secretary, , a post he for 9 years from 1949

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For cevera vears ne was leader of the union the instructors, within technical teachers' independent une federation, FEN. played an important part in the 1971 reconstruc- and helped

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to bring Mitterand into leadership. recent years he has been much concerned with affairs, both regional and as the Mavor of Lille architect allance the with the current in the Corsican inde- pendence movement. From 1974 he has been ally of Mitterand's a strong rival within wing mail the si. miches nocaru The representative of the new' cabinet Unwarranted panic in the French Stock Exchange 'left' in the cabinet is Jean won ascribe as new le Chevenement's exclusion who Chevenement • has his dersh stater from takes рогоно 1975, research and technology but his is acknowledged does

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exten all y criticism of France's nuclea the 'left' pressure weaponry. within the SP he d'etudes, de recherches Ill lall socialistes) d'education is one of the main propon ents of support for an inde- founded in 1966, which ne pendent nuclear force. years after joining

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Reconciled and strongly Mitterand the Epinay Michel Rocard, the new against of State with res Vinaste. Molet and savary ponsibility As National Secretary of

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nanonar is the leader of the SP during 1971 and wing important of: the 1972 he one Was current within the si Beginning Union of the woun

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the Communist Party and became national secretary of and the com- the Kadicals. the Association des eludiants mon programme. socialistes before leaving

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found the

PSA.

Rightward shift

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of the havine contesed a series or as the PSU candi- He adheres to the view that the failure of the Union and taking Lalt. and the defeat its leadership Maren vous roc In he was eventually reconciled to the right- 1978 were due ward shift on the part of the to the SP in 1974, when he of the SP resulting TrOm influence of middle class P and into taest white collar workers and not He entered the national the leadership of the SP in the . InE Install Communist Party in the face of its cynical autumn proposed as a candidate for cynica! commentates Marchais Yvette Roudy, with res- women's rights, represents important link with various women's groups within the sociaust movement Even within his allies in the MRG Mitterand is care- balance the odds. Faure Maurice Lne пе и Minister of Justice is brought the representative intransigent ine

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current which 1967 UnTI stood out against the various towards with the socialists and com- munists. Evident right wingers the ministers who Chevsson. served as Giscard's commis Brussels (and sioner incurred the wrath of the CP as a result), Jean-Pierre Cot an open disciple of Rocard and Charles Hernu, the new Minister of etence wao 1sa blatant militarist and founder of

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stood presidency but the military within the SP down in November in favour An interesting inclusion of Mitterand. self-styled of the most determined opponents of ts is rlene Joxe. "marxist" who takes distance from the

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Communist Party within the group within the leadership, French labour movemell and is widely regarded as a of his and devote. muen likely successor to Mitterand energy to rebutting Rocard's market-oriented economic as the leader of the SP. Of the other

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poncies. of State, Gaston accuse him of being able to Ministers always been speak only in the language has regarded as a loyal supporter or ine Dosses Mitterand and caused by his surprise considerable Protest support for Rocard's candi / in 1980. attacked He also Clearly he has managed a Marchais and the CP over the reconciliation to be given the Afghanistan question. important post of Minister there another And the Interior and Decen- the

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leader forme tralisation. a frosty, SP The other Nicole Ques and the Mollet essenment in 1956 resigned

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tanx acake memoci al former MEP, has been given against the treat- post of Minister of the new ment of Algerian freedom National Solidarity fighter Ben hands of the government Cabinet obvious fact Hust ahout the new government 1s that it does not include any The same pattern of care- representative .of the PCF political Tuil Contrived Mitter- which certainly gave balance can to owed the whole be the and many through more voles lal would did the MRG In contrast to the period come to list all the Ministers first round of the and their historics and affili- betore the were ations. A few examples will wiet • EnCy stridently demanding a guar- sutrict. SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday June 4 1981

ERNIE STUBBINS

takes a look at the Cabinet chosen by Francois Mitterand following his election of as President France.

TRE ACIER

MTRE INDEPENDA

I GENNEI

POUR

FRATER CONTE

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Pressure on Mitterand: workers on the march Rapidly-convened antee of ministerial positions talk. with German Chancello Schmidt have underlined his subdued manner to its exclu- sion he has one its the government intention to maintal man aspects of Giscard's foreign and economic policy, partic winches assume • Franco-German responsibilities ularly

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unified government', but has bloc control the Messages from Reagan so far not resumed its polem- ical attacks against the SP.

look forward confidently to There continued and improved no military cooperation will be important least in the cussions between the CP and elections the SP in the run up to the period to the legislative elections due to be Mitterane wilde oolse li appear to make concessions held on 14 and 21 June to the working class Disorder important of

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Mitterand will be anxious already been made tnese has the maximum sup- -the SMIC (statutory mini- gain murased by 10% from June the members mum

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1 Ul The leaders the minimum Edmond Maire, leader of assurance about their role in CFDT trade union con- any me coverall federation, has called for the The internal disorder of the French CP cannot fail to the introduction the 35 in this introduction of the help him greatly in the national week objective. The defeated right wing

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and th But he has been at pain PDF will attempt to depriv out the limit point SP by its the left of a workable ma) imposed on the ority ine new National loyalty to the lung cidss Assembly There is little doubt that rapidly assembled workers will demand far Union for a New Majority more than Mitterand will be to grant prepared thev nave carved up tie 3g constituencies and that where will work together to avoid an important iole in play right wing vote limiting their struggles splitting the the CP The UNM does not yet Lild President Ciscard for es one most retains iscard, who President important evers or powe be still consid hrough its control or ll beneveulu launching CGT unions. ering liberal but While it is unlikely that it has rapidly gained the support of the CP will resolve its leader- prominent leaders of many shin crisis belore ine tions, in the early stages of the outgoing coverell The early indications are government, Stalinist leaders will be able that Mitterand is anxious to considerable allay the fears of the French expense of the by capitalist class rather than to

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in any kind of action overbidding wage and other claims. against them.

Bolivian dictator retreats Chilean workers fight back SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday June 4 1981

FASCISTS

ON TRIAL

IN TURKEY

After nine months of Previous events attacks on working class bined with an understanding and revolutionary organi- ot the essentially bonapartis of the regime, are key sations, Turkey's military nature have to making a correct assess- dictators now ment. decided to turn against The Generals usurped the right. power to secure the interests Three hundred leaders of capitalism and fascist National Action the imperialism in a situation ol civil was leader war Party divided into camps; the two Collidl committee, and come organ. TaSCISLs. isers of front organisations) the working class and trial organisations. have been street every Every charges carrying penalty. village, This development, which no go area for one or other sides and were does not in any way give the ot the

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junta an "anti-fascist" Chat! patrollea by area men acter, does not come in isol- Bourgeois democracy could not be maintained ation. Following brought him to power.

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removal of Garcia attempted coups within has been on the cards for the space of a fortnight, time as the country's SOme both in the central city armed forces Tell themselves when of Cochabamba and both amongst with crippling led by the same man, laceu external GenT economIc Bolivian dictator General the smear Luis Garcia Meza has cocaine trafficking, staunch been forced to announce popular resistance anu anil pathy, and continuing failure his resignation as from 6 to beguile the Independence August, Day. Nationel reconstructon According Garcia's Yet coup declaration, the armed forces throughout attempts the should appoint nis successor spring came to nougnt on 17 July , first anniversary This was principally the bloody that because once having under- For over five weeks oftensive against the very the 10,300-strong work- noor economic condition oi the workers and the seven- force of the El Teniente year offensive against copper mine in Chile has labour movemenl sustained strike in capitalist state, reliant not just on brute force but also 18% demand of an string anti-worker increase in wages, pro- decrees. ductivity bonuses, over- time payment, transport, Banned educational and job security rights against the Today in Chile industry- dictatorship of Pinochet which has offered a deris- exist only on paper; nomin- ory 2%. clections ations union The El Teniente strike unti the dar are marks a new step forward in of the poll; any group of workers- - unionised not- StOW Daliarul recovery Chilean deal directly with the ot. the working class • defeated employer; strikes are limited to 60 days and after 30 days coup Cruety tut September 1973. The length of the strike, desert their comrades and fix separate deal; no assem- Its she mness. ana resis- tance: to constant police vies at Denied in work- harassment, the threat time and there are - strict limits on those outside of it.

tull-scale Mitary tion and widespread Nccouation of nonware dismissals, has to be under- benefits" (health, housing education, training and joh stood against the very poor economic condion o ine secumv, is bannca ana al workers and the seven-ycar existing agreements on these conditions. in tact. tnese democracy rarnamentary 1978 ended Introducton Ot Mailar lan in eleven big cities. crucial point for the generals' coup vas that the balanced two sides This was the case the leadership of the work- reformist and ing class, both tying ine work ern democracy bat est- never existed in Turkey Large of the and middle class, peasally together

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some demor alised sections of the work- began look to class lila the military their Pinochet-style taken and ('pinochetazo')

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immersed anem selves mafia-style over generals cocaine were unable to present d viable alternative stuck with different figureheads anc clans; but there was go further to the where to Ment an any penuine ever sal of the dictatorship stood open the floodgates of mass mobilisation. Shift measured retreat taken by Garcia does, how- points become nuil and void upon the negotiation of new contracts arbitration is military, and political activity is banne. I here art a score of further judicial measures that provide for ine avision or ine workins class. The strength of the t Teniente miners is, therefore truly The state impressive says its offer is 'final' but it losing $1.2 million day and the regime is well aware the rest Chile's working class. In the other large state- owned miner outta mata and Andina workers have already rejec tea ode co soner are seek ing rises of 15% and said to be preparing action. Mainer already been arrested and there have been clashes with une carao peros in toe sureds of ear a where he tude bear icar gas cloquen estony active class struggle. Generals Evren and Celasun because there is a long "tradi- still very much in existence).

ton of mutary intervention And the generas must keed in Turkish political life spectre of terror and violence alive as a determin- The main motive in this search was not ihe political ing actor in une corscious terror, but the collapse ness of those who welcomed standards Turkey 'saviour' the military living full weight of the the has feltthe LUuy neen the en wno nave laken.

The military was able to the brunt of the attacks. This disturbed the bloodless coup has Lully Vul d working balance in that the

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these

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reasons. une balance between fascism and ciass been the left and this mood that make itself felt. It is indicative that two to looked to the Hillary avoid open civil war. the genders Therefore the generals yellow trade union, could feel able to participate not must do two things to main.

tain their rule. They must the balance state body set up to attack maintain standards through the two sides living between (which although quiet are represent something of the experienced butchers and veTeran forces within the military.

former dictator Hugo Banzer appears that a group and Alberto Natusch, leadel of a short-lived coup, who not closely associated will and have now r established a more cocaine anxious to avoid further con- alliance, which or ess [ does not explicitly rule out fusion Insee ne redressive apparatus by reforming the some form of 'election', to the divided right along lines • reassem uit acceptable to the US has and reluroish. ine reminant: gained the upper hand of Garcia's regime. The leading figures in this Support group weneral Humberto Cayoja, Lucio In this they and Gary Prado, the Anez: •call. coult on the support of the civilian atter. Deme and the bourgeois parties 196ure of Che Guevara in anu unt radical nationalist Lurking behind them are

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'counter-productive'.

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only Tne Teniente union declared that In this call lies the recog- its action will be class. independence and the but it nas atso called for the removal of Bernardo Castillo regaining of control over the and Guillerm Medina. worKer. cconomic oreans leading yellow union ations cannot be separated officials appointed by tho from the political campaign santly aflacked the strike as Page 3 the left and the ition, the destruction of ti between

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will not carrie military also grew be through. wenera " nOW the credib- tryme lo restore ility of Turk-ls. There is also Setback an attempt to play down in' prospects of violence, in that The bourgeoisie will n Evren has said "you can stop the insam the chita but you instrument annihilate resort organised fascism doesn't want to take on i the However, view! working class in a light to the bourgeoisie and the NA TI ine tinish leaders do not coincide It is in this context of trial does mean a setback t concessions and big minor the fascists. Anti-fascist fe generally will promises to the let war ene current trial of the fascist fostered and the way will

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The tria should be see. open for the purguing the army ar tascists trom it is clear that unless the generals strengthen their Also, Turkes' neck hold and eliminate all oppos- clearly the mercy Fvren The NAP trial is t background of the shooti Wolves-the terror organisaton Agca one of the t of the

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twenty mo claimn to nave like him attempt assassination had called for who have the warning 1s a dulls 'honourable sectors of the both Evren and in military to take power and geoisie in Europe. Who w organised a demonstration of victim cann be predicted workers and suuenis wc weeks ago in Cochabamba in It shows that the N/ of Colonel Lanza's are well organised throu support out Europe-they Talica coup very much there. The in Belgiu NẠP, Satisfied claimed- • was prot against the trial in Anka Reports from Washington fact determining But th indicate that all ot Department highly satis be the consistency of i fied with this particular forn consistency revolutionary struggle • class and its all

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which promises to adorn the in the fight against not or next strong-man with some but the jur fascists, spurious and ephemeral 11 SeT "democratic' credentials.

British workers must back struggle many of the leaders Since the military coup. the trade unions movement have been killed, jailed exiled. This means that the task of rebuilding trade unions falls heavily on the rank and file lack the most basic material resources for this ta That is why it is important that money is provic as part of the solidarity action of the British work class

MODEL RESOLUTION

ensure t means to Sally " recognition and aid are w expresses its solidarity with held from the milit the resistance of the Bolivian regime by the British gove dals die and •dictatorship and to this end makes a contribution of f to tne bonvian workers sup port Fund calls on the Bolivian Workers Supp union to give maximum suD Fund, 54 -Studley struggle of the Forest Gate, London Bolivian trade union move. (01-471 6008). Bank account: •dictatorship and With 43338275 National calling on the TUC to organ.

minster Bank I Hurdw Place, London NWI 2JG • Halona camoan blacking and to use all neces-

The 'defence' programme the Is Benn a right wing agent?

rage 4 GLC scrapped decision of the The the early completion of the network of protected head-

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new Labour to I01 withdraw from the vuarters £4 government milton Civil government's allocated to this, in addition Defence programme has to on milionnications hardenin-5, £4-5 been widely reported in the national and local centres against broadcasting nuclear attack. press. Yet few reports give any In all, it is proposed that what this pro- the no petence oracer actually means increased by 60%, , with the expenditure by local pracical terms lor the mal- authorities to double. the cilizens capital. An outline of the "plan" Five groups lo clear vo nuclear strike was presented The plan for London is seminar jointly into five groups, To civice 1f November

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Tory GLC and the Home is supposed to provide a Office for Group HQ. benefit of Because of the high prob- Lulluun CounCIOIs. They were told that widespread ability OI GAr- current War Office thinking London each will be linked to is that there may be as little • a time еоте a Sure ond war broke out between the centres outside London. imperialist western The North East London Group HQ Wanstead, Warsaw Pact-but for example wil Inal Inere shoula be a pre liminary period of "conven- to a subregional HQ "some- tional" where in Essex warfare before Within the Group area Irst warheads start to lall And the: were reminded each borough will be headed torial coners in Loth on the- controller with dicta- that while on the one hand Tory forcing Brine impose Nothe op sent Controlers front Chief Executives each borough-appointed by the the Tories allack. are aso cutting back on spending at nome secretary home. This means that their The elected councils plans for would virtually cease to exist post-strike recovery tor 3-person imer. Committees', under dragoonea into action undel the draconian the the 'Teorganised controller. local attempt to re-enter London or the and attempt to rescue Current military thinking would take charge the opposed to the mass three with services- is that while TaCT evacuation of people from there are well-laid prepara- London or other main cities.

each of the five to use the police and groups. tions Partly this is because they But would be there few army to secure continuity of know do not for soldiers left in the capital in governmental control over Collal primary the case of a war with the surviving population and the targets for a nuclear strike.

Warsaw Pact, since most supples to the to maniam area available troops would have imperialist wast. war enort, inere could be thought safe from "Home been dispatched to reinforce no intention of the the effects of fall-out. the Rhine Army Defence' planners to protect Those citizens without would be at most There or shelter the population of the 3,800 London.

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London, compared to 25,000 police.

Instead the army and fire not expect Civil Defence The Fire Service will withdrawn brigade planning offer them any and depleted by Tory cuts that

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lalael alva. quarter on the man one unet executives estimated that it would cost the manpower flunkies will join top govern- quarter £60 billion to shelter even and civil ser- figures and only 6% of the emergen half of the civilan popula units vants in hardened bunkers he cune while ordinary men, women LOt on bra-no even the Tories were interested the perimeter and children are left to fry.

withdrawn to in such a project, cash limits Commodore Even or oncon wen perore anv wil not stretch that tar.

nuclear strike. Crompton the But government money Defence College, admits that Only after the radiation to be made available for would least take levels drop would they even Do you know that what then is he playing at?"

what will be result of Tony Benn is working to they ask indignantly. the election if Benn loses?

in the help the "Pro-NATO obsessed Using agent worid of the WRY unt WRP have worked this out in pro-EEC, and pro-armed Lins co means: advance: Benn forces" faction ton whaT Joses in the ulterior motive, who is he Healey would be Deputy Labour Party? he will agent he? And No? haven't Then vou rvewstine Harlie (15/4/81) goes on rhetoric- beaten Benn. Thus: been reading your lewsane, daily organ of Gerry Healy, ally is this (standing consolidhing taey. his action, Benn is Ayatollah the Workers against Revolutionary Party! Healey] Branded hostile deeply concerned viments the Benn, who fights campaign begun future policies of that bory Tine middle Newsline anti-Tory right wing. is thus branded has been denouncing Benn.

by Newsline-alongside advo- struggles, WIlU cates resistance is wilfully trying to break up the left, "going against the the mass movement tie Labour defying councils who administer the trade unions" CICalc unlessaly one of "Thatcher's MPs diversions?" cuts- Tribune who oppose his candidature.

So what game is Benn people and above all he is providing Newsline There is a coherent polit- playing then? ical logic to this he course. the Tory press with ammun- thinks The politics of the

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ition! knows. The cille which ne Newsline thinks Benn shares with the reader, is in now compredensivery g can't win. "So. knows he the answer to this question: By Terry Smith

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months in a shelter before survivors of a nucicar could emerge safely In other words there is virtually no chance of sur- vival or une averaze condon ratepayer with without planned €750,000 Delence spending! With Reagan and Thatcher sacrificing vital ele- ments l mne us and sHus economies to carry forward their war effort, there is only serious way protect and ourserves Court rom a nuclear holocaust: mobilise the the organised labour in acuor to bring cowo unis government, drive out the pro-imperialist right wing and implement a policy of nuclear disarma- unilateral Yet Newsline's denunci- ation very was sudden. Until the day before the editorial entitled The iranee case (15/4/81) it had supported Benn's candidacy! example an editoria on Aphis Foot's a [Foot's argument] intended ed toot. in disrupting WIld unity chalenging Healey. reality it is an argument against ever having an election for leading posts since were war never 0c ai ideal occasion to hold it Foot appeals to Benn the basis of party unity, this capitulating to the blackmail of the right wing who keel threatening to join the social democrats get unless they

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5 USAF-

HUNGER STRIKERS

STAND IN

ELECTION

The decision by the four other Long Kesh prison National H Block Com- Farrell ers and Mairead from mittee to run nine repub- in last year's hunger strike lican prisoners as candi- The candidacies, like that dates in the forthcoming of Bobby Sands, sharply Irish election is an impor the politica role tant advance in epublical men and women struggle for political status. in Long Kesh and Armagh The candidates are the tion in be South, they les- for elec- running hunger strikers, four plus By Sean Matgamna Maybe Benn refused to Party. way their Labour establish friendly relations Newsline 1 1c precise explanation doesn matter. Significant is what it This well put. shows about the WRP editorial DelS stand" (6/4/81) continues This organisation is readi around the most wild and baseless allegations concludes explicitly and insinuations against challenge Healey' those ir the labour move the Great came whom men suddenly disagrees. Change changed from being a cham when challenged on no mene hame he their own record by Socialist Organiser WRP leader: resort not to a labour move- aimed forces act one ment inquiry but the bour right wing geois courts • in a libel cass Sepculation as to whi designed to bankrupt a rival change of line organisation was would be idle. Maybe it was We readers to port the SO Defence Fund- a resoonse lo ool sawi the Socialist Organiser con ana to kee of the WRP's the next Newsline about- uvillativi face libel case against the paper.

SOCIALIST PRESS. Thursday June 4 1981 underline the fact that the Ireland-in which the gerry.

and sectarian mandering repression of the six counti стате е

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brought end, and democratic rights extender Irish people the • as a whole Failure Indeed the campaign in their support wil be forced to emphasise that the oppon- the North are in a may way simply proposing to plunge the population of the extended counties into an 26- i - 01 Haughey's

VOSION

county capitalist government in the South They will be campaigning against candidates of Prime pseude naurney s -and pointing to the failure political Republic to lend any prac the struggle

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to force British with. drawal Socialist Press of course has maior differences of pro perspective gramme and the republican move. from the pontical components ol the National H Block Cam- In particular, paign republicans have no working Eve class for its struggles North or South But at a time when th

DIILIS

imperialsm mus be bove! the forefront of politics Britain and in Ireland, in critical support the antiti Block canul- dates in the Irish election, and welcome the decision of Block cam- anti- McAliskey to support their

SOCIALIST PRESS. Thursday June 4 1981

CALL ON

LABOUR TO

BACK IRISH

STRUGGLE

About 60 people took cannon' and 'Labour break Tory part in a lobby of the policy

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Ireland' Labour Party NEC last The success of the lobby Wednesday demand to indicates growing awareness backing for the H Block wilan ene Laboul rarly hunger strikers. the need to break the oreanisea os strikers and the Labour on Ireland, addressed was wtnarawal troops. NEC members Joan Maynard only three or four and Dennis Skinner as they

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arrived for the meeting. Dannels indicating the need for Neither socakti was Die- Party militants pared to state unequivocally support for political raise the question of freland and Bu10 The républican prison- stalus 101 matter of urgency. ers Long Kesh and Armagh Gaol. their hmited stand

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We urge all tabour Ponti question Tine streets ahead of the rest of members to join the Labour

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Committee Ireland and Eric Heffer of the Viralist Lake other NEC members stopped question of Ireland in the talk Party. • Individual slipped into Labour membership costs tl a yeal neadouarters ane de aboucaon corm ang unnoticed whilst Dennis details of the LCI's political Skinner was addressing the positions on Ireland can be and other Michael Foot wile oolantea

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and members Burnhill House Norman

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pushed through crowd the Street, London EC1 Chanis DaCK Lon- Fighting for solidarity status. Ireland has already Around 100 people sup- Coventry Despite Foot's on the local rally state- made its mark ported a there is growing dis- shopping precmel caleu lasi Licis. Darly-succrosi ully Saturday in solidarity with through _reso mon the hunger strikers in Long movement with Labour's Leicester South CLP Tory policy. It is becomi The motion congratulates local Hunger that MP Jim Marshall for backing ne active recornsu Strike Action Committee has DeoDe cort eect Ine MOUOn also its cam- mon criminal" Sands, for two as their Mr rolled 100,000 people (out of local Labour minutes' , silence respect into the and Catholic population Sands, urged 1U1 the District Labour Party 500.000) dont turn the writ Marnal to move headed "Labour's the funeral of a "common for another by election in meeting, criminal" Bobby Sands was Fermanagh/South Tyrone. •Shame. pointed out that And in a close vote which "Michael Foot and the In Dron Dewause ne dososcu British rule in Ireland. surprised some multants, Labont Trades Council Leicester Margaret The Scottish TUC has voted at its last meeting tr approach shown a lead by calling for support every The Stil 9910 immediate concessions We political status and for a issue except Northern out trade union troops land. On same day Labour and Foot was lashing Dramates

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relanc The example and to In Glasgow a rally called dicsociate personaly us balccu themselves from the Labour by the LCI attracted a rather Don Concannon to the Maze leadership's stance. disappointing attendance of Bob by. Sands that he tell a blind and 100 those the local Oxford no support in the British has Charter 80 group … commuted struggle against British Party. Labour mounted al une dalys imperialism in Ireland. Sands had been a political Martyrs Memorial to mark South Africa or the death of each of the four And London the prisoner in necessit I0I urgent action have behaved in such to build the solidarity cam- A lola-over learlet 1s now calous way? being prepared setting out in was underlined by paign leader 50 at language the issues Dasic attendance described Con- the

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stake regional meeting of the LCI.

nunger strike. cannon's mission as "a cheap The leaflet is to be distrib- A local leadership was set up the Cowley publicity uted to promote further work 4i00 stunt". Even the UDA,

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Londoni places and Labour and trade Loyalist paramilitary urge London readers to give union meetings. active support to this work.

isation, have publicly stated an active tat tey wink te prisoners From: Northern Ireland at ine runeral) Office murderous thugs To: All Fleet Street editors.

should be buried without First the body. . You have ceremony Ine une ts ito hichsoust is on. walls (where after all, we could provide the most mutue ous whom all decent people like moden Cemelar y us abhor? Europe) is it a hero? You can are aso consacrin tell by the uniform sticking their heads on spike Usually the nero weet. ours de Lates oi Dellas blue khaki. Murderous and Derry but this is unde thugs are dressed discussion. (Perhaps your any editors nOW willule Some look as if ther comment un lus olall have been clothed from a

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rageous is the deplorable jumble sale they way which gunmen nomermes little more than children.

taKe devantare But remember-heroes funeral. TV killed by murderous Dictures alt men in uniform firing volleys thugs and cowards. Murderous thugs on the over me col arc Havie lu other have usually mislead world opinion into

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men are thinking done it to themselves-or al some kind of soldiers. selves. That is why they are often shot by heroes. After such funerals we ae calme Now the funerals: to ensure inat iner reporlers 1) Murderous the ly man ca to lic ch woy Roman Catholic church liable Tunerais burials to larger, especially if they have dows suci. 'done it to themselves ahead. hope with these Point out that it is out- rageous that guns and burials TuneraS 1StU Mant Wilkill take the coffin shoud be contused opposite direction to the one (Kadio and l v in partic ular uney walll lo zu We Cardinal sweat a can roads and make mourners not ask him if he climb through barbed think that he's little better than a Provo with his collar Tences to cet to uc luburai (This method has its limit- turned round!) ations. • of thousands Tens prepared Heroes may from appear to be anywhere in Britain. Mostly undergo all this just to be Press Gang they will de young lads witt shattered and confused family liable to say things nke Why us? Your job is to ensure that understand these parents their children did not die in vain. their and anguish they shouid express couvis doou Ther cons soule nave been in Belfast or Derry we trust editors will not such senuments For our part we will 4 Union Jack Ood have good ensure tures. ine coll, a squad or young soldiers to carry it In some : cases we salute the dead the graveside. Over we are thinking of asking the Arch- bishop of Canterbury to this Into une serVice The Vica could give the order to fire.

trust the above clear. details More given oy Army Intonnanon Service. week's briefing paper will be on relatives mentime remember that heroes have grief-stricken wives and just use their propaganda. Stop pres Why didn't we think of it before? Full marks to the Page 5 Telegraph excellei

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investigative reporting on ti Maze prison They have shown th the real purpose of 'speci category status' is to tur into terr Calli cente. It takes a special kind ‹ flair to imaginative depi men looking ahead or 20 yea the dar in l5 are winet une Telease whittling away tomahawk during the period of speci carecory status. And well done screws who spent long ever imitatio Inci rifles and machine guns the whole tale th little bit more spicy particulari Wa. bright thought to show th producing hand "training sheets' with "use c whoue arecuons d rumours, slogans press propagand against governmen highlighting torture Maze now trying find through which th tunnel thei 1AP SClE members to carry this out One : whole block-alloca interna ted to launch campaign-i have belleved to tunnele its way to Japan the bette conduct its ther men •rodakalll bunks by breakfast time.

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Trotsky explains the rise of Page 6. One of a large number regional of Solidarity's periodicals, Free Unionist published Dabrowa Gornicza in Silesia, in its issue of 5 March 1981 prints transcript of a tape recor- ding from the meeting of Zabinski, ( First Andrze] Secretary of the Voivod- ship Committee of the and party in Katowice member of Polit- the bureau of the Party, with a group of ranking police Security Service and officers of the Katowice region. This is a partial trans- lation of this text, which does not require any comment. We realised that nave of the slogans Jorwad demands have been inspired by the enemy. The enemy has forced us to accept a battienela the factories and among the working class. would not talk of one violence because would I don't ended with have speak- know was beneral with limitation Poland's sovereignty ton Quench strike Conseous decisions were taken, hold to very ditticult circumstances: shake for agreement. The to quench the strikes calm few demands consider the situation later.

thrown by the clicity. Aman unese circumstan- amone pen ine demand to ces the talks were very difffi- have trade unions, so-called cult, sometimes vulgar. self government tile lust udys was unions "hang "on them your knees" This slogan comes from then a but the work- the enemy, and

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Gdansk shipyard strikers ing class has given it univer- ve keer forgetting the social sal support. And it still sup- were goals of our policie ports it (. We _one worker.

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nave a ways because they do not trust proclaimed the social goals trade they support the but have been doing exactly muesenden unions, noce une reverse peed will smacke our isands it pendent Like the investments, I would say suicidal invest- The Bolshevik Party the task of overthrowing the prepared and insured the world and uniting under its banner the most audacious October victory. It also iconoclasts, and created the Soviet state, insurgents. live and develor supplying it with without intellectual sturdy skeleton. conflicts, without groupings and temporary factional for- The degeneration of the manons party became poto cause and consequence of the bureau Democratic support cratisation of the state.

It is show at least necessal y The farsightedness of the ret v now to navene Bolshevik leadership often The inner regime of the made it possible to soften Bolshevik party was 200 snorter terised by the methoc duration of factional struggle democratic centralism. The but no more than that. of these two combination Centra commilled democracy concepts. relied this seething upon centralism, not in the democrati From least contradictory this it derived the auudlily The party took walen and give to make decision ful care not only that orders. The obvious correct boundaries should always be all ness of the leadership at strictly defined, but also that stages Chical anal au nose uno entered these high authority which is the boundaries should enjoy the capital of priceless moral righ defin the direction of the party policy Comedish • the Bol- regime shevik especially Freedom of criticism it 1o stood thus complete Freedom of criticism and contracton intellectual struggle Has an of the present sections of the appoin- win the The presen: doctrine hat does no: alerate implete SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday June 4.1981 ments, idiotically pushed for example? Are the miners to be together with the hair- told lee arous ins tries-for which we haven't dressers? This is truly a soft got the raw materials, etc.

spot for political attack, we The attitude of the party we simply nave to towards new unions have to attack now. the must not be like the unions' )Let them taste a attitude towards the nue power. it will nave a cooling effect on them. ThaT attitude of struggle Wherever possible, we We think that both the have to talk to them honest ly. A considerable number of new and ine old unions are working class in character people who sit now on those The essential thing for us " workers is that party members should genuine leaders and decent but the rabble is Join both the old and the there as well. prevent a situation which we can't sar or course will everyone, of those leat DaIL trade that ot unions, and small who are trusted and who and non-party unions, which authority is to say, anti-party future we have to win them over as people who have

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TRe "new" unions, we'll be proved themselves making things too easy for proved that they are listened them: we would to. ene. 'KOR" domin to create a We must not wage • waI ated organisation. with no bene we nave Of course KOR is behind to have, shall we say, well-a all these new unions (. And the have un support of mosaic-like policy, a many policy and play 11 Haveled the clergy propely. nere is no quesuon 1n?? comrades it is a step towards the polit- already doing extremely well but better : right; our we must also party VUl than into the abyss happens, party struggle activists have forgotten these going struggle Hence roas

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course the security services revent une new unions Iro becoming anti-party have always had to fight.

do intend to DU l Dall do? First of all we have they got Their mount a political attack on and the rally system did not the principle union encourage any struggle; there remons. ormacie pro were smo no enemies. we claimed by Walesa or were so strong that nobody those who prompt him could do anything to us and wily are uls they armed in the sense of not prodably necause haven't got enough cadres Knowing ho not baht and they They're not want them- people to se but have to be taught again

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the country. And suddenly a disaster and what happens. what with the Hairdressers happens? -either apathy enemy and moves have to be forseen angel, angel because unert We have to attack this are enemies and counter- * his is ine penoa we are revolution-but this someade is to take away comrades. The principle very strongly by no struggle, a struggle which is difficult ask ine teem questions. painstaking. leading people Ene What about the miners It's a from factories and break the game one plays already istrative rust was novelty and immensity of its perfectly suited to the taste the party bureaucracy, which lasks mmevitaby cave mise the Bolshevik, excluding inner disagreements. The had then begun to approach Stalin, would have oppositional inner life of the party denounced malicious exclusively from the currents in me country exer ted pressure through point of sanderer anvore woo should convenience in ad have shown him on a screen various channels the upon the party ten or the image of sole legal A improven, dinin Dullica virans brief lucen years laiti. auon. mcreasine une acute ness of the factional struggle health verv centre horrified he will. Lenin's attention and that of moment of . com growth his colleagues was occupied pletion of the civil war, this bureaucratism sharp struggle against the faction a conta concer Strueer

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such forms threaten nrotect the korshevik rank from the vices of those in unsettle the state power.

itself the axis of the party power. However, the extra machine as a first step Prohibit factions ards capturing the machinery closeness times actual merging of the •i state a cecone airoke and with the state party appara- In March 1921, in the then death prevented him in those first from tus nau alcauy cavs outne kronstaor revol measuring forces with years done indubitable harm which attracted into is internal reaction to the freedom and elasticity small 01 ranks no number The entire effort of of the party regime Stalin with whom at that bolsheviks had been it necessary thought Democracy time Zinovie and Kamener narrowed proportion as to necessary resort were working hand in hand difficulties increased of factions was thenceforth directed Dronellul - Lid freeing to transie _ne pontica the party the Soviets regime prevailing from the control of the ran state to the inner life of the file members the •ane the beginning the ruling party Darty This forbidding of nary ve no cover Never concerned struggle withir as an exceptional measure to framework of the Soviets.

In this struggle for "stab- The civi war introduced • improvement in the 11lv une central.on stern amendments into this situation mittee Stalin proved time, the The opposition At the same calculation. most consistent and reliable Central Committee was forbidden or Were amore is colleague. extremely cautious in apply He had no need to tear obviously 5o017: with the new law , concerning itself most of all lest it lead away inter irom spirit demo- strangling of the inner national problems; he ha leader Bol- never been concerned with lite of the party However, what was in its The petty bourgeois out original the new ruling concession

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Helessal y stratum was his own situation. look

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Stalinist bureaucracy ea unions up into the branches or trades Let them have indepen- dent only unions.

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branch unions, no regions.

will easier

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because une workers radi- He profoundly believed that the task creating national and was administrative in its nature.

He looked the upon Communist International as a necessary evil which should the used sposes s possibre ion DuIDUSES Loreti policy. His own party kept a in his eyes a submissive support for the machine Together with the theory of socialism in one country, there put into circula- W du . the theory that Bolshevism the Central Committee everyinine anu tatt nothing This second theory was realised with cast more success tnan tne nirst.

Availing itself of the ruling death of Lenin, the group announced a "Lenin- Ist levy. the gates or tne party always carefully guarded, wereorkers, now thrown wic over. Cicins petty Tocket through in crowds. The political aim of this manoeuvre was to urssorve the revolutionary vanguard in raw human material, , with- out experience. willoul independence. old habit of submitting to the authorities. Freed from control The scheme was success- ful. Bv freeing the bureau cracy from the control the proletarian vanguard, the SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday June 4 1981 Walesa tions enormous-tell art miner or a railwayman to be turbulle wIll respect for that with But milliners have their own problems and so they "Leninist levy" dealt a death blow to the party of Lenin and coulde wOR the necessary independence.

Democratic centralism gave plate to bureaucrauc conta- ism itself there now y ok parates the party apparatus radica reshuttling from top personnel ottom. chief of i ne solshevik was decated to ge obedience. Under the guise of a struggle with the Oppos- replacement ing or revo l. tionists with chinovniks (professional governmental nuncuonanes, ne nistory Bolshevik the party became a history of its rapid vereneration Rivalry The political meaning of was darkened many the crcumstance nat ine reduer: fall hand Right, belonge Centre, and Righ to one and the une kremin. me fortouto To superficial minds seemed to be a mere matter for the "heritage" of Lenin But in the conditions of iron dictatorship social antagonisms could not show themselves at first except through the institutions of the rany party hermidorians Many emerged in their day from would want to have an enemy pulls down his mask.

all these premiers, deputy organisation of their own we have increasing evidence old we were so many or tact. do we defend the and show Now they would come in

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Central Council Trade Unions (CRZZ)? We erade nation. handy, because have is shocking for some walty covernment first of people. Some people ine Counch because say: commissions to talk to the we have to fight with how can unions SnOW SuCt them on grounds of legalitv on television? But Of course similar tactics of weapon never mind. Is our will be applied in the case of steel: legal agreements, the the Katowice steelworks. Fear resolution of the Counci of Here element concerning the regis- Hate anxietv will have to be intro tration, the resolution on the duced: we'll have to new trade unions. that the will works not realise what sort _neretore we have turner develope cer user keep fighting them, so to building understandi these speak, on the workers, that building enter- legally. And we cant give prises can be dissolved, that anything without oscio ined struggle less qualified will be countries. the The enemy must toil just west nred as well, the enemy must be Now there was this 4 weakened. To give up the cans have to fear shift system nese com.

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would illegal these workers' because ine only lawul and commissions are suggest les?' forum which who is going to be dismissed fissolve it is the congress of from the mines. tne meda ano toev wil get it when they have learnt that •neckle So we have an edge there; they have to dissociate them- Good young lads they will surely demand the What we would need is a There's no 4-shift system alsmantling because it doesn't exist any statement that they dissoci- now, people illall al t more-all the have Lemselves not needed left it. But these inter-tactory elec- divisions in KOR but just a minute: workers' committees have to tions to the fire them. We have to involve , and the congress They have to know that we them in a thousand prob- are not the sort of people to lems. •convent we nave to reckon with . sympathise with them, this battle, though: they lads die dissolve the CRZZ for them, but they have involved them- These selves in politics (laughter).

somers we shall be asking Walesa to let oner way us join the new unions. Silesia they have to get a taste of But the property, created We have to make through generations, is indiv- quarters and meeting places avalabie to tnem We just can't divide the And equip them with Let them strike holiday houses and sanatoria every luxury I always keep saying this verwer une ou ano une new unions. most stubborn are but me repeat it here can be nationalised the strikers of State don't know belong to the Insurance Company because they any man who would not ge They Pizemysi. don't wan _or unere nasto corrubted powel -ll some central body which yield; they demand talks simply a matter of time and will after the with party government degree (Laughter)

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commission but let them but legally, already see allull Cal. among them. He do rea

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What awaits us is a great There's no hurry to solve money, taxi rides to Gdansk, political battle. However, the problem. You know, telephone contacts with the secretary Stali De a vetter bosuon Enal because in the meantime the have too soon dismantled of the provincial party com- the the in sid prise and Above eạch and every ine circle or ine Jacobins himself first Bonaparte one of them there reiens an surprise unlimited hierarchy of party ne onued Inere been his early and. subse- false modesty in their sur- Secretaries Talitarin The regime , had years, become quently prise. it was trom former the For this very reason, the years Enal Characlel severd France selected mis most rule is more stern at present this word arrived netore selected that the Politburo is always from Cy means most of demoralis- Time! right, and in any servallls vase tilat lu change and man can be right against thi the me melnoas • waco convert with them, not excluding the Politburo. Communists into Thinking Jacobins the twentieth destroying But, moreover, the Polit will character and human cenlury.. i call bolst agalla dignity, wno unable wrote Kakovsky make mistakes and conse- ruling circles The Only Stalin quently cannot be right have succeeded in converting against himself themselves into an unremov- Of the Politburo Demands for party demo- able anu mvutale oncarcov epoch there now cracy were through all this which replaces the class and Lenin's time the slogans of all the the party." remains only stalin. Iwo ot members, oppositional groups, as insis Since indignant Linoviev and Those Kamener collaborators of tent as they were hopeless.

were written, the lines The above-mentioned degeneration of the regime Lenin throughout ›latform of the Left Oppos gone vears as emigres. are enaut- immeasurabl ing ten-year prison terms for farther. a crime which they did not the Cranial Codeiten into The GPU has become the Criminal Code "punish- factor in the commil members Ill? as d serous sale calic nie or the party. li Moloto Rykov, , Bukharin and Tom- every boast to a French jo able so March 1936 was able to airect inonrec sky, are completely removec persecution of a worker for this, from the leadership but as a the wally introduced intr: submission rewaro TO1 was longer contains any lachona occupy secondary posts. the Criminal Code an artick struggle, it is only because Ind finally, against the Left Opposition disagreements of these lines is in exile. The itself settled the automatic waow or team. Krupskaya Recollections intervention or the pollica.

Bolshevik is also under the ban, having police. The old unable with all her Of party is dead, and no force proved party democracy there remained only recol wil resurrect it. enors to drust netser com- pletely to the Thermidor.

lections in the memory of The of the the older generation members occupied And together with it had present Pontburo From Leon Trotsky "Revol- disappeared ution Betrayed"_Pathfinde: secondary posts unrougnou ne democracy the history of the Bolshevik the soviets. the trade Press edition. pages 94-100 party. If anybody ' in the first unions, the cooperatives, cultural and athletic o ne revolution nau predicted their future cleva- organisatons. KOR leader Jacek Kuron with deputy that first they do not get rid mittee premier They go and . party second they begin to get extravagant that they do get rid of the people and . then the will money • . . so EnIs IS i correct policy must be rest simply slowly broken up How will end? all And so. comrades, this is Ideally it should end with the situation about these the unification of all these unions But this is unions, though this can take difficult matter, we have to play very delicately and But we should see to it with great political culture expressed in the speech above have nothing to do with communism.

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Ideas that sprang from the English Revolution Musical onslaught on sexism Page 8 The publication of any work by Christopher Hill should be the object of interest for Marxist historians for no one has done more to deepen our understanding the bourgeois revolution of the seventeenth century. this collection lectures given at the univer- of Wisconsin. Hill pur- sues a shoell wnch nas long fascinated him the relation- ship between the revolution anu inc 1aeas which be gave birth or into which it prathed new lie Hill is accutely aware of the fact that so many of the which wett ather directly challenged or overthrown the nurse of the revolutionar the 1640s and be re-estab- incd at the Restoration in Back in place The the Monarchy, House of Lords the and Church WiLl episcopal hierarchy, were all back in piace once more

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then can a revolu- tionary said to occurred? Hill argue forms Inat une maay nave been restored but the social and context had economic enanced inmeasurdov Whatever the schemes of later Stuart kings, une the House of

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Commons had been in the long established and run could not but prevati The way had been paved the constitutional for monarChy. contrmca by tnt settlement of 1689, in which the royal head was reduced to a cypher, the manipulated moolled first its virtues by subser- later by the vient clergy and sycophantic media. No longer were there to be the prerogative courts of monarchy and church. rule of law prevail; was co which nac as its ville consideration the protection of property. As Hill remarks, after the seventeenth centurey revol- England the was treest country for those who commanded the wealth of nation. By Andrew MacDonald with "Playing Different Sex" could be thought a peculiar album title to say the least. But there aralll. YUl couldn't accuse the Au Pairs of being exactly any run-of- pop the mill neW They aren't. certainly have manaced capture titu imagination large radical following prodi of this 1s Dennile that their debut single "It's Obvious Diet" remained the top ol ine maependent label singles chart for weeks and now the ruman record label is expanding its influenie Part of the reason for this nO 0 DE The driving forces behind Britain's foreign policy had also changed in the revolu- bonary decades The republican inter- nationalism which had brief- 1640s Tourished The was submerged in the imper- ialist ambitions of Cromwell- foreign poncy an econ- omic nationalism dictated by the financial interests in the why or London Economic nationalism Henceforth the personal whims loreign

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dinated the forces economic nationalism, enshrined in the Navigation Acts. The foundations were laid lor the crude economic imperialism the eighteenth and the century pre-eminence of the Bank o England in the economy the nation. All of these forces, essen- #12 Or creating the condi for Industrial Revolution of the following century, were released impelled forward by the bourgeois revolution of the seventeenth century It was the forcing house capitalist

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modern concepts concerning political the law institutions, •ana une role or lne courco.

But what, asks Hill, was the fate of the radical, demo- Cralic. Communisuc ideas which sprang forth in course of the Civil Wars?

The nucO casion printed material in the revol- decades is summed utionary up une pamphlets published in 1640 1,966 compared which 1044, a momentum was maintained throughout that decade and into the next, though in inen diminishing degree. Breakdown breakdown monarchical and clerical censorship provided the con- this tremendous 101 dissemination ideas which emerged in the course or tne revolution ine ideas of Levellers, Seekers, Diggers. Kanters Where did the adherents and numerous other groups and sects which briefly flour- these ideas after go 1660? Perhaps we can now ished been playing live nearly non- zooking ndependen тесо labels producing the records the group started of forward-looking groups.

then inal exciting, uncompromising • Conta. and original. dictory situation because all Generally speaking the each other for industry has always survival

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been split between pro-and and rock linked bsit anti-establishment inextricably June conomen so is sexism ano tock music from the Rolling The Au Pairs spectrum, are an anti- Stones The Who in the and But Dollicar to what extent

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Loud! une bunt ther speaking produce the of 77 has explosion politically • Social- agree erally Press be gaugec calliot by listening to an album Credlive stuff which the big multi- Come Again' (!) like nationals latch onto a few Pairs' most of the Au songs monts or yeals later and nas apl attempt to rake the sense sarcasm and an uncanny knack of growing on profits. The 'post-punk depres- you. You sion" has been a tense time behave like model for others to follow, for the 'official' rock indus- try record

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wies some somes culadies. plummeting the advent It's frustrating, aggravating so annoying, pretend you're of a multitude oi forward. Strengthened: the House of Commons discover only a segment of sioned by the course of the • of squire anc the truth. parson, may have emigrated revolution and fear of repres Many, exasperated by the Others, disillu- sion, simply laid low. to America be Pairs can The Specials AU seen supporting Carnival *The Potter at a July Racism newton Park, Leeds Against We don't torturgh!!!" invariably. sexually mal- It's your turn now but do treated by men. groups Its areat wner you want to? play in favour of revolution Just as tew groups are don't know it vou want to prepared to make a stand ary struggles. It's even better It's inhibiting, restricting, so openly defence when they can play well too women's rights or gay rights, The Au Pairs do have a confusing Now I'm losing count. competent musical style even ess genomena it's Can't concentrate support struggle choppy, twangy guitar riffs the another way to fake... against British imperialism in (similar to The e Slits), with a guitar tasteful Pairs Yes it was nice, yes, yes, it was fine. exception. When I saw them Siouxie and the Banshees) play live supporting the Beat So hopefully we shall see Subtle but forceru lyrics they dedicated a song called the Au Paris moving up from repressed female about the "2nd division" - support- with a up Armagn to bobby sands and ending sexuality the women in Armagh Gaol ing headlining group: like final kick in the balls/teeth- powerful tour--to the 1s "Shit I forgot to put my cap and it is a very the Beat on son There are 32 women in division neadining unel 100. own tours. Jail, political pris- Racism has hardly got a This theme makes up the Armagh The majority of the album with And with oners toe-nola. amongst i, caribee battered British state's got nothing to rock groups. other lose it's a subject better like the Au Pairs groups women illallast could be hypocrisy of romance mak- around. more centrally challenged the point that hetero- We don't torture ing We're a civilised nation.

Better than equal-but never hunky sexually different! dory and that women are SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday June 4 1981 lan McCalman reviews Some Intel- Consequences lectual of the English Revol- ution by Christopher Hill, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Milton, the great repub- lican propagandist, his heretical views in literary terms, as do dissidents in the Soviet Union today. Yet their ideas were not wholly to perish. The millen- arian ideas immediate • coming Christ's Kingdom were to be the into secular language of the possibilitie of human progress and per fectability, to be carried for ward the French Hill bulantenment of the eight eenth and hence into the thinking ot Mari and Engels in the rineteenth Radical democratic con- cepts of an extended iran chise and a reformed parlia mentary system, education, the of powers or awvers relatively dormant Only new life the TInG American and French Revo- lutions of the late centh century, inspiring Tom Paine and London Corresponding Society WIlL forward these carried challenging concepts into a lectures sparkle ideas on these major with muscorical inemnes Weaknesses There are weaknesses "1 the presentation Being based lecture upon notes with con lexi bristles presented cepts Which are but not developed There is a lack of logical

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in some or the argu• mentation. The result is that Hill lays himself open to the pettifogging pedantry which passes for historical scholar Surely there can simple equation-radical Pur- itanism equals progressive noeas-te crues come an The point is too obvious to merit reply Of Hill well Louise the Catholic aw are That Descartes laid essential foun- dations for modern thinkin LIlt redlin natuld philosophy; a course Royalist Hobbes was the thinker foremost materialls of the century. Hill is well of such subtleties in the history of ideas. But essential con this collection of cern in pursue th assays is lul ll ramifications of all progres sive trends in thought in the seventeenth century, but to Terate. some o1 tae essenta ideological changes of the epoch to the material con- the ditions bourgeois revolution In this he may frequent- but exasperale often he provokes and stim- concentrating minds wonderfully upon the origins of many of our own concepts book reminds and Hobsbawm our knowledge of •covered British history and the social that and forces have shaped it . socialists kevoumonar whilst reserving the right to criticise wrong political pos itions, cannot but draw upon the advances made bv thost historians who have been heavily influenced by And Trotskyists must be to enter into the prepared dialogue with those fullest pavl contributel much to our understanding.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday June 4 1981

DOCKERS

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LEE JEANS

Despite certain weaknesses in its demands, the Lee Jeans occupa- tion has emerged as the principal national focus of the struggle to defend jobs. Socialist Press visited the Greenock factory and spoke to the women at the centre of this crucial struggle.

The 18-week sit-in occupying women threatened plant had hoped struggle against the attract buyer for closure of the Lee Jeans had been Diall Greenock has factory al suaded not take because taken dramatic new action frighten away any potential turn with the decision of buyer. dockers in ports through- Drastic action out Britain to impose a Whilst they had not aban- black upon the products doned such hopes, they now of the V.F. Corporation. see that more This will mainly affect essential save Was the firm's goods leaving jobs Ireland for Scan- Northern Not only had come from the dockers but Helen Monaghan, the fac- from the seamen alsu told Socialist tory convenor lorry anvers, wno are relus she ing to transport any of the rress Jusi returned Trom products company's Britain's ports the dockers- case to depots in Clydeside. then culminating in dockers Helen recognised conference in London where inis action mignt tempt the full support ior the struggle management to take was endorsed. forceful action than hither- Hesitancy afraid of pushing towards a were She explained that their WiLl initial hesitancy to take such because the action was the the whole the trace attempting to evict ment bi the WOTKeT. -but vult involved in the occupation, per- the she explained, but they may ards themselves. such might now be minks or doolyll- The for an injunction tor ine been cut on because oi workers. removal of the necessity the occupation tenanny sprinkler remains highly organised and fire, DuT Diss disciplined. has now rested the with 1aclory and drastic action the worktorce since rebru which nave and is consistently oper- them have shift hour ated on a 3 ignored. rota system 0cK1e Financial aid continues and in, particular ship- froin a levy yard though workers. from obviously more is always the especially since ot the welcolne there will now De nO mOrO cash coming from the closed Garment that and and the factory Union struggle is costing £5,000 a more week to sustain. struggle The Heten explained that the recent obviously stewards' committee allows security men employed the cher ity premises twice a day to show when the damage has ebe an For instance company sent out P45 forms this purely the workers, the stewards aiscretion or lne stew- conectea tnem m. to the workers that if they electricity has not unions labour took them Ine maintain the exchange tais would indicate of their acceptance of redun- system case danc Tor electricil sues Now fresh P45 forms of over f2,000 and for rent of £1,000 have been over Issued - with telling the workers note octl simply where to hand them over been here is more lean a sus picion that there is a degree connivance Suspicions manacemeal. officials and week UnION One factor that concerns leadership this latest stewards is the attitude their leadership ball has Now that the own trade union, the Tailor set rolling in terms of been Workers issue the becomes that extending Although they have made action to a complete only official, some pate events have aroused suspicions as to their sincer- TO

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Page 9 boycott of V.F. products This persuading

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such retuse to nadelt • SuCA 200e. depots and distribution boyco.t of commencing goods in the High Street last starby a made in that last • by

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Donations and campaign Selfridges of support messages London Helen Monaghan told us should be sent to she was hoping to start this Helen Monaghan on drawing up a leaflet the High 55 Cambridge Road outside

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street SToTes. laus extenum Greenock. campaign embrace and involve the many thous anas or peopie wno suppor their struggle and would b to partici willing seemne une victory they seek.

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of cuts, which deny them any The issues manency or security in their possible redundancies employment. and school closures stand Discussions are now pro at the forefront of the ceeding the future for this year's agenda clyde and more immediate annual conference of the posed in other threats biggest

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Scotland's regions. The Dumbartonshire teaching union. resolution response to these threats and the of antic aton its favour large number of resolutions these points, the leader- the AGM would be a step in the right direction. ship has produced a report The Morayshire proposi- trom an ad noc commitice on the implications of falling tion amendment to a resolution which, whilst TouS which specifies smaller class highlighting the govern- ment's criminal use of falling sizes than are accepted under the terms of cut education facili-

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standards, the teachers contract. ties, jobs and suggests solutions which are potentally alsastrous Action In particular the po right fight that cuts should be devolved into The amendment demands the nanas or regional execu that rue management uc tives, could open the way to not accept such class national the (eg. a maximum

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with leadersnip wnen action On dl.

primary Classes. overall Scottish basis exception of the intake class, and in the first necessary to wage a meaning- years of secondary) then the ful campaign. Two resolutions which union should proceed unlat- of erally to their implementa- worthy are particulariy support are those from Dum- tion bartonshire on fixed term Such a resolution calling.

and from Moray- as it does, for action and fix- ing a date upon shire on te enorcement or smaller class sizes. wing determined to do no The former calls for the make a more than implementation or a poncy refusal to take the classes «Doul tile non-replaced fixed-term their impact without of mitting specific course of action.

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ities was exemplified recent- Another key per- alasgo the dal the decision of the conference debate on Association Committee of Management by 22 votes to 15 to refuse to tance of the Strath- back the wallparall nursery raciales the Gorbals where two nur- more vociferous under immediate increasing Scio all recently unnely threat of closure Have This ranks weak -kneed toProaeh is ie rivid cont ast recruit being parents in that area to ligh Locate defend and extend the right nursery lacules delegation parents involved in the occu- oresenil paon inere wilch Deadil vi Monday last will lobby pers annual conference on its first Moray Place is the upon delegates cave to The de then on han recruiting decision of the Rank Social Democrats) allow them and File on the Thursday have sha that at last a rebster- debate sizes teachers affiliation is only opening 25 in favour within the the Involved campaien to defend educa- period ahead tional facilities. three will be show of sell-out cuts and com. of the Despite every conceiv- be withdrawn

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able effort by officials to kill off their of in defence struggle the dece one lane recognise jobs, workers at Ansells brewery voted last week- their end continue demand dispute and to full support from Executive union's Council more positively: Their struggle against the position, and closure of the prewerv will negotiations loss 700 jobs gno for for 300 other redeployment Aldridge and the workers nas been colle Park depots for 20 weeks. repeated after DU! their attempts Cullall picketing activities and retus are not reemployed." als to mount full scale black- ing action had failed to crush ballot papers were their Secretary Brian Regional step Mainers more clic once organised own postal ballot. kill the militancy last Stern letter the dispute with a stern letter from ment eval Albert Blighton came a note with mously Mathers

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off ballot slip Ine uly lto The questions were out- Workers The offered two "choices: one-to continue complaints - was worded as follows: understand that last winter). brewery the Witt open but wish to continue in dispute company, and accept hat an the. compensation NATFHE in retreat NATHE conference retreat was implicit trolled. the 81 stepped back from a speeches from the Presi- the dent and the General Secre- that Tory who both failed to tary reate iner contmouton.

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recent developments in the losing class struggle Clapped on by the NEC the dynamic duo engaged in less anti-Tory rhetoric but refused to outline a strateg to defend services. motions Crucial recent develop- them ments in the Labour Party were nevel mennoned throughout the conference services. The rebel Labour councillors were not cited as a possible focus around wich TO DIlO ii is struggles. expenditure was religiously condemned Du relationship between struggle issue at the Ireland cuts was alfu never explained. with a referendum on The President referred following the question of affiliation to to the delegates as 'freedom Tensi the Labour Party. The resis- fighters' whilst ruling out of right wing to two emergency order adopted such a move will have grown Inner modon. Outer of them the liberation the joined struggle in the occupied six

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counties Northern red it be a keir the best Ireland. i ocate or Indeed the NEC's "inter- ovation nationalist standing auvuvale tilt wing for speaker ano пои

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KanK Assistant General Secretary Salvador never threatened to attitude sea to the H Blocks (Increasingly trade union- of Long Kesh ists and Labour Party mem- themselves Cash limits to this whether the Institute HQ at Scottish

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members correctly of identified the number features of Tory control outcome of education. By 'capping thi they placed rigic pool' have • or not of a avail- reterenaunt. Lill on money Labour Labour Party able advanced

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eductionics proposeither higher : union and will be oly lettin forward concaken Contees massive centrally funded and con- Ansells refuse to accept which had been offered will Thus workers looking to continue the fight are asked they have Company facilities conced- ing defeat is worded much 'I have reconsaerea m. that should

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the reopening of 'Gravelly coupled with the acceptance tory payment to those who surprisingly these •Sel using company facilities. But though this manoeuvre took of the struggle it still did not weekend mass meeting voica lo caly until a negotiated settle- And the same meeting voted unans- to demand a union the conduct of Mathers and Regional Organ iser Doug Fairburn (who was of bitter Name his Audress betrayal of the longbridge 8.

SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday June 4 1981 against the delegates shows evidence MUCh cherened. 'progressive' education different scales of payment authorities been for lecturers. The mood was with clearly opposed . to the pur LOnuUl total of £200 claim, much percentage million in aid well paid

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loved Despite these and count- members other examples claim of £x plus Y% which, illustrated the

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moved whilst being far from ideal, healthy clauses aelett aoes represell which committed feeling Trom une ran mobilise the file towards greater equality membership for strike action ot pay rates defence and passed

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motions overseas and student increases Source of strength to cash in on unemploymen The militancy of the civil by recruiting to the armed praised service disput Iorces Was but never related to the cuts Important fringe meet source of ings were held on part- education, EI strength in a confrontation , adult the Tory • receivers a var no women s gol A useful gay rights meet- Labour group heard Barry Prothero, Cults 11ls the NCCL Gay Rights office: All cuts resolutions requested that the describing the large number the •their policy reierrea with no perspective towards nue each week muledua groups and councils. of course, that these repres- ented cases of dis pencen The right wing is greatly tage of avoid the neeessary struggle tion against gays. around the Labour Party by

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College inspired Crucial area ' group whose ane ale one of indiffer- The modest attendance ence to the developments in at this meeting reflected the the Labour Party. this crucial area within the much needed debate Over 60 delegates atten- was a tringe meeting entitled to discuss Can the Labour Party bring mec tille

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Heslin-to be reinstated? Pergamon journalists fight for union rights SOCIALIST PRESS, Thursday June 4 1981 Reselection line upheld by NEC The Tory Boothroyd, etc-but also by press nas unofficial right wing once again frothed and walco unti recenuy Daraucu flapped at a decision of 'left' wingers-Neil the Labour NEC-this Kinnock, Judith and the decision Renee Short. time described Jonn Golding advise constituency decision to new the parties to carry through a "monstrous" advice as genuine rather than more monstoks nowever Is the attempt the right rubber-stamp Tece cano! both constituency wing ot MPs. level ana In lIc IcDuLy The

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decision - Leadership contest to make carted voles „ LO against the opposition ot a pecially flown-in Michael than 1v10 CLPs of the recom- ao vise mended procedure. compel right cannot wing led Darles to oveli ur its shortlist to more than the single name the sitting candidate: and those right A cloud of uncertain- wingers ananan.

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ty still hangs oyd Faulds, Snape, etc) over the who fight by long-running have already come Press trougn suca a broceaure are Oxford Socialist not to be forced to submit supporter Ted Heslin to to a genuine reselection.

reinstatement to secule the Oxford CLP. Only seven Two years delays, appeals hearings But in view of the fact tually brought an NEC : ruling . seven out of 630 that only Inat ne hortu ve redmalcd prospective candidates have , from which he to the party. been firmly

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member Eric Heffer concrete torm to ine reselec tion procedure was of course and Nanonal A gen tavle vociferously opposed both Hughes were dispatched to the viêw of these by investigate the otticial 11gh wing Golding, right wing dissidents nealey. National conference

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the anti-democratic "short- list of one" the norm. BirMinghami Lade vod ly Medrw Ilti vUit Labour MP at the next elec- Tion in tavur O ett wineer Albert Bore has registered the first tangible gain of the new sy stem Bore a Birmingham Councillor and a sup- Lity porter of the Labour Com mittee on Ireland When they reported back to last week S NEl meRTine The to reinstate Heslin was upheld.

Assurances The local GC has, called understand, been • him readmoll membership pending ith representatives livelule ol tlt ta meeting Hesiin will be asked to give certain formal his conduct. But since there would be ot the

NEC

little prospect aevoung any TuTuneT tC OI trouble to the Heslin case if outside Ine Inele his at reen any question of cease sellins agreeing to doclas rress tms cal ol mean that the ra upnoid: that it is permis- sable for Labour Party activ- The struggle being fought by nine sacked strikers against Robert Maxwell's Pergamon Press has now been on for 13 weeks. strike Support for the continues to grow. Maxwell shows little inclination prepared to come lo being table Ine He ts certainly smarting though, from the publicity he has been entousnoul Ine labour movement. Last week Pergamon pro- duced vei anotde DreS release" for sending to organ- isations and individuals who nave wilien to nim in sup.

port of the strikers. This 'press release' gives S aSOS WV une SIKer! won't be reinstated. These include the fact that they dave ven pran tle fic {.) ana the la hal they have sent publicity oui material about the strike to laue unIon oranenes and Heinous crimes

(LP S

indeed! the company's Dul response des not stop at ol somle e cre con pany has been claiming that had a large of people who wanted to Joir the NUJ but were repered by the behaviour of the existing chapel. on coser asecnor niy put nt de a berin numa out to be a group mana- Civil service union still unable leaders, summon up the courage offer the militant stand demanded by their continue their members, futile talks with the Tories as we go to press The Tories, KOOking the continued refusal of the to mount umul burcaucla. a out acten ae ce resul tave parchs, mave b solece.

strikes, become artuganly cocksure ists to support and to sell Socialist Press. rom certain however, that the Oxford will meekly right WIle accept this verdict. Like right wingers every- believe where, they acmociacy anu ine authority ot leading only the linc arrived a with are in tel reachonaly views Notorious „sOre comprises some of the most right wingers Locca por maoveneni from the anti-union million- of Pergamon Press are boss Mat weil KOUDIl

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strike-breaking chair-

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Lady uncary i0 to the witch-hunting rOweTA nOV county councillor, who after selling his job through volun- have been trying to pass inem se ves on as dona had "moderate" would-be trade usulsl Mr Maxwell, not surpris- ingly. has nampioned their they H !r1 alwav: Laus omit trom their propaganda, however, is the fact that the and locally nationally nas ola tem inar snoine chapel is out of the question and' that they will have come vul on sarke u aney want to join. This bizarre initiative by the company is, believe it or not, not that untypical of the way Pergamon conducts relations Wi!n tract unions. One of labour piece movement support which may be particularly worrying Maxweli is that from mem bers both in publishing and The NUJ nationally has now written ASTMS (ot which Maxwell is a member) complaining about Maxwéll's conduct and inviting ASTMS to take the appropriate disci- plınary against measures hiMeanwhil® Pergamon the continue ATaCK strikers as politically moti- vated wreckers with viciousnes Teminiscent of the Morarthyite period in the US Aside from popularising their strike, the nine sacked NUJ members are also persu- ing more lan o mens or forring Maxwell to the Page 11

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pay: the last one of these Thatcher has even insis. took pull back fron over two years • Tec mar mev the mooted report back com promise offering a further ¾-1% Meanwhile the deadline 7% offer which the

CPSA

and fitt ortstill other are committed excnange lor more tapia ios ulUlIs of civil service jobs. all-out stoppages she Is calling determined to beat back this affeting

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benefits is looming ever close: chaten e pudi sector pay limits. It is the tear or this tna drives the union leaders to "Inquiry" to Thatcher's cling so tightl apron strings. Sooner or later however the reality must be The best that is on offer faced: only all-out sustained at present is a tume-waslng Royal Commission sirike acuon ae deredl das "inquiry" Tory government. Thatcher into civil service redundancy at the BL tary plants now à lone AUEW member working in a library. Not surprisingly such a gaggie of scabs ane nen wingers-with their faces set of the progres- any aralis Chanees now swecoin through other narte o ini Labour Party.. wish at all Heslin (and • кеер tusus ( possioe olne Socass. off the Oxford GC. It therefore not un- 1k e letter will be received as yet prolongea prevancation The fight for hi: rein- statement-the only current country is a symbol of the fight tor socialism in a party sel lareey Icu In laly alca.

forces who have so tar forgotten to join the Social A vear ago Heslin lobbies NEC Donuklals negotiating table. Printing Industries Commit Pergamon strike has demon- They are trying to organ- tee of the TUC and through strated anything it is that to ise blacking of Pergamon the Labour Party, to try to like defeat an emplover persuade Maxwell to talk publications by trade unions Maxwell we need a deter- in libraries and book shops Meanwhile trouble mined and united stand They are also launching brewing again at the Londor it is the duty of ever • a campaign to get NU office-occupied three print militant working for members who supply copy months last winter the Maxwell to find by ways Maxwell-ow ned

NUJ

printers battle over jobs links In a wIl oune transter the work else This time the dispute is over printers, in other plants wages Then will bE where in a At the The weakest term same time in the to detenc SurUneOSILIOn number instiative: trade union organisation cat contas to ve ta through the print unions the jobs and living standards undel way Maxwell talks Support for the Pergamon strikers with Tikhenov nas been torencom ing from the Polist union Solidarity. керт

ROBERT MAXWELL

however to show to the broader scientific and support are the Pergamon Press thinks British cultural ties which, he said, Kremlin leaders who business circles have were being positively aided by according to Sovie publishers like Mr Maxwell's Weekly found time olanl slake in ine for improvement of trade and personal talks firm. Pergamon. with Maxwell! ¿conomic relations with the As far as the Soviet Union is No doubt they

USSR.

consider that Max concered, ne sald, it nas Mr Maxwell was speaking always worked for detente, for well s readiness to in Moscon, during a meeting publish works by strengthening mutual Brezhnev and witch with Prime Minister Nikolai understanding and bulding up nUnL otek victe Tikhonov confidence between itself and puts him on Nikolai Tikhonor pointed side of the fence! other countries. Soviet Weekly, May 16 1981.

WORKERS' STRUGGLES

SHAKE APARTHEID

Let's see

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some action! sector jobs have vanished in!

school meals, health. teach- ing and social services with- out a finger lifted by union officials. this sole exception to tide of was the unofficial miners' stake Which forced back the Tory/ NCB closure plans. Basking in Ine glory ol this action which they did nothing were

VUM

Genera Secretary Daly and York. Lawrence shire leader Arthur Scargill.

The South African government and the cap- italist class behind it have been celebrating 20 years of their apartheid Repub- Anti-Republic mittees were celebration and

COTT

tne organise protest meetings.

These boycott Commil lees have locussed attention on the official celebrations while black workers and youth daily Murras struggle the real meaning of blames workers the Republic, fighting It was Scargill's speech the real battle the bosses' apartheid state. that made many at the rally-with his The growing strength of correct defend jobs inal struggle has meant that the government and capital- du occupy Lactones unreat ened with closure and his ists do not have much to celebrate about. tatement that extravagant penine The and threatened the govern- displays the massive ment with direct action we show of military would get somewhere. division of the rusio class id contusion We are nor prepared to see our children deprived of the face of a black working right to work. that class that is moving forwaro means direct action on the on every front. trade union varu Ene movement then that's the Struggle consideration that our move- Despite vicious repression ment wul nave to give.' Well Scargill and terrible • So purely,

TUC

General Council. black WORKINg class i0o is Ken Gill of TASS. continues to march on in who insisted that "the TUC struggle, developing its class must make the sult lual commuence, bulaing Striking carworkers in Port Elizabeth momentum is not lost". organised strength, and Both therefore now have extending its demands on Thousands of workers and youth are daily resisting le opportunity to light to Across le to empark on a the country ine bosses pass law system immediate campaign for all- groups of workers and youth with its expulsions from the out action to bring down the in struggle. In the motor towns and farming areas into starvation milexio dna savage ow mausly, Inousands or black bantustan government and drive out workers are on strike. the discredited right wing About 2,000 Leyland leadership workers have been sacked of the Labour Militant battles Party (whose main represen- for striking for higher wages tative. Dennis Healey, was Over General Motos and 3,000 workers In the schools and on the Ford, roundly booed by Sunday's streets workine cass vouta Firestone Tyres have gone are waging militant battles Only such a fight on strike to demand rein can against government attempts of victimised cut through the sticky icing and workers. which coated them. •i nypocrisy speech Trafalgar The upturn in the every omy which has been based masking the bitter Square, Deported Havour o Detavanne enten toes day-to-day policies of the beginning to stagger under bureaucrats on the platform pressure the world In une crucial mining industry too, workers We've had a bucketful of crisis of capitalism against the starva- speeces. now let's see some!

ine massive fight to defend jobs, organise the last two years are threat wares due savedour unemployed and bring ening develop into coraltione Last week 1600 workers this crisis of profits flalcu on a gold mine were depor- government racine developine cron the capitalists leu lo ine rural areas arter omic striking. are In workplaces through- Published by Folrose Ita even the terrible cconomic out une country workers are the Workers Socialist mobilising defend the position of black workers.

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The recent elections were organised by the governing National Party as part of its attempts to support in preparation for a mounting attack the black working class was massive swing of support to ultra- rightwing reaction. The a rent as been a0oe exploit the growing contus- and dissatistactor white workers making the black workers the scapegoat for the threats facing white workers The capitalist class is less and less able to rule through the old forms. but it is also impossible for them to ting strong enough to control the forward movement of lie black working class. Challenge Black workers are more strongly mobilised sed. united and determined Their mounting day-to- day struggles are the posing greatest ever challenge to the capitalist state. I1 is by developing these that struggles will be built to dotiat th bosses" republic. But there is no developed leadership to meet the urgent needs of the situation. some union senders sre acting to hold back struggle when clear need Is to drive forward these ane again, leaders leave groups 5. workers to struggle in isola- Lownen neres a reno basis for organised united action. Other leaders support militancy tane workers and the action workers are already taking DUl developing and strengthening action And the traditional blac nationalist AN leadership is Working CaSE which is stronger than ever rely not owi but guerrillas and their action.

At of growing ANG leaders mass struggle, propaganda sabotage actions Their call for a general strike was packeo lo do o mas. agitation but by sabotage to halt trains taking workers to work These ANC leaders havt attracted thousands of cour militants from ageous the ranks of the working class Dul are tony en w The mass action of the arking class has done more one shatter year TO the contidence. deepen the divis ions, and weaken the grip of the ruling than clas years

ANC

The ANC leaders contin ually sackle the great to harness and 1cvutatlon strength of the workin class to their struggle for a reformed capitalism With organ profits and profit dependent cheap blac labour, the fact is that capit alism in South Africa -how- ever it may be re organised could never meet the basic mccas ut une workers in the imperialist democracies like Britain capitalism is forced to attack rights and living standards won by workers' struggle. Class strength the task must develop the independent class strength of workers and youth, surentel defences against a more and more ruling class. take himall behind the strongest actions demands and organisation The existing leadership i an obstacle to this vital tas -a ren leauersmip must de built in the struggle. Messages of support to the British Leyland strikers should b • sent to NUMARW

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