Socialist Press no. 86

order election. enough

CLASS WAR

wages and conditions is far attacks on a powerful work- polarisation within society in prepare wing Thatcher leadership.

reactionary power base from exercise. racialist leadership to whip up a decision union propaganda. racialist, anti-socialist, anti- middle class to step up their among layers of tionary policies of the Lib- unemployment, slashed social standards, conditions cynically cashing policies of the extreme right used as a convenient lever to the trade unions. an all out confrontation with government intends to launch which squalid coloured immigration Thatcher

PREPARE

workers Lab coaltion government. shortages caused by the reac- The Tories know it is not Determined strikes, indic- Like the To do this, the Tories are It is a determined bid for a The Racialism is only more than unmistakeably condions or violent Polarisation Cashing in class press home their audience frenzy of falling living and the Tory re-elected win by chronic vote-catching militancy calculated - on the Margaret against being Tory mass

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Chric Damies. Keport pletely with the fascist agita- gration, will connect up com- ment's policy of sanctions to forced a breach in the govern- of the firemen's strike, have This hysteria, linked with violent National attacks Immi- immigration drastically restrict the right of Relations sunnosed v netter Party's "human" without the need for tougher respectability NF and give them an added enhance the standing of the patent fraud. ly vote National Front is a support of those who current- she is challenging to win the Front. Thatcher's Alex Lyon, 'left' chairman Her Added respectability In other words the Labour the Labour Thatcher's line will only Rights restricted pretense racialism is than Labour's that the Bidwell announced in Parlia- Tories' naked racialism. woman on this question". Thatcher as a racialist but as tion. ards in the most determined jobs, wages and living stand- workers and youth continue and racist attacks on black and not class that is the real racist notion that it is 'nation' goes a long way towards the "protect" British industry by nationalist call for the impos- Tribune's policies Bidwell of unaer massive against toreign Tribunite Workers can only defend Meanwhile violent fascist Such a policy, attempting escalate extremely United struggle Nationalist call do closures and redun- suoscribes not sown woosses and supporter police protec- MP measures by regard Mrs competition controls- the muddled LO bosses NF alist policies and squads tion. immigration ing class. renewed attacks on the work- order drives them now into decaying ers, whose lust for profit in a completely wedded to capit- allacks must close ranks against the and or she chooses. We oppose all and work in the country he right of every worker to live organise common enemy-the employ- The The We stand clearly for the discriminatory Lib-Lab labour and workers NF laws, repel brutal racist legis- movement coalition - defence legisla- fascist social socialist economy. industries! management. for inflation, with automatic compensation services! For a cash injection, programme of useful public sharing on full pay. for a socialist answer to the be shown the need to fight this development workers can with its 10% pay limit. resters. problems on which racialism lation-must be broken, along *Create new jobs! For a *No In the active struggle for "Nationalse *Restore under sackings! For under the trade planned workers major LIon Work so cia l

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Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 86 * February 8, 1978 * 15p Tunisian general strike..

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wage control. preparing a 'social pact of responded with programmes, and the UGTT with the one-party state and their and soaring unemployment.

constant inflation Tunisian workers experienced underdeveloped of capitalism bore down on French colonial rule in 1934).

Neo-Destour member of what was then the (Achour union's re-installed by the DSP as the policy. But in 1970 criticism problematic. relationship came out in the open, and sonal was disea for las Demoralised by the events The As the international crisis the 1965 these 'Social pact' was greatest collaborated secretary-general Party has government government 'austerity economies of prices severity, founding tensions he was unacl been preparations, gas canisters. quarters-clubs, being gathered in local head- quent, while became larger and more fre- of the union throughout the and ransack offices of the union were hired by the DSP to battles. nised the and the own members to make more driven by the pressure of his Molotov cocktails and tear- militants. the scene set for the recent Minister of the Interior, and conciliation was dismissed as associated with the policy of controntation. uncompromising Major pressea on. vangs ol lnugs Demonstrations in defence The Tahar Amid threaten industrial Thugs hired wave bourgeoisie recog need for direct weapons Belkhodua, statements iron-bars, Achoul leading centres strikes these were of a 'communist conspiracy' the general strike itself.

of organisation on the day of workers, and the evident lack demands which was reflected in the confusion conscious intervention. result demonstrations certain that the strikes and showed, political for giving this movement such tion. It is still not clear what and amount to an insurrec- parallel in Tunisian history, wounded. hundreds 200 along its bloody course, some the class struggle. first major intervention into militancy forces have been responsible massive operation proceeded The These workers were killed and Barely justified government's claims characterised but actions have direction ot raised ratner more it is almost spontaneous As this severely any and Government took their fears the the UMWA leaders to between the employers and Marshall, Labour beginning to run out. Workers strike by United Mine before up seriously President Carter sent his Massive stocks by employers largest strike in the power US the Miners smell success Secretary, members coal bosses nine that stations talks week piled show the are fund. tees on the health and welfare demand in return for guaran- abandoning Miller has been trying to win President, determination desperate to bite. payments is clearly beginning union's acceptance miners' strikes and establish the right Miners' BuT as the bosses grow health history efforts to in the Arnold the and welfare defend the does union lor called to local

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Miller. close strike the on the organs of the working the links between the union and class. Labour Party based directly supported in the last election, the clear need to break all the employers heightened by strengthened. defence. outbreak of shooting shows, stepped up and as the latest and Marshall's intervention shows between the Democrats and down The bourgeois scab open squads need pits collaboration party build they nationalist DSP a degree of autonomy from formalised, though in practice links trade Achour, the UGTT was the Ferhat Hached and Habib ing a level that could not be and-file members was reach- discontent and other party leaders. the union always maintained ignored or contained cations of the UGTT there were signs ir the publi- agitation. months was ing possible to judge the scale information, it is now becom- create a smokescreen of false Nouira's efforts arranged by Mohamed Sayah of events on 26 January. After independence these rounded As long Despite were. continued the union general of Prime Minister Discontent among its tank- government culmination tne pressure wing of the strike itself 1944 determined August that and impracticable as Achour was development with the collab- (mines, railways, etc), a series strategic sections of industry the army. oration of the UGTT leader- tion sought to control this challenging the government, the been in the vanguard of all is here at its highest. under 20, and unemployment workers grew rapidly. deepened, about as oppositional as The publishes government umol led by youth. Guardian in Britain. dements ol ine administra- But Last But as the economic crisis Sections This movement was largely strikes Impracticable 1 unisian recent bureaucracy ana now this the militancy of El Rai, which is November, of youth have began soon population is Some 50% of mobilisations, control. became againsu army was ordered in for its occupy innocent strike since independence, the government buildings. form barricades, and attempts with the wrecking of buses to into incidents rapidly developed from agents and police, small to blockade union offices and Sousse, the police moved in in Tunis, Kairouan, Sfax and gathered for demonstrations call a general strike. On the left with no option but to surge of solid opposition.

did nothing ism from some quarters, but protestations of 'true patriot- This ba'athist elements conspiring central and industrial areas.

To attack the first general Fanned by The UGTT leadership was subvert itself, produced major 200 killed positions Tunisian as the strikers confrontations burn down provocation sycophantic check the loyal the and government. positon the Bourguiba the bureaucracy of the state These machinations within interests. independent class and government Socialist "loyal' to the ruling Destour demonstrations been suspended. criticism, the paper El Rai has curfew. exercising still in force, with army units

(UGTT).

General including 11 of 13 executive and now been made of repression in Tunisia.

imposing a fierce regime uprising, general Generatee Workers of nibe

TUNISIA DECLARES STATE OF

With The state of emergency is At least 1,000 arrests have In the wake brute force, unemployed the aid of bribery Party the Bourguiba For strike dusk-to-dawn of have of workers hysterical venturing workers of the youth, Union been now and isation, limited government conceded some system, and from liberal intellectuals down with energetic brutality 1960s, when riots were put student movement in the late government came iately. attacks and betrayals immed- independent political organ- of 1965 Hassib ben Amar, this group Opposition Movement. to the Democratic Socialist more recently. were The latter clamoured for Opposition to Bourguiba's Led by Ahmed Mestiri and liberal unable Limited rights organisational Tunisian social-democrats the to resist tnese finally lacking any one-party from the workers rights ine tion "deviationism', ated hoped to ride to power. smashed by the tidal wave he now been shipwrecked and President Bourguiba. He has the succession to the dying he could reach out to grasp the principal base from which sustained for very long. neither the DSP. there strikers, defended the demands of the strong his balancing act, buffeted by attempted to carry on with main concern was to secure The government The This position could satisfy with by was no quarrel with 'Deviationism' side-nor could it be but cross-winds: secretary-general's communist accusations of claimed infiltra- fulmin- that substantial. cautious which reached far beyond the ment of support for the PLO opportunity to issue a state- bouring Libya, and used the migrant visited the 40,000 Tunisian Libyan complicity are more the country. But the hints of organisation operating within any evidence of any socialist the nationalists. Nor is there itself into the left illegal and long ago dissolved munist Party which is now are barely justified by the role of the Achour workers in neigh- himself recently Tunisian compromised wing of

EMERGENCY

Com- secretary general's influence.

second the Libyan connection is the close political associates, and aborted. He and Achour are years exile. returned to Tunisia after four its enthusiasm for the project.

Minister after the discussions Masmoudi dictatorship has not lost all down after the Duerba talks The Significantly Proposals for union of the 1974, union dismissed countries finally broke source but Plan, has proponent of tne addall Mohamed Masmoudi recently Foreign begin to form an independent apparatus the UGTT from the state continue the fight to break this conflict, they must now the workers' party to struggle for Tunisian political development of the temporary defeat must form preserving its power, crushing the insurgency and seems to have succeeded in Although party offer no forward pros- peasants pect to the lunisian masses Drawing the lessons from basis completely, . ol tne workers government future and and this

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tion of Portuguese capitalism bourgeois Soares to the betrayals which has brought peasants. pages. government runs to 300 wing Mario Soares' imperialists' interests. one strategy -une ment, openly devoted only to supposed OI imposed on the workers and Duraen Democratic Every page speaks clearly The On every page is some new 300 pages of betrayai Socialist-Christian sordid programme coalition workers protection head of a new right- history rehabilita- coalition goverl leader of the party have reacted sharply to that cannot be ignored..."

policies of austerity resulting which is only viable through necessity more or less emphasised the politicians Portuguese democracy • is now less important than that the building of Socialism options but we must all agree about socialism and socialist this as plain as it could be: country the economic recovery of the Sections of Soares' own It is important to talk [!] Soares own words make very ormation of payments deficit, high social costs of this country responsible to save the Antunes, 1975, demagogic role in who played such a pernicious new opportunist block were ing at the christening of this the Union of the Democratic of "left' opportunists to form with other small organisations section of the Socialist Party Minister, 'left' Major Otelo de Carvalho socialist bell. coalition. Present to give their bless- Former 'left' Agricultural former darlings of the the opportunity to Christening and Lopez Cardoso has tiny leader Major breakaway 1974 and Melo the workers. movement head off at a crucial moment to try to who in mid-1975 intervened "Group of 9" army officers the revolutionary of Portuguese Carvalho mark and Finland has reached Unemployment in both Den- from revealed the capitalist crisis have been ation forces in Eritrea. from the Somali armies, and is being launched with Cuban of terror, a counter-offensive the Derg continues its reign arrived four months ago. As Cuban and been killed in the purges of wrest territory from the liber- support Jerusts report that 3,500 people have The continuing ravages of Refugees

SCANDINAVIA

military carried northern

ETHIOPIA

Russian advisors recent from Ethiopia regall out junta since

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Ogaden Europe. Dy figures its current 12%. budget has been seriously austerity measures. duction of its new battery of soared to 13% last year. The 9%, while inflation in Finland cut unemployment by half of the fantastic argument that government has replied with far behind inflation. for 12%, which would still lag been countered a 5% limit on wage rises has The government's demand of of talks with union leaders.

threatened by the breakdown suit shortly after the intro and the Norwegian govern- has imposed a wages freeze, Popular ment The reflationary the is expected to follow

IRELAND

Fianna rront with claims Fail's last Lynch's strategy would

the British Labour Movement to force SWAPO to accept an nothing more than attempts countries between York, government. independence, imperialism is to create a false and South Africa. taking place in Namibia similar developments are forces within SWAPO which material imperialist solution. *Big interests through a friendly Zimbabwe plot betrayals There must be a fight in Meetings (planned for New In Namibia the strategy of the maximum No secret deals! February Five' opportunists South support and SWAPO black Africa, securing 11 and 12) moral imperialist masses the cutting, bine their opposition to wage against the British workers, Callaghan struggle workers and peasants in their the interests of the Namibian are genuinely Namibia. solidarity Southern Africa. campaign in support of their nationally trated by imperialism. class cuts in social services with a British workers must com- Desperate attempts une brothers and sisters in nemtcnt as in mass attempts to head government plots demand withstand committed to being orches- struggle Britain the imperialism's Apartheid state spies on Namibian village central must the and struggle has developed from can be no substitue for the the fight for the breaking of workers movement as part of systematically into the British travelling the world hatching Secretary David Owen who is focus on the role of Foreign ecrel acals witn moacrale Such solidarity, however, a new leadership which fashion building on that unity. in the struggle weapon during the Soweto events and his capitulation and betryaals emerges from the gutter of develop the struggle through ship necessary to defend and without the political leader- and forging a fighting unity.

tional nationalist movements working class breaking from a petty-bourgeois leadership.

shackle the workers firmly to but a genuine working class unity is not an attempt to forge a wave of radical rhetoric, Party, brought into life with Party and the Indian Reform tors in the Coloured Labour alliance with fellow collabora- African workers. power on the backs of South cynical attempt to ride to left ment who swings of the legal Imkatha move- tant is Chief Buthelezi, leader way of the working class.

opportunists standing in the schemes of the reformists.

increasingly its crossroads the working class, tion and programme. a new sharper level of state point where the workers face the Soweto rebellion to the une sectarianism or tne lraal- saw broad sections them-independent reacuon The Soweto His recently Standing at that political

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One of the most impor- There is no shortage of independent repression further No shortage this which can defend without Substitute Buthelezi vulnerable was achieved attempt to to preserve opportunist interests, is announced movemcnt Une and organisa- between of the Onl) the facing South other. tionary ment to traditional nationalist move- hand and the failure of the political life to their will class as an independent force.

and fragment in the attempt to demobilise his real role as capital's agent Buthelezi once again exposes the independence of the class independent force. seeks to present his alliance alliance ine consolidation of the unity of

LOIS

The Opportunist By substituting his new petty-bourgeois collabora- continue to working Atrica now alternative Capital's agent of a substitute tor the capital on the one political develop a revolu- working collaboration collaborators class the owe their working dilemma on the class in useful-

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working class. tion struggle to the only resolu- and the development of the dation of the gains of Soweto offensive through the consoli- working class against the state which alone can defend the revolutionary building essential independence of the working tional demands based on the tionary programme of transi- around an alternative revolu- popular frontism and regroup the political line of collabora- class, vulnerability of the working ruptcy has led to the current organisations class militants inside all the the construction of such an ment of socialism. Lon Native reserve in Namibia Sutih a sprouin ae It demands that working break decisively with the interests of the class-the establish- compromise aspect the wnose organisation genuinely Dank and (Field Marshall Lord Carver) to independence" wing than Nkomo) said that (usually these replacing Young reportedly supervisory role" role" would play selves will lead our country which the uney taking. ation with imperialism which aown ine road imperialist agreed to support a role for Young. tatives and the imperialist represen- each other in spite of recent more or less reconciled to racist Premier Ian Smith were ewa, signs were that Bishop Muzor- crucial concession Owen and proposed interim period. United Nations) troops in the Mugabe of the Patriotic Front ciliation squabbles. After the meeting, Mugabe This is one more long step The nationalists, he said, be a move towards recon- Last week in Salisbury the Nkomo n Malta there also seemed Crucial concession had leaders excnange branded more Owen military Rev. Sithole their British and agreement (British and NKomO OI colabor- British agreed to proposed dictator progress Andrew Mugabe been left- this 'in and and "a irreconcilable. ism masses and those of imperial- that he used his friends in the coming in. sandcastle when the tide is colonial settlement in those that the interests of the black getting statesman" tion they will win Owen a reputa- interests of the black masses erous, cunning and unprincip- negotiators. the ment to transmit the docu- racist South African govern- that about. secret is using compromises together and he bring the represented. Patriotic erning council" on which the by a broader dictatorial "gov- conaltions 1s constantly clasn with the lact nents alscussea in Malta to To But No doubt if all this treach- The Sunday Times reports Owen's problem is now to Zimbabwe get anywhere attempt ds "internal diplomacy build Southern Africa are their Salisbury and Malta Front anyw here "bold and IKe a stable the chances scuttie settlement" would bullding a IrICKs bring neo- wise the dissolve at will. will no longer be accountable again the bourgeoisie to the crisis it basis of its lavish promises to to the Assembly which he can President, and his government constitution now give him at National Party. parliamentary power last year of government in Sri Lanka.

both head of state and head now faces in south Asia. least back to work at gunpoint.

strations and six deaths as well as attacked a number since some petrol distribution workers comes trom. Jayewardene Junous Jayewardene has The His amendments to the Dictatorship They have also tried to force leader six years Not acceptable established UNP won a landslide in July 1977 on the which National is where its money solution of the

SRI LANKA CRACKDOWN

injuries the himself as is once not came office of nave surprising United demon- government-sponsored vicious reply: hundreds would modelled on Hong Kong, that calls create an independent state- himself is now proposing to determination, Tamil Tamils against racial discrimination.

Sri Lanka and southern India) (an ethnic minority in both by protests from the Tamils problems. social resolve the island's massive justice of his assassins, assumed to massacres be agents ot somoza editor Joaquin Chomorro

UDEL

was The election was followed But while he resists the Their demands provoked a Important as this issue was The original demand was Tol The movement origin of the protese capitalists' Assassination werc Murdered assassination and island-what a magnet andnewspaper murdered Jayewardene economic paradise'

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self- before it will grant a loan for not nearly satisfied the IMF, drawn. subsidies sidies on wheat and transport which requires an end to sub- reacnea zU7 near starvation, and the rate the free rice ration in a period population uation has resulted in a huge peasants. foreign investment. wiere ncmpymcnl ucans a wide-ranging attack on the take it much further than these predictably in this on a programme which represents try can build a leadership based capitalist "strike leaders" intend.

contrary. The Communist Party is cheir independent interests.

the But these measures have Already about half the This scheme goes alongside working Lankan unemployment 85% currency deval- prices, Not satisfied are has been denied give ciass an unshakeable wOrKerS and welfare little and peasan- On Quite whether the recrimination. office. and industrial capitalists.

the Indian Congress Party, is plans. the government's investment eration alliance with the bourgeois oppos- Inreatened have been policies. moved to suppress opposition the agent of the landowning the truth that the UNP, like propaganda employment. But its populist this strategy will create new dictator UDEL in order to get rid of the entered pro-Somoza army posts, has also

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dramatic Jayewardene Jayewardene And it is nIs 'new employment' dictatorship and into Trade union leaders attacks barely also reported that removed demonstrations wiln which claims that conceals Somoza alreaa y severe from staged 1 Lib- 1tS neo-colonial fold. key Zimbabwe safely into the ism's tary OWEN HOPES General strike stands firm

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British Foreign Secre- figure David Owen efforts

FOR DEAL

in imperial- bring is the

hospital's and on Tuesday was taken sick since the previous week Galano, Department. was left to die Tuesday London walked out last Westminster Hospital in closure of Bethnal Green Hospital.

Fighting the cuts in London - marchers protest at the NUPE members at the

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aged porter after a porter 35, had Mr. Loreto Casualty in the been Hospital

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1.30 pm., she was told about works at the hospital asked died at 1.00 pm. again until he collapsed and examination at 11 o clock, by into the Casualty Department members at about 10 am. When his fiancee, who also Apart Galano two from fellow condition was

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seen sne the nearby St. Georges ho 39- Press lighted once again the effects running of the hospital. lightning strikes, the call of voted in a mass meeting to wrangle with the hospital.

hour and a half later. would have increased since the closure of casualty Westminster into Mr. Galano's death, and Regional Morris for an inquiry by the NUPE branch secretary Jamie support Mr. Galano were only allowed not told of his death until an further Over 200 NUPE members Friends and colleagues of This tragic case has high- see and Casualty cuts are having on the that pressure on

NUPE

Mass meeting his the closure of Health department to wait, and was steward at the Department at told body Authority into the Socialist after had the the Regional Health Autho- Hospital, stop unions in London. junction with other hospital ster Hospital are the NUPE the workings of the Westmin- of carrying out admitted Londons hospitals Health Authority to hold an into Mr. inquiry: it is they who drew Galano's death, it is worth- which for patients who needed to be part beds at the Gordon Hospital, nembers themserves, in con up the plan to LesS Casualty. Group, And the inquiry must not The only people Since it is cuts like this difficult to find beds are the cause of Mr. had Worthless but Galano's death and Not active the the urgently meant it must include close Westminster westminster an inquiry Regional capable 150 of trom was other unions and other hospi- building joint against NHS cuts. death which led to their colleague's wish to fight the conditions staged lightning strikes and hospitals as far away as the rity and the DHSS itself.

Westminster. stewards organisation set-up in their Area and to affiliate committees with other unions stewaras Westminster NUPE branch. pledged Royal Free in Camden have tals to fight the cuts.

NUPE

In spite of that workers in In the past, Jamie Morris fight for CLASH, the Build committees not members at support who united action action build all-London active seriously the the edented among Civil Service immigrant, Federation's envelopes, 1800s. scarcely ditions of employment have forward workers-is an important step roughtly 12½p. workers receive 25p for every class. paid section of the working itive chore which the govern- envelopes, an onerous, repet- into ment to put tax-change slips are employed by the govern- rates for their menial tasks.

9 tax return forms until home have refused to handle 1978- Revenue the with impunity to the lowest ment teels it can tarm out workers with low paid home workers The Inland Revenue Staff = Currently, home workers Inland Revenue return 64,000 forms workers the changed an hourly rate of recelve stall action-unprec- they strong rederation since adequate put largely Inland home con• (from wing paper. different from any other left within the working class.

analysis of the experience of impressions of events, but on have drawn not on surface policies we have put forward Party) the programme Workers after the formation of the of Socialist Press six weeks Porter dies: strike to stop our members dany light for It has been this strength This has made our paper From the very first edition Workers Revolutionary Trotskyist forces Socialist expelled from programme League and refuted by events. analysis sceptics phase of wage control. the special edition to ram home coalition to enforce a third involved was an undeclared Socialist parliamentary . Lib-Lab he gave assurances that the The Despite a summer period wmen tact that conference have opportunists pact Press umon Refuted was simply a doubted this produced arrangement, conterence made amply and challenge that limit, linked to erally declared the imposition endorse a formal Phase 3 of impossible for the prostration from the spineless Liberal Onl solid Liberal leader Steel, unilat- Lib-Lab coalition. The Special issue - on the Healey, And it has been the refusal wage the parliamentary 10% Party contol

TUC

the cuts limit harness and leaders Chancellor

TUC

complete support pay. with supporters in the unions and its Lib-Lab coalition and remove fight which only and social service cutting, mass unemployment government policies of wage- control of wages. consistently shown that the preserved both the Callaghan- Labour nealey government and stale First weekly Socialist Press Only defeated through a Socialist 'lefts' class-collaborating will break that Press has cuts can the PHOTO: Andrew Wiard (Report) Troops scabbing on firemen's strike - by permission of TUC In an act of class solidarity Taxmen - low pay fight of its sales and coverage.

the paper in the class struggle, expansion and development ana on the record established by occasion both to look back Socialist October. cation, fortnightly to weekly publi- acquired the course of these upheavals, programme and perspective in only paper to have consistent- which throughout Europe. and the spread of Popular Front type governments there were major developments in Southern Africa out of the miners £135 pay claim. Internationally, imposition of the 10% pay limit; the firemen's strike Grunwick; the rejection of a formal Phase 3; the strike: political resources to go trom -scabbed on by the army and the TUC; and the sell- The Third Anniversary of And it analysed Socialist the Daily fight Press work the beginning was the year in and Lib-Lab Coalition; mass is for us an material

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Press, provided rurtner the last steelworks. and major struggles at Heath- the Leyland toolroom strike, tually took submit to Phase 2 of wage analysis Press to arrive at the correct that has enabled Callaghan at his word when other row Airport and Port Talbot months of-1977 and brought struggles on pay that even- explosion class control. It led us to forecast the would "left' while Coalition that place in the first picketing almost every not the Socialist working militant tamely of The first issue

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* as part of the international struggles of the working class order to preserve the Lib-Lab than any time since 1926, in military strike breaking bigger firemen, isolated TUC leaders who consciously week to protect against inflation.

tion of a formal Phase 3.

attempted to create enough the Labour Party. coalition government. include cost of living clauses claims, and for agreements to controls, for full catching up elbow room for the introduc- who throughout the summer vres by the union bureaucrats expose and fight the manoeu- Standards" "Regain and Defend Living continually These struggles take place We spelt out the necessity And International struggle the we traced week-by- and betrayals of the we were able to allowing betrayed campaigning the mass wage the national against imperialism. defence of the Soviet Union fight to drop any pretence of a press and, more important, formally abandon their party which has led the self-styled drive for "Socialist fight against the unprincipled coverage we have waged a countries. class adaptation to the capitalist parties ysing the "Euro-communist" carried series of articles anal- government. the bourgeoisie and form a Parties-has support of the Communist with bourgeois "Trotskyists" workers' parties break from continuously consistent demand. that the And we have exposed the Alongside And Important year the and Marxist Socialist Press has open their representatives, their of the principle Group to analysed Unity" leaders' own" tacit DasIc the

Irish workers on the Sinn Fein Bloody Sunday commemoration reminding the NUT of their school-age grounds of a national drop in school members Divisional send closures. leaders on the subject of union and Council, steamrolling tactics of the delegate member and a Trades Council ened Council. the and nursery schools by closures of first, middle action Town ing last week in Oxford's recent consultation and the inaction Nursery fight The Speakers from the threat- A well-attended meet- decision schools, meeting agreed to closures Tory condemning their spoke Hall lack

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Labour Party

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about the 9T2 Committee discussed to County parental accept

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the the the finances of the Council. teachers up of committees of parents, occupation, and the setting includes defence of nursery the meeting to support their City Nursery Campaign asked was pupil-teacher successful by 31 votes to 30.

the Council". publicise necessary, people felt that while direct Trespass worries about the Criminal unionists to investigate the schools and classes through recent campaign to "support DIscussIon Members of the Oxford An amendment to delete occupation being occupation children" point will our and Act, supported inevitably on the policy policy ratios intentions to other and and clause shouldn't exposed trade which some which was by restore the notion of a fair Party and right wing collab- direction of confrontation.

cies, them the idea of redundan- control their membership, sell following form: question for Leyland in the orators, the reaction Leyland lays it on the line".

towards guaranteed to hail any move Street for years the press was the whipping post for Fleet Ryder, a decided shift in the from the policies of Lord ism though it is, marks a turn for the problems of capital- formed, vague and inadequate long time brewing. shop stewards had been a class mixture week Edwardes' that workers The Edwardes Focusing on the grovelling "Bravo to the new boom "Can The Daily Mail hailed it: The chorus of praise Since and help Union leaders cheer work for a fair day's collaborators greeted the shop an Leyland from King Edwardes Mail posed the an speech management Communist managers, plan, half assorted nas stewards Michael on the and been last turn for on their own. They depend objections, Quite apart from the political at this stage is hardly feasible.

tion is not on. closing volume car produc- (but obviously cannot openly boom at Leyland'. years noting in its news page that given to components Rover and Triumph are viable doubtful cure its ills under capitalism.

state) is that no policy for ever, the text took a different in an editorial headed 'New echoed the Daily Mail's focus Edwardes' reception was cert- iour can cure. than promises of good behav- crisis of capitalism far deeper what is crippling Leyland is a based on the knowledge that papers lies a deeper unease of the Mail and other populist Leyland short of closure car ainly no warmer than that "To abandon volume cars What the FT understands Beneath the heading, how- The Financial Times says: The But behind the razzmattaz bodies main volume comes populist Lord Ryder, Financial whether on and nevertheless option extremely factories Jaguar, Times, other out all opposition to closures Kenilworth meeting. the other collaborators at the Robinson, considerable powers of Derek will require more than a new management decisions. disappear working class resistance) will "political considerations' (i.e.

decide." matter for management take place-and this, too, is a further out of their own operations, a are unable to generate funds the people who manage the future where it belongs-with responsibility principle tion which seems likely in the behaviour making would be undermined from Austin Morris; if Austin Morris DOOm company and work in it. neal In the financial reconstruc vaguely dependent on good economics of those factories They will require to stamp To achieve that capitalism In other words, the Finan- "To the extent that they "The present system of . a task beyond even the Times future contradiction must disappeared, Terry Duffy must be is unsatisfactory. cash Tor hoping, that une cloud Leyland's injections to put cardinal and the used as the basis for one of their is unloaded, information like any other poten who have obtained it, however, adjusting tactics in the workers better the inter-connected mani- and engineer latest offensive against jobs.

relative to employment and which industries where production equipment, and artificial fibres.

steelwork unprincipled class collaborationist nai produces it. crisis and for the social overthrow restations or the capitalist crisis.

socialist leadership to understand socialists since man-made fibres communications equipment and include machine tools, industria striking points in the capitalists are tererore, This kind of information can These danger point industries in the hands of the tribunites the capitalist system which Iney also weapon or the class struggl an important acquisition fo opens industrial textile made harmless telecommunications show a number o1 likely to be key trucks, can enable a machinery, equipment OT Ine tele- resident in Britain. rights social spokesman on Ireland Airey suppressing passports retaliatory united Ireland. Minister Lynch does not stop workers discrimination campaign conviction. the most trivial criminal court but can be activated by even aimed obviously anti-Irish "Preven- tion over their heads. the law discriminates against Britain leafletted the court response. sparked could of tion after being convicted Irish worker, for deporta- Williams, an unemployed magistrates Neave discriminatory non continued threat of deporta- IrIsh hearing denouncing the way Neave Such treatment is clearly Irish workers resident in This is not only true of the The decision by Acton opportunist ordering a meal he security entitlements, people, not pay for, has has called for a Terrorism" intimidating and crackdown

NORTH

an Irish against increase launchea hanging democratic talk And militants,

REL

Martin people angry Prime of a Irish Tory Act, une to and issue into the Labour Party ing a serious campaign on the take responsibility for carry- signatories of the by this group of Irish workers laws. struggle for the repeal of the Government. by which are vigorously upheld tory and against all the discrimina- of Irish workers to mobilise the whole British fight that must be taken up represents a retreat from the call frustration that motivate this Irish them in the formation of The loyal Irishmen to join with and revolution" to take much groups" for being "too busy to fight these moves-but on Irish people has been formed basis.

REMEMBER

movement. must Prevention of Terrorism Act labour movement in defence Alliance of Britain" Irish people. notice of the problems of pursuing The challenge laid down This fight must include the While the sentiments and It attacks "unions and left And it issues a 'call' to "all An ad hoc grouping of

SUNDAY

BLOODY

completely are understandable, also laws and regulations-

DERRY

taken up, and the Lib-Lab productivity deals trade Immigration inadequate 'call' must in Britain Coalition into a problem of mis- McCormick. initiated -for Rodgers and John Cartwright Shirley opponents includes blaming McCormick. trators Julian Lewis and Paul racy' equally despicable 'Campaign confusing the CLV sympathetic taken identities. Labour Victory' tion groupings the Labour Party looking for right wing front organisa- And other elements in the Reactionary The Fake names Representative run by Newham infil-

PRESS GANG

the Legal wrangles are laughably-named Williams, 'Campaign the confuse OI also are Lewis elements ciparently Tories so cla lsin crypto-Tory

PARTY

apparently has run wrangles with the diehard -which Democ- William the Party. their coven of admirers out of crypto-Tory means of driving those twin to consider the best ways and policies would be well advised members who see the party as within the Labour Party. than removing or suppressing are aimed at nothing more intention of changing that other. have nothing to do with each are centred in Oxford, they emptily of their rivals. their Tory policies and those unable a means or acmeving socials!

militants and socialist policies readers that material difference Those "Although both campaigns The Of course Both campaigns however, And assures its true-blue True blue

CLV

Labour point groupings and the newssheet have between CLV is Party any exist subsidy. optimistic. peak figure of the 1930s.

could unemployment bound to lead to mounting mass production in British capitalism is of the recent overall stagnation of been ! economy million at the end of that period.

achieved by British capitalism this even if the economy grew by 3½% on the official government fore- Sedgemore who is a member of group's economic "expert", Brian put them on the spot. ment this week which should answers to questions in parlia and auties, development the economy today wnich make even mates imply that the continuation optimistic expectations, nunared: admitting that, would century -ther considerably in excess of anything a year between now and 1982- last week quizzed a senior trea Labour asts tor jobs bouT Jobs. 1982 A new study has just been These are most visible in the st in the world That means the government is Both of them were enquiring Two various kinds of Treasury's consciously sentenced by economist, Frank Cassell, the form of course, Sentenced still remain MPs fulfilled one was tne tribune allegedly three even if the British these same esti- Committee that which to Sedgemore's figures unempioyment were well over a its protective capitalist given 'left' most look published bY Tariffs has been greatest in the following these two years the loss of jobs bune's cherished NEB) detailed information National Enterprise Board.

more power to that rescue squad strategyis by Which they stea tionary call for import controls.

ally but to back up their reac- unemployment. demands the firmest possible fight important question of principle a world scale. protectionism engineering (especially TV tubes).

textiles and shoes, the spread of protectionism in the 1975 (roughly the changes in production and jobs in the orner panacea Tor socialist policies internation gained not to support demands will tions Tor The Labour movement else in the capitalist system can only 'save jobs mentary point that protectionism tionism and emphasising the ele showing the spread of protec- Interdependence Liberation point of capitalist rationality on ouriaing. last few years of capitalist crisis.

naustries co-thinkers of the ribune group GAIl Which describes in detail These figures show that over In reply to a question from Proletarian This elementary fact raises an But the report (entitled Trade Tectionim from the stoo In an effort to prove that the Aside from import controls, But Brian Sedgemore and his so tar protectionism Is con- destroying jobs of some interesting infor- 'Rationality' Better strategy British industries any the Terrous Protectionisn chauvinistic the General Agree the internationalism of the NEB is the economic at the expense constructional problems or te tribun miscellaneous life of Tri House steel, ship- and about the somewnere issued Trade since and of Fight anti- Irish laws

LABOUR

1m will be on dole in

line in the United States.

of them were killed. Francoist police when some Manuel Fraga. Carrillo, has: in self defence. member eho killed a fascist Francoist regime. bases in Spain. of the monarchy. own. Francoist Francoist regime. demonstrations. internationalism. Party has: the last year the Communist dramatic. In Spain alone, over question. ist Parties' traditional links to ation in which the Commun- levels of open class collabor- existence is based-into new which quo costs to preserve the status leaders-determined ary potential of the working countries and the revolution- state the capitalist comes under acute pressure.

Communist Party leadership conditions Stalinist reality the extension of the "Eurocommunism" "socialism!! forms class Moncloa Pact with the ship of the proletariat Moscow have been called into class have forced the Stalinist witn and All of this is only in keep- *sent condolences to the *appeared on public plat- *expelled *signed *supported *defended the institution *lauded *praised the "democratic" *scabbed on strikes and *denounced the dictator- *denounced The critical weakness of Open collaboration * crossed The adopted the flag of the "peaceful coexistence" regime with capitalism, results their class phenomenon monarchy perspective the where one country" one fascists class and its strike relations on bureaucratic anti-working have Francoist proletarian American picket been under these the all .S. and may seem, this new move is sound invest with such a melifluous phrase which "revolutionary the party's statutes. description "Leninist" from Congress that the leadership it was agreed ments ever made. superfluous sense pronouncement Communist Party. recent record of the Spanish examples of the historic and decorated by Brezhnev. now lives in the Soviet Union member Trotsky in 1940. party, Ramon Mercader, who working class in the Civil War.

that ensured the defeat of the for the Popular Front policy other left-wing militants, and murder along with the KGB, for the Stalinists since the class betrayal of the Spanish ing with the long history of savage bourgeois breast would wnen uney and arch Francoist Manuel Fraga after the signing of the reactionary Moncloa Pact.

Politically The Party is to call itself At last week's meeting of These Mercader, still said to be a It was a member of this Carrillo (left), along with Socialist Party leader Felipe Gonzalez, Prime Minister Suarez Stalin's orders, murdered Melifluous that even the most the of the Decorated OI the are were responsible, removing 1 rotskyIsts political redundant it manages to Party's Party's just Spanish CP Marxist"-a une would 1930s, state- April latest most been one and few tne ition follows on years of loyal and its state. been, distorted attempt to bury completely an important new capitalism. "solving" the crisis of Italian slash workers jobs and living connects with a willingness to cratic support for Christian Demo- ment. to press for direct CP partici- Communist with the Spanish ruling class increasingly total compromise revolution traalton paton In the next govern- This call for a grand coal- Meanwhile Luciano Lama, the leader past Spanish Participation governments, they ana Party links, in Italy the CP confirm its may symbol of continues Hanc however Russian leaders' have and the and on firms would be a suicidal second priority. dards traitors in the labour move- strugle of the wo bing class, time, he shows himself ready on, must develop an overall each other" stupid. In an open economy policy. unemployment, the improve- ton to hostility to this open invita- sacrifices workers a policy of sacrifices economic programme: = intellectually honest; that was be adapted to them. demanded that the economy fixed a certain level of wages ment, Lama said: mise". the the capitalists into accepting Repubblica, designed to woo to the capitalist newspaper has given a lengthy interview union federation, the CGIL, of the CP-dominated trade —not marginal but substantial workers expressed their bitter ment in workers living stan- In this, not for the first "Up Echoing "This While growing numbers of "Well, it is necessary to be "To impose overmanning "In order to help relieve 1 ne the variables depend on CP's "historic of will have to be given Second priority Bitter hostility anions, sackings, wage cuts LO employment proposes

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every Lama we have single went class 'Communo- Trotsky communists" these on ment of their conditions.

the fight of the people for existence, the development of development of peaceful co- the cause of peace, of the to the interest, I would say of that we consider corresponds dent demonstrated by Ascarate: views and bourgeois rhetoric that Stalinist, Giorgio Napolitano took part.

economics Ascarate Spanish CC member Manuel Analysis, discussion illustrated in more detail in a Spanish and Italian CPs were Chauvinism' tner nibertes, for the better- expresse: writes party, "We give the judgement These The strange cross-breed of We absolutely are on BBC Radio 4. positions the social-democratic an independent and ago, was programme, reachionary spokesman in which indepen- of the "Euro Italian well Berlinguer with a Catholic card

"COMMUNISTS" WHO

munist" parties. self-styled by recent article we intend to look munist Parties. Spanish and Italian Com- argued by leaders of the theoretical Press' we

DECLARE SUPPORT

PRIVATE INDUSTRY

FOR NATO AND

These In last week's Socialist spokesmen some pronouncements examined the much "Eurocom- even of these positions In more more this By John Lister and Enrique Alvares make the task any easier."

problems putting Turin commented: press. virtually the entire capitalist words"-a reaction shared by were well he might, that Lama's of the Bank of Italy said, as and speed up, the Governor gramme over to the rank "We were already having A local union official in Cross-breed played. role nise the historic and decisive though we continue to recog that we don't call ourselves a our party as a Marxist Revol- party-giving the definition of that we submit to the whole Sunday. mittee international policy. of problems that we fix our peace and a good settlement contribute policy what must this Marxist-Leninist utionary party and proposing according to the criterion o1 "We have now a proposal "We had And it is according to that OI Onl Spain a Central Com- Leninism Saturday and basically Party. has

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years despite class differences they ain't wot they used to be: Maxwell in the phrase 'fings summed-up by NF member and their attitude is cleverly these no prospect of getting a job.

unemployed worker who sees meeting of blacks in his factory.

from the growing proportion unionist who feels that he too white brings a response she has held who colleagues, husband's married David have more in common-they lact that He goes on to argue that Desperation The final element in the under people to the meeting working young threat-this house draws class housewife patriotic' from students TOr 30 losing young trade from Tory ume all being down. Labour complaining in a local factory. strike against discrimination supports black reformism final blow. declares-so conspiracy" the speech, the base candidate is shown by the 'left' Labour meeting the fascists head on state When. The crunch comes when The The way Trust, voters way who starts getting letters incapable intough workers is manipu- source backward initially in the Jewish Cleaver capita- which backs from his on to shake revolted disgust. turn away he is those who have broken the oppose the 1971 Immigration "illegal' immigrant. Act, he Fascists attacking Jewish shops in London in the 1930s The firm's owner is a This The The Although asked to defend an offer refuses claims to him rejected. workers defend tooth this Turner and Cleaver discuss dentist but perhaps to save a says "one doesn't like the summed up neatly when he employer tinuing relationship. straight away but want a con- duce thing to offer. employers they have some- fascists picket line behind them the election and the attack on the With 23% of the vote in the more long term co-operation Cleaver and Turner to discuss NF to defend his profits.

down, the employer uses the TorLewis Rolfe, a right wing the ideas on military rule put We see him at first ridiculing friend of the Tory candidate But when the chips are The The employers won't pro- In the final stages of the Relationship financial have alutuae shown Rolfe fascism scene support meet the the the play from the political strengths in capitalism's tion of the need for policies the exclusion of any sugges- is clearly correct and a central crushing fascism in the cradle the end as to the necessity of in the prison cell. socialist confront each other socialist answer to the crisis.

g ment of was that there was no treat- from the fascists. who ruined him. He breaks he is being used by people politan Trust. Lewis Rolfe it emerges that with focus in the anti-fascist fight in the scene where fascist and paving the way for Fascism Rolfe's Finally, perhaps the most While the point This could have been done Turner is shattered to find > answer refusing to provide a weakness in the play the company is Metro- Weakness Labour's role the effects of employer crisis

SUITS I ME SUPE

S GRONOF SKY

K LIGHTNING

detracts made at and help the picket. He explains opposition to fascism. build such a working class weapon in the struggle to together on a class basis.

that it is necessary to stand workers appeals for forces to alongside the fascist tide. class is being swept away on left that the white working of the play is that it avoided important point to draw out London Dartmouth Park Socialist possible. be kept as brief as topics are in response to articles Letters They should, however, Press contained in Socialist

READERS' LETTERS

David A white worker on strike common Edgar's play is a from attitude NW5 Press, Write on welcome. readers immigrant other 1HR Hill the ruined. faces appearing in the town.

a Midlands town. from army service in India that Powell's 1968 Rivers of imposed by such a compre- where his business is and he is buys wien more and more immigrant world gradually 'British Empire' and sets up a small business in Turner (brilliantly portrayed into British fascism today.

to trace the elements that go Blood' speech made racism characters some depth. clearly great effort to give the hensive respectable Destiny went on The The After Within the obvious limits Colin a supporter final subject making central Jeavons) straw he finds his crumbling, the point there character, of the comes surcel Trust was Nazis, the Gregor Strasser wing of the rhetoric to succeed. needs capitalism, the fascist party this dual position right up to indeed attempt to fascism is to succeed it will to draw out the fact that if 'purged' employers. room workers, which would appeal to the opposition to wage control, emphasis on policies, such as Maxwell, who wanted more faces of fascism were shown the point of power wanted to leave himsell more campaigner campaign The While its role is to defend During the course of the SA the which was dominant in this but it is important and conflict case Maxwell is deals with "anti-monopoly' use Cleaver, the old which classic maintain 'socialist' between took NF two the of political speeches. stringing together a series obviously gone to great lengths to avoid simply play unashamedly

THE GLASS

FASCISM

UNDER

Despite David A review Edgar had being 'political' shown on BBC 1 on Tuesday 31 January.

of 'Destiny' by David Edgar which was an by-election. as candidate for the coming the NF and Turner is selected the nation". must come together to "save The TPL becomes part of Two faced By Keith White and distorted the work of Freud slowly'. which the experimental pro- anticipate the conclusions to which, even though it may be grounds and no right to put a conjectures. provide the tests for these [of Pablov] in due course will The experimental procedure that proceed along the lines undoubtedly does produce thesis that can produce and ianism. It is a working hypo- not obliged to adopt Freud- tic. But we are in any case Freudianism is too simple or, simply turn one's back on tible" psychoanalysis respectable to no useful purpose. invariabiy psycho-analysis combine Marxism and Freudian cedure is advancing only very less reliable, ban on the other procedure, more accurately, too simplis- place econcie, syntesise or vartously deductions The The Since Trotsky wrote this in materialist psychology. series of commentators Culture and Socialism with attempt to results a iong procession abandoned has But we have no and conjectures failures, offering takes its Marxism yet tries attempted have "incompa- deciare tawdry almost and mystical mous' tion of political struggle" tionary workers' analysing this work. handful forays into history and literature, sociologists. very thin (and not at all red) line Lukacs, Marcuse, Mitchell, Reich dence of the eclectic. and never important. lating or challenging. expecting a deceived by the intriguing title of crudities and shabby journalism.

any clarity, they advocate the old transtorming sions amount to little more than a strengun nor accuracy that she then deploys with neither oT bourgeois antropoiogists and sartre such to une tront, with qualities: Sadly, it has Foreman marshalls her forces Where these proposals assum Backed comrades captures all te that Random forays of well-worn concept beloved or selt are then backed up by a = with work that is stimu- seit-absorbed i rarely interesting, to be flanked by and limited loca- only little neither of these movement by movement-a book traditiona point imposing pseudo- into Alienation ideology cited in its pages. could be far better spent on the and cash required for this book has been structured within the which the oppression of women of the late 19 century. workers, who formed the aristoc- for a dependent wife, working in in one respect. or any of the multiple forms of features far more sharply where- individual members of bourgeois should not be under estimated.

historic task of reconstructing service of the working class in its and energy to place the partial styled 'socialist feminists.

WOrKS rreud inemselves readers to move on to Marx ol working class inorougn analysis standing of the bizarre racy of labour in British industry the home, came to be included in advance tnat development, except chauvinism. ever tney appear as sexism, racist complex the society on gains It requires more than goodwill This volume might have some Although it is based here in a Foreman argues that provision A deeper understanding of the combat value these gains could hold oT psycno analysi or almost any otner wiiter and confused misunder- for the skilled male a socialist basis. And does reproduced approach of the ways in vaive or laboul nothing reactionary certainly Wnic

IN REVIEW

A respectable failure Marxism and Psychoanalysis Women and the Family in Femininity as Alienation By David Whitfield

ANN FOREMAN

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manifesto and of a major statement by publication in 'Die Zeit' this received yet another jolt bureaucracy combination of hatred of the dissident contain all the contradictions the two German states. diplomatic relations between easily disturbed nerve ends of Spiegel in January. West German magazine Der tionaries and published in the middle or upper ment" August 1976. Wolf German privileged Biermann The This has rubbed raw the the poet , allegedly written by Biermann, Nerve ends week was discussion docu- Eastern

(GDR)

battered with dangerous in reply to a exiled anu-communist and movement the with GDR func- European regime articles singer since East the terisation of the bureaucracy ship remaining a mystery.

Ulbricht's Carrillo's anti-Sovietism that struggle has been superceded, one for the GDR. the capitalist road is not the management, proto-capitalist planning and authors, populace austerity dozen' restricted and attending private clinics hunting habits, driving luxur- with the right wing positions of torunea But unlike the document's He agrees with the charac- Biermann's reply equated feudal Buddhist document, limousines, Spanish Cover for Nazis incredibly as bogus, Ils aulnot- denies Limousines families, to Biermann golden introduction the asserting the top two- with that that residences which living underling preaching opposes attacks priests leader that class can Stalinist regime elections secret services. oration although this important point development bureaucracy. and victorious, to remove the elections would first require a out that in the GDR free' tions can be "free' under bourgeois society elec- Germany. set up a democratic commun- assembly' and an independent lightly. bureaucratic syphilis"-only a revolution that it defends the capitalist falsifies cover for the old Nazis, and position, he says, provides a Stalinism are 'twins'. was written with the collab- GDR alleges, the the Honecker regime in the is not emphasised. ist Party (SED) is necessary, of the East German Commun- *Prague court of justice in order to ment s mortal illness if it is treated mode of production. character of fascism, which is China, or that fascism and But it can be used by the It may well be true that, as He He ridicules the idea that He also attacks the docu- "Stalinism To maintain oracr also call Prague spring New party party, independent the Spring -prolonged infected West fundamental and points 'free the that the national German socialist united latter secret with new publishing academic of many years party the Democratic Republic. development in the GDR. ment of a socialist alternative ment-against howls of rage and embarrass- Honecker regime-despite its Alternative" membership is now in jail for 'socialist' dissidents. utmost crucial for the Federal as for Honecker The GDR deals with the To prevent such a political Raymond ruthlessness his Bahro, book almost with its develop- "The security eminent physicist and party analysis of GDR Stalinism.

work Setter to Honecker protesting 'regular' job. job for a bureaucrat as in his as much engineer can earn three times economic chaos of the GDR.

Have Monde in dek toe police in. police cars, each with 3 or 4 bought by the Stasi (security either side of his have been protesting against ps psychi- Prague Spring uprising and of mation, demanding freedom of infor- Marxism under Stalinism, of dennouncing the Biermann, in Der Spiegel.

against crime in 1976 was 'violating Berlin and closely 1964 has been confined to member till his expulsion in erected atric detentions since Havemann has a record of This is a major theoretical He His visitors are checked.

When he leaves his house Police In an interview achieved Robert street, November followed giving doing a sparetime showed Confined constantly Followed and pointed Havemann, dwelt on welcoming the flood publishing exiling sclerosis of 1976. that economic watched detailed patrol lights the His tion in the GDR is not confined to Honecker to succeed. bureaucracy is too great for concussion and in any case there is every important step of considerable assistance.

Spiegel "manifesto" which prevent-a overlords would workers that the Honecker intellectuals and the mass of and the main chant was 'Wolf and riot broke out between youth place late last summer when a upheavals in the GDR took special shops. buy foreign exchange. demanded produce who of workers in a lamp factory, refers to a strike last autumn the goods. status corrupting effect of the high Biermann' concert. By Pru Chamberlayne It is precisely this connec This would enable them to But the "socialist' upsurge One intelectuals. police coveted that since attached • Several were killed between Upheaval went part-payment the task anti-communist goods reply the an outdoor against that the Havemann might be like dissident towards export, in the western biggest

GDR

Biermann deals blow at Healey, a major challenge to

TUC

hanging its whole action. question of councils of needed to revolutionaries from the end of 1976, pay limits, in particular hostility to the Phase 2 rising Labour government, and controls compulsory weight control, and with the whole on ine perpetuation of wage conditions created

OF ACTION

The apparatus working emergence with the look at the under unrowing Its government Callaghan- existence general which again class the of the 5% Phase 2 limit inevitab- with the whole bestion a cy, direct control of the TUC isation, independent to offer workers an alter- demand, in order to be able began to draw attention to events in France in 1968.

workers, creating a situation grow among other sections of movement made it possible that a strike should such a struggle erupt, government. raising native leadership ana organ- simlar the mood in the working class Under these conditions we The SL pointed out that meant a controntation councils Alternative could question May-June quickly of the action emergence bureaucracy. workers were million 48,000 firemen went out, l of the firemen's strike. As the ment. the very life of the govern- implicitly included a threat to of government pay limits has key wages battle in defiance downfall sacking threat. eering strike against Leyland's the brink of a national engin- which in March 1977 led to growth and implications of was confirmed by the rapid coannon, bovernment the Leyland toolroom strike This was particularly true These events brought the This long-term perspective local of still pressing the Lib-Lab and wien every authority Labour the action each case by the Stalinists.

action-and were assisted in both sections were dedicated to be defeated in the public essential if the pay policy was alongside workers on their pay claims for a £135 a week wage. increase, and 250,000 miners their local call action with agitation on a the demand that these leaders League, therefore, combined were pursuing their demand The But the official leaders of The fight to mobilise these preventing level claim for a 30% pay the for such firemen was councils of established, Socialist however, that the embracing the firemen, the bringing together firemen and to wind up the strike, meant, Stalinist Labour Party. trades council and the local action a demand by shop stewards Committee was able to ignore Stalinist-led other sections. the action and mobilise these branches in order to broaden delegates North London a council of lor a council of The While FBU bureaucrats moves influence predominance combined Sheffield the established, action, Camden on this District with the of nationalisation. demands alongside our programme of level of struggle we must society, will arise." socialist Soviets, that is the dictator- of victory, the power of the other. Conflict between them oncilably and the proletarian, are irrec Two of local authorities and then exploiters, struggle continue to spell out the need ship of the proletariat and the is inevitable of the central government.

competitors toilers are united around soviets, working class for power. such tion that the formulation of step In preparing "From the first moment But we retain the convic- their in the struggle of the bodies is an essential councils which acting reconstruction opposed on appearance, and opponents against .. In the case the bourgeois jobs, millions Ior such a in their a pivot become action, wages, each the

COUNCILS

POLICIES

OUR

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 February, 1978 we do not seek to do so. battles are not in process, and the struggles. general relevance for workers' action pay dictates, the council of openly strike support committee.

relegated to the Council create councils of action at a revolutionary stage" movement enters an openly Programme points out: preservation of while the TUC leaders remain remain so closely linked, and of the present control and the continuation We But While the question of wage soviets can arise ony a time Essential step where demand as the Transitional cannot dedicated when the mass Page 9 Action major government government status of a retains artificially to the class was

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MR EDWARDES WANTS A REALISTIC

- crack the industry. the annual review in March.

general wage rise throughout gains at the expense of leadership has opted for a few their local managements to call off when those talks start. question of what will happen nothing local bargaining it, has done has centred solely for many journalists. win under the counter deals policy, but will undoubtedly rise openly breaking the pay quate to win a general wage NUJ membership hard. has hit papers with 100% 'one job at a time rule- transport and an obsturctive be backdated to January 1.

pay rises in excess of 10% employers have offered local vincial journalists, individual tough rulings Society has been laying down of Journalist members. rule by National Union after a week of work to paper Society employers are expected later this week.

TGWU General Secretary met been laid are now in the fifth week of nela back Lon reach removal ding a ban on night work.

and a promise that they will wage dispute official union officials to discuss the makes Transit vans. the Southampton plant which Jomed and last weekend they were the strike in the press snop, ment speed-up plans. their strike against manage- By allowing chapels which But because the campaign The action is totally inade- Meanwhile the The work to rule-inclu- While Ford workers at Halewood refusal Cracks have appeared The results of these talks Already, 10,000 men have SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 February, 1978 the which verbally rejected lines solid Ford Pay negotiations sanctions agreement Dy 1,000 workers al Friday ranks of Graphical its members until oft as a result of the month restrictions banning local decide use Jack Jones, with their Newspaper che powerful rule has Associa- News-

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Mark beat the stoppage. union officials, the employer and we fully intend to do so (who constitute one-third of strike Steak house union fight backing has made elaborate plans to approaches confrontation lengthy that 'we can carry on opera- General Manager has declared restaurants involved, Garners' forced the closure of all but successful. nition has yet to prove in Central London, their in Garners Steak Houses the sacking of 84 workers same work on the same ship.

men's f187 a month, for the the lower ranks on under which iate removal of differentials union's claim for an immed- years; ships differentials in maintain Jim Slater, has given his Seamen general secretary, ting with our present mont merchant ships) earn report* Scabs have been organised = handful Although Nearly two weeks after Slater National for against which abandons the for another five apartheid pay build-up to a

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Union British sea- endorsed NUS backs plan to in the British £49 a British staff with the has of danger is that such demon- many people participating.

time and therefore prevented minutes before the advertised night. stration marches last Friday first has been in organising the the TWU official's activity organising strike surprize that anyone should to plaster restaurant windows employers would have faced a work of the employers, arity with capitalism at home the restaurants on one of the company staff association.

prefer management notice expresses rent-a-pickets', "right to work' and attacking cost differentials longer to be so cheap. will use the time to rid them- grant a five year period of that the government should government and the NUS-in ana overseas. with selves of labour wich is no the shape of Slater and it has By removing pickets from This in fact, began fifteen The report states that if The Slater's action is in solid- A part Meanwhile the employers ot a series posters declaring thei

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to strengthen the strike but as government predicted wide- has ensured the collaboration fascist provocation. from continuing racism and squads preparation of other trade unionists in the branch. call for the Garners workers London throughout supplies has to be stepped up doing this. would be the best means of those pickets onto the employer. put further. £1.75. domiciled by the Indian sea unions, on over 5 years after the Indian the NUS accepted the change international. Slater said that sea of Slater in this apartheid at strations will act not as a way India if pay for the strikers to join with a diversion for the need Last Friday's demonst higher whom pressure to fight for quIckly spread labour But his reasons are also It is this dramatic rise that Alongside this is the need Similarily, *Employment This view was supported premises still trading programme to defend campaign wages beginning the peak Seafarers: direct rates rose too blacking would self-defence

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of Non- times organised with pressure pickets Inslae mass SO, directly the pay packets. against boilermakers who for demanding the docks on projects in the works must be demanded for stewards committees. of the orders is controlled by the allocation and execution mittees. deals around the Polish ship opening of all the secret plant prepare plans to occupy the loss all the workers without the available is shared out among must defend every last job. They given to their being held up as an example 1,000 return for work. to a 'no strike promise in refused to knuckle under geance ment took control of, the working class.

interests of, and under the oracl have basic union rights. come. and have promised more to most of them to boilermakers Shop They must The The shipyard workers are The Swan Hunter manage- PHOTO: Ray Smith IFL ot a single penny from union rights

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Europe-work is to be aemana that tne work programme and to only in exchange for Responsibility sipycard redundancy Public works ana Tyneside fellow workers all employers responsibility on stewaras workers' other demand that savage ven- demand the Monday workers notices, orders, public issued com- Mass meeting at Swan Hunters working class has not. during support short defend their jobs. Airlie has a declare support for the Swan Clyde to Hunter workers. the area. workers built of the Govan shipyard must must call mass meetings to ing out on wages and jobs in working class policies break- struggles struggle support be shipyards or to the Tyne.

of leadership. rights turn their attention to the sible for the sackings. and welcomed and treacherous leadership on the cannot be Party and the unions must government in the Labour policies have been directed Lib-Lab diverted from Swan Clyde-the Communist Party OuL must towards an Other shipyards' stewards The treacherous leadership A council of action must This But clearly these demands removed from positions All those who defend this The workers must also replaced Council of action who with the Tyneside Jimmy be linked with an all- memory battle the flooding for jobs defend their jobs and campaign is directly respon against

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confined to the coanton mass work-in. the end Airlie, against unite about scab Page 11 into the to union solidarity draw in with all Tyneside sackings. Hunter clearly whose ships who their The the the the une

participation' destructive effects of 'worker mony Edwardes. with a standing ovation for Printed by Prestagate of Reading (TU). Registered at the GPO as a newspaper.

Published by Folrose Ltd for the Workers Socialist League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR They followed their vote There than is no greater testi- on the shop ine from the 36 Leyland cars order to drive up work effort.

plant erable speed-up. reassigned, for three months over speed the TR7, has been on strike the Speke plant, which builds Edwardes plan. five against-to support the plants voted conditions ignoring jobs on the tracks are being of the mutuality agreement.

up and management's breach WOrEI = In the Cowley Body Plant True enough, Standing ovation was Support voted meeting-with all management requiring consid- that the Longbridge agreements in under at the Kenil- since then convenors only on manning disputes. principle" not to compromise regarded last Whittaker had made the point ector of Leyland Cars, Derek clearly speed-up. work. production or reallocation of be pruned cuts, or whether the jobs will Leyland Cars, But no details were given as The previous managing dir- The objective, however, is 12,500 jobs are to go from which plants will suffer October through that Leyland we are told. matter cuts in

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in speed-up 'participate' and sackings at national level. corporate wage negotiations rigia centransation, basea on turned out tion", announced amid fan- new names. to be the old set-up under "reorganisation" of speed-up throughout means an intensification unfolded in a plush hotel tares of "voluntary redundancy" "natural through will mean the loss of jobs Leyland's plants. And it in Kenilworth last week, was British Convenors And The Edwardes plan for Edwardes much heralded No details Leyland, in reality to be wastage dramatically "decentralisa- turned out enthusiasm, so-called which were the policy came precisely because ing through a breach of the spectacle of the Tories push- the 10% limit to be paid.

and to allow a deal outside gise to the courts on Monday general, was forced to apolo- ds as diantly, don't use and the courts this week by the ment was given its orders -"attack Sam Silkin, the attorney- The coalition govern- to 10% limit courts Court blow determined CBI, the Tories and the the working Tories resist PHOTO: John stumock Rebort draw that interpretation on ment, break contracts of employ- invitation ments were construed as an mistake. ing was trying to force the break- thought that the government the 10% limit. an undisclosed sum outside Hall engineering firm to pay concede the right of Holliday sanctions. of a strike and government squeezed between the threat Silkin He "Insotar as inose I unreservedly declared was Onl employers to forced employers, unat with- State any KeporT on pay policy. damaging employers even at the risk of employer. directly, class words attacks on the working statement as November-described Speir-who signed the deal in list. The employer, Sir Rupert against the government black behalf of the government" It was clear Silkin knew march News must Gay statement the coalition grip sense"-in not "a victory would carried is a blow defend other out the the