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Thatcher defends racist however reactionary audience that if followed an original proposal secretary of the 5/293 Branch TGWU Oxford District Com- building a base of support for planning a campaign aimed at immediate reduction tion the Tories won the next elec- her stand on immigration Tory and source within the union. office for life, this has not been changed to a call to ban papers have reported that the the from the union. allowed into Britain. last December as deputy move, Alan government since the most clear num bel ence al Young Conservatives Confer- last weekend will have received a jolt Thatcher to backtrack on convenor in December. been recommendation mittee Purposes Committee of the mended for expulsion plant, has been recom- TGWU convenor on the shop Branch, and elected by of past 16 years, chairman Assembly Plant for the Leyland's shop

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TO EXPEL

A life ban is recommended The This Although The proposal comes from In an unprecedented Thatcher's speech makes it Anyone the TGWU 5/293 returnea Finance there floor ballot only tne confirmed leader Harrogate told her 'Valentine' for reactionary Tory from Oxford recommendation elected steward would Frank Thornett, a expecting Tories are im migrants Margaret by Cowley - Kangaroo Court District General deputy war to of the news- Corti, union sInCe to appear at the Inquiry.

election. Reg Parsons in the December ousted right convenor elected mendations whom no February 27 and 28. TGWU Regional Inquiry to expelled. that Corti, too, should be face the task of taking on revedica-are also summonea are to be considered at a victimises Cowley stewards These Iney Seven other militants from Such a government would Assembly Plant-against held Assembly Bob recommendations include specific wIng Oxford Fryer-who recom- newly Plant bid for power. shoulders of the right wing a prospect lies. clearly on the of industry. the working class in order to attend. 1976. ised by the company and by O'Sullivan, the Lib-Lab coalition and remove fore, is the fight to break the the way cutting policies through their alliance with Labour would enable the capitalists 5/55 Branch, are called on to steward and chairman of the the Princess track, and Tim union bureaucrats in August summoned. as deputy convenor is also -two shop stewards victim- Pinnington and Andy Brown All the more urgent, there- The responsibility for such Ivor Braggins, a steward on Tom White, freshly elected restore Callaghan-Healey leader- Liberals and tell wage- line through Chairman for the Tories to leadership. the profitability policies have paint paved who that shop Dave Alan Thornett had already voted to recom Edwardes a standing ovation union officials. jointly by 250 convenors and Edwardes plan was accepted two weeks ago at which the convenors into management.

incorporation in a plant the size of Cowley defeats in elections for shop charged, stem 40U Illustrated by the counter Assemoly stewards and convenors. reflected in the within the Assembly Plant as oping alternative stamp out the strongly devel- marks a determined effort to dented in recommended the sentences!

a classic kangaroo court. The was given powers to conduct District Committee the F&GP District F&GP last November.

sted from giona guiry, the conclusions to be consid- against him. cited as the basis for charges activities victimised Homer-also conducted the "hearing" and same men picked those to be carried Oxford District not Some of those that gave This trend A new left wing leadership By decision of the The recommendations and And also included, though I nis involved in the managers and national Incorporated from out by the Oxford Trades move inquiry laid could the TGWU trend towards was the charges Council are 1976. delegate to right wing leadership begin Leyland unprece- meeting vividly steward earlier Tony His of the working class. defence of jobs, agreements pointed the way towards a leadership cut across this and Leyland plants. number speed up, and to reduce the 12,500 one of the biggest plants in ically elected mend expulsion of democrat- and the independent interests the combine! Cowley Marina Track in the book dragged sections seeking to break the pay has dealt a further blow at those drivers acted alone. the 12-month rule and every trick other oeuvred to head off claims by after and the possibility exists for a fight have the claim the drivers have been confronted overtime ban-despite its obvious pay limit. efforts to uphold the 10% the latest victims of TUC industry-seem certain to be out ot ine miners 90% pay claim strike sary to will. acceptance or Inis deal shows that basic wage by a reworded offer that appears Inadequacies-was have strength if mobilised could drivers-whose The election of a militant They went on to vote for This last week alone the sell- But the The fact that substantial votes Just at the point that their claim would be fought out Oil principled leadership neces- an impact Ine end oT tne Tiremen s ottered sections of workers, using but falls miles short of been

TUC

redundancies, TGWU officials have and paralysed tor a f90 per week Defence leaders have drivers have never the kind of firm recorded convenors in petrol disputes on production leaders beginning industrial improve ensure British against for abandoned. recommendations demand and the Regional Inquiry, and tion of the kangaroo court express outright condemna- shop ensure latest move by the extreme charges cracy is defeated. right as chairman, it began to fight summer when, with Thornett wing ally created in 1974 as a right majority. when the left wing gained a Committee elected chairman. office. made to stop them regaining numerous efforts have been removed were thrust follows a long line of organisation are not enough.

Parsons-was itself when Committee leadership failed attempts. December. convenor after his election in recognise him management-who refused to at the same time as Leyland their moves against Thornett leaders whose actions keep it in LiD-Lab coalition and throw out action to break the wage-cutting union and labour movement for must fight throughout the trade every section treacnery government-but also resisting the only leadership capable of fighting not construction similar struggle-must take note.

room workers and the later work strike that from last year's unofficial weeks to have any effect.

that militancy and "rank and tile a way as to satisfy both drivers rejigging their earlier offer in such but simply for a ban on overtime calling not for all-out strike action begun the fight half-heartedly, by drivers' major section next in line for a coalition government. steward: management took ine initiative, -wich would inevitably take It is essential that this The Joint Shop Stewards

TGWU

defend workers in the The 5/293 Branch-origin- The Automotive District Since Fryer and Thornett The At the same time, along with The TWU officials make They Power workers-who are the Under these conditions Shell To Labour and trade union the stewards wing rubber that Alan Disbanded lesson-a parallel unofficial Treachery by Rejigged the latest trom employers and members of a revolutionary TGWU bureau- was Branches Ineir burcaucraticany Thornett was trumped April stamp workers, they disciplinary committees Leyland tool determined own union split last leaders nad aisbanded a deputy workers-!! Lib-Lab must 1974 and are for

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Tanker drivers denied firm

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Comecon economic performance • p.4 Defence of USSR Dada & Surrealism reviewed US miners occupy union.. back page Centre pages Welfare in the USSR Inside ...p.9 .. p.8

and dictatorship give verbal and regime and Gaddafi's military for imperialism. and Libyan governments for good office of the Algerian uous activity is to secure the unrest tion an understandable reaction to to coast. are scurrying from coast northern Africa develop Morocco, the stabilisation of the region Canary Islands. liberation Sahara, war in Chad, insurrec- missions Boumedienne's The purpose of this stren- All this frantic activity is situation: expand, diplomatic Dictatorship Tunisia, struggles in and dignitaries and Mauritania developing mounting 'socialist' and the the a dilemma. side the Moroccan and Mauri- tion despite continued its guerrilla attacks the Algerian government into war in the Sahara has thrown of French forces along- Polisario interven- Moroccan army now controls As a result of the joint' government Purged campaign, has been already shaken belief amongst liberation struggle, this will serious. friend and an ally'. no longer just a brother, but a Mauritania, while Morocco is the who argues that Algeria is Mauritania's puppet President copied of border conflicts. has revolutionary the US, Morocco's self-styled increased arms supplies from purged of all elements hostile further support waging a war which 'threatens Algerian territory and threats success ana ine to unis lakeover. Boumedienne's problem is This Emboldened renewed stance tor the Puppet undermine Ould existence king', Hassan, claims promise has abandons Saharoui Daddah, been this the considering. Algeria bourgeois option, turmoil. Maghreb into uncontrollable forces shatter the delicate balance of ation of the war which must would mean the further escal- ued aid to the Polisario Front capacity. increased neighbour hostile Moroccan regime as a would leave an aggressive and progressive force. Algerian oped the masses of the underdevel- There is of course a third On the other hand, contin- At the same time, this Opposition nations shrink which government is a nationalists strength of plunge from even the greatly petty- and itne Ine imperialism. the international fight against works to restrain and mislead revolution, the Bonapartist state that has immediately workers in struggle would mobilisation of terrifying. colleages such a prospect is bring apparatus built up by Hassan.

formidable effectively leaders frozen Algerian worker to challenge unemployment and near star- added expiosions, as conscription is that For Boumedienne and his There can be no doubt a prolonged war Conscription to who The independent about repressive the and objectively course challenge bring could miseries Moroccan of the furthe every state will

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conflicts within Gaddafi with Algerian President Boumedierine organised form the war has begun to take an opportunist only to to fight the bourgeoisie and workers have surged forward sprawl for miles. million people, living for the expanding city proletariat. reformists and Stalinists has fervent nouncements clearly indicate most part in abject poverty Casablanca industrialisation to De seen inal Again Within Rapid Ould Daddah's recent pro- reactionary political Shanty towns militancy 'patriotism' face shanty-towns that and urbanisation and in opposition into Morocco, opposition to again these defeat of some nave made monarchy confused . of the with daily the towards a fighting unity and a time Council, the working class for Student ment, and under the specific logical youth especially by working class working class generally, but were an which began in June 1976 describes as the true leaders whom apartheid. leaders of the fight against legitimacy under restriction) with a new 'black consciousness' laneous OI soWeto! cal nature and role of the Ten eadership ol Within the general ideo- But what is the real politi- made real progress framework events of Soweto example of spon- action Buthelezi Representative the "radical" Soweto move- now the Ine of those who "aiberation" of Soweto. sections of capital in order to allegedly tion of African United Nations, the Organisa- reliance on such bodies as the class away from reliance on plan was to turn the working mine its independence. mobilise the class and under- hand and state repression developments Once agall as a celltral agent tunist Buthelezi The Soweto Ten's master other, that this oppor- own spontaneous tne Central agent clique "automony" strength noW acted wish to de- "progressive" Unity and the one political towaras and

NOELA NOW

prisoners as a partial demand within a revolutionary programme.

during the Soweto events.

that he hopes to cement an with the white capitalists.

a stepping stone towards allies tinuation of the capitulation Soweto. played an equivalent role in alliance with those who have dent force. working class as an indepen- mobilise Picket of South Africa House last week: revolutionaries demand the release of all political more The This open alliance is a con- And it the

TOIC

himself attempted to events of Soweto as Ten with the Buthelezi is not surprising South African partnernership wnom ne played Winnie Mar sion by the racist state but as fronts" nation. hindrance of racist discrimi- prisoners, release of the Soweto Ten.

pathetic talists to operate without the which the Soweto Ten sought rhetoric, was Irceaom Revolutionaries Buthelezi Stripped of its democratic release of all political Vorster Pathetic not as a conces- demand the for black cap!- now "liberation"

HARASSMENT

with the demand "con-

NOW

a political to be incapable of providing and the African Nationalist Congress nationalist class at any price. independence of the working tionaries do not surrender the capital "progressive" join the working class revolutionary gress are mercasing y sno wi vascu on lie macpenacnce o.

Unlike the Stalinists, who Meanwhile the traditional partial demand within a Buthelezi to support Pan African movements (the alternative which sections programme seeking demands, the elections-whether those are Vorster seeks to win legiti- ment of the gains of soweto.

consolidation provide programme assembly must form part of a Bantustans. Coloured and Indian Repre- Cabinet for the boycott of all such South Africa. capitalism macy for the maintenance of elections crechions lo pendent workers committee!

Both the building of inde- Revolutionaries must call the Community which mistitutions demand through and Councils basis Committees racism alone can transitiona constituen Councils, for free develop- for the which of dence and mobilisation

OPPORTUNISTS ENDANGER FIGHT

cloak the Soweto Ten (now Soweto. 15,000 strong Buthelezi under restriction or in jail, "opponents" of apartheid not one of danger. Buthelezi was confirming this article's Chief Buthelezi. political opportunists like leadership pretensions of which are posed by the danger to Press

AGAINST APARTHEID STATE

He used the occasion to Taking advantage of being Within In last week's Socialist the Legitimacy we

•INTERNATIONAL

Page 2 the going was working hours described the the indepen- few addressing remaining crowd press, class the protessional men. assume a leading role. bourgeoisie and ments, the absence of such a Soweto were vulnerable. ship based on a revolutionary and unity. develop experience independence. being threatened by the limits Soweto Ten-a committee of leadership allowed the petty- programme needed ine soweto This was the origin of the Without political leader- Yet that leadership lacked As inevitably happens with was Leading role spontaneous political mobilisations that capitalists consolidate and bourgeoisie independence programme when training, OHd

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AGAINS:

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demand the pitiless exposure revolutionary leadership will build upon these gains. revolutionary building threatened with reversal.

battles all the state repression, means that the promote. working and the vulnerability of the guards against those betrayals which call working movements and the growth of along with the bankruptcy of So the construction of a The crucial task was in the This traditional Threatened Exposure gallis record opportunists class class consolidate and all made by Sowere of betrayal, during alternative leadership . they like ale

Cuban bombers. Cabad was bated serie the resist the declared total mobilisation to begun. country has reportedly in the Somali-occupied soviet Ogaden Ethiopian counter-attack In addition to Cuban and Somalia The Somalian Mobilisation •aid troops region of onslaught which, the and government expected Ethiopian Thurday the ly US-sponsored) efforts by and hera, radica Yemen the help of Israel. isy acordal Davan tarement ine Urganisation oI Alrican that the Derg also gels ald to Dayan for saying it. denied this but has protested lalonallsi stales. Despite desperate (probab- The ruling Derg has not Determined doubt dictatorship (Derg) South seem Liberation Front over the last Somalia backed West Somalia mined to revenge himself for Mengistu, the strong man of Unity (OAU) to promote a which six montils une davances the Derg, negotiated somalla border. This makes their view still Mengistu and his Cuban consistent. with the "Defensive" now seems deter made by the settlement, cross the border. announced that the US would intervene Saudi Arabia chanelled imperialists Ethiopians So it looks as if there is So indirectly via Iran and far armis directly ana week tell US Somalia Vance allies has US liberation movement. Ethiopia's other war-against more difficult to achieve in region will be crushed. the inhabitants of the Ogaden rights to self-determination of ialism will be restored and the and the imperialists, the Stalinists general agreement ine Doraers estadisnea oy colon- Eritrean however,

OAU,

that will De Expelled Cubans leaving Somalia last year nationa the originally had Cuban (as well ness planes. as Libyan) assistance. make with particular bitter- ships occupied areas ation of Eritrea has claimed People's Front for the Liber- unaer The This is an accusation they since already attack and "Marxist-Leninist" Cuban-piloted from Ine have come struggle Eritrean oppression Counter attack in Ogaden Italian Stalinists play cat Party. crisis will be over though, as the same day the immediate crats between the Christian Demo- be some form of compromise for a government which will words to describe a formula a new card on the table. political lieutenants and place from General behalf of the Christian Demo- designate Guilio Andreotti on "snap". has of the party leaderships, crisis, at least at the level and mouse with Tories down on. actually fighting imperialism.

everything possible to crack ters - while in practice doing please his nationalist suppor- such rhetorical flourishes to withdrawal from the North.

for Britain to 'set a date' for from Prime Minister Lynch form for a further verbal call which is likely to form a plat- ference of the ruling Fianna borne in mind during the con- ism nal investment by imperial- Southern economy on exter- lighted the dependence of the subsidiaries. offices abroad and their Irish ysed export trade and preven- and postal delivery workers.

twin strikes of telex operators possible redundancies if there thousands with the previous agreements the same form Communist lorm rall is not an early enforce national Stalinist troops SOCIALIST PRESS, Wedresday 15 February 1978 On the This is the factor to be Every These strikes have paral- When both parties propose The Lynch As such they have high- Employers are threatening

INTERNATIONAL

contact Ireland and of Italian Secretary few Enrico Berlinguer, has begun republican forces card is a form of next Party between head days Premier- of words on lay-offs end to the Communist political game take weekend, emerge to. use the the and of on a permanent basis. support of the bourgeoisie.

out a hand to plead for the grudging. rule must deepen. of the last 18 months, the practice proletarian base exopresin gaits fear rope its expressing ship like that of every mass itionally drawn support, even the class conscious proletariat ist Party. the prestige of the Commun- wants, and be held to mean what he cards containing ambiguous servience parties. te tade mocoati alongenis part of the recognised parlia- Christian Democratic govern- Stalinist demand for CP ministers and wishes of the bourgeoisie.

willing who showed himself as usual Last week that yes, CP ministers, no" consistently ministers in the government".

playing a Party has been, consistently December government overall irom wnich tne ur nas trad- emply formulas one will soon possible that out of a series of much for the Christian Demo- ment and to be counted as allowed to was The Italian Stalinist leader- If so, it will not be among All picked up by Berlinguer Even this grovelling sub- And Andreotti has equally Since Andreotti's previous All unis ngmarole. will, say Inat commentators, only parliamentary predictably

CIISIS

Permanent Grudging class such has MPs card marked comply with the its fear insists that the = abandoned played vole officially resigned collaboration often now changed. It by holding should leaderships Berlinguer communisi bourgeois bourgeois support, enhance looks been card the Cr already shown itself to be the Italian working class has the capitalist class independence leaders for bourgeois rule that those drag it into the interno abandon even sit into te inter But it is at times of crisis "historic feel compromise", compelled their formal from to Trotskyist rights. programme independence and outline a sear hincho can de enders ship Only the construction of a wages and democratic Trotskyist party party acience acrena Italian students march demanding jobs Italy for based on the fight in practice political crisis. principles of the Transitional rrogramme can answer this acmana: and supported strike by sending permitted to "jeopardise the should "socialist" for Forbes Burnham) is calling ruling sugar workers' dictatorship. crats" who claim to lead the action the the Nicaraguan masses both emphasised by an enquiry into the murder complete ing them with the army. in scab workers and defend.

ment which broke the PPP.

class". interests Jagan). National Congress (led beginning oppositon cowardice were staged on February 5 municipal clearly editor Joaquin Chomorro. the strike were met, not even Sandinist Liberation Front.

number of daring and success.

loyal to Somoza National Guard which stayed killed leaders. the control of the bourgeois every sign of getting out of demonstrations, isations that supported it.

bourgeois political organ- off last dictatorship was against members were killed during a with Strike It was the PNC govern The PNC says the PPP Also the strike showed to The "general strike" After the defeat of the But Somoza's position wa: None of the demands of But also National Guard Many demonstrators were This was no surprise since short

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Guyana Party (led by Cheddi the destruction Page 3 Talas potentiality bourgeois int cut Weakened "socialist" and weakened week of those boycott People's Progres- of January, to the growth the elections attacks the the strike at the longer : by the newspaper Somoza Castroite working . of the People's Somoza "demo- cringing almost showed called which fact the

they po sinister adora boy that government blacklist. the Tory press imous howl of protest from Daily Express, part of a unan- much more in the same vein ful fund appeal? the end of another unsuccess- Morning Star two days before vote for the government? The from? pay policy stick". credited and unworkable effort to make their dis- sundry bamboozled badgered, blacklisted and invented. mail and phone-tapping) as if (including range of government's powers Express quoted with approval by the 'Method each other was suspended.

which popular papers ignore comes from last Wednesday's Where does "They have bullied, For three years the press The Daily Mail devoted So united was the response Not quite. The quote plus whole the unwritten rule by had A left MP about to

PRESS GANG

of Mussolini' suddenly interception centre lead about the frenzied Fascist youth. Shortly after this picket NF youth attacked a nearby gay pub page Profit of doom story come been and was ernment so far to the right (confused by the Tory Party quarrel invent stunts to catch votes".

policies. They have got that the Tories have no real have shoved the Labour gov- states: column falls precisely into this trap.

is confused by most develop- in the same way as the SWP unacceptable. which are bound to cause casualties delivered via the employers working left unstated: attacks on the but on the capitalist grounds stitutional has reacted not on the con- section of the Tory Party- of the CBI and the dominant hypocrisy. a change of heart-nor is it alists. the profitability of the capit- the bullying of the TUC but method of the coalition or for them has not been the less of constitutional niceties.

on the working class-regard- have supported all shackles ments in the class struggle, Socialist "Callaghan The The Tory Press-in support The present outcry is not What has been at question these with class grounds February sections find any We which Worker, Healey Think' stated, = are by coercion and blackmail" rights. are in danger of losing still the bluff and the bluster, we the stark truth is that, behind was not so tragic. Because Daily Express concluded: that response Peter Walker. want to come back to power clearly that the Tories do not of capital. TUC bureaucracy as managers Lib-Lab source of reaction which will election but to feed and tap a not to catch votes to win an mouthpieces. neither have their Fleet Street consent this country we [!] rule by public must remember that in more of election but beyond it. The outburst aimed not just at the the forthcoming struggles of Thatcher and Joseph, because on the policies of Heath and with the Labour Party, the make it possible to dispense "Come Election Day, the "It would be funny if it Hence They need the savagery of The Tory press is stating The task for the Tories is The working and by coalition Tories our [!] treasured the class 'stunts' have law-NOT and populist demand not the DUrAmA. Wiard the Town Hall earned almost anti-fascists) A norew appearance windows of the Town Hall.

fascists gave salutes from the police. otherwise battered around the ribs were taken to hospital having and thing which could have been strators-and also supplied a in Bolton from 1,000 demon- to defend their latest meeting been weapon" was confiscated. interpreted as an "offensive area whole range of special effects.

Police obligingly held back Twenty sinali Coaches approaching the He provided 2,000 police were stopped and any- kicked in several demonstrators Students picket against college closures outside the Department of Education and Science Battered wondel one people (all 'restrained' were demonstrators Anderton at the alesicu groin, while the himself Colin Barnett, distinguished Committee secretary of the north-west instructed members to refuse conference building quarters as press cards would Manchester apply for special passes at ists attending the meeting.

passes to be issued to journal- Ins plece ol collaboratior NUJ card being accepted).

not passes. The anti-fascists ignored As the struggle raged, the Reporters He also introduced special accepi Puny numbers and to insist on the Special passes get (last year's Agains! them into the 1 police were told to appealing specifically NO NO Racism,

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police

CUTS

head-

NUJ

this taking place should youth rally in Birmingham on appearance by the fascists is a puny were used bricks at the fascists. smoke bombs, fireworks and and responded by hurling Saturday. who attended the meeting.

EXETER COLLEGE

All anti-fascists in the area Police from eleven forces S.U. numbers mobilise next protect

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Anaerton prevent fascists the the National Front. honorary membership of rapidly Greater Chief James rallies to NF earning Constable Manchester-is Anderton- himself of Tyndall. ance of NF as big a reaction among the are not confined to providing anu-lascists as uld lne appear But escort agency Anderton s chairman John servICes they give of the Eastern European during the last year. over capitalist property relations economies is one of continued cannot fully judge those figures.

their economic performance last week issued figures about Eastern Europe have in the ally ruled workers' states of economy countries. nationalised benefits of a But Most of the bureaucratic- Without detailed analysis we The superiority of socialised of the Eduction capitalist mass unemployment of Western growth rates and by the fact that, continues to be shown by these problems nave slowea down ana in some work for the whole population.

in sharp contrast to une chronic

BISC

the last few years, growth rates Beneath the surface there are But also, after the pattern of Long term problems signs failed the and to keep Eastern nev contradictions long-tert up with in the growth rates themselves but Poland and Czechoslovakia actual economic plans. in how Czechoslovakia 8% in Hungary and even more in a The growe cratemot national Hungar, faster than planned. But in both countries-from 472% in Czechoslovakia and about income in 1977 varied betweer Hungary and Romania grew But the variations are not only Industrial growth was higher UnIs much they fulfilled the to over 12% nearly 6% behind planned growth. compensate for absence of goods atinimports from the capitalist is being done with each other.

healthdaelining proportion of the growth of marginal in relation to the overall growth countrie trade or the comecon court overal groudin looked very countries, unayat this pattern seams to have countries, especially were tar growin This seems to be a self gener.

The in rolana this gap was only repeatea in a une of exports and imports in the Police chief Worsened Trom What the economy; but the worsened sharply and balance nave expanded naa beer Hungary capitalisi countries Orne economies on world capitalism.

Comecon the governments. from way of covering the deficit with process is reinforced from Comecon sources and so the greater shortage of quality goods capitalist markets. exports from Eastern European to have diverted their highest quality convertible currency needed selves. of the requisite type or quality in increased the dependence of these trom some or the consequences or the capitalist woria is to get loan: pay countries, ine comecon countrie: Attempts, therefore, to escape At the same time the other for imports from capitalis!

bureaucratically either banks or capitalist order East European leaders (second row) listen to Brezhnev Dependence economies means an ever get the hard managed have parasitic bureaucracy. of the mass of workers but of a continue relations. which prejudice distorted obvious leadership of Trotskyist parties Stalinist tive potential of these economies which are usea to solve the probiems not resources working class under the politica Class the full democratic management une liberation or the tull produc existence countries will continue to be put This is the kind of problem And that in turn will require the Stalinist production political cannot De of socialised property stat long as resources of affairs solved the continuer Ine workin! without will Comecon-the Page 4 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 15 February 1978

leadership in implementing cuts.

techniques other middle class careerists, were AM's electing delegates council elections in May and the fighting to retain its majority Labourites sitting MP Michael O 'Halloran solidly with the Callaghan-Healey nousing programme nave wined up 'participation' and their ambitious witn since been won by rabians and 90 people GMC have been attended by 60- Islington Labour Party. and Right wing cling to office Trade Union Occapation. Address. Name.. These so-called 'progressives' In stark contrast several wards The round of ward meetings The comfortable alliance Send to WSL, 31. Dartmouth Park Hill. LondonNWS IHR national and sexual oppression.

repressive state machinery and unspoken coalition arrangement.

Labour Party unemployment, slashed social services, racial, problems of tumbling socialist planned economy.

endently to overthrow capitalism, destroy its the working class, its need to organise indep- points to the we put forward instead a programme which bourgeois politicians of the Liberal Party in an existing leaders of the trade unions and the al on the basis of the Transitional Programme.

struction of the Trotskyist Fourth Internation- Britain and internationally, and for the recon- revolutionary leadership in the working class in organisation fighting to construct a principled fill in the form below. elect the right wing neir modern management For more details on the WL and its work.

Only in this way can workers resolve today's Against their policies of class collaboration The WSL fights at every step against the The Workers Socialist League is a Trotskyist their 'mafia candidates

GMC

enthusiasm South Islington

PARTY

desperately old Guard programme independent class interests of - now firmly harnessed to the North for living standards, mass Laurence sparham, 115

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establish a Striking tunnel miners show their understanding of O Halloran's politics a crushing indictment of building since 1958-are number of starts in new almost ing increased links with the labour principles. must be waged on clear socialist set of anti-working class intriguers from the list of candidates by a tool of those who bend the rules letter to Labour Party supporters housing policy out into the Labour Party but at the supporting tenants from Blythe government. the the capitalist policies of Strategy by six councillors in wandswortn have no interest in replacing one vote of 25-20 ambitions, he himselt was naulec Labour Party needs to be broadly ine situation and arguing politically motivated group were rejected next GMC twelve of them were movement which to campaign for the council Committee, a body dominated by up before the Local Government Only 1974, the year that Workers 2) A crash campaign of public Their programme includes: Such an attempt is being made nen bundred Issued an oper Bundred The 1977 housebuild- The tight against U Mallorar Blythe Mansions explaining order to turner ter own New Lib-Lab enemies in the face of on the grounds that a Open letter figures-revealing Principles in North Islington araw workers into the Wandsworth' Council in a by- recruited up ana banned coalition

IS MURPHYS MP.

NOT THE WORKING

A socialist

O HALLORAN

will o to lowest Council's recently

CLASS

and i amin guint teton squatter dealings with property of capitalist interests. IMF and Labour Party upholders aictates or minance according to need rather than the to cuts, one in which services can the fare i is. exposing camp down we ration carely would not be finalist rest s Party case of penalties for such action, ments except by cutting off all interest repay.

improved abortion facilities.

rather than agricht outs and for schools more day nurseries. of blacks for council jobs.

Positive discrimination in favour ployment. closure, redundancies and unem- rank and file of the party. Regular replaced tactics. interests and fascism. ing cuts. houses begun. government, gence of the bankrupt Wilson property boom and the emer- government's saw the collapse of the Tory workS A campaign against health workers an alternative perspective ers government duartors, commission programme it is clear that such a not agree witn every point or this they aim to persuade the Labou Extended municipalisation Criminal Tascist works to create jobs. Government women s rights education and other public spend- consultative meetings on political 5) A campaign in support of rinancing Expansion of direct labour.

Work A ban on the use of halls by Closed Council group meetings In practice this would mean: 4) A campaign against racism This Use of the talling numbers in planned and that individual councillors Resistance or rascist organisations.

importantly it offers "local crisis embraces both It Comorotes and Tinancial along improve to small savers. In ot these schemes democracy' ot the bullding Borough nas seen their facilities and Law against to capitalist with public speculative , capital, ine fought sanctions, standards bullying less for Tribunites spending." against, while protest abstentions had a healthy majority of 14.

a small abacing the To backtists, do Too their naber o embarassing the Lib-Lab proved yet - charade starts are likely to fall again inevitable cautious climate of cuts induced many of cash limits and the whole responsibility. Its new system must take a large share of the forced to admit: trying to pass off the blame has cut new house building spending cuts and cash limits, Chancellor Healey's swingeing the public and private sectors.

and working class. continues its attack on the practice inal ine sanctions? Tribune MPs put down their allacking the pay dozen ments ducint not suppose coalition. they have no intention of who houses begins to dry up. considers margins employing class regards profit extracted from selling them.

their providing houses but in lining interested that private builders are not 134,000. reflected in the 20,000 drop policies, the other side was Healey's suffering from the one side of 1979 forecasts, public sector house councils to ensure that nigh Sanctions The main strategy of the Why Labour Behind this fall is the fact But while the homeless According Even the The public sector, reeling 38,000 over Yet the Labour leaders- When this section of the 125,000 nousing Labour Not interested Sanctions man Booth motion attacking the pockets with poorly-housed Harnessed sector, to a mere enough number to have approach is to encourage result was under- ine the adopt the familiar argu- too starts councils arch-reformists 'left' weekLy again that impact pro-capitalist ensuring "risks" Government number to responsibly 1978 last supply of voluntarily small coalition

OT VOLC

business year's profit were wnlif

MPS

were the too and the the union committees and the wheeling and dealing idleness by the requirements power and productive forces cut their workforce this year.

thought they would further currently unemployed, and building homeless, figures reveal that working class families remain small leadership to these 'lefts'.

alternative their of these 'left wing' wafflers, ience the real political nature learn through their supporters. coalition, movement the Labour and trade union launch a struggle throughout into workers to turn their words criticisms must be pressed by ents of Callaghan and Healey.

"left' will no doubt be echoed by them". Similar vague protests and housing figures as "a disaster McIntosh while the Labour Party remains tied to implemented health and education services.

buildings for the hard pressed housing works gramme basis for a job-creating pro- sation to the present owners.

industries, ing nationalisation of the build- the the labour movement through of private building firms to fight to reveal the accounts capitalism. with the surface workings of in tinkering here and there are all being kept in enforced one operating at 75% capacity or construction industry are still seeking contractors in the more than 70% of the profit sector of industry. alise this lucrative and crucial refuse to take steps to nation- manage Liberal Party in an effort to harnessed themselves to the learn the need to build an coalition propping who preach "socialism" for those in need of homes leadership remains intact.

holding: Raw This would provide the What is 'This can be proved by the There is no answer to this Hundreds of thousands of In this way workers can Those that 'Shelter' No such policy Lib-Lab work crisis-ridden industry, Break Coalition

MPS

Unemployed concrete the Callaghan-Healey Vague protests businessmen including while supporters British those construction materials up posing as oppon- without compen- government and spokesman Neil needed is described workers and coalition, useful the capitalist elected trade thousands major revolutionary make while capitalism- break acuon-ana wnlo capitalism. oust expanded will br supply public labour build while land. such and and the the

LABOUR

House building caught By John Lister in Lib-Lab vice

Stalin (centre), with fellow bureaucrats in the carly 1930s their wits and at the expense social insurance was no longer which were not published for meeting, the proceedings of 1929 whole approach to welfare. In as criminals. of others were not regarded provision for only 600,000.

less register, and residential million children on the home- under 18. underground under 18 to six hours a day.

hmited the ume. ruled out night work, over Stalinism But those In 1923 there were seven The Labour Code of 1922 heavy, a central committee Not criminals hours of those work for those declared who lived on revised harmful that and the factory committees. employers were to be repres- workers, representatives All-Russian, councils, local regional and directly power it was enacted. and had fought for it in the Bolsheviks had drawn up a road to socialism. the masses on the peaceful Duma draft bill on social insurance 'win the hearts and minds of ana well-being or man conditions for the happines It was to be administered Neither government Within four days of seizing Already Extended trade inrougn consisting unions and 1914 the insured elected nor WIll under war communism and were soon curtailed, both Unions. national for those sent by the Inter- national workers' movement toria. centres, rest homes and sani- aristocracy were nationalised curative factors and all resorts educational establishments.

towns, along railway lines, in

NEP

to be turned into holiday including residences of the factory The running of social Many of these reforms Those in the Crimea were In 1919 all localities with be used Council Curtailed centres, for of Trade the inter- stranglehold over the masses.

increase bureaucracy revolution, political objectives of the forward new economic base to drive period. what revolutionaries pline-were the instrument of labour disci- of social insurance as a harsh the failure to change the use nave Instead of seizing on the advocated the their the turned social opposite of repressive Stalinist would and that "love' their parents. encouraged educating prehouse been charged witd and homosexuality made an of alimony made punishable and expensive, non-payment backwaraness, revolubonary oftence. Parents were made legally Legally responsible their were told to who ways defy their parents had and in and ignorant for the creation 'We have proved still too poor written in exile that year, inadequate. rile and kindergartens. wholly tions and prostitution were communists. Trotsky commented families intense political repression 11 "Instead of openly saying, Moreover, backstreet abor highly Revolution Betrayed, were raising good unlikely that regarded it as progressive in lation prohibited the employ- although including force especially under the NEP, to social the many ways and social the suffering caused by the ment of those under 15 and morality Severe methods were used, working out of a new order and youth labour protective essential to the colonies, political work, legis- 20s, applied showing the principles they organisation of society example of methods of Stalinism. highlighting extremely shortlived. wendie since Ine This is particularly crucial yet 11 Stalinism Peaceful road creation the reactionary wellare and the 'gains' most important claims the Brezhner perfect ' and = children sections of health workers Union attached to soviets emphasis ment. it was excluded from manage- interests, although in 1920 well as defend its members promote labour discipline a: pate in administration and was below, with sanitary sections care was made free with an responsible for eachother.

by then the motive was te meaical такс In 1918 already health In 1920 free catering for Its function was to partici- The All-Russian Federative formed Free catering parter. was introduced services on Medical building unite materially Workers from the new constitution-as well as date the of Family Law' to consoli- year in the 'All-Union Code appears in a new light". family said: rich, mighty and prosperous".

widow, could write: forced industrialisation were deprivations necessitated by the purges, the worst years of Troty 1, Be, al tine Betray ol famine "The question of But the changes made that "Our country has become Krupskaya, As a and Opposite family and in the consequence, she war and abortion Lenin's the homes, children, than replace the consolidated aimed to supplement rather new cult of motherhood and services were a prop to the dissolved. childish divorce abortion people to cards, family. were increased. with seven or more children gartens and aid to families Maternity benefits, maternity of 1936 furthered this task.

calicens, were For at the same time food But Superficially the reforms made more difficult which was superstition, and nurseries, New cult leminine reality made illegal, withdrawn, encouraged kinder- public these ismNow that the worst econ- aftermath of forced collectiv- munism'. the new generation for com- from its work in preparing tance of instinct of motherhood'. omic problems were sign of the victory of social- ditions isation, appalling living con- vanish. Now 'the main impor- aspects of the constraints but women would want abortions come, brought in. In fact of course, in the Without All this was heralded as a could enjoy le in Inadequate the was the the family comes family would aeclarea, no cities economic repressive natural over- Trotsky, while appreciating They opposed the blaming of behaving would and punishing of individuals.

Both Kollontal develop. and concerning by the tional lines. working class along occupa- The legislation introduced Bolsheviks welfare in 1918 children preventing their full utilisa established to help mothers children, ignorant" who are 'loving', idual, inexpert, and irrationa children guardianship the grounds that equally recognisea, althoug 1918 and in 1926 registerec legitimate tion ot medical services with legal and social problem: Maller results than the private, indis parents that the social care o Socio-legal bureaux were Adoption was outlawed on unregistered state institutions' individual eradicated bringing , but in the far illegitimate stratum. evolution of the ruling Soviet society terise the actual nature of Union best of all charac- family to the problem changes in the approach

IN THE

UNION

SOVIET

WELFARE

"The the consecutive and the of the Soviet hysteria, daily humiliation of producing "nests of mediaev- family society". institutions of the socialist at "the alisin, tunctions Only in this way could the The Bolsheviks had aimed the lemale compiele absorption unil. of the family aescribed housekeeping slavery and responsible criminal' lowered from 16 to 12 were youth for whome the age of and more punitive methods heavy fines were imposed of dealing crimilal ol neglecung men canaren courts' on those found guilty without claren s responsibility trial by will delinquent 'comrades acts, their was changing of society new ways Bolsheviks was that with the social problems. to the Bolshevik approach to parents was directly opposite scope of this retreat" measure socialism. sacred nucleus of triumphant shell of the broken family, the leaders are forcing people children will realise this aim', melnoas with youn and tnell consider it, under the threat and men, our children and grand- of socialist relations among The turn towards punitive glue together ехиетс not only that philosophy Progressive with the penalties hard eye the of the but the the a system of privilege and of to the trade unions, by then rather splitting discipline, and it soon became system used to decide entitlement.

stringent party, tightly of insurance was handed over 'socialist offensive'. welfare institution for securing rewaras masses 'more direct contact with the to be regarded as a right, ar Insurance was used Stringent Conditions In 1933 the administering and and throughout the of the working class controlled the oraer lo conaltions enforce sanctions ever serve of the acnieve labour more were as i and the the alimony one alone. both parties, later in 1926 by legalised, consent accepted as nurseries grounds for divorce, first by peasants. handicraftsmen and landless do not exploit others', i.e. to extended to 'all toilers who times the average wage. those earning more than three previous wage the average local wage but unemployed wage earners at benefits paid to temporarily funded by the employers and ented or to interfere. not exceeaing the inalvidual s Public A year later coverage was The scheme was to Outlawed abolished abortior were canteens Shoppers queu ana not te set and up

from mass resources attempt not added on. workers. workers, the permits. workers cautiously benefit. loss obligation ariat and the In 1932 alone 4.1 million neasants were absorbed into the towns economic ment Moscow, Stalinists The When Under insurance the clerical were. syngsesthslikgalucila concentrate revived industrial unskilled practice massive refusal work were was Ine the Ine down. homeless. ration result appearance trial discipline. fines could take bership. making funds replaced in this period. record. increased, ness labour 1956. neresy Periods Regional = and by Fifade funds work could occupational were wellare was workbooks eviction, corrective loss lateness, against courts scaled were were the cultural personnel. fits and also to make loans to the full range of welfare bene- and manager certified orphans. mothers, pensioners, handicapped, mentioned. camps. burials. construction and repairs.

fortunes and assist with major farmers suffering major mis- alIves Farm Public But benefits varied greatly These were responsible for Benefits non-working unmarried peasants Pioneer and the ideologues clinics. through mittees. people's for masses, are conscious bureaucracy Communist bookkeeping. belonging to children's constitutes hon The commissions, active and institutions, protession. comrades may nave problems There Is soviets, guiding remote and the the family included Mother' principle formula drastically Bolsheviks early measures illegitimate. lance marned spiritual and But the The the of socialism the could "to each had to as the These union again birth have health service excels or with very large families.

to work to survive till then and most having had been extremely neglected up attack. ditionally against imperialist Soviet on in a material way for the October Revolution do live these defects, the gains of the ing class' for the birth of a new possess- principles', and which even socialist 'an immense step back from tution and Trotsky on the 1936 Consti- major encouragement of "liberalisation ment for two years. interned welfare benefits and can be shyness and alcoholism. peddling, child neglect, work- quency, crime, begging, drug recognised problems of delin- assist been introduced, partly days holiday. workforce still only get 12 families occupying one room inadequate positively children read and premises, volunteer health inspectors of assist on committees, pensioners are encouraged to make size was 16.6 in 1960 and the dangerous or years less lor 55 maximum, 50% raised the minimum saw the Pension Law which must 'creates the political premises Law which ne describea numanısm alect one lola lne sacked major problems remain Housing By Pru Chamberlayne None of the changes since On the other hand some of In schools the average class Retiring age is 60 for men Yet it is clear that for all Alcoholics are denied any Since 1965 sociology has Great efforts are made to shared gardens bedetended above criticisms changes Reactionary Sociology working for medical treat- everyone women, care for dealing pensioners having Gains reactionary Code of Family forced and difficult jobs the still will 43% of the have those class, anu made by bourgeois with to help orchards previous grossly useful; • levels uncon• act as many from been and and the five 19L3 Commissariat insurance was Labour in transferred migration Social gether. temporary required a 1922 welfare since 1956. That year lesbianism are regarded as a alimony unmarried mothers. major increased. molal vullage There obviously have been Homosexuality Pressure on fathers to pay improvements has been greatly SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 15 February 1978 incomparably under forced collectivisation look at the political trends and the 30s and whether there has munism. those used under war com- alsation since 1930 ularly in the so-called been a reversal since, partic- 1936. 1929 ed, rose from 10.9 million in workers and the self-employ- agricultural workforce, the towns. And the insured peasants were absorbed into force. into incorporated and disciplined millions period, the process whereby within the methods But revolutionaries have to In 1932 alone, 4.1 million The welfare methods used industrialisation the organised labour 25.6 which excluded parants peasants harsher million usea In 'liber- than were were and medical

VTEK,

other benefit concern' involving 'constant comradely Their function was anything visited in unpaid time anyone open vote of the trade union Commissariat of Labour. the job of welfare workers from holiday credit loans and for social which accumulated as a system of sanctions.

and soon of privileges, as well commissions who had not delegates took over the mai section of workers. Tacilities such as sanatoria and These The Entitlement to protessional 1930 social insurance work was accaca Dy personne could medico-legal productive homes were redirection consisting come to work Massive • trade group elected for used for sickness expert sectors funds unIon that and the to educators. upbringers parents and school personnel.

housekeeping. culture, sanitation, health and of instruction and upbringing, tees concerned with questions under Stalin. of which developed rapidly services extends to the health pension scheme. Only in 1964 were collective of any particular enterprise.

able, taking 2% of the yield according to the funds avail- education, and education services, both farmers brought into the state school are visitea at home by Other Children not doing well at Parents committees play Local control over wellare The latter are regarded as Important role important with subcommit- Organisations well Tole Constitution of representatives of prolet- as properly constituted, are population'. ically" elected along the lines sense not soviets in the Bolshevik organ of local government are ated into the bureaucracy.

age limit of 23, was incorpor- League, by the removal of the of the tal." allan Organs of class rule, consisting

VOLC

"universal, equal and direct" "based In his attack on the 1936 In the 1930's even control And the soviets, the main Soviets, on the other hand bourgeois and industrial organ but are Stalinism Tyranny Young Communist Trotsky all the democracy "democrat- atomised so-called elevated no 'good Soviet' girls amongst was said that there would be 'Socially anomolous f parent families are included disabled parents. from illegitimate orphans, unsuccessful from 'incomplete or socially are mainly used merely support it replace recreation until 6pm. supervised schools' which provide meals 1980 and for 'extended day who wanted to use them by for boardyig schools for all since Stalin's death. trends have not be reversed delinquents, and in 1964 it with are seen as problems'. Single But these facilities do not Illegitimacy Kruschev made plans for the fact large cats. the alcoholics 'Problems' sed for tools Page 7 homework and family, they families and marriages'- children ana

Marcel like the urinal displayed by lay stand the ing point in order to under- First World War must take the carnage of the imagery of advertising ever International has provided explicit support of the Third "Le Surrealisme au Service de assimilated by the bourgeois (famous for its found objects Dada movement from Paris, Surrealism. from ishness that characterised the manifestos and seeming child- order, we can also note how in such a prestigeous display.

presented as hallowed objects ing of the art establishment seeing the deliberate debunk- currents important examine unique spectrum and provides a brought together exhibits In understanding Dada, we There is a heavy irony in This Revolution" Reviewed" at the Hayward Gallery, South Bank, SE1 until 27 March stock-in-trade the TIM SUMMERS reviews the art exhibition "Dada and Surrealism Duchamp) Carnage opportunity exasperation unat Dada exhibition of Dada and Dadaists and international art movement, as our start- (with phonetic mimllistic related dream the has New eous founder Dadaists, fronting prove it." Zurich, said: geois of Dadaism Heartfield and George Grosz immediate reflection in the struggle was not. different perspectives for con- incoherence, and ing its programme of spontan- Cabaret Voltaire was present- wanted few convinced that there must be a 'world gone mad' Berlin; worthy tributes to a communist farty. were also acia post-war Germany deat to these, oracl ineir switzerland Cabaret If Zurich Dada was largely While the literary-inspired The high point of class While the latter's criticism Different perspectives "When Hugo onomatopoeic poetry York independence folly social not only young considered that Voltaire, Ball, members of the members, I founded the may as a peut-bour- just crucism which writing characterised Berlin Dada formulated Zurich to men well have ovel LO but had an Berlin enjoy

LWO

and Une me w an opposed to others, has little a victory exhibition displays a famous tion. along a road leading from (in Deadly Earnest) as steps justification in major respects cOVer terms, finds a high expression boyant, while at the other testimony composed peak. Futurism to its most violent 'Dangerous Street' take Cubo- the outstanding oil paintings captions. bodies of the working class.

by the bleeding and mutilated Ernst Noske, raising a glass as hound of Social Democracy Die Pleite showing the blood for working class insurrec- towards fashioning a vehicle early rupt) and In Blutiger Ernst (Each man his own football) ment of the periodical Jeder- urinal entitled 'Fountain' above a stool, and the famous Staircase'. in works by Marcel Duchamp.

Dadaist writing, and in visual dominates seen in mechanical metaphor sionism. clear roots in German Expres- Klee and Hans Richter have classical Cubist period. and Picasso are of the most severe extreme, Futurism at directly pollination taking place at the international paint and cloth textures.

wrappers, compositional ing Kurt Schwitters was develop- AIZ magazine covers brilliance of the anti-fascist springboard the Dada movement were a "The little wife murderer' and section towards Die Pleite (The Bank we should note the develop bicycle wheel tree to rotate forms, prefiguring the more mechanised staccatto move.

irom montages or reruse. For obscure reasons this Perhaps his most notorious His readymades include His painting "Bride' is The exhibition gives strong These ethereal works were Heartfield's early photo- Other works by Grosz, like The Berlin section of the The theme of human life Other early works of Paul Meanwhile, ricaDia S tormal delicate High expression drawing by sein Violent peak idealistic 'Nude Descending a translanon several developed tram tickets and toast, surrounded the plethora of labels, to the "Udnie" eigner its most ham- wood-coloured artistic and exibition as Grosz for Ine WorKs miniatures Hanover, level nihilism Fussball refined within Italian flows sweet cross- early later its hooks is entitled "Trap" hold iron with title?) threatening (surely of plants become insects. a dark Rousseau-esque forest, "Joie de vivre" where, within finds a sinister expression in latent in most suggested industrial between an elephant and an curious ments the Dada and Surrealist move- vintage. construction photo-montaged "Metropolis" first rate and the exhibition work surface and more subtly his "Gift Object" is a house- continues this sardonic vein: work on display is the Mona ment to the exhibition should be taken as a compli- long break mid-way to be navigated and demanding on the senses sionism. Jackson Andre work factor in example. automation"-scarcely Breton towards "pure psychic programmed subconscious on Freud's theories of the The movement, basing itself have paved the way for most Surrealist artifice of his successors.

above the more self-conscious range of Ernst place his work character plus the technical Hieronymous Bosch. ating and coalescing forms as creatures lurk behind evapor- "The Illustrious Dreamsmith" Gothic menace. towards a whole series of city sombre cityscape *L'elephant also extrusion ot nails from its American Abstract Expres- case Magritte, Dali and Delvaux detect Surrealist painters since him ominous silence and threat Ernst's In The The essential link between Man Ray's photography is The exhibition is too large A central painter of the a vision reminiscent of In his I nis strips includes Ominous silence Ins was an importan Sportng Masson Ray's hybrid his deeply whose Hybrid cautionary Dall s studies mundane Pollock Arshile Celebes metamorphosis autobiographic heavy-grained Paul intluence ot his work contribution through to certainly a barbaric while somewhere obsessional Ernst; calligraphic without a work com posed brilliantly bird-like Citroen S Baunaus Gorky, Andre IS De coat- city note and his was

GONE MAD

FOR A WORLD

CHOC

DADA -ART

IN REVIEW

Page 8 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 15 February 1978

from profit workers country. what it saw as a gradual path ution and opting instead for a halt to international revol- bureaucracy, intent on calling power and famine, led to the rise to proletariat in the ation of in Europe, the virtual elimin- war revolutionary upheavals particular extract alter ne lalure or lne post• Dentists Their In the course of time the socialism the already obligation patient By a Special Correspondent conservative Civil War a single extends privately-as against only 6% career nature of the Soviet state.

question it was necessary to wanted WIlal working mucn more prevalent than class theory available on the NHS- superior, types that are the nationalisation of private despite the times rule directly. He shows fact happened in the USSR?

of dental care. planned, measures monopolies, clinics ition -must include not only breaking of the Lib-Lab coal- of NHS health care the most elementary concept stands almost united against trained in state-run facilities, fees for basic treatment.

'regular dentist to pay penal the fact that they have no under pressure of pain and workers-often patients given private dental

NHS.

why crowns and bridges are involved in the job is too low.

feeling that the profit margin treatment soCia. The fight for the reversal The Trotsky Meanwhile a majority of This profit factor is also seldom supplied on the socialised classes do not at suppliers dental cuts-involving the state run provision 5 turn out fact that it is explains provision of introduce but profession, persuaded drug also that relations. nationalised remain, and in particular the ditional revolutionaries to give uncon- endent class interests. class around their own indep- support to the counter-revol- no responsibility and give no argued backwardness and isolation also reflects the pressure of of socialist construction in an ship The frightful difficulties way or Trotsky, the dictator country fascists October revolution that still defence of those gains of the however, it is the duty of precisely those policies which policies expose the working the dangers to which these workers movement to reveal positions, themselves Protsk yists utionary policies of Stalinism Soviet society is founded.

the social Stalinist distinguish the policies of the remains the ruling class".

thrown, revolution been created by the October forms of property that have relations. is determined by its economic methods. conquests order the proletariat politically in bureaucracy has expropriated have led to the result that the -which false policies of the leadership isolated Russia ship. of relations in their oen brutal defend fascists despite the cost involved, the called democratic means, and private property through so- were unable to preserve their sary for the capitalists who form of rule became neces- society. the was a very heavy consumer of their own bureaucracy which tically hand over power to bourgeoisie did not enthusias- Continued next week It is our task to advance Revolutionaries can accept "The anatomy of society But at certain periods, this On the contrary, at every Trotsky, 5 No responsibility mobilise wealth fascists many was in the last analysis themselves support bureaucracy from that coupled the capitalist were to fight in the guard in other words, the and with a sick dictator- instances from proletariat the the long because allowed one not distinguish on which proletariat with backward property task property capitalist working formed must over- time these SocIa own the ine the omy were established. beginnings of a planned econ- were taken out of the hands key sections of the economy ship of the proletariat. established the dictator- the first time in history, ot private owners and the In the following years the In October 1917, for property relations established class in a society the Soviet Union or was the proletariat still hold sway in counter-revolution had over bureaucracy Did the dictatorship of the nationalised new where a ruling rule on their behalf. forced to allow the fascists to countries in the 1930s were how, for example, the capital- class Heavy Consumer number

POLICIES

USSR

Defend the Part One. By lan Swindale

OUR

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 15 February 1978 : Page 9

- jewel CP helps double signed stewards workers between yards' Amongst these are: this philosophy into practice.

when there was last a strike.

succeed". He can't remember part of the industry if it is to make workers realise they are and belong to "the museum".

that have the nineteenth century" methods that belong to the praise. yard it goes on to show the spirit of co-operation in the director and the industrial British paper describing and "yards with pay differentials basIs Govan shipyards. Stalinist view carried a revealing inter- should at the hospital (their original hospital open for the last has finally admitted that son jewel of the corporation' won using the present orien- but with the Lib-Lab coaltion petty bureaucrats of the AHA fight the workers think. trumpeted-and which the capitalist press has EGA but it is not the victory in the fight to national resources. terms of Ennals EGA by stating that if David 15 months. work-in that has kept the it is unable to defeat the Area Elizabeth Garrett Ander- of attempts to close the tation of the EGA workers ignl acilities equivalent to those he AHA washed its hands of He says "Complete Airlie Airlie attacked working After quoting the head of The Rather it means that the After nearly two years Govan bosses' Ihis is an important step problem of closing inter-union Important step agreements that put Ill a meeting last week, hospital, Part of industry Health Authority "Observer' news- wished not one lial can De who no longer with the this management and last reference) finance Govan convenor provided from itself; and that "lowest wages" mobility Govan praised the Shipbuilders maintain the to provide squabbles" sections weekend Camden have and the relations , and have the of yards to be the case until the other Govan but this will continue Polish order was diverted to prise that the majority of the other yards". ised British Shipbuilders will these agreements: 400,000 by next year. from 850,000 to 600,000, subject only to the normal be introduced at any time, that ments is a cover-all clause: tradesmen. niques, as well as agreements and work measurement tech- print of what newly-national.

with the new agreements, it is per ship have been reduced mutual agreement". processes of consultation and company and "Introduction of work study maintain the hospital (there- scription orientation was seen only too paign should special of (presumabiy al une stewards were that the EGA College of Physicians. President minister Lord two peers of the realm-one, Boutwood, accompanied by senior occupation for been invited to put their case.

where the Clearly at the raise wnere) should either be treated as a will Service Correspondent The Although the man hours So not only is it no sur- Also in the The bankruptcy of that mobility between trades Their policies-apparently Incredibly the spokesman .. provide a model blue. another will help between the More jobs lost money Senior consultant Bowden, By a Health Observer or that the EGA can- out in conjunction more efficient will Special case changes demanding first-ever and consultant

EGA

productivity cut be allowed to Dy pubic sub- by nospita. hospital AHA meeting helpers repair Govan-type make Britain new the says that ex-Labour staff required this expense hospital agree- from

DHSS

Royal other the else- snop and was West of jobs would be lost. originally UCS struggle in which it was workers out of work. thousands productivity, is helping to put will be lost. that even more shipyard jobs increased productivity means market the agreements. assessed by trade the demand for a sliding scale cuts in general. the cuts the stewards the EGA as part of the NHS.

working class that only a campaign based the trom by the government. to defend the NHS as a whole ho bither of these options lants ana worse ana relurn to collaboration reject ine Present by-word for the tight against against une tney see as central in tne ngat the occupied hospital which maintain picket lines outside these workers inside and out-

NHS

the by placing the financing of rought day and nignt auring united fight with workers In Airlie, proud of doubling Govan was public expenditure linked If the EGA is to remain a owner nospilals against lne so claust tress past fifteen months to fight to

EGA

the the very beginning of rate of inflation as fight should include United fight Scotland declared back in the pre- strengin declining

EGA

the Stalinist ravages proposed save ine with could defend part betrayal of union com- has argued 100,000 that shipyard workers of the aim of of Airlie charity world have

EGA

the unions Stalinists turn the national and demand. work-sharing on opening of the books of the conditions, that will defend all jobs and Govan must be thrown out class can this be opposed.

independence of the working through capitalist system and livelihoods is inherent in the that this danger to workers' bring workers closer to the duction-into a weapon to capitalist workers reality becoming more and more a threat of capitalism show-case of other yards and becoming a militancy completely misled unemployment. any yards full pay, with occupation of employers ana inel supplers to the point of scabbing on workers all over the country.

stoppage participated PHOTO• Chrs Davies. Revort (CLASH), fights for this and osses. This must be made and a new leadership along the NHS. London to resist focus must be built into the main other policies to defend the Area Stewards in the mittees The Stalinist betrayers at The Now the yard has seen this The Committee of London Defend jobs must fight to show from the Scabbing because crisis of overpro- struggle closure-which threatening the the and fight the acmana backing their speca-up masses attacks or company support against protest built only Ennals

NHS

the job ine une the Communist Party, includ- bureaucrats trying to accum- and a further year of the 12- accept steam out has now seriously weakened right wing leaders the leeway an immediate strike ballot as now Scargill Dunn ing Kent area secretary Jack were Scargill's confederates in prestige ulate denounced as a sell-out. month rule has been widely by the basic rates of pay. the union ary incentives scheme which to ram through their reaction- from demand for £135 per week soon as the NCB failed to men last November. claim alongside the fire- on the union's 90% pay to fight for strike action Arthur miners from left' talking sell-out meet fruits of Miners reap Address. I would like to receive .. issues. I enclose the sum of £..

50 issues. 25 issues 10 issues Name .. 5 issues Send to Socialist Press Circulation Manager, 31, Dartmouth He At the forefront of those The 14-10 vote last week Scargill's failure to call for The EG A supporters at the Elephant and Castle last November the NUM being November a 10% pay increase Denounced bitter fruits are

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Scargill's refusal

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after the described of the fight on Executive to verbal reaped conterence s Park Hill, London NW5 1HR taken hell sell-out by the the Ine the Communist Party. diversionary less 'left' around Scargill and and Gormley, and the spine.

Lab bureaucracy-the open right needed in order to challenge revolutionary must draw is that a conscious pay claims will be drastic future strength of the NUM intervene on their side against hiding from a fight on the which tions as a "charade". wing detenders of the DOLl plan disgrace" executive's £135 pay claim, attempted tc The repercussions of these But miners will remember pursuing disgraceful coalition around Daly Disgraceful wings nas! bourgeois courts to and the decision antics of the lesson national level leadersi and charade . £10.00 .£1.10 . £5.50 . £2.20 Scargill, negotia miners

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2,000 support for the strike by "bring the dispute to an to a state of near anarchy, the the sort of relaunch quantity could be built elsewhere at doubtful if it is worthwhile union officials saying that as director Pat Lowry wrote to hope that the strike might sciously withheld in the vain support-which has been con- ing to £170,000 in order to are prepared to pay out back- since November 1. Liverpool. Leyland's plant at Speke, -declared cracy has-after 15 weeks end" the TGWU bureau- mitted. fore local claims were sub- 'taken into consideration' be- ten per cent limit would be under employers agreed to a clause large provincial news rooms NUJ members reduced most claims would be ruled out.

the the employers demanded that cent national pay agreement ing. back down on attempts to when they forced the News- scored obtain the leverage to imple- dated strike benefits amount- has not brought the dispute agreed that the Government 'work to rule' during which rule out local pay towards a struggle over wages aper society employers strategy forced to back down In a move designed to SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 15 February 1978 But after two weeks of a Newspaper bosses The declaration of official Provincial journalists have Speke sell-out Belore signing a ten pel

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which Leverage meaningless workers notable guarantee both official bargain- victory phrase sides local the Speke stewards. likely to be needed". Kentish Times editorial offices one member was sacked for Telegraph at The work to rule continues.

their ten per ute of Journalists, received scab from which members of the ment to January I- the date refuse to backdate the agree- collaboration never-ending excuse accomodate to the financial agreements demands and sacrifice their running of the dispute from forward be the basis of the line put local deals be translated into solved, is that the principle of the issue of backdating is re- to victimise members. ing off management attempts ford Mail succeeded in beat- missed themselves'. were deemed to Hereford operating the sanctions, and in Wales, •roDiems Or journalists at This threat will no doubt Journalists Journalists on the Western The The central question, once an ena. will now take over the organisation, the Instit- Jones-made it official Sacrifice must by TGWU officials are on strike after management argument The employers Haverfordwest, Worcester and cent increase. ranonalisation ana have alter occupying both the IO1 Class the Ux- Leyland their they that Is a 'dis- agreement action. The NUJ work to rule these reveal quite clearly the srikers with the tinzi stife strike, Hill-who is employed for higher wages. year the workers there struck Metropole Hotel, Paddington.

smith-Shepherds Bush area of organiser the official, must continue until usually done at Speke. on the call for blacking of all work be met by occupation and the plant or transfer work must to the test. the Speke battle has put them involving manning levels-and repeatedly announced it will ment with shop stewards. management by mutual agree- levels can only be altered by and sticking tenaciously to its workforce rejecting this logic, clearest instance of an entire convenors and union officials.

scale of wages. No to all wage fight for wages themselves.

right to negotiate over wages journalists who face the same exist, the necessary rises to combat housewives, Workers committees, drawing flation must be living standards to 1974 and have been offered. that local deals on backdating splitting nas noted to cross the picket line Hill-is an employee West mutually agreement. controls! must строуст the rise in prices Just before Christmas last Interesting The Speke strike is the During the And Any attempt to close the Leyland management has Action now for a sliding Group chapels, where they Wage demands to restore defend them against in- the give already local must draw together all London-one security TR7 and incidents such the translated into the unemployed Claims The fight for the must inal employers succeeaca on disputes not Front submitted. Dolomite hammer compute manning at the Martin and MAND FOR RELENTED Ra DE strike has consolidated after out of workers' struggles Tilston's nose must be kept and wages are to be defended, the Metropole Hotel-offered the betrayal of the strike at to work by GMWU official intimidated and forced back Forte empire-went on strike part of the giant Trust Houses working conditions. improve their wages and struggle to defend and attempting to join the hotel London Garners' Steak Houses in unionisation

FAIR WORKERS

two show signs of pulling back.

strikers. demoralisation lines, and there is no sign of workers should fight for their spurs new fight Garners strike 60 workers at the The Garners Steak House It is obvious that if jobs third Monday-only is the employers who weeks Consolidated Bloody nose in the West End- the continues into workers week, other

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picket are ine at Garners' strikers on the march goods strike. bureaucracy to carry through out anything to the strikers.

social security refuses to pay just started to pay out £6 a straits. The TGWU has only are restaurants. officials implement full-scale nition. place without union recog- that no return to work takes he previously rejected. discuss with strikers-a step apparently matter to ACAS, and is now himself from restaurant windows. support should be sent. donations London WC2, 12-13 members district this strike to victory. ness or ability of the TGWU place no faith in the willing- the strike week firms that continue to deliver blacking of Garner and any aelenaing une scaos rigal l Provocative They Meanwhile They must demand TGWU But strikers must insist The employer has declared *Strike headquarters f01 In1s already in dire financial

STRIKI

Garners hardship money-and Recognition willing to refer the is another sign that must Henrietta levy and committee been removed many prepared strikers pickets to which all these finance messages on fight

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must scab the in a five week strike. Speed-up seek to take over the dispute that TGWU officials will soon are being contested. second and the final points demands with the exception one point all the company's quacy of union leadership in existing represent allowed to stop work taken on pieces of workdone.

missing parts, etc sible for quality, and told to leave place of work without jobs every hour. Only one job speed of the production lines over 20,000 Ford Escorts employers production of up plans has now cost the resist management speed Ford's Halewood plant to press fought. bid to bring it to an end though now apparently the conceded the Halewood dispute that at Ford workforce. and a further attempt to step recovered before the operator tion rate to be booked to produc- watch permission. hours to be reviewed. rotation per shift. for the line is achieved to stop only when the rate includes the following points: -which is proving so costly DICaKs. every nou. held up *Hourly It seems more than likely It is a sign of the inade- All *Operators to be respon- *No automatic rest period *Men The determination of * Line Any *Failure to meet the line *Working ahead [building Ford management-in the the banks room workers at of these altempl exploitation of the inefficiency changing round of must work to the still working conditions arter tne operators sell-out company Production line: Page 11 counts faulty worsening point negotiator: provisions first five not longer panels, were plan and

UNION HQ

STORM

US MINERS

any settlement plan before it ing council, which must ratify for reconvening the bargain- settlement terms. forced a move at an unofficial ious sell-out. ship to the wind piped West and the impact of sub-zero winter ing to council. meeting of the bargaining head off a concerted bid coal to run the hard-hit Ohio of the strike. the output prior to the start successful calls for tenacious to halve US coal production, which in itself was expected is referred to a membership against meeting of efforts of the insidious danger of all-the they Appalachia. supplies, is beginning to grip temperatures that their strike, coupled with Washington to prevent a Workers headquarters in invaded the United Mine US week strike, hundreds of Miller to sell out their ten Miller talks with UMW members production to a mere 32% of council, which voted 33-3 rom otner unions, in cutting The miners were respond- In a dramatic move to Attempts to use non-union But their resentment has They have recognised that Mean wnile NO union leader Arnold miners last 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 NWS 1HR.

now date succeeded Insidious impose an ignomin-. increasing Picketing Miller's has yet been set picketing face ine Miller leader- West: and proposed bargaining evidence through Friday support energy strike, most one official of the Columbus haven't received any" truck abysmally. action residents out of work inside electricity "brown-outs" that levels in Ohio, western Penn- consumers tricity to monopolies that provide elec- and Southern Ohio Electric will receive any coal they can power wno could sylvania, that stocks have reached crisis weeK v urgınia ana sentucky "We have told them we Employers As a result the private industry have failed Crisis level put US industry and the Indiana, unollicial reim burse 500,000 To date, we warned announcing unreal strike , said Ohio West the fining were would hostile pickets, and told they surrounded Alabama, days, take it" home-if it'll be in the next 10 days.

anything from the operators, ratified something like that".

would declared last week that: bargaining council. bureaucratised strike clauses that have piled working conditions. part of a major attack on strength on a local level is and officials to break miners' unofficial strike leaders.

includes unofficial union's benefit funds for the failed to explode. thrown under a patrol car but miners dynamite from leave alive. scab used tear gas to rescue seven Our dent said: income lost. One stick of dynamite was Police cars and helicopters Meanwhile "If ever we're going to get As one UMW district presi- "People One It is these stringent anti- This bid by the employers This would day pressure even on people Illnes riddled miners up small not hang most went wide of provisions to sack 200 state troopers for council strikes-and are saying back be allowed in a takes ten more the with llly engaging arms, amount thrown troopers- had been if I ever nouse Oakman, member district 39-man bullets also the $22 reopen it. 800-1,000 miners the seven scabs working to of miners have moved into battle outside a scab pit.

striker was shot dead in a gun to stop them quickly rallied to the scene Mining Company only to find down the non-union Oakman offers an opening for such a their direct the scab pits. inadequate) demands of the class to win the full (though dent strength of the working will mobilise the full indepen- ship within the union that merely a change of bureau- union on their own behalf.

to the settlement in order to prepared to use the hostility within the not enough. for their struggle. popular working class support parts of the country show the UMW-and rallies the enormous strength of the fight for full unionisation of strike, ana crats but a political leader- make a bla tor power in the The fact that large sections In Petersburg, Indiana, a Pickets had earlier closed But such militancy alone l But what is needed is not Political opening anti-Miller bureaucratic confrontation Strength militancy press There are signs UMW may forward to oureducials indicates in various leaders with the interests of US workers.

key role in leading old craft unions. as a militant alternative to the gence in the 1930s of the CIO political O 'Fishall . British ing full-scale blacking action into practical action-mobilis- must be called on to turn for a Labor Party to represent unions to take up the fight parties and summon the trade America's that will break all links with development at the centre of the emer- movement. simply Oul scab pils. pledged support to the miner: US working class political independence of the inrougnout Meantime those dozens of Miners now could play a The UMW historically was A leadership must be built helping to shut words that 5 Militant Blacking development-not miners two the the US and * donations from towards

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.... p.10 verbally capitalist a new labour p.11 sold the against these refusal of the not isers but it also showed the priBeing "good" and "angry" achieve our fund target in supporters to make a special and we urge all readers and our February £600 Socialist has arrived in the office for capitalism. fight cratic rights if they have no won't win gays their demo- abdication of leadership and again how they Gay Rights In", the centrists weekend. native to the prevailing mood the IMG who offer no alter- interventions of the SWP and not been improved leadership. build a new, revolutionary reason to take up a struggle demands, most gays see no those facing all workers.

problems are tied up with ised labour movement. of a turn towards the organ- built gay movement in Britain stage of development of the the perspectives of the organ- 5/833 was trade union branch banner students unions, but only one political marched groups and women's groups seen in this country. stration what was the largest demon- thousand success. on Saturday was a great Defence Campaign march Park Hill, London NW5 1HR.

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