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intervention of Federal troops to fighting for its life. American the by a general strike in defence of laws to break the strike.

of layoffs and huge power cut- action by a mounting energy crisis situation in the USA. created their officials, offer endorsed by their union miners to reject a contract decision by 160,000 US coal- State troopers escort scab coal a cour injunction to instruct the che Carter administration seeking centrai role in the unionisation of that has historically played such a abour movement. it must be met challenge to the entire American che backs, nas declared ne will invoke Break with Democrats! Taft-Hartley means in practice The shattering 2-1 ballot President Carter, United Mifeworkers union-busting 90-day 1 and to dramatic work-and the strike Taft-Hartley torced continue a direct new into has UMW it has been defied. escort shipments of scab coal previously used against the on both occasions it has helped make the miners' strike so with enormous political questions working class, whose support has give a lead to the entire American —and nave ine opportunity IGWU'S felt charges and so spurious the frame-up proceed at once. clearly even the hired hands of the proceedings were based, that union" unelected paigning against elected and from the union for recommended for expulsion Thornett Deputy office for life. White, Plant, Frank Corti and Tom had recommended that two General Purposes Committee Oxford that a previous inquiry by the District bureaucrats. hand-picked closed •the TGWU leadership by a viewsand aperiations. Convenors in the Assembly newly they agreed with the views of And But so flimsy was the case, The victims knew before And they were asked if They were interrogated as their "hearing" be banned from all • District Finance and kangaroo Flimsy case on elected Convenor, another personal kangaroo officials of the had Regional and reluctant even started which court political Deputy elected court "cam been Alan the now openly discussing plans wage control TUC leaders are ings. lent their support to no-strike anyone who resists. succeeds, no militant in any 40% pay claim. refusal to lead a fight on their power workers furious at his was EETPU leader Frank Chapple membership. are naccepted for clauses, to speed-up and sack- Leyland, union their try, union officials are desper- collaboration in every indus- unprecedented levels of class Trotskyists. cracy is not simply attacking union will be safe from frame and much wider than Cowley.

much wider than the TGWU, ate to Impose alscipline on They know these moves In steel, And, after three years of In carrying out a turn to The trade union bureau- a fourth phase of pay chased members, throughout Desperate in shipbuilding Only last week off chiefs have and crush by their British standards, defence of jobs and living rights within the unions, as Lib-Lab coalition. connect Oxford. Secretary wich, and to 5/293 Branch 5 headquarters in West Brom- TGWU head office, to Region trade unions must be sent to political witch-hunting in the the charges and an end to demanding the but in every other union also committees and other bodies, union challenged not only in TGWU conspiracy ment to break the reactionary throughout the labour move- principled part marches. Lib-Lab government's ban on against the fascists by the workers are denied the right expulsion from the unions, leadership are lined up for erity Vueens The TGWU McCarthyite The fight for democratic Resolutions and petitions While those with the tem- take independent action to oppose Conspiracy branches, with Frank Close, musI programine fight must dropping of the Corti, therefore stewards Botley for a fight

ALL WORKERS

mittee. the two-day summoned from dented Cowley Assembly plant were continue.

TGWU

militants witch-hunt officials if the unprece- of disagreeing with union his union for the 'crime' open to expulsion from Nine Any worker will be union's Political views British "inquiry" held

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last McCarthy-style Regional Com- within allowed to week to Leyland's members against the by additional at Trades Council meetings!

Pinnington and Tony Homer duct er Alan hornett, an- announced there would be a right wingers, TGWU officials Trades Council. Secretary of Oxford District Keith Dancey, President and Divisional makes it quite clear inal an

AULW

Instead Using charges laid by these Further inquiry Power, District Council they assistance-from and called President member

ASTMS

and trade union bureaucacy moves by the whole labour is thus part and parcel of the cratic rights within the unions dissenting views. but to increase repression of bureaucrats see no alternative defiance of the interests of to advancing the pro-capital- wages Miass In tnew The crackdown on demo. But dedicated as they are block policies of the Lib-Lab Ban on marches members, these union defence of jobs and government, of the independent

THREATENS

WITCH-HUNT

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 March, 1978 -Gandhi- from rises 1ll

classes" was Tibet, lucky enough to be elected as general seems to have been imperialism. which Mao regime searched round the early 1950s when the new Congress and the situation in comparisons storage the Panchem Lama president of the Islamic to know what the two Congress leaders to try and give legit- bourgeoisie remnants have been dragged out of cold were delegates. Fifth National People's Deltseng thought of the Association of China and Catholic bishops, the old or non-communist elements, Even an old Kuomintang The way that these people It would be interesting at which they Erdeni the China and between new regime "unite prompted religious national against Chuji this of the end of the proceedings.

since the downfall of the so- thirds displayed Congress February in Peking for the would be absolutely loyal to ship called 'Gang of Four'. leaders buy off sections of workers.

use of incentives to try and of political opponents and which is related to the purges their control of the situation sessions were even relayed by system of Peking and news enter where the delegates had to Fourth Congress held in 1975 entirely first time since 1975. conference, convened on 26 saltelle to sapan ana curope did not leak out until near Certainly the Party leader- It is estimated that two- The Hua-Teng leadership This The organisation of the delegate knew through have been different a connaence was Ine the the the this provincial delegates sewage certainly opening purged latest ment in the structure of agri- such as sugar beet: and there agriculturally-based industries fication of plans to set up tion is to grow from 5-8% per tion is to be increased from stagts. plan to be carried out in three year; there is to be an intensi- 10-12%; agricultural produc- Congress were contained in Shanghai. Kwangsi "rehabs" revolution. affair in 1959 to the cultural in 1957, the CP veterans who have been itate tens of thousands of there are efforts to rehabil- them.. forward Irom the anti-right movement attacked through the years In the first two stages, up The The People's Daily recent- Alongside 1985, gave address. the new economic main line a general improve- in one district in industrial produc details and Peng Teh-huai the 10,000 of the purges, 2,300 just been signed. ences to the Japanese, with to delete unfavourable refer- not as yet available but it is anthem was also agreed. ations ratified. standard commitment to improve the wage a major area of development not spelled out. culture. stade of the plan, up to the bureaucracy. presumed that these will be elements, are to be resurrect- cleansed women's workers motivation through whom a trade agreement has Details of the changes are A new text of the national "Popular Foreign trade is also to be The details of the third of the incentives Resurrected such as new Peking's groups, century, were mass organis- living emphasis on youth and undesirable Mao Stalinist suitably were mere tokens and gestures act who head off solidarity into capital. The same bureaucrats protects coalition government which staunch crats against those union bureau- Lib-Lab coalition but a struggle to break the on (or collusion with) capital, denunciations, not demands not token "weeks' It demands too a struggle Such action, who the defenders are not interests themselves symbolic solidarity Uwen pressure ot PHOTO: Andrew of the reconstructed Fourth party, South African section this fight of the revolutionary demands democratic and transitional Africa to lead the fight for workers committees in South independent struggle of black workers.

the Lib-Lab coalition! of those workers. goods essential to the struggle but interests of nationalisation the opening of the books and phoney third agents, etc.

International racist regimes. secret deals to promote neo.

effective embargoes in the African, not only to ensure and banks trading with South colonial governments. Break *For the building within *Expel all agents of the For this reason we call for "ГО * Solidarity "we demand an end to Break coalition ensure supplies of the black workers factory building with all firms and the

SEWERS, ONTO TVA

A picket last week outside the South African Embassy

OUT OF THE

PEKING REGIME

AAKHE! MAHLANCE

ADADTI

FIGHTER

AGAINSI

MAHLANG

Africa is rendering the gains and leadership facing the workers capital to reform. in tokenise on dies ponder o solidarity demands a rejection pointed As we have consistently The struggle to show such peasants Vulnerable out, Southern the struggle for a government capitalists. interests secret diplomacy, as part of the demand for an end to by systematically taking up and sisters in southern Africa their oppressed class brothers defence of the gains made by material contribution to the racism and exploitation. workers and peasants against ators and racists in an effort ring secretly interests of capital, manoeuv- and crucial role in the efforts manoeuvres of imperialism.

an all out struggle against the wnict to head off the struggle of Owen plays a fundamental British workers can make a British Foreign Secretary secure "solutions' in the starts with collabor- workers, from the supplied through secret deals, arms announcing support ists had first ensured that the the South African working in support of the interests of reform itself and take action actions of the working class ing in England to choose their South African agents operat- imperialism that it tolerates wedded government up Steve Biko, while they take of a regime which "strong time making quite sure that embargo, lIve piling South class! pressure was then expected to having by the capitalist state, which, endent attempt to replace the indep- the for the last victims. next victims at the same time But of course the imperial- A clear example of this is Owen attends memorials no continued even to be capacities, arms African been to the interests enough" by stock- struggle while at the same mobilisation its own produc which "embargo"-an subjected only state against marders or an then was and the likely to ful roads' and to support various 'peace- kitchen of the United Nations confidence calls from Stalinists and social 13 March. ment is due to begin on South against the policies of the "bad" capitalists in favour of democrats The week of protest Students in particular are "good" African to neo-colonialism ones, to place deluged with boycott the

•SOLDMON

govern- thieves

MAHLANGU FREE

FIGHTER

AGANSSDLOMON

ship in the working class to between racialism, neo-colon- supports League the central fight in Britain.

communications and trade is working class for blacking of overcome them. fight for revolutionary leader- system and about the need to about the inextricable links in preparations for this week should be put in meetings and The It is vital that a clear view The fight to mobilise the the call for the Workers therefore imperialist

O MON

Socialist of the working class. organisation and programme building of the independent given to all forces engaged in black workers in South Africa and internationally to express labour movement in Britain that struggle, to assist in the material and political must be capitalism. solidarity with the struggle of But we insist that such Maxim um Responsibility apartheid

ESOLOMO

support and real solidarity. British workers can lead to dent that developing the indepen- maximum profits-we believe activity-the pull back from its supreme labour movement can make is the only real contribution the reformists who believe that events in Southern Africa.

power to affect the course of British capitalists such substitutions, that only belief, invariably underlying possible. real acts tution of mere symbols where Buy it does reject the substi- capital to reform itself, and symbold out of hand, any token and symbolic "weeks" collapsed and dissipated into sibility of the support is an ongoing respon- Unlike the And it does reject the The WL does not oppose pressurising omnipotent political of solidarity are extraction Stalinists and of solidarity labour struggle have the be southern Africa thus involves of the gains won by workers reaction. ivity and peasants in struggle in vicious, workers, even in the face of a but the continuing combat- peasants in those countries, threaten Zimbabwe and Namibia thus neo-colonial solutions in both ialism in seeking to secure Africa. of the struggle in southern by the general development can be very strongly affected become increasingly real and consolidate programme the where the working class lacks reached in South Africa itself certain interests of dangers soweto Defence and development The manoeuvres of imper- of the present time a Manoeuvres impasse leadership of demoralisation not growing South situation the WOrKers develop and only has gains African been the their horror at the viciousness stand up as a man to express symbolism. solidarity is reduced to mere which the real struggle for merely vileness of apartheid serve outrage, condemnation of the expressions this anti-working class govern.

independence stand the bureaucrats wedded to it immediate interests. which can defend their own it is only independent action to protect the persistence of radical noise but serve merely Labourites make every sort of sisters in South Africa, just as with their class brothers and can action Thus Only And in precisely the same The Lib-Lab coalition, and that achieve Real solidarity as obstacles to that of workers in Britain so too inf "Horror" the the is that masks real solidarity abhorrence, "left independent constan behind "lefts" wing" SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 March, 1978

-INTERNATIONAL

WEEK: PROTEST

SOUTH AFRICA

NOT ENOUGH

few years increasingly vulner- made in struggle over the last The Vorster government won't be moved by protest offensive a state-imperialist their living standards. workers to regain and defend at the same time to head off struggit Page 3 British

PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Repor ban on public demonstrations for two months.

10,000 students has had to be postponed because of the police national demonstration on this issue, expected to attract over cút in real terms over recent protest against the low level of grants which have been greatly Students march through Birmingham last weekend to

CONTINUE TO BE THE

Of THE EDUCATIONAZ SYSTEMA

SECOND CLASU CITIZENS

WHy SHOULD WE toR DETTER GRANTI years by massive inflation EDuCATION argued books of companies shedding full pay, the opening of the demands for work sharing on gramme to fight unemploy- immediate wanted plant Coventry chaired by Colin the Trades Council is timely.

average and the trend contin- works President break the Lib-Lab labour, a ment on to outline briefly a pro- "political Convenot at Poole and Lil Smith, TGWU NUPE full-time official Roger shop investigation into the findings of a Coventry Work- Penington, who outlined the heard speeches from John uing upwards the initiative by unemployment in the A Socialist Press supporter The conference, which was and Investigation which questions" systell issues, and went Trades separate GEC's Stoke campaign to those of public coalition, included Lindsay, Council from who youth; the restoration and recruitment of unemployed ticeships, training and further through expansion of appren- new jobs in prosa most week with no loss of pay; the moves the cuts in public expenditure; both the private and public loss of jobs in Coventry in labour exchanges. fare organise facilities to be made available ment by calling for full union organised trade union move- to build their links with the of unemployed workers, and sion. been put forward for discus- education call for systematic re-training sector (eg. campaigns and legal and wel- ployed at reduced rates, to unem 2. To prevent the further 1. To combat the isolation rights To create permanent towards members union redundancies through advice at the schemes; Coventry (eg. overtime; and 35-hour the problems of tumbling living standards, mass socialist planned economy.

repressive state endently to overthrow capitalism, destroy its the working class, its need to organise indep- we put forward instead a programme which unspoken coalition arrangement.

bourgeois politicians of the Liberal Party in an national and sexual oppression.

unemployment, slashed social services, racial, 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 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 - now firmly harnessed to the independent class interests of machinery and establish a another

FOR FE.

conference of Fianna Fail, he imperialism. gesture

AIR GRANTS

TUDENTS

the relationship between the committee which will study announced. the setting up of a = the against recently opportunist South and British held

FURTHER

of Ireland's self determina- their conversion to the cause Dail, Fine Gael and the Irish main opposition parties in the these wretched collaborators of the Labour Party also announced Not to be outdone, While Lynch was making empty

DEMONSTRATE

A FULL CRANT

SSA SAYS

NO CUTS

FOR ALL

gestures

QUOTAS

Ine

ORGANISE THE UNEMPLOYED

"Trades Council Action discuss the setting-up of a unionists in an individual delegates dare legislation against those who a whole battery of repressive living standards and jobs and day face increased attacks on by Irish workers who every of course be taken seriously.

North and South should not scrambles by Irish politicians workers, city now above the nationa!

Redundancy" Unemployment Committee ference in Coventry to capacity attended a con- These With unemployment in the Some 40 unemployed to speak trade and opportunist

OLL

against against union trade and result of an IRA incendiary deaths of twelve people at the North continues. intendant. Dublin Special Branch Super- will be headed by a former mittees and union branches.

factory shop stewards other half for delegates from unemployed workers, and the Committee the Trades Council is that half of in the Labour Party. and fight for a new leadership oust Meanwhile the war in the The 40-man squad will be A 3-point programme has The proposal from the continuous standby, and Mon places on Callaghan and Healey Programme roadhouse should this Actior The tragic com- the the conference campaign. Action form a central part of the very important one and must ation of the unemployed is a jobs). expansion British imperialism. terrorism increased SAS activity. as evidenced by arrests and alist population in the North, repression against the nation- used the tragedy to increase the twelve victims and have shedding crocodile tears over agree that the Trades Council The call for the organis- Following the discussion Individual Circulate of public sector will Committee's went on to defeat and Coventry area. unemployment start a real initiative which could help to progress of this important branches, shop stewards com- affiliations from trade union labour movement asking for would circulate the Coventry rights for all are guaranteed.

republic in which democratic British on both mobilising the working class must mittees, etc. expropral Socialist A revolutionary leadership establish be built, capable fight sides of the border imperialist foreign fight Press follow drive •workers' against capital will out the of Jack Ireland, from about British withdrawal heels of his recent speech of Marcali. Levi blue demin jeans. government. established in the Hungarian town the machines rolling in a million- Strauss company is about to start And pairs-a-year plant which Following close on the The authentic American Levi The

MORE HOT AIR FROM LYNCH

This is part of a five-year joint Five-year venture mae alicion gustate Lynch has made country was Hungary. the Eire North Premier it nas of Hungary unity'. Paper. be included in a future White allowed itself to be seduced into workers' states in Eastern Europe, dollars. 'actively assist in seeking Irish wnose governments trying to solve their this position by tempting offers the west Ine capitalist countries as a result At the same conference he The Stalinist bureaucracy has a chronic trade deticit witn produce called recommendations will credit trom capitalist billain bureaucratic the Irish' problem. favour of a federal solution to sharing' crumble before their.

Labour Northern Social Democratic exporting own economic crisis. eyes, seeing the market. increasingly competitive capitalist sutficient paying up their pound of flesh.

searching around for some way of And that very often means That means exporting more declared themselves in quality to gooas produced with Party, Exported myth of power bureaucracies are more goods obviously sell in the movement and socialists. repression of the Republican clearly anti-terrorist government British imperialism. finger effect the only place in the world licence management do not have to rites straight back capitalist technology back to the on their activities wiere they. are guaranteed protit Marsali plant will be exported capitalist worid Only last week the Lynch Meanwhile And that is where the Levis except designed making Hungary for hard dollars! to increase up an the USA force, elite their and press the IRA any political perspective by the futility of individual acts Hunger so the continued in or of terrorism and the lack o device once again highlights sector in Fast Enthe rivate in the private sector. 10% of total Soviet production is soviet collective tarms means that progressive socialista production the Needless to say the British It has not meant yet that the contradictions produced by and Threatens meata have been political revolutions led by the may evil war more be eas European these countries and of the world.

which international power. Talling Tar, Tar penind the sovie omic power finally be put to use: working class will this vast econ throw of the soviet and tastern Union in the forms of production White House-but they Only with the political over fully benefit the masses of influence the balance of by article and a class symbol in our saying: Times quoted a journalist as dollars For a few more... "What utter nonsense that a Last week the Financial fun distingly democratic cheap because Hungarian plant will be only half is being used, productivity in the tor the Hungarian consumers but factory is not to produce goods of that in San Francisco But that is not so important to Although the same technology Hungarian desperately needed government the Making Russian Steel proportion fifteen times less than private traders and craftsmen in a restricted in private hands. deliberately provided by private craftsmen to over 15,000 and production. ment from the capitalist countries Budapest, of concessions kind nave Kadar bureaucracy Inrouge lax numbe spread or small-scale private trade landscape in Eastern Europe.

wnich This state of affairs has been There And Nearly half of all services are all petrol still Poland the Encouraged is changing the economic i service encouraged by the nas peen much more East Germany two and Hungarian private policies stations and one other example an increasing Union this are 100,000 crattsmer measures 1964. this Europe and the Atlantic. produces 50% more steel than the 1 bureaucratically dominated Soviet production the other side cratic control. significantly undermined.

relations lority or the warsaw pact over the vast and growing military supel economy almos nave been exported under bureau post-October and in those countries to which ally planned towards an economy democratic incapacity to map a way forwar revolutiol threatens the gains of the Octobe But it is also important to see This But 1h• More jeans countries, incredible of tastern: turope ar Americar and nas Advance in the the property simila Union soviet Union bureaucracy's especially advance capable oi constantly relations now

an and involving pattern of Newham NE. heading about doing so. would have any compunction the workers movement. after the next election. avenue orated a 'compromise' plan come from Joe Ashton MP. steam out of the years of answerable to nobody, and pressure, in order to preserve anxiously seeking ways of within the Labour Party. become such a major issue reselection of Labour MPs has once elected, right wing Labour MPs who, freely to dispose of extreme from the dole queue. traditionally linked against capitalist policies, election is seen as a vote Labour candidate in an members, the vote for a ousted elements as was displayed by from disgruntled right wing kind of Ashton hopes to defuse the in the life of each Parliament, proceedings to one fixed time sement, if the MP failed to win endor- tion moves could begin only there Labour Weekly, Ashton elab- for automatic reselection has can only be removed after the existing state of affairs, few vote Labour in order to keep benevolent ing piece in the Daily Mail formed the basis of a mock- Downs Comprehensive. Galina Polshack to Hackney in detente, made little better ution was the latest exercise the gains of the 1917 revol- school and ing the streamlined children visit she found herself teach- the the bourgeoisie? Svetlana endorsement" servants 'extra-bright' lesson in class wartare Millfield. the teaching the children of By ensuring that reselec- Once this hurdle was over, Writing two weeks ago in Latest bid to Right wing MPs have been This is why the call for And, Only a tiny handful of To most Labour Party Their varying experiences This calculated insult to Brought to Britain from which Nikulina What Bristol Grammar established the Labour Party 'visiting' the children at

USSR

each MP most would Major issue for criticism until off rank and

PRESS GANG

and given No avenue exchange wrangling candidates violent resistance a secret a Labour MP is expensive Nikulina doing was eccentrics would the employers, Galina isolating these (who Class against class the the an exchange Labour MP the 'Comrade' take the procedure campaign face militants on the Visit country, teaches gets further chance private School ballot. party Dick Reg Prentice. Taverne, Eddie Griffiths and able pay cheque each month themselves interests of the labour move- are elected to represent the tion there". tribunal and get compensa- dant th pay, snot con they dancy pay, of tasten rio stresses the against the Lib-Lab policies sharpen of right wing MPs means to Labour Party for the ousting fight in the Labour Party.

working class policies. against their reactionary, anti- fight is a political offensive attempt to remove them. Tory press, and would contin- elements would continue to without Ashton's plan such pornographic drawings. claimed to use text books because she ing in refinement. She refused (according to the Mail ments like Millfield. 16.6-equivalent to those in because class sizes in Russian schools", she told the Mail.

and impressed by the conditions best. Moscow) had nothing but the ment and not to provide appeal to the unfair dismissals identical to theirs. every han, Williams and Rodgers- colleagues - Healeys moment was backed to the very last ue to altract Mail with selective schools. tunity to compare compre- Stalinism provided the Mail least louna tne pupils lack• elite British private establish- Stale ana Inal ms views on almost or wanting to avoid such a hensive with a Kremlin sent oppor- This The fact that Labour MPs Ashton has good The only answer to such a But The differing experiences He knows that Prentice Political offensive Marx for Grammar, the Severance pay traditions explains schools campaign against any politically arm the key Is no contrast, they Colleagues with a comfort- could ealtoral support question were wnole teachers with only Ashton with daversery Polshak of the headed full of cabinet reason partly Callag- these only are . concerned to give these reac- Healey coalitionist leadership.

also likely to back the Ashton also emerges in the proposals cut politics out of reselection class living standards! and replace them with people Party want to remove them that sections of the Labour anti-working class ed successive stages of state ship in the Labour Party.

question of political leader- those who wish to detach the sums up the bankruptcy of the present government pay get severance pay. But, with to be altered so that MPs do says: and drive out the Callaghan- of the general fight to remove must be stepped up, as part candidates MPs and replace them with tionary and unrepresentative Labour Parties to ditch reac- fall ad of tie batting to and plan is massively biased in the delighted that the Labour Party tull scale plan as a means of avoiding a beleagured right wingers.

to give added protection to additional appeal position, include Shirley Williams-who advanced by the crypto-Tory them out without a fight!

'golden handshake' tionary prepared to defend working control of wages and other MPs have devotedly support- happening?" policy, scems to clac Asion wno those that are still left" a little longer before storming Rhodes dreamed concluded: basically *Campaign against grammar schools, the up a cheap jibe at the fight Mail with the means to chalk Marx, whole new meaning to class official favourably compare the black kids un- children to stress the poverty of the on Polshak. proletarian progressives pause Britain's grammar schools top Soviet happened, dear reader. central office. sarcasm how the two "simple victory -wilost conaboration. teacher exchange has given a Russian teachers" The fight for the unrestric- Most MPs of course are And union bureaucrats are This But Ashton seems more It is partly because their This "Of course the rules ought Let us not blame all this "This is not a fairy story But "And the moral is ... right can anyone see that desperate effort MPs providing the Daily snoman ? pathetic teachers Delighted Pushkin Desperate up accept but and fight inside the responsible She did her best for a big enough by their choice Constituency advocate = refused procedure from . statement some fared and measures members OU Ashton's actually Ashton Labour the give an for kittens. Militant' laugh- PHOTO: John Sturrock. Report offspring were "left' MPs Eric just gone to 16-pages. tolerated coalition and diehard oppos- support oratory on selected occasions been noted for their capacity Syd Bidwell. Militant group on their new right wing leadership has and youth" and amiably Marxist paper for Labour ingly described paper tame cat has just had government", should feel it describe Tribunite 'lefts', continues to the Militant, Callaghan-Healey leadership.

ition to any fight to oust the with coalition as

PRAISE "MILITANT'

These gentlemen have long Transport First to congratulate the It is more than fitting that combine loyal

'LEFTS' RUSH TO

Arthur Latham and •by The which, like the Callaghan-steel "the Parliamentary Labour's Heffer House's weekly Lib-Lab "the wing" HOtO: Cans Davies, Report and Healey. living, opening the books of action the the decisive government" individuals. of the Cowley TGWU witch- fore that in an expanded 16- coalition in office against the union bureaucracy independent plices. ling to their leaders themselves and grovel- coalition policies of Callaghan left cover for support to the monopolies-serve merely as a alisation the supermarkets and nation- wage front page "demands"-for a independent break in the politics Labour bureaucracy remains such a policy. Course of action is feasible for Labour Liberals and the ousting of as anyone else that without a plan of production" parasitic grip with a socialist "free industry edition calls on "the Labour Militant's an asset to win the endorse- ised militants or opposition of support to the 10 victim- hunt, Militant has not a word page paper, and capitulation cracy goes much further than non to the retormist bureau Unless the question of a Such accomodation to the Yet Militant knows as well The They But Militant's accomoda- It is no coincidence there- viciously hallmark Reformist youth lobby Parliament against unemployment tied to the cost of No coincidence keeps Ine also Is lalsea leaders break таке по a £60 capitalists first working coalition prevents 'left' anti-socialist

PARTY

in lne weer mobilisation article from their from minimum spineless 200 all their Militant "sweep 16-page Lib-Lab accom- Labour class top and youth. working class and TGWU bureaucracy. their cosy relations with the struggle that could jeopardise national are clearly reluctant to give the TGWU bureaucracy to the McCarthyite tactics of head off any move towards government, making the odd intention of doing any such lay behind the Lib-Lab pact.

spirit lation introduced by Benn if prepared to block any legis over the weekend said that leader, speaking in Yorkshire one man who is not. Wedgewood coalitionist of the "socialist' credentials of might retarding the political devel- Militant has already establish- powerful weapon to arm the top echelons of the Labour witch-hunt. steps to campaign against the eagerness and already taken strongly on the question.

the Militant rank and file supporters of independent mobilisation by 'left' noise when necessary to tow the line of the coalition thing. He is quite content to ulal the working class Far from acting as 'a really But the Militant leadership In the Midlands in partic- This is not because some While Benn, of course, has no David Steel, Liberal Party for Benn itself as refused to they Liberals cover Left prominence operation that militant Energy have Benn, a dead weight , the 16-page would expressed sceptical there is Ministe workers and feel reselection of MPs Blocking moves for. SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 March, 1978

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a programme of action. government) and fumbled for five generally pace_and momentum, and for demands sprang to life in 1905 as the Indian capitalists perty the Congress became the pro- collaboration. safe peasant movements into the Congress in 1885 as a means founded the Indian National British history by movement already had a long and customs, mass London. his ('great soul'.) all from arguing and give 5 But this plan misfired, and The was diverting lived theories years movement administration Indian that channels im polenl the this time. developed form. the Swaraj dissatisfied nationalist leading 'Mahatma' gathered = militant vigour- Africa, British (self- was The had

DUL

Inal February 1919. Satyagraha Gandhi continued wartime repression and peasant risings followed erupted throughout the army across the country to Bombay mill-strike alone.

on a completely unprece- strike movement tion. most fusion His League. massively tion with the Rowlatt Acts, which 14 million people, mutinies each workers participated in the aentea enormously, The As a flu epidemic raged all its British repression meteoric other open then British viciousness, and almost League, scale-125,000 formed course broke responded cease- close the kill was Three hundred and seventy- enclosed space with no exit weapons all the faster as a rulers may have been moved, that career", not government to wean it from thousand of the British; only to be non-violent. It was transform them by example.

liate their enemies, only to sought to embarrass or humi- of the ideally pure who never strength-the moral strength (he claimed) was able to the weak, Satyagraha was the only weapon avail- passive resistance. method was non-violent non- Gandhi also ana crowd resull: but they cooperate with it to continue its career of crime, but I will extended critical support to on system, and Gandhi insisted 'truth-force', 'love-force' and 'persistence cooperation "soul-force' The hearts of the colonial = Where passive The Non-cooperation was not sistence a lit rally means distinguishing this from illusory reform projects • IOr Inen Amritsar, an unarmed partial, would was Partial a single essence reached for their times machine-gunned. trapped with called it the cooperate since with resistance moment Gandhi . but this evil become totally unviable. fast-growing professional class particularly attractive to the non-violent tion to all layers, while the ment had an obvious attrac- strategy of cooperation had when Satyagraha was put forward here. the ebb for a truce. many ment. declaring Several factors combined Although The non-cooperation ele- embarrass Gandhi's policy: of the Attraction Congress? the betrayals. certainly wrapped lo Over- solemnly Govern. proved old strikes ends. But they country and are prepared to political labourers political use of labour until dangerous perceive that" it is a most effort violent non-cooperation. within against him. hand-weaving Congress leadership term middle class. directed educational left powers-there Gandhi. weIC "It does not require much Gandhi the can condition thing understand serve political plan of non- was intellect do not fall from educated nobody political make fully the the amnesty Viceroy direction firmly Bardoli was a mere 87,000 alone. would begin-but in Bardoli met, mass civil disobedience the repressive legislation.

prisoners and the lifting of sending an ultimatum to the challenge end at once instructed that this isolated being 5% of all taxes and rents were district of Guntur. Less than Tax ship prevaricated, a local No.

ear, and the programme of violence rule, and an end to the non- independence from colonial aown Congress was industrial action. strike betweeen peasants on rent- louder If these demands were not While the Congress leader- But Gandhi turned a deaf The demands for complete campaign began in the 87,000 people now moved himself independent paid loyal The and which policy population for until more to Gandhi's workers even scaled demanded political Gandhi urgent. became unity

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summarised. and was prolonged and intricate images of Hollywood epic.

different Gandhi's individual participa- national them. had nourished and advanced the their oaths of allegiance to these Eastern children from nobility, the Western power British nation. revered. He figures as a was compassion of the great dignity that aroused the Indian people forward in saintly hero who led the man Mohandas hands down as history, which the Gandhi's political The reality of the Indian movement In the colourful myths 5 mighty then moved a gesture cannot from respected movement, naturally Gandhi is a Empire bourgeoisie of noble of equal glossy which free and and

ATTORNEY

By David Whitfield ticularly seriously increasing of £20,000. initiated by the army. hangings and bombings was and out the Punjab". on those who that he had wounded. non-violence well most famous but more especially through point of view, not only on moral effect from a military nine Amritsar Dyer Martial law was imposed, General Dyer proclaimed an orgy were killed, 1,200 received a pension Strikes aimed for incident were present only the shootings; In a end of the next year! anteed to win Swaraj by the resolutely to adopt Gandhi's were drawn into the massive oped, years. action, process and workers, when a gradual who had little to gain from a perspectives, which he guar- Congress only strike wave in early 1920. But tance during the next two movement continued its resis- been dissolved revolutionary struggles. spontaneous militancy could even tionary stage no alternative revolu- ensure them imperialist rule by peasants violent Marxist substitute barely conceived, Indian Communist Party was India. position in a self-governing As economic crisis devel- The critical moment had Crucially, there was at this No alternative the most Dul direction leadership million overthrow reform moved more tne by Gandhi's determined and not conscious privileged national workers would The needs little comment. But the the and, when they have acquired ment of the labourers lot, and shown to provide the basis dropped. campaign reference to Ahmedabad sporadically, payment of taxes and rents.

campaign, where the peasants advocated a later stage of the lated into action sinister character when trans apologetics their manufactures" the spirit of patriotism, for liberalisi Such activities had been Local This In 1920 Gandhi had also regulation workers remarkable homily Dropped campaigns erupted was take or Congress -Tax but would of prices of decisively a more refuse the

INDIAN

place for the direct better.

proprietors labourers to raise themselves hand. present, therefore, would be for the have had such an importan by their employers of the manulactures even to demand proper us "The "Strikes, therefore, for the Ine Statu in which they only evolution take Page 6

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday Ma decent manner. so as to enable them to keep expected of them work for the common good to insist on their rights and to become better informed improve their own condition.

Cantuibus can meter is to labourers body and soul together in bettered their own condition sudden, and until they have "This can make greatest hardly all of a politica

Gandhi as their saviour, and a left-wing emerged within years, the labour movement movement was disorientated imprisonment, artesita ine next monta. lays nent had reached a new peak sack in full swing. ›y the end of 1928 he was minister). Jawaharlal Nehru (later prime leader the Congress led by youth militancy matured politically, grew powerfully. and disorganised for several had passed. released after two; the crisis were made when Gandhi was nation gave way hat year), and demands for nearly and conlal Although the strike move- The right wing sought out Although sentenced were lost cynicism-no 32 million Subhas directives. Released organisation and ine by strikes Bose to apathy SiX working Conster- hallonal protests years and was fire, broke ranks to fraternise the confrontation two Hindu deaths and casualties. firing were sent in and wholesale alist leaders. Armoured cars the arrest of the local nation- infantry platoons refused to composed of Moslems, but in Peshawar to protest against demonstrations broke out in by the native bourgeoisie.

within the restrictions sought paign was not to be contained masses themselves. the violent militancy of the movement attempts to divert the mass many and walked out of the arena channels were frustrated by diversion.

1O1OW

In April 1930, angry mass The Great Soul stood up, The I eI struggle, Armoured cars from independence combatants nim into a again crowas British troops contaent that into hundreas Gandhi's would placid were new istration. Sholapur was signed. the Irwin-Gandhi Agreement released to attend. In March, January Round Table Conference in was driven under the government, which operated the capitalists began attempts established their own admin- uous. the disturbances were contin- nationalist movement. seen as oped in response to what was hartals and mass strikes devel- Interests were severeiy mi and aale most nirea tnugs to carry. ment, industrial workers held centred in Bombay, where British At the height of this move- An even greater wave of This negotiate. British Limited gain vicious repression to Ramsay an attack and The agreement to convene the sty McDorald, a week Gandhi The government Lacoul on the oul lls This was did Gandhi with the Aga Khan struggles. be freed to develop necessary Gandhi, Indian of demolishing the reputation exception, and in the process •Indian masses. long. and bourgeois politicians are no material cows is necessary to the vital history could not tolerate for fill a 'Great Soul' bureaucracy founding, and later became Party leadership of the proletariat.

behind Iessons to the dictates of the Stalinist almost fanatically subservient problems even revolutionary socialist part!

assured by the absence of a political The slaughter of sacred The prestige Inflated 'soul' critical vacuum which these was Indian

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interests was inflated to conditions, the of Mohandas fraught Inel The herds of workers wil macpenaenl Communist before peasantry ruture with the the was reluctantly militants movement. Throughout the country were stunned, followed The Round Table Conference, January 1931 these but above mentioned." give rein to both the forces growing party of violence.

"To sit still would be to on May 5, 1930. istration moved to arrest him struggles, the colonial admin- control that Gandhi could no longer class that disobe soldier and re the obeys later apostl of on vengeance. likelihood cannot criminal troops: Hindu sonaarily cooperation, he am i Gand This oa br th interest and Attack action accumulating with between years the une its leadership. the to crack return London capitulation entirely extremely England'. excluded the movement Mussolini, Congress from with when wing. 1934. Pakistani and Indian states.

Hindu-Moslem fanatic, incensed at Gandhi's political declarations liberation complete to see Ine veroal The end finally came when was partition opposition Bose and shot rivalries of the left- bourgeois a Hindu acknow of the elected further But the history. and its revolutionary struggles omenon can only be under- mythical figure that the image of Gandhi as a remain of how the leadership for liberation. sive history of modern India taken A full analysis of this phen- regained great popular power cannot be denied that Gandhi workers and peasants. be accepted by the Indian of this persistent traitor could revolutionary struggles. munist ed by the international com- the Marxist analysis develop- bourgeoisie in the epoch of stand as a model of the role conform in every respect to impertalist playea Crucially dominance Nonetheless Firstly, But the central problems The trusting within a universally politics of Gandhi movemen it must be sak distortion loyalty, decay. comprehen- democratic . followed Gandhi's through They strikes, across the class to stifle such precedents of bourgeois leaders of Congress Indian peasants into conflict almost exclusively at the rent pacifist beliefs. ment was not the product of cational activities. Their state- Satyagraha campaign. demned with Indian landlords. temperance reform and edu- programme lured and conduct' at Chauri. extend the action, they mittee met on February 12, 194L. It was a priority for the Criticism In it's place, chestracte Congress Working struggle, Far from working to which had 'united' national which the "inhuman spinning, brought Chaura, directed entire cut con- anised the British rule as the unorg- ted organisers. operate as the totally unelec- that his own followers should paign, violent, non-cooperation cam- once on January 26, 1930, he was the first Independence Day' demonstrations to celebrate the organised violent force of [non-violence] as well against itself felt ... It is my purpose than the British Viceroy: intentions to no less a person Gandhi made control of the Congress' salling set in motion that force "The party of violence is No plan of action more public, but in a letter violent force of the ground No plan confided given complete and making agreemenu was suppressed imperi hands of the withdr opmer and court- city police All Congress. and and MacDonalo assurance isolation. May ience." hearts of the rulers". erent civil resistance of many spiritual media... The indiff.

their potency when their use spiritual instruments suffer in become present confined ine taught has not touched the clear to through needs to be a Patna in .. In the Congress dangers; non utionary bound incapable edited they vi.

direct with hopes closely bourgeoisie. prompt the two. within was leader and a false prophet!'

price, ana lull the inalan masse.

imperialism no matter what the tear of the masses own property. permanent rar trom . Leon Trotsky, July 25, 1939 staggie tremble prevent with reforms Britishr thei bourgeoisie revolution, with British every the SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday March 8, 19.78: anxiety any way the fact that great do not seek to minimise in has in the past occurred, and more formidable nature than Sikhs. has penetrated to the rural affected by the non-cooper- London in alarm: were killed. peasants stormed and burned situation i prepared for government embittered and sullen... The throughout the country are Mohammedan been anected tain areas the peasantry have anon movement towns Chauri the village police station in "A large proportion of the "The lower classes in the The Viceroy reported to A few days later, Condemned have been Chaura; 22 police caused disorder of a population India •allahol seriously In cer- angry are frighten nobody" the world that plete independence). endence ment to Purma Swaraj (com- forced to declare its commit- mount was even passed. for four years before sentence detainees were held in prison Jury Meerut. March 1929 and removed to leader Almost every working showed for a year. Congress narrowly carried a vote for widespread, the complete independence were Gandhi But pressure continued to

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Whenever 'left' MPs or critically Coalition and its suppor- and with the right wing! Workers campaign by challenging the support every supporting Party! Socialist against P7ОЧ0: their name we demand that vary present situation. our general orientation in the Labour battles, we place upon Labour will resistance of the capitalists.

Labour in defence of their encourage workers to demand put it in office independently Labour we will help them to government". "workers' form the programme of the which should in our opinion those develop same time, we indefatigably capitalist reaction. And at the them government. upon the road of struggle for they socialist programme' sums up While the specific demands While the workers support "On this road we promise (Transitional Programme) workers' the bourgeoisie break transitional demands Orientation the agitation openly particular support politically from 'Left' Mikardo slogan and implement and capitalist farmers' farmers' around 'Force against enter class PHOTO: John Smith, IFL warns the working class not that to trust its leaders; explains revolutionary. elections. to stand in its own name in critical electoral there is no barrier in principle remains important. working class. In doing so a broken; we must convince the vince ourselves that the Lib- Coalition. union branches into this fight coalitionists. candidates and the removal of adoption the same time fighting for the vote in bye-elections, while at mass reformist party that we expose all the wings of the the task of seizing power.

and working class can test out best means through which the to force Labour to implement institute a planned economy.

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revolutionary towards the construction of a reformism begin struggle. wings alike, must be exposed Labour Party, 'left' and right struggle the working ment of the consciousness of certain stage in the develop- from the policies-and now not towards syndicalism but cal roots in the trade unions.

independence. It has histori- Labour even the poltical parties-ol In this way To break these roots, the We do Concluded Party can be rerusal lo break party capable class and its break workers represents a because the those who Callaghan directed political from

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 8 March, 1978 Perspectives recently adopted by the Workers Socialist League.

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working conditions. strong TGWU prefer their members. bureaucrats to win even the in last weaken their strike-as happened Workers Socialist League.

withdrawn ensure the Garner strike replies to every again to the inability of union recognition strike testifies yet Garners Steak House union otticials who want to isolate and strike. the police to limit pickets to tour succeeded sea tnan to take up a determined MOSt Garners -six number, and taking steps to Strikers Officials weeks for a TGWU official Abrahams in After its sixth week the fishall union workers anytning to Tor elementary rights for year's hotel unionisation with no outsiders

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Coventry men at GEC Stoke plant the dispute, AUEW officials to end Saturdays. blacking ! and GEC stay out The AUEW official Jim Griffin In a mass meeting held last Despite extend and strengthen the A strike committee is needed maintenance, must demand Region claim the officials argued strikers, have backdated to 300 store- implement desperate pickets tinance however, plant's voted

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full the The Liaison Committee conference Critical support the Company brought a court the elections. winger, Duffy, and the Broad the plant will never be solved.

the problems of low pay in fight government policy then should pay out. therefore pay pole, many therefore demands do not conflict with attitude of the unions is that ment pay policy. say they conflict with govern- and the demands of the storemen 10% pay talks computer operators. now sharpened by a strike by injunction, computer room ended when in the union's Left candidate, Bob Wright, choice between the right personnel In the current round of In the current sell-out over AUEW members in the Unless GEC workers come The terms with operators because they and refuses to consider national month claim weakness to Wright GEC has offered but the strike is the wage

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presidential claim neea to тасе present the ted otherwise. rightward shift of many of its shift to the right by the background of a massive cracy. remove even the most elementary Wright. hinder for five years and opposed to the right wing. the rank and file the Broad Left position. Convent any challenge on to er cedure are a blatant move to consolidate wing and Chapple in the EETPU the right wing lack of principled differences with strike centred on the implemen- emerged from Wright. wing principled alternative to the right where, few could have expec- Communist closest ly active involvement in this interests. ising the providing the means of mobil- ment. Lib-Lab coalition govern- in its commitment to the trade union bureaucracy Conference on 4 March Defence of Trade Unions Committee practice workers beyond the Broad Left in of Wright struggle to oust the union bureau.

to negotiations with the EETPU.

(which the Broad Let neiped te of the the election standing in cannot openly go over completely cratic Broad Lett reveal in practice thei week, to the call tor an over.

(a 7.9% rise) and the 35-houı more bankrupt than usual i readersnip conditions Considering the increasing- The We stand for the exposure This In order to retain their base in Accordingly it proved even This is why Socialist Press From the dropping or tn right wing ban and a two-day protest entrenca between the AUEW right rate for skilled workers manoeuvre

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buredu would the has own a mounting offensive on the Party: Murray, George ing over the betrayals of the Committee, spoke strongly workers by the TGWU a position on the victims- supporter was Right to Work Campaign. between the LCDTU and the "decent and class was to blame. porter) fully supported the hand as every and avoid a vote being taken.

heavy pressure to withdraw it debating the FBU's resolution strongly strike. into the meeting which voted provide an interesting insight member metal Workers on by the defensive of the movement labour leaders (in a number conference speakers in cover- Leyland's Cowley factory.

victimisations of militants at were eloquently answered by capitalist state but from their unions, independence LCDTU may have for living disarray victim of the anti-commun- man Kevin Halpin-himself a convened representatives. attacks conference to condemn the Alan Thornett and called on against Albion Motors Shop Stewards gate from demanding the plattorm take conclusion tal was a Communist Party sup seemingly been agreed before one old and of cases themselves) with talk up to its name in the race or comerence Despite this grovelling it The central theme of the Following several hastily Tommy Gorman, a dele- Poticeo calist Workers General As a TUC General Council And any pretensions the He saw refusal to

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Parry Central theme bureaucratic speakers (who "Fairly big" not only from the Guy of the Sheet- the he said, Grovelling and out opposed Right discussions, who threw British Leyland's the was Secretary organisers electec honest unity' witch-hunt confusion by did was set the working oppose

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LIAISON COMMITTEE

OI members" treacherous role in containing referred strike. trially and hailing demarcation ing Star had carried glowing had in industry an end to the selling of jobs venor Sammy Barr called for eral Secretary and President.

Moss Evans and Bob Wright forward to a new era' with usual disposed of it was business as convenience many more abstaining. less than two-to-one, with as far from widespread, with the

TGWU"

announced that though it was ist purge by Fords in 1962- tearing similarities for comfort.

union Garners Steak Houses, whose

TUC

imposed by APEX and the the strike within the limits a fitting comment on their were now dead and buried is long influence in the Council Council Secretary complete without a contri- backed conference would be reigns on Clydeside. collaboration been virtually that movement of labour agree- on shipbuilders' jobs through fellow Stalinist Jimmy Airlie the truth about how he and enlightening if Barr had told

AUEW

vote "settled "internal a 'fairly big issue' it was an warning for the speaker from Durkin, Dution Irom Jack Dromey compuments The fact that both of them It would have been more Govan TGWU and AUEW Gen- Syd With this unexpected in Support for this ruling was Fitting comment The previous day's Morn spearheaded the struggle "politically and indus- "fratricidal and divisive showing a majority rights has too was Collaboration Harro way, responsible' ine Communist and. convenor. and Shipbuilders matter President

ROUTINE AGAIN!

major that bureaucratically "sophisticated' ended", have aisputes to une job-protecting as though it Brent had which along with

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utionary the workers movement. leaders and construct a revol- nise the need to go beyond struggle workers will Callaghan-Healey leadership.

movement Labour and campaign throughout the Lab coalition that imposed it take action to break the Lib- oppose those 'left' MPs that claim to of the Lib-Lab coalition.

from the reactionary policies Workers This means a clean break the the ban on marches leadership. and rhetoric . course mus trade oust of these demand within recog- this the ation struggles in Angola and building traditions of heroic, empire- to recognise the inevitable.

Rhodesians have been driven security forces. their bases by the Rhodesian punitive raids Patriotic Bishop Muzorewa. by the repentant sinner, impossible objective. attempts to achieve imperial- diplomatic "shuttles" to form strung together by notorious OVeL ually increasing their control rule prospect of SIll S The guerrilla armies of the After the victorious liber- For all their heritage Smith's agreement to the Conferences unDIoken Zimbabwe, inflicted on Boundaries supremacy Reverend not spirit, necessary the line the despite the and the Sithole or act converted majority of futile contin white of but liberation before the struggles of the establish remaining have avidly seized the only Muzorewa and Chief Chirau free (white) men. of this once proud nation of from the impending wreckage salvage racist leaders have elected to protracted civil war their only greater activity. racialist that would impel revolution- alternalive, disarray and slow deteat in aly Smith's forces 'interrogate blacks For their With opposition some their neartlana Salvage their opportunity armies wordly economy within Rhodesian authority Sithole, consign goods the that white farmers will fight Succeer and its chane success that it will renounce its battle not given the subtlest hint life expectancy understandably reluctant to nationalist southern Africa. ditions of revolutionary fer- markedly improved. interim regime of such brief gIVE neighbouring ment within the whole of has simply ment' has settled nothing. It It is barely conceivable The Patriotic Front has The Exodus altered the con- leaders Diessing Stales now bourgeois of will be the the Lib-Lab coalition! the labour movement-Break agents of imperialism out of black liberation armies! material Muzorewa-Smith regime! ment bodies demanding: resolutions in labour move- sell up the fight against this latest struggles of the Zimbabwean betray figures willing and able to masses for self-determination.

Throw Build *No recognition to -2 days British socialists must take shoddy OUl movement suport from attempt, and the political deal revolutionary right with wing pass and any blow warning the thundering about preserving the spawning ground for the has himself had the temerity lo describe Tory "peace on the streets. Merlyn fascists. social standards conditions of falling living implementing Tory policies National Front-when Healey recruiting selves as anti-fascists. Lab cabinet parading them- up Callaghan's right wing Lib.

queue millionaires that make arch wage-cutters and dole the sickening spectacle of the this fact. And Denis Healey, for instance, They have been treated to Spawning ground leader created services that provide Rees Home practice officer movement Chancellor Thatcher evelt the decimated Secretary Tor social Willie as a and Wiard,

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jobs and working conditions.

defence of living standards, independent movement confronted by a the ballot box. It must be defeated peacefully through of anti-union, racist thugs.

brutalised and vicious squads fascist politics of the NF.

spread revulsion against the consolidating whose The It is an expression of wide- supporters NF mobilised into struggi cannot are workers' Rees now

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and the black leaders. trying their hardest to fabri- gloomy seems between British could black chiefs and clerics.

Smith and the 'settlement' between lan much jubilation over the been able to summon up cale "Too little and too late' Not even the imperial- a suitable governments governments accuse "Shuttles" response. white compromise gang Nobody US settlers general not Nkomo Tories was less than •anti-working class than those that counts is that a Labour ing any great comfort from it is hard to see workers draw.

offer policies to benefit the a party completely unable to exhibited for all to see as in previous by-elections.

had expected, and less than Healey. undertaken by Callaghan and measures even more viciously implement would sweep General of 5,500 turned into a Tory majority majority of nearly 800 was win. limiting the size of the Tory bourgeois most cynical observers in the coat-tails of the Liberal Party, working class, and tied to the Labour's But Of course the swing to the If this were repeated in a The Anti-working class sole since Election, "achievement" press, "achievement" Labour battery power, to Thatcher stressing was breast beating of reformist thanks under such conditions is no was reduced to ministers. approval -to for additional forces to police is openly talking of the need Merlyn Rees. by police sent into action by National Front are blocked drivers should they strike similar measures would be scabbing the marches. leaders self-professed move by workers to crush the was followed by threats that 1926 General Strike-and wa National Front meetings and usca to graeral tormen Now every independent That the National Front And the Police Federation The firemen's strike saw most general against from government effort forces massive murmurs peltol hypocritical 2,500 votes anti-fascist since military tanker

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Crushing answer 'to Lib-Lab policies for the Labour leadership are point working conditions. and concerted attacks on record policy, social service cuts, rigid of nearly three years of at Ilford-a defeat born suffered a crushing defeat cohorts of servile apologist: chiming in unison with the It is The at a time wage-cutting worth making this Labour unemployment when the Party pay reflection nuge police squads to protect mass pickets at Grunwick and thousands of police turned class. mobilisation of the working attack apparatus to hold back and ment turn by the Lib-Lab govern- cratic rights is just the latest the London area. ban on marches throughout Last This attack on basic demo escoll scaos larougl use sullin 01 independent increasing state sa v