Workers Press no. 1078

workers press THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY OUR FOREIGN

CORRESPONDENT

LAST WEEK'S Milan bomb outrage has created a grave crisis in Italy. The extreme right has taken the offensive to bring about the con- ditions for a fascist coup d'etat. According to the 'New York Times' , the Central Intelligence Agency ended financial sup- port for the Christian Demo- crats six years ago. It now plans to 'play the fascist card" in order to smash the Italian working class. The technique is to create dis- order by provocations and out- rages to screen the preparations to establish a right-wing dictator- ship. Neo-fascist groups have now been clearly implicated as res- ponsible for the Milan explosion, which killed one person and in- jured 40 others at a ceremony attended by top government officials. The bomb attack has greatly worsened the crisis of premier Giulio Andreotti's government, which has turned a blind eye to fascist provocations or blamed left-wing groups. His centre-right coalition now depends on the fascist vote to keep its majority in parliament.

Workers struck in many fac- tories in protest against the Milan explosion. The Italian Communist Party's only action against this extreme the right was a danger from 'general strike' half-hour in Milan. The Stalinists issued a joint statement with anti-working class parties in Tuscany calling for the defence 'of the institutions origi- , in- nating from the Resistance' stead of calling for independent bring working-class action to down the government and take power. Events in Italy show the ex- treme desperation of the capital- ist class throughout the world.

The rulers are determined to solve their crisis through the des- truction of the working class.

The counter-revolutionary actions of the Stalinists expose the work- ing class to grave dangers.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MAY 22, 1973 • No 1078 • 4p

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Bomber Bertoli exposed as provocateur

FASCISTS

INITALY

GIANFRANO BERTOLI,

the man who threw the grenade in Milan during a ceremony of top government officials has been exposed as las posing cIst provocateur 888n anarchica links with fascist groups from 1954 when he anti-communist organization called the *Peace group. 'Peace and Liberty' was founded at the height of by count, Edgardo cold War a monarchist Sogno. He had links with the M16 and the

CIA

from the and later worked for war

NATO

sycars and Paris. His movement was London dedicated to anti-trade union activities, especially around Fiat factories in Turin. Bertoli has also been exposed as a member of 'Ordine

NUOVO.

bara mulay Tascist orcaniza tion. He took part in attacks on workers on strike demonstrations of left-wing Although and groups. the his Male was police severa occasions, action has ever been taken against no him, probably because he had police connections.

Several important questions concerning Bertolf's action last week remain unanswered. Just before Milan, arriving he had made a long- ourney Marseille rom israel. ne nao been a member or a kibbutz called Karmyah, near Gaza, for years, where he was noted for his anti-communism. WHERE did he obtain the money for the long trip Workers on a short strike in the Milan area against last week's grenade to Milan? blast. This completely inadequate policy has been forced on them by the HOW did he know that the ceremony commemorat- Communist Party. chief Calabresi's assassination was to take place on that day? Gold panic at new peak

£100,000 PARTY BUILDING

GOLD panic reached a new about the British optimism economy peak in London yesterday As gold rose, the dollar once WE ARE keeping up the

FUND

after the price was officially again fell in relation to European The pound floated Yesterday's post up pace. fixed at $112.50 an ounce, $2.58 and DaLILy brought in £219.80, which $7 up on Friday's closing similar sharp tnere were rises in £68; Lancaster £2; Ford's the of the German mark brings our total so far price. In Paris the price rose Engine Plant, Dagenham and the collected to £24,336.49. to $114.34 an ounce. The achievement of this new £5.65. peak in the feverish flight Socialist Labour League The London stock exchange paper currency coincided with Post all donations to: fall under Washington branches sent in: Southall began to the impact opening the Morse much-fanfared internatonal monelary COm- £100; Tooting £12; Batter- Party Building Fund crisis, and the *Financial Times mittee on international monetary index shed 6.6 points by 2 p.m.

reform. 186a Clapham High Street sea £3; Dagenham £3.65; The gold price gives an accurate The fall was attributed to the Paddington London, SW4 7UG £25: Oxford world with TaCT une uncertain Dicture Contempl money situation caused weakness which this committee noW which counter-acted government regarded by the world's financiers.

workers press THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY OUR FOREIGN

CORRESPONDENT

LAST WEEK'S Milan bomb outrage has created a grave crisis in Italy. The extreme right has taken the offensive to bring about the con- ditions for a fascist coup d'etat. According to the 'New York Times', the Central Intelligence financial ended

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port for the Christian Demo- crats six vears aco. plans to 'play the fascist card' smash the Italian working class. The technique is to create dis- order by provocations and out- preparations rages to screen to establish a right-wing dictator ship. Neo-fascist have now groups been clearly implicated res- the Milan jured filed or perso cered in others attended governical oucials. The bomb attack has greatly worsened the of crisis premier VUlO Anareoc s covernment. which has turned a blind eye to fascist blamed provocations left-wing groups

MISI

centre-non connor ow depends on the fascist vote to parliament. keep its majority in Workers fac- struck tories protest against The Milan The Italian Communist Party's extreme danger from the right was half-hour 'general Milan. Stalinists issued statement with anti-working class Tuscany parties in calling for the 'of the •erence Insulations 011x1- from the Resistance', of calling for independent bring working-class

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tne government and power. Events in Italy the of the capital- show trenne desperalon ist class throughout The determined solve their crisis through the des- trucuon class. The counter-revolutionary actions of the Stalinists expose the work- Ing class to slave caligers.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MAY 22, 1973 • No 1078 • 4p Bomber Bertoli

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exposed as provocateur

FASCISTS

INITALY

the man who threw the hand grenade in Milan during a ceremony of top government officials, fas has been exposed He provocateur posing links with fascist groups from 1954 when he joined anti-communist organization called 'Peace and liberty 'Peace and Liberty' was founded at the height of Co• monarchist cagarac Sogno He had links with the MI6 and the

CIA

from the and later worked for

NATO

years and Paris. His movement was dedicated to Lone Ot pro-US anti-communism. It is known to have carried anti-trade union activities, especially around Fiat factories in Turin. Bertoli has also been exposed as a member of 'Ordine NuVe tion. He took part in attacks on workers on strike and demonstrations of left-wing groups. Although his was several action has against occasions. ever been taken him, probably because he had police connections.

important questions concerning Bertoli's several action last week remain arriving Milan, he had made a lona-journey via Ma sere on sider hence deen a. member of a kibbutz called Karmyah, near Gaza, for two years, where he his anti-communism. wasne, o

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did he obtain the long trip Workers on a short strike in the Milan area against last week's grenade money for une to Milan? blast. This completely inadequate policy has been forced on them by the HOW did he know that the ceremony commemorat- Communist Party. police chief Calabresi's assassination was Gold panic at new peak

£100,000 PARTY BUILDING

GOLD panic reached a new about the British optimism clonully. peak in London yesterday As gold rose. the dollar once WE ARE keeping up the

FUND

after the price was officially again fell in relation to European The pound floated up Yesterday's post pace. fixed at $112.50 an ounce, $2.58 and OI ficw Dallly brought in £219.80, which $7 up on Friday's closing where were rises £68; Lancaster £2; Ford's the of the German mark pae French franc. brings our total so far price. In Paris the price rose Engine Plant, Dagenham and the collected to £24,336.49. to $114.34 an ounce. The achievement of this new £5.65 in the feverish flight peak IrOm Socialist Labour League exchange The London stock paper currency coincided with Post all donations to: fall the Washington of branches sent in: Southall began under impact opening Morse much-tantared intemnauondi monetary £100; Tooting £12; Batter- Party Building Fund crisis, and the 'Financial Times' mittee on international monetary index shed points by 2 p.m. 186a Clapham High Street sea £3; Dagenham £3.65; The fall The gold price gives an accurate was attributed to the Paddington £25; Oxford London, SW4 7UG with world

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Lial une uncertain bICLule money situation caused weakness Wiicr which counter-acted government regarded by the world's financiers.

PAGE 2 Workers Prace, Tuesday May 22, 1973 Nixon's 'Year of Europe' in jeopardy

WHAT WE THINK

Watergate Withdraw the gunboats from Icelandic heralds slump waters The decision by the Tory government to violate Icelandic waters and air space by the des- patch of fully-armed frigates, torpedo-carrying DIVISIONS within the ruling: class which lie that one say dare or cannessm is coot behind the Nixon scandal are coming more and 'ugly face of capitalism' is not con- fined to Lonrho. more into the open on the question of rela- It is the normal expression of Tory imperialism rendered no which less hideous by the tions between the United States and western sickening hypocrisy and chauvinism of Harold Wilson. Europe. British gunboats—-contrary to this reformist and Tory patron-are in Icelandic As the flood of revelations undermines the Presi- his Wales no! defend trawlermen, but defend the dent's authority there is mounting fear among the super-profits of the huge iood-processing and European bourgeoisie that the most savagely pro- fishing combines which have already reaped slump faction of the US capitalists will triumph.

bonanza by price increases

OTTONS

Heath's so-called allowed under Counter- The Common Market employers fear that Nixon Inflation Act. will now be unable to continue with the 'Year of The same government which helps them by Europe' plans outlined by his national security adviser soaking British workers with VAT and price Dr Henry Kissinger, who is now himself implicated increases now provides them with a naval in the web of scandal. armada paid for and maintained by the taxes wrung out of the working class-so that they The of basic conception

BY JOHN SPENCER

can continue to charge extortionate prices to this formation is the Diall and untold profits from nousewives Wiz! (kassinger called the poverty of British trawlermen and the New Atlantic Alliance, of linked Hence the fear in Europe helpless agony of Icelandic fishermen!

opened by a series that Nixon might be forced British gunboats 'defend' the Hull and Grimsby necomanons or uade mone. of and the idea tary questions, troop reduc- office trawlermen like Harold Wilson's troops while Nixon may be a tions and European security.

That of Belfast 'defended' Catholic workers the crook he's the best Presi- been oversaken by e aires.

But this has already Wilsons codswallop is mistaking dogish yes Derry Anyone believes dent the world has got This as hypocritical theme salmon! Nixon song sung by Paul the White House with thể British labour has nothing in common with the US Lewis; editor of the powerful section of monopolies who The Icelandie 'Financial grasping want expro- Times' yesterday: priate the icelandic isheries Robert Helms ex-CIA boss with 'Whatever his ing more and more deter- personal to ban Brith planes from din bases arts mined that he must go. popularity at home Trade ing to office get thinner and Bill — regarded as British planes bases and abroad, the Common Market .

For them it is not a ques- thinner essential if the multi-lateral British ships from its disputed waters. and the tion counties of Nixon Heath's "protection' is the protection afforded the very important indica- laks are to make members Atlantic dual, nor conducting in ogress truthis nestion opposition ot by an imperialist freebooter for those who likely to find tion the break-up some to icean tod in Congress, but return relations at the in the about top keep him in power. He has no mandate to United council States the state- 1112 may unarmed 'undeclared' war an decimated by resignations Oc all Richard any. President elected in the nation which relies entirely on fishing for its resulting from the Watergate implicating the President in American Wilson -and has no mandate affair. the the decision enlist Unleashed support him either. Central The chief international Intelligence Lewis points to the strong War against Iceland is inevitable so long as the cover-up operation negotiator, feeling in Congress that the fishing and food monopolies remain in pri- after the Watergate burglary.

Eberle, his deputy, Harald The moneyed interests President's freedom of Malmgren, with together so long as a lory government which stand behind the Vale nanas, should Helms ; is a former director manuchri remains in Westminster; and so long as right- other stafi members in the Post' "Washington the of the CIA and is current trade team, are threatening and Callaghan re Times' are inter- negotiation: ambassador to Iran. wing leaders like Wilson 'New York trade due to hand in their resignations main at the helm of the Labour Party.

ested, above all, in clear- in September, and tha they are subordinated the decks for all-out A settlement of the cod problem demands: Carsons Decimated execumve trade war and deflation. Europe be reduced, regard- Forcing the Tories to resign.

director of the White House less reaction from the • A Labour They ore negotiation with council international government pledged to socialist European governments negotiation with the Europeans, but in terms His statement adds policies and shorn of its right-wing rump.

economic policy • Nationalization testimony and without compensation Here is vet This assumes, course, already given by workers' control of the fishing in- dication that the US admini.

under Nixon is that still there McCord, Market to one of the is breaking up and •ine Common dustry. conduct kind any talks Unlike bourgeois must be told • Complete opposition to every form of chau- that divisions over the Market conomil with Commor McCord, Helms is not American terms and try- policy Towaros The Test vinism and complete interna- and Japan. ing to get reduction in a support racking pite American ruling capitalist world shower me British Icelandic tional solidarity of and the uncontrollable deflation And with every day that prison passes, his chances of cling- that is being unleashed. workers. Not only will Nixon's cass. The case of Andrew Cunningham Government curbs Bureaucratic action caused Rhodesian African riots deep and bitter hatred of these IN 1970 Andrew Cunningham

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Lace unlon •reducals. was a powertul figure in the Yet let's look at how they north-east labour had other close ranks. Last the Movestil Cunningham also He was regional officer of the with the regional council financial ot luterests ALLAN SAVORY, the Rhodesia Party leader whose pregnant General and Municipal Wor- Poulson empire. confidence both he and his passed vote wife, Freda, Cunningham's leadership- -despite kers' Union in charge of the wife was injured in a riot at Harari African township, near what had Wake. affairs of some 100,000 Salisbury, on Sunday night, said he thought the government's field public workers in the shipyards, consultant and man of influence.

despite the fact that he is head curbs on Africans might be behind the trouble.

On the management side against gasworks and local factories.

Poulson 'gravy train' As police squads armed with the holidays Cunninghams

LOOK

Wi acco al Icast unle automatic Ine roting was an echo of the He was also a member in Nice and Portugal. While the chairmansalps, al weapons widespread fighting that the 28-man National Executive Cunninghams were living it up Newcastle Airport. into the township gas moved broke Salisbury sub. the the important following Committee

(NEC)

of the riot, Savory Lui i cabl The other union bureaucrats UroS Party, power-brokers ne cool have been Labour Consenteds the Pearce Commission sent by

LUC

aIso trade movement, things policy-making body; chairman accommodating themselves with Tories and fix a "Africans are becoming embit- try dea different brother were vastly Labour Party conference at Backs Cunningham. with Smith. Then of the northern region

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suct tales •as com. memocr Party; chairman of the Durham punishment and bar cur- Alricans stonea Waltes Helens Con he NEC re-elected is the sacked burned shops

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Police Authority; chairman of They were out on the stones Transport th when the wrecked cars and buses. Tyneside Passenger Trans- Pilkington the the giant glass

WILY

viience is vene sumed us General government The Smith ana by the way the regime has recently port Authority; chairman of the actones were Sucker Roy Union Grantham's carrying on ane the management the glass introduced savage new legislation continued their Northumbrian River Authoritv support.

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And the leadership of The riot monopoly Cunningham in Harari was one of aesignea to repress the mounting Durham County Councillor; enabled resistance among the

G&MWU

two Salisbury Sundar and a Justice of the Peace.

scrape home in the polling.

black majority. ningham nothing night. In town- SIS - ala Cunningham has now From these public oppose the company's decision. been ship, about two miles away, Afri Under decrees, appoint- whole moved from many of his public other When the men asked the union . stonings communities collectively cans as they alle

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Lal s Call posts. left Cunningham was drawing and the TUC nor assistance. Lucy punisnea l any are suspected ol salary. He were turned down the most But he still a full-time match. The rioting Harari associating with and extremely fashion. official of the three hopes spread the edge city Africans allowed sleek lived cynical union the laguar are not now alil €15,000 the bungalow latest centre before police were able to rcyclaliulis sce DaLs dilel seven Chester-le-Street. Cunningham engender until his retirement at 65. contain it. in the evening. Case

JOHNSTONEN

MR JOHNSTONE'S letter raises important issues of principle which he has failed to answer. Because of the considerable lapse of time between the original statement of Comrade Slaughter (see Workers Press, March 14, 1973—'A Stalinist Humbug Reappears') and the reply of Mr Johnstone, we feel that it is necessary to briefly recapitulate the main charges made against Johnstone. Comrade Slaughter stated that so long as Johnstone refuses to clear up a number of vital poli- tical questions, the Socialist La- bour League reserves the right itself against the to protect of provocative and danger planned and deliberate distor- tion'. Our principal objection to his attending SLL meetings was the fact that, prior to becoming a prominent apologist for counter-revolutionary policies of Stalin and the Stalinist regimes in eastern Europe and the Sta- linist parties in the west, John- stone member of the was Trotskyist Revolutionary Com- munist Party for two years.

He had, in this period, access to the major works of Trotsky and he knew well the leaders of the RCP. Even more significant he joined the RCP at a time when Trotskyism was being calumniated as an agercy of Nazism. For this Comrade reason Slaughter asked him to explain politically his remarkable change.

Until he did so, he would re- main suspect and would be as a person who entered treated the RCP as an agent of Sta- linism. Curiously Mr Johnstone in his extremely belated reply consci- ously avoids this legitimate doubt and dismiss it as tries to 'phantasmagoric and unverifiable assertion' which reflects on our 'veracity'. Does Mr Johnstone now deny the fact that he was a member of the RCP for two years and was acquainted with the Trot- skyist critiques of Stalinism?

Or does he want only to dis- embarrass himself of the sus- picion of being a Stalinist agent in the RCP? Since Mr Johnstone does not in explicitly deny having been the RCP, we must infer that he OVER 2,000 motor cycle wor- kers will meet today at BSA- Triumph, Meriden, near Coven- try to give their answer to a savage attack on wages and conditions. Management at the crisis- ridden company has asked the men to accept a 10-per-cent cut in wages and up to 25 per cent redundancies. Other proposals include the loss of the average earnings rule for untimed piece- work and the introduction of time-study in the plant. It is understood that the joint shop stewards have already re- jected the plans put to them by local management last Thurs- day. The confrontation is the cul- mination of the crisis at BSA- Triumph, which began earlier' this year when shares plunged down to a value of 4.5p. Management and union offi- to push cials used this scare through a reduction in the wait- ing time allowance by 25p to is only. interested to repudiate the suspicion of being an agent. If this is so, it does not re- solve or clarify our doubts about Johnstone's motives in joining the RCP and then leaving it for the Communist party. It is no good playing • around with dates-1943 or 1945?-the real issue is that Johnstone does Trotskyists, then return to the CP leadership. He does not reply, nor gives us an explana- tron. Nor is Johnstone's political credibility rating buttressed by the plea that he defended the pre-war and post-war frame-up trials of Stalin 'in the naive belief that it was not conceivable Sinyavsky and Daniel in court. Johnston self from the jailings, frame-ups and mur unconvincing. that workers' states would en- gage in such judicial . murders'. Coming from a person who was already familiar with Trot- this argument to skyism, say the least seems inappropriate and disingenuous.' He forgets' that we are here discussing the lessons and res- ponsibilities of the whole post- war experience of the working class and the Marxist movement.

Stalinism is not just a matter of abuses, even if harsh words 'frame-up' and "crime' like are used as in Johnstone's letter. It is a political question: what are the causes of the degeneration of the international communist movement and the Soviet state is the point where these crimes against the : working class were committed? Johnstone does play a special role. Like the right-wing leaders of the Communist Party of Italy, £l an hour as a step towards placing a ceiling on piecework earnings. caused divisions in the This labour forcesome were per- suaded that cuts were the only way to save the firm and others insisted on defending basic rights and wage levels. Now the uncertainty has vanished. As one worker said yesterday: 'We were conned once-we are not going to be conned again. We are fighting this one out.' Already night-shift workers at the plant have met and accepted stewards' recommendation the to reject the plans. At last Thursday's meeting management rounded on the men blamed their industrial and action for company losses. They also said that an assessment of the firm's performance, which agreed, led to the cut already 'incorrect. The stewards was even if higher were told that produciion was kept up over 12 he wants a liberalization of Sta- linism, not a struggle against it.

Like them, he is for the 'with- drawal of the criminal charges against Trotsky', only because he believes that 'reasonableness' on this score makes it easier to fight Trotskyism politically.

Having written tens of thou- sands of words on these ques- tions, Johnstone has come down on the side of Stalin's 'socialism in a single country. This was a policy than the more 'realistic' Bolshevik programme of Trotsky • and the Left Opposition. Of course it was precisely on Johnstone's attempts to dissociate him- s'and murders by the Stalinists are very these 'realistic' that grounds thousands of liberals and anti- communists sided with Stalin against Trotsky. They had never sympathized with communism as but a revolutionary movement, easily sympathized with the Sta- linist bureaucratic rule.

Mr Johnstone's attempt. to dissociate himself from the im- prisonment of Daniel and the murder of Rajk Sinyavsky, and the frame-up of Trotskyists and Old Bolsheviks in the 1930s Moscow Trials is not only dis- ingenuous, but very unconvinc- ing.. if Mr Johnstone Of course Moscow review the wants to Trials and withdraw the 'criminal charges' against Trotsky, we would certainly not oppose him.

But we feel that a single oblique reference to the Trials in an statement hardly obscure amounts even to support for the for period months, losses the would amount to £1.56m. There can be no doubt that the campaign to destroy hard- won rights and conditions at the Meriden plant has the full backing of the Tory government.

government is supporting The a bid by Manganese Bronze to take over the firm with £3.6m and the cuts are the Tory strings do this deal. If, as expected, the workers to fight the company's decide onslaught, they must be backed by the whole labour movement.

BSA-Triumph is in trouble not because of the workers, but because of the total inability of British capitalism to compete with its international rivals.

Workers should reject this attempt to make them pay for the crisis and demand that the unions mobilize to remove the Tory government and re-elect nationalize Labour pledged to concerns like BSA without com- pensation. Workers Press, Tu rehabilitation of Trotsky-let alone a public struggle for it.

aw any case, it isinat the wits- charges' drawal against Trotsky which the strug- gle for historical truth demands.

The charges against Trotsky were political chärges, first and foremost. They grew out of a whole against Trot- campaign sky's theory of permanent re- volution, critique 'socialism in a single country', his struggle for greater equality and democracy and for a more rational and less convulsive de- velopment of industry and agri- culture. Johnstone will not face up to some questions: if Stalin's eco- nomic and political policies were correct as against Trotsky, why did they entail such crimes? Were the Soviet state and the international workers' movement infiltrated by criminals?

We know that it is Utopian to imagine a workers' state with- out abuses and distortions of democracy which have to be combated. But were the state, the Bolshevik Party, the Com- munist International and all the states of eastern Europe except Yugoslavia taken over by the and organizers of perpetrators these crimes? To ensure their control they physically liquidated every op- they could lay their ponent hands on. They turned the state security organs of the USSR and the world's communist parties instruments. of into 'counter- revolution and subjected the in- ternational working class to historic defeats (1926-1927 in

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How can Mr Johnstone review the Trials while leaving the Byzantine system which orga- nized them intact? Didn't Johnstone, after all, write these deathless words in his debate with Krasso and Mandel: The most negative features of Stalinism spotlighted by. Trotsky have been disman- ter- tled.' (Trotsky-The Great De- bate Renewed'-New Critics Press. USA.)

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T&GWU chiel, Jack Jones, wlth AUEW president, Hugh Scanlon, outside 10 Downing St to take part in talks with Heath.

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Workers Press, Tuesday May Arthur Lynn (31), is a Vaux- hall, Luton, shop steward: The Labour When I first saw the Workers Press I was a bit sceptical but after a while I realized it had a lot to say.

I'd seen a girl standing out- side the factory and I thought what can one little girl do support of the without the whole working class? I was on the brink of join- ing either the Labour Party or the Communist Party or any other party which would defend workers' rights and get down to the job of socializing the country. Since 1969 the intensification of the war on the trade unions and the working class has been dramatic. Yet the trade union Labour leadership and the Party are doing nothing. The trade unions are being slagged off and dragged down in the dust and being made the scapegoats for the country's economic problems. When I first started to read Workers Press I got to under- stand that world capitalism is in a state of collapse and that it is not the fault of the work- ing class. I didn't join the Communist Party because I wasn't im- pressed with what they did in Hungary and the actual state of the workers in countries dominated by them. It's hard to defend what goes on in Russia. The workers are down- trodden because they've got the bureaucracy on top of them. didn't join the Labour I Party because as the years go by you find it harder and harder to explain what they're doing. In 1967 they had no socialist policies whatsoever. I could see they were never going to do anything. I could see that we would never have socialism until Labour took up a fight against capitalism. I decided to join the League because they stand on prin- ciples, genuine Marxist prin- ciples. And the Workers Press is doing a good job explaining to the people of the country what can be done. Marxism provides for genuine socialism which we can't have if we follow the parliamentary esday May 22, 1973 T&GWU chief, Jack Jones, with AUEW t road of the Communist Party.

The League is going to have a complete break with tradition and all those systems which hold down the worker, like religion. Leadership has got to be changed and people have got to be put into positions of power in every facet of the trade unions organization of at a political level who and will fight for the working class and not defend capitalism.

The Labour Party leaders realize that if working-class forces come to the surface they be forced to implement will socialist policies. But they're positions and afraid for their their wealth. If they support the call for a General Election and they get to power they would be forced to carry out socialist.

policies. If they didn't, they'd be kicked out of parliament within a week. This is why the League is because they so important explain these issues clearly and give leadership. The alternative leadership has got to be trained Marxist thinking. Basic Marxist principles have got to be ex- plained so that workers realize what is at stake. h AUEW president, Hugh Scanlon, outside 10 D They've got to be fighters who can make people under- stand and not just drive them We've got to stress away. heavily that what we are pro- posing is the answer. The Labour Party leaders have got to be exposed for the reformists they are. People Labour keep saying why a but they've got government, to be shown these people won't do anything for them. The Workers Press throws everything open, puts every- thing down. It explains why the TUC takes the line it does and why Scanlon and Jones are behaving as they do and why the CP covers for them.

It explains why there is a need for a revolutionary party.

The working class has got to be led. It's powerful, but it won't come forward on its ent own. It's got to explain to people what causes inflation. It's very important for people to know that wages chase prices and not the other way round. The Tories have used • the media to power of the mass advertise glorious and affluent way of life, but when the workers try to obtain this wealth they get kicked in the tside 10 Downing St to take part in talks with F teeth by harsh and vicious laws. You just can't afford holidays every year. You're working to You're in debt to the exist. building society or the rent nan. You cant attora to have feel a ime of work. you slave. You ask yourself 'What am I working for?' You see the massive pro- paganda poured out against the working class. But I've got no carpet, no proper furniture and then you hear them say you're wanting too much money. The TUC and the Labour Party have never come forward • is to explain inflation, which at the crux of the present crisis, and who is responsible. It's only the Workers Press and the League which explains these problems. class don't The working understand the crisis and why there is a recurring question about the economy. At the moment they • are without leadership. They have sold out by the TUC, been 'lefts' and the Labour Party.

They are turning to Liberals because they want change. There's no doubt about it, the working class is searching for leadership. alks with Heath. If the League wasn't trans- formed and built into the revolutionary party I think we'd see the destruction of the trade union movement. They'd ent just become a mouthpiece for the government. I think we'd a police state and the see workers would be kept down.

It is very important that the working class sees there is the a leadership available and our revolutionary party is the leadership. Workers tend to say all political parties are the same.

movement, The trade union by not defending itself against the Tory attacks, by accepting the pay laws, is admitting it is responsible for the crisis.

I think we are really seeing the emergence of the corporate state. Workers are so fed up with what's happened in the last at home, 30 years they stay don't vote without the and League they'd just be dragged down in the dust. Workers know what's needed, but they don't see how to do it. They see their leadership accepting the Tory policies.

What they need is a leadership like the League to explain the situation to them.

CIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

The Socialist Labour League's march on May Day, this year. 'The time has come to show the working class there is an alternative leadership' This is an issue of a transfer of power John Winter is a busman in Transport and General the Workers' Union. After two years of association with the Socialist Labour League he has decided to become a member and help build a large branch in the Salford area of greater Manchester. I think the draft pro- gramme for the party is of the most important one statements ever put before the working class. I think the series of rights summarized at the back outline the struggle the workers of this country will have to fight. The most important is the right to organize in trade unions. It is on this basic right which all the gains we have made are based. The history of the working class shows that nothing has been given to them by the benevolent employer, that so- called privileges have had to be taken and the way the working class has taken them by organizing in trade is unions. Without the trade unions the working class have no rights, they hardly exist as a class at all. major issue is the The removal of the government and the advance to socialism. The long fight can never stop so as about 10 per cent of the population own 80 per cent of all the property. Like the pro- gramme says, this is not a question of reforms and making better, but of taking things the private property from the ruling class and nationalizing it for the good of everyone.

This is an issue of a transfer of power not reforms. And we must tell the working class that this is what we stand for.

The other big emphasis in our policy is the question of the crisis and particularly the role of gold under capitalism.

Since the war, at least, there has been a massive growth of credit and people-capitalists passed and employers—have this around to keep their system going. But this has come to an end.

The Americans have pulled away gold from the currency and the whole thing is in danger of collapse. They call it a crisis of confidence-what really means is that the it is bankrupt and that system the capitalists the only way can sort it out is by attacking the working class harder than they have ever done in history.

The SLL are the only people in the labour movement who are putting this perspective forward. I think the time is ripe for shi the building of the party. What happened to me must have tha happened to thousands of workers. For two or three years I have been around the movement as a vague sym- pathizer. The thing that finally made my mind up was the Tory government. At first I thought they would never get away with it, but they have with the help of the trade union leadership.

They are putting the working The Socialist Labour League's march on class back to where they were 200 years ago. As I say, thousands of wor- kers are coming to realize this.

If they are still confused or demoralized, they are even confused and demoralized over the leadership. We got it all at May Day. We saw in Man- chester all the leaders there— 'left' and right. We were called disruptors because we were trying to show people how rotten this leader- ship was. But who were the disruptors. We now find out that even when May Day was on, the TUC leaders were in secret talks with the Tories over more controls on wages.

The time has come to show the working class there is an to this kind of alternative leadership, to show them they have strength and the power to get rid of the Tories, the only thing that is keeping this government going ing is that rotten leadership.

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They have a crisis, so they take it out on other countries, by say, devaluing the dollar.

But personally I am bearing with the crisis because I am better off than other youth.

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ime has come to show the working class there I don't have a future in this country because racialism is •I am against Indian. me. National Front candidates work on the same shop-floor as me.

When I say I'm going back to India in two years' time, they tell me I'm doing no good to this country, but if I say I'm staying here, they they say won't work with me, because they don't want a black boss.

they're Whatever 1 say, against me. These ideas come from capitalism and you can only change them by build- ing the revolutionary party.

that's it Ken (30) from Leicester is dis- abled and unemployed. I may sound a bit personal about this because I got polio 12 years ago, and it may sound nasty, but I really wish 3 Press, Tuesday May 22, 1973 PAGE 5 lass there is an alternative leadership.'

there were more people treated like me and my family,. to make them see how serious things really are. To support a wife and two kids I get £14.75 a week Social Security. That's it, When you live like us, it does turn you bitter about it. We've been made not to trust anybody.

The SLL seem to be among the few people we can speak to without feeling we aren't being got at, really. Mind you, more and more people are getting like us with what's happening - rising prices, wage control, equiva- lent to wage cuts, etc. I think it's necessary to build a revo- lutionary party because of the struggle to manage. We have to sling out all these right-wing leaders and replace them with workers. The SLL seem to be the only ones who have definite plans, like organizing a revo- lutionary party.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday May 22, 1973

THE NIXON ARMS AND

MUNITIONS CO. LTD.

In February this year Air Force Major General W. S.

Harrell retired from service at the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. A two-day celebration was staged to mark the occasion. This included a dress parade, a cocktail party, a banquet, a fly-past by 12 F106s and 16 FIOIs, B57s, F104s and T33s. The fly.

51-page required a number of rehearsals.

past booklet was prepared for the occasion and distributed base. Senator officers and wives the among on Proxmire complained about the ritual, stating that it cost 'tens of thousands of dollars'. He noted that there are 375 other major generals in the US army, air force and marine corps. 'If all the other general flag officers of our military are treated equally, the amount spent annually for retirement ceremonies must be stagger- drawn to the wild wastage of ing? The attention money at the Montana USAF base is only a minute fraction of the sums involved in defence contracts each year. The munitions and arms manufacturers are in fact in the throes of a boom-despite the run- down in the Vietnam war machine.

507 sh Sa se m SO di A Elliot Richardson, former Defence Secretary—now the Attorney-General-designate, he is known as a vigorous advocate Vietnam. Top left: Nixon. Above right: Loading bombers on board of arms Above left: F5 fighter in South peddling. 'Constellation' in the Gulf of Tonkin

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517 A recent survey by the 'Wall Street Journal' showed that US arms sales to foreign govern- ments 'are booming as never before. The con- tinued exports to foreign countries, Middle least and East and the South America, is keep- ing the US in first place among the world's arms sellers. Sales on a government-to- government basis are expected to reach $4 billion this finan- June 30. cial ending year That's roughly double the of $914m. 1970 sales Aside from these govern- ment -to-government deals, more than $500m in arms was traded directly buyers to so-called 'commercial' deals. Vice-Admiral Ray Peet, director the Pentagon's Defence Assistance Security Agency (the Americans always Smirsch-like names for choose this kind of outfit) is well ous advocate rs on board pleased with the figures.

'We're doing two and three times the sales of the early and mid-1960s,' he main reason for the sharp increase in sales is the ready availability of US arms and the advantage of good purchasing terms. Both these conditions are attributable to administration the Nixon which, according to the 'Wall Street Journal', has shown a 'new, more tolerant attitude towards arms selling. During the late 1960s the Johnson administration came under Congressional attack for too aggressive arms-selling to underdeveloped countries. The result was legislative restric- tions on sales in Latin America and Africa. The Nixon crowd want these limitations removed. "The go-slow has been aban- doned, said one Nixon aide in a recent interview. Secretary of State William Rogers ex- plained to congress: 'If US isn't available, equipment Latin American countries will go elsewhere' major hawk is But the Elliot Richardson, the former Secretary, Defence whom Nixon has just chosen as his Attorney - General - designate.

Richardson, who is now in charge of the inquiries into the been a Watergate affair, has vigorous advocate of arms- peddling. According to him, business lost by Us companies Latin America not only hurt the US balance of payments, but has also deprived us of the opportunity for the kinds of relationships that can be maintained established and through co-operation in train- ing and maintenance of equip- ment provided'. Translated into practical English this means the follow- ing: loss of military sales means the loss of US imperial- influence in Latin ism's America. On the effect of arms sales on the US balance of pay- ments, Richardson says: nations now have the 'Many capability to pay either cash on the barrelhead for their purchases from us or buy with the help of credits annually authorized by the Congress.'

Of the $3.45 billion in arms sold abroad in 1972, only $550m was financed with US credits; the rest was in cash.

The arms-sellers have been Workers Press, Tue quick to notice the shift in administration policy. An executive of one leading said: munitions group "There's a much stronger feel- ing on the part of the admin- istration these days to en- We're getting courage sales. better co-operation from our embassies and Military Assist- ance Advisory Groups.' The Vietnam war has also been a splendid testing ground for arms manufacturers. They to conduct have been able operational experiments with their weapons and come up sophisticated and with more reliable equipment. At a recent Washington General Creighton party, Abrams, the army chief-of- staff in' South Vietnam, brag- ged that the US army had gained one 'long-unmention- able' thing from the war- 'battle experience'. He said: 'This reservoir of combat experience is un- anywhere in the matched world and will be a source of strength for years to come?

In recent months these are some of the deals which US have manufacturers arms sealed: Press, Tuesday May 22, 1973 PAGE 7 • Northrop Corporation an- that it nounced expected orders for its new F5E 'inter- national fighter' to 'ultimately Northrop also about 30 per cent of its busi- national in Roughly 300 of the total will be pur- chased by the Pentagon-at undisclosed prices-—and 'given' to poorer nations. The FE programme, boasts Northrop, 'will contribute nearly $2 billion to US exports'. • The Pentagon has disclosed that the Shah of Iran has placed orders for 489 helicop- ters that will cost $720m. This forms part of the $2 billion in arms purchases by the dictat- orial regime during the past two and a half years. The will be built by 'choppers' Taxtron Inc's Bell Aerospace The McDonnell Company. Douglas Corporation has been supplying F4 fighter bombers, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation has been building C130 trans- Northrop FEs and ports, Boeing 707s as • aerial refuel- lers. The Iran air force will be so powerful that in some fields it will be even stronger than similar USAF divisions. A recent issue of the 'Armed Forces Journal' noted: With [the helicopter] deliveries to Iran beginning in 1974, the US Army is faced with the paradox of a friendly nation having more capable helicopters than the US pos- in the older model sesses Hueys and Cobras.' Delicate negotiations have already com- menced for Iran to buy the McDonnell Douglas F15 fighter just going into produc- tion. Last month the McDonnell Douglas group declared a rise in its first quarter earnings to $34.4m, or $1.08 a share, which was $21.8m or 69 cents a share up on the previous quarter last year. Sales spurted from $587.4m in the first quarter 1972 to $816.3m this year.

Despite the rundown in US forces in Vietnam, the Penta- gon is still shelling out hefty arms contracts. In a single day this month the following con- tracts were awarded: • United Aircraft Corpora- tion's Pratt and Whitney division received a $31.4m contract for engineering ser- vices for various military jet aircraft engines. • Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason Company obtained a $10.7m addition to a pre- viously awarded army contract for operating the Cornhusker Ammunition Plant, Grand Island, Nebraska. • Boeing Company was awarded a $5.72m Air Force contract for launching of test targets in the Safeguard ballistic missile defence system. • General Electric Company obtained a $4.4m Navy award for nuclear ship propulsion components. • Maxwell Laboratories Inc, San Diego, received a $3.5m Army contract for construc- of an X-ray tion and tests simulation facility. These daily hand-outs to arms industry the keep the US imperialists as the biggest spenders in the world on the indus- death and destruction try. Money is being made avail- such a fantastic rate able at that servicemen are being em- ployed in the most bizarre projects to help engrandise the military establishment.

It was recently disclosed that 100 men at the Cameron Military Station in Virginia 50 per cent of their spend time making exhibits, hook.

photos, slide ends, metal shows, display for cases medals, guns and maps, pistol boxes, displays of ammunition, framed invitations, murals and Pentagon-shaped cigar boxes.

These expense, are presen- ted to retiring generals, admir- als and high-ranking Pentagon civilians.

TROTSKYISM

AND STALINISM

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuasday May 22, 1873 Since May-June 1968, the Soviet Stalinists have been haunted by the spectre of revolution in western Europe and the growth of Trotskyism in the advanced countries in the west. Fearful of losing their parasitic privileges at home and their control of the labour movement abroad, the Soviet bureaucracy has again discredit and distort the begun a campaign to once principles and history of Trotsky's struggle for the regenera- tion of the USSR and the world-wide revolution of the work- ing class. The Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1972 published 'Against Trotskyism', a compendium of docu- ments, articles, extracts, speeches and resolutions aimed at dis- crediting Trotskyism and distorting completely the truth about the relations between Lenin and Trotsky. In this series of articles MICHAEL BANDA replies to this book.

Trotsky's attitude towards a centralized disciplined party In his book, "The Stalin and his attempts to 'conciliate' between Bolshevik School of Falsification, the and Menshevik wings of the Rus- Leon Trotsky succinctly sian Social-Democratic Labour exposes the contradic- Party. This brought him sharply tions which determine into conflict with Lenin, who the Stalinist campaign correctly criticized him for against Trotskyism. the obstructing exposure of Menshevism and failing 'Members of the American to recognize that there could be bourgeoisie,' he said, 'many of conciliation with oppor- no whom descendants of are tunism. British having convicts, The Stalinists, in their eager- acquired the requisite number Lenin's pol- ness to magnify millions. of feel the urge emics against Trotsky during equip themselves with a res- this period, however, have pectable geneology, drawn pre- omitted to mention how Lenin ferably from the Kings of himself characterized Trotsky's Scotland. position immediately after the "The Soviet bureaucracy, 1917. seizure of power in likewise, after raising itself At the November 1, 1917, above the revolutionary class, help conference of the Petrograd could not experiencing Bolshevik Lenin the need. in proportion as it committee. independent came into bitter conflict with entrenched its the right wing of the Bolshevik positions, for such an ideology as would justify its exceptional Party which wanted to com- positions and insure it against promise and share the power dissatisfaction from below.

with the opportunists. them in the It is for this that He attacked reason such colossal success has been following words: 'As compromise-I attained by the alteration, per- for a cannot even speak about that version and outright counter- Trotsky said long feiting of the revolutionary seriously. ago that unification is impos- past, still so recent. 'However, the contradictions sible. Trotsky understood this of the economic process and and from that time on there of the world situation do not has been no better Bolshevik!' words, Lenin allow the bureaucracy to rest In other re- peacefully on the laurels of garded Trotsky's previous difference with Bolshevism national socialism. as 'The of the a past episode, without in the convulsions obstruct official policy the least minimizing its importance.

Trotsky freely admitted that erection of a new theory as With on the question of the party well as a new tradition. he had been mistaken and every maior historical zigzag Lenin had been right. they are compelled to revamp history all over again.' When Stalin and his sup- added: 'Consequently porters were trying to hound the official history of the party him from the party after his and of the revolution Lenin's death, position rep- between 1903 and 1917 resents, at the present time, was against him scroll which various brought up by on of selected quotations scribes have written as the means spirit moved them—each scribe and falsifications. Zinovier and Kamener who very much unconcerned with what another has had entered into un- written or, an principled Stalin in part, and the same alliance with one concerned scribe little against Trotsky in this period very with his writings of yesterday?

later revealed that the legend Trotskyism' had been These words exactly charac- of de. liberately created in this com- terize the book under review.

It is not a history the pletely cynical manner. in Their generally-accepted sense, but campaign was con- a rewriting of history through ducted with extreme virulence.

playing on the most backward the careful and one-sided selec- tion of documents to 'prove' sections of Soviet society in the reverse of what actually order to swamp the opposition happened. with sheer weight of numbers Quotations torn out of con- and sheer tonnage of lies.

Rebutting these lies, Trotsky text are brought together with the hack outpourings of the his letter to under Stalin. At the Bureau bureaucrats History the same time all quotations that although he had voted favourably reflect with the future Mensheviks at which on Trotsky rigorously the second

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ex- congress, are he had and cluded. broken politically differences between The organizationally from Men- Lenin and Trotsky prior shevism in 1904. to 1917 turned key The main reason, he wrote, on two The first questions. was 'my irreconcilable conflict Above: Stalin, Rykov, Kamenev and Zir Stalin against Trotsky In the perlod afte Deputies, 1917, shows Trotsky (second with Menshevism upon the questions of bourgeois liberal- ism and the perspectives of the revolution itself. In the same letter he pointed out the defects of using , the biographical method in reach- ing decisions about political principles. the example of gave Franz Mehring who became a Marxist only in his maturity but remained one until his death, while Eduard Bernstein, Engels' literary executor, and Karl Kautsky, long the leading of the German theoretician movement, both went over to reformism. Challenging Stalin and his Trotsky went on: supporters, 'During the time when I stood outside the Bolshevik Party during that period when my differences with Bolshevism reached their highest point, the distance separating me lict from the views of Lenin was v and Zinoviev. The latter two entered into erlod after Lenin's death. Top: The Petrograd S (second row, seventh from lett) as one of its never as great as the distance which separates the present position of Stalin-Bukharin from the very foundations of Marxism-Leninism.' In their campaign against Trotskyism, Stalin and the group around him made great play of Trotsky's political record before 1917. All this material is dutifully regur- gitated by the hacks of the his Institute for Marxism-Leninism.

They concentrate much of their virulence against the theory of the permanent revolu- tion, slandered in the preface theory which 'questioned as a the hegemony of the prole- bourgeois-demo- tariat in the cratic revolution and denied the revolutionary potentialities of the peasantry as an ally of the proletariat' This description of the theory is outright and an thoroughgoing lie. The Stalin- ists did not dare attack this C red Into an unprincipled alliance with etrograd Sovlet of Workers' and Soldiers' one of its members. theory during the period be- tween the October revolution and Lenin's death. They 'discovered' Trotsky's 'scepticism' about the revolu- tionary role of the working class and his 'denial' of the revolutionary potential of the peasants only after Lenin had died. Prior to this, as Trotsky tartly pointed out in his 'History of the Russian Re- volution, his theory was officially referred to as "the original and especially now famous theory of Permanent Revolution, asserting that the bourgeois revolution of 1905 would go directly over into a socialist revolution and prove the first of a series of national revolutions' '. (Quotation is from to the Complete the note Works of Lenin', published during his life.)

CONTINUED TOMORROW

Seven thousand workers at the Boulogne-Billan- court plant of the na- tionalized Renault con- cern returned to work earlier this month with- out winning their de- mands. The men had been locked out by the management fol- lowing a strike of nearly 400 semi-skilled workers in the body press shop which began in the middle of March. This strike of mainly immigrant workers for improved condi- tions and upgrading broke out despite the Communist Party- controlled union (CGT) and continued against its wishes.

The press-shop strikers won their principal demands-but not full pay for the days lost through the strike-after turn- ing down the first compromise proposed by the CGT. The Stalinist-controlled CGT dominates Renault and could have closed down the plant to back the press-shop men. But it refused to do so.

It was forced to put itself at the head of the strike to pre- vent it snowballing out of control, as it had done in May 1968. The strikes spread to other Renault factories at Flins and Sandouville, mainly involv- ing the lowest-paid workers, also including many immi- grants. Work had already re- sumed at these plants while negotiations were going on.

With secondary school and university students out on the streets in their tens of thous- ands against the call-up and for educational reform, the Stalinists feared a link-up with workers and a new revo- lutionary situation. That is why, when the 7,000 Renault men went on strike to pay for the working win full days lost through the press- shop strike, the CGT also had to put itself in the lead in order to keep the movement under control. But when the management showed that it had no inten- tion of satisfying a demand which would cost it large sums of money every time one section of the plant was affected by a strike, the Stalinists prepared the way for a return to work. The CP daily 'L'Humanité' points the lesson—to the em- ployers—of the Renault strike.

It is to begin negotiations im- mediately with the trade unions whenever a dispute breaks out—we will do the rest. 'Serious negotiations from the beginning with the work- ers of the press shop, imme- diate discussion about reclassi- fication would have avoided the loss of 50,000 vehicles— we use the figure advanced by the secretary-general of the Renault firm. Instead of that there was trickery, and the dispute resumed several on occasions. The state hoped to divide the workers, isolate them and, at the same time, strike a blow at the national Self - styled 'Anti - Stalinist' protest poet Yevgenny Yevtus- chenko has been accused by former writer friends of being a 'traitor' and a 'greedy adven- turer' writers, Soviet Vassily Axyonov and Grigory Pos- chenyan both circulated open letters last month in the USSR, not being able to find a news- paper which would print their statements. Yevtuschenko had made an open attack on both writers in the Moscow Literature News- paper'. Axyonov and Pos- chenyan replied by breaking enterprise. by inflicting heavy losses on it. The Stalinist daily shows more concern for the well- being of Renault and its lost production than it does for most of them the workers, low paid immigrants, working under intolerable conditions of speed-up in the outdated Billancourt plant. Working in tacit collusion with the management, the CGT on May 2 was able to ensure that the plant opened normally. According to a Press statement: "The workers have suspen- ded their movement... They have decided to act in their workshops to back their de- mands for the full satisfaction of their claim for reclassifi- cation, full payment of the hours lost and the withdrawal of sacking notices? As a result of the Renault strikes 25 workers have been sacked at Flins and • five at Billancourt for alleged acts of violence and breaches of dis- cipline. Yevgenny Yevtuschenko off their 20-year-old friendship with hin. Their main accusation was that Yevtuschenko had . be- trayed his old literary friends and won political comfort and security for himself by making a public attack on them. •factory a Renault workers leaving , the recent strikes the CGT had to put itself i movement under control, and to prepar The Stalinists try to hide a retreat, claiming that it was in accordance with the workers.

In fact nothing has been won that is what is for sure: meant by 'the struggle con- tinues'. The CGT now re- sumes negotiations on the old style with the workers back the assembly line after a on strike which achieved nothing.

Renault has issued a state- ment which says: Relations between the management and the trade unions in Renault will not be changed by the which just conflict has ended... We continue to be- contractual that the lieve policy is the best one and we intention of de- have no nouncing the agreement in being.' As a sop to the workers, works committee, con- the trolled by the Stalinists, dis- tributed meal tickets to the victims of the lock-out to cover the period up to the next pay day on May 7. In fact the workers are not at all demoralized. They were Polish Press and radio have been ordered to begin a cam- paign against ideological weak- in the face of western ening influences in a strongly-worded article by Party secretary Jerzy Lukasiewicz. The article carried a hint of new censorship restrictions and a purge of Polish radio and TV. 3 Newspapers were criti- cized for their fascination with foreign trends and for making serious propaganda errors.

'We are striving to increase of the the responsibility editors-in-chief for the political their magazines content of 'We writes Lukasiewicz. are also analysing the cadre situa- tion of the Polish radio and television.' The Polish bureaucracy is clamping down on the few re- maining traces of 'liberaliza- tion' in the media which open the way to criticism of its own rule. Workers Press, T factory at Boulogne-Billancourt. In the put itself in the lead in order to keep the to prepare the way for a return to work.

under pressure forçed back from their own leaders be- cause they had practically no -financial resources. There are plenty of pre- cedents for the CGT betrayal, going right back to 1936 when CP secretary Maurice Thorez' slogan. 'It is necessary to know when to end a strike got the workers out of •.. the factories which they had occupied. Although the Renault work- ers are back, nothing has been solved in the relations be- tween the classes in France.

The Stalinists have had great difficulty in containing the strike mood and they recog- nize that bigger tests are approaching. Combativity is rising in the factories in many parts of the country. It is especially high among the young and lower Now, paid unskilled workers. unlike 1968, the immigrant workers are not afraid of coming forward with their demands.

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BY ROYSTON BULL

REFORMIST hopes for re- moving the 'lump' in the building industry, centred on Eric Heffer's private mem- bers' Bill, collapsed when the Bill was talked out in the House of Commons last Friday. An embarrassed Heffer tried to cover his confusion at the mass meeting in Central Hall-follow- ing the building workers' London demonstration and lobby. Because no one expected the Bill to be reached last Friday, there were not enough Labour to vote a Tory off MPs around his feet at 4 p.m. in a closure 50 were pre- motion. Just over sent and 100 were required. The Bill, therefore, goes back to the bottom of the private members' Bills list, which means it is lost for good, unless Heffer is lucky again in the ballot next October.

Building workers jeered his cover-up for the inadequacies of parliamentarism. Communist Party member Jack Henry, plus other Stalinists in the meeting inter- vened to plead for a fair hearing.

Heffer, said one Stalinist, 'has done more for our cause than rest of parliament put the together'. But whatever Heffer's explana- tion, 200 Labour MPs over building thought the of fate workers not important enough to be worth hanging round West- minster for on a Friday afternoon in case the Bill was called.

ABINGDON: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. Above New Top Taxis, Ock Street. 'Stalinism and the strug- gle to defend democratic rights.'

BATTERSEA: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. 'Nags Wands- Head, cnr Street. "The worth Road/North economic crisis and the rising cost of living'

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Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. Brixton Training Centre, Control Room. 'The Economic Crisis and what it means for the working class'. DAGENHAM: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue. "The inflationary crisis and the rising cost of liv- ing'. TOTTENHAM: Thursday May 24 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms' ', High Road, nr White Hart Lane.

READING: Tuesday, May 22, The T&GWU offices, 8 p.m. King's Road. "The TUC and Phase Three.' KINGSTON: Wednesday May 23, 8 p.m. Norbiton Hotel, Cliffton Rd.

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HEFFER

Parilamentary excuses for talk-out. When Heffer told the meeting that the next Labour government would make abolishing the 'lump' of its first priorities, the one jeered building workers . even louder. Through the groans and the catcalls, Heffer shouted: 'Listen brothers, I'm on your side.' The London action committee's policy following proposed new the defeat of the Bill is almost Heffer's parlia- as disastrous as mentary moves. They plan a strike campaign isolated building against one contractor, probably Mowlem's, HACKNEY: Wednesday May 23, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Central Hall, Mare Street. Build the Revolutionary Party. HEMEL HEMPSTEAD: Wednes- day May 23, 8 p.m. Adeyfield Hall, Queen's Square, Adeyfield.

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The building employers are prepared for exactly this move. They will make available every beat off such an resource to They are pre- isolated attack. pared to spend millions of pounds to defend the lump. Such an isolated strike cam- paign is doomed from the start.

The long-drawn out guerrilla Bootle strikes like the Inland Revenue strike, the St Thomas's Hospital electricians strike, and others, are not the way forward Workers will be asked to con- tribute money to a single-issue protest which they know will not succeed. Their support cannot be but half-hearted. The fault is NOT, as the CP claims, lack militancy the among building workers. • The fault is that the fight is not being directed to where it should be. Only by demanding that the building trade unions take up the nationalization of for the fight industry without. compensa- the tion and under workers' control, with other unions in join and the battle to defeat the state control of wages by forcing the Tory. government to resign, can in building workers take earnest the struggle against low wages and the fight against the 'lump'. May FULHAM: Thursday 24, "The Swan', Fulham 8 p.m. Broadway. 'Force the TUC to break off talks with the Tories'.

HOLLOWAY: Thursday May 24, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Road. 'Marxism and the trade unions'. LEEDS: Thursday, May 24, 8 p.m.

, Boar Lane. 'The 'Peel Hotel', role of Stalinism in the trade unions.' LUTON: Thursday May 24, 8 p.m.

Recreation Centre, Old Bedford • TUC to break Road. 'Force the er): off talks with the Tories'.

o.m. TONBRIDGE: Thursday May 24, 8 p.m. 'The Foresters', Quarry Hill, Tonbridge. WILLESDEN: Thursday May 24, High Road, Tory N.W.10. 'Forward to the ATUA Conference'.

Massey Ferguson plans new MASSEY FERGUSON, Coventry, may be making a A whole series of proposals for factory reorganization, including MDW, have been made by the company.

But officials say they will be unable to pay the rises which normally go with the new system in full be- cause of the Tory state pay laws.

Management has issued figures for strikes and production hold-ups to back the argument that traditional piecework has become a liability and must stop.

In line with the state pay laws the company is seeking to end the day-by-day negotiations controlled by shop stewards and replace them with a once-a-year agreement reached through talks with full-time trade union officials. According to the factory shop stewards' committee, management's will proposals mean cutting the workforce in the assembly and paint shops by 182, although present pro- duction track speeds will be maintained. This would bring Massey Ferguson considerable savings- 182 men less earning £48 a week would save £452,272 in a year.

Under new wage proposals, the 1,100 remaining workers in the assembly and would paint shops receive a f5 rise (subject to Pay Board approval) for maintaining the same production rate.

Even after the f5 rise, the com- pany would still save £168,272 in a full year. The introduction of

MDW

today has completely different results than when was intro- 1968 durysier plants in Coventry.

duced the No chance In those days workers actually got wage increases and improved Tractors being towed from the assembly Chryslers benefits. total wage bill went up. But at Massey- bility of labour. ..would be intro- increase will be any the duced with the being paid for workers them- unjons prevented and the company will get from 'delaying selves or obstructing the of a handsome bonus as well.

movement employees. The Transport and General The company says: Workers' Union Coventry district organizer, Mr Norman Evans, 'Conversion to Measured-Day told the Coventry 'Evening Tele.

Work no longer requires the re graph' on Mav 3: tention of gang structures.

Em- 'Massey-Ferguson ployees will be regrouped haven't to got a cat in hell's chance of persuad- conform with supervisory res- ponsibilities their workers or work require- to accept ments." Measured-Day Work on the pre- sent terms. What this clause will mean in 'We effect is that all power will believe it is better to taken away from the shop ste- compare the increases under ward and that his "base' system with those of or his piecework Measured-Day gang will disappear. Work and con- sider whether the handing over It is not hard to imagine be- over to the company the control fore long the very company of track labour-loading challenging whole basis the and the full mobility of labour shop steward representation and and having no negotiating rights the even present structure of is worth the extra pound or so.' the stewards' committee. In nutshell this is the The shop stewards themselves Massey-Ferguson's essence of spotlight the danger when they proposals-to all take awav "Measured-Day Work elimi- say: established trade rights union nates the day-to-day negotia- within the Coventry plant. tions over which takes money under the place piecework New models The proposals are announced

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models. Public Meeting 1965 militant shop stewards were £8 to piecework system. Reformism on the Clyde it is obvious that this tim — The Story of UCS. Massey Ferguson plar

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This was not correct. offered €2.88 in ccordan‹ ne government's Phase Two D the laws. but workers have re jected this because they want the 01-720 2000 fier paid in stages to give then i higher platform of earnings

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assembly lines. 'Once Measyred-Day Work is accepted, increases in wages can on an annual review and invari- only be achieved as the ably any such increases are tied to productivity deals which in- clude strings.' This is, of course, an under- statement of the position. It may have been true in the early 1960s, but not now under the Tory state pay laws. • New shop Massey Ferguson's proposals are particularly important at this time because to introduce new models will require a certain amount of capital investment.

A new assembly shop is being constructed to prepare the trac- tor cabs and the production tracks are being increased from two to three in the present • assembly shop. New safety regulations, the tremendous inflation of paper money and increased competition All Trades Unions Alliance Meeting Special dockers' meeting to discuss What next after the accept- ance of casualization?

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Wednesday, May 23, 7.30 p.m. Workers Press office, 14 Col- quitt Street (off Bold Street), Liverpool 1. All Trades Unions Alliance Meeting After Jones-Aldington What next for dockers?

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¡ means that Massey Ferguson is forced to press ahead with the proposed changes in its wages system. The only way to defend wages and conditions within the plant is to press forward with the pre- sent wage claim which brought about the company's counter- proposals of MDW. Shop stewards and full-time officials must not allow any re- duction in the present labour force and must fight for the pre- sent wage review without allow- ing any change in the wages structure. No changes in the piecework system must be allowed nor any change in shop stewards' duties.

New strategy and tactics are being employed by Massey Fer- guson and the Tory pay laws are strengthening company's hand. Preparing to beat the com- pany's proposals means also pre- paring the ground to force the Tories to resign and replacing them with a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

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Salford The Angel, Chapel Street Wednesday May 23, 8 p.m. 'What is the Socialist Labour League? Wednesday May 30, 8 p.m. 'The Revolutionary Party and the Working Class'. Council of Action North London TUC must break off talks with Torles No negotlations on Phase Three No capitulation to corporatism Make the Tory government resign TUESDAY MAY 22, 8 p.m. Lord Morrison Hall, Chestnut Grove, Tottenham, N.17 All Trades Unlons Alliance meetings

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BARBER DEFLATES TORY 'BOOM

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday May 22, 1973 THE TORY government yesterday took the first steps towards deflation by slashing public expen- diture by a massive £600m. Chancellor Anthony Bar- ber told the Commons £100m financial would be cut this year and a further £500m in 1974.75. Budgets will be slashed as follows: nationalised industries By Royston Bull THE TUC economic committee's decision to continue the with the Tory government is a serious blow to the talks working class. By discussing with the ruling class a possible 'solution' to inflation through the problem of wage restraint and other measures, the TUC bureaucracy disarms workers in the struggle against the capitalist crisis.

Only by understanding that the world-wide economic chaos is an inevitable outcome of the capitalist system itself can the take the conscious steps towards ending the working Class anarchy through socialist policies.

The TUC therefore creates con- phoney mination measures of 'co-deter- fusion workers when it for sìts drinks and down It is now the most urgent task pleasant chat with the organizers trade unions to of trade war, and perpetrators their independence from the cor- currency crises, and the economic rupt capitalist system and. make anarchy which leads to closures break with the men and unemployment. Although it was not possible crisis and chaos. for the bureaucracy to sign The working class must demand voluntary wage-cutting agreement an end to all talks with the Tory because of the militancy of the insist instead government and the drawn-out tri- unions, long their on campaign to force negotiations last year partite removal from office. served their purpose in prevent- class mobilizing working 1ng _ the political campaign to force the Tories to resign.

TUC

How it that the bureaucracy deliberately mislead the working class? The answer is their re- formist ideology means that they regard the 'mixed economy' and give-and-take compromise as permanent system of things.

This they regard the means capitalist as a permanent COMMITAL proceedings systelli part of life. the 'Belfast 10' against Thus when the system is in opened in London yesterday difficulty, they see it as 'Britain's' under heavy police surveil- economy being in difficulty. Their fundamental task becomes to lance. protect the system. Police, some armed, lined the good This requires all trade outside Lambeth street court, "be responsible' and unionists to rooftops and were manned sacrifices. of searched. make As the cost in the vicinity living by 10 per cent Everybody rises who went into the year, wages are kept down court was checked by police and 7 per cent increase. This is wage bus loads of reinforcements stood cutting. by. The ten defendants are charged The TUC leaders are now consciously driving the working with conspiring together and with others on before March 8 to class towards full-scale or CU- United the operation with capitalism through cause explosions in Kingdom likely the corporatist system of 'parti- of a nature endanger life or to cause serious 'workers control' or cipation' or 'industrial democracy' injury to property. it is as variously called. This is the plan Reporting restrictions were for 'worker directors' and other not lifted.

PUBLIC MEETINGS

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£100m; Post Office £30m; roads £100m; miscellaneous services at local government level £100m; public building projects f15m; civil service £20m and agriculture £25m.

Shadow chancellor Denis Healey commented: 'The imme- diate impact is a certain increase in the price of charges and rates, food, postal Apart from what Healey says, the cuts are also bound to cause a sharp rise in unemployment

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Meanwhile Coventry, at a Catholic priest and five others accused of a bomb plot faced charges yesterday alleging new conspiracy to commit arson and criminal damage. One of the six, allegedly mem- bers with of an IRA network plans attack targets in to Coventry, was also accused of pos- sessing bomb-making materials.

They have already appeared in court five times accused of con- spiring with others unknown to explosion likely to cause an endanger life or injure property.

Reporting restrictions were lifted and three of the accused lodged a strong protest at their conditions of detention at Winson Green Prison, Birmingham. Defence solicitor Mr Michael said the six were all Jervis classified as Al security risks and they were in "total, absolute, solitary confinement'. The basic liberties any prisoner on remand was entitled to had been taken away and in the last seven days they had been given only five and a half hours' exercise. The three, Rev Patrick Fell, Anthony Lynch and Francis Stagg, issued a statement welcoming their relatives' demonstrations of for them outside the support court but dissociating themselves from what they called 'hard-core elements' in the protests.

solicitor Mr Chris- Defence topher Aldridge said that his clients, Herbert Kelly and Anthony McCormick, also felt that the 'hullabuloo' outside the court did not help them. and a further drop on the share market. The shock announcement comes only a week after premier Heath and Barber were prattling in the Proom and on television about a The drastic cuts are a victory for those sections of the Tory Party and big business circles who have been arguing for a de- flationary policy and an end to the Heath balancing act with the trade unions. The crashing of the public ex- penditure programme comes at a time when the TUC leaders are up to their ears in amicable talks with the government about im- plementing Phase Three of the state pay laws (see below).

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